The Young Turks - The Young Turks 12.15.17: Deported Workers, School Shooting, Robocop, and Faith-Based Schools

Episode Date: December 16, 2017

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from December 15th, 2017. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.   Hour 1: Most of the injured immigrants reported under the law in recent years work for a few companies that provide labor and personnel services to high-risk industries such as construction and landscaping, promising cheaper workers’ compensation costs to their client businesses, the Daily News found. Some companies or their insurers legally avoid paying injury claims, while their injured undocumented workers lose their jobs, get arrested, face jail and deportation, and must pay their own medical bills. New Mexico shooter was a radicalized white supremacist. Has history of visiting alt-right websites and enquiring how to buy guns.  Hour 2: One such bot cop recently took over the outside of the San Francisco SPCA, an animal advocacy and pet adoption clinic in the city’s Mission district, to deter homeless people from hanging out there. At least four faith-based private schools in Mecklenburg County receive taxpayer money through a state voucher program while sections of their handbooks prohibit lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender students from enrolling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay, big news. More big news. Earlier this month, former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Russian government officials. And the question since then has been, will Donald Trump, who has been over the past year, incredibly, even perhaps suspiciously protective of Michael Flynn, will Donald Trump pardon Michael Flynn? Now, today, the press asked Donald Trump about this, and here is what he said. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR.

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Let's see. I can say this. When you look at what's gone on with the FBI and with the Justice Department, people are very, very angry. I love people, people seem to always agree with him when he references them. It's odd. You know, when it came out today, Sebastian Gorka said that people, very few members of his cabinet agreed on moving the embassy in Jerusalem. So even like people don't agree, even when he says people agree. So obviously, I mean, I'm not, I'm repeating something that doesn't be repeating.

Yeah, we know when polls came out today, I think 63% of the country believed that his campaign had illegal contact with Russia during the campaign. say that they've been misinformed or whatever, but it is simply not the case that everybody agrees with him. The FBI is historically mismanaged right now. It's what you say too when things are closing in on you too. It's when you're a child. You say it. Oh, but you know, Jimmy did it too and so did Stephen. So did Don, you know, it's the same thing and it keeps closing it. So I just want to be absolutely clear. I don't know if this petition gets to a million, 10 million or 100 million, it'll make a difference. But whatever we can do, okay, if he pardons anyone related to the Russia

investigation, he should be impeached that afternoon. Yes. There's like that is mass demonstrations. There should be no question about it. So we did this petition a while back and let's keep it going. It's called to you. It's at t-y-tnetwork.com

slash pardon. Okay. If Donald Trump pardons anyone from his campaign or administration involved in the Russia investigation, he should be impeached immediately. I would add or fires Mueller. Or fires Rod Rod Rosenstein so that Mueller is then fired.

Yeah, and we might have a different one on that. But look, number one, tell your, most importantly, tell your congressman and your senators to sign this petition, okay? And tell them you sign the petition, send it to them, do whatever you got to do, or do it in a way that you're comfortable with. But the main thing here is going to be, unfortunately, Republicans in Congress. No, actually, that's not, that's only a little true. Every Democrat should go for immediate impeachment, immediate, but I'm not positive they're going.

Well, a lot of Democrats right now are signing, today Carol Shea Porter of New Hampshire signed on to Steve Cohen's impeachment articles, five articles of impeachment, also did it with Al Green. It's, I mean, there's, their Democrats are coming forward, even though the leadership doesn't yet want them to. And I think, look, I think we all need to be clear, both as in. individuals and especially members of the media what the red line is on this. It's both the pardons and it's also firing Mueller. Because if we care, not just about this particular issue, but if we care about ever having any accountability over what the president does, then this has to be the red line. If you surrender on this, if you allow him to get away with this, to do clear obstruction of justice, then you will never have an untainted investigation of

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If he's pardoning these guys in circumventing justice and obstructing justice, what the hell is he covering up? That means he definitely, definitely did it, which we know, but that's okay. It proves it beyond any reasonable down. And God knows what he promised Putin. And God knows what Putin's got over him. We can't have an American president reporting to a leader of a different country. He spoke favorably about Putin in that press conference.

We were just watching. And if you're a conservative and you let our leader be controlled by some other country's leader, you're not a conservative. You're just a cuck. You're just a pathetic, pathetic, pathetic beta male who says, oh, yo, okay. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work. Listen, ad-free, access members, only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at apple. com at apple.com slash t-y-t.

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