The Young Turks - The Young Turks - November 10, 2020

Episode Date: November 11, 2020

Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears to be the latest Republican ignoring the 2020 election results. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Free party! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, welcome to the Young Church. Jane Cougar, Anna Cusparian with you guys. Unbelievably, Donald Trump is still hold up in his bunker. And almost the entire Republican Party is right there along with him.

It is unreal. And do the Democrats have any fight in them? So it's the same stories, unfortunately. Round and round we go. Okay, but it's our job to correct them because nobody else will. So turn on cable news, see if anybody's furious at Joe Mansion. No, they love it. They love it.

Inaction, status quo, the powerful kid to keep their power and money. It's sickening. We're going to fight back on your behalf. So let's do it. Let's do it right away. Go ahead, Anna. All right. Well, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a press conference today made it abundantly clear

that he has already determined in his mind who won this election, even though the results based on how Americans voted. says otherwise, take a look. There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. All right, we're ready. The world is watching what's taking place here. We're going to count all the votes.

When the process is complete, there'll be electors selected. There's a process. The Constitution lays it out pretty clearly. The world should have every confidence that the transition necessary to make sure that the State Department is functional today, successful today,

and successful with the president who's in office on January 20th, a minute afternoon will also be successful. I went through a transition on the front, and I've been on the other side of this. I'm very confident that we will do all the things that are necessary to make sure that the government, the United States government, will continue to perform its national security function as we go forward. So Mike Pompeo, a man who justifies the United States invading other countries to root out

authoritarianism is essentially enabling authoritarianism in this country, and basically giving Americans a giant middle finger when it comes. of the democratic process. So every elected Republican knows that there is no credible case of voter fraud. And every elected Republican knows that even if all of Donald Trump's outlandish conspiracy theories were true, it's still not enough votes to overturn any of the state's elections. But they're all going along with this fiction because there's. scared of the cry baby and the baby, and he hasn't worked out his feelings yet.

And so he's in his bunker boys in his room trying to figure out what to do with his emotions. And so while he does that, the one thing that he has revealed is the cowardice and the weakness of the Republican Party. So now we already knew that they didn't care about democracy and they've made that clear in so many ways, and they continue to make it clear. And we've got more on that later in the program. But now we know on top, other than right now, as it stands for people, no one in the Republican Party has a courage to tell Donald Trump,

hey, listen, you little whiner, you lost, man up, clean yourself up, stop crying, and do what we are supposed to do in a democracy, a peaceful transition. You have no case at all. Instead, these sniveling little cowards run around pretending that he won. You think Mike Pompeo doesn't know that Donald Trump lost? You think he doesn't know that they lost every single court case that they brought? And humiliatingly so, of course he knows that. Still, he says things like this.

So the four, by the way, are Mitt Romney. Who would have thought that Mitt Romney is the strongest guy in the Republican Party? I wouldn't have guessed that in a million years. it turns out he's way stronger than Ted Cruz or Lindsay Graham or Mitch McConnell. At least he's his own man and he can stand up to a little baby like Donald Trump. Ben Sass, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins. Now at this point, Susan Collins want to realize she's not going to be up for another six years. So on this one, I'll give her a little bit of credit.

She's got no reason not to go along with the rest of the Republican Party. But those four said, no, he lost. Biden won. Let's move on. Every other person in the Republican Party, cowards through and through, cheaters through and through, and they hate America. They hate this country. In this country, we have democracy, not thuggery like this.

Well, Mike Pompeo did get challenged on his statement by one of the reporters at this press conference, so let's take a look at that exchange. So you believe there's widespread voter fraud that the reports that we're getting from Pennsylvania, from Michigan, showing vote totals and massive leads are significant. leads with 99% reporting are going to be overturned and that the United States failed to conduct a fraudulent free election? Rich, I'm the Secretary of State. I'm getting calls from all across the world. These people are watching our election. They understand that we have a legal process. They understand that this takes time, right? It took us 37 plus days in an election back in

2000. We conducted a successful transition then. I'm very confident that we will count and we must count every legal vote. We must make sure that any vote that wasn't lawful ought not be counted. That dilutes your vote. If it's done improperly, got to get that right. When we get it right, we'll get it right. They apparently can't get anything right and they just continue to embarrass themselves. Grace Panetta, who's a reporter with Business Insider, just published a story and tweeted the following. Trump's big new election lawsuit alleges voter fraud potentially happened in two Pennsylvania counties. Both overwhelmingly voted for him. He's such a loser.

His main claim before this was, he didn't let a cheat about the shit in Philadelphia. Now that's, of course, not true. That was the famous and now hilarious case where they went in and said, where the judge asked them, so were there Republican observers in the room? And Trump's lawyer had to say, there was non-zero people in the room. And the judge's like, so you're saying there were observers? And the lawyer said, yes, there were Republican observers.

It's a lie. It's always been a lie. It was proven to be a lie in open court, but when Pompeo gets asked a straightforward question, are you saying that American elections are fraudulent? The whole world was watching. Are they free and fair or are they fraudulent? I don't know. We've got to look at the process. No, no, wait a minute, wait a minute. There is a process. And in 2000 where it took 37 days, as he alluded to, Well, it was 500 votes in a massive state like Florida, and it was within the recount margin. In this case, is there any states within the recount margin?

Yes, Georgia. Georgia's within the recount margin. So you know what they should do? They should follow the process and recount Georgia. No one has ever objected to that. Did they prove any voter fraud injure? None. Who runs Georgia?

Republicans do. The governor's a Republican, the Secretary of State's Republican. The legislature is Republican. So that the Republicans cheat on behalf of Joe Biden? How maniacally stupid do you have to be to believe that? But it's not that they're stupid. There's two factors. One, they're scared of the baby.

And number two is they think their own voters are rubs, suckers. So they think, don't believe anything we say. And it turns out they're right. Now, nearly two thirds of Republicans say they no longer have any faith in the election system in America. Because I told you, they live in a different world. And I was wondering what was going to happen when Trump, Trump lost, and now they go, oh, well, that can't be true.

Every thing we know, every conservative outlet, every Republican politician told us that Trump had an overwhelming lead. So if he lost, it must be that we no longer have a democracy, and they cheated in every state. So it turns out maybe they were right. Their voters are roobes. They're the biggest suckers in the country. Yeah, and remember yesterday I shared that there were some lower-level.

Trump administration officials, employees who have begun sending out their resumes because they realize what the reality of the situation is. And now we're learning that John Mcadie, who's the director of the White House presidential personnel office, is spreading the word throughout the administration that if he hears of anyone looking for another job, they'll be fired immediately. Jake Tapper, by the way, is tweeting this. And it was reported by the Associated Press earlier. The news is dismaying to many members of the Trump administration who worry especially about young staffers who will soon need other sources of income given the fact that the president did lose his reelection.

You're forcing me to do a sidebar here. So Jay Tapper, by the way, on Twitter now crying about poor Republicans who worked in the Trump administration because Democrats are saying they shouldn't be hired by other folks in D.C. is certainly not in the government or elsewhere because they disgraced themselves by being against democracy. And Tapper's like, oh, but I know them in the cocktail circuit. They're such lovely Republicans. That's all fine. That's all fine.

You want to say, hey, you know what, let's blacklisting people for the rest of their careers just because they were fascists. That's unbecoming. All right, that's an interesting argument. But Jake, did you say when the Democratic Party said they were going to blacklist progressives? anyone who worked against a Democratic incumbent, that it was outrageous and that you were shocked and chagrined? Nope, not a word.

When you blacklist progressives, Jake Tapper and the entire mainstream media, they're there for it. They love it when you do it to their beloved establishment Republicans. All of a sudden, they're heartbroken over it. You're just going to do this over fascism? I mean, at least progressives are trying to help people. That's way worse, isn't it?

Yeah, that's what I thought, Jake. Yeah, look, one thing that I don't understand is how people think that this is not that big of a deal, that everyone accepts what the outcome of this election is, and that anything that you hear from Pompeo or from Trump is just nonsense. They're just making fools out of themselves. I don't know. I mean, the Trump administration threatened to do certain things, and then they ended up doing far worse. I mean, hysterectomies on immigrant women without their consent is just one example. These are horrible people who don't respect democracy at all.

I'm not a person who likes fearmongering. I'm not someone who likes to scare the audience. But we're talking about someone who has authoritarian tendencies, Donald Trump, someone who talks about Kim Jong-un as if he's having some sort of extramarital affair with him. this guy is dangerous, and he's surrounded by right-wing enablers, who are more than willing to quench his thirst for a dictatorship. It's just absolutely disgusting, and we should take it seriously, because there are already ramifications to what the Trump administration is doing in refusing a peaceful transition of power. For instance, the transition should begin right now. There should be a release of resources to the Biden camp so they can begin, you know, getting intense. intelligence briefings and putting their ducks in a row to have this seamless transition.

But that's not going to happen. So let's go to that story. I want to give you the details on it. Trump is refusing to concede that he lost the election. And his transition appointee is essentially slow walking the transition process. Her name is Emily Murphy. And she is part of the transition process. She's part of the general service administration, which is a gun.

government agency tasked with ensuring that the transition is seamless and smooth. However, Murphy, a Trump appointee, is refusing to sign a letter allowing President-elect Joe Biden's transition team to formally begin its work this week. In another sign, the incumbent president has not acknowledged Biden's victory and could disrupt the transfer of power. Signing the paperwork, when a new president is elected, triggers the release of millions of dollars in transition funding and allows an incoming administration. access to current government officials.

So this is a big deal. I mean, what does this mean for when Biden is finally inaugurated? Is he going to be prepared? And the more Emily Murphy postpones this based on what her boss tells her to do, which is incredibly undemocratic, the more we're going to run into issues later on in January. Chris Little, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy coordination, has been working transition preparations for the past several weeks, but he says everything is frozen right now. They're not doing anything, a source familiar with his work says.

And to make matters worse, as you know, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, earlier today essentially says that he believes that there will be a smooth transition of power to a second term for Donald Trump. So that's what we're dealing with. Corn Shuckle in our member section wrote in, so all these Republicans are arguing that the ballots that delivered them congressional wins were illegal, right? That's a great point. So she's not certifying the elections at the presidential level. So why are any of the states certifying the Republican wins?

The Republican Party is saying that there was fraud. So take all those congressional and Senate wins away from the Republicans. I'm not kidding. See, Democrats don't know how to fight, man. How many times have you guys heard me say this? They never, ever learn any lessons. You know what the Senate Democrats did today? they reappointed every single leader they have to every single position.

So Chuck Schumer's back to being the leader for the Democrats. I almost said majority leader, but they didn't win the majority because of Chuck Schumer. Dick Durbin's back to being number two. Joe Manchin's back. They're all back. Mark Warner, huge corporate Democrat, and he's back, learned zero lessons. Now, here's how you actually fight. You say, okay, that's it.

If Trump is saying that the fraud, votes were illegal, well, he said don't count the illegal, votes, no problem. We're not counting the legal votes. Get out of Congress. Get out. Get out. All you senators that you think you won? No, Susan Collins, get the hell out. You didn't win. You didn't win. Trump said it was all illegal. Your entire party is saying that the entire election was fraudulent. Why would we sit you in your seat? No, you're banned from the Senate. We now run the Senate and you're banned. See, now that would get people to go, oh yeah, wait a minute, corn shuckle might be right. But nope, Democrats, no fight at all. No fight within the party.

By the way, I'll criticize the progressives in the Senate, all three of them, four of them. Why are you re-electing Chuck Schumer? How many losses can he have before you go, hey, you know what? Maybe we should just try someone else. Doesn't even have to be a progressive. Just pick a rando, anyone, anyone but Schumer. Nope, not a peep. No fight there, no fight from the Democrats, no fight anywhere but here.

Okay, yes. So Republicans come and get some. We got the real fight here. I don't think they should sit any of the Republican senators, certainly not the ones that won in any of the states that are being disputed. And none of the congressmen, all the Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, you're gone, you're gone. We're not sitting here. We're not the one saying the election is fraudulent. You're the one saying it.

So you're all gone and banned from the building. What are you going to do now? All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, we have more news for you, including what Jake just referred to. Chuck Schumer did get reelected by Senate Democrats to serve as the minority leader, or we'll see how Georgia plays out. But we'll give you the details on that and more when we were talking. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The Republic or UNFTR. As a Young Turks fan, you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich in power.

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We're going to start, we're going to do a special called Dr. Jenk. Okay. Now, if you watch on any regular day when I'm doing the news, it might be hard to believe. But I'm actually in my personal life extraordinarily happy. And two, two, two. And I want to teach you guys how you could do that. I know, it's crazy, crazy, right? Well, watch, see what happens.

And nothing to do with politics. We're going to totally lighten it up, personal life. And what I want you to do is send videos asking me questions at go at tyt.com, okay? So, and then I will answer it. It's not political guys. So, hey, I got this issue in my life as a possibility in a video and what do you think? Or, hey, how do I do X or Y? How do I feel better about this?

How do I feel happy about that? whatever you got, send it over to me and Dr. Jenk will answer it. It's going to be three hours. Is it crazy? Yes. Is it fun? Definitely. So make sure you check that out. Okay, so speaking of fun, you know what's super fun? TYT.com slash go. So let's check out the thermometer and see how we're feeling. Oh, 58,437. Okay. Well, a little bit out of time, brothers and sisters. I love you for it. Let's see if we can get 59,000 by the next break. All right, speaking of brothers and sisters, let's go to our member section.

Vicky says, wow, thanks for the, thanks, T.Y.T. for the conversation with K.J. Brooks. I'm following her post now, expecting some great things from her. I love to hear that. You know the conversation is our interview show, and it starts at 5.30 p.m. Eastern right before the Young Turks. Jodiar says, if Republicans no longer believe in our election system, then they shouldn't bother to vote in Georgia for the Senate runoff in January. They can also stay home in 2022, end of discussion. Yeah, if you think it's not worth the paper that it's kind of printed on, then don't go.

Don't vote in Georgia. You don't need to. It's all good, right? Doesn't matter. Anyway, Zachary Huddleston on YouTube Super Chat says, thank you, Jenk, Anna, and everyone at T.I.T. You give voice to my rage, and I don't feel constantly gaslit. I'm a proud member. Keep being awesome.

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Oh, wow, all right. Did it with Prime anyway. That's how he became a billionaire, I guess, saving money like that and making wise decisions. All right. Casper, what's next? All right. While Joe Biden gives flowery speeches about working with Republicans, they're shiving him when he's not looking. In fact, Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor today refused to accept the results of the general election.

Take a look. And then there's the presidential race. Obviously, no states have yet certified their election results. We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount. And I believe the president may have legal challenges underway in at least five states. The core principle here is not complicated. In the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted. Any illegal ballots must not be counted.

The process should be transparent or observable by all sides. And the courts are here to work. through concerns. And President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options. So there you have it, the Senate Majority Leader essentially enabling Donald Trump's absolute lies and conspiracy theories about the election. The Trump campaign has failed to win a single court battle.

They failed to provide any legitimate evidence of widespread voter fraud. Instead, they're just wasting everyone's time, wasting everyone's resources with this nonsense. And I wonder if Joe Biden's taking note of any of this. Because again, I'm personally not interested in hearing about how we need to work together and come together. These are people who do not respect our democratic process. What makes Joe Biden think that these are people who are going to respect him? and the policies that Democrats claim they want to work on and push through. It makes absolutely no sense. None.

Yeah. So is Joe Biden still promising to work with Republicans instead of progressives? Yeah. So because the Republicans just told you, they don't even think you're president. They don't even think you won. They don't even care about democracy. They don't care about a peaceful transfer of power. When Trump said he wasn't going to do a peaceful transfer, people are like, oh, yeah, that's funny. I mean, he doesn't really mean it. No, it turns out he does mean it.

And they're like, yeah, but it doesn't matter because the Republicans won't go along with it. Well, nope, it turns out the Republicans will go along with it. That's their leader in the Senate right there, Mitch McConnell. So there's no disputing it anymore. As I said earlier in the show, there's four Republicans who disagree, Mitt Romney, Susan Cox, Murkowski, and Ben Sasse. Outside of them, every Republican senator is going along with this fiction. And a thing that they know with great certainty is a lie, that there was fraud in this election. And so, and if you notice, here's how you can tell.

Mitch McConnell was lawyerly. He had a conversation with Bill Barr on Monday morning. That's the Attorney General. Why is the Attorney General meeting with the majority leader in the Senate? It's because they're making a decision on what they're going to do about Trump. And what they decided was, no, we're going to let the baby keep on crying, and we're all going to de-legitimize elections going forward. Because it doesn't matter, we can't win a national election anymore.

We couldn't get any more Republicans to burn voters to turnout than we did in the year 2020. and we still lost by 5 million votes. So there's no downside to de-legitimizing, trying to destroy democracy. Meanwhile, Joe Biden says, I want to work with those guys. Progressives, oh, no, you guys, socialists, I don't want to work with you guys. The main lesson of this election is don't work with progressives. Work with Mitch McConnell, who says you're not even president. Maybe progressives should try the same thing.

If AOC comes on and says, I don't think Joe Biden's president, should get everybody's attention. and then all of a sudden maybe the centrist Democrats would start kissing her ass. Because they do it to McConnell, oh please, please, no, no, no, no, no, slap them around a little bit politically. So like I said in the last segment, why are Democrats saying, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you think it's a fraudulent election? Everybody in the Republican delegation in Pennsylvania, get out, get out right now. We didn't say it was a fraudulent election. You said it was every Republican in the House, now that's back to Nancy Pelosi, every Republican in the House, that's from Pennsylvania,

Arizona, Nevada. Get up and get out. Otherwise, you have to come up here and say there was no fraud in your election. If you say there was fraud, get out. If you say there's no fraud, well, then say it publicly. But the Democrats have no fight in them. No fight in them. Well, their take, Jank, is, well, if we engage in this debate, it legitimizes that, it legitimizes the debate. It legitimizes the claims that Trump's camp is making, the claims that a Republican lawmakers are making. And so Biden has been clear in trying to avoid engaging in this in any way, shape, or form. But ignoring this issue doesn't just make it magically go away. The Trump administration is already taking actions to prevent the peaceful transition of power. The government

agency that's tasked with triggering the actual transition, which would release millions of dollars in transition funding to the Biden camp, you know, that's already having an effect on what Biden can do to prepare for a peaceful transition of power. Trump and his cronies aren't kidding. And unfortunately, the reaction that we're getting from Democrats is, don't legitimize you just don't respond to it, don't talk about it, it's not a thing. But it is a thing. And it's not going to magically go away if you ignore it.

Anna, that's literally exactly what they said about Trump during 2016. I know. Oh, no, ignore Trump. he'll go away. And did it look like he went away? No, all you're doing is letting it fester, okay? No, you've got to fight back. By the way, now, I hit the Democrats for being weak, which is a fact given the situation.

Oh, okay, Mitch, please work with us. Oh, they're so sad. God. But now, how about the Republicans? You know one of the reasons why Mitch McConnell is doing this? Because Donald Trump threatened to talk against the Republican candidates in Georgia for the Senate seat. He threatened mean tweets of them. Mean tweets.

And so they both said, okay, fine, I'm so sorry, sir. I beg of you, sir, because the cowards that Loeffler and Purdue are. And they immediately went on their knees and started sniveling to Donald Trump. Please don't send a tweet. Alpha males. tough guy Republicans, hilarious, total weakling cowards. And Mitch McConnell then goes, okay, all right, here we go. Yes, let's pretend that this election is not legitimate.

And in order to protect our candidates in Georgia, otherwise, remember, Trump is a Republican. I mean, I have to remind you of that. Trump is holding Republican Senate candidates hostage to get the Republican senators to do his bidding. And it's totally working. And Mitch McConnell, I thought you were a tough guy. What happened? All of a sudden, Mitch McConnell's a coward, a coward who's bowing down to Donald Trump, even after Trump lost power. That's the kind of weakling Mitch McConnell is. I also want to just read a few statements from Marco Rubio, who loves to bring up the fact that he would do anything to prevent an authoritarian regime in the United States similar to what Cuba is experiencing. He says the following. Senator Marco Rubio stood by the president's right to pursue legal challenges.

Oh, really? Well, I mean, if you want to live under an authoritarian regime, why don't you just go back to your country of origin, take your family with you? Yeah. Right? No, but guys, I want you to understand this. They already had their legal challenges. They went to court. They lost in every case.

So this thing of like, oh, I'm hiding behind legal challenges, as if there's legitimacy to it. You've already lost every legal challenge. There's nothing left. There's nothing left but fantasy. And Marco Rubio is like, oh, a dictator wants to take over. Oh, this is the thing I pretend to be against the whole time. Oh, it's my dictator. Of course.

Yes, sir, yes, sir. Soon you'll be doing this as a sign for Trump. Isn't it amazing? And this is, guys, this is part of making me angry today and filled with just contempt for everyone in Washington. This little baby, Donald Trump, he lost the election by five million votes. He lost Georgia. He didn't just lose Pennsylvania and Arizona. He lost Arizona.

That was a Republican state. He lost Georgia, right? Lost completely. And he's still bullying all of Washington. Imagine how pathetically weak these servile little politicians are. We should bully them instead. And real quick, Jenk, since you mentioned Trump's threats, I wanted to give you the detailed information from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. It was a brazen effort to appease Trump who falsely claimed electoral fraud despite no evidence of any wrongdoing as he and his supporters tried to discredit Biden.

We're told the president and his top allies pressured the two Republican senators to take this step lest he tweet a negative word about them and risk divorcing them from his. his base ahead of the consequential runoff. Well, you let them- Sinless, feckless, absolute losers. Leaders lead. People who are elected to represent the American people should represent the best interests of the American people and uphold our democratic process.

These two individuals do not deserve any form of leadership because they have no interest in being leaders. They're self-interested, feckless losers who absolutely should be voted out of office. So get out the vote in Georgia, get these two out of there because all it takes is a threat from a child like Donald Trump for them to immediately tuck tail and do what he wants them to do. It's pathetic. So sad. Look, I love standing up the bullies. Man, if they had any Democratic elected officials with a spine, you're just going to obliterate this guy. Hey, little baby, are you still crying? You lost all your courts. cases and were all lies. Are you still crying, little baby? No, no, no, we have to be civil as the fascists continue to try to subvert democracy. He already fired the defense secretary.

Now he's moving on to firing the generals. Trump is. So what happens if he fires all the generals? He's got 70 days. And then the new generals, or Rudy Giuliani and his brother, say, oh yeah, we're staying. No, look, I don't think it's going to happen, but I don't want to take a 1% chance. But the Republican senators don't mind playing with democracy at all. And the Democrats, as usual, sit on the sidelines and do nothing. All right, well, let's talk about why Joe Manchin is trash because he is. And I'll tell you why. So Joe Manchin, who apparently made a mistake by registering as a Democrat and is actually a pretty hardcore Republican,

had an interview with Fox News where he tried to calm everyone's nerves, everyone on the right, who is concerned about the Senate being broken. up 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, should Republican candidates win in the runoff elections in Georgia. Now, how did he calm people's nerves? Well, he did it by ensuring that he will be an obstacle to the policies the Democratic Party wants to pass. Take a look. It looks like those two races could be the control of the U.S. Senate with a tie, then going to Vice President Harris. What do you tell people about that and concern about that, considering all we've heard about the progressive agenda?

Well, there's a lot of people that are concerned. There's a lot of fear tactics are being used right now, Brett. If both of the Georgia senators were elected from the Democratic Party, then that would be 50-50 if both Dan Sullivan and Tom Tillis win. 50-50 means there's a tie. But if one senator does not vote on a Democratic side, there is no tie. there is no bill. So I commit to you tonight and I commit to all of your viewers and everyone else is watching. I want to lay those fears. I'm going to arrest those fears for you right now because when they talk about whether it be packing the courts or ending the filibuster, I will

not vote to do that. I will not vote to pack the courts. I think and I will not vote to end the filibuster. Trash. So the Republicans just ended the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees, that's why they got Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett in. And Joe Manchin is still pretending as if there's rules in the Senate and etiquette in the Senate, and as if the Republicans are the good guys. And that Democrats would be the bad guys if they ended the filibuster. Without ever mentioning in the interview on Fox News, it was the Republicans who killed the filibuster already on the single most important thing the Senate does.

So look, I know what the Democratic case is for supporting Joe Manchin. Hey, he's in the caucus, and on some procedural votes, he's with us, and those procedural votes are important. And half the time on substantive votes, he's with us, but on that half, we don't need his vote anyway. So really, procedural things are their main excuse for supporting Joe Manchin. But wait a minute, he just screwed you on procedures right there, saying even if the Democrats pick up the two seats in Georgia, I will not let them pass anything, because I'll let

the Republicans filibuster, in which case we don't need 50 senators, we need 60 senators. He just killed the entire Democratic agenda by himself, and you told me that you needed him for procedural matters. That's hilarious. And anytime you need him on a substantive policy the issue, he votes with the Republicans. So maybe you could find one or two exceptions here and there. By the way, he voted for Brett Kavanaugh. But even if you find one or two exceptions, let me ask you something. Is that worth it? So what's the price? Well, the price is here you have a prominent Democratic senator that constantly comes out and makes the Republican case for them, making it seem rhetorically like Republicans are always right. Now that hurts

the Democratic cause more than anything else in the country. He destroys the Republican brand, I'm sorry, the Democratic brand on behalf of the Republican Party every time he goes on television. You think that's worth a couple of procedural votes? And again, on the most important ones, he's against you anyway. There's almost never a case where Mansion will break a vote in favor of the Democrats, certainly nothing that would justify the massive damage he does to the Democratic Party. You know, Joe Manchin really stands out as a pretty conservative Democrat.

But as I watched his full interview on Fox, I couldn't help but feel as though a lot of what he had to say is pretty mainstream in the Democratic Party at this point. I mean, he pretty soon won't be an anomaly within the Democratic Party. So to make my case, let's go to the next video where he elaborates on more of the ways in which he plans on being an opposition. for the party. So I want to lay those fears to rest that that won't happen because I will not be the 50th Democrat voting to end that filibuster or to basically block stack the court. And then all the other things you're hearing about Brett also is defund the police. I don't know of any of the Democrats in the caucus that are for defunding the police.

We're not for that whatsoever. And when they talk about basically Medicare for all, we can't even pay for Medicare for some. doesn't make any sense at all. We've got to fix the Affordable Care Act we have. And I think our Republican, moderate Republicans, will work with us. So despite being very clear on how he plans on working against the Democratic Party in the Senate, there has been a decision to basically put him back in leadership positions. And I'll tell you what those leadership positions are. Mansion will serve another term as vice chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.

mention could also chair the energy and natural resources committee in a 50-50 Senate in which the tie goes to Democrats thanks to vice president-elect Kamala Harris, meaning now that she's going to be vice president that basically opens up this, creates this situation in which you have a wannabe Democrat serving as the chair of this incredibly important committee. So the energy committee, that's where he's going to go coal, coal, coal, oil, oil, oil. And he's vehemently against Green New Deal. So they would put the single most conservative Democrat, who is by far the most pro-fossil

Democrat as the head of the Energy Committee, where they would decide issues on climate change. They put him in a leadership. It's not like, oh my God, Joe Manchin, he's such an outlier. I can't believe he agrees with Republicans. They're like, yes, he agrees with the Republicans. Let's put him back in charge. Did you hear what he was the vice chair of? The policy committee.

So Joe Manchin the Republican comes up with policies for the Democratic Party and communications. Well, that's what he's doing right there. He went on television and said Republicans are right. They're right about the filibuster. They're right about packing the courts. Republicans are always right. He is in leadership on communications for the Democratic Party. And then when we point out these enormously legitimate critique,

everybody rushes in, Jake, you don't split the party. Don't split the party. Don't split the party. I mean, Joe Manchin's doing such a great job of being a Democrat and he's going to kill Green New Deal and Medicare for all for us. Don't split the party. And they really say that with a straight face because mainstream media has totally brainwashed them into thinking that the Democratic Party is Joe Manchin and his support over the top 100% support for the Republican Party. We're not going to do Medicare for all. Pandemic. Look, I know that Joe Manchin is against. Medicare for all. That's not a surprise. But what he's saying is we're not even going to consider it. One last, salt in the wounds, okay? There's a theory out there that the Democrats are playing three-dimensional chess. Laugh along with me. How many times have you heard this? Well, actually, losing the Senate is three-dimensional chess for later losing again and again and again.

I've never seen three, I don't know if they know how to play checkers, let alone three dimensional chess. Okay, so here's this version of it. They say, no, we send Manchin to say that we agree with Republicans so that we can win the Georgia Senate seats. I'm not kidding. That is the number one excuse the Democratic Party is using right now. They're saying, well, in Georgia, they won't have to vote against our candidates. So if they think it's okay to Democrats won't do anything they promised anyway, even if they win the Senate seat. So even if the Democrats win, don't worry, they're going to agree with the Republicans,

then that's why we'll win in Georgia. Yes, they're that painfully stupid. Please vote for Democrats so we can agree with Republicans. That's their strategy going into Georgia. All right, we got to take a break. Let's do that when we come back. We have more news for you, including Chuck Schumer getting elected into Senate Minority Leader again. Is that a good thing, a bad thing?

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Go. If you say it that way, it might work. All right, wonderful comments here. I want to get to them. A bucket of dragons writes in, I read Jenks' opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, and I completely agree that we can't overlook the incompetence of the third-way establishment Democrats.

We're going to talk about that in a second. AZ Progressive says, Amy McGrath's massive loss alone should have disqualified Schumer from leading the Democrats. Great point. Marbee says, how do any of these Democrats say Bernie's not a real Democrat, but let Mansions stay in the party? Overwhelming and indisputable point. And Cole Chambers with another great point on Super Chat.

My senators in Georgia were fine with Brian Kemp running his own election as Secretary of State. I don't want to hear it. It's so true. And last one is Stephen Garcia on Super Chat. Old friend Stephen Garcia. Thank you for your AOC coverage yesterday. both supporting her, but also calling out lack of Cory Bush support and calling for a floor vote,

showed true objectivity from a team that helped to get her in power. This is why I am TYT. And I say old friend, because Stephen Garcia has been a member and a great supporter of all those candidates and all the causes. And it's been great doing this show with you, brother, for all this time. And that's our job. Our job is to be honest and hold everyone accountable. All right, Anna. While Democrats, while Democrats so far have failed to take control of the Senate and remember that the House has lost several House seats, the Democratic Party has decided that they are going to go with the same leadership that failed them in this election, including Chuck Schumer, who was reelected as the Senate Minority Leader.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday morning, reelected Schumer as Senate Minority Leader along with the rest of his leadership team, including Senator Dick Durbin, who will serve another term as Senate Minority Whip, and Senator Patty Murray, an assistant Democratic leader. And by the way, Schumer did get a glowing review from Joe Manchin, a pretend Democrat, who said, there's nobody who works harder than Chuck. There's nobody who tries to listen to more people than Chuck. Manchin said after the meeting, adding that there was no dissent expressed to Schumer leading the Democratic conference, another two more years. Well, that's a failing, honestly, of everyone in that conference,

including Bernie Sanders, including Elizabeth Warren, including Merckley and Markey. Progressives helped Ed Markey win that seat in Massachusetts. You think Chuck Schumer did a good job? I don't care that you're friends with him. I don't care at all. In fact, I think it's counterproductive that you're friends with him. So that's why you never stand up to him.

And so you put your friendship with Chuck Schumer over the priorities of your voters. How many elections are you going to let Chuck Schumer lose? Now we can't pass anything in the Senate because of Chuck Schumer. He blew it. He blew it. How much did Amy McGrath lose by? One of our voters pointed that out, AZ Progressive, says on the Amy McGrath loss alone, why would we ever put Schumer in?

He said, don't worry, I got this. I got this. You progressives, we're not going to have your candidate. We're going to put in $40 million in the point. primaries. Amy McGrath had 43 million in the primaries, because we're sure that the corporate Democrat want to be Republican is a better way to go. How'd that work out, Chuck? Did anyone in that Democratic caucus ask him, how'd that work out, Chuck? And then you could put us a bunch of corporate Democrats in all the other races, and almost all of them lost. Susan Collins, won by eight points.

There was a Justice Democrat in that primary in Maine. No, no, no, no, can't have it, can't have But Sarah Gideon, she's going to win. She's such a good corporate Democrat. She takes all the money, all the money, and that's going to help her win. Really? It didn't. Are there ever going to be any consequences for failure? So what was the first thing they did after leadership failed again?

Blame progressives. They said, oh, socialism, defund the police. And it's just so callous and so sick. So by the way, I wrote a Wall Street Journal editorial about this. We'll put it in the link down below. in the description box, if you're watching this later on YouTube or Facebook, and I want you to read it. And it was one of the most popular articles in all the Wall Street Journal, honestly, and I don't say that to brag. I say that because you give a drop of, you know, progressive

opinion anywhere, even at the Wall Street Journal. And people are like, yes, why come nobody's ever said that before? Wait a minute, that's true. They did, they were supposed to pick up a lot of seats in the house. They picked up, they lost seats in the house. They were supposed to pick up all these seats in the Senate, Schumer couldn't pick up three seats. He couldn't pick up three seats in a historic election against a buffoonish president in the middle of the worst pandemic and America reacting and having the worst amount of cases, the worst amount of deaths, et cetera. No amount of Republican failure can get Chuck Schumer to win elections. Unanimously put back into a leadership position. Dick Durbin, his incredibly weak and ineffectual right-hand man,

put right back in as a second person in charge. Everybody's back. The same gang that has lost election after election after election is back. They're back in the House. They're back in the Senate. And they're back to their old tricks. Oh, we lost. Score.

Progressives, socialism. And everyone in corporate media is like, yes, yes, sir. It is not Chuck Schumer's fault, sir. It is not Nancy Pelosi's fault. It must be those no good rascals of progressives. They say all this with a straight face. It's alternative facts. It's a lie just as much as anything Donald Trump has ever said.

Yeah, and I want to remind everyone that Chuck Schumer helped to fast track several of Donald Trump's judicial nominees. Schumer reached an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to fast track the confirmation of 15 Trump-nominated judicial picks. Seven federal district court judges were confirmed that day. And eight were put on the docket for confirmation the following week. So that's the kind of Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has been. And, you know, I'm getting some word that he is supportive of some FDR-type policies. But what does that matter when you have someone like Joe Manchin who has like glowing reviews for Schumer saying very clearly that he will serve as an obstacle for the types of policies the Democratic Party wants? And honestly, Chuck Schumer, give me a minute.

Chuck Schumer, I think, is more afraid of a challenger in the future than anything else. He might talk the talk a little bit, kind of. But I don't think he's actually going to fight aggressively for the policies that we desperately need, including FDR-type economic policies. 100%. Thank you, Anna. I was going to say the same thing, but I'll add on to it. How come Chuck Schumer never pushed FDR-like policies before?

How come he never talked about any of the priorities that he's talking about now? He's talking about now maybe ending student debt with an executive order that Biden can do that. He's going to encourage him to do that. How come he never did that for eight years with Obama? That's because he doesn't believe it. He's now worried that AOC might run for his seat in New York. And all of a sudden, look at that. Chuck Schumer finds religion.

Now, did he actually find religion? Hell no. If he passes all those things, hats off. Then don't run against him. I'm super happy to have him. I don't care how much he lied in the past. I don't care how conservative he was in the past. I don't care how weak he was in the past. You pass things, Chuck Schumer. You win elections.

You pass bills. I give you all the credit in the world. But you haven't passed anything. Ever. Ever. Hey, be fair. When we had a super majority that was filibuster proof, we passed Romneycare. Wow. I didn't know you were going to roll that tough, Chuck. So don't believe a word of what Chuck Schumer is saying.

And besides which, put up or shut up. And the reality is, of course, you're not allowed to say that in American media. You say that in American media, you get banned. So Chuck Schumer must be protected. No, he is never one at anything. And if the Democrats unanimously thought he was a great leader, then there's something deeply wrong with them. So we have just a few more minutes left. But we have a lot of stories that we want to get to in the postgame today.

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