The Young Turks - Tony Award Wiener

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

Hosts: Ana Kasparian & Cenk Uygur Canada's Justin Trudeau says he will resign as party leader and prime minister. Antony Blinken shows NO remorse for aiding & abetting Gaza HORRORS. Chuck Schumer gets SALTY when he's accused of covering up Biden's mental decline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Let's see how Earth responds to that. The guy! Turks, Jake Ugarandikasperian, with you guys not from the Polymarket Studios in LA and we'll likely be there again tomorrow.

But lots of interesting stories today, as usual, Elon Musk trying to interfere in not just our government, but many other governments, that's a super interesting story. And speaking of government turnovers, down goes Trudeau, down goes Trudeau. Well, we're gonna get to that in a second. So lots of amazing stories for you guys. Let's get started. Casper, what do you have for us? Well, let's start with what you know about Trudeau, and that is the fact that he has decided to resign. Here it is. Despite best efforts to work through it, Parliament has been paralyzed for months after what has been the longest session of a minority parliament in Canadian history.

That's why this morning, I advise the Governor General that we need, a new session of parliament. I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process. As you just heard, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has decided to resign from Parliament, and he didn't make that decision alone.

In fact, there's been growing pressure from within his own liberal party for him to step down. Now, just to give you a sense of Trudeau's lack of popularity, Newsweek notes that President-elect Donald Trump's favorability is double that of Justin Trudeau's, and momentum in support for his exit began to grow following the resignation of his finance minister, Christia Freeland, on December 16th. Now, what's interesting about that story is that she actually criticized Trudeau's policy plans in her resignation letter, which ended up becoming public. And the other thing that's really fascinating is prior to her public resignation. There was a Zoom call in which he said that he intended to basically oust her from her position. So she resigned

right before she was set to deliver a major address on the state of the nation's finances. And to be sure, the economic conditions for working class people in Canada is a main reason why there's been discontent in the country in regard to Trudeau's leadership. So we'll get to those details in just a minute. Now prior to her resignation, again, Trudeau told her that he planned to remove her from her post during a Zoom call. And the details of that ended up going public. And he told her that he planned to fire her even though he had no replacement in mind. Now, the higher cost of living in Canada has become a huge issue. In fact, if you look at what The people of Canada have been complaining about there are a lot of parallels between Canada and the United States,

especially when it comes to issues like housing affordability, inflation, and even immigration. And so in addition to that, according to Charlton University professor Fenn Hampton, Hampsom, Fenn says that the second major factor was the increase in immigration as the Trudeau government sought to boost the number of migrants in an attempt to lower Canada's median age. That wasn't the only reason why they kind of opened up the country to more immigration. Following the, you know, COVID-19 pandemic, much like the United States, there was a labor shortage. You know, there were shutdowns. Those shutdowns led to disruptions in companies, in the employment within those companies. And when things started to open up again, well, some people had moved on to different fields of work. And so a labor shortage was a problem. And so they opened up the

country and allowed more immigrants in as a result of that. But even Trudeau himself is now arguing that they went a little too far. I'll give you some details on that in just a moment. But others are also arguing that Trudeau's so-called wokeness is what destroyed support toward his leadership. That includes Stephen Marsh, who's a Toronto-based author who covers Justin Trudeau for several publications here in the United States. He says that, quote, I know the term is very low, but, you know, he was Captain Woke and the world has really, really turned against wokeness in a very, very deep way. Another individual who is dead set on pinpointing this issue and his ouster to wokeness

is Pierce Morgan. Here he is on his own show this morning. Justin Trudeau was about as woke as you could possibly get. I think we got a clip of him where a student tries to use the word mankind and Trudeau interrupts. Let's take a look. Unfortunately, in Canada, our volunteering as a charitable religious organization is extremely difficult, extremely. That's why in actuality, we cannot do free volunteering to help our neighbors in need as we truly desire. So that's why we came here today to ask you to also look into the policies that religious charitable organizations have in our legislation so that it can also be changed.

because maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind. So we'd like you to look at that. We'd like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. The last thing I want to learn is that we can't use mankind. But on that very same panel, Batya Ungar Sargon, I think, made a really great point about what's really front and center of the disapproval rating that the Canadian people have given to Justin Trudeau and his leadership. Take a look. I am a little bit of a woke analysis skeptic here. I think we are in a populist moment like Shanks said, where left and right are coming together.

This moment is the working class versus the elites. And the working class, yeah, they don't like the wokeness, but they don't vote on that stuff. They are voting on their pocketbooks. They are voting on immigration, which if you are working class is an economic issue. This is what I learned when I traveled the country for a year interviewing working class people for my book, Second Class, How the Elites betrayed America's Working Men and Women. I found that people did have conservative views on woke issues, but much more important to them, where first of all, a very tolerant view when it came to racial issues, when it came to gay issues. They didn't want to see intolerance. They didn't support abortion bans, even when they themselves were pro-life. but also immigration and economics were one in the same thing, and that's what you're seeing

here. To me, Trudeau is being punished now for his COVID overreach, for his liberal authoritarianism that really hurt working class people. You know, and that panel, you know, did have a really interesting discussion on this issue. Vinny jumped in with some good points as well, but so did you, Jank. You made a point about how there was really this revolt against incumbents during this, you know, past year, even if you're talking about, you know, more conservative or right wing leaders, in those cases, the people of their country, you know, revolted against them. It was almost like this populist uprising that we've seen across the country. But I'm curious what you think

about the woke versus economic frustration argument. I mean, I don't know why it can't just be both, but that's my take on it. But what do you think? Yeah. Well, I'm sure that It's both, and I'm sure that one is more important than the other. But what I found most interesting about that panel on peers this morning, and oftentimes when we show our prediction clips or past clips, there's a game where people go, oh, hey, Jenks wearing the same outfit. Well, this one is because I was today, right? And so, and today on that panel, what I saw was a blurring of all political lines.

You couldn't tell who was left and who was right. We almost all agreed that the number one issue is economics and populism. And Baccia and I have engaged in giant debates in the past. But I think that Pierce thought that she was a left winger when she's not. But you really, you really couldn't tell because the core of this issue is not our disagreement about things that are woke or not woke, right? The core is our agreement that the people are not being served, whether it's in Canada or or in America. Canada had a bigger inflation problem that we did. Trudeau bungled a lot of things

politically to the point that you mentioned in the beginning, Anna. So Freeland, the finance minister, he was going to fire her and he told her that in that Zoom call that you referred to. But he didn't have a backup plan yet. So she just jumped out and resigned before he could fire her publicly and blamed it on him. I mean, that is classic bungling from a political perspective. And so he had a good run because Canadians are generally very progressive, especially compared to Americans, right? So I think that's why the woke argument in Canada works even less. And so are some people annoyed by saying people kind of said of mankind for sure, right? I mean, look, honestly, I'm a little annoyed by it.

So, and it's not because like I think, oh, men should be in charge and we should always be, that's just a word that people use. Of course they mean all humanity, right? So I can see how that would get under some people's skin, but it's mainly conservatives that it bothers, mainly they were going to be against Trudeau anyway. And here in America, as Bontia pointed out, that still was not close to the largest issue. The largest issue is always economics, why? Because it affects people's lives so much more than any other issue.

And in that government, they didn't do a great job of handling it either. And one last thing, Anna, that's so important to this context. And as you pointed out, the main point that I made is, it's not about left or right. You could show, and as we've done on the young Turks here, over and over again, voters internationally choosing left instead of right. And in fact, they chose Biden instead of Trump, even though Biden certainly doesn't look like change right back in 2020 and that's because they're constantly voting out incumbents because they hate this neoliberal system that we're all living under all across the world.

Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And what I thought was really interesting were the parallels between the frustrations that Americans have been voicing and the frustrations that Canadians are voicing. Now, look, I'm not going to pretend like there isn't a component of, I don't think that it represents most people who have been speaking out against the migration crisis. But unfortunately, there is a small percentage of people who say gross, hateful, nefarious things about migrants. But I think the vast majority of people in the United States who are concerned about the migrant crisis are concerned about, you know, the fact that we don't have finite resources and even HUD under the Biden administration came out with their report indicating that what exacerbated homelessness between 2023 and 2024 was the influx of migrants coming into the country at a time when we have low stock of housing available. And something very similar is happening in Canada as well. So based on some of their reporting, government reports, in fact, there is a shortage of housing. So let's talk a little bit about how many migrants have come in and what the shortage of housing looks like.

So the number of international students, for instance, grew 30% from 2022 to 2023, according to the Canadian Bureau for International Education. Meanwhile, government data shows that the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada has doubled in the last five years. And so as the economy was kind of stabilizing and as more Canadian citizens were looking for work, they were running into similar issues as the one that's currently being debated in regard to H-1B visas here in the United States. And so Justin Trudeau himself just two days ago put out a video confessing that they went a little too far in opening up the country to immigration. And he says that now they're implementing new restrictions when it comes to its so-called express entry program for high-skilled immigrants. And they're also trying to decrease the number of permanent immigrants coming into the country as well. So permanent immigration has also grown in the countries.

You can imagine Trudeau and immigration minister Mark Miller presented their most stringent immigration cutbacks yet, which would amount to a 21% reduction of permanent residents accepted into the country this year in 2025. And in regard to the housing shortage, it is pretty severe in Canada, much like here in the United States. Home prices have ballooned a whopping 30% in Canada since 2020. And according to a report by the parliamentary budget officer, PBO, Canada needs an additional 3.1 million homes by 2030 in order to address the current housing crisis, we need three to four million homes right now, not by 2030, literally right now. So the problem is more pronounced here in the United States, but nonetheless, it's still an issue in Canada. So any comment on that before I talk a little

bit about what's going to happen next, politically speaking in Canada? Yeah, I do want to give voice to some of our members talking about what's next and Biden in a second too. But yeah, on this, Anna, look, I think Woken immigration are actually similar in a way that people don't realize. Because I think the underlying issue is for some people, they're really discomforted by change. So when they see the demographics of their country changing, they're bothered by it. When they see words changing, they're bothered by it. And as I've explained before, I understand I'm a super nostalgic guy and I'm conservative by nature, but not in politics. So I get that being discomfited. And so that's partly what happened in Canada and here in the US.

But again, all of that is, and by the way, I'm not justifying it, I'm an immigrant. I changed demographics of this country. And I think immigrants greatly improve both countries. But I'm just explaining why it happens, right? But again, it pales in comparison to housing prices and inflation overall. Those are gigantic issues. As James Carver pointed out in a New York Times op-ed, he did a couple of days ago. And it was great to see because he's, you know, in a lot of ways as establishment as it gets, having worked with Bill Clinton, etc. He said, we gotta go to populism, and we gotta go back to what we focused on in the first Clinton campaign, which is, it's the economy stupid. Because, and this is a great point that he made that I wanted to emphasize,

he said, an average person has three to five interactions at least a day with the economy. When they go to buy milk, when they go to pay their rent, when they go to buy gas, etc., etc. So that is the thing that is most relevant in their lives over and over again on a daily basis, Whereas foreign policies abstract, even things like being woke, et cetera, is less of an issue because they interact with it less, right? Although it might go to core identity issues, et cetera. So the focus on the economy is always got to be paramount, but Anna, that leads to the number one problem that you and I talk about all the time on the show, which is that for the political

class, they're so obsessed with the donors and with a neoliberal way of thinking that that they can't do the populist policies that the citizens are in favor of because they're blocked by the elites. So they're in this constant friction of serving the elites who got them into power versus serving the voters. They almost always choose the elites. And that's why the voters are throwing out all of the incumbents, whether they're on the left or the right. So let's move on to what happens next with the political system in Canada. So he's not going to resign right away. It doesn't work exactly like that. So here's what we do know. So Trudeau, basically the Liberal Party, since Trudeau is stepping down from his leadership role as Prime

Minister, the Liberal Party, the party that he is from, will now engage in that robust, competitive process to find the new leader of the party. And then that individual will face off with the individual from the Conservative Party who actually at the moment has a massive lead over Justin Trudeau. So I guess the thinking is maybe the liberal party can find a leader that has a little more favorability with the Canadian people. So it could actually be a competitive race between whoever that person ends up being and the leader for the conservative party. Also, in a move that gives liberals more time to settle on a new candidate, Justin Trudeau said governor general, Mary Simon granted his request to pro-rogue parliament, placing it out of

session until March 24th. So what does that mean? Prorogation effectively allows the prime minister to hit pause on parliament. The government remains in power, but all parliamentary activity from existing bills and committee work to studies and investigations come to a halt. But 2025 was poised to be an election year anyway. Trudeau and the liberals had been on track to remain in power until this year, until a deal struck in 2022 with the leftist opposition, the new Democratic Party. And Canada's general election was initially set to take place in October of this year. Now it's more likely to happen in the spring of this year. Yeah. So one of our members on Twitch, Jonathan Hahn, wrote in Trudeau's doing what Biden should have

done and another member on t yt dot com dirge wrote in unlike biden trudeau knows when he is unpopular look that's relevant and thank you for writing in and become a member by hitting the join button below if you're watching on youtube or if you want to get all your content on t yt.com that's a great place to sign up so he's giving time for his own party to find someone else And he's not even, you know, 98 or however old Biden is, right? He's only 53, but he's so unpopular, he realizes he can't come back from those numbers. And if you remember, when I started doing a petition like 15 months ago to drive Biden out, age was a huge factor in it, but his popularity was an even bigger factor.

That was the number one factor. I kept talking about how if your numbers are in the 30s as an incumbent, you have no chance of winning. And Trudeau realized that unlike Joe Biden. So he's doing the selfless thing here, which honestly, you got to give him some degree of credit for, because politicians almost never do that. And usually, especially in our country, and usually he'll think, oh, I've got a year to take it from, you know, to double my numbers, triple my numbers. Joe Biden would have never done that. He didn't do that. And he didn't do it.

And he was in much, much worse shape than Trudeau. He didn't do it until the last possible second. And it hurt his party in his country greatly. So at least Trudeau is doing something patriotic here and write for his party by saying, hey, let's figure out who can lead here and who could actually beat the other side. And let's give them an opportunity to do that. So he's not taking any rash actions and stepping down now and leaving his party in the lurch. So I appreciate that. Because guys, I like to get because like, you know, we're talking about everybody's throwing out incumbents.

And I understand that urge completely. And I, and in primaries, by the way, you should definitely do that with almost everyone who's a Democrat or Republican, almost everyone. But when it comes to the general election, it doesn't necessarily solve anything. Because if you just put it in a conservative who's even more in favor of the donor class or the wealthy or the elites, that's not really going to help you. So I hope that the liberals in Canada find a strong populist leader who's going to drive towards positive change for the actual citizens of Canada.

And they'll be far better off going in that direction. All right. When we come back from the break, we'll take a trip back to the United States where we'll dive into an interview that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had in which he really reveals how delusional he is in regard to the Biden administration's foreign policy, especially in regard to Israel. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Chang and Anna with you guys, also Don Whitehead and Chaplin, Fred, who both gifted five youngsters memberships. Way to start out the year right. We appreciate you guys. All right, Casper, what's next? We got to talk about this interview with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken because it was a disaster. fundamentally, look, one of the things that I've found a little astounding throughout is that

for all of the understandable criticism of the way Israel has conducted itself in Gaza, you hear virtually nothing from anyone since October 7th about Hamas. Why there hasn't been a unanimous chorus around the world for Hamas to put down its weapons, to give up the hostages, to surrender, I don't know what the answer is to that. That's news to me because all you'll hear from anyone with even a little bit of power in the United States, whether they're in the media or in government, is that we should condemn Hamas. And that is the immediate deflection as soon as anyone questions the conduct of the Israeli government and the Israeli defense forces. Now with that in mind, outgoing secretary of state, I just said that out loud for the first time.

real good, but outgoing Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sat down with the New York Times to discuss the Biden administration's legacy. So this should be fun. And you won't be surprised to hear that he refuses to accept any responsibility for any of the bad decisions that the Biden administration might have made foreign policy-wise, especially as it pertains to Israel and how they've carried out their brutal war on Gaza. Now, when the host, Lulu Garcia Navarro, asked Anthony Blinken about Israel's conduct and the high death toll among women, children, elderly people, and other civilians in Gaza. Blinken repeatedly dodged the question. Israel's response has been extreme. The latest UN figures put the Palestinian death toll at 45,000.

Over 90% of Gaza's population is now displaced. The population is starving. All hospitals have been destroyed. In November, a UN committee released a report that found Israel's warfare practices quote, consistent with the characteristics of genocide. I know you don't agree with that estimation, but do you believe that Israel's actions have been consistent with the rules of war? Let's step back for a second and think about where we were on October 6th, and then where we were on October 7th, and where we've been since then. Yeah, we've been thinking about that a lot, actually. And he could just continue skirting the question, just continues.

So he says that the United States had three goals, number one, making sure an October 7th style attack never happens again. Number two, stopping the war from expanding to other fronts, which obviously the United States has utterly failed at. And then making sure the women, children, and men of Gaza who had nothing to do with, the attack were as protected as possible. Another massive failure given the high death toll among civilians. So Lulu Garcia Navarro tries again to get him to answer whether Israel has violated any human rights laws, any laws as it pertains to international war crimes. Let's see how he answers this time. I mean, even Israel's former Israeli defense minister Moshe Alon referred to what's happening in Gaza as war crimes and ethnic cleansing. I mean, this is internal criticism.

This is not external. So I guess I would repeat the question and ask you, has Israel respected the rules of war in Gaza? We, as you know, have looked and continue to look at that in depth. And we put out our own reports on this with our own assessments. And when it comes to the actions that Israel has taken in its defense, in its just defense, in trying to make sure that October 7th never happens again. We've said from day one that how Israel does that matters. And throughout, starting on day one, we've tried to ensure that people had what they needed to get by. But later in the interview, he accidentally confesses that, you know, Israel's kind of stood in the way of getting the people of Gaza, the humanitarian aid they need to survive. Let's just take a

quick look at that and I'll go to you, Jank. The very first trip that I made to Israel, five days after October 7th, I spent with my team nine hours in the Kyria, the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv, six stories underground with the Israeli government, including the prime minister, including arguing for hours on end about the basic proposition that the humanitarian assistance needed to get to Palestinians in Gaza. In public opinion, this wasn't just the prime minister or given leader in Israel. This was an entire society that didn't want any assistance getting to a single Palestinian in Gaza. I argued that for nine hours. President Biden was planning to come to Israel a few days later. And in the course of that argument, when I was getting resistance to the

proposition of humanitarian assistance getting in, I told the prime minister, I'm going to call the president and tell him not to come if you don't allow this assistance to start flowing. And I called the president and to make sure that he agreed with that and he fully did. Anyway, we got the agreement to begin assistance through Rafa. So in other words, there are violations of human rights in the way Israel is prosecuting this war. I mean, he accidentally admitted it, but he admitted it. And by the way, I should note that The reporter presses him further and he's quick to defend Israel saying that their intentions were good, but at times the results have been insufficient, Jank.

Yeah, look, we're going to miss the Secretary of State for Israel. But don't worry, we're not going to miss him for long because Marco Rubio will be the next Secretary of State for Israel. These people are not our Secretary of State at all, not 1%. He works for Israel. He might literally work for Israel. We'll get to that in a minute. But all of this is absurd. Because I look, sometimes I ask with politicians, are they really this stupid? Or are they trying to deceive you? In the case of Blinken, we know he's not stupid. So when he says, well, how come nobody's talking about Hamas? He knows everybody's talking about Hamas. And he knows

that that's a misdirection because we're not giving Hamas $30 billion of our money. We're giving Israel $30 billion of our money. That's why the conversation is about Israel. So, It's not like there's a shortage of people condemning Hamas across the world. Every government on earth has condemned Hamas. The United Nations has condemned Hamas. Everyone has condemned Hamas. And they killed 1,200 people. Israel has killed now 46,000 people, the great, great majority of which are civilians. And we helped finance their murder and slaughter of the Palestinian people. And Anthony Blinken helped them to do that. He covered up for them in every instance. When she asked about He looks visibly uncomfortable.

And then what's the, I knew what he was going to say first in that second clip that we showed you. I knew first, we got to talk about October 6th and October 7th. And then in every answer, October 7th, October 7th, as if the conflict started on October 7th, as if the Israelis have not been brutally occupying the Palestinians for 57 years, as if their land grabs and their theft of nonstop of Arab land isn't the core cancer that's causing the problem. problem. And then as if October 7th happened this October 7th. And it's still the war would have been way too long and disproportionate. But it happened last October 7th. So Israel has been slaughtering and slaughtering and slaughtering with our money. And we're about to send them more money, more weapons to slaughter more people. And here comes their secretary of state

pretending to be our secretary of state doing nonstop excuses and ass kissing for a foreign government that has destroyed not only their reputation, but our reputation. Anthony Blinken is beloved in Washington because he's one of the elites that profit off of all of these wars. And it puts a pretty face and nice language to it and nonstop excuses and propaganda for a foreign government. But the reality is that they represent that government and not us. And I loat these people. He's been a terrible secretary of state, nothing but not.

nonstop failure, a grotesque failure of a human being. And so now, but in Washington, oh my God, feted, roses thrown at his feet. Such an intelligent way to cover for Israeli's war crimes and way to force the American citizens that don't have enough wages or health care, or by the way, any of the things that the Israelis have forced them to pay the Israelis for killing more Palestinians. That's all he's ever done. He'll go down in history as not a diplomat, but as a marketing executive for the state of Israel. in regard to funding and weaponry and military support for Israel, on their way out,

Blinken and Joe Biden are hoping to give Israel one last gift in the form of yet another weapons package. Now, the reporting around this has been complete another utter dog crap, because to be honest, I want to know the details of what they're planning to do here. Is this a weapons package that they're expecting American citizens to bankroll on top of the 17, No, I'm sorry, on top of the, yeah, $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel since October 7th. Is this going to be basically an approval for Israel to buy American-made weapons? But regardless of what those details are, the package is expected to be worth about $8 billion. Again, does this mean Israel is going to spend $8 billion of its own money to buy American-made weapons?

or is this additional funding that American taxpayers are going to be on the hook for? And so this new package does need to be approved by the U.S. House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees. So we'll see how that develops. However, in this interview with the Times, Blinken was asked why the U.S. is continuing to arm Israel. And here's what he had to say. Hamas is no longer deemed a threat in the way that it was. And the population has been completely decimated. So I'm curious why still provide these weapons to Israel? First of all, we have been and we remain fundamentally committed to Israel's defense. And unfortunately, it faces adversaries and enemies from all directions. And that means that

the support that the United States provides over many administrations, Republican and Democrat, over many years, that support is absolutely vital to making sure that Israel is able to defend itself, that it can deter aggression coming from many other quarters, whether it's Hezbollah, whether it's Iran, whether it's the many Iranian-backed proxies, whether it's the Houthis, you name it. That support is vital to making sure Israel has a deterrent, has an adequate defense. And in turn, that means that we're not going to have an even broader, wider conflict that results in more death. I'm sure attempting to steal territory in Lebanon and Syria has nothing to do with the hostility that's been directed toward the government of Israel. But nonetheless, look,

there's a huge conflict of interest here as it pertains to Anthony Blinken. I raised this conflict of interest when Joe Biden tapped him to be in his administration, a secretary of state. And that has to do with the fact that Anthony Blinken directly himself formed a consulting firm known as West Execut Advisors. And the Intercept had written about this. So let me just give you a few excerpts. Their focus has been to enhance the capabilities of defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies. Director of National Intelligence, Averill Haynes, and more than a dozen other Biden officials also worked for this consulting firm before joining the Biden administration. But little is known about their client list. And that's because of how

this consultant firm was structured, allowing them to essentially hide who their clients are. So the staff are not considered lobbyists, and so as a result, they are not required to disclose who they work for. So if they're working for foreign governments, we wouldn't know that because they don't have to report it. Mandy Smithberger, who's a director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight, told Politico a few years ago by not directly advocating for federal dollars on behalf of West Exec clients, they don't have to publicly divulge who is paying them and for what activities, such as, the connections they make with government agencies. They avoid becoming registered lobbyists or

foreign agents and are instead becoming strategic consultants, she said. However, we do know that Blinken advised companies like AT&T, FedEx, Facebook, Uber, and defense contractors like Boeing, which of course sells weapons to Israel. And additionally, WestExx advised Windward, a digital surveillance company that was founded by Israeli intelligence officers and counts former Israeli army chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, as a board member. So, I mean, if we actually had a government that served the best interests of the American people, we would not allow these types of conflicts of interest to stand, but nonetheless they do. And that's the result. That is what results in the type of foreign policy that we're seeing, especially as it pertains

to Israel. Jake. They all should be. They're lobbyists. Who are we kidding? They're lobbyists. All these people in Washington are lobbyists. All the people who pretend to be consultants in DC are lobbyists.

And they half of them represent foreign governments and they hide that. They should all be out as foreign agents. And if they didn't register as foreign agents, they should be arrested. They all work. These guys work for foreign governments. And then they go into our government and they betray this country. And they say, oh, no, you have to funnel money to my client. I mean, oops, I get to hide my clients.

You have to funnel your money, your hard-earned money to a different government, and you have to serve them loyally. And no matter how many wars they start and how many people they slaughter, you all have to give your paycheck over to them. But now I'm not going to tell you who I work for. So I work for, they work for Israeli companies, we just told you that. They work for companies that fund Israel's wars like Boeing, we just told you that. Do they also work for Israel? Oh, no, no, technically we're not lobbyists. No, you are lobbyists, get the hell out of here.

And then why are we unclear as to whether this is an actual sale or not? Because mainstream media are a bunch of liars. So they keep calling it a sale. But here, I'll read it from ABC News about other things that they call the sale. Remember how Anna told you we've already given them $17.9 billion? I want to read you that paragraph, because that also got to I characterized as a sale in so many articles that I read. Here's the paragraph this today.

The weapons package would add to a record of at least 17.9 billion in military aid that the US has provided Israel since the Hamas attacks on October 7. So wait, is it aid or is it sales? I think what it is is, it looks like they're being characterized as sales so that American people aren't furious. But then we're financing those so called sales, so it ain't a sale at all. It's just a giant gift to Israel, gift after gift. And we're not giving them healthcare, we're not giving them positive gifts that would help to Israeli people.

We're giving them gifts to murder Palestinians and commit war crimes. And then all of our media is lying on their behalf and calling it, oh, a sale, as if we got something out of it. I know that's what's happened in the past, we're still not clear about the $8 billion. Because every reporter in the country sucks and won't clarify if it's a sale or if it's a goddamn gift from the American taxpayers to kill them more people and start more wars. And finally, that gets to the last point here. He says he said several times, oh, we did such a great job of preventing this war from broadening. Did you?

That's another giant lie. Israel is bombing five to seven neighbors, depending on how you count. It's bombed Syria. It's bombed Lebanon. It's bombed West Bank, Gaza Strip. It's bombed Yemen. It's bombed Iran. How is this not broadening the war? Yeah, those countries have very limited ability to bomb back. So every once in a while, Iran will bomb back. Hezboa has these pea shooters that they fire, et cetera, or use to fire. And then every time Blacon goes out there and goes, oh my God, poor Israel. Well, now they get to slaughter tens of thousands of dollars. Give them more money, give him more money. Let him slaughter more Arabs. Who gives a goddamn about Arabs anyway? So that's the job of our Secretary of State, right? And you heard what he called it, a just defense. Does this look like justice to you? Over 25,000 women and children slaughtered by the terrorist state of Israel. And that's an underestimate. And he has to pay for all of it. None of that is just, it's injustice,

to find Israel is Goliath and those poor Palestinians are David and they're being crushed by people like Anthony Blinken. He just puts on a suit and he uses fancy words, but he's a thug who loves to finance terrorism as long as it's done by Israel and companies that pay his bills. So that's the kind of corrupt, terrible person Anthony Blinken is. And don't worry, though, he'll be replaced by someone just as bad, if not worse, because Marco Rubio is going to come in for Donald Trump. And Marco Rubio is also a neocon, war monger, and totally owned by Israel. So our next Secretary of State will also serve Israel very dutifully. Maybe, maybe he'll care about us as a 13th priority. When we come back from the break, we'll watch

Senator Chuck Schumer squirm on Meet the Press. All right back on T.O.D. Jay and Anna with you guys. More news. Casper. Why don't we start with this? You were obviously in close contact with President Biden well before the public. tuned into that debate that ultimately led to him stepping down. I want to play you a little bit of something you said last year. Take a look. I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly, off sometimes several times in a week,

or usually several times in a week. His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as good as it's been over the years. All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity is declined is wrong. Those statements from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer were in February of 2024 when clearly President Joe Biden's mental acuity was not as great as Senator Schumer would have you believe. Now, he was confronted with that video while on Meet the Press over the weekend. And the real question is, how did he respond to it? Let's take a look.

Leader Schumer, what do you say to Americans who feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them about President Biden's mental acuity? Look, we didn't. And let's look at President Biden. He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since Lyndon Johnson's great society, putting into, 235 judges, a record, and he's a patriot. He's a great guy. And when he stepped down, he did it on his own because he thought it was better, not only for the Democratic Party, for America, we should all salute him. We should all salute him. Do you feel, as we have this conversation today, that President Biden could serve another four years,

had he stayed in the race and potentially won? Well, I'm not going to speculate. As I said, I think his record is a stellar one, and he'll go. down in history is a really outstanding president. All these people need to be voted out of the Democratic Party. Okay, it's not good enough that Biden's gone. People like Chuck Schumer, they need to be gone. I mean, the audacity to continue lying to the American people after everything that's

transpired during the past election cycle, it blows me away. It really does. Go ahead, Jank. Yeah, I mean, look, not only did he pretend that Biden's still in great shade. I mean, brother, who are you kidding? Really? And he was an amazing president, et cetera. But to be fair to him, every Democrat was pretending that Joe Biden was a great president, the best one since FDR and young and dynamic until the debate. And so now I see tons of Democrats saying that, you know, they're so aggrieved by Biden.

What are you guys talking about? When we said Biden should drop out, you all, all, and when I say all you, I mean, Democrats in Washington, people in mainstream media, you all yelled at us. I said, how dare you? You should bow to the powerful, bow, obey, obey, pretend he's young and dynamic. But on top of that, Schumer said, oh, he was so gracious, he did it on his own. No, he didn't. It's so ridiculous. We just lie. We had to push and push and punch and shove. I mean, he didn't want to do it on a boat.

He didn't want to do it on a go. He's still complaining about it. He still said to a report of the other day, apparently behind this thing or got leaked, that he said that he would have won if he'd stayed in the race. The guy's cuckoo for cocoa pops. And look, I get it. He has dementia, right? So the people around him are monsters. They're still pushing him out there. Go, Joe, say we would have one, Joe. Here's what you should be saying, Joe. He doesn't know what the hell he's saying. And monsters like Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Anthony Blinken, all, and Chuck Schumer, all of these guys, aided and abetted what happened here. Obama and Pelosi had buyer's remorse near the end when they're like, oh, our propaganda isn't going to work. So let's ditch him and get a new guy.

But overall, they're all guilty. They all knew and they all lied through their team. Eve, including Chuck Schumer. So I'm going to be a little more fair because I think it is hyperbole to say all Democrats knew. I think Democratic leadership certainly knew. Someone like Chuck Schumer, who was in constant contact with Joe Biden, certainly knew, which is why I thought this story was more interesting than others, because this isn't just some rank and file Democrat. And remember, Jank, we did that story about the huge expose in regard to Biden's mental decline, who knew what.

And there were rank and file Democrats who were trying to get in touch with Biden during his term. And they couldn't. I forget the name of the one Democrat who said he was able to speak to Biden literally once, once during the entire four years. Yeah, go ahead. I got to clarify. So I agree and disagree. So I agree with you that they didn't all consciously know. And I'm sure that tons of them told themselves pretty little lies.

And mostly they were in a bubble. And in that bubble, you never, ever question leadership. You never question authority. You always bow your head like a good, subservient little boy and girl. You follow orders, whether it's a donor or it's democratic leadership. So you're right that they didn't all know consciously, right? But a lot of them did know, because they interacted with Biden. And to the point that you're making, a lot of them couldn't even get in touch with Biden.

But did any of them say anything publicly? No. No, that's sacrilege. It's the exact opposite. It's, but hold on, hold on. It's sacrilege for Democrats. Okay, you're not allowed to have any disagreement. You're not allowed to go against the grain even a little bit in the Democratic Party.

Okay? That's right. You have to just go along with what Democratic leadership demands. And that's a huge problem. That ended up leading to Democrats losing big in this election. And it wasn't just that they were yelling at us, that we're not important. Who cares about? about us. Yeah. But what my point is, they yelled at John Stewart when he did it. They yelled

at Charleveen when he did it. But most importantly, Dean Phillips, a U.S. congressman, ran against Joe Biden. And they took us head off. All these people that are now like, oh, boy, you know, you know, we had concerns and blah, blah, blah. No, you guys were the ones lying and trying to, you know, character assassinate Dean Phillips and everyone else who ran against Joe Biden. They're all guilty and and guys that's exactly the number one point I'm trying to make is that the next time they lie to you and tell you to bow your head and obey because the Wizard of Oz really knows what he's doing and don't look behind the curtain just trust the wizard that he's a genius and young and dynamic they're lying to you so when they say it about Pete Buttigieg or

Gavin Newsom well they'll be younger and they'll have a new script, but it's the same old corporate guys who are never, ever going to look out for you. They're only going to look out for themselves and their donors. Now, a question was raised in regard to what led to the big losses that Democrats suffered in this election cycle. And what I thought was interesting is Schumer immediately pivoted to what I think Democrats excel in, what they're really good at, which is placing the blame on the electorate. Take a look. One of the things we have to do is we must focus on the working families of America.

We believe in them. And we passed all kinds of legislation that helped them. The infrastructure bill, which made our economy stronger and employed lots of people. The chip hubs, where we're now having chip hubs in places to do new manufacturing and new research that were left out before, Missoula, Montana, Bloomington, Indiana. The bill lowering the cost of prescription drugs as of January 1st, 10 of the most popular prescription drugs will be greatly lowered because we finally allowed, under our leadership, the drug companies, we forced them to negotiate with Medicare. So we did a lot of good things, but all too often, Kristen, we talked about the mechanics of the legislation and the details of the legislation, and we really didn't

show the kind of empathy and concern to average, or show enough of it, to average working families who didn't realize how much we had done and how much we care for them. I mean, the working families just didn't know. They didn't know how awesome we were and how much we delivered for them. You know, the working class families that I myself, Chuck Schumer, said we didn't need back in 2016. And this is his direct quote, as he was speaking before a Washington Post panel. He said, quote, for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in Western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin. That is what Chuck Schumer said during the 2016 presidential

election. The abandonment of the working class in America was very much intentional by Democrats like Chuck Schumer. And it didn't work out for them. And rather than take responsibility for a total garbage strategy, he's just arguing, no, no, we actually did incredible things for working class voters. It's just that they didn't realize it. Maybe we need to do a better job explaining it to them. I'm going to go ahead and say that most working class, working class voters, people who are still in the job market, people who still need to earn a living, people who can't qualify for Social Security at the moment, or Medicare at the moment, aren't going to be too jazzed about the 10 pharmaceutical drugs that the Medicare system

specifically can now negotiate for lower drug prices. If you don't have Medicare, that policy doesn't impact you. Okay? So it's just so incredibly frustrating to see Democratic leadership still fail to take personal responsibility for their failed strategies and how much they have failed in delivering for working class voters intentionally. So he had that genius idea of getting more moderate Republicans, even if it cost Democrats their base of working class voters. So how many Republicans did they get to switch back in 2016? 7%. Ooh. And then how about in 2020?

6%. How about in 2024? 5%. So less and less each time. So why do they keep going back to that well when it is demonstrably, demonstrably and empirically an incorrect political strategy? Because to them, it's not an incorrect political strategy. That's where a lot of their donors are. They're Republicans who are moderates who live in the suburbs. And they feed Chuck Schumer's mouth full of billions of dollars in donations. So he's like, I love moderate Republicans. I'll give him anything they want. He doesn't care if he loses the

election. Basically, he'd rather win. He'd rather have power. But most of all, he has to serve as donors. Guys, I know someone who worked with Schumer in the past. Without divulging names were said in private. When Schumer was asked, this is a long time ago about a particular issue, he said, I'll have to ask Tish what he thinks. So who's Tish? That's the Tish family in New York. They're giant, giant donors. Chuck Schumer literally asks his donors what he should do on every issue. So that's the level of corruption that we're talking about here. So he doesn't think it's a brilliant political strategy. He just thinks this is what my donors paid for.

This is what I'm gonna get him. If people found out how much the Democrats didn't do for the working class, they'd voted for them even less. So what happened in this term? Who killed the $15 minimum wage? Joe Biden did. He asked for the to be taken out of the bill, even though he ran on it. It was a very first thing he did was to make sure that you are not.

going to get an increase in your wages because his donors didn't want it. And who killed a public option? Joe Biden did. He didn't even propose it. Paid family leave, didn't try at all. It's at 84%. Any idiot could pass paid family leave, but Joe Biden didn't try. Chuck Schumer didn't try. They didn't try on any of these things because they had to check with the Tish family and the Soros family and the now Musk and the Edelson and every freaking donor there is. They don't work for us. Chuck Schumer is just a very, very poor liar. So and but right now progressives in Congress are like, oh, how can we work with Chuck Schumer? You're not because these guys are not on our side, man. There's no working with the Chuck Schumers of the world. Just defeat them

already. Well, when we come back for the second hour of the show, let's talk a little bit about Elon Musk suspending a reporter who prove that he's not using sock puppet accounts on his platform. Weird. And then later, we'll also talk a little bit about Kamala Harris and her treatment of Senator Bernie Sanders during the official Senate swearing in. We'll be right back.