The Young Turks - Trump Channels Mean Girls In Mueller Tirade, Tucker Carlson On Tacos

Episode Date: August 17, 2018

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from August 17, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson & Maz Jobrani. Pentagon worried about war with China. Trump’s military parade cancelled over cost. Trump plans to revoke Bruce Ohr’s security clearance. Justice Department investigating GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy. Tucker Carlson says tacos are American. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thanks for watching. on this show. Have fun. That's what we do. Okay, whether it drops a second too late or not. Okay, Mazurbrani's here, everybody. Oh, the crowd goes nuts. Washington on. Okay, Jared, Jackson, Anna Kusperi, and Jake Uger. It's a power panel. That's what it is. Maas, what's going on lately, man? Not much, man. Just been touring and just traveling, you know. Let me ask you something. If I wanted to catch you on tour, where would I go to find out that information?

You would go to Mazjobrani.com. Oh, well, that makes sense. Yes. Okay. I own it. Or anything at Maz Jobrani, I'm constantly posting on there, so you could go there and find out. That's right. Yeah.

I don't think that there's any Maz Jabrani impersonator, so you got that on lockdown. I've got that on lockdown. Actually, I found out today that there's a couple of guys on Instagram. I don't know this until a friend of mine was like, hey dude, there's a couple guys on Instagram because my last name is J-O-B-R-A-N-I. So one of them did J-O-B-R-A and I-I-I-I and the other one did I-I-I-I-I-I-I. So there's a Maz Jo Brani and a Mas-R-B-R-N-I, but I'm just Majibrani. Okay, so there was an Uno Maaz.

Hey, come, get out of here. You've got to go and tour with me. How do I find out where you're touring? I'm here all week. How do I find out where you're touring? Right here. Wherever he's touring, he comes on stage with 30 seconds before he goes on. That's also true.

Don't forget the tip of the waiters and waitresses. In fact, that is a story later in the same. No, it's not. We cut it because we added more stories and we didn't have time. Sorry. I love that story. I was going to give Jimmy Doer credit. Sorry.

Okay, now I take Jimmy door credit away. Okay, so Jimmy tips a lot. Okay, there, I gave him credit. All right, lots of lots of crazy stories in today's show. Are we going to war with China? We're about to find out in a second, and I'll tell you something that a lot of people don't know about. don't know about that. Remember we went nuts on the night of the Kansas election? Well, we said we do something about it. We did. We sent a reporter down to Kansas to find out what

happened with the votes, and she did. So that is coming up a little bit later in the program. Please don't miss that. You guys made that reporting possible. We appreciate it. And whose tacos is it? A taco controversy. I'd like to write ad for the record, which I'm sure I'll say during the segment as well, I like tacos, but tonight we settle it. Whose tacos are they? America or Mexico? Okay, Casper, we've got a billion things in the news. Let's do it, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, let's get right to it.

The Pentagon has released a report indicating that there's some concern that the U.S. could engage with war with China, engage in war with China. Now, the Pentagon has expressed concern that China's military is probably training to strike United States and its allies. So that's something to be a little concerned about. As we know, there's an ongoing trade war with China. Trump has been antagonizing China since before he even got elected. But there's also the issue of Taiwan, which we will get to in just a second. But according to the report, over the last three years, the PLA, also known as the China's

People's Liberation Army, has rapidly expanded its overwater bomber operating areas gaining experience and critical maritime regions and likely training for strikes against the U.S. and allied targets. So again, this is an annual report that the Pentagon puts out. It seems a little hyperbolic to me, I'm gonna be honest with you guys, but in the Trump era, anything's possible, and this should concern us. The PLA may continue to extend its operations beyond the first island chain, demonstrating the capability of U.S. to strike the U.S. and allied forces.

and military bases in the western Pacific Ocean, including Guam. So again, relations with the United States and China have deteriorated as of late. In fact, according to the report, these relations have been tested, and the crack started to show in May when the Pentagon withdrew an invitation for China to participate in multinational naval exercises. Okay, I'm going to clarify what's important, not important here, what's real, what's not real. So don't worry, I got this. But before that, I like to make really serious stories like World War, silly.

So there's a bunch of cool things in this, cool names in this story. Now, I'm going to get a lot of trouble. The right way can get rid of it, clip this out of context. China's people's liberation army, army, sounds kind of cool. Like any liberation army sounds kind of cool to me. Now, their actions were not that cool. I just want to be super, super clear about that. But remember, it was like when George H.W. Bush declared the liberation of Kuwait has begun.

Now, back then, I was a Republican, and I enjoyed that kind of talk. I'm kind of tough guy, talk. I like, all right, we're moving on. Later, I'm going to get to corvettes and frigates, which are also super cool. Now, on to serious stuff. He's literally going to be here all night. That's right. Okay. All right. So are we going to war with China? Very, very unlikely.

But there's a huge butt here, okay? China is not making noises to go attack America. That's insanity. That's not going to happen, right? But what could happen, which could lead to either a Shao Xiaoxo war or a gigantic war, is they just go take Taiwan. They just grab it. Seems like they're thinking about doing that. Yeah.

Yeah. And so I want to give you one other little piece of information. This was the only thing that really concerned me, worried me in this report. So they're also testing a certain weapon that would be disastrous, okay? So China's testing something known as a hypersonic missile that could be developed to carry a nuclear warhead that can evade all current U.S. detecting systems and also travel up to six times the speed of light. So that sounds. Oh, sorry, sound, yeah. Well, that would be badass.

That would be the third badass. That's right. But actually, that made me feel better because that sounded like typical Pentagon overstating give me a bigger budget, right? They're coming in hypersonic, we're not gonna be able to detect our missiles. I need to spend at least four times as much on defense contractors. Well, we have been. I know, I know.

They already got what they wanted though, that's the point. They already got what they wanted with the spending, but okay. And they also talk about how China's developing their military space capabilities. So balance out the hype here, which is, oh my God, the Chinese are coming, we got to spend more on defense. We already do, we already spend three times, more than three times what they spent on defense than they spend a lot. They spent $190 billion last year, and we're at over $700 billion that we spend.

Okay, now let's talk about the only thing that I think is real, which is could they take Taiwan? They could, in a matter of hours. And so when I was in Taiwan, I talked to someone that was in the Taiwanese military, because I have a lot of deeply connected sources. No, it's just some random dude who was in the military. They all have to be in the military, okay? But this was super interesting.

They say that all of their training centered around eight hours. Why eight hours? Because that's how long they have to last before America comes. That is what the Taiwanese military trains for. But now, what if America doesn't come? That sounds like a really bad preparation tactic. do better? Well, they have no chance. So that leads me to the frigates. So there's a breakdown here of the military of China versus Taiwan. Aircraft carriers, China has one. Taiwan does not.

Frigots, hey, Taiwan's got 22. China has 51. Corvettes, China has 28. Taiwan has zero, which is weird, because I can get you 28 corvettes. Probably a different corvette. Medium landing ships, China has 23. Taiwan has zero. They don't even have medium landing ships, let alone big ones. And here's the one that I thought was perhaps determinative. Nuclear attack submarines. Taiwan zero, China, five.

Okay, this thing's over in under eight hours. Okay? Now, they're not going to launch a nukees on Taiwan. That would be counterproductive. But they can go and take that island. The question is, and everybody knows it, Taiwan knows it. In fact, Taiwan's former leader said that Beijing, should stop threatening Taiwan. This is their ex-premier, because it's not strong enough to fight

the United States. Even their former leaders, like, no, no, no, it ain't about us. The U.S. is going to fight it for us. Now, any U.S. president would fight that fight because we have a deal with Taiwan and we honor our deals. Except we have a president who famously does not honor deals. He doesn't honor deals in his personal life. And he does it. And he has said about how he might not honor deals with our allies, whether it's NATO or anyone else. Are you sure that if Taiwan says they're coming, we only have eight hours left, that Trump says, well, I mean, what did they do for us? What do they? Do they pay their bills? What did they do? Do they owe us $2.50? I don't know. I don't know if I want to go, right?

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Exactly. You can never predict him. But I feel like if China, if he views China as his enemy, then he will view Taiwan as his friend, right? So who knows? I think it really depends on the other hand, he has a crooked deal with China on ZTE. Yeah, it's true. I don't know, look, my point is you shouldn't rely on Trump ever. So my point is based in money.

So how can this be beneficial monetarily if you're going to engage with China over potentially taking over and just snatching Taiwan? How does that work out? So we can demonize North Korea. We can demonize Iran, Iraq, anybody we need to make some money off of. So if we're going to fight a war, it has to be beneficial monetarily to us. That's the key that has to happen before this can even go down, which I don't see yet. So that's the part of it that they may be hard to sell to people.

They're like, well, remember those scary Chinese. We're only scared of the Chinese financially. They're going to be bigger than us. Are they going to be deemed in the world as stronger than us and creating more things than us so we have our egos bruised? Or are we actually afraid of that kind of Asian person? Are we afraid of the other kind that we just made best friends with because now they're not scared because now he's Donald Trump's buddy?

Yeah, let me just say that's a really great book. Because think about it psychologically. You go to the Maga guys and you say Iran has taken something or attacked us or attacked an ally. Well, we're going to war immediately, right? Scary Muslims. China's taken something. Right? We're having a conversation and that conversation ends in eight hours.

Well, first of all, the eight hours thing is funny to me. It sounds like a Chuck Norris movie of some sort. It's like the beginning, it happens, and the clock's ticking and Chuck's got to come. And we have eight hours. Just hide in the bunker. So it is off the bat. That's what I thought of. Secondly, I would say that I agree with what Anna was saying in the beginning, which is it does

seem like the Pentagon just wants more money as well. And all that stuff of like they're coming at the speed of sound. They got an Iron Man coming at us, you know, whatever that is. And it's like the police department saying we need more guns. So just, you know, use that money, right? So you've got to be a little bit skeptical of the Pentagon. That said, the problem with the arrow. we're living in right now with Trump is when you hear things like this. And what you guys

were just saying, he's so mercurial with who's he going to support. What's he going to support? To the point where I keep pointing this out, when that thing happened in Hawaii, where they thought that North Korea was launching missiles at Hawaii. People in Hawaii actually believe that. And the underlying reason is because Trump is president. If Trump had not been president, you heard that, you go, oh, that's just a false alarm. Whether was under Obama or Bush or whoever, you go, that's just such a fine. But we live in an era right now where this could happen because Dum Dum does something wrong and pushes the wrong button.

You were talking about Iran and the source. One of the things they say in the article is how China is saying, yo, we're still going to do business with Iran, right? And come November and the oil embargo, we're going to buy oil from Iran. And Trump has said, you're either with us or you're against us, we're going to put embargoes on you. So what's not, I mean, this chess game that's being played with our guy in the White House, playing checkers or not even checkers.

I don't know, he's flipping a coin, that's what he's doing. Yeah. You know? And also, I love that you brought up, you know, the whole Iran nuclear deal and, you know, the sanctions against Iran because this conflict with China isn't one thing, right? It's multifaceted. You have the trade war that's currently going on. We have a funny video to show you about that, believe it or not.

You have the issue of Taiwan, and then you have the issue of China essentially giving Trump the middle finger and saying, no, we're still going to import oil from Iran. I'm not going to listen to you, right? So who knows how Trump is going to act? But there are all these different factors, and any one of them can blow up at any moment. No pun intended. Okay, so with that said, Trump released this random video today, and I think it has everything to do with China and the ongoing trade war with China.

He posted this on Twitter, and there was a part of it that I found hilarious, so I just wanted to share it with you. Let's take a look. Made in America is back. Now, some people would say, made in the USA. I personally don't care. The fact is, we're back, we have 400,000 new manufacturing jobs. Our opponent said that could never happen, it has happened, and we're going to develop

a lot more in a very short period of time. So made in the USA, made in America, it's back. I just, but why? Why? Why the random tangent about some people would also say, what? He should have ended with and Merry Christmas. That's back too. back, he's white, and we're moving on.

Some people didn't believe he was white, but we made him white again. When he's given something to say, and he's actually not even sure why he was given that to say, he's obviously has to read something, this is a Twitter account, right? There's no way he said, you know, today I'm going to put out a video talking about Made in America or USA, it doesn't matter. Once that is written, he has to think of an insert. He's like, I've got to make it me. I've got to make it my own.

So he has to insert something, no matter how meaningless it is, he has to. It's meaningless to everyone else, but in his head, it's like, he thinks he's saying something smart, right? You know, some people also say made in America or made in the U.S.A. We know, we know that people use those interchangeably. Let's move on. No, no, you're absolutely right, Anna. This is a guy who thought he invented the word fake. Not kidding.

He said that in an interview. He's like, nobody was saying that before. Now, I, you know, I said fake, and now everybody said fake. That existed in the English language. All right, last thing, guys, the thing that is most likely, China attacking us a 0% chance. China taking Taiwan is a small percentage chance, but with Trump, I'm a little worried, right? The thing that's actually going to happen is what Maas said, which is we're going into these trade wars and because China has said definitively that they will trade with Iran, they're going to get secondary sanctions from America. And those actually do hurt.

Now, right now, their economy is booming, even though Trump says, oh, they were very hurt by what? my tariffs. No, they weren't. Their GDP grew by 6.6%. They're like, well, that's down from 6.9. 6.6 is gigantic. They're growing at a huge rate. So they're growing bigly.

So they're totally fine. But when you do secondary sanctions, they are going to strike back again. And we're the ones that are on the hook. Our economy is in much more perilous shape. Because we have an inflated stock market. That bubble is going to burst any second. I'm telling you right now, man, that Trump, with these tariffs and the, sanctions is playing with fire.

And that's about the economy, and it is going to blow up on him. It's a, every day he gets closer and closer, and these markets keep gambling and gambling. And at some point, that bubble is going to burst. And I think that we are really close to it. You're missing the part about how we gave the richest and also the largest corporations a huge tax break. That's going to save us. Yeah, yeah.

They're creating a ton of jobs and paying people a lot of money with those tax cuts. I'm not an economist, but I'm just wondering who's in the room with him. when I heard that, you know, when Gary Cohen stepped down and then he was, he wrote something about these tariffs and saying these tariffs are not a good idea. And he, to me, is somebody who's, you know, pretty well versed on economics. A lot of people that I've talked to, they go, yes, the Chinese do cheat us in many ways. And there is something, there's an argument to be made about the terrorists. But my question becomes, where we had, is Trump just sitting there throwing this stuff out? Is it, is there an advisor there? Is there some

economic theory behind it, because I know personally, I know personally that I sort of got, listen, we're getting ready to possibly do some work on the house. We're talking to an architect and stuff, and she said, oh, the prices of every, everything's gone up, all the aluminum's gone up, everything, she goes, everything's going to be more expensive, buying a dryer, everything's going to be more expensive. So we are being affected. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. So. There is no, Maas, you're hilarious, dude. No wonder you're a comedian. Trump, an economic theory in the same sentence. He is incapable of any theory, let alone. economic theory. And to your point, earlier there was a battle about with Gary Cohen, who was his top economic advisor, in my opinion, bad guy done a lot of bad things at Goldman Sachs, but

incredibly smart, right? And knows the economy, understands it. And Steve Bannon, who was like, me do tariff, me get base, right? So now they're both gone, and he's home alone. Yeah. And so God knows if he's going to throw the paint thing at the intruder or against his own head. He couldn't find an economic theory if his life depended on it. This is Home Alone 3, you're right. This is, we are living through Home Alone 3 right now. And when he, and a story that unfortunately we didn't have time for on the show today, and I want to quickly mention, he is asking the SEC to reconsider regulations that force

massive corporations to report their earnings each quarter. He wants to do away with that regulation. Essentially, the tiny bit of transparency that we have in terms of regulation, he's a disaster. He's looking out for the worst people, right? The people who want all the money to themselves, they want to do all the shady stuff without having to be transparent about it. And at the same time, he's putting out his own economic policy, which is disastrous for the average American. He literally believes that the trade deficit is how much money China took from us. Right. Yeah, he does.

Like, they have that amount of money that they just came and took it. That's not how trade deficits and surpluses work. Yeah. Like, he has no understanding of the most. At TYT, we frequently talk about all the ways that big tech companies are taking control of our online lives, constantly monitoring us and storing and selling our data. But that doesn't mean we have to let them. It's possible to stay anonymous online and hide your data from the prying eyes of big tech.

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He's like, oh, it's okay. I'll put Trump on all the buildings. That's not economics, you moron! Yeah. All right. All right. We gotta take a break. Okay, so let's take a break when we come back.

We're gonna give you an update on that military parade that Trump wanted to have. Later on in the show, one of my favorite stories, Tucker Carlson, what he has to say about tacos. Okay, listen, sit, you're gonna love how Trump walked back the military break. Yeah. Classic Trump. And in the break, can someone buy Taiwan a Corvette? Okay, all right.

We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT. Time to read some comments. Tim Klein Jr. says, and I was going to make this point, too. Thank you, Tim, for writing in. We didn't do anything to Russia when they annexed Crimea from Ukraine. So I don't think we'd do anything to China if they took over Taiwan. That's true.

That's an excellent point. That's why I was going to make it. But I didn't, so thank you, Tim. Someone with a Twitter handle that's a play on Donald Trump's name that's so dirty, I can't read it on air, says Trump isn't playing three-dimensional chess or checkers. He's playing Angry Birds or something. Yeah, that's a good point. Angry Birds sounds exactly right for Trump.

He's like, I like this. It smashes things. I like it. It's fun. So real quick, like in response to the earlier tweet about how we didn't do anything about Crimea, that was under Obama, right? Like, we have a new president, and he's a wild card. So we don't know what he would do.

I have no idea. You can just guess and speculate, of course, but. Speaking of video games, I was saying this earlier, I feel like Trump's tweets and the amount of stuff that he throws at you, it's like Tetris. It just keeps coming. And you're like, I got to fit it over. I got to fit it. This is one stop coming. But all of a sudden, randomly there's like a circle, like falling.

It's crazy. Where does this go? It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. It's nuts. That is an amazing analogy. And I thought angry birds nailed it. Okay.

Well, no, we're playing Tetris. with his tweets. So he plays angry birds. We play Tetris. All right, last one. YouTube super chat. Josh says, how many Trump towers would China need to offer Trump to just allow them to take Taiwan? Unfortunately, that's also a good question.

You think that deal can't be made? Okay. Well, if someone asked Trump about Taiwan and China, he'd go, isn't that? It's the same, right? It's like the U. The U.C. Yeah. I mean, ask Trump.

Do you think that it, do you believe in the one China policy between China and Thailand? Guaranteed he doesn't pick up that it's not Thailand, right? Guarantee he doesn't pick it up. Yeah. Right. Anyway, all right, let's go forward. All right. The Pentagon has announced that it will postpone Trump's military parade and this follows

analysis indicating that that parade would actually cost a lot more than previously estimated. The parade originally slated for November 10th of this year had been estimated to cost $92 million. The figure consisted of $50 million from the Pentagon and $42 million from interagency partners, such as the Department of Homeland Security. But the initial estimate pegged the cost at $12 million. So the Pentagon is saying, all right, maybe we'll consider postponing this until 2019. Trump, if he's looking a little bloated to you, it's because of the water retention, high sodium diet, he's very salty.

Very salty about this. He's a cracker. He is a white cracker. He's very salty. So he tweeted about this and he's angry. So let's go to Graphic 12. He says, he's blaming the most random people. The local politicians who run Washington, D.C., poorly, know a windfall when they see it.

When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high. that I canceled it, never let someone hold you up. I will instead attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrew's Air Force Base on a different date and go to the Paris parade, yada, yada, who cares where he's going? The point is he blamed local D.C. politicians. Okay, so many parts of the story. First, he's like, I canceled it. You're the one who wanted it in the first place. You don't get credit for canceling a thing that you wanted, right? Second of all, he thought he could do it for $12 million. Of course you can't do it for $12 million.

They're going to roll in eight tanks. They got jets coming in, et cetera. So he's like, oh, they wanted to hold us up for money. Washington, D.C. doesn't get the money. It's not like you give me $92 million and I put it in my pocket and then you figure out what to do with the tanks. No, you need the money for security and to bring in the tanks and to fly the jets, et cetera. He doesn't pay people.

He doesn't know what that works. In the article, it says something like this just this past week when they had the White supremacist march in D.C. And the protest, it would cost, like, I don't know, five or eight, some number, like 10 million, five million, whatever it was, it was approaching the military parade. So I don't know, maybe, like, he thought maybe they would bring squirt guns. I don't know what he was imagining for the parade. Two things.

First of all, it's funny that he went to France, saw a parade, wants a parade. So now when he goes anywhere and sees, like, if it goes to Italy, he sees a leaning Tower of Pisa, we need a leaning tower of Pisa. Get in one of these buildings, lean it. You know what I mean, he's, it's this crazy kid. It is McCauley Culkin as a 10-year-old going around. I want one of those. That's what's going on.

It's a disaster. He is. It's a disaster. He's a child. I keep calling him Geoffrey Barthian. That's exactly what can't we make them lead? We could make them lean. No, the knowledge is known how anything works in the country.

Like, everything has to be paid for. We talked about how much that the neo-Nazi parade or rally, whatever they're trying to do in D.C., how much it costs. Because people have to be paid for their time and effort to try and keep the peace. So you're bringing out all these military things. You got, like, reservists, you have, like, temporary military guys coming out. You have tanks, eight or something, day to ten tanks coming out. Those things have to be moved. They're not just chilling in the middle of D.C. in the first place.

So when he says those costs. I did see Uber tanks the other day, so I don't have you seen those. It's going to be some tight. I would take that. So when the costs go up, it's like, again, it's, okay, everyone has kids, if he was here. And if you have a birthday party, you don't go to Chuck. cookie cheese and say, hey, my kid wants the birthday party. Is it going to be a hundred bucks for 15 kids to come?

And they go, no, it's actually going to be 40, 50 bucks per child. Like, what are you going to do with all this money that I'm supposed to pay? You know, it goes to the pizza, that goes to the drinks, it goes to the games, it goes to the coins. So when you go through all this, you have to break it down. He's never had to do it in the smallest of scales. Yeah, that's a great point. It's maybe the first thing you learned as a parent. It's, oh my God, I've got to pay all this money for this birthday party.

Is it worth it? He's never had to do it in any of his businesses. Maybe he's stuck in his glory days. He thinks it's the 80s still. So he's like in 80s dollars, 12 million would do it. Maybe in his mind he's like, hey, you know, remember the old days when you could grab a woman by the and to do your thing? Hey, that's what I'm going to do, 12 million. Well, I mean, to finish up J.R.'s point, it's he bankrupted to six companies.

Obviously, he can't do math, right? So, and then I love the D.C. mayor's comment, Muriel Bowser said, that he was, she was abused that he's trying to take credit. And she said, finally getting through to the reality star in the White House about the cost of parades in D.C. Yeah. That's what it caused. She said with some reality.

She said something like that. She played on the word of reality. The other thing, I thought, you know what he could have done? He could have said, listen, so what we're going to do is we're going to take the gay parade and give him guns. You know, like, they're going to, because it's not that expensive. So maybe, maybe that would have been, this guy's a disaster. I mean, it's, you know, the, the fact that, first of all, I think, was, am I incorrect

in saying that the Pentagon, somebody said the Pentagon canceled, right? Yeah, that was the first line. Yeah, so now, yeah, so. Pentagon said that they would postpone it, probably because they know that Trump is going to throw a temper tantrum, which he did. No, no, no, this is, there's so many great parts of this. The Pentagon, in a carefully worded statement said, we have agreed to postpone it till 2019. Who did you agree with?

In other words, we talked a little child into realizing that we don't do military parades in this country, okay, because we're not fascist, and it costs a lot of money, right? So we moved it to 2019 when he's probably not in office, then we don't have to do it. And the article said, the article said that when, I guess, Kristen Nielsen from Secretary, you know, the Homeland Security, she was, she got in touch or somebody got in touch from their office saying, we want to do this military parade. They only let the Pentagon know recently about it. And they gave him kind of a rough idea of we want to do it.

August, I don't know, ninth-ish, ten. Like, they didn't even, there was no specific, I don't know who is organizing over there? To your point of organizing a party at Chucky Cheese, it looks like somebody's just trying to organize a party of Chucky Cheese. They don't know what the hell they're doing. In the pastime, I'm long enough.

We'll be like, Donnie, we'll do it next year. This year we're going to the park. Because they have open picnic tables there. I got to say, too, guys. First of all, the finish chair's analogy about Chucky Cheese, we were going to do it for $100. They tried to hold us up for like $400. $400, I canceled it.

That'll show him. Of course it was going to cost $400. You don't get credit for canceling your kid's birthday party because you didn't know how much it cost. That's too funny. And then Blumenthal criticized him and said, why don't you spend that money on actual vets and on all this other stuff? The real stuff.

Like health care for the vets. That money could be used to take care of our vets. It was a smart response. So then Trump instead. Called him a loser. A smart response, so when he has nothing else to say, loser, crybaby, fake vet, and then quoted Tucker Carlson. Yeah, because I guess Blumenthal had said that he served in Vietnam in the Marines, but he was a reserve in the Marines serving during Vietnam. Right.

But, hey, that's still a lot more than Trump did. Trump was out on the bonespurs, right? Yeah. No, no, look, I mean, Blumenthal was a Marine, okay? Now, he didn't go to Vietnam. He should have said during instead of in Vietnam, okay, fair criticism, right? But he gets to talk, you got out of Vietnam because of bone spurs when they asked you which foot you had it on it.

You said, uh, both. And then you said, well, I got a very strong letter from a doctor about my bone spurs. Oh, God. Again, what does a strong letter from a doctor mean? That means A, nothing. B, he literally said he got a strong letter from a doctor, or B, it means that was strong enough to get me out of the ward because I didn't want to go. And you're going to criticize veterans, but the bottom line is when he says, why don't we help veterans

and their health care, Trump responds with, loser. No answer. Loser. That's his answer. Loser, right? I mean, you're not going to address the veterans at all. Instead, you're going to, like a baby, like a child. I didn't have my parade, and now he wants to spend it on veterans.

Oh, yeah, I'm going to call you a loser. What veteran would prefer the parade over health insurance? And, I mean, maybe like the really old ones who are on the way out. They're like 99. And they're going, hey, man. Health care, keep your health care. I want a parade. I'd like some fireworks.

Fireworks are better than health insurance. They want Uno Ma's parade. Uno Ma's parade, baby. All right, all right. We got to move on. We have some other news to get to. So, as we all know, Donald Trump has revoked a security. security clearance of John Brennan.

He was the CIA director under the Obama administration. And now Trump is saying that he is likely to revoke the security clearance for Bruce Orr. He is a Justice Department official. And Trump has some beef with him because Orr's wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS during the election. Fusion GPS was the research company that essentially found the information for the steel dossier, you know, where we found out about the whole Pee-P thing and the apartment or the hotel. Yeah, we all know, we all know. Now, of course, Trump wants to revoke his security clearance as a retaliatory effort.

And here's what he has to say about it in the next video. Take a look. I think Bruce Orr is a disgrace. I suspect I'll be taking it away very quickly. I think that Bruce Orr is a disgrace with his wife, Nellie, for him to be in the Justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. That is disqualifying for Mueller. And Mr. Mueller has a lot of conflicts also directly yourself, so you know that.

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Wife Nelly for dealing with, by the way, indirectly Russians, they should be looking at steel. They should be looking at all these FBI guys. who got fired and demoted, it's a really weird, it's not us. Okay, as I watch that, all I can think about is what it was like to be in high school in a feud. Like, Mueller is so conflicted. Like, Comey is like his best friend, and so conflicted. Like, I mean, his language, the way he carries himself, the arguments that he's making.

First of all, after it was discovered that Orr's wife, Nellie worked for Fusion DPS during the election, he was actually demoted in the Department of Homeland Security, I'm sorry, the Justice Department. And yeah, I mean, Bruce Orr, the only reason why he's targeting him is because of who he's married to. Yeah, so a couple of great things here. Am I the only one that, like he literally looks like a clown? Like his hair, someone messed with his hair a little bit.

But his face is so insanely orange. I was wondering, was that the TV or was that how he looked? Come on. I'm serious. He looked really right. He looks almost, he should see a doctor. Well, he did, and then he raided his doctor's office and stole the files, which is a true story.

Like, we went past that unbelievable story. He raided his doctor's office and stole his own medical files while he was president. Anyway, back to this. So if, or has his security clearance, a revolt. He would be the only one that is actively serving the government. All the other guys that Trump is targeting are former officials, so then Or would have to be fired because he can't work at the Justice Department without a security clearance. So this is, in essence, asking to fire someone that he perceives to be investigating him.

He says, oh, I don't like that they're investigating me. Sarah Huckabee Sanders later is going to lie and say, it doesn't have anything to do with the Russian investigation. She has a big problem, which is that Trump won't shut his mouth, saying, it's about Russia. It's about what I call the rigged witch hunt. Yeah, he had an interview with the Wall Street Journal where he specified, he clarified that the reason why he was revoking security clearance was because of the Russia investigation. He can't stop himself from incriminating himself.

It's incredible. Well, he's addicted to power, you see. So when you let him get rid of Brennan take away his clearance, now he goes, oh, I'm going to start taking away. Of course he is. He's addicted to the power. And to your point of his vocabulary and the way he speaks, this is totally true. I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old. My son, the 10-year-old, loves to read.

The 7-year-old is always a little hesitant. You've got to push her to read. And the way we encourage her to read, we go, listen, if you don't read and improve your vocabulary, you're going to sound like Donald Trump. Yes. I swear to God. And she goes and reads. I swear to God.

What president is going like, and like, then I think I'm not tremendous. It is like buddies, like besties with Mueller. There's five words that he uses over and over again. But it's not just his vocabulary about Nellie, the wife, in an earlier tweet, he had said his very attractive wife, Nellie. No. Yes, like, why are you talking about that she's attractive? He's like, yes. And I guarantee if someone asked me, he'd go, I was very conciliator.

There was compliments involved. The flow chart was Bruce Orr to Nellie, to Mueller, to Comey, to Russia, back to the P-Tape, because it's a about Fusion GPS in the original. So in that 35 seconds, he went through all of this because someone told him, by way, the Mueller and Comey, best friendship was also something else that a Breitbart writer had exposed back in the day. So he's connecting everything that's somehow in his brain

is firing off at all cylinders to figure out what he can say to get the hell out of it. I think he takes, like you're right. I think when we all, we hear news and we consume some of it, and sometimes you don't quite have all the facts, and then you go to tell somebody. You hear what happened? And then he's just taking the little bits and pieces

that he thinks so that he's just throwing out names and words and kind of connecting them. And the fact that he put the attractive wife means in the back of his mind, he's thinking, someday I might try to hit on her, let me keep this open. It's amazing. Is she hot? I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to Google her.

Okay, so there's more to this that I really want to get to. So, look, when Trump revoked the security clearance for Brennan, both Democrats and Republicans criticized him for that, okay? And you also have members of the intelligence community coming forward and saying this is unacceptable, we can't have this. So in reality, people don't think this is a good idea. They see this as a First Amendment violation, because in Brennan's case, he was very critical of Trump, and it appears that Trump is not only retaliating because of the Russia investigation

and what Brennan believes is happening with Russia and Russian meddling, but he doesn't like critics, so he retaliates by revoking security clearance. I have a lot of Republican Congress members and senators criticize it, because I haven't heard a lot of that. So Susan Collins is on the record saying, look, unless Brennan did something, you know, I forget, illegal, right? Like leaking classified information. Yeah.

Then you would revoke a security clearance. But you could say that I think he's being too political, which Susan Collins is says, right? I don't agree with her, but that's what she says. But that's not why you take away security clearance, because then you're having a, doing it for political strikeback, which you're shouldn't do. No Lindsey Graham, no, none of the others. Bob Corker also. But of course, you make a good point, which is that a majority of the Republicans are like, yeah, whatever. So I don't want to oppose them, otherwise I'm going to lose. Also, more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence and national security officials signed a letter criticizing Trump for what they say

is an ill-considered attempt to stifle free speech. So he is getting criticism. Again, from both the right and the left. And here's what you need to know about what's going on in Trump's world. Everyone's praising him, everything's great, he's getting a pat on the back. Here's what he had to say. I've gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me, very, very important. And I've had a tremendous response for having done that. There's no silence. If anything, I'm giving them a bigger voice. Many people don't even know who he is and now he has a bigger voice and that's okay with me because I like taking on voices like that. I've never respected him. I've never had a lot of respect. Look, I say it,

I say it again. That whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. It's a totally rigged deal. They should be looking at the other side. They should be looking at all the people that got fired. I mean, you're being investigated for obstruction of justice. In interview after interview, in Every video that I see where he's addressing the situation, he keeps talking about how he's revoking security clearance because of the Russian investigation. Well, the tremendous response means that Sean Hannity called him, Janine Piro called him, and Giuliani called him, said, you did the right thing. You did the right thing getting rid of this, you know, revoking his security clearance. And he is, you know, he said it himself when he went to North Korea, where he said, this thing might not work out.

and then I'll say I was wrong. Well, actually, no, I'll find an excuse to find out, to say I wasn't. So he will never admit that he is doing anything wrong. And that's another problem that we have. We really have a man with a psychological problem in the office right now. So let's see if you think this is a tremendous response. General, I'm sorry, Admiral McRaven, who was the commander in charge of Navy SEAL Team 6. He's the one that ordered and supervised the operation.

to get bin Laden, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post saying, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well. Because he said, you're not worthy. And other good leader says, example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself. Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities through your actions. You've embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage, and worst of all, divided us as a nation.

And lastly, he said, if you think for a moment that your McCarthy era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. So I don't think that it got a tremendous response. But in his mind, he thinks if it's good ratings and some people told me some nice compliments about it, then I did the right thing. But even if you break it down, and even if he had gotten a really good response as in the press saying, hey, nice job, et cetera, that's not the reason. to do it.

Right. Could you imagine if Obama said, well, I took this action as president of the United States because people complimented me. Like I thought I did the right thing because I got praise for it. You would rightfully say that's not the point. You're not supposed to do things just to get praise. You're supposed to do them whether they're right policy or wrong policy, right? And he's like, no, it's okay.

I got it's because it's all about Trump. I got tremendous response. So that's why I did this. And yes, Sarah, I could be Sanders, says, no, no, no, it had nothing to do with Russia. And he comes down and goes, I did it because of the rigged witch hunt. Yeah, he can't help himself. Sarah, why do you bother putting out that statement when you know he's going to say it's about Russia? Just don't embarrass yourself any further.

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All right. Back on a young Turks. We've got breaking news. We're going to share with you in a second. So just two comments here. Pac-Man from Twitter writes in, love the power panel today. Great to see everyone in a good mood. Yes, you're going to see in a second part of the reason we might be in a good mood,

although that's not why because it just broke, but we didn't know about it before. But anyway, Chelsea Charles on YouTube super chat says, They sent out the invites for the parade and didn't get any RSVPs, and they don't know how to break it to him. So they're just going to postpone it now and hope he forgets about it. All right, fun. Thank you for participating. Thank you for using YouTube super chat.

Thank you for being a member. TYT.com slash join. Home of Progressives, before we get to tacos, breaking news, Anna. All right. A new report indicates that the Justice Department is currently investigating Elliott Broody, he is a big Republican fundraiser who worked closely with Trump. The allegations include the fact or the allegation that Elliot Broidy sought to influence, to sell his influence with the Trump administration by offering to deliver U.S. government

actions for foreign officials in exchange for tens of millions of dollars. So here are some examples. Prosecutors are scrutinizing a plan that Brody allegedly developed to try to persuade the Trump administration or Trump government to extradite a Chinese dissident back to his home country, a move that was sought by the Chinese president. Also there are allegations that he sought $75 million from a Malaysian business official if the Justice Department ended its investigation of a development fund run by the Malaysian government. The Malaysian probe has examined the role of the former prime minister in the embezzlement

of billions of dollars from the fund. Right now, Broidy is denying everything. He's saying these allegations against him are in an effort to smear him. It's being done by his enemies. But again, this is another person tied to Trump who's trying to do favors for foreign governments and, you know, to get tens of millions and dollars in return for that. So this story just came out. And so let's talk about Broydie overall.

First of all, Maas, during the break, as we saw this story happening, you know, coming across the news, was pointing out, I mean, we're talking about Russian interviews, or maybe it was JR. We got Malaysian interference. We got Chinese interference. We got United Arab Emirates interference. And so Brody was doing several different international deals. One of them was trying to get a security deal with the United Arab Emirates that was valued

at $600 million. So, UAE and Saudi Arabia are aligned against Qatar. It gets a little confusing, okay? But they wanted to make sure that the U.S. government turned against Qatar. Recently, it was revealed that Rex Tillerson, in fact, stopped them from invading Qatar. And that that was, might have been one of the reasons that Rex Tillerson was fired. Now, why does Trump want to do Broidey any favors? That's the super interesting part.

And that's why all of these scandals could mean really bad news, not for Broydie, yes, for him as well, obviously, but for Trump. And once you have someone, once you, once you, okay, if someone's, if you're the president is willing to do favors for you because you've already covered for him, you're like, hmm, how can I parlay this in the way for me to make some money? Yes, of course. Tens of millions of dollars at a time. Yeah. So this now connects to potentially one of the mistresses. Yes. Okay, so Donald Trump has paid off two different mistresses that were both adult film and, you know, stars, right?

One was playboy model, the other one did adult movies, and paid him $130,000 and $150,000. Everybody now knows that, right? That was McDougal and Stormy Daniels. But there was a third playboy model that was paid off by the same lawyers that were involved, Michael Cohen on Trump's side, and the same lawyer on the model side, okay? And the same name was used in all the cases, the same fake alias for the man, Denison, okay? And but as soon as that story came out,

or in fact, when they raided Michael Cohen's house and they got all the information for Michael Cohen and all of his documents, Broidey immediately raised his hand and said, it was me, I'm the one that paid off the third one. Not Donald, well, he didn't bother say not Donald Trump, but that was the implication. And that one was not for $150,000. It was for $1.6 million.

She got an abortion. Okay. Now, Broddy's official story is, no, no, no, it was me. It wasn't Trump. It was me. He never had an affair with a Playboy model before. He doesn't have that history. He does have another history that I'm going to tell you about.

That is super relevant here. But he said, no, no, it wasn't Trump. It was me. And, I mean, she got the abortion. I didn't pay for her abortion. I just happened to give her $1.6 million, and she happened to get an abortion right around the same period? Well, that's not what I paid for. Okay, so now why would Trump do any favors for Broidy?

Why would he help him get a deal with the United Emirates or Malaysia or China? This is one potential reason. So what is Broidy known for? And this is a doozy on two fronts. One, earlier in his career, he paid off a politician to get him cleared on a mistress. He paid off the mistress of a politician in New York. So that is his M.O. And guess what?

He got caught. And when he got caught, guess what he did? He flipped on the politician, took a deal from a prosecutor, and gave him everything he wanted so that he could bust the politician. Uh-oh. Yeah, this is fascinating. This is fascinating. So the...

Tick, tick, tick, tick. The Justice Department, prosecutors with the Justice Department have subpoenaed Steve Wynne and all of his interactions, email interactions with Broody, so they're going to be looking into that. Also, just to give you a little more detail about the Chinese dissident, it was an individual who was... The Chinese government wanted to extradite him from the United States. He actually fled China, came to the United States.

States because he believed that the Chinese government was attempting to silence him, trying to retaliate against him for some reason. And so Broydie was trying to work with officials from the UAE to put pressure on the United States to send this Chinese dissident back to China. Yeah. When he was going to get something in return, you're going to pay him? So the Justice Department claims, suits claiming $4.5 billion in public money. Oh, this is the Malaysia thing.

Sorry. No, I don't have the exact amount for the Chinese. So like we said, no, yeah, $75 million from the Malaysian business official is what he was seeking. Yeah. And the Chinese story's different. And like we said, the story just broke. And we'll put a link to the Washington Post article down below if you're watching this later on YouTube or Facebook. So you can read the whole thing for yourself.

But I want to make one other thing clear. Brodie had a business partner as he dealt with UAE. That's the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. It's a guy named Nader. Okay. Nader has already flipped. Broydie has a history of flipping, and these are some heavy, heavy charges. I mean, if he doesn't flip, he can go to jail for decades.

He flipped on much lesser charges in New York. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick there's no way Trump makes it to 2020. No way. He's a lifelong criminal. That is what he does. He can't help himself. Did he do these deals with Broydie and Nader and the other guys? Inconceivable that he didn't.

That is my opinion. So we'll find out soon enough. He better hope that Broddy doesn't flip on him. Nader already has. And so have four other guys that have already flipped on him, Flynn flipped on him, et cetera, et cetera. He better hope that Cohen and Brody don't flip on him. If they do. And Manafort, Manifort's about to get, you know, it's possible that he gets convicted soon.

If he does, will he then go, oh, well, I gave it a good shot. Okay, here's the evidence on Trump. Okay. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. He's on borrowed time. We're waiting on the tweet from Trump to call Broody, a piece of garbage. I never liked him. I barely knew him.

He had a couple phone calls with him. I never actually interacted with him. See, Greed is a hell of a drug because this guy's a venture capitalist. He made tons of money. Sit back, relax, get old, and just chill out. Instead, you have to get interacted with all these foreign governments, try and bribe off people to make sure you have some influence over this politician, over that politician. Sit down and relax. But they can't help themselves.

But, yeah, that's how he made the money in the first place. Yeah. So it's not like he's like, I guess he thought one big last heist, right? But look, Wilbur Ross, the Commerce Secretary, news from Forbes that I reported earlier in the week that he might have stolen as much as $120 million from his partners and clients. And why? He already has purportedly $700 million.

Because that's how we got the $700 million. These guys are all so slimy. surrounded by slimyness, and the quarterback of slime is Donald Trump. It's a team of slime bags and scumbags and slime buckets. Whatever the term is, it's just, because it's, at what point is there, I don't even know if there's somebody who is somewhat clean on the team anywhere in the White House, because at some point, I would think if you have any kind of logical mind, you're going, oh, my God, this boat has so many leaks.

Every moment, as I'm spinning something and trying to keep it, oh, no, that guy's not with us. That guy was, oh no, that had nothing to do with us. At some point you go, throw your hands in the air and go, I'm out. I can't keep up with this. No, it's crazy. It is so dirty. It is dirty. And there's so many, you're right, there's so many people who are now, you know, facing investigations on trial. There was a story that came out today regarding a long-time business partner of Ivanka Trump's. He's being investigated for fraud and tax evasion. I mean, come on. There's a lot going on. You want to hear the funny part is that the cleanest guy might actually be, in this In this context alone, Steve Bannon, because Steve Bannon told the author, and that's

what got him fired in the first place, that taking that Trump Tower meeting was the basically, I don't remember the exact words, but the equivalent of treason, right? Yeah. And so he's like, he was smart enough to be like, I don't want any part of Russia, I don't want any part of the other countries, right? Yeah. And if Steve Bannon is the cleanest guy in the room, man, that room is dirty. Well, he also said in the book that the money laundering is what's going to bring them

down. Yes, exactly. He even said it. So it's like, he, I mean, it is, it is, it's like a really bad, I used to say he had a, he had a reality show on one network. Now he's got a reality show on every, every network, including this network. All of us are talking about him. And every day a new character gets introduced. You know, we, I mean, I'd heard of Broidy, but now, oh, Brody's back. He's got a recurring on this. He's back. He's going to get royalties for a long time. Maybe Trump thinks that money is like coal. Remember that famous comment where he said, oh, clean coal.

You know, you take out the coal and you clean it. Maybe he thinks that's what money laundering is. It's okay, it's okay. I took out the money and I cleaned it. It's a mix of keeping up with the Kardashians and the real housewives. There's a sex tape somewhere. I mean, it's all coming together. It's crazy.

All right. Let's switch gears, Tucker Carlson and Tacos. All right. So, recently there was this controversy regarding Jeff Sessions eating at a Mexican restaurant known as El Tiempo Cantina. So he goes to this restaurant, enjoys a Mexican meal, and one of the workers took a photo with him and posted it on social media and essentially said that it was an honor to serve Jeff Sessions.

Now that led to quite a bit of controversy. People were calling for a boycott of this Mexican restaurant. the restaurant decided to take the picture down from social media. Look, I feel like it was a bit of an overreaction. Like, let's just take it easy on the restaurant. I think they just got excited that there was a U.S. official there. But nonetheless, the restaurant didn't like the reaction they were getting. They took it down the photo. Now, Fox News, of course, is going to obsess over this story. Tucker Carlson covered it on his show. And he had a Univision actor on his program named Enrique Acevedo, and they talked about the whole issue.

But that's the context. Just pay close attention to what Tucker Carlson says about tacos. I'm totally opposed to illegal immigration. I think that our legal immigration level should be lower because the country is getting too volatile. Those are my sincere views. I also like Mexican food since I grew up on the Mexican border. Should I be allowed to eat Mexican food?

No, no. You know, this is, I think, what people are pointing out, the contradiction of attacking someone's culture or someone's story, and then celebrating their food and celebrating their part of what they find convenient to celebrate about their story. Well, you think you own tacos now or something? I love this. It's so crazy. No one does, by the way. Oh, really? Because it sounds like you feel like you own tacos.

I feel like I do. I feel like they're an American food, and I'm going to keep eating them, even though I agree with Jeff Sessions. I'm glad you do. I think everyone should tacos, wacamole, and you know, we should all celebrate each other's cultures. We feed of each other's cultures. No. Makes us.

We mean each other's cultures? It's an American food. It's an American food. Fearing of each other's cultures, borrowing from each other's cultures. You're not going to appropriate my culture. I'm from San Diego, man. Those are my tacos, mine. Right.

You're not going to appropriate my culture as he's appropriating his culture. Like, that was kind of amazing. First of all, I just want to quickly point out something that's not related to to tacos. Tucker Carlson just said it. I'm completely against illegal immigration, which you can expect that from him, right? And then he says, and I think we should limit legal immigration. This is yet another example of they don't want you here.

If you are not a white American born person, they don't want you here, okay? If you weren't born in America, they want to prevent you from coming into the country. Anyway, they're super transparent about it. Secondly, tacos are an American food. You grew up in San Diego, so you think that that's American food because you ate tacos while living in San Diego? Even admit it, he said, I grew up near the border. Why is it growing up near the border have anything to do with tacos being so American?

I mean, what if you grew up Minnesota? You're near- I thought they were American food. Why bring up the southern border? Tucker Carlson is a dope. I look at him, he's just a dope. He says dopey stuff. I can't believe that he actually believes what he was saying. I don't think he does.

Because he's trying to. dissect the idea of the food is American. I'm Iranian. One of the things I tell people all the time, when people are afraid of Arabs and Iranians and Muslims and Middle Easterners, I go, go, go try our food. That's a good way into the culture. And so it is Persian food. It is Arab food. It is Mexican. It's called Mexican food, you dumb, dumb. You can't sit there and turn it around and say, I had it in San Diego, therefore it's American. No, you idiot. You can't. He can't believe that. Is it really that? Yeah, but honestly, part of me thinks that he does believe it.

And the reason why I say that is because the rest of the interaction was the, was Acevedo basically saying like, you know, we should celebrate each other's cultures. And Tucker Carlson's like, no, what are you talking about celebrating each other's cultures? It's an American food. Like, in other words, I'm going to take what I like from your culture. But when it comes to everything else, I don't respect you as a person. Yeah.

I don't respect your country. But I like your food, so I'm going to take your food as my own. Well, we all know. The name of the restaurant is Tienpo Cantina, which of course is an American, a couple of American words. That's right, of course. Look, he grew up in a very American town of San Diego, okay? I mean, that town is not named after those Mexicans already than using their language. That's for sure.

I know where it comes from. Do you know what it means in German? Okay, anyway. Okay, so I was going to defend it across it. I saw the headline, and I was like, hey, guys, come on, man. You can say taco is American. like food and like pizza is, that's fine. Can right wingers eat tacos?

Of course. So, because you're allowed to eat tacos, right? I had not a question. So I was going to come out and do the kind of thing. And he was kind of halfway joking for most of it, right? He's laughing, et cetera. But the last part got me, right? When the guy said, yeah, yeah, you can enjoy our culture.

So that's a super fair port. We all enjoy Italian culture through pizza, pasta, and that's where it came from, right? So good, God bless. and it became part of American culture. If we celebrate that, then are you allowed to eat pizza? Of course, I don't care if you're right wing or left wing. But when Tucker said, what do you mean each other's cultures? It's American food, it's American food.

And you could see his face change too. This is the last part, right? He said, you're not going to appropriate my culture. Okay. Now, wait a minute. It's one thing when you celebrate it and you go, hey, I like the Chinese food, I like the Mexican food. and I believe that's part of America now.

That's actually a wonderful thing to say. It's another thing to say, no, I own it. It's mine now, okay? What do you mean Chinese food? It's not Chinese. It's my food. The restaurant says Chinese food. The restaurant says Mexican restaurant, right?

Because that's where it originally came from. And did we change it? Yes. It wasn't necessarily in that shell, right? And we made it our own in a lot of ways. And the Chinese food you eat is not necessarily perfectly authentic, et cetera. But then to have the audacity to say, I want to keep you out of the country, right, and to do segments about how demographic changes

in this country where there are now more Latinos are scary and that you wouldn't want it happening in your town. But then to say, no, no, no, but I'll take your tacos and you don't even have any ownership over it. It's now mine. I already stole it. I'll take your kids too. Yeah, and how, yeah, and they do that as well.

And how dare you complain about that? No, you ruined it, you had it, you dummy. He never had. It's fine to say that this is what makes America, all the cultures working together, but then to say, no, I reject your culture, but I'll take the parts I like and just steal it, and then say, you're not allowed to even brag about it or even say, hey, isn't it great? And to be proud that you contributed to America, to rob that contribution, that's what I think got me.

Yeah, definitely. Because he's a really bad guy. They're trying to redefine what's made America America. We have Italian Americans. We have Irish Americans. We have Mexican America, Turkish Americans, Iran Americans. And some people go, why can't we just be American? We are.

The American part is part of it, but we also have a culture, and that's what makes this country a better place. That's what makes this country, that's what makes our food better. If we didn't have Mexican food, and we didn't have Middle Eastern food, and we didn't have Italian food, we didn't have all that other stuff, it'd be potatoes. We'd be Ireland, disgust. I mean, no offense, but I've been to Ireland. It's just meat, brothy meat.

It would be disgusting. Thank God for all these cultures, Tucker. I kind of like that. Anyway, but I hear what you're saying. I just think that, you know, whenever the issue of cultural appropriation comes up, I feel like it always comes up in the wrong context, right? So someone is sporting a hairstyle, right? And everyone likes it, whatever, she's celebrating that hairstyle.

And people will think, no, she's stealing my culture. But if that's a person who's not racist and genuinely loves the way that you. that hairstyle looks, the issue is the double standard that, you know, certain communities have to deal with. So if a black woman wears her hair in cornrows, it's not considered fashionable or sexy or fashion forward, it's considered, oh, you're wearing your natural hair, you should straighten it, you should relax it, you should do whatever, white girl does it, she gets celebrated. So that double standard is an issue, but you shouldn't attack the person with a hairstyle,

you attack or at least critique the way society handles the situation, right? But this Tucker Carlson video is a perfect example of cultural appropriation. You steal the good parts of the culture that you like, you keep it for yourself, while you continuously insult the people that that food or that part of the culture came from. But again, he does what Trump does when he takes the term fake news, which fake news was Pizza Gate, fake news was all the crap that comes out of Trump's mouth. And he spun it around and he goes, you guys are fake news. Tucker Carlson just did that exact same thing.

He took, he said, you can't appropriate my culture. He said, tacos are my culture. You, Mexican dude, can't appropriate it. So he just spun it on the guy. And the Mexican dude never said, hey, taco, you're trying to appropriate my culture. He was being very welcoming and open arms. And this dumb, dumb was saying you can't. And by the way, again, as someone of, you know, Iranian descent and Iran being part of the travel band right now, if Jeff Sessions went into a Persian restaurant and some guy took a picture with him,

the thumbs up, I'd be like, dude, what are you doing? This is, I personally would be on the side of going, don't celebrate this guy. Yeah. He's going against our people. And so I understand that argument as well. Yeah, I understand it. I definitely understand it. I just think, you know, sometimes people aren't as into what's going on in politics as we are,

right? So like, I'm hyper aware of politics. And sometimes when I'm around someone who's not following what's going on in government or in politics, and they say something that, offensive, like I wanted to like jump down their throat, but then I have to stop myself and think, okay, they don't know what I know necessarily. So like, it's okay, like let's not be so hard on everyone. So the last thing is, imagine if it was flipped, you know, this is always a fun game.

So if I had somebody on the young Turks, the right winger, and we were talking about hot dogs, as in Frankfurters, right, and how they originally came from Germany. And I go, no, that's not German food, it's American food, and I don't want any more German in this country, okay? Germans and his and white people, the demographic changes that white people are bringing to this country is the problem. But I'll take your hot dog and I'll take your pizza, but I don't want you in this country. The problem isn't saying that hot dogs and pizza and Mexican food and tacos are American.

The problem is when you say, I don't want you in this country. I mean, and that's what Tucker Carlson does on a nightly basis. If you were open and welcoming, yeah, of course, it's all of ours together. what makes America great, except you want to end that. So just own up to it while you're trying to steal people's tacos. So, Dum, Dum, as I love that you call them twice, last thing. In May of 2017, Dum Dum Tucker Carlson signed an eight-figure two-book deal with Simon and Schuster. That's the reward you get for being this vapid, clueless, racist, every night. How many books is Ann Coulter published? And they're written like a fifth grader wrote them.

Like, it's amazing. It doesn't matter. Like, look. In the United States of America, your skill, your talent, your kindness, your generosity, none of that matters. How cruel are you? How much controversy can you stir up? How much of a jackass can you be? That's what matters, that's what makes you money. That's just the fact of the matter.

It's in every industry, whether it be media, politics, you know, publishing, it's all over the place. It was a very hard lesson I had to learn by myself. And I don't want you guys to go through that horrible roller coaster ride without any support. So let me just tell you right now, if you're a good person, you will be poor. Let's move on. Look, we're massively over, but we gotta do the Kobach story. And I will just tell you, like, super, super lasting.

You can write anything racist you want and you'll get rewarded in America. Yes. You'll get a Simon & Schuster deal. Alan Colfer talks about the browning of America and she gets all that money anyway. If we talked about how white people were bad, just like she talks about how brown people are bad, you would never get a deal, you would be shunned from society, you would never make a single dollar in your life. So understand the double standard in this country.

All right, let's go to Quebec. All right. The gubernatorial race in Kansas was a controversial one because there was apparently a computer glitch, and it was an incredibly tight race. And so the results were not available on election night. There was some question as to what this computer glitch was all about. And luckily, Jennifer Cohn, as part of TYT investigates, went to Kansas, did an investigation, and has some information for us that I wanted to share with you guys.

So let's get to it. So Chris Kobach declared victory in this highly publicized Republican gubernatorial primary in Kansas, surpassing his opponent by about 300 votes. So that's the official story, but what really happened? Now, according to Cohn's reporting, Johnson County later explained that there was a computer glitch, but that the problem involved its new express vote touchscreen barcode ballot marking system, and it's made by a company known as election systems and software LLC. That company has had issues in the past with its voting systems.

And as you can see in this case, with Kansas, a similar situation occurred. So the recommendation to buy these machines, here's one of the problems, came from Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie Metzger, who Kobach appointed in January of 2016. Before the board of county commissioners accepted Metzger's recommendation, election integrity advocates, and independent computer science experts, express serious concerns about the security of these machines. And it's because these machines have had issues in the past. Now, Express Vote produces paper summary cards, containing the computer-generated barcode.

The barcode, which humans can't read and thus can't verify, is the only part of the summary card that is then scanned and counted as your vote. So understand something. You go to the polls, you vote, and then you get this paper back. But it's a barcode. It doesn't give you any information that can verify that the computer system processed the person that you meant to vote for, okay? So there's an issue there.

Also, the official vote that is counted is a barcode, not a human readable vote. The Johnson County voter has no idea what vote they actually cast. Voters can't read barcodes, nor can they know how the machine is programmed to print or interpret barcodes. So there's two super important parts of this story. So we were following this on election night, live. We cared about the Quebec Collier race, but as luck would have it, we cared a lot about, and another race that involved Johnson County.

That was Brent Welder versus Therese Davids, which was a Democratic primary in Kansas 3rd District. So when they had what was described by the Kansas City start as a, quote, big computer glitch that stopped the votes in the middle of the night, we all noticed and cared a lot about the results. And then at the time, and this is super important when it gets the code back. Now, as it turns out, it very likely did not affect the welder David's race. And there's no reason that the guy appointed by Kobach would even have a dog in that fight, right?

So that's not the issue here. It's just that we were watching it happen live. So when it stopped live, Collier, the sitting Republican governor of Kansas, was leading in that county. So, and then it stops around 9 p.m. and then at 5.50 a.m. after the computer glitch is somehow fixed in a way they do not explain at all, they come out and all of a sudden, Kobach wins that county. I saw it with my own eyes. You all saw it if you were watching it live. He was not winning. In fact, so we sent our reporter there again. Thank you to all the Young Turks viewers

who funded TYT Investigates. And they do objective reporting. Their job is not to do opinion as we do, but to just find the facts. So Jennifer Cohen goes down there and finds, with certainty, that Collier was leading by 13% in that county before the glitch. That's at 9 p.m. At 5.50 a.m., they fixed the glitch. All of a sudden, his 13% lead is gone. And Kobach won the county.

Now, okay, that's obviously very questionable. Ten of the precincts had already reported. Is it possible that Kobach just wanted? the rest of the precincts in Johnson County, of course it's possible, but you'd want to verify, right? So then what is your system for verification? That's where we get to issue number two. Turns out that the only way to get a manual auditor or a manual recount, which is the only way that you could verify it, is if the vote is within 0.5% and one of the candidates asked for it. So we, the American people, the public, the people that live in Johnson County, et cetera,

you're not allowed to verify your own votes. You're not allowed. The press is not allowed to see it. You're not allowed to see it. Now, Collier was within 0.5, I believe, so he could. But what you don't know is in politics, there is tremendous pressure once an election is quote unquote over. Don't ever question the results.

Otherwise, you'll ruin unity. Just hurry up and just say that he's the winner. Say he's the winner. Otherwise, we'll ruin your career for the rest of your life. Okay? So Collier doesn't ask for the recount and then it's over. Now, ESNS, that's the company that we're talking about here that does the voting machines and other private vendors. They block forensic analysis of their equipment because they claim that it is proprietary.

Think about that for a second. So we handed our elections to a private corporation that says, well, my technology is proprietary because I'm a private corporation. I don't want anybody else getting that technology. So you're not ever allowed to see if the vote is real or not. That's insanity and the private voting systems. I mean, the vote that you actually do in, you know, in this case, this company runs 44% of the machines, voting machines in the whole country. So your vote has been privatized. And when you ask to see what it is, they go, no, man, I own it.

it. I own your vote. It's my proprietary information, how I run this machine, and you are not allowed to see it. Right. And when that's insane. And when that printout comes out where you could verify, right? Technically, if that printout had some text that you can read rather than a barcode, then at that moment, you could verify your own vote. But since it's a barcode, you can't verify it. Also, another issue is how the computer screen is set up as you're voting. The computer screen does not fit all the candidate's names. You have to press an extra button to see the rest of the candidates. And so, look, some people just don't know, right?

Some people might miss that and might think these are the only candidates that are available. So there's all sorts of issues here. But I think the biggest problem, even if we didn't have evidence of all these specific issues, the biggest problem is handing over elections to a private company. Why would you do that? Also, as I was reading the article, because I was trying to understand it all, but as I was reading the article, it was interesting, and obviously your innocence or you're proving guilty, but it was interesting how much the owners and the people involved in the company had had

troubles in the past, legal troubles, in doing things in a crooked way. It's not like it's a bunch of Buddhist monks doing this that own the company and they're saying, oh, go vote and we are, you know, very much at peace and no criminal record. These guys sound like they're right in line with the Trump swap, slimy Trump people. They've had a lot of issues. I'll say, One last one, and we'll put the link to the article down below in the description box where you should always check for links if you're watching this later on YouTube or Facebook. The guy, back in 2000, the president and chief operating officer, now they say he's not there anymore, but other internal memos say that he consulted for them for a long time. But back in 2000, their president, Jeffrey Dean, was a convicted cyber felon, and he pled guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement involving sophisticated, manipulation of computer accounting records.

Bam. Okay. But don't worry. I'm sure that it's all on the up and up, and the fact that no citizen can actually verify the votes in a so-called democracy is no issue at all. Think about it. If you own Volkswagen of Santa Monica and a convicted grand theft auto felon gets out of prison after 10 years because he can't stop stealing cars, you think they go, you know what? We're going to put you in charge of inventory. No.

In fact, he won't get a job washing those cars, let alone in charge of everything, an entire fleet of cars because that's what he did. It's direct. And look, I'll tell you, if you're asking, did Kobach steal the election? So at this point is impossible to tell whether he did or not, because no one is allowed to look at the votes. Do I have significant suspicion? Yes, I do.

I know you're not allowed to say that. Because everybody after an election says it would be a conspiracy theory if you don't immediately surrender your right to check the vote and move on with your life. The guy was down by 13 points in that county. They have a giant computer glitch that lasts hours upon hours. The guy in charge of that election in that county appointed by Chris Kobach. And then all of a sudden, the 13 point lead is eviscerates, and Kobach wins the county. Yes, I question that election.

I question whether it was fair. I question whether it was real. So there's an excellent chance that Chris Kobach stole that election. It should not be the governor, or at least the Republican nominee for governor of Kansas. So yes, and if you're the Kansas City star or any other press, you're not doing your job if you don't question that election. It doesn't mean that you know for sure that Kobach stole it, but if you just say, oh, I'll take their word for it.

Are you really a reporter? If you just take the government or a private company's word for it, when you cannot, and you're legally not allowed to verify it? No, the answer is you're not a real reporter. Young Turks. Thanks for watching what I hope was a lovely edition of the Young Turks. Now you know that that is two of the five segments that we do, because that's free. We want to have you support independent media and can watch the whole show that we do every

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