The Young Turks - Trump Horrifies MAGA - February 6, 2026

Episode Date: February 7, 2026

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John's Caj when he's in his home studio as opposed to Johnny Ty when he's in the studio here. But anyways, we've got a great show ahead for you guys. So Donald Trump has said and does something so terribly racist that even Republicans have noticed. So we'll get to that in a minute. And then of course plenty of news coming out again about the Epstein files, about Israel, and the impending economic collapse. Meanwhile, the stock market is insane. They don't think there's any collapse coming at all. I mean, Washington and Wall Street are on an utterly different planet. I don't know what happens when these two planets collide, the one we live in and the one they live in. Anyways, let's see.

Let's try to sort it all on tonight. John, what are we starting with? Yes, okay, we'll get to the collapse. Let's start with just our terrible, terrible president. Donald Trump demonstrated once again how utterly disgusting and racist he is to his core, with a video that he posted to True Social yesterday and the reaction, they uncharacteristically deleted the video, which you don't often see. So we're gonna show a little bit for you.

At first it's gonna seem like just another conspiracy, AI slop video or whatever, like fills Donald Trump's feed on a daily basis. But it's actually somehow worse than that. Take a look. Initiated by a court order, the Michigan investigation team obtained forensic access to a DS200 tabulator, the machine that counts of votes. A tellot 4G wireless chip manufactured in Taiwan was discovered and vetted into the motherboard. The voting machine tapes clearly indicate modem engagement and transmission of election data. Some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections,

that five key states all stopped counting at a certain time in these key battleground states. These were all where the software, the many machines, the S&S machines were used, the smartmatic, the gems software. So when the vote stopped counting, and this has been noted in other countries as well, President Trump was significantly ahead when reporting, reporting and counting resumed was a massive spike occurred that that favored Joe Biden. Yes, that video you saw of the Obamas as monkeys or apes was embedded into that video about votes and how Trump actually won and that lunatic theory to begin with. So why did they put that in there? Did Trump know about it?

Is Trump going to take responsibility for it? What are the Republican reactions? All those things are gonna get sorted out by John right now. Yeah, but every bit of this is absolutely disgusting. And let's not gloss over that Trump is sharing that faux documentary about how the election was supposedly stolen to justify rigging this election. So that's its own brand of disgusting anti-democratic nonsense. But let's focus on the last bit where you have Barack and Michelle Obama portrayed as apes or gorillas or something like that. in a disgusting tiny little clip. Now we don't know if Donald Trump made the video himself,

like stitched the different parts together, or if he was even aware of that last part of the video. But a lot of people are mad about this. Now, that last bit with Barack and Michelle Obama, that comes from a longer AI video uploaded last year by a pro-Trump account, Zerius X. That's the same apparent outlet that produced the clip of Donald Trump dropping poop on protesters, which somehow they did not delete that one, bear in mind. So this video had the caption, President Trump, King of the Jungle, and it featured a lot of other caricatures. So we're going to bring up some of that so that you can see. So it starts with the Obamas and you've got, you know, I guess those are chimpanzees.

And then we go to Akeem Jeffries, a different animal. Okay. And then we've got donkeys like AOC. Oh, Pritzker's heavier. So they went with elephant. Oh, that's so surprised. Okay, Zoran is a recent addition. To be fair, Biden appears to be a baboon of some sort. Is this a mere cat, John? Is that what we think? I think that's a mere cat, yeah. Yeah, and then of course, Trump is the lion. I don't know if it's a, is that Barry Weiss. I don't know who that is. I don't even know who that is. I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't know what she would be doing this video. On the other hand, there's Harry Sisson.

And I don't know what he's doing in this video either. So, ha ha, these are all Democrats, they're all animals. and they all bow to line. I don't know if line is a play on words for a guy who's constantly lying. Could be. Yeah. So John, let's start here. So we're going to get to the reaction, obviously. So there's a couple of different angles.

That video itself, so I get their excuse. Oh, we're just portraying different animals, right? And I have a unique take that it's absolutely scientific and biological. We're all apes. So I don't get that offended by stuff like that. Okay, in fact, they've been doing this to me for over a decade, which we'll get to a little bit later, et cetera. But that's not the point. The point is that is a racial stereotype that has been in this country for a long, long time

and has led to disastrous things. And clearly, like if you don't know that putting black people as monkeys or apes is racist, you just, welcome to America, you've never been here, I guess. No, everyone knows that. So whether that was known or unknown, including, by the way, not just for Trump, but for these guys, because like that cute little excuse with other animals, right? But it's not unclear what you're doing. And then John, he didn't take any of those other scenes.

The only one in the video was the one of the Obama's as apes. Exactly. Yeah, and that'll play into the excuses that we're going to get. And there's multiple layers of excuses here. So bear in mind, that video was posted by the president, or at least on his account, and it stayed up for 12 hours before it came down. So whatever excuse they use, bear in mind they left it up for half of a day. So Sophia Kai of Politico wrote this. The White House has deleted the apes video. They finally did after 12 hours after millions of people saw it. And it said, quote, President Trump didn't see the video. Legitimately didn't. A staffer posted it. And for what it's worth, only a small number of staffers have access to his true social account. Okay. And CNN's White House correspondent Elena Treen added that a senior White House official told her, quote, a White House staffer erroneously made the post. And okay, that doesn't actually.

answer many questions, it in fact begs a lot, some of which are in this next post from bad Trump quips who says, so Trump hires racist and lets them control his social media. And they just choose what to put. There's no actual check on what these racist staffers post. It's the same social media that he uses to threaten people. Or is he actually the one threatening people? I mean, if he's not posting the memes, maybe he's not posting the posts either. And if they're controlling his social media, what else are they controlling? You know, There's a great post up right now by Gavin Newsom who says, oh, it looks like auto pen is in control of Trump, because now anything he does that gets a negative reaction, it wasn't actually him, it was somebody else.

And also, who? What do you mean a staffer? Which staffer did this? Which staffer chose to put up this election conspiracy nonsense? And then for some reason decided to pluck to one second out of a year old meme video. and then put it in there and not of AOC, not of Schumer, whatever, but Barack and Michelle, for some reason put into a video about the 2020 election, which Obama was not even president for, like again, I know that they think that's a great excuse. Oh, we'll just say a staffer did it.

Then say specifically what staffer and explain why they were canned for posting an explicitly and intentionally racist video on your social media. But they're not doing that, Jank. They're hoping that people will just move on. Yeah, so now we're going to get to the heart of why he did this. But first, before we do that, I got to give rare props to Gavin Newsom here. He tweeted, wow, the White House says Trump doesn't write his own tweets. Autopad? Okay, so that's a good one.

Maybe I may get congressional hearings around who the real tweeter is, and we find out who's actually running the White House. So we're asking you guys on t.com. Why did Trump post a video? A, because he's a racist. That's certainly a possibility and a very significant one. B, he didn't know it was posted. So he says, oh, well, the Stafford did it. I didn't know it was posted. See a distraction from the Epstein files. D. To try to get some portion of his base back. So, John, that's a theory, right? Which is, look, let me throw something racist in there. And maybe it's a combination of those answers. that I just read you guys, be a nice distraction from the Epstein Fives will go back to me just being

a racist. At least it's not like betraying the country on a meta level, right? And he, whether his base is and what percentage of his base is racist or not, Trump thinks his base is racist. So he's throwing out some red meat to what he thinks is his base in order to try to distract them. So that that's my best guess as to why he's doing. this, our audience is voting pretty significantly. No, he's just racist, which is also very, very, very possible. And it could be both. What do you think? Yeah, look, some people also think, yeah, just it's intended to be a distraction from the other terrible things going on, like, you know, gunning down American citizens, Trump and Janine Piero saying, yeah, your Second Amendment,

that's not worth anything. And they got negative reaction for that. Maybe it's to distract from the fact that his name shows up in the Epstein files more times than Harry Potter's name shows up in all the Harry Potter books combined. I don't know, there's a lot of bad stuff. It is literally true that his name appears more often than Harry Potter appears in all the Harry Potter books. Wow. But yeah, there's a lot to distract from. And I don't know. What I do know is this. That's a terrible vague excuse. And you know what they didn't even do in their crappy excuse? They didn't even apologize. Like Trump? Like imagine if, Jank, imagine if you had interns that managed your Twitter account and could post there. Like sometimes it's you, sometimes it's them. And they post something racist.

Oh, is what, is Praveen just going to put out a statement saying that was somebody else and you never address it? You never apologize for that going out in your account. That wouldn't fly for us. But for some reason, it's supposed to fly for the president of the United States. Yeah, of course. And we all know his thing is, oh, I never apologize, right? All right, fine, but then don't complain when someone calls you racist. By the way, now turning to that, John, It's not just us now, it's a lot of Republicans, including there was a caller on NPR that just lit into him who was a three-time Trump voter saying this man is pathetic. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna turn that in one second. I just want to make a quick prediction.

By Monday, we'll have a report from inside of the White House that Trump is furious that they took down the video, by the way. That's my prediction. You know what? On that note, John, sorry, one more thing about that. Yeah, like, this is, if you don't know, this part of the story is absolutely crystal clear. This is Trump 101. He makes someone do something, or in this case, it was... The big game's almost here,

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So, so, but then he throws this whoever this guy they're gonna pretend, I don't know if they're ever going to name him, right? And maybe it'll come out in the third half of the, third half of the Epstein files. But but like, oh, it wasn't me, wasn't me. I'm not responsible, says the strong leader, says the lion of the jungle. Come on. That's the alpha. In any event, let's turn out to those reactions. The reactions to the video that Donald Trump posted the racist one with the depiction of Barack

and Michelle Obama is pretty quick, actually, a negative reaction. And not just from the people that you might expect, progressive. or even centrist Democrats, although they were incensed as well. Some Republicans have been pretty clear that they don't like this. Senator Tim Scott said, praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House. The president should remove it. So that's good that he was calling for it. And he called for it to be removed before it was removed and may be contributed to it being removed. That's good. I would love to know what the next most racist thing he's seen from the White House is because evidently he's keeping track.

We had representative Mike Loll. Hold on, John. Before you go to the rest, I gotta jump in on Tim Scott, because that's the most important part of the story from a political perspective. Why? Because there's nowhere in the world Tim Scott calls that racist if Trump's polling is not in the 30s. If Trump's polling was in the 50s, but certainly even in the 40s, the whole point of Tim Scott's existence is to say that Republicans are not racist. So like he had one role, one role only in the campaign. Donald Trump is not racist.

Donald Trump is, I'm a black man, Donald Trump is not racist, no matter what he said. But now Trump is in the 30s and he's deeply unpopular and all of a sudden Tim Scott found out that Trump's a racist. Okay, so that shows you where the tide is going. And that's why it's important politically. If Tim Scott is backpedaling out of the room of Trump and not doing his primary job as a Republican, And that means they're the Republicans are word Trump's starting to be an albatross around their neck. 100%. Representative Mike Lauler wrote, the president's post is wrong and incredibly offensive, whether intentional or a mistake and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered.

The deletion has happened. Again, the apology has not happened. And when someone asks him at his next press conference about it, he is going to demand they smile so hard. So he's not gonna like that. Badya Ungar Sargon said, this is gross and racist. The president should delete it and apologize. The clip with the Obama's is the last two seconds of a minute long clip on voting machines being hacked. So maybe Trump didn't watch it until the end. Maybe he didn't even post it himself.

If that's the case, he should say so. Well, the White House said so. He hasn't said anything. He's apparently just doesn't have the testicles to actually own up to what he did, or at least what happened on his account. And so bear in mind, they haven't apologized. They have now said that it's some staffer, you don't get to know who. They are under the same veil of secrecy that all of Epstein's co-conspirators are under. Earlier in the day, interestingly, press secretary Carolyn Levitt told PBS a very different cover story, which was, this is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the king of the jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.

And so she implied, well, obviously we're never going to take anything down because we'd ever do. But oops, in this case, they actually did. But honestly, her cover story there that it's just taken from a meme video again begs way more questions than it answers. So first of all, why was something from that meme video added to a voting machine thing that has nothing to with Barack Obama? That's very strange. Why out of all the stuff in the meme video was only the clip of Barack and Michelle Obama taken out? No Chuck Schumer, no Hakeem Jeffries, just people who aren't involved in the election. Also, by the way, I don't know if you've seen the Lion King.

There are no guerrillas in the Lion King. That scene with Michelle and Baracka did not exist. Those are not characters that are in the Lion King. So why in this meme video did they invent animals for the former, black president of the United States and why did they choose the most racist possible choice? These I think are very necessary follow of questions. I doubt Carolyn Lovett will actually answer them. All right, here's my last set of clarifications. First of all, our excellent team of producers figured out that it was not Barry Boyce, of course, in the video. They wouldn't want to attack beloved Israel or right wingers.

Olivia Giuliana apparently is who was being depicted for if you cared. Didn't even look like her. Yeah, I don't honestly. AI sucks. Yeah, I'm gonna, all right, I'm afraid of revealing myself as a boomer and not exactly knowing who that person is. She's an activist and an influencer. Oh, okay, God bless. Happy to have her.

Okay, so look, so to me, I'm not as furious about this as other people are, and is it because I don't think it's that racist? It's obviously an over the top racist, right? But I guess I'm surprised that people are still surprised by that, right? So like I'm the last guy to call all Trump voters racist. I've been telling everybody not to do that, right? I've also told you that there's about a quarter of his voters that are extreme and very likely fit that description.

And I can show to you in the polling based on their answers on different questions. So we're not smearing everybody, we're being very particular in that case. case, but has Trump leaned into racial grievances and done racist things in the past that would lead me to believe that at a bare minimum, he would use racism as a tool to advance his personal agenda? Of course, of course. Come on, you got to know that, right? Do we still not know that at this point?

Do Trump voters, I mean, the 25% again, you're never going to break through to them, right? But even the majority of Trump voters got to know by now, come on. I mean, even if he's not racist, he doesn't mind using racism to try to appeal. In fact, you should be more offended than anyone because he's assuming all of his voters are racist. And then finally, the other reason is all this thing with animals, I don't care at all, right? So a million years ago, somebody, one of the first nicknames I ever had online, and I've had many, was fat brown buffalo.

And they thought that was really gonna bother me. And they did this meme of me. So I don't know, maybe this is where it all started. You know, since we're the first show or longest running show on internet history, this was probably 15 years ago or something. And you know what happened with it, John? I kind of loved it. I was like, they're like, you're overweight.

I'm like, really? Wow, Sherlock Holmes, ohms, figures that one out. And they're like, you're a brown. And I'm like, and so I was playing, we did like fake football teams with me and my son, even when he was a little kid, and I named myself to Brown Buffalo's. So, like, don't, like, as, it's bad, he's a terrible guy, but let's not get too hung up on it. Like, let's go forward.

It's not to excuse anything he did. And John, again, to go back to the Tim Scott thing, the most important part of this story politically is how many Republicans, including some of the voters like the C-SPAN guy, immediately started backpedaling away from Trump because he now has a stench on him. And so where some of the voters might have tolerated some of that before, maybe they're not raised, but they could tolerate and get... Voting for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo, great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements.

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coming for them because he is going to present one to five of that sort of situations every single week. on now and it's just going to hasten his descent into stinky lame duck. That's that's what he's going to be if he's not already that. Yep. All right. But in any event, why don't we take our first break? We got a lot more to get to after this. Let's go to our members on t.com. Starring night's a squirrel dragon already a fun name says, I just love you. That's the reference of course to Tim Scott saying that about Trump. Did I read it right? Nerd Ferguson says, I would be okay with depicting Newsom as a snake. He is a snake. No, no, give the brother his dude. That auto pen comment was good. It was so good that I was going to use the line and I was like,

no, let me give him credit. I saw it from him. So fair show in America. Nerd also wrote in, nerd. Now, all those animals and no Mitch McConnell turtle, right? Because they were only doing Democrats, right? But you're right, I mean, that's a layup. That's a layup. And I don't think this racist to call a white guy a turtle. Nani Dragon says, Donald Trump is the cowardly line. Nice, Nani, that's a good one. That at least fits. I'm Adam Librainson.

Is there any significance in the day made that Michelle DeLargeype and Barack is the chimp? Disgusting nevertheless. I don't know and I don't want to think about it. I mean, any of those things that they do with Michelle Obama is totally disgusting. Yeah, it's not worth getting into. Theta Gana says, isn't it also John's birthday today or did I get my math wrong and it was yesterday? Oh, the American people want to know, John. It was, in fact, yesterday.

Yesterday. Nevertheless, happy birthday. All right. Way to turn 29. Okay. Twice. All right. Look, on John's behalf, are we going to take more superchats and people joining by hitting the join button below?

I guess. I don't know that he exactly asked for that. Or you can do it on damage, do it on both. All right, BS1954 says, Jenk, your interview with Dr. Cornell West was wild. You asked them six times, what do we do? Good try though. It was Dr. Cornell West and his wife.

I thought that was an interesting conversation. I think that, yeah, I asked six times that they couldn't quite answer the question that I had. But at the end, it finally became clear what they wanted. So if you check out that video, you remember, you just get it on. on t yt.com, you could find it on YouTube, et cetera. But it was, it was, it was an interesting conversation. I think they just wanted people to acknowledge that that Iranians actually do want a new regime and they feel like no one's like talking about what they want.

And so, okay, that's definitely fair. SEPRikoff 1223 says, Magi didn't vote for populism. They didn't vote to fight the establishment, not to combat the status quo. They voted for the racism. I swear to you that that's 25%, brother. And maybe it's larger, maybe I'm wrong, but not all the Trump voters, no way. There's tons of them that already hate them. There's tons of independence.

You could see it in the polling. It's not just me guessing or like reading the tea leaves on social media. The polling clearly shows the independents who voted for Trump and even about 20% of Trump voters are now really pissed at them. It was because it was about inflation and representing the real guy. All right, back on TYT, Jank and John with you guys. Also CDN Norse Doggdgifting membership as usual on YouTube, you're awesome. And Ecclectic miscellaneous writes in on a super chat, which is unusual because he's a TYT member and usually writes in from tYT.com where we read the comments a little bit more. Hey, membership has its privileges.

But anyway, Ecclactic wrote in here. Happy belated birthday, John. Here's a $25 super chat for your birthday on 2.5 February 5th. Hope you have a fun birthday weekend with your family far away from any news. the insanity that is American politics. That's the goal and thank you. Yeah, happy birthday, John, and eclectic. You're wonderful for doing that.

All right, John, what's thanks? Okay, more news. This morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that despite all of the evidence to the contrary, Jeffrey Epstein was not ever, in fact, working on behalf of Israel. And we're going to debunk that claim in just a minute. But first, Shank, what are your two cents? Yeah, well, you're going to see here, in hilarious fashion how he worked for Israel. And you're also going to see the hilarious denial

from Netanyahu. So, but what I want to draw your attention to after John gives you all the facts is a couple of key facts in this story that show you exactly who Epstein was and how much the American government knew that. Yeah. And it makes me wonder if perhaps he's been watching your coverage, that he felt the need to address this. But in any event, let's get to the the actual content, the claim, and then the evidence. So this morning he claimed that it wasn't Israel that Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of it. It was actually just former Prime Minister Ahud Barak and that that's an important distinction. And here's what he posted on Twitter. Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ahud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for

Israel, it proves the opposite. Barak's personal fixation led him to engage in activities publicly behind the scenes to undermine the government of Israel, including fueling, mass protest movements, fomenting unrest, and feeding false media narratives. And so important context there is that these two individuals were obviously political rivals who feuded for years. And this is not the first time that Netanyahu has used Epstein and what he's alleged to have done as a political cudgel against Barack. For the record, it is true that Epstein and Barack, as has previously been discussed on the show, were extremely close. But there is a big catch to that. There's also a connection between Epstein and Netanyahu

individually. So it appears, based on the evidence that's been presented, that Epstein connected Netanyahu to JPMorgan Chase executives back in 2011. And here is reporting from the Daily Beast from 2023 about that, saying in March 2011, one JPMorgan employee wrote to Jess Staley executive there and another high level executive, against all odds, we've been granted a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Staley forwarded the message to Epstein and wrote thanks to which the convicted sex offender replied, surprisey surprise. That's cute, I guess. What is wrong with this man's brain? In any event, we don't know much about what happened in the meeting, but it very strongly seems as if Epstein was instrumental in making it happen. But there is some context where we can

try to define what it might have been in regard to. So only a few months before that meeting, Israel had discovered an oil field known as Leviathan. Now apparently for years, Netanyahu pushed hard to try to get that oil field developed. It didn't happen fast or easily, but eventually Netanyahu was able to brute force his way through the antitrust laws of Israel to make sure that that did actually get done. And in 2016, J.P. Morgan invested in the oil field. So again, we don't know for sure, Jank, that that's actually what the meeting was about. And we don't know in what other specific ways Epstein might have been important for it. But it really does seem as if he got them this meeting and if he has nothing to do with Netanyahu and his only buddy buddy with

Ahud Barak, then why was Epstein helpful in getting the meeting? I mean, they're JP Morgan. Surely they have better access to Netanyahu than some random weirdo like Epstein, right? Yeah, so look, first I want to address Prime Minister of Netanyahu as I did online. And I think he makes a really interesting point. The fact that the former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel, former Prime Minister of Israel went over to Epstein's House 30 times, and they were really close, and they worked together to make a lot of deals for Israel. Does seem to prove that he's not working for Israel.

And the fact that they had Israeli spies stay at his house, wait. And the cyber weapons procured for bulk, no, no Israel. Aha, that proves that he's obviously working for Bulgaria. Okay, and by the way, like it's funny to us, right? Like it's super obvious and I'm gonna prove it to you in more spectacular fashion in a second. But all of national media says, no, we don't see it. No, no, Net Yahoo's right. There's no connections to Israel.

Did you haven't written a single story? They haven't said a single word about connections to Israel. I mean, you want to talk about mask fully off. I mean, it's like a Scooby-Doo moment where all of mainstream media takes off their masks at once. It goes, we are Israel. Okay, so let me show you all the connections. And this is just a short list. Drop site news keeps dropping more of these stories.

And so let's go to the graphics. Jeffrey Epps's connections to the Israeli government. I've seen help negotiate a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia. Epstein helped her engine meeting with Ahud Barak and Vladimir Putin in 2013. Epstein helped establish a security meeting between Israel and the Ivory Coast in 2014. Epstein repeatedly hosted an Israeli spy at his Manhattan residence from 2013 to 2016. Epstein attempt to procure investments for Israeli cyber weapon startups. Epstein helped Alan Dershowitz attacked the authors of the Israel lobby.

Epstein exerted control over Wexner Foundation, which is funded pro-Israel causes. Epstein was connected to key figures in the Iran-Contra scandal, and he was representing the Israel. there. Epstein assisted in the development of the Leviathan oil field, a story we'll get to later in the program. Epstein pitched an investor for the UAE on the Israeli cybersecurity firm. EFSIEN seemingly connected an ally of Indian PM, Narendra Modi to Ehud Barak. Huh, every single time it's a deal for Norway? No. Finland, no. Thailand, no. Oh, right, Israel, every single time. Okay, look, I'm gonna go back to making fun on Net Yahoo and proving this case conclusively,

and I have an important point on something else in this story. But John, what's going on here? I mean, not a single source in national media. Not one reporter in the country, mainstream reporter, has reported on all of these connections. So you've got independent outlets like Dropside News, obviously it's all over. the emails from the Epstein files and that's all over the social media. So what's going on here? I mean, I literally cannot see any other explanation than it turns out our entire national media was not really doing news.

They were just doing Israeli propaganda. How could they not see these connections? Yeah, well, the interesting thing is there's a lot of justifiable frustration in the media that we get like hints of some of. of the stuff that happened now in these files, but we don't have the names, we don't get to know if they were interviewed. Like there's so much stuff we don't know that we'd like to report on, but we just can't. Meanwhile, there's stuff that you could but don't want to. That's strange. And especially like in a media environment where, man, they can throw together a documentary, like a day after criminal charges of a celebrity, a day after somebody dies. They're putting

together three documentaries and a series on Hulu. There's an analysis. of everything, especially if it's mysterious. And this is mysterious and it's high profile. And they know that people are really interested in Jeffrey Epstein and what he got up to. It's just from the very beginning, there's been very little attempt to explain like the how and the why of any of it beyond just he's a pedophile monster. In terms of his money, in terms of why all these connections, why did he know all of these people? It just doesn't seem to be a desire to get involved. The issue is that we need somebody on the inside to come clean with, have they been talked to?

Has guidance been provided from the top down? Why is it that so many have decided not to talk about these various connections? You know, ironically, what we need is a whistleblower within media organizations. Like a journalist to raise their hand and leave the organization or within the organization and go, what are we doing here? Why is every editor I have telling me not to report on the most important story and the most obvious connection? Are we really going to ignore all this? Are we going to actively lie to our readers and to our viewers and pretend this was Russia? Come on, come on, because the Russia one shows you.

No, they're actively lying. I mean, the last line of the New York Post piece was hilarious because they're like, And you know, the Galane Maxwell is connected. Of course, that is of course Robert Maxwell. I'm like, oh my God, they're going to mention Israel, right? And they're like, who was of course a well-known Russian spy? I was like, oh, come on, come on. He stole America's nuclear secrets and gave him to Israel.

Give him to Israel. He got a state funeral in Israel that buried in the most holy place there is in Israel. The prime minister showed up for his burial. And then they're actively telling you our national media that he was working for the Russians when he couldn't even get a meeting with Putin and he's begging the NATO guy and the Norwegian foreign minister or prime minister, please get me a meeting with the Russians. Come on, no, our media is giant liars. Unbelievable. I mean, I've told you that they're liars for like the last 20 years. Oh, donor money, I don't see it. Where is it?

Oh, I bet it has no effect in politics. So either every national media reporter that covers politics is like literally the R word, like just literally, like can't get out of bed. What is socks? I don't know. Or they're all actively lying on behalf of Israel. It's insanity. And so as much as I've told you that for 20 years, this has put, I'm shocked by it. I'm absolutely shocked by it.

I can't believe they're not talking about it. Okay, now back to Netanyahu and again, more connections. He says, oh, it is only Ahud Barak. Only one of the former prime ministers of Israel has been working with this guy on behalf of Israel the entire time, right? But not me, except you find out, as John alluded to there, wait. It turns out Epstein connected J.P. Morgan bankers to this Leviathan oil field to who? Oh, right, to Netanyahu. Netanyahu made the deal with the JP Morgan bankers.

Epstein set up that meeting, and now Netanyahu is like, oh, golly gee, who is, Jeffrey Epstein. I think he only knew Ehud Barak. And our entire media, national media goes, that is correct. Beloved Nunya, who's right? Epstein didn't know any Israeli but Ehud Barak. Get out of here, man. It's John, that's the other thing.

My God, in these stories, that's, after all this time, I'm surprised that I'm still shocked by anything, but I was shocked at how powerful Epstein was. Epstein was one of the most powerful people on earth. The Indian prime minister and the top leading businessman in India, a billionaire, comes to Epstein and is asking certain questions about who's going to be the next ambassador to India. And they are wondering about General Petraeus, the former head of the CIA. And Epstein says to them, yeah, Trump likes Petraeus, he might send him to India, but the Pentagon is skeptical about Petraeus. Wait a minute. So Epstein knows what the Pentagon thinks about Petraeus being the

ambassador to India. How does Epstein know that? Okay, let's put aside Israel for a second. No national media reporter has talked about his connections to our intelligence? How does he know what the Pentagon thinks about the CIA chief? How does he know that? Our entire national media goes, I don't see it. Nope, no connections to our government. No, but wait a minute, they knew all this stuff. This is coming from the government and the government protected this guy for decades. You don't think that might be because he was connected to intelligence? He was in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. There's no civilians in Iran-Contra. And our entire national media goes, I don't see it. What is sucks? I don't know anything.

Okay, then what is it, guys? Are you profoundly stupid? Is every political reporter in America that works for established media, literally the dumbest people in the whole country, the very bottom of the barrel, or are you deeply corrupt protecting the CIA and Mossad? Because those are your only two options. John, what do you think? I think what is socks? I've just, I've been questioning and I don't know. No, yeah, I don't. It's very suspicious. And again, all we can do is speculate. One would think if there was a directive to not cover it, there are so many people that would have to be at least on some level familiar with it that one would expect that that would come out. I mean, producers would have to know on the various cable news shows and also probably New York Times, Washington Post, all of those. It's a lot of people potentially. One would think that eventually somebody would give at least a hint that the direction has been or that stories were put forward or they attempted to produce them and then they were killed. Yeah, no, no, like the best case scenario is the CIA runs these organizations and forbids them from writing about the CIA and their allies and Mossad. That's their only, like later, if these political reporters retire and tell me, hey, Jank, I did know what socks are.

I could get out of bed and dress myself. And I'm not the dumbest person in America. First of all, they'd have to convince me. But the way that they convince me is they say, look, every time we want to write a story about it, the CIA would spike it because NBC was run. Investing is all about the future. So what do you think is going to happen? Bitcoin is sort of inevitable at this point. I think it would come down to precious metals. I hope we don't go cashless.

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Okay, well, that's a fair explanation. But then that means you should totally ignore everything from established from media. They're just giant liars who are lying on behalf of the CIA and apparently on behalf of Mossad. So, okay, that's not a great excuse. Yeah. Final thing for me is doesn't it seem like, so there's this elite pedophile who is working with other elites to do pedophilia and to potentially protect both domestic and foreign espionage that's going on and it's tied in with the media. Doesn't this seem like the exact sort of story that Alex Jones would be interested in based on the decades of news that it's the ultimate conspiracy? Yeah.

So the only thing he's got to talk about about Epstein is his theory that's. Zorn Mandani is secretly Epstein's son. That's the only thing he can cover when it comes to Epstein. Oh, no, it's over. Now, hey, Alex, we see your brother. So you're going to try to connect this to a Muslim? That means you're working for the Israelis. How you like that conspiracy theory, mother effer?

Okay? So John, last time we talked about this, Anna and I did, apparently Alex Jones was controlled opposition, right? No, I'm not a great, but none of it is about Israel. Oh, now you found out the real conspiracy is about Israel. No, it's the Muslims, it's the Muslims. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, go Yankoff, Netanyahu, or however you get paid by them.

Alex Jones, what a fraud, what an unbelievable fraud. What's hilarious about what a fraud he is, is it, like his mate, his only thing was conspiracy theories. And it turns out that he couldn't even figure out the biggest conspiracy in America. Even if he was being honest, then again, you're not very good at your job, if your job was conspiracy theories. But God, that is amazing that they it looks like the guy who was planting all the conspiracy theories And if you think about it though it starts to make sense

Every conspiracy out there but Israel Like I mean you want to talk about a bag of squirrels he threw a giant bag of squirrels at the whole country The distractions everywhere but the minute it turns to Israel Not Israel not Israel okay Alex. Okay, Alex, okay, all right, all right we 100% see you brother. Now last thing guys, Leon Black. Leon Black is the guy who had the vicious rape that was described in the Epstein files of a 16 year old girl who had Down syndrome and was autistic and he bites her, he draws blood. He's a sick man according to those allegations. He pays Epstein $158 million for

financial advice. That's for extortion, right? It appears, allegedly, but It's super obvious. Okay, why is Leon Black not arrested? Why is there not an investigation of Leon Black? Isn't that super weird? If you're an FBI agent and you get those things, those emails that are in the files and those notes from the survivors that are in the files, when we read it to you earlier in the week, wouldn't you immediately start an investigation on Leon Black?

But yet, there was no investigation at all to this day. Forget being arrested, there's not even an investigation. Okay, obviously our government is guilty. Obviously our government is protecting the predators, is perfectly aware that young American girls were being raped, and our government covered that up and let it continue. Decade, not just year after year, decade after decade. That's how sick our government is.

And to this day, no charges against Leon Black. And meanwhile, the entire national media is like, could it be our government? Shush, shush, it's definitely not our government. It's definitely not Israel's government. Okay, then obviously you're not in news. You're all frauds, you're all in the propaganda business, and you disgust me. So I'm proud now to declare TYT, the top news organization in the country, at least video-wise, Because apparently no one else is actually doing news.

To be fair, there's other independent shows that are also good breaking points in the others. But and thank God for drop site news. Brilliant reporting, humiliating the rest of the press, who and outing them as the propagandists that they are for the CIA and for Israel. All right, we got to take a break. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT's super chat. that. Constantine Cavira says, happy Monday, huh? Oh, it is Friday? Well, I'm glad to be wrong on that.

So he's been doing that all week. Thank you, Constantine. Appreciate it. You finally did catch up with us. And he's just helping the show. He's awesome. All right, Marco Antonio P. says, Dropside News is doing the best job ever. Couldn't agree more, Marco. These are YouTube members now, members of the Young Turks on YouTube. The Bull Moose Network says, here's the thing, Jank, most people older than you still watch Legacy Media. The station I work for is adamant that radio is going to make a comeback. Older peeps trust corporations. I know, I know, brother. So I'm not in the camp of mainstream media is irrelevant.

That's why I'm ripping their face off proverbially and rhetorically, right? Because they have a mind lock on people above the age of 65 for sure, but even into the 50s, right? And so unfortunately, those are, they're brainwashing machines. and they've brainwashed so many older Americans into believing fantastical, nonsensical things. Joe Biden is young. Our government, golly gee, they didn't know all these files that came from our government. They didn't know that Epstein was raping all these girls, and so were all of us incredibly powerful friends.

Oh, golly, gee, they just didn't happen to prosecute any of them. I mean, they just, what a giant, giant bag of liars. There's a lot of bags in this today's show, right? But when I talk to someone that still watches legacy media, it's hard to communicate with them. I mean, you remember the Trump cult, parts of the Trump called so certainly still exist, right? And you can't talk to them, you can't talk sense to them. Now if you watch cable news, you can't talk to those people.

You're like, hello, do you know who Jeffrey Epstein is? They're like, yeah, I think I heard of him. Do you know that he's connected to Israel? Oh, you anti-Semi, conspiracy theory. Morning Joe, I found a conspiracy theorist. Like, come on, man. Anyway, Simon Moody says, so if it's the most racist thing, it lists all the other racist things, please Tim.

He's saying to Tim Scott, that was the exact point John made. Marco also wrote in Lying Lion. I like that, similar to the point I made. So, Dali Puerto Rico says he's going to blame it on somebody else. Of course. Catch a Butterfly on Twitch says, Happy Birthday Dragon Zaddy. I love that.

And Norfolk says, I think the cover up is two-handed. Mainstream media will always protect Israel, but also they're only interested with the files that involve sex stuff. The show producers probably look at all the Israel stuff and think boring. Where's the sex stuff? No, there's plenty of sex stuff related to Israel, too. No, they're not going to report on Israel. They work for Israel.

By the way, May Street Media, I'll go pull up. an old online media thing on you. Prove me wrong. I'll set up a table if you like outside of CNN headquarters or New York Times. Prove me wrong that you don't work for Israel. Report once on the connections, come on. Welcome aboard via rail.

Please sit and enjoy. Please sit and stretch. Steep. Flip or that and enjoy. Via rail, love the way. All right, back on TYT, Jenkin John with you. I'm endlessly amused that we realized after all this time that Alex Jones is a false flag operation.

Okay, so I mean, how is that height of irony? Anyways, all right, John, what's next? Okay, well, nothing fun, unfortunately, but we'll try to do our best with it. Let's jump into this. On January 21st, 29, do you see any scenario where you are still president? I don't know. It would be interesting. Wouldn't it be terrible if I agreed with, you know, if I gave you the answer that you're looking for,

it would make life so much less exciting, right? It would be so much less exciting. But I only do this for one reason, make America great again, and that's what we're doing. He does it for many reasons. That one is not one of them. Yeah, but no, Donald Trump once again refusing to rule out being president for life effectively doesn't make life exciting. It makes it, I I don't know, unconstitutional, anti-democratic authoritarian, insert whatever word you want. That interview isn't even out in full yet. But we do know that when we get the full thing later this week, it's going to include not just that claim, but also him once again suggesting that he's not going to accept the results of the midterms unless they're good for him.

And doubling down on his calls for the federal government to nationalize elections, which is just as unconstitutional as him being president for a third term. Where to jump at all the details. But first, Shank, what are your two cents? Yeah, no, I want people to see how disastrous this is. Because if he gets any of that, that's it. Our democracy's dead. And good news, some of the Republicans are realizing it. So we're gonna have that for you as well.

But then I wanna tell you the number one reason why he's doing all this. But John, give him the facts first. I assume that's to make America great again, right? Well, we'll find out. Anyway, so as you probably know a few days ago, he said that Republicans should nationalize elections in 15 places, I don't know, probably 15 predominantly black and brown cities, if I had to guess. And he said that on Dan Bongino's show and obviously Dan Bongino, strong alpha male, loves the Constitution, had nothing to say he was a tiny little puppy dog when Trump said

that he was going to shred the Constitution. He just had nothing to say. Anyway, so let's jump into that. Look, I took over a border where 25 million people came into a country, many of them murderers. These people were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally. And the, you know, amazing that the Republicans aren't tougher on it. The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. So that's insane. And again, Dan Bongino has nothing to say to that, although in his defense, he might not have even been listening. He's probably so traumatized from what he read in the Epstein files that he then decided he wasn't going to do anything about,

and he would just happily participate in a massive sexual predation cover-up, and then flee away from DC to do his stupid little show again. So anyway, since that guy wasn't going to be a journalist, NBC news host Tom Lomas asked Trump about those comments, and Trump tried to deny that he'd made them, even though it was a few days ago, and it's on video, while still doubling down on basically the same idea as you'll see. You've recently suggested nationalizing elections. What do you mean by that? And I didn't say national.

I said there are some areas in our country that are extremely corrupt. They have very corrupt elections. Take a look at Detroit. Take a look at Philadelphia. Take a look at Atlanta. There are some areas that are unbelievably corrupt. I could give you plenty of more too. I say that we cannot have corrupt elections.

If we have to, if they don't straighten it out. The Democrats don't want voter ID. If they don't want voter ID, that means they want to cheat. We can't allow cheating in elections. Now, if we need to put in federal controls as opposed to state controls, remember this. They're really an agent. They're really accumulating the votes for who wins an election. If they can't do it honestly and it can't be done properly and timely, then something else has to happen.

With Amex platinum, almost every purchase made with your card can be covered with points, including new tastes, new fits, and virtually everything in between. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. So that is all obviously anti-democratic, fascistic nonsense. He doesn't like the elections in those cities because they don't vote for him. That's all that it means. They're not just mere agents. They don't just count the vote. they administer the elections, that's what the Constitution says. Take it up with the Constitution,

if you don't like that, piggy. In any event, some Republicans are actually standing up for the Constitution. Rand Paul said, that's not what the Constitution says about elections, so I'm not for nationalizing it. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, I'm not in favor of federalizing elections. But bear in mind, probably both of them, at the very least, John Thune, are perfectly happy to suppress the vote and manipulate how easy it is to vote, make it harder for certain communities. they're trying to pass that save act in the Senate. Thune says he's in favor of stronger voter ID laws and requiring proof of citizenship at polling places. But when it comes to states having the power to run elections, that's a constitutional issue. So is he not merciful, Jank? Yeah. So it's crystal

clear in the Constitution, but Trump is the guy who, after losing in 2020, said we should terminate the Constitution. So is anybody surprised? No. And in fact, I love that Andrew Schultz pointed that out. It's the thing that we've basically been trying to draw attention to for the last six years ever since he said it. And great to see that people are realizing, oh, right, right, he waited. He said to terminate the Constitution. That might have given you some insight into how you've used that document. Now for the voter ID thing in the nationalizing elections, I get the scheme that they're running,

right? So he's saying, well, let's nationalize, and that's obviously literally against the Constitution. The states run it based on that document. And so hence the other Republicans are even coming out against him. But what he's trying to do is leverage. He's saying, okay, I'm gonna do this unless you give me the voter ID laws that I want. And so that's a way of trying to gain extra leverage for the Republicans in this election cycle because they are desperate.

They definitely think that they need it. And they do. I mean, they just lost the district that Trump won by 17. So if that's how it's gonna go, they're in a world of hurt, right? Now into the third term stuff and why does he say something? He says, well it'll be more exciting, you know. He views everything as a TV show. So if you know the TV show is gonna end, well then you know.

But if you've got a cliffhanger, is you gonna run again for a third term? Then people will come back in and watch it. But real life is not a TV show. He's never understood that. But there's also a second part of that, which is if he becomes a lame duck, then and people aren't gonna listen to him as much. But if he keeps threatening run for a third term, he figures I can keep more power.

So did Trump come up with that idea? I don't know, maybe it was Stephen Miller, but it doesn't matter. So that's how they're thinking about it. But what they're not taking into account is even his own voters are now beginning to go, yeah, these are all cute games before. But now that I don't trust you anymore, now that it's obvious that you're with the sick elites

who have been protecting Epstein and his friends, Now when you tell me you're gonna shred the Constitution or you're gonna nationalize elections or you're gonna run for a third term, which is also obviously unconstitutional, I don't find it's so cute anymore. But John, of course, the number one reason that he wants to keep staying in office is because this last year in 2025, his first year in his second term, he just magically happened to make $1.4 billion more. Golly, gee, I don't know how that happened. All right, it was all in deals with foreign countries into his meme coin and his other junk assets, the equivalent of direct bribes. So, I mean, we, on this show for a long time, we've been talking about

how did the Clinton's going to office come out with 150, you'd be going broke, come out with $150 million. Nancy Pelosi, somehow the greatest stock picker of all time, right? Wall Street genius, how did that happen? Now Trump goes and gets $1.4 billion in one year. And he's like, oh, no, I did it, honestly. What do you mean? Honestly, the UAE gave you $500 million. For like your junk, junk, NF, whatever the hell that thing is, that you're running in crypto. That is literally worthless. So that's why he wants to stay in office as long as he can. Yeah, and also more opportunities to sue our government and steal billions of dollars from the taxpayers, which is what he's teeing up right now, which is exciting. I'll give him that. Anyway, what's the plan, Jank?

All right, one more story real quick. Okay, let's jump to this. The dollar today, the dollar index is at a four-year low against the Swiss franc. The U.S. dollar is at an all-time record low today. Consumer confidence just plunged to, a 12 year low. And as you said, gold is at an all-time record high. So, you know, Trump is trying to sell the U.S. economy as, you know, the hottest in the world. But according to consumers and investors, it is the coldest in the world. If you had to grade the economy, you'd have to give it an F. The main reason, though, now that brother's on the right wing side. So that was an

interesting comment. I agree with them completely. But the thing that's important about this stories, there's two facts in here that shows you why people are so frustrated with affordability and why this economy is going to crash. So, John, give us the facts. Yeah, and I just want to say that my favorite part is the end where the host is like, you're not allowed to say that. How dare you point out that the economy is doing poorly? Now, bear in mind, he can be part right and still have his own interest that he's pursuing, and that is a possibility. This guy, Peter Schiff has a precious metals investment company. So when he goes on the air and he's like, oh, gold's at really high levels. It kind of is in his interest to hype that up. But that doesn't

mean that he's wrong necessarily. The price of precious metals has increased significantly over recent months, even though there was apparently a big sell-off over this last weekend. It's not a thing that I keep track of myself. And there has been a loss of faith in the U.S. dollar, as there's been a loss of faith in pretty much everything having to do with America. So he could be on to something. And we're gonna give him a chance to make the case a little bit more. And you'll see that again, the host is not a big fan of what he's saying. Except for the yuan at the moment, the US dollar is weaker against all major currencies.

In fact, it's hitting a four year low. Sometimes people say, well, you don't want too strong a dollar because that means, you know, multinational companies here in the United States, their products become more expensive. So where's the sort of middle ground here? The dollar is weaker across the board. And this is a vote of no confidence in the U.S. economy, in the U.S. government's ability to manage its finances. You know, the nail in the coffin was the big, beautiful bill. Because before Trump was elected, there was actually some hope that the U.S. might actually, you know, get a handle on spending and cut government spending. You had Elon Musk coming in with Doge.

But unfortunately, they ran them out of town because there's no stomach, even in the Republican Party, for cutting government spending. So the deficits are running out of control even more now than they were before. And now you have Trump antagonizing the world with tariffs that aren't really on the world. The tariffs are on Americans. Yeah, and so that was pretty rough, but also accurate. And he goes on to say, we don't have time to play the clip, but he goes on to say that basically the way that he's antagonized in the world and with the tariffs is causing, you know,

other countries to move away from the dollar. And all of this is negative across so many different areas, Jake. And yeah, you don't, you don't, you don't. You don't really see perspectives like this on Fox business. First of all, they don't bring left to stone, but especially having a right winger on and saying these sorts of things is certainly rare. Yeah, he's definitely correct. It doesn't matter what part of the political spectrum he's from.

So, and everybody can have their own financial incentives. It doesn't matter, there's stone coal reality. So let me share two facts with you that are devastating. Number one, the genie coefficient is at a 60 year high. And I know what you're thinking, I can't believe it. No, I'm kidding. Most people don't know what the genie coefficient is, but let me explain what it is. So it measures basically wealth inequality because what the real underlying measure that

is taking is wealth concentration. So wealth is concentrated more than it has ever been in the last 60 years, as long as they've been measuring it. The last time that it was this high was right before the 2000 crash where the dot-com bubble burst. And so the fact that the genie coefficient is this high is alarming people. Apparently none of them work on Wall Street though, because today the stock market broke a record. It crossed 50,000.

It's insanity. And mania like this, this is a bigger mania that I saw in 2008 and I saw in 2000. So the Wall Street has lost its frickin mind. No matter what happens, they're like, buy, buy. But wait a minute, guys, what are you buying into? if nobody can afford anything, which leads to the second devastating fact. I wanna show you graphic one here. This is personal outlays by Income Group, where this is called a case-shaped economy.

What you're seeing go down on the chart is the bottom 80% of Americans by income. That's their total consumer spending and non-mortgage payments. And what you're seeing that's going up is the top 20%. So what does that mean? That means the top 20% is actually doing pretty well. Their spending continues to go up. And that is barely keeping their economy alive because the bottom 80% can't afford anything. That's the affordability crisis.

And so they've stopped spending because they don't have the money to spend anymore. So you know what an economy runs on? The 80%, not the 20%. So the bottom is going to fall out any second now. There's no disposable income for 80% of us. But the reason why no one's doing anything and why Wall Street is blind and Washington is blind is because they're all, like literally every single one of them is in the top 20%. So they're, and in fact, the great overwhelming majority of them are in the top 2%.

So they're looking around like, this is the best times America's ever had. I don't know what to do with all this money. Go buy, buy, buy, right? Meanwhile, everybody else is starving. So they're like, I don't understand why Zoran Mumdani won. That is so weird. I mean, he's talking about affordability. I just bought a new yacht.

It was very affordable to me. No, brother, you're missing the 80%. They don't see you guys at all. And at the end of the day, John, if people don't buy products, companies do not do well. And apparently those knuckleheads have not caught on to that fact yet. Yeah, yeah, they're probably distracted. not catching on to the weird cyclical, cyclical and circular thing that's going on with AI as well. I mean, there's so many things that are brewing in the economy that are really apocalyptic right now.

Yes. And so guys, like, I don't want to over scare you. And financial advice, you should be super careful about. You never know what the time is going to be. So I'm just saying this as a person in politics, not in finance, but, you know, I do know a thing or two about business. my sense of it is, oh my God, it's going to blow. I mean, I cannot believe it hasn't crashed yet. And by the way, like, forget my word for it, right? Ray Dalio, maybe the greatest investor ever is like, what's going on here? There's so many top, like, guys in finance going, I don't understand why it hasn't crashed yet.

So, but no, they're like, AI's going to give you robots to cock. Buy, buy, buy, who are they gonna cook for? Nobody's gonna have a job afterwards. We're gonna head to massive unemployment because of AI. That's on top of the wealth inequality and all the other things that are happening. Last thing, corporations, and they have to do this by law, they have a fiduciary responsible because of the insane ways that we have written our laws. We created these monsters, these robots, these machines that have taken over.

Think about it guys, in order to maximize profit, they have to get all their workers to a place where they can barely survive. Because if they're making more money than a salary that allows them to barely survive, then they're paying them too much and not maximizing profit. So over, since the 1978, when the Supreme Court legalized bribery, all that the donors companies have done is give donations to the politicians to let them run everything, to rig all the rules on behalf of corporations and against the average American. So what they've done is they've lowered your wages so you could barely survive, and then

you're hooked on them. You need their healthcare from them, you need your job to barely survive from them, otherwise you're gonna lose your house, you can't pay the mortgage, et cetera. And they've jacked up the prices to what? In order to maximize profit, they've jacked them up to the maximum you can pay. That's why 80% of us are getting squeezed. But it's a short-term play, and John, you'll appreciate this last analogy, say it often. the dwarves digging and digging until they released the Balrog. And my sense is the Balrog

is like two inches away from the surface. And he's thinking, give me a little bit more digging. I'd love to see that scene, actually. They should have shown that happened. But but thank you for the effort to bring me into your world. All right, guys, we got to go. Everybody check out damage report. It's Monday through Friday, 1 p.m. every day on YouTube and on Tiwai. It's a great show. I hope you're all checking it out. And thank you, John, and happy birthday, brother. Thank you, I appreciate it.

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All right, Jordan, you got a lot of news for us. What do you got? Yeah, let's start with this. According to Dropsite news, Jeffrey Epstein helped connect Indian leadership to world officials during Donald Trump's first term as president. and there is a lot here. But, Cenk, first pass, what do you make of this? There are, again, two facts in this story that will prove to you how incredibly powerful Jeffrey Epstein was, which then will prove to you that obviously the U.S. government knew all the things that he was doing, let alone the Israelis. Of course, let's give you the facts.

Yeah, well, here's what you need to know. The key figure in this story is Indian billionaire Anil Ambani. He's an ally of Narinda Modi, the Prime Minister of India. Ambani and Epstein were in close communication. Epstein and Ambani talked about setting up meetings with former Israeli Prime Minister Ahud Barak, the head of NATO, Tom Pritzker, the billionaire chairman of Hyatt Hotels, and Tom Barak, the chair of Trump's first inaugural committee. We don't know how many of those meetings actually materialized, but what's clear is that

Ambani wanted to be in contact with world officials and Epstein was willing to help connect him. However, Epstein did refuse Ambani's reach at least one occasion. In March 2017, Ambani wrote the following to Epstein. Hello, was in Delhi. Leadership would like your help for me to meet Jared and Bannon ASAP. Please advise. Likely visit to D.C. by PM in May to meet Donald, also assistance on that. Ambani is referring to Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, and Donald Trump. But Epstein told Ambani that he should meet with Barack instead. Stephen and Jared are meeting 15 people a day, mostly meet and greet with little follow-up. The state department is way understaffed. MBS's meeting took time to set, essentially a waste of time, though photo op was

what they wanted. It's early for anything meaningful, you should meet with Tom Barak. Just a few months later in June of 2017, Modi would meet with Trump. Shortly after, Modi visited Israel, making him the first Indian Prime Minister to do so. India had a chilly relationship with Israel prior to that year. In July of 2017, Epstein wrote the following message to a recipient by the name of Ybor why. The Indian Prime Minister Modi took advice and danced and sang in Israel for the benefit of the U.S. President. They had met a few weeks ago. It worked. The same day, Epstein sent the following message to Ambani. Your guy's performance was both clever and executed well. Good work. So what did Ambani hope to gain from his relationship with Epstein?

Based on the reporting, we can't say for sure, but here's what we do know. The Indian billionaire had substantial business interests in Israel. The previous year, his company, Reliance Defense, Limited had entered a joint venture with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Limited, a state-owned Israeli defense firm to produce air-to-air missiles and air defense systems in a deal valued at $10 billion over a decade. In 2017, India was reported to be the largest buyer of Israeli weapons, having bought $715 million worth of weaponry, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. As for Epstein's feelings, about India and Israel. Two days after Modi's visit to Israel, after Modi's visit to Israel

concluded, rather, Larry Summers asked Epstein if he still thought Trump is a better president than Hillary Clinton would have been. Epstein responded affirmatively, stating, yes, definitely, India, Israel, for example, great, and all his doing. Jenk. Yeah, so lots of super interesting information in here. So first of all, yet another deal that Abstein arranges for Israel. But again, all of national media can't see it. They can't see a single connection. They apparently can't read, but it's gonna get much worse.

So earlier in the show, we reported about how he arranged a deal with J.P. Morgan Chase and Netanyahu for the Leviathan oil field. And now they've announced a $35 billion deal many years later with Egypt about that field. Who arranged that deal? Jeffrey Epstein. Who arranged this deal to get India and Israel and the US more aligned? Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, so to me, a disturbing part of that was the way that he seemed to revel in making the Indian Prime Minister dance for them.

And I don't know, to me, for whatever reason, that was stomach churning. Oh yeah, he danced and sung for us, basically. Okay, India, is that what you want? You want to dance this thing for Israel? And okay, that's your leader apparently then. So he did it, he did, he did whatever Epstein asked him to do. Okay, pause there. My God, how powerful is Epstein?

We were told, oh, random pedophile down in Florida. Pedophilia is bad, yeah. Oh, I guess he's rich. Oh, I guess he has a couple of rich friends. No, he's arranging deals with world leaders nonstop. And every single time it is for the benefit of Israel. This is the national media in this country is a joke. Okay, so now we go to all these other folks that he arranged.

Tom Pritzker, that's normal, arguably, right? I'm not saying anything he did as normal, but like, okay, Epstein is a businessman. Tom Pritzker is a businessman. Businessmen know each other, not a big deal, okay? Epstein arranges a meeting for his contacts in India with the head of NATO. Wait, what? How does Epstein know the head of NATO and can arrange for some, a businessman, to meet with the head of NATO anytime he wants?

And our entire national media doesn't think that's interesting, doesn't think that that shows that maybe Epstein had political power, government. power to be able to arrange meetings like that. And these are on the files that our government has known about this entire time. So our government knew that one of the most powerful men on earth who could arrange almost any meeting with any foreign leader or the richest men in the world was running a pedophile ring where other super powerful and rich people were participating and not only never told us about it, but covered it up on his behalf. And our media doesn't think that's interesting. They report about the sex, they report about the celebrities and now some of the rich people. But they never report about the government.

They never report about how our government obviously knew how incredibly powerful this guy was. And obviously also potentially made him that powerful. So look, it's every deal is done on behalf of Israel. But every deal is known by the United States government. So then that makes me wonder, wait, why is the US government working on behalf of Israel? That's the most important and interesting question. Now if you say, hey, wait, Chang, Jane, I don't know, these. Okay, fine, head of NATO, fine, you've shown me dozens of other cases where he arranges meetings with Putin,

Mongolia, African countries, endless. Okay, now how about this one? They're talking about Petraeus and now Petraeus is the former, you know, general that was in charge of Iraq, Afghanistan at different times. He was our top general, and then he became the head of the CIA. So the Indian businessman asked him about Petraeus potentially being the ambassador to India. And they said, look, we need a strong ambassador because we've got to deal with Pakistan and stuff. And Epstein's like, oh yeah, Pakistan sucks, right, right.

Muslims are terrible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Israel loves this, more people attacking Muslims. Okay, so that's normal so far, what counts as normal in this insane world. But get a load of what Epstein then writes to Ambani. He says, when asked about Petraeus, Tillerson is normally in charge of search.

At the time, Rex Tillerson was a secretary of state, and he'd be in charge of who would be appointed ambassador to India. But Epstein continues, Donald, like Petraeus, but again, Pentagon wary. His use of tradecraft email sticks in their craw. How does Jeffrey Epstein know what the Pentagon thinks about the former head of the CIA? And you're telling me he wasn't involved in our government?

And our government didn't cover up for him. Now look, you're not telling me that because you're a regular person and you're not Like, you're, I don't, I've run out of adjectives to describe the people in power, right? But any normal person understands, obviously he's helping the Israelis and the U.S. government knows and is aiding and abetting him get access to all of these things, including what our Pentagon thinks in order to help the Israelis. But not a single national media reporter has pieced this together. Only independent outlets like DropSight News.

ABC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post are like, yeah, that's totally normal. Yeah, yeah, I ran into a, you know, we did that story on this random pedophile in Nevada, right? Bob or whatever his name was. And Bob was always arranging meetings with the head of NATO and knew exactly what the Pentagon was thinking and was doing, procuring cyber weapons for Israel, right? Is that what you think, if you're a reporter out there and you cover politics and you haven't covered these stories like this? You're pathetic. please retire and go into plumbing where you could actually earn an honest living.

Jordan, what do you think? Yeah, I think the status of some of these people that Epstein was trying to facilitate meetings with. If anybody is familiar with how those types of figures operate, there's a tremendous amount of vetting and background checks that go into many meetings. This, just remember, his first arrest was in 2008. They knew about this. The investigation started in 2005. We're talking about emails, correspondence, and potential meetings in 2017. So, of course, we see much more detail from reporting from drop site, from commentary on here, from reporting elsewhere that validates this theory.

They're at a core level. They knew what was happening. They knew what he did and who he was and they were okay with it. You could argue that's simply because of his wealth or purported wealth. I don't think that's it anymore. At first, you and I talked about it, Jag, when this first started to emerge, I was very reluctant to accept any national security or intelligence ties to Epstein. And the more we learn, the more undeniable it seems, the emails,

that he wrote, the people wrote to him, the interests, and the figures that people wanted to either secure the meat, it's hard to ignore all of these details adding up. And the fact that we're talking about the head of NATO, one of the wealthiest hotel CEOs, founders, chairs, former prime ministers, you don't get access to these people if you just happen to be wealthy. There are many wealthy people who still would have a barrier to access them. There was something unique about Epstein and his role in that upper echelon of society that I don't think is simply because he had a party island. Yeah, it's super obvious. We don't need to debate it anymore. Only the liars are covering up the story. And so now what's amazing about the Epstein story is, now we know

know how the world works. This is how they set up meetings. This is the kind of guy who runs it. And by the way, in the midst of that Petraeus talk, Epstein jokes around about, oh, your next ambassador should be a tall, blonde Swedish woman. And then the Indian billionaire responds with, who can you arrange that? And in all of these e-mail lists, there's always these subtle and oftentimes not at all subtle references to, oh, yeah, bring the girls. So all of the, all of the all those conspiracy theories, which by the way, I would have dismissed a year ago, two years ago for sure about how world leaders are sick people who are doing these, you know, with these underage girls and doing crazy stuff.

I mean, some of the things in the files are unreal, unreal. I mean, we reported on one the other day where one of the confirmed survivor talks about After she was raped at 16 by one of the richest men in the world, she delivers a baby, and then they take the baby from her and she never sees the baby again. You couldn't have gotten me to believe that. If two years ago you told me Epstein is secretly working for the Israelis and he arranges all these things and he knows all these world leaders and he can arrange any meeting, I would have said, hey, brother, come on, man, you're going to need overwhelming evidence for that.

It sounds like a conspiracy theory. Well, guess what? We got overwhelming evidence. So apparently that's how the world works. All right, we're gonna take a quick break here when we come back. The Clintons get in the face of the Republicans in the House saying, oh yeah? All right, we'll talk about it one way or two. All right, back on TYT. I knew this is going to happen. Elizabeth writes in on t.com saying that our word isn't less ableist than saying the whole word. I expect better from TYT as the empathetic news source, news source. I knew I was going to get one of those. And Elizabeth, I hear you, I hear you.

So there's an interesting intellectual debate there, but I don't think it's one you're interested in. So I'll bring it down. So I'll go with, because you look, it bothers you. So I don't want to bother you guys. So I'll try to write that in. Thank you for writing in. I appreciate it.

X-year says, Jake, the problem is 20% don't care about the bottom falling up because automation and AI replacing the workforce more than makes up for their losses from us as consumers. We are going to be disregarded left or dead worse, used like cattle. We need regulation ASAP. Look, I'm telling all my allies, you better get ready to help the American people when this calamity happens. But no, at the end of the day, brother, they still need consumers. And you can't have 20% of the workforce out of work and have the same kind of healthy economy we have now. I've never seen 20% unemployment that didn't lead to absolute pulverizing economic catastrophe.

So I don't know that we're going to get to 20%, although I think we are. It's definitely not going to be overnight, but the jobs are going to start to go as we go here. And you're seeing it already in Amazon and other places. The firings have begun. Eclectic right said, has jank ever worn a baseball cap when hosting the main show? John does, Jordan does, Brett does, Mark Thompson does, why not Jank? We must get to the bottom of this. Finally, a scandal and a controversy that requires our attention.

Yeah, no, I don't do it. I don't know. Meanwhile, though, in real life, I wear baseball caps all the time. I just, for whatever reason, never wear it on air. But good eye there to notice that. Don Don Dona Dragon said Trump's unoriginal ass probably got 100 deals and 100 days from Epstein. Yeah, maybe. Well, they were best friends for a while.

Hinkoo Dragon says, I keep thinking if all this stuff is going to come out with so much detail, I shuddered to think about what's behind the redactions, what else is coming, what got flushed down his golden throne. It made me think of a couple of things, guys. Number one, why did Trump take all those files from the White House to Mar-Lago? Was he trying to hide something in the Epstein files? Were the Epstein files in those boxes in Marlago? That's a good question.

And in terms of what else is coming, Ben Shapiro just gave an interview saying that he's very disgruntled with Donald Trump. That could mean one of two things, maybe both. One is Trump has decided not to bomb Iran. So Ben Shapiro is like, that's it. Attack him, right? Or Israel didn't want these files released. and Trump in his incompetence wound up releasing them, right? And so Israel might be furious with Trump now.

And so I'm now seeing two or three Israel first folks today attacking Trump. And I think they're getting their talking points directly from Israel. So Israel almost always knows something we don't know. So maybe we get lucky and they don't attack Iran. I hope so. But if that's not it, they're furious about these files being released. All right. All right, back on TYT, Cenk and Jordan with you guys.

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T.yt.com slash switch, do it now. I think it'll save you hundreds of dollars over the year. All right, Jordan, what's thanks. Let's go in it. Let's get into this. Hillary Clinton wants to have her upcoming Jeffrey Epstein deposition on camera in public. She's set to testify towards the end of the month on February 26th. The following day, a deposition will be held for former President Bill Clinton.

More in a moment, but Jank, what do you think about this potential strategy for the Clintons? I like it. So Clintons are playing poker with Trump, and they saw that he had a weak hand, so they're double. down. I'm going to explain why in a minute, but let Jordan give you the facts first. Well, we have more. Hillary Clinton called out House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and a post on X writing, for six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith. We told them what we know under oath. They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction. She continues. So let's stop the games. If you want this fight, Rep James Comer, let's have it in public.

You love to talk about transparency. There's nothing more transparent than a public hearing cameras on. We will be there. The testimony and this callout come after months of arguing between James Comer and the Clintons. Here's what she said earlier this week on Newsmax. How certain are you that this will happen on those two dates later this month? I'm 100% certain. Look, what the Clinton saw today was that there were going to be a whole lot of Democrats

joined with every Republican in holding them in contempt of Congress. And they know that the Merrick Garland Department of Justice set a precedence against people who defy congressional subpoenas. They did that to Navarro and Bannon after they were held in contempt of Congress. So once the Clintons realized that the writing was on the wall and they couldn't get more than one Republican to peel over and we were going to gain some Democrats, then they said, okay, all right, we give in, we'll do whatever, whatever we need. Yeah, what we need is a full subpoena, and that's what we're going to get.

Now, oversight chair, James Comer, rejected requests for a closed-door deposition in New York and written testimony from the couple. The couple agreed to deposition dates under Comer's terms after the chair began teeing up a House vote to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress. Comber was also asked if there were concerns of the Clinton's pleading, the fifth and here is his response. Are you concerned that Bill's just going to plead the fifth like we saw with Joe Biden's Dr. Kevin O'Connor? I think it's going to be difficult for Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton to plead the

fifth because they've been talking a big game for the last 24 hours. They want the American people to see. They want the American people to learn the truth and all that. Okay, well, if the truth is you can't answer the questions, you plead the fifth, then I think that's going to be a mark that will ban them from social gathering. and everything else because most liberals in America are very concerned about getting the truth, the Epstein whole investigation. I don't think the truth's what they think it is, but they want anyone that spent a lot of time with Jeffrey Epstein to have to answer questions.

And the Clintons, to my knowledge, have never really sat down and answered questions. Now, once the Clintons agreed, their lawyers claim that Comer added last minute requirements for the depositions to be recorded on video. The Clinton's lawyers, accused Comer in a Tuesday letter of adding new stipulations about a video requirement for the deposition right before the couple agreed to testify. In that letter, the lawyers urged the chair to consider a public hearing instead. Though you have notably never asked the Clintons to appear in an open hearing, we now believe that will best suit our concerns about fairness. Their answers and your questions can be seen by all to be judged accordingly. The overest,

The oversight committee posted the email exchanges on X between the committee and the Clinton's lawyers about the terms of the deposition agreement. And in those alleged emails, the committee did note the deposition would be video recorded and there would be no time limit set for the committee. The Clintons are going to troop Clinton and try to suspend the facts. On Tuesday at the 11th hour, their lawyers, Jonathan Sladani and Ashley Callan said their clients accepted the terms of the depositions. These terms are no different than any other deposition we have held on this case, even with Republicans like former AG Bill Barr and Secretary Alex Acosta. Then they pretend that we were moving the goalpost when they received, along with the subpoenas, the House deposition guidance that explicitly mentions video recordings.

We are not going to debate the meaning of the word is. We are going to get answers for the American people, the full truth. Homer accused the couple of only agreeing because the fear of being punished. But the Clinton's demand for a live hearing has no doubt put pressure on Republicans. Additionally, former Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green chimed in agreeing for transparency, saying transparency is everything and much needed right now. And there is an update to this after the story was produced. Bill Clinton took to X and added,

I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers, let's stop the games and do the right way in a public hearing where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about. Jank, which side do you think is going to come out on top here? So first I want to trace back how this happened, right? So the Clintons say, well, I don't know that we want to testify. We report on that here. So it's not like that didn't happen. That did happen.

And then so then Trump came out in an interview and looked like he was panicked. And when they asked him about Bill Clinton testifying, he's like, I mean, Bill Clinton, I like Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton likes me. I don't know about that. And that was strange, right? And then you realize, oh, right, if you set a precedent for a president having to testify in, you know, open public hearings, At the house, well, when Trump is no longer president, they could just subpoena him. And then he would have to go and testify.

Eh, he don't like that. So the Clint's are like, ah, okay, they sense weakness, so they double down. They're like, yeah, let's do it, and let's do it in public. Well played, I like it. Now for me, that's a win-win, because I want the Clint's to testify, and I'm very curious about some of the things that are in the Epstein files, I'd love to ask Bill Clinton, about it and even Hillary Clinton about it. And then if that makes it so that Trump will have to testify later, amazing, awesome.

I don't, I'm not partisan in that way. I couldn't care less. I hope we find out the secrets of both the Clintons and Trump, right? So this is working out nicely so far for the American people. Did the Republicans want to do political games and only invite the Clintons and then have it be backdoor and selectively leak? Of course. They've done that dozens of times already.

That's, it's not called the Comer, but it should be called to Comer. Maybe we'll be after this. So that's a Comer 101. So I like that they're calling the bluff on it. I'd love to have them testify. And then Jordan, you mentioned the Fifth Amendment. And I look, even back when I was in law school, I was like, I don't know, like, I know why the Fifth Amendment exists. I think there's other ways to prevent the state coercing something from you or torturing you.

I've never loved it, to be honest. But like, so when somebody says to me, if somebody's saying the Fifth Amendment, they might be guilty. I think, well, logically, I think that's kind of, that's probably true, right? So and the person who agrees with me is Donald Trump. He said, if you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? So that's a quote of this from a long time ago. Now, Jordan, you want to guess if Donald Trump is ever taking the Fifth Amendment?

You know, I'm gonna say yes. Okay, probably many times. Well, you're right, it's almost like you cover the news. Okay, but now the harder question, you wanna know how many times, give me a guess on how many times Donald Trump has taken the Fifth Amendment in his life? Honestly, probably several hundred. Correct, four hundred and forty times. Four hundred and forty times.

He's amazing. If you take the fifth, it means you're guilty. I take the fifth, I take the fifth, I take the fifth, I take the fifth. Okay. It's a confession of a sword. Yeah. It's, you know, it's either that or the, I think just cliche, oh, I don't recall answer that we have seen countless times in congressional hearings. Maybe, I think also an element of this is they're worried that the Clintons just goes,

scorched earth. They do have an axe to grind. They hate this guy. He beat Hillary in 2016. They don't like him. He's been singling them out for years. He's been blaming things, have been taking shots, have been for years. They might see this as an avenue for revenge. I mean, Bill Clinton knows probably a lot, maybe more than most other people who are mentioned in those files. I think Comer and House Oversight Republicans are worried about them saying something. that immediately gets broadcast. I think they want that ability to contain

anything that might be damaging that they can then redact. We've seen how heavily and thoroughly they've redacted these files to protect to protect Trump. I think the Clintons want an opportunity, maybe, and that's why Comer and House Overset Republicans

don't want that to be live and public. Well, Jordan and I have had some debates about whether we should talk to and encouraged Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green, etc. So I wanted to end the story with graphic number eight here. There's one other person who agrees with Jordan and I that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton should testify and that what Hillary Clinton said makes sense. Let's see what that person is. Oh, look at that, Marjorie Taylor Green.

She writes in response to Hillary Clinton, transparency is everything and much needed right now. So anyone who wants to know more about the Epstein files, which includes Marjorie Taylor Green and us, are very happy with this development. We would have taken the Clinton's testifying to begin with, even better that it's in public, and even better if it also forces Trump to testify. Yeah, I personally, I don't care which party you're part of. If you're in there, there should be accountability for you. If you were involved in any way, there should be accountability. You should be forced to testify.

You should have the book thrown at you if you were involved in a meaningful way. I the only party that's that's protecting their own is the Republican Party. So I think it's it's a very clear difference in how people on both sides of political spectrum are reacting to these stories. Yep. All right guys, we're going to take a break. It will be right back. All right, let's go to Super Chat. In Liberty and Guns we Trust says, Cenk, there's a photo floating around social media from Tel Aviv of what appears to look like Epstein with long hair and a beard. Have you seen it? Yes, I've seen it. It's AI. So don't believe that one. Okay. So you've got to be careful.

There's a lot of AI out there, and that's one of them. DJ Payne says, when these politicians get asked hard questions, it's always a five-second moment of silence. They will stutter a lot symptoms of a liar. Yeah, that's a good point. Two classic examples are Cory Booker and Gavin Newsom when asked about Israel and taking their money. That's interesting. That's interesting.

I don't know why you're asking. We're asking because we want to know, are you for real or not? The Transcendental Man says, MSM is committing treason and subversion of government. They know what they're doing and they're guilty of it. It's not weird or strange. It's a crime. I'm just reading folks' opinions. Ali pay two check says Alex Jones has a billion dollar debt.

He either has to be a shill for this regime or go on only fans. Oh, no, don't do that. Don't terrible visual. Okay. All right, now we go to a comment from JJ Ray on t.com. Jank, please stop conflating Trump voters, someone who voted for Trump and a MAGA voter. They're not the same. When people say MAGA voted for the racism, they clearly did.

Haitians eating cats and dogs, questioning commos blackness, crap hole countries, etc. Various examples of his public racism. And they, MAGA, never left him. Unlike some Trump voters who got caught up in the populist campaign, they knew who he was. Also, I won't excuse almost anyone voting for a blatant racist because you saw it and were at best willing to overlook it for some allure of a better economy. So brother, I hear you, but so there's two different things about that. Number one, I want to bring in as many voters to our side as possible because we actually do mean it. And if they actually want to lower prices and they want higher wages, we're the guys.

We're earnest, as you know, right? So, like saying all MAGA voters are racist is also slightly inaccurate based on the polling, but it's not a great way to welcome people in. And if you say, I don't want to welcome them, I hate them, I don't want their votes. We've been over that, right? No, we want the votes of people who are willing to change and who see through it. And then I can't, don't have time for the second point. But anyway, good conversation.

All right, back on TYT, Jank, Jordan. I want to tell you guys, in about 10 minutes on the revolution, we're gonna do something interesting for the first time ever. We're calling it spilling the TYT, get it. We're gonna have three Rebellion Pack candidates on. Kara runs Rebellion Pack with me and she's a community director here. So Richard Ojetta, Randy Bryson, Shurkla, Shaka Barti, all populists left running in elections in this cycle.

We're gonna have fun, we're gonna ask them personal questions, and throw in a couple of political questions. So it's kind of like get to meet the candidates. I think guys are really enjoyed, so stick around. All right, Jordan, what's next? Take a look at this. I mean, I've sat here for the past two years and probably interviewed about half of the current administration. Yeah. I've interviewed a ton of politicians.

Yeah. And, you know, nothing they say they're going to do happens. For example, no new wars. Here we are. One year in. Venezuela, Ukraine, Iran, Gaza. Yeah. Like, the fuck is this? Podcaster Sean Rwana is asking the right kind of questions,

but forgot a country, Cuba, which seems like the next country, Trump is trying to trigger regime change in. Jank, your two thoughts before we get into this. Yeah, look, I love these podcasters turning. It's not like the old days, the billion-dollar corporations that ran the media like Fox News have a lot of ties to the government. These guys are all independent, and if they don't like the wars, they could turn in any second, and there's, now here comes Sean Ryan turning, right? Love it.

The Cuban War is meant to let Jordan tell you about it. Yeah, yeah, my dad is a massive Sean Ryan fan. I get my updates on his show through him, and it seems like there is a shift happening there as well, which is really fascinating to track. But we reported a few weeks ago, the Trump administration had begun toying with the idea of pushing regime change in Cuba by the end of the year. Trump and his inner circle, many members of which have Florida ties, see toppling Cuba's communist regime as the defining test of his national security strategy to remake the hemisphere,

according to officials. Trump believes that ending the Castro era would cement his legacy and do what former President JFK failed to do in the 1960s, said a U.S. official who worked on the issue to do in Trump's first term. In that Wall Street General report, they stated, U.S. officials were working with Cuban exiles and civic groups to identify someone in the Cuban government who would make a deal with the U.S. But in the meantime, the administration seemingly was looking to strangle the supply

of subsidized oil, that Venezuela has provided to Cuba for decades. With Politico reporting previously that Trump was considering a naval blockade to totally stop Cuban oil imports. Since our initial reporting, Mexico has also announced a pause in oil shipments to Cuba seemingly in response to pressure from the Trump administration. And the Trump administration has threatened tariffs on goods from countries that sell oil to Cuba. The order which ratchets up Trump's pressure to topple the communist government declares a national emergency and establishes a process for the U.S. Secretaries of State and Commerce to assess tariffs against countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to the island nation. The White House has yet to specify tariff rates for violating its new policy of blocking Cuba from buying oil. Jenk. Yeah, so we've done tariffs against Cuba. Now we're spreading into countries that do business with Cuba, et cetera. So I understand that. But the reporting is basically bottom line, Trump is considering literally attacking Cuba, like an invasion by the end of the year. So Trump being an idiot is easily convinced by handlers to puff up his ego. So this is how George, among the reasons why George W. Bush went into Iraq is that, is that.

Dick Cheney kept saying, oh, your daddy couldn't do it. He couldn't take out Saddam. Can you take out Saddam? And for simpletons like Bush and Trump, that's very persuasive. So they're like, Kennedy couldn't take out Cuba. Imagine if you were better than Kennedy. So and they, those folks have a real agenda, right? And Trump's like, oh, oh, I'm gonna be the king of the Western Hemisphere.

That's what Stephen Miller told me. So I'm gonna attack Venezuela. Now we're attacking Cuba, we might attack Greenland. This is mental. Look, I don't, for the Sean Ryans of the world, I'm elated to see that they have an open mind. And so in the old days, Foxos would have come out and said, no, what do you mean? When Trump was running, he told you he was going to invade Cuba and Venezuela and Iran and

bomb Nigeria and Yemen and Somalia and Iraq and Syria. And everybody would have repeated it. Of course, he always said he was gonna bomb. He always said he was gonna be pro war. Now the independent podcasters are like, bro, you don't pay me, I don't know you, why do I have to lie for you, right? No, I'm not gonna lie for you. And so that's costing him huge among independents and even now into the core of MAGA as well. So I know I'm not supposed to say, Jordan, but I wonder if anyone said that they were gonna do this.

I don't know. Writing seemed to be on the wall. I don't know. Let's get into our last story, starting with this. What's happened to the NFL? They chose Dust Bunny or Bad Bunny for the halftime? The NFL thinks this is the Bunny Bowl? Join me in changing the channel during halftime to turning points all-American halftime show for some great American entertainment during America's game. It is the greatest weekend of the year. It's Super Bowl weekend and everyone's got their thing, the game, the food, the commercials. And that commercial we just showed you was from a Republican running for governor of Michigan, encouraging people to boycott the Super Bowl's halftime show featuring Bad Bunny and instead watch the turning point all-American halftime show starring Kid Rock. But how did we get here? Since the announcement that Bad Bunny would be the Super Bowl's headlining act, conservatives have criticized the choice by pointing to his previous comments on President Donald Trump.

At last Sunday's Grammy Awards, Bad Bunny also spoke out against ISIS immigration enforcement in the U.S. As many have pointed out, Bad Bunny isn't the first Super Bowl headliner to criticize Trump, but he is the first Super Bowl headliner to perform entirely in Spanish. And that is why they are upset and they think it's downright hateful. Take a look. This is about when as an artist you lead with hate, and that is what Bad Bunny has done from day one. When he says, I'm not going to speak your language, you have four months to learn it. Are you kidding me? You can never be acceptable in their country.

So that's a disturbing, not that he's from Puerto Rico, that he says he hates us, doesn't want to take our money, but now he's doing it. And one of the other reactions that we think was worth noting came from Nepo Baby evangelist Franklin Graham, who posted on X, Like most Americans, I've enjoyed watching the Super Bowl, but the halftime shows began pushing moral boundaries and have become more and more sexualized. And this year, they're having Bad Bunny perform. The leadership is pushing the sexualized agenda and he goes on to promote the turning point, halftime show. And you know what, that's a great point, Franklin. We certainly don't want to push a sexualized agenda. And who better to fight back against that agenda than the guy who put this in a song for the children's movie, Osmosis Jones. Young ladies, young ladies, I like them underage, see.

Some say that's statutory, but I say it's mandatory. That's your guy, conservatives. Congratulations. Enjoy. Jank. Well, I guess there's one person. upset about the Epstein files being released. Didn't have it being kid rock on my bingo card, but okay.

Wow, he wrote in a lyric that underage girls should be mandatory. And he mentioned statutory, like it's statutory rape, but he still wants it. Now that's pro-America. Wait, that doesn't sound like pro-America, does it? Meanwhile, though, Bad Bunny did have something very un-American. He speaks Spanish. How hateful. Is it hateful to speak a second language? Really?

How about people who speak English as a second language? Is that also hateful? And if you notice Steele Sage or whatever her name is, said, you know, that's what they do in their country. Puerto Rico is in America. Ignorance is boundless for some of these folks. And Jordan, I mean, this is a tiny part of it, but I'm also amused by like both sides pretending to be badass. Super Bowl and all this. And it's Bad Bunny versus Kid rock.

Bunny versus Kid. It's a badass competition. Is it? Oh, my. I mean, all they're doing is making me a bad Bunny fan. Like, after his comments at the Grammys last week, I went and listened to some of his music. It's catchy.

It's been in my wife's, like, bounced around her head all week. I heard her humming it in the kitchen the other day. Like, it's really good. I think people are going to enjoy it. And I think it's great. But you have to see the NFL is a business. All they're doing is trying to expand their market share. So what better than the guy who has been the most streamed artist in the world for years?

Of course. Of course it makes sense for him to be the halftime performer. Who cares that he speaks Spanish? They're just so blinded by their own bigotry. Wait till they find out that Abba. that didn't speak English as their first language. They're like, what? They had our favorite song, money, money, money.

Oh, how sweet it is. Okay, last fun comment, as I was telling you, you saw me go, oh wait, that was me realizing why Kid Rock made himself Kid Rock. I didn't know he was a Pito. So Kid Rock, I don't know if he wants to, you know, what he's saying there. By the way, I'll note the other guy who's a huge right-wing celebrity singer is Ted Nugent.

And what does he sing about? He also sings about going and having sex with an underage girl next door. Okay, but guys, we're not holding that against everyone who's ever listening to Kid Rock or to Ted Nugent. You see how easy that is? So when you see Bad Bunny, you don't have to be like, oh, Bad Bunny, I'm going to kill the body. You don't even know what he sings. By the way, neither do I. I'm a boomer. But Jordan, you're right. I'll go check them out now.

Yeah, it's good. It's fun. It'll be a fun half time. Yeah, all right. Try to have fun with the bunnies, okay, instead of like getting so angry over totally senseless things. Okay, all right. Everybody enjoyed the Super Bowl. Jordan, thank you, brother. Appreciate it. Have a wonderful weekend. But we're coming right back because I've got three awesome candidates for you, all rebellion pack, all populists and we're gonna have some fun and we're gonna find out some personal stuff about them

when we return.