The Young Turks - Trump Tower Fallout; Kyle Kulinski CRUSHES On Fox News

Episode Date: August 6, 2018

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from August 6, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian. Sacha Baron Cohen interviews Joe Arpaio. Kyle Kulinski takes on Fox News. GOP ads against Brent Welder kind of support him.  Conservative activists Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens complain about protestors. Trump Tower meeting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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close, it's actually Alex Jones himself. So I'll explain those details and they are really important and interesting a little bit later in today's program. Like I said, don't miss any of it. TYT.com slash join to become a member and get the whole show. Okay, so now, as usual lately, we've been starting with a little bit of fun. So we got Sasha Baron Cohen, but we also have some parts of the TYT network as well. So let's go over here.

So Sasha Baron Cohen's out of it again. Showtime series is Who is America? And he has been busting these guys up. Understand that he did not solely target conservatives. He also went after people in the media and also liberals. So smart folks in the media like Ted Koppel and in politics like Bernie Sanders immediately said during the interviews, you can see it, it's on the show itself, this is nonsense. It doesn't make any sense.

So they were quick to call them out. And on the other hand, conservatives, not so quick. By the way, you know, there's people that are in the art community that could be described as progressives who also were not quick. I'm just trying to give you the full context. In this case, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he's a criminal. He was pardoned by Donald Trump because Donald Trump liked the laws that he was breaking. And that was, of course, by the way, not listening to court orders.

Donald Trump doesn't really believe in the American justice system, so that's not surprising. But we're gonna have fun here with how Cohen got him. First of all, he's dressed up in this case as a Finnish YouTube star, which is already fun. handle is OMG, Whiz Boy, OMG. Somehow he got Joe Arpaio, a massive right winger to sit down for unboxing videos. And then madness ensued. Let's start the first video. Delish donut, do you want to say hello? Hi. Delish donut is anti-guns. I think all the guns should be given back. Delicious donut, you have to understand that you have to follow the Constitution and the law, allow people to have guns.

But I want the guns to be taken back because they are dangerous. Bad guys are going to get their guns. It's going to kill you. I'm hoping that somebody else in there has a gun. And we'll shoot that person before he shoots you. Oh, okay, then. Thank you for telling me that. Because I like guns.

Everybody knows I've got a really big collection. I have over 43 guns. You have 43 guns? Oh, yes. I've been collecting them for the upcoming race war. All right, listen, when he says I've been collecting them for the upcoming race war, that's when you get up, take the mic off and you're done with that interview. Unless you're a sheriff Joe Arpaio, and you're like, huh.

Although I was pleasantly surprised to see that Joe Arpaio thought 43 guns was a lot. He's like, whoa, okay, apparently there is some limit. And the way that he got this interview is he, yes, he pretended to be in favor of Donald Trump, OMG, Whiz Boy, OMG. And in the beginning, he talked about how the communists are trying to stop people from having guns. And Sheriff Joe was like, yo, yeah, that's right. And that's why he goes and talks to Delish Donut, which he calls Delicious Donut. And he's like, now, delicious donut, remember, people are trying to kill you.

Okay. Now, he's going to say some things that are far worse. Although I'm not positive he understood what he was saying. We'll get to that in a second. But before we do, I actually want to go to my favorite clip because I love the look of Sheriff Joe Rapio's face here as Sasha Baron-Cohen just does fun nonsense. Watch.

And so fluvalu, ovilu, and took a foe until He's fudson kirk, kerfurtlete, I can nebleble plebs, plough for the teux, fluvalu, uvlu. He's killing it, man. He's absolutely killing it. Who is America on Showtime? The whole series is amazing, not just the stuff that they release in public. But, get up, if you don't agree with the flu, flu flu, get up, get up, get up.

get up. And then so at the end, this happens. My first job was a hand job from my mother and it was newspapers. What was your first hand job? So let me say this, me. Whatever I did in my life, I always did that extra. It gets me in trouble sometime. You wanted to give the best hand job possible extra sometime. Oh, so if Donald Trump calls you up after this and says, Sheriff Joe, I want to offer you an amazing blow job, would you say yes?

I may have to say yes. Indeed, after what Donald Trump's done for him, basically made sure that he doesn't go to jail when he was a convicted criminal and should have gotten to jail. I suppose maybe that is in order. He can claim that he didn't quite understand what he was saying. And you can see that in parts he really has kind of lost it. But I thought that was fairly clear. I mean, he said hand, he said blow. You know, the accent wasn't that thick in those particular cases.

Besides which, it doesn't really matter. What matters most is revealing their true nature. And that's why the show's brilliant. Because, you know, the fun jokes about hand jobs, okay, all right, great. I enjoyed that, okay? Okay, but the essence of it is, hey, delicious donut. Now remember, you know, when people are coming to kill you, you should have a gun too. So talking to kids about guns, and he's done this on countless occasions with conservatives

that are massively pro guns, et cetera. And by the way, Sheriff Joe was right at the end when he said sometimes doing that little extra is what gets them in trouble. So, for example, that extra interview he did with not Sasha Baron Cohen, but American Free Press. Well, what are they? Well, they are an anti-Semitic weekly publication. Okay, he claims, well, are they? Are they?

I didn't know that. Well, Sheriff Joe, if you did one interview with them and you didn't know what they were about, okay, that happens. I can understand. You know how many interviews Joe Arpaio did with them? Five. That little extra, that's what defines Sheriff Joe Arpaio's career. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR.

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Now, I'm moving on. Let's go to Kyle. So Kyle Kalinsky does a show called Secular Talk. It's part of the TYT Network. I happen to think he's awesome. He's been on The Young Turks before as well, this particular show. And now you're going to get to see why some people call him the Kyle Driver. I love nicknames.

Sometimes I call him the crusher, but I like Kyle Driver better now. So Fox News made the mistake of asking him to be on air. They thought that they were going to steamroll him, as they do with all left-wing guests, that they would present right-wing framing and then ask him to scramble and defend it. Well, Kyle doesn't do defense as much as he does offense. So he decided he was going to go on the attack. You're gonna like this. So first off, they do a whole section, I'm leaving out here, and you could watch the whole

interview on Kyle's channel, on Secular Talk, we'll have the link down below. But they set up this framing of the far left, the far left, and this is when the liberals are supposed to apologize for it on Fox News. But here's what Kyle Kalinsky does instead. Kyle, should moderate Democrats worry about this far-left push? No, I think that the far left is actually the way for Democrats to win, believe they're not. So when you look at the polls and you look at all the substantive policy issues, the American people overwhelmingly support Medicare for all, for example.

They overwhelmingly support free college. They overwhelmingly want to end the wars. So when you go issue for issue, the American people are actually, with the far left. And in fact, President Trump, when he ran in 2016, stole some of those issues. He ran against the wars. He ran against the trade deals. And, Kyle, you might have a point. He also said he wasn't going to touch any of the entitlement, Social Security or Medicare. You make a good point. Kyle Driver! All right, my favorite parts of that clip are the looks on the right winger's face,

Chris DeGal, and let alone the Fox News host. So first, they go, okay, now the first, far left. You go ahead and apologize for him. And Kyle's like, no, I think they have the right positions. And the right wing host is like, he didn't see that coming. And then when the Fox News host agrees with Kyle goes, that's a good point. I mean, yeah, American people are in favor of those positions we've been calling the far left. This, I was like, he's not anywhere near done. So then they play a long clip of a just Democrat, Cory Bush. She's got an election coming up tomorrow in Missouri. She's a wonderful candidate.

They sent someone to trip her up about the tax rates. I think Corey's position on tax rates are exactly right. She didn't give a great answer, to be honest. And I might have even said that. But Kyle didn't say that. They're like, okay, now apologize for Cory Bush. He's like, no, I don't think so. Listen to this.

Kyle, is that the future of the Democratic Party? I hope it's the future of the Democratic Party. Jeff, Jeff Bezos has over $100 billion at the same time that we have 60,000 homeless veterans in this country and 400,000 homeless Americans. And the American people, again, to go to the polls, overwhelmingly want to raise taxes on the rich, overwhelmingly want to raise taxes on Wall Street corporations. I'm talking about 58% of Americans. So if your strategy is to defend the rich, by all means, go right ahead. Kyle Driver. I love the facial expressions and the way he turned it around.

He's like 60,000 homeless veterans. And they were like, oh, that's uncomfortable. Man, you mess with the wrong dude. So now, Kristaigal is going to try to throw in the usual, not only right wing framing, but the usual lies that they throw in there as well. No, you're on with a Kyle driver. It's not going to fly. Watch. We're still talking about radical French stuff. Abolishing ICE, abolishing law enforcement.

Abolishing law enforcement. Why are you making things up? That's made up. You just made that up. Who says abolished law enforcement? Yes, you did. You just made that up. Who said abolish law enforcement? Nobody you did. Excuse me. Is ICE not law enforcement? Customs and border protection already protects the border. Ice was created in 2003. And by the way, their allegations of them literally doing slavery. Kyle, prove it to court a law. Tell us one second, one second. Kyle Driver. Okay, you just made that up.

No, who, me? Yeah, you. No one on the left has ever said abolished law enforcement altogether. Never said it. And even if you're talking about ICE, Kyle makes a great point there about the history of ICE and how it is actually duplicative. And so terrific points. And then so at that point, they're like mercy.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Please stop talking because you're killing us. I love it, man. If you're going to go on Fox News, that's how you do it. So, Kyle Kalinsky's secular talk, check it out. He does car drivers all day, every day on secular talk. And next time you ask him on, great, that's awesome. Just be careful because he packs a punch.

Okay. They didn't see it coming. I love it. All right, now, speaking of not seeing it coming, let's go to Brant Welder. Okay, so Brant Welder, of course, progressive candidate in Kansas' third district, he's going to shock the world tomorrow night, I have a fun prediction on that coming up. But the right wing has decided because the corporate Republicans think a lot like the corporate Democrats, that hey, you know what, Grant Welder will be maybe in their minds easier to defeat

if he wins the primary and goes on to the general election. So the people who are running this ad are actually right wingers, even though it seems very positive Brent in the beginning, okay? The guy who is the founder of TD America Trade is Joe Ricketts, and his group is called ending spending, and they're the ones who paid for this. His son, by the way, is Todd Ricketts, and he's the finance chair of the Republican National Committee. So I want you to watch the whole ad.

In the beginning, it seems like it's for Brent, at the end they turn against them. because they're right wingers. And then we'll talk about why they did it and what I think are the results. Let's watch. Meet progressive Brent Welder, community organizer, friend of Barack Obama and ally of Bernie Sanders. Welder wants to bring Obama Sanders progressivism to Kansas. He'd raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Wipe out tax breaks for big corporations.

Make college completely free. And he supports single payer Medicare for all. We don't need more Obama Sanders progressivism. Brent Welder, two progressive for Kansas. Ending spending is responsible for the content of this. They put in $150,000 to run that at. So there are two possibilities. One is they're like, Kansas, I mean, wouldn't it be crazy if you guys all had health insurance

instead of being nervous, wrecks, about whether your family's going to live or die? Isn't it crazy that he's actually fighting for the American dream for your kids in terms of college education and higher wages for you? That's possible. And that's why they at the end, they say Kansas is not for progressivism. It's also, of course, possible. And his opponents have been complaining that this is done before the primary to try to get Brent Welder to win. Now, mind you, there are conservative groups in Washington pretending to be progressive who've already poured in over $600,000 of ads against Brent Welder, trying to make sure that he does not win as a progressive in Kansas.

So those are theoretically left wing groups, but they are pro establishment. So now in this case, my best guess is these knuckleheads think, oh yes, yes, we'll do this ad that makes Brent look progressive, maybe he'll win the primary and he'll be in their minds easier to defeat. I have one message for them. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. So, if Brent wins the primary tomorrow and I've got a prediction coming up on that for you in a second, he is going to beat Kevin Yoder with a stick.

He's going to beat him real bad, of course, politically. First of all, there's already a poll out showing Brent kicking Yoder's ass, 49 to 42, public policy polling. He's got a seven point lead on the incumbent. This district should be blue by all intents and purposes. If voted for Hillary Clinton in the general election, I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary. Donald Trump is polling the 30s in that district in the middle of Kansas. And Kevin Yoder is one of the most right-wing congressmen there are in the whole country.

He's also one of the most corrupt. He takes more money from the payday lenders than anyone in Congress. Those are basically legalized loan sharks. But they get corrupt people like Kevin Yoder to do their handiwork for them in Congress to score over the average worker in Kansas who needs a loan for a little period of time and they charge him sometimes as high is over 300% interest rates. And Kevin Yoder aids and abets that robbery of the average American. You think that he's gonna have an easier time with Welder? Are you nuts? Brent doesn't take any corporate pack money. He's uncorrupted. So he's gonna get to call you corrupt day in

and day out. He's running ads against Yoder right now, calling him corrupt. What are the other Democrats doing? Paddy cakes, leading from the middle, that's literally a slogan from one of the other Democrats in the race. Another slogan is, the courage to compromise. No, they're gonna come at Yoder real soft. At TYT, we frequently talk about all the ways that big tech companies are taking control of our online lives, constantly monitoring us and storing and selling our data.

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He's going to fight for you, and he's going to come with a whoop and stick. So be careful what you wish for because either way, whether you like it or not, Brent Welder is going to win that election. And that is in fact my prediction. So the day before the primary, let me go on the record, Brent Welder will win the primary in Kansas' third district. He is a phenomenal candidate. Justice Democrat helped by other progressive groups like PCCC.

So many people have chipped in here. But he has done an amazing job of organizing, volunteers, raising small dollar donations, he's uncorrupted, and he has run a campaign that was unapologetically progressive. We are actually going to fight for the average guy in the middle of Kansas, and we're not going to let the donors and their corruption win this time. And Brent Welder will win the primary tomorrow night, and then he will win the general election easily. I predict he beats Kevin Yoder by double digits.

He sends him packing, and then he'll probably go, Yoder will probably go get a job with one of his corporate donors, because that's who he works for anyway inside Kansas and inside Congress. So here comes Brent Welder, look, I don't say it lightly and I didn't say it earlier and I don't want to jinx it, but I'm keeping it real with you guys. I think Brent has run an amazing campaign and my political assessment of his chances is he's going to win. And when he does, that's another Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That's another deeply progressive win that the rest of the media did not anticipate. Here comes the Justice League,

Young Turks. All right, back on a Young Turks. Let me read some comments for you guys. First, YouTube Super Chat, Stabby 666 writes in, hmm, I think I'll see what's going on in the Alex Jones channel. Oh, well, look at that. Okay, we're going to talk about Alex Jones a little bit later in the program. Danny Knapp, of course, he's kidding about how it doesn't exist anymore. Danny Knapp writes in on YouTube super chat. Kalinsky for Senate 2020. Chuck Schumer's days are numbered. You never know, brother, you never know. And then on Twitter, eclectic miscellaneous says, Kyle did that interview exactly how progressives should do the media. Don't let the host or guests

control the narrative, show that the progressive policies are popular and that progressives will not take other people's crap anymore. He did TYT Proud. Hashtag Too Strong. All right. Indeed. Indeed. Proud to have them as part of the network. And we have the popular policies. We should mention that in every interview and every time that we're brought on. We represent the American people. All right. Now let's go over here and do some more stories. Charlie Kirk and Candace Jones were having breakfast over the weekend. They're part of Turning Point USA. And that is a group that is meant to do propaganda across college. campuses and intimidate professors who are exercising their freedom of speech.

So, nonetheless, they are the group that most loudly cries about how their freedom of speech is abridged. Now, that is a great, great irony and hypocrisy. But this weekend, there were some actions taken against them that I do not agree with. I wanted to show that for you guys, as always, we believe in being principled here and being for freedom of speech no matter what. And then we'll find out if Charlie Kirk is actually for freedom of speech. So first, here is video of that encounter in Philly.

Yeah, I don't agree with that. They poured water over his head. not the right thing to do. One, because anything physical is not the morally right thing to do and not the progressive thing to do. Number two, it allows them to play the victim card, which they can't wait to play. So why would you help them like that? Now, let me give you a little bit more in the video, and then I'll give you full context. Candace Owens, who was there, wrote a tweet saying, Charlie Kirk and I just got attacked in capital letters and protested by Antifa for eating breakfast.

I don't know if it actually is Antifa, that's what she's claiming, but this tweet already contains at least one lie. She went on to say they are currently following us through Philly, all black and Hispanic police force protecting us as they scream, F, the racist police. Now, on the video it appears that they're also white officers, but that's not at all important. The lie is that they were chanting, F, the racist police. I want to show you the video, and you will see for yourself that they're actually chanting F, the racist policies, which is very, very different, watch.

Now, that doesn't affect the fact that the person shouldn't pour the water over Charlie Kirk. I'm sure Charlie would agree that protesting him is a freedom of speech issue because that's what he claims all the time when they do it to the left. I'm kidding that I'm sure Charlie would agree because Charlie often does not agree with freedom of speech. It's just whenever it is convenient. In fact, they have a professor watch list with over hundreds of professors on that list. where they try to intimidate them into silence.

Now, I want to be clear one more time here, doing anything physical is not the right direction. And I agree with Philip Wagman, who wrote for the Washington Examiner, that it allows for easy martyrdom for these guys, and they don't deserve it. But I do also want to point out, as they're in the middle of crying now, although Charlie was smiling ear to ear throughout the entire video. Every time they pan to him, he had a giant smile over his face thinking, yes, I'm no the victim. And I'll get to claim that my rights have been abridged. Now, but does Charlie actually care about rights being abridged?

And especially on the issue of freedom of speech, because he puts all these professors on a watch list. They get death threats nonstop, some so much so that they are driven from campus. And, for example, a professor at Drexel named George Cicero Lamar was not allowed back onto campus by Drexel University unless he had security with him. And they put him on administrative leave, even though he had just expressed his freedom of speech. But Charlie Kirk thought, great, let's intimidate them. That's the whole point of his professor watch list. At that point, he didn't seem overly concerned about freedom of speech. Well, CNN caught up with him on that and asked him, hey, aren't you concerned about these people being punished for exercising their freedom of speech?

Look at his answer. Some of these professors have gotten death threats as a result of being outed on these websites. Do you see that the watch list has responsibility for that? I don't have sympathy for people that are in public life that say these sort of statements and then try and play the victim. card. You don't have sympathy for people who say outrageous statements as you do all of the time against immigrants, minority groups, et cetera, and then play the victim card. So I assume today that Charlie's not playing the victim card or Candace Owens. Oh, they are all over the internet and all over media. Oh my God, I'm the victim. They protested us. Well, you want people to

protest all those professors who are actually doing their job. The irony, I don't know if it's lost on them because they're not that bright, or if they think, irony, that's for liberals. We don't care to be principled. We don't actually care about freedom of speech. Don't you get it? This is just propaganda. So that's exactly what they're doing here.

I got another example for you guys. You guys know the BDS movement. That's the boycott Israel for their occupation of the Palestinians for decades now. We might agree or disagree with that principle, but there is a bill that was proposed in Congress that is particularly odious. It is among the most unconstitutional bills that I have ever seen. It would punish people for exercising their freedom of speech against Israel. How is that remotely American?

So let me give you an explanation of what it is. The ACLU sent a letter to the Senate saying this bill would impose civil and criminal punishment on individuals solely because of their political beliefs about Israel and its policies. Well, you say punish, but ACLU, what would be the maximum penalty you can get if you were to dare to speak out against Israel? Violations would be subject to a minimum civil penalty of $250,000. That's the minimum. And a maximum criminal penalty of a million dollars and 20 years in prison.

Well, I mean, but look, guys, Charlie Kirk mainly focuses on college campuses. How about college campuses? Well, the Intercept Reporting on U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as the, quote, Palestine exception to free speech. Well, I'm sure that if you ask Charlie Kirk about it, he's going to be principled and say that is outrageous, and if people want to be in favor of BDS, they should be allowed to. It is a freedom of speech issue, especially on college campuses.

Well, luckily, he was asked. What was his answer? Kirk, condemn the BDS movement as anti-Semitic. Hmm. Okay, so I just want to understand what you claim are your principles. So if you think something is discriminatory, apparently it's okay to ban it. Now, I don't think that's right, but apparently that's your position. Charlie, we're free to clarify, and you think it's that law that is being proposed on the BDS issue and Congress is outrageous and an affront the freedom of speech, which it clearly is, or do you think it's totally fine?

Because you happen to think that movement is discriminatory. because people think you're discriminatory, so I guess that would mean that you should stop crying every time someone protest you. Like I said, doing anything physical is unacceptable, and that person who threw the water needlessly put them in a position where they get to play the victim card when in reality the rest of the folks there were exercising their freedom of speech against what they consider to be discriminatory and offensive speech that Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens do. And if they're still crying about that, they have no like to stand on at all because they

are the world's largest hypocrites. They don't actually believe in freedom of speech. They love trying to intimidate professors and in some cases even endangering their lives by putting them on a so-called professor watch list. And they have never shown any concern for the freedom of speech of those professors, the protesters, or anyone who does not agree with them. So understand who they are. That's who they are. Okay. Now we move forward to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has lied several times about the Trump Tower meeting. So that is not conjecture anymore. Donald Trump has confirmed it. So if you like Donald Trump, I always ask which Donald Trump? The one that was lying before, the one that admits that he was lying today. So I'll give you the quotes. You can judge for yourself. But if you want to know what the Trump Tower meeting was, that was when Donald Trump,

Jr. got a note from a friend of his saying that there are Russian agents or people connect to the Russian government who would like to give you information about Hillary Clinton. And he said, I love it. I'll give you some details about that in a second, including that quote. And Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, all attended the meeting. and now apparently Michael Cohen is saying that Donald Trump senior also knew about the meeting ahead of time. And of course, it's good evidence to that effect because a couple of days before the meeting, Donald Trump was on the campaign trail talking about how there's going to be damaging information coming out about Hillary Clinton soon.

Gee, I wonder how we knew that. Now, back then, when this meeting was first discovered, Donald Trump Jr. put out a statement, but we now know it was dictated by Donald Trump. That's another admission. I'll give you the details, so you're not confused about it in a second. But at the time, they had said, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago. So when they're discovered, they say, oh, no, that was just about Russian adoption.

Now, this weekend, Donald Trump, senior, admits that that was a lie. He says on Twitter, fake news reporting, a complete fabrication that I am concerned about the media, my wonderful son Donald had in Trump Tower. So he's saying the fabrication is that he's concerned because he's not at all concerned. He goes on to say this is the damaging part. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics, and it went nowhere. I did not know about it. So let's note a number of things there.

He just admitted it was not about the adoption. It was to get information against his opponent. That's not me saying it. That's Donald Trump saying it. So if you think that's fake news, take it up with Donald Trump. Because apparently he's the one disseminating it. A complete admission, it was in fact to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. He is, I told you that he would not get away with it because he is too stupid for a cover-up.

Why would you admit that? He's so unbelievably unintelligent. So that's a lawyer's worst nightmare going all around admitting things that he made up. So now his defense here is, there's nothing wrong with it. You can just go get research done on your opponent by the Russians. No, you can't. That's taking money from a foreign government. That's illegal.

Oops. And by the way, why did you write the last sentence? I did not know about it. I thought you said in the rest of the tweet that there was nothing wrong with the meeting. If there was nothing wrong with the meeting, why does it matter that you didn't know about it? It almost seems like you're trying to cover your ass. And by the way, you accidentally threw your son under the bus there as well as yourself. So, Jay Sekalo, his lawyer, had earlier said that that meeting was about adoption and not about getting dirt.

So what does he say now? He told the Associated Press, Sekalo acknowledged that the public explanation for the meeting has changed, but insisted that the White House has been very clear with the special counsel's office. In other words, well, we've been clear with the special counsel, we didn't lie to them. We did lie to you guys. Our story has changed, he confirmed. So we'll get back to that in a second as well.

So now, Jay Sekalo, back in the day when he was asked not only what the meeting was was about, but did the president himself dictate that note? Had said the president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. Man, that is incredibly clear. When Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about it, she said, he, quote, certainly didn't dictate that note. Now, here's something slightly inconvenient. Later, the New York Times reported, the lawyers for Donald Trump acknowledged that Mr.

Trump dictated a statement to the Times. about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between some of his top advisors and Russians who were said to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. And in case you're a lunatic who thinks that the New York Times just makes things up, let me clarify for you. His own lawyers acknowledge and actually bragged about it to the New York Times. That's why it was in the New York Times. We sent a letter to the special counsel admitting that Donald Trump did dictate to note.

So now that is two lies. One, they originally said we didn't dictate the note. Now they say, yeah, we're just kidding, we're lying. Donald Trump did dictate the note. Number two, originally they said, it's not important, it was not about the campaign, it was just about adoption. Now they say, I'm just kidding, it was not about adoption, it was about the campaign, and yes, it was to get damaging information about our opponent, and who's a genius who admitted that?

Donald Trump himself this weekend. of morons. Okay, I'm not done with him yet. So, well, are we sure that they knew that the information was coming from the Russians, which would make it illegal? Well, the note, the email sent to Donald Trump Jr. by Goldstone said that they have sensitive information that is, quote, part of Russia and its government support for Mr. Trump. Donald Trump Jr. responded to that by saying, quote, if it's what you say, I love it. They knew that it was from Russia. They knew that it was information that would help them.

That is an in-kind contribution, as I'll explain in a second. That is an illegal attempt to accept information and an in-kind contribution from a foreign government. Thank you very much for proving the case before we even go to trial. Couldn't possibly do a cover-up. Way too stupid. His idea of a clever cover-up is, oh, I got it. And he once bragged about this.

He's like, I'll call it a witch hunt. That'll get him. Oh, it's so dumb. Okay. Back to the New York Times. The president's White House and legal advisors have said for the past year that misleading journalists is not a crime. Now get a load of that.

Because what does that tell you? They say, well, I mean, look, we lied to you. but that's not a crime. Lying to the special counsel would be a crime, but we didn't lie to the special counsel. We told them that we were lying to you. And this is the important part, the American people. So it's not a matter that's open to question anymore. These are his lawyers saying, yes, we lie to the media. So who's doing the fake news again? Here it is. Them admitting they're the ones doing fake news. And when you lie to the media, it isn't about lying to the nearer time. It's about lying to Americans.

You're the president of all the United States of America, and here you are, you and your lawyer is bragging about how you lie to Americans all the time. And their main defense is it's not a crime. Well, that's, of course, also not true. Lying overall to Americans by itself is not a crime. Otherwise, you'd have to put away all the politicians. But in this case, the collusion could be. So, now we're back to his lawyer, Jay Sekulow. He says, the question is, what law statute or rule or regulation has been violated and

nobody has pointed to one? Well, Jay, no problem, can do. So let me go to the Associated Press again. They explained, but the legal experts have pointed out several possible criminal charges, including conspiracy against the United States and aiding and abetting a conspiracy. Federal campaign finance law makes it illegal for a campaign to accept a thing of value such as a financial contribution from foreign nationals. Opposition research could be counted by investigators as a thing of value, experts have said.

So they took time and money to get that, to do that research, in this case to steal the emails from the Democrats. And so giving that clearly has value and they gave it over obviously in this meeting. They thought that the Trump team was going to receive that. They wound up making it public as well. So their only defense could be, it's not any of this stuff. Hey, we attempted to do something criminal, but then we realized they didn't have the goods. So we couldn't accept the stolen materials we were hoping to get and we couldn't collude

with the Russian foreign government that we were hoping to collude with. That would be their best defense. And boy, that's a crappy defense. Okay, here we go to one more campaign finance expert. Rick Hasse says, the courts would have to consider the opposition research from Russian agents, quote, a thing of value for campaign finance purposes. Very, very clear. Now, after all this comes out, I'm wondering, are Trump's lawyers and AIDS going to say,

I mean, he meant it. Yeah, of course. This is part of a secret strategy to admit that we're guilty in public because we're playing three-dimensional chess. No. CNN reports President Donald Trump has been urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump's top advisors and several Russians, a source familiar with the discussions tells CNN.

Washington Post confirms sources inside the White House saying, Mr. President, please stop. up tweeting. Why? Because, of course, all it does is get him in trouble. This is why you don't put your guilty client on the stand. But here, he's taking the stand on a national stage, and they can't stop him. So the other day, he admits obstruction of justice by asking the attorney general to stop the investigation of himself.

He says it publicly on Twitter. And now this weekend, he says, yeah, yeah, we're dead. It wasn't about adoption. It was to get information about aeropotid. I got him, didn't I? And his lawyers and all the aides are like, oh, my God. That's why his top two lawyers have already left the building. It was the case of their life.

It would make their careers representing the president. They're like, yeah, thanks, but no thanks. This guy's a hot mess. And by the way, he clearly did it. Young Turks. Thanks for listening to this podcast. You're only halfway through. So hold, hold, stay right here.

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Pop Trigger had a great guest. It's an actress that you might know as Meredith from the office. That's certainly how I know her. Her name is Kate Flannery. So check that out. And she answered important questions regarding their long-awaited reunion. So YouTube.com slash pop trigger. Okay.

Anna, I got some tweets for you or some comments for you here. YouTube super chat, Wantons says, welcome to T. WIT chat, homeless Alex Jones streamers. Feel free to donate to TYT. Have a nice day. And we do have news about that, of course. Elliot makes a great point. The axis of right-left is made-up concept to bring all Americans to the corporatist center.

Majority of Americans are united on the issues, health care, wages, et cetera. Only that supposed center doesn't agree. That's exactly right in two different ways. One, all the things that Kyle Kaczynski talked about on Fox News, all the things that the just Democrats run on the core issues. Waysing wages, health care for all Americans, college for Americans, et cetera, are things that we all agree on and that Congress doesn't want to give us because we're not their donors. Number two is they do have bipartisan agreement on terrible laws like punishing your speech if you're for the BDS movement of Israel.

So 43 senators, including a ton of Democrats, signed up for that. Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland, co-sponsored it. So you have bipartisan agreement that our Constitution doesn't mean anything, but you, and you also have bipartisan agreement that you guys will never get anything. The donors will get everything. So keeping it real on that, okay, I'll just go as quickly as I can here. Jackson Lacher also says on YouTube Super Chat, progressives are coming for you, GOP. The movement is only getting larger.

Here we come in 2018, that is true. Tigger 1908 says, thank you for the great works, thank you. And finally, Juan Lanoza says, lock them up, lock them up about Trump, junior, and senior, presumably. All right, Anna, what do you got for us? All right, we have some updates on the Paul Manafort trial, so let's get to that. Paul Manafort is currently under trial due to a number of different issues. Now, I want to be clear that this particular trial has nothing to do with Russian meddling

in the election, but it has everything to do with how he did not disclose the fact that he was a foreign agent, essentially worked with pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, made a ton of money up to $60 million and attempted to hide some of that money from the U.S. government so he wouldn't have to pay taxes for it. So he's been charged with all sorts of things, and now he's under trial. And his business partner, Rick Gates, is also testifying in this case. He agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, with the federal government, give them information, all as part of a plea deal.

Now today, Rick Gates actually testified, and some of this testimony is interesting. Before I get to the details of his testimony, though, I do want to point out a few things about the judge. The judge is making some curious decisions or statements already. So for instance, he is against the use of the word oligarch during this trial. That apparently was a point of contention between him and one of the prosecutors. He also didn't like the fact that the prosecutors were talking about the items that Manafort had spent this money on, including incredibly expensive, gaudy and unattractive suits.

Yeah, he's the Reagan appointed judge, presumably right wing, and he didn't like the talk of the ostrich jacket that cost $15,000. I love the prosecutors brought that up. Did you know that the ostrich jacket was purchased to match an ostrich vest? And in total, both articles of clothing cost $24,000. I didn't know that, and that is actually a very effective defense of Palmanifort. Because if you have an ostrich vest, what are you gonna do? Not get the ostrich jacket to match it?

You gotta match. I mean, that would be embarrassing showing up at a party with only an ostrich vest. We here at TYT are not in favor of fashion faux pas. I'm kidding. Obviously, we're very much in favor of fashion propo boss. Okay, all of a sudden, I'm on the under the side of a bus for no reason. You don't see me with an ostrichs, I kid. I know, I know.

All right, so let's get to Rick Gates at his testimony. First off, a prosecutor questioned him while he was on the stand and said, did you commit any crimes with Paul Manafort? With Paul Manafort. And Rick Gates responded with, yes. Okay, fair enough. That seems clear. Gates also told prosecutors that he had embezzled money from Manafort by creating false expense

reports on his own behalf. He didn't state an exact dollar amount, but estimated it to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Gates said that he had authority on some of the offshore accounts to move money, and he did. So through wire transfers, he said Manafort was unaware. Now let's stop right there because the defense is arguing, of course, on behalf of Manafort, that Manafort is really the innocent guy here. Yes, he was sloppy with his finances, but the real bad guy is Rick Gates, because Rick Gates was doing all sorts of things behind Manafort's back, and Manafort was just unaware. Now, based on that portion of the testimony, obviously it supports the defense. However, throughout the questioning, Rick Gates made it abundantly

clear that Manafort was aware of certain shady business. Now- Go ahead. So let me give you context there. So Manafort got $60 million for his foreign lobbying efforts. If he had actually just reported all the money and reported himself as a foreign agent, which is technically what you are if you're representing a foreign government inside the United States, it would be fine. I mean, it's outrageous amount of money, but that's okay, it is what it is, right?

The question is, do we have a crime or no? But he hid $30 million of it. So he reported $30 million, he hid the other $30 million. He put it in the offshore accounts, et cetera. And he asked Rick Gates to run that stuff. So Rick Gates handles his illegal operation. But while doing so, apparently there's no honor among thieves. So Rick Gates thinks, well, I might as well take some for myself.

So he also embezzles from Manafort. Now that's going to help Manafort's case because his lawyers are going to say, oh, poor Manafort. Did he get $60 million? He had no idea. He thought it was only 30 million. No, he didn't, okay. So he knows how much he put abroad.

But they're gonna help make that case by saying, but Gates also stole from him. It's that evil guy Rick Gates, that's the problem. Right. But the Rick Gates worked for Manafort. Manafort was his boss. Manafort's the one that did the deal with the pro-Russian Ukrainians. He's the one who arranged this whole setup in the first place and asked Gates to put the offshore accounts to hide the money in the first place.

I'm sure he didn't agree to Gates also robbing him, but that's the full context. Exactly. So it's not as if one person is innocent and one person is guilty. They're both bad guys in this scenario, right? Right. And Gates has already pleaded guilty, so we already know how guilty he is. So Cynthia Laporta is an accountant who also answered a few questions from prosecutors during this trial.

So this accountant actually filed his taxes in 2014 and 2015. Now, she testified that she was in on discussions to falsify a loan document at the direction of Gates so that Manafort could afford to pay his 2014 income taxes. So she's answering questions, and the whole point of this, at least from the defense perspective, is look at Gates. He's the real ringleader. Remember, Manafort is also facing charges for falsifying or fraud in order to secure loans, right? And this is the part of the conversation involving the securing of loans.

Can I, more context there? So you might be wondering, Jesus, Lord mercy, I made $60 million, what do you mean securing loans? What more loans does any? Because the idiot spent it all on ostrich jackets. He was making it rain at like, you know, suit stores all over the place. And ostrich dot are us. I don't know, I don't even have no idea where you would get a jacket like that.

But anyway, so he spent so lavishly on houses, the extravagance, suits, et cetera, et cetera, that he ran out of the $60 million. So then he needed to get extra loans. So he lied about his assets on loans, and that's another thing that he's being charged with. Gates also helped him with that. So the fact that Gates is cooperating with prosecutors and telling this story is really, really important.

Yes. Now, the damning evidence that was submitted by special counsel Robert Mueller, the very person who continues to be demonized by the right. Well, the special counsel has entered into evidence dozens of emails and financial documents. The emails are key to their case because several show Paul Manafort participating in conversations involving financial claims. His former accountant, Cindy Laporta, has testified we're fraudulent. So this is incredibly important because remember, the defense argues that Manafort was unaware

of everything that was going on. Rick Gates was the ringleader of everything, and so Manafort should be let off easy. But that is not the case based on the evidence that was compiled by special counsel Robert Mueller. Yes, and so look, prosecutors, including Robert Mueller's team and also honest media like us, are going to tell you the whole truth. So if they wanted to manipulate something, they would never have Gates agree, yeah, I also stole for Manafort. Because that helps make Manafort's case. But they say it, why? This is true.

It's true, and they're not going to lie about it, and they're not going to cover up evidence. Sometimes there are dirty prosecutors who cover up evidence that doesn't help their case. But it's not these guys. They're above board, so they've presented to the jury and let the jury decide. Hey, now you have the full context, and Gates did steal from Manafort, but you also have the context of Manafort moving all that money abroad and his accountant now telling you that he participated in the fraudulent schemes. And again, remember, for the Manafort was Donald Trump's campaign manager, a pivotal

player in his campaign, but this trial is not about Donald Trump. It's about other financial dealings that Paul Manafort had coincidentally or otherwise with pro-Russian forces this time inside Ukraine. Yeah, all right, well, let's move on to some foreign policy news. Donald Trump has officially reimposed economic sanctions on Iran. Now this follows some of Trump's warlike rhetoric on Twitter geared toward Iran, and he did essentially pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, which was negotiated by President Barack Obama back in 2015.

Europe is very much against what's going on right now, but here are the updates in terms of these sanctions. So Trump said, quote, as we continue applying maximum economic pressure on the Iranian regime, I remain open to reaching a more comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of the regime's malign activities, including its ballistic missile program and its support for terrorism. I mean, there's no mention of U.S. support of terrorism when it's Saudi Arabia conducting the terroristic acts, but nonetheless, I'll move on. Trump is also planning to renew other sanctions in three months, including ones targeting

Iran's lucrative oil industry. So there are more sanctions that are set to take place or take effect in November of this year. But so far, the economic sanctions have begun. So here's what I get out of this story. There must be some powerful oil lobbyists doing a lot of work inside the Trump administration. Now I'll tell you why, so right now Iran has not broken the deal, we broke it, but it's not just us and Iran, if we had broken it, then Iran would be free to break it anyway, because it doesn't exist anymore.

But there's actually other parties involved, the European countries, our allies, but also Russia and others involved. So those players say they deeply regret that America broke the deal and violated its terms, but they are still willing to abide by the deal. So as far as we know, so is Iran. So in terms of the actions, Iran is not pushing towards war. So they say one thing that was a little aggressive, we are the mother of peace, but if your attackers will be the mother of wars, Trump loses it and does this maniacal tweet, et cetera. So you can say, hey, forces pushing for war are winning here, and I think that's true. But if you notice in Trump's tweet, he also

talked about, hey, look, I'll sit down with them, which is great, which is, you know, he should have never ripped up the deal in the first place. It was a perfectly good deal. All of our allies agree, et cetera. But he's willing to sit with him, fine. That's good news. But they specifically then talked about sanctions about their energy sector and their oil. Now, what will that do? If U.S. has sanctions on Iranian oil, it will limit the supply of oil, thereby increasing the price of oil. Yep. Now, this is the second action in a week that massively helps oil companies. The second was totally unrelated to this issue.

We talked about it last week. It was how he was going to rip up the fuel standards for cars. Now, you'd think, no, no, that's for the car manufacturers. No, the car manufacturers at this point say, don't do that. That's going to give us two different rules. We don't want that. It's going to give us uncertainty. But what it would do is create demand for all.

lot more oil because the cars are not fuel efficient, billions of dollars in oil. So two decisions, seemingly nothing to do with each other, but the common theme is oil companies are the big winners here. My guess is if you looked a little bit more into it, and that's why Trump administration is one of the worst in transparency and are trying to make sure we cannot find out who they met with, my guess is that some oil lobbies have been doing some substantial work inside the White House recently. Yeah, that's a really good guess, especially when you take all of this in the context of what he's trying to do with fuel efficiency standards.

Because remember, that will increase our reliance on oil, right? And that will make oil companies incredibly happy. And when that story broke, oil companies were the only, it was the only industry that was happy about Trump ripping up those fuel efficiency standards. The car industry, as Jenk correctly mentioned, was not in favor of it because now there's going to be this ongoing legal battle between some of the blue states that want efficient vehicles and the federal government, which is essentially ripping out fuel efficiency, ripping up fuel efficiency standards. Now, just to point to Trump's maniacal tweet against Iran, earlier

he had tweeted to Iranian President Rouhani, never ever threaten the United States again, or you will suffer consequences, the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. Be cautious. So as you can see, all caps, very intense. And it's just, it's fascinating how he treats some countries while giving other countries a complete pass when they threaten us. An example of that would be Russia, where they essentially showed a video during Vladimir Putin's address to Russia showing nukes hitting Tampa, Florida. It was a simulation, but here's what he essentially showed everyone in the world, and Trump said nothing about it.

And they hit Florida. So Iranians do not have nuclear weapons. The Russians do. The Iranians did not say we're going to launch nukes against you. The Russians did a simulation where they launched nukes against us. That was during Putin's annual address to the country's Federal Assembly. And what's in Florida? Well, a couple of things. One is United States Central Command, directly threatening our Central Command.

By the way, another thing that's in Florida is Mar-a-Lago. But Trump said nothing about that. Nothing about never threaten us, nothing about how dare you, nothing about your nukes, nothing about attacking Florida, nothing at all. So when the oil companies have money to make, all of a sudden all caps, don't you dare threaten us? When the Russians go here, here's our missiles hitting Florida, rub it in your face. Sorry, sir, yes sir, of course Mr. Putin, sir, yes sir.

Gee, I wonder what Donald Trump's interests are, I can't quite tell. And just quickly, going back to the whole oil issue, remember, Germany made a deal with Russia to essentially build another pipeline that would, you know, send oil from Russia to Germany. And Trump specifically targeted Angela Merkel, right, the leader of Germany over that issue. But there was absolutely no pressure toward Vladimir Putin. No anger toward Vladimir Putin for making that deal. All of the anger and intensity was directed toward Angela Merkel. And I just thought that was fascinating.

So because he can't criticize Putin, gee, I wonder why. That would Putin him in trouble. But Anna, that's a great point because I hadn't thought of that. That's actually the third time that he helps the oil companies, right? Do not do deals where the oil companies are circumvented. Don't do that. Because I really care about foreign policy. I mean, and it's Russia doing the deal, but I can't criticize.

Russia. So I'm going to instead viciously attack our allies. So, and here he is, by the way, when he rips up the Iranian deal, he also attacks our allies. Because our allies support that deal, want us to abide by that deal and our word that we gave. But he thinks, who cares? I got a swamp to run. Where's my oil lobbyist? All right, let's take a break. When we come back, my favorite story of the day, Alex Jones. drums. Thanks for watching what I hope was a lovely edition of the Young Turks. Now you know that that is two of the five segments that we do because that's free. We want to have you support independent media and come watch the whole show that we do every day. That's five segments overall. No ads at all. That's at t-y-tnetwork.com slash join. Come become a member. Thanks for watching either way. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work. Listen ad free. Access members only bonus content and more. more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at apple.co slash t-y-t.

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