The Young Turks - Trump's Hilarious Freudian Slip

Episode Date: May 30, 2019

Trump has Russia on his mind. Cenk Uygur, Nando Vila, and Brett Erlich hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sure, okay, by the way, lots of fun folks on the program today and lots of fun topics. So I've got exciting updates on the rally coming up for you guys in Iowa. Oh my God, Ty-T-O, I mean, Jesus, Lord Mercy. Okay. And then Jordan Klepper's gonna be out in the second hour along with Brooke Thomas. He's got a new show coming out in Comedy Central, so he's gonna do the whole second hour with us and then come back and do an interview as well. I've got a conservative who's in favor of impeachment, also doing an interview in the third hour.

I've got one of the best legal reporters in the country. Also in favor of impeachment, doing an interview in the third hour of the Young Turks. As you all know, it's 6 to 9 p.m. But hey, if you're a member, you can get it whatever you like. T.wit.com slash trial, try it out for free for a week. Okay, and what else do we? Oh, we have freedom molecules on this on today's show. The Republicans with a new goofy name, freedom molecules, what are they molecules of?

It's such a great story, okay? That's what that is. Okay, so. Free on, you know, Ervanite, like who, is that how they're spelling out the molecule? We'll get to that. Okay. And, oh, we broke a story, I knew there was someone, another awesome, like, there's a lot of great stories today, as usual, but it's about Buttigieg, we're gonna stay on that beat.

And unfortunately, it's another racial discrimination story, another story where Buttigieg was isn't exactly forthcoming with reality. So, and the press's reaction to the stories we're breaking is a fascinating disparity. Let's put it that way. Okay, so we will get to that a little bit later in the program. Okay, so let's do it, let's do it. What do you got, Brett? Awesome, all right, here goes.

So in the span of about a half an hour, the president inadvertently admitted that Russia helped him to win the election and then went out and said that no, that wasn't the case. We're going to show you the tweet. We're going to show you the video of him saying that that wasn't his tweet, essentially. And then we're going to open up some other people chiming in on the idea of impeachment in the wake of it. And some other weird moments from that insane impromptu press conference where you can barely hear him over the hum of his helicopter. But first, here's the tweet. And ego.

That's the sound of his ego. Anyways, so here's the tweet. Russia, Russia, Russia. Which? Marcia, Marsha, Marsha. No, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Total child. Russia, Russia. That's all you heard the beginnings of this witch. That's all you heard at the beginning of this witch hunt hoax.

And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn't exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the fake news media, dot, dot, dot, dot, you fill in the blank. But that part people are talking about is he said, I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. Oops. When you saw that, what did you think? I thought, that's an interesting confession.

Now remember, Mueller at the end of his press conference said, remember, every American should take seriously the threat of Russia interfering in elections, and they did, okay? So that's, that was the very end of his press conference, like, we're not playing around there's a really serious issue. And so Trump all throughout had said, I don't know we're talking about, all of our intelligence officials are wrong. Vladimir Putin, I talked to him and he told me that they didn't interfere in our elections. So I'm done with it.

So now he accidentally admits, yes, they did interfere in our elections. And yes, they did help me to get elected. Oops. So that's obviously gonna create an issue for him. Look, inside that, so that's the main thing we're gonna talk about, but inside that half a tweet basically, it was buried so much madness that we're used to. If Obama had started a tweet with, Russia, Russia, Russia. What?

What are you doing, right? I just heard the movie trailer voice guy go, it was a crime that didn't exist. Let alone, like a grown man talking about it, it's a witch-hud hoax, right? And let alone him saying in the middle in a very George W. Bush kind of way, now Russia has disappeared. I'm pretty sure it's still there. Both the country and the case, because Mueller just told you it's super important. And there still might be interfering in our elections. So, but, you know, any other politician, like, what do you mean Russia disappeared?

But that is a footnote to him actually finally confessing that the Russians did help him win the election. Right, he's cherry picking that. He's so excited that there was some, that Mueller spoke and Mueller said, I'm retiring now, that he was like, it's over, let's go. that he forgot all of his other cover-up framing and nestled in this. But 20 minutes later, after he tweeted that, he went out onto the lawn and was faced with some reporters who asked him stuff like this. Take a look. Do you believe that Russia helped him get elected? No, Russia did not help me get elected.

You know who got me elected? You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn't help me at all. Russia, if anything, I think, helped the other side. What you ought to ask is this. Do you think the media helped Hillary Clinton get elected? She didn't make it. But you take a look at collusion between Hillary Clinton and the media. Right. Just like that moment, he's just saying words that come to his mind. And he's saying that Russia helped the other side get elected.

How? Then he realizes that that doesn't make any sense. So he's like, who did help Hillary get elected? Oh, the media, then he realizes that Hillary did not, in fact, get elected, so then he has to change that part of the weird moment. You got to admire, you just got to plow through it, you know? Like these days, you're rewarded for just plowing through anything. It doesn't matter, just say, I didn't say it, you know, or I didn't do it. And then, like, everything happens so fast that, you know, you're pretty much rewarded for, you know, essentially tweeting through it.

Yeah, so look, if he had any sense of strategy or plan, you know, he could have stuck with that talking point about how the media was trying to help Hillary Clinton win, that actually would add some legs to it, because we all know that the great majority of the anchors on television were Hillary Clinton voters, let's just keep it real. They didn't vote for Trump, they didn't vote for Bernie Sanders, they almost, you know, I don't know what the percentage is, but it's a really high percentage that probably voted for Hillary Clinton. And that would be an interesting point, but he can't help himself, he doesn't, there is

There's no strategy. He can't stick to any talking for him. He's just all over the place, just like these guys said. And then I would have, I mean, the report did a good job. They were trying to ask him a very logical question. If he had allowed a follow up, what would have been great is. So do you want to condemn the heinous person that tweeted this morning that Russia did help you win the election?

Because there's actually some percent of chance he'd be like, that's right, whoever did that is part of the witch hunt and is a terrible person and a total liar, part of fake news. That was you. That's just what I said. There were more weird moments in that interview, I guess, like a series of interviews outside. And The Hill did a good kind of summary of all the madness, saying Trump was focused on bashing Mueller, which as he also did, and claiming vindication telling reporters on Thursday that the special counsel was, quote, conflicted and should never have been chosen for the job

while attacking the probe as, quote, a giant presidential harassment. And he said, yeah, go ahead. Oh, no, no, no. I've just noticed that the reporter was Jordan Fabian. I used to work with him. Oh, there you go. The president also claimed that he has, quote, presidential powers that you wouldn't believe that would shield him from any obstruction of justice charge.

What do you, he, Mueller just explained it. What do you mean that you wouldn't believe? Moller went in a press conference and said, the Department of Justice cannot indict a sitting president. I saw a cartoon where they have Trump sitting and they're like, sir, you got to get up to go to the next meeting. He's like, no, he won't indict his sitting president. By the way, percent of chance of that being true. But anyway, no, Mueller just told you, yeah, you're incredibly lucky. We can't indict a sitting president, at least that's Mueller's opinion.

There is a path to actually holding you accountable, that's of course impeachment. But he's like, you wouldn't believe the incredible powers I have. The guy you just said is like the worst guy on the planet, explain those powers a minute ago. So it's interesting because the way that Mueller, at least when I listened to it, framed everything. He said it wasn't necessarily that the Justice Department can't indict a submitting president. It's just that when he was appointed, the thing the Justice Department wrote down, so you have Jeff Sessions, who Trump thinks bungled the whole thing, but to his credit, he did write, like you can't, in the guidelines for when he and Rosenstein came together

and said, or he recused himself, Rosenstein wrote it down, the guidelines said, you cannot indict a sitting president. So for all of this conversation that impeachment itself, is a political process and not a criminal one, in this setting up of the special counsel's office, that was a political move, where it did shackle Mueller to this framework where he couldn't indict a sitting president. And now, ironic, since they have no attachment to the truth, then Attorney General Barr, who's been protecting Trump all throughout, comes out today and says, well, if Mueller wanted to take action, he should have said that it was a crime.

No. But wait a minute, you guys told him he couldn't say that. that. Then you turn her and go, ha ha, he didn't say that. So it's unreal the level of duplicity and hypocrisy and the lies that they spread in this administration. But unfortunately, you know, I gotta bring it up every time. It's aided and embedded by the Democrats, the Democrat.

Mueller from day one said, and he made it clear, I thought clear enough that he couldn't indict a sitting president. So then what was he doing? He was collecting evidence for the only people who could. take action against the president, Congress, what would that action be? Impeachment, that is the only possible avenue. He was collecting evidence for impeachment. There is no other way of explaining it.

And so I bet he was probably surprised when the Democrats are like, oh, you got him on a crime and he committed that crime 11 times and you laid it out in a 448 page report, so we're not going to do anything. He must have been like, what? What the hell was I doing all this for? Why do you think the Democrats aren't pursuing impeachment? It's so baffling to me. It seems like a no-brainer to me.

Well, to me, I think it's that Nancy, I mean, the analysis I've seen and that I believe is that Nancy Pelosi is like, last time impeachment happened, we won in the long run, and the Republicans lost out. That's her takeaway, is that it's such like a politically costly process. I remember Bush won that election, sort of. Yeah. Bush won, what, the follow-up election before? Yeah, so they impeached Bill Clinton.

They're like, and that's why a Democratic president won the next. Oh, wait, no, Bush won the next election. But I just, in the process, Bill Clinton was a very popular president. It did not hurt his popularity. And that's what I believe to be Nancy Pelosi's read of the land. And so she's gun shy in that respect. And she has to weigh, she has to have small wins along the way because everyone else is looking out and saying, like, the time's running out.

You have to hurry up. So she gets a judge in New York to say, you know what? Go look at his financial records. His challenge to the subpoena is BS. And then she claims a victory. She goes and has a meeting on Infrastructure Week. She claims a victory. And that just adds a little more time to the fuse.

But there are, but that's my read of her analysis. I guess the counterpoint would be, first of all, that was, you know, 20 years ago. And Pollux 6 has changed dramatically since then, you know, like Trump is freaking president. Like, you know what I mean? Like it's different than Bill Clinton being. president just it just is exactly I mean Clinton was incredibly popular and Donald Trump was incredibly unpopular and but to be fair like impeachment of Bill Clinton did kind of thwart a lot of his agenda at the time you know like yeah he was he was popular in the polls but like some of the

stuff that he was trying to do like i.e. privatizing social security was basically thwarted by by the impeachment process because it just consumes the administration that's that's the argument I would say is that if we if we believe that Trump is a harmful force in power, which I think we all do, anything that sort of thwarts his agenda, anything that thwarts a possible war with Iran or whatever, just consumes like everything, all their attention and energy, which is limited, I would say is probably for the best. Would it thwart a possible war with Iran, or would it encourage heightened tensions to distract? So listen, guys, I've weighed in on this a hundred times, so we're going to keep it really short

here. Look, when you get into these political calculations, number one, I don't think we should. The question is, are you going to enforce the law or are you not going to enforce the law? Because then the question that I would pose back to Nancy Pelosi is, what other crimes would you let Trump get away? Yes. Because you're saying, I'm not going to do anything about the campaign finance violations. His co-conspirate is currently in prison. And there's no question that he did campaign finance violations.

There's no question it's a felony and there's no question that his co-conspirate is in prison. Okay, and then obstruction of justice, 11 instances of it's super clear. So if you're gonna let him get away with at least those two crimes, what other crimes are you gonna let him get away with? Letting Puerto Ricans die in the wake of Hurricane Maria. It's an absolutely impeachable offense. So look, and then you can get into, so like some people might say that's policy and then you know, you get into some things.

But look, if you say those two felonies that we've got on the record without any dispute at all are okay, then what other felonies, can he actually shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it? Probably could. And it's not the MAGA case, it would be Nancy Pelosi. who says, yeah, you can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. And if I think it is to my political benefit to let you get away with it, I will let you get away with it.

Well, here, we're going to skip ahead one video to video three. Here is Trump's take from that interaction with reporters today about what he thinks would happen if impeachment proceedings were to go forward. Take a look. I don't see how they can because they're possibly allowed, although I can't imagine the court's allowing it. I've never got into it. I never thought that would even be possible

to be using that word. To me, it's a dirty word to impeach. It's a dirty, filthy, disgusting word. And it had nothing to do with me. So I don't think so because there was no crime. You know, it's high crimes and not with or it's high crimes and misdemeanors.

There was no high crime and there was no misdemeanor. So how do you impeach based on that? Crime is how high he makes me feel when I'm listening to him. Yeah, so wait, okay, we gotta break this down too. Before we get to the more important part about what he thinks about impeachment, it's high crimes and misdemeanors. Not with.

Not with, not or. I commit all my high crimes with a misdemeanor just to spice it up. On the side, just put it on the side. Yeah, just a side of misdemeanor on the side. If you just do a high crime, I mean, it's just so bland. Is he trying to say that if I did a high crime, but I didn't do a misdemeanor on the side? misdemeanor like jaywalking yeah that you can't impeach me yes well the court they can define it however they want I just don't know when to engage with like what he's actually trying to say versus like

here's how all the little stupid ways that you're so stupid but like they can they can define it however they want that's why it's the words high crimes and misdemeanors is so that the so that the the legislative body can say yeah that was messed up beyond a certain point and we got to pull you out Yeah, so I don't want to get back into the constitutional origins of the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors, which a very quick summary of is it doesn't actually have to be a legal crime or a felony. It even says misdemeanor in there. But if you actually do have an actual crime and a felony, then it's a no-brainer.

And it's not even close to a question. And in this case, we have two felonies for the price of one, both the campaign finance violations and now obviously the obstruction of justice that Mueller reported 11 different instances of. But see, that goes to the point of the core of this issue, right? So Nancy Pelosi makes two arguments. One is that politically it would be bad for the Democrats to impeach Donald Trump. Now that's madness in a thousand different ways. So she says, oh, it would animate his base.

His base is perfectly animated. They don't need any more animation. You know who needs to be animated? Your base. But you never once consider that, right? That's my biggest frustration with the Democrats. always focused on what is going to, you know, fire up Republicans or we can't do anything too bad to really piss off Republicans.

And it's like, they hate you so much already, just accept it and try to like get your side to like you, which they don't really. They're sleeping now. You know? They got their tax cut. They're sleeping. Like those ones, those ones that you meet, Nancy, when you go around California, New York, and D.C., they're sleeping.

Yeah, so I want to touch on what Brett said and then get to the money quote for Trump there because Brett makes a great point. The reason that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumers of the world have a twisted view of Republicans is because of the Republicans they know. Because the hardest thing in the world is to escape your own perspective. So now, every poll shows over 90% of Republicans are solidly with Donald Trump and they agree with him on all the horrible things that he has said and advocated for, et cetera. And they're super animated to be like, yes, let's get those babies in the border.

Snatch him up and put him in gauges. Trump, right? Now, but the Republicans that Pelosi deals with, they is donors. So she's on the phone and that's why they always talk about Republicans in the suburbs. What do Republicans in the suburbs have? They have money and they donate, they could choose to donate to Republicans or they can choose to donate to corporate Democrats. So in her sphere, she's like, oh, have we won over some Republican donors?

We want over some Republican donors, we can convince them, this is great. But what she doesn't realize or doesn't care to realize is that's not. not a meaningful percentage of Republican voters. So they're not going to swing a national election. That's a preposterous thing to think. But she only thinks that because she's on the phone all day with those same exact donors. And so now to the core of the argument here, Pelosi's second point is, no, Donald Trump actually wants to be impeached.

And I'm not going to do him in the favor of impeaching him. She has literally said that. That's like the child reverse psychology. Yeah, right. He also doesn't want to be thrown in the briar pack. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I got news for you.

And look, Pelosi's saying that for her own purposes. She raised a lot of money being against Donald Trump. And she's politically has no courage whatsoever. Will always just tow the line for the donors, has never tried anything courageous politically in her life. And you make sure you mean, you can cry, cry, cry, cry about that. When I talk about it, either here or on social media, the main people who attack me are not Democrats.

They're people in the mainstream media. They're like, how could you are beloved Nancy Pelosi? How could you say that about her? Do you know that she got Romneycare passed with a super majority? She's unbelievable as a legislator. Okay, so I don't want to get back into that. But here when she says that Trump wants to be impeached and Trump says, it's a dirty, disgusting word, I can't even imagine him.

You think it's a trick? He's so dumb, he can't think one step, he can barely walk. He can barely put one foot in front of the other. He has no, he's never shown any ability to strategize in his life. No, when he says the thought of impeachment is disgusting and unbelievable to him, he means it, he means it. So, but the media, Pelosi said it, it must be true. Well, no, Trump was looking forward to impeachment.

Are you kidding me? How could you really think that this man, if you had you had. If you impeached him, his orange head would explode. That statement that she made is his motivation, is his success. Because all he does is look at people who are not like utterly president at the time and just start poking them in every way possible to try to paralyze them from some kind of decisive action at all. And that's what he did to Nancy Pelosi.

And she kind of walked right into it. Now, that's not to say that there aren't different calculations she could be making in the background, but like the idea that he wants to be impeached is psychotic. He doesn't. He definitely doesn't, just for the simple fact that, like, look at how much he's pushing back against getting his financial records released. He doesn't want anyone to find anything out anymore. Yeah, so if he was doing it, that's another great point by Brent.

Think about it, okay? What does he not want most of all? His tax returns released. Everybody knows that, I think 100% of reporters would acknowledge that, right? Does he go around saying, please release my tax returns? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Please release him. No.

Has he ever done reverse psychology on any of those issues? No, he's a, he's plain as can be. He's like, don't release my tax returns, right? I don't want anything, don't look into my businesses, whatever you do, don't look into my businesses, right? Where's the reverse psychology? There's no reverse psychology. So when he says, don't impeach me, it's disgusting, it's the worst thing I've ever heard.

He means it. Occam's razor, the simple answer. It said people are like, oh, Pelosi, the master legislator, yeah, yeah, and it could be the cuff in front of you. No. No. So Rashida Talib had it right from day one, impeach him. And Robert Mueller did that press conference to say, I cannot indict him.

There are 11 charges here. The people who can't indict him is Congress. I'm not gonna say anything more, what else do you need me to say? How dense are you? And Pelosi's like, just dense enough. Yeah. Incidentally, you should go check out Elizabeth Warren went on the view today. and essentially said what you said.

It's just like, I will listen to the Mueller report. I read the Mueller report. There's a lot in there. The only thing I can do is impeached, so she's on that side. We have to take a break, though. Yeah, okay, can I just say, you know, so Tommy Christopher I just noticed tweeted from media that Bernie Sanders now in favor of impeachment after I pressured him. I wish I was that powerful.

Wouldn't that be awesome? He watches every day. He watches Young Turks every day. Sure. Okay, Joe Biden, be in favor of Medicare for all. Joe Biden, drop out of the race. Or that, right. Okay, when we come back, a little bit more on this,

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As with everything Trump does, it's just pure projection. He knows deep down that he's an illegitimate president and he's terrified of being exposed. That last part describes Trump's entire existence, terrified of being exposed. I'm terrified if he ever exposed himself. Well, that's true, we'd all be terrified by that. Anyway, Leosoria says, Brett's laugh is so funny. Really? Also, it's my 29th birthday today.

I think it's cute. You're laugh. Thank you. I think you're cute. Thanks. Well, and happy birthday, okay? Good birthday. Oh God, what I would give to be 29 again.

I know, geez. Oh, God, enjoy it, enjoy it, savour. The greatest years. Yes. Denise says, I would really love to see Trump on that show. Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Mostly because it would prove to his base that he's not. I'm not sure that anything would prove that to his base.

They'd be like, oh yeah? Well, those fifth graders are geniuses. They're all Albert Einstein's. I know it, okay? And I can't believe Trump barely lost to them. He's so good. for only barely. He would have beaten the fourth graders, I know that for sure.

They were fed the questions. Right. Oh, they totally, yeah. Fake fifth graders. God of Brazil gave him the questions. Fake show. Don't believe it. It's him versus his own education department.

All right, so Jordan Kleberzahn in the second hour and in the third hour for an interview today. Tomorrow in the third hour, John Delaney, presidential candidate. He was the first presidential candidate, and he was the first presidential candidate. I, and he will be on the program. So check that out, that's going to be at 8 o'clock Eastern tomorrow at t.t.com. Okay, so now, let me give you an update on the rallies. So we've been telling you about this rally.

We're doing Iowa on June 8th, t.y.com slash rally to join us. Oh, no, TYT army. Okay, this is going to come back into the conversation in a second. But first of all, very importantly, you guys have been asking, where is it going to be? So we finally have the location for you guys, but it's going to be in Franklin Junior High. And a lot of folks used this, Buttigieg used it for a campaign event as well. I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying. So you'll find that information at t-y-t.com slash rally.

So don't worry. You don't have to remember that right now. It is tentatively set for 3 p.m. So we reserve the right to move it depending on some of the circumstances because there's a lot of campaigns going on in the middle of Iowa. And so there is some small chance we might be able to move it. But like I said, it's mainly we're fairly sure that it's going to be in the afternoon. And I want you to come, look, the doors open at 2 o'clock in our current plan, because

we're gonna do a fun game for everybody that's there before the speeches. Then we've got J.D. Shulton, then we've got Ojetta, we've got Allison Hartson, and then I'm gonna give maybe the fieriest speech of my life. So, buckle up and everyone affected brace for impact. So I'm coming to Iowa and we're gonna try to make an impact there. Now, more fun things, if you remember, we're gonna give you a free pin there, so that's going to be great. We're just trying to do more for you guys.

And we want you to wear this shirt if you can, okay, it's shop tyt.com. If you can't, nothing wrong with that at all. If you got any kind of TYT swag, there's a pride event going on that weekend. If you wanna wear that, that's great. If you don't have any TYT, that's all right. It's no big deal at all. I love that you're coming. If you can put on a black t-shirt, great.

And mainly because we want everybody to know who we are, and it separates us us. from the crowd because here's a super important second part of the announcement. Because of all the different campaign things that we get added to the calendar late, we now know there's another event that we are going to do in Cedar Rapids, Iowa the next day. Now, this is tough, but this is part of organizing and this is what we want the TYT Army for, okay? So the next day, it's at two o'clock, so it's about a two, hour drive from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids.

I'm perfectly aware that it's late notice, but we got late notice of the event. So it's not like we held anything back from you guys. And if you can't make it and you could only make it to Des Moines on Saturday, we love you. Don't sweat it for a second, okay? I need you to be there on Saturday. If you could also stay with us and go to Cedar Rapids on Sunday, amazing, amazing and wonderful. We're gonna try to change the dynamic of this presidential race.

And we're gonna try to do even more than that. So that's a lot of, you know, significant things that we are going to try to do together. So please be there, t.com slash rally. Tell us if you're coming and we want to see you in Iowa. And the more announcements we have and the more clarity we have, we'll give it to you as soon as we have it. Okay, now let's go on to the rest of the stories. Okay. Your president, Donald John Trump, went to Japan for Memorial Day.

And you may have heard some news about the USS John McCain, a Navy warship that was stationed in Japan at the time. And the great lengths that it was reported that the Navy and the White House went to to make sure that the president was not triggered by, God forbid, reading the name John McCain. So according to the Wall Street Journal, they said, in a May 15th email to U.S. and Navy and Air Force officials, a U.S. Indo-Pacific command official outlined plans for the president's arrival. that he said had resulted from conversations between the White House military office and the 7th fleet of the U.S. Navy. In addition to instructions for the proper landing areas for helicopters and preparations for the USS WASP, amazing. That's what I call the president, the USS WASP. Also Robert Mueller. Where the president was scheduled to speak, the official issued a third directive. USS John McCain needs to be out of sight and then follows with this quote,

please confirm number three will be satisfied. So that happened. Mercedes Schlapp, who is the president's, what is she, the White House Director of Strategic Communications. This is going to be very strategic. Very strategically said this to Fox News. Her defense was told to keep the USS John McCain out of sight and keep the name USS John McCain on that ship,

covered in a tarp. But what could you tell us about this, Mercedes? I mean, it's a fake news story. I mean, the Navy came out and basically said that in no way did they try to hide any of their warships. In this case, this particular warship. And again, the president was not aware that this was even, you know, the story. We all read it in the Wall Street Journal. Again, it's another one of these.

Let's get anonymous sources. Let's push this narrative. And it's just unfortunate. It's just unfortunate. So you're saying it did not happen? No, I mean, the president was not aware. It did not happen, no, the president is not aware. Okay, so before we get to the substance of the story about how embarrassing it is that our president is insane and a child, let's talk about Schlapp for a second.

She said it's a fake news story, the Navy did not try to cover it up. Shockingly, I mean, it wasn't like a very bold follow-up question, but Kilme did follow up, I guess I give him credit for that, and he said, so you're saying it didn't happen. She's like, no, I'm saying the president wasn't aware. No, no, you just said it didn't happen. You said the Navy didn't do it like 30 seconds ago. But most recently, closest to now, when I am talking, I said the president didn't know. Get out of jail free card. They just call anything that is not favorable to Trump fake news.

It doesn't have to be, and they know they're like, it's a Fox news audience, they're a bunch of idiots, I'll just lie, and then I'll tell them I lied, and they won't even notice. So here's what Trump said right after that. Take a listen. What happened? I wasn't involved. I would not have done that. I was very angry with John McCain because he killed health care.

I was not a big fan of John McCain in any way, shape, or form. I think John McCain had a lot to getting President Bush, a lot to do with it, to go into the Middle East, which was a catastrophe. To me, John McCain, I wasn't a fan. but I would never do a thing like that. Now, somebody did it because they thought I didn't like them, okay? And they were well-meaning. I kind of believe them. I believe it, too.

But just take a minute and absorb what's happening. It's amazing. I mean, how many jokes can you make about safe spaces and trigger warnings and all that stuff about, you know, that really the real snowflakes are conservatives? This is like, you know, happens time and time and time again. And, you know, it's amazing. Yeah, the other day, Hanks said on Fox and Friends said, this repressurban is incredible. He has the thickest skin I've ever seen.

Yeah. No, it's the exact opposite. And everybody, I think even the Magga guys, he's incredibly thin skin. I mean, you can't. I think that's a level of denying reality that I'm not sure even the Magu guys can get to, right? So, but first of all, let's just again, go back to Schlapp for one second. It didn't happen. By the way, it did happen.

And then Trump comes down and says, oh, it did happen, but it was a well-meaning, person who did it and it wasn't me. And also classic Trump, it wasn't me, I'll throw whoever it was under the bus, right? But then I'll turn around and say, look, I wouldn't do that, I wouldn't do that, but it's a good thing he did it, it was well-meaning, right? Yeah, what a nice thing to do for me. Like that is what he, oh, it was so, so generous of them, so what have you done? And it's just so bad, like, is it that the Navy has this kind of like, you know,

Stockholm syndrome with the president, or are they just like, listen, we know, we know, What a child, our commander-in-chief is. So we're just going to take every precaution not to trigger him. But then again, I was an assistant at a talent agency, which is like, you know about the people who have those things in their writers where they're just like, I don't want the purple skittles. Take all the purple skittles out. That's what it sounds like the president has done to our Navy, has turned them into

the abused assistant who's running around with their hair on fire, pulling out the purple skittles. Well, honestly, not the worst thing in the world. I mean, the thing about it is, like, is that this story is maybe one of the funniest stories I can remember. But, like, I do get, like, annoyed when, like, some of the reactions, like, how dare you, sir, disrespect our Navy like that. Oh, that's interesting thing. You know what I mean? Like, like, I don't like when liberals sort of adopt, like, this kind of, like, patriotic, like, jingoist thing mentality that, like, our Navy is, like, somehow sacred. Our Navy and, like, the fleets and the Aircraft carriers are just a huge symbol of American imperialism, right, around the world,

I would say that, like, you know, we should laugh as much as possible at this story. But, like, you know, coming to the brave defense of our Navy is not something that I would want to do. Yeah, so let me- Brett. Okay, let me break it down a little bit. So, first off, I just want to clarify, to be fair to the Navy on a couple of fronts, It was the White House military office that asked the Navy to take this action.

So they're actually the ones that are asking to remove the purple skittles, okay? Because they work with the president, so they know, my God, I mean, this guy get triggered by anything, right? Yeah, it's amazing. So, and of course the Navy's intent is to protect us. Unfortunately, it has been misused by politicians to be part of our offensive flotilla to provoke wards. For example, we just sent a giant ship to the Middle East to try to provoke Iran.

But that's not the Navy's fault they're following orders. I know that doesn't sound great, okay. But it is the politicians making those decisions. Ironically, Trump said something very right there where he said McCain got Bush into those disastrous wars in the Middle East, that's true. But now you're letting Bolton get you into a disastrous war in Iran. And so there's a lot of irony there. But the bottom line is to get back to the core of this issue, we have a president so emotionally

unstable as well as mentally unstable that everyone working around him knows you have to go to extraordinary lengths to make sure that he's not triggered. And I don't mean it in like the internet way and stuff. I mean it quite like literally like his emotions will get triggered and he'll do something rash. Yeah, and he'll do something wrong and he's in a different country. So just seeing the name John McCain, by the way, the ship was originally named after John McCain's grandfather and father, but of course Trump doesn't know anything.

So he probably wouldn't know that later they also attached the senator's name to it. It's all the same name obviously, but they honored him with it as well. But Trump has known any of that. Just the sight of seeing John McKean's name, White House officials believe, and probably correctly so, might put Trump in such a bad mood because he's such a child and so unstable that he might do something terrible abroad. Wow, wow. It makes you wonder what else, like this story came out, you know, what makes you wonder

what else, like, hasn't come out? Like, what else do they have to, like, run around? You know, like, he's got that toilet paper that isn't like, you know, and like, we're going to change it, you know, like, switch it around because he doesn't like a pull up, he doesn't like pull up, he likes to pull down, pull up, pull up, what else is there? No, but think about what Nando is saying, it's true, like, if I saw, like, I can't say Sean Hannity. If I saw a Sean Hannity mug, I wouldn't care at all, who cares?

What difference doesn't mean, right? But like Trump is so unstable, he's like, all right? And so, and he's the president, he's got his finger on the nuke. Look, they gotta do the 25th Amendment. Jim Acosta in his new book says, a senior White House official said to him, the president is insane. That's a direct quote, that's a direct quote. So a former senior national security official also told Acosta, oh no, we were deeply worried

that he was compromised by Russia. So, but you don't have to get into Russia. The bottom line is, everyone, including everyone that works at the White House, knows that the president is so mentally unstable that any tiny little thing will trigger him into doing something potentially disastrous for the country. You know what there is in the Constitution for that? Something called the 25th Amendment, and that's why it's in there. If the president cannot serve in a rational way, not a rational way, but he just doesn't.

is mentally unfit to serve office, the cabinet is supposed to get together and go, look, he's our president, he's in our party, he appointed us, but this guy is a lunatic or this guy has got hurt or whatever it is. I wonder if the slogan, one of the slogans is just like for the 2020 election is like, come on guys, it's like, come on. Yeah, whoever it is, right? This is our president, come on. I like that.

Everyone, you got your tax cuts that you wanted, come on, let's go back to normalcy, you know You know you hate the guy, come on. Let's just pick a name out of a hat. Elizabeth Warren, come on, guys. All right, we gotta move on actually to freedom molecules. This is an amazing story that I just couldn't get enough of. It's not natural gas. It is not called natural gas anymore.

It is now called freedom gas. That is apparently according to a release from the Department of Energy And in the wake of an event in Canada, where they were touting the new export levels that are available through their new initiative. Increasing export capacity, says Mark Menezes, the Undersecretary of Energy, from the Freeport Liquid Natural Gas Project, is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy. Further, more exports of U.S. liquid natural gas to the world means more U.S. jobs and more domestic economic growth and cleaner air here at home and around the globe. So release more freedom gas. Look, you know, we're all going to say it's Orwellian. That's super obvious. But it's they've become a parody of themselves.

I mean, if I was writing an onion article, I would call it freedom gas. In fact, I'd really pat myself on the back. I'd go around everybody. Imagine if they called it freedom gas. Like, oh, that's a good one, Jake. Good one, right? I wonder, and I'm going to ask this very legitimately to you guys, do you think they wrote it with a straight face or were they like, oh, look at all freedom.

I'm just glad that they are honoring the long and rich tradition on the American right of rebranding things, freedom blank. You know, there was the French fries that got turned into freedom fries back during, you know, the Iraq war years. You know, this goes back a long way and, you know, it just shows that they've done. known, they know their history and they're honoring it very sort of abstracted. Yeah, and of course, famously torture became enhanced interrogation, and the list goes on. That's their thing.

It's just like, oh, this is it. And it's so uncreative. It is so plug and chug, let's move on. But it's not just one person from the Department of Energy. Is Rick Perry still the head of the department? I don't even remember. Yeah, he is, right? Very quiet, right?

Yeah, that's right. He figured out. He's like, look, these guys are getting called in for to Congress. they say something good about Trump, they say something bad about trying, you get in trouble either way. I got an idea. I won't say anything. Yeah. And it's not, but it's not just one. Steve Winberg, who's the assistant secretary for fossil energy, says, I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported

to the world. So it's not just freedom gas, it is composed of freedom molecules. It's the plot of the next Avengers movie is someone got a hold of the freedom gas and that They were, that only exists in America, and they were sprinkling it all over the other places. They're getting more freedom. They're taking away our freedom. There's a limited supply of our freedom gas. It's very nefarious. The idea here, like, yes, there's the ridiculousness of calling it freedom gas that you hope they hear themselves say, or are they just huffing too much freedom gas?

We don't know. But the thing that they're trying to communicate here is that in the world where we hear about this dependence on foreign oil and foreign energy and they want to bring that back to here, which results in tons of fracking, which results in earthquakes in Oklahoma. And I would say it's not our, we're not, yeah, maybe we're not as dependent on foreign oil, but even though we're not as dependent on foreign oil, we're still cozying up to the Saudis. We're still, you know, turning against dictators who incidentally have tons of foreign oil. And then in addition to that, it's just very frustrating to watch the president just kind of, and the Department of Energy just kind of say that we'd be free

if we back people who are exporter, who are dealing with natural gas. But really, we would be freer if we didn't have to depend on fossil fuels at all. If we could invest in renewable energy so we're not killing ourselves. We're just getting rid of the foreign oil people and replacing them with domestic oil people. So I was going to wonder if anybody still believes this stuff, but I know the answer to that, Because the media goes along with it, I bet you a lot of people believe it. So because the U.S. talks in propaganda all the time. So George H.W. Bush, when he launched the first Persian Gulf War, said the liberation

of Kuwait has begun. And then there was, you know, and George W. Bush kept on talking about the liberation of Iraq. Judah Friedlander, a great comedian was on this show. And he said, for all those countries who don't have a lot of oil under their ground, I feel really bad for them because they're not going to get to be liberated by us. Right, and so it's all in terms of like, no, no, we're not invading you, we're not bombing you, we're giving you freedom.

And part of that will be, we'll take your freedom gas and make it free to us, okay? And but good news for you, we're gonna give you our freedom gas, but not free to you. And so I feel like if slavery was still around, they'd call them like freedom shackles. Because they have no bounds of decency and they have no sense of shame. And these absurd things that they came come up with. That is, that take, you make a joke, but that take was made not long ago by someone on the right where it said, like, they, you know, we brought the slaves over here and we gave them, you know, all kinds of- Bill O'Reilly, you're right, we forgot about that.

They said, we gave them room and board. Yeah, exactly. You know, like, you cannot make up a point that is too ridiculous. Yeah. On the right. Like, they've made that exact point. That's right. The experience for children who've been separated from their families was like summer camp.

Yeah, exactly. That's right, Lori Ingram said that. That's right, sorry, Freedom Camp. Freedom Camp, oh, I love Freedom Camp. That's right, when we put the kids in the cages, that was actually Freedom Camp. Yep. We have to take a break. Okay, yes, we do.

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Wow. Wow. Okay, that's what I say, that face. I wake up every morning and I say, how can I be more like Brett? Wow, okay, that was a hell of a compliment, Jackson. Appreciate it. In what possible way? Here, here.

I was a show where I get drunk. By the way, check out happy half hour on the app. Okay, but he also finishes. I always appreciate how reasoned and rational he is. Thanks, Brett. So that's very nice. Jordan Ruck writes in, I'm sad I can't be at the rally in person, but I will definitely be wearing my TYT Pride logo shirt at home in solidarity as I watched the live stream.

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I love it, I love it. Because Gabby, we do read a lot of Gabby Maritas quotes. Look, if you're a member, we'll read a lot of your quotes and comments, okay? We do it during the show, and then he finally adds, a double marita would be getting red on the air and getting a free t-shirt. Wow. The very rare double marita. We should be so lucky.

All right, what's next? Mayor Pete Buttigieg has kind of taken pride in the fact that he does not dabble in specifics. He's more about laying out the values behind things. What if someone were to look into the specifics of his record? Well, Jonathan Larson from TYT Investigates has done just that, and he's uncovered yet another weird thing racially charged that happened under Mayor Buttigieg's South Bend, Indiana Police Department. And it is this.

The article starts off by saying, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's controversial claim that a secret report exonerated his chief of police in an incident with racial undertones appears to be contradicted by the report itself, according to leak excerpt obtained by the Young Turks. So this is the story of what happened in South Bend, Indiana, when there was a report of a fight outside a community center, and there was one police officer named David Newton, Lieutenant David Newton, who went out to handle it. And according to a report from a civilian on the scene, he did not have the proper backup that was necessary, and that was supposed to be provided by the chief of police at the time,

Chief Ron Teachman. And so there was an investigation done after the fact by the Indiana State Police. And according to Mayor Pete Buttigieg, everything was fine. There was no wrongdoing because according to Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the reports conflicted witness to witness. But here's what Buttigieg said. Buttigieg refused to release the ISP report, but told city officials in a letter that the witness accounts in the report, quote, make clear that Ron Teachman, who is white,

did not violate requirements for backing up fellow officers and that Teachment, quote, has my full confidence. Larson continues saying, however, according to the leaked excerpt of the actual report, which includes a summary of the report's findings, none of the witnesses corroborate Teachman's account. That's the Chief of Police, the White Chief of Police. Multiple witnesses directly challenge his claims. In some passages, witnesses say explicitly that Teachman did fail to back up his fellow officer.

So what Buttigieg seems to have pawned off as, listen, they're conflicting claims, the only conflict is that the chief of police is the only one who doesn't corroborate everybody else's story. That is the exact same saying Teachman was in the wrong. So if you're wondering, why would Buttigieg back up this police chief in this racially charged situation? Well, let me explain it. In order to do that, I'm going to give you a little bit more context. Buttigieg gets in the office, and the current police chief at the time is South Bend is Darryl Boykins. He's African American, he's the first African American police chief they've had. Then there's a controversy about how some of the cops were taped, their conversations were taped.

And so Boykins didn't do anything wrong there and no one ever charged him, let alone convicted him or anything along those lines. In fact, Buttigieg then demotes Boykins. He first tried to fire him and then demotes him and puts a new police chief in because some of the tapes apparently had a lot of the cops saying racist things. So now already that's a huge problem. Wouldn't you want to know what's in the tapes? Buttigieg has convoluted answers as to why we shouldn't listen to the tapes and why he had to punish not the guys who said the racist things, but the black police chief who revealed those things.

So he's like, oh, the black police chief should not have done those tapes and I'm going to fire him. Oh, I can't fire him, I'm going to demote him. So then he brings in teachment, then teachment in a separate incident will not back up a black cop, who is, they, and let me give you the background on that. The Lieutenant Newton and the police chief, Teachman, are actually having a meeting in this area, coincidentally, and then Teachman goes to the bathroom, according to every witness but Teachman, and Newton, somebody comes up and says to Newton, hey, you're a cop, there's

a problem right outside, and it's a huge group of people that have gathered and there's guns. So Newton rushes out, okay, so far nothing wrong at all. Here's the interesting part, Teachman comes back from the bathroom, and then they tell him, Newton's out there and there's a big crowd and there might be guns, and he doesn't do anything. So you want to give the details of that? And so then, but before you give the details of why Teachment might not have done anything, a Reverend that's on the scene turns in Teachman and says, the police chief didn't back up his fellow officer.

That was really weird. You guys should look into that. Indiana State Police does look into it. Every witness agrees except the police chief that the police chief did not back up the black officer. So now when the mayor gets this, Buttigieg, he could then go, okay, wait a minute, man, I didn't see this coming, why didn't you back him up? Every witness here is against you.

And this is incredibly strange. No, Buttigieg says, no, Tishman didn't do anything wrong. And I won't let the other people see this report. Wow. So if you're wondering why, well, the most obvious answer, now this is my analysis, not Larson's reporting, is he put Tishman in the office and in a particularly controversial way. He doesn't want to then come out and go, yeah, I demoted the black police chief, and when the new guy I put in wouldn't back up a black police officer, ah, you know, it was no big

deal. Yeah, okay, he's embarrassed by it. So that is what it appears to be why he covered up this report. And let's be honest about it. I read the report itself. I read what Buttigieg said about it. And most of it is in the story. We'll put the link down below if you're watching this later. Buttigieg lied. That's he did. What he said is not at all what the report said. And really quick about his, the previous chief of police that he demoted. He, his defense of that when asked about it publicly by a student during a town hall, I think on CNN, he said, well, there's other reports that I can't disclose that say that it's more complicated than that and don't worry about it. So if that's the dynamic, it's kind of like Robert Mueller being like,

oh, I read that thing. It's kind of like Bill Barr saying, I read that thing. Here's all you need to know. Yeah, no, no, it's a lot like William Barr. Back in with the Panama snatch and grab thing where Bar did the same thing 13 years ago. This is the same thing where he's like, oh, in this case, though, Buttigieg just saying, don't worry about another report. I'm not going to talk about this other secret report. You don't have to read the actual report, and I will not release it, even in a redacted version. But trust me, that it validates and exonerates my police chief that I put in.

Yeah, but just really quick the details. Chief Teachman was asked of what he was doing during this. Chief Teachman was asked if he recalled adjusting the floor mats near the front doors while this fight was happening outside, introducing himself to two females, speaking with the females about their church, and then going back and adjusting the floor mats again, as was stated by other witnesses. According to the report, at first, Teachman stated absolutely not to these questions. Then he said, wait a minute, wait a minute, floor mats. Then he said, gosh, was it there that day? He now said that he had a vague memory, but did not think it was there that day. Chief Teachman spent over a minute talking about his record. collection of possibly adjusting floor mats. So, like, talk about, like, readjusting the chairs on the Titanic. While this was happening, it's very clear that that detailed first graphic I just read was everyone else's accounts, saying exactly what he did minute by minute while this was happening outside.

And then Teachman's like, no. And then he realizes how fully fleshed out this question is and goes, maybe I'm mistaken. That's how I read that. God, that's really sad. I mean, because the order cops always talk about. We gotta protect each other, protect our own. And sometimes we even criticize them because they take it too far, right? But here, you got a black officer who might be in trouble right outside and he's inside

the building adjusting the floor mats. So two other parts of this super quick, they then go to internal affairs. And while internal affairs is talking to the black officer, Lieutenant Newton, Hitchman walks in. Yeah, not supposed to do that. No, of course you don't do that. That's like basically saying, hey, you know, you shouldn't testify here, right? And remember, Newton is not the guy who brought the case. It was a Reverend.

Newton didn't have anything do with it. He's like, all right, if you're asking me, yeah, he, he's, that's not exactly what happened, okay? And he's trying to be careful because he knows he could get in trouble if he goes against the police chief. And then the internal affairs guy says to the police chief, you want to sit down and stay with us while we're doing this? That means that's the internal affairs guy telling Newton.

were not, I'm not on your side, I'm on the police chief side. You're gonna be shocked at what happened to Newton afterwards. He got demoted. Yeah. God, right? And so, and by the way, the Indiana State Police are the ones who, it's not like it's some sort of liberal organization, Indiana State Police are the ones that say Teachman's account did not match anyone else's account.

So, and if you're wondering, if somebody asks, why is TYAT investigators doing so many stories about Buttigieg. And this is interesting, and it's an interesting context. So they're doing objective reporting, and then we give you the analysis here. So Jonathan Larson, who's the managing editor, went to South Bend based on a tip that he got about Buttigieg's record. And when he went there, people kept coming up to him like, oh, you're doing a story about Buttigieg and racial issues, hold on, I got more for you.

And people kept coming up, I got more, I got more. Newton hadn't talked about this before. Remember, Jonathan finds the document that Buttigieg wouldn't release. That's what's exclusive about this story, and you should check it out for yourself. Because somebody gave it to him, and that's how this works. They're like, oh, you're willing to report the reality of what happened with Buttigieg, right? And then he goes back to Newton, who's never talked about it before. And Newton's like, yeah, no, I got played.

And I knew I was gonna get played, and that's what they did to me, and it wasn't right. You can see his actual quotes in the article itself. Yeah, I think that the broader dynamic vis-à-vis Boudijedge, I think, is something that happens with a lot of sort of very educated white liberals, especially, in which they tend to believe their own ability to provide solutions to problems that are community problems while ignoring the recommendations of the community itself, right? Like this happened with the police chief that he demoted, the community activist, especially African-American community activists, told him not to do that because he was very popular.

and a very sort of well-respected police chief. And then he brought in a guy from the outside. And then this guy from the outside that he had expended his political capital on probably impressed him in some sort of PowerPoint presentation because these guys love PowerPoint presentation. Once the rubber hit the road in this community that he didn't really understand and he wasn't from, something kind of, some altercation happened. He got spooked, you know, like he just got scared.

And he probably, if he had been from there, he may have known, you know, I can handle a situation, I'm gonna be okay. And then Buttigieg covered up, you know, and this is the, like this dynamic happens again and again, especially when you look at Buttigieg's record, where he just kind of says, like, no, no, no, I know how to handle this. I mean, there's all the issues with housing in South Bend, Indiana, where community activists were like, yo, dude, chill with, you know, raising all these homes. And he's like, no, no, no, but like the charts and the formulas say, I gotta do this,

so, you know, this is right. Yeah, and so I wanna say one last thing about that, because, look, it, you Am I sure that Buttigieg is racist? No, I don't know that at all, right? And so I don't want people to misunderstand what we're saying. He's a young guy who's a young mayor. I also don't want to exonerate him. I don't know his heart or his mind, right?

But he's probably a little inexperienced and he's got all these power players within that town saying, hey, you got to do this, you got to do that, et cetera. And I don't know if he panicked, but there is a little bit of a cover up now in three different stories that Larson has uncovered, right? And so now let's be fair, one of our hosts, and I forget who said it in one of the other stories, said, now imagine if Bernie Sanders, when he was mayor of Burlington, had done several different cover-ups of racially charged issues, what would the national press do with that? They'd be all over it.

I mean, they would have tried and convicted them already, right? So I just want you to note the interesting double standard that the mainstream media has. I look at this and I go, that's a sad situation, and I wonder why he did that, but it's important for you guys to know. They look, they look, they will take any little thing about Bernie Sanders and go, aha, okay, he's got racial problems, right? Who did you change? Oh, actual racial problems.

All these African Americans in South Bend are saying, look here, look here, please look here, right? Make sure when he is like, no, no, not interested. Okay, we broke the story, we had the documents. This is third or fourth one in a row we've broken with documents that nobody's ever seen. Yeah, yeah, right? So who's the one with the agenda? Who's the one with bias?

That's a fair question to ask. Larson's doing real reporting here, and you should read it for yourself and make your own decisions. Okay, we gotta go next hour. We have one of the best stories, it's an amazing story of how billionaires rigged the system. Do they? Do they? I know, it's a big shock. really illustrative of that brook thomas and jordan klepper from comedy central are going to join

us next nando thank you so much for joining us through appreciated and everybody check out happy half hour that spreads show on the network all right we'll be right back thanks for listening to the full episode of the young turks support our work listen ad free access members only bonus content and more by subscribing to apple podcast at apple dot co slash t yt i'm your host jank huger and i'll see you soon