The Young Turks - Tulsi Steps Down - May 22, 2026

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Yasmin O'A. Khan's going to join me in a little bit. But first, we have a T.R.T. exclusive that I'm going to get to in a sec. That's why I'm alone right now. Fun, exciting. Always exciting when we have an exclusive. So, but in the rest of the show, we've got Tulsi Gabbard is out. Does that mean when we start the bombing tomorrow? Also Donald Trump not going to his son's wedding tomorrow because he says he'll be busy.

I don't know, I'm a little worried about all the things that are happening around tomorrow. John Federman's staff leaves and he thinks he's going to be vice president. I don't know which party he thinks he's going to be vice president. So we got a big, big show ahead for you guys, but let me start with the exclusive. So, TYT with an exclusive from the Tom Steyer campaign running for governor in California. So Steyer has announced today that he's got a new office that he is going to launch. It is called the anti-corruption director in the governor's office. And that is very interesting for reasons that I'm going to explain to you guys here.

So what will that director do? What kind of anti-corruption plan does Tom Steyer have? Will it affect this election? So let's discuss it. So number one, so you understand the context of what's happening in California. There is here in this state the same as anywhere else in the country and nationwide. What I call an influence industrial complex. And in California, they have spent a tremendous amount of money.

They've spent $891 million in the last two years. trying to influence politicians. Now, why do you think they're trying to influence politicians? Is it so that you get better health care or better education or less crime? No, it's so that they get whatever they want. That's how this system works. And one of them in particular is big oil, just to give you context for how big one particular industry can be. They've spent $34 million $10 trying to influence elections here in California and not just nationwide, that'd be a big number for a nationwide, but it's here in California alone that they've spent that kind of money. Again, do you think it's for the general welfare, do you think Exxon Mobil and Chevron?

We're like, you know what? You know what? We really want what's best for the people of California. That's why we're giving this money. No, they want what's best for Chevron and Exxon Mobile. And by the way, you shouldn't vote for anyone who's taking money from those guys, which is nearly all the rest of the field, which is going to get to what I'm going to say at the end. But now, let's talk about Steyer's anti-corruption proposals, because once he adds this in,

it gets real interesting. And he has said that he is going to, and this is part of our exclusive, he's going to donate his salary to the anti-corruption initiatives. So Tom Steyer will not be taking a salary. If he's governor of California, he's going to use all of that for the anti-corruption initiatives and then some. So let me lay out with this new piece of news that we have here, what this looks like now, all in all. These are not all of his initiatives, but the major ones that I think are really important.

Number one, we've got anti-corruption director announced today. We'll speculate about who that could be in a second. Then he's got a proposal to ban corporate spending in California. I'm going to come back to that one too because that's super important. And he's got an idea to create a major violations unit. And that's very important. It would actually be very relevant in going after folks. And not only that, he's going to increase funding for the California Department of Justice.

So let me break it down one by one. If you don't have the funding, then it's just empty talk. But he's saying no, not only am I giving my salary, but I'm going to increase the funding to make sure this anti-corruption effort works, that we launch it, and then it is successful. Number two, creating a major violations unit means I'm going to prosecute people if they run afoul of these laws. Now again, in our politicians, this shouldn't be unusual, but it is because lobbyists never get punished, no one that's ever done, corruption ever gets punished.

So if he means it and he actually goes to enforce these laws, well, it'll make a huge difference, especially because of the top two that I mentioned. So why is banning corporate spending so important? Well, a lot of people talk about banning corporate spending, but they never explain how. They never explain how they're gonna get there. So on the national level, you'd have to pretty much do an amendment to get money out of politics. But Stey has come up with a very interesting idea in this regard. He says that he could revoke their charter if they don't do as he commits, and now, of course,

it's gotta go through the regular procedures here. But if it is approved and he would be the governor and he would push for it, well, that would mean that if you do corporate spending in elections in California, you might not be a corporation anymore. If I understand that right, that is amazing. That actually would work and that would be it. You might have gotten money out of politics in California if you do that. On that alone, that is a massive reason to vote for Tom Steyer.

And it certainly affects the way I think about it, which I'll get to in a sec. And then the anti-corruption director, if this office is actually empowered to go after the entire bureaucracy, hey, we in California have given a tremendous amount of money to fight homelessness. Where did it go? Well, maybe we track it and see where it went. We've given a lot of money in ballot measures to fight crime, to fight homelessness, to fight many different things and we never quite know where it went. But if we've got someone honest as the governor and they go, I'm appointing this director and

they are empowered to find out where that money went. They are empowered to find where there's corruption and root it out. Well, that would be a giant difference making. Now the question is how do we know we can trust tired to do this and how do we hold them accountable? Okay, well, there's a couple of different ways. First of all, we could be influential in helping pick the anti-corruption. Now, that's not gonna be up to us, that's gonna be up to him, obviously, but if he's asking for people's votes and he's saying this is really, really important to me, we're not talking

about a little change, we're not talking about change around the edges, we're talking about significant, massive change in getting money out of politics and ending corruption in California. Well, we'd love to chime in on that, and then the entire state should chime in on that. We should all have a conversation about who should it be. I'm happy to nominate someone, probably not going to get my way. But I'll tell you the person who, if you put her in charge, you would definitely clean up California. I mean, you would have a lethal force cleaning up California in its efficiency. That'd be Anna Kasparian.

But I'm totally, totally biased. I get it, okay? But seriously, let's have a conversation about who it should be. Is it Professor Larry Lessig from Harvard Law School, who's the champion and the godfather of getting money out of politics? There's a lot of wonderful progressive groups run by good people in DC and in California who've been dying to get money out of politics nationwide or in California. California's size of the fifth largest economy in the world, it would be cleaning out one of the top five economies on planet Earth if we did this.

So that's a huge part of it. And I'll go a step further here. And so I've seen enough. I was unsure about this race before, but now things have achieved clarity. So given this initiative, this is kind of an easy choice now. I endorse Tom Steyer for governor in California. So guys, Bicera and the others take corporate pack money. Like Bacera is an example, he takes money from the oil companies.

How do I know I could trust him if he takes money from the oil companies? No, no, I'm not giving my vote to anyone who's taking corporate pack money. But so when you eliminate everyone else, Steyer is basically the only choice you have left He's not taking corporate pact money, not taking foreign government money, any of that. Okay, but you have seen some people who have those policies and then not deliver. When he promises something this solid and this real, well, he's going to get judged on it, right? So if he doesn't deliver on this, then people will go, in hindsight, if he wins, well, then I guess he was just another greasy politician, didn't mean a word he said.

And then like all the other politicians, I'll be honest with you, he'll be hated, and including by me. In fact, especially by me, because I'm here telling you that I think you should vote for him. And if I'm wrong about that, well, I want accountability. So who did you appoint to that position? Is it a real position? Did they actually do their job? Because if you doesn't follow through on this, I'm, you know, he doesn't know this, but I'll tell you right now. Yes, we will be all over them.

Because we're not trying to endorse people, at least certainly I can speak for myself. And then turn around, go, I don't worry about it. No, no, no, no, we're gonna worry about this. This needs to get done. But guys, there's array of hope here, because if this does get done, it would be a massive difference and it could be a model for all the other states. So let's go Tom Steyer. So I'm not telling you to give up your autonomy and your judgment to anyone else,

to Steyer or to me or to anyone else. But look into it. See, did he really do the sweeping corruption plan? Do you think he's gonna follow through on it? Does he take corporate pack money? He doesn't. Do the other guys take corporate pack money? They do.

Did the other guys announce anything like this? They have given any intention of doing an anti-corruption plan like this? No. So there is no hope in the other candidates. So Tom Steyer, rightfully or wrongfully, has created hope here in California. And so I say, if he delivers on it, then it'll be rightfully. and then like 80 politician that actually does this will be loved. I don't know why they wouldn't do it.

Now in Steyer's case, especially because you're a billionaire brother, there's no reason not to do it, right? There's no special interest you gotta count out to, you don't owe anybody any money, so let's go, let's do this. So if he doesn't do it, then, you know, as always we'll say, oh, here it is, but we're on the Young Turks, we're about accountability, and so we're gonna have that accountability. But this is exciting because we could clean up the biggest state in the country and have it be a model of anti-corruption. So that is what Tom Steyer is proposing, and he's given away his salary to do it. So let's find out. All of a sudden, California governor's race got very interesting.

All right, guys, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with the ads and the rest of the news. All right, back on TYT. So let's go to our members on t.com. I'm reading these blind. Watchery John says, why does Shop TYT not have a throw the kitchen jank shirt at him? Like throw the kitchen sink? Not bad, not bad.

Maybe we should. We should vote on all these one day. Boomer dragon cat says last birthday post, I promise. But my daughters in the photo are now 40 and 38 years old. And as I joined the senior citizen club yesterday, it's a reminder to enjoy every moment you can goes by too fast. Here, here, Kat. Thanks for sending the picture into the rest of the community. Happy birthdays all around. Love it.

Suspals says anti-corruption director. Might I suggest, Jank Uger? Okay, no, look, brother, any anti-corruption director that's real? Not like, oh, CEO of Exxon Mobil is now the anti-corruption? No, no, no, no. Okay? But, you know, I know people who are going to do a real job. So if it's one of them, fantastic.

If it's not, we'll see. So Apes Together Strong says, hey, Jake, I'm asking this question in good faith. Lately, TYT's been talking about the general in 28. Isn't a bit bold to assume there'll be an election in 28? I've watched you for 11 years and I believe that it's more likely that Trump won't leave the White House until he passes. He'll fabricate an excuse for martial law or something like that. Apes together, strong.

Okay, no, he's lost enough popularity that he can't pull that off. Marjorie Taylor Green was warning about it yesterday. Yes, Marjorie Taylor Green was warning about Donald Trump's fascism. I heard she wouldn't oppose him ever. Okay, but I'm less worried about it because of the revolt. All right, back on TYIT, Jank Huger, Yasmin Aaliyah Khan, star of rebel headquarters, star of a lot of our shows on this network. Great to have you here, yes.

Happy to be here, filling in for John today. So you'll have me for the first hour and the second hour. So we do have a lot to get to that being said. So let's jump right into this next story. We have Tulsi Gabbard. She is out of the Trump administration. So now the big question is why she does actually have a good reason for stepping down, Cenk, what are your two cents here before we get into it?

Okay, is she stepping down today because the war is going to restart tomorrow? Droms. Now we're gonna give you her official explanation for why she's stepping down, but she had claimed earlier to be anti-war. Is this part of that? Let's find out together. Absolutely, so Gabbard is currently serving as President Donald Trump's Director of National intelligence. However, today she made the following announcement. She said, my husband Abraham,

has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. And at this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through his battle. Okay. That is a perfectly good reason for anyone to step down from any job, let alone a very public, very demanding one. And we do hope that her husband does well through his cancer diagnosis. It's very scary. But we gotta talk about Tulsi Gabbard and her stance on things, where she was, what she is today, where she stands.

First, we will note that Tulsi Gabbard is definitely not the first national security official to step down during Trump's second term. So here's a post from Glenn Clippenstein with all of the national security officials who have been appointed by Trump, who have since left office. And that is a pretty extensive list there. And you'll see some familiar names like Dan Bongino and Christy Noah, Mike Waltz, Pam Bondi. All these people have served in this role or with this administration.

Secondly, we should let you know that at least one outlet is pouring some cold water on Gabbard's story. And according to Reuters, a source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House. The White House did not respond immediately to a question on why Gabbert had stepped down. So that's interesting. Her tenure as the DNI has been rocky to say the least at best. And that was, you know, at least in part because the second Trump administration became defined by the same issues that she had once opposed. So, you know, we're about to show you a little bit of hypocrisy here. Starting with Exhibit A from 2020, she posted a t-shirt saying, no war with Iran with the caption, get our troops out of Iraq and Syria now.

Now we are at war with Iran. As I said, you know, she hasn't been as vocally outspoken about the war as she seems to have been in 2020. And exhibit B from 2019, she tweeted this. She said the United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want another country, we don't want other countries to choose our leaders. So we have to stop trying to choose theirs.

And yeah, I don't remember her speaking out a whole lot about what happened in Venezuela during this Trump administration. And speaking of Venezuela, it was reported in January of this year that the White House excluded director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, from months of planning to oust Nicholas Maduro because of her previous oppositions to military action in Venezuela, casting doubt on her willingness to support the operation. The move to cut Gabbard out of the meetings was so well known that some White House aides joked that the acronym of her title, D&I,

stood for do not invite, according to three of the people. And also more recently, when it comes to Iran, Gabbard stated in March that as a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The entrances to the underground facilities that were bombed have been buried and shuttered with cement.

But all of that goes against what Trump and the rest of his administration had been claiming. So that is why we got this very, very awkward exchange. Let's watch. Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? Yes or no? Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president? False.

This is the worldwide threat searing where you present to Congress national intelligence, timely objective and independent of political considerations. You've stated today that the intelligence community, community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated and that, quote, there had been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. Was it the intelligence community's assessment that nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was a quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? Yes or no? It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat.

That's interesting because I would have thought that was at least part of your responsibility. But it has been reported that Gabbard was sidelined from planning all of the Iran war step from the very beginning. So Gabbard was not a significant part of conversations about the Iran war before it began in February. Officials previously told the Wall Street Journal, again, that seems like something that the director of national intelligence should be a part of. And other notable moments of Gabbard's tenure include the time that she showed up at the Fulton County Election Center to investigate election integrity. That was crazy and it also fell way out of scope for her job description. And also she accused the Obama administration of pushing the Russia gate story, despite knowing in her capacity that there was no Russian interference.

Jank, the hypocrisy here is out of control. And, you know, if she's stepping down now because of her husband's illness, which is, again, reasonable, why didn't she step down this whole time whenever the administration was doing everything that she claimed to have opposed? Yeah, so a couple of things here. Has she been relatively terrible on the job so far? Of course, I mean, she said we shouldn't go into Iran or Venezuela. Then she's part of the administration that attacked Iran and Venezuela.

So hard to get worse than that. Then you know, those comical answers oftentimes in front of Congress, intelligence gathering, that's not our job to determine whether they're, you know, have recons to their weapons program, that's not our job. No, that's literally your job, that's exactly your job. So she can say, hey, our jobs to gather intelligence and give a recommendation to the president. Of course, the president makes his own decision. Yeah, that's fair, right?

But don't tell me it's not part of your job to figure out if they still have a nuclear weapons program. That's the whole point of national intelligence. So all the intelligence agencies report to her, so it is definitely part of the job. So look, there's two choices here, guys. One is that she's a sellout and she just wanted to get into power. And so she did everything Trump wanted, including like comical and embarrassing things like going to Fulton County and getting into this election denial business.

Oh, wait, what does election integrity have to do with the director of national intelligence? This is not a national security issue? Wait, is it? Are you talking about the Russians? But you said the Russians didn't interfere to Yaaz's point. So then that's not it. Are you looking into the Israelis and how they fund 94% of our Congress? Of course not, of course not, right?

So she didn't do anything real at all. But if it turns out that behind the scenes, she really was pushing against the war and hence the do not invite acronym, and she stepped down because she knows we're going back into Iran, and she thinks that's a terrible idea and that that restarting the war is imminent, and she stepped down and then speaks out like Joe Kent did, the person that was reporting into her, well, then that changes the entire equation. Because then at that point, you have to say, all right, you know what? The first year and a half was disastrous, but what you do in crunch time matters.

And if that's why she's stepping down, even though we called out that she was a right-winger before anybody else did, we pointed out our hypocrisies before anyone else did, and probably with more enthusiasm than anyone else did. But having said that, if she does the right thing here, that that gets you. you a lot of credibility. But if it turns out, no, her husband's sake, I just don't know if that's why she's leaving. And it's a very serious illness. It sounds like no reason to dispute that. This isn't like John Danforth, who's a UN ambassador to George Bush, George W. Bush, and he was so embarrassed by Bush and Iraq war and all the disasters, and he got tired of making excuses for her. He said,

oh, my wife hurt her ankle, I got to go, right? And left. So if this is one of those, like, I twisted my ankle things, and you never come out and tell us, okay, why you really left, then that's not that interesting. But if she joins the chorus of people saying, no, no, the war is wrong. We know that they're not a threat to American interest. Then that would be an enormous redemption arc for Tulsi Gabbard. But right now, we don't know that. We have no indication of that.

And she's not leaving tomorrow. She's leaving at the end of the month, I believe. So yes, let me kick it back to you. What do you think here? Which way do you think it goes? This is potentially a brave exit here because she's opposed to the restarting the war. Or no, it's just has to do with her own political or personal calculations and she's going to continue to be a disaster. Yeah, if she was doing this because she opposed the war, she would have said that and she has not said that as far as I've seen anywhere.

So I'm really, it feels disingenuous. She really has not done enough to speak out against the actions of this administration since she has been a part of this administration. And, you know, I was never personally much of a fan of Tulsi Gabbards. I never really trusted her. And I don't know, like some people might not actually remember that she initially came out as somewhat progressive, right? That was how she sold herself to the American public. And then she slowly started to get more and more right wing all the way to the point now where she, is working with the Trump administration. And, you know, it was funny also when she turned up in Fulton County because it really did feel at that time that she was being sidelined by the administration because why it seemed like they didn't know what to do with her, so they just sent her over there. But if she really had strong oppositions to everything that was going on with this administration, with everything related to foreign interference, she would have said a lot more than she did, especially on her way out, you know, I guess we can see if she says something after the fact, but that really doesn't help people the way that they think it does.

Maybe it helps them sell books at that point, but, you know, you're not helping the American people if you quietly oppose things, especially when you're in a position where you could potentially have some sort of influence. I don't know how influential someone like Tulsi Gabbard would have actually been within the White House with all those people who would have been opposing her, but she did have some pretty strong oppositions, as we saw in those earlier tweets from 2019 and 2020, to everything that has now happened by the Trump administration, the administration that she is a part of. So if she really felt that strongly about it, wouldn't she have left a long

time ago? And I get it. These things, they take a while to play out. You could feel one way and be like, you know what, let me stick it out. But again, she has not said anything. So even if she does eventually end up saying something, it would come across to me as, cowardly more than strong. Okay, you know. Yeah, so that's something right there. And it's a really good point. So we don't have a poll on this, but wherever you're watching this, leave comments in the

in the comment section, because I'm curious what you guys think. Is Tulsi does she mean it or doesn't she? But one potential way to test that is, if let's say the bombs start dropping tomorrow, and Tulsi comes out at the end of the month when she leaves and goes, yeah, no, I left because of the war, I think the war is a disastrous idea. idea, then I say, okay, count it. It's good enough. She didn't have to say it at that moment as she's leaving. That's my opinion, right? But if she comes out six months later, 18 months later, or right as the presidential campaign is happening again, go, oh, I secretly was against the war,

but I never said anything. No, it most definitely does not count, right? Does that make sense? Is that fair deal? Yeah, I think even with people in my personal life, I'm not that forgiving with them. If they were like three times Trump voters, for example, but now they're starting to feel a certain way. If they haven't come out and told me personally, it doesn't count for anything. Like, I don't believe it, you know? And so I'm harder with people in my personal life. So I'm going to be even more hard on somebody who is actually in the administration and has been complicit in pushing this agenda and helping it be seen forth. Even though she was, you know, sideline quite a bit, it seemed, quite a bit, it seems, right? She's still a part of it. She still is attached

to all of this, to this legacy, that is still something that she decided that she was going to be a part of. And anyone could have seen where this Trump administration was going to go. And I say that because, like, we knew, right? Like, we knew, Jake. And so if we knew, we didn't have any more information than anybody else did, let all, especially not anybody who is already within government within the Trump sphere. So it's like you had to know what you were getting into. Yeah. So, look, I'm definitely more forgiving these days.

of your three-time Trump voter, but you've come to our side or you're actually had principles and are actually anti-war and want the Epstein files released, et cetera. Happy to have you here, brother. So same thing for Tulsi Everett. But by the way, a lot of those guys who are now rebelling against Trump and are angry at him are also angry at Tulsi. But like you said you were anti-war. What the hell is this?

And nothing but pro-war since. So people will be judged by their actions. So either Tulsi speaks out when it matters. And then I will give her a little bit of credit for that. And everybody gets to make up their mind how much credit they want to give or not give to her. But if she waits and then in the next election cycle tells us her secret thoughts that were anti-war, that doesn't count at all. And we could all agree on that.

All right. Yeah. So, I mean, absolutely. I agree with that. It really is less about playing the game of politics to me and just like doing what is right. Like how, why is that so hard to just say and do the things that are right? And I understand that there are games that need to be played and there's finesse with all these things. But, oh my God, like, I just want real people in our government for once.

But speaking of Iran, we're going to move on to our next story. Vice News just spoke to Iranian citizens. And there are a lot of people in American media who are going to be really mad about what they had to say. First, Jank, what are you expecting out of the story? Yeah, so I think a lot of people will be surprised by what they said. And maybe most of all, Iranians who live here in America. So I'm really glad this came out, very interesting revelation. So tell us about it, yes.

Okay, so you're gonna hear a lot of media figures state that Iranians hate Americans because they chant death to America. But one Iranian explained that they're actually referring to the American government, not its people. watch. But the armies are different. The government, the resistance. Excellent. Yes.

That these people, one phrase, we fight, we die, we don't accept promise. Yes. Compromise. Sure. I know. All right. So another Iranian citizen explained how the war was brought, it's brought the country together rather than fractured it.

So they are experiencing more unity. than disunity. Let's see. Do you think people after this world have more sympathy with each other? Yes, yes, of course. And I think they are now more against their enemy. My English is not very good. And your English is very good. I'm trying to get the point to you. Yes. I think they are now more than the enemy and better know that their enemy, what can do, what want to do to us.

I can't say truly that they want to fight, but it's not a good word. You know? We're not going to give up. Yes, yes. Yes, it is a better word to say that. They don't want to give up. They want to defend ourselves, definitely our country, our enemy against them is one of the most. And what do you think is going to happen in the next few days, few months, a few weeks, so

a few weeks? Actually, I can't say anything, but I think if they're going to be a war, the Iranian will not give up and they will defend their country. Okay, so we're going to actually hear a little bit more from that guy right there because like the person that we showed earlier, he's about to kind of echo some of those points and he's going to make the distinction between the American government and the American people. I want a piece too, but the America does not. I think they don't. And they want to, I don't know how to say. They want to. But it's a very unpopular war amongst American young people.

So hopefully if it's unpopular with Iranian young people and unpopular with American young people, hopefully it's not popular with American young people. Of course, I like this too, but the American, not Americans, the American politicians, I can say they, I don't know that they want to peace. Okay, and we're going to end with a clip of Shane Smith, and he's the journalist featured in all of these clips, and he's explaining what it was like for him to interact with the people of Iran. Going to a country that preaches death to America is crazy. Yes.

However, they mean sort of death to the regime, not to the actual people, which is the thing I keep saying, like people are people everywhere in the world. And we get politicized and a lot of propaganda. When you come to a place, there's just people at the end of the day. I feel the same like when you have an isolationist place like Iran, I feel the same way about North Korea. When you see kids in North Korea, they love you, they're kids. And, you know, there's a, at the end of our, at the end of our peace there.

globe chotters are spinning a basketball. And the little kid, their face lights up. And you're like, they're just kids. Now, North Korea, our big enemy, they're just kids. And here, like, when you go around, those kids, we were just at the mosque. They were screaming, not screaming, tant, in the United America. The kids are all coming up, hugging us, buying us tea. Okay, so just keep in mind that everything you just watched,

like, as long as you take a look at how the Iranians have described, President Trump that this exchange happened last month. You've said Iranians would be mad if you stopped in these attacks. But why would they want you to blow up their infrastructure, to cut off their power? Wouldn't that be punishing Iranians for the actions of the regime? They would be willing, and it's suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom. The Iranians have, and we've had numerous intercepts, please keep bombing.

Bombs that are dropping near their homes, please keep bombing. Do it. And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. And when we leave and we're not hitting those areas, they're saying, please come back, come back, come back. These are the people. I don't know what they do. All I can tell you is they want freedom. All right.

So he loves to dehumanize people because that is the politically expedient thing for someone like Donald Trump to do. He is not worried about the people anywhere. He just has a political agenda that he is trying to push. He's probably making money off of his so-called political agenda. And he just has things to do. He's not worried about the people. But, Jank, I do want to get your thoughts on not just what the Iranians had to say, but also what Shane Smith had to say because that really seemed to resonate.

Yeah. So Shane Smith's the founder of Vice, and this is some of his best work. I really appreciate that he went and did this. I think it's really eye-opening for a lot of people. And of course he's absolutely right. Like what is this? People are different in other places like you go to the Iran or North Korea and they have horns or Israel and they have horns?

No, of course not, of course not. We're all human beings, we react in normal ways and a lot of what happens is power dynamics. It has nothing new with people's ethnicity, race, religion or any of that, right? So, like, the other thing that he said that I thought was important for all of you guys to know, and I want to really emphasize this, is that throughout history, there's almost never been a war without propaganda, because people do not want to go voluntarily kill each other or get killed. So the young of Iran are against it, of course, the young of America are against it, of course,

they'd be the ones fighting it. So why would they want to go and kill each other when they don't even dislike each other? Do you dislike a person in Iran right now? Unless you have been brainwashed by mainstream media that there's some sort of demonic creatures that are gonna come and kill you in San Antonio. No, of course not. Why would you bother hating them? Do they hate us?

No, they don't hate us, they hate our government. Why do they hate our government? Because our government keeps attacking them, keeps bombing them. Is that complicated? The Israelis keep insisting that we have to obliterate Iran and that we have to occupy the Palestinians and invade Lebanon, et cetera, and they're saying, no, no, no, we don't want. want you to invade all of your neighbors, including us. Is that some sort of demonic, unreasonable ask?

No, they're saying we don't like America, one, because you've attacked us, but two, because you unilaterally support Israel that is basically oppressing and attacking all of the Middle East, including us. So why would we support your government? Of course, we're not going to support your government that is deeply hostile to ours. On the other hand, they love American genes. The Iranians have loved, like, different parts of our culture for so long, the actual human beings.

Guys, propaganda is absolutely necessary for a war, because normally you would never go do it unless you're a propagandist. Does a war ever help you? Almost never, almost never. Would this war help you and your family? No. If Iran was actually attacking Buffalo and you had to go protect your family and your family and your home, then yes, of course, that makes sense.

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Well, of course you don't want that. So since you don't want that, and almost all the wars are for the people up top, for the powerful people, for the kings, for the popes back in the day, for the presidents now, and for their ego, I'm going to win. Israel's going to get more land. Trump is going to be considered bigger and better, and we're going to have all of the oil and the territory, and we're going to control everything.

But what do we get out of that? That's why we have turned so anti-war in this country as a population, because we are no longer under the oppressive yoke of mainstream media. The propaganda that national media has done in this country forever and ever is disgusting. It is always in favor of the powerful, it is always in favor of war. We don't want it, they don't want it, only the people in power want it. I'm gonna give you one quick story here and then get back to what the Iranian people were saying. Recently read about Morley Safer, so he used to be a legendary CBS reporter back when CBS News was actual news and he was on 60 minutes for decades.

He really got famous during Vietnam War. And one of the things he exposed was, there was a legendary PR person at the Pentagon at the time. He comes to Vietnam and tells all the American press there, okay, now here's what I want you to report. And Safer says, and a couple other reporters at the time say to him, well, we're not going to report that. that's not true. None of what you just said is true. That's from an American perspective. And the PR guy says, yeah, no, that your job is to support your country.

So shut up and report it. And that's how this works. And he then says something amazing. He says, if you came here and thought that the government would tell you the truth, you are stupid. That's a direct quote. And then he repeated it. And he asked, who would be stupid enough? to believe that what the government says is true.

And part of the reason he said that was, yeah, of course we're not telling you the truth, and we don't want you to tell the truth to your readers, to your viewers, because we can't have this war without propaganda. He was just the guy who said it, and he assumed that no other reporters would repeat that, but morely safer did, because he was an actual journalist, and we barely have any of those left now, right? So we've been propagandized here to hate the Iranians. Oh, they're dangerous, evil terrorists, we have to kill them on behalf of Israel. They're about to kill everyone in Israel. All that was giant lies, right? They've been propagandized over

there. But what's interesting is, now back to their points. One, the country's now united. Now what do we tell you? If you attack a country, you bomb a country, they're going to rally around the flag. Of course. So the secular Iranians who are opposed to the more fundamentalist government now in lockstep in defending their home, their land, their families. That is obvious, that is logical. Number two, it's the people versus the government. They feel the same way that we do. It isn't about us.

They don't hate Americans. They just don't like that the government is attacking them. By the way, good news people of Iran, we also don't like that we're attacking you. We don't want to attack you. Every poll shows them. Three quarters of the country is against this. Only the zombies that have been brainwashed by cable news want this war. Cable news is for the rich and the powerful and the lobbyists and the donors and the politicians.

Their job is to do the propaganda to brainwash you. But since a lot of us now are online, that brainwashing is not working well. And finally, as you saw there, they said, we're never going to give up. From all walks of society in Iran, they said, we're never going to surrender. And you saw Trump there saying, they want us to keep bombing. They want us to drop the bombs on their heads. They can't wait. I get letters all the time.

Please bomb my family. Really? You get letters like that all the time? Gee, I wonder who's telling the truth. The guy on the ground in Iran who's willing to die for what he believes? Or the biggest liar anyone has ever seen, Donald J. Trump, saying the most outrageous and stupid lies. Propaganda used to be a little bit more sophisticated.

With Trump, he's just a blunt instrument. He just comes in, they love being bombed, they love being killed for us. They love it, they want us to bomb more. Well, idiot, no one's gonna believe that. And now good news, no one does. The whole world knows that our president is lying. This war is totally senseless, and it's not even for our country, it's for a different country, yes. Back to you.

Yeah, yeah, I love that he clarified that death to America means the American government. And I don't want to put words into that gentleman. mouth, but I'd even venture that maybe by saying the word government, by an extension, he's probably referring to something like American imperialism and American overreach and all these ways that the American government interferes with other countries and other people, even if it's not as directly as bombing their people and their buildings and their historical sites and things like that, and they're just destroying their infrastructure. but also, you know, when we steal their resources from them, or if we do a business deal that makes it more difficult for them to do business, the tariffs even, right?

And a lot of Americans on both sides of the aisle are also very against American imperialism. And I think it's such an important distinction to make the people versus the government because as we know here, even in a democracy, the government is not always representative of the will of the people. The things that the government does is not always what the people want them to do. Even if the people voted for that government, the government can then just, as we've seen, do whatever it is that they want. Everyone should know by now that wars are waged by a few men in adorned offices sitting around making decisions and then deciding to send people off to war. And this stuff is so unpopular that we're even talking about a draft again. You know, like that is crazy that they have to do something like that.

And I used to think that things like protests were kind of fraught, especially in today's political landscape. Because yeah, these days it feels like our government just does not care what the people want anymore. They don't care about approval ratings the way they used to. They don't care about polling the way they used to. They just do whatever they want. But protests at least show the rest of the world that we are not all on board with what our government is doing in our name. We're doing what we can to oppose the government, but we're up against a lot. And it feels like every day they make it harder and harder to oppose them. You know, they take our money. They take away our rights. They say we can't vote. They take our hope, really. That's what they're trying to do.

But we still have to speak out. And we do speak out. And we still protest and we still show solidarity, not just for our fellow Americans or for what's happening across our own cities, but for the people of the world who are victims of American imperialism. And one last thing I want to say is, is that a lot of people love Americans. And admittedly, when we travel abroad, we do not have the best reputation and we need to work on that. I think as a people, we can be better.

But when people come here, they always say that they're pleasantly surprised at how friendly we are. And I don't know what they expect. I think they expect to come over here and we're just like the absolute worst. But I like to think that only the very worst of us is what goes viral on social media.

So maybe that's what they're expecting. But when they come here, we're just like nice people. So that is something. Yeah, well, since we follow everything Israel does, maybe they thought we'd be like the Israelis. But no, we're pleasant people. Don't worry, we won't beat you or humiliate you for no reason. People of America are wonderful, open-hearted people. By the way, so are the people of Iran. And if you don't think so, you're probably brainwashed by the media that you watch, just so that you would hate people so that we can go to war against.

them. All right, we're gonna take a quick break here when we come back, the rest of the news. All right, let's go to YouTube members. Cineologist says, hope you guys get the interviews Steyer one of these days. Good news, we already did. So check that out on, I think on the Young Turks channel, certainly on the conversation. That's on YouTube as well, and of course, on t.com. And I also want to say, look, I talk to him on Then after that I talked to him off air. And so let's hope I'm right. I'm convinced he's the right guy and I think that he might be able to actually make a huge difference.

So let's see what happens. All right, is this Schwarz 76 says, love TYT and other individual news, independent news, drop sites, Zetaio, breaking points, Hassan. We need that in Germany too. We only have right wing or far right social media. Sounds like we got a mock Chanel and get over there, huh? Ninja, Genko writes, and listening to this government is like chewing on a piece of leather. I just like that analogy for some reason.

So thank you for writing in. And I was just going to say real quick. Yeah, so we definitely do independent media. And I appreciate you guys, not just supporting us, but supporting all of independent media. And we'd love to do it in Germany. But soon, because of the dubbing, we might be able to do it in German. So we'll see. Anyways, I'm curious what I sound like in German.

The one and only angel writes in, Jank, you're looking amazingly refreshed today. I love it. Oh, well, thank you. Archie says, hello, I'm late to the party, but I'm already sensing Jank is in a super positive mood. I did. I did start out positive, certainly.

And go paddle canoos. He'll be taking on the oligarch says if he lights a fire, all hell will rain down. Yeah, that's true too, about Steyer. All right, back on Tynti, Jank and Yaz's with you guys, but also Karen Day. Karen Day, welcome to tYt.com membership. Love it. Thank you. I'm going to read one quick super chat. I, Scott, the Scotch says, sending my fifth super chat without acknowledgement,

but that's not why I do it. Keep up to good work, TYT. Also, you're my favorite host, Yasmin. Oh, thank you. So, brother, real quick, want to clarify something for everybody. So we read a lot of your comments, including the super chats during the commercial. breaks, the way you can see that is on the Young Turks member stream on tyt.com. If you're already a member on YouTube, great, just connect your account. It doesn't cost you anything more.

TYT.com slash connect. If you're not a member, tyt.com slash join, and then that way you just get a lot more content, your comments read, including most especially the member comments and interaction during the commercial break. So ty.com slash join. All right, yes, what's next? All right, we're gonna talk about Cuba a little bit. and what Trump has planned for them.

Let's watch. Are you sending that there to intimidate the Cuban government? No, not at all. The Cuba, look, it's a failed country. Everybody knows it. They don't have electricity. They don't have money. They don't have really anything.

They don't have food. And we're going to help them along. And we're going to help them because the people, because number one, I want to help them. I don't want to on a humanitarian basis. But we have the Cuban American population, much of it living in Miami and Florida. That's a great group of people, amazing group of people, industrious, just they're great Americans.

They've wanted this to happen. They want to go back to their country. They want to help their country. I hope they're going to stay here, but they want to go back. They want to invest in their country and, you know, see if they can bring it back. Other presidents have looked at this for 50, 60 years doing something, and it looks like I'll be the one that does it. Yeah, I don't think so. And I hope he doesn't actually go invade Cuba, but even if he does, is he going to really help?

Well, we've got more details on whether they're actually going to invade Cuba. But are we really going to be at war with Cuba and Iran, let alone Venezuela at the same time? Let's find out, yes. Yeah, so what we just watched was Trump saying that he is going to be the president to finally do something to help Cuba. That's what he said, help Cuba. sure, that's what he's going to do. He's going to help Cuba to recover from the results of his actions. We were just talking about American imperialism.

This is what we're talking about. So the issues that Cuba is facing across the island are thanks to Trump's energy blockade, which has caused energy blackouts and food shortages and also a fuel crisis, no big deal. So earlier this week, Marco Rubio weighed in on what the future relationship of Cuba and the United States could look like. Marco Rubio, who is by the way the son of Cuban immigrants, says that the U.S. would prefer to negotiate an agreement with Cuba. And when asked about negotiating an agreement with Cuba, he said, I'm just being honest with

you, you know, the likelihood of that happening, given who we're dealing with right now, is not high. I'm sure his ancestors are thrilled with him. Rubio has doubled down on the threat that Cuba poses as well. On Thursday, Rubio said Cuba poses a serious national security threat to a serious national security threat, America because of its security and intelligence ties with China and Russia and friendly relations with U.S. foes and Latin America. The fact that Cuba is a serious threat to the United States of America is laughable. And I hope people are laughing when they hear something like that

coming out of Marco Rubio's mouth. So China does support Cuba safeguarding its sovereignty, but that possibility continues to just drift away as the Trump administration does not believe they can work with Cuba's government. And in the past few months, top Trump aides, including Rubio, CIA, Chief John Ratcliffe and other national security officials have met with Cuban officials in recent months to explore possible improvements in relations. But the U.S. side has come away unimpressed from those talks, leading to even more sanctions imposed on the Cuban government in the past week.

And when asked whether the U.S. would use force in Cuba to change the island. political system, Marco Rubio repeated that a diplomatic settlement was preferred, but noted that the president always has the option to do whatever it takes to support and protect the national interest. If you say anything is in the national interest, if you create any kind of foe or any kind of opposition and say this is dangerous, then apparently our government has full authority to just do whatever it wants. And by our government, I really just mean Donald Trump, because nobody in our government is opposing this man anyway. So Trump has been threatening military action in Cuba ever since ousting Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. We all remember when that happened.

And the Trump administration is clearly pushing now for a regime change in Cuba. So Trump has ratcheted up talk of regime change in Cuba after pledging to conduct a friendly takeover of the country if its leadership did not open its economy to American investment and kick out U.S. adversaries. I have no idea what a friendly takeover even would be or what that would look like, but it seems it's just a dog whistle. So last week, Axios released a report that Cuba allegedly has acquired more than 300 military drones to potentially attack the United States. And some people are just not buying it, including Benny Johnson. It says that Cuba has acquired 300 military drones and that they plan on on flying them and

potentially hitting the United States of America. Okay. This is, I mean, it's an op. I don't buy this, right? Like, why would Cuba ever consider doing this unless it was a false flag? Unless it's a false flag that's getting set up by our, by the American administration. And that's what I believe that this is. Cuba has discussed striking Florida and Guantanamo Bay.

Cuba can't even, the Cuban dictators can't even keep the electricity on in their home. they don't even have indoor plumbing. They're not going to be striking America, I don't think. Okay, well, don't get too excited because Benny Johnson still ended by supporting and endorsing military action in Cuba. He's always going to support the government. But right-wing media is selling the Trump administration's regime change plan right now. Some of the most vocal regime change advocates have been right-wing Spanish-language media. So on May 19th, August 6th.

Austin Acosta, the co-hosts of Actualaidad Radio's Cata Tarday, argued that if Trump believes he can fix Cuba while leaving the regime in power, the president is either completely wrong or has started to lose his mind. And he went on to say, in Cuba, there is nothing that can be fixed. Absolutely nothing that can be fixed while leaving the dictatorship in power. That is absolutely impossible. There's a lot going on here. We've seen this now in Venezuela.

We're seeing what there was happening in Iran, with Israel. There's a lot of foreign interference for the America first president. He's done a lot of stuff and none of it has really been supported by the American people. And he's just going to do it again because honestly, like he did it in Venezuela and he got away with it, right? Like nothing bad happened to him because of what he did in Venezuela. We're always going to see people from those countries who support somebody like Trump. coming in and overturning their dictator or whoever their leader is, because they're going to say,

you know what, that was a bad guy. We had to get rid of him. And thank you Trump for coming in and getting rid of the guy because we couldn't do it, right? Ultimately, though, the United States does not go in and help another country unless there is a significant reward for the American people. And by American people, I actually mean the government this time. The people, the Trump cronies, the people who are actually going to benefit from this, the corporations, the oil companies, things like that. Jank, what are your thoughts on all this? Yeah, is Cuba a national security threat to us?

You would really, you'd have to be a moron to believe that. I mean, even Benny Johnson, and I don't mean it in terms of intelligence, I just mean, a better lapdog has not been invented yet. So I mean, I don't think that Benny would disagree much, well, certainly he would disagree about that characterization, but disagree much that he says that Trump is right about everything, right, right, he's right, he's right, he's right. Lately he's been fighting Marjorie Taylor Green because she's not sufficiently loyal enough to Donald Trump as opposed to the principles they pretended to have.

So it's not like he's a paragon of like journalism and standing up to the powerful on his side. No, but even he has to roll his eyes. Really, they're going to attack us with 300 drones? Yeah, yeah, they're about to take over. South Beach as we speak. Wow, 300, why would Cuba attack us? Attack us first? Come on, come on, nobody's that stupid. Like, I don't think there's a single person in the country that's stupid. Well, maybe I'm wrong. Are they really Trump followers who are like, oh yeah, man, I think Cuba's about take over Albany. We got, we got to go get him. I got family in Albany. Come on, man.

I mean, these lies are so preposterous, so over the top. And we're gonna attack Cuba in the middle of this war with Iran. There's an old Turkish saying, a sunk fish swim sideways. I don't tell you what that means. No, I do. If this fish has gone to the bottom of the ocean, it's already sung, it's just going to float sideways. It's just going to keep going in the direction that it was going. So we're like, okay, Venezuela.

Oh, I'm anti-war. I demand peace prizes. Bomb Venezuela. Obama, Iran. By the way, bomb seven other countries we never even talk about. Bomb Cuba, in vain them, take over. What is this? But the problem is he's sinking our fish. It's not like this only affects Trump. Yeah, by the end, he'll be a laughing stock. And I think that he'll probably be driven from office. He'll be so unpopular. What kind of guy says he's anti-war and this starts an endless string of nonsensical wars. Like we had nothing better to do. Our kids were

so well fed and so well educated and we all have universal health care, we don't have to worry about it, that we got to go invade Cuba so that a bunch of rich Cubans in Miami could be happy about it. And to the point that he has made, the diaspora in this country and all across the world are different than the people who live in that country. So my pharmacist is Iranian. I went there the other day before he would even give me anything. He gave me a lecture about how bad the Iranian regime is. Brother, I know how bad the Iranian regime is. That's not the question. The question is, are you going to help them or hurt them by attacking them? They're going to rally around the flag. The regime is going to get stronger, not weaker, and you don't

fix anything by bombing people. But that brother hasn't been back to Iran, as he told me, for 30 years. So he wants to be able to go back. And he's totally disconnected from the people on the ground. I say that as context because in our politics, the second most powerful ethnic group are the Cuban Americans. And they are constantly demanding war. My whole lifetime, they'd be like, you have to go to war for us. We had casinos back there. We had land. We had so much money. I want my money back. I want my casinos back. I want all my wealth and power back. But brother, that stuff was like half a century ago, man. Get off our ass with what you want and all your, the money, money, money that you want from Cuba.

The people that live in Cuba now, they're not worried about casinos. The lights are literally this point because we're starving them. We block their oil, which affects food and everything else. They only have electricity for two hours a day. That's it. You think those guys who are starving are gonna come attack us? Or that there's some sort of threat to us? Or we gotta bomb them?

No, that's absolutely insane. Last thing is, yes, does Congress even exist anymore? Congress is supposed to declare wars, not the president. But they just sit there and they're like, oh, okay, oh, the top nasty laws, we worship you Donald Trump. Those are the Republicans losers. And then the Democrats are like, oh, we are theoretically against war. Did the check clear from A-PAC?

Yeah, oh, we will vote on it later. Oh, our vote doesn't matter, we vote no. So nobody's even fighting against. Like we've got this idiot monster declaring war all across the world and there's almost no opposition. There's like two guys opposing Massey who just lost and Rokana. So we've got one guy in Congress trying to end this war. Massey's still gonna be around for seven months, so two guys. And that looks like that's about it.

I know Bernie tries and a couple other guys try. But overall, the opposition here against Trump is pathetically weak. It's dangerously weak, I would say. This kind of goes back to the earlier story where we were talking about the perception of the American government versus people. And it's very hard to be like, we're fighting against this as hard as we can when our actual representatives and government are doing very, very little, if anything, to actually oppose the actions of this administration and this president, right?

It's terrible. And as I said earlier, the longer we let this go on, the more things are you. become normalized, the more terrible precedents are set. We're in the middle of a mid-decade redistricting campaign right now. And it's like, have people remember that this is very not normal and we cannot let this continue? This never should have happened in the first place, but we don't have a functioning Congress right now.

And the thing that we're seeing with this particular administration that is so baffling and jarring is that the lies are so stupid coming out of this administration that I'm honestly kind of impressed that they still bother to lie at all. You know, like back in the day, for example, if a government wanted to do something terrible, like, you know, invade Iraq because a bunch of Saudis attacked us, right? For example, they would at least try to like craft a decent narrative. They used to wait for an inciting incident. Now we just get, oh, you know, the fishermen are drug trafficking, so we have to go take

out Maduro. They do the polling and shows that the move is unpopular. They just do it anyway. narrative doesn't work and they just do what they want anyway. It's almost like they just run the narrative as just like an obligation, right? Just because we have to say something to the people. So we'll just tell them this. I really don't know why at this point anybody would listen to anything that comes out of this particular administration.

We know that they lie to us all the time. We know that they do whatever they want to do. We know that by the time they're talking to us at all, they've already done so many things, right? He didn't ask the American people if we wanted the East Wing to be destroyed. He just did it. And once it's done, you can't undo that. Your only option is to rebuild and he's going to rebuild it the way he wants to rebuild it. And we don't have any say in what happens to the White House.

So this government is, it really is frustrating and it is becoming very difficult to oppose them. But we have to keep trying. We have to do something. We have to vote out the people that we can put better people in there and hopefully we get a better Congress in the midterms, but you know, it is very sad. And a lot of the things that have been entrenched with this administration are going to be very, very difficult to undo in the future. But that will be our task going forward.

Yep, all right, when we return, is Lauren Boebert going to bend the knee now that Tom Massey has lost or is she going to keep fighting back? And are Republicans going to bend the need to that insane slush fund that Trump is trying is trying to set up or are they going to fight back? Some surprising answers when we return. What contributions to the progressive cause are you most proud of? I mean, I don't have super high aspirations for a singular role that I can play in the movement or anything. I just, I try to present myself as what I think that I am, which is a progressive man who is driven by a, I think, well interrogated and well organized system of values.

I try to stay consistent on and I demonstrate that that's the sort of life that a person can leave and be successful and be happy and all of that. And that should not need to be done, but there are so many people on the right that are trying to push men in the opposite direction that I want to be able to do that. Along the way, if I can get people to care about some topics that they wouldn't necessarily care about or that for some men, they might think that's not a topic that they should be focused on, that's definitely something that I relish doing. And along the way, I mean, we've been able to introduce people to a lot of candidates. That's been a big part of what we've done.

You know, not all of them necessarily got in office. Probably most of them did not. And a lot of them, you might not even remember their names. But it was great to be able to provide people the platform where they had the chance of, you know, making a difference. Obviously, AOC and all that. But there's been a lot of great people along the way. In the bonus episode for the members, we do some inside baseball. We're going to look at John's desk.

Nice little spaceship here. Nerd. But it is kind of look cool. Who has Legos? Oh, no. He's taking apart a keyboard. Who has a mouse pad that's this big? He's got a dog with a nose that you can hang something like.

You know what this desk screams to me? Nerd. And that's how we like him. We love Johnny Five. He's got his own personality like everybody does at TYT. Come meet us all in the bonus episodes. TYT.com slash team. David Soror.

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not really question what you're doing. Voters have a right to ask questions of any nominee, whether they're independent, Republican, or Democrat. The system is monopoly that suppresses competition. How is it the year 2024? And we're still like maybe they'll talk about pain medical. How are we? How is that like at one level it's like, good, what we're talking about it now.

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All right, yes, what's next? All right, even Republicans, Jank, are furious over Trump's slush fund. And just for context real quick, The Trump administration is attempting to establish a taxpayer subsidized slush fund for Trump-aligned groups who had allegedly been wronged by the Biden DOJ. And you know, Jank, he's trying to like give money to his pardon January 6th insurrectionists. What are your two cents? This is one of the most corrupt acts I have ever seen in covering politics for over a quarter

century. It is outrageous, we'll tell you why it's outrageous, but then get a load of this. Are the Republicans fighting back against this? Interesting, let's find out. Yes. I mean, like, what do we keep telling black people that reparations are too much of a logistical difficulty? So, like, just give it up. But instead, we have this fund. And the fund was admittedly met with instant condemnation from Democrats, but also now, even from some Republicans. So retiring cop representative Tom Tillis addressed the fund in an interview with Politico where he said this. He said, I don't have any interest in seeing that money go over.

It's an embarrassment to think that Republicans came up with this idea. And when asked if there is anything Congress could do, Tilla suggested that they just nuke it, just get rid of it, forget about it. Todd Blanche has not ruled out any, the inclusion of the January 6 rioters being able to benefit from this fund. And when asked if this would affect attorney general nominees, Tom Tillis said it will absolutely go into the mix as will some of the prosecutions that have moved forward.

A number of other things will go into the mix in my consideration for whether or not an AG gets confirmed. So suggesting here that if such a fund move forward that it could be used against targets of the Trump administration, this is crazy. But there is trouble on the horizon for the future of the proposal as two Capitol police officers are now suing President Trump over this whole thing.

And the Washington Post reported this. They said two police officers who defended the Capitol against a pro-Trump mob on January 6th, 2021 sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to try to block the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund that they say will be used to reward the rioters and right wing militia groups. The officers in question are Daniel Hodges and Harry Dunn, who were working at the Capitol when a mob of insurrectionists moored by a Donald Trump attacked the capital in an effort to intimidate Congress, of course, from certifying the 2020 election results. And they did ultimately name Joe Biden as president. I cannot believe that that was five years ago, 2021.

It is wild that we have been dealing with this for this long. So Trump would later, of course, he'd be pardoned all of those people who participated in the riots in his name when he returned to office to fulfill his second term in 2025. Now I guess they're all ICE agents, but Dunn and Hodges, their lawsuit names Trump, Attorney General Todd Blanche and also Treasury Secretary Scott Besant as defendants. And also it alleges that the Trump administration has created a slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name. And the suit contends the administration has exceeded its statutory authority by creating the fund without the authorization of Congress. And this is a sentiment that is likely shared by many Americans and legal scholars

who question the fund's constitutionality because this is crazy. None of that matters, though, because acting attorney Todd Blant, Attorney General Todd Blanche, he had this to say. But wouldn't the average taxpayer respond and say, okay, but why is that now my problem? Why do my tax dollars now need to go to people who are upset? about their involvement in investigations? Well, if you're just upset, you're not getting it done. On the other hand, I think if you said to the American taxpayer

that there is a horrible wrong committed by your government, and now you can apply, and you can have your lawyer's fees back, you can be compensated for what you lost financially, what American would say, oh my gosh, that's terrible? I mean, I very much disagree with the idea that the American taxpayer is indignant about the fact that a victim of weaponization, a victim of weaponization, Okay, a victim who suffered, whether it was legal fees, lost a job, had their life turned upside down in a way that was not appropriate.

If it was appropriate, there should be no compensation. And that's why we have five commissioners who will take a look at it. But I do not think the American people have issues with that. To the contrary, I think they do want their tax dollars spent on things like that. Why don't you just pull us? Why don't you just ask us how we feel about this? Oh, it doesn't matter because you're just going to do whatever you want with our money anyway, because that's what they do. Don't even bother asking us.

The idea that the American people are in support of this is insane, especially considering that Trump is polling about as low as any president could possibly be polling, right? He's at less than 30% approval rating right now. That 30% is almost a given. Like any president, the worst person in history would have that much approval, and that's where Trump is at. Even Fox News is reporting on this. They said since April, approval has declined among some people.

of his key constituencies, such as rural white people, negative six points, white men without a degree, down five points, and Republicans, just overall, down three points. Also, Trump's approval is at all-time lows among Republicans at 80%, non-Maga Republicans, 54% white people, 43% and rural voters, 43%. 43% with rural voters is bad. And the reason for these numbers is, is, is, you know, There's a lot of different reasons for them, but I think it's safe to say that any claims of support for this fund are tenuous to say the least, and probably just lying. They know that the American people are not happy about more of their tax dollars going to anything that is not making the country actually great again, whatever that means.

But Trump did take to truth social to address the growing opposition to this fund, so they're aware that there's opposition, but here's what he had to say. He said I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced anti-weaponization fund to go forward. I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my tax returns and the equally illegal break-in of Mar-a-Lago for an absolute fortune. Instead, I am helping others who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized, binded administration receive at long last justice. Oh my God, he's so benevolent. And Jenk, what are your thoughts on all this? Because I'm sure there are lots.

Yeah, I actually have shocking breaking news from Ted Cruz in a second. But before I get there, so I just wanted to mention something that Yaz just told you guys. Guys, for Trump to be at 43% with rural voters, 43% with white voters, wow, he's already lost 20% of MAGA and nearly half of non-Maga Republicans. I can't begin to describe to you how unusual that is and how disastrous that is for him. So people said that no one would break from him, that he was a cult. He's already lost half of non-Maga Republicans. They're gone.

The economy's terrible, the inflation is terrible, Iran war is terrible, and in the midst of all this, he's like, oh, I'm gonna do ballrooms like he's the new Liberacee. And I'm gonna do slush funds for me and my allies and people who do violence on my behalf. Okay, that leads to the shocking Ted Cruz breaking news story. Not only are Tom Tillison, Bill Cassidy against this, but they're departing Republican senators. It makes it a little bit easier. But Ted Cruz just said that according to him in a morning meeting that the Republican senators had with Todd Blanche, the attorney general would just show to you guys acting attorney gentleman, Cruz said, quote, there were fireworks at an epic level. And I got to say it was

one of the roughest meetings that I've seen in my entire time in the Senate. There were a lot of Republican senators who were just pissed. So now, why are the Republicans so mad? Normally, the Republican senators do exactly as Donald Trump orders them to do, and there's no fight back. There's no fight back against his attorney general. Well, because they're seeing the same numbers that I just quoted you guys. And they're seeing numbers for their reelection efforts, and it doesn't look good.

So they're now finally worrying about what, you know, people have been saying for, you know, the entire time that Trump has been president in his first term and his second term. Well, what if Trump drags down the entire Republican Party with him? Well, it didn't happen, it didn't happen, it didn't happen, and they were starting to get complacent. Now that they're seeing their reelection poll in numbers, they're seeing how weak Trump is with Republican voters, let alone, independence that are long gone. And obviously, none of the Democrats. So they're in a world of trouble, and that's why they're beginning to fight back.

against this. Now, their fight back, if it's genuine, was going to be difficult anyway. Why is it going to be difficult? Because this isn't a law. If it was a law, then Congress just votes, no, and we're done with it. No, he sued his own government, and his own government is giving him a legal settlement because the courts were about to throw this out. It's junk, it's ridiculous, right? And they were being careful in how they were going to throw it out. But on May 30th, there was going to be another hearing, and it was very likely going to get tossed. So Trump's government says to Trump, oh, before this court, this case, which is absolute nonsense, gets thrown out, we agree with you, Donald Trump, and we'd like to give you $1.776 billion. And he says, well, it's not going to me, it's going to all my allies.

Well, who is it going to? The reason it's so outrageous is because all the recipients will be anonymous and the amounts will be anonymous. Now, forget the politicians. If you're just a regular Republican voter, let alone independent, imagine if Joe Biden had said, yeah, I'm setting up a $1.8 billion slush fund and no one gets the vote on it. I sued myself and myself said I should get the $1.8 billion. Don't worry, it's not going to me.

It's just going to go to Hunter Biden and every other ally that I have. And oh, can I pay them? Well, you can't find out. It's anonymous. And of the 1.8, how much did I give to Hunter Biden? Hunter? You can't find out because it's anonymous. Would you accept that? Of course not. Nobody would accept that. And you shouldn't accept it now. If the Republican senators are genuine, it will be shocking as if they actually do something to end this, that would be stunning. Like, I've never

seen them actually rebel against Trump in a thing that matters. And they do have some things at their disposal, the lawsuit is helpful because the courts can then knock it down as potentially being illegal or unconstitutional. But in Congress, they could block nominees, they could actively propose a bill saying it's not legal, and we won't allow it. Now they'd have to get past a Trump veto. But what's your take here? Is there any chance the Republicans will join the Democrats in fighting against this? Or are they just blown off steam, but they're way too weak and cowardly to actually fight back? I, you know what's crazy about this? Is that? I felt myself get a little excited, you know, which is it doesn't happen very often these days,

at least not pertaining to anything going on with our government. When I heard that there was actual Republican opposition, that they were speaking out against it, because that is more than we ever get from them, it seems. And like it's sad that they just are like, you know, spoon feeding us 80, 80 bits of something and we're like, we'll take it because it's better than nothing. This is really an unacceptable amount of accountability that we're seeing from our government. The people in Congress, regardless of what your party is, you're supposed to be able to criticize the government. The whole point of having Congress as a third branch of government as an equal part, right?

It's an equal part as equal to the executive. They're supposed to be there to put a check and a balance on the executive and they have just not been doing it. So really, our government in that way is kind of defunct because it is just not acting and behaving the way that it's supposed to. And these congresspeople, even though they're speaking out now and I'm grateful that they are, we'll see if they actually follow through on what they're saying. But it's really hard to take them seriously because they continuously downplay the affordability crisis. They tell us that we're happy to pay more money for gas because it means that whatever is going on in Iran isn't going to be happening anymore. They can see the numbers.

They know that nobody is supporting the war in Iran. Nobody's buying their narrative. but they tell us that we're okay with this, right? They think that they can tell us what we are okay with them spending our money on. And if they just tell us enough times, and maybe it'll be true. But they know there's opposition to all these things. The opposition is loud. If you don't hear it, it's because you're intentionally just covering your ears and shutting your eyes.

I guess it is out there. We don't want to fund his ballroom. We told him that. We don't want to fund this war. We told him that we didn't want to pay his tariffs. We told him that we didn't want to build his wall. We don't want to pay his legal fees. We don't want him to sue the IRS or whatever he's suing.

We do not want to contribute to this slush fund. And it is very obvious that the American people do not want to. And whatever Todd Blanche has to say about it, I don't care about Todd Blanche. It's just not true. But this is why the United States has fallen so far in the eyes of the world. This insurrection happened. I cannot believe it five years ago. And ultimately we have no justice.

Like there was a lot of stuff that was done, but what did we do? We reelected that guy anyway, right? The guy who incited the insurrection in the first place, we put him back in office. And so of course, he freed all of his people, made them all ice agents. Now he wants to give them money for their inconvenience. Despite what Trump keeps trying to convince people of, the fact that it took so long to litigate that insurrection was bad. We have fallen.

We are no longer respected in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, global realm of politics because of Trump, because we reelected him and we allowed him to do all that, we look bad by association, okay? Like it's not good. These congresspeople need to do something. They have not done a whole lot up to this point. It sounds like this might be the final straw, I don't know, but I feel like we've had moments like this before where I thought this will be the final straw and then it wasn't.

Yep. So I'm certainly not gonna say it's the final straw. And I'm certainly not gonna say that the Republicans are actually going to fight back and actually do anything. But the fact that they are willing to voice their great discontent to Trump's acting attorney general means they've seen the polling numbers and it doesn't look good. So the Republicans might be in much bigger trouble than we realize. And that's a good day in America.

All right, when we come back, which way is Lauren Bobard going? So now that she's seen what happened to Massey, who voted to release the Epstein files, Bobbard also voted to release to Epstein files. Is she going to now count out of Trump and Israel, or is she going to boldly fight back? This episode is brought to you by FedEx. These days, the power move isn't having a big metallic credit card to drop on the check at a corporate launch. The real power move is leveling up your business with FedEx intelligence. and accessing one of the biggest data networks powered by one of the biggest delivery networks.

Level up your business with FedEx, the new power move. We'll find out when we come back. All right, let's go to Super Chat first this time. Make it make sense as what draft? Jazz, you can't just say that and walk past it without explanation. Is there something we need to be aware of other than registration? Yeah, no, no, they're having you register and Ed Gowryne, the guy who beat Mass. in Kentucky, the Israeli.

Now they're calling the people were calling Ted Kus Tel Aviv Ted. Now they're calling Galrine Tel Aviv Ed. Anyway, he said, yeah, yeah, we might need a draft. You know, we gotta register people so that if we need a draft, we can do it much quicker. And if Tel Aviv Ed is telling you that, he might know something you don't know about what the Israelis are planning since he works for them. Nani Dragon writes and, Jank, when can I start a book club forum on TYT, I think it's important to share literature on topics about the world

that we never understood because of mainstream media. We kind of had one back in the old Friday bonus episodes. But go on tyat.com, you don't need us to do it at all. The communities there, and my guess is they'd love to do something along those lines. They might have one on our Discord channel too, I'm not positive. Samir Farsain writes, and Jake Trump already told you that his approval ratings at 99% in another country. Why are you so upset? Get your own American president, damn it.

He did say that about Israel. And he's like, I bet I could be there Israeli prime minister. me included, everyone online was like, go, go now. Hey, please, leave. And besides which you're already there, leader, or no sense. Ricky Rage Dorazio writes, so no one would ever believe that people would ask an opposing country to keep bombing them. Trump is so stupid that he thinks people would believe that.

Well, he got them to believe a lot of dumb things, so, yeah. Loves 24 says, TYT is the only channel I can trust. Just unsubbed from anyone that says they're on the left, yet did not mention Israel money in the Massey race. Is there anyone on the left who didn't mention Israel? Really? That's outrageous. All right, back on T.Y.T. Jenkins and he has with you guys? More news.

More news. Our old friend Lauren Bobert is up to stuff again. So let's check in with her. Lauren Bobert is working overtime right now to not be Trump's next target after what happened to Massey. Bobert famously endorsed her colleague, Thomas Massey, who Trump had been feuding with over Massey's obvious objections to the war in Iran, as well as his continued call to release the Epstein files. Jenk, what do you think she'll do next? I can't wait to find out. Okay, so I don't want to ruin the surprise for you guys. Let's find out if she's fighting back or she's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm good, I'm good. Trump, Israel, what do you need?

Okay, well, her support of Thomas Massey was it had helped to be. emboldened Trump to call for her to be primaried, something that cannot be done considering Bobert is running unopposed and the deadline to file has long since passed. So like that's not, that's a non-starter. But Bobert offered a tepid response to Trump's call for her ousting, saying she knew the risks when it came to supporting Thomas Massey. Massey obviously went on to lose his reelection efforts, as you all know, when his campaign was massively outspent by by tens of millions of dollars by APAC aligned sources to elect now Ed Gowleran. And Bobert addressed the defeat by posting this to X.

She said, yes, I saw the president's post. No, I'm not mad or offended. I knew the risks when I agreed to stand by my friend Thomas Massey. I was and will be America first, America always, and MAGA onward. So she kind of said a little bit of both, right? She's trying to play both sides a little bit. So the president who called for her to be primaried is still her president. And it's just like, it's interesting how she's trying to reconcile these two sides of her.

In an appearance on News Nation, Bober did expand on the Massey race. So let's watch that. Of course I am sad that Thomas Massey lost his reelection. This was the most expensive primary race that we have ever seen. This was historical. Not only was America watching, but the world was watching. And it was certainly unfortunate for him to lose. But I stand by everything that I did in this race.

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really big on care. Find an agent today at Dejardin.com slash business coverage. Okay, so Warren Bobert is a very interesting figure. She kind of has always been. Now, despite being an avowed maga loyalist, Bobert has broken with Trump in the past. And, you know, this is over water legislation in her state. And most famously when she was one of only four Republicans who voted along with Massey and Rokana to petition the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Her recent endorsement of Massey was the latest rebuke that she she made against the president. And yet she still found time to say this. Thomas Massey's race with this closed primary, the president certainly deserves.

his victory because he clearly won with his message to the Republican voters in that district. Okay, so Massey is a Republican, just like Warren Bobert is. Yet in her summation of Massey's race, there was no mention of A-PAC or direct criticism of Donald Trump. Now compare that to Democratic Congressman Roe-Connor, and here's what he had to say about Massey's race. You think they ousted Mr. Massey because he was leading on the Epstein files? They asked him because he was leading on the Epstein files and because he was leading the push against the war in Iran and because he was leading the push saying we can't give another dollar to Israel while it's violating human rights. I think you need another Republican partner to push forward if this goes to next Congress. Well, Thomas is still here for seven months. I wouldn't underestimate him. Look, we're going to do a lot of things in these next seven months to hold the Epstein class accountable to stop these foreign wars.

But there were voters under 45 who voted for Thomas at over 30. Let me tell you something. These young voters, they're done with the old guard. They're done with lectures about how AI is going to be good. They're done with people who want to just give money to foreign wars. And we welcome them in a new populist Democratic Party, a Democratic Party that's going to say we're done with the establishment. We're a party that's against the Epstein class.

We're a party that's for taxing billionaires. We're a party that is against foreign wars. We're a party that doesn't want more aid going to Israel that wants jobs programs here. This is going to be the movement that helps build a majority in this country. And people have had it with the establishment of both parties. Absolutely, people have had it with the establishment in both parties. I'm a millennial and I feel this so deeply in my heart, in my soul. So, you know, we heard the distinction between Bobert's response and Roe Conner's response.

The likelihood of Lauren Boebert now going full Marjorie Taylor Green and breaking with Donald Trump and even fighting with him publicly, it looks a little slim, right? That's not going to happen anytime soon. But given the fact that Trump effectively did scout Massey, as well as Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy, whom he also endorsed against, you can understand, I guess, that Bobert is a little hesitant to outwardly condemn her president, right? She still called him her president. There's a lot going on here.

It is infuriating to see what's happening when so much money can come in from outside sources and influence our elections. This is like obvious election interference. And we're all just letting it happen. And by we all, I mean, like our people, our representatives and government who are doing nothing about this. The most we have now is just like Ro Khanna out there fighting for his life and just speaking out against Donald Trump. But he's, you know, he's already a Democrat. So he can't be attacked that way by Donald Trump.

But we are seeing there is a little bit of silver lining here. The fact that it took so much money to get Thomas Massey out, that is encouraging those poll numbers from the previous. story, very encouraging. It says a lot. What is frustrating to me, and this is something that Roe Cona just touched on, is like the fact that they clearly have an agenda that they're trying to push on the American people, whether that's the war in Iran, whether that's the slush fund or the ballroom or AI even. They say, we're going to do this. And in order to get buy-in from the American people, their plan is just to just tell us what we're supposed to think. And when we say, no, that's not what I I think, that's not how I feel.

They just say, no, no, no, but this is really what you think, right? AI is not that bad, it's not gonna be so bad. Like whatever your concerns are, don't worry about it because here is what we want you to think. And maybe that's our fault for letting them think that they could just tell us what to think, but we need to stop doing that. What are your thoughts, Jenk? Yeah, so look, I might have a surprising thought on Bobard here, but first, I mean, Rose's answer was picture perfect.

That's exactly right. And so now it's easy to say, well, he's not. He's Democrats so he can do that, but well, why aren't other Democrats doing that? Did we see any other Democrat talking about how young people were for Massey and Massey wanted to release that Epstein files and did along with Roe? And he was against the war against Israel's efforts and on those issues, out of boy. No, I didn't see any other Democrat doing it. And then has Roe kind of been attacked recently by Trump for doing that, even though he's not

a Republican. Yeah, of course. Trump did, did a couple of true social posts about him last week ripping into him and how dare he and all this stuff. Good, good. That means you're getting in his grill and you're bothering him. And Roe doesn't do it with a lot of theatrics. He does it with actual policy and passing bills by getting the absent files released. So that's great. So he's on Democratic side. Now go over to Boehird and the Republican side. So I'm gonna say I think that it was actually relatively well played by Boebert. I get it. Now I want to be clear about the difference between politics and policy. So in terms of policy, she didn't call out A-PAC at all. She didn't talk about how Israel helped to buy that election, spent $16 million

against Massey. So I don't agree with that at all, of course. I think that Israel did buy that seat, and I think it's super obvious. Right now, the media going around going, oh, no, the $16 million had nothing to do with it. Oh, you cannot say it was Israel. It was Trump, it was Trump, It wasn't Israel, it wasn't Israel, please don't look at Israel, please don't. What are you weirdos, you fricking, propagandists posing as reporters? Was the 16 million relevant in that race in the 4th District of Kentucky? Of course, of course, it was massively relevant. So I don't agree with her avoiding that issue.

And do I agree with her on Trump and now he's her? No, of course that. But in terms of politics, she's saying, look, I'm sticking with my friend Tom Massey, who I back. and I thought he had a great race. She didn't have to do that. She could have been done full cowtowing. I'm so sorry, of course, Trump is the greatest, right? She didn't do that.

I'll give her a little bit of credit for that. Now, at the same time, you know, she agrees with Trump, you know, an overwhelming majority of the time, over 90% of the time. So she's not on our side. So she's saying, yeah, I'm still with Trump on all this. And plus, you know, she doesn't want to get, you know, attacked even more by Trump. So she's trying to backpedal out of the room. I get it.

And then I like how she said in the middle of her tweet, if you notice the first thing that he has showed you. You know, my friend is great. Trump is my president. Jesus is Lord. Wait, how didn't Jesus get into this picture? Because she's like, now don't hate me, don't hate me, Jesus is my Lord. But fine, that works with her constituents.

So I get why she's trying to straddle the line without being an absolute coward and great traveling to Trump while at the same time not trying to dig deeper in deeper because the two people who dug in deep were Tom Massey and he just lost that race. Yeah, of course, because of the Israeli lobby, but also because Trump came out against them and Hagsith and J.D. Vance and all of them campaigned against them. And then it was 55, 45, 45%. He still got 45% of the vote, which is huge for that district where Trump won by, I think, by 30, if I'm not mistaken.

And still to have that kind of push back against Trump, but at the end of the day, those two things did him in. And then of course, other person who fought back against Trump was Marjorie Taylor Green, and she left. So I get why Bobert played it this way. I'm not going to catch too many feelings over it, but certainly not also a hero's path either. Don't get me wrong, right? Marjorie Taylor Green, now she left, but she's spitting fire on social media saying Massey

was right, this was all about Israel, Trump is totally wrong, and what are we doing with the ballroom and the slush fund and all this is nonsense. So she hasn't gone full Marjorie Taylor Green yet. She's trying to thread the needle here. One more thing he has, I loved Massey's line when he was conceding on Tuesday, where he did, he conceded, he called Ed Gow Ryan and said, you won, I lost, and good luck with the job. But he did throw in a little jab there where he said, well, I did have a little bit of trouble getting through to him since he's in Tel Aviv.

So I like that little snipe. Yeah. And, you know, like speaking of Massey's race as well, I think it's important to remember, like, as you kind of pointed out, he still performed incredibly well in that race. Again, considering the fact that tens of thousands of outside dollars were thrown at his race. And this is also just like a statewide congressional election for the House. Like usually like these races do not cost this much money, right? Like they barely cost a million dollars sometimes. You know, there was what, $35, $40 million put into this race.

It is incredible. And also the fact that he closed that Trump margin by so much, right? He lost by 10 points, I think it was. And I mean, that's incredible because that is definitely a lot less than what Trump won. district by. So there is some hope to be found there. Also the fact that a lot of these Trump endorsements, those candidates are not going as far as they used to. There is a world or there is about to be a world after Donald Trump. There's going to be a Republican party after Donald Trump. We're going to have to see what that looks like, but it makes sense that people like

Lauren Boebert are trying to kind of toe that line, you know, find where they can still be relevant in Congress still standing up somewhat for what they believe in. I feel like she could do more. I want her to do more, but I'm not disappointed because I have very low expectations. But they are trying to figure out how can they stay relevant while also not alienating themselves from the existing party as it is. Because even once Trump is gone, that Trumpism, that magnetness is still going to be lingering in a Republican party and in our country for a long time.

So that is something we're gonna need to deal with. But speaking of what's going on in Congress, sorry. Yeah, sorry, I think to be. Yeah, we're just going to take a quick break, okay? But when we do, Fetterman, is he deciding to come back into the Democratic fold or is he doubling down what's going on with his staff? And then we hope to get to the story of showing you, unfortunately, what's happened to the guys that were in the flotilla that landed in Israel. some of the scars they have very literally are horrific. So a lot more to come.

We'll come right back. Back on the social break here. Let's go to Twitch comments. Kat Rioral says about us trying to hold Tom Steyer accountable if he gets elected on that anti-corruption director. TYT likes to follow through. We do indeed. So we will definitely hold people accountable.

Look, we held Bernie accountable. And so that's why Bobert can say, hey, I disagree with Trump on this and agree with him overall. Yeah, I get it. I disagree with Bernie on thinking that Biden was going to deliver anything for us. But I like him overall. So I get it. Angry Com says, I wasn't able to watch live yesterday, but when I saw the DNC autopsy, I did repost everywhere I could.

It was the most honest representation of TYT and the best advertisement for TYT, full stop, no notes. Well, thank you for saying that. I really appreciate it. Yeah, we try to hold people accountable, including our own party. If you're not holding your own side accountable, they will then do things that are not on your side. That's just obvious logic. Bandy Kootch says at t.com, I was a Republican three days ago. I got my parents off of fixed news after they watched you on SRS.

Wow, on the Sean Ryan show. That's amazing. That's an awesome comment. I love it and thanks for becoming a member too. We were drawing cats as if this is truly the start of Trump's downfall, it will speed up and go very fast. Unfortunately, it will be the most dangerous time as well. Trump will not go meekly. I think that's a really fair warning and I'm worried about that cat and I got my eye on it.

So we'll see how it goes. Something, something says, I like Tom Steyer, since the choices are the boo-boo. He's mostly good in trying, but keeps fumbling on the G-word genocide and accountability for Israel. But I believe we can win him over. TYT, I believe you'll make the case next time you have him on. I agree with everything you said. We'll be right back. All right, guys, back on TYYT, Jank.

And Yaz, with you guys, we're going to try to squeeze in two more stories here before we go to the revolution. So yes, go for it. Okay, so now speaking of Congress and what's going on in the Senate, Democratic Senator John Federman lost his chief of staff Wednesday. And it's just a continuation of an existing pattern of staff turnover. Any quick thoughts, Jank, before we get into it? Yeah, so what in the world is going on with Federman? Because the staff is leaving in an alarming fashion.

So meanwhile, this brother thinks that he might get on a presidential ticket. Wait, what? All right, yeah, tell us about. Okay, so Cabell St. John became Federman's chief of staff last year, but she worked on his team for about three and a half years. And she was his third chief of staff since he's been in Congress. So she now says that the final straw was Fetterman voting against ending Trump's war powers in Iran earlier this week. He was the only Democrat to do so. But this is like another pattern that is emerging here.

This wasn't his first time voting for this. This is now his eighth time voting against limiting Trump's war powers in Iran. So Fetterman has lost several members of his team since getting into the Senate for reasons that I think are obvious. He's a very different politician now than the one that he campaigned as. He started off as very progressive and now he's getting increasingly more right wing. And of course he has been very, very vocally pro-Israel. And as you will learn, that is putting it very lightly. And Cabell St. John, she said that there is a reason for Federman's overt and increasing support of Israel.

And she points to one man, David Davy Safier, Safier. is a fundraiser for Orthodox Jewish causes who has reportedly become one of Fetterman's closest confidants. So the question is who is this guy who has the ear of an entire American senator? Well, he is a writer of Jewish history and a fundraiser for Orthodox causes. He has no public background in government or counseling politicians on Capitol Hill. He is not an official staffer nor is he paid as an outside advisor and a few years ago he just kind of appeared. That's a quote in the senator's orbit, one former Federman staffer remembers. And then suddenly he seemed to be everywhere. Staffers would

walk into Federman's office only to find Safier sitting in the room. And when the senator went to Israel in 2025, Safier joined him on the trip. When Federman filmed real time with Bill Marr, Safier met him up with him in LA. And the two are constantly texting and talking according to multiple former Federman staffers and Safier has unofficially operated as a top campaign fundraiser and senior advisor. He even set up and has attended sensitive meetings with foreign officials. And again, this is an outside person. In some cases, he's the only person staffing those meetings. And according to inside sources, Federman has more or less isolated himself from other members of Congress, including other Democrats. So really, he just has this one guy in his ear and then like a

handful of other people that he trusts. So Safier would often just spend his days sitting inside Federman's office, which is already kind of creepy. And after conversations between just the two of them, Federman would reportedly become noticeably more radicalized pro-Israel. And to make matters even more bizarre, multiple staffers recall hearing about calls

between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Federman that Safier listened in on. As Safier's influence has grown, the senator's calls with Netanyahu have increased on the calls. It is either Federman alone talking with the foreign leader or just the senator, Safier and Netanyahu. And Safier would always stick around when Federman chatted with important dignitaries from other countries. Another former staffer said, and recently he was in attendance for a meeting with the UAE ambassador to the United States, according to multiple people. This is crazy. So besides chatting with Benjamin Netanyahu, regularly.

on the phone as a senator, Federman has made several trips to Israel. And during one trip, Netanyahu gifted Federman, a silver-plated beeper, referring to the explosive beepers that Israel used to injure 3,000 people and kill 12 people. And that was something, by the way, that Federman said he loved. When he heard about the attack, he said, I love it. Unbelievable.

Jenk, it is very unusual to have a senator just like regularly taking phone calls with the president of Israel. Israel. Yeah, so there's a lot of unbelievable things in this story. You're absolutely right. Why is a senator calling the prime minister of a different country? Prime Minister, sorry. And getting what, orders, directives, advice, counsel from him?

Imagine if, I don't, Bro, Kana was calling the Indian prime minister nonstop, what should I do? You'd be like, wait, what? That's insane, right? If you make up a thing, Bernie Sanders is constantly calling the prime minister of Azerbaijan. You'd be like, why? Why?

That's so weird, right? I've got more on who this Safier guy is and Federman. But first, I gotta tell you one more thing about how detached from reality Federman is. So apparently he was in with his staffers and started talking about how in 2028 he might be the vice presidential nominee for the Democrats. Okay, now I'm gonna go to an inside staffer who was in the room that day. And this is what they told the press afterwards. Almost, there's a quote, almost all of us had our jaws on the floor.

Like, are you out of your effing mind? You don't do your job, you can't raise any money, your entire party hates you. But this brother thinks that he's going to be vice president. By the way, he might not be as crazy as you think. So I've got on that issue. I'm going to have thought on that, which I'm going to come back to. So who is this staff your guy? Now, we don't know, we don't have any inside information, but Tom Massey said that almost everyone

in Congress has what he called a babysitter, and from Israel, and only from Israel, not from Panama, not from the Netherlands, not from Malaysia, only Israel, okay? So there's a term for that, it's called your handler. So almost all of the American congressmen and senators have an Israeli handler. That is insane. Now, our press knows that, but never reports it. Safier looks like, we don't know for sure, Federman's handler. He's the one that's constantly going to him, and now you're going to do this for Israel.

You're going to do this for Israel. You're going to say something even dumber and crazier and more hateful. And after every time Safier talks to him, he comes out and does exactly as Israel wants. If that ain't a handler, I mean, he's trying awfully hard to look like one. Let's put it that way. So, yes, but why? Why does Federman talk to the Israeli prime minister all the time? Have a guy that is in favor of Israel come and tell him what to do nonstop?

And then he does exactly what the guy tells him to do. And that's according to Federman's own staffers. Well, there's only a couple of reasons why. One is if AAC gives you a ton of money, maybe, but it doesn't look. look like it with Federman. I mean, yeah, but that's like a normal amount of money is what they're giving him. They bribe everyone, so he's, and he's perfectly happy to take it. But I don't think that that's it, because he's way too enthusiastic for a normal campaign

contribution from the Israeli lobby. Remember 94% of Congress takes contributions from the Israeli lobby, but they're, and they all, not all, but a lot of them vote with them, and certainly if they need the votes, they all come through, but they're not as enthusiastic as Federman is. And he has no ethnic ties, it just doesn't add up. So I have a theory, and it's absolutely just a theory. I don't have any secret evidence for it, blackmail. I think that they come in and they tell Federman, remember, we still have that tape of you doing whatever the hell you did.

So now we want you to go even more over the top. Say even something more in favor of Israel, more hateful towards Palestinians, more in favor of the war. You are not to vote against the war, even though you told everyone you were a progressive and you were anti-war, you were to vote for every war we command of you. So I don't know if it's blackmail, but every video of Federman does looks like a hostage video, right? So if I had to bet who do they have blackmail on, I'd say Trump number one, Federman

number two. Finally, why did I say it's not absurd that the VP thing could be federal? Everybody hates fetterman. Israel has tremendous power. And remember the president picks the VP, not the voters. So the presidential candidate, it's not like Joe Lieberman wasn't a vice presidential candidate before. And everybody hated Joe Lieberman in the Democratic Party.

And he always voted for war, and he always demanded that we do whatever Israel wants. So they have a lot of power. So the voters wouldn't want Federer. Voters wouldn't want Fetterman at all, but the people who make the decisions might think, mm, Fetterman's perfect for our purposes. All right, we're so close out of time. Yes, I'm so sorry, but can we do the last story? Yeah, I do want to get to the last story.

It's a good one. All right, so let's just get right into it. I came on the foreseller as so many other healthcare workers did to, you know, provide medical and humanitarian aid to people in Gaza. We've been aware of what's been happening throughout the genocide and many years before that and the terrible treatment of the Palestinian people and in particular the attacks on healthcare. All right, we're about to show you some pictures of what happened to those folks who were on the flotilla. It is not good.

So brace for impact on it. You're about to see how disgusting the Israeli government is. Yes, tell us about it. Yeah, so now at least 15 of the activists who are on that flotilla who are detained in Israel, at least 15 of them are reporting that they were raped or otherwise sexually assaulted and several activists have since been hospitalized with injuries. Before we go on, I do want to hear more from that Australian doctor. Intervention, they were quite aggressive, they were firing, they were not, they probably

weren't live bullets, but they were firing projectiles at our boat. They didn't hit anybody. They were very rough with us when they took us onto the prison boat. We were kept on a boat which essentially had no, it was just like a yard with containers around it, no mattresses. My boat, we were made to, we had none of the severe violence that happened on the second boat, but once we got back to the port, we were dragged off the boat, forced into a stress position. We were kept there for over an hour while the Israeli soldiers played. national anthem over and over again and they were saying welcome to Israel and being brutal

with people, they were hitting people, kicking people. So she did go on to say that they were treated worse than any decent person would treat an animal and she said that even her medical colleagues were badly beaten and then they were forced to try to take care of others without having access to any medical supplies. And another activist, this one is from France, he had this to say about his experience. Actually, when they arrest us on the sea, it was different in every boat. But in our boat, it was quite, we stay really quiet, really pacifists in the beginning to the end. Like when they beat me, it was for no reason, absolutely.

Like I was not upgrading, escalating, not answering at them, not watching them in their eyes, nothing. Just saying I'm pacifist, just they did it systematically. Yeah, so you can see there that he did have a black eye, but here's a look at his back. And you can see that it is covered in injuries from rubber bullets. And also next to him, there's someone else who I don't know what happened to his thigh, but it looks like nothing good happened there. We also have Alessandro Mantovani. He's an Italian journalist and he had this to say about the experience.

He said, it was a place of terror, basically a square of containers where they kept people inside with bread and water, though not much water at first, according to what those who had been there for a day told me. We were on one of the last boats they took. So when we arrived, there were people who had been there for a while since the day before. And as soon as you enter the reception container, they beat you up. And he said, they really beat you up. Be you up means they kicked me in the legs and punched me in the face. These are people who know what they're doing so I don't have any visible marks.

And also there was Luca Pogi. He is an Italian economist among those detained from the flotilla. And he told Reuters on his arrival in Rome, we were stripped, thrown to the ground, kicked. Many of us were tasered, some were sexually assaulted, and some were denied access to a lawyer. And Israel, of course, has denied all of this. But here is Idemar Ben-Givir, the Israeli national security minister, mocking and taunting the pro-Palestinian activist. Take a look. Thank you.

We're going to Israel. We're having Abayle of Okay, so he posted that with the caption, welcome to Israel. And if any of this sounds familiar to you, it's because this seems to be their MO. This is what they do.

they do. Grata Toonberg reported very similar conditions when she went to Israel on an earlier flotilla. She said at the time that she was, yes, beaten, she was given insufficient and unsanitary food and water. She was held in a cell that was infested with insects. And she was also made to hold flags. So it was never confirmed that they were Israeli flags, but I feel like they were Israeli flags.

Jank, this is terrible, but I'm glad they're out. I'm glad that they're getting the medical care that they need now. Yeah, so first of all, those activists on the flotilla are absolute heroes, drawing attention to what's happening in Israel and how brutal the Israeli government has been. And if you're on a flotilla, you know that Israel is going to beat you and probably torture you when you land, because it's a fascist government. It's like, you know, sailing into Nazi Germany, obviously they're going to beat you and torture you.

And since the Israelis are fascists, they're now doing that to everyone. So in the beginning it was the Palestinians that they abused over and over for decade after After decade, they killed them, took their land over and over again, and then American media covered up and said, oh, no, no, it's the Palestinians that are the terrorists. The Israelis are the victims, even though they're the ones occupying the Palestinians, and they've taken almost all their land. So the American media has been the gobbles to Israel's government, and so they've been protecting Israel with overwhelming propaganda.

The problem is now Israel has gone beyond the Palestinians to almost everyone. So they now are attacking seven of their neighbors in the Middle East, including Lebanon. They drove out a million people, but also in Lebanon there are Christians. So now it's all the Arabs, not just Muslims, but also Christians. Now there's Christians in Gaza on the West Bank that they've greatly abused as well. Again, you never hear about that because American media works for Israel. So they cover up all of their war crimes, all of their crimes against humanity. There was there big news over and over again about how those activists were severely beaten in cable.

news? No, of course not. It's the Israeli protection racket, so they try to shield that from you. But now we have online media so they can kiss our ass. We're going to show you the truth about how disgusting this current Israeli government is. The rest of us all know that they're fascists. The people on cable news can pretend to be offended by that. And they're not offended by the vicious crimes of Israel. They're only offended if you offend Israelis. Oh my God, you've heard Ben Kavir's feelings. How are the feelings of the fascists doing? I don't give a damn how the fascists are feeling these days. You saw the pictures with your own eyes. They beat the living crap out of them. They do it every time. You saw the video, not only they put them in a stress

position, which is considered torture in and of itself, if you leave them there long enough in that position. But obviously, they're doing that position so that their heads are on the ground and they look like they're bowing to the Israelis. Because the Israelis love to humiliate anyone who isn't Israeli. They love to show their power. And now, it's not just, as Christians and Muslims in the Middle East, they're now doing it to Westerners from Europe. And this is basically them saying, we control you. There's nothing you could do in Europe. There's nothing you could do in America, nothing you could do in the Middle East.

We will abuse you. We will abuse your citizens. We will take your money. We will make you go into wars. And that's because we're your overlords. And you will bow and you will kneel to us. And that is what it's happening. They just bought Tom Massey's seat in the 4th District of Kentucky, and what is our media doing?

The giant liars who work for Israel are like, it had nothing to do with Israel. No, no, no, don't look at the $16 million they spent on that race. Don't look at the fact that Tom Massey has won each race easily, even when Donald Trump opposed them earlier. No, no, no, no, it's about Trump. It's not about Israel. It's not about Israel. Why? Why are you hiding the $16 million in bribes that Ed Gowryne took from the Israeli lobby to defeat Tom Massey?

Why are you hiding that 94% of our corrupt Congress takes money from the Israeli lobby? But when you point out facts in reality, what does our media do? They're like, oh, you're an anti-Semi. Vicious genocide is not a problem. Torture is not a problem. Humilating all the rest of us is not a problem. Taking hundreds of billions of dollars from us for their wars and genocide is not a problem. It's $8 trillion.

$10 attacking all of Israel's neighbors is not a problem. The only problem is if you criticize the most precious and important people on earth, the Israelis. That is how every disgusting person in mainstream media in America acts, not a single cable news anchor has condemned a genocide. Chris Hayes has allowed others to say the word genocide on his air. He's the reigning champion because he's allowed the word on his show. The rest of them, dogs, dogs, so-called progressives on MS now, who haven't said a word about the genocide, who don't talk about how the Israelis viciously terrorize the Palestinians and now everyone who disagrees with them, how they starve those poor kids of death in Gaza,

how they displaced a million people in Lebanon, almost, never reported on cable news. Well, the Israelis are torturers. The Israelis are fascists. And if you say you're offended by that, then you're a bad person. You're an evil person who goes, my ethnicity above all. Who cares that we're torturing? Who cares that my beloved Israeli government is committing a genocide that they murdered 23,000 kids in Gaza? If you think that's not important, but your stupid feelings are important, then you're an immoral person. You put your own ethnic identity above others. Nobody's putting your identity below anyone. We're saying you should be equal, but they say no, you serve Israel. And if you don't, we're gonna try

to destroy you. Well, the rest of the world is vomiting up Israeli propaganda. We've seen too many of us now tortured and beaten and humiliated by the Israelis. All across the world, rise up, rise up, rise up against your own governments. The servants of it, country whose population is the size of Papua New Guinea. The whole world is reporting to this tiny little country who's got our leaders, yes, by the testicles, and they are squeezing and squeezing, and our leaders are squealing and serving them instead of us. If you're European or you're an American or you're anywhere in the world and you saw the Israelis do this to your citizens, and your leader said that you have to bow and kneel to Israel instead of sticking up for your own. citizens, get rid of your government because they're not your government. They're Israel's representatives and servants.

Anyone who votes for someone who kisses Israel's ass in a different country is betraying their own country. You'd have to be out of your mind to vote for anyone who says that we should serve Israel, whether it's in America, Europe, or anywhere else. Cut off all ties. If they don't want to listen to any rules or laws, if they say they are so much, better than the rest of us. They are superior to the rest of us. Well, brothers and sisters, then it's time for us to enforce international law and rules against Israel. They do not get to

say, we are above you. We get to do anything we want to you. We get to beat you and embarrass you, and you have to do it. Otherwise, we're going to ruin you. All right, would you like to be ruined back? Oh, how dare you, my feelings, my feelings. How about the feelings of the people you tortured? How about the feelings of the 23,000 dead kids in Gaza and the million people you've displaced in Lebanon and all the land you've stolen? Yes, they stole that land. It's not the Palestinians didn't go for a picnic. The Lebanese didn't go for a picnic Israel stole it. They stole it and our stupid lying propagandist media in America bowing down to them our government bowing down to Israel and saying if you don't bow down, we'll try to ruin your life while you're proving even more. that you're a servant of Israel. This is a free show in what's supposed to be a free country.

America, rise up, get our country back. On the 250th anniversary of our independence, we need independence one more time from this disgusting fascist state of Israel, young Turks. All right, guys, we're on to the revolution. So we're going to have somebody on here, a candidate in a minute that is running it for office. And it certainly would be very different than the people in office. And that's where we're featuring her week. Feature somebody else the other day from Pennsylvania and Chris Rab.

And oh, look, he won. He's going to Congress. So you never know what's going to happen next. But first, a couple of things. I want to thank Jonathan Bores Johnny for gifting two memberships on YouTube and Martin, JNCC. Thank you for gifting five. You're amazing.

And they also wrote, and my great grandfather was a Jew, whose entire family was slaughtered in the Holocaust. For the love of God, can Israel please stop setting up its own demise? It's shocking to see how easily they hate. I couldn't agree more with you. What are they doing? If you care about Israel, I don't understand the Israeli supporters in this country. I mean, I think that they're so brainwashed, so diluted that they can't see straight.

But if you saw straight, you're like, what do you care about Israel? You've been, what are you doing? You got the whole world to hate Israel. You got, you turned Israel into a fascist government. How does that help the Jews? Are you insane? Are you insane? Like, you see how mad I am and how worked up I get? I swear to God, if I was a Jewish American, I'd be 20 times more worked up. I'd be ripping down the walls here going, what are you doing? What are you doing? In our name, are you insane? Okay, so thank you for being a good person for writing in. Balsat wrote in

on the Super Chat. TYT does good work. Thank you, brother. I'm going to give you one more story out of Israel because it's so important to what we need to revolt against, and then I'll go to the guest. Okay. So, Nafthali Bennett is one of the leading candidates for Prime Minister in Israel. He was Prime Minister of Israel before back in 21 and 22. Don't get too excited. He's just as conservative as Nant-Nihahu, so if he beats Nant-Jahu, things are not going to get any better. He loved the slaughter and genocide in Gaza.

He loves the war in Lebanon and Iran. In fact, he says that if he wins, they might attack Turkey. NATO country, because apparently the Israeli people have not found people who were maniacal enough, who were ludicrous and outrageous enough. So if you want him to prove it, don't worry he can and he will, because he has said these things publicly now. If he gets elected, he is planning to do propaganda across the whole world to brainwash all of you into supporting Israel.

Now Israel's been doing this for their entire existence, but now they feel so powerful that they They could just say it publicly. So I'm going to quote him, and what'll be fun guys is after I quote him, my guess is that some people in media will say, you are anti-Semitic for even quoting an Israeli candidate for office. But I didn't say it, he said it. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter to call you an anti-Semite no matter what, because American media doesn't work for Americans, they do propaganda, Hasbara, that's what it's called. And you're about to see it.

They do Hasbara for Israel. So let's let Nafthali Bennett explain it to us. He says this is how we will fix Israel's Husbara when we return to lead Israel. Okay, well, thank you for the tips. Number one, he says, we will establish a powerful national Hasbara authority. The authority will set Israel's messaging strategy, coordinate between bodies, and ensure that the Israeli response is swift, unified, and professional. It will have an independent budget, a professional director, and its own powers.

Let me pause here. They're going to spend over $700 million to do Hasbara, propaganda. And then as they do that, and as they are publicly announcing it, and there's more, our media will turn around and go, there is no influence of, Israeli influence in Western media. But they're saying that they're going to do propaganda on us. Their leaders are announcing it publicly. They're saying that they're gonna spend $730 million to try to brainwash us into supporting their fascist government.

And our media goes, no, they're not. So they're just like actively lying. In fact, if you say the Israelis are influencing American media, influencing American politics, they'll say, that's outrageously anti-Semitic. So is Neftali Bennett anti-Semitic? Because he's saying, here's more. He says number two, the best for Hussberra. Israel's husband will be managed by professionals, not political appointees.

We will recruit experts in international media, social networks, public opinion research, crisis management, creativity, data, and technology. We will create a pool of spokespeople in major languages who will appear in global media, podcasts, universities, and social networks. Now, that is an amazing confession, right? covered by 0% of national media in America. In fact, their job is not to cover the news, it's to cover up the news. Don't look, don't look, even though he's just plainly saying it.

Later, when I say, hey, that guy in American media has got Israeli talking points, they'll say, but brother, he just told us they are infiltrating our media to brainwash us with their husband. And at the universities, what did I tell you? No, the Israelis are there making lists and then getting people kicked out of the universities are making sure they don't get jobs. So that's a stone cold fact. You can go to the top universities, and the students will whisper it to you, they did to me,

and it's super public, right? Then you go to American media. They're like, how dare you say that the Israelis are in the universities? Neftali Bennett, who will appear in global media, podcasts, universities, and social networks. Are you going to report that, Jake Tapper, and Anderson Cooper and everyone else on cable news? No, you're not, right? No, no, no, you have to protect your beloved, beloved, cherished Israel that is so much more important than America. In fact, you'll help them do their hospital, right?

You'll pretend they're the victims. Okay, more. He says, number three, we will establish a consciousness and technology war room. Okay, so now they're going to manipulate our consciousness. Okay, the lie machines operating against Israel, hilarious, run a smart, sophisticated and time campaign. There's literally no one else doing it. Can you pause right there for a second. Since these lunatics love to brainwash everyone else and love to do propaganda, they

think like we're under the spell of Iran or something. Iran couldn't do propaganda if their life depended on it. Iran and Qatar for with what? Everyone in American media is like, it's Qatar, Qatar is wrong, Iran is wrong, Iran is terrorism. Well, if they're doing Hussbra, they suck at it, okay? No, there's no one in American media that supports Iran, no one who supports Qatar or anyone else.

So they can do Al Jazeera and you could call that propaganda, I don't mind, I don't care. Russians could do RT, those are obvious, right? I think Al Jazeera does real news, but it's up to you to decide, but you know that they're funded by the government of Qatar, we're honest about that. See, Jake, it's not that hard. RT is 100% funded by the Russians, and they obviously do Russian propaganda. And here they are, they're going to saying that they're going to do Israeli propaganda. Nope, you're allowed to criticize everyone else, but you're not allowed to criticize Israel.

They have special rules. Well, that's part of the Husbarah. But their projection about how other nations are trying to control America or the Western governments are hilarious. Congratulations, Israel, don't worry about it. You're the only ones. Well, at least the only ones doing it effectively. Bennett continues, we will operate an advanced war room that will monitor the disarmes, the discourse in real time, identify disinformation, and those people tell them the truth,

bravely, before it takes hold and distribute sharp, accurate, and fast content. Brought to you by people pretending to be Americans and Europeans. Anyway, number four, we will unite all forces into one national effort. Today, there are many excellent private Hussberra efforts. Oh, thank you for another confession operating around the world. Oh, okay, wait, wait, wait. out of it, so let me be perfectly clear. He says today there are many excellent private Hasbro efforts operating out of a sense of mission

around the world, but they operate alone, do they? We will connect them to a coordinated campaign, one fist for Israel. So we are going to do propaganda, he says. We're gonna manipulate these dumb Americans, these dumb Westerners with one iron fist of Israel. We fund all their wars. We've given them over $320 billion. We funded iron dough. They have their nuclear weapons because of us.

That one, to be fair, we didn't do. They stole our nuclear technology. They stole our nuclear triggers. They stole uranium. We went to war with Iran over uranium. They might or might not have enriched enough. But Israel stole our uranium and our nuclear secrets and the triggers. And we didn't do anything.

We just gave them more money. And we said, oh, they're our special ally. What kind of special ally robs you blind to build a weapon of mass destruction, which they very happily, you know, wink and nod an allusion to all the time. Like, well, Jonathan Pollard said it the other day. We said in 1973, they loaded up a plane with a nuke. That was, it's on tape. He said, with a certain kind of weapon that got the attention of the Americans and then

the Americans backed up, they threaten us with a nuke that they stole from us. And every liar pig on TV is telling you there are special ally that they're the victims? No, they're part of the Hasbara. They're not cable news anchors, they're cable news actors. Last quote from Bennett. Number five, we will build an international alliance against disinformation and poison. Remember, every accusation is a confession by the Israelis. So what he's saying is we're going to build a worldwide network of disinformation and poison.

And we're gonna poison the minds of the Americans and the Westerners so they're tricked into supporting us. Because he's claiming that other countries are somehow doing disinformation and poison getting into our heads. Which countries? Name them. Show them how. Show me Iran's or China's or Russia's Hasbara campaign that you laid out publicly. When the mainstream media was pretending that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election, they said, do you? You know that the Russians had on their tweets that infiltrated our social media, got four million impressions, bro, that's like a day on Twitter for me, okay? So I'm not bragging, I don't even have a particular, my account's not even over a million. It's a half, there's one tweet for some of the other folks online.

Meanwhile, Israel's like, look at us do giant international propaganda campaign to introduce our propaganda so we control you. And Armenia is like, I don't see it. I don't see it at all. And in fact, Epstein, the emails get released. Every single email is about helping Israel when he's doing international business. And the press goes, oh, you see how he might have been a Russian spy. Oh, come on, come on.

If you turn on cable news, that's the Huzbra that Israel has been talking about. They've been doing it to us for decades. They're just so brazen now, they're rubbing it in our face. Look, I'm gonna say something that you're gonna find outrageous, but I find these guys saying that they're gonna purposely brainwash us and trick us into taking our money and starting wards for them to be way more outrageous than anything else. And I'm gonna report to you what actually happened that our press, our disgusting press hides from you.

Do you know that the settlers now in the West Bank, and there was no attacks from the West Bank, are now beginning to try to intimidate through not only sexual violence, hanging around girls latrines threatening Palestinian men that we're going to rape your wives and rape your daughters. But not only that, if they catch Palestinians, they're urinating on them. And what this Husbarah is, is urinating on all of us, saying we're better than you, we're just gonna trick you, and we're gonna get our dogs in American media to call you all anti-Semites, and if any of you dare oppose us, we'll eliminate you, we'll get you fired

by calling you an anti-Semite, we'll ruin your career, we'll drive you out of American media or American politics. If you're in American government and you oppose us, we'll spend 16 million, 14 million, 18 million, these are all numbers that they spent against Democrats and Republicans, and we'll eliminate anyone who dares to oppose Israel. But our media can't find out, can't see it, they can't see it. They're like, what? I'm the dumbest person alive.

Did he announce it publicly? I can't read. That's why I'm a cable news anchor. Are you? No, they're cable news actors who work for Israel. This Husbarah Israel, they have admitted it, and they are doing it to all of you. So understand, Israel is not your ally. They view you as a sucker to take advantage of.

All right, now let's go to someone who's fighting back against all that. All right, Wala is a candidate for Maryland's 5th District. The primary is on June 23rd. There's a lot of people in that race. The reason I didn't say your last name is because I want you to pronounce the name because I don't want to get it wrong. Blige. Blige. Blige.

Yeah, just how it's about. Yeah, yeah, just how it's about. All right, well, that'll stand out. All right, so this is Denny Hoyer's old C, Walla. So tell me why you're running. I am running because we need a progressive voice. Congressman Hoyer has never been known as a progressive. And right now we need progressive leadership.

I want people to know my story. I am currently a council member, but I've always been a fighter. I am a daughter of immigrants. My parents are from Liberia and Nigeria. And my first advocacy was at five years old advocating for Liberian refugees coming in from the Civil War. When we walked the halls of the D.C. Council, I knew that I wanted to be an advocate. From the time I went to University of Maryland, I actually worked for the congressman for a year as a constituent liaison. And when I went to law school, I knew that it was, I wanted to be an advocate.

I was a counselor, a nurse, a nurse's union lawyer for almost a decade. But I wanted to tell you why my biggest issue on this campaign is Medicare for All. At 19 years old, I walked into an emergency room and got a $5,000 bill. And after that, I would turn out, I did not have health insurance. I wasn't covered. And I had to get it off my credit, fight the hospital. So when I decided we have a broken system that a 19-year-old gets that bill, my parents, my dad drove ice cream truck. He delivered pizza.

He delivered paper. He did all of these things. And we did not have any money. I actually worked on the Education Labor Committee simply to work on that Affordable Care Act because I wanted the public option. Because we needed an option that would allow us to be able to have some sort of universal health care. But my true passion came when Bernie Sanders ran for president. I was a Bernie bro. And I was a Bernie bro because I believe we need a whole change to the system.

As I told you, I was a union lawyer. Part of my story is my dad that worked on that ice cream truck. When I got to high school, he got a job with Metro, which is our subway in Washington, D.C. And our lives changed. We had a little more of the middle class life that I've never experienced. After that, I became interested in unions. I was actually an organizer. I did a program union summer, and we organized at the Met Museum.

And the disgusting thing is that that Met Museum would not pay the workers beyond $6.25 an hour. Meanwhile, they had outfits and all types of products from Chanel that they were promoting. That would have been even three or four of those products could pay. the increases that we were demanding for those workers. So I was a workers' right advocate. I was an advocate for universal health care. And Bernie came with the Medicare for all. And just workers having a voice, I was excited.

I was a delegate to that 2016 convention. I represented him on a lot of issues. And I knew that we needed a progressive change. I was so sad when we lost that election because what I knew is that, that had chosen Bernie, we would not be where we are. And today, we are even worse than we were 10 years ago. It's crazy because when we were pushing attacks on billionaires,

focusing on workers' rights, focusing on Medicare for all, people call us crazy, free college tuition, all of those things. People said, how will you pay for it? Well, now they're realizing if we had done that, then we wouldn't be where we are now. Now we have a health care system with Obamacare who's been botched. So now that most people, they even said that people are spending up to $10,000 on deductibles for their health care.

Most people, I'm actually a council member now in Prince George's County. And we're going to be releasing a report that's going to show that most Prince Georgians are beyond that are going to the emergency room. Why? Because of the cost of care. They don't have access to health care. So the only time they go to the doctor is when it's an emergency. So now we're clogging up our system because we don't have an adequate health care system. But my district has been hit hard.

We have had federal workers laid off. We have had federal contracts. Prince George is in Charles County, two counties in my district were one of the wealthiest counties in the country for African Americans. Now we have been attacked by this administration. They've taken our jobs. They've taken our federal contracts. Now anything DEI, they're taking away. So many contractors are losing opportunity.

We have people who have been, we have everything happening from removing aid for contractors. The black wealth that has been built here has been taken. They've put ice in our community. We actually pass bills that ice is not welcome. But the reality, we have a large population of Latino, Africa, it's all types of immigrants that built the community. and now people are sometimes scared to go to work because they're scared that they will be targeted by ICE. We have utility bills issues, data centers, people that are afraid to deal with data centers.

I pause the data center in my community when I was on the council because we have high utility bills and a grid that has so much pressure on it, demand because we're in data center capital. And we have to stop pause data centers, make sure that we have done that. So I've been such an advocate in my community, and I'm ready to, I'm ready to take this day in Congress. All right, well, so we've got the district that is D plus 17. That means whoever wins the primary has about a 99% chance of being the congressperson, right? So there's 23 folks in this race. So you just explain to us what animates you, where you are in the political spectrum, you know, Bernie supporter and all the things that you mentioned. You're a council member in Prince George's County.

But still, there's a lot of qualified people in that race, I'm sure. Not that I know them, but I suspect out of 23 people. So why you and not the others? Well, look, we have APEC supported AI crypto supported candidate that they've just announced $1.8 million for him that is supported by Hoyer. And we're at a point now where AI is taking jobs, where AAPC is taking money and putting it into a war that doesn't make sense. And we need residents are looking for something different.

And not only am I offering something different, there are 25 candidates in this race, but only I've been the one that's taking the people's pledge to say that I won't take corporate PAC money. I've been the one that's actually, not only am I doing that, I've already been in the community. So I'm not just showing up to say, look, the community doesn't know me, but I'm running now. I've been representing our community for years on these issues. I am the progressive in this race. We've been supported by National Nurses United, Progressive Maryland, Casa, Sierra Club.

You name the organization that's progressive from the unions, from ATU to our revolution. We've been in Congressman Rokana, we have gotten an endorsement from him. So we are trending because people are seeing that they want a people-focused candidate. And honestly, we cannot have APEC determining our elections. We cannot have AI crypto, all of this, all of this money determining the results of our election. So we are trying to get the word out. People are surprised and shocked of what's happening. And we have had APEC come in.

We have APEC bought candidates all over Maryland. So this district, we're trying to change that so that we have someone that is supported by the people. So of all those, if Roe Kana endorsed you, that is, that's pretty important. That's the right side of the party and the honest side and the one that wants to fight back and win. The other guys are great too. So let's say you get into Congress and you guys are voting for Speaker of the House and Democrats have the majority. Do you vote for Hakeem Jeffries? We have to make sure that we have leadership that listens to the Progressive Caucus that is.

is focused on the issues that we, that are important. I do think that we do see that the Democratic Party, while the Democratic Party might be in the, like people are looking for it to be majority. People are tired of corporate Democrats. They are tired of Democrats who are paid up by those that don't have interest. And that's what's happening in our race. So with this new leadership coming in, what we want to make sure that Hakeem Jeffries and those that are trying to get in leadership,

that they commit to not taking corporate PAC money, that they commit to Medicare for all tax and billionaires, all of those bills that we want because what we can't do is get into the majority and not deliver. We've done that before. People have seen that before. And what we don't want is people to say is a Democrats get in charge and we don't get anything because that is what residents are saying. No more of that. We need a Democratic Party that is true to people.

It is disappointing to hear that even the Democrats, the Democrats, the Democratic Party was unwilling to even make it clear that people couldn't take certain corporate PAC money. And the reality is that when we continue to do that, we lose the voice of people. So I would say before any vote is done, we need to, we need the fulfillment of the party, of the leadership that they are going to, they're going to pledge to follow along with the progressive caucus in our agenda, which I'm already saying I'm part of the progressive caucus. Okay, well, I like that attitude. And I met Walla in a place where she was the hardest working person in the room. I'll tell you that right now. So there's a lot that makes me root for you, Walla. But I'm gonna tell you now, Hakeem Jefferson is not for Medicare for all. He's not for getting money out of politics. And he never won't. He's got to be. He's got to be to get that to get that vote. All right. So let's see how that goes. Okay, so let's end on a couple of fun questions. So you're from Maryland. So will you confess that crab cakes are overrated? I kid. That is crab cakes are the best thing.

You know, we live for crabs. That is like blast for me. And not only I'm saying crab cakes are good. What's even better is just eating crabs, sitting on a Sunday with the newspaper on the table, you know, just hitting up some crabs. I am from, you know, our whole region from Prince George's County. That's where I live.

But from D.C. from Prince George's County. And we do not play with our crabs. So yeah, so please come up. You come over the house, you're gonna be, we're gonna lay some crabs on the table and we're gonna take a quiet hour and tear those crabs up. All right, that doesn't sound so bad. Okay, and last one, I asked this for folks just because it's fun. In high school, did you have any extracurricular activity, sports or band or anything along those lines? Yeah, I was a trumpet player.

I played the trumpet. I'm not, wasn't that good at it, but yeah, I played the trumpet. You don't want me to play it on the show and run your and run your listeners away. Well, no, Wala, I want you to play it, but not on the show, you're right, but in Congress. Of course. Martin Louser King has a speech where he talks about be a trumpet player for justice. And so that's what we need you to do. Right, right.

Good trouble. I would love that. I would love some of that in Congress. All right, well, what's your website? www. www.wala.walablegay.com. We definitely want people to check us out. It's time for a change. We really, it kills my soul. I want to win this. But what hurts me is to see corporate folks that are bought up by interest that does not cater to us. So what I'm asking everyone to do is support this campaign. We are not supported by APAC. We are not supported by AI Crypto. all of those things, and it's time for a change. In Maryland, we haven't had this type of voice in 45 years. But at a time that we've been hit so hard, jobs taken over, we're paying $1 billion a day

for a war while we have federal workers that's been laid off. We have people who are basically having their contracts taken away. My contract, my constituency, my district is pissed. And they want change, and we're going to bring that change. So I need you to support me. Support a real candidate who cares, who makes a difference. $1.8 million for a candidate by money that doesn't even live in the district should disgust you. And it discusses me.

All right. And we'll put the link down below too wherever you're watching this because when somebody doesn't run on corporate pack money or APAC money, then you've got to help to make sure you get real Americans that are representing the voters in Congress. Wala, thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. All right, go get them. Looking forward to the trumpet in Congress.

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