The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - January 21st, 2020

Episode Date: January 22, 2020

Hillary Clinton just refuses to go away. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jake Hugarana is faring with you guys. Lots of great programming for you today. Man, is this a news day? Hell of a news day. It's a big day. A big day. Trial heads over to the Senate. We've got important updates on that.

Will there be witnesses? It looks like it, but we're not positive. Will there be drums? That's guaranteed. Okay, some Republicans breaking from McConnell. Oh, yes. So that's really good news. Boy, do we have salty campaign news for you guys.

Lots and lots of salt today. Bernie, Biden, Hillary, all my rowdy friends are here tonight. So lots of news, let's get to it. All right. A new Hillary Clinton docu series on Hulu reminds Americans why she continues to be such a polarizing political figure. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter to accompany the information or the news of this docu-series, Hillary Clinton took several jabs at Bernie Sanders. Of course, this is what you can expect.

Now this is something that I knew was eventually gonna happen and she is now even more aggressive than she was previously when it comes to these jabs at Bernie. So let me tell you exactly what's going on. Now Lacey Rose over at the Hollywood Reporter wrote, in the doc, you're brutally honest with Sanders. And then she quotes Hillary Clinton as saying, he was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him. Nobody wants to work with him. He's got nothing done. He was a career politician. Weird flex there. It's all just baloney. And I feel so bad that people got sucked into it. And then the reporter asks, that assessment still hold? And here's what she

says. Yes, it does. I just want to remind you of what 538 published in March of 2016. Just a quick screenshot of an important headline, Americans distaste for both Trump and Clinton is record breaking. So after the election, if you guys can recall, there was a poll indicating that Bernie Sanders was the most popular politician in America, the most liked. And there's a reason for that. It's because he actually focused on issues that matter to them. Yeah. So, There is a part of her statement that's right though, oh, that's interesting. Well, when she says nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, understand who she's referring to.

Now, why would you work with Bernie Sanders? You know, if you're a dentist or an accountant out there, I mean, you don't have much of an opportunity. No, she's not referring to you. She's referring to people in Washington, people with power, and that is true. The people in power don't like Bernie Sanders, because he points out their corruption. In fact, he barely points it out, but he does. He embarrasses them by not taking any of the corporate money that they do.

He talks about income inequality. Their donors love income inequality and further income inequality, and so do those corrupt democratic politicians. So when she said nobody likes him, she means nobody in Washington, nobody in the club likes Bernie Sanders. Now that is not a problem for Bernie Sanders. That's why Bernie Sanders is so popular in the rest of the country. Another thing that Hillary Clinton's doing is calling all of you guys no buddies.

Exactly. I mean, the reality is he's the most popular politician, first of all in the country, second of all in the Democratic Party. So she's just telling all the Democratic voters, you don't mean anything, you're a nobody. So you don't even exist. So when I talk about Bernie Sanders and no one liking him, you don't count. The huge, huge percentage of the American population doesn't count. The only people who count are my buddies in power in Washington.

All of you, nobodies can go away. Well, I am a nobody and I'm proud to support Bernie Sanders. What she doesn't realize, and this is a good thing, is that she unwittingly put out the best possible endorsement for him, right? Because in saying that nobody in the elitist class that she rubs elbows with, none of them like him, she's essentially giving everyone who already supports him or is considering support more of a reason to stick by his side, because what people are frustrated with, and one of the reasons why so many people actually went out and voted for Donald Trump, a con artist,

is because he positioned himself as an outsider, someone who was anti-establishment. In saying that Bernie Sanders is not well liked within the establishment, Hillary Clinton is weirdly helping to garner support for him. But they don't think so everybody in the media, instead of saying, whoa, that is so divisive. Whenever a progressive speaks out against another Democrat, they're like, divisive, divisive, what happened? Now Hillary Clinton tries a torpedo the leading Democrat in the race. He's leading in Iowa, New Hampshire, California, and very close to Nevada. All of a sudden, she's not divisive.

Now remember, her supporters back in 2008 when she lost Barack Obama were called Pumas. Why? It stood for Party Unity My Ass. So she's back to party unity my ass, but no one in the media calls her out. Instead, they're like, bravo, we all agree. No one in power, including us like him. I mean, the New York Times editorial board, a story we'll get to later, refer to Bernie Sanders as divisive at least twice in their endorsement for two candidates, Elizabeth Warren and

Amy Klobuchar. Again, we'll get to that later. But let me give you more from this interview with the Hollywood reporter. Now, Bernie Sanders did respond to Hillary Clinton saying that he is not well liked. And according to an NBC reporter, I just asked Senator Sanders for his reaction to Hillary Clinton saying no one likes him. And he said, quote, on a good day, my wife likes me. So let's clear the air on that one. He then pivoted to talking about impeachment.

More tonight on NBC Nightly News. Okay, so you get a sense of him kind of poking fun at this. He's not taking it too seriously. Lacey Rose then asks Hillary Clinton, if he gets the nomination, will you endorse and campaign for him? And here's what she says. And I think this is incredibly important, given the pressure from the establishment to vote blue no matter what, right? You've got to get Trump out.

I'm not going to go there yet. We're still in a very vigorous primary season. I will say, however, that it's not only him, it's the culture around him. It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his online Bernie bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women. So, Jank, I'm going to let you jump in in a second.

But I want to make a point about who Hillary Clinton is and how she campaigned. Because when she was campaigning against Barack Obama in 2008, she kept referring to him, her campaign kept referring to him and his supporters as sexist. It's sexist, it's sexist, okay? So before the Bernie bro argument was being used by the Hillary camp, there was an Obama bro argument used by the Hillary camp. In fact, Hillary Clinton was so vicious in her campaigning against Barack Obama that this is what she did.

I talked about this on a recent appearance on Cuomo. There's a lot of emphasis, a lot of, in my opinion, defamatory comments about how Bernie Sanders is allegedly running a dirty campaign. However, there isn't a single example of him talking about someone's character in a negative way or attacking someone's personality or doing any type of character assassination. All of his emphasis has been on policy, and we are in the middle of a primary. In a primary, you are supposed to emphasize the differences in policy proposals. And the mere fact that he has done that has gotten him in trouble for some reason when in the past, actual dirty politics on the left have been dismissed.

I mean, I mean, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton released a picture of Barack Obama in 2008, where he's wearing a turban. And it was during his trip to Kenya. She purposely did that in an effort to paint him as a Muslim. I bring that up because Bernie Sanders would never, ever do something like that. But he still gets characterized as someone who plays dirty politics. It's disgusting. Okay, we actually have that picture. We're going to show it to you.

So Hillary's team, people later thought that the Republicans released this. No, Hillary Clinton's team released his photo like, look at Barack Hussein Obama. That's the kind of dirty politics the establishment plays. They, by the way, it was worse than Obama Bros. Bernie Bros. is a litter. No, back then they didn't call them Bros. They called them Obama Boys, which is way worse, okay? So she's played that dirty trick a thousand times, including on Barack Obama,

who she now pretends to support, but she tried to torpedo in vicious ways. So now, before we even get to the gender angle, wait, you're not going to go there yet on supporting Bernie Sanders if he's the nominee. So that means by definition, you might not. So who would you support Donald Trump? That's an open question for you? Of course it is. That's unbelievable.

After all this, it's still unbelievable. But hold on, she not only says that, but I want you to do. to remember the context, Bernie Sanders did 39 rallies for her after he lost. 39. She had done 12 appearances for Obama. Sanders did 39 gigantic rallies for Hillary Clinton. But no good deed goes unpunished. Now she turns around and goes, oh, I demanded loyalty from you, and by the way, you gave

it to me, and you took some heat for it too, by the way, from some progressives. Now, they will not be returned at all. In fact, at the most crucial time, right before Iowa, I will try to sink you. Well, Jank, look, I think that you're either forgetting something or you're being dishonest here. Because you're not surprised by this. In fact, and I know you're gonna love this, you made a prediction back in March of last year. And I wanna show you that prediction.

Look, you know, it's always, you're right that I have said things like this in the past And I don't remember this clip at all that we were about to show you. Okay, but after all that they have said about unity, after all that they have said, Bernie, and they've asked, the media has asked them every single time, if you lose, are you going to make sure that you support the candidate, right? But they never asked the others. Finally, Hillary Clinton gets asked, and it's a, I don't know, maybe, maybe not, though, maybe not. Maybe I support Trump. Well, here's Jank from March of 2019, talking about what is likely to happen.

if Bernie Sanders were to be the nominee. They would rather have a Republican in office and continue the corruption than to have Bernie Sanders or a progressive in office where they would end the power of money in politics. I guarantee you, a lot of the establishment is going to pull up stakes and do the most hypocritical thing you have ever seen in your life, support a third party candidate, or maybe even secretly not support Donald Trump, but pull out of the race and go, well, Donald Trump did give me tax cuts. We'll be okay. We survived the last four years. We might not survive Bernie. By that they mean my money might not survive Bernie. So they are very likely to betray the Democratic Party. The thing that they claimed that they cared about all the time. One last thing about that. You remember what Hillary Clinton supporters called themselves after they lost the primary to Obama? They called themselves Puma. You know what Puma stands for? Party unity, my ass. They never believed in party unity. You're right, you caught me, I was right.

So look, and I wanna now predict this for you. If Bernie's the nominee, they're not going to outwardly say they're in favor of Donald Trump. That's, it would be so preposterous and people would be so mad with them. Have you ever talked to any Democratic voters? They despise Donald Trump, right? If Hillary Clinton were to say, yeah, for Trump, heads would explode and she's not that And people in the establishment are not that stupid. But look, she's already prefacing for you that, hey, maybe I'll stay out of it.

Maybe I'll stay neutral between Trump and Bernie Sanders. Or maybe I'll look to torpedo Bernie Sanders, but not say it publicly, right? And oh, by the way, if Bloomberg runs, oh, easily help him and make sure the Democrat loses the race so I keep my tax cuts. But the establishment is filled to the rim with corruption. And so this is just another evidence of it. Now, the gender issue, she says, oh, he particularly attacks women. Later she talks about how he attacks Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.

I don't remember Bernie Sanders saying anything about Kamala Harris. Yeah, neither do I. That's just totally made up. Well, but that's the thing. She gets to make these things up and she goes unchallenged. I mean, we challenge her, independent media sources challenge her. But the corporate press that she speaks to never challenges her. In fact, this whole docu-series that they're putting out about her doesn't even go so far as

to interview people that she's slandering in the context of these interviews, right? Monica Lewinsky, Bernie Sanders camp. I mean, she just like throws all these jabs and it goes unchallenged 100%. In fact, they asked the documentarians about it. They're like, no, no, we did try to talk to Hillary Clinton's appointment. ideologically, so we try to find conservatives. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what are you doing? No, the main divide has been within the Democratic Party, and the main people she attacks

is not Republicans. Other than Trump, she never talks ill of Republicans. In fact, there's a quote later in this story, she's like, well, if it wasn't Trump, you know, and it was just a normal Republican, you know, I'd have been fine with it. I'll give you the exact quote in a minute, okay? So, no, progressives are the ones she attacks and smears. And says all sorts of terrible things about it. But to the mainstream media, progressives are invisible.

Why would I talk to a progressive? They're not among the powerful. They're not in the club, they're invisible, they're nobodies. Why would you ever talk to a progressive? It doesn't even occur to them. So even as they're punching progressives in the face over and over again in the documentary, in this interview, it doesn't occur to them to talk to a progressives and say, hey, how do you feel about being punched in the face?

All right, last thing on the Kamala Harris Warren, et cetera. So to my knowledge, Bernie Sanders never attacked Kamala Harris, nor have his supporters really talked about her much at all. I don't know if you know this. She's out of the race. Hillary Clinton just did this interview. But Bernie Sanders is so-called trouble today because they say, oh, you're attacking Joe Biden too much.

So what happened to particularly pointing out women? So it turns out they're in a primary and they have made arguments against some of the candidates, Some of whom are males, some of whom are female. So look, let's just keep it real. Here's what they want. They want Bernie Sanders to unilaterally disarm in this race, right? They want Bernie Sanders to avoid criticizing, rightfully so, the candidates that he's running against.

He has, I mean, look, and I keep telling some of the Hillary fans out there who keep attacking him as divisive and oh, he plays dirty politics, give me an example. I am more than willing to admit I'm wrong. Show me an example of Bernie Sanders unfairly attacking his opponents on anything that's not related to policy. Because look, we're in a primary, he absolutely should and should continue to go after the records of these Democrats, their policy proposals, that's what the whole point of a primary is. Otherwise, why are we having debates?

Why are we even having this discussion, right? They just, they don't like the fact that he's right, that he's uncorrupted, that he walks the walk, talks the talk, and that he focuses on what he legitimately should focus on, which is policy. There's no end to their hypocrisy. Later in the interview, she said, you're probably not going to be treated fairly, don't let it knock you off her stride. Now she's just referring specifically to women there, but she mainly talked about herself.

Oh, I was just treated so unfairly, so unfairly. Okay, now there's actually some truth to that. I thought that they focused way too much on the emails, the mainstream media goes along with the Republican talking points on nonsense about Benghazi, et cetera, and so there were some unfair attacks against Hillary Clinton, that is true. Were there some sex attacks on Hillary Clinton from Republicans? Absolutely, what's she wearing, is she too shrill, all that stuff, that happened. Did it happen from the left?

Of course not, the left is more liberal, more progressive than the centrist corporate Democrats. But wait, you were talking about people who were treated unfairly in the primaries. Didn't you rig the primaries? Didn't you take stolen questions from Donna Brazil before a CNN debate? Didn't you limit the number of debates with your friend Debbie Wasserman-Scholtz? Didn't you run a money laundering operation through the DNC? This is unfair. You're being so divisive, Jim.

You're being so sexist and divisive by stating what the DNC literally did in 2016. But you were treated unfairly. Okay. And by the way, when they hide behind discrimination, after they do attack after attack after attack after attack. And if you ever criticize them, they go, oh, I'm gonna hide behind discrimination. You know what they do? They actually hurt the cause of fighting real discrimination so much because when a woman

is treated unfairly at work doesn't get paid the same amount or is God for it, sexually harassed, et cetera. Then a lot of guys turn around and go, well, okay, you know, look at these people, that all these crying wolf every time nobody's allowed to be criticized because they're a woman. Now, that's not remotely true. But Hillary Clinton and others who callously used gender as a political weapon allow that to happen. So wait, did the DNC conspire against a man or a woman?

Let's just remember, it was against a man. Did they do it because he is a man? No. But for you to claim, oh my God, I am the victim from the Democratic establishment is preposterous. So now let me get back to the Republican quote to give you a sense of how Republican Hillary Clinton is. Quote, if I had lost to what I would call a normal Republican with whom I disagreed on many things, but who I thought cared about the country and put service over self, I would probably

speak out and say we don't agree about that, but this is abnormal what we currently have about Trump, okay? So she still thinks Trump's an aberration. The other Republicans are great. They put service over self on which planet? Bernie Sanders is a terrible guy and I'm gonna call him every name in the book. But my beloved Republican friends, outside of Donald Trump, wait a minute, what do you mean outside of Donald Trump?

They all backed Donald Trump 100%. What Republicans are you talking about? If we had had a normal Republican, well, that would have been lovely, right? But Bernie, we can't have, we can't have him. He might end the corruption, then what would we do for a living? Well, yeah, exactly. And I wanted to make one final point about the sexism accusations, because I'm not kidding, you should read the full Hollywood reporter interview with.

Clinton, in the same interview, she argues that Bernie Sanders lodged a very personal attack against Elizabeth Warren in allegedly saying that a woman can't be president. Now, we've adjudicated this, we've talked about it. I don't believe for a second that Bernie Sanders said, I don't believe a woman could be president. But Hillary Clinton, in referencing that, tries to make the case that like, of course the woman can be president. What's the big deal? He's wrong. He's a terrible person for saying that. Then later, in the same interview, she talks about the unfairness that she underwent because she's a woman running for president, right? That sexism was such a huge problem during her candidacy. So look, you can't

have your cake and eat it too. You can't argue that sexism is a huge problem in the country and it forces women to jump through hoops and go through obstacles that male candidates don't have to go through. And then at the same time, argue that what Bernie Sanders allegedly told Warren is completely false and a woman 100% can be president, can be elected president. Like they make both arguments, establishment Democrats like herself make that argument and the other argument all in the same interview and it contradicts what they're saying. Yeah, well, I've got one last thing for you guys. First of all, look, Hillary Clinton like everyone else, if you look at the summaries of

the documentary and you read the interview, it's a complicated person, she all bad, of course And so there's a lot of parts of this where I had great sympathy or empathy for her. And so, well, she talks about her marriage and how difficult and complicated it was, but that they've been together for 50 years. And I think, get out of her hair on that, okay, that's not any of our business, that's her business. She talks about how there isn't on fair standard, again, I totally agree. I agree when the Republicans attack her in the emails, all that stuff.

I also agree when they say she should have left Bill Clinton, but then they say Bill Clinton is really popular, but she's unpopular because of that. That is fundamentally unfair to her and all women to have that standard. So she makes those good points if she just left it at that look, she makes other good points. She talks about how there are people on the left who donate money, but nobody bought a TV station like Murdoch did with Fox News, spent half a billion dollars building that up, Sinclair and all these things, and they do propaganda. There's so many good things that Hillary Clinton does talk about and can focus on, but

she chooses to focus on attacking progressives again and again and again. And so the final hypocrisy on the Me Too movement and all that is definitely not about Monica Lewinsky. I don't want to get back into that, et cetera. That's their personal lives and long gone. But they asked her about Harvey Weinstein and how she took money from him. And she said, well, how could we have known? This is a quote, he raised money for me, for the Obamas, for Democrats in general.

Now, she never apologized. Now, what you could say is, turns out Harvey Weinstein was a monster, I didn't know that. And so I feel bad about it, but I swear I didn't know, it's that you could do say a lot of things. Instead, never apologizes, okay, fine, but then goes and says, the Obama's did it too. It was the Obamas. The Obamas. Oh, I love Obama.

Bernie, it's not sufficiently loyal to the Democratic Party. But you know, Weinstein, I got nothing to do with Weinstein, man. You want to talk about me too? Are we having a conversation about me too? And then you turn around and go, why isn't it? I mean, I had to take his money. Obama took it too. Obama took it too.

Okay, so, all right. So in other words, if you've got money and you're part of the corruption, well, there was nothing we could have done. Nothing we could have done, okay? But if you're a progressive, they're going to come for you. And then last thing, guys, they do all of these attacks. And then when people on social media get upset, they're like, oh, look at the Bernie Bro is online. Look at how angry they are. Yeah, damn right, damn right. We're online. I'm considered

a Bernie Bro, and we're angry. Get over it. Log off Twitter, log off Twitter, or grow a set of balls and move on with your life, okay? It's a campaign. And if they can't handle us emphasizing policy that makes him a superior candidate, then you're not cut out for politics. Log off. Not only that, guys. Jesus Christ. As you can see from this, we didn't start the fight. And And we use social media, they use all of the media. They have all of the mainstream media on their side. And they continually punch us and attack us over and over again. And we'll punch back.

And when we respond on social media, they're like, how dare you? We own the media, we own all the money. How dare you try to fight back on Twitter? All right, that's it, defame them again, attack them again, and then cry once they ever respond to our vicious attacks. You guys can keep crying. No deal, no deal. You attack us, we attack back.

We got to take a break. When we come back, there's a story that's frustrating involving Bernie Sanders, and he might be in the wrong here. Oh, no, he's not, might be. He's definitely wrong. All right. So we'll give you the details on that and more when we return. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-Fing the Republic or UNFTR.

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So those are giant events. Obviously, don't miss a show any day. But make sure you're not turning to some mainstream media outlet on election days, okay, and on debate days. Come right here. Speaking of which, by the way, no, let me keep going on the comments first. Weston 614 says, Why is she being so divisive said no mainstream media figure ever? Right. That's true. 100% right. There's so many comments I want to read.

Eddie O'Donnell on Twitter says, where nobody's to Mrs. Clinton, the people she chooses to spend time with don't like Bernie. That's right. Millennial Gandalf says, Jenks totally right. Clinton's affirmation of that quote betrays the fact that everyone she knows is an elite liberal politician. Also true. Gonzo Tokyo says Hillary just convinced me to donate to Senator Sanders campaign again.

Same. Okay, and then last one for his YouTube super chat, James Williams Jr. says Hillary Clinton has some nerve lying about Bernie's record on women, like she gives a you know what. Can we talk about Bill Clinton yet and hold her accountable for that environment? But James, don't do that, okay? What Bill Clinton did is on him. It's not on Hillary Clinton, I think that is totally unfair. So we gotta be, keep it real.

And even when you get angry and frustrated that they're attacks against progressives, we gotta be better than that. Not fighting back, as you can tell, we fight back. vigorously, right? So none of that, if they go low, we go high. No, but at the same time, we always have to be fair because we're progressives and we're the good guys. All right, speaking of the good guys, John Irola on CNN tonight for the first time. So how do you like them, Apples?

It's at 9 p.m. Pacific, midnight Eastern. So we do have the clips for you guys later at t.y.com the next day usually. But check it out live, and it affects their ratings too, and it's more likely to have John and others on as well. So John Iderola tonight at midnight Eastern on CNN. Check it out. All right. Well, one other announcement.

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All right. So it's fun for everybody. I don't know about having dinner with us. I don't know if that's something you're into. I hope so that's fun. We look forward to it. But you do get flown out to L.A. So that's pretty neat. And your aspiration is really progressive and puts your money in good places. There's a lot of wins there. But my favorite part, because I hadn't seen the graphics yet, is the picture of the dinner in LA where Anna's front and center and I'm kind of peeking out like, hey, I'm also here.

I didn't even notice that. Hey, right here. I think that it accurately depicts what's going on here at TYT these days. Apparently so, what am I going to do? Hey, I'm also here. Don't forget me. All right, well, let's get to the rest of the news. Bernie Sanders made the grave mistake of apologizing for simply speaking the truth about

Joe Biden. Actually, it's worse than that. One of his biggest supporters, Zephyr Teachout, put out an op-ed in The Guardian that draws attention to Joe Biden's corruption and how money in politics swayed Biden's policy positions and votes. And so I'm going to give you a little bit of what the op-ed said. Then we're going to show you how Bernie Sanders unfortunately apologized on teachout's behalf. So in this piece, it's titled Middle Class Joe Biden has a corruption problem.

It makes him a weak candidate. Biden has a big corruption problem and it makes him a weak candidate. I know it seems crazy, but a lot of the voters we need, independence and people who might stay home, will look at Biden and Trump and say they're all dirty. It looks like middle class Joe has perfected the art of taking big contributions, then representing his corporate donors at the cost of middle and working class Americans. Converting campaign contributions into legislative favors and policy positions isn't being moderate. It is the kind of transactional politics Americans have come to loathe.

And one other excerpt that I really want to read to you, Biden's support for finance over working class Americans. His career was bankrupt by the credit card industry. He delivered for it by spearheading a bankruptcy bill that made it harder for Americans to reduce their debts and helped cause the financial crisis. He not only authored and voted for that bill, he split with Barack Obama and led the battle to vote down Democratic amendments. Now look, teachout's argument is easily verifiable.

There wasn't anything in there that was slanderous, there wasn't anything in there that was unfair. And I'm going to provide the proof of that in just a minute. But what really frustrated me and I think also frustrated you, Jank, is that Bernie Sanders received so much criticism because one of his supporters spoke the truth about Biden that he was pressured, in my opinion, to apologize. And here's what that apology look like. Saffer is doing a great job for us. She's a wonderful circuit. But on this issue, I strongly disagree. Look, Joe Biden is a friend of mine. I've known him for many, many years. He's a very decent guy. And Joe and I have strong disagreements on a number of issues, and we'll argue those

disagreements out. But it is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way. And I'm sorry that that uphead appeared to me. All right, let me be perfectly clear. Bernie Sanders is 100% wrong. I stand with Zephyr Teachout. I stand with David Soroto who tweet about it. The media is preposterous. Anna's right, there's not one thing in that article that is factually incorrect. Joe Biden has sold out to his donors a thousand times over. You don't want to call it sold out. You say, okay, that's my opinion.

Yeah, I do an opinion, sure, that is my opinion, but it is verifiable and provable. So did he take money from the credit card industry? Yes, he took millions. Was he known as the senator from MBNA, that was a credit card company back in the day? Yeah, you all know he was known as that. Why do you think he was known as that? And then did he push the bankruptcy, bill that the credit card companies wanted passed? Yes, did it make it harder for average Americans to get rid of their debts?

Yes. Did it make it near impossible for students to get rid of their debts? Yes, those are absolutely true. I guess the mainstream media, number one, they don't want to talk about it because then they would have to talk about the uncomfortable fact that all their friends that are corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats are frauds and they're corrupt. And they're frauds, the media are frauds, for never pointing that out, for never having a discussion about the most important issue in American politics.

By the way, it also polls at number one. So the voters all want to talk about it, the media never wants to talk about it because they are part of the corruption. That is all true. I guess their thesis is either if you force us to talk about it, we'll yell at you and say, how dare you be right? Apologize, you have done the gravest offense in Washington, which is to be uncivil. to someone inside the club.

If you're not inside the club, who cares? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's harder for you to get rid of your debts. Now, who cares you're an average American? But if you force them to talk about it, then they'll say, no, how dare you think the millions that these Democrats take corrupts them? That sounds vile to me. That's what Paul Krugman would say.

And that's what the entirety of the media said today. For Bernie to give into it, I don't, look, Bernie, I'll be honest with you. So people say, oh, you guys always unquestioningly support Bernie. No, we don't. We support Bernie when he's right, which is most of the time. And when he's wrong. And when he's wrong, we call him out. Here I am calling him out.

He's 100% wrong on this. Bernie, honestly, I don't give a damn that Joe Biden's your friend. I don't care at all. I think in fact that makes you biased. You should be honest about what Joe Biden is. Joe Biden is based his entire career on corruption. Now, not personal corruption like Donald Trump, but systemic corruption that is part of the cancer in this government.

So if you're not gonna be honest about it, sorry, I don't agree. wrong. Zephyr Teachout is right. I agree with you on that. And I think that it's important to share some specific numbers on Joe Biden's campaign in 2020. I didn't even go back to look at the entirety of campaign contributions Biden has received from the financial industry. I only focused on 2020. And the numbers should be concerning for all voters who want proper representation by our executive branch. So 2020 Biden donors, you could look this up yourself. It's on Open Secrets. From Morgan Stanley, he got $47,636.

Wells Fargo, nearly $47,000, Blackstone Group, $42,435, J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. $34,725. Do you think they're giving him tens of thousands of dollars in this election alone? So far, I'm sure they'll give more, right? You think they're doing that out of charity or because they want to keep them honest? This isn't keeping him honest. Obviously, he's gonna represent the individuals who are giving him all this money in his campaign. So I wanna challenge the rest of the media.

Are you guys ever going to do your job? No, they're not. So look, look, you have to answer this question. You'll ignore it and you'll say, hey, Jank, you raise your voice a little bit. And this is the club, we don't do that. We drink tea and we eat crumpets with our buddies. Okay, that's fine. But answer this question for me, that money from the banks, is it for charity?

Is it for their health, or is it to influence the politicians? Now, there's no one on planet Earth that can honestly say that it's anything but to influence the politicians. Now, when you try to influence a politician, now, for example, if, and Bill Moyers uses this analogy, if before a batter goes to step up to the plate, he handed the umpire, in this case, $42,000, would anybody think, oh yeah, let the umpire call bowls and strikes? I bet he'll be unbiased. At the very minimum, it's a massive appearance of conflict of interest, right? Do you guys ever point that out?

No, you never do. Isn't that weird? Isn't that weird? You would do it in baseball. You'd be outraged. You would ban people for life if they did it in sports. Right. But in politics, right before you're about to vote, they hand you $42,000, $47,000.

Actually, millions of dollars. Sheldon Addison gave $30 million to certain politicians. The NRA gave $30 million to Donald Trump. And that's not bribery? No, no, no, no. Just a mere fact of not pointing out that it's bribery shows that you're part of the corruption. Why are you covering it up? They do the crime and the media does the cover up.

All right, so rapid fire, because there's so many other parts of this story that I think you guys should know about. I gave you the numbers when it came to the banks. Look at the actual industries that contribute to Biden the most. Again, this is for 2020 alone. Jesus, look at these thumbs. those numbers. Securities and investment, nearly a million dollars, business services, over $6,700, I'm sorry, $670,000, miscellaneous business, nearly $400,000, miscellaneous finance, $328,000, commercial banks. Look, hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions if you add it all

together. That is corruption, guys. It's legalized bribery, it is corruption. And Biden's career is littered with examples of how this corruption has informed and impacted his policy proposals and what he's willing to fight for. In fact, let's go to this video. This is from January of 1995, where he brags about wanting to cut government programs. When I introduced the budget freeze years ago, the liberals of my party said it's an awful thing you're doing, Joe. You are all the programs we care about, you're freezing them, money for the blind, the disabled,

education and so on. And my argument then is the one I make now, which is the strongest, most compelling reason to be for this, but this amendment or an amendment. And that is that if we don't do that, all the things I care most about are going to be gone. I mean, whatever happened on old conservative discipline about paying for what you spend. I'm up for re-election this year, and I'm going to remind everybody what I did at home, which is going to cost me politically. I, when I argued if we should freeze federal spending, I meant social security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans men. I meant every single solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it

a third time, and I tried it a fourth time. I got to just say one quick thing. Biden was so aggrieved that the Sanders campaign drew attention to how he has consistently attempted to cut government programs, including Social Security and Medicare, right? Don't be aggrieved at your political opponent drawing attention and emphasizing your mistakes and your flaws in your political career. Be upset at yourself for thinking that it would be okay to do that and get away with it. You're not getting away with it. This is a primary. And for all the elitist losers out there, including Paul Krugman, who refer to individuals as vile for calling out this corruption, just understand that this is what an election is all about, and people are paying

attention. They're paying attention to the records, and the establishment media isn't going to get away with controlling the narrative on it. So they intercepted a great article showing that Biden has over and over and over again from 1984 to 2018 called for cutting Social Security. In that clip that you just watched, when he says freeze the spending, that means you don't get your cost of living adjustment, and then he's also talked about cutting the, raising the retirement age. Those are always cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. He just said it. He said he did it four different times. By the way, he did it many more times after that speech that you just watched. And what did the media do? Instead of saying, oh, wow, that's true.

Biden has a record of constantly calling for cuts of social security. They said, how dare Bernie Sanders point out that Biden has that record? They pretended that one of the videos was doctored when it was not They said, well, you know, Biden was being sarcastic. No, he wasn't. You could watch the video for yourself. And so, and then why? I've noticed that they've left out sarcasm in other contexts when it comes to progressives. But then they put in sarcasm that didn't exist for Biden and ignored every other video.

And his entire legislative record of wanting to cut Social Security. By the way, during Obama administration, they offered to cut Social Security in the grand bargain. But the media says, no, I will never report the facts to you. Instead, I will yell at Bernie Sanders and say that he's being uncivil by challenging our beloved Joe Biden. And then what does Bernie Sanders do? He goes and enables them by apologizing for Zephyr Teachout being completely factually correct. What are you doing?

You think they're your friends? Joe Biden's not your friend. The media's not your friend. Those guys look to undercut you and ruin you at every turn. So I get it, I get it, he wants to be Mr. Nice Guy. But by the way, we lost the 2016 primary because he was Mr. Nice guy. Because he wouldn't say Hillary Clinton is corrupt when she definitely is. She took the same money Biden did.

She had the same votes as Biden in the bankruptcy bill. Before she became a senator and started taking money from the banks, she was actually against the proposal. She then takes the money from the banks as a senator. And while she's for the proposal and votes with Biden and the banks. Bernie wouldn't say it, he wouldn't say it. And here he is again, not saying it, in fact, saying the opposite. We are fair on this show and we care about the facts.

The rest of the media on the other hand, all they do is smear, smear, smear, and they never talk about policy, and they hide Biden's record. They're actively hiding his abysmal record, and they know it, they're part and parcel of this corruption. All right, we gotta take a break. When we come back, Tucker Carlson understands. the threat of Bernie Sanders to the Republican Party. I wish Democrats realized it.

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It was technically in Jersey. Yeah, yeah, it was. It took a while to get back to the convention. All right, well, that's very nice of you, but no. How did we not get bedbugs? Okay, well, let's move on. Okay. Beefheart 77 says, I'm thinking about entering the dinner content. But I'm afraid I'd be distracted by Jenks' triceps. Oh, please, oh my God.

All right, come on, we got stories, we got stories. Okay, all right, so Carlton Fiske on Twitter says, Bernie Sanders was wrong to apologize for sure, but that's not going to stop me from supporting him. I don't want you guys to get the wrong idea. Look, when you support someone, that doesn't mean you have to agree with them 100%. Right. And just because you disagree on something, doesn't mean that's it, I'm out, I'm out, Bernie or bust, or never Bernie.

No, of course not, no, of course we still support him. We just wish that he, you know, that he was better on that issue. I want him to win, I want him to win, and you don't win by giving in or caving to people that you're right about, right? Yeah. Anyway. Corey Moore says, Bernie, please quit apologizing saying these other candidates are friends of yours.

Your supporters and circuits love you, want you to call out the corruption. We want to help you do that and want you to win the presidency for the future of this country. So look, that's what I would say to Bernie and any other progressive out there. Your friends are not the people in Washington. Your friends are your voters. The people who backed you all the way, especially for guys like Bernie. So remember who your real friends are. Okay, anyway.

And I really say that in regards to the voters and no one else. Okay. So John Vener on YouTube Super Chats as if Senator Sanders is the nominee, Establishment Democrats will endorse Bloomberg as an independent. Unfortunately, a lot of them will is my guess as well. 0 0.0.0.0.83 says love salty, angry Anna, and Jenks spit that fire spit that truth. Thank you. And the last one is Gabriel Arsari saying Bernie did what he did because he will sit on a jury under the impeachment trial. A trial Biden could be a part of. No. So I hear you. I understand what you're saying. That's probably why Bernie did what he did.

So it's a good point. But I don't agree. So those are two separate things. Trump does personal corruption. And you can call that out. You can defend Biden because he had nothing do with Hunter Biden. and get in that job, but still say, no, when you take money from corporations and do as they tell you to, that is systemic corruption. Those two things are separate. All right. Tucker Carlson is not a supporter or a fan of Bernie Sanders. However, he does understand that if Bernie Sanders were to win the Democratic nomination, Donald Trump would be in a lot of trouble. Now, he lays out this argument by focusing on what the reality is for the vast majority of Americans.

The economy is actually not doing that well for the majority. Take a look. Only 31% said the economy was helping them and their families. Just 32% thought the current economy was helping the middle class. 58% thought the opposite. Among lower income Republicans, 47% said economic conditions were hurting them. Just 30% said they were helping. Now, keep in mind, these aren't sociology professors from the Oberlin faculty lounge. This is the president's core, it's his base. Why do they feel that way? It's not personal.

It's just really simple. For a lot of middle class people, wages are not keeping pace with expenses. Child care, housing, education, health care, they're all getting more expensive by the year. The student loan bubble is still inflating. It's burdening young people with debts so large they can't start families. Now, these are economic problems, but they require a political solution. The candidate who makes it easier for 30-year-olds to get married and have kids will win the election and will deserve to win. Remember that.

It's truer than any economic theory conceived on any college campus in the last hundred years. Improve people's lives and they will vote for you, period. Republicans ought to write that on their hands. Otherwise, the temptation will be to focus entirely on the lunacy on display on the left right now. Democrats have gone crazy, and it's definitely worth pointing that out repeatedly. We do it five nights a week. But it's not enough to win. Winning candidates come with their own program.

They convince voters, they will make things better. So I'm sure that's stung for Donald Trump, who keeps boasting about how the economy is doing really well under his leadership. But the truth is, it's not doing well. And Bernie Sanders does have a message of economic equality that really does resonate with a lot of voters, and that does put Donald Trump at risk. And Tucker Carlson seems to understand that, even while Democrats keep arguing that Bernie Sanders has an electability problem. Take a look.

Bernie Sanders may get the Democratic nomination, and if he does, every Republican in Washington will spend the next 10 months reminding you that socialism does not work and never has worked. And they'll be right, obviously. But if Sanders pledges to forgive student loans, he will still win many thousands of voters who went for Donald Trump last time. Why? Because debt is crushing an entire generation of Americans. Now if Biden wins the nomination instead, the Tucker Carlson's and the Fox News and the Donald Trump's of the world will get to say, why do you have that debt? It's because of Joe Biden.

His bankruptcy bill said you cannot wipe your debt away if you're a student. Trump can wipe his debt away, but students can't. And they will be correct about that. That is actually factually correct. So you could either go with a nominee who they're going to easily lay. as anti-middle class, anti-students, or the nominee who says, I'm going to get rid of your student debt. By the way, how can you do that? Well, doesn't that cost a lot of money? It costs less than the tax cut that Donald Trump gave to the richest people in the country. So you actually

can do it, and you could do it fairly easily. And look, Tucker is massively wrong on issues. On some issues, he's the most wrong person in the whole country, especially immigration, and a lot of racial issues. Okay. But he is a populist. Or maybe he's faking it, I don't care. But his audience likes it. That's why he's number one now. And even the Republican audience watching Fox News goes, yeah, my wages aren't up. They're just not.

They're just not. They're forget the last 45 years. That's also true. But under Trump, they're not up. Did you see that stat he gave you? In this time when the economy's supposed to be doing good, and all the millionaires on CNN, and all the millionaires on MSNBC are telling you how wonderful their economy is, and all the millionaires at New York Times are telling you how wonderful their economy.

economy is. In reality, when you ask average Americans, including the Republicans, 32%, say no, 32%, sorry, say the current economy is helping the middle class, 58% say no, no, it is not helping. The middle class is not helping me. I haven't seen it. You know why you haven't seen it? Because it hasn't happened. Your wages have stagnated for the last 45 years, and it's not an accident.

The powerful in this country, through donations and campaign contributions, rig the economy to their benefit and against you. You got screwed. Now even some hosts on Fox News are realizing it. Meanwhile, corporate Democrats are going around with, oh, no, no, no, the rich will help you. Don't worry, let's just give everything to the rich. Yeah, exactly. Look, we gotta take a break real quick, but before we do that, I also wanted to make a quick

announcement. I'm not sure if you mentioned it. John Ida Rola is going to be on Cuomo tonight, and please check it out. Please support him. I'm really excited that John's going to be able to make his case and defend Bernie Sanders. So he will be on at 9 p.m. Pacific time, 12 a.m. Eastern time. Okay, so check that out. Please watch live, show your support.

We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work. Listen ad free. Access members, only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcast. at apple.co slash t yt i'm your host jank huger and i'll see you soon