The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - March 13th, 2020

Episode Date: March 14, 2020

Trump has declared a national emergency over something he called a hoax a week ago. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Erin Ryan, 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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But, okay. Our special effects budget is not high. No, no. I got to do it all on my own here. All right, Jake, you're John, I don't know. Aaron Ryse back, everybody, da-pada-da-da-da-da. See again, that's me doing the sound effects. So you guys know Aaron is the host of Hysteria podcast on Cricket Media.

You all know that. Don't pretend you don't. But did you know, as I found out earlier today, that she's also a writer on Always Sunny in Philadelphia? That's pretty cool. That's true. Hello, that's freaking awesome. It's true. It's a nice escape, I think, from the current madness to, like, inflict madness on imaginary jerks rather than watching real jerks inflict madness on each other.

Yes, I love that. That's true. Do you love that show? Oh, yeah. No, I see in every episode. Yeah, he's actually secretly obsessed. He's trying to play it cool. I'm obsessed.

I really like it. I'm obsessed. Obsessed. Let's keep it real. It's awesome, and I think it's an indictment of society that it's not more popular. It's ridiculous that that's not one of the biggest shows on TV. It's on 14 seasons. That's amazing.

That's amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing. Half our comedy in American history. Yeah. Wow. Is that true? In American history?

In American TV history. Take that, Lucille. Live action though, so like the Simpsons, the Simpsons can wipe the floor with everybody. Yeah, I got you. Still, still. Okay, and it's a, look, we love Brian Unger. He comes on the show, he's there. Danny DeVito secretly sometimes gives to some causes that we're part of.

So lots of love for always sunny and Philly. All right, so now that we're done having fun, onto disastrous news. Oh, yeah. Okay, so Trump has taken some action on coronavirus. So buckle up, brace for impact. No, some of it is actually good. And then we have very important updates. We've also taken action in further bombing Iranian interests.

So disease, pestilence, and war in the program. So it's Friday. Okay, John. Why don't we jump right into it? Yeah. Today, Donald Trump once again addressed the nation on coronavirus. And we found out right before he went live that he would be doing it off teleprompter. So I was excited for it, but he starts off serious declaring a national emergency.

To unleash the full power of the federal government of this effort today, I am officially declaring a national emergency. Two very big words. The action I am taking will open up access to up to $50 billion of very importantly, very important and a large amount of money for states and territories. their localities in our shared fight against this disease. In furtherance of the order, emerging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately, you're gonna be hearing from some of the largest companies and

greatest retailers and medical companies in the world. They're standing right behind me and the side of me. Yep, national emergency, two big words, one tiny brain. That was, like, no, no, if you say that, you don't get to be president anymore. That should be in the Constitution. I'm pretty sure it's not. So the fact that he's declaring a national emergency is actually very good. One of the things they were preventing is from states spending more money on Medicaid to help people

in case they might die. They were preventing that until today. And so national emergency frees up some of that to now go towards assistance. I want to come back to that because it's such an important issue. But in the midst of even doing something generally positive, he can't help but botch it and make a mockery of the whole thing. Very big words, two big words, why are we commenting on the size of the words when it's a national emergency? Because that's the first time he's read that sentence, because he had absolutely nothing to do with crafting that message, I assume. That's right. And even Ari Fleischer, who defends him all the time on Fox News, former spokesperson for Bush,

said after the teleprompter speech from the Oval Office, he's like, he probably should have read it before he went on air. And here, he's off the proctor, but he's like, and importantly or things that are important, I am told, dude, it's the most important thing, not only in the country, not only for people's health, but to get your attention, the thing you're obsessed about it, because you think it might affect your reelection. So can we focus for a second? Generally speaking, the answer is no.

And then I'll also get back to the companies he surrounded himself within a second. Yeah, I think it was more of a me emergency than an emergency because Donald Trump can only care about things in as much as they affect him and what he cares about. So he appears to be willing to push a grandma down some stairs in order to check on the stock market in its bed. You know, he doesn't really care about anything except his own reelection, his own chances at continuing to think of himself as this big, strong, rich businessman or a guy who plays one on TV at least.

That's exactly it. Yeah, and look, I know you're gonna talk about some of the corporations. I was hearing brand names dropped left and right, and a lot of people believe that, sure, this was to some extent to reassure regular people, but it was definitely meant to reassure the stock market after some horrendous weeks. And it appeared that they delayed the speech so that it would be happening right leading up to the close the stock market, so that it would look great at the end of the day. And look, it did rise significantly, at least in the short term.

with such promises as we're going to spend a ton of our money to purchase extra oil to put in the national stockpile rather than just investing it into renewables or something like that. And there were a few other changes, which I'm sure we're going to get to. But it was a very weird sort of cyberpunkky thing that it was just constant references to corporations, you'd have a government official and then a CEO, then another government official, then a CEO, and it's like government, private sector, back and forth constantly, who's actually in charge? I thought one thing that was really interesting about the timing of the announcement, which you talked about a little bit, is Friday after market close.

So that ostensibly gives investors three days to digest what he says and calm down a little bit. I was thinking about the last time there was a huge post-market close announcement when the markets were going crazy. I worked in finance in 2008. Did anything happen at that time? Don't remember. I was pretty drunk. No. It was a Friday, a weekend in September.

in 2008, went on Friday, after market closed, they announced that Lehman collapsed, Merrill was getting purchased by Bank of America, and then on Monday, stock still went crazy. So I think the timing of this announcement was sort of an admission on the part of the Trump administration to try that Trump's speeches are not helping. They're not calming anybody down. And so let's distance it as far as we possibly can from the next time the market opens. And I also think it was an admission that, like, you know, they don't know if they can stop the economic fall-up from this, which seems to be his primary concern.

Yeah, definitely. And so, look, they're way more concerned about the health of the markets than the health of the citizens. No question about that. So if you were doing, if I was doing a coronavirus event, a press conference, where I wanted to assure the country that everything was going to be all right, I would have surrounded myself with doctors and scientists. Instead, Donald Trump, being Trump and a Republican, surrounded himself with corporations.

It's like, now corporate America, don't worry, we're here for you. We're going to buy more oil, more oil than we need. We got the Fed pumping in $1.5 trillion to the banks. And don't worry, Johnson and Johnson, Exxon Mobil, we care about your health, okay? We're here for you. They're like, sir, you're supposed to at least mention the citizens. Right, right, the citizens are, I'm told, very, very important. I neglected to mention that earlier.

So what does he do, by the way, with all the corporate executives surrounding him? Shakes all their hands. Yeah, I think we can actually put up some B-roll. It's like, yes, he loves them to the extent that he will, maybe we can put that up. Well, you know, like take the entire power of the federal government and put it to their service. But having recently been exposed to coronavirus himself, he just goes around touching mics, touching them, touching hands. Stop adjusting it.

You know, I feel like this. Shaking hands with business leaders. I feel like this moment in American history is a sort of lesson on the dangers of carcinogenic self-regard meeting unbridled optimism, because Donald Trump thinks he can just bluster his way out of this, that if we don't get tested, if we don't have people get tested, then it's It's like we won't even know who had it and it's like they didn't exist. It's like I tweeted this the other day, but it was like after a weekend of partying in my 20s, I wouldn't check my bank account on Monday because if I don't know how little money

is in it, then it's like it doesn't exist. But that's not the truth. And I don't think Donald Trump has an ability to see further beyond the end of his nose. If he could, he would understand that it's better for markets to take care of the people in the country that he is leading. And that it is better for his reelection chances. is if he is honest and forthright and proves himself to be a reliable messenger in the early stages of this, he's already messed it up so badly that nothing that he can do can possibly get

that trust back. So, Aaron, you're like taking the words out of my mouth yesterday. He talked about the only thing that Trump knows is marketing. And to be fair to him, he's pretty good at marketing. He lies, he's braggadocious, all those things. But in marketing that works. And so, but you can't market your way out of this mess, because it's the disease doesn't care about your spin, if you will, it's in a no spin zone.

And so he's trying to just spin his way out. And part of that is hiding the numbers on the amount of coronavirus that actually is here in America and the number of people affected. But for God's sake, let's talk about actual health care. So in that regard, the national emergency helps because it frees up some funding that actually could go towards people's health care. And as Anna said on the show yesterday, it's funny, when- You've got a national emergency like this and everybody's worried about their lives.

What do they ask for? They ask for socialist. They say, hey, government, big government. I need you. I need your help. Oh, my God. The government's got to give money to protect people's lives. Well, that's true.

That's why we're for Medicare for all because if it's your life on the line, it doesn't matter if it's coronavirus or cancer or stroke, et cetera. Your life's on the line either way. And that's why Medicare for all would be the government. helping you to do that, and by the way, it's less expensive. But it's not just Trump. The same Democratic leaders who were furious yesterday saying, my God, why will you not release more funding for Medicaid for the state's people's lives are on the line, then turn around

and go, oh, but if they have something else, I don't care at all. No, I'm not going to give them Medicaid, Medicare, I'm not going to give them anything unless they've got the money for it because then there isn't a lot of press around it And I can get away with it. I mean, if you're actually really sick in a world where you only get government help when you have this specific disease, imagine being in a position where you're sick and you have to go to the hospital and you hope you have coronavirus so that it doesn't bankrupt you.

Because that's what the situation is that we're in right now. That's such a great point, I'm sorry, John. I hadn't thought of it that way. If you get sick at this specific moment, if it's coronavirus, it'll likely get funded. Certainly the tests will be funded and you hope that maybe the treatment will get funded. funded. But if you have another life-threatening illness, it will not get funded, and you will probably die if you don't have insurance or can't afford the deductible, et cetera. So some people might literally be doing what Aaron suggested, like, oh, I hope it's corona. Yeah, a lot of people

are really reckless with their health. They get chronic illnesses and stuff like that. Get something trendy, Jesus. But anyway, yes. And so you talked about the national emergency that might free up some money. We also have, supposedly, I would, I want to see the details on this, but they did announce they're going to be suspending interest on student loans. We'll see about that. I would say that if you understand the corrosive effect on the economy of people having to pay off that interest, you'd probably understand that having the debt in the first place is a million times worse, so maybe we should just cancel it. But that is what at least they announced they would do. Now, I can't help but remember that in the Oval Office address just a few days

ago, multiple things that Trump announced, the White House walked back the next day. So don't accept that any of this is necessarily true. You're gonna wanna check to see tomorrow. But we also had the rollout of a flow chart of how supposedly testing is going to work in the future. And so now many people finished watching this press release, frustrated that no one can answer the question, when will tests be available? I can say that my wife went to the doctor today for other health reasons, asked about

testing and the doctor said, we can't test here and we have no idea when we'll be able to. And I just watched that press conference, there was only vagus assurances that at some point something will happen, at some point more tests will be available. Not any way for you to know when you can actually get one. And one concern is the, if you saw that flow chart, the top picture was that there's going to be a website to help sort of do triage to find out if you need to get tested and what should happen after that. And they announced that Google is going to be doing it. He talked about how Google is going to do a great website, Unlike other websites, because he can't get through an announcement like this without attacking

the ACA. But after the press conference, Google, their communications Twitter account put out a statement from Verily, the development group responsible of this tool saying, we're developing a tool to help triage individuals for COVID-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area with the hope of expanding more broadly over time. Which does not sound like this is going to be available next week. And we're in a crisis right now.

This sounds like sure, maybe this is good, and maybe it will at some point be available. But you can't count on this be around. If we're at 10,000 cases in a week and a half, this won't necessarily be here to help us get through that. Wait, are they beta testing the website, like in the middle of this, not only the virus, but they're supposed to announce on that website what to do about the virus, and the site's It's not even ready? No, no.

I mean, it takes time to set this stuff up. And unfortunately, Trump has waited until five weeks into the U.S. for, like the U.S. focused part of this pandemic to do anything about it. Yeah, I think that this is, we're also learning day by day that being good at public health and being good at marketing are two totally different things. And everything, all of Trump's marketing muscles like you're talking about are actually acting in a way that is bad for the public at large when it comes to public health. During times of crisis, people need facts, they need reliable timelines, they need honesty.

They don't need bluster, overestimation, and the word vary 70,000 times talking about websites. Honestly, Donald Trump sounds like a guy who has only skimmed the summary and is trying to give an oral argument about the reading that he didn't do. And sometimes it's sort of funny when he's talking about, you know, he just had a meeting with a different country's president and he's like talking about, you know, the chief exports or whatever. That's sort of funny. This is so not funny. This is so terrifying to watch. You want an example of exactly what you're just saying there? We have a video. So let's get the telehealth video. So he was talking about telehealth, this concept, which he's apparently

very interested in. And here he is going off script to talk about why he finds so compelling. And care for patients. This includes the following critical authorities, the ability to waive laws to enable telehealth, a fairly new and incredible thing that's happened. And in the not so distant past, I tell you, what they've done with telehealth is incredible. That could have been the first time he's ever seen that word before, and I would have no idea. And I don't know what it is to this moment, because he's saying just, it's incredible thing that happened. And it's a thing that's amazing. I mean, and it is a testament to his complete being out of his depth here because telehealth

is something that for people in rural areas, I'm from a very rural area, it's really helpful. If you can't go to see a doctor in person or if you have something contagious or whatever, but if you're far away from a hospital and you want to get a checkup and you can talk to a doctor, a lot of Trump's base are in areas that really could benefit from knowing about telehealth and actually being able to utilize it. So he's so dumb. It's like he's own-goaling left and right. It's not even that he's missing goals for the other, like on the right side.

He's kicking him back into his own goal. It doesn't make any sense to me. And people are getting sick. But they're incredible self-goals. They're the biggest self-goals anyone's ever done. So now, if I had seen that and it was Joe Biden who had done it, I'd be concerned. And certainly the right wing would say, In the not too distant past, it's incredible.

What was that? What did you just say, right? Trump does it. We're used to. We're like, oh yeah, Trump, the imbecile. I can't put together a sentence. It's our president in the middle of a worldwide pandemic where people's lives are on the line. Yeah.

Yeah. And it would be one thing if he was just bungling, but at least could own up to it and learn from it. But we're gonna turn now to a video if we could get A4 ready. One of, I think, the most important moments from this Trump address was a very important question that I think a lot of people have been wondering about. Considering the slow response to COVID-19 from Trump, does he take some responsibility for standing in the way of actually addressing the crisis? Mr. President, Dr. Fauci said earlier this week that the lag in testing was in fact a failing. Do you take responsibility for that? And when can you guarantee that every single American who needs a test will be able to have a test?

What's the date of that? Yeah, no, I don't take responsibility at all because we were given a set of circumstances. And we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time. Wasn't meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we're talking about. So, of course, he doesn't take responsibility, he's never taking the responsibility for anything in his life. He'll say that, you know, we were handed regulations. They weren't meant for this. I mean, forget the fact that he's been president for three years at this point. And, you know, he fired the pandemic response team, was asked about that and said, I don't,

I don't remember that. That wasn't me. Somebody else did that. The buck stops literally anywhere. Go look for the buck somewhere. I can't see it. And he compared the response to this, to the response under Obama to H1N1 and lied about the response, because within the first month of cases in the U.S., they tested a million people back during that outbreak. In five weeks, we've tested 10,000, and he wants you to believe that he's doing a bang-up job, and they were losers back then. Yeah, I don't take any responsibility at all. I think that's what Truman said, right?

Word for word. And I think that that's what a lot of American presidents are really famous for. Hey, listen, man, it wasn't me. Oh, that was shaggy. That was shaggy. I think the quote is, ask not what your country can do for you. It ain't my fault. We're not doing nothing.

Ask what your country can do for me, for me, okay? It's not my responsibility at all, the United States president said in the middle of a pandemic when everyone's looking to him for reassurance. Because that also means later when things go wrong again for the hundredth time in a row, I'm going to tell you, it wasn't me, man, and not my responsibility. I'm just going to blame random other people. And I'm going to blame people from three years ago, even though I'm the one who shut down the pandemic office.

So he's, look, we all know he's a miserable liar. And even the maggot guys know he's a miserable liar, but they're like, yeah, but he owns the libs. Except when you get coronavirus, and then I guess he owned you. Yeah. Yeah, I think, well, first of all, he's never met the buck, never heard of the buck. He just, he takes pictures with millions of bucks a day. You know, he could be in, the buck could be just, you know, just some random.

in person. I think that it is a real chump move to be in charge of anything and not take responsibility for when things go wrong. You can't expect credit and not accept blame. And that's where we are right now, is somebody who wants all the credit and none of the blame. That's Trump 101. Yeah, and that's what the speech was. It was half deflecting to other people and making up facts to make it seem as if it's their fault and then half congratulating himself. And then having a parade of people come up to congratulate him as if we live in some tin pot dictatorship. But that's what he was doing. And in terms of like the need for like praise a couple weeks ago when we had at that point 21 cases or so, no one had died yet. And he was bragging. Why am I not getting credit?

No one has died. And today he was bragging that only 40 people have died. In a month, you don't think he'd brag if it's only 500? If it's only 2,500, what will he be bragging about in the future and demanding that you give him respect for? But look, he was asked a fall-up question because that was not a satisfactory response. So here is you meet you Alessendor with a response about that. First question is you said that you don't take responsibility, but you did disband the White House pandemic office and the officials that were working in that office left this administration abruptly.

So what responsibility do you take to that? And the officials that worked in that office said that the White House lost valuable time because that office wasn't disbanded. What do you make of that? Well, I just think it's a nasty question because what we've done is, uh, And Tony had said numerous times that we saved thousands of lives because of the quick closing. And when you say me, I didn't do it. We have a group of people.

I could ask, perhaps, by administration, but I could perhaps ask Tony about that because I don't know anything about it. I mean, you say we did that. I don't know anything about it. You don't know about the reorganization that happened in the National Security Council. It's the administration. Perhaps they do that. You know, people let people go. You used to be with a different newspaper than you are now.

You know, things like that happened. But this was an order. Please go ahead. We're doing a great job. Okay, so you can't see from that camera angle, but at that point they cut off her mic. They don't do that in press conferences in the White House, but they started doing it today. They cut off her mic for Trump to then talk over her saying, we're doing a great job. After blaming the doctor for firing the global pandemic response team, I think?

And if you're the president and you don't know that you disbanded your office to handle pandemics, And by the way, you're at a press conference in the middle of a pandemic, and that's news to you at this late date, then you are the worst leader that anyone has ever seen. You didn't bother ask anyone, hey guys, do we have anything to handle pandemics because we're in the middle of one? Oh, we shut it down? Who shut that down? Was it Tony?

You never even asked that before, but of course you know he shut it down. He knows he shut it down, but he can't help but be a miserable liar. Yeah, I mean, it also should be noted that the woman who asked him that question is a part of the demographic that Donald Trump loves to demonize every time he's in trouble. She's a well-spoken professional, intelligent black woman, and he has done that left and right during times of crisis, and I just don't think it's going to work this time. I don't think, I still think he doesn't understand how serious this is. Yeah.

Yeah, we've had to learn his language over the fast few years. nasty means woman of color, low IQ means black, let's see, crazy means better populist than me. I mean, he has these labels every single time, you know exactly what he means. But the thing is, there he has denied responsibility twice, and it turns out that under the law of there is always a tweet for that, Trump has talked quite a bit about responsibility in the past, and I figured, why don't I read a few of his select quotes about responsibility and leadership? Back in 2013, he said, leadership. Whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen,

you're responsible. Unless you're president, I guess. That's a nasty tweet. A nasty tweet. In 2013, he said, to be in charge, you have to take responsibility. You have to instill confidence. It's like being a conductor. Set the tempo. He quoted Winston Churchill in 2014. The price of greatness is responsibility. Well, then I guess we know you're not responsible and clearly don't have greatness. And then I also, I came across this, I can't believe that people haven't been sharing this one. In October 2014, during the Ebola panic, he said President Obama has a personal responsibility to visit and embrace all people in the U.S. who contract Ebola. Although, to be fair, he has been meeting a lot of people

with coronavirus recently and shaking a lot of hands. Oh yeah, a lot of hands shakery. And he doesn't quite understand that, like, in the press or today, one of the more disturbing moments was when somebody, a reporter pointed out to him that he stood right next to somebody in a photo who had tested positive for the virus. And he said, well, I haven't tried. It seemed like he didn't understand that not having travel doesn't mean you're not going to get it. He doesn't understand that, like, having a lot of confidence doesn't mean you're not going to get it. He completely didn't understand the way that diseases work. And just, and then he, his first response to it was, I don't know the guy.

I don't know who that photo was taken with. I haven't seen the photo, he kept saying. I haven't seen, well, I guess if he sees the photo, then the germ is like, activate, and it becomes an illness. It's like, I mean, I want to put my head in my hands, but I can't because of coronavirus right now. I don't get that, I haven't seen it. He loves denying that he's seen pictures that he 100% has seen, and you know he's seen it.

And it doesn't matter if you've seen the picture. It's not like, like if somebody goes to stab you, don't let anyone take a picture because that's what makes it real. It has nothing to do with anything. No, but in this case, it actually has a deadly effect. Why? So he usually denies that because he views the picture as evidence. And it's usually in a criminal action. There's a picture of you with Lev Parnas, who's now been arrested on some Ukrainian scam.

He says, I haven't seen the picture. There might be some pictures, but I haven't seen the picture. meaning like, oh, you don't have the evidence on me. And if I don't see it, then it is an evidence, right? But in this case, it isn't a criminal situation. And it doesn't matter if there's evidence or not. You either have the virus or you don't. The picture is irrelevant.

But the reason why there's deadly ramifications is that since he views the world that way, that is why he did not order up more testing as soon as the virus came out. Because he thought, if they don't see it, they won't think it's real, then the markets It will be stable and I'll get reelected. But again, that's not how a disease works. They're gonna get sick whether they see the picture or whether you test them or not. And he is such a megalomaniac, so obsessed with himself that he can only think about how it affects him. And that is why he's not getting tested so you don't feel like he's weak if he has it.

He doesn't let others get tested or he delayed it terribly. It's the number one problem right now we have with the virus in America that we can't test people because he thought, well, then if there's no evidence, they can't blame me. Is there a Winston Churchill quote for that? I'll have to look. Okay, well, why don't we take our first break? We have a lot to get to. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-F-The Republic or UNFTR.

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God, I hope not. Gabby Marita says March 13th, 2020, a national emergency declares a national emergency. Today, irony died. And Zeke the pickle hater writes in. Trump found two big words with a very, very large brain. Okay, Colorado Blue Blazor Regular writes in, look at Aaron coming out of the gate, heart, and me emergency, I love it. I did like that.

That's good. There's a lot of that love. So that's all the member section, but on Twitter, Bubba Kank says Aaron Ryan is a great host, have her on more. Okay, duly noted, thank you guys. Back to the member section, Sanders waving hands says MSNBC today was all about questioning why we don't have more social safety nets. Well, there is one program you all despise on MSNBC.

It's called Medicare for All, and it's kind of a social safety net. And then a couple of YouTube superchats. Nick Gibb, the Progressive says, I love you, Jank. Well, I love you back. Thank you. And thanks for using YouTube Super Chat. Now, this one is sad. Luck, Dragon, writes in, Mother with four cancers, one stage four, and terminal.

and nephew who's susceptible to sickness and a father who's working himself to death at 61 for barely $40,000 a year. Hashtag veterans for Bernie, hashtag Medicare for All. We need to treat everyone who's sick in this country. Not just people who have coronavirus, that's very important, but anyone who's sick, anyone whose life is in danger. If your life is in danger because of a crime, we have a public government, office for that is called the police department. If your life is in danger because of a fire, we have a fire department that is public, it is government, it is socialism, whatever you want to call it. And if your life is in danger because you're sick, we also need a government

office for that. Not all of medicine, just health insurance. The primaries are not over. If ever there was a case for voting for one person based on one issue, this is it. And there are, of course, very important elections on Tuesday. And we will cover them on Tuesday. And there's a debate on Sunday. I'd be, there's some of you asked about the moderators and whether they'll ask any legitimate debate questions or maybe even leaked their questions to Joe Biden. At this point, I wouldn't even be surprised, honestly. And it happened last time around. So it's not like it's an outrageous claim. And, and I've asked the moderators to ask specific questions of Joe Biden. That would be mildly challenging on this.

issue. I would be shocked if they did. Instead, they'll probably turn back around and ask Bernie treating people who are sick in the middle of the coronavirus. How are you going to pay for that? That is what they have asked every time and we'll likely ask again. Yeah, even as we're in a situation where the fact that we don't have that system has resulted in a panic that has erased trillions of dollars in value. We don't have to, we don't have to talk about how much that's cost us. It's amazing. Look, I don't think they're going to leak the questions. I think they're going to ask incredibly boring questions designed to provide an easy path for Joe Biden and have nothing that shakes up the race.

They don't have to leak him. Every question to Biden's good at ease. If they gave it to him, you'd think that would really help, honestly. Anyway, I just mean that he's a bad debater. I don't mean anything else. Anyway, okay, why don't we talk about some more nice? Okay. While the world is dealing with the spread of COVID-19, the American Empire has not shut down

and is in fact quite active in certain parts of the world, including in our world. Iraq. The U.S. military said it had launched defensive precision strikes early Friday morning against targets linked to the Iran-backed Khatib Hezbollah group, calling them a proportionate response to a rocket attack that killed one British and two American service members on Wednesday. That is their language. Just bear that in mind. Marine General Kenneth McKenzie Jr. said, we assessed that each location stored weapons that would enable lethal operations against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. We also assessed that the destruction of these sites will degrade Katai Pesbalah's ability to conduct future strikes.

It was unclear, though, if any militiamen were killed in the airstrikes, although McKenzie said he expected fatalities. And there were fatalities that have been reported, but they were not confirmed to beat militiamen, and it appears that security personnel of the Iraqi government, as well as at least one civilian, were killed in that attack. Yeah. I think there's a bit of a mixed issue. So you've got two Americans in a British national who were killed in that rocket attack.

So normally when that happens, we do counter strike. So it's not, to me, it's not as nearly as egregious as killing Soleimani, which was inviting a disastrous war. But notably the attack that we think came from Iraq and Iran, and Iraq is complicated because it's not the government of Iraq. It's a militia within Iraq, but that represents, that is recognized by the Iraqi government. So yes, it does get complicated. But their attack against us was on Soleimani's birthday, so as a counter strike to us killing

their top general and one of the top officials in their government. So that did precipitate this whole round of attacks. But in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that both we and Iran are massively suffering from, instead of coming together, we're bombing each other to pieces. I mean, if anything describes humanity in the year 2020, this is it. Yeah, I'm really, I mean, and I hate to speak to my anxiety because sometimes I worry that we're giving them ideas. But I am really worried about the shock doctrine of it all. Like, as the pandemic is happening, I'm worried that there'll be some sort of Patriot Act type thing that is voiced upon us.

A war with Iran is something that I could see a president that will do just about anything to get people's, get headlines in his favor. I just, I'm so worried about any news about military action right now because I'm so worried that it's, to lead to opportunistic, power-grabby, military-industrial complex actions. While we're not paying enough attention, we don't have the resources to handle what's happening back home. Yeah, I mean, the pandemic has hit us so hard that, like, it's easy to forget that, like, the whole Soleimani thing where every day we were worried, are we going to launch attacks inside of Iran, that was like a month and a half ago.

That was not so long ago. And we've so moved on already, but Trump could, he could strike that whole thing back up any time. And I share your fear. I think the more pressure that's put on Trump, the more worried he is about his reelection chances, the more likely he's going to go to one of the oldest plays in the book, and that is to launch an attack and hope that everyone rallies around you. Trump's base 100% would.

And I worry that others who aren't necessarily big maga heads, especially in the time where they're terrified of what's happening, they might feel that same. of knee-jerk response and find it appealing. Especially as Trump and Fox News are trumpeting a foreign virus that has attacked us. So these are dark times. Normally in a movie, these type of times bring us together. When aliens attack all of us at once, we all get together. When there's a worldwide disaster, we all get together.

But not in the movie called life. So if you think coronavirus hit us hard, wait until you get a load of Iran. Iran is right now digging mass graves. I want to show you some of those because of how hard they've been hit by the coronavirus. It's one of the most affected countries in the world. And get a load of what has happened there. So these are graves the size of football fields because of how many cases there are in Iran. And people visit, they're trying to figure out how to dispose of the bodies.

People visit cemeteries in the Iranian New Year that comes up on March 20th. They have to get ready for that. They can't go through the normal Muslim rituals and the burials because that involves cleaning the bodies and they're worried about cleaning the bodies and et cetera. Iran's foreign minister has coronavirus. So does one of the top advisors of Hamei Al-Aqbar Valiati, 23 of their 290 members of parliament have coronavirus, two have already died from it. Several vice presidents have tested positive, they have many vice presidents there.

One of the top clerics in the country has also tested positive and has also died. So it's ripping through countries like Italy, Brazil, China, and definitely Iran. So while in the midst of them digging mass graves and us declaring a national emergency, we're We're bombing one another. Unreal sometimes what humanity does to itself. Yeah, I mean, and having a national health-related crisis brings into relief how much we can't afford war. If we can't afford Medicare for all, then why can't, why can we afford war?

Like right now, we need to take care of what's happening back here and not aggressively try to do tit for tats overseas. It's just not, it's never the right time, but it's really, really not the right time. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't we turn to another story. It's quite a few that we want to get to with what remains of the hour. This is the sort of story that considering what's going on in the world, you're probably unlikely to hear much about, but it's a tragedy and I think we need to acknowledge it. A 19 year old woman who's pregnant traveling from Guatemala wanted to get into the United States so that she could work and send money back to her family. But because

there was a border wall, she had to attempt to climb it. And she fell from the border wall and died because of those injuries. Her name was Miriam Stephanie Giron Luna. She fell as she tried to climb the steel mesh barrier near El Paso. This is on Saturday. She was traveling with a 26-year-old man believed to be her partner and the baby's father, fell more than six meters. The man eventually found U.S. Border Patrol agents called for an ambulance to rescue her. She was taken to the hospital where doctors tried to deliver the baby. I believe she was seven months pregnant. Some are saying seven, some are saying eight months pregnant. But she was very close to birth when she was injured. and she died of those injuries.

Media reports say that she was a social worker and a beauty pageant winner and wanted to reach the U.S. to help her family financially. And in that area, supposedly, before there was a wall, a lot of people crossing from Guatemala specifically would present themselves to Border Patrol. They would come in, they would present themselves, and then hopefully be able to spend some time in the U.S. But now they have to climb over the wall. And so it's like 100, 100% needless.

So this person was just coming over to try to enrich to work, to help the U.S., to help her own family too, which obviously much needed it, and died because we decided to put a wall there. Well, I'm sure that the pro-life movement in this country is livid, livid. Not only for the poor 19-year-old woman who died, but for the eight-month fetus inside her body who passed away. and right now they're calling for tearing down that wall. Oh, right, no, they're not at all. Couldn't care less. Haven't said one word about it. When it's used for political purposes to take rights away from women, they're enraged

and will vote on that issue and that issue alone. When you have, whether it was the jail in Milwaukee run by a Trump supporting Republican sheriff who shackled a woman who was pregnant. and would not get her medical help and her baby died during delivery. Pro-life movement didn't care at all, loves that sheriff, because it's not really about life, it's not about the fetus, it's not about any of the things that they claim it's about. Has a single anti-choice leader in this country made a statement about this? Because I know they don't care about normal human beings, the ones that are actually alive.

The idea that they would care about a 19-year-old Guatemalan is unthinkable. There's no way they care about that, but there was a fetus involved, guys. Nope, nothing, nope, beloved Donald Trump, thank God he built the wall. And I'd be shocked, honestly, if there wasn't a bunch of right wingers in this country that saw that news story and celebrated it. Yeah, all I have to say is if the pro-life movement in the U.S. doesn't want to be seen as a movement that is actually kind of trying to backdoor be proponents of a white ethno state, They're doing a very bad job.

They clearly don't care about brown women, about brown babies. They don't care about the extremely high maternal mortality rate among black mothers. They don't care about anything unless it is a white woman or a white baby or it's a way to enforce the consequences of sex on women as punitive. And this is a perfect example of something that everybody on the right side of the issue will say, oh yeah, of course, of course this is what happened. But people on the wrong side of the issue aren't going to care about. This is like the most, this is like a cocktail of all the frustrating things about what's wrong

with this country right now that aren't coronavirus related. Yeah, I guarantee you they're right wingers, hundreds of them, if not thousands of them right now that when they see this story go, she had it coming. That's why we built the wall, you shouldn't try to climb it. You think there aren't those guys right now saying no, she shouldn't have tried to climb it. Just ask family members, ask your neighbors, I guarantee you, that's the first thing they say. Because that's what the right wing has become now.

And they still can't see that they're the bad guys in the movie. Like people who say a 19 year old girl who lost her life and the life inside of her, because at eight months it's viable, falling to her death is not a tragedy, but it's something to celebrate like, ha ha, the wall worked. And you don't get that you're the bad guy. That's amazing to me. Okay, we're going to take another break, a little bit more out of this. At TYT, we frequently talk about all the ways that big tech companies are taking control

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All right, back on the Young Turks. Let's go to YouTube super chat first, start out light. Luke says, oh, crap, they actually read these. And we do. Yeah, well, there it was. Dax Collins says, thank you for being the lighthouse we're going to need. Thank you, Dax. We appreciate that.

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So let's check it on it here at t.com slash go. Yesterday we asked to get over 160,000. There we are. 106,000. I don't know how in the world we would do it over the weekend. But if we get to 170 over the weekend, that would be amazing. Thank you guys for participating. and for being our lighthouse.

Brooke Dabba writes in, Bernie needs to come out guns blazing on the next debate. He needs to ask questions about Biden's record that the moderators will not. I read you that one because there's about a dozen more that said the same exact thing. So it's just set up to protect Biden so much in every way. The time constraints, the fact that they'll move on to another thing, the way they frame everything. It is so hard to actually do what we wanted to do. I know. This one, and again, this is in the category of sad, but this is, this is why we read them.

This is important for you guys to know each other's experiences. In the member section, Cornelius, it starts out funny because they handle, Cornelius Pop was a bad dude. Okay. It's a great handle. It is a great handle. But, but they say, I live in Hawaii and until recently worked in an Asian-dominated tourism, I have all the coronavirus symptoms.

I called the doctor. She informed me they're only testing select individuals over 65, and they call back if my shortness of breath gets so bad that I can't complete sentences out. This is nuts. They wrote. And we couldn't agree more. I mean, what kind of a brutal country do we have? And how incompetent is our leader that he didn't order the test?

And now you can't get a test unless you almost can't breathe anymore. It's almost as if the whole country is saying, I can't breathe. So that's where we are, which leads it unfortunately, perfectly to the next story. Keep America great. That's what I say. Yeah. Keep America as great as it needs to be for you to potentially die from something we should have been ready four months ago.

Okay, we've had reasons to believe that Donald Trump for some time, his slow response in terms of making sure that people who believe they might have been exposed to coronavirus could get tested for it is involved. his fear that the number of infections going up will make him look bad. And that could potentially hurt him. We are in a reelection bid for him after all. Well, that hypothesis has turned out to apparently been true. In an interview with NPR, Dan Diamond, a reporter for Politico, gave an account of Alex

Azar and Donald Trump, and their conversations recently about this. So he said, in the case of Alex Azar, he did go to the president in January. He did push past resistance from the president's political aides to warn the president the new coronavirus could be a major problem. There were AIDS around Trump. Kelyan Conway had some skepticism at times that this was something that needed to be a presidential priority. That should have some fall of questions for her the next time she's on CNN.

But he goes on to say, but at the same time, Secretary Azar has not always given the president the worst case scenario of what could happen. By understanding his Trump did not push to do aggressive additional testing in recent weeks, and that's partly because more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president has made clear, the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his potential re-election this fall. Wow, just when you thought he couldn't get any more callous. So this is what we were referring to earlier in the show.

Trump thinking, well, if they don't know they have the disease, then they won't blame me, and the markets won't go down, and I'll get reelected. So if that story is true and he did not order the test, which is the number one problem we have right now in dealing with the virus, we cannot get the tests. There's almost none available here. And he ordered, it's because he didn't want you to find out if you have the disease so he could look better. There's literally almost nothing that a president could do that's worse than that. But breaking into the political offices of the other party, what Nixon got driven out of office for seems mild by comparison. So look, I know we went through an impeachment.

I know everybody knows he's a monster and has accepted that he's a monster. I know the Republican Party will back him no matter what happens, no matter if they know this is true or not. In fact, the Democrats have a relief bill for the coronavirus right now, and the Republicans have held it up because they don't want to anger Donald Trump. They agree with it. They would pass it today, but they're afraid that Donald Trump will say something mean about them if they work with the Democrats on a relief bill. So this is what the country has come to with this kind of monster in charge that doesn't care about your health, your well-being, or even your life.

The only thing he cares about is me, me, me, me, and his stupid reelection. Yeah, I think, you know, in addition to Donald Trump not inspiring confidence as a leader, or somebody who has a soul, take a look at the other people who are in charge of this response, Mike Pence, who oversaw an AIDS outbreak when he was governor of Indiana. We have Alex Azar, a bona fide zealot, an actual zealot in charge of HHS. And below him, we have Seema Verma, who is constantly trying to grab power. She's basically like a suckup with no soul, a kind of Kellyanne Conway, but of HHS. And in fact, on Monday, during that same interview that Dan Diamond did with Terry Gross,

he talks about how on Monday HHS's email went down. And the reason it went down was because Sima Verma was running. an email test for her department, and she didn't tell anybody about it. And then after they took away responsibilities for her own email, like her division's email, she ran to the White House to complain in the middle of a pandemic that she wanted email responsibilities back. That's who, those are who are in charge of this response. It is a president who's only thinking of re-election so much so that he's trying to repress test results, Mike Pence, Alex Azar, and Seema Verme. Yeah, yeah, and it's amazing.

So we read this, we think it's important that you know it, I don't understand, and look, nobody wants to go through any more investigations, it's probably a waste of time and it's grueling mentally and emotionally, but how does this not lead to investigations? An assertion that he doesn't want the testing because it might look bad is insane, should be criminal. And by the way, kind of easy to believe because just like less than two weeks ago, he was talking about the people on the cruise ship that are being held. And he said, you know, I was told they want to take some of those people off, but I don't

want the numbers to develop for something that's not our fault, you know, so I don't want them to come off. Like he said there, I don't want the numbers to be higher. I would rather leave people in a situation where they won't be getting as good care. They can potentially expose thousands of other people to the disease. I don't want the numbers to go up. And so if there are any communications to this effect, we need to know that. This should not result in him being removed from the president.

The result should be him being thrown in prison if people have died as a result of his choice. And by the way, you've probably seen multiple doctors have said that they have started to conduct testing and been told by the CDC to stop testing people for coronavirus, implying that they actually had the kits but were being told not to use it. Now, it seems insane that some doctor at the CDC, some official at the CDC, would just unilaterally say, you know what, they're worried about a cluster. And by the way, lots of people died in the Seattle cluster that a doctor was trying to investigate and was told not to, that they would choose to stop that. It seems as if somebody must have given them a directive to not do that. And I don't know, I'm just an idiot on the internet. But someone should be looking into this.

So remember, he also hasn't had himself tested from what we understand. understand if we believe him. And we know he's been exposed to at least two people who have tested positive. But it's all about theatrics. It's all about showmanship and marketing. And if you don't know the truth, well, then you can't blame Donald Trump. And today in the press conference, he said, I don't have any responsibility at all for this. And the reality is, no, you have tremendous responsibility.

And on the live show, I just read comment from one of our members where they explained that they seem to have all of the symptoms of the coronavirus and they talked to a doctor and the doctor told him, here I'll quote this person again, call back if my shortness of breath gets so bad that I can't get complete sentences out. Because there's no test kits because Trump wouldn't order him so he didn't look bad. This is the monster that's in charge. You know though, for the folks who know this story and still support Donald Trump, I actually feel worse for you than Donald Trump.

Because you look at all down and you go, so what, he's my guy, I don't care, I don't care if people get sick, I don't care if they get tested, I don't care if there's no test kits. The most important thing is we have to protect the vanity of Donald Trump. That's probably the sickest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, Make America Great belongs on a few headstones, it sounds like. Remember, the virus doesn't give a damn if you're a Republican, doesn't care if you are a MAGA guy, it's not about Republicans, Democrats, or independents. Everyone gets the virus if they're exposed to it.

So you can cover for Trump all you want, but if you get it and you, especially because we didn't have enough test kits, and we didn't know who to contain, so it's spread and spread and spread, there's a very clear answer to who was responsible for that. All right, so sorry to end on a sour note for this hour, but that is the news we have today. When we come back, there are some amazing stories. We have a second hour for you guys. If you haven't heard what happened to Andrew Gillum, that's a fascinating story, don't miss

that. But hey, we got good news, Katie Porter doing a wonderful job of fighting back. There's a progressive congressperson, and everybody, don't forget to check out damage report. That's John showed on the network, and, of course, hysteria on Crooked Media. That's Aaron's podcast. So Aaron Ryan, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Thanks for having me, guys.

All right. Whole other power panel when we return. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work, listen to ad-free, access members, only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at apple.com slash t-y-t. I'm your host, Shank Huger, and I'll see you soon.