The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - March 3rd, 2020

Episode Date: March 4, 2020

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Oh, turns out a big day. What is this? Jake, you're Granite Kasparian, not a big deal, just Super Tuesday. Yeah, it's a super big deal. Yes. Yeah, it's a huge day. Yeah, look, this day is as big as it gets. The only day that'll be bigger is the November election.

So it might be over today. It might not. Okay, that's why, oh my God. I mean, if you haven't seen the latest polls, Biden's closing on Bernie. Close the on Bernie. So he is within seven in California and is retaking the lead in Texas. I want to remain in a good mood because this might be the last day that I feel any bit

of happiness for the rest of this election cycle. So let's just wait, let's just wait, let's not panic. I'm gonna vote for panic. Okay, I'm kidding. Look, we got an hour of news here, and I got to tell you something really important right now. But before we do that, I just, again, the coverage starts at 7 o'clock Eastern because that's when the polls start closing. Obviously, we've got a ton of states across the country. 8 p.m. Eastern.

The, our election coverage. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we are doing Super Tuesday coverage, obviously. All right. I just know that Mayor to Bill de Blasio is joining us next hour, and that's part of the coverage as well. Okay, anyways, so Texas, California, so many others. But first, let me tell you guys something that we're launching now that's really, really important.

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polling did not merit. Bernie Sanders is one of the frontrunners and that's not an accident. And if there's going to be all this media attention on Buttigieg, which there has been, like yes, we got it, Norwegian, piano, all of that, what about what you did? For some reason, the media treats him with kid gloves. They're so against going after him on very significant policy issues. It is increasingly difficult for the American public to get any sort of truth. The majority of America might turn on the evening news for a little while and just unfortunately don't get informed.

Logic is irrelevant. Facts are irrelevant. The only thing they got is fear and hatred. Things are different this time around. They always work from a point of fear and trying to second guess potential pushback for Republicans. It's a position of fear and lack of control. There's some chance that Bernie is going to have it. uprising like no one's seen before. And it's going to absolutely shock the establishment. They all say, we need someone who can beat Donald Trump. You know what they never do after that? Pull out the head-to-head polls with Donald Trump and show that they're the one to do it. You have these wine cellar meetings and you have these big money donors and that doesn't necessarily

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Go forward. All right. Me rolling my eyes at myself. Let's, we got stories to do. Okay, we got stories. Yeah. All right, sometimes Jesse Waters says things that are so incredibly stupid that his own co-hosts on Fox News can't help but roll their eyes at him. And that calls for one of my favorite branded segments, Dumb Fox.

I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens. I'm from San Diego, man. Those are my tacos. The sweets have pure jeans. Finns are the Finns. So they have a pure society. Shut up and dribble. This time, the topic of discussion was on the five, and they were discussing the coronavirus.

And Jesse Waters has some strong feelings about the Chinese. He feels that the Chinese government owes America a giant apology. He explains why in this next clip. I'd like to just ask the Chinese for a formal apology. This coronavirus originated in China, and I have not heard one word from the Chinese. A simple, I'm sorry, would do. It would go a long way. I expect a formal apology tomorrow.

It doesn't matter if it comes from Chi or the embassy. And I think all of my colleagues around this table will join arm and arm with me, also demanding a formal apology from the Chinese people. It didn't start here, Dana. And I'll tell you why it started in China. Because they have these markets where they're eating raw bats and snakes. They are a very hungry people. The Chinese communist government cannot feed the people.

And they are desperate. This food is uncooked. It's unsafe. And that is why scientists believe that's where it originated from. So he gets paid to be that stupid. And it's unbelievable to me. But it's Fox. So that's what you can expect.

Let me give you the actual details of the coronavirus and let me also note that there are parts to this story, parts to this virus that are misreported constantly. So it's not just Fox News, I see all sorts of propaganda out there. And of course it leads to hatred towards certain groups of people, in this case the Chinese and people coming from Asia, it leads to unnecessary fear. But here are the facts that we do know. Coronavirus did likely originate from bats, but rumors that Chinese people, infected themselves with tainted bat soup or broadly doubted by experts.

It's unclear exactly how the first transmission occurred because the wet market, where it is thought to have originated, has been disinfected by the authorities. However, the vast majority of these cases have been confirmed to be person to person contact. As news of the Wuhan virus spread online, one video became emblematic of its claimed origin. It showed a young Chinese woman supposedly in Wuhan biting into a virtually whole bat as she held the creature up with chopsticks. So I'm gonna show you a quick still of that video. And so people saw that and they thought, oh, this is where it originated from.

She's a Chinese woman, she ate a bat and that's how the virus was transmitted from the bat to a human. Except this is a photo that was taken by a travel show host back in 2016 and it wasn't even in China. Oops. Yeah. So look, I get it, people are going to panic, people are going to say crazy things, they're going to freak out.

I think the media likes to sensationalize stuff like this a little bit. I'm not trying to minimize the coronavirus, it's something that should be taken seriously. But at the same time, the way that it's been like exploited for these sensationalistic stories is just gross. And the way that it's being used by bad faith actors at Fox, for instance, just to stir a patriot toward the Chinese is also incredibly gross. Yeah, look, I know people want to joke around on air, and I get it, we've joked around on air, and it's fine.

But look at the manner in which it's being done. So just, I want you to think about it because if you're in the same ethnic group as them, you might not even recognize. It's not your fault, because we all live our different perspectives and, et cetera. But he's blaming Chinese people, and everybody's laughing. oh, that's funny, because they all, none of them are Chinese, and they think it's funny to say Chinese people eat bats as stinks, and that's why they unleash the plague on the world. Because, you know, in America, we don't eat anything gross and questionable.

Yeah, but like, so what's the funny part? So is it funny because, ha ha, the Chinese are weird? So is he joking or is he not joking? Because is he saying that it is the Chinese? It's not really like it would be a joke if it's not really the Chinese people's fault and he and there's Chinese people on the panel and they're kidding around and it's kind of a family atmosphere. That's okay. I get it, right? But where's the joke? I think he does mean it. I don't think he's joking. Yeah, I mean, I think they're laughing because they're uncomfortable, right? Yeah, I think his co-hosts are laughing because they're uncomfortable. I think that's clear. Yeah, but where's the punchline? Where's the punchline? So is the punchline Chinese people are gross? Is that the punchline?

So look, guys, my kids are Chinese, my wife's Chinese, so obviously my kids are half Turkish, half Chinese. And I don't know, are they going to go to school now and people are going to say, do you guys eat bats and snakes? Did you guys cause the coronavirus? Is it your fault? Are you gross? So, you don't, you just, they don't care about it. To them, the Chinese are the others. It never occurs to them that Chinese are also Americans.

Like hey, we have a lot of Chinese Americans in this country. And for guys like Jesse Waters, and he did a segment about Chinatown where he said awfully racist things a little while back. It actually made Ronnie Chang's career, the comedian who then fought it back on the daily show, et cetera, and it's a wonderful comic now. But Jesse Waters has a history of thinking it's really funny. to make racist jokes about Chinese people with no punchlines at all. I know, I mean, but that's just who he is.

And I'm, to be honest with you, I'm not even interested in, like, judging him as like this immoral, racist, xenophobic, whatever person, like, that's just who he is. And I know what we're dealing with with him, right? But the problem is he spreads this type of misinformation that, you know, first of all, leads to people being misinformed and not really knowing how to deal with the coronavirus or how to to prepare for the coronavirus. I mean, he's talking about, oh, the Chinese government, maybe even the Chinese embassy, they owe us an apology.

I don't know, I spoke to your ex-wife. She thinks you owe her an apology for cheating on her with one of your producers and leaving her for that. How about that? I'd like to see that apology. By the way, a scumbag. Okay, so when Anna says that, I swear to God, everyone who's on TV and the elites will be so mad at her.

Good, be mad, don't care. And they'll think, well, Jesse Waters is just making a racist joke. That's benign. You insult to someone inside the club, Jesse Waters. That's not acceptable. And you did it in a personal way, whereas he's just smearing billions of people, and that's fine. And now everybody thinks they're savages, and that's, that's, in the club, that's totally acceptable. But talking about your personal failings, if somebody else in the club, not acceptable, right?

I just really care about family values, you know? I don't know, do you guys care about family values? All the people who are clutching their pearls at what I just said about Jesse Waters being a scumbag. And so, look, I'm an American, we, unfortunately, it was our country that started Iraq war. Jesse, did we ever, now I was dead set against Iraq war. Young Turks was one of the very, very few shows nationally on air at the time. In fact, only one of two shows who was opposed to the Iraq war. We were right, you were wrong.

Did you ever apologize for hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians? You monster? Did you ever apologize for the $6 trillion we spent on Iraq and Afghanistan? Did you apologize with over 5,000 troops we lost in Iraq and Afghanistan wars? And actually just Iraq alone, over 50,000 wounded, missing legs. Fox News helped start that war. So did you ever, ha, ha, ha, the Chinese should apologize. No, no, wait a minute, a disease came out of a certain area in the world.

We actively made a choice to bomb the living hell out of a country and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians. Did we ever apologize for that? So please spare me your nonsense, racism disguised this human. Right. We're not entertained. All right, well let's move on to some other news. There is some good news, but there's a caveat to it, so let's talk about it. After more than 240 days, Australia is finally free of the bushfires that it was suffering

from, and of course they were exacerbated by climate change. Now the epicenter of this was New South Wales, and it took hundreds of days for firefighters to put out all the bush fires, and it was reported by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. Let me give you what their statement was. For the first time since, she's early July 2019. There is currently no active bush or grass fires in New South Wales. That's more than 240 days of fire activity for the state. Now just to give you a sense of how much climate change really exacerbated the situation,

there were fires in every Australian state. But New South Wales was hardest hit with smoke so bad in Sydney in December that air quality measured 11 times the hazardous level. So former TRT employee, Eric Beiler was stuck in one of these fires. His family went on vacation. They were cornered by three different fires and they couldn't get out and they then started thinking about pulling in ships onto shore to rescue the family stuck there. They eventually made it out when one of the fires went down for a little bit and then

it got, and they made it out to safety and then the fire began again raging. And I read a story and I read parts of it on air and it was harrowing and we're burning ourselves to death. I mean, Antarctica a couple of weeks ago was hotter than Death Valley. I know, yeah. Climate change is not theoretical, it's not later, 99% of the world scientists are not lying. If you think that, I don't know how many times I could say you're insane and stupid because you are, you are, it's not a political difference of opinion.

It's like say, well, I think two plus two equals five and that's because I'm a Republican and it's offensive for you to tell me it's not five. It isn't five, it's four. And climate change is real, 99% of the world scientists aren't lying, you morons. So I think part of the problem is how we just trust that they don't believe that climate change is real. And I think that we need to stop doing that because they know what the truth is, right? The Prime Minister of Australia knows what the truth is.

But the reason why he refuses to do anything about climate change or to take it seriously is because their economy depends on the coal industry. And it's the same issue that we have with the fossil fuel industry here in the United States. He knows what the reality is. You think that he hasn't read the reports? You think that he hasn't been confronted with the truth over and over and over again? No, his financial well-being depends on him pretending like he doesn't know what the truth is.

Yeah, I wanna be clear. The Republican politicians are almost always worse than the Republican voters. And here, it's a Hobson's choice, but Republican politicians are doing it on purpose. Whether Australia or here, they take loads and loads of money from Exxon and oil and gas companies, etc. And then they have gross Democrats like John Hickenlooper drinking fracking fluid as a form of submission into corporate America, okay? And then they have all the Republicans on their side, of course, lying ad nauseum, ad nauseum.

You think they don't know, they know, they know they're lying on purpose, right? But they're voters because of their politicians, because of Fox News and the right wing blogs. Their voters got duped and they really think all the scientists in the world are lying. They think, oh, well, the weather goes up, the weather goes down, man, it snowed the other day. Fox News told me it's snowed, it's okay, it's okay. You got duped because you're a dupe, okay? Read a science book, talk to it, read anything related to science.

For God's sake, do a Google search outside of Fox News in the right wing blogosphere. Just look at any fact, any fact at all. Pick any country in the world and pick their top scientists. And they agree with us. Well, I have good news for you because the impact of climate change is so undeniable. And people are now experiencing it firsthand. So they can't help but come to terms with the truth, right? So even though there's all this misinformation, even though these politicians lie over and over

again, right wing media lies over and over again, there are conservatives who actually do enjoy nature, they enjoy the healthy environment they once lived in, right? And so I remember being in Alaska, and there's a glacier called the Mendenhall Glacier, which has like melted considerably, used to be this giant glacier that's like receding. And so while it was in this group, there was like this little conservative couple, and I say little because they were like this cute old couple. And the man was like, I know that this is an inappropriate thing to bring up because it's political, but I mean, you know, I keep hearing that climate change isn't real, but I mean we see it right

in front of us right now, right? And he's- Yes, yes you do! They can't deny it, they can't deny it because it's right in front of them. And if they're not seeing it through glaciers and things like that, they're experiencing it firsthand from extreme weather conditions that have destroyed their homes, fires that have burnt down their entire neighborhoods, killed their pets, I mean, people are seeing it. And so unfortunately, I think that if we don't act now, it's gonna be too late. So we're coming to terms with this way too late.

We need to act today. By the way, there's an election right this year. If Trump wins, that's another four years gone, another four years where we won't do anything. He's like, oh, I'm proud that we do a lot of oil and gas. We keep drilling, baby. Oh, yeah, we're so good at drilling. We're drilling the planet into oblivion. We're gonna release the Balrog.

We're in the middle of doing it right now. And Fox News is poisoning the world. And you've got conservatives whose houses are on fire going, no, Fox News told me it's not on fire. So don't worry about it. No, you should worry about it. I got news for you. Fox News doesn't know better than all the scientists in the world. And if you think that, boy, wow, I feel so sad for you, because that's really pathetic.

Half a billion animals in Australia were impacted by these fires. In New South Wales alone, half a billion animals. Impacted as in most of them burnt to death. Yes, exactly. So there are real consequences to our inaction and refusal to accept climate change for what it is. And people are losing their lives, their livelihoods, their pets, everything as a result of that. We gotta take a break. When we come back, we have some fun stories, including Bloomberg being called out as a racist

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That was fun, but the stories aren't necessarily fun. This one will be, all right? I know this is a little out of our box, but this is a story that I couldn't help but discuss just for a little bit. Yep, let's do. What does Fox News and sexy Vixen vinyl have in common? Well, they hold a special place in Britt Hume's heart. So in a poorly cropped screenshot posted on Twitter,

Brit Hume thought he was just simply sharing a screenshot of the betting odds on whether Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump. But since it was poorly cropped, unfortunately he left the tabs from his computer at the top of the image. And what did those tabs say exactly? Well, we learned that he likes to bank at SunTrust, but then in the middle there you see sexy Vixen vinyl. Oh. Dirty, dirty. Is that, oh, access your funds?

Okay, I thought it was like access your funds. And I'm like, uh-oh, what are we accessing there? And then it leads naturally into coronavirus. No, but like, let's just talk about his train of thought, right? He's like, I better check my bank account, make sure I'm doing okay. Oh, I like what I see, I'm feeling very excited. Yeah, after he sees his bank account, he's like, oh, I can go to sexy vixen vinyl, I'm okay there. And then after he goes there, he's like, uh-oh, let me check it out and see if I got coronavirus.

So he's 76 years old, so good for him. All right, break you. Right? Okay, you go get him, big guy. You know, still out there, he's alive, he's feeling it, he's feeling himself. Well, okay, all right, all right. Look, I'm actually, I'm not judgmental at all, but I do, I do find it hilarious how conservative men, like, keep making this mistake on Twitter.

You had, like, Ted Cruz liking a porn video, and then that was posted on Twitter, right? It was like a milk porn or whatever that he was looking at. No, no, it was incest porn. It was what? Incest porn. Okay, now, look, it was like one of those, oh, the step-monged Yeah, the stepmom with a thing and et cetera, right? Now the thing is with Republicans, they just get away with everything.

Imagine if Bernie Sanders accidentally sent the porn that he was watching on Twitter. Of course, this misogynist. Of course he watches this degrading stuff. Yeah, definitely. But we all do it, like, come on. Come on. No, so I'm not, look, I don't, I'm not getting into anybody's porn habits and judging it. No way, right?

But if it was, the shoe was on the other foot, they'd like, Bernie said is with insest, poor, and they would have disqualified, disqualified, disqualified, disqualified, disqualified. Ted Cruz, everyone's like, that, of course, normal. Senator Cruz watches, it says porn and we're all good with it, let's move on, okay? So it's just the uneven playing field drives me crazy, but we on the other hand are not hypocrites. We actually are principled, and that's a problem for progressives. were too goddamn fair, right? So the reality is, okay, so Ted Cruz was watching that.

I don't care. The only thing I judge him on is what kind of a moron tweets it out by accident? Who accidentally likes a porn video? And then puts it on Twitter, I wouldn't even know how to do that. Okay? And then, and guys, I know you're British 76 stuff, but the tabs, the tabs, how many times are you guys going to make this mistake? And then, and then of course the famous Alex Jones thing.

where the transgender porn popped up on his phone while he was showing the phone to the camera. And he's like, oh, that pops up for everybody. Does it? Yeah, I've had a cell phone, you know, various cell phones since I was in high school. And I don't know, porn's never just randomly popped up on my phone. Yeah. And again, Alex, if you like that, I don't know. I don't know.

But if you like that, that's great. There's nothing wrong with it. But except you're the one demonizing people for that. Totally. And if Britt Hume thinks sexy Vixen vinyl or whatever else is going on, great. You should say that on Fox. We're not going to judge you for it. And you should say, oh, like, hey, look at family values and everything. But like if you're like kinky play, you like leather or vinyl, you know, go for it. Great. It is, it is a, like, I think a mild

fetish also. So he's lucky that he's into a mild fetish. And, you know, this mistake wasn't made when he could possibly be interested in something a little more risque. Yeah. Yeah. No, absolutely. Who cares? I mean, I don't care about his fetish. He's into fashion. So what? Guys, everybody's into something, right? Even Fox News anchors. All we're asking Fox News and conservatives to do is stop judging the rest of us. Get off our ass, if you will.

Now there is one person that some conservatives have judged, and I'm here for it, I agree with it. So let's do that story. Michael Bloomberg was asked about his racist actions when he was mayor of New York City. The question actually came from a Trump supporter during a town hall hosted by Fox News. Take a look at what the question was. Your stop and frisk hurt a lot of minorities in New York. Simple apologies, not enough.

If it's okay to call Donald Trump a racist because of his statements, and I'll give an example great people on both sides, would it be okay to call you a racist because of your actions as they relate to stop and frisk? So I'll admit that a question like that coming from a Trump supporter, especially at this point in the game, is rich to say the least. But I do think that it's a fair question because look, Democrats keep pointing fingers at people like Trump, rightfully so, and they say, hey, he's racist, he's done this, he's done that, he said this, he's said that.

But at the same time, a lot of those Democrats, both in the media and in the political world, have tried to prop up Mayor Bloomberg, who has undoubtedly done. incredibly racist things, past or implemented racist policies when he was in charge in New York City. And what's frustrating is that he begrudgingly apologized, but he still keeps spinning what happened to his advantage. And I want to show you his answer, and before I do, Jank will jump in. And then we'll debunk what he's saying and give you the truth of how everything really went

down in New York. Guys, if you didn't see the video we showed you a couple of weeks ago, Michael Bloomberg says, yes, we targeted blacks and Latinos on purpose. Yes, we avoided whites on purpose. If that's already pretty much the textbook definition of racism, but hold. He then went on to say if black people didn't have guns on him, that just means they kept it at home. No, that's the definition of racism. Black people are guilty for being black, okay? And we don't care if they're not actually guilty. We're just going to assume that they are. And so if you feel like, oh, yeah, but he's against Trump or for now he calls himself a Democrat, so maybe I should cut him

a break. No, that's not how it works. And so I don't know that any action could be more racist. But hold. We're going to show you Bloomberg's answer. But then later, I also want to tell you a story that Jamal Bowman wrote about recently. He's a congressional candidate in New He's a wonderful educator in New York, started his own school, and it's award-winning school. But what he went through, I really want you to hear it, because I want you to understand what it was like to be a black man in New York during Bloomberg's time. All right, so now let's go to how Bloomberg answered that question. What happened was about the third term, it started to get out of hand, and maybe I wasn't

paying attention, but the number of stop and frisk went up dramatically. And when I realized that, I cut 95% of them out, and I apologize for it. It was a mistake. You know, everybody makes mistakes. I made mine. I apologize for it. But the intent was to stop the murders of young men and women who are carrying guns or have friends who are carrying guns or neighbors were carrying guns.

were just strangers in the neighborhood carrying guns. And there was nothing, we didn't pick on any particular ethnicity. The cops always went to the high crime neighborhoods, and particularly when a crime was reported. That's what police do. So as I was listening to Bloomberg's answer, I couldn't help but really share the feelings of the gentleman on the lower left-hand side of the screen. This is the guy that I'm talking about. was about the third term, it started to get out of hand and maybe I wasn't paying attention,

but the number of stop and frisk went up dramatically. And when I realized that, you know, everybody makes mistakes, I made mine, I apologize for it. But the intent was there was nothing, we didn't pick on any particular ethnicity. The cops always went to the high crime neighborhoods, and particularly when a crime was reported. That's what police do. All right, so real quick, let me give you the truth, and then Jank, go off, okay? So Bloomberg did not roll back, stop and frisk, policing on his own accord.

We've talked about this before. It was only after a federal judge appointed a moderator to investigate claims of racial profiling by the NYPD that the city began to dramatically decrease its use. The cops absolutely did, as we know from the statistics, target specific groups of people, Latinos and black individuals specifically. That same federal judge, by the way, ultimately ruled that the policing tactic was an unconstitutional violation of civil rights because it did. In fact, target minorities, which is why the city officially abandoned the policy not long

after Bloomberg left office. Bloomberg's on tape saying we targeted blacks and Latinos on purpose. So I don't know what the hell he's talking about. He says, well, we didn't target minorities. Lie. 100% lie. cops on tape who tell people that reporting to them, other cops, they say, you must target blacks and Latinos.

When the guy doesn't do it, and he does racially diverse stop and frisk, they reprimand him and they yell at him and they say, don't look at white people anymore. Only blacks and Latinos do crimes, okay? And he said, oh, we sent them, we sent them to high crime neighborhoods. What can I do? I'll tell you the biggest high crime neighborhood in New York City. It's called Wall Street, but you never sent anyone there except to collect your checks. from your Bloomberg terminals, okay?

They robbed us of billions of dollars and you never sent a single cop to stop and frist those Wall Street guys. Anyway, now I want to tell you about Jamal Bowman. He's a just Democrat candidate now running in New York. You should look him up. He's amazing. He set up his own school to help kids there.

He was so sick of the school to prison pipeline, and they had the best increase in grades in New York City. So he wrote a story recently, I believe it's on NBC, where he explained, even though he's this accomplished educator, every once in a while, cops in New York, just pull him over. And they never give a reason. And he says he never asked them, because if you ask them, you're gonna get beat. And sometimes his kids are with him.

And he doesn't want to see, he doesn't want to have his kids, see their dad beat up by the cops like a common criminal. So he doesn't exercise his rights to simply ask, hey, why are you stopping me or why are Are you arresting me? And if you're wondering, well, he must have done something, right? Nope. In both of the instances that he explained in detail, they eventually release him. A lot of times after a long, long time.

And they never explained why they arrested him. He was black, and hey, he's probably guilty of something. God damn it turns out he isn't guilty of anything, okay. But the part that really got me was two things. One was they bring him to jail, never explained to him why they did. Not before, not after. And there's only room for one person to sit, but there are three people in the jail. So you got to sit on the floor next to the toilet soaked in Europe.

That's a professional, man. That's a guy who's uplifting his community. And you do that to him. But Jamal's not alone. It happens to the majority of African Americans and Latinos. That's the brutal racism of Mike Bloomberg. And other time, it happens in front of his kid. For God's sake, man, that kind of just nonchalant discrimination racism, it's soul crushing.

And so when people talk about white privilege, it's such a wrong phrase because it puts people on defensive like, wait, well, I don't have any privilege, I'm not rich, et cetera. No guys, the only thing is, it's a privilege where you didn't have to sit on a. a urine soaked bathroom, on a prison floor for no reason. You didn't get arrested in front of your kids for no reason. And you didn't have to go through that indignity. And that's what blacks and Latinos suffered on a regular basis under Mike Bloomberg. And what's also interesting about Bloomberg is that in this Democratic primary race,

he and Donald Trump have been going at it. They've been fighting back and forth, even though they've had a long history of friendship together. They've gone golfing several times together. You know, in this race, they're pretending like they can't stand each other. They have some serious similarities when it comes to the types of policies that they support. In fact, I want to go to the next video. This is Donald Trump weighing in on stop and frisk. There's been a lot of violence in the black community. I want to know what would you do to help stop that violence, you know, black on black crimes. Right. Well, one of the things I'd do, Ricardo, is I would do stop and frisk. I think you have

to. We did it in New York. It worked incredibly well. And you have to be proactive. And, you know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically. You understand. You have to have, in my opinion, I see what's going on here. I see what's going on in Chicago. I think stop and frisk. In New York City, it was so incredible the way it worked. So in the beginning of the story, we shared that video of a gentleman by the name of Daniel Rivera, who asked that question about stop and frisk toward mayor Bloomberg and said, you know, it was a racist policy, it was wrong, he's a Trump supporter. So I hope that Daniel Rivera, some way, somehow, sees what Donald Trump is in favor of because he obviously is in favor of stop and frisk as well. The similarities between Bloomberg

and Trump are incredible. You know, the other day I figured out why a Democratic establishment was so enamored with Mike Bloomberg when he entered, because their usual wrongheaded on being incredibly polite idea is, oh, will run corporate Democrats that are Republican, light. Joe Donnelly will pretend to be a Republican in Indiana. Oh, he lost to the actual Republican. And they'll do it again and again and again, right? And in this case, they're like, oh, I got it. We'll run Trump light. Okay, he's just like Trump, but richer, a little smarter, a little bit more subtle about his racism and bigotry. Although his actions are not really subtle at all. He set it on tape. And we're not even talking about his bigotry.

towards Muslims that's take as a given. I mean, horrible, horrible bigotry we can go on and on. And so, oh, here's a guy with issues of women at work. Here's a guy with all, that hates all these different groups and has done discriminatory things. Who's worked with the CIA to spy on completely innocent Muslim citizens in New York? Until they figure out what the hell is going on, right? And a really wealthy guy from New York. The idiot Democratic establishment thought, great, we'll copy the Republicans again and we'll do Trump light.

What a disastrous idea. So that's who Mike Bloomberg is. And sometimes when I see the details, I don't love doing this job because I wish I didn't know what a terrible person he was. But I do now, and you can't unknow it. And that's just the reality of it. It's sad day for him. And both of them, and Trump is on the record five different times saying he loves stopping for us. And I got to tell you the reality, after the judge made them stop doing stop and frisk,

crime went down, not up. Stop and frisk did not help crime at all. Once they stopped the program, you had less crime. So they don't know anything. It's not to actually guard against crime. It's just to further their racism. Well, let's move on to Joe Biden. Actually, you know what?

We should take a break. So let's do that. We'll take a break, and when we come back, Trump is doing exactly what you would expect him to do with Biden and his unstoppable gaffes on the campaign trail, which, again, proves the point that I've been trying to make. He is not the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in the general election. We're taking a huge risk in nominating someone like Biden. Look, I wish we had more time on Biden before Super Tuesday. We're at Super Tuesday. People are already voting, but he's a disaster.

They picked the wrong guy. Virginia polls closed in two minutes. We'll give you updates as soon as we have them. And then later in the night, giant states like Texas and California, this is as big as it gets. Don't miss a minute of tonight's coverage. We'll have results for you the minute we have. We'll be right back. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks.

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