The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - March 9th, 2020

Episode Date: March 9, 2020

TYT welcomes award-winning reporter Ti-Hua Chang! Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, 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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Of TYT. That's a word where I'm putting it. Indeed. I meant it on purpose. TYT.com slash go. Okay. So anyways, look, obviously giant stories today, but I want to give you the full context as we start.

We've got about 10 days left, no, now 9 days left. So huge number of states voting tomorrow, including Michigan, state of Washington, Missouri, some must win states in there for Bernie. And Michigan is ground zero for the battle, and he's got to win Washington in the West. If he doesn't, he's in real trouble. And then next week on Tuesday, you got Florida, Illinois, Ohio. So number one, don't miss our coverage, we're gonna cover the whole thing for you guys. Of course, always on t.com.

Okay, so, but at the end of those nine days, we likely have a nominee and we know. It looked like Bernie had a nice size lead before South Carolina. South Carolina changed everything, Super Tuesday was disappointing. But if you remember last cycle, Michigan was when Bernie staged the comeback. And that is when we began to whisper of a dream. And that was when we popularized, here comes Bernie. Now it could go the other direction tomorrow or it could go in that direction.

And if Bernie wins, Michigan, Washington, and some of the others, here we go, right back in the ball game, and then we go to Florida, Illinois, and Ohio. So I will tell you this, and we're gonna talk about a little bit later in the show, I'll be honest with you, I'm in an absolute panic over Biden's cognitive decline. If he's the nominee, we're screwed. We walked right into an ambush, and we will almost certainly. loose. So here we are, nine days away from finding out if Trump's going to get four more years. And of course, the media as always refuses to talk about it. Let's talk about a little bit later

when that's in the news. And Hillary Clinton's back. You're never going to be, figure out who she's supporting and who she's against. Booker Harris, it's all on the show today. All right. So, Anna, before we get started, fun, great news from TYT. And we should really savor this because That's rare these days, so tell me more. Okay, great. So you remember you guys funded a climate change reporter, and we raised $200,000 from you, and we promised you a reporter that would investigate, in particular, the funding of the politicians that make the decisions.

Where does their money come from? Does that affect how they view climate change? Obviously, also look into the science and all the ramifications of the politics of climate change. And boy, have we got a reporter for you guys. That's what we're announcing today. His name is Tiwa Chang. Now let me read you his awards.

He has a Peabody Award and Edward R. Murrow Award and New York Press Club Award. Five Emmys, Lifetime Achievement Award at Asian American Journal Association, also awards from National Association of Black Journalists, the Philadelphia, Denver, and Detroit Press Associations, the Associated Press and United Press International, has worked at almost every news network there is recently at ABC and CBS. He, among his many great works, was on the issue of civil rights. He broke the Medgar Evers story, that's the murder of the civil rights leader, and found his true assassin, found four witnesses to that, to testify.

30 years later and bring him to justice. I couldn't be more proud to hire someone who worked on that story and broke that story. And you guys should be proud because you're the ones hiring him. And thank you for doing that. And then on stories related to corruption, and his body work here is endless. That's why he's won all those awards. He did a story about how Rudy Giuliani put the Emergency Response Center and World Trade Center Now that collapsed on 9-11 and everybody always asked.

I remember asking on the air like, why would you put the response center and the World Trade Center when the only place that was attacked before was the World Trade Center? It turns out the person who owned that building was Rudy's donor and Tiwa broke that story. So he's cut excellent, excellent, not just credentials, but like I said, body of work and we're honored to have him here. So our manager, Jonathan Larson, talked to him this morning, because today is his first day, and he told us story about one of the first lessons he learned at journalism school at Columbia. Yeah, actually, I wanna hear from him, because he explained an experience that I think shows how he's perfect for TYT, how he really does go along with our school of thought when it comes

to journalism. Yeah, that's right. And so, by the way, after we hired him, I found out, he went to Penn undergrad. And then Columbia Graduate School, just like I did. But apparently did a lot more than I did with it. But back then, when he was in Columbia Journalism School, he was getting taught by legendary producer Fred Friendly, who really is a legend. And so, and he tells this story to Jonathan about what happened next. Let's watch.

In my first broadcast class at Columbia, he showed a story by a man, a CBS correspondent named Morton Dean on a new anti-personnel weapon. being used in Vietnam. And what it was, you drop a bomb and all these nails, like the size of your fingers practically, would shoot every few inches, cover every few inches for 100 yards. And the idea was that you maimed people. Morton Dean showed it on a piece of wood. That's how the army would only let them do it. And so Fred Friendly asked everyone in the class, you know, up and coming young students, and what do you think of the story? And they said, oh, it's well written, it was well done, It was good editing, and then it came to me. And I'm sitting there as, you know, a former anti-Vietnam War activist.

I said, F it. And I just said, listen, if it were me doing that story, I would show the bodies. Because that's what an anti-personal weapon is for. It's not for pieces of wood. It's for human beings. And my whole class attacked me. Oh, you're being, you're not being neutral. You know, you're taking a position, but it taught me this.

that neutrality is not necessarily objectivity and objectivity is not necessarily neutrality sometimes and you can't just say both sides and that's telling the truth. So Fred Friendly now speaks and he said if ever our morrow we're here today

and I thought he was going to say he kicked TWA out of the school he said he but he did but he said he would back TWA because sometimes you have to take a stand I love that Oh, it's got TYT written all over it. I mean, how long have I been talking about objectivity, not neutrality?

Turns out T.I knew that a long, long time ago, way before me. So it's funny that his professor told him Edward Aramaro would take his side. Well, later, he went on to get an Edward Aramaro award. And I want to just end on this. It was for PC then in 2005. And it was for exposing police officers using helicopter and high-tech infrared equipment. to spy on private citizens. And he broke that story and he got the Murrow Award for that and well deserved.

It's really an honor to have him here. And I'm really, really looking forward to his stories on climate change, the money that fuels it. And you can see all of that at t.yt.com slash investigates. And as usual, we couldn't have hired him without you. Thank you for hiring him for us. And when he does do those stories, please spread them far and wide. So people understand why we're not actually fighting climate change.

It doesn't have to do with people who don't think, oh God, I'm not sure if 99% of the scientists are correct. It's because they're getting paid not to fight climate change. Let's find out the details, let's find out the facts, and let's report them for you. All right, well, let's move on to what's happening in the Democratic primary because we have some updates on the Biden campaign that should concern anyone who cares about, you know, real structural change in this country. So, when Biden told his wealthy donors that nothing will fundamentally change under his watch,

turns out he was telling the truth. In fact, some of his senior advisors spoke to Axios on condition of anonymity, and we learned through Axios's reporting that Biden is considering some pretty big-name bankers to serve in his White House if he, of course, wins the general election. Keep in mind, he needs to win the Democratic primary first. I know everyone in the media is treating him as if he's already the nominee, but that's not the case yet. Well, let me give you the details on what we've learned through Axios. Biden advisors describe a return to normal plan, a reversal of President Trump's unorthodox style.

So far so good, I mean, sort of. Yeah, look, look, we're all traumatized by Trump, and a return to normal does sound wonderful in some ways. On the other hand, if you return to the pre-Trump era, remind me what that led to. Not so good. Oh, right, the Trump era, that's what it led to. So if we go back to how it was before, I'm not sure that story ends well. But wait till you get a load of some of the folks that might be coming into the Biden administration

if it were to wind up that way. So there is a segment of this story that I refer to as Biden's bankers because many bankers would serve in his administration. For instance, now Mike Bloomberg, maybe you don't want to consider him a banker, but he did show up in this report. Like Bloomberg, who swiftly endorsed Biden after the former mayor's campaign collapsed, would be a top possibility to head the World Bank. Oh, great.

So guy who made, he's not a banker, but he made all of his money through the Bloomberg terminals that service Wall Street, massively pro Wall Street for deregulation on Wall Street. While by the way, Wall Street collapses again today, we'll talk more about that later in the show. And so the guy who helped Wall Street collapse a couple times would be in charge of the World Bank. Wonderful. And I want you to pay close attention to the names because it's not just about the bankers, it's about the various people who have endorsed him, because this is how endorsements work, right?

There are favors made, deals made behind the scenes, and then someone comes out and endorses Biden. It's not because they actually genuinely think that he would be a good president, it's It's because they're thinking about what this would mean for their careers. You have Jamie Diamond, chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, and mentioned over the years as a potential presidential candidate would also be considered for treasury. Okay, so look, we're in the middle of Biden's bankers, but another person considered for treasuries apparently Elizabeth Warren. Now, but wait a minute, that means you have no philosophy at all.

Elizabeth Warren and Jamie Diamond are diametrically opposed. Elizabeth Warren thinks that Wall Street should be very heavily regulated. Jamie Diamond thinks Wall Street's God's gift to humanity shouldn't be regulated other than tweaks here and there. So what? Like, should I have Henry Kissinger or Abby Hoffman as my secretary state? I don't know, I'm thinking about it. How could you be thinking about both those guys?

That was a weird old school reference, okay? I'm going old. Chris Matthews would enjoy that. It's notable though that Warren still hasn't endorsed Bernie, right? And so who knows why her name is being floated in this, you know, context? I mean, really, are we gonna, Elizabeth Warren's camp? Are we really gonna fall for this again? Oh, no, no, no, we might pick you for VP or we might pick you for Treasury or we might pick

one of the top bankers in the country. If you're considering one of the top bankers in the country, you ain't gonna pick Warren for Treasury, let's keep it real. Then you have someone associated with Bank of America. So Ann Funukin, Vice Chairman of Bank of America is another possibility for Treasury. Oh, good, because I wasn't sure we had enough top bankers as possibilities. And as you mentioned, Jank, Warren is considered as Treasury Secretary. And the reason why her name was floated, according to Biden's advisors, is because she could

really help to unite the party, because there is still this assumption that she has the support and the backing of progressive voters. But to be quite honest with you, the response for progressives right. now is sheer frustration over the fact that she is taking as long as she is to endorse Bernie. Like, let's just keep it real. Based on their ideology or her ideology, she's much more aligned with, you know, Bernie as opposed to Biden. So what's taking so long?

Well, and if they want to unite the party, Elizabeth Warren endorsing Joe Biden doesn't help at all, because then that's just saying, oh, Elizabeth Warren never meant any of the progressive things she said. She backed the guy who fought against all those progressive things. So then she's thrown her lot in with the moderate, centrist, conservative corporate side. So then she's kind of would, in that scenario, would remove herself from being a progressive and then say, okay, now I'm bringing the progressives along. No, you left the progressives to go join Biden in that scenario, right?

So it's counterproductive, it doesn't matter they're playing with her. They're never gonna give her anything of power. This is what the same exact trick Hillary Clinton did four years ago. And every time, like, oh, maybe, no, maybe, maybe they'll give me something this time. Okay, all right, let's see how that turns out. Now I want to go to possible VP picks, because over the weekend we learned of some pretty big name endorsements for Biden, including Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Deval Patrick, not so big of an endorsement, but still, I mean, we're going into states that are incredibly important

to win. And so just like last time before Super Tuesday, you have a number of big name candidates who had dropped out of the race now endorsing Biden. So for possible VP picks, you have Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Cory Booker, Governor Devald Patrick, and you also have Stacey Abrams. These are the names that are being floated around. And Elizabeth Warren, kind of. No, seriously, don't endorse Bernie.

We're still thinking about it. We're really, we're gonna think about it for nine more days than once the employees. important primaries are over, that's the last time you'll hear from us, Senator Warren. But okay, no, no, no, seriously, don't endorse Bernie, you never know. Okay, anyway, they're not gonna pick her. They, that list is fine. I mean, what do I mean by fine? Do I agree with the policies of the folks on that list?

Other than Stacey Abrams, not much. To some extent, yeah. To some extent, right? And there's a lot more to find out about Stacey Abrams policies. But by the way, if she's a VP, we probably won't, because she'll have to say Biden, policies are great and we should make sure what a terrible thing it was that we did busing. I don't know, that's Biden's current policy. That's his current policy.

It's impolite to mention by any of Biden's policies until you get to the general election, in which case when the Republicans bring it up, cable news will talk about it 24-7. Anyway, so they will probably do that to shore up more support within Democratic Party. And I get it. But I wanna go back to the bankers because we're not done with them yet. They're considering Morgan Stanley's executive Tom Nides for Secretary of Commerce or Trade Rep or some of the top posts as well, because J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Bloomberg was not enough. So they had to put a Morgan Stanley executive in there as well, just so you understand who actually runs this government. Okay, so let's pause for a second.

Because remember, the way that the Biden camp is labeling this plan, right, if he becomes elected and he gets to choose his cabinet. is the back to normal plan or return to normal plan. Yeah, return to Wall Street plan. But hold on, what do you mean return? I mean, I get it, Trump is unorthodox in his style. He says things that are incredibly stupid, hateful, divisive, I totally get that, right? His style is certainly different. But what did Trump do as soon as he got elected?

I mean, Steve Mnuchin isn't like some Marxist that was pleasant. plucked out of a Berkeley program to serve as Treasury Secretary. No, Steve Mnuchin was a banker, right? So there is no return to normal. Like we've been stewing in this corrupt political system. And the only reason why Donald Trump is treated differently is because he's transparent about how corrupt he is. He's transparent about how hateful he is, right?

I mean, his immigration policy is certainly more cruel than previous administrations. But aside from, you know, those things that set him apart, the fact of the matter is he's very similar to previous presidents, and he's certainly similar to Biden when it comes to cabinet picks. Yeah, the bankers have been running us, there's no return, right? Would Trump have like three or four Goldman Sachs officials in his cabinet, even though he ran his campaign against Goldman Sachs? No, Trump is part of the elites too, he's part of, I mean, kid me, he's patient zero

own corruption, both systemic corruption and personal corruption layered on top. So Biden's big theme, I guess, is Trump's personal corruption is terrible. I'm just going back to the normal systemic corruption that we used to have. Yay, and everybody on cable news goes nuts standing ovation. Yes, all of our friends are back. Let me just say though, I will give Biden this. These names do evoke excitement to get young people to the polls. Yeah.

And you know, to really help the Democrats defeat Donald Trump. But part of what they're saying here is, ha, ha, young people, you're not showing up to vote enough. So we're gonna go excite older voters who, by telling him all these old names, like John Kerry might be back. Back to 2004, so like, yes, look, I'm gonna keep it real. Now there's a lot of older folks who watch this show too, but more older folks watch television.

So when you have a 78 year old and they hear John Kerry, they're like, that is exciting. Joe Scarborough told me John Kerry might be back, okay? The same John Kerry, by the way, who just a couple of weeks ago was plotting his own run and betraying Joe Biden because he thought Biden was such a loser. Right. Okay, but anyway. That's how this works. It's amazing.

That's right. Look, but we're fair. So there are normal people on the list like Sally Aates who showed courage during the Trump administration. be good in any administration. And Ted Kaufman is a long time advisor to Biden and in his inner circle, and he actually was briefly senator from Delaware taking over for Biden. And Ted Kaufman, I think, has some real progressive instincts. And it's not, on the other hand, right next to him is Chris Coons, also from Delaware, one

of the most conservative senators for no reason from the East Coast, as conservative as any Democrat from Alabama, okay? So it's 90% conservative, there's a couple of folks that are not bad, but it's returned to the bankers. So if you like that, you've got some elections ahead of you. But the problem is if you're watching this show, you already know a lot of the facts. But if you're watching cable news, you'll never find out any of this, ever, ever. They'll never tell you all the bankers he's planning to bring back in.

If they mention it under their breath, they'll be like some smart, excellent, credible people like J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, back to America, wonderful, smart, good, return to normal people. What bias? What bias, right? I defy you to find one person ever on cable news that criticizes packing your cabinet with bankers. As the primaries have shown, there is a significant progressive contingent of the Democratic Party, which might win. And if it turns out we narrowly lose, it's like saying, oh, you progressives, that's cute. Jamie Diamond's back. CEO of JP Morgan Chase.

Take that progressive, see how you like that. But no one on cable news will tell the voters any of that. They'll walk into the voting booth, and unless they watch online media, they'll have no idea that Joe Biden works for Wall Street. All right. Well, I want to tell you a little more about who has endorsed Joe Biden and, you know, give you a little bit of a flashback to what these individuals said about him on the campaign trail. So come back from the break and I'll give you that. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The Republic or UNFTR. As a Young Turks fan, you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich and powerful. But now there's a podcast dedicated to unraveling those lies, debunking the conventional wisdom.

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Bin 31 writes in, I love Tiwai Chang. He used to be in New York City, WNBC4. Yes, that's right. Jeffrey says, making an ad that secures Biden for these appointment plans should be like shooting fish in a barrel. They won't do it. It's Bernie's team, they're too polite. One last thing, says Anna telling Jake to savor it. We all know who the saver in chief is.

Did some savoring over the weekend. Not a cheetah, I'm not a lion, writes in. Welcome to the family, Tiwa. How dare she writes in. Damn, Tewa sounds like a badass. I'm so glad I donated, thank you. You can do it again, by the way, TYT.com slash go. our general fundraising, and we're trying to get 200,000 in March, hopefully we can get

there much quicker than that, because we've got a long campaign ahead of us to make us sustainable and bring you guys change. Riley Audit writes in on YouTube Super Chat, just dropped my early vote for Bernie in Melbourne, Florida. Shout to Melbourne Aussie's watching, thank you for using YouTube Super Chat. Last one, even though there's so many good ones, is from Twitter. The math magician says, gee, Biden is going to hire more Trump-loving plutocrats to run his cabinet as long as they're so much more polite about screwing us.

What a shock, particularly the possibility of Bloomberg running the World Bank during the next class while Jamie Diamond is Treasury. Yeah, by the way, that's not an accident. So the collapse is not coming, it's here. We're in the middle of the collapse right now. We got a story about that a little bit later in the show. And in the middle of that collapse, they need bankers to divert the money back to the bankers. So they need to position Jamie Time in at Treasury and Bloomberg at World Bank.

So no one ever gets mad at the bankers and they still control the money. So the idea that they put Elizabeth Warren as Treasury Secretary in the middle of a collapse. No, no, no, no, any day now, any day now. Yeah, Warren, Kim, keep waiting for that. Any day now, could happen. All right, a few announcements. So, TYT will be doing live coverage of the primaries. It'll take place tomorrow, March 10th.

So please check that out live. We will begin with our primary coverage at 5 p.m. Pacific time, 8 p.m. Eastern. We have a giant panel of all your favorite people. Jank will be there, I will be there, John Iderola, J.R. Jackson, Brett Ehrlich, and Nandovila will join us throughout the night. So again, go to t.yt.com slash live to watch. And as always, we will have some exclusive coverage for our members only. And to become a member, just go to t.com slash join.

And then finally, tonight on the conversation, we're going to have one of our favorites on. Liz Winstead will be joining in. And Francesca Furentini will be interviewing her about the recent Supreme Court hearing and its ramifications on Roe v. Wade. So check that out tonight right after the second hour, t.com slash live. All right. Ready? Yes.

Okay. A number of big name politicians decided to endorse Joe Biden over the weekend just ahead of the primary elections on March 10th. One of those individuals is actually Cory Booker, who had some pretty harsh words for Biden on the campaign trail. As you know, he was one of the Democratic candidates before he dropped out. Booker's endorsement comes one day after Senator Kamala Harris of California endorsed Biden, And the two senators will appear with him at a rally in Detroit on Monday night.

Booker will also campaign alongside Biden, Flint, Michigan earlier in the day and attend a fundraiser with him. Now, he put out a statement via Twitter writing the following, the answer to hatred and division is to reignite our spirit of common purpose. Joe Biden won't only win. He'll show there's more that unites us than divides us. He'll restore honor to the Oval Office and tackle our most pressing challenges. That's why I'm proud to endorse him, or endorse Joe.

Now, it's interesting that he has such glowing praise for Biden because I just want to remind you all what he had to say about Joe Biden on the campaign trail. Take a look. All of the problems that he is talking about that he created, I actually led the bill that got passed into law that reverses the damage that your bills that you were frankly to correct you, Mr. Vice President. You are bragging calling it the Biden crime bill up until 2000. Thank you, Senator. You were trying to shift the view from what you created. There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and used that tough on crime, phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected, but destroyed communities like mine. They do not have to buy in.

They do not have to buy in. You just said that. You just said that two minutes ago. You just said two minutes ago that they would have to buy in. You said they would have to buy in. If you qualify for Medicaid, he'd automatically be informed. I think that we are at a tough point right now because there's a lot of people who are concerned about Joe Biden's ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. And I think that Castro has some really legitimate concerns about can he be someone in a long, grueling campaign that can get the ball over the line?

So before I was worried about his mental state and his awful record on race and criminal justice and 94 crime bill that imprisoned millions of people for his political benefit. But now I think I might be able to get a cabinet position. That's exactly what it is. Okay. That's exactly what it is. Axios reporting today that Cory Booker was among the names floated for VP pick.

Yeah, and by the way, I might get nothing, but hey, I got floated. I got floater for VP, you're not going to get BP. But to be fair to Cory Booker, he's done good things like criminal justice reform. He was absolutely right in that debate. He undid some of the things, terrible things that Joe Biden had done in that crime bill. But overall, Cory Booker's in the moderate camp. In the beginning of the primaries, he was pretending to be a progressive. A lot of them were, because they thought it was a good lane.

I love when politicians do slimy things like talk about their lanes. I picked the lane. How about picking policies? How about believing in policies? How about believing in anything? Well, I picked a lane. Oh, I switched my lane. I switched my lane.

I think that this is going to help my career more. How about the voters? The voters, that's good, the voters. Joe Scarborough, go tell everybody how savvy a politician I am. I might or might not get a position of power from Joe Biden. I'm so savvy. Well, look, I don't know if Cory Booker is a moderate. Let's be fair to Cory Booker.

I don't know that he's a moderate. I don't know that he's a progressive. I don't know what Cory Booker really stands for. I do know that Cory Booker looks out for Cory Booker, and he's not unique in that way. I mean, there are all sorts of conversations and deals that are made behind the scenes that we're unaware of, right? You can only speculate. But how do you go from saying, oh, you know, I'm going to go ahead and question on cable television, on national television, the cognitive well-being of Joe Biden, and then months later decide, you know what?

I'm going to go ahead and endorse him and push for him and campaign with him. I'm going to do speeches with him, rallies with him. It's because you know that if you work hard enough for him and he gets elected, good things might happen to your career. And so it's the grift that keeps on grifting. Like, it's nonstop in politics. And our political system, I think, attracts that type of person. 100%. So let's talk about why they're coming out now. We're going to get Kamala Harris second.

So they need to win Michigan. And Michigan is a huge battleground state between progressives and establishment Democrats. Bernie pulled off a huge upset there back in 2016. Michigan also has Detroit, has a lot of African American voters. So now Booker and Harris are running down there and going, yeah, Joe Biden's so great with African-Americans. Let's remember things that they have pointed out that are absolutely true, that Biden was not picked by Barack Obama. because he was great with African Americans. He didn't need help on that at all. He was picked to satiate white people.

He's like, oh, I need someone that white people are comfortable with. And that's why he picked Biden in the first place. But anyway, but then why didn't Booker and Harris jump in in South Carolina in Super Tuesday? Because there again, there was a ton of African American voters in the South. And so it would have been helpful to get it. Oh, they had to see if Biden was going to win. is if Biden's not going to win, you don't want to back the wrong horse, because what is this about policy, principles?

No, no, no, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. If somebody else was gonna win, then I was gonna back them so I could get a cabinet position. But now, I mean, he needs me less than he did on Super Tuesday, but he still needs me in Detroit. Now I could still jump in and be Johnny come lately and maybe get myself something. Oh, bravo. How politically savvy? Because in order to be successful in politics, you apparently need to be malleable in every way when it comes to who you support, what you support, which policies you propose.

In fact, let's go to Kamala Harris's endorsement of Biden. She put out this video via Twitter. I'm just here thinking about all of the folks who for generations have fought and died for our civil rights and fought to help our nation achieve its ideals. And you guys know, we still have yet to achieve those ideals, but one of the greatest things about us is we are willing to fight to get there. So I just wanted you guys to know, because you've been supporting me for so long, and I just wanted you guys to know. I have decided that I am with great enthusiasm, going to endorse Joe Biden for president

of the United States. I believe in Joe. So she filmed that video while in Alabama, and in the very beginning, she was talking about the importance of racial justice, which I find fascinating, because if you can recall, one of the highlights of the Democratic debates was this moment between Joe Biden, who was against integrated busing and Kamala Harris. Take a look. I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground. But I also believe, and it's personal, and I was actually very, it was hurtful, to hear you

talk about the reputations of two United States Senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing. And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. And she was bused to school every day. and that little girl was me. I never get tired of Joe Biden getting surprised by that.

I know, right? Like Joe, everybody knew that she was going towards it. It was me, right? The only person who didn't know was Joe. So anyway, but look, there it is, there it is. Oh, it's like out of a movie. It's like out of a movie. Joe, you're in the middle of a debate, please.

Anyway, but back then, Kamala Harris was right. And that is Joe Biden's true civil rights record. That's why he was literally hanging his head in shame for most of the time that she was talking. Right. Now, Kamala Harris tells us he's wonderful on civil rights. And then they wonder why we can't stand politicians. And then everybody on TV, all the New York Times guys, everybody yells at me, us, saying, you're hurting the party.

You have to say glowing lies about Democratic officials. Kamala Harris is so principled. The way she was against Joe Biden's civil rights record, and the way a couple of months later, she's totally for Joe Biden's civil rights record. Yay? Yeah. Okay. Now, last thing on endorsements for now, these do matter, by the way.

So, like, rando endorsements are overhyped, but when the entire party comes on one side and Nate Silver has written a lot about this, and this he's right about, historically at least, it has made a giant, giant difference. Why, as I learned in my campaign, all politics is branding. So all these folks are adding their brand on top of Joe Biden's brand and thereby burnishing his brand. So when people go to vote, they go, oh, they see Cory Booker, they see Kamala Harris. They see all these folks within Joe Biden's brand.

And they go, okay, now I'm going to vote for him because I like Kamala Harris, et cetera. Now, Joe Biden, I think, has now 26 or 28 percent of the number of people who could endorse that are governors or sitting congressmen from the government. the party, which is an okay number for this stage in the elections. Do you know how many Bernie Sanders has? 2%. Now they say, that's because he's not a good team player. Well, there's a lot of truth in that because he doesn't sell out.

So the team wants him to come on, just take the Exxon Mobil money. Be a good team play. Bernie's not a good team. I'm not endorsing him. He didn't take any Goldman Sachs money like I did. He's embarrassing me, right? So that's the game at hand. Now, since those endorsements matter, and there's very few endorsements that

Bernie Sanders could get who are in the progressive camp. It's Monday guys, giant elections are Tuesday tomorrow. Where's Warren? So. Where's Warren? And look, there are groups who endorsed Warren, who aren't waiting for Warren to endorse Bernie. They've come out and they said that they support Bernie. You should vote for him, you get the picture.

But it's just frustrating because one of Bernie's weaknesses, and I don't see it as a weakness, I see it as one of his strengths, but it's a weakness in this current system. Politics is transactional. Everything in politics is transactional. And so everyone's looking to get their bread buttered, right? And so I can't imagine Bernie having these discussions about like, hey, favor for a favor, you know, maybe VP pick, maybe press secretary, maybe treasury secretary. Like every time he gets asked about appointments, he always says, it's too soon to talk

about that, right? And I love that because he's absolutely right, but it ends up hurting him because everyone's looking out for themselves and he's not promising anyone anything. The only people he's promising anything too are working people in America. Yeah, all these folks that are profiles and courage. Look, I'm obviously frustrated and I should be frustrated, you should be frustrated. Not just Warren, look, I'm gonna pick a random person and say, why bother talking about him? Well, because he matters, and he could make a big difference.

So, and it's another person that I personally like and believe in. Al Gore, okay? So if you want action on climate change, what's Joe Biden gonna do? Oh, we'll get us back into Prime's Paris Climate Accord and then do nothing else, nothing else. We're not gonna fix it, you know it. So- That's such a good point. So- That's such a good point.

I mean- But it might hurt people's reputation, might hurt Warren's reputation, might hurt his reputation, and I'm picking on them because they're the two biggest. And I have a personal affinity towards them, okay? And I'm telling you that anyway. But everybody else, I mean, sitting on the sideline right now, elections tomorrow, there is no sitting on the sideline. Sitting on the sideline means off you go, good luck. I mean, it's like John Snow when all those guys are, all the horses are marching towards

him, and he pulls out his sword, except nobody comes about. You know, it's just us. And, you know, and so I don't want anyone in all of those camps coming around later asking for any kind of credit, okay, this is the time for action. If you're not here now, I know there was time for Saturday Live. So, okay, so look, I'm the bad guy, right? But I'm not the bad guy. No, you're the right guy now.

Now you are. So look, you can have, you can catch feelings all day long. I'm not talking about Warren, I'm talking about her whole camp, okay? Oh my God, but my feelings were bruised on Saturday and or three weeks ago, et cetera. I don't care about your feelings. The time for action is right now. So if you don't take that action, don't come around later, but I was going to, but I was a progressive, but but but but but but but but you don't understand my feelings were hurt

because of someone on Twitter. And so I let the progressive movement go into battle without me. Okay, everybody makes their own choices. Then it's absolutely true that you got to live with those choices. Love it. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, we already have a sneak peek of what Trump's game plan is. If he is in the general election against Biden, not looking pretty for Biden, and he is certainly not prepared.

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Marita, Elizabeth Warren, is just waiting for permission to endorse Biden. We'll see. But by the way, if you're going for VP, the people who endorse first have a better chance. So if she waits until everything is settled and then endorses Biden, it's really the worst case scenario. Thomas says, quote, with great enthusiasm about Kamala Harris's video, where she said that at the end, I have more enthusiasm to clean my house. 100%. I know.

Yeah, it did not look enthusiastic at all. A lot of people wrote it about that. I'll give you one more. Rainbow Bright said, so now the DNC is participating in hostage videos, I literally was going to say that, but I got so worked up about war and I forgot to go back to it. It looked like a hostage video. It did. Up against the wall.

Now say with great enthusiasm, with great enthusiasm, I support Joe Biden. Okay. You know, remember Kirsten Gillibrand? Yeah. She was one of the first, if not the first, to drop out. But she was being interviewed today on CNN, and they were pressuring her to endorse, and she refused to do it. Oh, good for her.

Yeah, I was actually really impressed. And really impressed because I see her as more of a moderate Democrat, even though she'll say otherwise. And then she spent the rest of the interview talking about how we need to get money out of politics. No, no, she's on the warpath on that, and I love that. Look, man, all I care about is policy. So Gillibrand, yes, used to be a moderate, but she has the best of the public financing options. So, I mean, I would do anything I could to get her.

proposal passed in the Senate in the House, so go Kirsten Gillibrand. You come to the right side, love it, love it, I don't care when. I do care when, but still, I'll take it, okay? Mondo Libre says, I like Elizabeth Warren's brave new stances in our past, no guts now. They're treating Sanders like he's the antichrist, they are. Do you want to give the poll results on Elizabeth Warren, speaking of which? So last week we asked you guys to participate in a poll and share with us who you thought Elizabeth Warren was likely to endorse, right? And so the question was specifically, now that Warren's

out, who will she endorse? And about a thousand of you answered, coming in at number one, no one, meaning that she won't endorse anyone during the primary race. Forty-four percent of you said that she'll endorse no one. Coming in at second is Bernie Sanders at 30 percent, and coming in third is Biden at 25 percent. Yeah, I'd vote one too. I think no one is. is most likely that's what she's done in the past. And every person that's connected to her is saying people asking her to endorse now when it matters is quote bullying her. Okay.

All right. Okay, pretty please? Okay, did that help? All right. Anyway, Martin Wynne adds our YouTube super chat says VP under Joe might get you the presidency. Now that's true, but think about how crass that calculation is. So I'm going to support the guy who I think might be mentally unstable and unfit for office because if people find out what I know about how unfit he is, I might get to be president.

Wow, wow, just when you thought politicians couldn't get any worse. And it's not going to matter because when you walk into a presidential race with Donald Trump and the Republicans, they're going to shred him. Yes. They're going to eviscerate him. In fact, that's our next story. It is. Last one, Seth Jones says on Twitter, lines of college towns, U of M and MSU are long tonight

in early voting in Michigan, hopefully a great sign for Bernie Sanders. I hope so. Early voting. If you wrote Bernie Sanders, folks, you've got to vote, you've got to vote. Michigan is everything, Washington is everything. So that's tomorrow. Don't miss a minute of it. All right, what's next to you?

All right, well, the Trump campaign has given us a proof. preview of how they plan to strategize against Biden if he becomes the Democratic nominee. And it's not looking pretty for Biden, especially because they're focusing on three main issues that will have an impact, his past votes on trade, health care, and also his mental fitness for office. Which I get is ironic coming from the Trump campaign. But remember, the Trump campaign throws a lot of stones from their glass house, but they seem to never pay the consequences for that. When it comes to Biden, just consider him on the debate stage and how much of an impact that'll make.

Now, Tim Murtog, who is the Trump campaign spokesperson, had a call with reporters, and this is what we learned through his quotes. First, he said, the myth of Joe Biden's blue-collar appeal will be exposed if he's the nominee. He's got a very serious problem in those states. He's voted for NAFTA. He was Obama's chief cheerleader on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Those are notorious job killers. Joe Biden has serious vulnerabilities on those issues. Okay, so the fact is they're right.

So now Democrats all across the world and yell at me. No, you can't tell the truth. Don't tell the truth. Pretend he was against TPP? Pretend he was against NAFTA. Pretend that people in Michigan and those Midwestern states will like Joe Biden's proposals. None of those things are true.

Now, I will also tell you that Trump just passed the new NAFTA deal. which is very similar to the old NAFTA deal. So it's not like Trump's any better. So certainly on the mental decline issue, Trump is arguably worse. On health care, he's definitely worse. But their whole philosophy is don't say anything bad about Biden in the primaries. Wait for the Republicans to say it during the general election so he's ambushed. Genius politics, way to go with that.

Look, it's the primary race isn't done yet. I know I know that corporate Democrats and the. mainstream media would like us to believe that it's over, but it's not over yet. And so it's important for people to know about the Democratic nominee's vulnerabilities, right? Shush, shush, shush. Now, wait, by the way, do they apply that same principle to Bernie Sanders? No, never.

Bernie Sanders, you should know what a socialist, communist, person. You know what he wrote in 1973? You know that he had the same answer as Obama to Cuba? I mean, he was, can I just answer on Cuba? Oh my God, no one in Florida should vote for him. Hey, what happened to not criticizing the person who might be the nominee? They're nearly tied in delegate count. By the way, understand that when they tell you that it's, they seem to imply that the race

is already over, there's a reason for that, because people like to vote for the winner. And people like to vote for someone who they think is more likely to win. And they want to depress the voter turnout for Sanders team because, oh, it's already over, don't bother showing up. So that's what the mainstream media does in spreading hundreds of millions of dollars in propaganda. It is when Bernie was leading, none of them were saying, it's over, it's over, let's wrap it up.

Hey, don't say anything bad about Bernie. So they're liars, they're proven liars, you saw it happen with your own eyes. But now they're like, hey, hey, don't say things that are true about Joe Biden. So it's, it is interesting because one argument that you'll hear, it's the counter argument to everything we've been saying so far is, well, look, all right, Biden might have some vulnerabilities, But remember, Bernie identifies as a socialist, right? Very dangerous. So that means for sure.

I mean, Trump will attack him on the socialism thing and he'll lose for sure. Except, funny thing, Trump is calling Biden a socialist. And it doesn't matter. In fact, the Trump camp argues that Bernie and Biden are the same when it comes to their socialist values. Let me give you the statement from Tim Murtog. And obviously, anyone who's paying attention knows it's not true. But Murtog says, quote, they're running on big government socialism.

That's what it's called. On health care, what they're talking about is a government takeover of the entire system. Joe Biden's use of a public option is a fig leaf and just another way to get the same results. That's not remotely true. See, look, I just told you when Morto was telling you something that was true. Now I'm telling you what he just said there is preposterous. Joe Biden is not within miles of a socialist or a Democratic socialist. Joe Biden does not actively does not want the government to take over insurance, health insurance,

let alone the rest of the medical system. He gets paid by drug companies. He gets paid by insurance companies. They finance his campaign. And so the idea that he's going to do a takeover of even health insurance is preposterous. And public option is a tiny incremental, a positive, if they can get it through. But on this issue, the Republicans are both lying and way worse on policy than Biden. Right, of course, of course, but my point is the one thing that gets cited in basically trying

to destroy Bernie is he's a socialist, we can't even take that risk. It doesn't matter, right? Because even if Biden is a corrupt corporatist like Trump is, they're still going to accuse him of being a socialist, right? And then on top of that, there's a lot of video that can be utilized against Biden in the general election because, let's face it, he has had gaff after gaff. has had, you know, one memory issue after the next, and that was mentioned in this call with reporters as well. So he was quoted as saying he gets up on stage and confuses what

state he's in. He thinks Margaret Thatcher is still the prime minister, British prime minister. He can't pull Barack Obama's name out of the air. He's a bad candidate. He's never been good at this. I'm not sure why anyone thought he'd be good at the good this time around. And he's right. And look, people get mad because these videos, we show them on our program. They're shared on Twitter by progressives for good reason, because it's a giant red flag. And we're trying to get voters to understand that you're taking a huge risk in making Biden the Democratic nominee. So I'm going to show the video because I think it's important to show voters the truth. If people don't like that, then go watch some propaganda channel. Take a look.

0-303-3-0. He's obviously struggling. If he ever had a fastball, he lost it. If ever had a softball, he lost that too. The man can barely get out a sentence before he loses his train of thought. The fits of anger, bizarre moments, agitation are pretty troublesome. And by the way, he just seems completely incapable of recalling basic fundamental facts. Like, oh, I'm running for president, not the Senate. If Donald Trump mixed up Iowa and Ohio once, the media and it, you know where I'm going on this one, right guys? The media would be on TV. Every tele-psychologist would say, Donald Trump has lost his mind. Donald, he's in the later stages of dementia and a combination of Alzheimer's. He's not fit to run. Joe Biden doesn't know what state he's in 50% of the time.

Bernie was so frightening, they picked the man that is showing obvious signs of dementia, which is astounding. Because if you consider that what he's displaying gets worse, what's he going to be like three years from now? If he doesn't know what state he's in, you can't figure out who his wife is, and if he thinks 150 million people, which is half the population roughly of America, got killed, then what's he going to be like two years from out when that illness gets worse? Do you think? I don't think we should put, look, we're dealing with who's going to be the president of the United States? And we shouldn't pussyfoot around with this. The man has something wrong with him. And it's serious.

They're gonna eviscerate them. No, they are. And look, don't think I don't understand how ridiculous it is to have Rudy Giuliani make these arguments. Mr. like butt dial reporters constantly and say out of control things on a daily basis. Like that's who Rudy Giuliani is. I totally understand how ridiculous it is for him to throw these types of stones. But at the same time, unfortunately, there's way too much evidence to what they're saying. Right? Forgetting the Declaration of Independence. You know the thing.

All men are created what? Everyone knows the rest of it. You don't have to know the rest of the whole statement. All men are created what? Unequal? No equal. All men are created equal. Look, guys, I'm with Anna.

I've been talking about the 25th Amendment in relation to Trump for a long, long time. Anybody who watches the show knows that. The guy keeps saying oranges instead of origins. That's Donald Trump. So none of these guys have a like to stand down, but that doesn't matter. They're gonna roll the video of Biden making one mistake after another after another until he has zero percent chance of getting elected. And there's truth to it.

He said Super Thursday instead of Super Tuesday, he's been in politics for over five decades. Everybody knows it's Super Tuesday. He's in New Hampshire, one of the first two states he calls in Vermont. He called his wife, his sister. Guys, there's something wrong with him. He said he was running for Senate, there's something wrong with him. And so right now, since I've been saying that, of course, predictably, I've got nothing but attached from the establishment.

The media, the Democratic Party, et cetera, you monster, how can you possibly bring up things that are so obviously true. Let him cry. Okay, but first of all, look guys, two things about that. Number one, if you remember doing the whole thing about, oh, Hillary Clinton has mental trauma, She had some sort of brain injury, right? What did I say? I said that was total nonsense.

Right. And some progressives got mad at me. I'm like, there's no evidence of that in her speeches and the debates. I don't agree with her policy, but she's perfectly fine mentally. The other guy on the other hand, Donald Trump has got massive issues. In this case, look, last, but this is so important, it doesn't matter what we say now. Those guys you just saw are gonna say that on a loop for four straight months, six straight months. And then what's gonna happen?

All the rest of cable news is gonna say, well, there's nothing we could do. The Republicans made it an issue, so we all have to talk about it. They're gonna spend six months debating if Joe Biden has lost his entire mind or half his mind. And the Democrats will have 0% chance of winning. And they're gonna blame me for giving you the warning that there's an iceberg straight ahead. And we're gonna run smack into it and Trump will easily, easily defeat Biden. When we this whole process started, I thought every single Democratic candidate can beat Trump. Trump is actually deeply unpopular.

But then Joe Biden started his mental decline right in front of our eyes. Well, I didn't know he was in mental decline. In mental decline, none of them can win. If Bernie was in mental decline, I'd say don't vote for him. Let's bring Warren back. Let's do something. Because we have principles. Right, if Bernie were in mental decline, no one would be upset at you for doing the exact same commentary on

Birdie, right? The media, the establishment Democrats would have like a field day attacking him. And so look, I think Sam Cedar made a really, really good point that I want to emphasize on this show as well. It's not just that Biden is vulnerable and likely to lose when he's up against Trump. It's also if best case scenario, he wins, you have a president in mental decline. Yeah. That is not, do we want to find ourselves in that situation? It doesn't matter. With this state, he has no chance of beating Trump.

So they could cry all the establishment, go cry in your corner, I don't care, it's super obvious. And like last time you'll say, oh, you told us not to pick Hillary Clinton. And when she lost this to Donald Trump, a moron, a buffoon, an incompetent, et cetera, it was your fault for warning us. Are you, and they're doing it again, they're doing it again. Jenk, don't warn us that we're gonna, we're making a tragic mistake because then we'll blame you afterwards.

So he had this Joe Biden, and look guys, his own advisors say they do not allow him to do afternoon events. They want him to be able to sit in the next debate with Bernie because he gets tired and then he has trouble concentrating. Great. He's gonna get mauled by the Republicans, mauled. The minute Biden wins the nomination, you just reelected Donald Trump. So congratulations establishment.

You could blame me and other progressives until the cows come home, but you did this. You hit his problems during the primary, and I guarantee you, mark my words, write it down in stone. Every cable news host that is right now refusing to talk about Joe Biden's mental decline. Every single one of them will talk about it nonstop if he's the nominee for the general election. They'll say nothing we could do. Republicans made it an issue. Okay, I'm making it an issue. No, you're a progressive.

You're invisible. You don't count. We never listen to progressives. We are biased against progressives. We support the establishment. But if the Republicans say it, oh, mighty Republicans, we'll talk about it 24-7. Every one of them will do it. It's an absolute guarantee.

There's only one way to stop it. The next nine days, you've got to vote against Joe Biden. Otherwise, you're electing Donald Trump. That's my true opinion. The rest of it, it's on you guys, good night, good luck. And I also want to just say one last thing about what keeps me up at night. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that keeps me up at night. She keeps me up at night.

So there's a lot. They're gonna have seven seats on the Supreme Court. They're gonna have seven seats on the Supreme Court. They're like, Cenk, don't say that because we gotta be Trump. That is what I'm saying. I'd bring back Klobuchar today and give her all of Joe Biden's delegates. I'd bring back any conservative Democrat and give them all Joe Biden's delegates and let him run the rest of the race.

The guy's at mental decline, he has no chance of beating Trump. And we're walking straight into that iceberg. We're walking straight off the cliff, like, oh, I don't see a cliff, hey guys, hey, I turned on MSNBC and CNN, they told me there was no cliff, let's keep on going, okay? So it's not anywhere near over. We got massive states coming up. But if, if, if Biden's the nominee, we're toast. all right so i'm going to think about while we go to break uh when we come back bill mar has some

strong words when it comes to money in politics and it's not something that we're going to agree with we'll be right back thanks for listening to the full episode of the young turks support our work listen ad free access members only bonus content and more by subscribing to apple podcast at apple dot co slash t yt i'm your host jank huger and i'll see you soon