The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - October 8, 2020

Episode Date: October 9, 2020

FBI Stops Right-Wing Extremists From Kidnapping Michigan Governor. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. All right, welcome the young Turks, Jank Ugarana consparing with you guys. Country's going to hell in a handbasket, but I'm in a great mood. So don't sweat it. Everything's going to be all right. We just got 26 days left. Man, when the moment that Trump in some way, shape, or form concedes to feed, there's going to be 200 million people who at the same time go, or maybe several billion people across the planet. But he's in full rampaging madman mood and form.

We're gonna tell you all about that in just a couple of minutes. A couple of quick programming notes also today, BMU between me and Uyghur. Ben Dixon is on this time. You wanna know Ben Dixon's backstory, where did he grow up, how to become progressive, etc. Check it out tonight at 8 o'clock Eastern on Twitch.tv slash TYT. Okay, so check that out tonight. And next Tuesday, you're going to love our Tarantino special. That's named after Tarantino because of his movies where there's an alternate ending to history. We're going to talk about what the alternate ending could have been to our lives if we had just made one different decision.

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in the show possible today? Well, let's see, let's see. But we let's get there because we're really falling behind, at least on that metric for now. All right. So Anna, let's get going. All right. Not too long ago, Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to liberate Michigan. Well, today we're learning of an FBI investigation and the fact that they foiled a right-wing terrorist plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan in order to, in order to essentially go against her lockdown measures during the pandemic. Now, there have been more than a dozen people who have been arrested. Some are only facing state charges.

However, six of the individuals are facing state and federal charges. And in the next video, you'll get more detail into how this FBI investigation was conducted and what these individuals are accused of. Take a look. Last night, the FBI and Michigan State Police arrested six individuals charged in a federal complaint with conspiring to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. According to the complaint unsealed this morning, Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Caleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta conspired to kidnap the governor. from her vacation home in the Western District of Michigan before the number of her election. Under federal law, each of these individuals faces a term of any number of years up to life in prison, if convicted.

Fox, Garbin, Franks, Harrison, Caserta, are residents of Michigan. Croft is a resident of Delaware. All of us standing here today want the public to know that federal and state law enforcement are committed to working together to make sure violent extremists never succeed with their plans. And to be clear, the FBI has warned in numerous reports that the real threat here to domestic security is right-wing terrorism, and that right-wing terrorism is oftentimes plotted, and unfortunately, once in a while actually carried out by right-wing gang members.

in this country. So the federal government has filed an affidavit. The FBI has filed an affidavit against the six individuals who were mentioned in that press conference. Several members talked about murdering tyrants or taking a sitting government governor. The group decided they needed to increase their numbers and encouraged each other to talk to their neighbors and spread their message. And I want to be clear that they had very specific plans in place to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. The conspirators conducted surveillance on Whitmer's vacation home during the day on August 29th and at night over the weekend of September 12th through the 13th.

During the surveillance operation, the right-wing extremists, Adam Fox in particular, said the following. We ain't going to let them burn our effing state down. I don't give an F. If there's only 20 or 30 of us, dude, we'll go out there and use deadly force. Also, in an encrypted group chat, Garbin later suggested that demolishing a nearby bridge would hamper a response by police to the governor's home. The September surveillance followed a field exercise at Garbin's property in Luther, Michigan, where the conspirators allegedly dent an improvised explosive device made from a commercial firework wrapped in shrapnel to test its anti-personnel effectiveness. So they actually took some measures and were certainly

planning in a very detailed way to carry out these acts of terror. Okay, let me translate anti-personnel measures when you're testing a bomb. That means how well does it kill people? So it doesn't get any more extreme than this. Kidnap, murder, bombings, arson. They were planning all of it. It's very clear in the messages that they were sharing. There was an FBI informant that got it on tape, that got all their plans, and that's how they got arrested. First of all, now for, I don't know how many times in a row, I want to give credit to the FBI. They have foiled so many of these plots. And by the way, they are very clear. They explain, look, we are looking at every single possibility from all ends of the political

spectrum. And the overwhelming threat is the right wing malicious. There's almost no Antifa plots that they mention in any of their documentation. They're looking, looking, and there is no such things. So, you know, there is this overwhelming drive, not just by Republicans, but by the media oftentimes, although less so today, to call everything even. Not even, this is an insane right wing militia. You know, a Republican member of the Michigan legislature today had to come out and clarify, you know, look, this is not really what patriots do. Could you imagine if there was going to be a group of Muslims that were going to kidnap and murder a U.S. governor of one of the US states and Democrats who bothered to clarify this is not what patriots do.

Yeah, of course, of course it's not what patriots do. But in the right wing, they think maybe, maybe that's what patriots do. Maybe they go around killing governors. And remember Trump in the midst of all the madness against Whitmer in Michigan wrote a tweet saying liberate Michigan. And of course during the debate, he said stand back and standby when it asked about white supremacist militia groups. This is what standby looks like. And Donald Trump has brought us to the brink of absolute anarchy in this country. And it's absolutely grotesque what's happened. And I'll give one more piece of credit and it's to the media. When we were discussing this in our production meeting this morning, I thought it would have the same reaction that things like this always do.

Oh, if Antifa or Muslims or black people were going to do it, oh my God, oh no, look, and they were going to murder the governor of Florida, Rick DeSantis, poor Republican. That all that would be all that anybody talked about. I said, but whenever there's a right wing militia who's going to murder people, it's barely any news. So this time around, though, it was. It was big news, and everybody did cover it. And I was a little surprised, like, oh, I guess kidnapping and murdering a governor does rise to the level of national news. even if the right wing does it. Right, I mean, this is, well, I think you just highlighted the difference between this case and what we've seen in so many other cases.

If we're talking about Black Lives Matter demonstrators getting gunned down in cold blood, yeah, it'll get a little bit of attention in the media. But if you're talking about gang members of any ideology, including right wing gang members in this country, threatening someone in a position of power, yeah, that's going to grab a lot more. attention. And I'm, look, I'm glad it is because, again, I mean, we've repeated ourselves so many times. The biggest terror threat in this country comes from radical right-wing extremists. I don't know why the president doesn't say them by their name or call them by their name. That's what we have in this country. We have radical right-wing extremists. And they're carrying out acts of violence. Sometimes, unfortunately, they're able to do what they want to do without the FBI foiling their plots. But you're right, Jank, there have been so many of these serious, you know,

threats. And luckily, the FBI caught these individuals in time before they can carry out any more acts of violence. But I do want to go to Donald Trump's campaign aide, Jason Miller, because, you know, you mentioned the weak response from Republicans. Well, what can you expect from the Trump administration or the Trump campaign? You're going to get people who try to justify this type of behavior. Watch. These are some pretty shameful comments here from Governor Whitmer. I mean, how we could take, because how you can go from a moment of unity to attacking President Trump, I thought it was just completely ridiculous. I mean, if we want to talk about hatred,

then Governor Whitmer, go look in the mirror. I mean, the fact that she wakes up every day with such hatred in her heart towards President Trump. I mean, President Trump is the one out there condemning these radical groups, whether they be on the right or they be on the left We saw it two weeks ago when he was in Atlanta introducing his platinum plan, his contract with Black America, where he labeled the KKK and Antifa, both terrorist groups. We saw him do. That's a senior advisor to the Trump campaign. After the FBI says, we just foiled a terrorist plant to murder the governor of Michigan,

he turns around and blames her. He says, she has hatred in her heart. And he says, oh, this is a moment of unity, wait, how is it a moment of unity? Donald Trump told the militia to go liberate Michigan. Then he told him to stand by in a debate. He encouraged people to take violent extreme actions. He said, if you take violent action against protesters at my rallies, I'll pay for the lawsuits. And I would go through dozens of examples where I asked for violence.

He once said during the 2016 campaign about how there's political things we could do against Hillary Clinton, but there's also Second Amendment Amendment things we can do against Hillary Clinton. So this guy who was called for violent action against his opponents. Now we're supposed to have unity with Donald Trump after the people listen to him and almost killed the governor? No, it's not a moment of unity. That's a moment of you guys are horrible, horrible human beings. And after she barely escapes getting kidnapped by this insane plot thanks to the good work of

the FBI, Trump sends out his henchmen, his goon, Jason Miller, to come out and say, I blame her, hatred in her heart. By the way, it could also be interpreted as, hey, guys, nice trying this time. Somebody else, you guys want to step in because Trump still thinks she's the bad guy. I can't believe they're doing that on TV. But they are. And if you don't think they're monsters, you're not getting it. They are. That's exactly how brown shirts receives power. And if Trump was this election, it's good night, Irene. They're going to run rampant. And the vigilante violence This is going to be absolutely through the roof. Yeah, one of them, Caleb Franks, was quoted as saying, kidnapping, arson, death, I don't care when

talking about Governor Gretchen Whitmer. These people are a huge threat to our national security. They're a huge threat to protesters. They're a huge threat to our democracy. and anyone who minimized the impact of a Donald Trump presidency and continues to do so really needs to wake up. And I'm being very tame in sharing this message because I would use other words to basically communicate this. We're in a lot of trouble. And I'm really concerned about what's going to happen both during the election and after the election.

So I'll tell you, Anna, look, if they had just uncovered a plot by Antifa or Black Lives Matter to kidnap and murder Governor Abbott of Texas and blow up bridges and kill other people and use bombs and burn down buildings and the Biden team sent out someone to say Governor Abbott has hatred in his heart. What do you think would have happened? The world would have stopped. And they, oh my God, Biden's America. Can you believe it? It said no. But Trump, we're all used to. Trump said earlier today, we're not even covering it on the show. He did a live video about it, that we should arrest Biden a month before the election. We should arrest Obama. We should arrest Hillary Clinton.

He just said it today. And everyone's like, oh yeah, of course, the president's of would be dictator. And if he wins this election, obviously we've lost democracy. Mike Lee said, we'll talk about it later in the show. Senator from Utah, our Republican senators saying this is not a democracy. They just don't believe in democracy. And if we don't win this time around, it's over. And that's just the reality. And by the way, we are going to win, as I explained earlier a couple of days ago. But after we do, people will forget. They'll think like, oh, it was hyperbole that democracy wasn't really on the line. No, no, no. It is. And they'll forget the lessons because these guys were so close to ending our

democracy. If Trump, if Trump only loses by three points, they'll definitely cheat and end it anyway. But my guess is going to lose by a lot more than that. I can't believe America is this close to having the fascist win after all these years. When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about Donald Trump, whistling out of his next debate with Joe Biden. 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

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Well, during an interview with Maria Bartaromo on Fox business, Donald Trump decided that he's not interested in debating Joe Biden in the next debate, because if he can't spread the coronavirus, what's the point? Let's watch. I heard that the commission a little while ago changed the debate style, and that's not acceptable to us. I beat him easily in the first debate, according to the poll. that I've seen, but I beat him easily.

I felt I beat him easily. I think he felt it too. He wouldn't answer any questions and he had the protection of Chris Wallace all night long. I thought Chris Wallace was a disaster. But I beat him in the first debate. At the second debate, we have a never-Trump or is a host, but that's okay

because I'd beat him in the second debate also. But I'm not going to do a virtual debate. So you're not, so, Mr. President, you're not going to do it because the CPD, the Commission on Presidential debates announcing this morning that the second presidential debate will be virtual. Are you saying you're not going to participate?

No, I'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That's not what debating is all about. You sit behind a computer and do a debate. It's ridiculous. And then they cut you off whenever they want. I mean, look, if I performed as poorly as Donald Trump did in the first debate, I certainly wouldn't want to do another debate. Secondly, the American people really don't need to see another debate between these two

to be quite honest with you. That's where I stand on this issue. And finally, don't think that I miss the fact that a second debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden hasn't happened yet. And Trump has already declared that he's won the second debate. He's delusional. He is erratic. He is incompetent. And he shouldn't be in office. He is a danger to this country and to pretty much every other country around the world. That's the same interview that he said Kamala Harris is a communist and a monster and that Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton should all be arrested and that you might not need drugs or coronavirus. He is completely and utterly unhinged.

And every time I see stuff like that, I think over 30% of this country looks at that and goes, my dear leader, he's so good. I'll die for him. I'll die for him. Do you remember that? There was video of Trump supporters outside of Walter Reed Medical Center and one of the guys there was just like shouting as loudly as he could about how he would die for Donald Trump. No, like I used to cringe when people would refer to his supporters as a cult. I felt like it went for some reason a bridge too far. No, I now 100% cosine on that specific word being used to describe them. I wouldn't, I wouldn't die for anyone. You shouldn't die for the president. Like, that's ridiculous and that's crazy. Saying things like that is crazy. And by the way, especially

this president, who has probably implemented all sorts of policies that have directly negatively impacted that person's life, but who cares? I would die for the president. Great. Yeah, but you might yet still, so hang in there because he keeps telling you coronavirus isn't a problem. So if you go out there and smear it all over yourself, you might find out it is a problem. So I hope he does not get his wish, but that's the kind of cult there. And so if he, if Trump told people that that Kool-Aid tastes great and all the world's doctors and science, scientists told them it's poison, I think a giant percentage of his base would drink the Kool-Aid. It's definitely a cult. They would kill themselves without question. They literally

believe that Donald Trump knows better than all of the world's doctors and all the world's scientists. If that's not the definition of stupid, I don't know what it is. So, but in this case, I mean, I'll say about that, Jane. Yeah, all I'll say in response to that is, even in what's considered a highly civilized society. I just think natural selection continues. It's a thing. So again, like I, when this pandemic started, I would be enraged every time Trump would intentionally spread disinformation about this virus because it harms everyone, including his supporters who, you know, I might disagree with politically, but I see them as humans. You know, you want people to survive. You want them to be healthy. You want them to live good lives.

But at this point, like, what am I going to do? I'm going to act as their mother. Like, do what you want to do. I'm done with it. I'm done with it. What's frustrating, though, is that their actions continue to spread this virus and that affects everyone's life, everyone that lives in this country. It negatively impacts businesses that have to shut down again and again because of the rising rates of coronavirus. It's beyond frustrating because if they lived in like this vacuum or in this like isolated situation and they wanted to like risk their lives and die off from a virus that they could easily prevent the spread of, again, do you? You believe in liberty? I believe in liberty.

Do you? But it sucks that we don't have the liberty to live our lives healthy and happy because we're stuck in this country with these incompetent morons who can't ever think for themselves and easily get manipulated by literally the dumbest president this country has ever seen. That's the frustrating part. You want to live your life a certain way, do you? But it sucks that it negatively impacts all of us. Now back to this particular comment within this madness of an interview that he did with Barteroma. He's saying, do I won the debate everybody knew the polling that I've been looking at? Why does he say the polling that I've been looking at? Because he knows every poll had him getting clowned, humiliated.

One poll had the debate 60 to 28, no, 62 to 28 for Biden, doubling him, doubling him. Others also had gigantic leads all said that Biden, every poll of real Americans said that, or any Americans said that Joe Biden won. And he knows that, and he's embarrassed by that. That's why the coward doesn't want to show up. But I have a suggestion for Donald Trump. It's an oldy but goody, just claim you got bone spurs. And then that way you don't have to attend the debate. Yeah, I mean, through and through. Exactly. And by the way, it is pretty ironic that his campaign just released an ad attacking cancel culture when Donald Trump, of course, is the one who just tried to cancel this upcoming debate.

Here's the new ad, and it's laughable. Didn't know. Didn't Donald Trump want to cancel certain types of curriculum that has anything negative about this country's history, that's canceling. So if you want to talk about canceling books and culture and this and that, I mean, it's just amazing. He just pulled out of the next debate. He canceled his appearance for the next debate, which means that the debate, if he doesn't show up, is done. It's canceled. He is the king of cancel culture. He's the king of everything that he projects onto others. It's because he's like,

mirror to himself and he's like, oh, this is what I see about myself. I'm going to go ahead and accuse everyone else of what I see in myself. He's the worst. And like I said, in the other part of the interview, he said, I want my political opponent arrested a month before the election. I want Biden canceled. He basically would cancel the election. Okay, I want the former president canceled.

I want the former secretary of state. My former opponent canceled. He's king canceled. And still, he puts out an ad saying, can you believe they're against counsel? That look at the cancel culture that the left wing is doing. They're pathetic. Well, Donald Trump may have tested positive for COVID, but he's positive for something else. Let's talk about it.

Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID. We still haven't seen a negative test, even though he claims that he's no longer contagious. But he has tested positive for one other thing, and that's stupidity. You're about to experience some of that in this next clip. You've got 30 plus people with coronavirus in and around the White House. Address that concern for us, Mr. President. As you tell, the Commission on Debates, you're not going to do this virtually. Well, first of all, I think I'm better when to a point where I'd love to do a rally tonight.

I wanted to do one last night. but I think I'm better to a point that I feel better than I did. You know, I jokingly said 20 years ago. I feel perfect. There's nothing wrong. I had a case. I got it knocked out. I think it was a regenerant that was responsible for it.

Because of that, it was sort of like almost a gift from heaven. So again, let me just let me note that it is not impossible. considering all of the experimental drugs they pumped into his body. It is not impossible that he could be at a phase where he's no longer contagious, okay? So I just want to put that out there. However, we have not seen any evidence yet indicating that he's no longer contagious and there are tests to see if someone is contagious at this point. So let's see that test. And if that's true, you want to go do rallies, do rallies. But even if he's not contagious, Keep in mind that he has surrounded himself with people who were yelled at if they ever tried

to wear a mask. They also got the virus. And so there are a bunch of sick people surrounding Donald Trump. And if you take all those people to wherever he's planning on doing a rally, you are risking the lives of people in that area. The workers who have to work to put that rally together. It's not just about him. It's not just about Donald Trump. But it doesn't matter.

I mean, he doesn't ever see past himself and what he wants anyway. So look, guys, after you have coronavirus and you're completely past it, are you less likely to get coronavirus going forward? Absolutely, you are. It doesn't mean you're absolutely immune because people have gotten it a second time already. But you're close to immune. It's very unlikely. Is Donald Trump passed it?

by any definition of any doctor on the planet. According to Donald Trump, it's not my words, it's his. They say that he tested positive Thursday night. Now, some are speculating that he might have tested positive earlier and that he wasn't telling folks. But they say, Trump says, I tested positive Thursday. Today is Thursday. There is not a single doctor on the planet that thinks that someone who tested positive

a week ago is not contagious a week later. I've never heard that, never read that. It's not a thing. Maybe by some miracle, someone might already be past it within a week, but there's been no documented cases of anyone not being contagious a week after they test positive. So no, he doesn't know anything. He's actively putting out misinformation to the whole country telling them, it's not a big deal.

It's not a big deal. Oh, you have coronavirus? Don't worry about it. A week later, a couple of days later, go out. Take your mask off, go around, etc. We're going to get people killed. That's why they take this information off of social media now because of how potentially dangerous it is. So I tweeted about this earlier today. The reason I'm telling you that is because every right winger in the comment section was like, oh, no way, man. Trump knows way better than doctors. He's definitely immune. I don't care what every doctor says. He's definitely immune.

These morons, they really believe Trump over every doctor on the planet. So yeah, look, Anna, I'm with you. I'm done trying to save their lives. So you guys all want to go to the Superdome and pack it in 100,000, 200,000 people standing room only all hugged out together with Donald Trump right now, an active coronavirus patient who is clearly by any definable metric, very, very, very, very, very likely, unless it's a miracle to be contagious. Have at it. But It's the Secret Service, it's the vendors, it's all these other people that you put in grave danger as well. That's why we can't have it. And guys, the other problem is that the president is a moron. He keeps saying things that aren't remotely true. But forget doing his rallies

with his dumbass death cult, who's happy to die for him. But he's tell the rest of the country, oh yeah, yeah, no, maybe I'm immune. He said right after he got out of the hospital. He did a video where he's saying, maybe I'm immune, I don't know. Then why did you open your big stupid orange mouth? Because when you say maybe I'm immune, I don't know. Your followers interpret that as one day after coronavirus. Once you get out of the hospital, you're immune. Yeah, that's it.

Let's go hug everybody with coronavirus and spread it all around. Trump told us he's immune that we're immune. So he's a danger to self into everyone else around him. He should send the White House doctors home. I'm sure they'd love to be with their family and their loved ones. I'm sure they'd love a little bit of time off. It would show just how tough Donald Trump really is. I mean, if he's completely cured, he doesn't need any help.

You know, during the interview, he claimed you don't even necessarily need drugs to conquer a coronavirus. If that's all true, awesome. Then why do you need round the clock medical assistance if you want to call on? on it, right? Let these poor people go home to their families and enjoy some time off. I mean, it's just ridiculous. He is intentionally making it out as if his personal experience with this virus as someone in a position of power who has round the clock medical care is the same scenario that any average American is going to have. And we know that that's not

the case. We know that there have been countless Americans who have already received, unbelievably, like extremely expensive medical bills related to the COVID treatment that they received in the hospital. Other Americans died because they didn't even want to risk going to the hospital and accumulating these gigantic bills. He was pumped with all sorts of experimental drugs. I mean, it's just, it's so unbelievably irresponsible. And the thing that I worry about is there are reasonable Americans out there who are sick of lockdowns, who are tired of, of, you know, following the rules and wearing the masks. And it is a giant inconvenience. And I'm worried that with his like nonchalant attitude, like look at me, I'm an obese 70 something year old

and I should be dead, but I'm not after contracting this virus. I'm worried that others are going to minimize the potential risk of contracting a virus like this. So we'll see how that plays out. But the numbers are going up. We've talked about that in dozens of states. The COVID numbers are going up. And that is devastating when you consider that we're entering flu season. And there are going to be people who need to be hospitalized just from the common flu. That happens every year. Yeah.

So, guys, that's why we're different than any other show. In another part of the interview, you know, he talked about how he might not need any medicine at all because he's a perfect physical specimen. So, I mean, then your idiot followers are going to think that they don't need medicine. medicine when they get coronavirus. He's the most irresponsible man ever. But other shows say that. What they don't say is the next thing. And I'm going to tell you why it's important. You have to explain to people that the president, the president is a total moron. If you don't explain that to people, they think it's 50-50. They think, well, that's the president of the United States. And they have debates. Oh, and Trump debates Biden. Biden could be right.

Trump could be right. What should be the right amount of taxes? I don't know. Do we need medicine for coronavirus? Is it contagious? Once you're tested positive, should you be with family members? Or are you miraculously cured in two days? I don't know, it's a debate. It's not a debate. One side has all the doctors and scientists, the other side has a moron as its leader. It's, I don't say that because of politics, I say that to try to help save your life. So no one in their right mind should ever listen to Donald Trump. And if you're MAGA and you want to smear coronavirus all over yourself because Trump told you to have at it, But if you're not MAGA, don't ever make the mistake of listening to a family member who's MAGA and isn't a death cult.

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Okay, the diabetic also on the member section says, I have a hard time seeing how cancel culture is actually a thing and not just a terrifying idea when all the people who have been quote unquote canceled are still coming out and making millions. So that's an excellent point. Yeah, can I just comment on that real quick? I think that it's unfortunately the people who speak out against it and pretend to be victimized by it the most, like the Barry Weiss's of the world, they end up like minimizing the negative impact it has to like people we don't hear about who end up like literally having their lives ruined because they made a mistake on Twitter decades ago. Those are the people that I'm concerned about. You know, like I remember we did a

story jank years ago that went back and talked to all the like private citizens who were basically fired from their jobs and all this stuff because they tweeted something that they thought would be a funny joke. And then it turned out people didn't take it that way. And yeah, they still had difficulty finding jobs and things like that. So Ben Burgess does a lot of really great work and write-ups about these types of stories. You should follow his work. And he'll explain all of this a lot better than I'm doing right now in this limited time. All right. Let me read to the name of some of the members who just signed up on YouTube by clicking the join button below the video. So it's Brianna Circus, Kurt Singer, Snowline West, Narion, I.R. A.A. Vaughn LaVois,

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Okay. Thank you. All right, let's go forward. All right. One of the many experimental drugs that Donald Trump took following his positive coronavirus test is made by a biotech company known as Regeneron. Now it's important to note that Trump is financially invested in this company, or at least was very recently.

But nonetheless, he did talk about this particular drug during an interview, and immediately afterwards, stock prices went high. So let's watch. I spent four days there and I went in and I wasn't feeling so hot. And within a very short period of time, they gave me regeneron. It's called regeneron and other things too, but I think this was the key. But they gave me regeneron and it was like unbelievable. I felt good immediately.

I felt as good three days ago as I do now. So I just want to say we have regenerone. We have a very similar drug from Eli Lilly and they're coming out. and we're trying to get them on an emergency basis. We've authorized it. I've authorized it. And if you're in the hospital and you're feeling really bad, I think we're going to work it so that you get them

and you're going to get them free. And especially if you're a senior, we're going to get you in there quick. We have hundreds of thousands of doses that are just about ready. I have emergency use authorization all set, and we've got to get it signed now. And you're going to get better. You're going to get better really fast.

This is things that nobody even thought of a few months ago. In addition to that, you have various other drugs that help a lot, but these, I view these, and now they call them therapeutic, but to me it wasn't therapeutic. It just made me better, okay? I call that a cure. Man, that was a long video of him just saying the same thing over and over again. Like, what is up with dudes not being able to just say something once and move on? It's insane. That video was insane. But anyway, let's focus on the substance. Apparently,

according to Anthony Fauci, this drug does look promising. So that is good news. But the bad news is Donald Trump's actions and the conflicts of interests related to his investments makes people distrustful. I don't trust anything Donald Trump says because everything he does is based on his own personal gain. And then you read stories about how, you know, fairly recently, he was invested in the biotech company that's making this drug. And he puts out this video. The price of this company's shares increase, of course, dramatically. And then it makes you wonder, well, is this just a grift or is this actually a promising drug? And quite honestly, up until the point Anthony Fauci addressed this, I didn't trust any of it at all. I do have

some hope and faith in Fauci. So if he's saying it's promising, that's good news. But I do want to note you know, actually, Jank, why don't you jump in and then I'll give you the details about Trump's investments. Yeah, Fauci said that there's a, quote, reasonably good chance that it did make him much better. Now, Fauci is not attending to him as a physician, but has information about regeneron. And I, even before Fauci said that, I had read several articles explaining, it's very limited tests. It's only 275 people that it was in clinical trials in. But the results were good and there doesn't appear to be any or much downsides at all. So if it doesn't have much downsides, then there actually is relatively low risk.

And so now you don't get to take that at this point. The president got a special exception to take that, even though it's still in clinical trials. And so they might open it up for more people soon, that's what they're promising. That's part of the reason why their stock prices going up. And I hope it's a great drug. And oftentimes the drug companies have a lot of issues, but they do sometimes create great drugs. So that's wonderful and that's how it's supposed to work.

But when Trump says something like, well, it's not therapeutic, I call it a cure. Wait, even they don't say it's a cure. Nobody says it's a cure. Regeneron doesn't say it's a cure. No doctor in the world says it's a cure. So why are you as a president of the United States actively putting out misinformation? And you don't need to. It looks like it's a good drug.

Let's let the clinical trials go. And then if they get cleared and they're right about not much side effects and it helps, great, let's get it to everybody. But you don't have to weirdly say that it's a cure when it's not a cure. It's therapeutic. He can't help himself. There's no off switch on dumb. And then finally, guys, look at what Anna said.

We know for a fact that he was invested in this company and another company that makes a drug related to coronavirus. Definitely in 2017 filings that he put forward. And they don't appear in the 2020 filings, so it's kind of up in the air. When did Donald Trump make money from these companies? But why are we letting the president invest in companies that he has incredible control over? If he said, let's say that he was shorting the stock instead of betting on it to go high, this drug could be great and he could be like, it doesn't work. And then their stock price plummets.

It's insane. It's an obvious conflict of interest, let alone the fourth. $400 million he owes to God knows who and which foreign governments he owes the money to. No other president does this. He's just wildly corrupt. So let me just note that for Donald Trump to make any type of declarative statement about this drug based on his personal experience is ridiculous. Because remember, he was given a number of different treatments after testing positive for coronavirus.

While Trump has claimed the drug made him feel incredible, it's worth noting that it was likely the steroids. He was also given a series of other treatments including remdesivir and dextamethazone, and that's the steroid that he was taking. And there's no evidence regeneron's antibody cocktail is responsible for his recovery, for his specific recovery. Also, Jake, I want to note that the largest clinical trial that this biotech firm did was on, I believe, to 300 people. It was around 270-something people. And they reported that the treatment seemed

to look promising and that there were very few side effects. But I read about this this morning. Maybe things have changed since. When I was reading about the reports on this drug this morning, the firm had not shared the details of that study with the public yet. So I, first of all, I think there's a problem with the messenger because Donald Trump is such a liar that I think reasonable people would be skeptical of anything he says, especially when he has financial interests at play and conflicts of interest at play. But the other issue is, you know, there's just this urge right now for any hope, like to latch on to any hope. I think we need to be careful and make sure that we have, you know, actual evidence and clear clinical trials indicating that these

treatments work and don't have serious side effects. But what the Trump administration is trying to do is like ram this through without the proper FDA approval. Look, he keeps saying that I'm doing it for hope. But first of all, you can't just pick any random medicine like hydroxychloricin and say, I don't know, I'm putting hope into that. Everybody go take it because people then die if they take the wrong medication and the wrong context. One of the things he gave hope to you guys over was injecting yourself with bleach, How'd that turn out? And so, I mean, why would anybody ever listen to the medical opinion of a guy who thought maybe you could cure coronavirus by injecting bleach into your lungs? So that, why are we still having a conversation about this guy in science? And so, and by the way, the drug that everybody says has cut down fatality rates of coronavirus most effectively is remdesivir. He mentioned it in passing but seemed to play it down. To my knowledge, he never had any money invested in remdesivir.

So if you want to give people hope, you would actually talk about that drug, almost everybody says that's the one that's most effective. But the president doesn't have a financial stake in that drug. This is insane. Okay, all right, guys, we're out of time. But we got a post game coming up for you guys, where we got another issue about Regeneron and the amazing hypocrisy of the right wing related to that. And then why is Donald Trump asking people to take doctors to sign NDAs?

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