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Episode Date: February 3, 2023

The Air Force put out a concerning memo to tell troops to prepare for war with China in 2025. PG&E is facing a manslaughter trial over the deadly California fire. The new organization running the National Prayer Breakfast has ties to the controversial group that used to run it. Hunter Biden’s lawyers just roasted Fox News and they’re demanding retractions. Host: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur 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. Woo! It's up! All right, well, the other interns, Jake Yer, Anna Kusparan with you. Guys, the revelations in the Alex Jones emails and the Hunter Biden story are bananas. And they're, they're cray cray. But the Hunter Biden revelation, to me, on a day where we

have Alex Joseph's private techs is the craziest thing I've ever seen. That's in the Hunter Biden story. So buckle up, brace for impact. All right, amazing show ahead. Casper. Well, we begin with something that definitely should make you brace for impact if the military falls through on it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So let's talk about. about potential war with China. A top Air Force general warned troops that they should be ready for potential warfare, meaning military action against China in 2025. Now this is General Michael Minahan and based on some of the things he said previously,

even before telling troops to get ready for war with China were pretty unhinged. We'll get to those unhinged quotes in just a moment, but first the topic at hand, Why does he think that troops need to be ready for war with China in 2025? Well, he says elections have a lot to do with it. I hope I'm wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025. Xi, meaning Xi Jinping, secured his third term and set his war counsel in October of 2022. Taiwan's presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason.

United States' presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer she a distracted America. She's team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025. Okay, so then Minahan directs airmen who are qualified to use a weapon to fire a clip into a seven-meter target with a full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. sometime in February, aim for the head, he said. So he's training them to get ready for war with China. This person should not have any position in the military. Because just based on this memo that he sent to the troops and based on previous statements he has made about the wonderful lethality of the Air Force, it seems like he's got this

lust for killing people for going to war. And going to war with China is not a small thing. And I think if you take a step back, a broader question is, if China does invade Taiwan, is it the United States responsibility to intervene? And more importantly, to have boots on the ground. Yeah, well, that's a giant question. But first, let's handle this maniac. So look, guys, Are you the General's job to get ready for contingencies? Absolutely. Do you need preparedness? Absolutely. In fact, he took part in an exercise that was one of the biggest exercises, military exercise we've ever had in the Pacific Ocean. And all of that makes sense, right? If you're doing a training exercise, by the way, on shooting a weapon, aiming for the target, aiming for the head of the target, et cetera, that makes sense, right? The problem is when you put it together. Now, we're nowhere near a conflict with China right now. Here's a top general in the American military saying, now get ready to shoot them in the head.

But wait a minute, wait a minute, what department are you in? Well, I looked it up. He's in charge of transportation in the Asian perimeter, right? So wait, what? So it's an important job, but they've got to get certain ships and et cetera to certain places. And the military needs that. But it is not a job where people need to get ready now to shoot Chinese folks in the head. For him to put that in a memo when he's talking about a war that he thinks is going to start somehow in 2025 is absurd.

And then when you read the quote saying is going to give you in a minute about what he generally thinks about unrepentantantantality, you go, oh, okay, this guy's totally unhinged. So, but then the question is how many U.S. generals are as unhinges this guy. He appears to not be warning about military conflict with great trepidation. Right. He appears to be looking forward to it. Exactly, exactly. And look, take a step back and look at the bigger picture, including the rhetoric that we've been hearing from elected leaders.

Nancy Pelosi's provocative trip to Taiwan specifically meant to be provocative toward China. you had both Donald Trump and Joe Biden run campaign ads in 2020 being incredibly antagonistic toward China. And guys, let me just be clear about something. The antagonism toward China has more to do with the fact that we enable them in basically building up their economy. And now we're upset about it. The U.S. government's upset about it.

Well, you allowed for corporations to exploit cheap labor in China to the point. point where they manufacture almost everything. And then we get hit with COVID. Our supply chains suffer because if China shuts down, we can't do anything about that. Right. So there's all this like bitterness about the economic aspect of China. And all of the rhetoric I've been hearing from politicians tries to make it seem like China's a real threat to our national security. And so far, the only real threat I see to national security is the discourse itself, which keeps escalating the situation when we should not be escalating the situation. But let me give you some more comments from him from the general here, Minahan. Now, he also told all personnel reporting to him that they should, quote, consider their personal affairs and be more aggressive about training.

In fact, he instructs them run deliberately, not recklessly. Let's just pause right there. What does it mean to run recklessly? I think it's like this. China's coming. You freak. Okay, but let me continue. If you are comfortable in your approach to training, then you are not taking enough risk.

That sounds reckless. That sounds pretty reckless. I don't mind that part. You want to push your guys to the edge when you're training them? No problem. But remember, guys, this is the other disconnect. These are not guys that just got into the service and they have to train them up physically and teach them how to shoot a weapon, et cetera.

This is his air mobility command. So he's telling senior officials in the military. Yes. Run like a madman. Get ready to shoot Chinese people in the head when they're in transport and refueling. Is it conceivable that those people would see combat at some point? Yes. Do they need to be training for shooting Chinese people in the head now in a panic when they're in refueling? No. And they're senior officers. It makes no sense at all. This guy's just dying for a fight. This is the main thing I want to say in a second, but more quotes. So these are statements from this general, previous statements, not having to do with China per se, but it gives you a sense of, this guy's like real lusty for combat. Okay, so he says in September, he said at a military conference outside of Washington that the Air Force had caused the largest pile of our nation's enemy dead.

And he said it in a positive one. Yeah, I was bragging about it. bragging it, like, not like, oh, that's unfortunate, but we had to. The fire bombing of Tokyo was killed 500,000 people, including grandmothers and children. And that's super unfortunate, but there was nothing we could do is one way of framing it. The other way of the most pile of dead, we win. Okay, lunatic, take it easy, as you're going to see from the next quote. He says, quote, lethality matters most. When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better.

Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger. If that's what you need to make your marriage stronger, you have massive mental health issues. Okay. Oh, honey, good news. I'm in a good mood. I just murdered someone.

Jesus. Okay. So look, guys in the military have to kill people. That's not the issue. The issue is when the guy appears to be, as Anna put it perfectly, lusting for a fight. And because he thinks it's going to make him more erect.

I mean, he's almost telling you that. It makes your marriage better. Yeah, it makes your food taste better when you pile up dead bodies. Okay, okay. Someone get this guy a joint. Like, that'll help you out. And by the way, if you're in the middle of fighting Nazis, maybe you need a guy like that, right? But when you're in the middle of peacetime and this guy's jonesing to pick a fight with a nuclear power, which is the second largest power in the world, that is a recipe for disaster.

Okay, so guys, think about it. Why do they have guys like this in the middle? It's like telling a bunch of race car drivers, you've got all these amazing race cars, okay, McLaren's and Ferraris and stuff, but you can't use any of. You know what happens? They want to use them. They want to use them.

And these are military guys who want, this guy says killing people turns them on. And he's like, I got all this military equipment. I got my gun ready. I want to use it. It's the old line about when all you have is a hand. hammer, everything looks like a nail. And so if China's looking like a nail to our military, that is a massive problem for the world. Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, it's this vicious

cycle where it is true that China has invested far more into its military, building up its military capabilities. And the United States looks at that and says, oh, well, that's a threat. I mean, they're building up their military capabilities. I mean, let's forget the fact that the United States increases the defense budget every single year without any problem. So we keep building up our military. But we turn around, we of course criticize any other country that does the same. But could it be that some of the rhetoric coming from elected lawmakers, some of the memos that generals are sending to troops that antagonize China seem to lust for war with China could persuade Chinese officials to want to invest. more in their military with the fear that the United States might actually pursue military action

against them. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, 100%. And look, the number one problem in these conflicts is when the other side thinks the other guys are dangerous and they're going to act first, right? So I've got to act before that madman attacks first, right? And this puts that thought into Chinese military leader's heads, for sure. And it's not like they're not keeping tabs on us.

They're perfectly aware of this memo. And so imagine if we got a memo of Chinese generals saying, let's start practicing putting bullets in the heads of American soldiers. And you know what? I have better sex with my wife after I kill people. And I love the piling up of dead bodies. If any of our points, first of all, if like a member of al-Qaeda or Taliban said it, we'd be like, monsters, can you look at this dead, they brag about piling up dead bodies and

killing people, etc. And American General says it, and I guarantee you everyone in the right wing is going, you out of boy, we kill them first. But that's what starts wars, you morons. And by the way, I thought the right wing was against wars. These days, you know how they're pretending to be the peacnicks? So I guarantee you every supporter of this guy's massively right wing, right? it doesn't matter. The military itself, the culture within it, again, the lust for combat, it's a problem. And this kind of rhetoric is incredibly irresponsible. And you're right, I have no doubt that the Chinese government, of course, it keeps tabs on us and is fully aware of these kinds of memos. They're needlessly antagonistic. Let's bring the temperature down and be

responsible. But these are the kinds of generals we have in the military. And we have, and look, I'm sure it's true of the Chinese, true of everybody, but we have no ability to be objective. Again, if the Chinese said this about us, we'd go to DefCon 4, right? We'd be like, oh my God, it's happening now, let's get ready. And we expect them to be like, oh, no, it's cool. And last thing about it, guys, there's one set of folks that went through all this. As always, the defense contractors. So these guys say we got to pile up weapons.

The Chinese then understandably say we have to pile up weapons. Then we understandably say we have to pile up more weapons. And guess who gets poor, American people, Chinese people, guess who gets rich? Defense contractors. Guess where generals go after they retire? Defense contractors. So that's how this game is played. You want to get ready for war?

You're in the refueling business. Practice this. Oh, right, I got the thing. Pump, and I refuel. And I refuel. Okay, don't be a maniac. Well, let's take a trip to California where a utility company is facing some pretty serious charges with not so serious consequences. California utilities company PG&E will go to trial for manslaughter and the manslaughter

charges stem from their alleged greed and neglect which led to deadly wildfires in the state of California. In fact, one of the 2020 wildfires killed four people, but there are other examples. Now to be clear, none of the executives at PG&E will face criminal charges, just the company itself. And that part of the story is really the whole whole game. Because if it's not individuals, if it's the corporation itself, we're talking about fines and the maximum fine does not send a message to a utility company that has caused wildfires that have killed Californians. Now, if you're wondering what the punishment will be, well, let's give you the details first. So a judge in Shasta County ruled after a preliminary

hearing that there was enough evidence for the nation's largest utility to face trial on 11 felony and misdemeanor charges, including involuntary manslaughter and recklessly starting a fire. So 20 other charges were dismissed. They're scheduled to be arraigned on the remaining charges on February 15th. Now, what happened here? Last June, the company pleaded not guilty, and that had to do with the so-called Zog fire in 2020. The Zog fire began in September of 2020, and it tore through the forested county south of the Oregon border. The blaze burned 88 square miles of land and destroyed more than 200 homes before it was brought under control. Four people died, as I mentioned earlier, including an eight-year-old girl and her mother who were caught by the flames

while trying to drive away from their home. Now, how was PG&E involved? Well, they were involved in the way that they were involved in all the other fires that we've talked about on the show before. So state fire officials said the fire began when a pine tree fell into a PG&E distribution line. The California Public Utilities Commission last year proposed fining PG&E more than $155 million saying it had failed to take down the tree one of two that had been marked for removal. So PG&E has a history of really failing to upgrade its equipment. Some of their equipment is literally over a century old. And investing in that equipment, you know, would cut into their profits. Their shareholders probably wouldn't be in favor of that because

they want to maximize profits and avoid spending money in improving their equipment. And then they're supposed to cut down some of the trees around the power lines to avoid exactly what happened in the Zogfire situation where a down tree hit the power lines and it sparked a fire. Now, naturally, PG&E said in a statement that the loss of life was tragic, so, so tragic, even though the same thing keeps happening over and over again. And while it accepts the conclusion that its equipment caused the blaze, quote, we believe PG&E did not commit any crimes. They insisted that they're working to make their system safer every single day. So you know what they might have to pay in fines if they're found guilty of these charges? Maximum

penalty for a corporation is $10,000 per victim killed as a result of the fire. Oh, $10,000. It seems like they would take it really seriously when they made billions of profits as always with these companies. All right. So I want to ask what's involuntary manslaughter for a company? What is that? I mean, I know the Supreme Court says that corporations are human beings.

And lunatics in Washington and the Republican Party, et cetera, I agree. But what happens if a company, which is, I got news for you, not a human being, is convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Okay, you kill those people. Bad company. Bad company. But wait a minute. All right, then let's send the company to jail. Or let's execute the company. I don't mean the people, of course, were progressives. I mean, okay, let's end the company. It's done. All right. Now, in this case. No, California should take over PG&E. PG&E should belong to. to the residents of California, we should control it. But you know what we did?

We bailed them out, okay? Gavin Newsome, who thinks it's a smart idea to go around campaigning on a national stage, as if he's gonna run for president and he's not a target rich environment, is the one who decided to bail PG&E out. And there's a very specific reason why they're massive campaign donors to Gavin Newsom. Stick around for the numbers because they will blow your mind. Bajank, go ahead. Guys, we now have, you know, we tell you about the theater of politics all the time here

and how the media helps perpetuate this fake sense of what's happening in the world, an alternate reality. Trump folks have an alternate reality, may sure media has an alternate reality. In this alternate reality, all the newspapers that I read in this case are taking this seriously as if you can charge a company with manslaughter. Like, no one clarifies, oh, by the way, this is absurd. it's it's a legal fiction it doesn't actually exist in the real world no one's going to go to prison this is dumb this is incredibly dumb and the whole point of it is to trick you into thinking

that there was accountability right when all they did was pay a small percentage of their profits a tiny percentage of their profits for the people that they killed I want you to think about how monstrous this is and how we let the executives off because they had over 30 fires yep you're telling me you didn't know by the 13th fire by the 19th fire. By the 27th fire, you didn't know that these, that your wires are causing the fires and that people died in every one of those or a lot of those fires. You knew. You didn't know that people were going to die in the next fire. You know what happened in one of these fires? Four people died. That was one of the smaller ones. One of them was an eight year old girl.

But no one's ever going to go to jail and the company might be convicted and pay a tiny fine. So you mentioned, you mentioned 30 wildfires. I think it's important to clarify. There have been 30 PG&E caused wildfires in California since 2017, okay? And that wiped out more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people. So those are the numbers. And in regard to the eight-year-old girl who died as a result of one of those fires, She died alongside her mother as they were in their car trying to drive away from the fire.

They couldn't get away fast enough and they burned to death. Yeah, guys, it's super uncomfortable and I hate to do this to you. But imagine an eight-year-old and their mom burning to death. And the executives knew. Not that those two particular people were going to die, but 83 had died in a fire before. They know their wires are causing the fires. They know that people die in those fires and they would not do anything about it. Why?

Profits. Because doing something about it had a tremendous financial cost to it and it would have cut into their god damn pay. But our system says they are not guilty. They're wonderful. Give them all to pay, all the compensation. They're heroes because they're rich. But don't worry, the company faces criminal charges. Yeah, look, there's-

Screw everyone who doesn't point out that that's a effing force. Well, politicians like California's governor, Gavin Newsom, treat them like their heroes, not because they're rich, but because their wealth translates to campaign donations for Gavin Newsom. So let's get to that right now. As of 2021, okay, just a few short years, PG&E has donated wealth over 10 million dollars to Newsom's campaigns since his first run for San Francisco supervisor in 1998. So as of 2021, that's how much they had donated. So between 1998 and

2021, they donated $10 million to all the different races that Gavin Newsom took part in. See, I wonder if that would affect them. Now, look, there's apparently one heroic reporter that asked them once, once, once. You're going to get the answer, his answer in a second. But I don't care if you're right wing, left wing, middle wing, it doesn't matter. I'm asking you now, do you think $10 million might affect someone? There's only one group of people in this country that would say no, reporters. It's like the cops.

They're the only people who wouldn't rush into a building to save little kids. They're 400 of them hang out. 400 reporters hang out in front of obvious bribery and go, no, we're the only people in the country think that that's perfectly legal and fine, and it doesn't affect the beloved Angelic Gavin Newsom. Absurd. You're all insane. That's not all. There are some donations to Gavin Newsom's wife's various ventures. So between 2011 and 2018, the utility's philanthropic arm gave $358,000 to the representation. project, a nonprofit group founded by Jennifer Newsom, the governor's wife. The PG&E Corporation Foundation also gave $10,000 to the Plump Jack Foundation, a charity led by his sister, Hillary Newsom, according to information provided by PG&E. And as you had mentioned, Jank, there have been reporters who have asked Gavin Newsom about

these donations. For instance, in 2019, Gavin Newsom told ABC 10 that. it was a strange question when the suggestion of possible corruption came up to ask whether it was right for him to accept more than $200,000 in support from PG&E as he negotiated policies to address the company's crisis. He also made this ridiculous comment during a press conference about power outages in 2019. How can you assure those people, including the fire victims that your office can act neutrally considering that PG&E donated more than $208,000 to help you get because there's no I know this is a mantra and I don't know how any times I've answered this question

I would encourage you to go back to all my previous answers I if the suggestion is somehow I'm influenced by that you're wrong absolutely unequivocally wrong and there's not one thing you can point to during my tenure as governor that would suggest otherwise I'm not going to answer that With respect, I've answered it on multiple occasions. The answer is there's none. It impacts nothing. And I've had a career of 20 years of always doing the right thing, regardless of whether someone has donated to some campaign.

Well, that's obviously BS. He decided to bail PG&E out after these deadly fires took place because of PG&D's negligence. His wife got $2.3 million from her nonprofit through all those years. He says, no, she does great work. By the way, she might do great work, and the nonprofit sounds really nice, okay? But AT&T, PG&E, all these companies that want to influence Gavin Newsom happen to coincidentally be giving to the governor's wife's nonprofit. Does anyone who isn't a reporter think that that is a coincidence? If you think that's a coincidence, there's something deeply wrong with your mental faculties, okay?

So they're obviously bribing his family through all of these different actions. And so for him to feel say like be all the indignant, by the word, credit to every reporter who's asked them, they should ask him 200 times every single time, okay? When he's like, that is a very strange question. You think it's strange that $200,000 might affect you? You think it's strange that $10 million might affect someone? How is that strange? That's literally the most normal question in human history.

I will tell you unequivocally, it is wrong. I am never affected by the millions of dollars that people. stuff into my pockets. And the band plays on as he's talking about how he might, you know, doing all these things like running ads in Florida and Texas and doing these things to run for president someday, there's not a single mainstream media reporter that talks about PG&E and all the fires and all the deaths and all the monies that he's taken from them and other donors because they think that it's impolite. Well, I think that eight-year-old and their mom thought what happened to them was impolite. But hey, everybody got paid in pay.

Nice job. I hope you're proud. All right. When we come back from the break, we have a story involving a former Republican congressman who accidentally sent an email to TYT where he was trashing TYT. He thinks that we have been very naughty. We'll tell you why. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna with you guys. And a new member, Abby Brown. Hey, Abby, how you doing? Thanks for joining.

We appreciate it. You guys all make this show possible. TYT.com slash join to become a member, Anna. All right, let's talk about TYT's reporting here. Thanks to TYT investigates, and it's reporting on the secretive religious group that runs the national print. breakfast known as the family, all of a sudden they're making some changes, trying to make it seem as though they have passed the torch onto a different group to run things, trying to make

it seem as though there are new rules to prevent corruption taking place within these national prayer breakfast events. But thanks to an email that was accidentally sent to TYT by a former Republican congressmen, we actually figured out that, no, things aren't really changing with this new leadership. And more importantly, that email said some things about TYT specifically, which we'll get to at the very end. But first, let's give you the details on what's going on here. So in order to really understand this in context, let's just tap into some of Jonathan Larson's reporting from last week. That was when he reported that the breakfast will be split into two events. On Capitol Hill, President Joe Biden, administration officials and members of

Congress will convene with very tight plus one restrictions. Simultaneously, at the Washington Hilton, more than 1,000 family insiders and their guests will gather as they have every year, except 2021 and 2022, but without the access they used to have to powerful politicians. So the idea here is to have two separate events to prevent the corruption that was very clearly taking place when politicians and all these weird religious figures were getting together in one event. Okay. Now, the Fellowship Foundation, aka the legal arm of the family, is no longer running the prayer breakfast, but it looks like they're still very much involved.

So that's all good news because the national prayer breakfast has been used for all sorts of schemes by the family. But thanks to this big slip up by this former Republican congressman, we discovered that the family is still plotting to exert their power over D.C. and its politicians. So former representative, Zach Wamp, he was a Republican congressman from Tennessee, intended to send an email to former Senator Mark Pryor, a Democrat from Alabama, who runs the new organization in charge of the National Prayer Breakfast, which is now called the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation.

Instead, though, Wamp made the mistake of sending the email to us, which was awesome. Okay, and let's take a look at what was inside that email. Family Insiders, Womp writes, accuse leaders of the new event of throwing us under the bus and are upset about public remarks made about the split by Senator Chris Coons, one of the family's few Democratic defenders. Womp didn't specify which remarks by Coons had raised hackles, but Coons told the Associated press, quote, some questions have been raised about our ability as members of Congress to say that we knew exactly how it was being organized, who was being invited, how it was being funded. Many of us who'd been in leadership roles really couldn't answer those questions. So that's really the only public thing Chris Coons has said about it, who by the way is a Democrat.

And then apparently confirming that the family and the new board are in communication, Wamp added, quote, her today, the new group is just throwing us under the bus. One reason to maintain secrecy and not respond, Wamp suggested, was that the board leading the new prayer breakfast wants to preserve unity with the family. Wamp says that, quote, more stories and more slander will only lead to more division, end quote. So, Jank, before I give you more details, including what Wamp said about TYT specifically, what do you think? Okay, so I'm really proud of our reporting here. So that's, we do obviously the news and then commentary here, analysis, and perspective, etc.

But the investigates crew, reports crew are objective reporters, and they've been on this story. And they've revealed a great number of things, the degree to which the family used the prayer breakfast to spread anti-11. LGBTQ hate throughout the world to cover up corruption in Guatemala. They're the ones that radicalize Mike Lindell, and they have access to all of these politicians, including Democratic politicians that they use for credibility as they spread this toxin throughout America and the world. So let alone the Russian spies that were attending the events. So Jonathan Larson has done a brilliant job of documenting all of them.

So when you see Senator Kuhn saying, they're asking these questions that we can't answer it. That's us. We're asking the questions that they can't answer. You know what? They can't answer them because the funding we found out comes from Franklin Graham. Franklin Graham is a right-wing zealot, evangelical preacher, one of the most famous ones in the country. And that's when Coons and everybody else gets embarrassed. They're like, oh, good investigative reporting. They never even bothered to find out who's behind it, who is financing it. All those Democrats just going in, oh yeah, oh great. Oh, we're just praying together. Meanwhile, they're taking pictures using that to spread the hateful ideology across the world.

Like I said, including, by the way, in Uganda, where they proposed a bill to kill gay citizens. Yeah, to execute them. A death penalty for anyone engaging in gay behavior. So other people have covered this great in the past like Jeff Charlotte, but Jonathan has done the great bulk of the reporting here and exclusive after exclusive. And so what that led to was the split. So where they were saying, no, okay, the family is going to be in one room and all of its adherence and they used to all be in the same room. And the politicians are going to be in a different room. Completely separate events.

Separate events, okay? They're not separate events. No, it's just meant to give you the illusion that they reformed this whole thing to prevent corruption. But it's very clear that the same goons that ran the National Prayer Breakfast before are still very much in communication. with the new individuals who are running the prayer breakfast, right? And so this email that former Congressman Wobb accidentally sent to TYT confirmed what Jonathan Larson had, you know, speculated on and reported on before. So a source close to the family said that all the new foundations board members, quote,

have been involved in the background of the breakfast for a long time. the sources said they probably don't have issues with how the breakfast has run in the past. Yeah. Okay. Now, let's get to the juicy stuff. Okay. Okay, and then I've got more on the so-called split. So prior, as I mentioned earlier, is the, prior is now in charge of the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation.

So like the new leadership, everybody calmed down, it's all going to be okay. Apparently, he sat down for an interview with TYT investigates, well over an hour, and WOP didn't like that. And it was clear in the email he accidentally sent to TYT. Apparently, he wrote to prior, quote, you have zero obligation to get in the weeds with these snakes. They aren't honorable. So it's very unfair to you and us. Yeah. Have we been bad?

Have we been bad boys and girls? Have we been very naughty? We haven't been honorable. They have a Democratic, let alone Republican congressman, go throughout the world. And now the Democrats don't necessarily know it, but again, they take the pictures, they use their credibility. And argue to imprison people who are LGBTQ in different countries. And like we told you in Uganda, to execute them. Not only that in Guatemala, because of the prayer breakfast and the people that Trump met at it,

They ended an investigation into corruption that the United Nations said was like incredibly harmful to Guatemala and the honest prosecutor had to flee the country for fear of being murdered. Okay, so these, these, but we're not honorable, they were just honorably spreading corruption and hatred throughout the world when us snakes revealed what they were doing. And so he's really upset about it. Being called a snake or someone who's not honorable by a gross, corrupt, former Republican politician is the greatest badge of honor and the biggest achievement I feel TYT has accomplished, right? I love that they hate us. You know why? Because Jonathan Larson's reporting revealed who these people really are and what they're really up to.

Yeah. And so guys, we'll have the links down below in the description box if you're watching this later. so you can read the stories yourself. But Jonathan, you accidentally said speculates, but he never speculates. So he has the board members and where they are and what their connections are. He did it with immaculate detail. But to me, the killer quote in the story is when Wamp, in that email he accidentally sent to us, said, more stories and more slander will only lead to more division. But wait, I thought you guys said that you already had the division, that you were two different entities.

So it turns out you weren't two, you aren't two different entities. And he's saying they'll split us apart. But, and now the part that you might not know. They have been pretending that it's the two different entities and don't worry, the family's not going to get involved with the prayer breakfast, etc. And they made it appear like Congress was running the new entity. And in fact, tons of mainstream media outlets have not only not credited Jonathan for the story while clearly quoting his work.

But on top of that, they bought into the line, bought into a hook, line and sinker. They're like, oh yeah, now Congress is running it. That's not true at all at all. Look at the actual reporting on it. So be careful of these guys. They're gonna continue to try to influence our politicians to go in this radical religious right agenda.

And obviously still the Democrats don't get it, but great reporting here. here. And by the way, that unit, our audience paid for it six years ago. And so in a sense, they're calling you snakes, but I love you for it, because that's real reporting with real impact. At least they're not in the same room together. And that was, I think, almost definitely because of us. All right. When we come back, Hunter Biden goes on the offense. We'll do that story and more. See you in a few minutes. all right back on t yankana with you guys also kevin palati just became a member and sarin

anabosra upgraded membership we appreciate that we appreciate all you guys if you're on youtube so easy hit the join button below the video everybody else also easy t yt.com slash join. Without you guys, we can't do the show. And with you guys, we spread this honest news and try to fight back and bring positive change for you guys. All right, Casper. Guys ready? Let's do it. The legal team representing Hunter Biden has decided to go on the offense for a change. And I am fascinated to see how this is going to play out. They have sent letters to prosecutors, federal prosecutors to be exact, urging them to pursue criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated private information from the laptop

that Hunter Biden left behind at a repair shop in Delaware. They also send letters to various right-wing media figures urging them to retract some of their reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story and also issue an apology. And the letter, of course, is complete with a threat of a defamation lawsuit should they refuse to do so. Now, Biden's recently hired lawyer, Abe Lowell, sent lengthy letters to the Justice Department and Delaware's Attorney General requesting investigations into people who were involved in disseminating the data that was allegedly collected from the laptop. Biden's lawyers claim that about a half dozen people have violated various statutes,

including by making public, restricted private information, accessing and disseminating stolen property and making false statements to Congress. In another letter, Abe Lowell wrote to the Internal Revenue Service challenging the non-profit status of Marco Polo, a group that is run by conservative activist Garrett Ziegler, Lowell provided 36 pages as evidence that the group is engaging in political activity in violation of its nonprofit and tax exempt status. There are more details here, Jank, but curious what you think about this new strategy. Yeah, I kind of like it.

Let's go on the office. At first, I was a little skeptical because I thought, well, you're gonna bring more attention to this, that's not overly helpful. And my guess is that the Biden administration was like, no, because theoretically, Joe Biden is gonna run for president in the next two years, and this will mean that it's more in the news for the the next couple of years. I think I have a slight theory on why they decided to pull the trigger and go in this direction instead of ignoring it or playing defense. And it's that if the Democrats had held the House, then there wouldn't be hearings. And so then they could continue to try to

ignore it and bring less media attention to it. But since the Republicans won the House, they're going to have nonstop hearings about it anyway. So how much more attention could you add to it? So they decided to fight back instead. And look, my general philosophy, fees, you should go on the offense and stay there. I mean, I agree. And it's so rare to hear anyone in the Democratic side actually go use the offense tactic. It's usually just Republicans who do that. And so, look, I have more details about their legal strategy here.

Before I get to it, though, just to kind of buttress your point about how obsessed the right wing is with this Hunter Biden laptop story, I should note that Fox Nation had done a mock trial of Hunter Biden, and it was hilarious. So I feel like it's foreshadowing for what's to come for Republicans, but nonetheless, let's take a quick look. The judge was TV judge Joe Brown. They were two actual attorneys presenting arguments the entire time the judge and the attorneys had to keep reminding you, the viewer, that this is a mock trial. This is a mock trial. It is not a real proceeding. This mock trial. I was also a really big fan of the defense. This was like the first thing he said. He's smoking crack while he's awake, while he's asleep. He's with prostitutes. He's making

amateur porn. Now if I was mock Hunter Biden, I would mock fire my mock attorney. Liberations were pretty boring. My main takeaway was the jury wasn't as swayed by Hunter Biden's picks as the prosecution thought they'd be. And mock count one regarding Farah, the mock jury mock decided that the government should mock investigate Hunter Biden. But in mock count two regarding bribery, the mock jury decided that Hunter Biden was mock innocent. Even in Fox News' fantasy show trial, they can't get a guilty verdict.

No, I love it, I love it. Because honestly, I'm not just dismissive of claims about Hunter Biden's laptop, right? If there is any evidence of criminality that has an impact on the American people, right? If there is any proof of foreign government relationships between Joe Biden, that's relevant to us, right? Where's the evidence? We haven't seen any of it. I've seen endless nude photos of Hunter Biden, unfortunately, no offense. I've seen all the salacious stuff. Who cares? Why do we care about this?

Hunter Biden isn't in government. Yeah, so look, we're about to get to the craziest part. I mean, unbelievable. But first on your points, look, if the laptops or anything showed that Hunter Biden got his dad to help in some of his business dealings, and use the U.S. government to do it, that would be a very serious issue, okay? and I would be 100% against Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in that scenario. But as we've told you before, the laptop actually shows Hunter Biden saying on several occasions, we can't influence my dad so we're don't overpromise.

Exactly. It actually on that substance of it exonerates him, which goes towards the lawsuit. Because one of the, I think the most important part of lawsuit is a suit against Tucker Carlson of Fox News. Because they're saying, hey, you said that we got paid $50,000 for a, connecting my dad, et cetera, right? And that is just verifiably false. And so you're making it look like my dad and I were corrupt when the laptop shows the exact opposite, okay? That's a very serious thing. When a guy with a three million person audience every night, the top cable show in the country goes and tells people, this was a specific act of corruption, and here's

my specific evidence of it. And that turns out that evidence is a total lie. Yeah, yeah, you could be sued for that. I mean, look at the Dominion sued Fox News over their lies about the 2020 election. And it's a multi-billion dollar lawsuit. And Fox News is reeling over that. They're actually super worried about that. So on this, they might be a little worried and they should be. Right. And, and, you know, they did send the letter to Tucker Carlson and Fox News. And they wrote, we demand that you immediately retract these statements by spending a significant amount of airtime on such retraction. And then he demanded apologies from Carlson and other commentators, including Fox's Sean Hannity, who have made similar claims and requested that Fox News respond in writing by Thursday, meaning today. So unclear if they actually responded to it.

I want to just quickly talk about Mac Isaac. Mac Isaac is the person who ran the repair shop, who has made a name for himself going on Fox News regularly to talk about the Hunter Biden laptop story. So John Paul Mac Isaac is his full name, and he's the one who received the laptop from Hunter Biden in April of 2019. So citing Mac Isaac's admissions that he reviewed some of Hunter Biden's financial information on the laptop, the lawyer said that he had no authority or permission to do so. And they write, quote, backing up Mr. Biden's files for any repair did not require Mr. Mac Isaac

to review the contents of such files. Mr. Biden did not consent to Mr. Mac Isaac gaining access to the content of those files in April of 2019 or at any other time. So they are pursuing legal action against him as well, or they're threatening to. So it's just, it's really, I like it. I mean, this, if they're going to hit you with false allegations and make it seem like you engaged in corruption, and you're just sitting back and taking it doesn't make sense to me. A hundred percent. So number one, if they can prove it on a court, to law, Mac Isaac should definitely go to prison. So when you hand in your laptop to get fixed anywhere, right, or your phone or anything like that, the guy has access to it in order to fix

it. He gets past your pass code, et cetera, right? That is a big trust that you're putting in that guy. If he goes in and gets private pictures of you nude and publishes it online, goes into your finances and publishes that online, there is no greater violation of trust and it is illegal. So I don't know if there's a single prosecutor left in the country, but this guy's not even among the elites. I know he helped the right wing elites. But should you prosecute him if those things are true? Definitely. It's criminal not to prosecute him. Now, we've been too kind to Hunter Biden, if you ask me, because Homeboy's crazy. Okay, he's crazy. So he leaves his last laptop at this repair shop. And of course he's dealing with the consequences of that.

But he did other crazy things that I want to share with you. Biden also left a laptop with Keith Ablo, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who was a regular on Fox News back in the day. He's no longer on Fox News regularly. But he's close to a psychiatrist who has been close to Republican activist Roger Stone. So Keith Ablo and Roger Stone are buddies and Hunter Biden left a laptop with him. What? No, no, guys. Guys, I'm serious, we've covered absolutely insane stories over the last 20 years on this show. This is one of the craziest I have ever heard. Keith Ablo was on Fox News's medical A team. You remember him? He's the psycho that, look, I have to confess, I said before we had the evidence. And I said, I clearly labeled this speculation. I said,

he's got some woman tied up in his basement. Okay. And guess what it turned out? Several clients. Clients. He's a therapist. And employees said, yeah, he would sexually assault, sexually harass. He would make them get on their knees. He would beat them with a belt that had a skull on it. that okay. So it's one of my proudest predictions. I mean. Good job, Jake. And so but I tell you that one to brag, let's keep it real. Okay. Number two, you're going to psycho Keith Ablo that's on Fox News and on Fox News he's spewing like insane stuff. He said, I'm a medical expert and I can tell you that Obama didn't do enough on Ebola virus because he has affinities towards Africa.

He was crazy. I mean, he was cray, cray. How do you go to that theirs? Number one, how do you go to that therapist period? Number two, you're the son of Joe Biden, and you're going to go to a Fox News lunatic as your therapist, and then you're going to leave your laptop there. I've never heard anything crazy. You did it to yourself, Hunter.

I mean, come on. Come on. Come on. I just, I don't even know what else to say. Come on. that when you're in the throes of an addiction, you make bad decisions. But like, there had to be windows of clarity. No.

Where you realize I'm going to freaking Keith Ablo and how do you leave your laptop with that guy? By the way, if you're wondering, what happened to that laptop? Apparently, federal agents seized that laptop after raiding Keith Ablo's home. Yeah. Look, there is no crack strong enough to justify using Keith Ablo as your therapist. Let alone, leaving your laptop there. Who takes their laptop to their therapist and gives it to them? Okay, look, now I'm going to speculate. I want to be clear that I'm speculating, okay?

But with that said, Keith Ablo is apparently a psychiatrist, and psychiatrists are different from psychologists in that they can prescribe drugs. So I don't know if there's a connection there, but. Yes, he was known a little bit as a candy man. And so maybe that's why he went there. And who knows, Ablo is a master manipulator in the lawsuit. The woman filed, they told them out all of his different psychological tricks. While they're in their weakest state to take advantage of them, he probably asked, you know,

again, this speculation, might maybe tricked Hunter Biden into bringing the laptop in because he's thinking, I can't believe the son of Joe Biden is trusting me. I'm going to totally rook this guy, right? So, but guys, again, it's unconscionable to go to that guy as your therapist. It is, and to tell him your secrets, there's no chance that he would keep those secrets private. None. He's now, he no longer has his license, by the way, after all the sexual allegations and he settled the lawsuit, et cetera, et cetera.

So that's, but bottom line though. It was literally the most interesting thing I've read about the Hunter Biden. laptop story. For sure. I mean, look, but I'll say one more thing. Look, man, that's a lot of mistakes that Hunter Biden made that got his dad in a lot of trouble. He should go to a therapist about that, okay? Because he was, he's, there was a good son, Bo Biden, and Hunter's always had trouble. And I'm sure that there were a lot of feelings mixed up in that. And if you guys remember, Hunter then slept with Bo's wife after Beau passed away. Oh, God, having kids sucks. Okay, how do you control that situation?

And then on top of that, you can leave your laptops all over the state and you go to psycho Keith Ablo for your therapist and hand him your laptop. I mean, there's some psychology involved there. But bottom line is, guys, if you show me one piece of evidence that Hunter Biden actually got Joe Biden to do something illegal and corrupt, good, go get them. Okay. But all that these laptops have ever shown is the exact opposite. Plus, Hunter Biden had massive issues. But having massive issues is not a crime and has no connection to Joe Biden. In fact, all it's ever done has hurt him.

All right, folks, we're going to take a break. When we come back for the second hour of the show, we have some insight into the text exchanges between Alex Jones and some pretty nefarious figures. And it turns out that he's pretty miserable. We'll tell you why when we come back. I think it's kind of what we call speculation. Come on, come on. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks.

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