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Episode Date: June 19, 2024

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Hi from the polymarket studio in Los Angeles, it's the Young Turks, Jake Uger. Jordan Yule with you guys. Jordan, of course, at Rebel headquarters where all of you are going all the time throughout the day. Let me check out what's going on our HQ on the TYT network. You can get that on YouTube, Facebook, everywhere else, of course, also the host of the Insurgis podcast, a bit of a badass podcast there, just a bit. All right, so today is of course a joyous day. Why? Because we decided it was going to be. and we're going to do Operation Joy in the bonus episode for the members. I'm going to do a quick, quick cheat list for you guys for, oh, this is how I get Joy.

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is Israel an ally? A very simple question. And that'll be in the second hour. So we've got to look forward to that. But I do have some Israel losing the first hour. We have news about Joe Biden. Of course, but good news. How? Is that possible? And then Trump, is fighting other Republicans. Okay, we'll get to that as well. All right, Jordan, take it away. Watch this. Second action I'm announcing today

is about keeping families together. My dad used to have an expression. You see, Joey, family's about the beginning, middle, and the end. About keeping couples together who are married. Where one spouse is a U.S. citizen, the other is undocumented. They've been living in the United States

for at least 10 years. These couples have been raising families, sending their kids to church and school, paying taxes, contributing to our country for 10 years or more. Today on the 12 year anniversary of DACA, President Joe Biden announced a huge step to offer relief to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens. Will it be enough to regain support from Democrats who were turned off by his decision to limit asylum seekers? We'll discuss that but first more on this new policy. The White House announced Tuesday that the Biden administration will in the coming months allow certain spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship.

The move could affect upwards of half a million immigrants according to senior administration officials. So how is that different from our system now? Under current federal law, an undocumented person who enters the United States and marries a U.S. must first request parole before applying for legal residency. That process might require them to leave the country, upending their careers and families, and creating uncertainty about whether they would be authorized to reenter. Sometimes they are forced to leave the United States for up to 10 years, but today's

announcement means that spouses could apply for lawful permanent residency without having to leave the country. Not everybody will qualify for this relief, though. To qualify in must be married to a U.S. citizen, must have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, and must pass a background check. There is no requirement on how long the couple must have been married. However, no one becomes eligible after Monday. In other words, immigrants who reach that 10 year mark after Monday will not qualify for the program. If a qualifying immigrant's application is approved, he or she would have three years to apply for a green card and receive a temporary work permit and be shielded from deportation in the meantime.

About 50,000 children with a parent who is married to a U.S. citizen could also potentially qualify for this same process. The majority of immigrants expected to benefit from the program are Mexican nationals who have lived in the U.S. for an average of 23 years. And that isn't the only change to immigration policy Biden's administration is making today. Biden will also announce new regulations that will allow certain DACA beneficiaries and other young immigrants to more easily qualify for long established work visas that would allow qualifying immigrants to have protection that is sturdier than the work permits offered by DACA, which is currently facing legal challenges and is no longer taking new applications. We have more, especially the right wing response to this, butenk, in the face of lagging poll numbers, especially on immigration, will this be enough to save Biden. Yeah, so I'm gonna give Biden some credit here in a minute, but first, I'm gonna be a jerk.

Okay, so it's a good day and he's got a good announcement for it and he gives us this good, one of his, hey Joey speeches. So I've heard these for 50 years. So my old man says to me, pop says to me, I'm worried Scrantin, because I'm a guy from Scranton, you've been in DC for like 65 years straight. Anyway, he says, hey Joey, okay? So this is kind of hilarious American pop politics, right? And I rather enjoy it, I like politics.

So he says, my old man says to me, hey Joey, every marriage is all about beginning, middle, and end. I don't know what that means. Isn't everything about beginning, middle, and end? And what lesson do we take from that? So where's the end of the marriage, by the way? Like this into the comment makes no sense at all. But hey, I'll folks in your mind. But now the problem is with the age issue, it's a little bit of,

come, oh, hey, Gary, you're like, oh, Jesus Christ. How is this guy going to have enough energy to, like, fight back and see, look at this thing I did for immigrants in this country. It's about damn time, right? And I'm going to get it done. So I'm sorry, I know I'm the wet blanket. If you're a Democrat, you hate me. but we're gonna move on to giving him credit because we're actually fair and honest, right?

We're not all which side, right? So in this case, oh, boy, good law, good law. And so, well, of course, it's an executive decision because Congress is totally dysfunctional, and this is the only thing that ever gets done. And nothing wrong with this is an executive decision. It's not an overstretch of his power or anything like that. And guys, what else do you want? Like, right wingers, I get it, you hate immigrants. And don't pretend that it's only undocumented immigrants. For some of you that's true, but for a lot of you, I've been in immigration debates. And I get, honey, go back to your country, huh? This is my country, but you guys don't, you hate immigrants, just keep it real.

So if you don't, but hey, you could prove me wrong, because if you don't hate immigrants, must be married to a US citizen, we're going to split up your US citizen and their spouse. That doesn't seem very family values. Must have lived in the US for at least 10 years. What do you want him to live here for 20 years, 80 years? Their whole life's gonna pass 10 years or a long time. and must pass a background check. Okay, good, so they pass a background check.

There's nothing wrong with them. They've been here 10 years, married 10 years, married to US. I don't know what else you want from them. So I would argue this is the bare minimum, but I'll give Biden a ton of credit for doing it because he could have easily been scared by the Fox News attacks and go,

oh, no, I'll only do mean things to immigrants. And he's trying to balance it out because he did something that was anti-immigrant, you know, a couple of weeks ago, under pressure, so he's trying to create balance. But you know what, I'd rather have balanced than no balance. So definitely a great job here and appreciate it. And guys, if you give me great content and I think that he's functional,

I'm mainly worried about him losing the election. But you know, on things like this, even when I get super frustrated that he goes towards Trump's direction a couple of weeks ago, halfway towards Trump's direction is terrible, but way better than all the way towards Trump direction, right? So on non-Gaza issues, it's kind of a no-brainer, and this is one of those. Yeah, yeah, he's definitely trying to draw a contrast from Trump. Trump is promising the biggest deportation in U.S. history if it gets elected. And that is horrifying.

Nobody should want that. You should organize and fight back against it. But this is what Trump had to say on truth, social, about this announcement. This week, Biden is preparing to give mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. This is unsustainable and can't be allowed to continue. On day one, we will shut down the border and start deporting millions of Biden's illegal criminals. His campaign press secretary Caroline Levitt also issued this statement. Biden only cares about one thing, power.

And that's why he's giving mass amnesty and citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegals who he knows will ultimately vote for him in the open border Democrat party. But even once undocumented spouses get permanent residency, they're still not eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship. for another three years. Jesus. Yeah. So how exactly would they vote for Biden in five months? They wouldn't. They're making it up.

Here, spoiler alert, as my daughter would say, I spoiled the beans for you. Right Wings media is made, you know, I know, you never saw it coming. Yeah, it's, it's, it's this great replacement conspiracy theory just manifesting in different forms. Whether it's, they're gonna eliminate the white race, they're gonna take over your communities to, they're gonna steal the election. It's all BS, we know it's BS, but it's important to call it out. I just noticed, you're white. Yeah. Oh my God, you're going to get replaced.

I'm so sorry. Have you been here 10 years? It comes up a lot there. I'm engaged, but yeah. They're not replacing white people. You know how many people you'd have to replace you? They replace white people a lot. About 200 million people.

They're not doing that. Yeah. Earlier this month, Biden also passed an executive order, severely restricting migrants seeking asylum at the southern border, which got him blowback from Democrats. And we know he's never going to please Republicans. But Jen, do you think today's announcement will help Biden in the polls? So I just heard Hunter perk up go blowback? Okay, sorry, sorry, cheap shot, cheap shot. Okay. So is it going to help? Well, now here's the sad news, guys, 53% of Latinos in a recent poll said they want undocumented immigrants deported.

That's bad. 46% of African Americans said that they want them deported. Now, I don't believe them. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not an establishment Democrat. Polls are always wrong if they're not on if they don't agree with me. No, I get it. Those are the real numbers, right? But the reason why I don't believe them is because we've been through this a couple of times. So what I'm really curious about is if Trump wins, which now is a very high likelihood, keeping it real, he is going to start to try to do this because he promised it and he likes it. He revels in it and it allows people to get mad at him and then him to bring in more police power. Ironically, as they're trying to defund the FBI, etc., you get it.

But what's going to happen is the minute they start breaking up families, Republicans are, this is exactly what happened last environment. But this is on steroids now. Second time around everything Trump did the first time, he's going to do it like 20-fold, right? And so once they start breaking up the families, I remember last time they're like, well, we didn't know you were going to break up our family. This is a good Latino business owner in the middle of Indiana. He comes to our church. I didn't know you were going to take.

I thought you were going to take out the evil undocumented illegals who are everyone but Jose. Jose's are our Jose. He, no way, Jose, you're not taking him. And so it's not just Democrats, it's Republicans who flip out because the Republicans never think the law is going to be applied to them. And when the laws apply to them, they're shocked every time. They're like, I thought we were above the law. He married a Republican.

He married a Republican. And I'm not exaggerating. That's literally what happened in a little diner in the middle of the country. I forget if it was Indiana or not, but like, it was a diner owner. And they, and the whole community was Republican. And they were all shocked. They couldn't believe that Trump meant their undocumented immigrant friends. So because remember, when you only, if your mind is on right wing media, you think they've

meaning they, of course not us, think that every undocumented immigrant is like Pablo Escobar combined with Iman al-Zwahiri, okay? And it's like I come across the board and is slashing the throats of every blonde girl. girl there is. And they think, well, Jose's not that. I like Jose. He's at our church, right? And so that's why they think it's ever going to apply. And if he really did this, I mean, we're talking about millions upon millions of families inside America, not just recently crossed, but might have come over 12 years ago, 24 years ago, seven years ago, et cetera. And the Gestapo's going to go in there and separate each one. But by then, it'll be too late because Trump will have

already won. But that is definitely what he's promising. And that thing, amazing thing about Trump is, he doesn't hide it. He's like, yeah, I'm going to break up your families. I don't believe in family values at all. What part of paying hush money to a porn star did you not understand? I hate family values. I will have sex with your wife while my wife is pregnant. I don't believe in family. I've never read the Bible. So breaking up your families is Tuesday for me. I don't. And my, and my voters seem to love how vicious I am. So I got nothing to lose. So understand that that. That is Trump and that is what you're going to get if Trump wins.

But for the moment being, until the election time, it's not polling well for us. So, and you know, I think that a lot of people make assumptions based on race and only race. And I think that is poor politics. In reality, people care a lot about, care about a lot of things that have nothing to do with their race or your assumptions about their race. So polling shows that for Latinos in America, they care more about jobs, economy. Health care is a huge one for Latinos and said, but the Democrats never want to do any of that because of their corporate donors. So they're like, oh, but we are for brown people. You must now vote for us.

Oh, by the way, if you don't, we will shame you. Not the best strategy. But this is good. This is good. Credit where credit is due. So at least Biden's going in the right direction. One last thing that they are getting rid of here, if this all works, is you had to go back to your home country and then apply there and then come. And that terrorized people because you don't know how long it's going to take. And some of these people barely ever lived in their home countries. So you go to the Philippines, you never lived in the Philippines, you know, maybe you came over

when you were two, and what if it takes two and a half years? But you've got a life back in America. You don't have it life in Philadelphia. You might not speak the local language. And then what if Trump wins in the meanwhile? And then he can't ever come back and you're never going to see your wife or your husband again or maybe even your kids. So that whole having to go back home and then.

come that was terrible and terrorizing and I'm glad he's taking it away. So out of boy, Joe Biden. If he did stuff like this and even if he mumbled and he was a bad candidate, but he did all the right policies, then we're happy to support him. So today's a good day. I don't know if you were talking about the same instance, but there was a story out of my hometown in Youngstown, Ohio, where a deli owner who had been married for 15, 20 years, Trump deported him because they said his marriage wasn't legal. His marriage wasn't authentic or genuine, his first marriage. And this is a guy with a wife and kids and a small business contributing member to society.

That was a deli that my friends and I would frequently go to late at night while we were in college in Youngstown. It was just a nice Arab American market with falafel and Euro and a bunch of other stuff. It was awesome. And then Trump just sends them to Jordan. No real connection there to the area had been in the United States for decades. It makes no sense. But the cruelty was the point with Trump's immigration policy.

And even with Biden, turning, shutting down asylum, think about who he's hurting in that situation. These are more often than not, women and children coming here, fleeing violence, fleeing persecution, looking for refuge in this country, looking for safety in this country. And what do we do when we meet them here? If they can even get in, if in another circumstance where we haven't closed the border and we haven't turned away asylum seekers, they put them in family detention centers. This doesn't matter what party, Obama was doing it, Trump was doing it, Biden was doing it. They go into basically jails where you have moms and kids in jail cells where sometimes they don't even get due process.

Sometimes lawyers representing them to help them prepare for their credible fear interviews don't even get access to help them prepare for these things. It's an extrajudicial process that violates international law and ultimately boils down to something extremely cruel and antithetical to what it means to be an American and what this country is. should, I think, stand for. Yeah, so I looked it up because I'm like, Ohio, Indiana, Diner, Deli, I was probably thinking of that one. No. Really? Because I was like, no, because I'm pretty sure the guy that I was

heard about was Latino and not Arab. And it turns out, yeah, Indiana, diner, Latino. So similar fact pattern, the wife is shocked. They say, he hadn't committed any crimes. He didn't even have a parking ticket from everyone's accounts. He's probably one of the most lovable guys you'll ever meet. He's a loving husband and father and he put a lot of work of work into his restaurant. That's actually his attorney, to be fair. And but like the whole

community, if you read the whole CNN article, like, how could this happen? They all voted for Trump. That's how it happened. Mystery explained, not that complicated. Yeah. I mean, same situation in Ohio. That's an area that looked to him because he was an outsider. He was willing to stand up to Hillary on the TPP, things like that. And they went, it went red. And that was the consequence. One of many consequences. For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio, your choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash brown and a small iced coffee for five bucks plus tax.

Available until 11 a.m. at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery. Did Israel have advanced knowledge of the October 7th attacks? That may be the case according to new reporting by Israeli public broadcaster Khan. The Israeli defense forces Gaza division reportedly distributed an internal intelligence document on September 19th, 2023, outlining the details of Hamas's planned raid. Within that document, IDF officials described witnessing Hamas militants conducting trainings

that mirrored what came to be the October 7th attacks and that they expected Hamas to take between 200 and 250 hostages. While that exact number of hostages taken is unknown, it's estimated the number is around 240. But despite the documents alleged specificity, Israel didn't act on it. Israel mistakenly believed the times of Israel reported that Hamas would never be able to get past its high-tech border security, an iron wall composed of concrete tunnels and razor wire, complete with remote-controlled machine guns that was installed two years before the attack. That oversight prevented top Israeli intelligence leaders from doing anything about the internal report detailing Hamas's plans, Khan News reported.

As of now, it's unclear of this document is the same one that the New York Times reported on in December 2023 that detailed similar intelligence failures in the run up to October 7th. In that investigation, the Times detailed a document that described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters. Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse and paragliders on motorcycles and on foot.

The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamas's capabilities. So there's a couple schools of thought here, Jack, I'm curious what you think. Is this just hubris that they thought, oh, it can't happen us? Or is this something that a lot of people even in Israel think? They let it happen. They let it happen for political gain. Yeah.

So as things stand now without further information, that's, of course, impossible to know. We weren't in the room, we don't know. But there are a lot of things now we do know. So number one, if you're an Israeli citizen, I'm not talking about, oh, I need you to care about the people in Gaza. I get it. I've seen the polling. Unfortunately, you don't.

Okay, I'm sorry, but the polling is over. I'm not talking about Palestinians. I'm not talking about the rest of the world. But Nanyahu, 100% is responsible within Israeli leadership for October 7th. I'm not saying that Hamas is not responsible. Of course, Hamas did it, they're responsible. But if you're the leader of the country and you claim your number one claim to fame is, I will keep you secure, I'm doing all these wars and all this bombing to keep you secure.

That's why. That's your ostensible reason, right? That's what you said your entire career. Vote for the right wing. We'll start wars and keep you secure. We'll occupy the Palestinians. We'll crush them and we'll keep you secure. Well, brother, if you didn't keep them secure, you failed spectacularly.

Now, how many times have we heard Worsick attack against any Jewish population since the Holocaust? True. And whose watch did it happen under? Netanyahu. Both of the scenarios are awful. Scenario number one is he let it happen so that he could stay in office. That's unthinkably outrageous, right? So we'll come back to that.

But okay, let's not go there and some people will say, oh, well, you don't know, it's conspiratorial, okay, no problem, no problem, leave that. So then you have only one other option, which is total incompetence. His security division of the IDF in Gaza explains exactly what Hamas is going to do. They're a hundred percent right. And this buffoon goes, nah, don't worry about it. I mean, that's his best case scenario. His best case scenario is I didn't really care to look into it that much because I'm arrogant.

I'm overconfident. I don't really care about the lives of my citizens. That's why I'm overconfident. I don't care. You guys died? Hey, I stay in office longer. Oh, golly, oh, I'm so worried. Well, if you were worried, brother, you would have done something.

You would have done something. So there's no question that Netanyahu is totally responsible from a leadership perspective here. So now the only question is, is he a buffoon who cannot keep Israel safe under any and all circumstances? In which case, you'd be nuts to reelect him and keep him in office or is he a worse kind of monster. And so look, guys, we talked about this a little bit yesterday when we heard this news breaking. I don't think the governments do the conspiracies that the theorists say. Like, oh, my God, they planted the things on 9-11 and they, like, and then they have nonsense.

The conspiracy theory is like, oh, did you know that Mossad told everyone who's Jewish to leave the World Trade Center? Well, I was just at the 9-11 museum, basically, they put up there, their memorial. Tons of Jewish names, totally not true, 100% lie, not at all true, okay? So okay, it's not like the US government did it, Dick Cheney did it, et cetera, and I don't know what happened at all in 9-11. But in some of these cases, it looks like they either try to stop things, which is most of the time. But some of the times, we can tell 9-11, same exact thing. Dakota Crawford, where Bush is on vacation for a month in August, right, in Texas at his ranch. And they say, bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States.

specific is this October 7th warning, which is like, had it exactly right, right? But a significant warning, Mr. President, you have to do something. And Bush said, you covered your ass, go home, did nothing. Well, then you're a loser, and you let, you know, and so look, again, best case scenario for them is total incompetent fools, and it's always the right wing who huffs and puffs, oh, let's do more war, because it's going to keep you safe. And it's always the right wing that fails and never keeps you safe. And then the other possibility is, well, you know, whether it's Bush, I doubt it's Bush,

because he's so dumb, or Cheney or Netanyahu. By the way, both neocons and the neocons have said it's not related to religion. Dick Cheney, Don Rumswell, et cetera, or not Jewish, et cetera, et cetera. But neoconservatives as an ideology wanted seven wars in the Middle East. And that's a fact they printed it in public. There's, you can look it up and Iraq was first and voila, 9-11 happens, Iraq didn't do it, but we invade Iraq anyway. So, and then October 7th happens and then they go annihilate Gaza as they want to do. Take some buffer zones is one of the plans that then you have, Netanyahuas,

which is take more of the Palestinian land, bomb the hell out of Lebanon, start a conflict with Iran, Lebanon and Iran are on that list. So I don't know if they let it happen, but I don't think that matters either way, he's completely responsible. And it would just, you're going to get attacked again because he's either callous or indifferent. So the New York Times report details a document that allegedly dates back two years prior. So I don't, I really don't think it's the same document, but it does show, hey, over time, something's going to happen. You should be prepared. And the fact that they potentially ignored two documents laying out with moderate to high specificity exactly what Hamas was planning to do and that nothing was acted on.

I think you could chalk it up mostly to hubris. But I do think what you're saying is right, there are moments where governments will just turn a blind eye to something like that because it's it's expedient. And if you see Netanyahu, just like Ben Gavir, who have an interest in expanding Israel's territory into Gaza and the West Bank, this would be a moment to do that. And they have decimated Gaza. There is no day after plan, which is why Benny Gantz left. It seems like that creates an opportunity for them to go in and just create new settlements there. Goodbye, go to Egypt, good luck. If you're still alive, it seems like there was a moment where

at some point up the chain of command, they just decided not to pay any more attention to it, even though it cost innocent civilians their lives. And for all of these rallying cries, for all of these complaints and gripes and protests and messages in the media and talkie points about the need to protect civilians and return the hostages, the best way to protect all of them would have been to do something about this, would have been to be ready and be prepared, and said they didn't. Innocent lives are lost, even more innocent lives have been lost as a result of the October 7th.

the tax by the hands of Israel and who's to blame when you're when you're the prime minister the buck stops with you so even if it was just hubris it's still his fault yeah last two things for me look you can't you pretend that you're outraged by this idea if you're Net and Yahoo when you let either let's say through your incompetence an attack happen that you were very specifically warned about, then it helps you politically completely, right? It keeps you in office because of the war situation when you were deeply unpopular and potentially about to be removed. And then you continue for, and it helps you ideologically, you do the thing that you always

wanted to do in Gaza. So when people connect those dots, maybe they should and maybe they shouldn't, but you can't feign outrage, like, I can't believe people would think that just because someone handed me a memo telling me exactly what was going to happen. And then I didn't do anything about it. And then it wound up helping me politically and ideologically. I am shocked to chagrin that you would think that I did that on purpose. So we're fair. We don't know if it was on purpose, but it doesn't matter either way. And lastly, Israel, for the citizens. So 37,000 Palestinians are dead because somebody had to be punished for what happened on

October 7th. We just talked about how Hamas is 100% responsible, of course, for the actions that they took. But in terms of if you were going to pick someone who was the second most responsible for October 7, you'd have to pick whoever the leader was. It could have been a left winger, it could have been anyone, right? But it was that in Yahoo. You'd have to pick the leader who was in charge, got a memo saying it's definitely going to happen, and then didn't do anything to protect you. So those 37,000 dead Palestinians aren't going to reverse October 7th and aren't going to keep you safe for the next October 7th. But you're you, you But getting leadership who actually cares about you, cares about protecting you, and getting

the hostages back, as opposed to a guy who only gains from more war, more violence on both sides. That to me would be the logical way to go. But we'll see what happens in Israel. All right, we got to take a break when we come back. Oh, I hate when they force me to do this. And Jordan and I might disagree a little bit, but they're going to force me into defending Matt Gates a little bit. And then they'll use it against me later. Okay, so you have that to look forward.

Kim Matthews is also an American hero because they hit the join button below and join us through YouTube. You guys are all awesome. We appreciate you. George. The House Ethics Committee says its probe into Florida Representative Matt Gates and his sexual misconduct allegations is expanding. In April 2021, the committee announced a review into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, sharing inappropriate images, videos, images and videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, accepted bribes in violation of House rules. But now in a rare statement,

the committee announced that the scope of the probe has now shifted. In addition to the longstanding sexual misconduct allegations, the panel said it's also looking into whether Gates has sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct. The committee is reviewing allegations that Representative Gates may have engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct. Representative Gates has categorically denied all of the allegations before the committee, notwithstanding the difficulty in obtaining relevant information from Representative Gates and

others, the committee has spoken with more than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas, and reviewed thousands of pages of documents in this matter. Based on its review, the committee has determined that some of the allegations merit continued review, but not all. The panel announced in their statement with the suspension of existing probes into four allegations of wrongdoing. The committee will take no further action at this time on the allegations that he may have shared inappropriate images or videos on the house floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and or accepted a bribe or improper gratuity. Cenk, this is this is a lot. Do you think they have them here? What do you make of this?

So this forces me to defend Matt Gates a little bit and it puts me in a position I am very uncomfortable in. So look, if you haven't watched a show at all for a second, you might not No, but I don't agree with Matt Gates on 98% of stuff. He did have a good bill on insider trading in Congress banning that. And one good bill on money in politics. Okay, two out of hundreds and hundreds, et cetera. But obviously we disagree. In fact, we had Matt Gates on the show, and I asked him about the sex with the 17-year-old

and he's never come back on. Okay, so it's not like, oh my God, I'm worried about that issue. Like, I would like to protect Matt Gates from. I would not like to protect Matt case from that. So what's my issue? My issue is anyone who challenges the establishment, all of a sudden we dig and dig and dig until we find something. So Madison Cawthorne was a great example of that.

He's a good Republican and good standing. No ever had any controversies, never this or that. He said crazy stuff about liberals and left wing and Democrats all the time. Outrage is terrible stuff. Nobody ever finds a thing. He says something against Republican leadership all of a sudden. Tons of pictures of him in drag and this and that and the other girls and the gas family values and part.

Okay, all it turns out some people have done things wrong in their lives. P.S. Everyone has. Okay, so now what Matt Gates did might be way worse, and it might be something that should be punished. But the problem is that the system has lost all credibility. So Bobby Kennedy challenges the people from the outside all of a sudden, they find a deposition from 15 years ago and then, Oh, he had a worm in his brain, then you find out 1.7 billion people have that same parasite, right?

So I can give you a thousand examples. Mary Ann Williams, she's a crystal lady. She's never done anything with crystals. But the minute you challenge the establishment from the outside and it's happened to me too. It happens to Bernie Sanders, it happens to people on the left and the right. It's not about conservative or progressive. It's outsider versus insider. The insiders come to get you.

So they're coming to get Matt Gates because of what he did with Kevin McCarthy. And they're not hiding it. McArthur's like oh yeah take this investigation see how you like it even though he's already out of Congress he's bragging about how they you know are going after Gates because of what he did to Kevin McCarthy well that ruins the whole system now we don't know what's right and what's wrong so you know so is the answer to let Matt Gates go no okay so good finish the investigation then I'd like an investigation on 80% of Congress that has either done something sexually

appropriate or use illicit drugs. Those are the two remaining charges against Matt Gates. I mean, I got the over under it around, no, there's a lot of women in Congress now. I'll put it at 75% of Congress has done one of those two things, okay? But they never get investigated because they're good boys and girls, good boy and girl, way to do what the donors say, way to do what the establishment says. So the problem isn't who's being charged, the problem is who's not being charged. I mean, sure, I agree with you there.

I just don't have a lot of sympathy. for Matt Gates as it relates to his populism and his attempts to bring ethics to Congress. So you mentioned the money in politics efforts. You mentioned the insider trading stuff. The knock on him from the right, and even though it's from the right, I still think they do have him pegged. He does this stuff just for attention and donations because he is, I think, the only Republican who doesn't take corporate pack money. That's right. So he needs to pander. He needs to appeal to a broader base to bring in donations to fund his campaigns.

It's a situation we think, I think every politician should be in. I think a lot of their messaging would change if they had to go out and ask for small dollar donations, an entire cycle. But I don't believe he is actually genuine because I see how he cozy up to Trump. I see how he cozies up to other powerful Republicans. when it's convenient for him. Do you think Trump is going to pass a bill that would outlaw corporate pack money, that would rein in corporate influence?

Absolutely not. So if this is something that Matt Gates stands for, why is he so close with the guy who would kill it in a heartbeat and brag about doing it? Why is he trying, why is he closing up to the guy who wants to cut corporate taxes or who is going out begging for money from oil companies in exchange, for giving them what they want, for gutting climate regulations, for gutting green energy. Is this somebody who really deeply cares about corporate influence in our politics? Or is this somebody who's just trying to make a name for himself?

So for that matter, I don't care. Go after him. If he did something wrong, I don't care. I do hear you though. It is, it is a bigger problem and they do go after people when they get out of line. You saw it with Cawthorne, even saw it with Santos, no one looked into him. I'm sure they all knew, but no one really cared until he started to show. Oh, this guy's a loose cannon.

Like he can't be controlled, he can't be rained in, maybe we go after him. And then his own party kicked them out. So at that point, sure. But if he went in there, stayed quiet, towed the line. I don't know if they would have actually done anything about him. Yeah. So Sanders is a bit of an odd case because he was so over the top that it was embarrassing the Republicans.

Not so much that he necessarily did things that the establishment weren't that happy about. But look, I think the answer can be both. So you say, hey, do you think they're bad? Matt Gates has good intent. No, I would be very surprised if Matt Gates had good intent. And is he innocent of these charges? I don't know, but based on the public evidence, I'd also be surprised about that, right? So I'm not defending Matt Gates's actions.

I'm not defending Matt Gates on that, oh, golly, gee, he really, he's so consistent. So he calls out Trump every time he goes and begs donors for money and says, I'll do whatever you, I'll be your servant, I'll be your dog. That's what Trump says all the time to his donors, right? Does Matt Gates ever call him out for that? No, of course not, right? No, but I get it. That's the reality of Republican politics.

I mean, we're going to cover a story later on the show. This guy who's a massive conservative in the most conservative group in the Republican Party, he endorsed the Santis but didn't say anything negative about Trump, and Trump's trying to eliminate him. So if you say even the slightest thing against Trump, like, ah! So we might not like that, but that's the reality that. that they live in. So I'm not saying that Matt Gates is a great guy, of course not.

I'm not saying that he, all I'm saying is I hate this system that brazenly targets anyone that they don't feel played ball. And Matt Gates, maybe for the wrong reasons, but didn't play ball. And there is one thing that I like in what Matt Gates did, and that I don't agree with Democrats on and I don't agree with Republicans on. So when he did the challenge of McCarthy, so was it to get attention? Of course, right? But at the same time, he did have a list of demands, and he got a lot of those demands.

And he used his leverage. That's hardball politics, and that's why he's being punished. Don't ever use your leverage, shut up and do as you're told. And unfortunately, the progressives on our side, they listen to that. They shut up and they did as they were told. And they know that if they get out of line, something like this is going to happen. Jabam Bowman got out of line supporting the Palestinian people too much. And now all of a sudden, oh my God, I found this against him.

I found that against him. Today, a total horse crap story about some, oh my God, he wanted to use me as a token Jew. There's like a 2% chance that story's true. Okay, so like all these stories pop out of everywhere, right? the minute you challenge the establishment. So that's why they've just, they've done, they've cried wolf too many times. And they cover up massive crimes for people on the inside.

Massive. And so, last thing out it is, so whether he did it for attention or not, the banning inside of trading by Congresspeople is definitely the right law, okay? And so meanwhile, Congress people have benefited to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars through that insider trading.

So are we gonna kick all of them out for basically stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from us? No, they're all gonna be rewarded. The press is gonna tell you they're, oh, they're leading their race. They have the most money. They're the leading candidate. They're the strongest candidate.

They're wonderful candidates. They're the ones who are keeping the system perfectly. Oh, not these radicals and these outsiders. Boo, don't change anything, don't change anything. Say they didn't change anything. They sold a couple hundred million dollars, what's the big deal? Let's let them go. So you punish those guys, then yes, by all means, go after Matt Gates, go after whoever else, right?

But the hypocrisy is too much to bear. All right, we got to take a quick break. And when we come back, so, oh, a Washington Post columnist with the worst idea in the world. Hilarious. Come right back. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size? Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus,

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Did I go to the Miss Universe contest and get hit on by three different beauty pageant contestants? I guess. Don't just please stop me. Don't just please stop you. Okay. So I am going to stop and I'm going to do the next story. So this is what I'm supposed to do.

Oh yes, okay. So Washington Post has one of the most ridiculous opeds you'll ever see. They've got a great idea who should be on Bynast. should be on Biden's ticket. Wait a minute, they want Kamala Harris to get kicked off to ticket already drums. But the person they want on the ticket is Hillary Clinton. Ah! Full details, Jordan.

We are just several months away from the presidential election. Biden's poll numbers are lagging. Some people think the Democrats need a Hail Mary, but what would that look like? One op-ed in the Washington Post argues that they should replace Kamala Harris, with Hillary Clinton. The piece which was written by columnist Kathleen Parker begins by accurately pointing out one of the many problems with Biden's candidacy. Parker writes, Biden's steady decline the past few years, his stumbles, his search for

words, his occasional blank stare has been impossible to ignore. Such change isn't a reflection of character. It's part of the natural order of life. And it isn't ageist to take note. Parker also correctly points out the unpopularity of Kamala Harris. More independence and disenchanted Republicans might swing for Biden if it weren't for the prospect of a president Harris, not because of her sex, race, or any other demographic category, but because of her competency or lack thereof.

But that sadly is where the good points come to an end. Parker pivots to talk about Hillary's involvement in the New York congressional race between Representative Jamal Bowman and George Latimer. Bowman is a Democratic incumbent, but Clinton endorsed Latimer instead. That's because Latimer is a more moderate Democrat. Clinton wrote on X, with Trump on the ballot, we need strong principled Democrats in Congress more than ever. In Congress, Latimer for New York will protect abortion rights, stand up to the NRA,

and fight for President Biden's agenda, just like he's always done, make a plan to vote by June 25th, Parker in this op-ed asks the reader, why would Clinton suddenly get involved in a congressional race? Because she hates progressives? No, no, you're wrong. Oh, no, really? Here is Parker's reasoning. We are left to speculate about motive. Oh, whatever we do?

It's just not clear. Oh, my God, Ali-G. And she, Jamal Bowman has criticized Israel, but I can't figure it out. Hillary Clinton, who has defended Israel 2,000% and taken millions and millions and millions of dollars from APEC. Golly, gee, I can't figure out the motive. Okay, let's figure it out together. She goes on. But the effect of Clinton inserting herself into the news cycle is to remind voters that,

but for her defeat in 2016, if I don't know if anyone remembers who she ran against, I certainly don't. We wouldn't be stuck in this old white men dilemma. She is also reminding people of her relative centrism, her support. for Israel and her broadly respected role as secretary of state. Broadly respected is a funny way of describing one of the most universally loathed politicians in our country, and that's a high bar. But nevertheless, Parker continues. No one has mentioned her as a possible running mate for Biden as far as I know,

but why not replace Harris with Clinton? At 76, she might not want part of it. But it's hard to retire when you feel your job isn't done. done. If Biden needs to step down, even those who didn't vote for Clinton would have confidence in her ability to keep the country on track. It's just a thought, but worse ideas have been met with regrettable success. But again, Hillary did try to run against Donald Trump. And it was not successful because of those same independence of Republicans who didn't vote for her. They went to Trump.

Jane, what am I missing about this? No, no, look, this is a super interesting story, not because of the suggestion, which is hilariously wrong, but because it shows you something about social psychology and human psychology. I'm going to get to that in a second. First, let's hit this one out of the park. As Jordan just pointed out, wait, she's literally the only person who's ever lost to Trump. So your genius idea is, well, this ticket's in a lot of trouble. Let's bring on someone who knows how to lose to Trump. Okay, so that's going to get back to human psychology in a second. Secondly, one of the points she's making there is like Hillary has the courage to stand up for

Israel. Is that really rare in DC? You can't find another Democrat who's going to stand up for Israel that's like 94% of the party. That that's the thing that distinguished her? Come on. This is just, every part of this is a joke, right? She had the courage to support a non-incumbent Democrat, a primary challenge. Wait a minute, my whole life, the Washington Post told me that primary challenges are the evil incarnate, the worst thing on earth, destroying the Democratic Party, you're today, right? And now Hillary goes against an incumbent and goes, it hits the third rail of party disunity, and they're like, add a girl, way to do. We told you. It was always a lie.

It was never about unity. It was always support the establishment no matter what. And if we get a couple of progressives sneak in, we're not going to support you guys. We're going to help APEC destroy your career. We're going to have Hillary Clinton come in. We're going to have everyone, everyone come in and try to crush you. And then we'll have the media lie about it. 24-7.

Later, they'll say the minute you challenge them, hey, are you sure you should do that bill that gives all the money to the donors? They'll say, you goddamn progressives are destroying. are destroying the Democratic Party. And now there's like a standing ovation for Hillary Clinton. They're trying to put her on a national ticket because she hates unity in the Democratic Party. I mean, they're a joke. Every part of the establishment media is a joke. Their job is not news.

Their job is propaganda and marketing on behalf of the powerful. So, and then last couple of inconsistency's in the article. She points out, look, Kamala Harris race is not that big a deal. We're not going to lose all black voters and all female voters. I agree with that. I think that policies are way more. more important, and she mentions that, Kathleen Parker does. The pal policies are more important.

But she'll little Johnny come lately to that because I remember, not her specifically, but in all of Washington Post, all the Washington pundits saying, it's gotta be Kamala Harris. She's black, she's a woman, she's Asian, it's got to be her. You gotta do a base on just identity. Identity, come on, are you against black people? Are you race? Are you sexist? Are you anti-Asian?

We're like, well, I don't, how about if we get balanced on the ticket with a progressive that seems to be really, really popular? No, you're racist sex. Now they're like, ah, her race and sex doesn't matter at all. Oh, really? All of a sudden, it doesn't matter at all. But they can't let go of identity politics. So if you notice in one of the quotes that Jordan read to you, this would get rid of the old white men problem. Wait, I thought identity didn't matter. But now all of a sudden it matters again. But wait a minute, if you want to get rid of the old white men problem, Kamala Harris isn't white or old or a man. Hillary Clinton's old. So Kamala Harris would check off all your boxes better, but you really, really want Hillary back on the ticket.

And now finally on the policy head, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton would make the most toxic establishment ticket in American history. Two people who have combined like 98 years in Washington, who have taken nearly $2 billion from large donors throughout their history, have delivered for banks. I won after another, Hillary Clinton famous for giving speeches and pocketing money from the banks, changing our position on the bankruptcy bill. Biden used to be known as a senator from MBNA, that's a credit card company. Like it would be the worst establishment ticket. The reason Trump's winning is because he's pretending to be a populist. The people in Washington, now if we get to the human psychology, they live in an alternate

reality that is just as crazy and diluted as MAGA. thinks Trump won the election. I know that if you're not in MAGA, you just cannot believe that, right? But they genuinely do. They think he won. They think we've been under a false president for these last three years. That's one of the reasons why they hate Biden so much. They think he's like a communist dictator that stole our country when he didn't even win the election, right? And it's not even him who's in charge. It's like a combination of Barack Obama and the trans first lady of France and stuff. So I know it sounds nuts, but some of them, believe that but now you have to see it's is it so outrageous and

unthinkable when everyone in Washington has these thoughts about man if the Democrats were just more pro-establishment and more big pro donors they would got they capture the imagination of the country you would like I'm sorry but you belong in a mental institution if you believe that that is totally utterly diluted if you think the person who lost the Donald Trump would be the best possible person in the whole country to put on a ticket to run against Donald Trump. You've lost your mind.

You're not attached to reality at all. The polling shows it, the American people. You're just, you're lost, you're in Maga Lala land, right? But when we say these things, if you're watching out there and you're regular American, you said, well, everything they just said is super obvious, right? And it doesn't really matter what part of the political spectrum you're on. But when in Washington, when they watch the same exact video, if you made Kathleen Parker, remember the whole paper,

the editor approved this article, the publisher approved, everybody's like, thought, oh, genius idea. Well, look at this, Kathleen's got a great idea. Let's take the two biggest losers and put them together. And take the thing that America hates and concentrate our entire campaign on that. Brilliant. So when they see this video, they think we're crazy. They think, I just, I was talking to Don Lemon, I saw him in New York,

and he's still talking to his old friend. friends in cable news and stuff, they still think I'm nuts. They're like, a bunch of radicals. Think to American people don't love the establishment. Don't love politicians and mainstream media. You guys are so crazy and radical. So these are the crazy bubbles we live in. Human psychology is amazing.

People will believe anything they want to believe. What do you think, Troy? It is totally incoherent and I think it reflects an unwillingness to be serious about why Hillary lost in 2016. And it's sad that we're still having this conversation almost a decade later. I mean, they've had plenty of time to really sit with the results of that election. Why Hillary lost? And of course, not campaigning in key states in the run-up to the election, a big part of it. But then within those states, thinking you have Michigan and Pennsylvania as a lock, they just decried, they denounce that entire region, the entire

Rust Belt, oh, these are just racist, white people who voted for Trump. purely motivated motivated on race. And surely there were people who were motivated by race. And unfortunately it got worse, but there are certainly people in there. And I've talked to them. All you have to do is talk to them and you'll understand. And they had a distrust in the Democratic Party and the establishment. And despite his many flaws that they recognized,

they didn't trust where the Democratic establishment was going. They didn't trust her specifically, especially on issues of trade, especially issues related to workers. And you saw that play out. Instead, Beltway Media just said, these are all white working class racists who voted for Trump because they liked his racist rhetoric. Again, there were some people like that, but not all. And when you can't recognize why she was so unpopular in regions like that that are pivotal

to winning an election, you end up with results like this. I mean, there was a distinguishing point. Biden had a better record on labor. You saw some of those areas flip back to Biden, especially in Michigan. That was key. He certainly didn't win Ohio. But when you're losing strongholds, labor strongholds in the Rust Belt, cycle after cycle after cycle, you got to ask yourself, hey, maybe we're, maybe we're going in the wrong direction.

Maybe these people we've built our party around aren't the right leaders for this movement. Thankfully, Trump didn't win in 2020, but putting Hillary on the ticket in 2020. before is guaranteed to get him back in the White House. But with news outlets struggling all over the country, maybe that's ultimately what they want. Yeah, but that last thought on it is that apparently they don't really care about beating Trump that much. They would, I mean, if you said to them a progressive, I mean, look at how she's celebrating

the idea that Joe Balma might lose and that Hillary's helping him to lose. If you said, for example, next president of the United States is going to be solid Democratic like Jamal Bowman or Donald Trump. And it's a secret ballot in Washington among democratic leadership or democratic politicians. I think that vote is 7228, if I'm being generous, Trump. I think they would much rather have Trump than a progressive. They would much rather have Trump than a populist. They would much rather have Trump than an outsider.

They don't mind losing the Trump. I mean, you would only consider nominating Biden who can barely walk and talk and Hillary, who's already lost to Trump, unless you didn't mind losing the Trump. What you minded was anyone challenging the system. And with one last piece of irony here is that all these people who just don't mind losing to Trump at all makes me think that they know something we don't know, which is Trump actually is part. I mean, we do know this and we tell you guys about it.

He's a fake populist. But I'm adding an extra layer here. I think that they're seeing the corporate tax cuts that Trump is promising. They're seeing him kiss the ass of the donors all throughout the country, going to the oil companies, the bankers, and kissing up to them. And I think it's making a lot of Democrats go, man, not so bad, right? Not the voters. The voters hate it, right, including Democratic voters. But people inside Washington are like, oh, Trump's getting a little bit better. You know, he's maybe he'll do anything for the donors just like our guys.

So, okay, and by the way, again, they'll watch this video and go, they think politicians serve donors. They're so radical. These bubbles are the most amazing human phenomenon. All right, we got to go, guys. You guys are crazy. Everybody check out, you're crazy for taking too long. Check out Jordan at rebel headquarters. And next, there's a question.

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