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The Young Turks: Season 12

12x247 May 10, 2016 Hour 1

  • 2016-05-10T22:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 50m
  • United States
  • English
  • News
Cenk hosting. Donald Trump’s popularity numbers are comically worse than lice, the DMV, hipsters, and Nickelback. Sadly, Hillary Clinton is basically tied with Trump in polls. Bernie Sanders landslides Trump. Talk about how Establishment DC is convinced that Hillary Clinton is the easy winner despite the real numbers. Jayar talks about the fact that Clinton is still winning, that the DNC isn't wholly responsible for Hillary being crowned without thought. An unbiased tax policy and think tank conducted a study on the effect Sanders’ tax plan would have on the economy, and simply stated that taxes would go up on everyone, leaving out the financial benefits of the policies for a large majority of Americans. After the Sanders campaign pointed it out, the center did the full analysis and found that after the tax burden went up, the net income gain was nearly $4500 due to the benefits. Wall St Journal editorial detailed reasons they support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. With an endorsement coming from this entity, Cenk sees a lot of other things wrong with the scenario. Video of Donald Trump talking about raising taxes on the rich, and giving tax breaks to the Middle Class. Cenk points out that after this declaration, the WSJ finally came out against his candidacy. Newly elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been granted leniency on Trump’s anti-Muslim ban in the United States. Video of Khan responding negatively to Trump’s call to give him a break on his bigoted rule. Latest on the president’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Court. Garland looks to strengthen Citizen’s United. He also voted with the Bush Admin on torture, claiming that prisoners shouldn’t get Habeas Corpus rights. Video of Republican Sen Jeff Flake telling MTP that he is all for holding up Garland unless they lose the election, then we should approve him quickly so that Hillary won’t nominate a real progressive judge. A pro Hillary Super PAC has released an ad attacking Trump and
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