The Young Turks, May 15, 2015

The Young Turks: May 15, 2015

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Ana, Iadarola, and Jimmy hosting the Power Panel. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his part in the Boston Marathon bombing. TYT on the death penalty and why killing Tsarnaev won’t help. Why we have to avoid the honest reason to carry out the death penalty being revenge? George Stephanopoulos is under criticism for donating $75K to the Clinton Foundation and not disclosing the information before grilling an author of a scathing book about the Clintons. Conservatives are now calling for him to recuse himself from covering the entire campaign or losing his job at ABC entirely. Video of Megyn Kelly calling him out for the interview before video of George apologizing for not disclosing his donations. GOPers in the House have voted to block children of undocumented immigrants to serve in the military. On Sean Hannity’s show, Gavin McInnis spouted that women should be at home since they don’t have the same ambition in the workforce. Videos of him berating his female co-host Tamara Holder. Video of Eric Bolling railing on a high school art exhibit that depicted police brutality, claiming that the teachers should take it down, despite 1st Amendment. Another video of Bolling praising the Muhammad drawing contest, supporting 1st Amendment rights. To wrap up his horrible week, Jeb Bush said that the Apple Watch will soon be able to monitor health patterns like diabetes so much that it can be the answer to our healthcare problems.

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Same panel. More information is coming out of the Amtrak train crash in Philadelphia. Apparently, the train was increasing in speed for a full 60 seconds leading up to the curve that it derailed on. A college student at Kennesaw St. Univ that wasn’t being allowed to see his advisor decided to sit and wait, only to be accused of harassing the advisor. Video of the receptionist confronting him and threatening to call the campus police on him. A woman that has severe depression and anxiety is filing a lawsuit against her nursing school for not accommodating her disabilities during testing for the degree, which caused her to fail the course two times. With all of these disabilities based on stressful situations, Ana wonders if she should even be in the nursing profession. A restaurant in China utilizes online dating to get more customers to dine there. They hire an attractive woman to go on dating sites, pick up a guy, and go on a dinner date with them at their establishment where he spends a bunch of money, only to never hear from the woman again after the date. Johnny Depp was forced to fly his two dogs back to the U.S. from Australia on a private jet since the authorities there were threatening to euthanize them since he neglected to have them properly vaccinated to enter the country.

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Bonus Episode, May 15, 2015

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Malcolm Fleschner, Dave Koller, and Steve Oh host todays Post Game!

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