The North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Alabama, and Tennessee. That's a big one. And the devastation wrought by this storm is incredible. It's so extensive. Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now. [00:00:15] It's so late in the season for the hurricanes. Well, despite what you heard from former President Donald Trump in that statement, it turns out that a lot of people predicted that this hurricane would be devastating. And even though he says that the hurricane hit late in the season, in reality we are [00:00:33] currently in peak hurricane season now, according to the Florida Climate Center at Florida State University. Hurricane season on the United States Atlantic Coast lasts from June 1st until November 30th, with the peak coming between mid-August and late October. [00:00:50] But there were a lot of predictions about how devastating this hurricane would be, and devastating it was. We now know that at least 128 28 people have been killed as a result of this hurricane. It has been a complete and utter disaster across six separate states. [00:01:09] The hurricane was described as a monstrous category four when it made landfall in Florida. As I mentioned, at least 128 people are dead, but the death toll is expected to rise. Entire communities have been wiped off the map. 56 people have been reported dead [00:01:25] in North Carolina as a result of this storm alone, and an estimated 600 people are still missing. CNN reports that in addition to the 56 people killed in North Carolina, Hurricane Helene also killed at least 30 victims in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, four in Tennessee and two in Virginia. [00:01:46] But remember, the numbers are expected to rise. And again, the destruction spans six separate states. Right now, survivors are struggling to get the food and other essentials they need to survive. And part of the reason why is because the roads and bridges necessary to get aid [00:02:04] to them have either been severely damaged or no longer exist at all. It is a complete and utter nightmare. And look, I get that we live in a hyper politicized world right now, but can we just take a beat and not attack political opponents [00:02:22] by using this storm as an excuse to do it? And when it comes to Donald Trump, the answer is no. Now I'm going to get to more of his attacks, this time against Kamala Harris and other governors in the state in just a moment. But, Jake, 1.5 million people currently are left without power. [00:02:40] - It is absolute devastation. - Yeah. So, look, hurricanes are sometimes defined how a politician, has empathy or doesn't have empathy. And so there's a famous picture of George W Bush looking down at the people of Louisiana as he flies over Hurricane Katrina. [00:02:58] And so that was obviously a not the right way to handle that. There's, of course, Donald Trump. We'll talk about it in Trump brackets.com segment a little bit later where he throws the the paper towels at the people of Puerto Rico flippantly, etc.. So Trump is trying to recreate that for the Democrats. [00:03:14] Except it didn't happen. They responded immediately. The Republicans, including Governor Kemp of Georgia, thanked him profusely for responding immediately. They've done everything they possibly can, so Trump has to just lie about it. But that's not at all surprising. [00:03:30] If you don't know that Donald Trump is a massive liar and you should never take anything he says seriously. You're already MAGA and you're not going to listen to reason anyway. Hey, don't scroll away, come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to TYT. [00:03:46] You power our honest reporting. You do it at tight.com/team and we love you for it. Okay, so before we get to more Trump stuff, let me just say this. My heart breaks for the people who have lost everything as a result of this storm [00:04:03] I think of the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Most families who lost everything as a result of that storm have still not been made whole. I think about the wildfires in Maui and how the people, the residents of that [00:04:18] community who were devastated by that fire have still not been made whole. These insurance companies continue to give them the runaround. Many of these people have remained homeless as a result of these natural disasters and disasters caused by utility companies. In some cases, it makes me so angry [00:04:37] to look, we obviously have resources. This is a wealthy country, but we never take care of our own and it really upsets me. Jake, why do we abandon our own again and again and just we fund all sorts of nonsense. [00:04:53] We fund conflict and wars abroad. We fund all sorts subsidies for tremendously successful and wealthy corporations. I mean, we've got the money, but it never goes toward our people. And it bothers me. Okay, just get that out. No, I want to add one thing to that and then add one lighter note. [00:05:11] So, on an unrelated story, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the video we showed you earlier in the show to Iran, said, can you believe the mullahs are spending all your money on military equipment instead of giving you the education and the health care you need? And I thought, that's hilarious, right? [00:05:28] Because Israel spends almost no money on military because we give it to them and they have paid family leave, they have universal health coverage. - They had a. - Budget surplus in 2022. They had a budget surplus in 2022, something that the United States has not had since 2001. [00:05:44] But the US is paying for their weapons. Why? So we've given them over $300 billion and you say, hey, listen, if it's going towards peace and part of it is because of the peace deal we did with Egypt, there's good reasons to give aid abroad. Right. But are there bounds of reason where you give another country [00:06:01] hundreds of billions of dollars, but you refuse to take care of your own and you refuse to spend money on your own. Now, look, you could put aside Israel and take any of these things. I mean, we still have over $20 billion in subsidies every year that the American taxpayer gives the oil companies. The oil companies need it more than the people who are dealing [00:06:18] with a hurricane or natural disasters, because the American citizens always come in dead last, dead last. They're the ATM, right? All of these Americans who have been victimized by this hurricane, they're just seen as an ATM, right? Pay your taxes like good boys and girls. [00:06:36] And that money is not going to go back to improving your life or taking care of you. If you've lost everything in a devastating hurricane, that money will go to all sorts of nonsense and you're going to shut up and take it like that's what I'm getting so frustrated with. So so, so let me lighten the mood for you just a second and then we'll go back [00:06:53] to the frustration. So Trump said there nobody knew that there was going to be a hurricane this big in the middle of hurricane season, peak hurricane season. So now if you remember, this is what he also said at the beginning of his first term about health care. Watch. [00:07:09] It's an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. Yeah. Everybody did. Everybody knows it's hurricane season and that health care is complicated. What Trump does is he takes his own ignorance and projects it onto everyone else. [00:07:25] Yeah, no one knew health care was complicated. No, you didn't know health care was complicated because you're not very bright. You didn't know it was hurricane season, even though you were president for four years and even moved a hurricane with a Sharpie. He didn't actually move the hurricane. He thought he did in his own mind. [00:07:40] And he still doesn't know when hurricane season is. He's unbelievable. It's just like the lack of curiosity about the world around us, right? I mean, you want to be president of the United States. You would want to know what policies are broken. Our health care system has been broken for a long time. How did you not know that? [00:07:56] Health care is tremendously complicated anyway. But let's get back to the storm and how he is. Unfortunately, using this moment where people are in a lot of pain to weirdly attack his political opponents with lies. So Trump attacked Kamala Harris by accusing her of abandoning the victims of [00:08:14] the hurricane and leaving them to drown. He did so in a Truth Social post. What he did is he shared a screenshot of something that Kamala Harris had posted on X. She was apparently taking a phone call about the hurricane on Air Force two, [00:08:31] and she talks about how she was briefed about the hurricane and the ongoing impacts of it. We also discussed the administration's continued actions to support the emergency response and recovery. I also spoke to North Carolina's governor about the ongoing rescue [00:08:47] and recovery efforts in North Carolina. You know, just kind of keeping the public up to date on her involvement in the rescue efforts and the aid efforts. So Donald Trump does a screenshot of that post and just, like loses it on Truth Social, saying another fake and staged photo from [00:09:04] someone who has no clue what she is doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work. - Wait, let's look at the photo again. - No, no, he's not crazy about this one. You see how she's got the one hanging from her right ear? - The the. - Those are her headphones. [00:09:20] Headphones? But it's not. It doesn't appear to be connected to the phone on the desk. I see, it might be the angle that they took it at and it might be connected, but at least it's not one of those lunatic conspiracy theories about how she eyes her whole crowd and no one actually shows up. I was looking to see if it was crazy, but this one's officially not crazy. [00:09:38] Also the photo. The photo is definitely staged. Like, oh yeah, definitely the photo stage. But like, is Kamala Harris involved in the relief efforts and, you know, the rescue efforts? That's the real question. Yeah. And I got an answer to that too. But the reason that he talks about staged photos is because when he was president, [00:09:56] they did endless stage photos. Everybody does stage photos. And I was gonna say, to be fair to Trump, to every president does stage photos and every vice president does. So that's why I said, can you believe this is staged photo? He would do these hilarious photos in these tiny desks. You remember those? I do. And he looked like a little kid in school, right? [00:10:11] I'm like, if you're going to stage the photo, find a better desk, right? - I mean. - I appreciated the tiny desks. It reminded me of my elementary school days. It was fun. It was fun. Yeah. Now do the vice. Does the vice president normally get involved in stuff like this? No, she. If she's involved at all, it's because they want to say that they want [00:10:29] to be able to say that she's involved. But normally a vice president, unless they're assigned by the president to some menial task involved in this, generally are not involved in this. Now, going back to what you were saying, Jake, about Donald Trump projecting, I think that he was also projecting when he accused [00:10:45] the Democratic governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, of abandoning Republican constituents and refusing to help them in Republican areas. And the reason why I say I think it's projection is because Donald [00:11:00] Trump did like to punish blue states through his policies. - Yes. - Yes. - And he bragged about it, and he. - Bragged about it. So he didn't vote for me. Okay, you know what I'm gonna do? So, hey, Texas and Florida were very strong for me, so I gotta help them. [00:11:17] Okay. I mean, he's such a knucklehead. He just says whatever's in it off the top of his head. Now, I want to go to video three here because NBC news correspondent Garrett Hake was like, all right, well, he's throwing out some pretty serious allegations here. [00:11:33] And I want to know where these allegations are coming from. You know, is there any meat on the bones? Let's watch. He had been saying on Truth Social that he believes Democrats, specifically the governor of North Carolina and the federal government, have been intentionally denying aid to Republican parts of the Tar Heel State. [00:11:49] I asked him what, if any, evidence he had to back that up. You can see what he said here. Stephanie. Democrats intentionally not getting aid to. I told you that. - What was that in reference. - To Governor Kemp? [00:12:05] Take a look. Where's that coming from? Biden did call governor evidence for that. Mr. President, you got to vote. Trump people. So his only response was you'll have to take a look. And then he walked away. Didn't provide any receipts, unsurprisingly. [00:12:21] But we're going to provide some receipts real quick because he made some allegations about Georgia's governor, Brian Kemp. He says that Brian Kemp was having a hard time getting President Joe Biden to help with the relief efforts. [00:12:36] But it turns out that he said that after Brian Kemp had disclosed something about Biden. Let's take a look. We do need some help from the federal government. They have to get together, ideally with the governor. The governor needs to. [00:12:53] He's been trying to get them, and I'm sure they're going to come through. But he's been calling the president hasn't been able to get him. I just spoke to the president, just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you need? [00:13:10] And I told him, you know, we got what we need. We'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that. Oops. So, look, I get it. It's a presidential election. [00:13:26] Everyone's campaigning, but maybe just hands off this issue, considering the fact that people are still missing. Yeah. Family members are finding out about their loved ones, being found dead as a result of this hurricane, like, just bounds of reason, please. [00:13:46] - There are no bounds of reason. - Come on. There are absolutely no bounds of reason. He couldn't care less about those people. Just wants to use him as a political gimmick and a punch line. And so that's what he'll do. And, you know, look, at this point, we're a little less than 40 days before the election. If you don't know that Trump's a pathological liar, [00:14:02] you're going to vote for Trump, right? I get it. You think, oh, yeah, whatever he says is more true than all the evidence in the world. Even if I hear it from a Republican governor's mouth that President Biden called him and that Donald Trump was lying about it, and he offered him any and every assistance, and Donald Trump [00:14:18] was outrageously lying about it. It doesn't matter. It never matters. He was trolling. He was kidding. He was taken out of context. He's a demigod. I'll let him sleep with my wife. Whatever maga you do, you okay? But the rest of us understand this Trump guy is a pathological liar, and he's going [00:14:34] to terrorize us for four more years. If he wins this race every day, he's going to come out with a new lie, something outrageous. He's going to smear this person and that person. He's going to put lives in danger by like, look, the Haitians are afraid for their life. And now in Ohio, because he got his lunatic followers [00:14:50] to believe they're eating cats and dogs, so will his followers believe that Biden didn't help when he overwhelmingly helped? Of course they will, because they believe every lie from this pathological liar. And by the way, just to answer any questions about whether or not the victims of this hurricane are going to get the help they need, it [00:15:06] doesn't matter which party is in charge. Okay. Recent natural disasters and the aftermath of those disasters have shown us that the victims never get the help that they need. Okay. How many of them are still homeless from previous natural disasters? [00:15:23] So that's the real injustice here. And something's got to give. Something's got to change. Especially when it comes to insurance companies that these people dutifully pay year after year. And then once they need the insurance companies to pay out claims because of these natural disasters, they are left abandoned by the insurance companies. [00:15:42] That's a huge problem. Maybe we discuss that a little bit. Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. [00:15:59] But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. 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