Executive order, domestic terrorist organization, Antifa. That's our primary concern right now, is that's the most immediate violent threat that we're facing on the domestic side. So where is Antifa headquartered? [00:00:16] What we're doing right now with the organization. Where in the United States does Antifa exist? If it's a terrorist organization and you've identified it as number one? We are building out the infrastructure right now. [00:00:34] So they don't have headquarters because they're not an organization, because it's not a terror threat. And you look like a doof. And I think he knows it. The particular doof in question here is Michael Glasheen, the FBI's operations director of the National Security Branch, utterly struggling to make good on basically the entire domestic national [00:00:53] security argument of the Trump administration, which is it's just Antifa. It's just nothing else. There's no right wing terror. There's no white supremacist terror, no Christian nationalist terror. It's all Antifa. And they send that guy out. And I don't know what he thought was going to happen when he didn't prepare at all. [00:01:11] We have more, by the way. Maybe he'll do better in future clips. But I know that you, you liked, Bennie Thompson's questioning there. - What do you make of it? - Yeah. Oh, I loved it. We're going to show you more of it. He he messed him up. So, look, we're also going to talk about the right wing excuse for this, [00:01:29] because they're going to need an excuse because this is brutal. Right. And, and Bennie Thompson, great job. How often do I say that about Democrats in Congress? And so but I want to just make one quick comment about that video we already saw, which is he says not only is where's their headquarters, but he then asks, [00:01:49] where do they even exist? And the guy said, we're we're building out the infrastructure. Now, wait a minute. If you need to build the infrastructure to figure out where Antifa even exists. How do you know they're the largest terrorist organization in America? [00:02:04] You just told us that you don't even have the infrastructure to answer the most basic question about them, but you claim you already know they're the largest terrorist organization. Now, of course, we're also going to give you the information on who actually is doing more terrorism in America. That's coming up, too. [00:02:20] Yeah, it's almost as if it's a problem when the president just decides what he wants to be the case, and then asks you to go make it seem like it might be true. That's not actually how you should run a government. Okay, but that was just one clip. Okay, let's give him another chance. You said Antifa is a terrorist organization. [00:02:37] Tell us as a committee. How did you come to that? What? What do they exist? How many members do they have in the United States as of right now? Well, that's very fluid. It's it's ongoing for us to understand that the same no different than al Qaeda and ISIS. [00:02:53] No, no, I don't want you. I'll ask one question, sir. I just want you to tell us if you said Antifa is the number one domestic terrorist organization operating in the United States. I just need to know where they are. How many people? [00:03:10] I don't want a name. I don't want anything like that. Just how many people have you identified with the FBI, that Antifa is made of? Well, the investigations are active. [00:03:26] So you wouldn't come to this committee and say something you can't prove. I know, I know, you wouldn't do that. But you did. Look, I, I don't believe what the administration is saying. I don't know that guy, but I'm inclined to not like him because of what he's doing. [00:03:44] And even I am like. You got to say something, man. Say a word. You can't just. Trump is watching and he is not gonna like that. So that guy's probably already been fired. But before, just in case. Here's the issue for him. Okay. [00:04:00] It's one thing to have Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, whatever, pretend that Antifa is a threat or something. This guy has served with the FBI for more than 20 years. Okay, almost back to nine over 11. So he has some experience with Al-Qaeda and with ISIS and all of that, and with right wing domestic terror groups. [00:04:19] He's been involved. He was in the counterterrorism division, director of the Terrorist Screening Center. And so here's the big issue with him. He knows it's BS. He knows there is nothing to it, but he knows that he can't admit that because then he'll lose his job. [00:04:35] I said on TDR this morning, it's very much like when Scott Bessent would go on air and he would be asked about like, so, you know, you know that tariffs raise prices, right? And he'd be like, no, they don't raise prices. He knows that. They raise prices. This is the issue when you have pure self-serving ideologues in office. [00:04:55] The truth doesn't matter. Reality doesn't matter. Your own personal experience and expertise don't matter. This is one guy in the administration who actually might be qualified to be in the position he's in, but unfortunately, his arms are tied with ideological shackles. And so when you put him up there, what's he supposed to say? [00:05:12] He knows it's not true. He doesn't want to lie. He might have been under oath right there. But this, of course, is not just an issue of one hearing. It's an issue that can be facing any of us and might well face commentators like Jake and myself, because three months ago, Trump proclaimed that Antifa is a major terrorist [00:05:29] organization, even though it isn't. He put out a presidential memo directing the FBI to investigate the entire thing, prosecuting anti-fascists and other adherents for anti-Americanism. And thanks to the great work of a number of journalists, including Ken Klippenstein, we know with Pam Bondi's memo that almost anything that would be said on [00:05:49] a random day here on The Young Turks could very well get you investigated by the DOJ, by the FBI, including anti-American sentiments like anti-christianity, anti-capitalism, adherence to radical gender ideology, meaning that you accept the existence of trans people? [00:06:05] No, until the Democrats getting charged, then the radical gender ideology is going to be not accepting trans, and then we're going to push all of you in prison. Yep. Now, the reality is, of course, we're not going to do that, but let's do it, because that would be mental. But, but and if we and if Biden had threatened [00:06:22] that if you have a radical gender ideology and you don't believe and you deadname trans people, you're going to prison. Right. And you're a terrorist organization. You all would have lost your mind if you're a right wing, right? Yeah, you would have lost. But now. But and to be fair to the right wing, they haven't really seen too much of that yet. [00:06:39] Right. And so I think some portion of the right wing is going to peel off on that. Well that's really over the top. Antifa they're totally on board with what Trump is saying. I'll get back to that in a second. They should already be freaking out more about this because all this is, is, hey, you know, free speech. Yeah. We're taking out huge chunks of that. [00:06:55] You literally can't even look hostility towards traditional views on family. You are saying I might be investigated if I have a different view on family. You know what it's always been about? Taking on the corrupt, greedy establishment. [00:07:10] For us, it's the corporate media. We've been fighting that fight for over 20 years. For the cell phone industry. It's the same story, a handful of massive corporations ripping you off. That's why we're partnering with Noble Mobile. They're the only wireless company with the same mission as ours to fight back. [00:07:27] They're no bull plan offers unlimited data for just $50 a month. But here's the best part for any data you don't use, you get cash back. Real money you can spend however you want. Stop letting your unused data pad the pockets of billionaires. [00:07:43] With noble. You take control over your data, and by switching to noble, you're directly supporting tight and our mission of bringing you honest, independent news. So give noble a try and make the switch today. Scan the QR code on the screen now or visit go.com. [00:08:03] That's go. Okay well you know what. Lock up Donald Trump. Because traditionally you marry someone, you're faithful to them, you stay with them. But this dude's cheated on everyone he's ever been with. And he's had multiple marriages, which is hardly the traditional [00:08:20] Christian view of family. No, lock his ass up. No, John, I read it in Leviticus that while, thy wife is thou pregnant, you sexually assault a reporter, and then once she delivers, thou guesses the porn star. [00:08:37] Yeah. And then have a long affair with her and then pay her off later. I'm pretty sure it was Leviticus. It might have been Genesis, I forget, but it's very traditional, obviously. Yeah, that section was wild. As a kid, I never really understood the specificity. It mentioned Mar a Lago. That was weird. But anyway, you could be locked up for having views in favor [00:08:55] of mass migration and open borders. I mean, anything. Literally the entire point of this is just we want to somehow make being liberal, let alone anything beyond that, illegal. And look, maybe it never comes to actually locking up commentators, [00:09:12] although they're desperately trying to get many of them fired. But, you know, maybe it's just, maybe candidates who espouse these ideas can't run for office. Maybe, you know, fundraising organizations that allow candidates that espouse these ideas could be shut down because they're funding [00:09:28] a terrorist organization or whatever. We know that there are ideological goals to this, but there's also obviously pragmatic political objectives to this. And so I'm certainly worried about that as well. And of course, as you alluded to, this is ridiculous on its face. [00:09:44] But it's also costly because while Antifa is not a major terrorist organization, the organization they have right now is I've seen a little bit of synchronized twerking. I've seen a bit of that. That was that was impressive, you know. But but there are actual terrorist threats inside of the United States. [00:10:01] And I'm sorry. Generally, they're right wing. And if the FBI isn't investigating those things, like how many times over the last few years have we given credit to the FBI for foiling a plot? Stopping someone who wanted to do a bombing, a shooting, start a race war. [00:10:16] And like, thank God the FBI did some good work. - They're not doing that work right now. - Yeah. And we did. We gave the FBI credit for all those busts. Like and I've said, look, I don't know what the CIA does. I know we're not supposed to know, but I've never seen it produce one decent thing for America in my lifetime or in anybody's lifetime. [00:10:34] On the other hand, the FBI sometimes busts people that are about to do a huge terrorist strike, and it saves a lot of people's lives. So that's God bless. This guy's kind of the Colin Powell of of this Antifa stuff, right? So John asked me a question about anything about TT. Doesn't matter. [00:10:49] Yeah. Well you know what, what year did TT even start. Look, dude, I mean, you got to prepare. I know you're Colin Powell. I know you don't want to be out there. I know they're like frog marching you out to the flank or whatever. [00:11:06] Right. And then. But but like you got. Did you not think they would ask you a single question about Antifa? Right. So, one of our folks here is actually Edwin from the stage crew. Asked to remind me of a good thing. He's like, wait, they just said on TV, like, a little while back that they caught [00:11:24] Antifa leader's girlfriend. Yeah, right. So who's the leader then? How many are there? Where are they? Etc. So now the right wing excuses. Oh, no. No, it's just like the mob. I mean, it's it's fluid. You can't tell where the mob is. [00:11:43] I mean, it's just so amorphous. No. It's not. - What? - They watched The Sopranos. The FBI's been tracking the mob all this time. If you said to them, how many folks are in the mob and where are they headquartered? They would have a rational answer like, no, there's no one central headquarters for the quote unquote mob. [00:11:59] But the New York families are obviously in New York and in Coney Island, etc., different bases. There's the Kansas City Mob, there's a la Vegas, etc. And by how many are there? I can't give you a number like 1387, but we know it's in the ballpark [00:12:14] of tens of thousands. They would have answers because they investigated and they have a rough sense of it. Right. And in fact, they might have a really good sense of it. How many members of al Qaeda are in America? I hope it's zero. Right. But if you're the FBI and you could reveal that information maybe about the past, you would say, oh, yeah, in 2007, we knew that there was this many people roughly. [00:12:34] Right. And we thought they were mainly based in Missouri and Hawaii. I don't know, those are there are answers if they are, if you've actually investigated people. This is not among the answers. Womp womp womp womp. Okay. So guys, you get I mean, what is this? Okay. [00:12:52] So they and then Trump says, okay, being anti-fascist means being anti-American. Wait, what? I thought we were against fascism as a country. Remember when we defeated them in World War two? Like, that was like one of our shining moments in American history. We defeated the Nazis, the fascists. [00:13:09] Now it's un-American to be against fascists. Would you have liked to have seen Bennie Thompson ask that doof? Hey, So what does Antifa mean? What's the far in Antifa and get him to actually say, well, they're anti-fascist. Yeah. And and so when you are anti something, what does that mean to you? [00:13:28] Well what it means you are against fascists. Okay guys. And the reason why that's important is so is Antifa just a super loose name for folks who want to, you know, be a little bit more aggressive in [00:13:43] the streets and fighting back and etc. Or Is like, is it a general term or is it a group? Is it like, hey, it's got some sort of command? It's some some sort of centralized orders. It goes, hey, they said, tell the guys in Saint Louis, [00:14:01] if you're going to go to protest, do this. They tell the guys in New York, if you're going to go and cause trouble, do that. Is it a real organization or is it just a term like, oh, I, you know. - Environmentalists? - Yeah. Like a great point, right? Environmentalists, like, I could be an environmentalist, [00:14:16] but I'm not part of some sort of environmentalist cabal that has like some sort of command structure and tells us what to do if it's a loose term and it just means you're against fascism. Well, that doesn't mean anything. That's I hope you're all against fascism, right? Because I know, like, if you say the right wing is fascist, [00:14:33] we've been through that a lot. They'll go crazy and say that they're not fascists. So then good. We're all anti fascists, right? And guys, if you say, on the other hand, what would you think. I've seen it. There's guys and they got the masks and they throw a brick through a Starbucks window or something. [00:14:49] Yeah, that's definitely true, guys. And you know what you do with that guy? You arrest him? Yeah. And then, by the way, didn't you ask him questions? Hey, did someone order you to throw the break? Where are they located? Do you have a headquarters? Okay. Are there other people involved? And if it turns out they're taking orders and there is some sort of structure. [00:15:06] Okay, then. Great. Tell us about it. Because I don't want any terrorist organization. We all live here. Guys, nobody wants terrorism because it could affect any of us. So, no, this is like, it's not made up to say that there's guys who call themselves Antifa and have showed up at a protest and and done some things wrong, right? [00:15:25] That's not wrong. That is correct. Okay. But to say that there are some sort of organized terrorist organization that then gives out orders to do different things seems to have zero evidence. None. None? None. And you just saw it from one guy? Yeah. The quick comparison I made this morning is we know how many times has [00:15:44] there been some sort of mass shooting, and they look into the person and they're like disaffected, lonely, radicalized online guy who might be an incel. That's real. But, like, could we just say there's, you know, there's incel for. So now we need to investigate their leadership and their funding. [00:16:00] No, just because it exists and there are some individuals, does it make it an organization, even if it would be good for you propaganda wise, if that was the case? Yeah. Last thing is, let's tell you who actually does the terrorism. The FBI shifted from The Intercept to focusing on alleged left wing violence comes despite researchers [00:16:16] at the center for Strategic and International Studies finding that despite an increase this year, it remains much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by the right wing and jihadist attackers. Okay, now that look, guys, again, that doesn't mean all [00:16:31] right wingers are evil, okay? It definitely doesn't mean all Muslims are. Jihadists are very extreme, radical Muslims that have nothing to do with the rest of mainstream, Islam, etc.. Right. So we get it. We're fair. We're fair to the right wing, we're fair to everybody, and we're fair to the folks on the left. [00:16:47] And we're also fair in saying, hey, if anybody breaks the law, I don't care what their political affiliation is, put them in jail. That's it. And by the way, if you're in the left and somebody comes to a protest and promises to to do violence or break the law, turn them in. The reason I say turn them in is one, it's the right thing to do [00:17:02] if they're going to do violence. We're supposed to be moral. We're supposed to be for peace. We're supposed to be the good guys we are. So I'm 1,000,000,000% against. But secondly, they're probably there to ruin your movement because the minute you do violence, they're going to round all of you up, right? The minute anybody does violence or breaks the law that whether you're on [00:17:21] the right or the left, you should realize that's a knucklehead move. I mean, I don't know if it's the feds. I don't know, apparently not, because the feds don't know anything. Right. But but that person is going to get the rest of you all in trouble and is going to hurt your movement, whatever your cause is, right or left. [00:17:37] So if you're on the right or the left, some knucklehead comes in and says, declares themselves whatever Antifa profile, okay? Whatever they are, Don't. Don't let him do violence or break the law. But there is no centralized command for Antifa. It's just a term that people use. [00:17:54] And in fact, the right wing uses that term way more than the left wing does. I know that some guys have called themselves that, but I've never met an Antifa guy. I don't know that I've ever met anyone who's met an Antifa guy. And and part of it is because what does it mean to be Antifa guy? [00:18:11] It's like a thing that sometimes some people say, and I don't even know who they are. Yeah. Right. So that's how loose and BS this is. And we shouldn't lock up right wingers because apparently right wingers do more terrorism inside the country. [00:18:26] We shouldn't lock up left wingers. We shouldn't do crazy campaigns against both sets of ideologies. We should actually go get the people who did the violence. And that's it. And not do guilt by association for the rest of the country. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. [00:18:42] Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.