I debated you on TV four to six weeks ago and you said we were weeks away from it. Now you're making condescending remarks because you can't defend the fact that this war is not going your way. Wait one more time. uh Whoa, what the hell was that? Why did it get so upset [00:00:18] over that? So when I saw the headline, I'm like, I can't wait to watch this tape and well, maybe we'll have to Zapruder film it. The hand goes up and to the left, up and to the left, right? His hand wasn't even close to Scott Jennings face. So what you're going to see in this story [00:00:34] is why Scott, the real reason Scott Jennings caught feelings over that. And one has to do with what happened in the segment. The other has to do with something that didn't happen on that set at all. It's actually something that was related to a guy we had on the show [00:00:51] yesterday. Interesting, let's find out. Fascinating, yes. Okay, so that was yesterday's edition of CNN Newsnight where Scott Jennings was having a difficult time. uh Cenk is probably in this segment going to be pretty critical of Scott Jennings. I'm going to try to balance things [00:01:09] out by pointing out that Scott Jennings was forced to sit next to Adam Mockler, who's not only a good debater, but definitely has the vibe of a person who randomly punches people without any notice whatsoever. So Scott Jennings had probably been terrified for some time. He'd already voided his bladder an hour earlier. And at any second, he might get hit by Adam [00:01:28] Mockler. So anyway, I don't know if it's something happening at home that's bothering him, why he so easily triggered Scott Jennings, but it was a bad day for him. And not just because of the fear of physical violence, he also did a really bad job of uh making his case, or I should say, making Donald Trump's case, cuz Scott Jennings is not contractually allowed [00:01:47] to have his own opinions. Anyway, let's go back to Adam Muckler and the case that he wants to make with rhetoric, not with fisticuffs. Here he is. Donald Trump is very impressive. He's taken his two largest campaign promises, no new wars and lower prices, ending inflation, [00:02:04] and he's messed both of them up. He started a new war that spiked inflation and now this war is actively failing. An interesting statistic is that Americans have spent collectively $23 billion extra on the gas pump. And that's money that could have gone towards daycare, towards [00:02:20] childcare. We'll sit here and you'll laugh at Americans spending money, but the reality is we are failing this war. The purpose of a war is to extract political concessions from the enemy. Can you name a single political concession we've gotten from them? Anything at all? Are you talking about any political concessions? You can't name one. here's what we're doing. [00:02:38] Political concessions. When you get past your bedtime, you get hyper. Here's the deal. What is the idea that Adam Mockler is really young is supposed to undercut his point? It just makes you look even worse vis a vis Adam Mockler that he made a great point. He could have gone even further and he could thrown in that Donald Trump implied that he was going to bring to [00:02:55] justice the worst sexual predator of American history. Instead, it was exposed how compromised he was by that same network of potential blackmail. But he brought up the war, he brought up the inflation. Those are both devastating points. And Scott Jennings' entire reason for being is to go up there and just say what- I don't know, Carolyn Levitt will say the next day [00:03:13] and he had nothing. He had nothing, okay? He's gonna try I guess, why don't we hear a little bit from him? We have a clear issue here. We have a clear issue here. No nuclear weapons [00:03:28] for the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, period, full stop. The president believes and he may be right, I spoke to a- retired rear admiral today, Mark Montgomery, who's at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. They think the blockade is actually more effective [00:03:45] than the military campaign. And a little patience on the blockade here, where we cripple the Iranian economy, where we kill their currency, which is happening as we speak, where we put pressure on China because they need to get their oil flowing again. A little bit of patience right here, not bombs, but patience on a naval blockade, could get the outcome you want, which [00:04:05] is no nuclear weapons. the largest state sponsor of terror. And you've been saying this for eight weeks and we are now past the four to six week deadline. Where is the enriched uranium right now? It's under rubble. Where is it right now in the United States or Iran? Iran still has the enriched uranium. They still have the scientists scattered across their country and [00:04:22] they have all the blueprints in the cloud. And obviously we'd all be better off if the JCPOA had never been taken away. And yeah, that was just that was pathetic. was facile was just that he's got nothing. Donald Trump did not campaign Cenk on no nuclear weapons for Iran [00:04:39] and I will do or kill anyone I need to to make sure that doesn't happen. I'll go to war if I have to, I'll tank the economy if I have to. That is not what he campaigned on, because had he tried to campaign in that way, he would not be president right now. Scott Jennings, of course, on some level knows that, but his job requires him to pretend to not understand [00:04:58] it. What do think? Yeah, so Scott Jennings is a fascinating caricature on television, right? So he has to both be completely wrong and completely condescending at the same time. It's a tough act to pull off, big ups to Scott. So he's like, everybody knows this is about [00:05:22] nuclear enrichment, you know that? They're not allowed to have nukes. Hey brother, I know, Yes, again, sorry older voters and viewers, this is not about you, okay? But people who are watching cable news are on average about 70 years old. so for, although I don't know [00:05:42] why they haven't caught on from the time you were 30 to the time you're 70. Israel's been telling us that Iran is about to have a nuke in a couple of weeks, and they still believe it. So I guess that's why he's saying it on CNN, but no one else believes that. That is the most ridiculous. [00:06:02] Do you want them to a nuke? Okay, come on man. This is some Condoleezza Rice throwback nonsense, okay? So it's embarrassing. and then, We're winning, what are we winning? The blockade [00:06:21] is working, working for what? Is our gas prices lower? What does it mean that it's winning and it's working? Look, one of the biggest problems with political media right now isn't just bias. It's how quickly the same story gets spun into two completely different realities [00:06:37] depending on who's telling it. That's why I recommend Ground News. It's a website and app that pulls together reporting from across the political spectrum so you can compare how the same story is being covered, who's covering it. and what kind of narrative they're pushing. Take this story about Pete Hegseth refusing to rule out US troops on the ground in Iran. [00:06:55] On ground news, you can immediately see how differently outlets frame that same development. The Daily Signal downplays the danger by stressing that this isn't Iraq and that the war won't be endless. NBC meanwhile, focuses on the key fact that Hegseth would not rule out American [00:07:13] boots on the ground in Iran. Same story, two completely different realities. And ground news makes that obvious right away. You can compare headlines side by side, see the bias distribution of the coverage, check the factuality ratings of the sources, and even see who owns [00:07:29] the outlets behind the reporting. That matters because once you understand how stories are being framed, you start to see how public consent gets manufactured. Ground news also has a blind spot feed that highlights stories that one side of the political spectrum is barely covering. [00:07:45] So you're not just trapped inside the version of the world your algorithm wants to feed you. If you're tired of being fed somebody else's narrative, I genuinely recommend ground news. Go to ground.News slash TYT or scan the QR code. Using our link gets you 40 % off ground [00:08:03] news vantage plan and you can also gift a subscription directly through ground news. What did we gain out of it? So Adam asked exactly the right question. What concessions have we gotten from the Iranians? And the answer is literally zero. In fact, since the war has begun, Iran has [00:08:22] gone from potentially conceding things to asking for more things. They're like, now we're going to charge for you going through the Strait of Hormuz. Thanks a lot for the war. Now we can make $2 million a ship. That's our new concession. It's not a concession, it's the exact opposite. [00:08:38] And that's why Trump's flailing around. He's like, I reject the offer, and I'm winning. We almost won. So okay, fine, so Scott has to mimic Trump, but in the annoying condescending uh way that he does on it. Okay, but there's a second entity that Scott Jennings works [00:08:55] for, not just Trump. In fact, just the night before on Wednesday night, he was on with Ryan Grim in a different panel and Ryan was on with us last night. And uh I want you to watch this clip and I didn't know a part of this. And so this is what might have actually got [00:09:16] under Scott Jennings skin. And so the very next night that he's on, he's itching to launch on someone because he had no answer for what Ryan said here, watch. This is not personal, but there is so much kind of money pouring in to push us in that direction. Even Salem [00:09:39] media where you do your show, right? uh Brad Parscale, who is the chief strategy officer there, is a registered foreign agent for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I think it's American, right? Salem, yeah. It's an American media company whose chief strategy officer [00:10:00] is a foreign agent registered for the state of Israel. 30 % of this company is owned by Larry Trump and Don Trump Jr. So before we're talking about like, what is America? Who should [00:10:19] be an American? It's like, can we as Americans discuss this? Let's get Scott's response. Yeah, so you seem to have some issue with Israel having a presence in the United States or even on American- I think we should be sanctioning Israel. Even on American universities. I think they [00:10:36] should be sanctioned, yes. That was a right wing crowd. They're speaking at Young Americans for Freedom. And it rise like, yeah, of course I have a problem with Israel, they should be sanctioned. like, Scott's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, everybody bow to Israel. Why aren't [00:10:54] you bowing? Why aren't you, Salem, have I done well? Dear overlord, Mossad agent that I work for. Have I done well on television? pushed Americans into war. I don't know why the right wing kids won't go along. You're supposed to die for Israel. That's what I get paid for. [00:11:10] And so when he sees another young guy, Adam Mockler, and now embarrassing him on national television, he's like, that's why he's like, your head away from me, you young whippersnapper. You won't even kneel to Israel. I've been kneeling to Israel my whole life. Why won't you guys [00:11:27] do it? Why am I the only one humiliated like this? That's my sense of it, John. The only other thing I want to add is when Ryan Grim points out, yeah, it is a little bit strange that the chief strategist would be a registered foreign agent for a foreign government's foreign policy. And he's like, but it seems like you don't want Israel to have a presence. Well, [00:11:46] first of all, how about they have a presence in their own government? They can have that and we can have a presence in our government. How about that? Are there any like- Israeli media companies that are owned by US foreign agents? I have a feeling not. And as you always say, what if it was a different country? Where this big up and coming media outlet, turns [00:12:07] out has a registered foreign agent in Turkey, or Mauritania, or Estonia. The only one that you're supposed to pretend it's not highly suspicious would be if uh they're getting paid by Israel. And he asked again, it's just he pretends so much. It's got to be so exhausting to be him [00:12:27] to never be able to say anything you authentically to believe to constantly have to remember the long list of things that the person who pays your checks forces you to say and forces you to pretend is reasonable. It's got to be exhausting. Okay, last thing. It's like, John, I'll run with your analogy, right? Like Kazakhstan gives money to 94 % of our Congress and [00:12:49] Kazakhstan. has gotten us to invade Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, right? And they're like, no, no, it's a coincidence. And Kazakhstan's gotten $300 billion from us. Then Kazakhstan does a genocide. go, please, please. Both the Democratic president and the Republican president [00:13:05] say, please let us pay for the murder of all those Tajiks, right? It's our pleasure. It's our honor to do it. And then Kazakhstan loyalists have bought off 80 % of our media. have foreign agents running at radio stations, etc. And then somebody goes, so you got an issue with people [00:13:24] from Kazakhstan? No, I have an issue with Cossacks. My issue is that in that analogy, they bought our entire government and our media and are driving us to spend trillions of dollars for [00:13:39] their maniacal wars. And if you can't understand, Scott Jennings of course understands that he's a bought bitch. That's why he's like, are you an anti-Semite? Did I do well, daddy? Did I do well, daddy? Did I get my check, daddy? Where's Israel's foreign agent? I need to [00:13:56] report to him. Yeah, that's what we have a problem with,