 So, I really hope that this is the last time that I'll be talking about this story. The only other video that I will put up on the channel, so far, about this is the full episode on Monday at noon. The full episodes always center on what we've talked about the most during the week, but I mean, I don't want to address this anymore, and I'm going to force myself to move on after this. If there's no more, you know, developments to this story, because I think that even though I feel hurt, it's not healthy for us to keep dwelling on this both psychologically and also because of the impact that it has. It helps nobody but Joe Biden. And on top of that, I think that the media is also, you know, benefiting from this story, and they are desperate to try to keep it going. CNN is doing everything in its power to extend the life of this story. You have CNN reporter Annie Greyer claiming that she asked Bernie Sanders three times about this story. You have Chris Saliza insisting that we should keep asking questions, and then he even posted a video talking about the subject further, which was massively disliked, by the way, as are all of his videos. But I mean, this is the epitome of sensationalism, and I feel gross contributing to that, right? But at the same time, we're all human beings and judging by the comments and the response from the progressive community, I mean, we're all collectively feeling hurt. So I also know that it's cathartic to see someone you watch talk about this, and it's even therapeutic for all of us to kind of voice what we're feeling currently. Although, like I said, this helps nobody but Joe Biden and not in the way that, you know, Cory Booker on a debate stage says, look, the only one who benefits from us bickering is Donald Trump. You know, this genuinely helps Joe Biden because every moment that we're talking about this story and not Joe Biden's atrocious record, he benefits from that. And at a time when we have so much on the line, I want to make sure that we focus on what is going to get us across that across that finish line. And this story certainly is not going to help us with that. But I mean, what Elizabeth Warren presumably wanted is taking place. She wanted to knock Bernie down a few pegs. And maybe if it didn't hurt him, distract all of us. And it did. Now, before I tell you my closing thoughts on this, I do want to give you an update. We all suspected that this was leaked by the Warren campaign. And CNN did confirm that it was, in fact, her team that leaked this story to them directly. Warren had no problem with this story yesterday. It was clearly leaked by her team to CNN. It was it came out more than a year after the meeting. It came out on the eve of a debate. This is pretty clear. She knew about this. She sanctioned it. Everything around it indicates that. Why is she pumping the brakes now indicating don't want to talk about this anymore? We're all cool. But remember that this was leaked weeks before the Iowa caucus. We cannot forget that context. Rather than making a case against Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, progressive, chose to kneecap her friend, tells you everything you need to know about her as a person and where her priorities lie. Now, the story started to kind of die down once we stopped fixating on that exchange after the debate between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. CNN happened to conveniently find the backup audio. I think that they probably had it all along and they released it. And this gives us, you know, more context as to what was being said. And as we all suspected, they were in fact arguing. I think you called me a liar on national TV. I think you called me a liar on national TV. Let's not do it right now. You want to have that discussion? You called me. You told me. All right, let's not do it now. I don't want to get in the middle of it. I just want to say hi, Bernie. Yeah, good. Okay. Look, I have my suspicion that that whole event was staged. I think that she wanted to ambush Bernie Sanders. And there is no doubt in my mind that she knew this could have been captured because she was still mic'd. If you're still mic'd, you know that the cameras are rolling and mics are going to pick up on this, you know. So she did this on purpose. But it shows you how fake she is because during that debate, she says, look, Bernie's my friend. But then after the debate, she put on this show, which is basically political theater confronting Bernie Sanders for calling her a liar when she called him a liar, essentially. But I want to go to a statement from Jane Sanders, who of course is Bernie Sanders' wife, because essentially her sentiment is, it's time for everyone to move on. Quote, I think that this discussion is over. Jane O'Mara Sanders told the Associated Press. O'Mara Sanders said their campaign has no interest in promoting divisions, like Trump does by gender, race, or ethnicity. We remain committed to continuing a progressive movement made up of women and men, black and white, gay and straight, she said. The message is unity. At the time, she described her husband as a person that everybody can trust and pushed back against Warren's accusation. Maybe people sometimes misremember things that happened, she said, but I know without a doubt that it is not anything Bernie would ever say. It is inconceivable because it is not what he believes. And there's proof of that going back to many, many years. I'm not attacking Elizabeth Warren in any way, shape, or form on this. O'Mara Sanders continued, my message is Bernie is trying to bring people together. So in other words, they're actually preaching unity. Elizabeth Warren is preaching unity, but she's not practicing that. This is what unity looks like. They're trying to move on and get away from this story because it does nothing to help the progressive movement. Bernie Sanders is focusing on policies, winning this race, and ultimately fixing the country. This story does not help contribute to that effort. Now on top of this, 18 organizations that have endorsed Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, you know, a combination of both have come together to call on everyone to unite. This includes Justice Democrats, our revolution, the Sunrise Movement, Working Families Party, the PCCC, and a lot more. Now if you want to sign their pledge, I will link to that down below. But full disclosure, I personally am choosing not to sign this pledge and I'll tell you my reasoning towards the end of this video, but I hope that you feel differently and I do hope that you are less burnt than I am. But we'll get to my thoughts on that. Another issue that made this really difficult for us is the fact that the media overall sided with Elizabeth Warren here. Everyone with the exception of Morning Joe, I think. Now I don't necessarily believe that normal Americans believed Elizabeth Warren here, just people in my own social circles like my mom called me, and she was incredibly outraged at what Elizabeth Warren did. She liked Elizabeth Warren, but she also liked Bernie Sanders, and my mom saw through these lies. She doesn't follow politics as closely as I do. So I think normal people, and this is anecdotal, of course. I think normal people see through it, but overall the media is demonizing Bernie Sanders because even if maybe they don't believe Elizabeth Warren because she obviously lacks credibility, and David Dole released a phenomenal video talking about Bernie and Warren's credibility. Watch that. Definitely check that out. In fact, I'll link to that down below. Still, the fact that the media is using this to attack Bernie, it's just, it's disgusting. We're three weeks out from Iowa. We knew that they would pull out all the stops to try to get them, but the fact that the reason why they're attacking him is because of Elizabeth Warren, it's just disgusting. Now the worst attack I have seen came from the view, and it's so bad. I'm not even gonna play the clip for you because I think it's just going to make you feel depressed and further demoralized, and it's not healthy if we want to move on, but I'll summarize it for you. Basically, Meghan McCain claimed that Bernie Sanders is a misogynist, and we don't need another misogynist in the White House. Whoopi Goldberg scolded Bernie Sanders supporters and told us, you can't do what you did in 2016. That's wrong. You can't do that again. So basically Bernie Sanders is a piece of shit. He's a misogynist, and every single one of his supporters are bad people. So I'm not playing that clip, but I do want to share a clip from the view with you that demonstrates the fact that they are hypocrites, rich elites who don't actually care about misogyny and sexism because back in, I think it was February when the Lucy Flora story about Joe Biden came out, their response to it was not to condemn misogyny. They defended Joe Biden, and their take on this was, well, why didn't she just talk to Joe Biden about this? Why did she have to come out and make a big spectacle about it? What they said there proves that they're not serious about sexism. Take a look. Now should she have spoken to him about this before she went on television about it? Or, I mean, is it, you know, listen, in the old days, we would call Joe, some folks of a certain age would say he's a little overly familiar. But most politicians, when they're doing this with you, they are, and Joe is a hands-on kind of guy, but no one, I've never heard anyone, and she says she felt violated and I have to take her out of her word, but it would have been nice if she had turned him and said, you know what, Jay, I don't really like this, please don't do this. And we all know Joe Biden. He's been here. I remember when I met him in Florida before he was Vice President, and he was so friendly. He's the close talker. Yes. He comes right up into your face and you're thinking, I hope my breath is good, you know? And more important, I hope his is. And you know, so he talks close. He touches you. He touches you. That's what he's like. And I feel it would be really unfortunate if we got rid of everybody who was just an affectionate kind of person. You know, those are nice people too. He's also been in public office for about 50 years of his life. I do wonder if she could have sent him a letter, right? Like send him a personal note. Well I don't want Joe to stop doing that. I don't either. You know? I'm just going to say one thing really quick. Go ahead. There's a certain kind of retail politician that loves people. I would put Bill Clinton in that category. I would put my father in that category. I would certainly put Joe Biden in that category. Joe Biden is a good, decent man. I do not believe he has never made me feel uncomfortable once. I've been around him a lot. So can we conclude that it would not hurt him? I hope not, but I think Democrats, what I said on Friday about Democrats cannibalizing each other and eating their own and the part you brought up about politics, she said on Jake Tapper that her politics, it was politically motivated. So inappropriately touching women, not so big of a deal. Maybe she should have shut up and not, you know, advocated that Joe Biden respect her and other women's boundaries. You know, no big deal. Bernie Sanders, biggest misogynist in the world. So here's the thing, if the view wants to keep going about this by demonizing progressives, I think we play hardball. Maybe they wouldn't like if progressives organized an advertiser boycott. Maybe they wouldn't like if Bernie Sanders threatened to sue them for slander because that's what they are doing. They are slandering his name, calling him a misogynist. It's just, it's downright morally reprehensible. Now on top of that, it's not just Bernie Sanders who has been demonized over this entire, you know, kerfuffle. It's also his supporters, because in response to feeling hurt by what Elizabeth Warren did, well, a lot of people, namely Bernie Sanders supporters posted snakes and replied to all of her tweets to which Elizabeth Warren supporters and defenders claimed was sexist. Surprise, surprise. But I mean, we've been called Obama boys. We've been called sexist Bernie bros. And their accusations are meaningless and politically motivated. And you know, since we're casually throwing around accusations of bigotry, maybe it's the case that the hosts of the view and people in media and Warren supporters are anti-Semitic. I don't know. It seems like they target the Jewish man more so than the non-Jewish man, Joe Biden. Why is Bernie Sanders always your target? Do you have something against Jewish politicians? I mean, if we're just casually throwing around these types of bigoted accusations, do you see how easy it is for us to rebut with our own accusations and claims of bigotry? So getting to my own personal take, I want to give you my closing thoughts, as well as, you know, the prospective unity and the plea from those 18 progressive organizations to unify. And let me be 100% honest with you, oftentimes I do feel the need to self-censor when it comes to my feelings on issues because when you have a really large platform, you have to understand that you have an impact on politics in a really substantial way. Like I'm not saying that my platform is so huge that I have a reach to change the outcome of the election. But what I'm saying is, you know, if I am super toxic, I don't want that toxicity to proliferate and affect people in politics. So I try to self-censor, but I do want to be honest with you guys. I think that honesty is important, and I do want to give you my genuine feelings here because I think it's healthy, given that everyone else probably feels the same way in terms of the prospect of uniting with Elizabeth Warren and why I won't be signing that pledge is because this is my thoughts right now. There will be no unity with Elizabeth Warren. She has a progressive record, but I don't view her as a progressive any longer, and I stopped viewing her that way once she chose the backway from Medicare for All because if you are a multi-millionaire who doesn't care that poor people will die if they don't have health care. You're not a progressive, and maybe, you know, she believes in it personally, but she just is too afraid to fight. Well, then put your own political ambitions aside and endorse the person who will fight for it, who built a movement to get this codified into law. I don't feel like unifying with Elizabeth Warren. When she has made it clear time and again, she does not care about the progressive movement at all. Her feet are firmly planted in the establishment's camp. She showed us that when she shunned us when we wanted her to run for president, she showed us that when she refused to endorse Bernie in 2016, she showed us that when she wouldn't speak out on behalf of the standing rock protesters who were being brutalized by militarized police. And she showed us that again when she shifed Bernie. And that's if we even wanted to forgive her for running against him. When you saw how he built up a progressive movement that would accomplish all of the goals that you ostensibly support, why not just endorse him when you knew he was going to run again? Why would you run against him and possibly divide the movement when you know that everyone coalesced around him and would again if he was going to run? So maybe you genuinely are progressive personally, Elizabeth Warren. But I'm sorry, you don't help the progressive movement. You do not help the progressive movement. Everything you've done so far has been to hurt the progressive movement. Everything you have done politically. You are no friend to us. You're a fake friend. And you just showed everyone that you were willing to throw Bernie Sanders under a bus because maybe it would help you. Or maybe you can get a slot in Joe Biden's administration. Maybe he promised you VP. And I know people think that that's out of the question because they're so ideologically different. But back in December, Joe Biden said I'm definitely open to the idea of making Elizabeth Warren, you know, my VP. Take a look. OK, so here's a mulligan. Would you like to add Senator Warren to your list? I'd add Senator Warren list. I'd add all, you know, but she's going to be very angry. I haven't said that. She the question is was she had me to her list, you know. So it's not out of the question. I don't know. I mean, Elizabeth Warren endorsed Hillary Clinton and they were in talks of her getting a VP position. Now, of course, Hillary Clinton was using her. But still, Elizabeth Warren makes political calculations that will help her own career. And on top of that, she lacks political courage. She has demonstrated this time and again. And she doesn't believe in what we believe in. Right. She may say it. She may pay our ideals lip service. But if you truly care above all about getting progressive policies implemented, she could prove it right now. By telling everyone to coalesce behind Bernie Sanders and endorsing him. She knows she's not going to win this, right? And maybe she can still do that if she loses Iowa or New Hampshire and she drops out and endorses Bernie Sanders. Maybe she can still prove me wrong, but I am not hopeful at all. And so when I hear this prospect of, oh, let's all come together and unify and unite. Unite with what? We don't have to unite with someone who has given us the middle finger time. And again, it's an abusive relationship. And I'm sorry, but maybe Elizabeth Warren genuinely feels hurt because she thinks Bernie Sanders said that to her. I don't believe he did. Possibly she's misconstruing what he said. But she, at the debate, tried to make it seem like, look, we just disagreed. It's not that big of a deal. But she knows it's a big deal potentially because of the implications. Otherwise, she wouldn't have leaked this conversation to CNN of all places. You could have leaked it to any other news outlet, but you chose to leak it to one of the worst entertainment channel who you knew would run away with it and hurt the collective progressive movement, hurt Bernie and then just leave the door wide open for Joe Biden. So I hope that people feel inclined to sign that petition. I hope people feel more encouraged about the prospect of unification with Elizabeth Warren than I do, and I genuinely hope that me expressing my true feelings don't make you feel down or more cynical about the process. Because times like this, it does feel really difficult to feel optimistic. But we do have a lot of reasons to be optimistic, right? So I don't want my feelings of negativity to impact you in any way. And if you feel that Elizabeth Warren supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters should come together and unite, great for you. I don't feel that way right now. I'm feeling like I never ever want to hear from Elizabeth Warren again. And I'm done with Elizabeth Warren. I do not trust her at all. And it was really naive of me to trust her after what she did in 2016. But, you know, I donated to her to get around the debate station 2020 because I was of the belief that the more progressives in the race, the better. Because hopefully we can just shift the entire conversation to the left. I was wrong. There's one candidate in this race who actually is going to give us a chance at implementing progressive policies. And it's not Elizabeth Warren. She's hurting that cause. It's Bernie Sanders. So I'm not really sure what else to say. Like a lot of people, I'm feeling deeply hurt. Elizabeth Warren is a snake. And I've been burned by her for the very last time. I'm fucking done with Elizabeth Warren. I don't believe she actually cares about progressive policies. Today, she just voted for Trump's trade deal. Even Chuck Schumer came out against it. Kamala Harris voted against it. Bernie Sanders voted against it. She was never one of us. Sherrod Brown was never one of us. Everyone in power, at least the senators, they don't care about getting progressive policies codified into law. They're not with us. We are going at this alone and the one ally we have in the Senate, who's running for president is Bernie Sanders. And I think that this week should make that crystal clear. So rather than feeling anger and upset, try to do what you can to channel your emotions. It's what I tried to do. So when I was really angry with Elizabeth Warren, I donated an extra 10 bucks to Bernie Sanders. And I'm already donating 27 per month. So don't accuse me of being a cheapskate. You know, it made me want to go and fight even harder for him. And I truly believe in all of you that you feel the same way. And I don't even have to tell you this. You already know you've made more phone calls for Bernie. You've knocked on more doors for Bernie Sanders. We can win this. This is discouraging and those feelings of isolation, feeling like you have no allies in 2016 have likely returned to you. But I understand none of that will matter if we win this, if we win this. All of these feelings now are meaningless. So I'm done talking about this. Hopefully there's no new developments. So I don't feel inclined to talk to talk about this. And I'll leave that there. Like everyone, I'm hurt, but the writing was on the wall. We knew Elizabeth Warren was a fake friend. We should have listened to our gut instinct rather than trying to give for a second chance when we knew this was possible.