 Well, Matt, see some people grow up and they change. Others send their colleagues in Congress nude photos of women that they've slept with today. You just listened to a snippet of Cenk Yugar and Annika Sperian of the Young Turks interview with Congressman Matt Gaetz, and the whole interview was very contentious, but things really went off the rails when they began to press him on his election denialism and he didn't have good responses, which is when he resorted to insulting them and it just deteriorated from there. So let's listen to a little bit more. What I care about is if your friend Donald Trump wins in 2024, we might never have another election because he's an obvious pathological liar, doesn't believe in democracy, didn't want to leave even though he lost the election, and you know it. Cenk, the last time you were on the ballot, you got 4% of the votes. So what, what does that have to do with anything that we're talking about right now? Okay, Matt, if we're going in that direction, listen, you had sex with a 17-year-old reporting to allegations and you asked for a pardon. Hold on. You asked for a pardon. You asked for a pardon. Why did you ask for the pardon? Yeah, why did you ask Trump for a pardon if you didn't break any laws? I've been overwhelmingly reelected. You guys are in some sort of weird struggle session there and I'm just glad, even though the internet hated you having me on. Cenk, you're getting to see what a congressional victory party looks like and that's something that might be a novel experience for you. Why did you ask for a pardon for having sex with a 17-year-old? That isn't something that even happened. You're like reading into an anonymous internet conspiracy and it's really sad because in my district, the voters saw through that and my state were overbooked. Did you ask for the pardon? That has all been debunked. I've addressed it. President Trump has addressed it. And by the way, you should look at your own comments about women that cause Bernie Sanders to unendorse you. Imagine being so aligned with Bernie Sanders that he would endorse you. But he has to pull his endorsement because the things that you said were so... Yeah. Well, Matt, see, some people grow up and they change. Others send their colleagues in Congress nude photos of women that they've slept with today and were hated by members of their own party, which their first You know, but I appreciate you coming on to answer our questions. People who told those lies are going to be... They were not lies, Matt, and you know it. Dude, it's no wonder you guys don't have the trust of the voters because you guys sit here and just spew this nonsense that isn't relevant to people's lives. We're going to focus on inflation. We're going to focus on the border. We're going to focus on investigations and the result is we're going to win in 2024. Democracy will be fine and you guys will still be crying on the young You never answered the question. Did you sleep with the seven to you? Absolutely not. That has been totally debunked. And by the way, more women have made accusations against Joe Biden that have made accusations against me. We've talked about them. You should be really proud of that. Well, if my number is zero, you can't even keep Bernie Sanders endorsement and Joe Biden doesn't exactly have a clean record himself. So we're pretty happy here in the Sunshine State, one Miami-Dade County, one my district. Looks like the House and Senate will flip and eager to get to Washington to get to work. That was something. Now, I want to play a clip from my Twitch stream because I watched this for the first time live on Twitch. And this is my genuine reaction the first time seeing this. Okay, Matt, if we're going in that direction, listen, you had sex with a 17-year-old from your allegations and you asked for a pardon. Hold on. You asked for a pardon. You asked for a pardon. Why did you ask for a pardon? Yeah, why did you ask Trump for a pardon? Why did you ask for a pardon? You didn't break any laws. Damn. Now, that was shocking to me because I expected them to push back. I've watched a lot of TYT interviews and they always hold their guests feet to the fire. But I didn't actually expect it to just straight up devolve into an argument. And I've got to say it was really entertaining and it was nice to watch Matt Gaetz squirm because he was desperate to try to find some way to insult Cenk and he kept bringing up the election laws. But you lose. You're an automatic loser. When they're talking about your alleged sex trafficking of a minor, bringing up his election laws, that's nowhere near as embarrassing as what they're blasting you for. But he doesn't quit, which leads to them bringing up that investigation again. And he just doesn't get it. Like, this was, oh my God, what a horrible look for Matt Gaetz. So he says the last time you were on the ballot, you got 4% of the vote as if that disqualifies Cenk from speaking about the election conspiracy theories by Donald Trump. You want to know what Cenk did when he lost? He conceded the race. That's what you're supposed to do when you lose this election, when you lose elections in general. But Trump didn't do that in 2020. And that's what he's asking you about. But since you don't have a justifiable reason to doubt the election, you just result to insulting so that way the topic changes. But it got worse for Matt Gaetz because they didn't just continue to press about the election. They started to talk about the sex trafficking. So that was a bad move for him to begin insulting them. Also, he called the allegation an anonymous internet conspiracy. The allegation is not an anonymous internet conspiracy theory. The Justice Department under Trump started to investigate Matt Gaetz. Joel Greenberg, his wingman and friend, was convicted. So you can't with a straight face claim that that's just an internet conspiracy theory when every single person knows that that's false. It's just really embarrassing. He also brought up how Bernie Sanders unendorsed Cenk. Okay, still not as embarrassing at all as what you're dealing with currently. And that was a bad move for Bernie Sanders. I was against Bernie Sanders doing that. But Cenk Uger, in this next clip that we're going to see, I think that he hits back with a pretty devastating point about why the Democratic Party establishment rejected Cenk, but the Republican establishment is accepting Matt Gaetz. By the way, there was one difference between us. The Democratic Party did not support me because I am against their corruption. Whereas you kissed the ass of the Republican leaders 24-7, so they were very happy to support you. You couldn't even hold Bernie. He endorsed you and had to unendorse you. Like, do you think Bernie is on the establishment of the Democratic Party? He's not even a Democrat and he left you on the side of the road with your 4% of the vote. Matt, I don't care about my personal career at all. I told Bernie to do that. I actually wanted Bernie to win that election really badly and I didn't want to get in his way because I care about policies. I care about higher wages. I care about everybody in the country getting health insurance. I care about them getting paid family leave. I care about them getting child tax credit. What I heard from you tonight is, when you guys win, you're not going to do anything about wages. You're going to make sure that people do not get any help in other categories that I just mentioned. No, wait, just one note for me. The real evil is Medicaid. Be fair. Which is what you guys say. The real evil in the country is Medicaid. We're talking about the American people. We're going to get some for the Republican majority. All right. Matt Gaetz, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. This is fun. Yikes. Now, I made this point on Twitch and I'll make it again here. Ask yourself this question. What would you rather be made fun of for? Losing an election or being accused of sex trafficking a minor? I think it's no contest. I'd rather take the L on the election. So this was such a bad look for Matt Gaetz. And I'm glad that this interview took place because it was very embarrassing for him. And I've got to address the controversy surrounding this whole interview. There were a lot of people who were angry that TYT decided to platform Matt Gaetz. And I disagree with that. If they were going to give a softball interview, then I would disagree with them platforming him. But if you platform someone and you push back vociferously against their lies, then it's perfectly fine. And without TYT's contentious interviews, we wouldn't have the notorious pastor in like 2008, circa 2009 of TYT, where they talked to him because he claimed that they were putting gay semen in Starbucks coffees. And that's why people were addicted to drinking Starbucks. And in that interview, they actually got that pastor to low key admit that he's gay. I kid you not. So Pastor Manning, how many cents for overall from your descriptions here? You think that being gay is a lifestyle choice was a choice that a lot of people would want to make. You think that semen is delicious to a lot of people. And these are choices that people make. So it seems like perhaps if it wasn't for the Bible and the teachings of Moses, et cetera, that you might have been tempted by those choices as well. Is that the case? Have you been tempted? Oh, absolutely. No, no, no, not about it. You know, Jank I spent three and a half years in prison. So their interviews are fantastic. So I had no problems with their interview. Now I do get the criticism of TYT as of late with regard to their tough on crime stance. I vociferously disagree with that. Crime is one of these issues that Republicans trot out every single election cycle to fear monger and try to galvanize voters. And even if there has been a slight uptick in crime, well, it's down significantly from the 90s overall. So even if crime was up here, but then it dropped and then it went up a little bit, I don't think that's justification for all of the hysteria. Right. I think that there are other issues before crime that affect the American people in a more concrete way. So, you know, I understand the criticism of TYT with regard to that issue. I vociferously disagree with Jank. You're voting for Rick Caruso. That is something that I view as really hurtful considering his whole ethos has been money in politics is a problem. And that's a billionaire who's spending millions of dollars to buy that race. But just because I have these disagreements with TYT doesn't negate all of the good things that they've done throughout the years just because they've said some things that I disagree with as of late doesn't necessarily mean that I expect them to do propaganda at the behest of the right and Matt Gaetz. I think that you can put aside those disagreements. And, you know, you can see that this interview very clearly was going to be contentious. That's what I expected. And that's what we got. So, you know, criticize criticisms of TYT stands on crime aside. We can have those disagreements. I think that it's a little bit bizarre that people were angry that they platformed Matt Gaetz because, again, if this were a softball interview, I hear you with the criticism there, but this was not that. And I think that they've proven that, you know, if they platform somebody who's a really egregious figure, it's not going to go well for them. So I thought that this interview was entertaining and great. And I would encourage you to watch the full interview. I'll link to that down below. Because Matt Gaetz effectively argues for austerity. So there's a lot of substance here. I just kind of showed you the more sensationalist element of this interview. But there's a lot of substance there where they press him on cutting Social Security Medicare. And he essentially argues for austerity. And that is something that Republicans are arguing for while trying to hide the ball and claim that that's not what they want. So the interview itself is very substantive. And I think that it really shows how you can easily dismantle right wing propaganda because when you strip away their talking points, they're kind of left with no other moves than to insult the person who they're talking to. So I think that this interview was very, very good and effective. And I just, I had to share it with you because it was entertaining and it was great all around.