Our war room. Check us out online link up to our twitter page, and you have a great night. Well see you tomorrow. [ theme music ] cenk welcome to the young turks. Guess what kind of show we have for you guys . An awesome one. Of course. Well weve got a lot of interesting different topics for you guys, including the out of control gun violence in chicago. The woman were about to show you has four different kids killed by gun violence in chicago alone. What did i do wrong . You know . I was there for them. I made sure that they hadwe didnt have everything that we wanted but we had what we needed. Cenk and her last son died this weekend. Its tragic. Were going to talk to two different people about that, including an africanamerican republican running for Jesse Jacksons old seat . Israeli elections happened, surprising results. Well bring you the Israeli Council general on here to talk about what that means for this country. The former tv news anchor who called attention to the high cost of living a social injustice. Its very clear, they were saying lets go to the center. Cenk all right well see if that means that were going an iran or not. And obama versus fox news, tonight on the young turks. Its go time. Cenk you know, one of the large issues in this campaign was Immigration Reform, right . Well the republicans were against it. All of a sudden when results did not go in their direction theyre reconsidering their position. We got a gang of eight four republicans, four democrats who have new Immigration Reform. Look at that. Well go to a report from abc news on that. Its a hotbutton issue coming to the forefront again Immigration Reform. Four democrats and four republicans have unveiled a plan to tackle it. We cant go on forever with 11 Million People living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. Reporter the plan by the socalled gang of eight senators layout and address issues. President obama heads to las vegas to unveil his own Immigration Reform plan. He promised the reform in his 2008 but failed to deliver it in his first term. Cenk the reason why he failed to deliver it, of course, the republicans opposed him. The republicans seem a little more open to reform now. Let me show you why. 71 of latinos voted for president obama. Only 27 voted for governor romney. All of a sudden the republicans are thinking, maybe the latinos are not so bad. Interesting. Im sure that they, of course, vote based on principle, though. Let me show you what is in the proposal. Four major goals providing a means for citizenship to immigrants who are already here. Number two coming out with an employment verification system to make sure employers do not hire those people who are in the country illegally. Number three letting in more lowskill workers and allowing employers to hire immigrants if they can show they couldnt recruit an u. S. Citizen with the same skills. Thats for corporate america. Ill explain that in a little bit. And number four, awarding green cards to immigrants who have obtained advanced degrees from american universitieses. The advanced degrees everyone understands. Why make exception for lowskill workers . Lets keep it real. The giant companies in the country say no, i need my cheap labor so you have to make an exception and well have those guys come in so everybody wins. Okay, at least its reform, and at least theyre on the path. But you know what, its not too late for some, but some are already affected by the disastrous consequences of not having reform so far. Sergio garcia is a 35yearold person who passed the bar and is ready to be a lawyer in california but he cant because the Justice Department said hes not allowed to. Let me go to a clip from reason. Tv that explains the case a little bit more. Sergio garcia is a mildmannered approachable guy. He lives in durham, california, where people know him by name. His mother and father work as farm workers in the area. He passed the state bar. The last group of people who needed to sign off on his license stopped short saying they needed to review the case a bit move. Garcia wanted to tell the truth on his application for a license. They asked the u. S. Justice department if granting garcia a license would violate the immigration law. Cenk thats from reason. Tv lets bring in sergio garcia. Thank you for joining us on the young turks. Thank you so much for having me here. A pleasure to be here. Cenk no problem. First of all on the Immigration Reform appropriation, are you hopeful about it do you think it will lead to positive results. Im a positive. I think its wonderful that republicans and democrats are coming together, doing something that i ive known for many years. The immigration is broken and needs to be fix. Cenk lets take a guess at what that might have been. Lets watch. What has changed i think is a new appreciation on both sides of the aisle including and maybe more importantly on the republican side that we have to enact a comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. Cenk let me give you one more video why the republicans might have had that if you epiphany. Ill give a little straight talk. Look at the last election. Look at the last election. We are losing dramatically the hispanic vote which we think should be hours for a variety of reasons, and weve got to understand that. Cenk sergio, as i look at that it seems so nakedly political. Does that win over the latinos hey, sorry for not allowing you to achieve your dreams, not giving you a pathway to reform citizenship for all these years. But now that you kicked our ass in the last election, we changed our minds. Come vote for us. I dont know if that wins over the Latino Community. Im happy its a bipartisan approach, and im hopeful that this year will be a year that we finally fix the immigration system not just for the Latino Community but for the country as a whole. Cenk lets talk about your case. First of all would this legislation effect you at all . Certainly. If you know anything about my case i applied to change my status back in 1994. And i was approved to get my visa on january 15, 1995. If you do the path, 12 or 18 years at this point and im still waiting for my papers. Theyre still in the mail. So reform would certainly benefit from that and that would allow me to finally fulfill my american dream. One of becoming an attorney in california, a practicing attorney and secondarily be on the path of being an u. S. Citizen. Cenk a lot of people who dont go through that dont know what you mean. What do you mean that your papers are in the mail since 1995. What have you applied for and when are you waiting for . My father is an u. S. Citizen so he applied to change my constituting to from undocumented to legal resident. Back in 1994 they said thats fine and in 1995 they approved that. They said as soon as a visa is available then i could have one. They said that would be three to five years. Its been over 18 years now and im still waiting. I think it just shows how broken our immigration system is. Like i said, it would benefit the nation to fix it. Cenk thats truly interesting. A lot of people say, get in line. But youve been in line for 18 years. [ laughing ] now, on the other hand, sergio, the Justice Department says its a 19 6 law that clearly states that you cannot practice law or get a professional license if youre an undocumented immigrant. Arent they right about that . Well, to be quite honest in my opinion while we disagree with that, and 200 years of history in this country the federal government has never decide who had can practice law in any given state. As far as the not being able to work or not i mean, there is a provision punishment for having worked in this country unlawfully, that you can pay a fine at the time when they adjust your status. Implicitly youre allowed to do it, and you pay taxes. I have paid my taxes ever since i was 18. Im sure as you have, and everybody else. Im not sure about that. We certainly disagree with that decision. Cenk all right, and im just curious. How did your family get here in the first place. To begin with my dad came here unlawfully, but through amnesty in 1986 he became a legal resident and ultimately a citizen. Like i said through sacrifice and hard work he saved enough money to apply to adjust my status. Ive been waiting. I feel like i have a lot to contribute to this great country and thats what i want to do. Believe it or not i want to pay more taxes. Im just waiting for that opportunity. Cenk well, the republicans should love that. Okay. You would think they would. Cenk all right sergio garcia. Thank you for joining us and we appreciate your different story on this issue. Thank you for having me here, cenk. Cenk when we come back well talk about the violence in chicago. A mother loses her fourth child over the weekend to gun violence. Comparing it to gun violence in other nations when you compare it to chicago itself its unbelievable. Well talk to two different people about that including an africanamerican republican. Right now im totally lost. Because ronnieronnie was my only very, very excited about that and very proud of that. Beltway politics from inside the loop. We tackle the big issues here in our nations capital, around the country and around the globe. Dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens currents morning news block. Well do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. Liberal and proud of it. You know whos coming on to me now . You know the kind of guys who do like verse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all the time now. She gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. Absolutely and so would mitt romeny. Shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. Cenk were back on the young turks. The violence in chicago seems to be out of control. Over 500 People Killed by guns in just last year alone. Shirley chambers knows about it more than anybody else in the city. She has lost four different children to you gun violence in chicago. Heres the report on that. Reporter a family portraiture minds Shirley Chambers of the unimaginable cost of gun violence. Today the mother o of four grieves once again. Right now im totally lost. Ronnieronnie was my only surviving son. Reporter her son 34yearold ronnie chambers, died Early Saturday Morning after police say he was shot as he sat in a parked car in the 1100 block of south mozart in chicagos lawn dale neighborhood. Another passenger was wounded. He was kind of changed. He had changed his life a lot. He was the type of kid who would do anything for you. Cenk that is such a tough story. Ronnie chambers was as he mentioned, was trying to reform his life. He was on the ricky lake show of all places, and he was talking about that. Lets take a look at that. You know, i have two brothers and little sister. You know what im saying, that right there me in and out of jail, that led me to know that i had Something Different. I told myself that i need to protect my mother and be out here for her. I told myself i had to do something else. I stayed away from that. Its about getting away from the negativeity around you you know what im saying . Once i amass that debt i will do Something Different and thats what i did. Cenk unfortunately, that gun violence in chicago caught up with him any way over the weekend. Let me give a quick list of Shirley Chambers kids. Ronnie was killed over the weekend. Tragic. And now i think one of the reasons is this amazing fact. Not a lot of people solve these cases. Only 25 of the fatal shootings are actually lead to somebody being charged and cleared. Its called a clearance rate. In nonfatal shootings its 6 . We never catch the guy. If you never catch the guys, it gives a certain disincentive that is not healthy for the system. All right, let me bring in harold pollock the cobecketter of university of Chicago Crime Lab and helen ross school of social service administration. Profession pollock, thank you for joining us i appreciate it. A lot of conservatives would say this is not about guns because chicago has tough gun control laws. Gun control laws obviously dont work proving our case that its not about the guns. How would you respond . There are a number of problems with their argument. One, its hard for a city to be an island of tough gun laws surrounded by other places where its easier to get guns. If you compare us to new york city and other places our gun laws dont look all that tough although certainly we do have pretty tough laws and we could enforce them more effectively. Its clear that we have a serious gun problem on a per capita basis our Police Capture six times as many guns as the new York City Police do, so we know we have a big gun problem. If you compare us to western european cities theyre just as violent when you look at things that look at guns. You look at muggings and things like that, were surprisingly close. Cenk thats interesting. Youre saying there is as much crime in other cities, but since those crimes often times happen with guns in chicago, a lot more people wind up dead. Absolutely. The basic formula for many of these deaths is two 18yearolds and a gun in a quarrel equals a dead body. We may have injures we may have someone stabbed but we wouldnt end up with so many dead bodies. Cenk with six times as many as found in new york, what is lead to go that . Well, i think there are a number of ways that people are getting around some of the laws here that i think we could do a better job of in disrupting these underground markets that are bringing guns in the city. I do think that conservatives do have a point that we could enforce our laws more effectively and our Police Superintendent has some pretty sensible ideas on how to do that better. Right now there is too little penalty, too little deterrent for people who go and say fill up the trunk of their car with. 9mm pistols and then drive into chicago and sell them. We got to stop that. Its a obviously a big part of our homicide problems. Other than the prevalence of guns on the street, what is the indicator that we have the amount of homicide in chicago . We have to help young people deal more safely more effectively with each other and also with adults. We have a lot of young people in the city that are in prettyin a pretty difficult situation and for understandable reasons. Some of them are on a hair trigger. Theyre afraid of each other. There is a way in which the high crime rate feeds on itself. If you feel like everybody else is carrying a gun then it becomes more necessary in your mind for to you carry one. I think we could do a lot to help young people negotiate their relations with each other a lot more safely. Weve done some randomized trials in schools that have shown we can help kids with that and reduce the rate of which theyre arrested for violence offenses. Im optimistic that we can bring this down but it is a challenge. Thank you, professor, i appreciate it. Thank you. Cenk we have an africanamerican conservative commentator and running for office in illinois in the second yankees. Thats Jesse Jackson jr. s old district. Thank you for coming on the young turks. Thank you for having me as always. Cenk lets start with the topic that were on gun violence in chicago. As a republican, what is your take away of why were having the violence if it is not the guns. I think we dont talk enough about the education and Economic Opportunities that these young people do not have. Many of these young people who are involved in these type of activities are locked in two three, four, and five generations of poverty. Were locked in without opportunities, often sometimes facing food desert. Everything from finding good healthy food to eat, good jobs and Educational Opportunities and having a life, these things are locked away from these individuals and have been for decades now. I genuinely believe we can cut down on the gun violence in chicago and clang that paradigm. And then from there go after those who are illegally using guns. Cenk you know, lenny, i dont think anybody disagrees with you that addressing those issues is a good idea. I think it is. But you heard what profession pollock said there is as much crime in western european cities. They dont have the guns so less people die. In chicago here 500 People Killed by guns. In japan on average less than 10 People Killed by guns and japan is 125 Million People in it. 10 People Killed by guns on average. When you look at those numbers isnt it obviously at least partly the gun . We do have to tighten some of the regulations that are already in play. Again f you go back to chicago and you look at the disparities of wealth. You have some of the wealthyiest individuals in the nation. The home of the president of the United States, operation push and oprah winfrey. At the same time you have africanamericans who have been locked out of jobs, Educational Opportunities for decades. So although you do have some of these similarities between japan and lets say chicago and say look at the lack of gun violence overseas you have to look at some of the social issues as well where people are locked out of institutions that would allow them to get ahead. If you take that into play and then incorporate guns with individuals who have already learned by sixth and seventh grade that theyre going to have a hard time getting ahead in life by the normal means add to that the proliferation of gangs throughout the chicagoland, you have the recipe for disaster that weve been seeing over the last several years. Cenk and a huge part that have recipe is when you sprinkle in all that weaponry. One last question for you lenny. Youre doing this really interesting run in chicago. Look Jesse Jacksons seat was one of the safest democratic seats in the country. So how are you as a republican planning to win that seat . Were planning to run with the people as one big team. People are ready to lead this country together. Theyre ready for bipartisanship. Theyre ready to see Congress Move away from gridlock, and they understand that our candidacy is the one candidacy that has the relationships on the left and the right to move forward as one big team to start getting results and help president obama be the greatest are president that he can be whether thats through contrast or cooperation issue by issue. Cenk all right, its going to be a fascinating run. Lenny mcalastair bold action. We appreciate you joining us on the young turks as usual. Thanks for having me. God bless. Cenk all right. When we come back, israel had elections. We had interesting results. Well have in los angeles for israel an interesting conversation from the guy who surprised everyone in the election. The cost of living is going up and up, and there is no equality with other parts of israel and vo current tv gets the converstion started weekdays 9am eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. You are. The troops love me. The sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. vo only on current tv. Cenk were back on the young turks. We recently had elections in israel, and Ben Netanyahu was expected to coast to a relatively easy victory. That is not how it turned out. Heres what happened ned. A sitting Prime Minister with a Second Chance acknowledging that voters want to see change. His coalition had more than 40 seats combined before the vote. After the vote, 30something. Israelis showed their desire for change in a way that surprised the pollsters and pundits. They gave the second highest number of votes to a new party just formed last year. Cenk netanyahus party is down to 31 seats because partly the new party that cnn was mentioning has picked up 19 seats. They were just in existence starting last year. That is amazing. Well who is their leader . Yair lapid. We are the period of israeli middle class the Old Fashioned tax payers who served in the army and afterwards worked hard all their life, paying high tax and see that they cannot afford an apartment for their children, the cost of living is going up, there is notheyre becoming more frustrated with the way things are going on here. Cenk person here to talk about that is david seagull representing the southwestern United States. Thank you for joining us, david. We appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Cenk lets talk about the results of the election and the ramifications it will have. Was it more in your opinion about domestic politics or more about foreign politics . It was. It was more about domestic politics in israel, the cost of living, cost of housing political reform. Yair lapid representative of the middle class is the rising player in these elections and this is what he campaigned on. Cenk will it have ramifications for israels foreign policies especially with iran. The whole region is in turmoil, as we know. So the challenges to israel and to the entire mildews is front and center and will be on the agenda. These elections were in a strange way about coalition of israel. Cenk help me make sense of them. Israel must at least get rid of the palestinians and put a frequence between us. How do you read that. I cant vouch for the quote but there is a desire and consensus to create a twostate solution, two states for two peoples. That consensus has been enduring for several years now and any Israeli Government will reflect that in the call political politically and officially is to reenter negotiations discussing and reinstating twostates. Cenk quote, it may be true that the humane thing is to remove the roadblocks and checkpoints, to stop the occupation immediately to, enable the palestinians freedom of movement of the territories and to tear down the bloody inhumane wall, to promise human rights to every individual. Its just that i will end up paying for this with my life. Call me a weakling, call me thick headed. I dont want to die. What do you make of that quote. There is an issue of travel restrictions because of the terror weve had in the past. But in recent years many of those roadblocks, hundreds of them have been removed and palestinians today on the west bank enjoy much freer travel than ever before. Thatsthats a product on the ground of Palestine Security forces and Israeli Security forces. Were enjoying a quieter period, but for that to rea main we need to inject negotiations and political talks in this process. Cenk what did he mean if we do this, i will die. Does he mean if i do a peace deal like this i will get assassinated. Or does he mean if i do a peace deal like this, the palestinians will kill us. I dont know what he meant but we did suffer trauma and israel emerged from that trauma. We still have extremists. We need to work for peace without grandstanding and work especially when every region around us is in an earthquake. We need to sit down, but we need good will. Cenk do you think the rightwing government of perimeter netanyahu has good will after cutting off what would be the palestinian state. It doesnt seem that the settlements are an act of good will. Weve talked about this before. The settlement is a source of contention. It is not the only issue. We believe that the palestinians need to come to the table as well without these preconditions discuss the settlements, discuss the territorial issues. Discuss the recognition. You dont find a Palestinian Leader who is still willing to say that he recognizes two states for two people to, end the conflict, end the claims. All of these issues. Cenk you know in reality weve gotten past that. We know abbas would say that in an negotiation, no problem. Abbas has made it be known that they would be in favor of two states. But the problems is we dont have two states, honestly, because israel is occupying palestine. So nowlet mei know its a tough question, but let me pose it to you. The one im about to ask. You know, look, when you have an occupation for a limited period of time. Its for security but well work out a deal. I understand. But when you have a occupation that a lasts over 60 years does that become a moral failing of the state that is doing the occupying. Why 60 years. It was created 64 years ago in 1968. Its been 40 years. It has been a long time, but again it takes two to tango. Weve had two israel Prime Ministers since the year 2040 that put farreaching proposals on the table first with clinton and then president bush. These proposals were not engaged and rejected. First by arafat, and then abbas. We hope again we will reach a formula that both sides will work on in good faith. Can we resolve all of our differences . Maybe not. Can we move forward in a way that will benefit the Palestinian People on the ground the israeli people, several we can. Cenk do you worry that the occupation has a corrupting influence on the population. If it was happening in the United States after 40 years and youre right to point that out. After 40 years we would become the occupiers in a mindset and become comfortable with that. Are you worried about that . I think democracies always have to be worried about whatever state whatever their democracy. We have a movie that is an oscar contender called the gatekeepers. It relates to these issues, the dilemmas of war and peace and the situation were in. Weve moved out of gaza unilaterally without agreement. Hamas took over, iran took over and that became a launching ground of rocket noose israel. No one wants to see it become like that. We need to work together. Its difficult, its away from the grandstanding and away from the slogans. We need to do the hard work on all the issues that stand between us. We believe this can be done. I have to tell you one more thing about that. The israeli public, despite 40 years of this, despite 15 years of rockets and suicidebombings Still Believes in peace. It shows in every survey. We can get there. And on the palestinian side you have a majority that supports a twostate solution, we can work towards that but we need strong leadership to do that. Hamas firing missiles, wrong immoral, and set us on a wrong course. On the other hand you and i have had a discussion of the palestinians taking the diplomat diplomatic route i know you think that hurts the peace process. I want you to stay with us so we can have a discussion been iran and immigrants in israel when we come back. [ yelling ] she gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. And current will let me say anything. Only on current tv. [ piano plays ] Troy Polamalus going deeper. And so is head shoulders deep clean. [ male announcer ] with 7 benefits it goes deep to remove grease, gunk and flakes. Deep. Like me. [ male announcer ] head shoulders deep clean for men. Cenk were back here on the young turks. David seigal has joined us. I want to move on other topics that relate to israel. Defense membershipster had interesting comments to make about iran and what might happen there. Let take a look at it. What we basically say is that worst come to worst there should an readiness and the ability to launch a surgical operation that we delay them by significant time frame and probably convince them that it wont work because the world is determined to block them. Cenk david a lot of people interpreted that as him saying america is on board if we need to act err going to. Im totally against the war in iran. That scares me. It seems to me that hes indicating that were ready to go. Well, you know, no country has a higher stake and a diplomatic solution than israel. We are our skin in the game and well be impacted in a significant way if there is war. For 15 years weve indicated a clear path. Pressure economic pressure, pressure to stop iran in the program. Theyve taken a huge bite out of the iranian economy but their Nuclear Program is accelerating. By spring our Prime Minister said come spring, come summer by the United Nations they will have enough rich uranium for a bomb. Theyll take it, go under ground this spring. This spring. Cenk discuss israel have an agreement to act by spring. We are close in communication with the administration to figure out when it will be too late to stop iran. We believe crippling sanctions together with the military threat that sends to iran a simple thing. You will not have that bomb no matter what you do. Right now they think that theyre paying a high price but that they will have the bomb. But the threat of military action if they dont stop hopefully that will be enough to make them stop. We dont want a military solution. Cenk there are some reports that there was an explosion at their top nuclear site in iran. Can you confirm whether israel was involved with that . I cant come firm the press reports but i can tell you that the more time passes the more uranium they enrich, the deeper they do it underground. This is one of the reasons why time is running out. Cenk one more quote i want to run by. Thequite sophisticated. Do you really believe these sow called scapels will work. Strategic strikes in iran, you will not have a broader war . Well again, this is all speculative in terms of the military action which we dont want to see. What we do want to see is iran stopping the program before its too late. And again the timelines are very very close. If all those options which are on the table and they include a military option, if there is no other way to stop iran we do believe that iran has to be stopped in whatever means necessary. If that includes surgical attacks so be it. But we dont want to get to that point. We hope very much to convince iran to stop the Nuclear Program before its too late. Cenk david he indicated that israel would not be acting alone. If there is going to be a military action by spring, can you confirm that it will be israel and the United States doing it . I cant speak on behalf of the United States. But i can tell you again that saying all options are on the table has to be a serious proposition that iran has to believe in. Its not enough that we say it. Its important that irans leadership understand that they there is no future to their Nuclear Program. Thats the only way to get them to stop. If they believe its a significant military option on the table there is a good chance that they will stop. This is where we are. Cenk i want to ask you about the state of some sudanese in israel. There has been protests, ugly scenes. I want to show you one piece of video that we have from israel. [ yelling ] cenk now david, if that was the only thing you could say thats out of context and thats some israelis yelling at people from sudan. But this poll shook me. Its a may 2012 poll that says 52 of jewish israelis greed Asylum Seekers were, quote, a cancer in the nations body. Thats tough. What is going on with the immigrants from sudan . Are you also made uncomfortable by these especially the poll results here . Im familiar with that polishing and i dont know what that poll is. Its Israel Democracy Institute at peace index. There have been some heated political rhetoric around this issue. Its a painful issue. Israel is the only democracy that has a land bridge with africa. The differential between israel and africa is astronomical. Many seek ref few refuge in israel. Right now, we have become overwhelmed with this. Were a small society. Youre seeing scenes from some of our big cities like tel aviv that have been completely overwhelmed. They simply cannot cope with these numbers. We have to find a solution for this problem. Some of them will be settled in israel. Some will be resettled back in third countries. Were working with the United Nations on this, but it is a very painful and complex issue that israel is working on. We have ngos that are very active on the welfare of the migrants but unfortunately there is political rhetoric. There is a Heated Exchange as youve seen, and what we would like to do is find a way to regulate the Border Crossing from egypt into israel where the migrants come from. By the way theyre abused along the way. Its a very sad huge tragedy. Cenk they have not had a welcome reception in any of those countries. I understand that. One last thing when it comes to ethiopian immigrants, theyre actually jewish, and now we have the Health Minister confirming that the ethiopian women were given Birth Control so they could not get pregnant. And it was forced upon them. Wow. Thats devastating. What do you think happened there . Is there a plan to address that . Well, the ethiopian immigration has been a successful immigration where israel is one of the only nations in the world to bring in an african population in an organized way. And today its a Proud Community in israel, well integrated but with many challenges. They came from a very different place into a very developed economy. But by and large this has been a tremendously successful immigration in israel. There are more jewish ethiopians in ethiopia, but many are in israel and its something that were very proud of. Cenk the forced sterilization, stunning numbers 50 decline in ethiopian pregnancies in israel. It brings up if there is a racial component here. Is the government aware of the severity of that problem and are they going to do anything about it . I have seen those reports. Declining birth rates are part of a modern economy today. It has nothing to do with that report. But that report is concerning and it is being investigated. Cenk david siegal. Here in los angeles, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Cenk when we come back, president obama takes on fox news and Rush Limbaugh. Well talk about that when we return. vo current tv gets the converstion started weekdays 9am eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. You are. The troops love me. The sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. vo only on current tv. How far will people go to relieve their sore throat . Try these. New cepacol sensations cools instantly, and has an active ingredient that stays with you long after the lozenge is gone. Not just a sensation sensational relief. [ theme music ] cenk all right, were back here on the young turks. Ana and jayar join me with this segment. Well talk about president obama and fox news and rush. Drums as anna would say. He gave an before, president obama, did. He said one of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a republican member of congress is not punished on fox news or by Rush Limbaugh for working with the democrat on a bill of common interest, then youll see more of them doing it. Basically indicating, guys, fox news and Rush Limbaugh run the run the run party. Jayar, you cut cliches from them every single day. Is it true . Thats the situation. We know president obama is rallying the troops. We dont want a replay of the glenn beck thing. Theyre worried about it, and you can see some truth in it. Say what youre going to say but follow through. Thats all i ask. Cenk the rest of the interview, were willing to throw democrats under the bus. The democrats wont do it, but we will. This is so foreshadowing and it shows you nothing is going to get done. The whole comment about conservative media tells that you hes not going to be a fighter. You got to stop being weak. Stop being afraid of Rush Limbaugh. Cenk on that comment hes saying look, these guys are stopping the republicans from making a deal. But at the same time i think hes getting played. He says in an interview oh, boehner cant do the deal because of the caucus. No theyre playing you good copbad cop. Thats what im saying. Also the media is a cover up of what the real problem is. The real reason why politicians dont make real change, thats the corporate money. In reality its all about the money. Cenk binebingo. The corporate money goes to the media and the politicians. Thats who is calling the shots both at fox news and the republican party. Thats why they work in unison. Let me end on a fun topic. Scott brown. Scott brown might run for senate. Hes leading in the polls. And if they have that contest in markos moulitsas, senator kerry went over to the state department. So hes tweeting about this over the weekend and hes saying about his possible run. Like hes getting ready to make an announcement. He then people give him grief, as they usually d on twtwtete then i says, whatever, michael whatever, bud. Then the third one. Whatever. I think there was a song about this. Then people think hes drunk tweeting because by the end he says youre brilliant matt. Whatever. What is that . A, first of all, drunk tweeting, yes or no. Probably, and you know what, i kind of like. I wish i could vote for him based on this alone. Cenk you dont want to. I know, i know. Cenk he gave away 19 billion from the banks. You like realness from these guys. If no one ripped him off yet then there is realness to it. Cenk no, he deleted it in a panic. He did delete them but at least he didnt say he got hacked. Thats usually the goto move. I like it. We all have our moments. As public riverspublic figures i get like that after a few drinks. Cenk well talk more about that when we come bacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacacac we tackle the big issues here in our nations capital. Hersheys Simple Pleasures chocolate. 30 less fat, 100 delicious. But when joint pain and stiffness from Psoriatic Arthritis hit even the smallest things became difficult. I finally understood what serious joint pain is like. I talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. 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