The Young Turks August 21, 2015 Hour 1

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Power Panel-Ben, Cenk, Jimmy, and John. Ted Cruz went on Jan Mickelson’s radio show to talk about how much he’s against immigrants just days after Mickelson proposed using illegal immigrants as slaves. Cenk now thinks that Cruz stands a good chance of winning the nomination as the crazy Trump alternative. Video of Cruz claiming to have been speaking out against birthright citizenship 4 years ago when no one else was calling for an end to it. John points out that 4 years ago, Cruz openly spoke out in favor of birthright citizenship. Video of Mickelson’s recent proposal to institute slavery for illegal immigrants. Discussion about the seemingly nonexistent bottom to the GOP’s hateful rhetoric. Amanda Terkel put together a list of Americans that would’ve never been allowed to be citizens if we rejected birthright citizenship the way many presidential candidates propose. The top 5 includes Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal.

 

The Black Lives Matter movement has released their Campaign Zero requests of politicians to fix the system. Donald Trump had a belated response to Martin O’Malley’s apology to Black Lives Matter protesters by calling him a disgusting, weak, pathetic baby. Video of his insults. It turns out that the reason Trump is focusing on such an old event is because O’Malley attended a pro-Union event in Vegas that included employees of Trump’s hotel.

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