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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 30, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Hillary Clinton’s growing lead on Bernie Sanders may have something to do with her serious advantage on the African American vote. She has garnered support from Black elected officials, who are using their influence to energize and convince Black voters to side with Clinton. Four police officers were injured by high school students when they tried to stop a brawl outside of the school. Video of one female officer being assaulted.

Hour 2: Margaret Howell replaces Iadarola for SCS. Video of a police officer beating a student in the hallways of a high school in Oklahoma has been released, resulting in him being removed from the school he was assigned to. Another cop broke up a fight by initiating a dance off with a young woman as soon as she showed up to the scene. President Obama highlighted the positive response by the police. A 10 year old girl is challenging the U.S. Constitution on its rule to become President. She is a Chinese girl that was adopted by an American family, so she currently will never qualify to run for president.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 29, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Iadarola, Jimmy, and Margaret Howell hosting. Paul Ryan has been sworn in as the new Speaker of the House. Video of a bit of his opening speech that called for unity. John and Jimmy aren’t buying this line. Republicans had many complaints over the way the CNBC debate was conducted. Reince Priebus, Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson were very vocal about the toughness of the questions and the tone of the moderators. Video of Marco Rubio joining Fox and Friends to bash CNBC over their coverage. One of the complaints was that not enough time was given for the candidates to talk. This came after they fought to shorten the debate from 3 hours to only 2.

Hour 2: Brett replaces Jimmy for SCS. A huge runaway military blimp was eventually shot down over a small town in Pennsylvania it was wreaking havoc on. Brett imagines that someone could’ve climbed one of the dragging tethers and board the ship. An Alabama judge blocked the state decision to end government funding for the 2 Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, due to their lack of reasoning to cut PP off. China has decided to change its 1 child policy and expanded it to 2. Discussion about the repercussions of the one child policy, and other ways to convince citizens to not have large families.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 28, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Cenk and Iadarola hosting. Despite the end of the IRS investigations from Conservatives, House Republicans are launching an impeachment of the IRS head. This looks like another fake scam to make political opponents look bad. Video of Charles Krauthammer talking about how the GOP shouldn’t try this, since their investigations end up failing. Donald Trump continues to prepare for the debate on the heels of losing his lead in Iowa, except he’s now lost the lead nationwide to Ben Carson. Trump tweeted that he’s ready for the “unfair” debate to come. John talks about why Trump may be scared to start this debate, where details may be asked for. Video of Trump begging an Iowa crowd to make sure he gets a win. Hillary Clinton appeared on Colbert’s show and assured the audience that she would allow banks to fail. Cenk and John don’t believe her.

Hour 2: Add sugars contributed during the processing or perception of food. Add sugars does this to a person’s body, it causes belly fat, skip the gym, #1 factors in diabetes, and reduces brain plasticity, doubles heart disease, death risk raises blood pressure, and causes skin to sag. All male fox panel judges women leggings. Guys are judging the girls on what’s appropriate and what’s not appropriate to wear leggings. Nina Lindell create a cartoon in Braille that explain sexual stimulation and she said everyone needs sexual stimulation. Nina said “porn” is the word for it. Its called sexual stimulation.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 27, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Iadarola and Jimmy Dore hosting. A deal has been reached on a budget deal between Dems and GOP Congressional leadership in order to raise the debt ceiling. Although the deal cuts social programs and still gives tons of money to military spending, radical Republicans are against going through with it. A new poll shows that Clinton now leads Bernie 65% to 24%.

Hour 2: Cenk, Hannah, and Brett for SCS. A SC police officer assigned to a high school was videotaped seriously assaulting a female student by flinging her out of her chair. A Northern California police dept is planning to begin using nunchucks as a ‘control weapon’ when dealing with suspects. Cenk is in favor of this, as he hopes this has less lethal results than gunfire. At an anti-Planned Parenthood rally, one woman launched her anti protest by yelling, “Dear PP, thanks for helping with my yeast infection!”

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 26, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Cenk is hosting. Gowdy says that Benghazi interview is going to be private. Gowdy favors Hillary for interview in which that will be public. Donald Trump said that he knows that he is the underdog and however he knows what to do to win. Trump’s people drag a latino protester in Miami rally, meanwhile the crowd shout out USA.

Hour 2: Cenk and Ana hosting. Trump says that Carson has super low energy. Carson defends himself with a story. When he was young, he said he tried stabbing someone who irritated him. HS Student from Chicago died of head injury because of a football game. He was hit very hard during the game and then later died at the hospital. FBI director says police are afraid to get out of the cars because of YouTube. He said that violent crime has increased because as a result. Therefore, he feels some police can not do their jobs properly because of the videos.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 23, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Power Panel with Cenk, Iadarola, Jimmy, and Mark Sovel. Lincoln Chafee has dropped out of the presidential race. Video of his announcement to quit. He randomly mentioned Lysistrata and how women withheld sex in order to end the constant warring of their men. Video of Chafee’s worse moment at the Democratic debate. Jeb Bush’s campaign has decided to drastically cut down his HQ office in Miami and decrease staff to save $1 million/month. The Spox declared that this is about winning the race that they still believe they will. The campaign is spending $2.5 million/month. Jimmy points out that Boehner is considered a moderate by the rapid GOP, when he tweeted that Obama is funding terrorists.

Hour 2: Lissette Padilla and Kelly Carlin join Cenk and Jimmy for SCS. A new drug competitor has developed a pill that competes with Pharma Bro’s drug, but for only $1 rather than his extremely bloated price. The FCC has voted to stop the exorbitant costs of prisoners’ phone call costs.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 22, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Ben Carson’s appearance on Glenn Beck included his opinions on the War on Drugs. Video of him promising to intensify the War on Drugs because he’s visited the border. Paul Ryan has the general support of the Freedom Caucus, without agreeing to his demands. Video of Rep Huelskamp voicing his frustration with Ryan’s positions. An Omaha school district meeting on the school’s sex ed policy that would expand to same sex relationships and gender identity caused an uproar with most of the parents in attendance. Some worried about the purity of their daughters and claimed that Planned Parenthood is behind this.

Hour 2: Lissette Padilla joins Ben and John for SCS. Nevada officials are settling a lawsuit with the city of San Francisco after it was discovered that they were sending mentally ill patients to SF via bus. The Ronald McDonald statue outside of a Ronald McDonald house was vandalized by people upset about the fact that McDonald’s restaurants aren’t good for people. Ben and John disagree over his affinity for McChicken. A couple of lesbian students in California and South Carolina were suspended for wearing a t-shirt that read, “Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian.” Some school officials deemed it disruptive and gang related.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 21, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Jayar, John, and Elliot are hosting. Joe Biden is officially not running for the Presidency. Joe gave a speech and said it’s all about timing, however he will not stop speaking. Hillary Clinton tweeted that Joe Biden is a good friend and person. Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House has demands, he refuses to agree to anything, and he wants the Caucus to endorse him speaker anyway, and wants them to agree to rule changes. He doesn’t want to live like other Speaker of the House did. This is another inquirement, Paul Ryan will not give up his family time. Ahmed Mohammed, the teenager who made the clock and a got arrested because the teacher thought it was a bomb which it wasn’t and became famous. He announced him and his family are moving to Middle East to Qatar. He was accepted to Qatar University for Science. And the family is meeting a war criminal President and people are starting to wonder now what is the true motive.

Hour 2: Hasan, Hannah, John, and Karamo hosting. The Hungarian camerawoman is suing a refugee and Facebook because of threats she is receiving. However, there is a video showing her tripping a refugee. Her husband wants to prove her innocence. A new underwear line “Thinx” is an alternative underwear for periods. NY MTA doesn’t want to use the “Thinx” ad because it will say the word “period”.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 20, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Cat Fight between Donald Trump and the Republican Establishment. Now that Trump has been on top of the polls for 3 months straight, they’ve realized that he can actually win. With his comments about donors controlling politicians, and their realization that they can’t control him, freaking out has begun. On top of all of that, he floated the idea of raising taxes on hedge funds. The ads are coming to take him down. Another Cat Fight between GW Bush and Ted Cruz. Bush spoke at an event for Jeb and admitted that he just doesn’t like Cruz, or his niceties toward Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders is losing ground on Hillary Clinton after the 1st Democratic debate. Video of Bernie Sanders responding to Trump calling him a Communist/Socialist by saying the taxes on the richest is going to be a damn lot higher than it is now. A study shows that many men are not interested in a relationship with a smart and successful woman. Fox News’ Kennedy spoke out about the study by assuming the female co-author of the study is an academic, and therefore can’t find a man, so she conducted the study to make an excuse for her loneliness. A study in Portland, OR showed that Black pedestrians at crosswalks were forced to wait longer than other races. More drivers stopped for White pedestrians than Black pedestrians.

Hour 2: Jimmy and Brett Erlich join Cenk for SCS. A supervisor at the border patrol agency in San Diego started up a swinger sex party among his co-workers. A Hummus bar in Israel is offering 50% off of meals if Arabs and Jews come and eat together. Jimmy isn’t buying this, and Cenk loves the cafe owner for trying. Sears has decided to stop selling “Infidel” hats in its online stores. The hats have been worn by anti-Islamic RWingers to reclaim the word that terrorists have been known to call Westerners. Cenk and Jimmy aren’t against the hat.

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from October 19, 2015. For more go to http://www.tytmembership.com.

Hour 1: Bernie Sanders is planning a major speech on Democratic Socialism since so many opponents have characterized it as evil. The numbers of people that view the term Socialism as a positive term has grown, while the number that view Capitalism as positive has dwindled. A Republican Congressman from Alabama has declared that he wants to impeach Hillary Clinton before she even gets the Democratic nomination. Now that Marvel has made Captain America a Black man and fighting anti-immigrant bigots, Fox and Friends has lost their mind over it. Video of the panel lamenting the decision by the comic book.

Hour 2: Brett Erlich and Grace Baldridge join Cenk for SCS. A Texas judge has ruled that the state can deny birth certificates to children born here to undocumented mothers. They are also rejecting the Mexican consulate’s documentation that proves the legal documentation of the parent as a Mexican citizen. Amazon is suing 1000 people for falsifying product reviews for vendors’ products in need of more positive ratings. Brett goes over a couple of his fake, negative reviews. Cenk admits he religiously leans on customer reviews on Amazon and Yelp. A study showed that tipping well at a restaurant is more based on race, age, breast size, and hair color than on quality of service.

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