If you've been eagerly anticipating,
President Joe Biden declaring a national emergency over the climate.
I have a question and a news update for you.
The question is, what are you smoking?
Seriously, you thought that that was gonna happen?
The news update is perhaps even more important and
that is that two Democratic senators have crossed the aisle to team up with
Republicans to stop Joe Biden from doing that.
This is senators Manchin and Kelly.
They joined Republicans to approve a motion aimed at barring
President Joe Biden from declaring a climate related national emergency, a step
that green groups have been pressuring to take since his first day in office.
And the pressure has been even greater since the largely their inability to pass
any sort of major legislation having to do with climate change.
The executive order, the executive branch focused aspect of the response to
the climate crisis becomes even more important when the Senate won't act.
And so those two votes by the way from Kelly and for
Manchin were enough to make the difference.
It is at the end of the day a nonbinding motion, but
it was approved by a vote of 49 to 47 stating that Biden, quote,
cannot use climate change as the basis to declare a national emergency.
House and Senate lawmakers will consider the motion as part of their efforts to
finalize legislation packed with subsidies to profitable microchip corporations.
So again, as always, there is some stuff that money flows out the door very easily
towards than others where it's the last thing they're willing to do Cenk.
And again, nonbinding but it's also significant.
It certainly says something about where those two Democratic votes might be for
any sort of climate focused legislation through the rest of this term.
>> Yeah, so there's so much hypocrisy here.
I don't know that we invented in one show.
So they told us that Democrats did.
We don't have any money.
I mean, we'd love to do Build Back Better, but inflation and all of that stuff.
Wait a minute, you used $52 billion of subsidies for Amazon and
the big tech companies.
And by the way, $125 billion over the next four years for
a blanket corporate tax exemption.
So apparently, we had plenty of money.
You still didn't wanna pay family leave, you didn't wanna do a higher minimum wage,
you didn't wanna do child tax credit, you didn't wanna do any of that.
I'm talking about the Democrats.
But when it was time for a corporate giveaways, all they had tons and
tons of money.
And then, okay, now we turn to climate change,
at least you're gonna do something, anything that you could do,
right, because they always say there's nothing we can do, not the we can do.
Okay, but wait a minute, you voted with the Republicans,
you would have with the Republicans, right?
So to block this climate change issue, because on this one, Biden can actually
unilaterally act as the president and here comes the corporate Democrats because no,
so whatever you do, do not ever act undemocratic policies.
We must always kiss the ass of Republicans.
Now that's not just Joe Manchin.
Mark Kelly, corporate Democrat in Arizona, when he's running for office,
he's begging for money online.
So I'm gonna be a big time progressive.
My God, I'm gonna pass all these policies.
When he gets in office, he's like Republicans, how can I help?
Let's make sure that we burned down the planet.
You're gonna be shocked to find out that they helped the oil companies here and
it turns out the number one recipient of fossil fuel money in all of the Senate.
The entire senate is not a Republican it's Joe Manchin.
My God, he did the bidding of his donors.
That is such a big surprise.
Look, if you watched the Young Turks,
that's the least surprising thing you've ever heard.
But you have to understand something like normal Democrats that watch Cable News and
read New York Times.
They've probably never heard of that.
They have no idea how much money Manchin takes from oil companies to sell you out.
But John, I also looked up the rest of the Democrats and guess who was
number three in most money taken from fossil fuel companies among Democrats?
>> I've got the numbers, if we can go to them at some point.
But yeah, it's some notable ones.
Okay, we're gonna get to in just a sec.
And you're totally right, by the way I would ask, you occasionally have these
analyses of like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, like how much do they talk about a certain topic?
How much have they, for instance,
talked about climate change in the course of a year?
I would love to see the numbers for
literally anything having to do with a campaign finance.
We're gonna show you a graphic of oil industry,
like fossil fuel industry donations.
Have they shown on CNN in the last year a chart
like that about literally any Canada.
>> No way, 0%.
So wait, the oil companies give money to Joe Manchin and
throughout his career has spent millions and millions and millions of dollars,
and CNN and New York Times don't think that's relevant.
It's not relevant to his decision making.
So they purposely hide it from you, news [LAUGH].
They don't do news, they do marketing for corporations.
>> Yeah, and you're seeing it right there.
I mean, Joe Manchin is at the top.
You've got James Lankford, John Kennedy nobody's really surprised by that,
Lisa Murkowski, Tim Scott.
But Kyrsten sinema does manage to squeak in there.
So she wasn't one of the three, although, honestly, it's possible they just talk to
each other and they figured out how many needed to cross over and
if it hadn't been Kelly, it would have been Sinema, it's impossible to say.
But in this case, she gets to be the better of the two senators from
Arizona and they're being very well paid for that.
And by the way, they are then paying the industry back directly,
not just in stopping him from declaring a climate related national emergency,
which of course now allows Fox News and the right to say,
any declaration like that would be totally invalid.
It's a bipartisan condemnation of that sort of fear mongering.
That's what they just gave to the right.
So there's a separate motion that instructs lawmakers to reject provisions
that, quote, prohibit development of an all of the above energy portfolio.
So what they're saying is, we should totally do something about climate change
and maybe we can have a little bit of solar or something.
But we should also have oil and natural gas and coal and
we really shouldn't change anything, is what they're saying.
And that is another aspect of this.
Along the way by the way,
I don't know if maybe it's been mentioned on the Young Turks earlier this week.
There's a heat wave that hit South Asia 120°F and it produces
one of those apocalyptic looking maps you can see here of India there,
absolutely insane, unsustainable, unlivable temperatures.
And it just makes me think so much about those polls,
you occasionally see, where they'll ask people,
do you expect to see the consequences of climate change in your life?
And the headline will be like,
it's up to 40%, now think at some point in their life, they will see the consequence.
And I'm like, what are you talking about at some point in your life?
Look around, do you not get what's going on in the world?
Maybe it's okay in your particular part of the United States, but
there's wide swaths of the world that are becoming effectively unlivable,
impossible to grow food, impossible to survive during big portions of the year.
>> Yeah, look, I was teasing who the third biggest recipient was among
the Democrats of fossil fuel money, but
I'm glad you put up that chart because it let me recheck it cuz I had missed Sinema.
And then I realized I missed Schumer and one other person too.
So I double checked and it is, Mark Kelly is the sixth
biggest recipient of fossil fuel money among Democrats.
And funny enough, Mark Kelly, after stuffing his pockets full of oil company
money, decided to vote with the oil companies and
make sure we can't do anything about climate change.
And by the way, I guarantee you later, Democratic ass kissers and
mainly that work in mainstream media, will come and say, you're so against Democrats.
You're trying to help Republicans because you're pointing out Mark Kelly's
corruption.
No, I hate Republicans and I want Mark Kelly to fight Republicans.
I didn't vote with Republicans.
Mark Kelly just voted with Republicans.
Mark Kelly just voted with Republicans and sold out all of his Democratic voters.
How about to be fair, how else would he take all the money from the oil companies?
They really genuinely believe this in Washington.
They're just as crazy as Trump voters who think Trump won the 2020 election.
They're burning down the planet for their nickel and dime corruption.
These people are disgusting.
And by the way, one last thing John about hypocrisy and it's about the Republicans.
They said, my God, Big Tech, we're gonna find Big Tech, God, yeah.
Big Tech is terrible.
They just shoveled hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to them, why?
Cuz they get the same campaign donations, hate right wears.
Are you ever gonna hold your own accountable?
All of your senators except Mike Lee, okay?
Credit where credit is due.
All I care about is the policies, I don't care what's on the goddamn helmet.
Everybody in Washington is like, well, if you don't kiss Democratic ass,
then I guess you must be a right winger.
You idiots, don't you know anything about politics.
So credit to Mike Lee here,
but all the other Republicans were like, we're just lying about fighting Big Tech.
In fact, we shoveled billions of dollars into their pockets right wing voters.
We tricked you again.
That's called the swamp right wingers.
You should look at your own guys the way we do.
You should try being honest for a change.
>> Yeah and by the way, we also have you believe that they hate Big Tech and
they hate unilateral control over social media platforms.
They're cheering a Big Tech guy who bought and now has unilateral control over
a social media platform, not necessarily unilateral.
Today, they released some of the donors, they're the people who are involved
in that investment and it's people from Saudi Arabia and stuff like that.
So, just normal free speech stuff.
But anyway, I wanted to talk about a couple things.
One Kai Newkirk progressive activist,
pointed out one interesting little bit about it being Manchin.
And it being Kelly saying, an astronaut who's seen the planet from outer space
voting to remove one of the only tools we have to confront the climate crisis that
isn't blocked by the filibuster and Manchin corruption.
This is an outrageous betrayal, Captain Mark Kelly shame on you.
Yeah, at the end of the day, he's human and he's a politician and politicians
are gonna be corrupt, but he's actually been out there, he's seen it, he knows.
And there have been politicians, there have been astronauts in the past that say,
you can't look at the earth without fundamentally
changing the way you see things like nationalism,
like our individual humans having compassion all that.
But apparently, you can switch them back by paying enough money,
and let's focus for just.
>> Well, to be fair to Mark Kelly, when he looked down on earth,
he might have seen oil cash and thought, yes,
I can't wait to land and stock my pockets full of that oil corporate cash.
And then I'll betray all my voters and vote with the Republicans.
And then the mainstream media will say, I'm a moderate and
give me credit for betraying my own voters.
And they will yell at my critics and tell them that they're with the Republicans
when I'm the one voted with them.
So that's Mark Kelly for you guys.
>> Absolute madness.
Can we just bring up that chart of the amount of money donated at least according
to stock in one year from oil and gas companies to Joe Manchin $687,745.
Now, I mostly wanna focus on this because you never know when you're gonna have
people who will watch a show or watch a political or stream for the first time.
What rational person thinks that they gave more than a half a million dollars in
just one year to one politician and didn't expect to be paid back for that.
They're like, they're just Joe Manchin enthusiasts.
They just love West Virginia.
They just wanna make it rain on West Virginia, is the most obvious bribe ever.
And to go back to what we said earlier,
no one in mainstream media will talk about this.
No one, even the ones that pretend to be progressives or whatever on MSNBC,
are not gonna focus on this obvious transparent corruption.
>> No, never.
They'll get fired from MSNBC if they ever talked about corruption cuz that gives
away the game.
So John though, there are to be fair,
there are a couple of Americans who believe it is not corruption or bribery.
And that the oil companies are giving Manchin $687,000, just because they care
about the general welfare and Manchin does not take it into account when he votes.
Those couple of people are called reporters in our system.