>> Well, we have some updates on the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden. In
fact, BuzzFeed News got a hold of the talking points that Joe Biden's campaign has given
to surrogates and supporters who are asked to comment on Tara Reid sexual assault allegations
against Biden. Those talking points include the following.
Biden believes that all women have the right to be heard and to have their claims thoroughly
reviewed, the talking points read according to the copy sent by two Democratic operatives
to BuzzFeed News. In this case, a thorough review by the New York Times has led to the
truth, this incident did not happen.
Now if you can recall when we covered Stacey Abrams defense of Joe Biden, she used this
exact talking point. But she's not the only one, so did Nancy Pelosi, so did Kirsten Gillibrand,
so did Kamala Harris. All these Democratic establishment women who have come out of the
woodwork to basically defend Joe Biden, again, they're using these talking points.
But there was a video that really caught my attention today. And it featured a reporter
asking Nancy Pelosi about her double standard when it comes to Cavanaugh versus Joe Biden.
And get a load of how she answered that question. >> By Biden but they're using a comparatively
different standard with Kavanaugh when he demanded an investigation on Kustice Kavanaugh,
when a very similar allegation came out on him.
>> Well, let me just say, I respect your question and I don't need a lecture or a speech. Here's
the thing. I have complete respect for the whole Me Too movement. I have four daughters
and one son. And there's a lot of excitement around the idea that women will be heard and
be listened to.
There's also due process. And the fact that Joe Biden is Joe Biden. There's been statements
from his campaign or not his campaign but his former employees who ran his offices and
the rest that there was never any record of this. There was never any record.
>> So I do wanna clarify one thing, she says that there was never any record of this.
Biden and his senate records are sealed until two years after he retires. And so now there's
a growing number of people including the editorial board over at the Washington Post urging him
to release those records to see if there is any documentation of the complaint. Because
Tara Reid said that she did, in fact, complain to the higher-ups and there should be some
record of it.
>> Before we get to the allegations and I wanna comment on a couple of things that Nancy
Pelosi said that gives you a general sense of the environment in DC. So first of all,
she said, I don't need you to lecture me or give a speech. Hm, that's interesting.
Now when Trump does things like that, everybody goes nuts, and I think they should. How dare
you attack the press that way? But Pelosi hasn't had a hard question in 40 years. So
that when she gets a question she doesn't like, she's like, looks at the reporter like,
how dare you.
Don't you know the unwritten rules? The unwritten rules are you can never challenge the esteemed
Speaker Pelosi. So that's why she's like shocked at having a question that was not preapproved
by Democratic leadership. And so she just dismisses her like, I don't need you to finish
your question.
I'll tell you what that non-answer is. Okay, see anybody attacking Nancy Pelosi over it.
In fact, she partly does that to send a message, cuz when Trump yells at you, your ratings
go up. But when Democratic leadership yells at you, your editor calls you in and your
job is in danger.
Let's keep it real. That's what happens to this country. And then she says Biden is Biden.
I don't know what that means. But that doesn't sound like a defense of Biden. That sounds
like you're saying, how am I gonna do? Biden is Biden, every once in a while he does this.
Well, that's not a great defense, cuz I don't know what else Biden is Biden means, and then
third of all- >> As the story develops. Go ahead, Cenk,
sorry, go ahead. >> Ana, just to finish the thought there,
the only other thing that it could mean is go ask Biden.
But Biden's in hiding, and he's having all these female surrogates speak out instead.
And I gotta tell you, having all of these women who are potentially your running mate
audition by defending you against sexual assault allegations on TV, that's pretty gross.
>> Yeah, he has not addressed these allegations himself.
Instead, women, many of whom are auditioning to be his VP pick have gone out there and
have defended him. But we're not quite done with Pelosi yet because the first time she
publicly defended him was on national television. And here's what she had to say.
>> I think that it is time for Vice President Biden to address this head-on himself.
>> Well, I have great sympathy for any women who bring forth an allegation. I'm a big strong
supporter of the Me Too movement. I think it's made a great contribution to our country.
And I do support Joe Biden. I'm satisfied with how he has responded. I know him, I was
proud to endorse him on Monday, very proud to endorse him.
And so I'm satisfied with that. >> I mean, to be clear, he hasn't addressed
it. His campaign has addressed it. But he has not directly addressed it. Should he directly,
publicly address it? >> It's a matter that he has to deal with.
But I am impressed with the people who work for him at the time, saying they absolutely
never heard one iota of information about this.
Nobody ever brought forth a claim or had anybody else tell them about such a claim.
>> Okay, so I wanna be clear about two important details to this story. Because I can easily
see the record being wiped, at least in the public's view, of these two facts. Number
one, the Biden talking points tell surrogates to say that the New York Times investigation
has cleared him of wrongdoing, that is absolutely not the case.
In fact, the New York Times has released a statement, a strong statement, saying that
their reporting has not cleared him or found him guilty. It's inconclusive basically. Also,
when it comes to what Pelosi is saying here. Look, he hasn't addressed it and there is
a double standard. And the way that she's handling this, it just makes it abundantly
clear that rape and sexual assault allegations are used s political tools and nothing more.
And it's really gross to see this happening right now. She's just completely wiping him
of any wrongdoing when there hasn't actually been an investigation. And this has been treated
differently from the Kavanaugh case. The Kavanaugh case was taken seriously from the very beginning.
Yes, there was a sham investigation.
There's been no investigation into these claims against Biden.
>> Yeah, so number one, let's note that, I hate to say it, but we were right. The press,
including CNN and including the Washington Post now, calling for Biden address it directly
are all over the story during the general election.
Just like we told you, they were completely and utterly absent during the primaries when
the story came out. Because to them, progressives are invisible. It doesn't matter if you raise
an issue, we don't care how serious it is, and we don't care how important it is. We
will not cover it cuz you people are progressives and we hate you and we hate Bernie Sanders.
But the man, he's out of the race. We told you to cover it, and here they are, all over
the national news. Now, second point, a little bit unrelated to this, but now watching two
clips of Nancy Pelosi together, she can't string together a sentence either. And here's
an amazing fact.
Nancy Pelosi was born before India was a country. Okay, also true, by the way of Joe Biden and
Donald Trump. All of our leaders, because they're backed by the media and they have
been around for a long, long time and have enough name recognition, are incredibly old.
They've held on to power jealously with great greed, and they will not let it go.
And they're all falling apart at the seams right in front of our eyes. Any time we point
out something that's true, they go ballistic over it, and then later admit that it's true.
So Pelosi can't put together a sentence either. And then finally, her defense was curious
when she's like, hey, I really believe in the Me Too movement and I got four daughters.
You're a woman, you don't have to clarify that you're in favor of the Me Too movement.
It makes me think wait, are you not in favor of the Me Too movement? It's like if I randomly
just jumped out, it was like, look, man, don't get me wrong. I don't want discrimination
against Turks, I'm against it.
Of course, I'm Turkish American. Why the hell would I want discrimination against Turks?
Doesn't make any sense. It leads me to think, the way that she framed it, she's like, hey,
you know, gotta get along. And so folks in power sometimes do that. But hey, look, I
got daughters, I got daughters, so I'm in favor of the Me Too movement.
What a weird way of putting- >> Well, look it's a way of having your cake
and eating it too, right? Because the Me Too movement has been used as a political tool,
I believe, by the Democratic Party. It's been used by the Republican Party. It's turned
into, unfortunately, something that's been co-opted for dishonest actors for political
gain, right?
So for me, this story is not about Bernie Sanders. I know some of the people watching
this right now, they're gonna come at me on Twitter like, you're so bitter about Bernie.
I'm not bitter about Bernie, that's over, okay? I totally understand that the DNC would
never, in a million years, replace Biden with Bernie, I'm not delusional.
>> Yeah. >> But one thing that I want you guys to understand
is now we have Biden, an incredibly flawed candidate even without the sexual assault
allegations. He was already an incredibly flawed candidate for all the different reasons
that we've explained on this show over several months. But the line of defense, you're right,
Cenk, is so incredibly thin, right?
She wants to be able to say, I love the Me Too movement. Because I might wanna keep that
movement in my back pocket when I wanna go snipe a candidate I don't like, usually, someone
on the left more than anything. But she lied in that interview too. Biden's staffers, senate
staffers who Tara Reid went to and complained to, did not say that it did not happen.
They said they do not recall it happening, right? And I think that that's an important
distinction, because that's typically what people say when they don't want to admit guilt,
right? But they also don't wanna perjure themselves in any way. Maybe they're just covering their
tracks and saying, I do not recall.
One person said, I do not recall and I would've remembered if this happened, right? But every
single person said, I don't remember anything like this happening. We should see his senate
records. >> Yes.
>> I mean he's running for president. This isn't a joke, it isn't a joke.
And I don't care if he's a Democrat. I don't care what kind of threat Donald Trump is.
We need to know the truth about the candidates who are running. And for everyone who wants
me to say this, I will say it. I'll say it a million times if you want me to, Donald
Trump has more sexual assault allegations against him.
But now we're put in a position to do this weird weighing contest like, who's more of
a sexual predator? I'm not interested in engaging in that conversation. I would rather have
a leader in this country who doesn't have serious and credible sexual assault allegations
against them. >> So for those of you who haven't heard any
of this very quick recap is that Tara Reid now has four people corroborating our story
that she said to them that she was sexually harassed by Joe Biden back in the early 1990s.
She said it to them back then, four different people. That is a lot of folks. But if it
was against anyone else, every Democrat in the country would've already believed those
corroborating witnesses. And it looks like her mom called in to CNN, to Larry King Live
back in the early 1990s, and talked about how her daughter or someone she knows was
sexually or harassed, let's put it that way.
It was a little bit vaguer by an important senator.
>> Yeah, so let me clarify that because her mother called in and said that her daughter
had a negative experience with a senator and wanted advice on what her daughter can do.
>> Yes, to be clear, cuz they say, well, look, your mom calling in at the same exact time
as the four other corroborating witnesses saying negative experience.
Maybe she twisted her ankle. We don't know, we don't know. Okay, all right, maybe, maybe.
>> You decide what you want with that negative experience with a senator means. Her mom has
since then passed away. And so look, it's impossible for us to know what happened there.
But there are things that you can check as we've done with every other story.
And so one last thing about that is that even the New York Times corroborated that she used
to be in charge of the intern program and was abruptly taken off the intern program.
Okay, so again, none of these by themselves are conclusive and yes, I'm going to vote
against Donald Trump.
So you know what you are if you are gonna vote against Donald Trump, but you actually
talk about a legitimate allegation against his opponent? It's called principled. The
rest of Democratic Party might wanna look into it.