That's who you voted for in that district.
Donald Trump, who reduces all safety.
He did. >> [CROSSTALK] voters saw something on
the ground that probably resonates in
a way that [CROSSTALK] >> They need to look past the photo ops
these people.
>> Of course. >> And say, who's doing the job here?
>> Joy Behar and
the ladies of the view decided that shaming the voting behavior of
the residents of East Palestine was really the way to go when covering the story.
Now, of course there was a tragic train derailment in East Palestine,
Ohio, and now there are big concerns about whether or
not the water is safe to consume in the town.
Now, of course Donald Trump deregulated the rail industry.
And so, Joy Behar is trying to draw attention to that and
then basically blame the people of East Palestine for voting for him.
But I wanna show you her comments with more context.
Let's take a look at that and then I wanna hear your thoughts, Cenk.
>> I do think this was an unforced error by president Biden.
It was 20 days before we had secretary Buttigieg go down,
10 days before he put out a statement acknowledging it.
This is Trump country, he won by 40 points,
he is a president for all Americans.
I believe that, but he needs to show that he is,
it was time for [CROSSTALK] >> I don't know why they would never vote
for him because as somebody who, by the way, he plays someone with deep ties to
the chemical industry in charge of the EPAs chemical safety office.
That's who you voted for in that district, Donald Trump, who reduces all safety.
He did. >> Do his voters realize that?
>> His voters saw something on the ground that probably resonates in the way that-
>> They need to look past the photo ops,
these people.
>> Of course. >> And say, who's doing the job here?
Forget about the photo op- >> Showing up is a big thing.
>> I think this is Donald Trump's fault.
>> I mean, that's [CROSSTALK] his fault he shows up.
>> So look,
I wanna note that while Trump absolutely did deregulate the rail industry,
the deregulation that he did would not have impacted this train derailment.
So even if he didn't reverse what Obama did, with the exception of
the different breaks that absolutely should have gone through.
But my point is, look, you can talk about the deregulation,
we've been talking about the deregulation on the show.
But making the assumption that the people of East Palestine, Ohio,
have all the information about deregulation in this current corporate
media mess is naive at best, incredibly ignorant at worst, right?
Because they don't have perfect information.
Does the corporate media talk about the government deregulating things?
Is that something they cover regularly?
>> Or on the view.
Look, that was an awful conversation.
There was only one fact given, and funny enough,
it was given by Joy Behar before she made this so called offensive comment.
Was it offensive?
Well, it was literally true, that they did vote for Trump,
Trump did deregulate, but it leaves out giant facts.
And so, that context is really important.
Now, what Joy Behar probably doesn't even know, because she consumes mainstream
media and she probably hasn't read the great reporting that has done on this, and
has been doing from day one on this.
Which is that the Obama administration had one small rule,
the one that Ana mentioned, okay?
There was a series of other regulations about modernizing their breaks, how you
carry chemical hazards, how many staff you have, how many inspections you have.
So you can spot problems like the actual issue that this train had, right?
All those things, as usual with all Democrats,
Obama did a light push, and golly gee, the Republicans and
other Democrats blocked them and there was nothing he could do.
So did Joy Behar criticize Obama for not trying hard on that?
Did they criticize other Democrats for
joining Republicans in blocking those regulations?
Then Trump made it worse.
He took away the one regulation that existed and
said he wouldn't do any regulation of the industry.
So he definitely made it worse.
And then Biden came in and didn't even go back to the light nudging that Obama had.
He hasn't proposed anything.
>> Nothing.
Okay, so let me also address that.
Isn't it fascinating that Trump comes into office and
there's no debate, he unilaterally reverses what little
regulation took place under the Obama administration.
Unilaterally.
He didn't make a plea to the Republican controlled congress to deregulate,
he just did it on his own through the executive branch.
But when it comes to the Biden administration and
the Department of Transportation, under Pete Buttigieg leadership,
I call on Congress, because he knows congress is where legislation goes to die.
He knows that.
He knows that congress isn't gonna regulate the rail industry, but
he has the power to do it.
He just chose not to.
And then, after all of this controversy,
he decides to put out some incredibly weak sauce regulation proposals
that rail workers responded to and said, this is not enough.
There are loopholes here, particularly loopholes that allow for
the rail industry to operate the trains with one person crews.
>> And by the way, they just had a near strike in the same industry.
And who did Biden side with?
He sided with the companies and not the workers.
He told the workers, I'm not even gonna allow you to negotiate with them,
I'm gonna enforce a contract on you, coz he has that power in the executive branch.
So funny enough, when he needed the power to crush the workers
in the railroad industry, he found it.
When he needs the power to regulate the railroad industry, where did it go?
Where did it go?
Golly gee, I just can't seem to find it.
And so guys, this happens all the time on almost every issue.
Republicans come in and get stuff done for the rich, they deregulate industries and
they pass tax cuts, right?
Democrats come in and can't get anything done.
And they go, boy, I bungled it away again.
Golly gee.
One of the few things I got past was a semiconductor bill,
which gives all the money to the semiconductor industry.
Infrastructure bill, which gives all the money to infrastructure companies.
Golly gee, how did that happen?
And the media can't tell.
I mean, they complain about photo ops and stuff.
You guys are the photo op.
None of you discuss, other than Joy Behar with that one little part, incomplete,
talked about the actual problem.
>> Exactly. >> The regulations that aren't there under
Republican and Democratic rule.
But you guys are busy distracting the voters.
Blame Trump, blame Buttigieg, blame Trump, blame Buttigieg.
Get into two different sides and have a fight that's over nonsense and photo ops,
but don't ever actually talk about the regulations cuz corporations are not
interested in that.
>> By the way, the one other thing I'll just say.
And look, I say this is someone who has probably one of the craziest videos
of myself out there from the 2016 presidential election,
where I said horrible things about women who voted for Trump, okay?
And I say this because I let my feelings, my emotions target voters,
when in reality there's all sorts of institutional issues here,
especially when it comes to our media, something we talk about a lot.
So like the optics of pointing your finger at ordinary people,
which is what Joy Behar did in that video, is not good if you're trying to make
a persuasive case to support, broadly speaking, the left, okay?
So with that said, go ahead, Cenk.
>> Ana, so we take a slightly different stance on this.
So Ana says, don't blame the voters on the right wing or left wing,
I say blame them both, okay?
Is it mainly their fault?
Of course not, it's the leaders that are deceiving them, and it's the media that is
maybe the most at fault for covering up all those crimes, right?
But yeah, the Republican voters vote for Trump who deregulates and
gave a $2 trillion tax cut to the rich.
So what are you guys doing?
You're voting for con men.
On the other hand, hold on, on the other hand,
the part you're never ever ever going to see in mainstream media is,
Democratic voters are like, Buttigieg and Biden aren't regulating.
But the meetings at Fox News are attacking him.
That's why we protect Buttigieg, we protect Biden, right?
Guys, do you know what's going on?
If you watch mainstream media, you think you know what's going on, you don't know.
The whole enterprise is built to maintain corporate rule.
They're not giving you the actual news.
You saw it in last segment, but you can see it in every segment.
So, yes, we all need to wake up together and
realize we're not each other's enemies, the guys in power are trying to
get us to fight- >> That's right.
>> So they can rob the place.
>> Okay, so my point though is, Cenk, this whole idea that Republican voters,
they're voting against their best interest because they vote for Republicans.
Okay, yeah, but, I mean,
we've been talking about the deregulation issue when it comes to the rail industry,
what's the difference between Democrats and Republicans really?
What's the difference?
There is no difference.
>> No, no.
In fact, not only is there no difference guys, they're playing good cop,
bad cop on you, and and so is the media.
Mainstream media goes all, we're the good cops and
right wing media is more brash and attacks people for their identity, etc.
So they're the bad cops, right?
But at the end of the day they're on the same team.
Here, watch, I will tell you guys, we tell you all the time,
if you're new to this, once we tell you can't unsee it,
you'll see that on culture war issues there's not nonstop fake fights, right?
And real fights.
But when it comes to economic issues, they always circle the wagons.
Everybody in media and everybody in politics.
Somehow no one can find a way to regulate, everybody can find ways to deregulate.
Somehow everybody's talking about Mr. Potato head and Eminem people,
not people, cartoon characters, but they're not talking about
regulating the railroad workers, they're all against lifting student debt.
They're all against universal healthcare, than every other country has.
They're all against higher wages, it's causing inflation.
Look at that, MSNBC, Fox News and CNN agree all of a sudden.
It's all a game and it's being played against all of us.