>> Despite previously pledging to reject Super PAC money, Biden did change his mind and he
will now accept Super PAC money.
Now, this is something to keep in mind when it comes to various issues like climate change,
okay?
If he's gonna take money from the fossil fuel industry, is he going to push for the right
policies to combat climate change?
Well, he was asked about this by a Sunrise Movement activist.
And pay close attention to what I consider the degrading language he used to talk to
her.
>> Hi, I'm Lily from Sunrise and I'm terrified for our future.
Since you're now taking SuperPAC money, how can we trust that you're not fighting for
the people profiting off climate change?
>> Look at my record, child.
Look at my record.
>> But your record is you fighting to go into the Iraq War and-
>> No, that's not right.
>> So that was a great question.
How can we trust you to do the right thing when it comes to climate change if you're
gonna take SuperPAC money?
If you're going to accept money from the fossil fuel industry?
And his answer was, look at my record, child.
Okay, fair enough.
First of all, I don't like the fact that you referred to her as a child.
But if he wants us to look into his record, we can do that right now.
Wanna do that right now?
>> Can't wait.
All right, so Joe Biden, ask and ye shall receive.
First of all, you got the bankruptcy bill.
I asked about this to his handlers in the spin room after the last debate, they laughed
it off.
It is a fact he was a proud author and sponsor of the bankruptcy bill and he still brags
about it.
That is the bill that says you cannot discharge student debt.
So trillions of dollars in student debt.
Albatross around all those students' necks.
If you've got that kind of debt and you're on hard times and you can't discharge it.
Even though Donald Trump can declare bankruptcy after bankruptcy.
Rich people can declare bankruptcy ad nauseam.
But if you're a student, Biden doesn't let you declare bankruptcy and doesn't let you
discharge the debt.
That was Biden.
That is Biden.
We looked at your record.
And now you turn around and dismissively call those students child.
No, no, no, your dismissive attitude is gross.
Here, let me quickly run through some of the others.
The 94 crime bill, wound up imprisoning millions of people over all of these decades, was draconian.
He bragged that an earlier version of the bill gave people a death penalty for everything
but jaywalking.
He was the person who pushed Ronald Reagan to the right on the war on drugs, that also
helped imprison millions of people.
Total insanity, doesn't make any sense at all.
And particularly targeting the African American community, I would love to look at your record.
I wish everybody knew your record.
I'm not anywhere near done.
Then you've got the Iraq war, which was an epic disaster.
He says I have great experience.
You have experience in making horrific decisions and letting Republicans walk all over you.
But who knows, maybe you also want to create chaos in the Middle East.
He, to this day, is against busing, is proud to have worked with segregationist Republicans
in the Senate.
Anita Hill, look, I can go on for a whole hour about what he did in the Anita Hill testimony.
But I want you to know, he was not Anita Hill's Republican accusers.
He was supposed to be her Democratic friend, ally I should say, that put her up to get
the testimony about Clarence Thomas.
You know that he did not allow corroborating witnesses.
They had them.
They could have backed up her story.
But Biden wouldn't let them testify, so it made it seem like she's the only one.
>> And by the way, his attempt at revisionist history in regard to the Anita Hill hearings
included arguing that he was trying to protect her from some of the degrading questions that
Republicans were asking during those hearings.
But if you go back and you watch those videos, he clearly stated at the time that he believed
that It was the right thing to allow them to ask any and all questions to get to the
bottom of the truth, regardless of how degrading they were.
>> So no holds barred for Republicans, you can do
anything you like, okay?
But Anita Hill, you have witnesses that'll back up your story.
No, you're not allowed to present them.
That's Joe Biden.
But one last thing.
He also in 2012, not decades ago, in 2012, as vice president extended the Bush tax cuts.
In a deal so toxic, so terrible that even Michael Bennett, the most mild mannered corporate
Democrat you've ever seen, is now furious about it.
Talking about it in the debates, and wrote a whole book about how Biden betrayed the
Democrats by giving the rich everything they wanted.
Mitch McConnell was thrilled with that deal.
That's who Joe Biden is.
You want to talk about your record and then call people children?
Are you kidding me?
Look, and I'm going to blame two more sets of people here.
First of all, media.
You won't cover stories about Buttigieg's record in South Bend.
You say, well, look, I think he's spiking, he's doing wonderful, he's doing fantastic,
but he's in fifth place so I'm not gonna cover any of his downsides.
What's your excuse on Biden?
He's in first place.
And you tell me he's a presumptive nominee, he's in first place, he's doing great, etc.
So, okay, why aren't we talking about the war on drugs?
Why aren't we talking about the crime bill?
Why aren't we talking about the bankruptcy bill?
Or why aren't we talking about extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich?
Are you doing your job at all, at all?
Or is every negative article, is it a mandate and I want to know, is it a memo, or is it
just group think?
I think it's probably group think but it's so pervasive now, it's absurd.
Is it a memo in your organizations of the New York Times, The Washington Post that the
only negative articles you can write now are about Bernie Sanders?
Or prove me wrong and do your goddamn job.
Is the bankruptcy bill not relevant?
In that scrum where I asked that question in the spin room, there were dozens of reporters.
They laughed, the spokespeople did, when I asked a question that is 100% factual.
The rest of the reporters, you wanna follow up?
Hey, maybe you'll find that I was wrong.
No, no, Biden wasn't even in the Senate during the bankruptcy bill, he had nothing to do
with it.
All right, great, then write that story.
No, you don't wanna do your job cuz you love the establishment and you hate progressives.
And then finally, I'm also mad at the progressive candidates.
Yes, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Are you gonna run against the guy or are we gonna play pattycakes?
The elections are in a couple of months, why won't you talk about the bankruptcy bill?
Why won't you talk about all the issues that I just talked about?
Are you agreeing with the rest of Washington that you have to be gentile to other Democrats?
Primaries are about choices.
If you rob the voters of information they need to make the correct choice, then you
can't turn around later and go, my god, we had an unfair process.
No, right now, nobody is telling Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren not to talk about Biden's
record.
If they continue to make that mistake, and people vote without knowing Biden's true record,
it is on them.
It is a terrible, terrible mistake that they should immediately correct.
>> Yeah, I think you're right.
I think you're right.
I don't think that Bernie is the type of person who fights like that.
But I think that this is a very unique time and this is when he absolutely should.
Here's the thing, he's gonna get attacked regardless.
The corporate media will attack Bernie Sanders regardless of what he does.
They're attacking him right now and he's not even going after Biden.
Yes, they will attack him if he goes after Biden as well.
But he needs to do it precisely for the reasons that you just mentioned right now.
We can't assume that all these American voters are paying close attention to the records
of every single candidate.
They don't have the resource of time to do that.
So it's important to take advantage of those debate moments to draw clear distinctions
between yourself and the other candidates.
Especially, I can't even believe it, the front runner still, Joe Biden.
>> Look, Bernie mentioned at the very end of the last debate, the Iraq War and I believe
the bankruptcy bill, just in passing.
But first of all, nobody knows the bankruptcy bill.
So you have to go out and explain to them what it is.
And you can't mention it in passing, you have to make an active argument against it.
You have to force the media to talk about it.
Bernie and Warren's politeness could cost this election.
And that is incredibly selfish of them.
I don't want to be perceived as the bad guy by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
>> They already think you're the bad guy.
>> They already hate you.
They already do dinners with big dollar Democratic donors plotting not against Elizabeth Warren,
but against Bernie Sanders.
>> Right.
>> Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi actively go to those dinners and they plot your demise.
Your politeness can cost progressives everything, stop it already.
>> So enough about what we think, we actually wanna know what the audience thinks.
And we'd like you to participate on a poll regarding this very question.
Are Warren and Sanders being too soft on Biden?
And you have two choices there.
Yes, they need to do a much better job of exposing Biden's true record.
Or no, we have to maintain Democratic unity so we can defeat Trump in the general election.
>> Now you say that smiling but- >> No, I know.
>> But first of all, that's why I framed it as fairly as we can.
A lot of people believe that.
I don't know how many people in our audience believe that, that's why I'm curious.
That's why we're asking you.
It's TYT.com/Biden to vote.
We'll share the results with you guys tomorrow.
But if you ask everyone in the corporate media and everyone in the Democratic party outside
progressives, they'd be like, no, we have to unite, so don't ever attack anybody.
Well, how about all your attacks against Bernie?
Well that doesn't count, he's a progressive so screw him.
But we have to unite and you have to never ever, ever criticize anyone you're running
against because you'll cost us the election.
Literally, I mentioned one of these things in passing on Twitter, immediately three tweets
in response.
No Cenk, you're gonna cost us the election.
You think Trump is gonna hide Biden's true record?
You think the Republicans are gonna be like, no, let's take it easy on Biden.
What a stupid idea to not share his record and then let the Republicans spring that in
the general election.
It's almost as if it was the same thing they did with Hillary Clinton.
Where they said, don't talk about her true record in the primary.
And then it turns out, Republican's decided to do it anyway in the general election.
Guess who won that election?
They never learn cuz they don't want to learn.
>> The point of the primary is to choose the best possible Democratic candidate to go head
to head with Donald Trump.
But more importantly, someone who has the right policy proposals and who's going to
fight for the American people.
So if we're gonna play these games and be soft on the worst possible candidates, I just
think that it does the American people a huge disservice.
So please answer that poll.
Let us know what you think.
And again, the URL is TYT.com/Biden.
TYT.com/Biden.