>> Last week, Nancy Pelosi thought it would be a great idea to put together a video demonstrating
that she loves chocolate and that she has a luxurious collection of gourmet ice cream
in incredibly expensive refrigerators.
Now I don't care about her wealth.
I said that clearly.
But what I do care about is the messaging and the optics of showing off your tremendous
wealth, when 22 million Americans have just filed for unemployment.
People are struggling and they're looking to leadership in Congress to do something
about it.
And as we know, there have been all sorts of issues with the stimulus checks, there
have been all sorts of issues with people attempting to file for unemployment, they
can't even get through the system.
And so the last thing people are gonna wanna see, in a year when a general election is
happening, is a member of any party, bragging about her obsession with chocolate and showing
off her amazing kitchen.
And so guess what happened?
The Trump campaign put together a vicious ad, the kind of ad that I warned you all about.
And we should watch it, because this is how politics is done and apparently, Democrats
forgot.
>> Return out of that $350 billion fund to help small businesses and its workers get
through the shutdown.
>> It will be up to Congress to restock it.
>> But Democrats blocking that move this morning.
>> They asked for a quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours as well.
I don't think so.
They objected and I congratulate the Senate Democrat.
>> Speaker Pelosi what are you gonna share with us from your home?
>> Chocolate candy.
>> Thousands have been forced to wait for hours at food banks all across the country.
>> This is >> My-
>> Chocolate and then we have some other chocolate here.
We just got to restock the ice cream.
>> You don't wanna eat up, Eric, they know that one time.
>> I can't do it much longer.
I'm trying so hard.
>> Until we say enjoying.
>> Having to admit that, yeah, we're starving, and-
>> I like it better than anything else.
>> Taping this segment, there are 22 million people out.
>> This specific program is about stopping job losses today.
>> This is hurting people bad.
>> Other people in our family look for some other favors, but-
>> Right now, it's survival mode.
You don't know where that next something else is gonna come from.
>> I don't know what I would've done if ice cream were not invented.
I just wonder.
>> Who didn't see that coming?
Like all these- >> Everyone.
>> Yeah, all these Democratic pundits get paid to be wrong, in the news and the media.
I'll give you an example of one of them.
Here's Matthew Yglesias.
This was his tweet in response to, like, do you really not know how politics works?
Like this is incredible to me.
His tweet was, are people pretending to be mad at Nancy Pelosi for liking ice cream?
No, no, no one cares that she likes ice cream.
It's just kinda sad that we keep hearing over and over again, that the most important thing
is to beat Donald Trump to take back the Senate, do whatever it takes to get these goons out
of office.
And the way that they think we're gonna accomplish that thing is by bullying Bernie Sanders supporters
into voting for Joe Biden.
Like the onus is on the very progressive voters that they've been crapping on this entire
time.
But they never responsibility for their failures.
That right there, what Pelosi did in that video, was a devastating hit on herself.
She gave the Trump administration content to attack Democrats on, okay?
And the fact that people don't realize how toned up she is, the fact that people like
Matthew Yglesias don't understand, like how bad this is optics wise, blows my mind.
He gets paid to fail.
As a writer, as a pundit, as someone who is supposed to analyze politics, this is your
analysis really.
>> And, look, we're all in our own bubbles, but the establishment looks at and goes, that's
a total fail on the Republican part.
No, she looks wonderful, she has wonderful refrigerators and she has wonderful ice cream.
I bet people like her more after seeing that.
>> That video was in the news on the very day that it was announced at 22 million Americans
had filed for unemployment.
>> Yeah.
>> Like how do you not understand how bad that is for the Democratic party and look
Nancy Pelosi?
Luckily, there is a challenger Shaheed Boota, you should definitely check him out and in
a dream world, he would get voted into office and we would get rid of these nonsense.
But like yeah, look, she's stuck in the 2009 politics, where it's like, yeah, we're here
with all these celebrities and Obama's so cool and everything's great.
No, we've moved past that.
Because the economic situation for so many Americans is so devastating, that they don't
give a damn about Beyonce, okay?
They don't give a damn about which celebrities you're hanging out with.
They don't care about your love for chocolate or gourmet ice cream.
They wanna know how they're gonna provide for their kids and what kinda relief you're
gonna fight for.
And, I mean, we've already seen what we've gotten from these stimulus bills.
>> So look, it's obvious bad optics to us, at least it's obvious.
And so what we're trying to do is, hey, can you please swerve away from the iceberg or
in this case, the ice cream?
And then they turn around and instead of saying, you guys were right, it turned out it was
terrible optics and now they're using it in an ad exactly as you warned about.
They say, no, it's your fault for pointing it out in the first place.
I wish we were that powerful that the Trump White House is watching TYT nonstop and they
were like, right, the $24,000 fridges and the ice wall, we hadn't noticed but now The
Young Turks ran and now we know.
No, we're trying to help, we're trying to help.
>> Yeah.
>> But instead- >> Yeah.
>> All that's ever done is them blaming us, it's insane.
So please, I'm trying to tell you ahead of time.
All right, forget the ice cream, forget, okay, what's done is done.
If you're a democratic leadership, if you're in the corporate democrats, but ones I don't
agree with, let me try to help you at a time.
Do not wear a sweater like you're about to go yachting on TV cuz it's not going to play
well.
So I'm telling you ahead of time, so please don't blame me afterwards, okay?
So don't show off your incredibly expensive house.
And you could say, hey, I earned it and my husband did insider trading to get that with
the information I gave him.
I earned it, I earned it.
Whatever it is, okay?
That's it, anyway, but whatever.
Let's say you earn it 100% and we love you for it and God bless and it's God Bless America,
right?
But as a matter of optics or politics, don't say as 22 million people go unemployed right
now.
Don't be like, this is my spectacular house and let me bring you into the 13th room of
my mansion.
It's that politics 101.
I just can't take lack of logic >> No, and I love the accusation.
I love the accusation that because we cover these stories, which by the way is our job,
right?
My job isn't to play cover up for Nancy Pelosi's mistakes.
I have no interest in that, and I'm gonna do what I think is necessary to inform the
audience.
And by the way, we do analysis, and my analysis of that video was that it was a disaster.
And I was proven right because of that ad that the Trump campaign put together.
But look, to argue that we're the ones who gave the Trump campaign the idea, first of
all, I wish we had that kinda power and influence.
But secondly, we're talking about people who worked with Cambridge Analytica, violated
people's online privacy in order to gather data and use it in a way to benefit Donald
Trump and get him elected.
You think that he's not employing these people who are gonna do anything and everything it
takes to get get him re-elected.
What are you guys talking about?
Just take some personal responsibility, or more importantly direct some of your criticism
toward the people who claim that the most important thing to do is to get Trump out
of office.
They don't act like it, they just don't.
They're so out of touch and so tone deaf and that's on them, that's not on us.
>> And last thing, which one is it?
Is it that there's nothing wrong with what Pelosi did and that ad is completely ineffective,
or it's progressives fault for pointing out something that turned into a devastating ad?
Which one is it?
So if you think it's no big deal and then the American people love to see her $24,000
freezers and her designer ice cream, then great.
You should be happy with that Trump ad.
You should think, my God, I bet that helps Democrats get re-elected.
Okay, great, go for it.
But you're killing us and you're gonna help Trump get re-elected.
And now that we're warning you about that, I hope you don't say, my god, Trump hadn't
thought of getting re-elected until The Young Turks said it.
And now he's gonna go ahead and get re-elected cuz The Young Turks put that idea in his head.
We're trying to help, but if you don't want to help, there's nothing we can do about it.