BREAKING NEWS AS WE ARE DOING THE SHOW LIVE.
THERE HAS BEEN A TERRIBLE ATTACK IN NICE, FRIENDS, AND IT'S
KILLED AT LEAST 73 PEOPLE.
IT'S A TRACTOR-TRAILER THAT RAN INTO PEOPLE, STARTED
RUNNING OVER BODIES.
IN THE BEGINNING PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT AND THEN
THEY REALIZED HE'S DOING IT ON PURPOSE.
SINCE IT'S BREAKING RIGHT NOW, THERE WILL BE A LOT OF
DETAILS THAT WILL TURN OUT TO BE NOT EXACTLY RIGHT.
RIGHT NOW ALL THE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS ARE HURRYING TO
GET THE RIGHT INFORMATION.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAYS THAT THERE WERE
ARMS, GRENADES INSIDE THE TRUCK, AND THERE WAS CLEARLY SOME
SHOOTOUT WITH THE POLICE.
THE PERSON WHO DID THIS ATTACK HAS BEEN KILLED, BUT CONFLICTING
REPORTS ABOUT WHETHER HE SHOT BACK.
THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE IF THERE WERE ARMS AND GRENADES, AND
HE CLEARLY HAD A SIGNIFICANT ñ INTENT TO KILL PEOPLE THERE.
THEY WERE CELEBRATING THE STEEL DAY IN FRANCE, THAT'S WHY A
CROWD HAD GATHERED THERE.
IT'S A MAJOR CRIMINAL ATTACK ACCORDING TO AFT.
IT'S UNCLEAR WHETHER THERE WAS A SECOND ATTRACTOR ñ ATTACKER,
THERE ARE SOME CONFRONTING REPORTS ABOUT THAT.
THERE ARE OVER 100
INJURED, SO AGAIN WERE THICK ATTACK IN THE WORLD.
EVERYBODY IS TIRED OF IT, WE'RE ALL TIRED OF THE DEATH AND
CARNAGE, THERE IS NO PEACE ANYWHERE.
YOU LOOK TO WHAT WE CAN DO, SO, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TRY ON
THE YOUNG TURKS IS TO FIGHT FOR NONVIOLENCE, FIGHT FOR
RATIONALITY, REASON, SCIENCE, FACTS, SO THAT
FUNDAMENTALISM DOESN'T WIN.
WE DON'T KNOW WHO DID THIS YET, WE DON'T HAVE IS IDENTITY,
BUT ANYBODY WHO DID IT IS ALWAYS A NUTS AND IS NOT A FAN OF
LOGIC AND REASON.
THE SECOND THING WE TRY TO DO IS PREVENTING THEM FROM
GETTING THEIR HANDS ON A WAY TO KILL PEOPLE.
IN THIS CASE HE USED A TRACTOR-TRAILER TO KILL A
LOT OF PEOPLE, SO IT'S NOT ALWAYS AN EASY ANSWER.
WE HAPPEN TO THINK, ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA, IF HE HAD LESS
GUNS HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO KILL AS MANY PEOPLE.
BUT IF YOU HAVE INTENT TO KILL, YOU WILL KILL PEOPLE.
HOPEFULLY YOU CAN KILL LESS PEOPLE IF IT'S LESS CROWDED OR
THERE'S LESS GUNS, ETC.,
BUT IT LEADS YOU TO, THE SECOND YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO THE
CAUSE.
ONE IS TO TRY TO ERADICATE FUNDAMENTALISM, ANOTHER IS TO
TRY TO LESSEN THE TOOLS THROUGH WHICH THEY CAN KILL PEOPLE.
HERE THERE SEEMS LIKE ALMOST NOTHING YOU COULD HAVE DONE
IN THIS SECOND REGARD.
WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH HE FIRED INTO THE CROWD, HOW MANY OF
THOSE PEOPLE WERE KILLED, WE DON'T KNOW YET.
AND THEN THIRDLY, WHAT IS OUR ACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
I KNOW PEOPLE GET UPSET WHEN WE TALK LIKE THAT, IT'S ONLY
THE FAULT OF ONE SET OF PEOPLE.
THE PEOPLE WHO DIED HERE, IS THE FAULT OF THE ATTACKER?
OF COURSE IT IS.
BUT WHY IS THERE NO PEACE IN THE WORLD?
THIS IS NOT AGAINST ANY COUNTRY OR MICRO-POLICY, THIS IS A MACRO
IDEA, A LARGER IDEA.
WHEN DID WE HAVE PEACE?
WELL WE HAD SOME PERIOD OF PEACE AFTER WORLD
WAR II ñ
VIDEO BUFFERING ñ
AND I GET IT, THE ñ
IT WAS ENORMOUSLY MAGNANIMOUS AND GENEROUS OF US AND PART
OF WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT AND RESPECTED IN THE WORLD.
WE'VE CHIPPED AWAY THAT RESPECT, A LOT, BUT IT WAS AN
HISTORIC ACT WHEN WE SAID WE WERE GOING TO REBUILD OUR
ENEMIES INSTEAD OF PUNISHING THEM.
MORE OCCUPATION, OR VIOLENCE, OR WHATEVER IT IS, WE'RE GOING
TO SUBJUGATE THEM TOO, INSTEAD WE SAID WE'RE GOING TO
LIBERATE THEM AND BUILD THEM BACK UP.
AND JAPAN AND GERMANY BECAME TWO OF THE ñ OUR BIGGEST ALLIES,
ALSO TWO OF THE BIGGEST ECONOMIES IN THE WORLD, AND
THEY HELPED THE REST OF THE WORLD ñ
THEY HELP THE REST OF THE WORLD THROUGH THEIR ECONOMIC ENGINES.
THEY ARE BOTH HUGE ADVOCATES FOR PEACE, NEVER BUILT NUCLEAR
WEAPONS, ARE NOT OFFENSIVE COUNTRIES.
THE REASON I TELL YOU THAT TODAY IS, SOMETIMES THERE IS A WAY,
AND SOMETIMES IT IS A RIGHT ANSWER AND SOMETIMES THE
RIGHT ANSWER IS NOT CONTINUING THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE.
OKAY THEY MURDERED US AND WE ARE SUPER PEST AND OF COURSE
YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE.
FAMILY MEMBERS OF THOSE KILLED ARE GOING TO SEE RED TODAY,
AND JUSTIFIABLY SO.
IF I WAS THEM, I WOULD BE IN A RAGE.
AND SOMETIMES THE RIGHT ANSWER IS, LOOK IF YOU GOT HITLER,
YOU'VE GOT TO GO KILL HIM.
BUT SOMETIMES THE RIGHT ANSWER IS THE MARSHALL PLAN.
YOU GO IN AND YOU DO SOMETHING THAT WINDS UP CREATING
PERMANENT ALLIES, INSTEAD OF PERMANENT WAR.
A LONGER PEACE.
IT IS POSSIBLE, AND THAT'S WHY AMASSING EVERYBODY TO THINK A
LITTLE BIT OUT-OF-THE-BOX.
DOESN'T MEAN YOU GO HUG A TERRORIST.
THIS GUY IS DEAD ALREADY, IF THERE IS A SECOND ATTACKER
WE BRING THEM TO JUSTICE.
BUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE OVERALL PICTURE, IF YOU WANT TO
END THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE, I KNOW IT'S A CLICH…, IT'S
THE OLD QUOTE FROM GANDHI, AND I FOR AND I LOSE THE WHOLE
WORLD BLIND, AND AS I SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE, I THINK
WE ARE ALL BLIND.
AND IN OUR BLIND RAGE WE ARE STRIKING OUT AT EACH OTHER.
WE HAVE THROWN A LOT OF VIOLENCE AT THIS PROBLEM, AND IT
DOESN'T APPEAR AS IF IT IS WORKING.
IT'S SEEMS AS IF ALL WE HAVE GOTTEN IN RETURN IS MORE
VIOLENCE.
IT'S INCREDIBLE WHAT HAPPENS TO VARIOUS COMMUNITIES,
VARIOUS COUNTRIES WHEN YOU SPREAD OPPORTUNITY.
WHEN YOU SPREAD EDUCATION.
I THINK ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO FIGHT FUNDAMENTALISM IS
EDUCATION.
YOU SPREAD INFORMATION ABOUT SCIENCE, AND LOGIC, AND
REASON, AND YOU GIVE PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY SO THAT THEY
DON'T GET EXCITED ABOUT JOINING SOME TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
ANYONE WHO HAS A GREAT LIFE AND GREAT OPPORTUNITIES HAS NO
INTEREST IN DOING ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO THAT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS AND GET
VERY UPSET, BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR RAGE,
AND I GET IT.
EVERY TIME THESE STORIES BREAK, I FEEL THAT RAGE, AND IT'S
SO MADDENING BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE OTHER SOLUTIONS
THAT WE NEVER TURN TO BECAUSE WE ARE BLINDED BY THAT RAGE.
AND THE CYCLE WILL CONTINUE.
FOREIGN POLICY HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING
RIGHT NOW, AND I THINK IT'S FAIR TO ASK TO JUST REEVALUATE
THAT AND FIND WAYS TO MAKE ALLIES, TO FIGHT AGAINST
IT ñ
VIDEO BUFFERING ñ
AND I TOLD YOU, WE'VE GOT TO BOMB THEM MORE, AND HILLARY
CLINTON IS NOT A WILTING FLOUR IN THAT CASE.
SHE'S VERY HAWKISH, AND SHE WILL COME OUT AND SAY WE'VE GOT
TO PUNISH THEM, ETC.
SO THERE WILL BE A LOT OF TALK ABOUT, HEY HOW DO WE GET TO
A BETTER SOLUTION OVERALL?
SO THAT WE DON'T PERPETUATE THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE.
THERE WILL BE A LOT OF TALK OF, OH YEAH?
WE'LL OUT VIOLENT THEM.
WE'LL SHOW THEM.
IF WE JUST DO A LITTLE BIT MORE VIOLENCE I BET WE WIN.
WELL IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE'RE WINNING, IT LOOKS AT THE
WHOLE WORLD IS LOSING.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S WHAT
HAPPENED IN FRANCE TODAY, AND IT'S ñ EVERY TIME IT
HAPPENS IT'S HEARTBREAKING AND HEART WRENCHING.
WE'VE GOT TO FIND A WAY TO END THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE, AND
RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE DOING DOESN'T SEEM TO BE WORKING.