THE UNITED STATES HAS HAD A LONG AND BLOODIED
HISTORY WITH NATIVE AMERICANS AND SOMETHING VERY SYMBOLIC
HAPPENED AT STANDING ROCK RECENTLY WHEN WES CLARK JUNIOR,
ONE OF OUR HOSTS HERE AT TWO IT NETWORK WENT TO STANDING ROCK TO
PROTEST DAPL, THE PIPELINE THAT WAS BEING BUILT IN NORTH DAKOTA.
NOT ONLY DID HE AND THOUSANDS OF VETERANS STAND WITH THE
PROTESTERS, OR WATER PROTECTORS AS I SHOULD CALL THEM, THEY DID
SOMETHING AMAZING.
THEY ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED TO NATIVE AMERICANS
FOR WHAT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED IN US HISTORY.
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LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS WHICH I THINK ARE INCREDIBLE AND IT
SHOWS ALL OF THESE VETERANS.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE PROPER
OUR COUNTRY.
WHO HAVE PROPER THE FREEDOM OF OUR COUNTRY.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WE SUPPORT AND HAVE BEEN URGED
TO SUPPORT BOTH BY THE RIGHT AND LEFT WING IN THE UNITED
STATES AND THEY ARE BOWING DOWN IN FRONT OF NATIVE
AMERICANS AND APOLOGIZING TO THEM FOR WHAT THEY'VE GONE
THROUGH IN THE UNITED STATES.
WES IS IN PART OF THE SHOW FOR 10 YEARS AND IF YOU WATCHED
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE YOUNG TURKS CALLED MAD AS HELL YOU
WILL SEE WES IN THAT AMONG OUR FIRST 10 EMPLOYEES.
BUT FOR 10
YEARS I STRUGGLED TO COME UP WITH A NAME FOR WES.
GIVEN THAT
HE WAS IN THE MILITARY, IT SHOULD'VE BEEN A LAYUP BUT JUST
ABOUT A MONTH AGO ON AN EPISODE OF OLD SCHOOL I CAME UP WITH A
NICKNAME, THE CALVARY, BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE CALVARY.
YOU SEE
THEM IN HIS UNIFORM THERE.
RIGHT THEN, RIGHT AROUND THE
SAME TIME HE CAME UP WITH THIS CRAZY IDEA TO ORGANIZE 2000
VETERANS, OR NO, AS MANY VETERANS AS HE COULD, YOU KNOW
HOW MANY WERE GOING TO SHOW UP AND HAVE THEM GO TO STANDING
ROCK FOR THE FIRST TIME TO HAVE THE CALVARY ARRIVE TO
PROTECT NATIVE AMERICANS.
TO PROTECT THEM.
IT IS SYMBOLIC AND IT SHOWS THAT IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR BACKGROUND IS.
IT DOESN'T
MATTER WHAT GROUP YOU IDENTIFY WITH OUR MILITARY IS SUPPOSED TO
PROTECT EVERYONE IN AMERICA.
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT OUR
FREEDOMS AND IN THIS CASE THEY WENT OUT THERE AND THEY FOUGHT
FOR THE FREEDOM OF CLEAN UNTAINTED DRINKING WATER.
THEIR
FREEDOM FROM CORPORATIONS TAKING OVER YOUR LIFE AND TAKING OVER
YOUR LIVELIHOOD.
IT'S INCREDIBLE TO SEE A PICTURE LIKE
THAT.
THE ONE THAT WE WERE JUST SHOWING YOU GUYS EARLIER OF WES
BOWING, THAT ONE.
I WANT TO PRINT THAT OUT HANGING ON THE
WALL BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A POWERFUL IMAGE AND IT SHOWS TRUE
SOLIDARITY IN THIS COUNTRY THAT I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE, PEOPLE
LIKE ME AT LEAST HAVE KIND OF GIVEN UP ON BECAUSE WE ARE
SO CONSUMED WITH ALL THIS HATRED THAT IS GOING ON.
I'M JUST NOTICING IN THE BACKGROUND THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN
THERE IS NO PRESS DIE IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS JUST ONE
CAMERA.
THE CAMERA TYT SENT.
OUR MEMBERS GOT US TO HIRED
JORDAN SHERIDAN AND WE SAID THAT WRONG CAMERA AND ALL THE SUDDEN
THERE A LOT OF CHEMIST.
LET ME ADD ONE OTHER THING ABOUT WES.
THERE'S NEARLY 100 STORIES DONE ABOUT THESE VETERANS AND WHEN HE
FIRST STARTED IT, HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
COME AND HE JUST SAID LOOK, I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST.
HE CALLED
MICHAEL WOULD, LONG TIME VIEWER OF THE YOUNG TURKS WHO IS ALSO A
VETERAN AND FORMER BALTIMORE COP. 2 THINGS HAPPEN.
ONE IT
TURNED OUT WES AND MICHAEL WERE AMAZING ORGANIZERS AND THEN THE
BACKUP THEY GOT FROM FELLOW VETERANS THAT TURNS OUT THEY
WERE AMAZING ORGANIZERS.
THAT'S WHY THEIR LETTER VETERANS AND
WILL PACK, THEY KNOW HOW TO GET A MISSION DONE.
IT TOOK ON A
LIFE OF ITS OWN AND PEOPLE ALIKE YES, BETTER IS GOING TO HELP
NATIVE AMERICANS WHO ARE THERE TO PROTECT ALL OF OUR WATER.
IT
IS PERFECT.
IT BUILT AND BUILT UNTIL THEY LITERALLY HAD TO
CAPITA 2000 BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T TAKE ANYMORE.
THEY
LITERALLY WOULD NOT BE IN THE ENCAMPMENT.
IT'S A POWERFUL BUT
THE THING I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT WES IS OUT OF THE 100
STORIES THAT WERE WRITTEN ABOUT THAT LITERALLY, WES REFUSED TO
PARTICIPATE IN IT BECAUSE HE SAID THIS IS NOT ABOUT
SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT IT'S NOT ABOUT ME.
HE DIDN'T DO ANY
PRESS AND WHAT TURNS AROUND?
THE MOST ICONIC PICTURE IS WES BOWING TO THE NATIVE
AMERICAN ELDER.
IRONICALLY, WE'RE GIVING IMPRESSIVELY DOESN'T WANT
IT BUT NONETHELESS.
BUT WHEN HE WATCHED IT, HE'S GOTTEN A LITTLE MORE
RELIGIOUS NOW.
IS HE LITERALLY MORE RELIGIOUS NOW?
YES.
WHEN HE TOLD ME WHEN WE WERE TALKING ON OLD-SCHOOL I WAS
LIKE NO.
HE WAS LIKE NO I'M SERIOUS MAN.
HE TOLD THE STORY
ABOUT HOW HE WAS GOING TO GET INTO A CONFLICT WITH SOMEBODY
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE WAS LIKE I DON'T KNOW JESUS CAME OVER ME.
WAS A MUSHROOMS?
NOTE THAT.
AND JUST KIDDING.
HE JUST BECAME MORE PEACEFUL AND DECIDED TO GO THIS ROUTE AND
ALL OF A SUDDEN ALL THIS HAPPENED.
MY POINT IS HE KEPT
SAYING TO ME CENK UYGUR IF YOU DON'T DO IT FOR YOURSELF, GOOD
THINGS WILL HAPPEN.
AND NOW THIS IS THE PICTURE BEING SEEN
ALL ACROSS THE WORLD, FROM THE GUY WHO DIDN'T DO IT FOR
HIMSELF.
I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT
REGARDING MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HOW HE WANTED TO LIBERATE PEOPLE
FROM THE HATE THEY WERE FEELING AND HOW POWERFUL THAT IS
BECAUSE, AND I THINK THAT WAS IN A WAY IS KIND OF TAKING THAT
ROUTE AS WELL BECAUSE THERE IS THE ANGRY ROW WHERE YOU GET
ATTACKED AND YOU ATTACK BACK AND YOU DO IT AGGRESSIVELY.
I THINK
WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT ROUTE, BUT I REALIZE IF YOU
WANT TO ACTUALLY CHANGE THE ONLY REAL WAY TO DO IT IS TO NOT
ATTACK OR TO TREAT PEOPLE AS IF THEY ARE LESS THAN ARE
STUPID OR WHATEVER IT IS.
IT'S TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR PERSPECTIVE AND TRY TO, THEN BY
UNDERSTANDING THAT PERSPECTIVE AND TRYING TO WORK WITH THEM.
THAT IS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS TO DO BY THE WAY
ESPECIALLY WHEN SOMEONE IS ATTACKING YOU OR SHOWING YOU
SO MUCH HATRED, BUT I THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT WAY TO GO ABOUT IT.
YOU KNOW ME, I AM NOT RELIGIOUS AND I ATTACK BACK.
PART OF THE REASON IT'S PART OF THE REASON WHY WES IS A BETTER
GUY THAN I AM.
I KNOW SOME CONSERVATIVES LOOK AT THAT
PICTURE AND SAY OH, LOOK AT THE LIBERALS WHO WANT TO APOLOGIZE
FOR THINGS.
BUT GUYS, YOU KNOW THAT IT'S A STONE COLD FACT WHAT
HAPPENED TO THE NATIVE AMERICANS.
ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME
WE DO SOME HEALING?
IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE IT
AND SAY OKAY, NOW LET'S WALK TOGETHER.
LET'S GO FORWARD
TOGETHER.
IT TAKES A BIGGER MAN TO DO WHAT WES IS DOING THEN TO
JUST TALK A LOT OF STUFF ON THE INTERNET AND PRETEND YOU ARE A
BIG GUY IN THAT YOU ARE GOING TO ATTACK PEOPLE.
AS THE NATIVE
AMERICANS BEGAN THIS PROTEST AND THEY DESERVE ALL THE CREDIT IN
THE WORLD AND NO ONE BELIEVED IN THEM BUT THEY MADE A STAND, IN
THIS CASE LITERALLY A STANDING ROCK AND THEY AT LEAST FOR THE
MOMENT BEING HAVE ACHIEVED SOME VICTORIES AND DELAYING THE
PIPELINE AND GETTING THE ORDER FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA TO STOP THE
DRILLING.
THEY CAME AS LIBERATORS.
I THINK WES IS
COMING AS A LIBERATOR AND THEN YOU SEE THE ONE COP WHO SWITCHED
OVER, FROM WISCONSIN.
THEY CAME TO BE AGAINST THE WATER
PROTECTORS AND SHE IS LIKE I CAN'T DO THIS.
SHE SWITCHED
OVER AND BECAME ONE OF THE PROTESTERS.
YOU SAW SOME OF THE
OTHER COPS PEELING AWAY AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THE POLICE HAVE
MOVED THEIR BARRICADE BACK AND THIS IS WINNING.
YOU THINK THIS
IS WEAKNESS, YOU HAVE IT ALL WRONG.
THIS IS THE STRONGEST
THING IN THE WORLD.