>> The Russians are getting pretty brazen in their election
interference to the point where they're just owning up to it and saying,
not only did we do it in the past, we're gonna do it in the future.
Now, this is according to Yevgeny Prigozhin who is an oligarch in Russia and
he's commonly referred to as Vladimir Putin's chef.
He also trained mercenaries to fight in Ukraine.
Now he said on social media platform in Russia, these words verbatim.
We have interfered in the US elections, we are interfering and
we will continue to interfere carefully, accurately,
surgically and in our own way as we know how to do fascinating.
Okay, so that's just a clear admission, which by the way, I mean,
whether he admits it or not, of course, Russia or any other country is going to
engage in attempted election interference like that doesn't surprise me.
But the brazenness of his statement, it's great.
He also says something pretty weird and creepy.
During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.
>> No, I know who this guy is.
It's obvious, he's a Hannibal Lecter.
He wants to eat your liver with fava beans.
I just wanna assume that it's like the Russians thing, yeah.
>> Yeah, it could be.
>> Or maybe not, I don't know.
>> Who knows?
Okay, now look, there's the part of the story that I like,
of course is him brazenly admitting it.
Thereby, ruining the propaganda of the Russian agents here in America.
So the Russian agents and you can find them in a lot of places on both ends of
the spectrum are like, no, the Russians are pure as the driven snow.
They would never interfere in any elections.
Now by the way, we're always stuck in the middle, because then corporate media is
like Hillary Clinton would have won if it wasn't for
those dastardly Russians, right, and that's just not true.
But are they doing interference?
Of course, they have trolls have everywhere.
It's super obvious, right?
I make a statement against Russia on air.
I've got trolls all over my twitter account the next day.
I'm sure it's a wild coincidence, etc.
Every site gets hacked, nonstop.
Not necessarily hacked, but like attacks, etc.
>> Right.
>> We also have a tech team, you know where it comes from.
Eastern Europe and Russia, okay?
And then you go talk to crazy right wingers and
crazy theoretical left wingers.
And no, there is no Russia, you're imagining it.
Okay, all right, but here's your Hannibal Lecter dude going.
I'm gonna eat your kidneys and your livers and I'm doing it every day and
I just hacked into your cat, right?
And then look, this guy is super close to Putin.
I mean, he's such- >> He's Putin chef.
>> Yeah, it's such a wonderfully creepy thing where like only Putin
would have a chef who talks about taking people's kidneys and
livers and secretly runs a mercenary group, okay?
>> But I just love the way he worded it to.
During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and
the liver at once which seems like it would be a difficult pinpoint operation.
>> Yeah. >> It seems like a lot of invasive stuff
happening simultaneously.
That's hard to pinpoint or do accurately.
>> Yeah, but look, if anyone could do it, it's Putin's chef, except for
the fact that he doesn't exist, neither does Russian propaganda.
>> No, no, there is and neither does Russia at all.
>> Russia doesn't even exist.
>> I just think that you are a chauvinist, okay?
An anti-Russia chauvinist and you're engaging in McCarthyite smears.
>> Wait, no, but
the great thing is this Putin's best buddy here also doing Mccarthyite smears.
Because seriously, no one on the rights a hopeless cause, but no one on
the left who has criticized Russia has said anything harsher than this guy.
One of the top allies of Putin.
I can see the reactions from trolls and bots and
service attacks, etc., but I don't know for sure.
And I always clarify, hey, here's what we know, here's what we don't know.
But this is the guy saying, yes, I'm doing it.
Me and Putin are doing it on behalf of Russia were trying to destroy your
democracy.
Guarantee, go to gray zone or whatever right now.
They're like, no way.
No, he's the greatest guy in the world plus the Ukrainian Nazi plus Jewish plus
a great chef plus your kidney and livers are gone, but
they never existed in the first place.
>> Okay, so our stage manager who isn't even here right now,
but happens to know everything, because he's a human encyclopedia says
that the kidneys and liver are Congress, senate and the White House.
So he's using, I guess, I don't know, a metaphor for government.
I don't know. >> I suppose and the bottom line is this,
by the way, who are they supporting?
Republicans, they're supporting Republicans, right?
And that's not a surprise that half the Republican Party right now is saying,
Ukraine, do we really need it?
Do we really need it?
Maybe we give it to Russia, right?
And this guy is saying, yeah, we're doing operations to influence you guys.
And by the way, operations includes money, spending money, right?
>> Right. >> And supporting people politically,
right?
And then curiously, half the Republican Party is raising their hands going,
I love Russia, I hate Ukraine.
Yeah, see, okay, so here's the thing.
I mean, we're largely talking about what both political sides.
Meaning, voters not people in positions of power have to say about Russia and
its influence or interference into our elections.
Those people, regardless of whether we agree with them or
disagree with them are irrelevant, right?
The important thing is to understand whether our government sees that risk and
takes the necessary steps to protect our elections from
interference from any nefarious actor.
Whether it's Russia or some other country, it doesn't matter, right?
The problem is when you have one party wanting to provide cover for
the bad behavior of the Russian government or any government for that matter,
then we're in a lot of trouble, right?
And it happens to be the party that yells the most about our
elections being vulnerable and stolen, and this, and that.
No, they're not.
They haven't provided a single shred of evidence, but
it will be interesting to see how they respond to accusations of Russian
interference moving forward now knowing that there's a Russian oligarch very close
to Vladimir Putin just flat out admitting it.
>> Yeah, I'm so sick of the Republicans and
I'm sick of everyone not recognizing that they're all frauds.
Ana, makes a great point.
Election fraud, okay?
First of all, give me a bill, say it, do a rational bill that verifies elections.
Progressives would love to verify elections.
They're like, no, we don't want to verify elections.
We just want to scream if we lost, okay, but that's not a thing, right?
So hey, Republican voters, you wanna ask republican politicians?
Have you propose the bill?
What is your bill?
They can't propose a bill that says Trump should win every election even if he gets
no votes.
You have to actually say, how do you want to verify elections?
How do you want to protect elections?
Okay, we wanna make sure black people can vote.
No, goddamn it.
That isn't election protection bill, okay?
And so then you tell him, look,
these Russians are bragging about how they're interfering with our elections.
So let's make sure that we find a way to protect whether it's voting mechanisms,
etc., etc.
And they're like, no, we don't wanna protect it,
then what are you crying about?
What are you talking about?
So you don't wanna do anything, you just wanna have the Russians help you cheat.
>> Yes.
>> And then you have no constructive solutions at all.
>> Correct, yeah, that's right.
Okay, so I mean, Ana, especially in my lifetime when I was growing up,
Republicans were vicious to Democrats say, okay, yeah,
why don't you go back to mmotherland, Russia?
You left us a Russian lovers right now.
The Republicans have turned around, we love Russia.
How dare you, people on the left criticize our beloved homeland Russia.
It's unbelievable.
It's Alice in Wonderland.
>> I know, well, now big daddy Putin is in charge and they love it.
And so yeah, anyway, we'll see how it all plays out.
>> Super last thing.
Okay, I'm sorry, super last thing.
So you got any tyrant that's interfering in our elections, etc.
Let's say, Mohammed bin Salman, right?
The dictator in Saudi Arabia.
Nobody would say, no, it's no big deal.
Yeah, sure, the Saudis, of course, should mess with our elections and
the Saudis should pick who we're gonna elect.
Nobody would say that.
But all of a sudden when it's Russia,
you have all these people around on the right and
the people pretending to be on the left like Tulsi Gabbard, etc., go, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, Russia should be allowed to interfere plus they're not interfering.
But if they were, it would be awesome.
You're telling me they're not backing Russia for financial reasons.
Okay, maybe they're weirdly like it's a fetish for them.
I love Putin, okay, maybe.
But probably, it is financial interests that have gotten them to totally and
utterly sell out our country.
So there I said it, go cry about it.
>> I mean, financial interests tend to be the number one reason why politicians for
both parties sell out our country.
So I wouldn't be surprised, yeah.