>> The right wing Trump enablers who rushed to find ways to blame others for what happened
yesterday. Of course are feeling a little guilty about the fact that they decided to
enable Donald Trump, amplify his unfounded claims of widespread
voter fraud for their own political gain, for their own fundraising.
And so let's start off with Matt Gaetz, because Matt Gaetz tried to twist things in the direction
toward the left. Even though everyone saw video footage of the sea of red MAGA hats,
everyone saw the signs, everyone saw the Trump flags. But Matt Gaetz is trying to
place the blame on a different group of people, let's watch.
>> We really don't know who is behind this. I guess you could call these,
for lack of a better word, Antifa-like tactics,
we don't know if Antifa is out there. >> You're gonna see that 99% of this was
all peaceful and a handful of folks. And again, we've gotta get to the bottom of who they are,
who they're representing, decided to try and kick the doors down.
>> If Antifa was there, we need to root it out and to make sure that
that's called out because it shouldn't be blamed on groups that weren't responsible.
>> I heard those reports too about possible Antifa infiltration.
>> There have been reports that there were instigators, there is no evidence or proof.
>> We also knew that there's always bad actors that will infiltrate large crowds.
>> And we had the reports that groups like Antifa, other radical groups,
I don't know the names of all of them, that they were there to cause trouble.
>> Some pretty compelling evidence from a facial recognition company
showing that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters.
They were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members
of the violent terrorist group Antifa. >> A lot of it is the media's fault, but
keep in mind, we don't know who all were the instigators
in this of these horrible things that happened today. I think a lot of it is the Antifa folks.
I don't know, there's a lot of questions out there. And I wish we could trust the media
to do its job to go research, report who all these people are.
>> All right, so Matt Gaetz was sprinkled in there along with other conservative media figures and
politicians who tried to blame this on Antifa even though there's absolutely no evidence of that.
In fact, Andy Ngo, who never passes an opportunity to blame something on Antifa,
decided to just clearly state on social media that no, this ain't Antifa. But nonetheless,
I also wanna give you some other insane conspiracy theory that was floated by
people like Gaetz. The Washington Times apparently reported a false story that was cited by Gaetz.
The Washington Times report cited by Gaetz and others claimed that a retired military officer had
sent the newspaper a facial recognition analysis of rioters by a technology firm called XRVision.
Those claims were echoed by an unsupported story by the conspiracy hawking right wing site Gateway
Pundit, claiming that at least one busload, they love buses, they always love to cite buses.
One busload of Antifa thugs infiltrated peaceful Trump demonstrators as part of a false Trump flag
operation. Okay, so that company, by the way, came out and released a statement. A
facial recognition company says that viral Washington Times Antifa story is false.
Matt Gaetz had cited the story in Congress as supposed evidence that
Antifa was involved in the Capitol assault, but the company says it's outright false.
Because of course it is, we know exactly what happened yesterday.
Let me just say, there have been some people online, I don't know what their political
affiliation is, I'm guessing they're on the right wing. But this argument that
these domestic right wing terrorists who stormed into the Capitol Building,
proceeded to vandalize property, it led to a shelter in place order for members of Congress.
It's the same thing, exact same thing as the Black Lives Matter protests.
But let's be clear about, first of all, the nature of what they did.
There was a noose that they put up right in front of the Capitol Building.
There were pipe bombs found. There were all sorts of just incredibly depressing and terrifying
things that went down yesterday, none of which were seen during the Black Lives Matter protests.
And also, Black Lives Matter protesters were protesting about a legitimate problem in
this country. The brutality that's been committed by police across the country,
and it affects black people disproportionately. But it also, of course, impacts everyone. That
type of policing is something that needs to be discussed and needs to be addressed.
What these Trump supporters were doing yesterday was they were attempting to overturn the results
of the election. Essentially throw out the results of the election because they don't like
the fact that their dear leader wasn't reelected. They don't like the fact that
the majority of American voters decided to fire him and kick him out of the White House.
So since they didn't get what they wanted, they decided to show up to the Capitol Building and
try to get what they wanted through force and, of course, they're gonna fail in doing that.
But whether or not they succeed or fail doesn't matter. What matters is what their intent was,
what they were intending to do.
And there's no question that the underlying motivation here is to essentially completely
ignore our democratic process in order to get what they want. And you can't compare that to a
legitimate protest like Black Lives Matter. >> Okay, so let me break down the pattern
of how this works.
So The Washington Times now has retracted that story about Antifa,
but it is not stopping any of the conservatives on social media, that is where it began. But they
then keep repeating it as if The Washington Times has not retracted the story and the
company did not come out with a statement saying that it was patently false.
So after all of their believers believe it then, they then turn around and say, well,
I mean, so many people believe it, we have to assume it's true. No, no, no, no, no, no,
you're the one who spread the lies in the first place, you can't then turn around.
And Marco Rubio did the same thing today about the election. He said, well, I mean,
look, there's so many people who, you've seen a thousand Republicans do this. So many people
believe that the election was stolen and it was fraudulent, so we have to respect them.
And I'm really angry at Joe Biden's speech which was divisive, cuz it doesn't respect
the people who did not riot, but genuinely believe the election was stolen.
Whether that's true or untrue, it doesn't matter. Since we lied to them and got them to believe that
it was stolen, you have to respect their idea that it's stolen. You have to cater to their feelings.
And so in order to not to be divisive, you have to hug them and say,
that's such a good point about the election being stolen.
That's such a good point about how Antifa instead of Trump supporters did this. No,
it is not good points, it is purposeful lies done by people like Matt Gaetz.
And I'll give Gaetz credit, he's smart,
he knows that he's 100% lying, he knows that. He's not like Trump, Trump's is a delusional, low IQ
person with real derangement issues, significant mental and psychological issues.
Matt Gaetz is just an opportunist. He's like, you know how I get more popular in
the right wing? I lie to them, they love it, they love it. If I tell them Antifa did this,
even though they see everybody with the QAnon things, and the Confederate flags, and the
MAGA hats, they'll believe anything and then they'll think I'm a hero for lying to them.
And he has correctly assessed that pattern and that phenomenon. Now important thing, remember,
Gaetz is the one who encouraged all this in the first place. He's the one that led the
Congress people to bust into a private meeting in Congress, you remember that,
okay? So they began by saying, we don't care about the law, we don't care about
order, we don't care about privacy, we don't care about boundaries.
So they broke down a door to get into that private meeting in Congress, and they filmed
it and laughed about it, and nothing was ever done. So now, is it surprising that Gaetz is
excusing the actions of the people who broke down the front door to come in and do violence?
It's exactly what Gaetz encouraged, and he must be thrilled about how it turned out,
because it's helping his political career, and that's how Matt Gaetz thinks. Now
one more thing. Guys, this is about projection,
when they say hey, there might be plants in the crowd. You know why they say that?
It's actually an old CIA tool, that's true, you could look it up.
The CIA would plant people in the crowd in foreign countries
to agitate and pretend that they're on the other side and cause violence. And so the
right wing has always known that, and has from time to time actually done that here in America.
Nixon used to do it all the time. Again, you can read any book about it, you can look it up online.
It has a clear history of the right wing doing that in other countries and in this country.
So when they see the right wing doing the violence, they go,
it must have been the left wing plants cuz that's what we would do.
We would plant people in the crowd to cause violence and then blame it on them. It might
be interesting if we ever had anyone on the left who could actually even think of something like
that. But usually, it's the Machiavellian guys on the right, not usually, every time it's them.
So there's no truth to Antifa of infiltrating MAGA, that's insanity. And,
I'm sorry, one more thing, Ana, the privilege that they have is
unbearable. I don't know if you guys saw that video yesterday of this woman named Elizabeth,
where she had gotten maced as she was going in the building.
One of the few people the police apparently took any action to bar from the building.
And she was crying, she couldn't believe that she got maced for breaking and entering,
and smashing the door, and trying to trespass into Congress. She was like,
I was just trying to break in and they maced me.
>> No, it was the most shocking, I mean, she was so shocked that there were consequences
for breaking into the Capitol Building. Shocked that she was pepper sprayed,
absolutely shocked. And look, we talked about the policing yesterday, but we're
gonna talk about it again today. Because I think it's important to really discuss how
the establishment is using what happened yesterday as an excuse to
not only continuing funding law enforcement, but to ramp up funding to law enforcement.
Matt Yglesias tweeted something along those lines today, which I find absolutely disgusting.
Because we know, we know without a shadow of a doubt,
that we have more than enough funding in our security state, in our surveillance state,
that is not the problem. The problem here is, why were the cops in this case outmanned?
Why did it appear that they were unprepared?
What was going on behind the scenes? Now I know I say unprepared and people get upset, right?
But it appears that this is exactly what they were planning on doing, which is allowing these
Trump supporters to just break through, break into the Capitol Building and do what they did.
I mean, they were so emboldened, Cenk, they weren't even covering their faces. Okay,
they didn't have to hide their identities. They're talking to reporters all willy nilly, giving their
first and last names, where they're coming from, like that woman, Elizabeth, that you just cited.
And that is the sense of entitlement that gives you, I mean, I think all the proof that you need
that there is a significant difference in policing toward certain movements like Black Lives Matter.
And Trump fanatics and zealots who don't want to accept the outcome of the general election.
And look, yes, I believe race has a lot to do with it, but also keep in mind,
the police see BLM as their enemies, they do,
because it's all about defunding police. It's all about rooting out the rot that leads to
the excessive force and brutality that so many people are experiencing across the country today.
So they see BLM as enemies. That's why, they'll be ready,
they'll be ready for that kind of protest. But when it comes to people
who are Trump sycophants and who have defended the police historically, yeah, come right in,
let's open the barricades for you, let's open the barricades for you, it's disgusting.
>> Well, I mean, there's literal video of the police opening the barricades to let the right
wing rioters in and there it is. And so have you ever seen? There's a guy on the other side,
come on in, everybody, we're having a riot. Have you ever seen the police open barricades for
African American protesters, or left wing protesters, protesters for peace?
Never, never, all we get is the baton, the mace,
and oftentimes guns and certainly water cannons. No water cannons to be found here,
and let's give you the facts. Only a third of the Capitol Police were used, why?
I mean, I cannot imagine a day where- >> We know why.
>> You would need the Capitol Police more than the day that the president said, why don't you
come down to Washington and let's do something about a so-called stolen election? Well, what
the hell did you think was gonna happen? And so, but to them, Ana, this is the most important part.
To them, when they see white right wingers, they assume good guys, somebody I empathize with.
For the cops, that's like hey, that's my bro, that's my bro,
so I opened the barricades for them. We don't need a lot of cops, it's just good white people,
just good right wingers, they're good patriots.
They won't do anything wrong except storm the building, get people killed,
etc. But when they see black people, when they see left wing, they think, not me, I don't empathize,
I assume bad guys. >> Right, of course.
>> That's the core of the problem with policing. One more thing, Ana, sorry.
>> No, but I gotta ask before you keep going. It's also the ties,
I mean, this has been well documented, well studied. Just the amount of known
white supremacists who have infiltrated local police departments throughout the country,
I would be shocked if they hadn't done that with DC police as well.
It's there, it's a real problem, right? And so BLM has a legitimate
issue that they're bringing to the table that they wanna do something about,
and they're met with violence. Because the very people who are policing these situations are the
ones that they want to change. So anyway, continue, I just wanted to add that part.
>> And the last thing, when Black Lives Matter did a similar protest, except with no violence,
at the Capitol a little while back, five times as many cops were there as yesterday.
Now they had brought in people outside of the Capitol Police. They brought in
all these different departments, cuz they're like, my God, there's gonna be black people here.
Whew, that sounds so dangerous, lots and lots of black people, was it actually dangerous? No,
but they had an army there to meet black folks
who were exercising their First Amendment right and they didn't do any of this nonsense.
The right wing, there it is, that's a literal shot from that day, okay?
When white right wingers who say they have weapons and who are saying they don't want
this democracy to get certified, and that they will do anything to make sure it doesn't,
can't find any cops. Capitol Police, what name so? People in military fatigues,
can't find any, but we could find cops opening the gates for the rioters.
So if you can't see that double standard, you're trying super hard not to see it.