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January 14, 2022 False Positive
The Supreme Court has blocked President Biden’s workplace vaccine rules but it allowed the requirement for healthcare workers. Fed Chair Jay Powell grudgingly acknowledged that corporate profiteering and market concentration are helping drive up inflation. Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather have been sued over an alleged crypto scam. The Democratic Governor of Maine torpedoed a worker’s rights bill. Almost 10,000 Kroger’s workers go on strike in Denver. A judge in western Illinois who found an 18-year-old man guilty of sexual assaulting a 16-year-old girl has come under fire after he later threw out the conviction, saying the 148 days the man spent in jail was punishment enough.

Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Wosny Lambre

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54 min
January 13, 2022 Losing Strategies
As the head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that he was ordering a review of a planned 15% hike in the Medicare Part B premium for 2022, healthcare reform advocates stressed the need for Congress to pass a Build Back Better bill with a provision allowing the federal government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. Corbevax is targeting low-income countries to stop new COVID variants from emerging. Scientists say rich countries are still refusing to fund it. Two absolutely insane op-ed pieces on the same day: Hillary Clinton 2024 Election Comeback and Biden-Cheney 2024. In an interview with OAN, Trump reiterates that he took the booster, and even takes shots on Ron DeSantis.

Hosts: Ana Kasparian

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56 min
January 12, 2022 Jacobin on Fox!
President Biden will endorse changing the Senate filibuster for voting rights legislation. Many politicians traded stocks more than ever before, beat the S&P 500 by a lot, and made numerous unusually timed trades, resulting in huge gains. Larry Kudlow approvingly quoted Jacobin magazine on Fox News. Months after the pipeline company Enbridge announced it had finished its Line 3 pipeline, hundreds of the project’s opponents have pending court cases for arrests made at protests during last year’s construction. A group of North Carolina voters told state officials on Monday that they want Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn to be disqualified as a congressional candidate, citing his involvement in the 6 January attack on the Capitol.
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59 min
January 11, 2022 Terrorists & Arsonists
Several Democratic candidates are moving away from anything that identifies them as “moderate” or "progressive." Joe Manchin reportedly no longer supports his own Build Back Better counteroffer. The War on Terror has failed. Terrorist groups have more than doubled since 2001. The Omicron variant has overwhelmed hospitals in early hit cities across the U.S. A fire that destroyed a Tennessee planned parenthood has been ruled arson. A right-wing Indiana state senator has backtracked on his shocking instructions to a history teacher during a legislative hearing this week not to criticize Nazism or fascism to his students.

Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur

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52 min
January 08, 2022 Shoot to Kill
MAGA rally goers at West Palm Beach waited for Trump, but he never showed up. Three in four voters support banning lawmakers from trading stocks. The president of Kazakhstan gave a shoot-to-kill order against protesters. A conservative media critic published a column on Friday despicably accusing Rep. Jamie Raskin of “milking” his son’s suicide. From his hospital bed, Steve Bannon’s ‘Real America Voice’ field correspondent Ben Bergquam blames Biden for not holding China accountable for the “China Virus,” BLM and Antifa.
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59 min
January 07, 2022 One Year Later
President Joe Biden taunted former President Donald Trump with a litany of defeats that were dealt after the election, and after the failure of the January 6th coup attempt. Moments after Biden addressed the nation from the Capitol rotunda on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, Fox News anchor Dana Perino criticized the speech as “political” and “divisive.” A new report says Boeing and Pfizer are among the companies and trade groups to have donated $8 million to Republicans who voted against certifying Biden's election victory. Dozens of entrepreneurs, made newly wealthy by blockchain and cryptocurrencies, are heading en masse to Puerto Rico this winter. An NFT collector had $2.2 million worth of ape images stolen by hackers.

Hosts: Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola

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1 hr 2 min
January 06, 2022 Winter Wars
Big drug companies raised the prices on hundreds of medications on Jan. 1, with most prices up 5% to 6% on average. America’s nearly 750 billionaires collectively got $1 trillion richer in 2021, a tax-free 25% gain, according to calculations by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) based on Forbes data. In a new Brazilian presidential poll, Lula is leading the judge who locked him up. Dana Perino says the I-95 traffic jam happened because the left won't let cops have ""military-grade equipment"". A Florida activist was handcuffed while trying to attend DeSantis news conference."
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57 min
January 05, 2022 Heavy Lift
Just as Democrats are hitting pause on Biden's climate & social spending package, a huge increase in child poverty could happen as a result of letting the expanded Child Tax Credit expire. A groping charge against former New York Gov. Cuomo has been dropped by a prosecutor. Joe Rogan encourages moving to a new social media app after Twitter bans GOP lawmakers. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rebuked former President Donald Trump Monday after the frequent admirer of dictators endorsed the reelection of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán. In a new Brazilian presidential poll, Lula is leading the judge who locked him up.

Hosts: Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian

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58 min
January 03, 2022 Beggars & Choosers
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has opposed vaccine mandates, is now asking for federal help with COVID-19 testing and treatment. A federal lawsuit filed by a prominent civil rights attorney alleges that police officers in Fairfax County protected a sex trafficking ring in northern Virginia in exchange for free sex from the trafficked women. The Pentagon is projected to give $407 Billion to private military contractors this year. Hillary Clinton has urged the Democratic Party to be “clear-eyed” about what wins elections, ahead of next year’s potentially defining midterms. The IRS has stood by its decision to let a church in Iowa use hallucinogenic drugs.

Hosts: Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian

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58 min
December 31, 2021 Conflict of Interest
Alan Dershowitz reacts to the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict. Just a casual conversation among a couple of anti-vaxxers at an anti-vaxx rally. A federal ban on surprise medical bills takes effect on Jan. 1. People without COVID are dying because hospitals are full of unvaxxed patients. A border town in Southern China caught 4 people that were breaking COVID restrictions, so they paraded them thru the streets in a public shaming display.

Hosts: Cenk Uygur & Francesca Fiorentini

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The Young Turks is Home of The Progressives. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and a host of progressive voices deliver the news and provocative commentary. Whether you are seeking a breakdown of current…