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THE TRUMP SAGA TRUMP LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING Brian Tyler Cohen: 🚨 Pete Buttigieg SHUTS DOWN Trump over hurricane lies PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pR1noeJ6s4 Peter Burgess COMMENTARY The contrast between Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters and serious people like Secretary Pete Buttigieg is huge and stark. Donald Trump has absolutely no 'moral compass', yet he has substantial support around the country ... that is the United States. It is not obvious to me why Donald Trump has any political support. The fact that perhaps more than 30% of the American public is likely to vote for Trump ... and maybe sufficient to have Trump win in the 'electoral college' makes no sense to me, but it is a possible reality. It makes me think back to some of the impressions I had of Canada and the United States in the 1960s when I was in my 20s and visiting Canada and the United States for thie first time in 1960 as a visitor and student and then later in the decade as an immigrant seeking employment. As a visitor and student, I had a good time and felt a welcome, but as an immigrant seeking employment a few years later, the feel was very different. It was competition! Looking back ... I would not describe my personal experience in the United States as being 'very welcoming'. Peter Burgess
🚨 Pete Buttigieg SHUTS DOWN Trump over hurricane lies Brian Tyler Cohen 3.3M subscribers Oct 5, 2024 Interviews with Brian Tyler Cohen INTERVIEW: Brian interviews Secretary Pete about Trump lying about the hurricane relief effort to help himself politically, how he and the rest of the administration solved the port strike, and the huge jobs report from this past week. For more from Brian Tyler Cohen: Order my #1 NYT bestselling book SHAMELESS: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/s... YouTube (español): / @briantylercohenespanol Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/36UvEHs Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0066rKC... Twitter: / briantylercohen Instagram: / briantylercohen Facebook: / briantylercohen Newsletter: https://www.briantylercohen.com/sign-up/ TikTok: / briantylercohen Substack: https://plus.briantylercohen.com Transcript 0:00 now we've got the Secretary of Transportation P Budaj thanks so much for taking the time thanks for having me on so I want to direct your attention to this moment from Trump in Michigan just this week that's what's happening they stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season in the aftermath of the hurricane Harris and Walls stole money from FEMA to give it to illegal immigrants so they would vote for them obviously an outrageous lie can I have your response to what he said and what has this Administration and FEMA been doing to help people in the aftermath of the hurricane yeah it's false it's easy to prove that it's false and you know without getting into the campaign side of things I can just tell you this is an Administration that has been on the ground from day one actually before day one prepositioning people to do uh what FEMA does best and and what uh emergency responders do best which is to help people in need now the scale of the devastation here is colossal which is exactly why it is so important uh that 1:01 nobody be throwing around false statements or distracting people from the very real and Urgent needs on the ground uh I was at the femo command center saw the work that's happening part of which of course is uh through our department trying to help restore roads Bridges give people good route information so that they can get emergency vehicles in when the normal Road or Bridge has been washed out all of us working together to solve problems for people and help them through this unbelievably shocking devastating damage have we not already seen what the vilification of immigrants does in the aftermath of of Vance and Trump claiming that Haitians are eating dogs and cats like doesn't this kind of rhetoric imperil the lives of innocent people look again and again we have seen uh problems created for communities by somebody trying to uh use them for political advantage and unfortunately it has been true for hundreds of years that one of the most cynical things solo can do is attack immigrants uh in order to 2:02 try to score political points and to try to make literally anything into an excuse to attack immigrants most recently a hurricane but it doesn't matter what the issue is a hurricane housing prices uh who knows uh whatever it is all they're going to say is uh here's who you should blame here's who you should hurt when the real answer is uh here's who we need to help and how can we get together and do there's another lie that's kind of Taken hold on right-wing media that all FEMA is doing is just hand in people 750 bucks and calling it a day can you speak on that yeah so some internet lies are completely made up others start with some misunderstood fact and go from there probably the the the origin of that lie is that there are uh funds that that get people an immediate uh uh check for help about 700 bucks for things like food diapers uh but that doesn't mean that's all that they get it means that it's the first most immediate source of support and what's extremely troubling again is to see this uh benefit that's 3:01 going to people this way of helping people somehow twisted and used for what I can only assume are political purposes and look none of this is helping the responders who are actually on the ground it is extraordinary and inspiring what's what's happening uh we are seeing First Responders uh getting through to people even as their own communities have been impacted uh we're seeing uh extraordinary efforts uh coordinating different kinds of agencies law enforcement firefighters the military troops the President Biden deployed to the area uh to try to help I've seen amazing examples of what's being done and by the way uh when you get away from these uh uh these internet lies uh and some of the most extreme voices I've been really struck by how bipartisan hour worked with the states and the governors has been uh called several governors of impacted States and you would never know listening to the call between me and a governor which ones belong to the same political party as I did and which ones didn't uh it's just about how to get stuff done and anybody else commenting this should be following 4:01 that same Spirit what does it say that while the Administration has been Swift and thorough in dealing with this hurricane that certain Republicans have used their time not to help but to immediately try and vilify you guys like that's what they're using their their political Capital their time their resources on while people need help well look at any problem that Americans are facing I I think you you look at it and you can either be somebody who asks how can I help with this or there are people who ask how can I help use this uh or how can I use this instead of help right um and the really unfortunate thing is there there uh is so much distraction that takes away from the good work that is going on and everybody can help so if you're concerned about this and you're not sure what to believe first of all don't believe some dude on the internet look for actual data from FEMA from emergency responders from uh local as well as Federal Authorities on what's going on and uh importantly on how to 5:00 help unfortunately even though some of this internet politicization is relatively new you know people trying to use a natural disaster for their own benefit uh that's not new people always try to exploit tragedy but uh the best way through that the best way to put that in its place is to stay at aligned with with those who are actually making a positive difference on the ground trusted sources whether we're talking about trusted news sources trusted official sources at every level of government or trusted third party sources like the Red Cross uh who everybody uh knows uh will tell you what is needed and how to help don't believe some dude on the internet should be like the the theme of this election the theme of our time right now um another crisis that you dealt with was the Port strike just this past week so what is the update in terms of where that stands right now well thankfully the ports are reopening as we speak goods are moving and this is so important for our economy it's even more important because of the disaster recovery which is a point that we made 6:00 to the parties the companies and the unions as they were working toward a deal and something President Biden mentioned uh through an extraordinary amount of effort Lots going on in the administration uh midnight meetings pre-dawn meetings uh extraordinary shuttle diplomacy by our acting Secretary of Labor Julie Sue uh talking to the companies and the unions as well as folks like me and and White House officials involved the bottom line is there is now a tentative deal that represents a much uh deserved and long awaited in wages for these workers these are folks who have not seen the kind of wage gains that most American workers have over the last decade and if you just think about what it was like during covid obviously to do a job like theirs uh you know can't do that online you can't do that from home many of them lost their lives and uh now they want to participate in this enormous economic growth that's happened and the enormous profitability of of the shipping industry uh this deal gives them a chance to do that and it brings an end to the strike and gets those goods moving again because we count on 7:00 obviously all of those ports to get so many things that we buy at the store and that we use in our everyday lives while you and the labor secretary and the NEC director and the president were working on resolving this here's what Florida Governor Ronda santis was doing he took the Twitter I'm going to put this on the screen writing that Florida's ports are being impacted by the inaction of the Biden Harris Administration and as a result he was deploying the Florida National Guard and the Florida state guard can you talk about the contrasting strategies here that while you all were brokering an agreement Dan santis decided to militarize the situation yeah we were focused on solving the problem there was an enormous amount of work going on which led to the result of the strike coming to an end and uh by by the way again this is something that shouldn't have been political uh president Trump and President Biden were pay saying pretty much the same thing vice president Harris to about the workers deserving a raise so I I was surprised by that uh there wasn't enough time for that to become a major obstacle to solving the problem but it's certainly could have been uh and I'm 8:01 just surprised by the Instinct uh given how important these workers are to want to uh send in assaulters I you know the governor has his authorities he has his rights but I got to say if I were the governor of a state that had just been hit by a hurricane and I was deciding where to deploy the National Guard I think I'd be sending them to something like a sandbag line not to a picket line what are the broader implications of this Obsession by Republicans a party that frames itself as small government to constantly try and wield the military for political purposes from Trump attempting to send the military in to to seize voting machines during the election to now disantis threatening to send the military in during this Port strike yeah one of the things that I always understood during my time in uniform was the principle of Civilian authority over the military but also the principle that your authorities were non-political we weren't supposed to feel it as a unit uh or when we were deployed uh whether the person that the the top of the chain of command was a 9:01 democrat or a republican that's how it's supposed to be and there is a concern here I think of the uh uh the politicization and certainly that these uh proposed uses for the military that have nothing to do uh with the military's actual Mission which is to keep the American people safe and again they're doing it right now as President Biden DOD National Guard uh so many have worked to get active duty troops on the ground to help save lives and and get people who suffer is difficult to describe uh to get them back to normal so I want to switch gears to the economy now the jobs report was just released this past Friday more than a quarter of a million jobs were added um this past month blowing past expectations for my entire life Republicans have beat their chest as these job creators as the only political party that's going to create jobs and yet we've got a democratic Administration rights now right now that has added 16 million jobs compared to a net loss of 3 million jobs in the previous Administration what's the 10:01 message to Americans who listen to these Republicans frame themselves as responsible stewards of the economy well I think again you got to start with the facts and the actual problems we're trying to solve one of the problems that I think most Americans at least where I come from in the industrial M West take very seriously is the fact that we lost a lot of our manufacturing jobs I woke up being grew up being told you we're kind of done making things in this country um the previous administration talked about that a lot but it didn't really change we had a Manufacturing recession during the previous administration but under this Administration uh we have jobs coming back to the Midwest uh in very traditional Industries uh I I visited the steel plant that that's making the the steel for the rails that are going into the uh rail upgrades that we're doing across the country I saw a ship building our department uh purchased a new training ship that was part of the story of how the Philadelphia ship yard came back to life but uh also in newer Fields like batteries and clean energy uh equipment material a lot of UAW 11:00 workers going to be getting jobs in some of the newer hybrid and EV factories going up as well as the more tradition traditional factories we have this record job growth because of a policy of keeping those jobs on us soil and growing them and the rest the rest is just talk but talk is cheap uh results are real and the jobs results have been extraordinary well it seems like the perfect place to leave off secretary boy judge thanks so much for taking the time thank you quite I got to speak with you [Music]

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