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The Young Turks

Part 2: Bernie’s Birthday Bash

The Young Turks

TYT Network

News, Government, Politics

3.95.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Part 2: TYT's Bernie Sanders Birthday Bash where we celebrate the progressive movement and take a look at Bernie in the early years, his time in Congress, and his legacy. Hosted by Cenk Uygur, Emma Vigeland, and Ben Dixon. Guests will include Nina Turner and Brianna Wu.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, back on the young Turks, Bernie birthday bash.

0:16.0

Benjamin Jackson joins us. How you doing, Ben?

0:19.5

Good, thank glad to be here celebrating the man, Bernard Sanders.

0:24.3

Apparently his son, Levi, growing up, also called him Bernard instead of death.

0:31.2

Maybe that's why Bernie didn't endorse him when he ran. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

0:35.2

No, I actually love that Bernie doesn't endorse his family members. And he says,

0:40.3

I don't believe in dynasties and I don't believe in royalty. So,

0:45.7

less is hard. And then so, you know, people say, hey, Jenga, are you mad at Bernie for

0:50.3

in a sense unendorsing you and your campaign? Are you crazy? He endorsed meeting

0:55.3

endorses his own son. No, no, I love him for it. I love that he had enough courage to endorse

1:02.8

me in the first place. In fact, Nina Turner is going to be on the next segment. We'll talk to her

1:06.5

about that and the campaigns that Bernie's supporting. But Ben, before he has started on his two runs

1:13.5

of 2016-2020, I'm just going to read a couple of names here real quick. So, these are donors that

1:19.6

are making shows like this possible at tyt.com slash go. Fadi A and Sydney, 15 bucks, Julia

1:27.4

S and Rosnell, Massachusetts, 27 bucks, Pat L and Millville, Deliver, Deliver. That's my old

1:34.5

immigrant W's and V's getting mixed up. Anyway, 27 bucks from Alfredo D in San Antonio and five

1:42.5

bucks from Sarah H in Florida. And we're now at 35,000 56 dollars at tyt.com slash go.

1:51.7

Love to get the 40,000 loss today. You guys make all the difference and we do this show together

1:56.7

and we try to get changed together. That's part of the point here and I know the rest of the media

2:01.8

hates that. Oh, they're like, oh, you should be disinterested in the news. No, the reason I

2:06.3

covered the news is because I'm deeply interested in it and I think we need a lot of change in this

2:10.9

country and so does Bernie. So that's why he ran twice. So we're going to show you one cute

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