The Young Turks 12.28.17: Opioid Lawsuit, FBI Purge, Jenna Fischer, and Turk & Jerk

The Young Turks

TYT Network

Government, Politics, News

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🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from December 28th, 2017. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.

Hour 1: Segment 1

Cenk. Officials in the one of the nation’s largest counties filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that major prescription drug manufacturers were “complicit” in the opioid crisis and should pay monetary damages for the public health costs. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) tore into special counsel Robert Mueller, saying Mueller would have to get credentials for the mainstream media if he were any more biased. Actress Jenna Fischer apologized on Wednesday after Twitter users corrected an inaccurate tweet she wrote about the unpopular GOP tax bill over the holidays.

Segment 2

Cenk announces Jerk of the Year & Turk of the Year. Jerk of the Year is Donald Trump and Turks of the Year are Tarana Burke, Alyssa Milano, Gretchen Carlson.

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0:05.0	It's a little longer than our YouTube clips, but it's actually shorter than the whole
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0:16.0	You're gonna love it as a full show.
0:17.8	That's at TYTnetwork.com slash join.
0:21.3	Thanks for watching.
0:22.3	All right, well, the young Turks got a wild and exciting show for you guys as usual today.
0:32.4	Lots of different news, some international as well.
0:36.3	If you don't know how much of a sham the Russian elections are, way too you hear the reality
0:42.0	a little bit later in this program.
0:43.2	We got some updates for you guys.
0:46.0	It's Russia's not a democracy, those elections are totally fake.
0:50.1	We'll explain a little bit later why that's the case.
0:55.5	We have some good news in the show.
0:57.8	One that imams Roy Moore as he tries on another nutty conspiracy theory as to why he lost.
1:03.6	That's a little bit later with Anna.
1:06.4	And then yes, today's the day that we do Turk of the year and Jerk of the year, Joe
1:11.2	is stressed as me out because it's a long list and we have to compile it and we have to
1:15.6	blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:16.6	Okay, anyways, we did it.
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