Hi everybody.

Welcome to the Young Turks. I'm your host Anna Casparian and yes, I am still doing the show from home today, but I should be back in the studio very, very soon.

It's Wednesday, which means I'll be hosting the first hour solo and we're going to get into a lot of interesting topics today, including Abby Martin, journalist with the Empire Files, asking Pelosi an important question about how the defense industry is contributing to climate change.

I'm also going to give you some highlights from Kyle Rittenhouse's testimony during the trial, something that was pretty unexpected to be quite honest with you. It's not very common for the individual facing homicide charges to take the stand.

Usually that happens when they think it'll help the case. And so we'll get into some of the moments from his testimony, which last I was watching. He was still testifying it's this entire day of testimony from Rittenhouse.

And so we'll also talk about what is leading to the high gas prices that many of us have already experienced at the pump.

Seems like a lot of people are frustrated and upset understandably so as a result of those higher gas prices.

But I do think it's important to look at market manipulation and why we're seeing the prices skyrocket as they are later in the second hour.

And I'm going to give you a little bit of a break, but have no fear. Wasney, Laumbrei will be joining me to talk about other issues, including an opulent wedding that was officiated by Nancy Pelosi, furthering the narrative that she is a hypocrite, especially when it comes to issues related to the climate.

And I'll tell you all that as I always do, please, I'm just definitely recommending that you guys like and share the stream, get the word out about our show. And of course, as always, I appreciate that.

And that's it. Let's get to our first story.

Abby Martin from the Empire files got a chance to ask House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about how the Pentagon contributes to the climate crisis during the COP26 summit. Now, you can tell that Nancy Pelosi really had no idea who Abby Martin was because had she known who Abby Martin was and had she been familiar with Abby Martin's excellent reporting.

She maybe wouldn't be willing to call on her to ask a question, but no, less Pelosi saw it as an opportunity to provide the optics of caring about gender equality just by the very nature of calling on Abby Martin a woman to ask her a question.

Let's hear how this all started out.

Wait a minute. I want a woman. I want a woman.

Gender equality here.

I just that moment is so indicative of what you can expect from the Democratic Party today, right?

Just giving you the optics of inclusion and tolerance and caring about diversity and gender equality, you know, but again, when it comes to actual substantive policy, something I argue all the time.

Democrats don't deliver. So it's cute when you kneel in a kentay cloth because you want to provide the optics of caring about the African American community.

But how about past the police reform that the community has been demanding. It's cute when you pretend to care about women and equality for women or creating a better society for women to succeed in.

But how about you fight a little more, you know, aggressively in regard to paid family leave in regard to providing affordable childcare.

But of course, when it comes to fighting aggressively on those matters, Nancy Pelosi gives up quite easily.

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