Den Of Vipers - August 25, 2026

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This guy, Hassan Piker.

**Hakeem Jeffries** (0:07)
Welcome to our trash revolution.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:10)
I'm so upset, my God.

**Cenk Uygur** (0:13)
All right, welcome to The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian with you guys.
Big revelations in tonight's show. So we've got developments in our war against Iran, our war against Canada now, because they're the most entitled country.

**Ana Kasparian** (0:29)
Right.

**Cenk Uygur** (0:30)
Canada is, Canada is, not Israel. No, they're not entitled at all, just Canada.
Okay, insanity everywhere you look. In fact, speaking of Israel, unfortunately, we have more news about their latest terrorist attacks, destroying civilian facilities, murdering more civilians as usual, bombing places of worship because they are an out of control fascist country. So that's later in the program. But super interesting. Yesterday we told you Hakeem Jeffries meeting with Jared Kushner. And we think we know why and it has nothing to do with affordability. We're going to prove that to you guys tonight. And we found out what Hakeem Jeffries promised Jared Kushner. That's our analysis of it and what he has already delivered. So, an amazing show tonight, chock full of information.
All right, Kaspar, what do you want to start with?

**Ana Kasparian** (1:23)
I actually want to start with something that we did not prepare for a segment on the show today. But it's been on my mind and I would like to sound off. So Hassan Piker, who is known to say provocative things, Hassan loves to say provocative things. I mean, he's a Twitch streamer, okay? There's a lot of edgelord commentary from Twitch streamers, including Hassan. But something that he said that was not at all edgelordy or at all provocative is he said that it is wrong to conflate Zionism and the actions carried out by Israel with the Jewish population, with Judaism, generally speaking.
It's a point that we've made on this show. And in fact, he said that it puts our Jewish brothers and sisters in danger by conflating the two. Because what it does is it blames Jewish people overall for the crimes against humanity carried out by Israel.
That is literally, and I'm not exaggerating, the least controversial thing Hassan Piker has ever said. In comes Neera Tanden, okay? A supposed Democrat who is plotting night and day on how to help a Republican, Mike Rogers, win a Senate seat in Michigan. So Hassan did some campaigning with Abdullah Sayed. The Democrat who won the Democratic primary for that Senate seat in Michigan, scumbags like Neera Tanden can't handle it. And so again, working overtime to use Hassan Piker's commentary, somehow blame Abdul Al Sayed for that commentary. Even though in this case, the commentary isn't even controversial or inaccurate. And this is all her effort to destroy his chances of winning that Senate seat and helping Mike Rogers win the Senate seat.

**Cenk Uygur** (3:14)
And it's way worse than that. So first, Neera Tanden is a corporate and foreign government sellout. Everybody knows that. She's one of the leading establishment figures, loves corporate corruption. She's notorious for it.
And she also does the disgusting identity politics like if anyone accuses Hakeem Jeffries, criticizes him of anything, racist, Jim Clyburn, racist, number one, because they support corporations and foreign governments. So Neera views it as her responsibility to protect the deeply, deeply corrupt. But she does sexist, anti-Semite, all the bag of tricks, right? But if it was just Neera Tanden, yeah, that's to be expected, right? That's to be expected, yes. Yeah, but it is coordinated, guys. And this is what you have to understand. And why the establishment is never gonna change, and why we're on a direct collision course here. And I don't know what's gonna happen with the country.
So it is so highly coordinated. Josh Gottheimer also attacking and using the same exact talking point. Hilary Shulton, a so-called Democrat from Michigan, using the same exact talking point. And it doesn't matter, he can keep going and going and going.
Hold on, hold on, dozens of media figures, dozens of politicians. By the way, Democrats, all attacking Democratic candidates because of their connection to Hassan. And this disingenuous quote, as if Hassan meant to hurt Jews when he was saying, let's protect Jewish Americans. All of them know that that's a lie. All of them have seen the full quote. And all of them are lying to you on purpose to not to attack Hassan and Ana. No one knows this better than I do. Because remember when I ran for Congress in 2020, I was viciously attacked, totally lied about. It wasn't about me.
It was because Bernie Sanders had endorsed me. They do smear by proxy. So then they said, you see Bernie's guilty, guilty, guilty. And they all did it in unison, CNN, New York Times, LA Times. There is coordinated strategy in this country to destroy any candidate that Israel opposes. And yes, that includes Jewish candidates like Bernie Sanders, who they despised. AIPAC absolutely despises Bernie and Abdul El Said and everyone that Hassan has endorsed. So all the Democrats vote blue no matter who Democrats are now saying, do not vote for our party. Do not vote for our candidates.