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The Young Turks

Introducing...The News Meeting from our friends at Tortoise.

The Young Turks

TYT Network

Government, Politics, News

45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Is potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil proof that Donald Trump will use cancel culture against his loudest critics? If misogyny is a political ideology, should the Southport murderer's crime be classed as terrorism? Why are health professionals struggling to treat teenagers addicted to vaping?  Tortoise editor Giles Whittell is joined by TYT's very own Cenk Uygur and Tortoise journalists Katie Riley and Claudia Williams, as they each pitch a story they think should lead the news.  You can listen to the full episode here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Giles Whittell from Tortus.

0:02.6

Welcome to the news meeting.

0:05.4

Jenk, as guest of honor, you're up first.

0:07.3

Tell us more about your story.

0:09.2

Mahmoud Khalil was a graduate student in Colombia.

0:12.1

ICE came to arrest them.

0:13.4

Is it cancel culture to arrest them?

0:15.2

Obviously, it doesn't get a bigger cancel culture than arresting someone,

0:18.4

except perhaps maybe deporting them.

0:20.1

So he's literally canceled from the country for daring to criticize Donald Trump's largest

0:25.6

owner. So his real crime is criticizing Israel and leading peace protests.

0:30.1

You can see in this story the kind of handprint of all the different things that the Trump

0:33.9

administration has previously been saying this makes total sense as a kind of

0:38.0

individual to go after and why it would land. Claudia, tell us more about your story. Professor Rachel Isba

0:43.1

is running a pilot scheme in England helping teenagers to stop vaping. It's a clinic that was opened

0:49.6

in January. It's now seeing children as young as 11. Katie, tell us more about your story.

0:55.1

Axel Ruta Cabana killed three little girls and injured a bunch of other people in Southport.

1:00.0

The fact that he went to almost all-female event, I think that we don't see misogyny as terrorism.

1:05.6

What do you make of that argument?

1:06.6

Yeah, I hate it, but not for the reasons that you might think.

1:09.7

He's a lunatic who did a random crime.

1:12.6

Now, here's the thing.

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