The Young Turks, April 6, 2016

The Young Turks: April 06, 2016

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Cenk and Ana hosting. The press is giving Bernie a lot of attention after a “failed interview” with the New York Daily News. But in reality, the Daily News editors were the ones who bungled facts in the interview to prove that Bernie doesn’t understand the fine points of policy. Cenk outlines the 4 layers of “gotcha questions.” Bernie is also facing criticism thanks to the Daily News for supposedly supporting gunmakers against Newton kin lawsuit. After Trump’s loss in the Wisconsin primary, he released a statement accusing Cruz of breaking election rules. The statement specifically points out that Cruz  was coordinating with his own super PACs as well as those against Trump. In an interview with Glenn Thrush of Politico, Hillary revealed several things about herself as a person and politician, and how she feels about Bernie Sanders. Video of Hillary talking about the difficulties in her campaign because it’s hard for her to focus on herself. In the same interview, Hillary says Bernie might not even be a democrat. In order to move against tax-dodging corporate mergers, the Obama Administration is going after corporations using inversion deals. U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc agreed on Tuesday to terminate its $160 billion agreement to acquire Botox maker Allergan Plc, as a result.

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New York, Vermont, and Washington state have all banned official travel to Mississippi over the signed LGBT law allowing religious groups and some businesses to refuse service to gay couples. North Carolina passed a similar law that bars local governments from passing anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people. As a result, PayPal has pulled its plans to to expand to North Carolina. San Francisco has been fighting, and has succeeded, in family leave. The state pushed. The city board of supervisors unanimously passed a measure for 6 weeks of fully-paid parental leave for both parents. A U.S. judge has ordered a central figure in a debunked Rolling Stone magazine article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia to be deposed in a federal defamation lawsuit. The Feds uncovered a visa fraud scam by setting up a fake university. Twenty-one people were arrested Tuesday for allegedly conspiring with 1,000 foreigners to fraudulently maintain student visas and obtain worker visas. GAP is apologizing for a “racist” new ad featuring a white kid using a black girl as an armrest. Beyonce is suing a company for trademark infringement for using “Feyonce” in their merchandise. Instagram disabled a woman’s account and censored an image of a cake she posted because it looked like a nipple.

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Bonus Episode, April 6, 2016

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Cenk says he is in a good mood because on Wednesdays he has a co-host, so he has time to research and doesn’t have to stress out as much. Cenk isn’t watching college basketball anymore because he doesn’t have enough time to. Cenk discusses more on the Daily News/Bernie interview.

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