Kaine lost out. At the time it didnt seem like that big of issue, but really oh come on. I have been waiting my whole life to give this please michael its always great to hear analysis of hollywoods most glamorous night from a guy who watched it in sweat pants while eating easy mac with a spork. Someone is also here in the war room, check us out on line at current. Com. Have a great right. Michael is it a bunch of papal bull. This moment is going on. Now it is knocking at the door of the conclave. Michael and then last night argo wins the best picture oscar, but former president jimmy carter said that they do not get enough credit. Argo is spelt with an a. Ben affleck was in tehran for a day and a half. The real hero was tim tailor, the canadian ambassador. Michael and dont look now but there is a slowspeed chase. Lets go there life. Aim not exactly whose idea it was to put me behind the wheel of someones 85,000 electric vehicle. But they have, and well show you why coming up. Michael Jacki Schechner in a tesla. It is the young turks, and it is our go time. [ music ] michael so the cardinals cardinals are all getting together right now. Theyre starting the conclave to select the new pope. All but one of them is going there. Today the only one from the a nightunited kingdom keith obriens britains highest ranking catholic will noting because he resigned in the wake of stinging allegations. Here is more on that. Reporter one day after he peered out his window for the final time benedict xvi changed the rules for the conclave. Vatican insiders say its not a moment too soon. They are are claims that benedict stepped because down of the gay priests and blackmail in a dossier. Cardinal obrien today resigned and Cardinal Mahoney is accused of concealing the crimes of pedophile priests but he will help choose the next pope but Abuse Victims call that an outarrangement Cardinal Obrien said himself that they should look outside of the box and he thinks hes that maybe the pope should be selected from cardinals from africa and Latino America where the church is showing growth. Its odd that those progressive words will not be part of this conclave, but other words that obrien has used over and over by antihomosexual antigay marriage, its the rhetoric that the church is finding difficult to countenance as they try to become a worldwide body. We would like to talk about this with someone who has had experience with the Catholic Church barbara blaine. Founder and president of the Survivors Network for those abused by priests. Its called snap. The largest support group for anyone hurt by priests. How financial are you with Cardinal Obrien. Is this the first step or this is the tip of the iceberg and these things keep happening and happening. Its important not to view this as outstanding that he took it upon himself to resign. We believe he should have resigned much sooner and we believe that Pope Benedict should have been demanding his resignation when the allegations first arose. Michael lets hear what obrien said. He said, the holy father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today. 25 february 2013. Looking back over my years of ministry for any good i have been able to do i thank god. For any failures i apologize to all whom i have offended. Its far more pronounced than saying that i showed up late at mass one day. Its important to recognize what were talking about here are criminal acts. Were not talking about something where we were running late or we missed mass on sunday or we forgot an and aid on good friday or something. Thats not the issue. Were talking about criminal behavior. Criminals belong behind bars. I believe its time that Pope Benedict and other Church Officials start demanding that bishops across the globe turn over crimes to police and let them handle it. Michael are you hopeful that this is a new generation of priests and cardinals in that church. Even though it came from Cardinal Obrien and everything he says we can be skeptical about, there is talk about banning celibacy within the priesthood. Do you think theyre listening or are they totally tone deaf. Im not sure, to be hospital with you what they hear and what Church Officials do with the information that they do receive. I do know that they have failed completely frequently, and in turning over information about sex crimes to police. They continue to harbor criminals behind closed doors and they still fail to put the protection of children first. They seem far more interested in worrying about the reputation of the hierarchy and reputation of the church itself rather than the innocent children within the the church. Michael you know, to that, barbara, the statistics are unbelievable. From 1950 to 2011, thats 61 years, and 6100 priests were accused of some kind of sexual misconduct. Im not great at math but thats 100 priests a year by my calculations and thats 16,000 victims. They did have a lot to account for and a lot of changes have to happen. There are the numbers again. 67,100 priests accused, 16,000 victims. When you see these numbers the course that they need to reverse is massive. Do you see that a new pope could do this singlehandedly, or is this something that you think will take years and years to change . Well, two things. I think its really important to recognize that those numbers are the bear minimum. When you say 61 accused i think its 6100 accused i think its important to recognize those are 6100 credibly accused. Those are the ones that the bishops are willing to admit to. I believe there are many mother. You say 16,000. Thats what the u. S. Bishops are willing to admit to, but other scholars say that the numbers are more like 100,000. So i think this are many more victims. In terms of whether we should be hopeful for the church, my position is that i believe we have to be hopeful because so much is at risk. I mean, whats at risk is the safety of children. We know we cant undo what happened if a childs innocence is shattered but we can prevent the shattering from happening. Thats what i hope Church Officials will do under the new regime, with the new pope. Michael im curious, barbara, before we let you go, where there is smoke there is also a new pope, there is also fire. With these allegations that i shouldnt say allegations, but rumors where benedict is stepping down . Look, i dont think were ever going to really ever be able to verify what the pope step down. I dont know if speculation is all that helpful. I do believe what is important to recognize is that hes stepping down, and its important to recognize that his reign was one that took absolutely no action to protect children. He made lofty statements. He offered simple apologies but he didnt take any action to make things better. We hope that the new pope will have courage and take decisive action. Michael its something that we cant hope for too soon. Barbara with snap the largest support group for anyone hurt by clergy, and we thank you for being here with us on the the young turks. Thank you. Michael when we come back on the young turks. We have clooney and argo and the oscars. What really happened. This is the funny thing. For 25 years the only side of the story that was told the one version of it, all were trying to do is make a film that we like and ben took it to a completely different level. Coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . A closer shave in a single stroke for less irritation, even on sensitive skin. Gillette mach3 sensitive. Gillette. The best a man can get. This show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. Are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night . Is this personal or is it political . A lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. Staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. Not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. But we do care about them, right . Vo the war room monday to thursday at 6 eastern and thes cargoes to the oscar goes to argo. Congratulations. Michael apologies if you tivoed that. That was Michelle Obama the first lady of the United States of america announcing the best picture. It was, in fact, argo. But jimmy carter the former president , president during that time had Different Things to say about the film when he was on cnn with piers morgan last week. 90 of the contributions to the ideas and the consommation of the plan was canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the american c. I. A. And with that exception the movie is very good. But, um, ben afflecks character in the film was onlyhe was only in tehran a day and a half. And the main hero in my opinion was ken taylor, who was the canadian ambassador, who orchestrated the entire process. Michael you know, it may age me or show that i was a dork even when i was a kid but i do remember with in a story that ken taylors name was everyone where. You heard for a week whatever that news cycle was you heard ken taylor all the time. I understand what president carter is staying that the canadians did not get enough credit. What would a c. I. A. Movie be without Michael Solomon and lindsay moran. Ill go to you first lindsay how do you feel about president carter saying that the c. I. A. Was overcreditted for the work they did on this . First of all its the c. I. A. And its hollywood. There was a reason why canada was publicly credited, because we were trying to hide the c. I. A. Hand in the separation until it was declassified. I just loved the move argo because its kind of one of those rare c. I. A. Depictions truetolife depiction where i was proud to have been part of that organization with tony mendezs work. He represents this figure that is familiar to me of the lone wolf battling the bureaucracy and inertia and the naysayers and actually getting something done. I loved the movie. Michael the manthe anonymity all of those stories amazing, its the opposite of hollywood because they want their names rolling before and after each movie, and thats what they worry about. Michael, you watched the oscars, are you surprised that argo won, you look at lincoln, and argo and George Clooney alluded to the fact that these were grownup movies. But when you saw argo, did you kind of have a sense this was going to be the best picture . No, i dont think people thought that from the getgo. I think people immediately thought that zero dark thirty. It was a very Political Year where my c. I. A. Movie is better than your c. I. A. Movie and your secret Service Agent didnt do its job. A lot of hollywood playing fast and dirty with oscar campaigns and thats the way it goes. Things line up because of oscar campaigns. It doesnt look the way its supposed to from the beginning and it works out usually the best the second best picture wins. But sometimes smear campaigns work. Michael sometimes it works out well for canada in the end. Now with jimmy carter, and with the oscar, its probably getting the credit that it probably didnt get enough of last time. This is ken taylor today on cnn. I think the movie takes some Poetic License as hollywood is prone to do. The essential escape was a cooperative effort. However, we were on the ground for three months. Tony mendez came, he was deeply involved, and it was essentially a canadian effort. Michael yeah, so he is acknowledging finally in fact it was a canadian effort. The Iranian Press did not take it the same way. Iranian television said this, the 85th academy awardses is the most political oscars every whatever that means. Affleck of specializes in exaggeration, blowings things out of proportion and creating false scenes. Well, it was false scenes. Argo is an anti antiiran movie. It all goes back to zionism when it comes out of iran. Theres no joy that their country made it to the oscars. Here is George Clooney talking about that. If movies like that, which are movies for grownups, make money which this one did if you continue to do that, the studies will continuestudios will continue it make grownup films. Michael do you think they did it responsibly welcome are thereresponseresponsibly . Do you think this is a good thing for the Central Intelligence agency. Sure this, is good publicity. Even bad publicity in hollywood is good for the c. I. A. In the long run. It was responsible depiction the details of the true operation which was declassified. We see a difference between argo and zero zero dark thirty. I thought Katherine Bigelow did an amazing job. It was a difficult movie to direct. But zero dark thirty did itself at the on set by stating it was based on event. This was political backlash and there was talk about the character of maya was made. And this was important female character based on Jennifer Matthews who was killed in a suicidebombing. Upon reflection after seeing that movie, and talking to former colleague who is knew Jennifer Matthews well, the movie did a grave disservice to her memory and her service. She was portrayed as flighty and almost like a ditz baking a quake for someone who turned out to be a double agent and caused a catastrophic event for the agency. I think zero dark thirty needed to be more responsible in staying true to the subject matter because it was just immediate subject matter. I will disagree a little bit because theyre movies. I think in this case its a movie. Its not pretending to be a documentary. While i do think there is some obligation to be truthful to the facts, i think that we cant expect movies with actors to be 100 factual. Thats why its not a documentary. Michael do you think on that michael ill let you respond to what he said, lindsay. Okay, yes, i would agree with michael, and you know, ive defended bigelow in that she is a movie director and her job is to direct a great movie and she did that. The own news onus of responsibility lies the c. I. A. Who barfed out all this information to her. It resulted in a movie about a very important operation dealing with torture in which the torture was portrayed inaccurately and also this depict of Jennifer Matthews that i think was just a disservice to someone who served our country. Michael i know it was just a slip of the tongue but its how close the caa and c. I. A. Are now. I want to ask you about the political movies. There were a couple of them last night and politics is involved. Is it appropriate for the first lady to be giving out the first picture award . And do you think she knew already it wouldnt have been zero dark thirty, and if it had, she wouldnt have given it. I think that itsif you want to argue that shes a little over exposed doing jimmy fallen and the oscars, its not like she was giving best kiss at the mtv movie awards. This is a global audience. You know nearly 1 billion people, 40 million americans watch it. Why shouldnt the first lady do it . There is precedent here. Fdr appeared at the academy awards. Ronald reagan did something at the academy awards. I think it was a nonissue and the picture was the high point of the show. Michael my favorite tweets were, who are all those waiters standing behind her. And laura bush did the same thing. Lindsay moran, and Michael Solomon, thanks so much for the two of you coming in and talking about last nights festivities. When we come back here on the young turks were going to look into the tesla. We tut the tesla to a testa. The family took a road trip in their new all elect tesla using free solar powered super chargers all the way. Michael the owner of that car is going to be right there in the parking lot in the young turks headquarters. For true stories. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. Michael in 2008 Congress Approved 25 billion in loans to go for the department of energy to their advance Technology Vehicle manufacturing loan program. I like to call it atvmlp, which did not work as an acronym. But this was unrelated to the auto bailouts. One of those was tesla motors. Its now finally turning a profit. They believe that tesla is a great company. He created a content film about the motor company. Its called gallon gallons of light. Lets take a look. [ music ] on january 3rd the snap familyknappfamily took a road trip in their tesla using free superpower chargers all the way. Its a car that may lead other cars in no longer taking from the earth but accepting from the sun. Untold members for gallon of light. They got 465 million in government loans. Now they say theyre going to turn a profit. We wonder if this is the way to the future. But with us to help us down this road with the owner of the car Jacki Schechner our own Jacki Schechner. There she is driving a tesla live to you jacki. Oh, michael. Having a lynn mini heart attack as im a passenger in his 85,000 electric car. Thank you for joining us. I have to say im not a huge car person, but as a tech person this is a really cool vehicle. Youre telling me thats kind of why you bought it. Youre not a car guy heater. I was a prius and pass at this. I have solar cells on the roof that makes more power than the car uses. You stopped at each of these super charging stations. If you completely drain the car it will take an hour to re refill this whole thing. There was a bad review that it ran out of power. What would you say about the car for people who use it on a regular basis. I have used it on a lot of drives ive never had a problem remotely. I d