1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Thirty three days until Donald Trump raises his hand and 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: in an instant is transformed from citizen to caesar, the 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: president with immunity above the law. The man who said 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: he will be a dictator on day one will have 5 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: an opportunity. 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 2: To be one. 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: This is the warning Donald Trump, forty seventh president of 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: the United States, and he has picked a cabinet of weirdos, 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: of criminals, of nair dwells strangeness that defies description in 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 1: every direction, emanating from the most powerful seat of government 11 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 1: in all of the world. The person Robert Kennedy that 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: he has picked to run the public health agencies is 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: a vaccine denier. So when we think about making America 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: great again and making America healthy again at the Christmas season, 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: what better way to start by taking a visit back 16 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: to the old polio award lot. 17 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 2: Joy and Bloods. We'll always find sun Sun schoolways, most 18 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: line and tried Sony. 19 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: Yes, making America great again, bringing back mumps and rebella 20 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: and all of the cured diseases. When Donald Trump appeared 21 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: at his news conference, wasn't it like he was trying 22 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: to tell the whole con that not only does he 23 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: know who Jonas salk Is, but he can spell it. 24 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: It was quite a moment. Thanks as a Trump. 25 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: What about the polio vaccine? Well, I'm a big believer 26 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 2: in it, and I think everything should be looked at. 27 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 2: But I'm a big believer in the polio vaccines vaccine. 28 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: Do you think schools should mandate vaccines? 29 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 3: Do you think schools should mandate vaccines? 30 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: I don't like mandates. I'm not a big mandate person. 31 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: At any rate. The carnival of unfitness continues rolling along unabated, 32 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: as Trump fills the government with the most galactically unfit 33 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: specimens ever forwarded by anybody into positions of responsibility. It 34 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: will be amazing to watch unfold on the edge of 35 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: catastrophe as we journey into that abyss which is surely 36 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: to come during these days, It's important to remember, though 37 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: it may not seem like it, the nose of Donald 38 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: Trump's proverbial rocket ship is already tipping down. He is 39 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: at his epigy. It seems like the whole world is 40 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: bending in his direction. He says something and people rush 41 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: to make it so he cannot be stopped. He points 42 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: his finger, and news organization after news organization prostrates itself. 43 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: There's a great example at hand about how not to 44 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: face Trump, about how not to roll over, about how 45 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: not to operate through a political lens. Let's look north 46 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: of the border. If there is a more ludicrous figure 47 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: than Justin Trudeau, it's hard to find one, and Trump 48 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: is having fun with him. He is like a cat 49 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: playing with a mouse. Now let's go through Justin Trudeau's 50 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: humiliation and the fall of the Canadian government, which is 51 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: upon us and will likely happen this week or into 52 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: early next week. Everything that has happened in Canada is 53 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,799 Speaker 1: as a direct result of how Trudeau appeased Donald Trump. 54 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: Step one, there was the threat. Step two, there was panic, 55 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: Step three, there was a race to get tomorrow Alago, 56 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: to kiss the ring, and then well, humiliation, Just like 57 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough. Step one, there was the threat, step two, 58 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: there was the panic, Step three, there was the capitulation. 59 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 4: Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from 60 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 4: so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens, deeply 61 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 4: dismayed by several of President elect Trump's cabinet selections, and 62 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 4: they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns 63 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 4: on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the 64 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 4: opportunity to speak with the President elect himself. On Friday, 65 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 4: we were given the opportunity to do just that. Joe 66 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 4: and I went to mar A Lago to meet personally 67 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 4: with President Elect Trump. 68 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 5: And that's going to come as no surprise to anybody 69 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 5: who watches this show, has watched it over the past 70 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 5: year or over the past decade, that we didn't see 71 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 5: eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we 72 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 5: told him so. 73 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 4: Joe and I realized it's time to do something different, 74 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 4: and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, 75 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 4: but also talking with. 76 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: Him and then the humiliation. 77 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 5: All of us are going to do the best we 78 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 5: can do, and we're all working towards a better America. 79 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 5: Take it day by day, day by day by day, 80 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 5: and again you can and you can. You can predict 81 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 5: the future by shaping the future. 82 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: Or we can look at ABC News. Step one, there 83 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: is the threat. Step two, there is the promise to 84 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: stand firm. 85 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 3: Trump sumed me because I used the word rate, even 86 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 3: though a judge said, that's in fact what did happen, 87 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 3: and in fact, we filed the motion to dismiss last week. Unfortunately, 88 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: it now comes with the territory. But I'm not going 89 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 3: to be cowed out of doing my job because of 90 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:28,239 Speaker 3: the threat. 91 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:34,119 Speaker 1: About step three, Well, there is the bending of the knee, 92 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: the laying down. And so Donald Trump is cutting through 93 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: the American media like a man with a sickle swinging 94 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: it at blades of grass, cutting them down one by 95 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: one by one. And what this will mean in every 96 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: American newsroom is a chilly atmosphere, and every thirty thirty 97 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: five forty year old reporter making two hundred fifty fty 98 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year will be told indirectly with a look, 99 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,239 Speaker 1: don't be the shit for brains that costs the company 100 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars by not being nice to Donald Trump. 101 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: There is going to be a fire hose and assault 102 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: of information that sprays out over the American people, and 103 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: the reaction to it will have been planned. It will 104 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: have been predicted, and what Donald Trump and all of 105 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: his people will want is the panic and the outrage, 106 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: because there will be too much to focus on any 107 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: one action. For example, Donald Trump is going to party 108 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: in all of the January sixth protesters, with a few exceptions, 109 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: But the next thing he's going to do is potentially 110 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: deploy the US military, and the news environment will not 111 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: accommodate the outrage on all fifty things that he plans 112 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: to do. The question at hand is when, what day, 113 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: what hour, what subject will be the one where Donald 114 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: Trump fatally overreaches? Where will it occur or will the 115 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: failure be brought to him? Will an event occur not 116 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: precipitated by him that he fails to react to properly. 117 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: It could happen on day three, or it could happen 118 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: on day three hundred and thirty three. Who knows. The 119 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,719 Speaker 1: Trump presidency will not be a smooth ride, though a 120 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: lot of the reporting makes it seem like Donald Trump 121 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: has somehow become wise omnipotent and he just points a finger, 122 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: says something and it happens. And that's not the way 123 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: it's going to work. There's a new District Attorney in 124 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and unlike the last one, he can speak, 125 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: and he understands the law and has, let's say, a 126 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: level of sophistication about its application. The point that he's 127 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: made when it comes to Trump's mass roundup is that 128 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: under California law, a lot of what Trump is planning 129 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: is illegal. So there's no legal authority for California law 130 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: enforcement to aid the Feds in their round up. The 131 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: argument that he's making is a complex one, a serious one, 132 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: and a lawful one. The type of argument he's making 133 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: is the type of argument that tangles up Donald Trump. 134 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: The meetings that should be taking place in Washington, DC 135 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: right now by Democrats should be focused, and they should 136 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: be singular, and they should be about obstructing Donald Trump's 137 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,599 Speaker 1: ability to do the damage that he planned to do. 138 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: On January twentieth, two thousand and nine, very famously, Mitch 139 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: McConnell and the group of Republicans gathered together on the 140 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: night of Barack Obama's inauguration. Their plan their meeting was 141 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: to make sure he failed as president. They didn't care 142 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: about the country succeeding. They just wanted him to fail. 143 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 1: Democrats shouldn't want the country to fail, and they should 144 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: prevented from doing so by obstructing Donald Trump at every 145 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: conceivable opportunity. The application of political power is going to 146 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 1: flow from the House of Representatives, where Republicans have maybe 147 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: a two seat majority. That means, because every appropriation bill, 148 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: all of the money flows out of the House, Democrats 149 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 1: will have the ability over the next few months to 150 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: do things that slow down the damage, that stop catastrophe. Now, 151 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: there are some people who say Donald Trump won the election, 152 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: and of course those people are correct. There are some 153 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: people who say, because he won the election, Democrats should 154 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: see politics to him completely and let him do as 155 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: much damage as he can so voters will turn against 156 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: him as quickly as possible, so Democrats will be in 157 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: the position of maximum strength for the next election. Being 158 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: a co conspirator to Arson is not a political strategy. 159 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: What the Democrats need to do is model conviction, common sense, 160 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: and toughness. Who will be the person and who will 161 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: be the team of people that do not step back 162 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: from Trump, that do not lay down in front of Trump, 163 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 1: that tell Donald Trump and tell his lawyers and say 164 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: to his threats, Hey, mister President, go fuck yourself. Because 165 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: those people need to start moving to the front of 166 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: the line. Because the power of the word know is 167 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: about to be tested. And right now all we're seeing 168 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 1: is examples of people looking to advance your self interest, 169 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: to get out of trouble, off the naughty list. They 170 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 1: want that permanent mark removed from their record because they're 171 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: scared of Hitler or Trump. The thing about fear is 172 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: it's contagious, and the contagion that it spreads is an 173 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:05,599 Speaker 1: ugly one. It's panic. Panic causes people to debase themselves, 174 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: and in that debasement, they lose dignity. And as they 175 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: lose dignity in the face of a genuinely awful opponent, 176 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: that opponent Trump takes advantage of it, and a politics 177 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: of dehumanization is what follows. And so watching what plays 178 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: out in Canada is a lesson. It is a lesson 179 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 1: about what weakness in dealing with Donald Trump brings to you. 180 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: The same thing happened in the Republican Party. It's destroyed 181 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: justin Trudeau's government. It's taken out two Democratic presidential candidates, 182 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: it's wrecked the American news media. But somewhere out there, 183 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: someday the line will hold. And when it does, Donald 184 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,719 Speaker 1: Trump will start stepping backwards. And when he does, it 185 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: will be a very good day, indeed, a good day 186 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: for America. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This 187 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: is the warning, and I invite you to join. 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