1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,359 Speaker 1: This is the morning. Good morning from Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: I've spent the last few days driving across the country. 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: I've driven from Toronto, Canada, crossing the border down through 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: the path of old Route sixty six from Chicago to 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: the gateway to the West coast, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: The Santa Fe Trail one of the routes that carried 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: Americans west. It's quite an astonishing thing to be able 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: to cross a peaceful international boundary and then drive for 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: thousands of miles. There are no checkpoints, there were no 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: military vehicles on the roads. There was no evidence of 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: a mass deportation, no roundup, just freedom to drive to 12 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: go wherever it is that I pleased as an American 13 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: citizen heading west into California. Later today thought about that, 14 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: I thought about the country, and I thought about what's 15 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: coming thirty nine days from now. The country will be 16 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: transformed radically and profoundly if Donald Trump does the things 17 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: that he says he is going to do. During the election, 18 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: people myself included of valuated Donald Trump's words, his conduct 19 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: and concluded that this wasn't conservatism, it was fascism. In 20 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: the aftermath of his victory, which was not a majority 21 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 1: but rather a plurality. Donald Trump has declared a mandate. 22 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,839 Speaker 1: The fact is he has one of the smallest mandates 23 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: that any president has received over the last hundred years. 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: When all the votes are counted, he'll fall in somewhere 25 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: between sixteenth and eighteenth place. But what is Donald Trump? 26 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: Is he the danger that his words suggest, or simply 27 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: a P. T. Barnum a show an incompetent leader, a 28 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: blustering politician, and there's not much to worry about. This 29 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: is the fundamental and most important question, isn't it? What 30 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: is and who is Donald Trump? And why can it 31 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: not be revealed by an American media that focuses on 32 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: the connection between the things he says, the lies he tells, 33 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: and the actions he undertakes. What's coming in America is 34 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: an age unlike anything that anyone alive has ever experienced. 35 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: The corruption to come will be beyond imagination. For example, 36 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, in just the period since Donald Trump has 37 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: been elected, has expanded his net worth from two hundred 38 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: billion dollars to four hundred billion dollars. Forty percent of 39 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: America does not have four hundred dollars of cash available 40 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,399 Speaker 1: for an emergency, and Elon Musk is functioning as much 41 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: as anyone ever has, with no nomination, no confirmation, no appointment, 42 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: no election. Has a type of deputy president with a 43 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: license to do what he wants while reaping in untold 44 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: and unprecedented billions in government contracts, and none of it 45 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: will be scrutinized or opposed by a client and compitulant 46 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: United States Congress. Let me introduce you to Jony Ernst. 47 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: She's the United States Senator from the state of Iowa. 48 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: She is a combat veteran, a lieutenant colonel in the 49 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: Army Reserve, and a sexual assault survivor. When Joony Ernst 50 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,839 Speaker 1: was a candidate, she ran an ad that helped elect her, 51 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: who was made by a consultant named Todd Harris, and 52 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: it's one of the best ads of the last twenty 53 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: five years. Let me show it to you. I'm Joni Ernst. 54 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so 55 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: when I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut port. 56 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: This is why Jony Ernst was elected. And now many 57 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: years later, she sits in Washington and she's about to 58 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: make a vote to confirm somebody who, it has been reported, 59 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: is often drunk, frequently unable to control himself, an alleged rapists, 60 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: and the most manifestly unfit person ever put forward by 61 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: any president over eighty years to lead the United States 62 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: Armed forces. He's as unfit as the FBI director Cash Ptel. 63 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: These people will provide a marker, a waypoint in a 64 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: dissent into the ABYSS. If there are not four Republican 65 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: Senators who just simply say no on the merits of 66 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: who these people are, the promises, for example, by cash 67 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: Ptel to lock up his political opponents, then in many ways, 68 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 1: the Republic is wobbling because there is no check and 69 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: there is no balance. One branch has subordinated itself to 70 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,119 Speaker 1: another coequal branch, not on the basis of any type 71 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: of law, but simply the dominance of one man's personality 72 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: in the reach of his propaganda machine. It is remarkable 73 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: and appalling to watch, and of course none of this 74 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: could possibly be happening absent the moral and political capitulations 75 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: playing out behind the newsdesks in the American media power establishment. 76 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: Let's talk about this tirade from Joe Scarborough and why 77 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: it's so important now I'm going to show it to you, 78 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: and I'm going to point out a couple of things 79 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: in advance. Joe Scarborough is very angrily going to justify 80 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: the meeting, and he's going to say a couple of things, 81 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: the first of which is I had to go there 82 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: to cake Trump's measure, but didn't he take Trump's measure 83 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: already when he said this. 84 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 2: This is not a reach. I could go back and 85 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 2: talk about Nazi Germany and I do it. I do 86 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: it without any concerns whatsoever. And if people can't start 87 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 2: drawing the parallels, well you're just stupid or you have 88 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 2: your head in the sand. Are you're one of them? 89 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 3: And this You can do two things at the same time. 90 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 3: You can say he had fascist rhetoric and still go 91 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 3: in and talk to him. Yeah, you know why I 92 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 3: do that to get the read of the man. And 93 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 3: this you know why I went in and talked to 94 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 3: mcclan to get the read of the man at a 95 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 3: crucial time in the EU funding and NATO funding. 96 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough, I think he misunderstands what the job is. 97 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: Nobody relies on Joe Scarborough to take anybody's measure and 98 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: report back to us with actions. What the job of 99 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: a journalist is is to reveal the subject at hand, 100 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: to ask the questions that let that person tell who 101 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: they are to the public. That's an action that's in 102 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: the public interest. Now, when you think about the question 103 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: of taking someone's measure, Joe Scarborough's aptitude has to be 104 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:42,119 Speaker 1: weighed against his taking measure of Joe Biden and stifling 105 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: the debate that should have been had but was not 106 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: because he created, as the host of the most important 107 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: morning show, let's call it, an impermissive environment. He may 108 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: be great at asking questions about people that helped them 109 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: revealed to the public what it is there about. He 110 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: did some of that in twenty sixteen with Trump, but 111 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to be good when it comes to 112 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: understanding who these people are. So here's the problem with 113 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: the mar A Lago visit. The purpose of it is 114 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: shifting opening lines of communication. Is different than well, I 115 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: needed to take his measure, but again, the measurement had 116 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: been drawn, had it not, And it all I added 117 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: up to Trump is America's hitler. So here's the question. 118 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: Did Joe Scarborough discover Trump is not hitler? Because he 119 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: should tell the country or did he make a deal 120 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: with Hitler now deals with Hitler. The real one never 121 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 1: held up because every deal was built on a foundation 122 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: of appeasement. It's a big word. What does it mean. Well, 123 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: if it was a philosophy and it was applied to 124 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: feeding crocodiles, it's the philosophy of I'll be the first 125 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: to feed the crocodile, so that I may be the 126 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: last person that the crocodile eats. It's not an enduring 127 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: strategy as an entire generation of humanity discovered. With thirty 128 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: nine days to go, there is a lot happening in America, 129 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: a lot to think about. Bill Clinton is thinking about 130 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: some things. He's thinking about the targeting of the former 131 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: first Lady of the United States, a Secretary of State, 132 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: a United States Senator, and the Democratic nominee for President 133 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: of the United States. And he said he's open to 134 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: hearing from Joe Biden about a preempt of pardon. Again, no, 135 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,959 Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton did nothing wrong. She must not accept a pardon. 136 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: The remedy to the abuse will be general strikes by 137 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: the American people over the next two years. Who will 138 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: be the that polices and puts a check in balance 139 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: on Donald Trump's coming exceptional constitutional abuses. We will know 140 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: if through the votes to confirm, if Pete Hagseeth makes it, 141 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: and Tulca Gabbert makes it, and Cash Ptel make it 142 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: one or all. What it means is that for two 143 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: years until a tragedy happens, there is no check in 144 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: the United States Senate. The damage that will be done, 145 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: The orders that will be given will not come in 146 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: an email from Trump. They will all be implied, and 147 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: there will be a competition to please Donald Trump to 148 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: see him. Nobody has to tell the runner at the 149 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: start of the race that the goal is to get 150 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: to the finish line first. In the same way, all 151 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: of Trump's power appointments will understand what it is they 152 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: are to do. If it's Pete Hegseath, it's to decapitate 153 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: the command structure of the US military, to fire generals, 154 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: to purge them through a guilt by association campaign that 155 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: justifies the destruction of careers service to the country that's 156 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: lasted thirty thirty five forty years. Cash Battel will gut 157 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: the FBI. He will strip it of standards, he will 158 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: give it teeth, he will sharpen them and then turn 159 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: the FBI loose on domestic descent. The worst abuses by 160 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 1: the FBI in American history took place during the Civil 161 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: Rights movement. If he becomes the director of the worst 162 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: is yet to come. And there is no person more 163 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,119 Speaker 1: dangerous than Tulsi Gabbard, more unfit for the nation's secrets, 164 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: less responsible for the men and women out there on 165 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: the knife's edge, gathering them at great risk. Lives will 166 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 1: be lost with these people nominated and confirmed into positions 167 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: of responsibility. And there is no argument, logical, one, substantive 168 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: one that justifies their confirmation into these positions. The question 169 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: that Trump has put on the table, and he is 170 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: always when it comes to dealing with anybody in Washington, 171 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: the superior negotiator. What he has done is make the 172 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: excess the issue. What he's saying is I dare you 173 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: to stop me? And when he knows that, there is 174 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: no red light and there will be no speed limits 175 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: regarding the abuses. And that's why this moment matters so 176 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: very much. We are in the calm before the storm, 177 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:51,359 Speaker 1: and we are already seeing all of the behaviors, the appeasements, 178 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: the capitulations, the panicking that undermines the ability to form 179 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: a coherent, tough, focused, honest, decent opposition. Soon, the American 180 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: people will rebel against the abuses of authority and the 181 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: vast taking by a few from a great many of 182 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: things to which they have no right to take. During 183 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: the months ahead, and opposition we'll find its footing in 184 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: the midst of a sea of abuse and a sea 185 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: of idiocy and corruption. Arrogance is what will undo MAGA, 186 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: and it hopefully will stiffen the spine of a great 187 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,719 Speaker 1: many people who said a great many things that they 188 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: have no basis in reality for changing unless they know 189 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: something the rest of us don't know. And if they do, 190 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: by all means, Joe Scarborough and Mika, please tell us 191 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: we deserve to know, don't we. The coming months will 192 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: test the American system and the resolve of the seventy 193 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: five million people who said no, No, go to Donald Trump. 194 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: We lost an election, but we're not wrong about anything. 195 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: Not when it comes to him. There is nothing new 196 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: to learn, no new measurement to be taken. He is 197 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: what he is, and for that we can be grateful for. 198 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: There is no mystery about Donald Trump, nor is there 199 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: any about what he has promised to do because he 200 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: has told us, and it looks like he means to 201 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: do it, which means when the first abuses come, they 202 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: must be opposed with the end in mind of stopping them. 203 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: No American should ever be afraid to speak out about 204 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: what they believe is right. This American will not be 205 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: intimidated ever. Join the Warning community. Here you will learn 206 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: the truth about what is happening, why it is happening, 207 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: and be able to orient to it to figure out. 208 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: You don't need somebody to take the measurements of what 209 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: is plainly in front of you, and you definitely don't 210 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: need somebody who when they did it looked at Joe Biden. 211 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: It came to the conclusion he came to. And then 212 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: at the first opportunity he got after calling Donald Trump hitler, 213 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: he went to the Burgoff hat in hand. During the 214 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: weeks and months ahead, a toughness that has not yet 215 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: been evident will need to form. When it does, Trump's 216 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: progress and abusing the country, the constitution and the American 217 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: people will slow until then. This is the warning. I'm 218 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you 219 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our sub stack on our YouTube channel, 220 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: follow us, Welcome to the community.