Speaker 1: This is the morning. Good morning from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Speaker 1: I've spent the last few days driving across the country.
Speaker 1: I've driven from Toronto, Canada, crossing the border down through
Speaker 1: the path of old Route sixty six from Chicago to
Speaker 1: the gateway to the West coast, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Speaker 1: The Santa Fe Trail one of the routes that carried
Speaker 1: Americans west. It's quite an astonishing thing to be able
Speaker 1: to cross a peaceful international boundary and then drive for
Speaker 1: thousands of miles. There are no checkpoints, there were no
Speaker 1: military vehicles on the roads. There was no evidence of
Speaker 1: a mass deportation, no roundup, just freedom to drive to
Speaker 1: go wherever it is that I pleased as an American
Speaker 1: citizen heading west into California. Later today thought about that,
Speaker 1: I thought about the country, and I thought about what's
Speaker 1: coming thirty nine days from now. The country will be
Speaker 1: transformed radically and profoundly if Donald Trump does the things
Speaker 1: that he says he is going to do. During the election,
Speaker 1: people myself included of valuated Donald Trump's words, his conduct
Speaker 1: and concluded that this wasn't conservatism, it was fascism. In
Speaker 1: the aftermath of his victory, which was not a majority
Speaker 1: but rather a plurality. Donald Trump has declared a mandate.
Speaker 1: The fact is he has one of the smallest mandates
Speaker 1: that any president has received over the last hundred years.
Speaker 1: When all the votes are counted, he'll fall in somewhere
Speaker 1: between sixteenth and eighteenth place. But what is Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: Is he the danger that his words suggest, or simply
Speaker 1: a P. T. Barnum a show an incompetent leader, a
Speaker 1: blustering politician, and there's not much to worry about. This
Speaker 1: is the fundamental and most important question, isn't it? What
Speaker 1: is and who is Donald Trump? And why can it
Speaker 1: not be revealed by an American media that focuses on
Speaker 1: the connection between the things he says, the lies he tells,
Speaker 1: and the actions he undertakes. What's coming in America is
Speaker 1: an age unlike anything that anyone alive has ever experienced.
Speaker 1: The corruption to come will be beyond imagination. For example,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, in just the period since Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been elected, has expanded his net worth from two hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars to four hundred billion dollars. Forty percent of
Speaker 1: America does not have four hundred dollars of cash available
Speaker 1: for an emergency, and Elon Musk is functioning as much
Speaker 1: as anyone ever has, with no nomination, no confirmation, no appointment,
Speaker 1: no election. Has a type of deputy president with a
Speaker 1: license to do what he wants while reaping in untold
Speaker 1: and unprecedented billions in government contracts, and none of it
Speaker 1: will be scrutinized or opposed by a client and compitulant
Speaker 1: United States Congress. Let me introduce you to Jony Ernst.
Speaker 1: She's the United States Senator from the state of Iowa.
Speaker 1: She is a combat veteran, a lieutenant colonel in the
Speaker 1: Army Reserve, and a sexual assault survivor. When Joony Ernst
Speaker 1: was a candidate, she ran an ad that helped elect her,
Speaker 1: who was made by a consultant named Todd Harris, and
Speaker 1: it's one of the best ads of the last twenty
Speaker 1: five years. Let me show it to you. I'm Joni Ernst.
Speaker 1: I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so
Speaker 1: when I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut port.
Speaker 1: This is why Jony Ernst was elected. And now many
Speaker 1: years later, she sits in Washington and she's about to
Speaker 1: make a vote to confirm somebody who, it has been reported,
Speaker 1: is often drunk, frequently unable to control himself, an alleged rapists,
Speaker 1: and the most manifestly unfit person ever put forward by
Speaker 1: any president over eighty years to lead the United States
Speaker 1: Armed forces. He's as unfit as the FBI director Cash Ptel.
Speaker 1: These people will provide a marker, a waypoint in a
Speaker 1: dissent into the ABYSS. If there are not four Republican
Speaker 1: Senators who just simply say no on the merits of
Speaker 1: who these people are, the promises, for example, by cash
Speaker 1: Ptel to lock up his political opponents, then in many ways,
Speaker 1: the Republic is wobbling because there is no check and
Speaker 1: there is no balance. One branch has subordinated itself to
Speaker 1: another coequal branch, not on the basis of any type
Speaker 1: of law, but simply the dominance of one man's personality
Speaker 1: in the reach of his propaganda machine. It is remarkable
Speaker 1: and appalling to watch, and of course none of this
Speaker 1: could possibly be happening absent the moral and political capitulations
Speaker 1: playing out behind the newsdesks in the American media power establishment.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this tirade from Joe Scarborough and why
Speaker 1: it's so important now I'm going to show it to you,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to point out a couple of things
Speaker 1: in advance. Joe Scarborough is very angrily going to justify
Speaker 1: the meeting, and he's going to say a couple of things,
Speaker 1: the first of which is I had to go there
Speaker 1: to cake Trump's measure, but didn't he take Trump's measure
Speaker 1: already when he said this.
Speaker 2: This is not a reach. I could go back and
Speaker 2: talk about Nazi Germany and I do it. I do
Speaker 2: it without any concerns whatsoever. And if people can't start
Speaker 2: drawing the parallels, well you're just stupid or you have
Speaker 2: your head in the sand. Are you're one of them?
Speaker 3: And this You can do two things at the same time.
Speaker 3: You can say he had fascist rhetoric and still go
Speaker 3: in and talk to him. Yeah, you know why I
Speaker 3: do that to get the read of the man. And
Speaker 3: this you know why I went in and talked to
Speaker 3: mcclan to get the read of the man at a
Speaker 3: crucial time in the EU funding and NATO funding.
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough, I think he misunderstands what the job is.
Speaker 1: Nobody relies on Joe Scarborough to take anybody's measure and
Speaker 1: report back to us with actions. What the job of
Speaker 1: a journalist is is to reveal the subject at hand,
Speaker 1: to ask the questions that let that person tell who
Speaker 1: they are to the public. That's an action that's in
Speaker 1: the public interest. Now, when you think about the question
Speaker 1: of taking someone's measure, Joe Scarborough's aptitude has to be
Speaker 1: weighed against his taking measure of Joe Biden and stifling
Speaker 1: the debate that should have been had but was not
Speaker 1: because he created, as the host of the most important
Speaker 1: morning show, let's call it, an impermissive environment. He may
Speaker 1: be great at asking questions about people that helped them
Speaker 1: revealed to the public what it is there about. He
Speaker 1: did some of that in twenty sixteen with Trump, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to be good when it comes to
Speaker 1: understanding who these people are. So here's the problem with
Speaker 1: the mar A Lago visit. The purpose of it is
Speaker 1: shifting opening lines of communication. Is different than well, I
Speaker 1: needed to take his measure, but again, the measurement had
Speaker 1: been drawn, had it not, And it all I added
Speaker 1: up to Trump is America's hitler. So here's the question.
Speaker 1: Did Joe Scarborough discover Trump is not hitler? Because he
Speaker 1: should tell the country or did he make a deal
Speaker 1: with Hitler now deals with Hitler. The real one never
Speaker 1: held up because every deal was built on a foundation
Speaker 1: of appeasement. It's a big word. What does it mean. Well,
Speaker 1: if it was a philosophy and it was applied to
Speaker 1: feeding crocodiles, it's the philosophy of I'll be the first
Speaker 1: to feed the crocodile, so that I may be the
Speaker 1: last person that the crocodile eats. It's not an enduring
Speaker 1: strategy as an entire generation of humanity discovered. With thirty
Speaker 1: nine days to go, there is a lot happening in America,
Speaker 1: a lot to think about. Bill Clinton is thinking about
Speaker 1: some things. He's thinking about the targeting of the former
Speaker 1: first Lady of the United States, a Secretary of State,
Speaker 1: a United States Senator, and the Democratic nominee for President
Speaker 1: of the United States. And he said he's open to
Speaker 1: hearing from Joe Biden about a preempt of pardon. Again, no,
Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton did nothing wrong. She must not accept a pardon.
Speaker 1: The remedy to the abuse will be general strikes by
Speaker 1: the American people over the next two years. Who will
Speaker 1: be the that polices and puts a check in balance
Speaker 1: on Donald Trump's coming exceptional constitutional abuses. We will know
Speaker 1: if through the votes to confirm, if Pete Hagseeth makes it,
Speaker 1: and Tulca Gabbert makes it, and Cash Ptel make it
Speaker 1: one or all. What it means is that for two
Speaker 1: years until a tragedy happens, there is no check in
Speaker 1: the United States Senate. The damage that will be done,
Speaker 1: The orders that will be given will not come in
Speaker 1: an email from Trump. They will all be implied, and
Speaker 1: there will be a competition to please Donald Trump to
Speaker 1: see him. Nobody has to tell the runner at the
Speaker 1: start of the race that the goal is to get
Speaker 1: to the finish line first. In the same way, all
Speaker 1: of Trump's power appointments will understand what it is they
Speaker 1: are to do. If it's Pete Hegseath, it's to decapitate
Speaker 1: the command structure of the US military, to fire generals,
Speaker 1: to purge them through a guilt by association campaign that
Speaker 1: justifies the destruction of careers service to the country that's
Speaker 1: lasted thirty thirty five forty years. Cash Battel will gut
Speaker 1: the FBI. He will strip it of standards, he will
Speaker 1: give it teeth, he will sharpen them and then turn
Speaker 1: the FBI loose on domestic descent. The worst abuses by
Speaker 1: the FBI in American history took place during the Civil
Speaker 1: Rights movement. If he becomes the director of the worst
Speaker 1: is yet to come. And there is no person more
Speaker 1: dangerous than Tulsi Gabbard, more unfit for the nation's secrets,
Speaker 1: less responsible for the men and women out there on
Speaker 1: the knife's edge, gathering them at great risk. Lives will
Speaker 1: be lost with these people nominated and confirmed into positions
Speaker 1: of responsibility. And there is no argument, logical, one, substantive
Speaker 1: one that justifies their confirmation into these positions. The question
Speaker 1: that Trump has put on the table, and he is
Speaker 1: always when it comes to dealing with anybody in Washington,
Speaker 1: the superior negotiator. What he has done is make the
Speaker 1: excess the issue. What he's saying is I dare you
Speaker 1: to stop me? And when he knows that, there is
Speaker 1: no red light and there will be no speed limits
Speaker 1: regarding the abuses. And that's why this moment matters so
Speaker 1: very much. We are in the calm before the storm,
Speaker 1: and we are already seeing all of the behaviors, the appeasements,
Speaker 1: the capitulations, the panicking that undermines the ability to form
Speaker 1: a coherent, tough, focused, honest, decent opposition. Soon, the American
Speaker 1: people will rebel against the abuses of authority and the
Speaker 1: vast taking by a few from a great many of
Speaker 1: things to which they have no right to take. During
Speaker 1: the months ahead, and opposition we'll find its footing in
Speaker 1: the midst of a sea of abuse and a sea
Speaker 1: of idiocy and corruption. Arrogance is what will undo MAGA,
Speaker 1: and it hopefully will stiffen the spine of a great
Speaker 1: many people who said a great many things that they
Speaker 1: have no basis in reality for changing unless they know
Speaker 1: something the rest of us don't know. And if they do,
Speaker 1: by all means, Joe Scarborough and Mika, please tell us
Speaker 1: we deserve to know, don't we. The coming months will
Speaker 1: test the American system and the resolve of the seventy
Speaker 1: five million people who said no, No, go to Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: We lost an election, but we're not wrong about anything.
Speaker 1: Not when it comes to him. There is nothing new
Speaker 1: to learn, no new measurement to be taken. He is
Speaker 1: what he is, and for that we can be grateful for.
Speaker 1: There is no mystery about Donald Trump, nor is there
Speaker 1: any about what he has promised to do because he
Speaker 1: has told us, and it looks like he means to
Speaker 1: do it, which means when the first abuses come, they
Speaker 1: must be opposed with the end in mind of stopping them.
Speaker 1: No American should ever be afraid to speak out about
Speaker 1: what they believe is right. This American will not be
Speaker 1: intimidated ever. Join the Warning community. Here you will learn
Speaker 1: the truth about what is happening, why it is happening,
Speaker 1: and be able to orient to it to figure out.
Speaker 1: You don't need somebody to take the measurements of what
Speaker 1: is plainly in front of you, and you definitely don't
Speaker 1: need somebody who when they did it looked at Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: It came to the conclusion he came to. And then
Speaker 1: at the first opportunity he got after calling Donald Trump hitler,
Speaker 1: he went to the Burgoff hat in hand. During the
Speaker 1: weeks and months ahead, a toughness that has not yet
Speaker 1: been evident will need to form. When it does, Trump's
Speaker 1: progress and abusing the country, the constitution and the American
Speaker 1: people will slow until then. This is the warning. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you
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