WEBVTT - How Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth & Kash Patel Could Reshape America 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 It is December the ninth. Forty two days remain until 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.800 the noon hour, when Donald Trump will once again hold 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.200 within his hands the power of armageddon. He will again 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.840 be the commander in chief, the American head of state, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.799 the forty seventh President of the United States, and he 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.400 will be the most powerful president in American history, the 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.319 first to have immunity, the first to be a king 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.960 by another name. And Donald Trump has already started abusing 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:36.640 his power by nominating, disrespectfully, some of the most unfit 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.800 people who have ever been forwarded to the United States 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:46.120 Senate for consideration for their advice and consent for deadly jobs, 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.599 life and death positions, the ones that speak to the 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:55.640 safety of the nation. This is the warning. Two days 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.880 ago we celebrated an anniversary in this country Pearl Harbor. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:05.200 There are sixteen survivors left, sixteen who are alive at 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.440 Pearl Harbor on that day when there was a massive 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:13.560 intelligence failure. We remember September eleventh, two thousand and one, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.480 another massive intelligence failure, and we must recall when we 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.760 ponder the fall of Assad in Syria and the devastating 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:27.600 impact this will have on Russian and Iranian ambitions in 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.520 the region. The question must be asked, why was Tulsea 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:36.959 Gabbard in Syria with Basher Ali Sad? Why was Donald 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:42.959 Trump's Director of National Intelligence nominee so easily duped like 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:48.000 Vanity Fair magazine was in twenty twelve by the Assad 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:53.440 regime propaganda machine. Soon there will be an opportunity, no doubt, 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.200 to review the files and the archives that are uncovered 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.320 that might explain what it is that Tulsi Gabbard was 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.080 doing in Syria, and what it is that the Syrians 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:10.200 thought about Tulsi Gabbard, maybe even what the Russians thought 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.480 about their useful idiot. Do you know that every night 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:20.520 on Russian state television Tulsi Gabbard is celebrated as our girl. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.360 Honest to God, it's not because she's a paid agent. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.120 She's likely not smart enough. It's because she's such a 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:34.000 stupefyingly effective, useful idiot. She went from uttering inanities and 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.840 banalities on Fox to being the nominee for the office 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:44.160 of Director of National Intelligence. You see, the Iranians and 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.760 the Russians, whose empire of malice is falling apart, have 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.240 one ace up their sleeves. Donald Trump, the one man 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.320 who can deliver to them victory from the edge of defeat. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.960 Because of his ignorance about the world, how it functions, 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.600 and his incompetence, these will be deadly years around the world. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.560 Have no doubt about that. And the man that Donald 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.840 Trump has put forward to lead the Pentagon to be 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.799 the person who sits atop a command authority that includes 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:25.079 five thousand plus nuclear weapons, A drunk and accused rapist, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.880 a man whose nomination has come now to rely on 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.680 his mother, who is calling senators, making visits with him, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.400 and doing appearances on television saying he is not, in 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.880 fact the low rent abuser of women that his own 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.280 mother condemned him as which he is. How can we 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.920 ask our young men and women to raise their hand 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:57.840 and to serve and have such carelessness, such disrespect for 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:02.080 their service, that the United State Senate would dare to 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:07.279 nominate and approve this man to sit atop a civilian 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.840 command structure beneath only the President of the United States. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.360 The evidence of his drunkenness, of his debauched behavior is significant. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.800 In fact, he seems to be the Republican version of 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:27.080 Hunter Biden, a man without morals, a man without judgment 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:32.400 and a man with a huge substance abuse problem only 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.760 possibly exceeded by his entitlement. Would Republicans vote to make 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.240 Hunter Biden the Secretary of Defense, then why would they 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.039 make Pete Hegseth the Secretary of Defense. Tolsey Gabbert like 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:50.960 Cash Pttel, like Pete Hegseth, like Robert Kennedy, like Christy 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:56.720 Nome is unfit, unfit for service. But most of these 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.560 people will make it through. A couple of them must not. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.520 And high on that list is the FBI director Designant Cashpitel. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.520 Cash Ptel is a joke. Let's watch the future FBI 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.719 director of Trump's fantasies sell some product. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.560 We are a bestseller in the Wall Street Journal, Amazon, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.200 all these other bestseller lists, and we sold that. We 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.800 met the metrics to be a New York Times bestseller. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.120 But at the end of the day, the Times decides 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.360 if you get on that list, even if you meet 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.280 the metrics for sales. And so you know, maybe I'm 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.240 kind of glad I'm not a New York Times bestseller 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:31.600 because they won't give it to me. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.239 Planes fly into buildings when these people fail in their jobs. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.880 Serial killers get away. When this agency fails in its job, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.160 and this clown and grifter and huckster is unfit, as 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.320 unfit as Mac Gates, as unfitted as Pete hake Seth, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.080 as unfit as Taulsey Gabbard. Yet so many in the 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.440 media are covering Donald Trump like, well, he's a normal fella. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.000 Let's watch this instant from Meet the Press where Donald 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.760 Trump makes clear that the Congress, a committee of a 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:09.880 co equal branch of government doing oversight, impaneled to investigate 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:15.440 his coup, his violent insurrection, that it is those people 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.680 who tried to find the truth and published an eight 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.720 hundred page report about what he did. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.960 And Cheney was behind it, and so is Benny Thompson 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.880 and everybody on that committee. We're going to for what 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.880 they did, yeh. Honestly, they should go to jail. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.359 So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail for 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.200 what everyone on the committee. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.000 Used, I think everybody anybody that voted in. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:45.480 Funy, those people should be locked up. While the people 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.560 who stormed the capitol, the criminals who vandalized it, who 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.240 assaulted police officers, including the violent ones, will all be 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.080 pardoned on day one. And these people will come out 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.200 of prison and they will be maga martyrs. Many will 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.240 run for office, Some will be elected to office, but 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.599 their extremism will have paid off for them. Many of 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:12.000 them will wind up with government appointments, no doubt, heroes forevermore. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.080 The men and women who have been called upon by 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.120 their leader did something no group of Americans have ever done. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.840 They stormed the capital after a presidential election and tried 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:28.000 to burn the Constitution to keep their orange tinted demigod 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.520 from reality television in power for a job he failed 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:38.080 at morally, mentally, and spiritually. The worst president in American 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.240 history was the forty fifth president, but the forty seventh 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.600 is going to pass him early in his term. When 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:50.200 we think about retribution and revenge and all that is coming, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.400 the American media is falling down, failing in the moment, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:59.920 none more spectacularly than Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski. The 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:06.480 exact and precise moment the country needs truthtellers looking into cameras. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:11.120 What they're getting is capitulation. What they're getting is the 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:15.160 bending of the knee. What they're getting is appeasement. And 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.000 there is no place where this is playing out more perversely, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.640 more dramatically than at the six o'clock hour on MSNBC 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.760 when Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski sit down. The justifications 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.880 have not stopped for weeks, and Joe Scarborough completely lost 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:39.320 it on his audience on Friday morning, rebuking them, reprimanding them, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.840 the people he called family just days before. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.560 Do you know why I went to leaders in the 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.600 Middle East who were angry at the United States and 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.079 I sat there and I listened to them attacking me 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.560 personally for forty five minutes because of US policy. You 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.120 know why I do that? To get the read of 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.079 the leader, to get the read of where the country's going. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.079 So I can come back here and talk to you 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.040 and let you know what the hell is going on 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:13.640 with context and give you context, insight and background. You know, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.360 everybody we have on the show that's a reporter, it's 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.960 what they do every day. They speak on background. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.840 Let me suggest, if you're watching the show, you're not 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.760 part of Joe and Mika's family. You're strangers. Actually, you're 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.520 just someone trying to get some facts in the morning. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.720 And if you do feel a connection, well you should 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.280 appreciate about that connection because there's no room for you 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.880 in the Joe and Mika bus, the escape bus from 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.080 mar A Lago. And I'm not joking around here. What 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.400 we've seen from them is a form of cowardice, a 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.520 form of panic. Nothing's happened yet, but they're flailing in 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:59.240 the water already. Why are these people terrified about Donald 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.880 Trump and his bluster? They are protected by the First 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:07.360 Amendment to the Constitution. Donald Trump wants people afraid, he 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.400 wants people intimidated. There is no basis for his threats 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.120 to jail his opponents. His power is immense, but because 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.000 this is America, it can be opposed unless people are 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:23.280 too intimidated to oppose it. And the problem with this 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.480 moment is the people who are intimidated are the richest 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:33.040 and most powerful, with the biggest microphones and the largest platforms. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:37.120 They're afraid of losing what they have, and because of that, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.360 they'll tell you not what you need to hear, but 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.560 what the person who can take from them wants you 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.000 to hear. When you look around in the years to come, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.920 there's but a single question that you have to have 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.040 the wisdom to process who is on your side. And no, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.120 it's not necessarily a person who has the magic letter 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.800 E next to their name. Maybe they're also in it 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.640 for themselves, maybe they're looking to get as much as 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.320 they can get. And what you're going to have to 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.280 figure out in the years ahead as the Trump presidency 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:18.040 unfolds and the catastrophe reveals itself, is who out there 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.560 will step up and run for office genuinely cares about 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:27.480 reform and renewal and not about victory for themselves in 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.160 the moment, but victory for the country a generation from now. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.920 Who's the person who wants to fight on your side 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.040 against the most powerful interest in the world to preserve 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.520 the best idea in the history of the world, America. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:49.120 We have crossed the line. Elon Musk is functioning as 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.000 a type of unelected deputy president, the richest man in 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:58.479 the world, the first American oligarch, powerful in business, powerful 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:04.840 in culture, and powerful politically beyond any measure, beyond comprehension. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.480 We'll see how it plays out. Donald Trump's cabinet is 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.200 the richest and the wealthiest and the most out of 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.080 touch in all of American history. Each of them, with 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.200 a billion dollars worth of zeros next to their name, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.600 believes because of that they are a genius, and together 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:28.360 they are a supernova of genius, trumpy and genius that 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.679 will make America great again by taking as much as 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.120 they can get their hands on and sprinkling it out 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:41.120 as they see fit. Their beneficence, you see, is a 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.360 part of their genius. All the rest of us are 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:49.319 but cogs and pieces in the grand and great contraption 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:54.000 and machine they're rigging for them. This will all fall apart, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:58.400 and it's going to be very very ugly. Tremendous damage 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.400 will be done to our institution, to our society. We're 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.040 going to see cracks in the foundation. And even though 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.480 so much of what we have seen over the last 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:15.760 decade has been troubling, has been disturbing, has been shattering 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.080 of a lot of preconceptions, none of it has yet 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.800 really begun. The thing to remember is that Donald Trump, 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.480 while being a terrible president, was a consequential one. But 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:34.560 his consequential era is just getting started. Let's say the 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.080 book of Donald Trump will one day be one thousand 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.720 pages long. The apprentice chapters in his first term will 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.920 be less than one hundred. The future and what Trump 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.520 will be remembered for hasn't happened yet, but when it does, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.000 we will all remember it, and everyone around the world 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.600 will also for a very very long time. Donald Trump 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.560 has power, and so does MAGA. The Democratic Party has 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.880 suffered a failure that it will take a long time, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.720 judging by the responses from the people who led that 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.479 failure to get their heads around it, the flawless campaign 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.439 of twenty twenty four, According to Kamala Harris's chief of staff, well, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.960 that flawless campaign has given us our first flawless president, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.640 Donald Trump, our first king since George the Third, our 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.840 first commander in chief resolutely above the rest of us 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.440 because he is above the law. Let's be clear about that. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.160 The fiction that we're all equal under it, that's over 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.640 in America. It's not true, but it could be true 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.720 if we elect the right people in. Those people in 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.640 the next years are going to have to be smart 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.000 and nimble and serious in. Those people are going to 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.720 have to be tough in principled in. Those people are 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.040 going to have to refuse to back down. And the 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.400 truth is those people are going to have to take 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.280 some risks. Before this is all over. These early days 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.960 of the second Trump presidency will not be remembered. They 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.120 will all fade out. Pete Hegseth will not make it 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.440 to the Pentagon, and he won't be remembered. What will 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:21.320 is what happens when Donald Trump's team takes command, and 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.880 then over four years time, a great drama will unfold. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:29.160 Some people think that in the end good things will happen. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.240 I pray that those people are right, but I know 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.160 in my heart that they are not, because life does 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.080 not work that way. Life is hard, and it's tough, 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.280 and there are consequences for people and for nations. There 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.640 is a prayer carved into the marble above the fireplace 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.720 in the State Dining Room. It was an admonition from 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.880 John Adams, and it was a prayer that none but 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.200 good and wise men would ever live under the roof 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.400 of the White House. We've never had a perfect president, 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.720 had some brilliant ones, we've had some corrupt ones, but 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.960 we've never had a president who the Supreme Court has 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.800 made a caesar who carries in his heart a malice 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:15.120 for everybody who opposes him, and a disrespect for the 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:20.440 institutions that constrain him, and a rage against the idea 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.120 that he can be told no, the days ahead are 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.560 going to be very hard in this country, and the 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.840 resistance to it is going to have to be something 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.320 that forms outside of Washington, because Washington is not a 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.680 place where you will find opposition to Trump. It is 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:42.040 a place where the accommodation begins. Just like on the 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:48.600 set of Mourning Joe. 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