1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: There is less than one week until Donald Trump raises 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: his hand and becomes president of the United States again, 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: and there is malice in the air. This is the warning. 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: Let's look over at CNN where Scott Jennings, a man 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: who I promise knows nothing about forest management and water 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: policy or any Western issues, who is from a state Kentucky. 7 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: For the age of consent is fourteen. And if it 8 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: wasn't for a state like California, Kentucky, well it would 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: be bankrupt. Kentucky is a donor state. Let me put 10 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: it in a way that Scott Jennings would understand. He's 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: from a state that's a welfare queen. It can't take 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: care of itself. It lacks industry, it lacks grit determination, 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: all of the things that he decries about California. And listen, 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: I'm just using Scott Jennings' words here, I'm just using 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: the Jennings standard. I'm not decide that started in stoked 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: the Cold Silk War, but if we are to have 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: one who let us at least tell the truth about it. 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: Because buffer California, many of the states that have given 19 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: to the United States, well, not much in recent times 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: except putridity in the form of Maga Senators, they'll stack 21 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: up to California. California sends a lot of money to 22 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: Washington d C. It's a donor state. For every dollar 23 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: that California sends, unlike Kentucky, which gets about a dollar 24 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: forty back, California gets sixty five cents back. It is 25 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: the economic engine of the country. It is the cultural 26 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: engine of the country. It is the scientific and technological 27 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: engine of the country. It is our innovation center. It 28 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: is the Golden State, and it is on fire. And 29 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: people like Scott Jennings talk of partnership. They talk about 30 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: Washington d C. Will dictate to a state in the Union, 31 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: forty million people what it can and cannot do. Though 32 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: it is sovereign. This lust for power, this thirst for control, 33 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: is going to go to a very bad place. Let's 34 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: listen to Scott Jennings. 35 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 2: There ought to be conditions on aid because I'm. 36 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: Next in Florida or Louisiana. That's why you want that 37 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: aid to be conditional upon Washington dictating policies. 38 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 2: I want it. I want it to be conditional on 39 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 2: knowing whether or not the state of California in this 40 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: case is going to enact local policy decisions on forest management, 41 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: on water resources management, that it doesn't listen. I am 42 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 2: not for a blank check to a state that has 43 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: clearly failed and doesn't know how to manage fires. I 44 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 2: would like to see a partnership between the state and 45 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: Washington so that whatever money is being spent. Look, I 46 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: don't live in California. 47 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: And by the way, I've never done this. As someone 48 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: who's been on television many thousands of times, I don't 49 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: care necessarily to ever be on again, but I would 50 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: if you're a seing producer, I would very much like 51 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: the opportunity to come on any show to talk about 52 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: any subject any time, concerning the United States, concerning California, 53 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: concerning these fires, concerning say, the ten Amendment to the 54 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: Constitution of the United States. I'd like an opportunity to 55 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: sit across from Scott Jennings and demonstrate for the CNN 56 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: viewer his abject ignorance, his total and absolute, stupefying idiocies. 57 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: I'd like the opportunity to do something that never happens 58 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: on CNN. I'd like the opportunity to confront Scott Jennings 59 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: with reality. Here's the deal. When Scott Jennings talks about 60 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: we and them and us. What's he talking about. California 61 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: is an American state. California is in the United States. 62 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: These are Americans. And this is the awful cost of 63 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: Trump in the division in the Rise of the Idiocracy, 64 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: of which Scott Jennings, sneering, smug arrogant, flushed with power, 65 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: is a charter member of Let's understand something. Donald Trump 66 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: has no mandate. He won a plurality, He won the 67 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: seventeenth or eighteenth biggest in the last one hundred and 68 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: twenty years. Yet he has the power and people like 69 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, who believe that people in dinosaurs walked around 70 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: together ten thousand years ago, are going to deliver it 71 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: because they hate the idea of California. They hate the tolerance, 72 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 1: they hate the concept, they hate the modernism. It is 73 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: the most successful state in the most successful society in 74 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: the history of human civilization, and yet it's put down 75 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: by fools like Scott Jennings. We see tough people forging 76 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: through the toughest, hardest days of their life, and what 77 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: do they get from their politicians in Washington to get contempt? 78 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: And what do people like Joe Scarborough demand, did those 79 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: people show Donald Trump fealty? Let's watch this disgraceful episode. 80 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 3: Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from 81 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 3: so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens, deeply 82 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 3: dismayed by several of President Elect Trump's cabinet selections, and 83 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 3: they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns 84 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 3: on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the 85 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 3: opportunity to speak with the President elect himself. On Friday, 86 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 3: we were given the opportunity to do just that. Joe 87 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 3: and I went to mar A Lago to meet personally 88 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 3: with President Elect Trump. 89 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 4: And it's going to come as no surprise to anybody 90 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 4: who watches this show, has watched it over the past 91 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 4: year or over the past decade, that we didn't see 92 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 4: eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we 93 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 4: told him so. 94 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 3: Joe and I realize it's time to do something different, 95 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 3: and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, 96 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 3: but also talking with him. 97 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: It wasn't so long ago that the Great Capitulation began 98 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski, who history will record, 99 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 1: started it in the immediate aftermath of the election. They 100 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: went as fast as they could to meet with the 101 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: man that they called Hitler, And they said, they did 102 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: it for you. And that's what journalism is, keeping the 103 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: lines of communication open. And then there is Jeff Bezos, 104 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: who in a matter of months has destroyed the Washington Post, 105 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: one of the most venerable newspapers in the history of 106 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: the United States. He has reduced it to nothingness. It's 107 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: gone at its brightest. Or fleeing Bob Iger at Disney, 108 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: he laid down in front of Trump imposing an absurdist 109 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: lawsuit settlement on George Stefanopholos, his chief political anchor, defenestrating him. 110 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg a preposterous figure. He talks about masculinity. No 111 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: man who slithers on his belly, no matter how much 112 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: he likes to roll around on a mat, should be 113 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: talking about masculinity to any men or women anywhere, at 114 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,119 Speaker 1: any time. These are soft people who think they're tough. 115 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: These are bad Americans when the country needs good ones. 116 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: These are self indulgent and self interested people. Powerful people 117 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: who are terrified that they may lose something. No, not 118 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: the country. They're not worried about what's happening in California, 119 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: Their main focus is on being nice, nice to Trump. 120 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: But let me ask a question. Is Donald Trump nice? 121 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: He being nice to California when in the middle of 122 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: suffering he piles on? Is Donald Trump being nice when 123 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: he smears and he assaults and he disdains on his 124 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: poisonous social media accounts? Is pete hegseth nice at the 125 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: Republican Women's event when he allegedly raped someone? Is pete 126 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: hegseth nice to the military? Christy nom she nice? Nice 127 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: to her dog. Most of these people are sick, unfit, 128 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: and catastrophes about to happen. Donald Trump will make clear 129 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: his malice. He'll make clear his intentions, and the American 130 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: people will have two choices. Lay down and roll over 131 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: or stand up and hold firm. Did you elect Donald 132 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: Trump to invade Canada, threaten Denmark, invade Panama Mexico? Did 133 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: you elect Donald Trump to punish California. Here's the deal. 134 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump may overreach ten minutes into a term. If 135 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: he does, we must be ready to oppose it. America 136 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: has gone through many brutal hours of testing. This is 137 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: but another one. The unknown is if we are like 138 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: those people who measured up or not when you look around, 139 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: there's a lot of reason to believe we're not. The 140 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: good news is when all of those people who did 141 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: measure up looked around in their time, a great many 142 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 1: people said, we're not like the people who measured up before. 143 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: And yet the American people measure up, even if our 144 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: leaders do not. Over and over and over again, here 145 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: at the warning. We will not be nice to Trump. 146 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:42,839 Speaker 1: We will confront Trump because what Trump stands for needs confrontation, constantly, 147 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: relentlessly focused, consistent confrontation where reality is put forward, the 148 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: truth is asserted, and there is no backing down from 149 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: what's coming next. Scott Jennings gave you a preview. It's sneering, 150 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: it's smug, it's nasty, and it's idiotic. Scott Jennings he 151 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: knows as much about forest policy and land use issues 152 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: in the West as he does about nuclear physics. He's 153 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: saying words that he knows nothing about. He's a fool 154 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: in an era of them. But we will make it 155 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: through as we have before. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is 156 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe on 157 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: our substack on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to 158 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: the community.