1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: It is the ninth of January twenty twenty five, and 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is eleven days away from raising his right 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: hand and swearing the presidential oath that will make him 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: head of State and commander in chief. This is the 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: warning Maga lieutenants are ecstatic. They are full of themselves. 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: Consider this arrogance by the buffoon who holds the eight 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: o'clock hour on Fox News, Jesse Waters speaking to Premier 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: Doug Ford, the equivalent of an American governor on Fox 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: News last night. 10 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 2: You say that Americans don't have a problem with Canadians, 11 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 2: and we don't, but it seems like you have a 12 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 2: problem with us, because if I were a citizen of 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 2: another country and I was a neighbor of the United States, 14 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 2: I would consider it a privilege to be taken over 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 2: by the United States of America. That's what everybody else 16 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: in the world wants. American citizenship. For some reason, that's 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: repellent to you Canadians, and I find that personally offensive. 18 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: Premiere, if you had any pride working at Fox News, 19 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: if you got up in the morning and went to work, 20 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: even if you were the most committed MAGA propagandist, does 21 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: this not embarrass you, the lack of dignity, the assault 22 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: on an elected premier of Ontario. The insult begins right 23 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: from the beginning. His brother was the deceased Rob Ford, 24 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: the mayor of Toronto with a notorious drug problem. Jesse 25 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: Waters isn't offering condolences or being friendly. He's being cruel, 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: all right, Premiere. 27 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 2: By the way, I loved your brother. We did an interview, 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 2: great guy. 29 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: Canada will never be the fifty first state because Canada 30 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: is a great nation and every American president who has 31 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: had a Canadian partner has understood that this is the 32 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: forty ninth parallel. It's the boundary line between the United 33 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: States and Canada and marks the longest undefended border in 34 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: world history. What the Canadian people need or leaders who 35 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: will remind the American people that we are friends, but 36 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: we are two nations. Canadian leaders shouldn't take Trump's bait, 37 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: but they shouldn't be a doormat either, because every person 38 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: who gets on their knees in front of Donald Trump 39 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: gets rolled over. One of the biggest mistakes of this 40 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: era is the license that Donald Trump has been given 41 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: because the Democratic Party's position has been if you're against 42 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. That's enough. And Donald Trump feeds off of 43 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: the incompetence, and he feeds off of the stupidity, and 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: he feeds off of the hypocrisy of his opposition, which 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: he's defeated to take power. Donald Trump's rise to power 46 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: as a tragedy. The Democrats allowing him to do it 47 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: is the greatest failure in American political history. They lost 48 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: an election to the most un fit man there is, 49 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: and the seventy six million voters who voted against Maga 50 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: should be irate about it. Problems of the Democratic Party 51 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: are deep, not just at the presidential level. This is 52 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: a historic day in the United States. We learned about 53 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: the San Francisco Fire of nineteen oh six in our 54 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: history books following the earthquake. This fire in Los Angeles 55 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: is its equivalent. The city is burning. When the fire 56 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: is out, and the images of scene or the damage 57 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: it will boggle the mind of the American people. This 58 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: is Mayor Karen Bass arriving back in the United States 59 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, days after the inferno has begun, arriving 60 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: back from her junket in Africa in Ghana. 61 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 3: Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while 62 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 3: their homes were burning. Do you regret coming the fire 63 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 3: department budget by millions of dovers? Mount of mayor? Have 64 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 3: you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to 65 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 3: say to the citizens today? 66 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: Is very important to understand before she left, the National 67 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: Weather Service was advising the dangerous wins that they were 68 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: advising the dangerous conditions. The mayor had no business leaving 69 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: the city or leaving the state. She was derelict, and 70 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: yet the instinct of many is to cheer her as 71 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: if she's a pop star, as opposed to an elected 72 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: official with life and death responsibilities who failed miserably. Papers 73 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: are filled with reports that Matt Gates may run for 74 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,119 Speaker 1: governor of Florida. Comes a couple of days after weather 75 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: experts said that there's a new storm category A Category 76 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: six States most likely to be hit by a Category 77 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: six hurricane include Florida. And who would want mac Gates 78 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: on the bridge when it hits. I remember being the 79 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: Bush White House during Katrina, watching the incompetence of Michael Brown, 80 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: Governor Kathleen Blanco, Mayor Ray Nagan all accumulate during a 81 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: terrible disaster to cause immense suffering that should not have happened. 82 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 1: The Democratic Party should demand of its elected officials that 83 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: they be the best, in the brightest of their generation. 84 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: It's going to take that to beat back what's coming 85 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: down the road. I know there are people out there 86 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,559 Speaker 1: hoping for the best, to think that maybe it won't 87 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: be so bad. But when you watch Jesse Waters, your 88 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: instinct and common sense should tell you it's going to 89 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: be worse than you thought. This era is coming to 90 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: an end, ceding to a terrible new one that will 91 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: require a tough, a decent opposition that can answer a question. 92 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: Why can't the mayor talk here? Why can't she speak? 93 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 3: Mother? Mayor? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the 94 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 3: citizens today? You're dealing with this disaster, no apology for them. 95 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 3: Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while 96 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 3: this was unfolding back home? 97 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: This is the person in charge of the emergency response. 98 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: It's incredible and it's tragic. It's sick in away. Until 99 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: we demand better, we will not get it. And unless 100 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: we demand competence, the American people will not see it. 101 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to fill the government of the 102 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: United States with mega versions of Karen Paths. These people 103 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: together are a menagerie of unfitness, the likes of which 104 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: has never been assembled, and there will be a crisis 105 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: like the burning of Los Angeles. And in the situation 106 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: room and in the councils of government, where life and 107 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: death decisions are made, there will be a round cable 108 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: of fools sitting together who do not care about you, 109 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: who do not care about your family, who do not 110 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: care about their country, who do not care about the future. 111 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: They just care about their power and taking as much 112 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: as they can get from it. Power to them is 113 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: a right to take, not to give, not to serve, 114 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: not to fight for you. Jeff Bezos has greenlit a 115 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: forty million dollar docu Henry about Millennia. No one will 116 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: watch it. She may be the least interesting person in 117 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: the country, yet forty million. Why It's to pay off 118 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: to Trump's ego from the richest man in the world, 119 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: so he gets to continue to do whatever he likes. 120 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: Sold out as readers at the Washington Post, just like 121 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: Trump will sell out the voters who voted for him. 122 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: In the end, Democratic Party will have another primary. We'll 123 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: pick another candidate to go up against him, this time 124 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: in the form of JD. Vans, who will be even tougher. 125 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: Who is the person who's going to rise in this country, 126 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: who has the capacity to speak, to connect, and to 127 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: call out the malice, the idiocy, the stupidity, and the incompetence. 128 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles is burning and it didn't have to decades 129 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: of poor land management, lack of imagination among fire officials 130 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: about the potential for a catastrophe like this. There'll be 131 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: plenty of time to review it all, but the extreme 132 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: weather and the idiocy of the politicians is combining to 133 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: create profound danger for all Americans. Eleven days from now, 134 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will start the burning. He's going to burn 135 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,719 Speaker 1: our institutions. He's going to burn the idea that we're connected. 136 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: He's going to burn down the idea that nations have 137 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: allies and that America is allies share values. He's going 138 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: to allow his cronies to take as much as they 139 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: can suck up out of the trough. Twenty twenty five 140 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: is off to a terrible start in the United States. 141 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: It began with terror attacks. It began with dishonesty in 142 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: the media, political incompetence, the burning of Los Angeles, the 143 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: moral capitulations of some of the most powerful people in 144 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: the country, to malice, to indecency, to bullying. Donald Trump 145 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: is still eleven days away from walking out onto a 146 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: dias in delivering an inaugural address that will shock the 147 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: conscience of the world. In this nation, get ready, there 148 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: are hard days ahead. This is the warning. 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