1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: It is the thirteenth of January, and there are seven 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: days left until the noon hour when Donald Trump raises 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: his hand no doubt over a Trump Bible, which he 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: will soon start hawking on the internet. He will swear 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: the thirty five word oath, which he has already desecrated, 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: and then once again he will be commander in Chief, 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: the American head of state, President of the United States 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: for four long years. This is the warning Donald Trump 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: will be sworn in at a moment of American crisis. 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 1: As I speak, one hundred and fifty miles to the west, 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: Los Angeles is burning. Here are many members of the 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: California Congressional delegation during an apocalyptic crisis there at mar Lago, 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: celebrating Trump, and MAGA has made clear. When they look 14 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: out across the world and they see their enemies hits Californians, 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: they're fellow Americans. That's who they're going to take it 16 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: out on. You see, according to all of the geniuses 17 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: in MAGA, the fire it's California's fault and therefore the 18 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: disaster aid it's contingent until and unless California genuflex to 19 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump to MAGA gets in line with the Trumpian way. 20 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: No money for them here is one of the dumbest 21 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 1: United States senators. And believe me when I say this, 22 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: it's a race to the bottom. Bill Haggerty of Tennessee 23 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: suggesting that California may not get money from the federal government. 24 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: You've got to bring accountability to bear here, and before 25 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: we put funds into place, we've got to find out 26 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 2: exactly how we're going to hold these leaders accountable and 27 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: what sort of policy changes are required. 28 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: The federal government is like a giant cash machine, like 29 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: a slot machine. For some the slot machine devours quarters 30 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: that would be California. Their a state that when it 31 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: goes to the Washington casino, it puts in a dollar 32 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: and it gets sixty five cents back. California is the 33 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: state more than any other that funds the federal government, 34 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: so that there are states like Tennessee that can put 35 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: that dollar in and every time they win the jackpop 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: getting a dollar twenty five a dollar thirty back. The 37 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: rest of the country would go bankrupt but for California, 38 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: the programs that are required in states like Mississippi and Alabama, 39 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: for American backwaters, they would be so much worse off 40 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: without California without the people who were scorned in those hills. 41 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,399 Speaker 1: And this is what Donald Trump is doing. Scorekeeping dividing 42 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: used to be when an American was in trouble, anywhere 43 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: all of us felt, all of us would feel compelled 44 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: to act. But no more. We have some states rooting 45 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: against other states, and we have the political leaders of 46 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: those states, no matter what the facts of the matter, 47 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: ready to point a finger, not even to score points 48 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: for themselves, but for Donald Trump. And while all of 49 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: this is going on, this is the week where his 50 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: great menagerie of spectacular unfitness and keep depravity starts its 51 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: confirmation hearings. There's the registered Katari agent Pam Bondi, who, 52 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: but for the absence of a statutory rape allegation, is 53 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: just as ludicrous a pick to run the Department of 54 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: Justice as was Macates, a Katari agent the home country 55 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: of Hamas. No one should be surprised Pam Bondi was 56 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: on the payroll. Christy Noon, the dog killing South Dakota governor, 57 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: gave Donald Trump a replica of Mount Rushmore and put 58 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: Trump on it. This woman who ran on cruelty is 59 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: going to be the head of America's monstrosity federal agency, 60 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, that should never have been 61 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: in the first place, but became in the fear in 62 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: the reaction to the nine to eleven attacks. If there 63 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: is an agency that will be turned on the American 64 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: people to abuse them, it's this, and there is the 65 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: perfect candidate to lead it. There are truly no words 66 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: for the freak show that Donald Trump has nominated the 67 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: alleged rapist, the drunk to sit atop the National Command 68 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: Authority at the tip of the chain of command for 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: our five four hundred plus nuclear warheads. Pete Hagsath with 70 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: his white nationalist tattoos festooned about his chest, the Hansy 71 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: Fox News morning host, is perhaps the most unfit of 72 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: them all. But then again, how do you rank Tulca Gabbert? 73 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: How do you rank Robert F. Kennedy? How do you 74 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: rank any of these people? The professional staff of the 75 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: National Security Council, which includes senior military officers, nonpartisan who 76 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: the only oath they've taken is to the Constitution of 77 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,239 Speaker 1: the United States, have been interrogated by the incoming Trump 78 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: administration about their loyalty. The concern is not about their 79 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: fidelity to the United States to the Constitution of the 80 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: United States. No, it is whether they are sufficiently loyal 81 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. And the truth is none of them 82 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: can satisfy the MAGA fanatics. So the entirety of the 83 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: National Security Council staff, along with much of the senior 84 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: leadership of the military, will be fired by sunset on 85 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: January twenty. First things will happen fast. It is going 86 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: to be shocking, it's going to be numbing, it's going 87 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: to be frightening. And then the American people will say no, 88 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: they'll say enough, they'll say bullshit, and they'll dig in 89 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: and they'll oppose. This truth is in the city of 90 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, the state of California at large, a great 91 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: many people are apathetic about politics. California is broken in 92 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: part because of a lack of participation in the political system. 93 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: It has allowed, if you think about it, like a garden, 94 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: for the weeds to grow in. The weeds are the 95 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: succession of political hacks who have thrived in the term 96 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: limits one party era. And the truth is that era 97 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: it has to come to an end now in California 98 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: because the rebuilding will take the vision of a man 99 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: like Pat Brown. It's going to take genius and vision. 100 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: There will be a great reawakening in California, deep intolerance, 101 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: as there should be from so many people who've lost 102 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: everything about delays caused by nonsense in the rebuilding of 103 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: their lives. Government is going to be confronted in California 104 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: like it has not been perhaps ever, and people at 105 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: California are going to be upset about the layers of 106 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: byzantine bureaucracy and the rules and the contradictions and the 107 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: suffering that they impose in California. Gives all the tools 108 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: that are necessary for an electorate to possess to make 109 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: dramatic change. And there will be and after that, because 110 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: trends start in California, the energy will be released that 111 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: will help make drastic change in the United States. And 112 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: the aftermath of the Trump disaster that's coming, that's bearing down. 113 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: These are going to be turbulent years in America, frightening 114 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: years in America. But don't give into the fear. We 115 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: live in an era where the richest and most powerful 116 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: people in the country are lined up around on the 117 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: block to genuflect to Donald Trump, and then they get 118 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: called out on it, like Michael Steele did. To Joe Scarborough. 119 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: They don't like it very much, but nevertheless it's true. 120 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: The owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, has commissioned 121 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: a forty million dollar documentary about the life of Malania Trump, 122 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: someone that nobody's interested in, not even her husband. It's payoff, 123 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: it's bribe, whether it's Zuckerberg, whether it's Bezos, whether it's Scarborough, 124 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: or whether it's these California fools dining on crab of 125 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: hunka while they're state burns. Were in for it because 126 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: this is what the American people chose in their infinite wisdom, 127 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: with forty nine point two percent of the vote. And 128 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: in a democracy, the people are never wrong, just temporarily misguided. 129 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: And so misguided, we are on the eve of a 130 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: type of instruction, in a season of burning. When the 131 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: flames come, when the fire comes, it seems as if 132 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: everything is burning. But that's not the case. And no 133 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: matter what Donald Trump burns, it will not be the 134 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: case that he has burned everything. There will be plenty 135 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: of unscarred land to stand on and to fight back 136 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: from when the burning begins, and it will. This is 137 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and 138 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on 139 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, follow us, Welcome to the community.