Speaker 1: It is the thirteenth of January, and there are seven
Speaker 1: days left until the noon hour when Donald Trump raises
Speaker 1: his hand no doubt over a Trump Bible, which he
Speaker 1: will soon start hawking on the internet. He will swear
Speaker 1: the thirty five word oath, which he has already desecrated,
Speaker 1: and then once again he will be commander in Chief,
Speaker 1: the American head of state, President of the United States
Speaker 1: for four long years. This is the warning Donald Trump
Speaker 1: will be sworn in at a moment of American crisis.
Speaker 1: As I speak, one hundred and fifty miles to the west,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is burning. Here are many members of the
Speaker 1: California Congressional delegation during an apocalyptic crisis there at mar Lago,
Speaker 1: celebrating Trump, and MAGA has made clear. When they look
Speaker 1: out across the world and they see their enemies hits Californians,
Speaker 1: they're fellow Americans. That's who they're going to take it
Speaker 1: out on. You see, according to all of the geniuses
Speaker 1: in MAGA, the fire it's California's fault and therefore the
Speaker 1: disaster aid it's contingent until and unless California genuflex to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to MAGA gets in line with the Trumpian way.
Speaker 1: No money for them here is one of the dumbest
Speaker 1: United States senators. And believe me when I say this,
Speaker 1: it's a race to the bottom. Bill Haggerty of Tennessee
Speaker 1: suggesting that California may not get money from the federal government.
Speaker 2: You've got to bring accountability to bear here, and before
Speaker 2: we put funds into place, we've got to find out
Speaker 2: exactly how we're going to hold these leaders accountable and
Speaker 2: what sort of policy changes are required.
Speaker 1: The federal government is like a giant cash machine, like
Speaker 1: a slot machine. For some the slot machine devours quarters
Speaker 1: that would be California. Their a state that when it
Speaker 1: goes to the Washington casino, it puts in a dollar
Speaker 1: and it gets sixty five cents back. California is the
Speaker 1: state more than any other that funds the federal government,
Speaker 1: so that there are states like Tennessee that can put
Speaker 1: that dollar in and every time they win the jackpop
Speaker 1: getting a dollar twenty five a dollar thirty back. The
Speaker 1: rest of the country would go bankrupt but for California,
Speaker 1: the programs that are required in states like Mississippi and Alabama,
Speaker 1: for American backwaters, they would be so much worse off
Speaker 1: without California without the people who were scorned in those hills.
Speaker 1: And this is what Donald Trump is doing. Scorekeeping dividing
Speaker 1: used to be when an American was in trouble, anywhere
Speaker 1: all of us felt, all of us would feel compelled
Speaker 1: to act. But no more. We have some states rooting
Speaker 1: against other states, and we have the political leaders of
Speaker 1: those states, no matter what the facts of the matter,
Speaker 1: ready to point a finger, not even to score points
Speaker 1: for themselves, but for Donald Trump. And while all of
Speaker 1: this is going on, this is the week where his
Speaker 1: great menagerie of spectacular unfitness and keep depravity starts its
Speaker 1: confirmation hearings. There's the registered Katari agent Pam Bondi, who,
Speaker 1: but for the absence of a statutory rape allegation, is
Speaker 1: just as ludicrous a pick to run the Department of
Speaker 1: Justice as was Macates, a Katari agent the home country
Speaker 1: of Hamas. No one should be surprised Pam Bondi was
Speaker 1: on the payroll. Christy Noon, the dog killing South Dakota governor,
Speaker 1: gave Donald Trump a replica of Mount Rushmore and put
Speaker 1: Trump on it. This woman who ran on cruelty is
Speaker 1: going to be the head of America's monstrosity federal agency,
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, that should never have been
Speaker 1: in the first place, but became in the fear in
Speaker 1: the reaction to the nine to eleven attacks. If there
Speaker 1: is an agency that will be turned on the American
Speaker 1: people to abuse them, it's this, and there is the
Speaker 1: perfect candidate to lead it. There are truly no words
Speaker 1: for the freak show that Donald Trump has nominated the
Speaker 1: alleged rapist, the drunk to sit atop the National Command
Speaker 1: Authority at the tip of the chain of command for
Speaker 1: our five four hundred plus nuclear warheads. Pete Hagsath with
Speaker 1: his white nationalist tattoos festooned about his chest, the Hansy
Speaker 1: Fox News morning host, is perhaps the most unfit of
Speaker 1: them all. But then again, how do you rank Tulca Gabbert?
Speaker 1: How do you rank Robert F. Kennedy? How do you
Speaker 1: rank any of these people? The professional staff of the
Speaker 1: National Security Council, which includes senior military officers, nonpartisan who
Speaker 1: the only oath they've taken is to the Constitution of
Speaker 1: the United States, have been interrogated by the incoming Trump
Speaker 1: administration about their loyalty. The concern is not about their
Speaker 1: fidelity to the United States to the Constitution of the
Speaker 1: United States. No, it is whether they are sufficiently loyal
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. And the truth is none of them
Speaker 1: can satisfy the MAGA fanatics. So the entirety of the
Speaker 1: National Security Council staff, along with much of the senior
Speaker 1: leadership of the military, will be fired by sunset on
Speaker 1: January twenty. First things will happen fast. It is going
Speaker 1: to be shocking, it's going to be numbing, it's going
Speaker 1: to be frightening. And then the American people will say no,
Speaker 1: they'll say enough, they'll say bullshit, and they'll dig in
Speaker 1: and they'll oppose. This truth is in the city of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, the state of California at large, a great
Speaker 1: many people are apathetic about politics. California is broken in
Speaker 1: part because of a lack of participation in the political system.
Speaker 1: It has allowed, if you think about it, like a garden,
Speaker 1: for the weeds to grow in. The weeds are the
Speaker 1: succession of political hacks who have thrived in the term
Speaker 1: limits one party era. And the truth is that era
Speaker 1: it has to come to an end now in California
Speaker 1: because the rebuilding will take the vision of a man
Speaker 1: like Pat Brown. It's going to take genius and vision.
Speaker 1: There will be a great reawakening in California, deep intolerance,
Speaker 1: as there should be from so many people who've lost
Speaker 1: everything about delays caused by nonsense in the rebuilding of
Speaker 1: their lives. Government is going to be confronted in California
Speaker 1: like it has not been perhaps ever, and people at
Speaker 1: California are going to be upset about the layers of
Speaker 1: byzantine bureaucracy and the rules and the contradictions and the
Speaker 1: suffering that they impose in California. Gives all the tools
Speaker 1: that are necessary for an electorate to possess to make
Speaker 1: dramatic change. And there will be and after that, because
Speaker 1: trends start in California, the energy will be released that
Speaker 1: will help make drastic change in the United States. And
Speaker 1: the aftermath of the Trump disaster that's coming, that's bearing down.
Speaker 1: These are going to be turbulent years in America, frightening
Speaker 1: years in America. But don't give into the fear. We
Speaker 1: live in an era where the richest and most powerful
Speaker 1: people in the country are lined up around on the
Speaker 1: block to genuflect to Donald Trump, and then they get
Speaker 1: called out on it, like Michael Steele did. To Joe Scarborough.
Speaker 1: They don't like it very much, but nevertheless it's true.
Speaker 1: The owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, has commissioned
Speaker 1: a forty million dollar documentary about the life of Malania Trump,
Speaker 1: someone that nobody's interested in, not even her husband. It's payoff,
Speaker 1: it's bribe, whether it's Zuckerberg, whether it's Bezos, whether it's Scarborough,
Speaker 1: or whether it's these California fools dining on crab of
Speaker 1: hunka while they're state burns. Were in for it because
Speaker 1: this is what the American people chose in their infinite wisdom,
Speaker 1: with forty nine point two percent of the vote. And
Speaker 1: in a democracy, the people are never wrong, just temporarily misguided.
Speaker 1: And so misguided, we are on the eve of a
Speaker 1: type of instruction, in a season of burning. When the
Speaker 1: flames come, when the fire comes, it seems as if
Speaker 1: everything is burning. But that's not the case. And no
Speaker 1: matter what Donald Trump burns, it will not be the
Speaker 1: case that he has burned everything. There will be plenty
Speaker 1: of unscarred land to stand on and to fight back
Speaker 1: from when the burning begins, and it will. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and
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