1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Today from London, England, and there are forty five days 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: until the noon hour when Donald Trump will raise his 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: hand and swear the thirty five word oath, the only 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: one in the American Constitution, the same one that George 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 1: Washington took, that calls for him to preserve, protect, and 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: to defend the Constitution of the United States. Of course, 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the only president in American history to 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: raise his hand in violence against the Constitution of the 9 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: United States, fomenting the insurrection of January sixth, twenty twenty one, 10 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: the insurrection that the American people have turned a blind 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: eye towards, with a plurality of them slightly over forty 12 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: nine percent awarding to Donald Trump his first popular vote 13 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: victory out of his three presidential runs, of which two 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: will have given him of office in the White House. 15 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: This is the warning. There is a chill descending over 16 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: America's corporate newsrooms, and it must be talked about because 17 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: each day it will get colder and colder and colder 18 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: until the depth of winter. And there what corporate newsrooms 19 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: will produce is the blandest of Farina, designed to do 20 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: one thing, which is to not make Donald Trump upset. 21 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: The commandment inside of America's corporate newsrooms will be very simple. 22 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 1: Be nice. Donald Trump wants a nice press. How will 23 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: the press cover Elon Musk? How will they cover Vivak Ramaswani, 24 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: How will they cover Donald Trump? We have indications and 25 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: they are most alarming. One of the richest men in 26 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: the world, Jeff Bezos, intervened and in weeks before the election, 27 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: with the Washington Post's editorial process. Jeff Bezos interfered in 28 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: the independence of his editorial operation inside the newspaper, which 29 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: is his right to cost is credibility. You see, access 30 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: to the powerful is not a prerequisite for covering them. 31 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: Access to power is a prerequisite for being next to power, 32 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: and that's not the job of journalism. Many news organizations 33 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: are run by powerful corporations who have many other considerations 34 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: and equities that far exceed the importance to their shareholders 35 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: of telling the truth to you. This is important to 36 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: comprehend to appreciate. The Los Angeles Times is an important 37 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: national newspaper. It has a legacy of great reporters. A 38 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: couple of them have resigned. They've resigned because the billionaire 39 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: owner has interfered in the editorial process. No longer can 40 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: the newspaper editors choose the headlines. The owner must approve 41 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: them because Elon Musk was offended by one. This is 42 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: how it works. The capitulant acts that you will see 43 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: in newsrooms under the banner of being nice to Trump 44 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: will be subtle, and the sins will be ones of omission. 45 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: And there is no place where this is more dramatically 46 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: playing out than on Morning Joe, when the Atlantic writer 47 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: and White House speech writer David From came for a visit. Now, 48 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: what David From said was witty, and it was funny, 49 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: and it was appropriate, just given what one sees on camera. 50 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: If you're too drunk for Fox News, you're very, very drunk. Indeed, 51 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: so that's alarming. The point that David From was made, 52 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: as if it needs explanation, was that Fox has incredibly 53 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: low standards, and that one of those low people who 54 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: works at Fox, unsurprisingly because of Fox's history, is an 55 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: alleged rapist and a serial abuser of women and a 56 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: drunk who is utterly unfit to be in the National 57 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: Command authority to be the person woken up at one 58 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: in the morning to be alerted should there be a 59 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: nuclear attack unfit, and so David From, one of the 60 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: most insightful and astute and wise observers of American life 61 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: and culture and politics, made and observation, and he was 62 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: immediately warned. There was a voice in the ear saying, 63 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: don't do that. Shortly after David From left the air, 64 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: Mika Brazinski said. 65 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: This, before we go to break a little bit earlier 66 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 2: in this block, there was a comment made about Fox 67 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 2: News in our coverage about Pete hagg Seth and the 68 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: growing number of allegations about his behavior over the years 69 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 2: and possible addiction to alcohol or issues with alcohol. The 70 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 2: comment was a little too flippant for this moment that 71 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: we're in. We just want to make that comment as well. 72 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 2: We want to make that clear. 73 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: But why would they apologize for it? Is the fear 74 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: that great and then the justifications about civility. Let's watch Shascarborough. 75 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 3: Mika said after the comment was a little too flippant 76 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 3: for the moment we're in. We disagree with Fox News, 77 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 3: but there's some good people over there, including of course 78 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 3: those talking to NBC News about their concerns. 79 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 4: This got turned into a column and a headline that 80 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 4: said that, well, let's see what was the headline this 81 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 4: sound of fear. Now, that wasn't the sound of fear, 82 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 4: that was the sound of civil and saying that Mika had. 83 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 3: Apologized, you cant it apologized. 84 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: She simply said it was too flimid civility. Excuse me. 85 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: Let's watch Mika talk about Pete Hegsath and all of 86 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: the people that care about Pete at Fox News, where 87 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: she just wants to leave it at that. 88 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 2: But right now, I just want to say, there's a 89 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 2: lot of good people that work at Fox News who 90 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: care about Pete Heggsath, and we'll want to leave it 91 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 2: at that. 92 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: Why is Mika Brzynski apologizing to Rupert Murdoch's Lye machine. 93 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: Why is she personalizing what David from said in cow 94 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: telling to an institution? Why are they intimidated? The accommodations 95 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: to come will all be justified as necessary, particularly by 96 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: the people who make them. Running a newsroom in America 97 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: is about to become a very serious job. The lighthearted 98 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: age of nonsensicalness has ended. There will be real, constant 99 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: and significant pressure. The job will require fortitude, and it 100 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: is a job. The job requires the ability to sit 101 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: under threat and to speak truth to power. Without fear 102 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: or favor. The show is becoming a cancer on the 103 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: credibility of NBC News and an insult to the fortitude 104 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: of people like Nicole Wallace and Rachel Matdow and everybody 105 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: else who is modeling fearlessness in the face of intimidation, 106 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: including from an FBI director designate who has promised to 107 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: lock up journalists. If you are a member of Congress 108 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: and you fear for your life because of the threats 109 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: and the intimations of violence in the air, and you 110 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: cannot perform your duties, your duties require you to resign. 111 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: If you are a journalist who cannot pursue the truth, 112 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: who cannot look into the camera without being intimidated, without 113 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: showing fear or favor, then you must step away. What 114 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: we are witnessing is unsightly because cowardice is It's uncomfortable, 115 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: especially when it's dressed up as something virtuous, and we 116 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: know it's not the most important quality in the opposition 117 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: to what will be coming is fearlessness. The idea that 118 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: because Trump has won and because he has blustered, we 119 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: must lay down and Neil must be rejected. It is 120 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: inappropriate for people like Anthony Fauci to accept a pardon 121 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: for doing nothing wrong out of fear. It is wrong 122 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: for Liz Cheney to accept a party for doing nothing 123 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: wrong out of fear for doing her duty. It is 124 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: a submission that is deeply wrong. And so when Joe 125 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: Biden talks about giving pardons preemptively to these people, they 126 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: must reject it, because if they accept it, they will 127 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: cut themselves off from the people that admired them with 128 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: special privilege that those citizens who followed them will not enjoy, 129 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: but who will be called upon to rise up and 130 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: to resist at significant costs, perhaps abuses of civil liberties, 131 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: the likes of which will be unprecedented in this country 132 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: if the president elect does what he says he will do. 133 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 1: And here is the thing, and here is why this 134 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: matters above all else, And here's why Joe and Mika 135 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: matter in the space they occupy matters. There is no 136 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: person ever who has promised to do the things that 137 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has promised to do, who upon taking power 138 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: didn't do them. None ever. So there is fear, and 139 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: we're seeing it, and it's unsightly. And the American people 140 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: deserve better. What they deserve is truth telling. This is 141 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and 142 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 1: I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on 143 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.