1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Meet the Press is the longest running television show in 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: American history. It first aired in nineteen forty seven, and 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: today it got a new host. She was the best 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: moderator of any of the twenty twenty presidential and vice 5 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: presidential debates, Kristin Welker, But her and her team showed 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: up today for an interview with Donald Trump with a 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: bad game plan. The hidden show up to play like 8 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: Coach Prime. Donald Trump steamrolled to Meet the Press team 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: over and over again. Showing up prepared to interview Donald 10 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: Trump should be no mystery at this point. What was 11 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: most disappointing about his appearance on Meet the Press is 12 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: how badly the American people were served today. They were 13 00:00:54,760 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: not informed, they were misled, they were not enlightened, they 14 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: were gaslet they were lied to, and they were propagandized 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:10,279 Speaker 1: to by a former president who steamrolled the host asking 16 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: him questions. One of the reasons why is this. Whoever 17 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: instructs television news anchors that they must run through a schedule, 18 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: that they must ask twelve questions or thirteen or fourteen, 19 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: or whatever the number may be for there to be 20 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: a successful interview does not understand the nature of the moment. 21 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: The only way to sit and effectively interview Trump is 22 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: to have the ability to extemporize, to have the agility 23 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: to react in real time, the way that Mehdi Hassan 24 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: did with vivek Ramasfami. If you go to Donald Trump's 25 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: lair with a pre set set of questions, he will filibuster, 26 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: he will steamroll, he will lie, and he will succeed 27 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: in delivering his insanities to the American people unchecked, which 28 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: is exactly what happened this morning. Now, Kristin Welker did 29 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: try to say over and over again that he was 30 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: not telling the truth. In my estimation, she did it feebly, 31 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: but more than that, she allowed Donald Trump to maneuver 32 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: her into a position where she was speaking for Democrats 33 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: over and over again. Kristin Welker was enunciating the Democratic 34 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: Party's position. She said, no, Democrats don't believe this. That's 35 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: not what her role should be. Trump maneuvered her into 36 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: being a spokesperson for the opposition party, furthering the links, 37 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: furthering the attacks, the bonds, tightening them in his access 38 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: of attack against his mutual enemy, the media and the 39 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. Here's the thing why won't the American media 40 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: take Donald Trump literally and seriously about everything he said? 41 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: Is there a new dogma, a new doctrine where every 42 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: day resets, as if we live in a collective reality 43 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: show episode, where what happened before is completely erased, where 44 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: what he said last Tuesday doesn't matter, that there's a 45 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: reset button for every Sunday. Because what Donald Trump has 46 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: said clearly is he's running for president to seek retribution, 47 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: retribution against who, you may ask well, his political enemies. 48 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: It was an interesting question that Kristen Welker scratched the 49 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: surface with but didn't penetrate very deeply. Are who exactly 50 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: will he lock up? Who needs punishment? What about the 51 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: fact that he asked the Joint Chiefs Chairman if the 52 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: military could shoot peacefully protesting Americans in their legs as 53 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: they walked by the White House? Does any of this 54 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: give anybody pause? Does anybody think that any of these 55 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: things are appropriate for theoretical questions? Given the outland is 56 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: violence this man incited over and over and over again 57 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: in this interview, Donald Trump claimed he won a rigged 58 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: election that was stolen from him. It is not true, 59 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: and there should have been no other question that followed 60 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: that question. It was a golden opportunity, missed a one 61 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: hour and fifteen minute window where Donald Trump could have 62 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: been questioned about his lie, the lie that is poisoning 63 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: the headwaters of America's civilization. It's not just our politics. 64 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: Our American civilization is at stake, our society, our culture, 65 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: all of it. It is dependent on elections. Our society 66 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: is structured on the basis of assigning power that results 67 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: from a choice made by the people in an election 68 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: about who amongst us gets to make the laws, who 69 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: gets to exercise limited power for a limited term and 70 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: never can take away our rights? Who are those people 71 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: we invest with responsibility? That's our decision. We need to understand, 72 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: as of people, who this man is. And except for 73 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: a very few, small number of circumstances seven years on 74 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: the ability of Donald Trump to steamroll every single person 75 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: who asks him a question. Working for a national television 76 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: network is appallity and it's dangerous, and it's part of 77 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: the reason so many Americans have unplugged from the media. 78 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: They don't believe anything. Why would they? How could they? 79 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: When you watch what happened today? Why was Donald Trump 80 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: given an unimpeded avenue with meek occasional interjections about what 81 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: was real and what was not to say outrageous things 82 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: such as Democrats support the killing of babies after birth 83 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: as their abortion policy. Over and over again, he blustered 84 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: with absurdities, proclaiming as if it was two thousand and 85 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: fifteen again that he would magically, with his skills as 86 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: a deal maker, bring people together. What did we just 87 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: really all as a nation sit on Sunday morning and 88 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: watch that play out in twenty twenty three, questions about 89 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: his policies. It is beyond belief. It is beyond the pale. 90 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: It is incomprehensible. This moment requires the American people have 91 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: a clear understanding about what is it stake. What is 92 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: his stake is their liberty and their freedom. In the 93 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: weeks ahead, the government will shut down, Impeachment proceedings will 94 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 1: start against President Biden on the basis of a kangaroo 95 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: court decision. None of these things are separate. They are 96 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:56,719 Speaker 1: all part of an ongoing story, the greatest story of 97 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: our time that remains invisible to the overwhelming majority of 98 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:08,479 Speaker 1: the American media, and that is the assault on American democracy. 99 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: The American way of life by a political party turned 100 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: extremist that has become unfaithful to the US Constitution and 101 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: has turned its back on the American people for power's sake. 102 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 1: Everywhere there is evidence Donald Trump is orchestrating the impeachment 103 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden from our a lago. It's incredible that 104 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: so many of our institutions can't see what is plainly 105 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: staring back at them in their faces. It's not a 106 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: politician with a different agenda. It's not somebody with an 107 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:04,959 Speaker 1: unorthodox tax proposal. It is a threat. It is a malignancy, 108 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: and it should be treated as such.