1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, December two, twenty twenty five. This is 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: the morning. Let's talk about where things stand in the 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: United States today in early December, as we close in 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,760 Speaker 1: on the one year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration. His 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: administration is murderous, it is lawless, and it is unfathomably corrupt. 6 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: The economy is cracking. The American people see it clearly, 7 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump's approval numbers are crashing. They are reaching 8 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: record lows, and there has never been a president so 9 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: unpopular this soon in a presidential term. The media is 10 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: intimidated by Trump, the corporate media, that is, they're afraid, 11 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: but the American people are not. What they see is 12 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,319 Speaker 1: a fool and a hypocrite. Let's go through some of 13 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: the things that have happened just this past week. President 14 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: Jon Orlando Hernandez of Honduras was a drug trafficker sentenced 15 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: to forty five years and a federal president. Carolyn Levitt 16 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump's lying child soldier, married to a sixty 17 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: year old with a little cross effix to her neck. 18 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: She goes out and defends all manner of evil, with 19 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: all types of lies. With every question she's asked, she 20 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: has a deceitful answer at the ready, and here it 21 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: was that it was an over prosecution by the Biden administration. 22 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: Aunt is a pardon for the hunter, and President just 23 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: it at all undercut the administration's messaging. While you have 24 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: these Congressional Republicans defending the strikes and then arc go terrorists, 25 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: and then a partying for a convicted drug trafficker, does 26 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 2: that make it more difficult for your members to defend 27 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: your administration's policy. 28 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 3: I don't think so, Jackie. I think the President Trump 29 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 3: has been quite clear in his defense of the United 30 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 3: States homeland to stop these illegal narcotics from coming to 31 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: our borders, whether that's by land or by sea. And 32 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 3: he's also made it quite clear that he wants to 33 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 3: correct the wrongs of the weaponized Justice Department under the 34 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 3: previous administration. 35 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: And so now the former president of Honduras, who ran 36 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: his country as a criminal syndicate, goes free, while families 37 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: in West Virginia mourn a young soldier killed in a 38 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: place she ought not to have been, serving a mission 39 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: with no purpose whatsoever, as a Trump political prop by 40 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: an Afghan CIA asset whose approval to be in the 41 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: country was stamped by the Trump administration. Meanwhile, in the 42 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: Southern Caribbean there are fifteen thousand American troops, Marines and 43 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: a carrier strike group headed by the largest and most 44 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: powerful worship in human history, all of it under the 45 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: command of the drunk Champagne Pete Henseth, a man who 46 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: ordered the murder of two men clinging to the side 47 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: of a boat in contravention of international law. And soon, 48 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: it is highly likely when the shooting starts, as we 49 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: seek to remove a president in Venezuela who Trump says 50 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: is a drug trafficker, while he pardons a former president 51 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: of Honduras who was a drug trafficker. As those American 52 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: bodies start to come home, Bill join that young soldier 53 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: from West Virginia on a list of unfortunate Americans who 54 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: paid the ultimate price for the folly of the American 55 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: people and the election of the most unfit group. And 56 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: right now, a corrupt man named Steve Wikoff, a partner 57 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: of Trump's, and Mark or Rubio, a hypocritical clown, are 58 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: sitting with Russian negotiators as the Nazis once did with 59 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: the Soviets selling out Poland, except for now it's the Americans. 60 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: And the Russian fascists, two groups of fascists together selling 61 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: out Ukraine and while doing so, architecting the foundation of 62 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: a Third World War, while profiteering on the misery of 63 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: all of those Ukrainians, whose children have been kidnapped, whose 64 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: lives have been destroyed, whose sons and daughters have been murdered. 65 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: That's what side Donald Trump is on. And while that 66 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: is happening, all of it everywhere at once right now, 67 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: as Donald Trump steals, Donald Trump accuses who the brown 68 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: and black people. Of course, here is the fascist postings 69 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: of Christy Nong, the principal officer and chief architect of 70 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's concentration camps that now span coast to coast 71 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: and house upwards, according to media reports of sixty six 72 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: thousand human beings, and who knows what conditions. We are 73 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: a violent country, a country with a record of oppression 74 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: that is no stranger to the subjugation of people with 75 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: different color skin than mine. And yet the people who 76 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: were subjugated, led by men like Frederick Douglass and Martin 77 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: Luther King and women Lake Harriet Tubman, did not seek vengeance, 78 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: did not want to tear down the society that exclude them. 79 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: They sought only to be included within its framework of justice. 80 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King said he came to Washington, d C. 81 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: With a dream on August twenty eighth of nineteen sixty 82 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: three to collect a promissory note. And that is what 83 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: is at stake now, the attempt by the bank now 84 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: controlled by Trump to seize ownership of our liberty back 85 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: from all of us who were blessed to be born 86 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: in an era where it was undebated that it applied 87 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: to everyone, that freedom for all meant freedom for everyone. 88 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: All of that is in doubt now because of Trump, 89 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: because of the insanity, because of the lies, because of 90 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 1: the hypocrisy. The tolerance for it is on us, each 91 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: of us, and we must not tolerate it, because if 92 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: we do into the abyss, all of us go. The 93 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: Trump people, the red hats, the magas, the fascists, and 94 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: that is what they are, will take us into that abyss, 95 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: and they are leading us there at a very fast pace. 96 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: Each day the news gets crazier, each day, the media 97 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: hypocrisy grows more extreme, and each day the danger gets 98 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: closer around the world and here at home. Why, because 99 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: we have been too tolerant of the extremism bearing down. 100 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 101 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise 102 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,239 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 103 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 104 00:07:44,880 --> 00:08:00,119 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.