1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: There are seven hundred and eleven days until the midterm 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: election where Democrats will have the chance to take back power. 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: There are sixty days until the inauguration and until the 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: second that Stephen Miller promises the military rolls out into 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: the American heartland to deport upwards of twenty million people. 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: But first we'll go into giant camps around which we 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: have no details. 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: This is the warning. 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: We live in a time where Donald Trump was just 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: elected president of the United States in large part because 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: of lies, lies of comission, and lies of omission. Donald 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: Trump was just elected in large part because of the 13 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: sneering hypocrisies of the American news media. Let's watch Don Lemon. 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 3: He also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump 15 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: couldn't find you credit map if you had the letter 16 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 3: you and a picture of an actual physical crane next 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 3: to it. He knows that this is, you know, an 18 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 3: administration defined by ignorance of the world. And so that's 19 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 3: partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience. Uh, 20 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 3: you know, the the credulous boomer rube demo that backs 21 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 3: Donald Trump, that wants to think that that that Doald 22 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 3: Trump's a smart one in there, y'all. 23 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: Y'all, e lead us for them. 24 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 4: You lead us with your geography and your maps and 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 4: your spelling, even though you're reading, Yeah, you're reading. You 26 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 4: know your geography know in other countries. 27 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 2: All those lines on the map. 28 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 4: Only they will lead us know where Ukraine is. 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: The American people saw the f U, the middle finger 30 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: raised in their direction, and they responded back. The epicenter, 31 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: the white hot, molten core of America's inner circle of 32 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: media elite, at least through their viewpoint, is the set 33 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: of Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazenski look in 34 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: the mirror and they see people who are at the 35 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: center of all things in this country. Mika is dead 36 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: serious and self serious when she says that she went 37 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: on a diplomatic mission and frames it as such. Tomorrow lago, 38 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: she cited her father, the legendary Cold War diplomatic is 39 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 1: the big New Brazinski a poll and said he would 40 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: have done the same thing and would have understood it. 41 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: He would not have He would have reviled the act 42 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: and would have been appalled by it. He would have 43 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: been appalled by it because he would not have related 44 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: to it as a diplomatic act, but instead as a 45 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: compitulant one. What he would have recognized is the bending 46 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: of the knee and the bow of the head to power. 47 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: Journalism requires toughness and grit and fearlessness in dangerous times 48 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: and in dangerous places. We see the courage of journalists 49 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: on television, people like Clarissa Ward, people like NBC's Richard Angel, 50 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: who go into harm's way to tell you the truth. 51 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: When journalists ride into harm's way, like David Bloom of NBC, 52 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: like Ernie Pyle in the Second World War, they are 53 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: there at the highest personal risk to give you information, 54 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: to tell you stories. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski were 55 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: not called on to take risk. They were not called 56 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: on to sacrifice. All that was required of them was 57 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: to hold steady. What Joe Scarborough did alongside Mika is 58 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: undermined every single person who called Donald Trump a fascist 59 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: and meant it. He undermined General Mark Milly, He undermined 60 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: the warnings of General John Kelly. I agonized about using 61 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: the word fascist in relation to an American president and 62 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: presidential candidate because I know the power of the word, 63 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: its meaning, its history. My goal here is not to 64 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: be a polemicist, but to use the English language precisely 65 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: to warn people about dangers that are approaching them. When 66 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: I used the word, I defined it, and I explained it, 67 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: and I made the comparison because I'm an amateur student 68 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: of history, and I was able to process the events 69 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: of history, the ideas of fascism and applied them against 70 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 1: what it was that Donald Trump was saying, and he 71 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: met the definition. Jos Scarborough saw the same thing, his 72 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: wife saw the same thing, and they compared him to 73 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: Addolf Hitler. It took ten years for Adolf Hitler between 74 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: his putsch a coup and taking power as chancellor. Within 75 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: a year he was dictator Feury. It took two years 76 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: until the Jews lost all their rights. It took six 77 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: years until Germany started World War Two. It was nine 78 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: years after Adolf Hitler took power that the gates of 79 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: Auschwitz opened, and that happened at the height of German power. 80 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: The lesson of Nazism and Germany is about what happens 81 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: next when you combine together the maliciousness of a psychotic 82 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: leader with a cult of personality and a dogma that 83 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: becomes a religion. What happens in fascism. That's the point. 84 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: What Joe Scarborough saw was serious enough, alarming enough to 85 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: compare Donald Trump to Hitler. And then when Trump won, 86 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: literally within days, Joe and me could go and compitulate 87 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: in an act of appeasement out of fear to the 88 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: man they called him. And then they went on national 89 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: television and said every critic was out of touch, and 90 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,799 Speaker 1: they did it all for us. 91 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 2: Let's watch yesterday. 92 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 5: I saw for the first side what a massive disconnect 93 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 5: there was between social media and the real world, because 94 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 5: we were flooded with phone calls from people all day 95 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 5: literally around the world, very positive, very supportives, going to 96 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 5: understand what you do, et cetera, et cetera. But once 97 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 5: in a while I would get a textra a collference 98 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 5: and we go, oh, man, I hope you're doing okay. I 99 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 5: call him back and I go, well, Eddie Glauders whatever, 100 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 5: and we go Eddie, are you on Twitter? 101 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 2: And he goes, I am, I I'm not. 102 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 5: So We've had a good day. Mika's just had a 103 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 5: wonderful event. That is fantastic. 104 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: The best media reporter who covers the business of media, Comcast, NBC, 105 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: CNN is puck News Dylan Buyers, who has extensively reported 106 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: around the motivation for Joe Emika's trip to Morrow a Lago. 107 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: He reports that they are terrified and this shouldn't be 108 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: diminished or dismissed. Fear is a very real thing. It's 109 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: a human emotion, and nothing good comes from fear. It's 110 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: a cancer and a tool. It's a tool of control 111 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: used by autocrats all over the world. And in this moment, 112 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: sixty days before Donald Trump's inauguration, scores of men and 113 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: women Americans, all who work in journalism are terrified of 114 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: the retributions and reprisals and at the tippy top of 115 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: that journalism pyramid in terms of fame and power and 116 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: money since Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski and they're terrified. 117 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 2: It's a big problem. 118 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: It's a big problem because the people in that position 119 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: must be fearless people. They must have grit and stamina 120 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: and fortitude, and apparently they have none. Courage has been 121 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: described by some not as the absence of fear, but 122 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: the embrace of a concept that there is something more 123 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: important than fear on the other side of it, and 124 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: in this instance it's America. We will not have an 125 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: American Caesar and a tyrant, though Donald Trump is about 126 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,719 Speaker 1: to assert himself as one. This moment requires people who 127 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: will stand tall and not flinch. I commit to you 128 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: that I will be one of those people here at 129 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: the warning as I have been. I am not and 130 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: will not be afraid of Donald Trump, and I urge 131 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: all of you to not be afraid. 132 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 2: Also. 133 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: We're watching something terrible take place in America right now. 134 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: Fear is taking hold of America's media institutions. Comcast is 135 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: a one hundred and sixty four billion dollar market capitalization company, 136 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: and it just put on the market for a measly 137 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: seven billion all of its cable assets, including MSNBC, which 138 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 1: will lose its name and soon it's connection to NBC News. 139 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: It will be cut off and spun off and sent 140 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: off into some type of outer darkness. 141 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 2: What it was it will never be again. 142 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: This decision was an easy one, perhaps the easiest in 143 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: the history of the CEO's career. He's not going to 144 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: risk ninety percent of the company for a fraction of 145 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: the company against the power of the American fed government, 146 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: in the hands of regulatory authorities, who will strike, who 147 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: will punish when they don't like the political speech that 148 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: takes place on the network. One of the most important, 149 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: powerful and thank god, ethical people in the country is 150 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: Lester Whole Because now it's Lester Holt's job as managing 151 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: director of NBC News to hold the line against corporate 152 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: attempts to soft soap the news and the danger that's coming. 153 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: MSNBC would not have been sold. 154 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: If Kamala Harris was the president, So for the first 155 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: time since the McCarthy era, billion dollar decisions are being 156 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: made on the basis of politics and fear. It's important 157 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: to understand this. Everybody has a job, everybody has talents. 158 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: Everybody has things that they like and don't like to do. 159 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: Some people do not like to be hit. Some people 160 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: do not like to fight. Some people do not like 161 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: to be worried. If you don't like to be hit, 162 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: don't become a boxer. If you worry about autocrats, don't 163 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: speak out against them as a news anchor. If you 164 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: don't like to be hit and you choose not to 165 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: be a boxer, that doesn't affect any of us. But 166 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: if you don't like to be hit and you choose 167 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: to be a news anchor and you capitulate to power. 168 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: It deeply affects all of us. 169 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: Now, this moment requires a letting go, an embrace of 170 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 1: what is to come in the fight, and a determination 171 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: to carry forward comfortable under the safety of the shield 172 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: of the First Amendment. The freedom of the press shall 173 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: not be abridged unless in America it's given away by 174 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: fearful people, who then have the audacity to claim that 175 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: their fear, which can be seen and smelled through the screen, 176 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: drove in action that was in our interest, not theirs. 177 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: It's Trumpian Joe Scarborough said his critics were out of touch. No, Joe, 178 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: you and Mika are out of touch. And I'm gonna 179 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: tell you how out of touch you are. The furthest 180 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: object from Earth made by the hands of mankind is 181 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: the Voyager one spacecraft. It is an interstellar space It 182 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: has passed through the hydrogen wall at the edge of 183 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: the Solar System. It is twelve billion miles from Earth. 184 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: Someday soon it may pass Joe and Mika. And when 185 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: it does, I hope it will beep at them. And 186 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: when it beeps, I hope what it will say is 187 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: courage is required in this moment. And if you don't 188 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: have it. Decency requires step aside, because the American people 189 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 1: deserve truthtellers who look into the camera while declaring themselves 190 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: in a dangerous and vital hour. So while you describe 191 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: your breakfast meeting with Hitler as an act of courage 192 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: and decency, most Americans see it exactly for what it 193 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: is and know, Joe, people from all over the world 194 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: did not call you to congratulate you for an act 195 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: of shamelessness. 196 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 2: This is the warning. 197 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite 198 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 199 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.