1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: What does propaganda look like? Would you be susceptible to it? 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: I mean, if you saw it, could you tell what 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: it is? Would you know why you're being shown at 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: Would you understand what it is that the people who 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: created it hope you will do after you absorb it. 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: It is Monday, December fifteenth, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: is the morning, and this is propaganda. Some say the 8 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 1: greatest radio broadcast in all of history was Edward R. 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: Morrow from Vienna in nineteen thirty eight, awaiting the arrival 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: of Adolph Hitler. It was the first point to point 11 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: broadcast of a live event. What it was was the 12 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: beginning of an end of the world, as it was 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: on the edge of a season of tremendous destruction. 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 2: And the same man, Edward R. 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: Morrow of CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Tiffany Network. 16 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 2: Would be there at the end. 17 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: In Buchenwald, General Eisenhower assembled every reporter by direct command 18 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: in the vicinity of the Allied Operation Area, where these 19 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: camps that no one quite knew how to describe were 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: being found everywhere, Corpses lying by the thousands in box cars, 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: in ditches, murdered by the SS by the Nazis. Eisenhower 22 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: understood somehow in that moment that one day it would 23 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: all be denied, denied by people like Nick Fuentes, denied 24 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: by people like Tucker Carlson, who says he's not denying it, 25 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: just hosting people who deny it and asking questions together. 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: There is an investigative report about the Patriot Front, a 27 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: Nazi organization, setting up Camp and Tennessee, terrifying its neighbors. 28 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: These mass men, just like Ice is masked agents wear. 29 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: They're masked to terrify, intimidate. They are Nazis and they 30 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: are allied with Erica Kirk, with Nick Fuentis, with Megan Kelly, 31 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: with Tucker Carlson. All of these people are connected. It's 32 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: like the Kevin Bacon game, except in the case of 33 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: all these Nazis and the white Christian nationalist movement. Whether 34 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: it's Alex Jones, the Newtown Denier, whether it's Tucker Carlson, 35 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: whether it's Erica Kirk, whether it's Charlie Kirk, whether it's 36 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: Nick Flentis, whether it's Candas Owens, whether it's Timpoole, whether 37 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: it's Benny Johnson, whether it is any of these wretched, lying, 38 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: dishonest fascists. 39 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: They are all entwined. 40 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: With one another, in each other's extremism, in each other's grift, 41 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: in each other's caw, which is the cause of self interest. 42 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 2: And power in the name of Donald Trump. 43 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: Of course, none of those associations were talked about when 44 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss, the editor in chief, the hand pick of 45 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: David Allison, the boy the son of the world's second 46 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,119 Speaker 1: richest man, who has been given a network as if 47 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: it was a ferrari. It is the ultimate story of 48 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: affluenza run a muck. But at any rate, Barry Weiss 49 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: has decided to get rich and do so deliberately by 50 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: playing a very specific role. She is the Lenny Reefenstahl 51 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: of the Maga movement of the Christian Nationalists, stressing it 52 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: up with a benign face. 53 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 3: Do you think our political leaders have a responsibility to 54 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 3: turn the temperature down right now? Well, I think everyone 55 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 3: has a responsibility to do that, and I'm doing my part. 56 00:03:58,880 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: I'm not in control of other people. 57 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: Does this seem benign to you? We know who killed 58 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. It was a lone gunman, a sick young 59 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: man just recently laughing in court no different than a 60 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: Luigi Mangione. But Erica Kirk blames millions. It was apparently 61 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: a collective act, and that must be the position of 62 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: CBS News because it was unchallenged, as was any question 63 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: asked of. Erica Kirk improved deeply about the cost of 64 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: her husband's beliefs, For example, the idea that the gun 65 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: violence and the deaths associated with it the thousands a year. 66 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 3: Well, for the people who say that my husband might 67 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,799 Speaker 3: have incited violence, I know that was not your question, 68 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,559 Speaker 3: but I'm going to put a squash on it before 69 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 3: anyone else can attach to that. My husband never incited violence. 70 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: He never once said go after them because they're saying 71 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 3: xyz and they deserve to die. My husband never once 72 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: said that, and he never would. Did he say, come 73 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 3: to the front of the line. I'll put my mic down. 74 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 3: Tell me why you believe that. That's interesting. I never 75 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 3: thought of that. What have you thought of this? People 76 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 3: heckling laughing at them? Stop that took a lot of 77 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 3: courage for them to come up here. Stop doing that. 78 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: It's worth the price of the Second Amendment. That wasn't interrogated. 79 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: None of the racial supremacy was none of the demagaugurey. 80 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 2: In fact, Erica. 81 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: Kirk got away with saying Charlie Kirk debated and he 82 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: was nonviolent, which is nonsense. Because any person that participated 83 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: in this country with telling the American people that an 84 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: election was stolen and that an impostor sat in the 85 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: Oval office, every person who knew better who did that 86 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: and cited violence because in this country with three hundred 87 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: million guns, guess what it would trigger a violent response. 88 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: And that was the point. It was a grift, it 89 00:05:58,960 --> 00:05:59,559 Speaker 2: was a game. 90 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was was another version of Alex Jones. 91 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 2: And so it was appropriate in some form, some. 92 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: Fashion that the sickest interview in the history of CBS 93 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: News the one that desecrated it and defamed it, not 94 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: by some outside for us, but by its own hands, 95 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: wrecking its credibility for all time, that it would come 96 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 1: on the anniversary of the New Town massacre and the 97 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: widow of one of the chief evangelists for gun violence 98 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: would try to guilt and shame the country into a 99 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: collective responsibility for the death of her husband who lived 100 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: on the edge of violence in support of an extremist movement. Now, 101 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: don't be confused I have been an unapologetic and absolute 102 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: defender of even the most odious people to speak under 103 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: the protection of the First Amendment, and that concludes Charlie 104 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: Kirk and Erica Kirk. But I share no guilt in 105 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's death, but I do resent mightily the foisting 106 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: of his poisonous views on me in the Name of 107 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: God by a millionairess who works for David Ellison and 108 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: is ruining a network while she preens about and says 109 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: that the truth meaning Erica Kirks, propaganda is news because 110 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: it's not. 111 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 2: It's propaganda. 112 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: And when it comes to Christian nationalists propaganda, understand this, 113 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: that's a deadly type of propaganda. It kills because in 114 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: the end, what it believes in is the power of 115 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: men to say that when they talk, it's the word 116 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: of God coming out of their mouths. Sometimes the gateway 117 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: to the political violence that always follows when these people 118 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: take power is books like stop in the Name of God. 119 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: But if there were one person that absolutely no one 120 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: should listen to when it comes to delivering a faith 121 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: based message is the executive editor of CBS News, with 122 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: the widow of Charlie Kirk fronting for a poisonous, extremist, 123 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: vicious movement that looks at a lot of human beings 124 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: and declares them less than you guessed. 125 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 2: It in the name of God, except it's not in 126 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 2: God's name. 127 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: It's in Maga's name, It's in Trump's name, and evil 128 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: is the name of what it is. 129 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 2: This is the warning. 130 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 131 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: to join this community where I promise to be honest, 132 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 133 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 134 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,239 Speaker 1: and on substack. 135 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 2: Thank you.