Speaker 1: What does propaganda look like? Would you be susceptible to it?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you saw it, could you tell what
Speaker 1: it is? Would you know why you're being shown at
Speaker 1: Would you understand what it is that the people who
Speaker 1: created it hope you will do after you absorb it.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, December fifteenth, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This
Speaker 1: is the morning, and this is propaganda. Some say the
Speaker 1: greatest radio broadcast in all of history was Edward R.
Speaker 1: Morrow from Vienna in nineteen thirty eight, awaiting the arrival
Speaker 1: of Adolph Hitler. It was the first point to point
Speaker 1: broadcast of a live event. What it was was the
Speaker 1: beginning of an end of the world, as it was
Speaker 1: on the edge of a season of tremendous destruction.
Speaker 2: And the same man, Edward R.
Speaker 1: Morrow of CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Tiffany Network.
Speaker 2: Would be there at the end.
Speaker 1: In Buchenwald, General Eisenhower assembled every reporter by direct command
Speaker 1: in the vicinity of the Allied Operation Area, where these
Speaker 1: camps that no one quite knew how to describe were
Speaker 1: being found everywhere, Corpses lying by the thousands in box cars,
Speaker 1: in ditches, murdered by the SS by the Nazis. Eisenhower
Speaker 1: understood somehow in that moment that one day it would
Speaker 1: all be denied, denied by people like Nick Fuentes, denied
Speaker 1: by people like Tucker Carlson, who says he's not denying it,
Speaker 1: just hosting people who deny it and asking questions together.
Speaker 1: There is an investigative report about the Patriot Front, a
Speaker 1: Nazi organization, setting up Camp and Tennessee, terrifying its neighbors.
Speaker 1: These mass men, just like Ice is masked agents wear.
Speaker 1: They're masked to terrify, intimidate. They are Nazis and they
Speaker 1: are allied with Erica Kirk, with Nick Fuentis, with Megan Kelly,
Speaker 1: with Tucker Carlson. All of these people are connected. It's
Speaker 1: like the Kevin Bacon game, except in the case of
Speaker 1: all these Nazis and the white Christian nationalist movement. Whether
Speaker 1: it's Alex Jones, the Newtown Denier, whether it's Tucker Carlson,
Speaker 1: whether it's Erica Kirk, whether it's Charlie Kirk, whether it's
Speaker 1: Nick Flentis, whether it's Candas Owens, whether it's Timpoole, whether
Speaker 1: it's Benny Johnson, whether it is any of these wretched, lying,
Speaker 1: dishonest fascists.
Speaker 2: They are all entwined.
Speaker 1: With one another, in each other's extremism, in each other's grift,
Speaker 1: in each other's caw, which is the cause of self interest.
Speaker 2: And power in the name of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Of course, none of those associations were talked about when
Speaker 1: Barry Weiss, the editor in chief, the hand pick of
Speaker 1: David Allison, the boy the son of the world's second
Speaker 1: richest man, who has been given a network as if
Speaker 1: it was a ferrari. It is the ultimate story of
Speaker 1: affluenza run a muck. But at any rate, Barry Weiss
Speaker 1: has decided to get rich and do so deliberately by
Speaker 1: playing a very specific role. She is the Lenny Reefenstahl
Speaker 1: of the Maga movement of the Christian Nationalists, stressing it
Speaker 1: up with a benign face.
Speaker 3: Do you think our political leaders have a responsibility to
Speaker 3: turn the temperature down right now? Well, I think everyone
Speaker 3: has a responsibility to do that, and I'm doing my part.
Speaker 3: I'm not in control of other people.
Speaker 1: Does this seem benign to you? We know who killed
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. It was a lone gunman, a sick young
Speaker 1: man just recently laughing in court no different than a
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangione. But Erica Kirk blames millions. It was apparently
Speaker 1: a collective act, and that must be the position of
Speaker 1: CBS News because it was unchallenged, as was any question
Speaker 1: asked of. Erica Kirk improved deeply about the cost of
Speaker 1: her husband's beliefs, For example, the idea that the gun
Speaker 1: violence and the deaths associated with it the thousands a year.
Speaker 3: Well, for the people who say that my husband might
Speaker 3: have incited violence, I know that was not your question,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to put a squash on it before
Speaker 3: anyone else can attach to that. My husband never incited violence.
Speaker 3: He never once said go after them because they're saying
Speaker 3: xyz and they deserve to die. My husband never once
Speaker 3: said that, and he never would. Did he say, come
Speaker 3: to the front of the line. I'll put my mic down.
Speaker 3: Tell me why you believe that. That's interesting. I never
Speaker 3: thought of that. What have you thought of this? People
Speaker 3: heckling laughing at them? Stop that took a lot of
Speaker 3: courage for them to come up here. Stop doing that.
Speaker 1: It's worth the price of the Second Amendment. That wasn't interrogated.
Speaker 1: None of the racial supremacy was none of the demagaugurey.
Speaker 2: In fact, Erica.
Speaker 1: Kirk got away with saying Charlie Kirk debated and he
Speaker 1: was nonviolent, which is nonsense. Because any person that participated
Speaker 1: in this country with telling the American people that an
Speaker 1: election was stolen and that an impostor sat in the
Speaker 1: Oval office, every person who knew better who did that
Speaker 1: and cited violence because in this country with three hundred
Speaker 1: million guns, guess what it would trigger a violent response.
Speaker 2: And that was the point. It was a grift, it
Speaker 2: was a game.
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was was another version of Alex Jones.
Speaker 2: And so it was appropriate in some form, some.
Speaker 1: Fashion that the sickest interview in the history of CBS
Speaker 1: News the one that desecrated it and defamed it, not
Speaker 1: by some outside for us, but by its own hands,
Speaker 1: wrecking its credibility for all time, that it would come
Speaker 1: on the anniversary of the New Town massacre and the
Speaker 1: widow of one of the chief evangelists for gun violence
Speaker 1: would try to guilt and shame the country into a
Speaker 1: collective responsibility for the death of her husband who lived
Speaker 1: on the edge of violence in support of an extremist movement. Now,
Speaker 1: don't be confused I have been an unapologetic and absolute
Speaker 1: defender of even the most odious people to speak under
Speaker 1: the protection of the First Amendment, and that concludes Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk and Erica Kirk. But I share no guilt in
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's death, but I do resent mightily the foisting
Speaker 1: of his poisonous views on me in the Name of
Speaker 1: God by a millionairess who works for David Ellison and
Speaker 1: is ruining a network while she preens about and says
Speaker 1: that the truth meaning Erica Kirks, propaganda is news because
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 2: It's propaganda.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to Christian nationalists propaganda, understand this,
Speaker 1: that's a deadly type of propaganda. It kills because in
Speaker 1: the end, what it believes in is the power of
Speaker 1: men to say that when they talk, it's the word
Speaker 1: of God coming out of their mouths. Sometimes the gateway
Speaker 1: to the political violence that always follows when these people
Speaker 1: take power is books like stop in the Name of God.
Speaker 1: But if there were one person that absolutely no one
Speaker 1: should listen to when it comes to delivering a faith
Speaker 1: based message is the executive editor of CBS News, with
Speaker 1: the widow of Charlie Kirk fronting for a poisonous, extremist,
Speaker 1: vicious movement that looks at a lot of human beings
Speaker 1: and declares them less than you guessed.
Speaker 2: It in the name of God, except it's not in
Speaker 2: God's name.
Speaker 1: It's in Maga's name, It's in Trump's name, and evil
Speaker 1: is the name of what it is.
Speaker 2: This is the warning.
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you
Speaker 1: to join this community where I promise to be honest,
Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.
Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel
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Speaker 2: Thank you.