WEBVTT - Bari Weiss’s Cowardice Fuels Extremism 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.400 What does propaganda look like? Would you be susceptible to it? 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.520 I mean, if you saw it, could you tell what 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.840 it is? Would you know why you're being shown at 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.280 Would you understand what it is that the people who 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.680 created it hope you will do after you absorb it. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.040 It is Monday, December fifteenth, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:30.200 is the morning, and this is propaganda. Some say the 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.599 greatest radio broadcast in all of history was Edward R. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.960 Morrow from Vienna in nineteen thirty eight, awaiting the arrival 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.199 of Adolph Hitler. It was the first point to point 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.680 broadcast of a live event. What it was was the 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.040 beginning of an end of the world, as it was 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.120 on the edge of a season of tremendous destruction. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.600 And the same man, Edward R. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:06.800 Morrow of CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Tiffany Network. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.240 Would be there at the end. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:14.800 In Buchenwald, General Eisenhower assembled every reporter by direct command 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.880 in the vicinity of the Allied Operation Area, where these 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.160 camps that no one quite knew how to describe were 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:30.600 being found everywhere, Corpses lying by the thousands in box cars, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.880 in ditches, murdered by the SS by the Nazis. Eisenhower 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.080 understood somehow in that moment that one day it would 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:46.320 all be denied, denied by people like Nick Fuentes, denied 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.960 by people like Tucker Carlson, who says he's not denying it, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.240 just hosting people who deny it and asking questions together. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:00.240 There is an investigative report about the Patriot Front, a 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:05.640 Nazi organization, setting up Camp and Tennessee, terrifying its neighbors. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.520 These mass men, just like Ice is masked agents wear. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.280 They're masked to terrify, intimidate. They are Nazis and they 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:21.040 are allied with Erica Kirk, with Nick Fuentis, with Megan Kelly, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.519 with Tucker Carlson. All of these people are connected. It's 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.880 like the Kevin Bacon game, except in the case of 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.359 all these Nazis and the white Christian nationalist movement. Whether 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.840 it's Alex Jones, the Newtown Denier, whether it's Tucker Carlson, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.840 whether it's Erica Kirk, whether it's Charlie Kirk, whether it's 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.200 Nick Flentis, whether it's Candas Owens, whether it's Timpoole, whether 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.760 it's Benny Johnson, whether it is any of these wretched, lying, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.480 dishonest fascists. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.560 They are all entwined. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:58.120 With one another, in each other's extremism, in each other's grift, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:03.080 in each other's caw, which is the cause of self interest. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.400 And power in the name of Donald Trump. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.320 Of course, none of those associations were talked about when 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:16.200 Barry Weiss, the editor in chief, the hand pick of 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:21.440 David Allison, the boy the son of the world's second 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.119 richest man, who has been given a network as if 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.280 it was a ferrari. It is the ultimate story of 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.640 affluenza run a muck. But at any rate, Barry Weiss 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:39.360 has decided to get rich and do so deliberately by 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:44.760 playing a very specific role. She is the Lenny Reefenstahl 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.960 of the Maga movement of the Christian Nationalists, stressing it 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:50.960 up with a benign face. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.040 Do you think our political leaders have a responsibility to 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.440 turn the temperature down right now? Well, I think everyone 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.720 has a responsibility to do that, and I'm doing my part. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.960 I'm not in control of other people. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.960 Does this seem benign to you? We know who killed 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.720 Charlie Kirk. It was a lone gunman, a sick young 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.800 man just recently laughing in court no different than a 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:16.159 Luigi Mangione. But Erica Kirk blames millions. It was apparently 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.640 a collective act, and that must be the position of 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.960 CBS News because it was unchallenged, as was any question 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.720 asked of. Erica Kirk improved deeply about the cost of 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.200 her husband's beliefs, For example, the idea that the gun 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.920 violence and the deaths associated with it the thousands a year. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.000 Well, for the people who say that my husband might 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.799 have incited violence, I know that was not your question, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:44.559 but I'm going to put a squash on it before 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.640 anyone else can attach to that. My husband never incited violence. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.360 He never once said go after them because they're saying 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.880 xyz and they deserve to die. My husband never once 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.000 said that, and he never would. Did he say, come 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.080 to the front of the line. I'll put my mic down. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.760 Tell me why you believe that. That's interesting. I never 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.760 thought of that. What have you thought of this? People 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.800 heckling laughing at them? Stop that took a lot of 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.599 courage for them to come up here. Stop doing that. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:24.279 It's worth the price of the Second Amendment. That wasn't interrogated. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.240 None of the racial supremacy was none of the demagaugurey. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.080 In fact, Erica. 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.200 Kirk got away with saying Charlie Kirk debated and he 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:39.040 was nonviolent, which is nonsense. Because any person that participated 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.080 in this country with telling the American people that an 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.240 election was stolen and that an impostor sat in the 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.560 Oval office, every person who knew better who did that 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.280 and cited violence because in this country with three hundred 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.720 million guns, guess what it would trigger a violent response. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.880 And that was the point. It was a grift, it 0:05:58.960 --> 0:05:59.559 was a game. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.480 Charlie Kirk was was another version of Alex Jones. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.600 And so it was appropriate in some form, some. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.680 Fashion that the sickest interview in the history of CBS 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.520 News the one that desecrated it and defamed it, not 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.560 by some outside for us, but by its own hands, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.919 wrecking its credibility for all time, that it would come 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.479 on the anniversary of the New Town massacre and the 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.120 widow of one of the chief evangelists for gun violence 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.760 would try to guilt and shame the country into a 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.400 collective responsibility for the death of her husband who lived 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:41.279 on the edge of violence in support of an extremist movement. Now, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.960 don't be confused I have been an unapologetic and absolute 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:52.200 defender of even the most odious people to speak under 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.640 the protection of the First Amendment, and that concludes Charlie 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.159 Kirk and Erica Kirk. But I share no guilt in 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:04.440 Charlie Kirk's death, but I do resent mightily the foisting 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.840 of his poisonous views on me in the Name of 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:12.800 God by a millionairess who works for David Ellison and 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.280 is ruining a network while she preens about and says 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:22.640 that the truth meaning Erica Kirks, propaganda is news because 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:23.040 it's not. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:24.960 It's propaganda. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.920 And when it comes to Christian nationalists propaganda, understand this, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.160 that's a deadly type of propaganda. It kills because in 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.360 the end, what it believes in is the power of 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.480 men to say that when they talk, it's the word 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:46.360 of God coming out of their mouths. Sometimes the gateway 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.200 to the political violence that always follows when these people 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.480 take power is books like stop in the Name of God. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.400 But if there were one person that absolutely no one 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.920 should listen to when it comes to delivering a faith 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:06.200 based message is the executive editor of CBS News, with 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.800 the widow of Charlie Kirk fronting for a poisonous, extremist, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.480 vicious movement that looks at a lot of human beings 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.080 and declares them less than you guessed. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.680 It in the name of God, except it's not in 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:20.440 God's name. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.880 It's in Maga's name, It's in Trump's name, and evil 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.600 is the name of what it is. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.360 This is the warning. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.360 I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.680 to join this community where I promise to be honest, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.560 blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:43.160 America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.239 and on substack. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:44.840 Thank you.