1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Thirty four days from today, at the noon hour, Donald 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Trump will raise his right hand and swear the thirty 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: five word presidential oath, the only one that is written 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: into the US Constitution. This is the warning. And so 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: it was that thirty five days from that moment, the 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: President elect faced the press. 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 2: We need a great media, we need a fair media. 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: We need it's very important. And we need borders. We 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: need wolves, but we need borders, and we need fair elections. 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: What is it that you see? What I see is 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: the ring master and a circus. I see something deeply performative, 12 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: not even superficially inquisitive. Let's watch this question, thanks as 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: a Trump What about the polio vaccine? 14 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: Well, I'm a big believer in it, and I think 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: everything should be looked at. But I'm a big believer 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: in the polio vaccine, the Salk vaccine. 17 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: Do you think schools should mandate vaccine? Do you think 18 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: schools should mandate vaccines? 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: I don't like mandates. I'm not a big mandate person. 20 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is, Donald Trump has no 21 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: idea what she's asking him. None. It might as well 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: be a question about the traffic on a corner in Belarus. 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 1: It is incomprehensible to him because he is a billionaire 24 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: who sent his children to private school and he's the 25 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: president elect of the United States, not the local school 26 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: board where these decisions are made at any level. That's 27 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: not where Donald Trump, of course, is coming from. He's 28 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: asked a question about vaccines, and the truth is he's indifferent, 29 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: and his indifference is shown by the fact the demand 30 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: he nominated to run the country's public health agencies is 31 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: a conspiracy theorist who is as unfit as the people 32 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: he nominated to run the Defense Department, the intelligence agencies, 33 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: and the FBI. All of these people collectively are vandals. 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: And Donald Trump has made the point that while he 35 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: is getting ready to vandalize the American system, that the 36 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: media is tamed and everyone in the room knows it, 37 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: and he knows it. Like we talked about here on 38 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: this platform not so long ago, the new prerequisite of 39 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: this second Trump term in dealing with Trump is simply 40 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: to be nice. You have to be nice to Donald Trump. 41 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 1: And he's talked about everybody who's come to see him. 42 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 2: I did have a dinner with Tim Cook. I had 43 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: dinner with sort of almost all of them, and the 44 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: rest are coming. And this is one of the big 45 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 2: differences I think between we were talking about it before, 46 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 2: one of the big differences between the first term. The 47 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 2: first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody 48 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: wants to be my friend. I don't know my personality 49 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,399 Speaker 2: changed or something. But I had as you know, at 50 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: Sundar from Google, but I also had Sergei. Nobody reported 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 2: that Sergey is the owner, the primary owner, along with 52 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 2: his friend as you know. And uh, SERGEI was here also. 53 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: I can't believe you didn't pick that one up. Nobody 54 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 2: picked that up. 55 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: Serge of course is Sergey Bran who of course is 56 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: the founder of Google, but also Nicole Shanahan's ex husband. 57 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: He's the person who made her a billionaire and an 58 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 1: attractive vice presidential candidate for Robert F. Kennedy, who used 59 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: his run as an independent to clear the field for 60 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: his merger with MAGA. This world that Trump is the 61 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: ringmaster of is very small. Sergey Brinn knows Elon Musk. 62 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: In fact, he's the reason he and Nicole Shanahan, according 63 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: to media reports, are divorced. She had an affair with Elon, 64 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: who would go on to spend two hundred and thirty 65 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: seven million dollars. Let me say it again, two hundred 66 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: and thirty seven million dollars to help elect Donald Trump. 67 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: And in the short interregnum between the election in November 68 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: and today, Elon's return on that investment is in excess 69 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: of two hundred billion dollars, increasing his net worth to 70 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: almost half a trillion dollars, A staggering four hundred billion 71 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: for the richest man in the world. Who now is 72 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: the head of Trump's fake and it is fake Department 73 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: of Government Efficiency, our unelected, unconfirmed, unappointed deputy president And 74 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: make no mistake, Donald Trump has the power and he 75 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: intends to abuse it. Now, how do we know? Isn't 76 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: it the job of a free media to ferret out 77 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: the truth by allowing the principle in this case the president, 78 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: to be who they are. And so it is that, 79 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: in that sense, the news conference gave us the insight 80 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: that is necessary for the American people to have when 81 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: evaluating Donald Trump in this moment. What is it that 82 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is thinking about thirty four days before he 83 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: takes office, before he raises his hand and swears that 84 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: is he thinking about war? Is he thinking about peace? Prosperity. 85 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: Now he's thinking about retribution. 86 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 2: I'm doing this not because I want to. I'm doing 87 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 2: this because I feel I have an obligation to. 88 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to be. 89 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,559 Speaker 2: Bringing one against the people in Iowa. Their newspaper which 90 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 2: had a very very good polster who got me right 91 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 2: all the time, and then just before the election she 92 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: said I was going to lose by three or four points. 93 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: That it became the biggest story all over the world. 94 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: He is thinking about the Des Moines Register and it's 95 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: Polster and Seltzer who conducted a poll that was wildly 96 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: off in the days leading up to the election. Donald 97 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: Trump is going to sue. And because he has trained 98 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: the Washington media, the national media, the corporate media, the 99 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: giant media of Walt Disney and Bezos and Comcast to 100 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: bend at the knee, he expects the much smaller Des 101 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: Moines Register to do exactly the same. So he is 102 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: preparing a lawsuit. And here's the thing. Donald Trump has 103 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 1: been impeached twice, He's been convicted of thirty four felony counts. 104 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: He has survived two assassination attempts. Donald Trump has never 105 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: bended the knee. So when he is surrounded by people 106 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: that do. It feeds an awful contempt towards them by 107 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,479 Speaker 1: Donald Trump that makes their predicament much worse. So. In 108 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: the case of Justin Trudeau, who came Tomorrow Lago as 109 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: a capetulant, his government is falling. Weeks later, Joe and Mika, 110 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: they came Tomorrow Lago as a capitulant couple, and their 111 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: show its ratings, da've cretered. Everybody who has sold out 112 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: by capitulating has paid a price because what they've sold 113 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: out isn't their dignity though they did that. It's the 114 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: trust and the connection that exists between them and their constituency, 115 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: Their integrity, and their credibility all washed away in a 116 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: second of weakness and capitulation to Donald Trump, the crocodile 117 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: behind the podium, the ringmaster directing it all, and all 118 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: it is is a show. And for a while at least, 119 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is riding high. What he understands is this 120 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: time in America, he's being recognized by the richest, by 121 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: the most powerful, at long last, through Trump's eyes for 122 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: what he is, well and truly okay, And they come 123 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: to bow Sergey Brand networth one hundred and sixty four 124 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: billion on his knee. Donald Trump will roll over them 125 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: until he meets the resistance that he cannot roll over, 126 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: and that will be an awakened American public who will 127 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: come to understand that make America Great Again was a 128 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: hollow promise, empty words. And the chaos and the higher 129 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: prices and the instability and the global conflict and everything 130 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: that is to come, including the abuses of police power, 131 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: the surveillance, the retribution, the prosecutions, the wire taps, the 132 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: American people will have to stop it. Donald Trump looks 133 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: at the world standing on top of the hill, and 134 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: what he sees is what he can't help but talk about. 135 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: When he sees the press, he gets the entertained, and 136 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: he knows who the lion tamer is because he loves 137 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: looking at that guy in the mirror. Trump won't be 138 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: able to kill the free media. He's just able to 139 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: make the corporate media bent and bow and scrape and 140 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: dance and do what it is that he wants them 141 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: to do because he has the power. And mostly these 142 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: organizations are controlled by billionaires and are controlled by the 143 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: richest people in the world who are part of the 144 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 1: small club that stands to either get richer or be 145 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: left behind. Everybody gets rich. If you're as rich as 146 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: Sergey Brinn around Donald Trump to the next level of riches, 147 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: maybe Sergei could be worth five hundred billion or even 148 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: six hundred billion, close enough to Elon as he becomes 149 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: the Earth's first trillion dollar man. All you have have 150 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 1: to do is stay in line. When it comes to politics, 151 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: the leader decides what is right, what is up, what 152 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,599 Speaker 1: is down, what is read, what is blue? Whatever anybody 153 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: wishes to call that, it is not democracy, and whatever 154 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: anybody wishes to call the circus and more a lago 155 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: where the client capitulated and came press probe Donald Trump 156 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: with nonsecuiturs and nonsense and trivialities. Just don't call it 157 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: a news conference, because that's not what it was. It's 158 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: steerter for the masses, bread and circuses. Seven days a week, 159 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 1: thirty four days to go. And the writing is on 160 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: the wall. The most powerful president in American history is 161 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: coming to town, and he's pissed off, and his heart 162 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: is filled with retribution and revenge. And for every person 163 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: who bends the knee in front of him, all they do, 164 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: he's make him more aggressive. They worsen their individual position, 165 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: they lose their dignity, they break the trust, they get steamrolled, 166 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: and Trump gets bigger and meaner. But somewhere out there 167 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: there is a line, and when he crosses it, well, 168 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: a tough people will be standing there facing back. That 169 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: day will come, but it ain't tomorrow, and it ain't 170 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: in the first one hundred days of what's going to 171 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: be the abuse presidency of our nightmares. Get ready, bending 172 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,599 Speaker 1: at the knee is the wrong thing to do, and 173 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: we'll find out soon enough, just like our grandparents did 174 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: that the price of appeasement is very high. As a philosophy, 175 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: it makes sense the person who feeds the crocodile may 176 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: be the last eating. But the problem is they do 177 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: get eaten. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This 178 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: is the warning, and I invite you to join. 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