Speaker 1: Thirty four days from today, at the noon hour, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump will raise his right hand and swear the thirty
Speaker 1: five word presidential oath, the only one that is written
Speaker 1: into the US Constitution. This is the warning. And so
Speaker 1: it was that thirty five days from that moment, the
Speaker 1: President elect faced the press.
Speaker 2: We need a great media, we need a fair media.
Speaker 2: We need it's very important. And we need borders. We
Speaker 2: need wolves, but we need borders, and we need fair elections.
Speaker 1: What is it that you see? What I see is
Speaker 1: the ring master and a circus. I see something deeply performative,
Speaker 1: not even superficially inquisitive. Let's watch this question, thanks as
Speaker 1: a Trump What about the polio vaccine?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a big believer in it, and I think
Speaker 2: everything should be looked at. But I'm a big believer
Speaker 2: in the polio vaccine, the Salk vaccine.
Speaker 1: Do you think schools should mandate vaccine? Do you think
Speaker 1: schools should mandate vaccines?
Speaker 2: I don't like mandates. I'm not a big mandate person.
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is, Donald Trump has no
Speaker 1: idea what she's asking him. None. It might as well
Speaker 1: be a question about the traffic on a corner in Belarus.
Speaker 1: It is incomprehensible to him because he is a billionaire
Speaker 1: who sent his children to private school and he's the
Speaker 1: president elect of the United States, not the local school
Speaker 1: board where these decisions are made at any level. That's
Speaker 1: not where Donald Trump, of course, is coming from. He's
Speaker 1: asked a question about vaccines, and the truth is he's indifferent,
Speaker 1: and his indifference is shown by the fact the demand
Speaker 1: he nominated to run the country's public health agencies is
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theorist who is as unfit as the people
Speaker 1: he nominated to run the Defense Department, the intelligence agencies,
Speaker 1: and the FBI. All of these people collectively are vandals.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump has made the point that while he
Speaker 1: is getting ready to vandalize the American system, that the
Speaker 1: media is tamed and everyone in the room knows it,
Speaker 1: and he knows it. Like we talked about here on
Speaker 1: this platform not so long ago, the new prerequisite of
Speaker 1: this second Trump term in dealing with Trump is simply
Speaker 1: to be nice. You have to be nice to Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And he's talked about everybody who's come to see him.
Speaker 2: I did have a dinner with Tim Cook. I had
Speaker 2: dinner with sort of almost all of them, and the
Speaker 2: rest are coming. And this is one of the big
Speaker 2: differences I think between we were talking about it before,
Speaker 2: one of the big differences between the first term. The
Speaker 2: first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody
Speaker 2: wants to be my friend. I don't know my personality
Speaker 2: changed or something. But I had as you know, at
Speaker 2: Sundar from Google, but I also had Sergei. Nobody reported
Speaker 2: that Sergey is the owner, the primary owner, along with
Speaker 2: his friend as you know. And uh, SERGEI was here also.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you didn't pick that one up. Nobody
Speaker 2: picked that up.
Speaker 1: Serge of course is Sergey Bran who of course is
Speaker 1: the founder of Google, but also Nicole Shanahan's ex husband.
Speaker 1: He's the person who made her a billionaire and an
Speaker 1: attractive vice presidential candidate for Robert F. Kennedy, who used
Speaker 1: his run as an independent to clear the field for
Speaker 1: his merger with MAGA. This world that Trump is the
Speaker 1: ringmaster of is very small. Sergey Brinn knows Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's the reason he and Nicole Shanahan, according
Speaker 1: to media reports, are divorced. She had an affair with Elon,
Speaker 1: who would go on to spend two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven million dollars. Let me say it again, two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty seven million dollars to help elect Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And in the short interregnum between the election in November
Speaker 1: and today, Elon's return on that investment is in excess
Speaker 1: of two hundred billion dollars, increasing his net worth to
Speaker 1: almost half a trillion dollars, A staggering four hundred billion
Speaker 1: for the richest man in the world. Who now is
Speaker 1: the head of Trump's fake and it is fake Department
Speaker 1: of Government Efficiency, our unelected, unconfirmed, unappointed deputy president And
Speaker 1: make no mistake, Donald Trump has the power and he
Speaker 1: intends to abuse it. Now, how do we know? Isn't
Speaker 1: it the job of a free media to ferret out
Speaker 1: the truth by allowing the principle in this case the president,
Speaker 1: to be who they are. And so it is that,
Speaker 1: in that sense, the news conference gave us the insight
Speaker 1: that is necessary for the American people to have when
Speaker 1: evaluating Donald Trump in this moment. What is it that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is thinking about thirty four days before he
Speaker 1: takes office, before he raises his hand and swears that
Speaker 1: is he thinking about war? Is he thinking about peace? Prosperity.
Speaker 1: Now he's thinking about retribution.
Speaker 2: I'm doing this not because I want to. I'm doing
Speaker 2: this because I feel I have an obligation to.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be.
Speaker 2: Bringing one against the people in Iowa. Their newspaper which
Speaker 2: had a very very good polster who got me right
Speaker 2: all the time, and then just before the election she
Speaker 2: said I was going to lose by three or four points.
Speaker 2: That it became the biggest story all over the world.
Speaker 1: He is thinking about the Des Moines Register and it's
Speaker 1: Polster and Seltzer who conducted a poll that was wildly
Speaker 1: off in the days leading up to the election. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is going to sue. And because he has trained
Speaker 1: the Washington media, the national media, the corporate media, the
Speaker 1: giant media of Walt Disney and Bezos and Comcast to
Speaker 1: bend at the knee, he expects the much smaller Des
Speaker 1: Moines Register to do exactly the same. So he is
Speaker 1: preparing a lawsuit. And here's the thing. Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been impeached twice, He's been convicted of thirty four felony counts.
Speaker 1: He has survived two assassination attempts. Donald Trump has never
Speaker 1: bended the knee. So when he is surrounded by people
Speaker 1: that do. It feeds an awful contempt towards them by
Speaker 1: Donald Trump that makes their predicament much worse. So. In
Speaker 1: the case of Justin Trudeau, who came Tomorrow Lago as
Speaker 1: a capetulant, his government is falling. Weeks later, Joe and Mika,
Speaker 1: they came Tomorrow Lago as a capitulant couple, and their
Speaker 1: show its ratings, da've cretered. Everybody who has sold out
Speaker 1: by capitulating has paid a price because what they've sold
Speaker 1: out isn't their dignity though they did that. It's the
Speaker 1: trust and the connection that exists between them and their constituency,
Speaker 1: Their integrity, and their credibility all washed away in a
Speaker 1: second of weakness and capitulation to Donald Trump, the crocodile
Speaker 1: behind the podium, the ringmaster directing it all, and all
Speaker 1: it is is a show. And for a while at least,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is riding high. What he understands is this
Speaker 1: time in America, he's being recognized by the richest, by
Speaker 1: the most powerful, at long last, through Trump's eyes for
Speaker 1: what he is, well and truly okay, And they come
Speaker 1: to bow Sergey Brand networth one hundred and sixty four
Speaker 1: billion on his knee. Donald Trump will roll over them
Speaker 1: until he meets the resistance that he cannot roll over,
Speaker 1: and that will be an awakened American public who will
Speaker 1: come to understand that make America Great Again was a
Speaker 1: hollow promise, empty words. And the chaos and the higher
Speaker 1: prices and the instability and the global conflict and everything
Speaker 1: that is to come, including the abuses of police power,
Speaker 1: the surveillance, the retribution, the prosecutions, the wire taps, the
Speaker 1: American people will have to stop it. Donald Trump looks
Speaker 1: at the world standing on top of the hill, and
Speaker 1: what he sees is what he can't help but talk about.
Speaker 1: When he sees the press, he gets the entertained, and
Speaker 1: he knows who the lion tamer is because he loves
Speaker 1: looking at that guy in the mirror. Trump won't be
Speaker 1: able to kill the free media. He's just able to
Speaker 1: make the corporate media bent and bow and scrape and
Speaker 1: dance and do what it is that he wants them
Speaker 1: to do because he has the power. And mostly these
Speaker 1: organizations are controlled by billionaires and are controlled by the
Speaker 1: richest people in the world who are part of the
Speaker 1: small club that stands to either get richer or be
Speaker 1: left behind. Everybody gets rich. If you're as rich as
Speaker 1: Sergey Brinn around Donald Trump to the next level of riches,
Speaker 1: maybe Sergei could be worth five hundred billion or even
Speaker 1: six hundred billion, close enough to Elon as he becomes
Speaker 1: the Earth's first trillion dollar man. All you have have
Speaker 1: to do is stay in line. When it comes to politics,
Speaker 1: the leader decides what is right, what is up, what
Speaker 1: is down, what is read, what is blue? Whatever anybody
Speaker 1: wishes to call that, it is not democracy, and whatever
Speaker 1: anybody wishes to call the circus and more a lago
Speaker 1: where the client capitulated and came press probe Donald Trump
Speaker 1: with nonsecuiturs and nonsense and trivialities. Just don't call it
Speaker 1: a news conference, because that's not what it was. It's
Speaker 1: steerter for the masses, bread and circuses. Seven days a week,
Speaker 1: thirty four days to go. And the writing is on
Speaker 1: the wall. The most powerful president in American history is
Speaker 1: coming to town, and he's pissed off, and his heart
Speaker 1: is filled with retribution and revenge. And for every person
Speaker 1: who bends the knee in front of him, all they do,
Speaker 1: he's make him more aggressive. They worsen their individual position,
Speaker 1: they lose their dignity, they break the trust, they get steamrolled,
Speaker 1: and Trump gets bigger and meaner. But somewhere out there
Speaker 1: there is a line, and when he crosses it, well,
Speaker 1: a tough people will be standing there facing back. That
Speaker 1: day will come, but it ain't tomorrow, and it ain't
Speaker 1: in the first one hundred days of what's going to
Speaker 1: be the abuse presidency of our nightmares. Get ready, bending
Speaker 1: at the knee is the wrong thing to do, and
Speaker 1: we'll find out soon enough, just like our grandparents did
Speaker 1: that the price of appeasement is very high. As a philosophy,
Speaker 1: it makes sense the person who feeds the crocodile may
Speaker 1: be the last eating. But the problem is they do
Speaker 1: get eaten. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This
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