1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: We live in an age, an era of meaningless words 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: and broken promises that have had a disastrous effect on 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: the United States, the American people, and have brought us 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: to this low moment where in a few days, Donald 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: Trump will be sworn in again as President of the 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: United States of America despite desecrating his oath. This is 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: the warning. Let's watch Donald Trump swear that oath dot 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: broke with his lies and insurrection, criminal conduct, his fantasies, 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: his delusions, his venom, his malice, and his contempt for 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: the American people and the Constitution of the United States. 11 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 2: Please raise your right hand and repeat after me, I, 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. 13 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 3: I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. 14 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: That I will faithfully execute. 15 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 3: That I will faithfully execute. 16 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 2: The office of President of the United States. 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 3: The office of President of the United States. 18 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 2: And will to the best of my ability, and. 19 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 3: Will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect, 20 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 3: and defend. 21 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: The Constitution of the United States. 22 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 3: The Constitution of the United States. 23 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 2: So help me, God, So help me God. 24 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: Does a cable news host do they have an implicit 25 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: bond with their audience, particularly if they refer to that 26 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: audience as family. Do you lie to your family? Do 27 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: you break your word? Or do you tell them the 28 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: truth even when the truth can be tough to hear. 29 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: MSNBC's Rashida Jones has moved on from her perch as 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: president of the network. Well, one area where she made 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: history is being president of the first network to have 32 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: a morning show where the host look the audience in 33 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: the eye through the camera and set for you to them. 34 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 4: Let's watch, start your tape right now, because I'm about 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 4: to tell you the truth and FU if you can't 36 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 4: handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is 37 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 4: the best Biden ever, not a close second. And I've 38 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 4: known him for years. The Brazinskis have known him for 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 4: fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. 40 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: When it was all said and done. The man he 41 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: called Hitler, he was the first to get on down 42 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: to mar A Lago capitulate himself. Another broken promise, there's 43 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos promise to continue a tradition that 44 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: was passed on to him by the Graham family. It 45 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: was more than a commercial transaction. When Jeff Bezos took 46 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: over the Washington Post. It was a duty, it was 47 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: an obligation. This is one of the most storied and 48 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: important institutions in the history of American journalism, and so 49 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: in the political history of the country. The Washington Post 50 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: is a sentinel of truth until Jeff Bezos burned it down. 51 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: Another broken promise. Here's Karen Bass. Karen Bass said she 52 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: would never leave the state of California. She wouldn't travel 53 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: abroad except for to go to New York or Washington, 54 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: d C. To do the business of California. Here she 55 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: is in Ghana. The man sitting next to her His 56 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: watch shows eight pm. The Palisades fire is exploding at 57 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: this exact second. Another broken promise by another failed leader. 58 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: Here's President George W. Bush telling the nation that there 59 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that the war 60 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: there and the sacrifice of American forces and the loss 61 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: of Iraqi civilian life is justified. 62 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 5: I take the threat very seriously. I take the fact 63 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 5: that he develops weapons of mass destruction very seriously. History 64 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 5: has called us in action, that we love freedom, that 65 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 5: we'll be deliberate, patient and strong, and the values that 66 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 5: we adhere to well, we can't let the world's worst 67 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 5: leaders blackmail, threaten, hold freedom loving nations hostage with the 68 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 5: world's worst weapons. 69 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 1: Broken promises have added up, they have accrued, They have 70 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: built up so high by both parties that the American 71 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: people believe in little and trust in less. The result 72 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: is a great gathering of idiots and imbeciles. And I 73 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: don't use those words lightly, but rather precisely, because they 74 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: are the words in English appropriate to describe the Trumpian 75 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: assemblage of ne'er do wells, convicted criminals, accused sexual abusers 76 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: that have come to Washington, take power and inflict a 77 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: punishment against who you and me and all of us. 78 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: For example, let's watch Jesse Waters point his finger and 79 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: punish forty million Californians. 80 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 6: This is biblical level destruction. And the city of La 81 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 6: is hosting the Olympics in four years. There's no way 82 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 6: we can showcase La to the world. A full federal 83 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 6: takeover is needed, invoke the Stafford Act, the States overwhelmed. 84 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 6: Martial law might have to be declared. 85 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: And the amazing thing is Jesse Waters has real power 86 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: because Donald Trump's going to see it and say, you 87 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: know what, He's right and so is the Speaker of 88 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: the House, Mike Johnson, and all of these people. Because 89 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: it was said on Fox, and because Fox is the 90 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: wellspring of power in the Trump administration, they will get 91 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: in line and the punishment will come. We've reached this 92 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: low moment, not by accident, but through a character of apocalypse, 93 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: and it didn't always used to be this way, but 94 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: now it is. And digging out it this mess is 95 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: going to take a lot of effort by a lot 96 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: of people who demand better. Usually the demand for better 97 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: comes from a pit of suffering caused by a broken 98 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: promise is epic as the one that Karen Bass delivered. 99 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 1: Things will change in Los Angeles. There will be a 100 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: reawakening of civic spirit and activism. People will have to 101 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: be involved because if they're not ruin nation awaits they 102 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: say that all trends that start in California spread to 103 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: the country. It's a lot of truth to it. And 104 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: here's the deal. The disaster there, it's going to spread metaphorically, 105 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: of course, it's going to spread to Washington, where an 106 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: arsonist does at work. And what we see from the 107 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseat hearings is somebody who will break his promises, 108 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: and then there will be disaster every person, whether it 109 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: be the Katari lobbyist Pambondi, whether it be Christy Known, 110 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: whether it be RFK, whatever it is, they say, it's 111 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: all empty words. There's no argument that they're fit for theseis. 112 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: There's no record to substantiate any possibility that they could be. 113 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: What these people are is perfectly clear. Whatever promises they make, 114 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: or as empty as the ones Karen Bass made, as 115 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: empty as the one Donald Trump made his empty as 116 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: the one he's about to make again. So many people 117 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: in this era are going to be hurt, but this 118 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: is not our destiny to stay mired here forever. We 119 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: can and we will make it through. It will take determination, 120 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: it will take grit, and it will take toughness, and 121 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: it will take a recognition to appreciate that Chuck Schumer 122 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: and a lot of these people, they're part of the problem. 123 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: They're the people that perform so wretchedly that the American 124 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: people looked at Donald Trump and said him and then 125 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: those people want to lecture all of us about what 126 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: we can think, what we can say, particularly about them. 127 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: The cost of their broken promises has been sky high, 128 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: and the bill is going to be more than we 129 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: can endure. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This 130 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe 131 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome 132 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: to the community.