Speaker 1: We live in an age, an era of meaningless words
Speaker 1: and broken promises that have had a disastrous effect on
Speaker 1: the United States, the American people, and have brought us
Speaker 1: to this low moment where in a few days, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump will be sworn in again as President of the
Speaker 1: United States of America despite desecrating his oath. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. Let's watch Donald Trump swear that oath dot
Speaker 1: broke with his lies and insurrection, criminal conduct, his fantasies,
Speaker 1: his delusions, his venom, his malice, and his contempt for
Speaker 1: the American people and the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 2: Please raise your right hand and repeat after me, I,
Speaker 2: Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 3: I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 2: That I will faithfully execute.
Speaker 3: That I will faithfully execute.
Speaker 2: The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 3: The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 2: And will to the best of my ability, and.
Speaker 3: Will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect,
Speaker 3: and defend.
Speaker 2: The Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 3: The Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 2: So help me, God, So help me God.
Speaker 1: Does a cable news host do they have an implicit
Speaker 1: bond with their audience, particularly if they refer to that
Speaker 1: audience as family. Do you lie to your family? Do
Speaker 1: you break your word? Or do you tell them the
Speaker 1: truth even when the truth can be tough to hear.
Speaker 1: MSNBC's Rashida Jones has moved on from her perch as
Speaker 1: president of the network. Well, one area where she made
Speaker 1: history is being president of the first network to have
Speaker 1: a morning show where the host look the audience in
Speaker 1: the eye through the camera and set for you to them.
Speaker 4: Let's watch, start your tape right now, because I'm about
Speaker 4: to tell you the truth and FU if you can't
Speaker 4: handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is
Speaker 4: the best Biden ever, not a close second. And I've
Speaker 4: known him for years. The Brazinskis have known him for
Speaker 4: fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.
Speaker 1: When it was all said and done. The man he
Speaker 1: called Hitler, he was the first to get on down
Speaker 1: to mar A Lago capitulate himself. Another broken promise, there's
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos promise to continue a tradition that
Speaker 1: was passed on to him by the Graham family. It
Speaker 1: was more than a commercial transaction. When Jeff Bezos took
Speaker 1: over the Washington Post. It was a duty, it was
Speaker 1: an obligation. This is one of the most storied and
Speaker 1: important institutions in the history of American journalism, and so
Speaker 1: in the political history of the country. The Washington Post
Speaker 1: is a sentinel of truth until Jeff Bezos burned it down.
Speaker 1: Another broken promise. Here's Karen Bass. Karen Bass said she
Speaker 1: would never leave the state of California. She wouldn't travel
Speaker 1: abroad except for to go to New York or Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. To do the business of California. Here she
Speaker 1: is in Ghana. The man sitting next to her His
Speaker 1: watch shows eight pm. The Palisades fire is exploding at
Speaker 1: this exact second. Another broken promise by another failed leader.
Speaker 1: Here's President George W. Bush telling the nation that there
Speaker 1: are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that the war
Speaker 1: there and the sacrifice of American forces and the loss
Speaker 1: of Iraqi civilian life is justified.
Speaker 5: I take the threat very seriously. I take the fact
Speaker 5: that he develops weapons of mass destruction very seriously. History
Speaker 5: has called us in action, that we love freedom, that
Speaker 5: we'll be deliberate, patient and strong, and the values that
Speaker 5: we adhere to well, we can't let the world's worst
Speaker 5: leaders blackmail, threaten, hold freedom loving nations hostage with the
Speaker 5: world's worst weapons.
Speaker 1: Broken promises have added up, they have accrued, They have
Speaker 1: built up so high by both parties that the American
Speaker 1: people believe in little and trust in less. The result
Speaker 1: is a great gathering of idiots and imbeciles. And I
Speaker 1: don't use those words lightly, but rather precisely, because they
Speaker 1: are the words in English appropriate to describe the Trumpian
Speaker 1: assemblage of ne'er do wells, convicted criminals, accused sexual abusers
Speaker 1: that have come to Washington, take power and inflict a
Speaker 1: punishment against who you and me and all of us.
Speaker 1: For example, let's watch Jesse Waters point his finger and
Speaker 1: punish forty million Californians.
Speaker 6: This is biblical level destruction. And the city of La
Speaker 6: is hosting the Olympics in four years. There's no way
Speaker 6: we can showcase La to the world. A full federal
Speaker 6: takeover is needed, invoke the Stafford Act, the States overwhelmed.
Speaker 6: Martial law might have to be declared.
Speaker 1: And the amazing thing is Jesse Waters has real power
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump's going to see it and say, you
Speaker 1: know what, He's right and so is the Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House, Mike Johnson, and all of these people. Because
Speaker 1: it was said on Fox, and because Fox is the
Speaker 1: wellspring of power in the Trump administration, they will get
Speaker 1: in line and the punishment will come. We've reached this
Speaker 1: low moment, not by accident, but through a character of apocalypse,
Speaker 1: and it didn't always used to be this way, but
Speaker 1: now it is. And digging out it this mess is
Speaker 1: going to take a lot of effort by a lot
Speaker 1: of people who demand better. Usually the demand for better
Speaker 1: comes from a pit of suffering caused by a broken
Speaker 1: promise is epic as the one that Karen Bass delivered.
Speaker 1: Things will change in Los Angeles. There will be a
Speaker 1: reawakening of civic spirit and activism. People will have to
Speaker 1: be involved because if they're not ruin nation awaits they
Speaker 1: say that all trends that start in California spread to
Speaker 1: the country. It's a lot of truth to it. And
Speaker 1: here's the deal. The disaster there, it's going to spread metaphorically,
Speaker 1: of course, it's going to spread to Washington, where an
Speaker 1: arsonist does at work. And what we see from the
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseat hearings is somebody who will break his promises,
Speaker 1: and then there will be disaster every person, whether it
Speaker 1: be the Katari lobbyist Pambondi, whether it be Christy Known,
Speaker 1: whether it be RFK, whatever it is, they say, it's
Speaker 1: all empty words. There's no argument that they're fit for theseis.
Speaker 1: There's no record to substantiate any possibility that they could be.
Speaker 1: What these people are is perfectly clear. Whatever promises they make,
Speaker 1: or as empty as the ones Karen Bass made, as
Speaker 1: empty as the one Donald Trump made his empty as
Speaker 1: the one he's about to make again. So many people
Speaker 1: in this era are going to be hurt, but this
Speaker 1: is not our destiny to stay mired here forever. We
Speaker 1: can and we will make it through. It will take determination,
Speaker 1: it will take grit, and it will take toughness, and
Speaker 1: it will take a recognition to appreciate that Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: and a lot of these people, they're part of the problem.
Speaker 1: They're the people that perform so wretchedly that the American
Speaker 1: people looked at Donald Trump and said him and then
Speaker 1: those people want to lecture all of us about what
Speaker 1: we can think, what we can say, particularly about them.
Speaker 1: The cost of their broken promises has been sky high,
Speaker 1: and the bill is going to be more than we
Speaker 1: can endure. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This
Speaker 1: is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe
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