1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Today is seven hundred days on the nose until the 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: midterm elections. Progress tomorrow will be in the six hundreds. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: It's a reminder that in campaigns, which are unique enterprises, 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: that there are two finite commodities that matter above all 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: other things, time and money, and neither can be squandered. 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: This is the warning we are approaching an urgent moment 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: in the United States of America. This country will be 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: in crisis at exactly twelve noon on January twentieth, when 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: power transfers subliminally, silently and peacefully to Donald Trump, who 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: is the first president in American history to say the 11 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: quiet part out loud. He is coming for his opponents. 12 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: He wants retribution and revenge. And there is no story 13 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: that points this out more ludicrously and more absurdly than 14 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: The New York Times and its masterpiece of campaign finance 15 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: reporting focusing on the fecklessness of billionaire Reid Hoffman and 16 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: his retainer the Lincoln Projects. Dmitri Melhorne. Now Dmitri Melhorn 17 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: and Ried Hoffman are terrified. They're terrified of Donald Trump. 18 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman, the Silicon Valley billionaire, is telling anyone who 19 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: will listen apparently that he's going to flee the country. 20 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: He's going to go into hiding somewhere, apparently who knows where. 21 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: Here's the thing with reed Hoffman. He funded the lawsuits 22 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: against Donald Trump where he was adjudicated as a rapist. 23 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: He funded Egen Carroll's lawsuits because he said it was 24 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: the right thing to do. He said he did it 25 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: because he wanted to give a woman agency who was abused. 26 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: Think about Redffman is with all the money which were 27 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: normal people, is like picking up a penny on the ground, 28 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: giving it to a child and calling yourself a philanthropist. 29 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: What he liked was the adulation that came from easy 30 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: wins and easy victories and all the signal virtuing that's 31 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: so common, an endemic in Silicon Valley. The person who 32 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: worked for him for a very long time is famous 33 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. He's famous amongst the Silicon Valley billionaires, 34 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: all of the tech titans, all of the Hollywood moguls. 35 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: As a real brain in the Democratic Party, Dmitri Melhorn, 36 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump nearly was assassinated, said it was a 37 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: false flag operation. He picked up the phone started calling 38 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: every reporter who would listen, trying to get them to 39 00:02:54,919 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: print the craziest conspiracy theory, and now these two antagonists 40 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump are terrified and running. Two weeks ago 41 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: they bragged about their patriotism, they talked about it all 42 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: the time. But the truth of the matter is is 43 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: what these people are is what Thomas Payne called sunshine patriots. 44 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: Reed Hoffmann, you best cowboy up because things are going 45 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: to get tough in this country and rolling over and 46 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: playing dead isn't going to save you from the abuses 47 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: of cash Bittel. This is the fundamental lesson of appeasement. 48 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: It is the idea advanced by Joe Scarborough and Mika 49 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: Brazinski that they will be the first to feed the 50 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: crocodile that they named Adolf Hitler, so that they may 51 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: be the last eaton. Now. Joe Scarborough is an artful 52 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: and articulate advocate for his position, no matter how contradictory 53 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: it is. What Joe Scarborough did is appease the man 54 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: he called Hitler by going tom a Lago for a sitdown, 55 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: not an interview, a summit that he literally described as 56 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: an opportunity to open new avenues of understanding. Whatever that means. 57 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: Let's listen to Joe Scarborough's plea in defense of the 58 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: corporate media model that did so much to elect Donald Trump. 59 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: Let me just say why this is so important right 60 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: now more than ever, is because critics of the press 61 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 2: are feeling more empowered than ever to lie more than ever. 62 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 3: I've had friends for years. 63 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 4: Oh you know, I'm so overwhelmed, Joe by the news. 64 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,679 Speaker 4: I don't read the news. Where do you get your news? 65 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 2: Then Epic Times, I. 66 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 3: Go, oh God, oh oh, you get your news from 67 00:04:54,520 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 3: a website run by Chinese conspiracy theorist in a Chinese 68 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 3: religious call bets that is where you get them to know? 69 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 3: Or or if social media. 70 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 4: People lying every day, every hour, every minute about the news, 71 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 4: what you do matters. What the New York Times does matters, 72 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 4: What the Wall Street Journal does matters, What Jonathan Lemeir 73 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 4: does matters, What the Financial Times does matters, What NBC 74 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 4: News and MSNBC reporters do matters. It matters. 75 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is covering a political campaign 76 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: is exciting work in America, not hard work. Hard work 77 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 1: is working on a ranch, getting up in the morning 78 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: with the animals, being out on an electric line in 79 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: gale force winds in sub zero weather, working in a 80 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: coal mine, working on an oil rig, working as a nurse, 81 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: working as a cop, working as a fireman. And yes, 82 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: if you're a journalist making forty five fifty sixty seventy 83 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year out there in your community, fighting 84 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: to get the news into the hands of people locally 85 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: who need it, it's a hard job. J Justscarborough's job 86 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: is not a hard job. Together, he and his wife 87 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: make thirty million dollars a year at least, and they're 88 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: supposed to tell you the truth. But that was too 89 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: much for them, as it was too much for Joe 90 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: Biden to tell the country the truth about what he 91 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: would do with his son, the convicted criminal. I'm pleased 92 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden could do for his son, with so 93 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: many American parents cannot do for theirs, he was able 94 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: to save him from the consequences of his actions. He 95 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: was convicted of tax felonies, he pled guilty to tax fraud, 96 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,559 Speaker 1: and he was found guilty of a gun crime. Hunter 97 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: Biden's life has worth and purpose, and Joe Biden's political opponents, 98 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: cruelly with malice, try to destroy his son to break 99 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: his sobriety and to take his life so that they 100 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: could destroy his father. It was among the sickest things 101 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: I've seen in my thirty year political career, which includes 102 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: a long spell at the highest level of national politics. 103 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: This was the politics of personal destruction on super steroids. 104 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: There has never been anything like it directed at the 105 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: child of a president or a vice president, whether they 106 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: be an adult or whether they be a minor. Joe 107 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: Biden could have said I will pardon my son, I 108 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: must parton my son. I cannot lose another child, and 109 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: the country would have understood. The price would have been simple. 110 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: The President of the United States abused his power to 111 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: make that happen. And that's what the problem is, because 112 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: the president sends other people's kids into harm's way, and 113 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: sometimes they don't come back. There's a lot of people 114 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: who look at Joe Biden and they say, well, I 115 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: would have done the same thing. Maybe, but then you 116 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: shouldn't be the president of the United States because the 117 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: burden of putting the country first is a high one. 118 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: Joe Biden did not run against Donald Trump on policy. 119 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: He ran against him on character. He ran against him 120 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: as the better man, and in the end, he didn't 121 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: measure up. He couldn't do the job, but he asked 122 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: for more time, and he sentenced the country to an 123 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: astounding level of chaos to come. At the noon hour 124 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: on January twentieth, twenty twenty five, the greatest civil rights 125 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: abuse in American history will commence, and we will have 126 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: no more time to look backwards. We will have no 127 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: more time to indulge the access media foolishness, no more 128 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 1: time time to discuss the evasions and the sins of 129 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: omission and comission that flowed out of cable news station's 130 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: non stop for four long years as Trump gathered strength 131 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: and came back into power. Now we're supposed to be 132 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: upset when Donald depoints Avanka's father in law, the convicted felon, 133 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: to be the ambassador to France. The people that Donald 134 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: Trump has selected the whole power are a rogues gallery 135 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: of misfits, dangerous misfits. Cash Patel is out to destroy 136 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: the FBI. And when it happens, and it will if 137 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: he makes it, and the next building is burning with 138 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: thousands of Americans in it, everybody should know whose fault 139 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: it is. It's Trump's, it's Patels, and it's every single 140 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: senator who would commit this act of vandalism and make 141 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: it is unfit not the director of the Federal Bureau 142 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: of Investigation, and turn it into Trump's secret police. There 143 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: are no words. Pete Hegsas's mother has weighed in on 144 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: his abuse of women. Something's broken inside of Pete Hegsath, 145 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,439 Speaker 1: the accused rapist. He has a problem with women, is 146 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: an abuse problem. He has a respect problem, and because 147 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: of that he is morally unfit to lead the armed 148 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: forces of the United States. It was nice to see 149 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy showering naked behind his wife Maga Cheryl hawking 150 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: some supplements or products or who knows what abusing the office. 151 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: Great people all in this next moment, Americans best get 152 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: ready because there will be an avalanche of crazy dumped 153 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: into our culture. The military will deploy into the country, 154 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 1: a mass deportation with police state tactics will begin. A 155 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: tariff regime will commence that will set off an inflationary cycle. 156 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: Political opponents will be persecuted and will be prosecuted. Media 157 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: organizations will be threatened with the stripping of their licenses. 158 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: Everywhere there will be threats, and everywhere there will be capitulators. 159 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: And capitulant acts. The scramble to get on side with 160 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: Trump will be unlike anything that anyone has ever seen. 161 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: Fear of Trump will drive behavior, just like we saw 162 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: with the Canadian Prime minister who hustled down Tomorrow Lago 163 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 1: like a child called to the principal's office. Unbecoming doesn't 164 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: begin to describe it. And yet it's just but a 165 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: brief glimpse into our Trumpian future of intimigation, mob boss governance, 166 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: where everybody is expected to kiss the ring and pay 167 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: the vague. I have a better idea you. Here's the deal. 168 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: The United States of America is a country where dissent 169 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: is fundamental and the right to oppose and speak out 170 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 1: on matters of conscience is God given. There should be 171 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: no cowtow to Donald Trump. But what there should be 172 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: is a cutting of the cord to the hypocrisy into 173 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: the Biden era that brought him back to power. And 174 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: so it's great that Joe Scarborough has a long list 175 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: of newspapers that he thinks are the answer. But the 176 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: truth of the matter is the most celebrated reporters at 177 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: those newspapers, they're part of the reason Trump is back 178 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: in power. Journalism is the pursuit of truth with no 179 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: fear or favor, and no fear of power. The confrontation 180 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: between the little guy and the powerful is the story 181 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: that journalists should care about. But the journalism of this 182 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: era is not about that. For people like Joe Scarborough 183 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: and Mika, it's about a license to be close to 184 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 1: power as an entitlement. Because that's great. Don't you dare 185 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: say that the people who call you out on it 186 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: are liars or conspiracy theorists or some lonely denizens of 187 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: the Internet, isolated from the greater, broader reality where Joe 188 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: and Mika are fighting to reveal the truth for all 189 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: of us as fearless, risk taking journalists fighting for democracy. 190 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: There's going to be some hard days in America, and 191 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: the people who will feel it first are not billionaires, 192 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: are not mourning cable news hosts making tens of million 193 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: a year. It's the immigrant, it's the child, it's the 194 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: poor mother. It's people who aren't even seen at all, 195 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: the forgotten people, the ones that Trump has never seen 196 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: but voted for him anyway. This will all go off 197 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: the rails, and when it does, there must be an 198 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: opposition prepared with an offer of something better, and when 199 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: that moment comes, the last thing that anybody can talk 200 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: about is Joe Biden. The good news is, when Donald 201 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: Trump's avalanche begins, you'll still have your power. There will 202 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: be another presidential election, and JD. Vance will be the 203 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: Republican nominee. I don't want to see the United States 204 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: go further down the drain four years from now because 205 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party isn't ready. This is the warning. I'm 206 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you 207 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our sub stack, on our Uti channel, 208 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.