1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, twice impeached, disgraced former president of the United States, 2 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: and accused felon will be a no show in Milwaukee 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: for the Fox News moderated debate by Brett Bher and 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: Martha McCallum. Before going further, Brett Baer is a major 5 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: player in this moment of national tragedy. It was Brett 6 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: Bhaer who was on the Fox anchor desk on election night. 7 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: It was his job to inform, to tell the American 8 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: people who were tuned into a cable news station that 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: calls itself fair and balanced, what reality was, what the 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: truth was, The reality was. The audience had been conditioned 11 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: by election day, and Brett Baer knew it. He knew 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: they didn't want to hear the truth. He knew there 13 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: was risk for informing them about reality. Tucker Carlson understood 14 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: the risk as well. So it's important to understand there's 15 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: no difference and no difference of moral standing between Tucker Carlson, 16 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: who will be with Donald Trump, and Brett Baer, who 17 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: will be with the Republican candidates who seek to dethrone 18 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Donald Trump isn't coming to the debate, and 19 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: the debate will still be about Donald Trump. It will 20 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: give his opponents an opportunity to show their metal, to 21 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: show their character, who is and who is not terrified 22 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: of the coming mean tweet after the debate and just 23 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: exactly how delusional is vivak Ramaswami. All of these questions 24 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: and then some will be answered in the Milwaukee debate. 25 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: One of the most unifying issues at this moment in 26 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: American life is this. The American people, Democrats, independents, Republicans 27 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: do not want to see Donald Trump return to power. 28 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 1: They do not want to see the Maga retribution fantasies 29 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: come to life in another presidential term. They want to 30 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:27,839 Speaker 1: move on. We want something better. This is the exhausted 31 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 1: majority that I often talk about. There is an exhausted 32 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: majority in this country who is tuning out the news, 33 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: tuning out the nonsense. But the fact is, the danger 34 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 1: of the country faces is from the MAGA minority joining 35 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: to become a narrow majority with a coalition of indifference 36 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: in difference plus extremism could be enough to win a 37 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: contest in the electoral College for Donald Trump. Remember this 38 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: isn't a sprint, It's not golf. The rules aren't fair. 39 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: The start isn't even the race isn't clean, so to speak. 40 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: One side has advantages over the other and will apply 41 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: them and press them with no mercy whatsoever. Now Donald 42 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: Trump won't show up at the debate, and he'll be told, 43 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: at least initially, that that was the smart thing to do, 44 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: it was the right thing to do, because he's so 45 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: big and he's so far out from it. But that 46 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: doesn't matter because those polling numbers mean nothing at this 47 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: stage in the race. There are four big things that 48 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: have happened thus far in the Republican primary. Is that 49 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump stands accused of ninety felonies over multiple jurisdictions, 50 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: including New York, the state of Georgia, and federal indictments. 51 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis, who was for a brief shining moment the alternatives, 52 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: has completely collapsed. Tim Scott has moved into position in 53 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: the state of Iowa to be a winner, and Chris 54 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: Christie is precisely in the position that John McCain was 55 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: during his comeback in the New Hampshire primary, coming out 56 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: of the summer and making the turn into September. That's 57 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: what's happened thus far. All of the other candidates are 58 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: non entities, the action on the debate stage, Tim Scott, 59 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: Chris Christie, and that's it. We already know that Ron 60 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: de Santis is going to attack vvak Ramaswami in a 61 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: weird sideshow. Who knows what Mike Pence will say about 62 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: the man who tried to have him hung, or what 63 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: the formerly sycophanic Nicky Haley will say. What will matter, 64 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: and what Trump will be watching for is what Chris 65 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: Christie says. And Chris Christie should seek to demolish Ron 66 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: DeSantis and anybody who serves as Donald Trump's proxy on 67 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: that debate stage, to give the American people a taste 68 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: of what a debate with Donald Trump on the stage 69 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: with Chris Christie will be. Donald Trump doesn't understand that 70 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: the debate will still be about him. He just won't 71 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: be there to defend himself. Instead, he'll be over on 72 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's Twitter cast talking nonsense, spinning insanities and inanities, 73 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. He will, with each spoken word, poison the 74 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: American body politic. He will add to his countless volumes 75 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: of lies, numbers numbered at this point in the tens 76 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,679 Speaker 1: and tens of thousands. He will say that an election 77 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: was rigged when it was not. He will say that 78 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: it was stolen when it was not. He will try 79 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: to paint himself as a victim. He will rage, he 80 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: will threaten. He will talk about retribution and retaliation. He 81 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,239 Speaker 1: will now speak about the country. He will not talk 82 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: about making it stronger. Instead, he will smear it. He 83 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: will smear its institutions, and Tucker Carlson will steer him 84 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: through that conversation. It will be steeped in racial malice 85 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: and in division. It will be two liars poisoning America. 86 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: And it will mean nothing at all to the millions 87 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: and millions and millions of hard working Americans who are 88 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: tuning out all of this bullshit, tired of it, exhausted 89 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: by it, but who don't wish to tolerate it any 90 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: longer either. We are told, over and over and over 91 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: again by all of the geniuses who have missed almost 92 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: every happening over the last seven years, that, for sure, 93 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. I'm not so sure. 94 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: There is not a national primary election day. There is 95 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: a succession of state contests, and what has to happen 96 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: for Trump to implode to deflate and fade away. Is 97 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: for him to lose Iowa, and then for him to 98 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: lose New Hampshire, and then the mystique will suddenly be 99 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: gone and the predator will be the prey. It is 100 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: a vicious game. And let's face it, Donald Trump doesn't 101 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: look like he has his a game. He looks stressed, tired, hunted. 102 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: He knows the walls are closing in His campaign is 103 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: a grift. It's incoherent. Every dollar raised goes to a lawyer. 104 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: And the Republican Party because of its crisis of cowardice, 105 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: because of a depravity that has seeked deep into the 106 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,839 Speaker 1: Republican soul, the party is going down with the ship. 107 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: The Republican Party is Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is 108 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: the Republican Party. MAGA and the Republican Party are each 109 00:08:54,160 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: other's vessels, each hollow, each able to carry each other's agendas, 110 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: each agenda poisonous for America's future. The MAGA agenda is 111 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: going to be on criminal trial, and the MAGA agenda 112 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: will face a political test. The test, though, is on 113 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: the shoulders of the American people. We are told over 114 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: and over again by a broken media that what we 115 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: want as a country is Trump that we want this 116 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: as our politics. It's a billion dollar industry, and it 117 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to matter to anybody in it, that people 118 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: are turning it off and tuning it out, and that 119 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: most of the people in the boxes on television have 120 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: no credibility whatsoever and live lives that are completely detached 121 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: from the lives of ordinary working Americans. They're in the 122 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: business of puffing up Trump. There are is indispensable business partners. 123 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,439 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is simply sending them a message by refusing 124 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: to appear on Fox News's air. He's unhappy, he's aggrieved, 125 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: and what he's saying is, I'm going to take the money, 126 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 1: the ratings and bring them over here to this guy. 127 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: Though he hates me, he has been faithful to me. 128 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: And this is the sick maga world. And make no 129 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: mistake the decision to fire Tucker Carlson because Fox News 130 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: lied its way into almost a billion dollars in defamation liabilities, 131 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: All of these things are connected. Brett Baer and Tucker 132 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: Carlson are the same millionaire liars who receive the American 133 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: people with misinformation the tips of the spear at a 134 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: billion dollar disinformation economy. Thank you for listening to my 135 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: political commentary. If you like what you've heard today, please 136 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,479 Speaker 1: also consider subscribing to The Warning daily newsletter on Substack. 137 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: Our democracy hangs in the balance. The twenty twenty four 138 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: presidential election is the most consequential in America's history. It's 139 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: not hyperbole, it's a fact. 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The 150 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: men and women who seek to be president of the 151 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 1: United States. The man, the accused criminal who they were 152 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: all slavishly devoted to, with Tucker Carlson outside cast out 153 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 1: disloyalty everywhere, and then on the stage will be all 154 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: the pretenders, hoping and praying that they could be the 155 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: person who rises up if Trump suddenly deflates. But there's 156 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: one person who's different, and he's far from perfect. That 157 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: guy's Chris Christy. He knows Trump, he knows him well. 158 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: He was the only guy who ever sat amongst them 159 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was his friends. That's how he related 160 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: to him. Now, Chris Christie's friend almost killed Chris Christy 161 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 1: gave him COVID during the debate prep. But Chris Christy has 162 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: been telling the truth about Donald Trump, and more importantly 163 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: than that, he's been doing it effectively. He has been 164 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: cutting Trump when he steps up and gets into a 165 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: room in New Hampshire. And don't underestimate the importance of 166 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: New Hampshire. They won't like a candidate like Trump who 167 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: doesn't show up. They didn't forgive Rudy Giuliani for it 168 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. The race is far from over. 169 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: This debate is going to get Donald Trump the exact 170 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: result he didn't want. It's going to put him at 171 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: the center of attention and unable to respond to the truth. 172 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: And the person who's gonna deliver that truth on the 173 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: stage is Chris Christy. And the people who try to 174 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: stop it, who try to oppose it with their bs 175 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: are not particularly talented. It's going to be fun watching 176 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: the new Jersey governor steamroll them. Donald Trump will be 177 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: at the second debate, and he'll be at everyone after 178 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: that because his ego can't handle it not being in 179 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: the room, the room where it happens, and he won't 180 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: be in there because the room where it happens is 181 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: in any room that Tucker Carlson is in anymore. There 182 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: will be many twists and turns in the race ahead. 183 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: Buckle up. This debate is the start of the interesting 184 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: phase of the campaign. Thank you for watching. You subscribe 185 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: to our channel so you never miss a video. 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