1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: This is Steve Schmid with the Warning, and I just 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: wanted to talk for a few minutes this morning about 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: a very very important subject, and that is trust. Its 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: total and absolute, complete collapse between the American people in 5 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: every institution that you can think to name. The last 6 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: holdout was the US military. It was the most trusted 7 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: institution in the country until it was taken over by 8 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: Pete Hagsath and began extra judicial killings in the Southern Caribbean. 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 1: A politicized Department of Defense will become distrusted For me, 10 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: I know, over my dead body, would I let my 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: child sign the line to serve their country under the 12 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: command of the indifference of Pete hags who, when walking 13 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: into a serious meeting in Ukraine, turned to an aid 14 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: and powdered his nose and said, we have to look 15 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:22,919 Speaker 1: commanding can't be made up. The politicians have become partners 16 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: with the media, and there is no place so where 17 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: that is more so than CBS News Barry Weiss News. 18 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: And on January fifth, they're going to reboot the CBS 19 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 1: Evening News and there will be a new anchor in place. 20 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: Tony Dakoople, a former hair model who was sent by 21 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: Barry Wise to Grand Central station with a sign the 22 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: type of which the car service guys hold when you're 23 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: waiting to get off a plane, asking people how to 24 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: print out his name. It's a cuty, millennial lish marketing 25 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: trek might be great for Instagram, But the best part 26 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: of it is as he's haranguing the commuters, a woman 27 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: looks them dead in the eye and she says, are 28 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: you running for office or something? And he goes, no, 29 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: I'm the new anchor of CBS News, you know, with 30 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: like Walter Cronkite, not making it up. Walter Cronkite was 31 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: a trusted man. He was a serious man, and the 32 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: American people believed that when Walter Cronkite told them something 33 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: about what was happening in the world, that he could 34 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: be trusted. Now, Tony Decoupel has released a statement of 35 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: video and he says, trust me, give me a chance, 36 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: and he makes a remarkable, remarkable statement. He says that 37 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: he's going to hold corporations, including the corporate bosses who 38 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: employ him, to account. What total and absolute, complete bullshit. 39 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: Let's go through the timeline here so everybody can understand it. 40 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: Paramount was owned by a billionaire named Sharry Redstone. She 41 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: was the daughter of Sumner Redstone, and she was the 42 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: steward of the Tiffany Network's prized asset, which is CBS News. 43 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: CBS was always the diamond standard. You had Edward R. Morrow, 44 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: you had Cronkite, you had Rather, you had the best 45 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: of the best at CBS News. Donald Trump sued CBS. 46 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: It wasn't a lawsuit because it was utterly absolutely left out, loud, frivolous. 47 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: What it was was an extortion. It was a character test. 48 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: It was a character test for miss Redstone. She failed. 49 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: She paid off Trump, she paid the bride, and she 50 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: did that to smooth the transfer of the company through 51 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: a sale to the Ellison boy david son of Larry Allison, 52 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: one of the richest men in the world for a 53 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: few days, the richest in the world this past year, 54 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: with extremest beliefs on the role of humanity, for instance, 55 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: the privacy of individual citizens against all of the technology 56 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: companies way out there stuff strange man owns a island 57 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: in Hawaii, has a four seasons resort out there, and 58 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: he's one of these billionaires very interested in longevity, the 59 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: concept of living forever at any rate, Larry. Some rich 60 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: guys give their kids Porsches, but dellisent boy got a studio, 61 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: he got paramount, and he wants more. And when he 62 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: took over CBS, this soft handed son of the billionaire, 63 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,679 Speaker 1: who honestly has never worked a day in his life, 64 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: never struggled, never had a bad fifteen second, has imposed 65 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: now as the owner his I don't know what word 66 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: is a dystopian view of the news. What's real on 67 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:19,239 Speaker 1: the network through Barry Weis, who was hand picked an 68 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: ideological pick, a Trump adjacent pick Magalite, and he did 69 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: that because what he really wants to buy is Warner Discovery. 70 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: He wants to own CNN. David Allison knows the regulatory 71 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: approval of that is entirely dependent on the Trump administration 72 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: at this point. On Friday, coming into the weekend, Sixty 73 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: Minutes made an announcement that had a big story about 74 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: a concentration camp in El Salvador that the American government 75 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: was selling people to. Barry Weis spie that story famously, 76 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: and she did it not to make it better, but 77 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: because Donald Trump at a rally said the new ownership 78 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: is worse than the old ownership, and what likely happened 79 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: is a flurry of phone calls between David Ellison and 80 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss, and the story was gone. And now the 81 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: new anchor has the audacity of a hair model. How 82 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: to do the joke, the audacity of a hair model 83 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: to look you in the eye and say, trust me. 84 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to hold corporate power to account, including the 85 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: people who employ me. And if if you believe that 86 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: I have shares in a Brooklyn Bridge, I'd like to 87 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: like to sell you. Trust. And it's collapse is why 88 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump sits in the White House period. The Democratic 89 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:29,119 Speaker 1: Party has broken trust. The leader of the DNC, Ken Martin, 90 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: has broken trust. Won't release the autopsy report of twenty 91 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: twenty four, so there could be no discussion about whether 92 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 1: any of the lessons of that election have been absorbed 93 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: in time for the next one. The Democratic Party must 94 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: be the party that the American people trust in order 95 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: for it to beat the Maga Party, and all of 96 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: us voters need to hold the opposition of Maggot to 97 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: a very high standard. We have to choose to be 98 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: citizens ahead of being fans, and only a fool, only 99 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: a fool looks at a politician on the national level, 100 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: and relates to them like a teenager at the Taylor 101 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: Swift concert. It's dangerous and it has put Trump in 102 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: the White House, and we have to get him out 103 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: of the White House and his movement out of power. 104 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: And we have to do that through elections by voting 105 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: for people who have the integrity to meet the challenges 106 00:09:52,640 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: of this moment. The American news media is deeply, deeply corrupted, 107 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: and I'm going to give you a very simple barometer 108 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: that you can use to check out the honesty of 109 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: any news organization. Now, Donald Trump does not have the 110 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: power to name the Kennedy Center the Trump Center any 111 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: more than he does to name Nebraska, Magafornia, or to 112 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:50,359 Speaker 1: name Wisconsin. Trump is stant. This is very important to understand. 113 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: He does not have the power to rename the Department 114 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: of Defense to the Department of War. These names are 115 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: in place through statute. That's where the name comes from. 116 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: When Donald Trump, by FIA declares it's the Department of War, 117 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: which it's not, or he says it's the Trump Center, 118 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: not the Kennedy Center, and the media reports it as 119 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: if he has that power. What it does is become 120 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: partners in a declaration that is nonsensical, it's not true, 121 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: it's not real, and so in the service of that, 122 00:11:51,600 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: they're no longer news organizations. They're propagandists. Again. Of the 123 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: arts center in Washington, DC that's being boycotted is the 124 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts under US 125 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: law period. If ABC News or CBS News, Fox News 126 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: calls it the Trump Center, what that means is there 127 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: a part of the Trump administration or b afraid of 128 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: the Trump administration, but c it means they're lying to 129 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: you about something very very very simple, the name of 130 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: a building. If they can't resist calling the Department of Defense, 131 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: which is what the Pentagon is calling it, the Department 132 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: of War, how can they be trusted to tell you 133 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: the truth about what is happening in the Southern Caribbean, 134 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: where the United States of America, a few years on 135 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: after the Afghanistan disaster, stands ready for another episode of 136 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: regime change without enough troops, with no plan whatsoever, no 137 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: national discussion about what's involved, just on the word of Trump. 138 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: If the media cannot be trusted to tell you the 139 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: proper name of the Pentagon, how can they be reliant 140 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: to look at Donald Trump's decomposing health, his elephantine ankles, 141 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: his black and bruised necritizing hands. He is obviously sick 142 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: physically mentally, he is decomposing up at three in the morning. 143 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: None of this is rational, none of it is real. 144 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: And yet the media on a day by day basis, 145 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: Fox News, CBS News tells you two plus two is five, 146 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: or in the case of CNN, they'll have a show 147 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: with Scott Jennings on it to argue the point. And 148 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: so it becomes impossible, impossible to know what is real, 149 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: what's up, what's down, what's left, what's right? And in 150 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: that world, democracy dies, liberty goes with it, Sanity goes 151 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: with it too. Donald Trump meets every definition, every definition 152 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: that you could conceivably layout for a disloyal, faithless, un 153 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: American press to the American people cannot trust, We should 154 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: talk more about trust, and democratic leaders should get ready 155 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: who are running for president to specifically address the issue 156 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: and asked for it step by step. The notion that 157 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: Tony D. Kophill thinks the average American is so absurdly 158 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: stupid that they would give him a chance. When he 159 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: looks into the camera and says trust me, and that says, 160 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to hold the corporation that I work for 161 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: to account. It's obscene because we know how his boss 162 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: who picked him to do what she tells him to 163 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: do in the service of the Ellison boy who wants CNN. 164 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: We know, we know what happens when Donald Trump says 165 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: the new leadership is worse than the old one. We 166 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: know stories get spiked because that's what happened. Now. It 167 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: doesn't much matter what's on CBS because the trust evaporated 168 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: a long time ago, and it's really not relevant, and 169 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: people can get information if they want to get information. 170 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: There is an ability to break out of the silo. 171 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: There is an ability to unchain yourself from the algorithm. 172 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: But you have to read, you have to explore, and 173 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: you have to pay attention. The reality of the moment 174 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: is this powerful people lie to the American people all 175 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: the time for their self interest. The American people, they 176 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: don't live in the economy that you saw at Mora 177 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: Lago on New Year's Eve. The job numbers, the economic numbers. 178 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't like them, so he made them disappear. The 179 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: end of nineteen eighty four, Winston, the protagonist is being 180 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: tortured by O'Brien, and O'Brien during the torture, holds up 181 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: fingers and he says, Winston, how many fingers am I 182 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: holding up? And Winston says, I only see four. I 183 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: see four fingers, and O'Brien makes the point, No, Winston, 184 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: the right answer is, however many the party tells you. 185 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: The very first thing that happened in twenty seventeen, a 186 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:11,719 Speaker 1: few minutes after noon is Seawan Spicer went out and 187 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: he told the American people that Donald Trump's anemic inaugural 188 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: crowd size was bigger than Barack Obama's. It was obviously 189 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: not true, it was profoundly stupid, and it was the 190 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: beginning of the most dishonest press secretary in American history 191 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: to that point. But it was always a lie of authority, 192 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,479 Speaker 1: the type of lie that says what's true is what 193 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: the leader says is true, and that's not truth. That's dangerous. 194 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: And many, many years later, here we are on the 195 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 1: edge of a war with a man who demands the 196 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize and his partners. They're the corporate media, 197 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: they're the big law firms, they're the big tech companies, 198 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 1: they're all of the people and all of the institutions 199 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: that thought by being partners with him it would be 200 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: good for them. They don't care about the country. They 201 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: don't care about the people who live in it. They 202 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: care about their greed, They care about themselves. This is 203 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: what John Kennedy was talking about when he said, ask 204 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: not what your country can do for you, ask what 205 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: you can do for your country. And what you can 206 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: do for your country is to get involved and to 207 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: get engaged and to use your power to vote these 208 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 1: people out of office who are corrupt, who lie, who 209 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:03,959 Speaker 1: can't be trusted, and appreciate this. The one thing that 210 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: Tony Tacoupo will never be is Walter Cronkite, because Walter 211 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: Cronkite could be trusted. What Tony Takoupo is is Fox 212 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: News Life. I'm Barry Weis's news that produces the content 213 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: that allows the Ellison boy to go to mal Lago 214 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: and to say see I'm on your side, Donald, and 215 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: with that, everybody, Happy New Year. I'll see you on 216 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: the fifth.