Speaker 1: This is Steve Schmid with the Warning, and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to talk for a few minutes this morning about
Speaker 1: a very very important subject, and that is trust. Its
Speaker 1: total and absolute, complete collapse between the American people in
Speaker 1: every institution that you can think to name. The last
Speaker 1: holdout was the US military. It was the most trusted
Speaker 1: institution in the country until it was taken over by
Speaker 1: Pete Hagsath and began extra judicial killings in the Southern Caribbean.
Speaker 1: A politicized Department of Defense will become distrusted For me,
Speaker 1: I know, over my dead body, would I let my
Speaker 1: child sign the line to serve their country under the
Speaker 1: command of the indifference of Pete hags who, when walking
Speaker 1: into a serious meeting in Ukraine, turned to an aid
Speaker 1: and powdered his nose and said, we have to look
Speaker 1: commanding can't be made up. The politicians have become partners
Speaker 1: with the media, and there is no place so where
Speaker 1: that is more so than CBS News Barry Weiss News.
Speaker 1: And on January fifth, they're going to reboot the CBS
Speaker 1: Evening News and there will be a new anchor in place.
Speaker 1: Tony Dakoople, a former hair model who was sent by
Speaker 1: Barry Wise to Grand Central station with a sign the
Speaker 1: type of which the car service guys hold when you're
Speaker 1: waiting to get off a plane, asking people how to
Speaker 1: print out his name. It's a cuty, millennial lish marketing
Speaker 1: trek might be great for Instagram, But the best part
Speaker 1: of it is as he's haranguing the commuters, a woman
Speaker 1: looks them dead in the eye and she says, are
Speaker 1: you running for office or something? And he goes, no,
Speaker 1: I'm the new anchor of CBS News, you know, with
Speaker 1: like Walter Cronkite, not making it up. Walter Cronkite was
Speaker 1: a trusted man. He was a serious man, and the
Speaker 1: American people believed that when Walter Cronkite told them something
Speaker 1: about what was happening in the world, that he could
Speaker 1: be trusted. Now, Tony Decoupel has released a statement of
Speaker 1: video and he says, trust me, give me a chance,
Speaker 1: and he makes a remarkable, remarkable statement. He says that
Speaker 1: he's going to hold corporations, including the corporate bosses who
Speaker 1: employ him, to account. What total and absolute, complete bullshit.
Speaker 1: Let's go through the timeline here so everybody can understand it.
Speaker 1: Paramount was owned by a billionaire named Sharry Redstone. She
Speaker 1: was the daughter of Sumner Redstone, and she was the
Speaker 1: steward of the Tiffany Network's prized asset, which is CBS News.
Speaker 1: CBS was always the diamond standard. You had Edward R. Morrow,
Speaker 1: you had Cronkite, you had Rather, you had the best
Speaker 1: of the best at CBS News. Donald Trump sued CBS.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lawsuit because it was utterly absolutely left out, loud, frivolous.
Speaker 1: What it was was an extortion. It was a character test.
Speaker 1: It was a character test for miss Redstone. She failed.
Speaker 1: She paid off Trump, she paid the bride, and she
Speaker 1: did that to smooth the transfer of the company through
Speaker 1: a sale to the Ellison boy david son of Larry Allison,
Speaker 1: one of the richest men in the world for a
Speaker 1: few days, the richest in the world this past year,
Speaker 1: with extremest beliefs on the role of humanity, for instance,
Speaker 1: the privacy of individual citizens against all of the technology
Speaker 1: companies way out there stuff strange man owns a island
Speaker 1: in Hawaii, has a four seasons resort out there, and
Speaker 1: he's one of these billionaires very interested in longevity, the
Speaker 1: concept of living forever at any rate, Larry. Some rich
Speaker 1: guys give their kids Porsches, but dellisent boy got a studio,
Speaker 1: he got paramount, and he wants more. And when he
Speaker 1: took over CBS, this soft handed son of the billionaire,
Speaker 1: who honestly has never worked a day in his life,
Speaker 1: never struggled, never had a bad fifteen second, has imposed
Speaker 1: now as the owner his I don't know what word
Speaker 1: is a dystopian view of the news. What's real on
Speaker 1: the network through Barry Weis, who was hand picked an
Speaker 1: ideological pick, a Trump adjacent pick Magalite, and he did
Speaker 1: that because what he really wants to buy is Warner Discovery.
Speaker 1: He wants to own CNN. David Allison knows the regulatory
Speaker 1: approval of that is entirely dependent on the Trump administration
Speaker 1: at this point. On Friday, coming into the weekend, Sixty
Speaker 1: Minutes made an announcement that had a big story about
Speaker 1: a concentration camp in El Salvador that the American government
Speaker 1: was selling people to. Barry Weis spie that story famously,
Speaker 1: and she did it not to make it better, but
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump at a rally said the new ownership
Speaker 1: is worse than the old ownership, and what likely happened
Speaker 1: is a flurry of phone calls between David Ellison and
Speaker 1: Barry Weiss, and the story was gone. And now the
Speaker 1: new anchor has the audacity of a hair model. How
Speaker 1: to do the joke, the audacity of a hair model
Speaker 1: to look you in the eye and say, trust me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold corporate power to account, including the
Speaker 1: people who employ me. And if if you believe that
Speaker 1: I have shares in a Brooklyn Bridge, I'd like to
Speaker 1: like to sell you. Trust. And it's collapse is why
Speaker 1: Donald Trump sits in the White House period. The Democratic
Speaker 1: Party has broken trust. The leader of the DNC, Ken Martin,
Speaker 1: has broken trust. Won't release the autopsy report of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, so there could be no discussion about whether
Speaker 1: any of the lessons of that election have been absorbed
Speaker 1: in time for the next one. The Democratic Party must
Speaker 1: be the party that the American people trust in order
Speaker 1: for it to beat the Maga Party, and all of
Speaker 1: us voters need to hold the opposition of Maggot to
Speaker 1: a very high standard. We have to choose to be
Speaker 1: citizens ahead of being fans, and only a fool, only
Speaker 1: a fool looks at a politician on the national level,
Speaker 1: and relates to them like a teenager at the Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift concert. It's dangerous and it has put Trump in
Speaker 1: the White House, and we have to get him out
Speaker 1: of the White House and his movement out of power.
Speaker 1: And we have to do that through elections by voting
Speaker 1: for people who have the integrity to meet the challenges
Speaker 1: of this moment. The American news media is deeply, deeply corrupted,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to give you a very simple barometer
Speaker 1: that you can use to check out the honesty of
Speaker 1: any news organization. Now, Donald Trump does not have the
Speaker 1: power to name the Kennedy Center the Trump Center any
Speaker 1: more than he does to name Nebraska, Magafornia, or to
Speaker 1: name Wisconsin. Trump is stant. This is very important to understand.
Speaker 1: He does not have the power to rename the Department
Speaker 1: of Defense to the Department of War. These names are
Speaker 1: in place through statute. That's where the name comes from.
Speaker 1: When Donald Trump, by FIA declares it's the Department of War,
Speaker 1: which it's not, or he says it's the Trump Center,
Speaker 1: not the Kennedy Center, and the media reports it as
Speaker 1: if he has that power. What it does is become
Speaker 1: partners in a declaration that is nonsensical, it's not true,
Speaker 1: it's not real, and so in the service of that,
Speaker 1: they're no longer news organizations. They're propagandists. Again. Of the
Speaker 1: arts center in Washington, DC that's being boycotted is the
Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts under US
Speaker 1: law period. If ABC News or CBS News, Fox News
Speaker 1: calls it the Trump Center, what that means is there
Speaker 1: a part of the Trump administration or b afraid of
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, but c it means they're lying to
Speaker 1: you about something very very very simple, the name of
Speaker 1: a building. If they can't resist calling the Department of Defense,
Speaker 1: which is what the Pentagon is calling it, the Department
Speaker 1: of War, how can they be trusted to tell you
Speaker 1: the truth about what is happening in the Southern Caribbean,
Speaker 1: where the United States of America, a few years on
Speaker 1: after the Afghanistan disaster, stands ready for another episode of
Speaker 1: regime change without enough troops, with no plan whatsoever, no
Speaker 1: national discussion about what's involved, just on the word of Trump.
Speaker 1: If the media cannot be trusted to tell you the
Speaker 1: proper name of the Pentagon, how can they be reliant
Speaker 1: to look at Donald Trump's decomposing health, his elephantine ankles,
Speaker 1: his black and bruised necritizing hands. He is obviously sick
Speaker 1: physically mentally, he is decomposing up at three in the morning.
Speaker 1: None of this is rational, none of it is real.
Speaker 1: And yet the media on a day by day basis,
Speaker 1: Fox News, CBS News tells you two plus two is five,
Speaker 1: or in the case of CNN, they'll have a show
Speaker 1: with Scott Jennings on it to argue the point. And
Speaker 1: so it becomes impossible, impossible to know what is real,
Speaker 1: what's up, what's down, what's left, what's right? And in
Speaker 1: that world, democracy dies, liberty goes with it, Sanity goes
Speaker 1: with it too. Donald Trump meets every definition, every definition
Speaker 1: that you could conceivably layout for a disloyal, faithless, un
Speaker 1: American press to the American people cannot trust, We should
Speaker 1: talk more about trust, and democratic leaders should get ready
Speaker 1: who are running for president to specifically address the issue
Speaker 1: and asked for it step by step. The notion that
Speaker 1: Tony D. Kophill thinks the average American is so absurdly
Speaker 1: stupid that they would give him a chance. When he
Speaker 1: looks into the camera and says trust me, and that says,
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold the corporation that I work for
Speaker 1: to account. It's obscene because we know how his boss
Speaker 1: who picked him to do what she tells him to
Speaker 1: do in the service of the Ellison boy who wants CNN.
Speaker 1: We know, we know what happens when Donald Trump says
Speaker 1: the new leadership is worse than the old one. We
Speaker 1: know stories get spiked because that's what happened. Now. It
Speaker 1: doesn't much matter what's on CBS because the trust evaporated
Speaker 1: a long time ago, and it's really not relevant, and
Speaker 1: people can get information if they want to get information.
Speaker 1: There is an ability to break out of the silo.
Speaker 1: There is an ability to unchain yourself from the algorithm.
Speaker 1: But you have to read, you have to explore, and
Speaker 1: you have to pay attention. The reality of the moment
Speaker 1: is this powerful people lie to the American people all
Speaker 1: the time for their self interest. The American people, they
Speaker 1: don't live in the economy that you saw at Mora
Speaker 1: Lago on New Year's Eve. The job numbers, the economic numbers.
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't like them, so he made them disappear. The
Speaker 1: end of nineteen eighty four, Winston, the protagonist is being
Speaker 1: tortured by O'Brien, and O'Brien during the torture, holds up
Speaker 1: fingers and he says, Winston, how many fingers am I
Speaker 1: holding up? And Winston says, I only see four. I
Speaker 1: see four fingers, and O'Brien makes the point, No, Winston,
Speaker 1: the right answer is, however many the party tells you.
Speaker 1: The very first thing that happened in twenty seventeen, a
Speaker 1: few minutes after noon is Seawan Spicer went out and
Speaker 1: he told the American people that Donald Trump's anemic inaugural
Speaker 1: crowd size was bigger than Barack Obama's. It was obviously
Speaker 1: not true, it was profoundly stupid, and it was the
Speaker 1: beginning of the most dishonest press secretary in American history
Speaker 1: to that point. But it was always a lie of authority,
Speaker 1: the type of lie that says what's true is what
Speaker 1: the leader says is true, and that's not truth. That's dangerous.
Speaker 1: And many, many years later, here we are on the
Speaker 1: edge of a war with a man who demands the
Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize and his partners. They're the corporate media,
Speaker 1: they're the big law firms, they're the big tech companies,
Speaker 1: they're all of the people and all of the institutions
Speaker 1: that thought by being partners with him it would be
Speaker 1: good for them. They don't care about the country. They
Speaker 1: don't care about the people who live in it. They
Speaker 1: care about their greed, They care about themselves. This is
Speaker 1: what John Kennedy was talking about when he said, ask
Speaker 1: not what your country can do for you, ask what
Speaker 1: you can do for your country. And what you can
Speaker 1: do for your country is to get involved and to
Speaker 1: get engaged and to use your power to vote these
Speaker 1: people out of office who are corrupt, who lie, who
Speaker 1: can't be trusted, and appreciate this. The one thing that
Speaker 1: Tony Tacoupo will never be is Walter Cronkite, because Walter
Speaker 1: Cronkite could be trusted. What Tony Takoupo is is Fox
Speaker 1: News Life. I'm Barry Weis's news that produces the content
Speaker 1: that allows the Ellison boy to go to mal Lago
Speaker 1: and to say see I'm on your side, Donald, and
Speaker 1: with that, everybody, Happy New Year. I'll see you on
Speaker 1: the fifth.