Speaker 1: This is the warning. The Secretary of Transportation is a
Speaker 1: real world cast member. Can you certainly wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: able to tell from Reagan National Airport.
Speaker 2: Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft colliding. I
Speaker 2: want to be clear on that.
Speaker 1: Now over at the White House, let's listen to a question,
Speaker 1: and then I want to do an exercise. But first
Speaker 1: the question on DEI and the claims that you've made.
Speaker 1: Are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the
Speaker 1: result of diversity hiring. Yes, that's what he's saying. A
Speaker 1: plane crashed in the Potomac River coming in for a landing.
Speaker 1: An army helicopter, a Blackhawk, flew into it. You can
Speaker 1: see the explosion. Sixty two people died, and Donald Trump
Speaker 1: said they were killed by DEI. He didn't know anything,
Speaker 1: and he said it about any facts except for that
Speaker 1: there was a tragedy, the first one involving an airplane
Speaker 1: going down in the United States of America since two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine in Buffalo. Now, why is it that
Speaker 1: the national media, the White House Press Court, cannot comprehend
Speaker 1: English words put together into sentences. Here's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Cat yarn couch, the cat plays with yarn on the couch.
Speaker 1: Dog man ball man throws the ball for the dog.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm trying to tell you. There's a
Speaker 1: cat playing with yarn on a couch, and there's a
Speaker 1: man throwing a ball for a dog. Do you need
Speaker 1: any more information to comprehend what it is you're seeing?
Speaker 1: Like the unseen White House Reporter, let's play it again
Speaker 1: on DEI and the claims that you've made. Are you
Speaker 1: saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of
Speaker 1: diversity hiring?
Speaker 2: And what evidence have you seen to support these things?
Speaker 1: It just could have been, Yes, that is what he said,
Speaker 1: knowing no facts, no details, Lives snuffed out in an instant,
Speaker 1: Families waiting a mile or so away at the airport
Speaker 1: for their loved ones who are dead in an instant,
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump was the first to say, Hey, I
Speaker 1: know what happened, when in fact he had no idea
Speaker 1: what happened. He is the man who claims to know
Speaker 1: all while knowing nothing at all. He claims to know
Speaker 1: all things about everything, everywhere, all at once.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can
Speaker 3: come to the conclusion right now, the diversity had something
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 2: With this crash because I have common sense, okay, and
Speaker 2: unfortunately a lot of people don't.
Speaker 1: How did you react when you heard the news about
Speaker 1: an American Airlines flight going down coming in for landing
Speaker 1: at Reagan National Airport? Did it make you feel sick?
Speaker 1: Made me feel sick? Not Donald Trump do and not
Speaker 1: the White House staff. What they thought is, how can
Speaker 1: we take advantage of this? There is burning wreckage on
Speaker 1: the river, and Donald Trump is thinking, what can I
Speaker 1: get out of this? How can I use it? The
Speaker 1: death and the misery and the suffering is a prop
Speaker 1: in my sick game. And so Donald Trump reacted with this.
Speaker 3: The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek.
Speaker 2: A real winner. That's the guy's a real winner. You
Speaker 2: know badly.
Speaker 3: Everything's run since he's run this Department of Transportation a disaster.
Speaker 3: He was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his
Speaker 3: city into the ground, and he's a disaster now. He's
Speaker 3: just got a good line of bullshit and this.
Speaker 2: You know, you're talking about extremely complex things. And if
Speaker 2: they don't have a great brain, a great power of
Speaker 2: the brain, then I got to be very good at
Speaker 2: what they do, and bad things will happen.
Speaker 1: What Donald Trump is saying is there was a black
Speaker 1: guy somewhere around, or maybe worse, a black woman or
Speaker 1: a hispanic even somebody, some minority. They did it. They
Speaker 1: killed those people. We are in dangerous hours, my friends.
Speaker 1: There is no issue, nothing that the man won't politicize
Speaker 1: for a bit more power in that instant. When there
Speaker 1: is a plane crash, the situation room at the White
Speaker 1: House fills, the Department of Transportation, experts and specialists get busy.
Speaker 1: But two weeks in, what Donald Trump has done is fire.
Speaker 1: The head of the FAA talked about moving planes around
Speaker 1: like a chessboard, said something completely wrong.
Speaker 2: This is a major chess game at the highest level.
Speaker 2: When you have sixty planes coming in during a short
Speaker 2: period of time in the role, coming in different directions.
Speaker 1: That airplanes are taking off and landing in all different
Speaker 1: contradictory directions. Not true at an airport take off and
Speaker 1: land in the same direction. Basic information. But for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: even the most basic information, it's calculus. We, in our
Speaker 1: infinite wisdom, on the edge of the two hundred and
Speaker 1: fiftieth year of our independence, have elected to the office
Speaker 1: of President of the United States, the foremost imbecile amongst us.
Speaker 1: We have made him the most powerful man in the
Speaker 1: world and given him its most powerful bully pulpit to
Speaker 1: spew his malice and to spew his venom and his idiocies,
Speaker 1: and to cast blame and immunize all of his supporters
Speaker 1: from a fundamental reality. More often than not, if they
Speaker 1: experience failure in their lives, it's not your fault, it's theirs,
Speaker 1: Or that when an accident happens, a tragedy occurs, that
Speaker 1: it's occurred because people in this country who didn't have
Speaker 1: opportunities once have them now, and because they do, some
Speaker 1: white people are dead, even though Donald Trump has no
Speaker 1: idea who was on that plane, and it shouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: They were human beings and they were loved by their
Speaker 1: mothers and fathers and husbands and wives and children, moms
Speaker 1: and dads. In this disgusting grotesquery of a president from
Speaker 1: the White House cannot restrain himself from lying about it
Speaker 1: for thirty seconds. Maga, it feels great to win, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Let's appreciate four years is going to feel like forty
Speaker 1: at our current pace. And yet this must be resisted
Speaker 1: and it must be opposed, and yet everywhere the sounds
Speaker 1: of silence. CBS News about to be controlled by one
Speaker 1: of the richest men in the world, Larry Ellison is
Speaker 1: getting ready to serve up sixty minutes on a silver
Speaker 1: platter to Trump, along with many tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: As his administration now investigates NPR investigates PBS, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: will brook no criticism and tolerate no dissent. He has
Speaker 1: given his orders to snuff it out. The billionaires who
Speaker 1: control the information we all receive have complied. Mostly the
Speaker 1: news anchors have gotten in line. In what you're told
Speaker 1: is that the dumbest questions conceivably formulated shot to a
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old on Conflict TV or somehow a
Speaker 1: journalism that matters to you keeps you safe and that
Speaker 1: you should care about. What you should care about is
Speaker 1: when an airplane any one of us could have been
Speaker 1: on on any given day went down. President of the
Speaker 1: United States. Instinct wasn't two I don't want that to
Speaker 1: ever happen again during my term. No, it was how
Speaker 1: am I going to use it against the American people?
Speaker 1: How am I going to use it to point a
Speaker 1: finger and say that somewhere there's a minority to blame.
Speaker 1: That's what he did. And if that's what making America
Speaker 1: great again means, then make America great again is what
Speaker 1: it has always been, just a bit more clearly now
Speaker 1: a lie. And each day the lie will become clearer.
Speaker 1: Support for that lie will drop. The great tragedy right
Speaker 1: now isn't the lie, and it's not the lying. It's
Speaker 1: that when the inevitable happens and this mag of filth crashes,
Speaker 1: there's nothing better waiting to replace it. Where are you, Chuck,
Speaker 1: going to work today, going to offer any resistance because
Speaker 1: none of us can hear you. None of us can
Speaker 1: hear any of you. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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