1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: It is Friday, May the twenty third. This is the warning. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 2: Another week has come to an end in Washington, and 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 2: this one has been a disaster for the American people. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: Never in the entire history of the country has so 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 2: much been taken by so few from so many, And 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: those few are the richest and most powerful people on 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: the planet. Senator Elizabeth Warren described the events that took 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 2: place at Trump's golf club as an orgy of corruption. 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 2: Here is Justin's Sun, a Chinese national. Last year, the 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: crypto billionaire paid six million dollars for a banana tape 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: to a wall. Justin eate the banana he fist pumped 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 2: in front of the American flag after paying tens of 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 2: millions of dollars directly to Donald Trump and his family, 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 2: saying fight, Fight, fight. 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: An orgy of corruption. 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: Saudi corruption, Katari corruption, Amarati, Chinese crypto corruption, foreign interests, 17 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: no doubt filled with intelligent services, have bought the American presidency. 18 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 2: Donald Trump is selling out the country bit by bit, 19 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: piece by piece. There has never been anything like it, 20 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: and it begs a question, how did this happen? How 21 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 2: does such corruption become commonplace? How did it come to 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 2: be that a man who looked into the camera over 23 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: the course of his presidency was viewed as the more 24 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: on his candidate by scores of tens of millions of 25 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 2: Americans against the alternative. The conservative media, led by Fox News, 26 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: has been a singular cancer in American society. It has 27 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 2: eroded the capacity of the American people to tell what 28 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 2: is right from wrong, what is up from down, what 29 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 2: is left from right, what is right from left, to 30 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: distinguish between blue and red, whore green and yellow. It 31 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: is the great fog machine, and it has assaulted fundamental 32 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: pillars of American life. 33 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: Lie after lie after. 34 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: Lie, over ten long years has brought us to this moment. 35 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: And the most vicious lie perpetrated against the country, of course, 36 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: was the fiction about the stolen election that led to 37 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: a coupe and led to the pardoning of thousands of 38 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 2: criminals with hatred in their heart for the country. The 39 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: United States came into being because George Washington, who could 40 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 2: have been a king, said no. 41 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: He walked away from the power. 42 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 2: He submitted himself to a higher cost. And Donald Trump 43 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 2: has upended that. But he did not do it alone. 44 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: He did it at the tip of a poisoned spear 45 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 2: behind him, an industrial grade ye machine. Now, how did 46 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: it come to be that Jake Tapper wound up this 47 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 2: avatar of the corporate media, This smug and self serious, 48 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 2: sanctimonious man who is paid eight million dollars a year 49 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 2: by David's ass off at CNN, who pays himself fifty 50 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 2: two million dollars a year. How did it come to 51 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 2: be that Jake Tapper found himself on his knees with 52 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: Megan Kelly saying this, Joe. 53 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 3: Biden has been saying stupid things for decades. 54 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 4: Okay, what you're saying that, but this minimizes it too 55 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 4: in this Do you want to apologize to Lard Trump? 56 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 5: Now? 57 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 4: I've already apologized her. 58 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 3: I called her months ago, and. 59 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 4: What does she say? 60 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to disclose the contents of 61 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 3: a private conversation, but I thought the kind ofversation went well. 62 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 3: And she said she has said this publicly, so I 63 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 3: feel fine sharing it. She said that she would never 64 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 3: mock anybody stutter. 65 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: But I mean, I you. 66 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 3: Know, after we did the research for this book and 67 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 3: I realized how bad his acuity issues were. 68 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 2: And apologizing saying the conservative media was right. This is 69 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 2: for none the greatest propaganda victory in ten years time 70 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 2: for Donald Trump, the anchor as CNN, to whom CNN 71 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: has invested tens of millions of dollars of marketing and 72 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 2: in fact turned over the network's air to the marketing 73 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 2: of a book alleging a cover up, when in fact, 74 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 2: the story of the cover up is not the story 75 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 2: of the people around Biden. It's the story of the 76 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 2: willful blindness of the media. 77 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: And so Jake. 78 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 2: Copper is like a Johnny ap wull seed, spreading day 79 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 2: by day a trail of media corruption forensically that historians 80 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 2: can look back upon to clearly understand what happens during 81 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: this rancid age when the lowest man in the country 82 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 2: became its most powerful, and a Congress turned into a 83 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: poll up bureau, and a media which is supposed to 84 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 2: afflict the powerful became their indispensable partners in an industry 85 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 2: of bullshittery that has strangled the republic and brought American 86 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 2: democracy to its greatest point of crisis since the American 87 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 2: Civil War. Let's look at Jake Capper, go on Mourning Joe. 88 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 6: He came on this show and you guys had a 89 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 6: robust conversation about this. You largely agreed that you had 90 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 6: been hearing things about this, but that there was really 91 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 6: no alternative. That Kamala Harris was not up to the job. 92 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 6: That's what Democrats were telling you behind the scenes. And 93 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 6: saw that Joe Biden said to staffers that he wanted 94 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 6: to convince you that you were wrong. 95 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 2: Now, Joe Scarborough, of course, is the person who said 96 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 2: Donald Trump was a Nazi. 97 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 5: Let's watch if it sounds like Nazism, if it walks 98 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 5: like Nazism, if he makes threats the way he's making threats, 99 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 5: I'm not exactly sure what you call it, if you 100 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 5: don't call it fascism. 101 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 2: And he did it more than once, and so did 102 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 2: his wife. And yet they were the very first people 103 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: after Trump's election to race tomorrow Lago race to the 104 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 2: Berghoff to meet with Hitler, to do what to appease him. Now, 105 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: Joe Scarborough disingenuously said he was there to take Donald 106 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 2: Trump's measure, because when Joe Scarborough sits with somebody, he's 107 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 2: able to deduce their character. He's able to tell his 108 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 2: audience what's going on. Now, Jake Upper has given Joe 109 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 2: Scarborough and Mika and the entire morning Joe sat dispensation. 110 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: He's offered forgiveness. You see. 111 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 2: It turns out Joe is an angeneux and he's a 112 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: victim of the conspiracy. Joe never saw the president in 113 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 2: any type of diminished form. 114 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: No, not for a day. Here's what he told Mark Calprin. 115 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 4: Looking back at that d you say, well, it was 116 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 4: misleading to say best by network without caveating and say 117 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 4: except on the days when he's not the best. Biden new, well, 118 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 4: but I never I never saw those days. First, well, 119 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 4: you did, you did, because he saw him address a 120 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 4: dead congresswoman, and you saw him in South Carolina. 121 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 7: And then Congressman Joe Scarborough saw Joe Biden not how 122 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 7: the country saw him, but how Joe wanted to see 123 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 7: him in order to maintain proximity to power. 124 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: Because Joe loved. 125 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: It when Joe Biden saw something on the television show 126 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,119 Speaker 2: and decided that the president's time would be best spent 127 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: by convincing Joe Scarborough that Joe Biden was right. And 128 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 2: so Joe Biden would call Joe Scarborough and have hour 129 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: long conversations about policy, and Joe Scarborough loved it. Made 130 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 2: him feel important and relevant and powerful, and to keep 131 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 2: that going, he would say anything. But now, according to 132 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 2: Jake Tapper, we can understand how it happened. Joe was deceived, 133 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 2: he was tricked, he was manipulated. But it does raise 134 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 2: a question, doesn't it. If Joe can be so easily manipulated, 135 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: might he be manipulated when he's alone in the room. 136 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: With Trump and Mika. 137 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 2: So at any rate, Jake Tapper said to Joe Scarborough, 138 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 2: you see when did you meet? 139 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: Oh? It was at noon. 140 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 2: That's when Biden would do his meetings to trick people 141 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 2: like you. Because there was an entire campaign to convince 142 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 2: Joe Scarborough that Joe Biden was good to go. And 143 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 2: then Joe Scarborough, or of police, the media, what you 144 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 2: could say, what you could not say, what was inbounds, 145 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 2: what was out of bounds. And now that corruption has 146 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 2: rendered itself in Jake Tapper going on Meghan Kelly's show 147 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: in capitulating the truth to the lie. And for ten years, 148 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: this wrestling match in the ether between the lie and 149 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 2: the truth has been the dominant feature of American life. 150 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 2: And so here is the moment where the corporate media dies, 151 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 2: where it kills itself when it lays down Prostate Supine 152 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 2: at Meghan Kelly's feet and it says to the former 153 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 2: Rupert Murdoch, princess, you're the truth teller and I'm the liar, 154 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 2: and he did it. 155 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: To sell books. 156 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 2: It is an appalling moment, unequaled in twenty first century 157 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 2: American journalism. 158 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper has gone to the people. 159 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: Who lied to the American people tens of thousands of times, 160 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 2: who poisoned reality by lying about a stolen election, by 161 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 2: mitigating the crimes that followed it, by smearing it every 162 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: conceivable turn decency with. 163 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: Lie after lie after lie have. 164 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 2: Been validated in the greatest propaganda victory. They'll ever get 165 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 2: an admission by the dishonest Jake Capper at a dishonest 166 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 2: network that went off the rails in pursuit of a 167 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 2: reality television show and became a reality show in itself. 168 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 2: Let's watch Scott Jennings here. To make the point perfectly clear. 169 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 7: I'm just saying all these people have done things. 170 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 5: I think they're worthy of investigation. 171 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 6: I don't know what's going to happen to it, but 172 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 6: they're not being targeted because they're Democrats. Are being targeted 173 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 6: because there's lots of evidence. 174 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 2: This opened the door to this low moment. And trust 175 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 2: me when I tell you we have hit rock bottom 176 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 2: in the corporate media. It's like a Law and Order 177 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 2: merging with CSI, except for it's not two great shows. 178 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: It's two of the lowest journalistic hacks that have ever 179 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 2: been coming together to bullshit and gaslight and expunge their 180 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 2: complicity in one of the most significant lies in American history. 181 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 2: Because Mark Halprin is precisely right when he says what 182 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 2: went down in twenty twenty four was the greatest journalism 183 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: scandal in American history. And the truth is, in order 184 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 2: to get out of this moral disaster in this country, 185 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 2: it has to be faced because truthtellers and people with 186 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 2: conviction and people with guts and integrity are the answer, 187 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 2: and they're held down by the Tappers of the world, 188 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 2: self serving cakers, just like the Trumps they condemn but 189 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: now apologize for. And two because there's a buck to 190 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 2: be made from it. It's as despicable and as wrong 191 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 2: as it gets. But that's what they call journalism, at 192 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 2: least on CNN in twenty twenty five, and it's hurting 193 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 2: the American people, and it's strangling the American Republic. This book, 194 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 2: in this book Tour Original Sin, it ought to be 195 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 2: changed to a better name that describes it more clearly 196 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 2: and more aptly, original obscenity, because that's what it is. 197 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 198 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,319 Speaker 2: I invite you to join this community where I promise 199 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 2: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 200 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 201 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 2: to this channel and on substack. 202 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: Thank you.