1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. For earlier access to these episodes, access 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: to Ask Me Anything sessions, and extended breakdowns of historical 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: and current events, Please consider joining our Warning Premium community 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: by clicking the link in the description to this episode. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: Today is September one, twenty twenty three, eighty four years ago. 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: The peace of the world was shattered on this day 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The Nazi Empire had menaced 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: for six years and then the war came. The war 9 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: that was always inevitable. When looking at Hitler's character, his intentions, 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: he did what he said he was going to do. 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 1: We have a problem in this country listening, hearing, understanding. 12 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: What is it that people say they will do, because 13 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: sometimes they do it, and more than that, sometimes they 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: intend to do it. Donald Trump made that clear this week. 15 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: He said he would have to do something when he 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: became president again. He said he would have to lock 17 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: up his political opponents. 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: You said in twenty sixteen, you know, lock her up, 19 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 2: and then when you became president, you said, we don't 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 2: do that in America. That's just not the right thing 21 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: to do. That's what they're doing. Do you regret not 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: locking her up? And if your president again, will you 23 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: lock people up? 24 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: Well, I'll give you an example. 25 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: The answers, you have no choice because they're doing it 26 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 3: to us. 27 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: He said he would have to do it because they 28 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: always the ubiquitous day. We're doing it to them. The 29 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: former president faces ninety two felony counts. His trial in 30 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: Georgia will be televised. The American people will have an 31 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: opportunity to see the American justice system at work. But 32 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: the fundamental principle of the United States is very simple. 33 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: No person is above the law, and that includes former 34 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: presidents of the United States. Eleven days from now, America 35 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: will honor the September eleventh dead from the terror attacks 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: launched against the United States of America by Osama bin 37 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: Laden and al Qaeda and carried out by nineteen hijackers. 38 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: We know the names of every person who died on 39 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: September eleventh. We know the names of the dead from 40 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: the towers. We know the names of the dead from 41 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 1: the firemen and the police officers who ran into the towers. 42 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: We know the names of the dead passengers and the 43 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: dead flight crews. Those names, all of them, are read 44 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: out every year in a ceremony that lasts for hours, 45 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: and each name is carved on the wall of the 46 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: reflecting pools that marked the spots the footprints of the 47 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: fall and Twin Towers. Vvek Ramaswami is a thirty eight 48 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: year old biotech sent a millionaire. He wants to be 49 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: president of the United States. What he is is a rich, spoiled, entitled, 50 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: and incandescently dishonest demagogue. Vivek Ramaswami intimated that the attacks 51 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: of September eleventh were carried out by the American government. 52 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 4: What I don't know if we can handle it, whatever 53 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 4: it is, we can handle it government agents. 54 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 3: How many government agents were in the field? 55 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 4: Right? 56 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: Do you mean like entrapment? 57 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 4: Yeah? 58 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 3: Absolutely? 59 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 4: Why can the government not be transparent about something. 60 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 3: That we're using terrorists or the kind of taxic used 61 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: by terrorists If we find there are hundreds of our 62 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 3: own in the ranks of the day that they were 63 00:03:58,720 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 3: that they were. 64 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 4: I mean, look, there's a difference between attrapment. 65 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: If there's been a law enforcement age, I. 66 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 4: Think it is legitimate to say how many a lease 67 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 4: how many federal agents are on the planes that hit 68 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 4: the Twin Towers, Like I think we wanted maybe the 69 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 4: answer zero probably a zero for all I know, right, 70 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 4: I think it was a thing other than zero. But 71 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 4: if we're doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 72 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 4: nine to eleven, maybe a nine to eleven commission, absolutely 73 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 4: that should be an answer to public knows. 74 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: The answer to what he said is wrong, It is dishonest, 75 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 1: and it is immoral. Thank you for listening to my 76 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: political commentary. If you like what you heard today, please 77 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: also consider subscribing to The Warning daily newsletter on sub Stack. 78 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: Our democracy hangs in the balance. The twenty twenty four 79 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: presidential election is the most consequential in America's history. 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We must also talk about a different 90 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: type of immorality, one that flies in the face of 91 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: the lesson that George Washington imparted to the nation with 92 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:52,119 Speaker 1: his humility, when over and over again he walked away 93 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: from power. Mitch McConnell is unfit to be the setup 94 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 1: majority leader. That is perfectly clear. He is falling apart. 95 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: He is feeble, he is frail, and he is old. 96 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: And the fact that President Biden went out yesterday and 97 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: endorsed him and said he was fine hurts Mitch McConnell. 98 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: It helps Donald Trump, and it hurts Joe Biden because 99 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: it's dishonest and it's not true. Mitch McConnell, like Dianne Feinstein, 100 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: has served their time, and the scandal is their refusal 101 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: to hang it up, to walk away from power. Instead, 102 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 1: they will hold on to it and clench at it 103 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: like a crypt keeper. It is unseemly and it is 104 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: a significant part of the erosion and the decay of 105 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: America's democracy. It is part of the reason there is 106 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: a collapse of trust in the most important institutions in 107 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: the country and general feeling by the American people that 108 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: the system is rigged against them on responsive unfair and corrupted. 109 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: The images of Mitch McConnell are disgraceful. 110 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 4: That's what am I thought about? 111 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: What running for re elections in twenty six? 112 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 4: That's true. 113 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: Did you hear the question senator running for reelection in 114 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? 115 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 2: All right, I'm sorry, you are running a new minute, Senator. 116 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: What is his legacy? He is the man who broke 117 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: the United States Senate. He was in a position to 118 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: stand up to Donald Trump publicly forcefully. He could have 119 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: rallied his caucus a senators. It's what a leader would 120 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: have done. More than anything else, what Mitch McConnell will 121 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: be remembered for is being one of the key architects 122 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: of this era where trust was incinerated between the American 123 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: people and the government, between the most important institutions that 124 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: preserve and protect American democracy.