ABC's Cowardice is PROOF America's Democracy Has Collapsed | A Conversation with Jim Acosta
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot to talk about. |
| 0:01.9 | And you know, you tell me where you want to go first. |
| 0:04.9 | I mean, I sort of think we should talk about the Kimmel thing because you and I have had |
| 0:10.2 | these conversations about the state of our democracy over and over again, how we're |
| 0:13.8 | backsliding into some kind of authoritarian light type of system in this country. |
| 0:19.4 | And maybe it'll go full-blown autocrat, who knows. |
| 0:22.0 | But your sense of the way this was handled and the thing I can't get over, Steve, is the sheer |
| 0:27.6 | cowardice over at ABC right now. |
| 0:31.6 | It is appalling and they have obliterated the credibility of their news division. |
| 0:39.5 | It has been destroyed by the greed of the corporate executives. |
| 0:45.7 | And that rot starts at the top with Bob Eiger at Disney. |
| 0:52.4 | I am in Los Angeles. |
| 0:54.1 | We have some Save America movement activity happening this weekend. |
| 1:00.1 | We launched Liberty vans that will be staffed with chaplains, with camera crews, with veteran, |
| 1:09.3 | with lawyers to document what ICE is doing in these communities. |
| 1:15.3 | But we will put billboards up in L.A. with Bob Iger's picture, a yellow stripe under it, |
| 1:22.7 | and the word coward. It's a billboard town, And everybody can reflect on it as they drive by it. |
| 1:30.2 | I was personally scouting out locations for them earlier today. |
| 1:36.3 | And I don't usually scout out the locations for the billboards unless I have a particular animus that's been built up. |
| 1:46.3 | And so the cowardice is appalling. |
| 1:50.0 | And there are broad misconceptions in this country born out of ignorance around what the First Amendment is and isn't. |
| 2:02.8 | And so we live in an intolerant era when it comes to thought and speech. |
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