Behind the Scenes of The Apprentice: Donald Trump Was Racist and a Fraud
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of the warning. As you can tell from my location and the setting behind me, |
| 0:06.1 | I'm not in my usual spot. I joked around, maybe people would think I'm scouting out safe houses, |
| 0:12.7 | anticipating a Trump victory, but we're not quite there yet. Anyway, I'm pleased today to be |
| 0:18.9 | joined by John Miller, who was the head of NBC television marketing |
| 0:23.7 | and amongst a long career. One of the things that John did is talked about is launch the |
| 0:30.6 | apprentice, the marketing for the television show, which some say is the vehicle that Trump used to become a credible presidential |
| 0:39.3 | candidate. At the end of the day, I'm not so sure, but John has publicly talked about his |
| 0:45.9 | bad feelings and guilt over all of this. I thought we'd have a conversation about it today. |
| 0:52.9 | John, welcome. Thank you very much. |
| 0:54.5 | And you do look like you're in a bunker. |
| 0:55.9 | So whether it's real or not, that's pretty good, good planning, I'd say. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm in a undisclosed location. |
| 1:06.9 | Me too. |
| 1:08.7 | Donald Trump is threatening to pull the license of CBS News and the crowd cheers behind him. |
| 1:17.3 | You launched The Apprentice. It was a television program. Everyone is familiar with it. |
| 1:24.2 | You have some guilt. I don't think you should, and I guess we'll talk about that. |
| 1:30.0 | So talk about what you did and your career in television just real quickly that led up to it |
| 1:38.1 | and how you think it ties in here. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, my career in television, the more positive pieces of that I created |
| 1:47.6 | must see TV and launched all those shows that were on those Thursday night lineups. |
| 1:52.1 | My first year in marketing, we launched the Cosby Show, Miami Vice, Highway to Heaven, |
| 1:58.6 | a hundred, a bunch of other things, and it took me all the way through the West Wing and everything else. So I launched and did 12 Olympics and five Super Bowls, |
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