There are 65 days until the inauguration.

And then at noon, Donald Trump will swear the 35-word oath that was taken by George Washington

and Abraham Lincoln and that he already desecrated once.

When he completes it, he will be the most powerful man in the world again.

He will sit atop the National Command Authority

with the ability to trigger Armageddon at whim. This is the warning. He has created a cabinet

of unfitness that beggars description. Clowns, dupes, conspiracy theorists, and more clowns, grifters,

an assemblage that should frighten the American people, but it doesn't, at least not all of us,

at least not yet, but it will. When the history of this era is written, 50 years from now,

75 years from now, what will be observed is the fragility of the Americans of this era, who could not handle the things that our parents and our grandparents and their parents were able to deal with in a period of mild inflation, of economic prosperity and peace,

the American people whipped into a frenzy by algorithms that imprisoned them intellectually,

by Fox News hosts who poisoned their minds with propaganda that brainwashed them and idiotize them.

With a malice in our politics that's indescribable,

the people, by slim plurality, decided to blow it up.

The U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. justice system, far from perfect, is the envy of the world.

What Donald Trump has done, his nominate an arsonist, to go and wreck the greatest investigative body in the world, the FBI, to poison its mission, turn it against political enemies.

The organizing principle of the Trump administration is very simple. Donald Trump doesn't want to

hear no, ever. And he's surrounded by unelected sycophants like his son and the richest man in the world.

It's an extraordinary thing. I say this as someone who's been in the room where it happens,

who's been in the room with the president

and the vice president. It's astonishing. The richest man in the world who can launch himself

into space can have anything he wants, craves power. And it is as it has always been. And so the

...