It is September 17th. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I am thrilled today to be joined by

Aaron Parnas of the Parnas perspective. I think that one of the things we can all appreciate in this

moment is that as this fascist curtain is descending on America

that correspondingly is the destruction of the media

that for 50 years' time

the American people respected,

the American people trusted, and the American media appreciated that when it

celebrated itself, that it delivered the goods. The newsrooms were filled supposedly

with people who would not bend, would not bow, would not

capitulate. During my career, I've run at the highest levels, a couple presidential campaigns.

I've been in every newsroom you can think of. I've argued, cajoled and debated with every editor and every news organization.

The truth of the matter is I had a lot of respect for those people until I didn't.

And on any given day, it's hard for me to contain my contempt for their cowardice and their capitulence.

And I think it's really important to appreciate the exchange yesterday that took place between Donald Trump and Jonathan Carl of ABC News when Donald Trump looks at him dead in the eye and he says,

well, your network engaged in hate speech against me and they paid me tens of millions of dollars.

And anybody who thinks that Donald Trump doesn't hold the high ground in that debate,

that Donald Trump isn't scoring points in that,

should pull their head out of their ass.

These networks made corrupt bargains with the devil, and the result of it is the American people

in a time of crisis can't tell what's real,

can't tell what's not, can't tell what's up, can't tell what's down, can't tell what's left

from right and right from left because of the failure of corporate media. But the First Amendment

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