Speaker 1: There are fifty days to go until the American people
Speaker 1: will decide. The decision will place one of these two
Speaker 1: people behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office, making
Speaker 1: them the most powerful person on planet Earth, with all
Speaker 1: of the requisite power to destroy all of human civilization.
Speaker 1: Who will it be the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon,
Speaker 1: the man who continues to slander a small Ohio town,
Speaker 1: bringing chaos and violence and bomb threats to it, or
Speaker 1: the Vice president of the United States of America. The
Speaker 1: race is close. We are covering it here. Let's get started.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. Donald Trump joined President Gerald Ford
Speaker 1: in an unlucky club. He survived a second assassination attempt
Speaker 1: in close proximity to the first when it happened to
Speaker 1: President Ford in nineteen seventy five. The events took place
Speaker 1: a few hundred miles apart over a few weeks, one
Speaker 1: in Sacramento and one in San Francisco. The details of
Speaker 1: this second Trump assassination are still not yet fully known. Apparently,
Speaker 1: a Secret Service agent saw the barrel of the AK
Speaker 1: forty seven protruding from a bush approximately three hundred yards
Speaker 1: from where Donald Trump would be putting on the fifth
Speaker 1: hole and fired at the rifle. Now, the simple truth
Speaker 1: of the matter is we live in one of the
Speaker 1: most violent societies on Earth. Ask any school child who
Speaker 1: does the equivalent of hiding in closets what their grandparents
Speaker 1: did when they sheltered under their desks preparing for nuclear
Speaker 1: war in the nineteen fifties. There are three hundred million
Speaker 1: guns in America. After a massacre had a country music concert.
Speaker 2: Or a school, or a school, or.
Speaker 1: A church or anywhere in America, maga, Republicans usually offer
Speaker 1: their thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 2: So first, let me offer mine.
Speaker 1: Second, the fact of the matter is Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: a man of violence. He stokes violence, he curates violence.
Speaker 1: He thrives on the chaos and the instability which he
Speaker 1: injects into the society. As a chaos agent, seeking to
Speaker 1: divide out of the mayhem, his lives find a poisoned
Speaker 1: and fertile soil. Out of the delusions, Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: able to titillate and excite his cult followers. He's able
Speaker 1: to make them do and say and think anything and
Speaker 1: all of the insanity that swirls around This doesn't know
Speaker 1: that it's partisan or not. When it reaches that deranged
Speaker 1: and the misinformed and the ill informed. The people who
Speaker 1: live alone in information silos, who are aggrieved and enraged.
Speaker 1: Some of them in America take action. They do evil things.
Speaker 1: And so the idea that Donald Trump is singularly threatened
Speaker 1: is an absurdity. There is a grave crisis in the
Speaker 1: United States Secret Service and it must be addressed because
Speaker 1: what is clear from the incompetence of the security coverage
Speaker 1: is that President Obama's life is in danger. President Clinton's
Speaker 1: life is in danger, President Bush's life is in danger.
Speaker 1: President Carter's life is in danger. All of the protectees
Speaker 1: lives are in danger. Because on a sunny Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: a madman was able to get out of his car
Speaker 1: within AK forty seven in Florida, not the woods of
Speaker 1: Idaho or Oregon, to a concealed position in a bush
Speaker 1: on the fifth hole in point a weapon at the
Speaker 1: Republican nominee for president and get ready to shoot him
Speaker 1: because an agent on the ground was doing his job.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is alive and the nation has been spared
Speaker 1: for the second time in a month, a catastrophe that
Speaker 1: would have torn our society apart. The last director of
Speaker 1: the Secret Service resigned, making the new director resign won't
Speaker 1: do anything, but maybe giving the coverage assignment to a
Speaker 1: United States Special Operations team who did the duty in
Speaker 1: a place like Iraq or Afghanistan would. This is an
Speaker 1: agency that needs reforms, and the first people that will
Speaker 1: tell you this are the veteran Secret Service agents who
Speaker 1: kept a generation of American presidents safe. The Secret Service
Speaker 1: has been in trouble for quite some time. Lack of
Speaker 1: discretion and judgment by its agents on foreign trips, a
Speaker 1: culture of laziness and laxity that has allowed repeated penetrations
Speaker 1: of White House grounds. All of this is utterly, absolutely
Speaker 1: unacceptable and indefensible, and it must be fixed immediately. President
Speaker 1: Biden should be enraged this morning over this lapse, and
Speaker 1: because he is president, heads should roll. There should be
Speaker 1: no acceptance of this by anyone in the Biden administration
Speaker 1: or anyone in the American government, because it is absolutely unacceptable. Further,
Speaker 1: it is unsurprising that the richest man in the world,
Speaker 1: ironically or perhaps unironically, one of the dumbest Americans was
Speaker 1: among the first to tweet something insanely stupid.
Speaker 2: Here's what Elon Musk said.
Speaker 1: Understand this, it is a law who are baited and
Speaker 1: placed in the water. He knows that he's baiting, with
Speaker 1: one of the largest social media followings in the world,
Speaker 1: a sick person to take a shot at the first
Speaker 1: black vice president of the United States, the first woman
Speaker 1: vice president of the United States. He is trolling the
Speaker 1: Internet looking for a taker who will even the score.
Speaker 1: Does Elon Musk not understand that Tim Walls and Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: like Joe and Joe Biden and George and Laura Bush
Speaker 1: and Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama
Speaker 1: live in constant danger for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: What does Elon Musk not understand about this? What does
Speaker 1: Elon Musk not understand about the security threats that the
Speaker 1: first black woman vice president of the United States faces.
Speaker 1: Of course, she's threatened. She could be fired on anytime,
Speaker 1: any day, any place, And it's happened over and over
Speaker 1: and over again in American history, and Elon Musk has
Speaker 1: chosen to make light of it. What he said isn't
Speaker 1: just stupid, though it is, and profoundly so. It's deeply reprehensible,
Speaker 1: and in fact, he deserves a visit from the United
Speaker 1: States Secret Service. Broken though it may be. How is
Speaker 1: it that this mayhem and this violence and this anger
Speaker 1: finds its way to the sickest people in America. Well
Speaker 1: there's an answer, and it was revealed by one of
Speaker 1: the best political journalists working in the business, CNN's superb
Speaker 1: Dana Bash. Now, I've known Dana for a very long time,
Speaker 1: and honest to God, I have no idea what her
Speaker 1: politics are other than she's for fairness, she's for justice,
Speaker 1: She's for the right place thing, the public good, the
Speaker 1: public interest, however you wish to think about it.
Speaker 2: This was another.
Speaker 1: Weekend of chaos and violence, of near tragedy prefacing catastrophe
Speaker 1: in America. But the most important thing that happened this
Speaker 1: weekend in America was the character portrait and deconstruction that
Speaker 1: took place on a television show on CNN, where despite
Speaker 1: all of the problems with the network, there remains a
Speaker 1: handful of deeply talented and trusted journalists, And what the
Speaker 1: American people got to see was a clinic an interview
Speaker 1: that defined forever the depravity of the Yale Billies fraudulents
Speaker 1: for the American people to see.
Speaker 3: The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump
Speaker 3: and I start talking about cat means, if I have
Speaker 3: to mean create stories so that the American media actually
Speaker 3: pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then
Speaker 3: that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 4: So you just said that you're creating the story.
Speaker 1: Is that, Dana?
Speaker 4: You just said that this is a story that you created.
Speaker 4: So the eating dog.
Speaker 3: Is not we are creating, we are, Dana. It comes
Speaker 3: from first hand accounts from my constituents. I say that
Speaker 3: we're creating a story, meaning we're creating the American media
Speaker 3: focusing on it.
Speaker 4: Nobody is disputing that the town of Springfield, Ohio, needs help.
Speaker 4: But you're not just a bystander. You're the senator from Ohio.
Speaker 4: So instead of saying things that are wrong and actually
Speaker 4: causing the hospitals, the schools, the government buildings to be
Speaker 4: evacuated because of bomb threats because of the cats and
Speaker 4: dogs thing, why not actually be constructive and helping to
Speaker 4: better integrate them into the community. Because there are a
Speaker 4: lot of employers there who say that the Haitian workers
Speaker 4: are helping fill jobs that they need desperately filled.
Speaker 1: Dan, first of.
Speaker 3: All, let me just respond to a couple of things
Speaker 3: that you said, But I want to start with something
Speaker 3: he said, which I think is frankly disgusting and is
Speaker 3: more appropriate for a Democratic propagandist than it is for
Speaker 3: an American journalist. There is nothing that I have said
Speaker 3: that has led to threats against these hospitals.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance is a United States Senator from Ohio who
Speaker 1: is slandering and endangering and Ohio town filled with Ohio men, women,
Speaker 1: and children. What Dana Bash is saying to him is
Speaker 1: that people who live in the town are begging the
Speaker 1: MAGA politicians to stop before someone gets killed. They're terrified
Speaker 1: of the bomb threats, of the insanity. Jd Vance doesn't
Speaker 1: care about any of the people in the town, in
Speaker 1: the state that he has the high honor to represent
Speaker 1: in the United States Senate. What they are to him
Speaker 1: are pawns, insects. They are not real to him. Instead,
Speaker 1: they are manipulatable pieces.
Speaker 2: Part of a game.
Speaker 1: What happens to them doesn't matter so long as jd
Speaker 1: Vance wins the game. The interview is extraordinary and deeply revealing.
Speaker 1: He's a United States Senator. Did he call the police chief,
Speaker 1: the mayor? Did he go there himself or send a staffer?
Speaker 1: To investigate the depravity, the craziness, the frankly dissillusion of
Speaker 1: law and order of an Ohio town. He did none
Speaker 1: of those things. Instead, what he sought to do is
Speaker 1: inflame the situation.
Speaker 2: And no matter how much JD.
Speaker 1: Vance tries to lie about the matter, the question that
Speaker 1: Dana Bash abbs is precise and accurate and fair. It
Speaker 1: is the mayor of the town who is begging people
Speaker 1: like JD.
Speaker 2: Vans to stop.
Speaker 1: It's the mayor of the town who's begging Donald Trump
Speaker 1: to stop. Because the mayor of the town realizes and
Speaker 1: appreciates we have a sickness in our society that leads
Speaker 1: people like the man who is in the bush in Florida,
Speaker 1: ready to take a shot at Trump. The sickness that
Speaker 1: Trump is inciting can lands back on him. No one
Speaker 1: in Maga seems smart enough to appreciate that. But it's trick.
Speaker 1: Trump's a cancer, His violence is a cancer. He's safe,
Speaker 1: but in spite of the Secret Service, not because of it.
Speaker 1: All of our leaders are in danger at a time
Speaker 1: of swirling chaos.
Speaker 2: That much is clear. And we have some of the worst.
Speaker 1: People in America with the biggest platforms and biggest microphone.
Speaker 1: And there's only one force that has the power to
Speaker 1: do anything about it, and it's a mighty force, the
Speaker 1: American people. Fifty days, we decide who the forty seventh
Speaker 1: President of the United States is. If we choose an
Speaker 1: insane person, if we choose a liar and a criminal,
Speaker 1: the people who will pay the price for that are us.
Speaker 1: It's an important choice and it will be felt by
Speaker 1: every single one of us. So when people say we
Speaker 1: don't share anything in common, ignore them, because we share
Speaker 1: that in common. And the Vice President couldn't be more correct.
Speaker 1: Broadly speaking, the great majority of us share much more
Speaker 1: in common than we do in disagreement. But with regard
Speaker 1: to the people, the vast majority of us are in
Speaker 1: disagreement with the people who think violence is okay, the
Speaker 1: people who think this madness is okay. It's time for
Speaker 1: them to hear from all of us. It's time for
Speaker 1: us to take the time to disrupt our lives, to
Speaker 1: send a message to all of them that enough is enough,
Speaker 1: is enough is enough.
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