1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, September ninth. This is the warning among 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 1: the great astonishments of this age. No doubt it will 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: be that there was ever a question about whether we 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: were in a constitutional crisis. Of course, the coup of 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one announced its arrival, and then 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: the denial of the violence, the assault on hundreds of 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: police officers by thousands of insurrectionists was denied. Donald Trump said, 8 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: it was a perfect protest, peaceful. 9 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: Let's watch, and what you never see is the crowd. 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 2: The crowd was. 11 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 3: It was the. 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 2: Largest crowd I've ever spoken before. And a small portion 13 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: walked peacefully and patriotically down to the capital. You remember 14 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: the term peacefully and patriotically. He's horrible. It's insurrections. You know, 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 2: if you have an insurrection, you don't say peacefully and patriotically, Right, Mike, 16 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 2: you say, let's go. 17 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: So many sycophants repeated it everywhere, And then those criminals 18 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: were pardoned, and those enemies of the constitution were called patriots. 19 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: And forty nine and a half percent of the country 20 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: elected a felon, a liar, a con man, and a 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: vicious racist to the office of the President of the 22 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: United States, despite him plainly saying that he intended to 23 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: be a dictator and that he sought revenge against his enemies. 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: And so here we are, the New York Times writer 25 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: has reclined so that we've entered a period of authoritarian consolidation. 26 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: And that seems right. You should appreciate the meaning of that. 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is collapsing in popularity, yet he is getting 28 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: more powerful by the minute. Many years ago, at the 29 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: opening of the Trump Force in twenty and seventeen, Sean 30 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: Spisser walked out onto a White House podium and he 31 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: said to the country that the obvious smaller crowd size 32 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: was larger than the obviously bigger crowd size. 33 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 3: Photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a 34 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 3: way in one particular tweet, to minimize the enormous support 35 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 3: that had gathered on the National Mall. This was the 36 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,959 Speaker 3: first time in our nation's history that floor coverings have 37 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 3: been used to protect the grass in the mall that 38 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 3: had the effect of highlighting any areas where people were 39 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 3: not standing, while in years past the grass eliminated this 40 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 3: visual This was also the first time that fencing and 41 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 3: magnetometers when as far back on the wall, preventing hundreds 42 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 3: of thousands of people from being able to access the 43 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 3: mall as quickly as they had in inaugurations past. Inaccurate 44 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 3: numbers involving crowd size were also tweeted. No one had 45 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 3: numbers because the National Park Service, which controls the National Mall, 46 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 3: does not put any out. This was the largest audience 47 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 3: to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and 48 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 3: around the globe. Even The New York Times printed a 49 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 3: photograph photograph showing that a misrepresentation of the crowd in 50 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 3: the original tweet in their paper, which showed the full 51 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 3: extent of the support depth and crowd and intensity that existed. 52 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 3: These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are 53 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 3: shameful and wrong. 54 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: It was a lie, but not a lie of convenience, 55 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: not a lie of embellishment, not puffery, not a lie 56 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: to avoid embarrassment, like Bill Clinton saying I didn't have 57 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: sexual relations with that woman. It was a lie of authority, 58 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: a lie predicated on the delusion that what is true 59 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: is what the leader says is true. An entire generation 60 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: of Americans remembers witnessing this charade take place, whether it 61 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: was the Soviet spokespeople of the eighties or the famous 62 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: Baghdad Bob who denied the tanks were at the airport 63 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: as the tanks appeared behind him. The eradication of truth, 64 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: the dismissal of fact, the arbitrary use of power, has 65 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: become commonplace, and every day we see in America growing abuses, 66 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: growing menace, all of it sustained by lies. Lies that 67 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: are obvious, but because they are told by powerful people, 68 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: they arrive as a mandate that requires submission, ankneeling in 69 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: a surrendering, a capitulation of the human mind to the 70 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: fantasy of the self interest of a small clique that, 71 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: as they lie, is strangling liberty, murdering it. Now, let's 72 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: talk about the card that Donald Trump drew and wrote 73 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: and signed for Jeffrey Epstein. There is no doubt whatsoever 74 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: at all that Donald Trump wrote this. Think of the 75 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: danger and the cynicism inherent in the notion that a 76 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: president of the United States can sell a lot of 77 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: the American people despite the plain evidence in front of them. 78 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 3: Drawing is assumption of walls for general boarding. 79 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 2: I don't do drawings. I'm not a drawing person. I 80 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 2: don't do drawings. Sometimes he would say, would you do 81 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: a building, and I'll draw a four lines and a 82 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 2: little roof, you know, for charity stuff. But I'm not 83 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 2: a drawing person. I don't do drawings of women that 84 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: I can tell you. They say, there's a drawing of 85 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 2: a woman, and I don't do drawings of women. And also, 86 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 2: you know, Epstein was always a very controversial guy. I 87 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 2: was at a very high position, you know, pretty much 88 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: all my life. In all fair, I've been doing this 89 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 2: for a long time, at the top show on television. 90 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 2: I had the number one best sellers, I had everything right, 91 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 2: and I was a very successful business guy. He was 92 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 2: a very who would do a controversial drawing. Now, with 93 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: that being said, they say there were many letters done 94 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 2: by many people, and in many big people, you know, 95 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 2: big successful people. 96 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: The President of the United States and a spokesperson insist 97 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 1: that what is real is not And at the same 98 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: time they tell you that the lethal strike in the 99 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: Caribbean was on terrorists, and in fact they tell you 100 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: that anybody who disagrees with them is a terrorist. How 101 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: long will it be before Donald Trump and the Justice 102 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: Department start arresting their political opponents and calling them terrorists. Everybody, 103 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,559 Speaker 1: it seems these days, who doesn't love Donald Trump enough 104 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: is a terrorist. Speaking of terror, Wonder the terror of 105 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: those children inside the sick world of Jeffrey Epstein. What 106 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 1: they thought when they saw these people, the most powerful 107 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: in the world, coming through that door. Because all of 108 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: those people saw those children. And that's the point, the 109 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: abuse of innocence by tremendous power. And when it comes 110 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: to the abuse of power, when it comes to lies, 111 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is first first in the hearts of his sickophants, 112 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: and first in the hearts of the corruptolic arcs, and 113 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: first in the hearts of the demented extremists like Pete 114 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: Hegseeth's sick white supremacist, misogynist pastor. These people are making 115 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: their move. They have reached out their hands and they 116 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: seek to strangle the Constitution of the United States, which 117 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: they swore an oath and then desecrated. This is an 118 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: hour of growing danger, but it must also be an 119 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: hour of growing resolve and optimism about the ludic Christmas, 120 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: of the notion that Trump shall be dictator and Americans 121 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: will kneel, We will not, and so to MAGA. This 122 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 123 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community, where I promise 124 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 125 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 126 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.