1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: We're very fortunate to have Steve Schmidt. She's a co 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: founder or Save America movement to help lead a focused, 3 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,159 Speaker 1: discipline and fierce all position to the TRUP regime. His 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: enablers for collaborators, financiers, propagandists, leaders, and congressional rubber stamps 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: across fifty states. I'd like to introduce Steve Schmidt. Apologies 6 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: that we don't have the stands. 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 2: You didn't show up. Thank you very much. Hello Cintea Monica. 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 3: Let me begin by saying it's with a lot of humility. 9 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 3: I stand up here in the shoes of my friend 10 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 3: Rob Reiner, and. 11 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: I know that Rob is looking down. 12 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 3: And what he is looking down upon is an unfinished story. 13 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: And that's what America is. 14 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 3: We are an exceptional nation, not because we are powerful, 15 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 3: but because out of a powerful idea came a good nation. 16 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 3: And at the beginning, there were words put to paper 17 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 3: that rupture history. 18 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: That split it in half. 19 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 3: Before and after, a government comes into existence based on 20 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 3: the power of an idea imperfectly lived, hypocritically conceived. The 21 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 3: greatest idea ever put to paper by the mind of 22 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 3: man comes from the hand of a slaveholder that all 23 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 3: men created equal, endowed by a creator, with inalienable rights, 24 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 3: amongst them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And 25 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 3: a great war is fought against the king so that 26 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 3: there could be a country without one. And at the end, 27 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 3: when the British flags go up at York Town, a 28 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 3: young man named Gilbert du Montie, more famously as the 29 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 3: Marquis de Lafayette, seeing that white flag fly high over 30 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: the British lines, exclaims, humanity has its victory, liberty has 31 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 3: its country. And this idea is two hundred and fifty 32 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: years old, perpetually in motion from that day to this day, 33 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 3: each day the same length, through dark nights and long 34 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 3: seasons of doubt and injustice, the faith that we were 35 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 3: what we said we were has always animated every fight 36 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 3: across the. 37 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 2: Long sweep of American history. 38 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 3: When Martin Luther King comes to Washington in August of 39 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty three, he does not come to tear down 40 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 3: an unjust republic. He comes under the banner of the 41 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 3: American flag to cash a promissory note. 42 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 2: He says, in that moment, we just want. 43 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 3: America to live up to the things it says it's 44 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 3: all about. In nineteen thirty six, Franklin Roosevelt spoke in 45 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 3: Philadelphia to the Democratic National Convention, and he said something 46 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: that has a certain poignancy if you're in your fifties 47 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 3: like me, if you're part. 48 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: Of Generation X, part of a generation that was. 49 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 3: Told we were at the end of history, there would 50 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 3: be no more struggle, there would be no more regressions. 51 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 3: Democracy had prevailed, justice had won. What he said in 52 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 3: that moment, what doctor King said in that moment of testing, 53 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 3: was that the country in the end moved towards justice. 54 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 3: He said, the arc of history is long, but it 55 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 3: moves towards justice, and we thought we had reached that place. 56 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 3: But instead we're reminded what Roosevelt talked about when he 57 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 3: said in nineteen thirty six, he said, there's a peculiar 58 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 3: rhythm in history. To some generations much as given, and 59 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: to others much as expected. In this generation, he said, 60 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 3: to the one we remember as the greatest has a 61 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 3: rendezvous with destiny, as. 62 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 2: Does this one. 63 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 3: What happened in nineteen thirty six, Franklin Roosevelt exclaimed, was 64 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 3: we had a king. He was a bad king who 65 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: imperiled our liberty. So we fought a revolution, and we 66 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 3: got rid of the king. But Roosevelt warned, because of 67 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 3: the inventive genius of mankind, there are always people who 68 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 3: aspire to be kings and to be royalty, and to 69 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 3: live life above and on top of And he said 70 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 3: that must be rejected, and it must be rejected again today, 71 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 3: and it is being rejected across the country. Thirty one 72 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 3: hundred events, millions of Americans on the street to say 73 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: there will be no. 74 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 2: King in America. 75 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: There is no hereditary right of Donald Trump and his 76 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 3: spoiled children to steal everything that isn't nailed down. 77 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: What we're here to say today would be recognized. 78 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 3: By our ancestors, and it's simple and it's American. Do 79 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 3: not tread on us. We are not here today to 80 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 3: open a pleading or a negotiation on issues that were 81 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 3: settled many score of decades ago. Our rights are not 82 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 3: privileges that are dispensed at the whim of a monarch 83 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: in mar A Lago. Our rights as Americans come from. 84 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: A higher power. And so we're not here to negotiate 85 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: about the freedom of speech. 86 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 3: We're not here to negotiate about the freedom of religion. 87 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 2: We're not here to. 88 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 3: Negotiate about whether the government has the right and the 89 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 3: power and the authority to kick in your door. As 90 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 3: we gather here in this moment, right now, at this second, 91 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 3: there are hundreds of commercial warehouses that have been purchased. 92 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 2: To be converted into prisons that. 93 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 3: Will hold five or ten or fifteen or twenty thousand people. 94 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 3: And let it never be said that we did not know, 95 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 3: because we all know, and they all know, and we 96 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 3: say no, this. 97 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: Will not be done in our name, and we will 98 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 2: stop this, and we will not abide a. 99 00:09:52,400 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 3: Mass secret police pointing guns at the American people, killing 100 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 3: Alex Pretty and Renee Good, and then watching them be slandered. 101 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 2: By no good, low down, no. 102 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 3: Honesty government anywhere, filled with depravity from top to bottom. 103 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 3: The High Court of History, mark my words, will be 104 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 3: brutal in its judgment of Donald Trump and his guilty 105 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 3: men and women who have trampled the Constitution, brote their own, 106 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 3: and broke faith with the American people. There is no 107 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 3: higher honor that you can receive than the privilege of 108 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 3: serving your fellow Americans. In taking the oath that George 109 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 3: Washington took, and he desecrated it when he lost an 110 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 3: election he staged a coup, He assaulted what he was 111 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 3: sworn to protect. 112 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 2: He has knocked down the White House. He has put. 113 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 3: His name on institutions where it does not belong. Donald 114 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 3: Trump has said he has a right to do as 115 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 3: he wishes. I have a message. Do not be afraid. Instead, 116 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 3: be defiant and no, there are more of us than there. 117 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: Are of them. And who knows. 118 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 3: Why it is in this two hundred and fiftieth year 119 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 3: of independence. 120 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 2: Some higher power has ordained it so. 121 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 3: That we must celebrate a great achievement in the history 122 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 3: of mankind with a mixed martial arts fight on the 123 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 3: south lawn of the White House to celebrate Donald Trump's birthday. 124 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 3: We want to hang them in effigy and set and 125 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 3: burn them. 126 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: But here's the deal. 127 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 3: All of these institutions that he desecrated, that he's knocked down, 128 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 3: that he's broken down, all the lies that he's told, 129 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 3: all the abuse that he's handed out, all of. 130 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 2: It will fade away. 131 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 3: All of it will wind up on the ash heap 132 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 3: of history. Is the destiny for all of it. But 133 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 3: we have to understand something that there is a great 134 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 3: contest underway. A great lie has taken root in our country. 135 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 3: That's at the beating heart of trump Ism. It is 136 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 3: the lie that says you are absolved from responsibility for 137 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 3: your own life. It's the lie that says you can 138 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 3: wash away your pain and your failure and your disappointment 139 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 3: by getting revenge against the reason, the Somali, the Jew, 140 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 3: the Arab of the Palestinian, the gay, the other, the black, 141 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: the Mexican women, and over and over again in history 142 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 3: where this lie has taken root, terrible things have happened 143 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 3: over and over again when men have said, we speak 144 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 3: as God's agents, that when we start a war on 145 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 3: the basis of lies, we. 146 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 2: Do it in the name of God. It's okay, we know. 147 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 3: How all of this, We know what is happening, and 148 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 3: we have to stop it, and we have to stand 149 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 3: up against it, and we have to oppose it. There's 150 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 3: a story that every American should know, and it's about 151 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:33,119 Speaker 3: Doctor King's last speech. And in that speech, he begins 152 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 3: by imagining God has given him an opportunity to travel 153 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 3: all through history to see what it is that he 154 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 3: chooses to see, and he says he wishes to go 155 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 3: to Egypt to see God's people delivered from Pharaoh. He 156 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 3: says he wishes to keep on going though, to sit 157 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 3: down with ours, keep on moving on to Rome. But 158 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 3: he said there was no place in time that he 159 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 3: would rather be in than the time he lived in. 160 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 3: And he said because if he didn't live in that time, 161 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 3: he wouldn't be in Selma, he wouldn't be in Atlanta, 162 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 3: in Montgomery. That everything has a place and time. We 163 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 3: should be grateful to be in this time of consequence 164 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 3: and testing that requires stamina and resolve and determination that 165 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 3: we will not tolerate these. 166 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 4: Wrongs doctor King. Doctor King says he was a young man. 167 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 4: He was thirty nine years old with young kids. 168 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,360 Speaker 3: And doctor King said that he'd like to grow old, 169 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 3: and he said that longevity has a purpose. He said, 170 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 3: but none of that mattered to him anymore, because he 171 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 3: had been to the mountaintop. And you either believe this 172 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 3: or you don't. You either think doctor King was making 173 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 3: it up. Where he was telling the truth. It's clear 174 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 3: to me that he was telling the truth. At the 175 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 3: edge of his mortality, that he saw something. It was 176 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 3: a prophecy, but like all prophecies, it was incomplete. He 177 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 3: did not could not cross into the promised land that 178 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 3: he saw, nor could he lay out a date for 179 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 3: when we would cross into it. He just said that 180 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 3: from the mountaintop he saw the promised land, the just 181 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 3: society where all Americans are equal. And what will come 182 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 3: out of this abomination if we choose it is something 183 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 3: better and something more just. And so in this two 184 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth year of American independence, the issue, it 185 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 3: seems to me, is not about right versus left. It's 186 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 3: about right versus wrong. And we, we the people, have 187 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 3: to demand of the elected officials. The democratic elected officials, 188 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 3: carry a heavy burden because it's their assignment in history 189 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 3: to stop all of this. No more backing up, no 190 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 3: more kneeling down. We cannot back down. We cannot kneel down, 191 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 3: We cannot look away. Indifference is a sin, and this 192 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 3: moment requires. 193 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 2: Action. 194 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 3: This moment requires dedication. This moment requires patriotism. And as 195 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 3: I get ready to say goodbye to all of you, 196 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 3: what I want to remind each of you of as Americans, 197 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 3: is that there have only ever been seven hundred million 198 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 3: Americans from the beginning, which means half of us who 199 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 3: have ever been roughly speaking, are alive right now. 200 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 2: And we have an obligation. 201 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 3: We don't talk enough about obligation and responsibility. We have 202 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 3: an obligation and a responsibility to leave this country better 203 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 3: off for our kids and our grandkids. 204 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 2: And if that there must be trouble, let it be 205 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 2: in our time. 206 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 3: And let Donald Trump know this and every one of 207 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 3: you know it too, that he will be repudiated in 208 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty days. So because the cars, these 209 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 3: Maga congressmen and this Maga senator are gonna be swept 210 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 3: from power, and they're gonna say it was because they 211 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 3: were cheated. It wasn't because we cheated them. It's because 212 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 3: their long last enough of us finally understood them clearly enough, 213 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 3: and we see them clearly. We see the maliciousness and 214 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 3: the cruelty, and we're gonna put a stop to it. 215 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 3: Every good American should defy what is wrong. And Donald 216 00:21:55,080 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 3: Trump's scapegoating is wrong, his law listeners is wrong, his 217 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 3: corruption is raw, his flimsy war. 218 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 2: In Iran is raw. And let me. 219 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 3: Close out by saying this, this generation of adults in 220 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 3: America cannot tolerate handing to our country a legacy where 221 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 3: a man implicated in the abuse and the rape of 222 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 3: little girls. 223 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 2: Is able to function. 224 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 3: With impunity, like it never happens when we all know 225 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 3: exactly what happens. We have no place to meet in 226 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 3: the middle with these people we have. We have no 227 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 3: place to get to a compromise with on the idea 228 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 3: of should we have a king. We have to defiant, 229 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 3: we have to oppose it. We have to stand up 230 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 3: to it. When July fourth comes, let it come with 231 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 3: a defiant spirit for all of your hearts. 232 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you