1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: The beginning of the general election contest between President Biden 2 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump is no time to shade the truth. 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: Let us be clear about something. The overwhelming majority of 4 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: the American people have said, we don't want to see 5 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: a rematch between Presidents Trump and Biden. Yet that is 6 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: the choice the American people will get. And there is 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: a profound difference between the two men. One of them, 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: President Biden, believes in the United States, American democracy, the values, ideas, 9 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: and ideals of the Great Republic, and the other one 10 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: does not. President Biden is an American and Donald Trump 11 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: espouses an anti American worldview. His is a vision of 12 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 1: menace steeped in a promise of retribution, which always leads 13 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: to despair, death, estrangement, and ultimately loneliness. Donald Trump holds 14 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: out a promise that is premised in a lie. Now 15 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: that lie is born from an impatience with democracy, with 16 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: the work of ordinary men and women who are elected 17 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: to the offices and often succumb to the temptation of 18 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: the power, the prestige, the influence, the money that swirls 19 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: around them. Our American system of government is profoundly corrupted 20 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: by foreign influence, by the influence of billionaires who buy 21 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: and sell politicians like little trinkets and totems on a 22 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: store shelf. The American system, though must not be torn down, 23 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: must be repaired, not replaced by a lie that posits 24 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: a man can substitute his judgment for the judgments of 25 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: the people. That the impatience that makes democracy painful to 26 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: go through in times of corruption and malaise in stagnation 27 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: is worth overthrowing for the expediency of decision making that 28 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: can come through the certitude of a strong leader who's 29 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: in it for you. Despite all of the evidence to 30 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: the contrary, Senator Mitt Romney said it perfectly. Is there 31 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: something wrong with the voter, the voter who would give 32 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: their support to a man who has been found guilty 33 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: of raping a woman by a jury in an American courtroom? 34 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,559 Speaker 1: What does it say about the collapse of character, of decency, 35 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: of dignity around the office for so many tens of 36 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: millions of Americans? How can it possibly be explained? How 37 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: can it be defeated? There is something that is essential 38 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: to understand about a crisis and about despairing moments and 39 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: how they have been overcome. Whether it was in the 40 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: dark days of the Revolutionary War, the trying days of 41 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: the American Civil War, whether it was in the early 42 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: days of the Second World War, through the Civil Rights movement, 43 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: through all the darkest moments, there was always amongst the 44 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: best and greatest leaders, a defiance against fear. Trump and 45 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: his extremist movement are fueled by fear and by cynicism. 46 00:04:53,400 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: The extremist movement requires fear and fear, not forget more fear, 47 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: because fear inspires but one thing panic and panic prefaces 48 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: defeat and collapse and often death. The simple truth is 49 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: most people who drown don't do so because they can't swim. 50 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: They die because they panic. Fear is an elemental human 51 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: emotion and a destructive one that can be weaponized. And 52 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: in the United States, when it has been wielded as 53 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: a weapon by men like Trump, it has been subdued 54 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: by defiance, not submission, which is why Vice President Harris's 55 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: comments on the view, We're so deeply worrying, it's so 56 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: out of step with this moment and what is required 57 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: to defeat it. 58 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 2: Let's watch, what are you going to do to stop 59 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 2: the crazies? I am scared as heck, yeah, which is 60 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 2: why I'm traveling our country. You know, there's an old 61 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 2: saying that there are only two ways to run for office, 62 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: either without an opponent or scared. So on all of 63 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: those points, yes, we should all be scared. 64 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: There are signs of decay, collapse, selfishness, and a profound 65 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: indifference to everything, it seems, except the algorithms that keep 66 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: much of the American populations head down and glued to 67 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: whatever device they're holding. Democracy requires the practice of citizenship 68 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: lest it be taken away by someone who likes the power, 69 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: absent the hard work required to earn the trust and 70 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: the vote of an informed citizenry. How we got to 71 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: this moment will be the subject of much study, But 72 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: the cause of politics in this moment must be how 73 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: we get out of it, and it starts with assembling 74 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: a great American coalition of people who are bound together 75 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: through disagreement in a faith of the US Constitution as 76 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: the law of the land that must be preserved and 77 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: protected so that it may endure for our grandchildren's grandchildren. 78 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: Why is this generation somehow explicated from understanding the responsibilities 79 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: imparted onto them with the birthright of American citizenship to 80 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: defend the Republic against all enemies foreign and domestic, which 81 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: includes the demagogues that seek to tear it down. There's 82 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: a poem that I think speaks powerfully to the culture 83 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: of this moment. It's too bad that so many of 84 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: our institutions of learning in America don't teach poetry anymore, 85 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: or really literature of any type, or require reading much 86 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: at all. But these words have meaning, and in them 87 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 1: there should be a purpose to stave this all off 88 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: and push it away, and to seek out something better. 89 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: What is the remedy to all that is around us 90 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: is hope and fearlessness. Here are the words to the 91 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: Yates poem, The Second Coming, Turning and turning in the 92 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart, 93 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. 94 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: The blood dim tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony 95 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: of innocence is drowned. The best lack of conviction, while 96 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation 97 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 1: is at hand. Surely the and Coming is at hand. 98 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: Things do fall apart when the center cannot hold, And 99 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: the answer to fear is not bowing towards it, it 100 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: is standing fast against it. This is an American tradition 101 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: and it must be embraced by President Biden and Vice 102 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: President Harris, because they need to confront maggot extremism every 103 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: hour of every day, either directly or through their campaign. 104 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: And the truth is, the campaign is not measuring up. 105 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: Here are some words from a democratic president. They should 106 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: be heated and they should be understood because they occurred 107 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: in a moment of grave crisis for the country, at 108 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: a desperate hour, where there was real panic in the air. 109 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: What the American people heard was a commanding voice, a 110 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: voice of reassurance, of calm, with the power to communicate clearly, 111 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: a simple message in an urgent hour. 112 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 3: And here it was, this is pre eminently the time 113 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 3: to speak of proof, story of proof, frankly and boldly. 114 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 3: No need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our 115 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 3: country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, 116 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 3: will revive, and will prosper go best at all. 117 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 4: Let me assert my firm belief that's the only thing 118 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:14,839 Speaker 4: we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified. 119 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 4: Narah which paralyze is needed up but to convert retreat 120 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 4: into it bad in every dark hour of our national life, 121 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 4: Aimy the tip of frankness, and a figure has met 122 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 4: with that understanding and the fault of the people themselves, 123 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 4: which is espencio to victory, and I am convinced that 124 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 4: you will again give that the fort to leadership in 125 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 4: these critical days. 126 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: There is only one way out of America's current predicament, 127 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: and it is through the defeat of MAGA extremism at 128 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: the polls that, over time will rid the country of 129 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: its malign influence and ability to take national power, particularly 130 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: the power of the American presidency, which must be fortified 131 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: against further encroachments by a talented and brilliant manipulator and 132 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: liar and deceiver like Donald Trump, who dares to put 133 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: himself in campaign ads comparing himself to God. This is 134 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 1: a dangerous movement and a dangerous man, and it should 135 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: not be trifled with. Ever, it was an appalling moment 136 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: when the Democratic National Committee attacked Governor Asa Hutchinson, a 137 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: man who's dedicated his entire life to honorable public service. 138 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: Democracy does not mean agreement down the line with a 139 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: Millennial at the Democratic National Committee. Democracy needs tolerance and 140 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: respect and the ability to see patriotism manifested his courage. 141 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: John Kennedy certainly would have understood what Asa Hutchinson was doing. 142 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: He would have understood a profile and courage when he 143 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: saw it, just like President Biden did, who had to 144 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: take time out of his schedule to apologize for the 145 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: arrogance of the Democratic National Committee towards an honorable friend 146 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: of American democracy. The president deserves the best in the 147 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: fight ahead. The President of the United States is currently behind. 148 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: There were two good events put on by the White 149 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: House and by the campaign. One was at Mother Emmanuel 150 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: Church and one was at Valley Forge. But the question 151 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: hanging in the air is what's next? Where next? What 152 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: is the message of the reelection campaign? Because it cannot 153 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: be as afraid as heck it must not be, because 154 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: that message portends catastrophe, not just for the ambitions of 155 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: the reelection staff, but for the nation as it approaches 156 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of independence. The truth 157 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: is millions live in Iowa. It barely more than one 158 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: hundred thousand turned out, and of that one hundred thousand, 159 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: the majority, in a historic fashion, were for Trump. But 160 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: imagine if people cared enough to turn out just to 161 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: say no, even if there was only three hundred thousand 162 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: or two hundred thousand. But it didn't happen, and it 163 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: won't happen because the question that hangs in the air 164 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: in America is does anyone care at all? Soon will know, 165 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: but cow tewing to the fear in the air is 166 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: a certain route to despair. A year from now, as 167 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: the next president of the United States gets ready to 168 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: raise their hand and to swear the oath, the difference 169 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: in this race is the man who will run under 170 00:16:53,960 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: the banner of Abraham Lincoln's party. He raises his hand, 171 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: won't mean a word of it, and should that happen. 172 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 1: Four years is a long time to hold the line 173 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: against a dictator and his cause, which wants power more 174 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: than its opposition wants liberty.