1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: I could tell you today a story about a moment 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: in history where the country came within literally thirty seconds 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: of ending on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. 4 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: And so over and over and over and over again. 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: There have been really perilous moments, and in those moments, 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: institutions have failed, and new institutions have replaced failed institutions. 7 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: New institutions have arisen out of necessity to oppose things 8 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: that require opposition. And we're in a moment. And when 9 00:00:52,680 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: you watch the speech that or speeches that took place today, 10 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: they're tragic at a very very deep level. The US 11 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: Army and the US Navy are institutions that aren't just 12 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: as old as the Constitution. They are older than the 13 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence. They proceed the Declaration of Independence. They 14 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: formed under the authority of a colonial continental Congress in rebellion. 15 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: And so the spectacle today was grotesque. 16 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's just set it up for people who 17 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: don't know what happened. This is a military meeting at 18 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: Marine Corps based Quantico in Virginia, where the President and 19 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense called up some eight hundred military 20 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 2: leaders from around the world. They all flew at great 21 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: expense to Virginia, and originally they were only going to 22 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: be addressed by hag Zef, but Trump being Trump, decided 23 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: to insert himself at the last minute. And just I'm 24 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: gonna read from the quick Washington Post lead on this 25 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: that captures what will surely be the most commented on 26 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 2: remarks from Trump and really takes you inside his deranged 27 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 2: thinking about what the purpose of the US military is. 28 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: And this is how the Post reported it. In his 29 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 2: speech to top military leaders, Trump escalated his rhetoric against 30 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 2: the radical left, repeatedly calling the group the enemy within 31 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 2: and insisting that he should be able to use military 32 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 2: force in American cities. I told Pete Hexth, we should 33 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 2: use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for 34 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: our military National Guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago. 35 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: Another quote. We've brought back the fundamental principle that defending 36 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: the homeland is the military's first and most important priority. 37 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 2: That's what it is. Trump said only in recent decades 38 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 2: that politicians somehow came to believe that our job is 39 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 2: to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while 40 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within, 41 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 2: no difference than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in 42 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when 43 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out. These 44 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: people don't have uniforms. These people. But we are under 45 00:03:54,280 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 2: invasion from within, and we're stopping it very quickly. And 46 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: then one more quote, and this is going to be 47 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: This is to eight hundred military leaders from around the world, 48 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: and this is going to be a big thing for 49 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: the people in this room because it's the enemy from 50 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 2: within and we have to handle it before it gets 51 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 2: out of control. It won't get out of control once 52 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 2: you're involved at all. Has there ever been a speech 53 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 2: by an American president to the top US military leaders 54 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 2: where he did not mention a single foreign threat and 55 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 2: told them that their priority is the radical left, that 56 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: the training grounds should be American cities, and this unspecified, 57 00:04:52,920 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 2: ununiformed enemy within is the priority. Saying this as he 58 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 2: sends troops to Portland, Oregon, to Chicago, to Washington, DC, 59 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 2: to Los Angeles. What's your reaction to this speech, Steve. 60 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: I want to be very precise and very intentional about 61 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: what I say here, but both Pete Hagsath and Donald 62 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: Trump revealed themselves as domestic enemies of the United States Constitution, 63 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: and they revealed themselves as fascists. Donald Trump's speech was hitlarian. 64 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: The declarations of the Unseen Enemy within promises to turn 65 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: American soldiers into murderers and killers of American citizens in 66 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: American cities where the American parents who raised many of 67 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: those soldiers live and reside. Great cities of the United States, 68 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: defamed and threatened and today declared war upon by an 69 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: American president in front of all of the generals. Now, 70 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: one of the unfortunate aspects of our society today is 71 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: that the great divide that exists between the military and 72 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: civilian society. There used to be shows, whether it was 73 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: Mikhale's Navy Gum or Pile Mash, and they had cultural 74 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: relevance in part because so much of the society had 75 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: served in the military. Yeah, and so our society relates 76 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: to the military, which I guess, if Trump has his 77 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: way here, will be uncomfortable when you have to let 78 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: the soldiers who have the guns pointed at you now 79 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: board first on delta airlines. They're United or American, or 80 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: or or Southwest or whatever but you know, we live 81 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: in the thank you for your service society, the performative patriotism. 82 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: A few chants of USA USA walk out on the 83 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: NFL field, flyover giant right, giant flag, so on and 84 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: so on and so forth, and so there's a so 85 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: there's a broad estrangement between the US military and American people. 86 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: And so what I want everyone to understand is that 87 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: the men in the room, the women in the room, 88 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: you know, who reach that level, who are flag officers, 89 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: which means you're a one, two, three, four star general 90 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: or admiral, is that all of those people have gone 91 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: through a level of education. They have advanced degrees. They 92 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: are graduates of the Army War College or the Naval 93 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: War colleges of advanced military training. They understand politics, law, 94 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: all of the concepts of illegal orders. They appreciate what 95 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: happened at Me Lai, and none of them want to 96 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: become a criminal on the command of Pete Hegsath and 97 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: become the equivalent of the Chinese general that ordered the 98 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 1: attack on Canneman Square. But what Donald Trump promised today 99 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 1: is We're going to have an American Tenneman Square. And 100 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: looked at the America America's generals and admirals, and he said, 101 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: and you're gonna do it on my order. And then 102 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: he talked about firemen or brave and all of this. 103 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: It was a stunning speech. It was insane. Pete Hagseth 104 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: is a clown, somebody who, according to news reports, is cracking, 105 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: somebody who is unfit at every conceivable imaginable level. He's 106 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: unfit intellectually, he's unfit morally. And it is a tragic 107 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: day for the armed forces of the United States, in 108 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: the complete meltdown of the civilian leadership. 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