1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, August twentieth. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 2: This is the warning the American crisis is deepening, and 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: a surefire sign of that is these trucks, the ice 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: vehicles protect the homeland. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: Nothing about the country. I wonder when. 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: Trump intends to change it to Fatherland and defend the culture, 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 2: what culture would that be? 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: What is the American culture? What does it refer to? 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: Is it the culture of Pete Hegseath's pastor, a man 10 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 2: who believes that women should be subordinate, that they should 11 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 2: be submissive, and that slavery is overstated as an evil. 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 3: This is the first time we've had connections with as 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 3: many people in national government as we do now. But 14 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 3: this is this is not an ecclesiastical lobbying effort where 15 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 3: we're trying to meet important people. We're trying to give 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 3: some of these people an opportunity to meet with God. 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 3: Church and the wider network believe in practice the idea 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 3: that men and women have different roles, and women should 19 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 3: not hold church leadership positions. My wife votes, my daughters vote. 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 3: If people rush to conclusions from what they heard on 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 3: the CNN piece, that's a sad thing. At the same time, 22 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 3: I think that the nineteenth Amendment was a bad idea, 23 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 3: and I had no problem with how Pastor Jared answered 24 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 3: the question. I would support that our issue is not 25 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 3: a problem with the enfranchisement of women. Our problem is 26 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 3: with the disenfranchisement of the household. 27 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: Is that the culture, the culture of the Confederate monument, 28 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 2: the culture that venerates a trader and a hero Robert 29 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: Lee as a patriot, when in fact he was a 30 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 2: cruel slave master. Is it the idea that January sixth, 31 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one was like lexing cannon conquered as opposed 32 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: to an insurrectionist mob attacking the Citadel of Democracy, the 33 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 2: capital of the United States and assaulting thousands of police 34 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 2: officers with political extremists chanting killed them, the N word 35 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 2: being shouted. The violence was real, and it led to 36 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 2: the deaths of multiple police officers. 37 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: Does it mean accepting. 38 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: The idea that the part in criminals her patriots. Does 39 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 2: it mean bowing to the idea that masked men snatching 40 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: brown people off of the street are somehow knights in defense, 41 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: not of a nation, not of a constitution, not of 42 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: ideas about the equality of human beings. No, they're cleansers 43 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: of sorts. Cleaning the culture, the filthy inner cities that 44 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 2: Donald Trump talks about, festooned with the homeless and the 45 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 2: drug addicted and the brown in the black. That is 46 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 2: the plain meaning of the Trump rhetoric. Listen to it. 47 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: It's obvious, and it's plain as day. Our capital city 48 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 2: has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving 49 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people. 50 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're 51 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: not going to take it. 52 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 2: Trump is able to connect with the American people in 53 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 2: a way that they understand, even if it is a 54 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 2: different variant of English than the platitudes that spill over 55 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: them from the pundits, from the politicians, are out from 56 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: most of corporate media. Reality of this moment is Donald 57 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 2: Trump has made perfectly clear who he is, including on 58 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: a question as profoundly simple to understand. A slavery the 59 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 2: greatest evil in the history of the United States, the 60 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 2: ownership of human beings by human beings, and it persisted 61 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 2: in this country until eighteen sixty five. Not so long ago, 62 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: there were Confederate veterans who lived into the nineteen forties, 63 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 2: some into the nineteen fifties. When you think about time, 64 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: it's incredible to ponder the tenth President of the United States, 65 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: John Tyler, who served in the Confederate Congress. John Tyler, 66 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 2: a traitor to the United States, has a living grandson. 67 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five. 68 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: Time that stands outside of our lifespans is not so 69 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 2: far away, not so distant. 70 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: And here's the reality. 71 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: As Donald Trump instructs the Smithsonian that he's sick of 72 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 2: museums to talk about how bad slavery was, the violations 73 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: of human rights, human dignity, human freedom. These things must 74 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: be remembered so they aren't repeated. So the great fog 75 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: of amnesia that brings with it death behind it doesn't 76 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: settle in. It's im possible to comprehend the United States 77 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 2: without comprehending the United States slave people. And the United 78 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 2: States had a great Civil War that emancipated the enslaved 79 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 2: people and gave birth to the third oldest political party 80 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 2: now in the world, the Republican Party, who once had 81 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 2: a president named James Garfield who promised never to break 82 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 2: faith with black Americans. There was an image when slavery 83 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 2: existed in America. That shocked the conscience of the American 84 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 2: people because the myth was even in the time, that 85 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 2: most white masters were benevolent, and that propaganda was spread 86 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,799 Speaker 2: all over the North. And this photograph called Whipped Peter 87 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: told the truth. 88 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: Here are the. 89 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 2: Images from Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday, one hundred years 90 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 2: on from the end of slavery. And here we are 91 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five with a fascist in the White 92 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 2: House putting the Confederate monuments back up, giving instructions to 93 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 2: museums to to guild the lilly on the question of slavery, 94 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 2: it was a good thing. He has a Defense secretary 95 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 2: who's a Christian nationalist guided by an extremist pastor who believes, 96 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 2: like Trump, that slavery wasn't so bad and believes that 97 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 2: women don't have any rights. They should be submissive because 98 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 2: that's what the Bible says. What Pete Hagsath in this 99 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: sick pastor believe is that God is about domination and power. 100 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: That's why they love Trump. God is about love in 101 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: the United States, is about justice, and these people are 102 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 2: perverting things in the most obscene way that are great, 103 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 2: that are glorious, that have been preserved a great sacrifice, 104 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 2: and the tearing down of our ideas and our ideals 105 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 2: does not come without a cost. It brings with a 106 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: tremendous danger, and that danger is drawn closer every day 107 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: as the mass men roll out in their cars promising 108 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 2: to defend the culture. Until recently, defending the culture was 109 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 2: the province of white supremacist groups and their flyers in 110 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 2: northern Idaho. 111 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: I suppose the next time. 112 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 2: They gather to burn across and look at those flyers, 113 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: there'll be some satisfaction in knowing the journey has been 114 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 2: a long one, but a successful one for that slogan. 115 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 2: As it's made its way from the filth of their 116 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 2: propaganda to government vehicles. 117 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: That's no victory for you and me. 118 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 2: It's a tragedy for our children, and it's a desecration 119 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: of the sacrifices that have built the United States of America. 120 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 2: But it's very real, and as was once prophecied and 121 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 2: apocryphally attributed, fascism has come to America wrapped in the 122 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 2: flag and carrying across. And that's warning enough, because these 123 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: people keep telling us precisely what it is they believe 124 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 2: and what they intend to do. And I guess it's 125 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 2: fair to ask at a certain point why it is 126 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 2: when they say it in English that no one in 127 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 2: an English speaking country can seem to understand a word. 128 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 129 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: to join this community, where I promise to be honest, 130 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 2: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 131 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 2: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 132 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: and on substack. 133 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: Thank you.