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Speaker 1: There are seventy one days left until the American people

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Speaker 1: will make a decision that will chart the destiny of

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Speaker 1: the nation for the balance of the twenty first century

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Speaker 1: between Vice President Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: This is the warning. Today Monday, the first one after

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Speaker 1: the convention, America's greatest pig, Trump will visit America's most

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Speaker 1: hallowed ground, Arlington National Cemetery, to desecrate the last full

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Speaker 1: measure of devotion given by those buried there for rank

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Speaker 1: partisan political purposes. Trump will start his day on America's

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Speaker 1: most sacred ground doing photo ops at the grave sites

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Speaker 1: of the American soldiers killed during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Next,

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Speaker 1: he will give a partisan speech trying to blame Vice

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Speaker 1: President Harris for what occurred on President Biden's watch. It

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Speaker 1: is contemptible. Behind me is the Adriatic Sea. There's something

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Speaker 1: that every American should know about their country that is

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Speaker 1: unique in all of history. On the day that the

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Speaker 1: Second World War was won, braves registration details by the

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Speaker 1: hundreds fanned out across the European battlefields all over the world,

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Speaker 1: the Philippines, Okinawa, wherever Americans fought and died. The grave

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Speaker 1: registration details went to recover the bodies, and their families

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Speaker 1: were given a choice. Should those bodies come home or

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Speaker 1: would they be buried in American military cemeteries abroad. Those

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Speaker 1: ships bringing America's war dead started coming home in nineteen

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Speaker 1: forty six. In nineteen forty seven, they were called the

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Speaker 1: ghost Ships. They carried tens and tens of thousands of

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Speaker 1: American caskets. In Belgium, much of the nation came out

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Speaker 1: of respect to bid the ghost ships farewell. But across

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Speaker 1: Europe there are American military cemeteries. Colin Powell described the

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Speaker 1: meaning of these cemeteries. The United States is not an

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Speaker 1: imperial power. We have never conquered another nation for the

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Speaker 1: sake of seizing their territory, because the United States is

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Speaker 1: a liberating nation, and the only territory overseas that we

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Speaker 1: ever asked for was enough to bury our dead. These

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Speaker 1: places in Normandy in Belgium hold the bodies of America's

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Speaker 1: fallen in perfect symmetry, an American army at permanent rest.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has repeatedly desecrated this sacrifice. He stood in

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Speaker 1: Arlington National Cemetery. According to the Associated Press, Fox News,

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Speaker 1: The Atlantic mass Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New

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Speaker 1: York Times turned to his White House Chief of Staff,

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Speaker 1: General John Kelly, a gold star father whose son was

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Speaker 1: killed in combat in Afghanistan, and said he didn't understand

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Speaker 1: the sacrifice. Why did they do it? He called America's

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Speaker 1: war debt, suckers and losers, and later General Mark Millie,

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Speaker 1: perhaps most disturbingly of all, told the story of Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump reacting to a severely wounded service member, Captain Novilla,

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Speaker 1: singing the national anthem at General Millie's installation ceremony as

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Speaker 1: chairman of the Joint Chief's Death. Trump came up to

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Speaker 1: him and said, nobody wants to see that. It's disgraceful.

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Speaker 1: Harry Truman had a sign on his desk. He said,

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Speaker 1: the buck stops here. Afghanistan was America's longest war. It

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Speaker 1: was fought over four presidential administrations, two Republican, two Democratic

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Speaker 1: President Bush, President Obama, Trump, and President Biden were all

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Speaker 1: wartime presidents because of America's longest war, started by President Bush.

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Speaker 1: This twenty year long war was a strategic failure. What

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Speaker 1: it shows is it much easier to start wars than

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Speaker 1: to end them. The goals of this war were always absurd.

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Speaker 1: They were not realistic. A mission to kill the terrorists

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Speaker 1: who attacked us became a great project in democracy building

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Speaker 1: at tremendous financial cost, the trillion dollars the blood of

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Speaker 1: so many thousands of Americans. And the simple truth is

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Speaker 1: the lessons that have been learned did not need to

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Speaker 1: be learned, because they should have been learned from the

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Speaker 1: Vietnam War. This was an unwinnable war that has done

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Speaker 1: profound moral injury to the men and women who fought

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Speaker 1: in it. And that's why, in part there is such

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Speaker 1: a suicide epidemic. Donald Trump is behind. He's flailing, he's losing.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to understand he's not running against Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden anymore. He's running against the vice president, who doesn't

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Speaker 1: sit at the head of the table when it comes

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Speaker 1: to commander in chief decisions. It's not a committee job.

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Speaker 1: The president is a singular job. And so Trump's attacks

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Speaker 1: won't work. But the fact that he feels comfortable enough

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Speaker 1: to go to Arlington to engage in politics is an

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Speaker 1: assault on the flag, on the institutions of the armed forces,

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Speaker 1: on our sacred war dead, and on decency itself. It's disgusting.

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Speaker 1: During these next weeks, the unhinged Trump will become more

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Speaker 1: and more and more unhinged. He will grow angry, he

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Speaker 1: will grow increasingly unstable. He will become unhinged to a

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Speaker 1: degree we haven't seen before. He will not concede the

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Speaker 1: election that he's going to lose. He's going to try

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Speaker 1: to put the country into chaos again. This tecta had

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Speaker 1: for all of us doesn't end in seventy one days.

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Speaker 1: Rather it begins. The period between seventy one days from

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Speaker 1: now and January sixth has the potential to be tumultuous

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Speaker 1: and dangerous. The American people need to cancel this boring

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Speaker 1: old six show. It's enough. There's an opportunity to get

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Speaker 1: out of the circling of the drain. There's an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to move forward. Let's take it, America. See what you

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Speaker 1: see today from Arlington National Cemetery, and if it doesn't

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Speaker 1: make you sick, you don't understand that's wrong. Shame on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning,

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