1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: This is a debate that speaks for itself. This is 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: the showdown at high noon that is long overdue. This 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: is the occasion where a president of the United States 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: gets to look a former president in the eye who 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: staged the coup after he lost the election, and say something. 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: So the nature of this debate is very simple. This 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: is a fight where there will be a winner and 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: there will be a loser, and no amount of spin 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: afterwards will change that fact. Either Joe Biden walks into 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: the debate and humiliates the seditious, criminally accused narcissist who 11 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: incited a coup levels him, or he loses. That is 12 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: the confrontation, that is the job between these two men, 13 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: of which there is no mystery around whatsoever. This is 14 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: not a debate about taxation. This is a debate about fitness, 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: about character. It is May sixteenth, twenty twenty four. One 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three days remain until the American people 17 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: decide Biden or Trump, America or fascism. From today, there 18 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: are forty two days to the pivotal CNN debate. After that, 19 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: eighteen days to the opening gavel of the Republican National Convention, 20 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: and fifty three days from the CNN debate till the 21 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: opening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. When 22 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: thinking about presidential campaigns, it is important to remember that 23 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: the campaign's primary responsibility is resource management. They must manage 24 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: time and money, both finite commodities and time moves quickly 25 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: through a presidential campaign. We all have seasons and rhythms 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: in our life. It occurs in the natural world. There 27 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: is a pred rhythm to life, and such has always 28 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: been the case with presidential campaigns. They have been defined 29 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: by events that are unequal against all the other days 30 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: in the campaign, and really in a general election, those 31 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 1: days are the selection of the vice presidential candidate. When 32 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: that happens, which will occur before the Republican National Convention, 33 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and that candidate will get a great deal 34 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: of attention. They will dominate the news cycle for at 35 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: least a couple of days. Another major event that occurs 36 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: in the general election cycle or the conventions. And really 37 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: within those conventions there are two outsized nights, and those 38 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: are the Knights, where the two nominees give their speeches 39 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: to the entire nation, of which tens of millions of 40 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: people watch over the course of all the ceremony, the atres, resolutions, 41 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: and everything that happens over the course of the conventions. 42 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: The appreval of events from those four nights and the 43 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: two hours of primetime television given can make a difference. 44 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: Each night there's a memorable speech, and then there's the debates. 45 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: There have been three debates run by the Presidential Commission 46 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: on Debates and the vice presidential debates that play out 47 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: over the course of the fall They are the dominant 48 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: events of the fall campaign. They occupy incredible amounts of 49 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: time within the campaigns. Everything stops when the presidential circus 50 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: moves into the college towns where these debates are staged. 51 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: The entire edifice and structure of the presidential campaign brinds 52 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: to a halt. The only thing that matters is those debates. 53 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: So the day of the debate is blacked out, The 54 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: days before become blacked out. The week after is dominated 55 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: by the debate, and then the rematch for the next one. 56 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: There is a reality of presidential debates. Usually the incumbent 57 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: president gets snuffed in the first one, crushed, humiliated. It 58 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: happened to Ronald D. Reagon, It happened to George w. Bush. 59 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: It happened to Barack Obama disaster. Now, in the past, 60 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: the incumbent president has always been able to recover quickly 61 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: from those debate disasters in the rematch of the second debate, 62 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: and really these debates are scored in a series of three. 63 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: Vice presidential debate can matter. Also, it mattered when Dick 64 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: Cheney destroyed John Edwards. But the agreement between the Biden 65 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: and the Trump campaign with CNN has upended all of that. 66 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: It has dramatically changed the structure and the rhythm of 67 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: the presidential campaign season. It has in an instant re 68 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: retten it. We are in a new age. Many times, 69 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: over the course of a political campaign, the commentary becomes 70 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: a bit overwrought. It tends to invest more significance than 71 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 1: should be into any single event. But this is a 72 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 1: big one because it has blown everything up. It has 73 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: changed the racetrack, the Daytona five hundred, because it takes 74 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,799 Speaker 1: place on the same racetrack every year. The track never changes. 75 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: Presidential campaigns are like that. There's some deviations on the 76 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: primary schedule, but the rhythm of the fall is the 77 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: rhythm of the fall, and that's all gone now. So 78 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: let's look at the consequences of this new era of 79 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: presidential campaign politics in America, because the way it used 80 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: to work is wherever the race was, it pretty much 81 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: locked into place over the month of July. There's a 82 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: story in Axios today. It's remarkable. The story at its 83 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,239 Speaker 1: core says that President Biden does not believe the polls 84 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: showing him behind. President Biden should believe these polls, and 85 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: his campaign should too, because they are accurate, they are correct, 86 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: and he is behind in the race. If it were tomorrow, 87 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: the president would lose the election to Donald Trump, who 88 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: believes that he won the last election despite no evidence. 89 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: So it's interesting we have one candidate who believes he 90 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: won an election he lost, while another candidate, the incumbent president, 91 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: believes he's winning an election he's losing to the man 92 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: who claims he won an election that he lost. With 93 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: American democracy on the line, if the President truly believed 94 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: that he was ahead in the race, obviously he would 95 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: not take the risk of a June debate. But he 96 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: has taken that risk. So somebody in the Biden organization 97 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: understands that the president is behind. Now it's become part 98 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: of the process of all presidential debates for the campaigns 99 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: to try to lower expectations and raise them for their opponents. 100 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: One of my favorite quotes in campaign season was from 101 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,239 Speaker 1: my friend Matthew Dabb talking about John Kerry. When Matthew 102 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: walked out a national television and said Kerry was the 103 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: best debater since Cicero. It made us laugh. But you 104 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: get the spirit of the endeavor. This is a debate 105 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,119 Speaker 1: that speaks for itself. This is the showdown at high 106 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: noon that is long over. This is the occasion where 107 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: a president of the United States gets to look a 108 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: former president in the eye who staged the coup after 109 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: he lost the election, and say something. Now, let's understand 110 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: the stakes. President Biden is all in here. He has 111 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: taken all the chips and push them into the middle 112 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: of the table. Now, let's imagine debate night. It's very 113 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: important to understand something. Strategically. Donald Trump can't lose the 114 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: debate with his people. There's nothing he can say or 115 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: do to break their fandom. There is a lot that 116 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: President Biden could say or do to eroad support amidst 117 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: the middle of the electorate. In that small and tiny increment, 118 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: that cohort that will decide the election in a few 119 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: counties across a handful of states in November. Now Trump 120 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: is insulated from his insanity and his craziness because there 121 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: is nothing new ever to learn about Donald Trump. But 122 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: for Joe Biden as the incumbent president who faces a 123 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: headwind because of that going into the first debate, What 124 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: are the consequences of failure? What happens if Joe Biden 125 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: performs as badly as Barack Obama did or George W. 126 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: Bush did or Ronald Reagan did? What happens if Donald 127 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: Trump overwhelms him? What happens if Donald Trump puts the 128 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: president on the defensive. It will be a disaster. And 129 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: let me walk you through what will happen next. The 130 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: Trump campaign will be on offense like the US Army 131 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: was in Europe in April of nineteen forty five, and 132 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: there will be nothing between the Trump campaign and a 133 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: blocking event until August nineteenth. The Trump campaign will nominate 134 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: its vice presidential candidate, and it will roll into a convention. 135 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: And by the time that convention is over in July nineteenth, 136 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: looking backwards, should the President not do well in this debate, 137 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: there will be one month until the Democratic debate, and 138 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: from the moment the debate on June twenty seventh ends, 139 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: if it does not end well for Joe Biden, the 140 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: only conversation taking place in America will be should Biden 141 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: retire and announce he will not seek the nomination at 142 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: the convention opening it, there will be panic the likes 143 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: of which there has never been seen in the modern 144 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 1: era of presidential politics as the incumbent president falls behind 145 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: Donald Trump outside the margin of era. Now, the other 146 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: thing that structurally is significant to understand about this June 147 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: twenty seventh debate is this, there is a third party 148 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: candidate in this race who has polled at various times 149 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: as high as the mid twenties. If the American people 150 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: look at a debate between Biden and Trump on June 151 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: twenty seventh and are left wanting, and the polls would 152 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: suggest the fact that eighty five percent of Americans once 153 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: said they did not want this rematch would seem to 154 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: indicate that there will be a substantial percentage of Americans 155 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: left wanting. And we know from all of the polling 156 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: that the youth vote is completely disengaged. And so this 157 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: is the moment where the two campaigns colluding together have 158 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 1: created all of the opening necessary for Robert Kennedy Junior. 159 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy Junior needs lyft, and the lift he needs 160 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: is an institution in America that is not trusted, i e. 161 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 1: The media and the political parties, excluding a third party 162 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: candidate from a race and a rematch that an overwhelming 163 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: percentage of the country agrees on, they don't want. So 164 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: the nature of this debate is very simple. This is 165 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: a fight where there will be a winner and there 166 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: will be a loser, and no amount of spin afterwards 167 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: will change that fact. Either Joe Biden walks into the 168 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: debate and humiliates the seditious, criminally accused narcissist who incited 169 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:01,359 Speaker 1: a coup levels him, or he loses. That is the confrontation, 170 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: that is the job between these two men, of which 171 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: there is no mystery around whatsoever. This is not a 172 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: debate about taxation. This is a debate about fitness, about character, 173 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 1: and President Biden has been defamed and smeared a senile, 174 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: lacking sent chance, unable to walk up and downstairs by 175 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: the maga media for years. This debate is his rebuttal. 176 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: It is his one and only chance to show the 177 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: American people that though he may be deeply flogged, Donald 178 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: Trump is simply unacceptable. Going back to that Axios story, 179 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: it should frighten you. It frightened me. The two people 180 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: who wrote it, Alex Thompson and Hans Nichols, are two 181 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: of the best political reporters there are. They know what's happening, 182 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: they know what's going on, and I suspect that story 183 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 1: is all too true. Nobody wants to tell the president 184 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: the truth, and the truth is the President is losing 185 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. He's losing the election to MAGA, and 186 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: there will never be a day over the next one 187 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three where the American people wake up 188 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: with gratitude in their hearts for the Chips Act or 189 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: the Infrastructure bills. It is a delusion as deep as 190 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: Trump's about him winning the election. It is malpractice to 191 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: run a political campaign proclaiming that Bidenomics has succeeded and 192 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: made the lives of the American people better. Because the 193 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: American people keep streaming into the winds. They don't believe 194 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: that there is only one path to victory for the president, 195 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: and it is to assemble an anti Trump coalition of 196 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: Americans who believe in liberty and freedom, who don't want 197 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: to be bossed around by their politicians, who don't want 198 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: their senators and congressmen in the delivering room with them, 199 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: do not want them in the psychiatrist's office with them, 200 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: do not want them in the hospital room with them, 201 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: at the moment of death, at the moment of birth, 202 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: or anywhere in between. It is time to reset boundaries 203 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: for government. And the bottom line is this. When Joe 204 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: Biden walks out on that stage, he'll be facing a 205 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: man who is promised to lock up political opponents. He 206 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: will be facing a man who has promised to create 207 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: a police state to deport fifteen million people. He will 208 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: be facing a man who fetishizes the war criminal of 209 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin. He will be facing a man who promises 210 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: to destroy NATO. He will be facing a man who 211 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: promised to give Vladimir Putin a green light to invade 212 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: European democracies. He will be facing a man who was 213 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: found guilty of raping a woman and then defaming her. 214 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: He will be facing a man who is accused of 215 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: committing serious felonies. He will be facing a man who 216 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: lied to the people of the United States thirty five 217 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: thousand times, and he will be facing a man who 218 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: so profoundly mismanaged the COVID epidemic that it left hundreds 219 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: of thousands of dead Americans unnecessarily. Donald Trump was the 220 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: most corrupt president in American history. Donald Trump stole from 221 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: the American people. Donald Trump weakened the American nation. He 222 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:55,359 Speaker 1: divided us. Epluribus unum means something. It is the wellspring 223 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: of our strength. And the reality is that unless Joe 224 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 1: Biden can stand Paul, stand up and put this man down, 225 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: he will have forfeited his candidacy in the next four 226 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: years in the Oval office in what will be one 227 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: of the greatest and most colossal acts of egotism in 228 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: American history. Should it come to pass. The stakes of 229 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: this debate, as high as you think they are, are higher. 230 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has gone all in in the middle of June. 231 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: And when you look at the act and dismiss the words, 232 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: you understand Biden is behind and it's time for the fight. 233 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: There's a question in the air. Is the president capable? 234 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: Can he defend the American way of life? Can he 235 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: make an argument with conviction and stamina? And vigor and 236 00:17:53,920 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: eloquence against the worst president in American history, who attacked 237 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: the nation, desecrated his oath, and has promised to deploy 238 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: the American military into America's streets against the American people. 239 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 1: Trump is a sickness in our land. If Biden can't 240 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: diagnose it and eradicate it during the course of the 241 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: CNN debate, Democrats have every right to look for a 242 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:24,439 Speaker 1: new doctor, and millions of Americans we'll start looking around 243 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: for another candidate on the ballot. This twenty twenty four 244 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: race has been slow to start. It is mystifying to 245 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: the American people how we arrived at this rematch. But 246 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 1: here we are. But now the rules are gone, the 247 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: track has changed. What lies ahead is what I've predicted 248 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: all along, chaos in American politics. The CNN debate will 249 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: be the most consequential presidential debate in an awful long time. 250 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite 251 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: you to join. Subscribe on our sub stack on our 252 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 1: YouTube channel follow us. Welcome to the community.