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Speaker 1: A powerful message was delivered this weekend by a Puerto

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Speaker 1: Rican artist, a man who is fully and thoroughly American,

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Speaker 1: and his halftime performance was as American as apple pie,

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Speaker 1: which is why no doubt Donald Trump reacted so viciously

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Speaker 1: towards it. Love is more powerful than hate, and this

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Speaker 1: explains why across the sea in Italy, JD. Vance was

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Speaker 1: so viciously booed by all the people of the world

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Speaker 1: who understand that he is a vessel of evil handmade

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Speaker 1: to a wretched cause, American fascism.

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Speaker 2: There is the Vice President Jdi Vince and is like us.

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Speaker 2: Those are not Those are a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Booms for him whistling during summer clause. For eleven long years,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has desecrated America's ideals, the idea that built

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Speaker 1: the country, and that idea is ephemeral. It's about liberty,

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Speaker 1: It's about freedom. We believe as Americans that all men

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Speaker 1: are created equal now by their creator, with inalienable rights

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Speaker 1: among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With

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Speaker 1: bad Bunny handed his Grammy, an award he earned to

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Speaker 1: a little boy. It was a powerful reminder that love

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Speaker 1: is so much more powerful than its opposite, which isn't

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Speaker 1: hate but indifference. The great lie about hate is that

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Speaker 1: it can be met by reciprocal hatred, and that in

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Speaker 1: the battle between the two, hate can be conquered by hate.

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Speaker 1: And that's a lie. It can only be conquered by love.

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Speaker 1: And it is important in this moment of exquisite vileness

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Speaker 1: to see clearly Donald Trump is our clansman in the

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Speaker 1: White House. What MAGA has produced is a David Duke

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Speaker 1: on every soapbox, on every corner, spewing bile in hatred,

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Speaker 1: even comparing a former president and his wife, the First Lady,

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Speaker 1: to a Nate. And this is apologized for over and

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Speaker 1: over again by all of Donald Trump's lieutenants, like Mike

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Speaker 1: Lawler on the Sunday show Kabuki Circuit. It is February ninth, Monday,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Steve Schmidt.

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Speaker 2: This is the warning. Here is Mike Lawler doing the kabuki.

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Speaker 3: You were one of the very first Republicans to come

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Speaker 3: out and condemn the president's social media post that had

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Speaker 3: those images of the Obamas as apes.

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Speaker 2: Here's what you said.

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Speaker 3: The President's post is wrong and incredibly offensive, whether intentional

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Speaker 3: or a mistake, and should be deleted a meeting with

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Speaker 3: an apology offered now after you said that. They were

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Speaker 3: still defending it, but it did get deleted eventually after

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Speaker 3: about twelve hours. Should the President apologize?

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Speaker 4: I think sometimes in our public discourse, it is best

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Speaker 4: to just say I'm sorry. You know, I take the

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Speaker 4: White House at their word that this was a mistake.

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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, given the history

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Speaker 4: of our nation, given the insensitivities with some of the

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Speaker 4: stereotypes that have long been promulgated to attack African Americans,

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Speaker 4: I think it's imperative to recognize that and meet the moment.

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Speaker 1: You see, it's never Trump's fault, it's always someone down

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Speaker 1: the ladder who's done it. To Trump, the world's greatest

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Speaker 1: victim's president.

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Speaker 5: A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize

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Speaker 5: for that post.

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Speaker 1: Is that something you're going to do.

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Speaker 6: I didn't make a mistake. I mean, if I'd look

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Speaker 6: at a lot of thousands of things, and I looked

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Speaker 6: at the beginning of it, it was fine, and they had

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Speaker 6: that one post, and I guess it was a takeoff

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Speaker 6: by the way a lot of people have covered. If

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Speaker 6: you look at where it came from, a lot of.

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Speaker 6: I guess it was a takeoff of the Lion King,

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Speaker 6: and certainly it was a very strong post in terms

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Speaker 6: of voter fraud. Nobody knew that that was at the end.

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Speaker 6: If they would have looked, they would have seen it.

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Speaker 1: The questions are imprecise, the answers always sloppy. But it

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Speaker 1: can never be said that sloppy doesn't work because men

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Speaker 1: like Mike Lawler get away with it every Sunday. And

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Speaker 1: it's depressing because it may seem like there are no

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Speaker 1: clear voices who understand the moment.

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Speaker 2: But that's not true. John Osof understands it.

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Speaker 1: The United States senator from Georgia up for reelection tells

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Speaker 1: the truth in plain words, no words talents, no poll

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Speaker 1: tested phrases. What you're about to see is an exposition

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Speaker 1: and conviction and principle clear sightedness.

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Speaker 5: You're seeing what I'm seeing right, the President posting about

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Speaker 5: the Obamas like a klansman at one am. You see

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Speaker 5: our government transformed into a tool of one man's personal

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Speaker 5: vengeance and power and enrichment. You see the President and

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Speaker 5: his family rake in billions while Americans struggle to make

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Speaker 5: ends meet. You see prices going up while jobs are

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Speaker 5: getting harder to find. You see millions lose insurance and

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Speaker 5: local hospitals shut services while the rich get tax cuts.

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Speaker 5: You see masked federal agents kicking down doors without so

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Speaker 5: much as a warrant from a judge, dragging Americans out

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Speaker 5: of their homes without cause, demanding papers that police checkpoints,

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Speaker 5: assaulting and even killing Americans with impunity from the very top.

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Speaker 1: Damn straight, we need more of this in America. What

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Speaker 1: we are witnessing is an evil cause that is collapsing,

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Speaker 1: asserting its power before it loses it in elections that

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Speaker 1: Maggot wants to scare the American people into believing may

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Speaker 1: not happen, when in fact Maggot does not have the

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Speaker 1: power to stop them. The Constitution is clear. Elections are

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Speaker 1: run in the states, not by the federal government, and

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Speaker 1: the reason for that is to prevent tyranny.

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Speaker 2: And Trump is a tyrant.

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Speaker 1: And it's time for all of us to start seeing

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Speaker 1: clearly what threatens all of us.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump is surrounded not.

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Speaker 1: By millions, but by hundreds, maybe one thousand people who

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Speaker 1: are in on the grift, who get their little lick

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Speaker 1: of bitcoin money, who get to dance on the predator

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Speaker 1: ballroom floor that doesn't include Trump's voters.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to condemn people who voted for Trump.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to look at every Trump voter as the

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Speaker 1: same person. But if you take that easy path, we

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Speaker 1: will lose this country. Twenty five percent of the country

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Speaker 1: will go down with the Donald Trump ship.

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Speaker 2: They are deeply attracted to his.

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Speaker 1: Insanity and his venom, and we should not worry about

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Speaker 1: them except to make sure that never again are they

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Speaker 1: part of a coalition that comes close to holding political power.

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Speaker 1: What's the answer. The answer is better. The answer is love.

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Speaker 1: That's the way out of this disaster. There are a

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Speaker 1: great many political leaders who are ready to step up.

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Speaker 1: John Osof is one of He's the best of the best.

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Speaker 1: He is an example of what John Kennedy talked about

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Speaker 1: when he said we need to have men and women

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Speaker 1: of character and dedication, patriots serving in the highest levels

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Speaker 1: of government. The antidote to Donald Trump is what you

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Speaker 1: just saw from John Osoff. And the question is what

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Speaker 1: can you do to help make sure that man returns

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Speaker 1: to the United States Senate to stand up for us

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Speaker 1: against them who only care about them at the expense

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

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Speaker 1: this is the warning. I invite you to join this community,

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Speaker 1: where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about

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Speaker 1: what is happening in this country. America is in crisis.

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Speaker 1: Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack.

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Speaker 2: Thank you,