1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,199 Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, July second, twenty twenty five. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 2: This is the morning two. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: Hundred and forty nine years ago. Today the world changed forever. 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: The Lee Resolution was passed in the Continental Congress, and 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: it declared that the United States of America should be independent. 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: It was this day that John Adams thought would be 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: the one that was celebrated in the United States forevermore. 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: He was off by two days. 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: It was the fourth, on the day when the Declaration 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: of Independence was signed, that the American people recall and celebrate. 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: And so today we will and truly enter into the 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:52,639 Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Republic the United 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: States of America. At the moment the smoke cleared enough 14 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: to see the white flags flying over the British lines 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: at your town, the Marquis de Lafayette, the young Frenchman 16 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: in command of American troops there, a man who would name. 17 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 2: His son George Washington. 18 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: Lafayette, knew the war had been won, the revolution was over, 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: and he cried out, Humanity has its victory, liberty has 20 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: its country. 21 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: And so the story of. 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: America over those two hundred and fifty years of time 23 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: is uneven. 24 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: But we get confused. 25 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: Sometimes when we ponder an expanse of time beyond a 26 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: single human lifetime, we lose how close events that exist outside. 27 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: Of our space are to our lifetimes. 28 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: It's the remarkable fact that the tenth President of the 29 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: United States, John Tyler born in seventeen ninety. 30 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: One, has a living grandson. 31 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: He's in his nineties, but his grandfather served in the 32 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: Confederate Congress after being elected tenth president, born while Washington 33 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: was in his first term. Incredible, and it is incredible 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 1: to consider the words of a Martin Luther King when 35 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: he shared his dream when you look at the images 36 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: of righteous protest of moral movements that declared we the 37 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: people means all the people, and that freedom, that liberty 38 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: is not a franchise for some. We have seen in 39 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: the world terrible evil manifest itself. There is no evil 40 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: like the evil that manifests through a declaration by the 41 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: few that they are superior genetically, racially, intellectually, the day 42 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: are to be kings and the rest of us are 43 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 1: to be serfs. What comes from that is terrible abuses 44 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,839 Speaker 1: of power. And so let me say something to all 45 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: of you, on the eve of the greatest force for 46 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: good in world histories. 47 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 2: Two hundred and forty ninth birthday. 48 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: Yesterday, Donald Trump and Christina, who, by the way, stood 49 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: in front of cages of desperate human beings and an 50 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: El Salvadoran concentration camp opened an American concentration camp which 51 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: has been dubbed in a culture that fetishizes cruelty, that 52 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: promulgates it on right wing propaganda alyts like Fox News. 53 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: They've named it Alligator Alcatraz, But that's unfair to Alcatraz, which. 54 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: Was a federal penitentiary. 55 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: And inmates, and Alcatraz had either pled guilty or been 56 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: found guilty in jury trials. There are no jury trials 57 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: at this American concentration camp. What we see in the 58 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: comments is the gleam in the eye, the zest for cruelty. 59 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: Look at the insanity in Steven Miller's eyes as he 60 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: talks about the people who would be sent there. 61 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: They are invaders. 62 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 3: There have been repeated, multiple attempts by violent criminal aliens 63 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 3: and cartel thugs to escape iceed attention individuals who present 64 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 3: a clear and present danger to public safety. Under President 65 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 3: Trump's leadership, we are targeting eight foreign terrorist organizations, including 66 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 3: six Mexican drug cartels that threaten the foreign that they're in, 67 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 3: the foreign policy, the public safety, the national security of 68 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 3: the United States. These are dangerous, ruthless organizations. A facility 69 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 3: like this ensures the security of the officers who work there, 70 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 3: and ensures the security of the public lest there be 71 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 3: in a tempted jail break. And again we are dealing 72 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 3: with the worst of the worst, and most heinous of 73 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 3: the most heinous. 74 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: They are illegal aliens, they are terrorists, and they are criminals. 75 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: Well for Santa Monica gobels. One man's gardener may certainly 76 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 1: be another's terrorist. But let's be clear about something. We 77 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: are departing from a most American sensibility that the accusation 78 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: of being a terrorist does not make you a terrorist 79 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: in the United States, even when it comes from a 80 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: man terrorizing people from his lofty position of power and 81 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: privilege in the White House. In America, we have laws 82 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: not concentration camps. Until yesterday when we saw the grotesque 83 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: and hideous site of an American president standing there filled 84 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 1: with rage and self pity, swearing, losing composure and control, 85 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: foam matting, division stealing rage. Here's his comment on that 86 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: son of a Providen. 87 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 2: Biden wanted me in here. Okay, he wanted me. It 88 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 2: didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here. 89 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: Senator, I have a question, shouldn't we just kill the invaders? 90 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 2: Why all the expense. 91 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: Maybe someone in the media should ask Stephen Miller about 92 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: their humanity, if they're less than above animals below equal 93 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: to I don't think Stephen Miller would have a problem 94 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: lining these people up against the wall and giving the 95 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: order at all. And I don't think he's alone. I 96 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: think that that's a singular lesson of these last ten years, 97 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: as we have journeyed down the river together. So there 98 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: is a concentration camp open in Florida. It is the 99 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: American doc how it is Trump's first, but it won't 100 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: be his last. And they are thrilled with it. Ron DeSantis, 101 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: the Florida Attorney General. And one day, many years from now, 102 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: and this is a national park attraction, a monument to 103 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: the evil unleashed in this era, with lessons for our 104 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: descendants about how it is not to be repeated, with 105 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,679 Speaker 1: markers about the people who stood up to it. Let's 106 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: remember this in a country, it is a free society. 107 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: This is unacceptable these massed agents are unacceptable. This is 108 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: not law. This is state thuggery. This is not law 109 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: in order, this is state terrorism. In the United States 110 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: of America, there must never be masked, badgeless secret police 111 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: with a remit to snatch anyone ever, at any time. 112 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: Never. 113 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: Yet here we are. It's happening. We must oppose it. 114 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: We must march against it if necessary, we must engage 115 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: in civil disobedience if necessary. 116 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 2: But we must oppose it. And we must. 117 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: Understand that as we celebrate this July fourth. The cause 118 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: of America was always about much more than American independence 119 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: and sovereignty. The cause became about freedom, and that is 120 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: what must be defended. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 121 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community, where I promise 122 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt, and direct about what is happening 123 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 124 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. 125 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: Thank you.