WEBVTT - Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" Should Be ILLEGAL

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<v Speaker 1>It is Wednesday, July second, twenty twenty five.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the morning two.

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<v Speaker 1>Hundred and forty nine years ago. Today the world changed forever.

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<v Speaker 1>The Lee Resolution was passed in the Continental Congress, and

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<v Speaker 1>it declared that the United States of America should be independent.

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<v Speaker 1>It was this day that John Adams thought would be

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<v Speaker 1>the one that was celebrated in the United States forevermore.

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<v Speaker 2>He was off by two days.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the fourth, on the day when the Declaration

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<v Speaker 1>of Independence was signed, that the American people recall and celebrate.

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<v Speaker 1>And so today we will and truly enter into the

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Republic the United

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<v Speaker 1>States of America. At the moment the smoke cleared enough

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<v Speaker 1>to see the white flags flying over the British lines

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<v Speaker 1>at your town, the Marquis de Lafayette, the young Frenchman

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<v Speaker 1>in command of American troops there, a man who would name.

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<v Speaker 2>His son George Washington.

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<v Speaker 1>Lafayette, knew the war had been won, the revolution was over,

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<v Speaker 1>and he cried out, Humanity has its victory, liberty has

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<v Speaker 1>its country.

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<v Speaker 2>And so the story of.

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<v Speaker 1>America over those two hundred and fifty years of time

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<v Speaker 1>is uneven.

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<v Speaker 2>But we get confused.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes when we ponder an expanse of time beyond a

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<v Speaker 1>single human lifetime, we lose how close events that exist outside.

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<v Speaker 2>Of our space are to our lifetimes.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the remarkable fact that the tenth President of the

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<v Speaker 1>United States, John Tyler born in seventeen ninety.

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<v Speaker 2>One, has a living grandson.

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<v Speaker 1>He's in his nineties, but his grandfather served in the

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<v Speaker 1>Confederate Congress after being elected tenth president, born while Washington

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<v Speaker 1>was in his first term. Incredible, and it is incredible

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<v Speaker 1>to consider the words of a Martin Luther King when

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<v Speaker 1>he shared his dream when you look at the images

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<v Speaker 1>of righteous protest of moral movements that declared we the

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<v Speaker 1>people means all the people, and that freedom, that liberty

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<v Speaker 1>is not a franchise for some. We have seen in

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<v Speaker 1>the world terrible evil manifest itself. There is no evil

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<v Speaker 1>like the evil that manifests through a declaration by the

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<v Speaker 1>few that they are superior genetically, racially, intellectually, the day

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<v Speaker 1>are to be kings and the rest of us are

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<v Speaker 1>to be serfs. What comes from that is terrible abuses

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<v Speaker 1>of power. And so let me say something to all

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<v Speaker 1>of you, on the eve of the greatest force for

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<v Speaker 1>good in world histories.

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<v Speaker 2>Two hundred and forty ninth birthday.

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<v Speaker 1>Yesterday, Donald Trump and Christina, who, by the way, stood

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<v Speaker 1>in front of cages of desperate human beings and an

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<v Speaker 1>El Salvadoran concentration camp opened an American concentration camp which

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<v Speaker 1>has been dubbed in a culture that fetishizes cruelty, that

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<v Speaker 1>promulgates it on right wing propaganda alyts like Fox News.

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<v Speaker 1>They've named it Alligator Alcatraz, But that's unfair to Alcatraz, which.

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<v Speaker 2>Was a federal penitentiary.

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<v Speaker 1>And inmates, and Alcatraz had either pled guilty or been

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<v Speaker 1>found guilty in jury trials. There are no jury trials

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<v Speaker 1>at this American concentration camp. What we see in the

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<v Speaker 1>comments is the gleam in the eye, the zest for cruelty.

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<v Speaker 1>Look at the insanity in Steven Miller's eyes as he

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<v Speaker 1>talks about the people who would be sent there.

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<v Speaker 2>They are invaders.

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<v Speaker 3>There have been repeated, multiple attempts by violent criminal aliens

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<v Speaker 3>and cartel thugs to escape iceed attention individuals who present

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<v Speaker 3>a clear and present danger to public safety. Under President

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<v Speaker 3>Trump's leadership, we are targeting eight foreign terrorist organizations, including

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<v Speaker 3>six Mexican drug cartels that threaten the foreign that they're in,

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<v Speaker 3>the foreign policy, the public safety, the national security of

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<v Speaker 3>the United States. These are dangerous, ruthless organizations. A facility

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<v Speaker 3>like this ensures the security of the officers who work there,

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<v Speaker 3>and ensures the security of the public lest there be

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<v Speaker 3>in a tempted jail break. And again we are dealing

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<v Speaker 3>with the worst of the worst, and most heinous of

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<v Speaker 3>the most heinous.

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<v Speaker 1>They are illegal aliens, they are terrorists, and they are criminals.

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<v Speaker 1>Well for Santa Monica gobels. One man's gardener may certainly

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<v Speaker 1>be another's terrorist. But let's be clear about something. We

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<v Speaker 1>are departing from a most American sensibility that the accusation

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<v Speaker 1>of being a terrorist does not make you a terrorist

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<v Speaker 1>in the United States, even when it comes from a

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<v Speaker 1>man terrorizing people from his lofty position of power and

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<v Speaker 1>privilege in the White House. In America, we have laws

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<v Speaker 1>not concentration camps. Until yesterday when we saw the grotesque

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<v Speaker 1>and hideous site of an American president standing there filled

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<v Speaker 1>with rage and self pity, swearing, losing composure and control,

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<v Speaker 1>foam matting, division stealing rage. Here's his comment on that

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<v Speaker 1>son of a Providen.

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<v Speaker 2>Biden wanted me in here. Okay, he wanted me. It

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<v Speaker 2>didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here.

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<v Speaker 1>Senator, I have a question, shouldn't we just kill the invaders?

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<v Speaker 2>Why all the expense.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe someone in the media should ask Stephen Miller about

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<v Speaker 1>their humanity, if they're less than above animals below equal

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<v Speaker 1>to I don't think Stephen Miller would have a problem

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<v Speaker 1>lining these people up against the wall and giving the

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<v Speaker 1>order at all. And I don't think he's alone. I

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<v Speaker 1>think that that's a singular lesson of these last ten years,

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<v Speaker 1>as we have journeyed down the river together. So there

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<v Speaker 1>is a concentration camp open in Florida. It is the

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<v Speaker 1>American doc how it is Trump's first, but it won't

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<v Speaker 1>be his last. And they are thrilled with it. Ron DeSantis,

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<v Speaker 1>the Florida Attorney General. And one day, many years from now,

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<v Speaker 1>and this is a national park attraction, a monument to

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<v Speaker 1>the evil unleashed in this era, with lessons for our

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<v Speaker 1>descendants about how it is not to be repeated, with

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<v Speaker 1>markers about the people who stood up to it. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>remember this in a country, it is a free society.

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<v Speaker 1>This is unacceptable these massed agents are unacceptable. This is

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<v Speaker 1>not law. This is state thuggery. This is not law

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<v Speaker 1>in order, this is state terrorism. In the United States

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<v Speaker 1>of America, there must never be masked, badgeless secret police

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<v Speaker 1>with a remit to snatch anyone ever, at any time.

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<v Speaker 2>Never.

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<v Speaker 1>Yet here we are. It's happening. We must oppose it.

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<v Speaker 1>We must march against it if necessary, we must engage

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<v Speaker 1>in civil disobedience if necessary.

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<v Speaker 2>But we must oppose it. And we must.

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<v Speaker 1>Understand that as we celebrate this July fourth. The cause

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<v Speaker 1>of America was always about much more than American independence

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<v Speaker 1>and sovereignty. The cause became about freedom, and that is

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<v Speaker 1>what must be defended. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you.