Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, July second, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: This is the morning two.
Speaker 1: Hundred and forty nine years ago. Today the world changed forever.
Speaker 1: The Lee Resolution was passed in the Continental Congress, and
Speaker 1: it declared that the United States of America should be independent.
Speaker 1: It was this day that John Adams thought would be
Speaker 1: the one that was celebrated in the United States forevermore.
Speaker 2: He was off by two days.
Speaker 1: It was the fourth, on the day when the Declaration
Speaker 1: of Independence was signed, that the American people recall and celebrate.
Speaker 1: And so today we will and truly enter into the
Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Republic the United
Speaker 1: States of America. At the moment the smoke cleared enough
Speaker 1: to see the white flags flying over the British lines
Speaker 1: at your town, the Marquis de Lafayette, the young Frenchman
Speaker 1: in command of American troops there, a man who would name.
Speaker 2: His son George Washington.
Speaker 1: Lafayette, knew the war had been won, the revolution was over,
Speaker 1: and he cried out, Humanity has its victory, liberty has
Speaker 1: its country.
Speaker 2: And so the story of.
Speaker 1: America over those two hundred and fifty years of time
Speaker 1: is uneven.
Speaker 2: But we get confused.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when we ponder an expanse of time beyond a
Speaker 1: single human lifetime, we lose how close events that exist outside.
Speaker 2: Of our space are to our lifetimes.
Speaker 1: It's the remarkable fact that the tenth President of the
Speaker 1: United States, John Tyler born in seventeen ninety.
Speaker 2: One, has a living grandson.
Speaker 1: He's in his nineties, but his grandfather served in the
Speaker 1: Confederate Congress after being elected tenth president, born while Washington
Speaker 1: was in his first term. Incredible, and it is incredible
Speaker 1: to consider the words of a Martin Luther King when
Speaker 1: he shared his dream when you look at the images
Speaker 1: of righteous protest of moral movements that declared we the
Speaker 1: people means all the people, and that freedom, that liberty
Speaker 1: is not a franchise for some. We have seen in
Speaker 1: the world terrible evil manifest itself. There is no evil
Speaker 1: like the evil that manifests through a declaration by the
Speaker 1: few that they are superior genetically, racially, intellectually, the day
Speaker 1: are to be kings and the rest of us are
Speaker 1: to be serfs. What comes from that is terrible abuses
Speaker 1: of power. And so let me say something to all
Speaker 1: of you, on the eve of the greatest force for
Speaker 1: good in world histories.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and forty ninth birthday.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Donald Trump and Christina, who, by the way, stood
Speaker 1: in front of cages of desperate human beings and an
Speaker 1: El Salvadoran concentration camp opened an American concentration camp which
Speaker 1: has been dubbed in a culture that fetishizes cruelty, that
Speaker 1: promulgates it on right wing propaganda alyts like Fox News.
Speaker 1: They've named it Alligator Alcatraz, But that's unfair to Alcatraz, which.
Speaker 2: Was a federal penitentiary.
Speaker 1: And inmates, and Alcatraz had either pled guilty or been
Speaker 1: found guilty in jury trials. There are no jury trials
Speaker 1: at this American concentration camp. What we see in the
Speaker 1: comments is the gleam in the eye, the zest for cruelty.
Speaker 1: Look at the insanity in Steven Miller's eyes as he
Speaker 1: talks about the people who would be sent there.
Speaker 2: They are invaders.
Speaker 3: There have been repeated, multiple attempts by violent criminal aliens
Speaker 3: and cartel thugs to escape iceed attention individuals who present
Speaker 3: a clear and present danger to public safety. Under President
Speaker 3: Trump's leadership, we are targeting eight foreign terrorist organizations, including
Speaker 3: six Mexican drug cartels that threaten the foreign that they're in,
Speaker 3: the foreign policy, the public safety, the national security of
Speaker 3: the United States. These are dangerous, ruthless organizations. A facility
Speaker 3: like this ensures the security of the officers who work there,
Speaker 3: and ensures the security of the public lest there be
Speaker 3: in a tempted jail break. And again we are dealing
Speaker 3: with the worst of the worst, and most heinous of
Speaker 3: the most heinous.
Speaker 1: They are illegal aliens, they are terrorists, and they are criminals.
Speaker 1: Well for Santa Monica gobels. One man's gardener may certainly
Speaker 1: be another's terrorist. But let's be clear about something. We
Speaker 1: are departing from a most American sensibility that the accusation
Speaker 1: of being a terrorist does not make you a terrorist
Speaker 1: in the United States, even when it comes from a
Speaker 1: man terrorizing people from his lofty position of power and
Speaker 1: privilege in the White House. In America, we have laws
Speaker 1: not concentration camps. Until yesterday when we saw the grotesque
Speaker 1: and hideous site of an American president standing there filled
Speaker 1: with rage and self pity, swearing, losing composure and control,
Speaker 1: foam matting, division stealing rage. Here's his comment on that
Speaker 1: son of a Providen.
Speaker 2: Biden wanted me in here. Okay, he wanted me. It
Speaker 2: didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here.
Speaker 1: Senator, I have a question, shouldn't we just kill the invaders?
Speaker 2: Why all the expense.
Speaker 1: Maybe someone in the media should ask Stephen Miller about
Speaker 1: their humanity, if they're less than above animals below equal
Speaker 1: to I don't think Stephen Miller would have a problem
Speaker 1: lining these people up against the wall and giving the
Speaker 1: order at all. And I don't think he's alone. I
Speaker 1: think that that's a singular lesson of these last ten years,
Speaker 1: as we have journeyed down the river together. So there
Speaker 1: is a concentration camp open in Florida. It is the
Speaker 1: American doc how it is Trump's first, but it won't
Speaker 1: be his last. And they are thrilled with it. Ron DeSantis,
Speaker 1: the Florida Attorney General. And one day, many years from now,
Speaker 1: and this is a national park attraction, a monument to
Speaker 1: the evil unleashed in this era, with lessons for our
Speaker 1: descendants about how it is not to be repeated, with
Speaker 1: markers about the people who stood up to it. Let's
Speaker 1: remember this in a country, it is a free society.
Speaker 1: This is unacceptable these massed agents are unacceptable. This is
Speaker 1: not law. This is state thuggery. This is not law
Speaker 1: in order, this is state terrorism. In the United States
Speaker 1: of America, there must never be masked, badgeless secret police
Speaker 1: with a remit to snatch anyone ever, at any time.
Speaker 2: Never.
Speaker 1: Yet here we are. It's happening. We must oppose it.
Speaker 1: We must march against it if necessary, we must engage
Speaker 1: in civil disobedience if necessary.
Speaker 2: But we must oppose it. And we must.
Speaker 1: Understand that as we celebrate this July fourth. The cause
Speaker 1: of America was always about much more than American independence
Speaker 1: and sovereignty. The cause became about freedom, and that is
Speaker 1: what must be defended. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community, where I promise
Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt, and direct about what is happening
Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe
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Speaker 2: Thank you.