1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: What Donald Trump says in this story is he will 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: tanks and humvey's all over the country. He will build 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents. 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be 6 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: monitored by the state. All of it will be scrutinized 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: by the state, by America's first dictator. Because Time magazine 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: went tomorrow lago and they asked the most important question 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: that anybody has asked in twenty twenty four and the 10 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: answer they god is a repudiation of the United States. 11 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told 12 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: us what is coming. We must stop this. It is 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: April thirtieth, twenty twenty four, and there are one hundred 14 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: and eighty nine days left until the presidential election of 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:07,839 Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four. April thirtieth is an important day 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: in American history. It is the day the Vietnam War 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: ended April thirtieth, nineteen seventy five, forty nine years ago. Today, 18 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: these scenes of chaos will long linger in the imagination 19 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: of the generation of Americans who fought in the war, 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: who protested in the war, whose generation was defined by it. 21 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: In Washington, d c. The names of the fifty eight 22 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: thousand dead are etched into a black marble wall. In Vietnam, 23 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: more than a million were killed. Today, Vietnam is one 24 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: of the youngest nations on Earth, and for young Vietnamese 25 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: born in nineteen eighty or after, they are the first 26 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: generation in one thousand years who was born into peace. 27 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: Vietnam is a strategically vital, an important American partner in 28 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: the South China Sea. Relationship between our countries is important 29 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: to understand. This is a tragic history that is important 30 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: to know when you look out at American life today 31 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: and ponder the collapse of trust and institutions, cynicism. All 32 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: of it is born from a lie told to the 33 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: American people by the best and the brightest, who sent 34 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: them to war, poor black, poor brown, poor white, to 35 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: a war on the other side of the world that 36 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: they knew could not be one. It is one of 37 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: the most shameful chapters in American history. And if you 38 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: see a Vietnam veteran, and these guys are increasingly old now, 39 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: a lot of them in wheelchairs going to Washington, DC, 40 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: to look at the wall. If you're my age in 41 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: American life fifty three, you don't tend to think of 42 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: Vietnam veterans as the old guys because they were our parents. 43 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: But the truth is, most Vietnam veterans now are pushing 44 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: eighty years old, and some are even older. This was 45 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: a space filled not so long ago by World War 46 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: II veterans, but they're mostly all gone now. Just a 47 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: few will be alive to be present at the ceremonies 48 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: in D Day commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation, 49 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: But the overwhelming majority of old veterans combat veterans in 50 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: the country wearing the hats that you'll see are Vietnam veterans, 51 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: and they were not welcomed home in nineteen seventy five. 52 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: We're nineteen seventy we're nineteen sixty eight. So when you 53 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: see a Vietnam veteran, it's appropriate to go up and 54 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: to say thank you, and to say to them, no 55 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: matter how old you are, welcome home. They'll appreciate it. 56 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: There is a fundamental question at hand in America, and 57 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: it is one that has not talked often enough about. 58 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: Part of it is the structure of politics in Washington, 59 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: d c. Which, for most of the life of the 60 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: country and certainly for the last fifty years in the 61 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,559 Speaker 1: federal capital, was built on a presumption of good faith. 62 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: It's why people with disagreement could be good friends. There's 63 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: a very famous illustration of this. Daniel in Away was 64 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: the longtime Democratic senator from the state of Hawaii, one 65 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: of the longest serving in American history, and a recipient 66 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: of the Medal of Honor when in a way was 67 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: recovering after World War Two. He did so for years, 68 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: and he shared a room with two men, both of whom, 69 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: like him, would also become United States senators. With Daniel 70 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: in Away passed away, His flag drab casket lay under 71 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: the capital rotunda. It was flanked by a cordon of 72 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: me military guard is befitting a recipient of the Medal 73 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: of Honor. And then something remarkable happened. The crowd began 74 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: to part a little bit. An old man in a 75 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: wheelchair was being pushed towards Daniel Ineway's casket. It was 76 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: Bob Dole. When he got to those court on ropes, 77 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: Bob Dole said, Danny wouldn't want to see me sitting 78 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: in this wheelchair, and he struggled to get to his feet, 79 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: and Bob Dole, the Republican nominee for President and Vice President, 80 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: the Republican Senate majority leader, with his only good arm 81 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: his left, saluted the casket of his brother, who he loved, 82 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: his fierce political opponent, his comrade in arms, his fellow American. 83 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: We had a generation that were not able to look 84 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: at each other as enemies in America because they had 85 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: looked into the eyes of real enemies and knew what 86 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: the stakes were. This past weekend was White House Correspondence 87 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: Day weekend, and there is an annual garden brunch that 88 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: attracts senior military leaders, members of Congress, diplomats, reporters, political consultants, 89 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: and all of the nation's most powerful people politically in 90 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: There in the crowd, of course, in Washington was Kelly 91 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: and Conway. But Kellyanne Conway isn't at that brunch as 92 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: part of some respectable, disagreeing opposition. Kelly and Conway is 93 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: at that lunch as a member of a fascist vanguard, 94 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: and she is there in good standing. Nobody seems to mind, 95 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: nobody seems to care. Eric Cordlessa is a reporter for 96 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: Time magazine, and he did something unusual and long overdue. 97 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is that regarding the space 98 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: time continuum, the overwhelming majority of American media focuses in 99 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: the immediate present and the immediate passed. And by immediate past, 100 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: I mean the last five minutes. We rarely talk about 101 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: what's next, and that used to be the entirety of 102 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: what a presidential election was, about what's going to happen next. 103 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: There are a few questions that are ever asked of 104 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Donald Trump's supporters hypothetically of course, because 105 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: he's not in power yet, about what it is that 106 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: he will do. Nine years ago, when it began, it 107 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: was preposterous declarations. But benign, I'm going to build a 108 00:07:55,320 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: wall in Mexico will pay for it. Well, I'm going 109 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: to crack an egg and a blue hippopotamus will jump 110 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: out of it. Saying things does not make it so. 111 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: But eight years have passed since Donald Trump came down 112 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: the escalator, eight long years, and here in the ninth year, 113 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has a plan. This is so important to understand. 114 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: There was no Republican platform at the last Republican convention. 115 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: Besides the mandate and requirement the party imposed around being 116 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: loyal to Donald Trump. The party's platform had degenerated from 117 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: political positions and philosophies to an oath of loyalty around 118 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: a man. But it's not true that Donald Trump doesn't 119 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: have anymore. It's not true that he doesn't have an agenda. 120 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: It's not true that he doesn't have a vision. He does. 121 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: And Time Magazine went tomorrow a lago, Time Magazine sat 122 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 1: down with Donald Trump and asked him the questions that 123 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: no one else asks, what will you do if you 124 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: get elected again? And there is an important corollary, my friends, 125 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: to this vital question, because really that question is what 126 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: are your plans for us to do to us, the 127 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: American people, to the United States. I'm going to read 128 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: a couple of paragraphs. Now, think about this, contemplate this deeply. 129 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: This is what the election is about. It's not about 130 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's age, It's not about anything other than this 131 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: plan that I'm going to read to you. Because this 132 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: is a plan that will subvert liberty and freedom in 133 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: the United States. I want you to think about living 134 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: in a country where there are hundreds of thousands of 135 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: armed soldiers on the streets, in tanks, in humbies, in 136 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: armored personnel carriers. Let's be clear about something when we 137 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: talk about Trump's use of the National Guard in the 138 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: context of what I'm about to read you, the National 139 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: Guard is frequently deployed in disasters. That's often how we 140 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: think about the National Guard. But the National Guard is 141 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: a vital component of the US Army. Its members are 142 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: trained American soldiers, and they are lethal. National Guard units 143 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are military units. 144 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: They are not police units, and they are trained to kill. 145 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: And they have no place, no business in the United 146 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: States of America enforcing law, whether it be immigration law, 147 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: whether it be city code, whether it be criminal code 148 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: in Chicago or Detroit, or New York or wherever else 149 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump plans to deploy them. This is a free nation, 150 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: and free nations do not have an armed legion on 151 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: the street kitted up for urban combat. No, not in 152 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: the United States of America. And when I read these 153 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: next words to you, pay attention from Time magazine written 154 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: by Eric cordlessa dateline Palm Beach, Florida. I bring up 155 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: the many former cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump 156 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: this time. Some of public warrant that he poses a 157 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: danger to the republic. Why should voters trust you, I asked, 158 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: when some of the people who observed you most closely 159 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: do not. As always, Trump punches back, denigrating his former 160 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: top advisors. But beneath the typical torrent of invective, there 161 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: is a larger lesson he has taken away. Quote I 162 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: let them quit because I have a heart. I don't 163 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: want to embarrass anybody. End quote, Trump says, quote I 164 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: don't think I'll do that again from now on. A fire. 165 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: I wanted to know what Trump would do if he 166 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: wins a second term, to hear his vision for the 167 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: nation in his own words. What emerged in two interviews 168 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of 169 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: his closest advisors and confidants were the outlines of an 170 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in 171 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to 172 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: remove more than eleven million people from the country, Trump 173 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: told me he would be willing to build migrant detention 174 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: camps and deploy the US military both at the border 175 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies 176 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: and prosecute those who violate abortion bands. He would, at 177 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: his personal discretion withhold funds appropriated by Congress. According to 178 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: top advisors, he would be willing to fire a US 179 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: attorney who doesn't carry out his orders to prosecute someone 180 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates 181 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one 182 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: of his supporters accused of attacking the US capital on 183 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one, more than eight hundred of 184 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. 185 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: He might not come to the aid of an attacked 186 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country 187 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut 188 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: the US Civil Service, deploy the National Guard to American cities. 189 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: He's fit clothes the White House Pandemic Preparedness Office, and 190 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: staff his administration with acolytes who believe his false assertion 191 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: that the twenty twenty election was stolen. Helly and Conway says, 192 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: I don't think it's a big mystery what his agenda 193 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: would be, but I think people will be surprised at 194 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: the alacrity with which he will take action. I think 195 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: it's very important for the American people to understand something. 196 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: What I just read is a recipe of blueprint for 197 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: dictatorship in the United States of America. That is what 198 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will attempt to be. And he is surrounded 199 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: by a gaggle, a coterie of sickophants, disordered personalities, psychopaths, 200 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists, petty criminals, sexual abusers, and the list goes on. 201 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: What Donald Trump says in this story is he will 202 00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and 203 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: tanks and humvy's all over the country. He will build 204 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents. 205 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be 206 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: monitored by the state. And I have news for women 207 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: who watch this. If your pregnancies are going to be 208 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: monitored by the government, then so too will your birth control, 209 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: your iud's, your birth control pills, all of it will 210 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: be scrutinized by the state, by America's first dictator. Because 211 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: Time magazine went tomorrow a lago and they ask the 212 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: most important question that anybody has asked in twenty twenty, 213 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: and the answer they got is a repudiation of the 214 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: United States, of the founding fathers, of Abraham Lincoln, of 215 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: the Gettysburg Address, of Franklin Roosevelt, of John Kennedy, of 216 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan. What they got is a promise to tear 217 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: down America, tear down the Constitution, burn the Declaration of Independence, 218 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: and make Donald Trump America's first caesar. This is one 219 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: of the most important editions of Time magazine that has 220 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: ever been published, and that's saying a great deal. Donald 221 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told us 222 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: what is coming. We must stop this. These are the 223 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: critical mass of people necessary to create not just a 224 00:16:53,680 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: national disaster, but a global one. Vladimir Putin will continue 225 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: his war that has already breached half a million casualties, 226 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,719 Speaker 1: and it will spread into Europe, and with each step 227 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 1: that it takes moving west, it will come closer to 228 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: the United States. And then one day the first young 229 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: American will be planted into the grounds, one more addition 230 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: to the gardens of stone in American cemeteries all over 231 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: the world. His casket will be lowered, draped under an 232 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: American flag dead, killed in action, a war that we 233 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: should never have been involved in, but will come because 234 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: of Trump. Do you like the idea of somebody who 235 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: dares to speak in the United States of America, who 236 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: asserts a position of conscious or opinion about anything, should 237 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: be locked up by Trump if he doesn't like how 238 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,120 Speaker 1: you look, how you think that you dare to pose him? 239 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: What about the millions of Americans out there who spoke 240 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: against Trump, who sent out a tweet about Trump? Will 241 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: they be harassed, will they be targeted, will they be audited? 242 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: Will the reporters be arrested? I documented carefully and thoroughly 243 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: yesterday the attack on a Politico reporter by a US 244 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: Catholic bishop. Most of the media is fixated on the 245 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: fight between the New York Times and Politico. What the 246 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: media in America should be focused on is the power 247 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: of Leonard Leo to orchestrate state attorney generals and a 248 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: Catholic bishop to attack a reporter reporting on the public interest, 249 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: scrutinizing some of the most powerful people in the country. Because, 250 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: understand this, in the next Trump era, according to his promises, 251 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: those reporters, those activists, everybody who opposes Trump is at 252 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: risk to be prosecuted, have their lives destroyed to get 253 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: in line behind Trump. Who will stand up to the intimidation, 254 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: Who will defy it, Who will lay in front of 255 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: the tanks at the gates, Who will oppose a plan 256 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: which is laid out, which is ready to take power 257 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: in America and destroy the checks and balances. All of 258 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: this is on paper, it is real, it is happening, 259 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 1: and the simple fact of the matter is this. If 260 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: the election were tomorrow, Donald Trump would win. That's today's warning. 261 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: The country's at stake, and we all better wake up 262 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: to that fact before it's too late. I'm Steve Schmidt. 263 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 264 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our sub stack on our YouTube channel, follow us. 265 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community.