Speaker 1: What Donald Trump says in this story is he will
Speaker 1: deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and
Speaker 1: tanks and humvey's all over the country. He will build
Speaker 1: massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be
Speaker 1: monitored by the state. All of it will be scrutinized
Speaker 1: by the state, by America's first dictator. Because Time magazine
Speaker 1: went tomorrow lago and they asked the most important question
Speaker 1: that anybody has asked in twenty twenty four and the
Speaker 1: answer they god is a repudiation of the United States.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told
Speaker 1: us what is coming. We must stop this. It is
Speaker 1: April thirtieth, twenty twenty four, and there are one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty nine days left until the presidential election of
Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four. April thirtieth is an important day
Speaker 1: in American history. It is the day the Vietnam War
Speaker 1: ended April thirtieth, nineteen seventy five, forty nine years ago. Today,
Speaker 1: these scenes of chaos will long linger in the imagination
Speaker 1: of the generation of Americans who fought in the war,
Speaker 1: who protested in the war, whose generation was defined by it.
Speaker 1: In Washington, d c. The names of the fifty eight
Speaker 1: thousand dead are etched into a black marble wall. In Vietnam,
Speaker 1: more than a million were killed. Today, Vietnam is one
Speaker 1: of the youngest nations on Earth, and for young Vietnamese
Speaker 1: born in nineteen eighty or after, they are the first
Speaker 1: generation in one thousand years who was born into peace.
Speaker 1: Vietnam is a strategically vital, an important American partner in
Speaker 1: the South China Sea. Relationship between our countries is important
Speaker 1: to understand. This is a tragic history that is important
Speaker 1: to know when you look out at American life today
Speaker 1: and ponder the collapse of trust and institutions, cynicism. All
Speaker 1: of it is born from a lie told to the
Speaker 1: American people by the best and the brightest, who sent
Speaker 1: them to war, poor black, poor brown, poor white, to
Speaker 1: a war on the other side of the world that
Speaker 1: they knew could not be one. It is one of
Speaker 1: the most shameful chapters in American history. And if you
Speaker 1: see a Vietnam veteran, and these guys are increasingly old now,
Speaker 1: a lot of them in wheelchairs going to Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: to look at the wall. If you're my age in
Speaker 1: American life fifty three, you don't tend to think of
Speaker 1: Vietnam veterans as the old guys because they were our parents.
Speaker 1: But the truth is, most Vietnam veterans now are pushing
Speaker 1: eighty years old, and some are even older. This was
Speaker 1: a space filled not so long ago by World War
Speaker 1: II veterans, but they're mostly all gone now. Just a
Speaker 1: few will be alive to be present at the ceremonies
Speaker 1: in D Day commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation,
Speaker 1: But the overwhelming majority of old veterans combat veterans in
Speaker 1: the country wearing the hats that you'll see are Vietnam veterans,
Speaker 1: and they were not welcomed home in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: We're nineteen seventy we're nineteen sixty eight. So when you
Speaker 1: see a Vietnam veteran, it's appropriate to go up and
Speaker 1: to say thank you, and to say to them, no
Speaker 1: matter how old you are, welcome home. They'll appreciate it.
Speaker 1: There is a fundamental question at hand in America, and
Speaker 1: it is one that has not talked often enough about.
Speaker 1: Part of it is the structure of politics in Washington,
Speaker 1: d c. Which, for most of the life of the
Speaker 1: country and certainly for the last fifty years in the
Speaker 1: federal capital, was built on a presumption of good faith.
Speaker 1: It's why people with disagreement could be good friends. There's
Speaker 1: a very famous illustration of this. Daniel in Away was
Speaker 1: the longtime Democratic senator from the state of Hawaii, one
Speaker 1: of the longest serving in American history, and a recipient
Speaker 1: of the Medal of Honor when in a way was
Speaker 1: recovering after World War Two. He did so for years,
Speaker 1: and he shared a room with two men, both of whom,
Speaker 1: like him, would also become United States senators. With Daniel
Speaker 1: in Away passed away, His flag drab casket lay under
Speaker 1: the capital rotunda. It was flanked by a cordon of
Speaker 1: me military guard is befitting a recipient of the Medal
Speaker 1: of Honor. And then something remarkable happened. The crowd began
Speaker 1: to part a little bit. An old man in a
Speaker 1: wheelchair was being pushed towards Daniel Ineway's casket. It was
Speaker 1: Bob Dole. When he got to those court on ropes,
Speaker 1: Bob Dole said, Danny wouldn't want to see me sitting
Speaker 1: in this wheelchair, and he struggled to get to his feet,
Speaker 1: and Bob Dole, the Republican nominee for President and Vice President,
Speaker 1: the Republican Senate majority leader, with his only good arm
Speaker 1: his left, saluted the casket of his brother, who he loved,
Speaker 1: his fierce political opponent, his comrade in arms, his fellow American.
Speaker 1: We had a generation that were not able to look
Speaker 1: at each other as enemies in America because they had
Speaker 1: looked into the eyes of real enemies and knew what
Speaker 1: the stakes were. This past weekend was White House Correspondence
Speaker 1: Day weekend, and there is an annual garden brunch that
Speaker 1: attracts senior military leaders, members of Congress, diplomats, reporters, political consultants,
Speaker 1: and all of the nation's most powerful people politically in
Speaker 1: There in the crowd, of course, in Washington was Kelly
Speaker 1: and Conway. But Kellyanne Conway isn't at that brunch as
Speaker 1: part of some respectable, disagreeing opposition. Kelly and Conway is
Speaker 1: at that lunch as a member of a fascist vanguard,
Speaker 1: and she is there in good standing. Nobody seems to mind,
Speaker 1: nobody seems to care. Eric Cordlessa is a reporter for
Speaker 1: Time magazine, and he did something unusual and long overdue.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is that regarding the space
Speaker 1: time continuum, the overwhelming majority of American media focuses in
Speaker 1: the immediate present and the immediate passed. And by immediate past,
Speaker 1: I mean the last five minutes. We rarely talk about
Speaker 1: what's next, and that used to be the entirety of
Speaker 1: what a presidential election was, about what's going to happen next.
Speaker 1: There are a few questions that are ever asked of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Donald Trump's supporters hypothetically of course, because
Speaker 1: he's not in power yet, about what it is that
Speaker 1: he will do. Nine years ago, when it began, it
Speaker 1: was preposterous declarations. But benign, I'm going to build a
Speaker 1: wall in Mexico will pay for it. Well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to crack an egg and a blue hippopotamus will jump
Speaker 1: out of it. Saying things does not make it so.
Speaker 1: But eight years have passed since Donald Trump came down
Speaker 1: the escalator, eight long years, and here in the ninth year,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has a plan. This is so important to understand.
Speaker 1: There was no Republican platform at the last Republican convention.
Speaker 1: Besides the mandate and requirement the party imposed around being
Speaker 1: loyal to Donald Trump. The party's platform had degenerated from
Speaker 1: political positions and philosophies to an oath of loyalty around
Speaker 1: a man. But it's not true that Donald Trump doesn't
Speaker 1: have anymore. It's not true that he doesn't have an agenda.
Speaker 1: It's not true that he doesn't have a vision. He does.
Speaker 1: And Time Magazine went tomorrow a lago, Time Magazine sat
Speaker 1: down with Donald Trump and asked him the questions that
Speaker 1: no one else asks, what will you do if you
Speaker 1: get elected again? And there is an important corollary, my friends,
Speaker 1: to this vital question, because really that question is what
Speaker 1: are your plans for us to do to us, the
Speaker 1: American people, to the United States. I'm going to read
Speaker 1: a couple of paragraphs. Now, think about this, contemplate this deeply.
Speaker 1: This is what the election is about. It's not about
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's age, It's not about anything other than this
Speaker 1: plan that I'm going to read to you. Because this
Speaker 1: is a plan that will subvert liberty and freedom in
Speaker 1: the United States. I want you to think about living
Speaker 1: in a country where there are hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: armed soldiers on the streets, in tanks, in humbies, in
Speaker 1: armored personnel carriers. Let's be clear about something when we
Speaker 1: talk about Trump's use of the National Guard in the
Speaker 1: context of what I'm about to read you, the National
Speaker 1: Guard is frequently deployed in disasters. That's often how we
Speaker 1: think about the National Guard. But the National Guard is
Speaker 1: a vital component of the US Army. Its members are
Speaker 1: trained American soldiers, and they are lethal. National Guard units
Speaker 1: served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are military units.
Speaker 1: They are not police units, and they are trained to kill.
Speaker 1: And they have no place, no business in the United
Speaker 1: States of America enforcing law, whether it be immigration law,
Speaker 1: whether it be city code, whether it be criminal code
Speaker 1: in Chicago or Detroit, or New York or wherever else
Speaker 1: Donald Trump plans to deploy them. This is a free nation,
Speaker 1: and free nations do not have an armed legion on
Speaker 1: the street kitted up for urban combat. No, not in
Speaker 1: the United States of America. And when I read these
Speaker 1: next words to you, pay attention from Time magazine written
Speaker 1: by Eric cordlessa dateline Palm Beach, Florida. I bring up
Speaker 1: the many former cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump
Speaker 1: this time. Some of public warrant that he poses a
Speaker 1: danger to the republic. Why should voters trust you, I asked,
Speaker 1: when some of the people who observed you most closely
Speaker 1: do not. As always, Trump punches back, denigrating his former
Speaker 1: top advisors. But beneath the typical torrent of invective, there
Speaker 1: is a larger lesson he has taken away. Quote I
Speaker 1: let them quit because I have a heart. I don't
Speaker 1: want to embarrass anybody. End quote, Trump says, quote I
Speaker 1: don't think I'll do that again from now on. A fire.
Speaker 1: I wanted to know what Trump would do if he
Speaker 1: wins a second term, to hear his vision for the
Speaker 1: nation in his own words. What emerged in two interviews
Speaker 1: with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of
Speaker 1: his closest advisors and confidants were the outlines of an
Speaker 1: imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in
Speaker 1: the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to
Speaker 1: remove more than eleven million people from the country, Trump
Speaker 1: told me he would be willing to build migrant detention
Speaker 1: camps and deploy the US military both at the border
Speaker 1: and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies
Speaker 1: and prosecute those who violate abortion bands. He would, at
Speaker 1: his personal discretion withhold funds appropriated by Congress. According to
Speaker 1: top advisors, he would be willing to fire a US
Speaker 1: attorney who doesn't carry out his orders to prosecute someone
Speaker 1: breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates
Speaker 1: from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one
Speaker 1: of his supporters accused of attacking the US capital on
Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one, more than eight hundred of
Speaker 1: whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury.
Speaker 1: He might not come to the aid of an attacked
Speaker 1: ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country
Speaker 1: wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut
Speaker 1: the US Civil Service, deploy the National Guard to American cities.
Speaker 1: He's fit clothes the White House Pandemic Preparedness Office, and
Speaker 1: staff his administration with acolytes who believe his false assertion
Speaker 1: that the twenty twenty election was stolen. Helly and Conway says,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a big mystery what his agenda
Speaker 1: would be, but I think people will be surprised at
Speaker 1: the alacrity with which he will take action. I think
Speaker 1: it's very important for the American people to understand something.
Speaker 1: What I just read is a recipe of blueprint for
Speaker 1: dictatorship in the United States of America. That is what
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will attempt to be. And he is surrounded
Speaker 1: by a gaggle, a coterie of sickophants, disordered personalities, psychopaths,
Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists, petty criminals, sexual abusers, and the list goes on.
Speaker 1: What Donald Trump says in this story is he will
Speaker 1: deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and
Speaker 1: tanks and humvy's all over the country. He will build
Speaker 1: massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be
Speaker 1: monitored by the state. And I have news for women
Speaker 1: who watch this. If your pregnancies are going to be
Speaker 1: monitored by the government, then so too will your birth control,
Speaker 1: your iud's, your birth control pills, all of it will
Speaker 1: be scrutinized by the state, by America's first dictator. Because
Speaker 1: Time magazine went tomorrow a lago and they ask the
Speaker 1: most important question that anybody has asked in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and the answer they got is a repudiation of the
Speaker 1: United States, of the founding fathers, of Abraham Lincoln, of
Speaker 1: the Gettysburg Address, of Franklin Roosevelt, of John Kennedy, of
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan. What they got is a promise to tear
Speaker 1: down America, tear down the Constitution, burn the Declaration of Independence,
Speaker 1: and make Donald Trump America's first caesar. This is one
Speaker 1: of the most important editions of Time magazine that has
Speaker 1: ever been published, and that's saying a great deal. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told us
Speaker 1: what is coming. We must stop this. These are the
Speaker 1: critical mass of people necessary to create not just a
Speaker 1: national disaster, but a global one. Vladimir Putin will continue
Speaker 1: his war that has already breached half a million casualties,
Speaker 1: and it will spread into Europe, and with each step
Speaker 1: that it takes moving west, it will come closer to
Speaker 1: the United States. And then one day the first young
Speaker 1: American will be planted into the grounds, one more addition
Speaker 1: to the gardens of stone in American cemeteries all over
Speaker 1: the world. His casket will be lowered, draped under an
Speaker 1: American flag dead, killed in action, a war that we
Speaker 1: should never have been involved in, but will come because
Speaker 1: of Trump. Do you like the idea of somebody who
Speaker 1: dares to speak in the United States of America, who
Speaker 1: asserts a position of conscious or opinion about anything, should
Speaker 1: be locked up by Trump if he doesn't like how
Speaker 1: you look, how you think that you dare to pose him?
Speaker 1: What about the millions of Americans out there who spoke
Speaker 1: against Trump, who sent out a tweet about Trump? Will
Speaker 1: they be harassed, will they be targeted, will they be audited?
Speaker 1: Will the reporters be arrested? I documented carefully and thoroughly
Speaker 1: yesterday the attack on a Politico reporter by a US
Speaker 1: Catholic bishop. Most of the media is fixated on the
Speaker 1: fight between the New York Times and Politico. What the
Speaker 1: media in America should be focused on is the power
Speaker 1: of Leonard Leo to orchestrate state attorney generals and a
Speaker 1: Catholic bishop to attack a reporter reporting on the public interest,
Speaker 1: scrutinizing some of the most powerful people in the country. Because,
Speaker 1: understand this, in the next Trump era, according to his promises,
Speaker 1: those reporters, those activists, everybody who opposes Trump is at
Speaker 1: risk to be prosecuted, have their lives destroyed to get
Speaker 1: in line behind Trump. Who will stand up to the intimidation,
Speaker 1: Who will defy it, Who will lay in front of
Speaker 1: the tanks at the gates, Who will oppose a plan
Speaker 1: which is laid out, which is ready to take power
Speaker 1: in America and destroy the checks and balances. All of
Speaker 1: this is on paper, it is real, it is happening,
Speaker 1: and the simple fact of the matter is this. If
Speaker 1: the election were tomorrow, Donald Trump would win. That's today's warning.
Speaker 1: The country's at stake, and we all better wake up
Speaker 1: to that fact before it's too late. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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