WEBVTT - REACTION: Donald Trump's Inauguration Speech

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<v Speaker 1>This is the warning sixty years ago. Today, in a

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<v Speaker 1>very different speech on a colder day, standing outside, the

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<v Speaker 1>forty three year old President of the United States, John

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<v Speaker 1>Kennedy said this, so, my fellow Americans, ask not what

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<v Speaker 1>your country can do for you, ask what you can

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<v Speaker 1>do for your country. There are millions of Americans who

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<v Speaker 1>are stunned right now. They are terrified, are broken, angry, saddened.

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<v Speaker 1>And today the forty seventh President of the United States

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<v Speaker 1>uttered the most chilling words that have ever been spoken

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<v Speaker 1>by an American leader. I was saved by God to

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<v Speaker 1>make America great. It is delusional, it is messianic. These

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<v Speaker 1>are the words of a Jim Jones wanna be not

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<v Speaker 1>an American president. This speech was a threat to the

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<v Speaker 1>American way of life, dressed up as a commitment to

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<v Speaker 1>law and order. Donald Trump has promised to use a

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<v Speaker 1>law written in seventeen ninety eight to deploy the American

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<v Speaker 1>military into America's cities to wage war. He talked about

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<v Speaker 1>peace in his speech, but it was a worst speech,

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<v Speaker 1>make no doubt about that. Donald Trump talked about manifest

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<v Speaker 1>destiny deliberately. He talked about an expansionist America. What country

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<v Speaker 1>is it? Donald, that you propose to invade beyond Panama,

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<v Speaker 1>And that was the point of the speech. In the end,

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<v Speaker 1>there were words, of course, and there were promises and commitments,

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<v Speaker 1>none of which will come true. What will be remembered

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<v Speaker 1>from this speech are the faces of the people smiling

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<v Speaker 1>in celebration. The owner of the Washington Post next to

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<v Speaker 1>the Princess Sanchez, Elon Musk, the CEO of Google and

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<v Speaker 1>Mark Zuckerberg, the titans of America's technological power, the leaders

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<v Speaker 1>of the most powerful companies in the history of the world,

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<v Speaker 1>all gathered together not to celebrate democracy, not because they

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<v Speaker 1>share a commitment to justice or to the American people,

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<v Speaker 1>but out of fear and entitlement and opportunity, because they

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<v Speaker 1>realize what is gathered in that room are their fellow takers.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the greatest gathering of takers the American people

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<v Speaker 1>have ever seen, and a season is upon us unlike

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<v Speaker 1>any that has ever been before in the United States.

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<v Speaker 1>The delusional Trump says he comes to office facing challenges

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<v Speaker 1>that are greater than what Lincoln faced, or Washington, or

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<v Speaker 1>John Adams or Franklin Roosevelt. It is absurd. Who will

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<v Speaker 1>be the first American to die to be buried under

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<v Speaker 1>an American flag for Trump's invasion Panama or per usual?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it just bluster or bullshit? It might be a

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<v Speaker 1>good time to reread the book The Guns of August,

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<v Speaker 1>because history teaches us that there is an awful momentum

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<v Speaker 1>to the type of words that Donald Trump spoke today.

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<v Speaker 1>He talked about William McKinley. William McKinley was prodded by

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<v Speaker 1>unethical journalists into waging war in Cuba, manufactured by William

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<v Speaker 1>Randolph Hurst. Back in the day, fake news was called

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<v Speaker 1>yellow journalism. It's alive and well today. It will be

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<v Speaker 1>hard to know what is true and know what is not,

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<v Speaker 1>but that has always been the case. You must use

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<v Speaker 1>your judgment, your eyes, and your ears to appreciate the

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<v Speaker 1>profound disconnect between a man that claims God's grace yet

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<v Speaker 1>who desecrates his faith. What the American people saw today

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<v Speaker 1>was a disaster at the very first instance of its unfolding.

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<v Speaker 1>What Donald Trump is promising, it's not democracy, it's feudalism.

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<v Speaker 1>He is king surrounded by his lords, and all the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of us are to be their serfs. And then

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<v Speaker 1>they will tell us that each of us is a hero.

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<v Speaker 1>In the service of a great cause to a great

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<v Speaker 1>nation that benefits just a few. It's cynical, it won't work,

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<v Speaker 1>it's obvious, and it will fall apart. But it cannot

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<v Speaker 1>fall apart until and unless there is an opposition with

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<v Speaker 1>a conviction and an instinct to celebrate this country and

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<v Speaker 1>argue for better by reaching for our values and communicating

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<v Speaker 1>there's a better way, it will become obvious that this

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<v Speaker 1>is not a golden age descending upon us, but a

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<v Speaker 1>season of unrequited corruption, time of chast mayhem, vanity, and venality.

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<v Speaker 1>Nobody with any common sense will think after hearing this

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<v Speaker 1>anything other than my God, what have we done? But

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<v Speaker 1>we have done it. Trump's mandate is thin. He won

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<v Speaker 1>election with forty nine point nine percent of the vote,

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<v Speaker 1>and even in an inaugural address, his ego is so brittle,

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<v Speaker 1>so thin, he can't stop talking about it, can't stop

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<v Speaker 1>grasping for himself. And so Donald Trump is late a

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<v Speaker 1>trapped in this inaugural speech. The American people don't want

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<v Speaker 1>the interest group politics, and they don't want to live

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<v Speaker 1>in the wuktopia. They have rejected it, and Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>has chummed the waters. He has done what he has

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<v Speaker 1>needed to do to make sure that the most extreme

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<v Speaker 1>element of the Democratic Party is the first to the

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<v Speaker 1>line in opposition, h that they are opposing the most

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<v Speaker 1>popular parts of his agenda, while he gets a free

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<v Speaker 1>hand to carry out the most unpopular ones. The game

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<v Speaker 1>never gets old, at least for Trump, who constantly wins

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<v Speaker 1>at this. You can't fix stupid, as they say, and

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<v Speaker 1>I worry about that. This is a moment that will

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<v Speaker 1>require a fierceness in the opposition, requires political leaders in

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<v Speaker 1>this country to go out and to say to the

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<v Speaker 1>Canadian people, to the Danish people, to the Panamanian people,

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<v Speaker 1>to our allies all over the world, we will not

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<v Speaker 1>let American power be turned against you in the name

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<v Speaker 1>of Donald Trump's sick and twisted vision about our expansion.

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<v Speaker 1>The United States of America is not Putin's Russia. We

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<v Speaker 1>will not see conquest. The American people will not tolerate it.

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<v Speaker 1>And that so many stood and cheered under the Capitol

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<v Speaker 1>rotunda that was invaded and desecrated by the mob Trump

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<v Speaker 1>sent there just four short years ago is a sign

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<v Speaker 1>of the national sickness that Trump's inaugural address perfectly represented.

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<v Speaker 1>And yet there is a cure it is the idea

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<v Speaker 1>that we are better than this. We are Soon Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump will set about doing the things that he has

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<v Speaker 1>said he will do. He makes it all seem easy

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<v Speaker 1>with his breezy confidences and his assertions, but all of

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<v Speaker 1>them are based on a delusion that when something is dropped,

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<v Speaker 1>it rises as opposed to falling. And what Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is dropping are our values, our history, our legacy. He

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<v Speaker 1>told a story about America today that was mythological. It's

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<v Speaker 1>nice to hear myth sometimes it can even be inspiring.

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<v Speaker 1>But through the myth, it's important to hear the threat,

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<v Speaker 1>and that threat was loud and clear today. Millions of

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<v Speaker 1>Americans won't be cheering for this for very long. Mark

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<v Speaker 1>my words on that. The future, we don't know what

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<v Speaker 1>it will bring, but I'm gonna make a prediction. Four

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<v Speaker 1>years from today, should this speech be played back, people

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<v Speaker 1>will either laugh out loud or cry out loud, and

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<v Speaker 1>that will all depend on how deep the pit is

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<v Speaker 1>that we find ourselves in after the tragedy that's coming

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<v Speaker 1>fully arrives. Let's not forget the lesson. It has been

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<v Speaker 1>a most painful one. On a sad day. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the warning I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and

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