1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Let me ask a question, where does the fall down 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: the hill stop? Where does send them back and and 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: kill them all begin just a few inches away? Now, 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: what we see today is anger and rage, performance and 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: stupidity as a currency for political advancement. Scum Baggery is 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: rocket fuel. A lack of principle is a booster rocket. 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: It is June nineteenth, juneteenth, one hundred and thirty nine 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: days to go until the American people decide freedom or Trump. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 1: This is the warning. The days they're moving quickly now 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: we're into the summer. Two days from now will be 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: the longest day of the year, and then each day 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: a bit shorter until the shortest of the year in December. 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: Between then and now is an election. The American people 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: will decide whether to install Donald Trump into the most 15 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: powerful office in the world, to give him command once 16 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: again of America's nuclear arsenal. Here's the scene from Pyeongyang. 17 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, both ruthless tyrants, have 18 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: pledged mutual defense for one another should they face aggression. 19 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: A new axis is forming North Korea, Russia, Iran. It's dangerous. 20 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: The war in Ukraine has already cost Russian mothers six 21 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: hundred thousand of their sons, and yet in Russian schools 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: the children their training for war against who, against US, Europe, 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: the West. A new cult of militarism has taken root, 24 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: and it is the deadliest type of virus there is. 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: By the middle of the last century, it had killed 26 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: over one hundred million people, and a generation who survived 27 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: these events promised themselves, their children, and their grandchildren that 28 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,919 Speaker 1: they would the world safe. And the United States triumphed 29 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: in the Cold War, and there was a long spring 30 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: of democracy and liberty in peace, a short day of 31 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: Pack's Americana, where the most benign hegemond in history was 32 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: a guaranteur of peace and security in the world. Those 33 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: days are vanishing. Donald Trump is extremely dangerous. He is malevolent, 34 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: He is menacing. His words, when spoken, though often incoherent, 35 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: have meaning, and the meaning is dangerous. One thing that 36 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,119 Speaker 1: is not often talked about is Donald Trump's intellectual decline. 37 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: I want to show you a Capon Collins interview with 38 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: an author who has interviewed Donald Trump more than any 39 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: other person for the last couple of years. Now. I 40 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: want you to listen to what he is saying about 41 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: Trump's incoherence. 42 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 2: He goes from one story to the next. He struggles 43 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 2: with the chronology of events. He seems very upset that 44 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 2: he wasn't respected by certain celebrities in the White House, 45 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: and then he'd go to a story about the Apprentice. So, 46 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: as you know, Caitlin, it's very challenging to interview Donald 47 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: Trump and to go toe to toe with him. But 48 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: there was some cognitive questions about where he was and 49 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 2: what he was thinking, and he would from time to 50 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: time become confused. 51 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 3: Because you wrote at one point about Joan Rivers him 52 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 3: telling you that she voted for him in twenty sixteen. 53 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 3: I believe even. 54 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: Though confidently told me and declared that John Rivers voted 55 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: for him when he ran for president, and John Rivers 56 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 2: died in twenty fourteen. Jon Rivers died in twenty fourteen, 57 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 2: so she would not have been able to vote for 58 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: Donald Trump. 59 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you, because you talked about his memory, you 60 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 3: wrote that you know, in some days out of the 61 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 3: feeling he has no idea who's even talking to that 62 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: he actually forgot or didn't remember that the two of 63 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 3: you had spoken at your first said down interview. 64 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: Right, So my first se down was in May, he 65 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 2: wasn't doing a lot of interviews, and then we sat 66 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 2: down again towards the end of the summer, and when 67 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 2: I sat down, I you know, there was a very 68 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: blank expression on his face. So I asked, you remember 69 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: when we spoke recently, and he said, now, I have 70 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: no memory of that and he couldn't recall. He said 71 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 2: it was a long time ago. And then we had 72 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 2: to start from scratch. So the interview started from square 73 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: one where he was started telling me the same exact 74 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 2: stories that I heard in our first interview. So from 75 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: there then we did more interviews so that we could 76 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 2: cover more ground. But it was a little bit like 77 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: groundhog Day. 78 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 79 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 3: And the Trump campaign responded saying that Trump was aware 80 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 3: of this individual was throughout the interview. But this writer, 81 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 3: this is their words, not mine. I'm just the messenger, 82 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 3: is a nobody, insignificance. Of course, he never made an impression. 83 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: Look at this quote by Stephen Chung. It's not true. 84 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: He's a person, a man, a professional. I can see 85 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: him sitting on CNN. His life has worth and purpose. 86 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: I want to put that statement on a split screen 87 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: against the quote that is inscribed on Ronald Reagan's graves. 88 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: Do you see the difference? Donald Trump does not see 89 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: purpose and worth in any other person's life. He only 90 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: sees purpose and worth when he looks in the mirror, 91 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: when he reflects in the glow of his titanic ego. 92 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: That's a virus, and it can destroy a country. Let 93 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: me show what the quest for power in American politics 94 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: can do to someone's character, what it can do to 95 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: someone's soul, How it can change them. How does any rational, 96 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: psychologically healthy person explain this? Let me show you. Lindsey 97 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: Graham today, venomous, small, angry. 98 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 3: Let's watch him so the next time you hear the 99 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 3: word fellon in this election, I think the felon in 100 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 3: this selection is Joe Biden. What he's doing to the 101 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 3: country is criminal. 102 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: This was Lindsay Graham not so long ago. Let's watch 103 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: him talk about Joe Biden. 104 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 3: He's the nicest person I think I've ever met politics. 105 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 2: Is that right? 106 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 3: He is as good a man as God ever created. 107 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: What crumbled Lindsey Graham's character away like a bone cancer? 108 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: What disintegrated it? Power, the quest for relevance, the spotlight, 109 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: the excitement, the rush. Lindsey Graham's service has always been performative. 110 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: He's a chameleon, blending in a pilot fish, hovering off 111 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: of the predator, couvering, eating its detritus, it's crumbs. This 112 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: is a moment where the country requires patriotism and it 113 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: is being sold a titanic lie. What Donald Trump is 114 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: talking about cannot be kept up with by either the 115 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: media or the Biden campaign. It is a fire hose 116 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: of nonsense and lies and barstool bromos, a mix of 117 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: ignorance and factlessness, idioses and imbecilities, all mushed together and 118 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: spouted off about like they are some type of congealed wisdom. 119 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: But it's all gobbledly cook it's gibberish, and it's dangerous 120 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: because I promise you, when Vladimir Putin and Kim John 121 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: Noon spoke, it was not in gibberish. It was clear, 122 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,799 Speaker 1: and it was with intent about how it's their time 123 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,679 Speaker 1: to be in charge, to write the rules, to change history, 124 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: to descend upon the world. Their vision, and their vision 125 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: is about their power and their control. And so outside 126 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: of America's boundaries, there is great suffering in the world 127 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: and great tragedy and increasing violence. That's quite a departure 128 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: from our daily reality show. There are now less than 129 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: one hundred and forty days to an election. The choice 130 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: is disgraceful. The American people don't want it, they don't 131 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: like it. But the choice is the choice. And on 132 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: one side stands a man who, if he could, as 133 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: he has talked about openly, would line his opponents against 134 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: the wall and kill them. He talked about in the 135 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: Oval Office, of shooting protesters, of killing migrants. What we 136 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: are seeing is the contagion of a crowd. What we 137 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: are seeing is something that for generations many Americans believed 138 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: with all of their heart and soul could never happen here, 139 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: could never sprout here. But the truth is it is here, 140 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: and the truth is it has been here. Let me 141 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: show you the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Do you see these 142 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: angry white faces, the menace, the violence. These are the 143 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: same people as these people on January sixth, not in 144 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: the same time continuum, of course, but their descendants morally, spiritually, 145 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 1: they carry the same malice in their hearts. Whether it's 146 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: January sixth, whether it's the Edmund Pettis Bridge, or whether 147 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: it is this mob chanting send them back, send them back. 148 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: Who can believe that they allow this to happen to 149 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 3: our country. 150 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: Let me ask a question, where does the fall down 151 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: the hill stop? Where does send them back end and 152 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: kill them all begin? Just a few inches away now? 153 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: And does anybody have a doubt that if Trump or 154 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller took the stage to lead the crowd in 155 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: that chant, it wouldn't have gone along. Where are our values, 156 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: our ideals, our ideas about equality, about justice, about decency? 157 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: Not only are they absence, any coherency is completely gone. 158 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: What we see today is anger and rage, performance and 159 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: stupidity as a currency for political advancement. Scumbaggery is rocket fuel. 160 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: A lack of principle is a booster rocket. The ability 161 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: to say anything to anyone at any time is political genius, 162 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: cynicism the coin of the realm. And where it has 163 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: led is to the edge of a disaster. And I 164 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: want you to think about this. Barack Obama is a 165 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: young man. He may live for another forty years, God willing, 166 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: But for as long as he lives, he will always 167 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: be a figure of the past. And that's different from 168 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: Trump pushing eighty. Because if Donald Trump wins this election, 169 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: he's just getting started What he will be remembered for 170 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: is not what he has done over the last decade, 171 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: not the domination of American culture for nine years. It 172 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: will be for the disaster that comes next. Everything that's 173 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: already happened will be a short preface for the main event, 174 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: which will descend like a curtain of darkness on this 175 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: country on January the twentieth. That noon, on twenty twenty five, 176 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: we must not let it happen. We must find our 177 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: way back to the American faith again, and we must 178 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: do it in the next one hundred and thirty nine days. 179 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: This is the warning. Take it seriously. I'm Steve Schmidt. 180 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 181 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our sub stack on our YouTube channel, follow us. 182 00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community. 183 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 3: Yeah.