1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday at June tenth, twenty twenty five, and 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: these are momentous days in early June, this summer of 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: twenty five. This is the morning. Will it be a 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: summer like nineteen sixty eight one that history recalls as 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: a moment where it felt like the wheels were coming off? 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: Or perhaps this time, maybe the wheels will come off. 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: What is it that we are seeing and what will 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: happen next? There are a lot of people talking about that, 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: And what I want to do today is say some 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: things about what I think is going to happen next. 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: And before I do, I want to establish some credibility, 12 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: some credibility based on what I have said would happen 13 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 1: over the last ten years, so you can appreciate what 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: it is that I'm saying will happen next, and make 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,959 Speaker 1: a decision about whether what I'm saying makes sense or not. 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: To use your own intelligence, your own clear and free 17 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: thinking abilities to understand what it is that you're seeing. 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: Here's what I said about Donald Trump in twenty twelve. 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: He was confronted by Wolf Blitzer about it. 20 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 2: Steve Schmidt, who had managed John McCain's campaign four years ago. 21 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: He says this about you, he says, for three and 22 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: a half years, a lot of people who should have 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 2: known better have been complicit and cow telling to a 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 2: Republican whack pack, of which Trump is a leading member. 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: The result is a diminished Republican brand that appears unhealthy 26 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: to millions of Americans who are looking for an alternative 27 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 2: to the status quo. 28 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: I denounced the Berther law, and when he came down 29 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: the escalator in Trump Tower, I was among the very 30 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: first people to say, yes, he could win the Republican nomination. 31 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: And I was among the very first to say he 32 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: was winning. And I was among the very first to 33 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: say he had won it. And in September of two 34 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: thousand and twenty, I said, when he was saying that 35 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: he would never accept the results of an election unless 36 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: he won, that it would lead to violence, and it did. 37 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 1: This behavior that we've seen will usher in a new 38 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: destructive era in American democracy. We'll be dealing with the 39 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: aftermath of the weeks that followed this election for decades, 40 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: for decades in this country. Is it is as tragic 41 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: a thing as we've seen in the entirety of the 42 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: Trump era. I knew exactly what I was looking at 43 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: on that night in twenty twenty, when Donald Trump walked 44 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: out and intimated for the first time that he wouldn't 45 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: accept the results of an election when it was clear 46 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden had won it. 47 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 3: Steve Schmid is here with us in New York. Steve, 48 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 3: the moment you feared, the direct answer to a direct 49 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 3: question about the result of this election on November eighth, 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 3: has happened. 51 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: It sure has. And I think it's a disqualifying moment. 52 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: It's a moment of in present danger to our constitutional order, 53 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: to the republic. It's unprecedented in the history of the country. 54 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: Over and over and over again, I've talked about what's 55 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: going to happen next, and then it happened. I talked 56 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: about it with regard to what would happen if Joe 57 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: Biden ran for reelection, and I talked about over and 58 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: over again the clear intention, the clear words of Donald 59 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: Trump that demonstrated his desire to deploy the American military 60 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: to crack heads against the American people. If we are, 61 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: in fact right entering into the golden age of America 62 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: led by the right, led by the Maga Republicans, and 63 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: you and I are two people is wrong about anything 64 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: that two people have ever been wrong about anything about 65 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: and we're gonna be totally discredited. I don't think that's 66 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: gonna happen. But where where is the line right that 67 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: thine days? Is it thirty days in? Is it on immigration? 68 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: Is it on the deployment of the military. Is it 69 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: on the confirmation hearings? And that's what we're witnessing. Donald 70 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: Trump for a long time has made it clear that 71 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: he would love to see the US military point their 72 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: weapons on his command and open fire on the Americans 73 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: that he wishes to kill, that he wishes to get 74 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: rid of. Do you remember this scene outside of Episcopal 75 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: Church Lafayette Square outside the White House gates, Donald Trump 76 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: wanted the military to attack peaceful protesters that day. General 77 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,679 Speaker 1: Milly put a stop to it. Secretary of Defense Esper 78 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: put a stop to it. Now in the Oval Office, 79 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller wanted the US Navy to blow away migrants 80 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: in wooden boats off the coast of San Diego. General 81 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 1: Milly rebuked him. He said, shut the cup, Stephen. But 82 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 1: there is no one like that around anymore. And so 83 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: think about it this way. John Kennedy said, we'll go 84 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: to the Moon because we're a nation of explorers and adventurers, 85 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: and we do these things not because they're easy, but 86 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: because they're hard. What Donald Trump has said over and 87 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: over again is something very different. His vision is dark 88 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: and it's violent. They spit, we hit pete Hegseath has 89 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: deployed the seventh Marines, second Battalion. This is one of 90 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: the most lethal light infantry forces in the world, in 91 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: any military and it has a storied history. Second Battalion. 92 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: Seventh Marines were there on Guadalcanal, at Henderson Field, they 93 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: led the Charge of Pelu. They were at Gloucester, on Okinawa, 94 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: they were in China. Seventh Marines have been in Iraq 95 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: and in Afghanistan, in the Gulf, in Incheon, in Chosan, 96 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: in Vietnam. Their legend, their history has been made on 97 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: foreign battlefields. They have no business being deployed into an 98 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: American city, but I want to be tyrant. And yet 99 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: the Marines have been sent to Los Angeles. Their training 100 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: is interrupted, they can't do anything under the law, under 101 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: posse comitatis, but there they are as a show of 102 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: growing military force at Donald Trump's command, where whether people 103 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: realize it or not, whether they're cheering on the federal 104 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: forces against the Mexican flag waving rioters and El Salvadorian 105 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: flag waving rioters or not Trump's bayonet is pointed at them. 106 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has called for the arrest of the governor 107 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: of the nation's largest state of nearly forty million people, 108 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: same size as Canada. By the way that he's threatened 109 00:06:55,200 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: with military invasion and economic war, Donald Trump keeps threatening 110 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: the use of violence, the use of force, and what 111 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: he did is allowed his deranged henchmen and women Christy 112 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: nom Tom Hoeman, Corey Lewandowski to provoke a type of 113 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: war in Los Angeles by militarizing federal forces to arrest 114 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: twelve to twenty five day laborers at a home depot 115 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: in Powermount, California. Federal forces provoked a riot, and a 116 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: riot is what they achieved, and that riot is now 117 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: the pretext Trump's rolling Reichstag fire for the use of war. Force. 118 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,239 Speaker 1: Two thousand National Guard have been turned into four thousand 119 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: US Army. A battalion of light infantry of United States 120 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: Marines has joined a brigade sized force now in America's 121 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: second largest city, Los Angeles, and that force is growing, 122 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: What is their purpose, what is it that they seek 123 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: to do? How long will they be there, How many 124 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: more military forces will be deployed into how many more cities? 125 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: And how will you feel about it when the armored 126 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: personnel carriers roll down your street and a mass deportation 127 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: effort that Trump says is aimed at in excess by 128 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: his count of twenty million human beings. And so this 129 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: is a preview of what it looks like. And Trump 130 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: has assembled people around him who have no interest in 131 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: building the shining city upon a hill. They have no 132 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: interest in making life better for a struggling kid or 133 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: his working mom. They have no interest in lifting up 134 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: out of poverty into prosperity a family that is known 135 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: only suffering. They don't care. They're indifferent. What they want 136 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: is power and permanent power and the ability to take 137 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: what they want, when they wanted, from whomever they like. 138 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: That's the offer on the table. And so it took 139 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: less than one hundred and fifty days for Donald Trump 140 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: in this second term to deploy an active combat unit 141 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: in the United States Marine Corps into the city of 142 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And they're coming to New York, and they're 143 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,719 Speaker 1: coming to Chicago, and they're coming to a great American 144 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: city near you. Is this what a free society looks like? 145 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: Is this what a healthy democracy looks like? The answer 146 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: to the question is no. And so the profound issue 147 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: on the table is whether the American people will permit 148 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: this permit to trump. Bayonet pointed out their throat at 149 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: the heart of the republic. Behind me are some life 150 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: magazines that tell the story of the twentieth century. One 151 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: of them is dated from June of nineteen thirty nine. 152 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: The statue of liberty on the cover, and the question 153 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: is about America's future, and that question remains relevant in 154 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: this moment. What future are we headed into on the 155 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: edge of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 156 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: birth of the United States, the greatest force for freedom 157 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: and upward progress in human civilization. Government of the people, 158 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: by the people, for the people. Most profound words ever 159 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: put to paper by the mind of man, this idea 160 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: that all men are created equal and dowed by a creator, 161 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: with inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit 162 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: of happiness. A great republic of justice, where all are 163 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: equal under the rule of law. You see in America 164 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: people who rose up in defiance against injustice. That we 165 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: remember is great patriots like Martin Luther King. They did 166 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: not seek to burn down an unjust society. They simply 167 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 1: asked to be included in the promise in the Charter. 168 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: Doctor King talked about marching to Washington in nineteen sixty 169 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: three to collect a promisory note. He said over and 170 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 1: over again that he just wanted America to live up 171 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: to its promise. And what is that promise? In twenty 172 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: twenty five, what is it that we have turned away 173 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: from and turned towards towards Trump, and away from justice, 174 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: away from the rule of law, away from the idea 175 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: that there's dignity in all human beings. And so Donald 176 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: Trump raised his hand and swore a thirty five word 177 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the 178 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: United States. And he didn't mean a word of it. 179 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: And he's assaulted that constitution. He's tried to burn it 180 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: up every second of every minute of every hour of 181 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: every day since January twentieth. And now we are watching 182 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: the beginning of a long, hot, angry Trump Summer of 183 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, still a few weeks short of the 184 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: official start of what will long be remembered as a 185 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: summer of violence and insanity and craziness. We're an American president, 186 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: a fascist decided to bear his teeth. And lest anybody 187 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: be confused, the violence is holy, part of maga. It 188 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: is inherent to any fascist system, and that is exactly 189 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: what Trump is. Fascism has come to America, wrapped in 190 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: the flag and carrying the cross, and it is deployed 191 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: the United States military against who Trump's enemies, half the country, 192 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: as it turns out. And let me just say, if 193 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: you hate half the people who live in your nation, 194 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: it's impossible for you to love your country. But maybe, 195 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: just maybe Trump doesn't love the country. In fact, it's 196 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: clearly so. Trump loves Trump. Trump loves power, and you're 197 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: seeing him exercise it. And soon the tip of that 198 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: steel sword will be in a city near you. And 199 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: what will you, as a free American citizen, do about it? 200 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: That is the question that is coming do. I'm Steve Schmidt. 201 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I invite you to join this 202 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct 203 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:33,079 Speaker 1: about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. 204 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack. Thank you.