1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: It is Friday, May sixteenth. This is the warning the 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: crisis in the United States is escalating. There is a 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: great deal on the line. One of the things that 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: a lot of us have said to be on the 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: lookout for is the pretext that Donald Trump will come 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: up with to excuse the assertion of illegitimate power to 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: deal with a threat, and to use the slightest pretext 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: of anything, no matter how stupid, how nonsensical, to assert 9 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: powers to go after his enemies, and to use a 10 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: vast propaganda system to deceive people, to whip up a mob, 11 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: to set them loose, and to attack some fundamental ideas 12 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: about justice, about liberty. There are some lessons in America's 13 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: past that are very important to appreciate for this moment, 14 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: and they go back all the way to the beginning 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: of the Republic and before, like the Salem witch trials, 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: and to appreciate the menace and the venom that's directed 17 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: at FBI Director James Comi. You have to appreciate the 18 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: story of the Salem witch trials. Now, until Tulci Gabbard 19 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: was outrageously made the National Intelligence Director, this was a 20 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: job for serious human beings, and you would never see 21 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: one of them on a show like with Jesse Waters 22 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: spouting nonsense and calling for the jailing of somebody the 23 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: President hates, without a trial, without any due process. He 24 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: should just be sent were Tulsey to a concentration camp 25 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: in El Salvador perhaps, or maybe he could compete for 26 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: his life in the new Hunger game show that Christy 27 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: nom is advocating be a contest for people migrants to 28 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: compete for American citizenship at any rate, let's watch the clip. 29 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: Do believe Comy should be in jail? I do any 30 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: other person with a position of influence that he has, 31 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: people who take very seriously what a guy of his stature, 32 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: his experience, and what the propaganda media has built him 33 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 2: up to be. I'm very concerned for the President's life. 34 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: We've already seen assassination attempts. I'm very concerned for his 35 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: life and James Comy, in my view, should be held 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: accountable and put behind bars for this. 37 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: Now. I don't know why James Comy arranged the seashells 38 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: on the beach and took a picture of it. I 39 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: have no idea why he did it. I do think 40 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: that James Comy is a narcissist. I think James Comy's 41 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: need for attention, his need to be seen as virtuous, 42 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: is the reason that Donald Trump won the election in 43 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. I think that James Comy outrageously interfered in 44 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: the outcome of that election. I also think that James 45 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: Comy is one of the foremost public narcissists of our age. 46 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: There's an investigative profile of James Comy at a hedge 47 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: fund where he was the director of security, running sting 48 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: operations in the lunch room where every employee was filmed. 49 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: James Comy, I can't explain to you. I can't explain 50 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: why he put the seashells on the beach. But here's 51 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: the point, neither can any of the people from Donald 52 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: Trump on down who want to jail him for arranging 53 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: numbers in seashells, and they wish to bring the full 54 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: weight of the federal government while at the same time, 55 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: in the exact same moment, disemboweling the public corruption Unit 56 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: in the FBI, while we're witnessing some of the greatest 57 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: corruption in the history of the country playing out across 58 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's sick tour of the Middle East. Here at 59 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: home banners are being put up in Washington, DC that 60 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: are authoritarian in nature and have no place in a republic, 61 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: and yet they are being hung. Donald Trump is threatening 62 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices in his vast propaganda network, without trial, 63 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 1: without jury, without a judge, without any due process whatsoever. 64 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: Is demanding the imprisonment or worse of his political enemies 65 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: on the basis of a thought, a picture, demanding that 66 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: something that is completely nebulous be concretized as a dire 67 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: threat so grave that the entire American system must be 68 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: overthrown to deal with it. That this threat requires, without trial, 69 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: without judge, without jury, the imprisonment, perhaps the execution of 70 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: the President's opponents, who, according to the President and his propagandists, 71 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: has been threatened with death when no such thing has occurred. 72 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: You knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what 73 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: that meant. If you're the FBI director and you don't 74 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: know what that meant, that meant assassination. Now. A central 75 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: feature of the Trump presidency is the ability and the 76 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: increasing audacity with which they declare up is down and 77 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: down is up. Total absolute disregard for reality, for the truth, 78 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: aggressive preening, dishonesty, and all of it weaponized for the 79 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: purposes of taking power, consolidating power by stripping away rights, 80 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: including the right to protest, the right to speak out. 81 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: This is what Bruce Springsteen talked about in Manchester, England. 82 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: There seeing the best of our American execurity to rise, 83 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 1: raising voices against authoritarianism and let freedom are now in 84 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: this moment of very grave danger for the republic. There 85 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: is a record of Donald Trump and his supporters stoking violence. 86 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: Let's watch the Proud Boys attacking people like Hitler's essay 87 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: data Munich in the nineteen thirties. Only, this is twenty 88 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: twenties Washington. Let's watch the violence in the Mayhem from 89 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: January sixth. 90 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hopple capital Landry, hoppulandry. 91 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: For ten long years, Donald Trump has threatened to take 92 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: away the rights of ordinary Americans to speak out, demanded 93 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: they be imprisoned, were killed here. 94 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 2: And I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter. 95 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: But his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb. 96 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 2: She's a radical warhawk. Let's put her with a rifle, 97 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 2: standing there with nine barrel shooting at her. 98 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: Okay, let's see how she feels. 99 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: About it. 100 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: And here, and we'll stand up the crazy Nancy Pelosi 101 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: who ruined San Francisco. How's her husband doing, by the way, 102 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: anybody knows? And she's against building a wall at our border, 103 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: even though she has a wall around her house, which 104 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: obviously didn't do a very good job. 105 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 2: Or like here, one rough hour, and I mean. 106 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: Real rough, the word will get out and it will 107 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: end immediately, end immediately. What we are witnessing is the 108 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: beginning of a rolling Reichstag fire. And Donald Trump will 109 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: use any pretext, the slightest anything to declare an emergency, 110 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: to impose as much authority with as much force as 111 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: he can. Turn out, there's no constraints, there is no 112 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: mechanism to stop him. To Congress is a pollp Buro. 113 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: It has fighters, but on the Democratic side it's led 114 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: by an appeaser named Chuck Schumer. And so in this moment, 115 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: appreciate this. Though James Comy is not an admirable man, 116 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: that isn't the point. James Comy is a prominent man, 117 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: and that prominent man is being smeared and lied about, 118 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: having thoughts put into his head and then interpreted by 119 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: propagandists on TV who tell you that James Comy must 120 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: be in jail because he communicated somehow with an array 121 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: arrangement of seashells that made a statement about in common 122 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 1: colloquial anguish, we should get rid of Trump, we should 123 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: put a check on Trump. In twenty six and twenty eight, 124 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: by all means, the American people should eighty six maga, 125 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: throw it into the garbage, put it on the ash 126 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: heap of history, repudiate it at the ballot box. I 127 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: call for peaceful protests, I call for peaceful uprising, and 128 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: I have every right to do so under the First Amendment, 129 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: and I will continue to do so. And so if 130 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: I have a thought in my head that says eighty 131 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: six Trump, that is not criminal. And if I wish 132 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: to arrange eighty six forty seven onto a beach, neither 133 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: is that even in seashells. And so what we're seeing 134 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: in the reaction to this is an insanity, and it's 135 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: deeply sinister, and it can't be tolerated. And so did 136 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 1: James Comey threatn the life of the President of the 137 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 1: United States with assassination in a covert seashell message? Of 138 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: course not. But let's appreciate the journey on the river 139 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: that started with Sean Spicer saying that the crowd size 140 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: was bigger, when in fact it was smaller. And over 141 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: the long years of the journey, we've arrived at a 142 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: moment that some of us saw coming for a very 143 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,719 Speaker 1: long time, when Donald Trump is demanding the imprisonment and 144 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: so are his chief lieutenants spread out over propaganda channels 145 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: of people who've had thoughts in their head. My friends, 146 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: that is the warning, because if that is so, then 147 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: no one in America is safe. And that's what Donald 148 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: Trump and his fascist lieutenants want all of you to believe, 149 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: to keep you quiet, compliant, and in line, and that's 150 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: not the American way. I'm Steve Schmidt. 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