1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: It is Monday, August the eighteenth. This is the warning. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: President Zelenski of Ukraine is in Washington, d C. As 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: are the leaders of the European democracies. They're there because 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: they are fearful of the great appeasement in Anchorage. Historically, 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: it will be recalled astonishingly by a future generation as 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: the equivalent of Munich, and with awe, they will wonder, 7 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: how was it possible that, within the span of the 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: living lifetime of the men who stormed the beaches and 9 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: the survivors of the death camps, that an American president 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 1: would embrace the philosophy of Charles Lindberg and the American 11 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: booned and the fascists, and deploy the American military against 12 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: the people, That he would betray freedom around the world, 13 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: that he would commit acts of arson against the Constitution 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: of the United States, and in the end, he would 15 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: take the American flag, synonymous with freedom all over the 16 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: world and defile it by placing it next to the 17 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: Russian dictator who launched an illegal war of aggression that 18 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: is killed and wounded a million of his own soldiers 19 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: and killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians, and has seen 20 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: the kidnapping and shipping east of thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped, 21 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: was stolen from their parents. This man was greeted with 22 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: honor and dignity on American soil. It was an astonishing 23 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: propaganda victory for the Russian tyrant pursuing peace. Nothing could 24 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: be further from the truth. The thing about propaganda, seeing it, 25 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: witnessing it, watching it assault the consciousness, the sentience, the 26 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: ability of people to critically think, is appalling. It is frightening, 27 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: and it is real, and it is happening. Pursuing peace. 28 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: The reality show that Donald Trump is producing is fascist 29 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: in character, right down to the masked men, right down 30 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: to the sycophants and buffoons who surround him and this 31 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: reality show. The images that have produces are meant to 32 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: show American strength, but sometimes reality intrudes. Here is a 33 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: Russian vehicle manufactured in the United States, captured on the battlefield, 34 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: flying the Russian tricolor and the American flag together, images 35 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: that show two flags of what brutality and oppression and 36 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: rape and murder. One thing is true That was not 37 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: until very recently. Both countries have massed agents that snatch 38 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: people off the streets. This is an astonishing scene watching 39 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: these federal agents to tell a man on his porch 40 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 1: that Trump doesn't like drinking or smoking, so to watch himself. 41 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 2: Today saying that Trump, you got your idea on your chick. 42 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: Well, uh no, I live right here. Okay, cool, here's 43 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: a cigarette. All right. 44 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: Did y'all get to call us up about right here? No, 45 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 2: So we're doing checks, keep everybody safe down here, right. 46 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: Have you ever you heard of the federal search that 47 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 2: Donald Trump's putting out? 48 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: No, right, you don't. 49 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 2: You don't follow three anything like that. Yeah, Trump's Trump's 50 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: got all federal agencies kind of coming together seven days 51 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: and going out trying to stop the violent crime, all 52 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. So we're out here contacting people talking 53 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: to him, right fall your life offenses, smoking, drinking the 54 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 2: public right, can't happen to the outside. 55 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: The officiousness in the heavy hand is nothing compared to 56 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: the jackboot that's coming down. Because what Donald Trump is 57 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: preparing in the interior of the United States is to 58 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: allow MAGA states to volunteer their national guards for federal 59 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: service in the US Army to be deployed to democratic 60 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: led states and cities, functionally as an occupying force abroad. 61 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: The United States is turning its back on its historic 62 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: commitment to human rights, the concept of human dignity, the 63 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: idea that each of us is sacred, each human being 64 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 1: made in the image of God. We are abandoning our 65 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: most noble principles. And while that is happening, Washington is 66 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: a wash in a rising tide of corruption unprecedented in 67 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: the history of the country. Donald Trump is assembling a 68 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: police state and an ice army and prisons all over 69 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: the country where human beings are being abused and denied 70 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: their basic rights, and perhaps the most un American abuse 71 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 1: of power since the interment of Japanese Americans in the 72 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: Second World War. What we're seeing being done to Hispanic citizens, 73 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: the fear that is being stoked by massed agents who 74 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: indiscriminately can show up at a school, at a work site, 75 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: in a car wash with weapons ready they fired into 76 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,679 Speaker 1: a car this weekend, is terrifying people. And that's the point. 77 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: Fear is a most powerful weapon. And Donald Trump is 78 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: trying to say something, something that he admires, something that 79 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: he's learned from Vladimir Putin, which is that people can 80 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: do whatever they want so long as they stay in 81 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: line and let Donald take whatever he wants, have whatever 82 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,799 Speaker 1: he wants, and do whatever he wants to whomever he wants, 83 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: because Donald is the law, and what Donald says goes. 84 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: This is a man filled with malice who's been threatening 85 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: the country for ten long years. Masked agents in American cities, 86 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: the army establishing checkpoints on America's streets, deployed against the 87 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: people and the government of the people, by the people 88 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: for the people that they swore an oath to preserve. 89 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: What we're seeing is sectionalism, the abuse of one part 90 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: of the country by a political faction under a leader 91 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: who says, let's get rid of the checks and balances, 92 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: let's get rid of the sharing of power and trade 93 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: it in for one man rule. There's nobody see that. 94 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: This man is naked before us, with his swollen ankles, 95 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: incoherent his best friend, the most victorious pedophile of the 96 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: twenty first century, the files that he is covering up 97 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: this loathsome criminal as the president of the United States. 98 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: And what he has done this August and what he 99 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: will do on this day, the eighteenth of August, is 100 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: lay the foundation for suffering in the world that is 101 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: beyond imagination for most Americans. What he will do this 102 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: day is dishonor the United States. And what he will 103 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: do this day is lay a foundation for a terrible 104 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: war to come, an unnecessary war, Trump's war, while this 105 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: bombastic buffoon publicly campaigns for a Nobel Peace prize. This man, 106 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: I want to be tyrant, a dime store. Mussolini is 107 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: going to look the democratically elected leader of a nation 108 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: dead in the eye and tell them the United States 109 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: stands with the Russian invader. It is a tragedy. It 110 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: is a day of shame or another day in America. 111 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: But what will happen today will reverberate for a very 112 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: very long time to come. This is the warning. I'm 113 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you to 114 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt 115 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: and direct about what is happening in this country. America 116 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and 117 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: on substack. Thank you.