1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm standing in front of Saint James Christian Church about 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: to set off on a fifty four mile march led 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: by the Bishop William Barber. It's an important day. Together 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: we dissent against the wrongs going on in the country, 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: and today we're going to send a message that Abraham 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: Lincoln would recognize that in this country right makes might. 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: This is the warning. There are so many wrongs to 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: talk about this morning. Let's start with Howard Lutneck. Here 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: was Lutnik in October talking about the fact that he 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: was repulsed by Jeffrey Epstein and after a brief encounter, 11 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: he never saw him again. 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 2: And we left, and in the six or eight steps 13 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: it takes to get from his house to my house, 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: my wife and I decided that I will never be 15 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 2: in the room with that disgusting person ever again. So 16 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 2: I was never in the room with him socially for 17 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: business or for even philanthropy. If that guy was there, 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 2: I wasn't going because he's gross. And so I look 19 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: back at it as a gift. Yes, he gave me 20 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: a gift of voys. So yeah, that's my story, A 21 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 2: one and absolutely done. 22 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: Here's Howard Lotec standing in the Oval Office. As Donald 23 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: Trump says, the Epstein files are a hoax. 24 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: Hosting a gallery spond to the Epstein situation. 25 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 4: Is he working on what some. 26 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 5: Gathering of tomatizer as a scena to talk about how 27 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 5: to respond to the Epstein situation. 28 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 4: I don't know. I could ask you that question. I 29 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 4: don't know of it. But I think here's the man right, and. 30 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: It's completely fake news. We're not me to talk about 31 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: the Epstein situation. 32 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 6: And I think a reporter who reported it needs to 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 6: get better sources. 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 4: Look, the whole thing is a hoax. It's put out 35 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 4: by the Democrats because we've had the most successful six 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 4: months in the history of our country. And that's just 37 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 4: a way of trying to divert attention to something that's 38 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 4: total bullshit. 39 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: And here is Howard Lognick testifying before Congress. 40 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 6: But Nick, I think you understand the root of concern here. 41 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 6: It's the way you described very emphatically your first encounter 42 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 6: with him in his apartment, said you were disgusted, would 43 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 6: never have any contact with him again. Did you, in 44 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 6: fact make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island. 45 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 3: I did have lunch with him, as I was on 46 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 3: a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife 47 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 3: was with me, as were my four children and nannies. 48 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 3: I had another couple. They were there as well with 49 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 3: their children, and we had lunch on the island, that 50 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 3: is true, for an hour and we left with all 51 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 3: of my children, with my nannies and my wife all together. 52 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 3: We were on family vacation. We were not a part 53 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: to suggest there was anything untoured about that in twenty twelve. 54 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 3: I don't recall why we did it. 55 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: The man he was so repulsed by as it turned out, 56 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: he went to visit on a yacht with his wife, 57 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: his children, and his nannies. 58 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 7: Did's Caroline, a secretary of what Nick today was testifying 59 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 7: on the Hill and he said that he had visited 60 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 7: Epstein's island in twenty twelve with his wife and children. 61 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 7: And that's after he said that he had cut ties 62 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 7: with Epstein, and the Justice Department documents showed that he 63 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 7: was in contact with Epstein three twenty eighteen of for messages. 64 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 7: So does the White House stand behind and Secretary Litnink 65 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 7: right now or given what he has said today, has 66 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 7: there been any shift in how the White House is 67 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 7: viewing Secretary Litins performance. 68 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 5: No, Secretary Lotnik remains a very important member of President 69 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 5: Trump's team, and the President fully supports the secretary. I 70 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 5: will just point out that there are a lot of 71 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 5: wins in the news this week that people in this 72 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 5: room have not asked about, because you continue to ask 73 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 5: questions about the same subjects. So let me point them 74 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 5: out for you again. On Friday, the Dow shattered fifty 75 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 5: thousand for the first time ever. This week, the American 76 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 5: Society of Plastic Surgeons came out in opposition to gender 77 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 5: mutilation surgeries for children. They are the first major medical 78 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 5: group to do so. 79 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 1: It is incredible the season of depravity in the United States, 80 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: but today we march to overcome it with decency, with grit, 81 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: and with resolve. There have only ever been seven hundred 82 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: million Americans. That means that half of us who have 83 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,679 Speaker 1: ever been are alive right now. And today we answer 84 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: the hatred, the mayhem, the cause to violence, and the 85 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: sinister ethos of Maga, not with a reciprocating hate, but 86 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: with love, love of our fellow man, love of our country, 87 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: and love of justice. 88 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 8: What happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. 89 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 8: And one of the great problems of history is that 90 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 8: the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted 91 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 8: as opposites, polar opposites. So the love is identified with 92 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 8: a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. 93 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 8: It was this misinterpretation that caused the philosopher Nietzsche was 94 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 8: the philosopher of the will to power, to reject the 95 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 8: Christian concept of love. It was the same misinterpretation which 96 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 8: induced Christian theologians to reject Nietzsche's philosophy of the will 97 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 8: to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. 98 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 8: Now we got to get this thing right. What is 99 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 8: needed is a realization that power without love is reckless 100 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 8: and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental anonemic. 101 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 8: Power at its best, power at its best is love 102 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 8: implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best 103 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 8: is love correcting everything that stands against love. 104 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: And today we march to demonstrate the dignity of the 105 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: human being and to send a message that will least 106 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: some of us will never ever get on our knees. 107 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: For Maga and Donald Trump. 108 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 9: I had an incident with a very nice country, Switzerland. 109 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 9: They were paying no tariffs, sending stuff over here like 110 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 9: nobody could believe, and we had a forty two billion 111 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 9: dollar deficit and we weren't taking anything. I said, well, 112 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 9: we have to do something because we have to even 113 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 9: that up a little bit. I didn't have to get 114 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 9: everything at one time, so I put on a thirty 115 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 9: percent tariff. She's very low. Still, we were having a 116 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 9: big deficit, but it was half the deficit. Then I 117 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 9: got an emergency call from I believe, the Prime Minister 118 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 9: of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive, but nice, but 119 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 9: very aggressive. Sir, we are a small country. We can't 120 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 9: do this, We can't do this. We are I couldn't 121 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 9: get off the phone. We are a small country. I said, 122 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 9: you may be a small country, but we have a 123 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 9: forty two billion dollar deficit with you. No, no, we 124 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 9: are a small country. Again and again and again I 125 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 9: couldn't get off the phone. So it was a thirty 126 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 9: percent and I didn't really like the way she talked 127 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 9: to us, and so instead of giving her a reduction, 128 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 9: I raised it to thirty nine percent. And then they 129 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 9: I got inundated by people from Switzerland, and I figured, 130 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 9: you know what, We'll do something that's a little bit 131 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 9: more palatable. 132 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,119 Speaker 5: At least now. 133 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 9: But I realize that all these you know, Switzerland, do 134 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 9: you think of? 135 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: Is you know? 136 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 9: Ultra she ultra perfect? They're not. They're only that way 137 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 9: because we allow them to rip us off and make 138 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 9: all this money. And I could say the same thing 139 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 9: with another forty countries. You know them better than I 140 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 9: do you and I could name them. Some are much 141 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 9: more egregious. 142 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: There is a wickedness that is seething out of the 143 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: White House, reaching dividing us. But we can't overcome it 144 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: if we stick together, and we march together. And so 145 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: today in the state of North Carolina, we set off 146 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 1: not to answer Donald Trump with anger, but to point 147 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: out to our fellow Americans that better days are ahead. 148 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. Did is the warning. 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