1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: This is the morning. There are seven hundred and twenty 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: five days until the midterm elections and one thousand, four 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty until the next election night. On that night, 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: it will be highly probable that JD. Vance is the 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: Republican nominee for president. It's a long ways away and 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: impossible to know who will be the Democratic standard bearer, 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: but that doesn't matter. 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 2: What matters is that on that day, just like. 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: This Tuesday, there will be suspense, there will be dread, 10 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: there will be an outcome, and then the sun will rise. 11 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 2: In the morning over America. 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: The result that was achieved by Donald Trump is one 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: that should impose humility on all of his opponents, especially 14 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: those cable news mandarins who don't understand it, can't comprehend it, 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: and don't wish to communicate at all with reality. When 16 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: the embrace of reality is required to be ready one thousand, 17 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty days from now, and the Democratic 18 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: Party is going to need every hour of those one thousand, 19 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty days to be ready. 20 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 2: Now. 21 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has remade American politics. He is the dominant 22 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: political figure of the twenty first century, and he has 23 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: built a rainbow coalition of white, black, Latino and working 24 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: class young men. The gender divide in the country is extraordinary. 25 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: He campaigned on a message of venom, fear, malice, jingoism, nativism, nationalism. 26 00:01:58,480 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 2: And he succeeded. 27 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: The world has changed a great deal technology, gay marriage, 28 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: the pace, the velocity, the interconnectivity of modern life. What 29 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: the American people said was stop, and the person they 30 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: chose to stop progress is an American extremist, a reactionary, 31 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: a man that half the country recognizes as mentally unfit, 32 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: spiritually unfit, emotionally unfit for high office. Yet a clear 33 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: majority by popular vote, by electoral vote has given him 34 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: power and along with it, a Republican Senate and most 35 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: likely a Republican House. This does not make Donald Trump 36 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: a dictator or a king or an emperor, not for 37 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: a day, not for a minute, and not for a millisecond. Lawfully, 38 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,799 Speaker 1: in institutionally, he is the chief executive of a constitutional 39 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: republic where the rights of the citizens are not granted 40 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: by the president. Rather they come from the Constitution. And 41 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: on January thirty, when a soldier raises their hand to 42 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: swear it oath of allegiance, it will not be to 43 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. It will be to the US Constitution. But 44 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will change the country, and he will change 45 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: it profoundly. Elections have consequences. He will disintegrate the US 46 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: Civil Service, and he will fill the federal government from 47 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: top to bottom with cronies. He will fill the federal 48 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: government with equally unfit and crazy people like Elon Musk, 49 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: who has no business being in government and will be 50 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: a disaster there as he does to department after department 51 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: after department what he did to X. He is a 52 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: shambolic chaos agent. The conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy will have 53 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: enormous way over federal health policy. It will be based 54 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: on junk science conspiracy theories, but his reach and his 55 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: power will be very, very real. The collection of people 56 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: who travel with Trump, the wife beaters, the criminals, the gropers, 57 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: They'll all be with Trump in the White House and 58 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: they will abuse their power. Jared Kushner will rebid money 59 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: from shady Middle Eastern contacts. Everybody around Trump will view 60 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: the election result as a mandate to take as much 61 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: as they want, and they will. The mass deportation operation 62 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: must be one from the beginning where the opposition makes 63 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: clear in the United States, we will not tolerate human 64 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: rights abuses. As Trump deports millions of people out of 65 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: the country, he will do that. 66 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 2: He received a mandate for it. 67 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: The thing about the mandate is when a majority demands vengeance, 68 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: then it's a mob. There will be no vengeance, or 69 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: there will be mass protests that shuts down the country. 70 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: Because this word will not be the last word. The 71 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: struggle endoors. It goes on. Two years from now, the 72 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: American people will get another say in the two hundred 73 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary of the independence of the United States. 74 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: We learn something about ourselves this week. For me, it's 75 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: hard to see the reflection staring back at the country. 76 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 2: I said many times. 77 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: To groups that I spoke to that I had a 78 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: deep foreboting about this election, but I had a faith 79 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: in the country. My faith in the country has been shaken. 80 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: My countrymen have shaken it because they have picked somebody 81 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: who's a liar, who con them, deceive them, and will 82 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: bring us towards catastrophe and danger. And yet I recognize 83 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,559 Speaker 1: in this moment two things. It is both the will 84 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 1: of the people, but the people will have another chance 85 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: to think it through and when they do two years 86 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: from now, when they see what Donald Trump has done, 87 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: the American people might well make a different choice. What 88 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: they need is something better, something clear, something tangible. 89 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 2: Now, this is a moment. 90 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: Where there's great sadness in the country, great fear for 91 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: many people in the country. Do not be afraid, do 92 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: not fear Trump. I will not fear Trump or his minions. 93 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: I will oppose him, and I will oppose his extremism 94 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: and his excesses. 95 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 2: And this platform. 96 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: Will be one where the truth is told about Donald 97 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: Trump and his movement, with facts based in reality, about 98 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: what's happening. At this moment. There's ecstasy in mar Lago. 99 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: They are flush with power and the Democratic Party is reeling. 100 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: This is hard to appreciate in moments like this, but 101 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: even right now, in that ecstasy, Trump stands at his apigy. 102 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: And from here it will all fall because the chaos 103 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: and the disorder and all of the insanity around Donald 104 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: Trump will crumble in on itself, doing damage to the 105 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: country in the meanwhile. But in this moment, in their height, 106 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior is filling up the federal government with 107 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: his father's loyalists. The former reality star Nepo baby who's 108 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: never worked a day in his life. The man who 109 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: single handedly picked JD. Vans will be one of the 110 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: most powerful Americans that's ever been. No one elected him, 111 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: no one vetted him, no Senate confirmed him, and yet 112 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: he will reign like some type of duke for a bit, 113 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: whisper in the ear of his father, the king, to 114 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: whom service requires but two commitments, loyalty and obedience. The 115 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: Trump White House will have but a single organizing principle, 116 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: the President is always right, and never tell him no. 117 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: He will politicize the officer corps of the military and 118 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: across the government of the United States, from nuclear regulatory agencies. 119 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 2: To the Space Agency. 120 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: We will see a stripping of expertise and an embrace 121 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: of wackiness, because expertise will be devalued while loyalty replaces it, 122 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: and things will go along fine for a while until 123 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,239 Speaker 1: they don't. Donald Trump will impose a victory for Russia 124 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: on the Ukrainian people. He will cut them off and 125 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 1: the world will be weaker, and Pudin will move on 126 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: Moldova next. In this regard, Trump will be an American 127 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: chamberlain feeding the crocodile believing it's a pet and thinking 128 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: that one more bite, we'll keep it happy. The world 129 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: will be profoundly more dangerous two years from now than 130 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: it is today. It will be more unstable. Our economy 131 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: will still be sound, but increasingly it won't be a 132 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: free market economy. It will be something that looks like 133 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: the Hungarian economy, where politics, at any moment determines the outcome, 134 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 1: not the merit of the deal. 135 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 2: We're in for some big changes. 136 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 1: Some of them require opposition, and any change that seeks 137 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 1: to take a liberty in the name of Trump demands 138 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: fierce opposition. There will be an election in two years 139 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: and another in for Donald Trump and JD. Vance will 140 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: have to stand tall before the American people the question 141 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: are you better off today than you were four years ago? 142 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: We'll look differently four years from now. This will not 143 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: be a normal presidency. It will be a radical and 144 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: dangerous one. It faces an opposition party that has been 145 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: freshly repudiated and electorally obliterated. We'll talk more about that, 146 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: because it must be talked about. The question of how 147 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: did this happen must be explored deeply so it doesn't 148 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: happen ever again. America is worth fighting for, and no 149 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: true American gives up on fighting for America because of 150 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: an election result. We don't know when this rah will end, 151 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: just that it will go on. But it is right, 152 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: and it is virtuous, and it is patriotic to a 153 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 1: pose maga to oppose trump Ism, to oppose the meanness, 154 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: the cruelty, the malice, the dishonesty, thelying. Donald Trump has 155 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: won an election, the prize was not the Kingdom of America. 156 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: No doubt he doesn't appreciate the distinction. During the months 157 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 1: and years ahead, we'll try to help make it clear 158 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: to him. Follow this platform, It's been right about a 159 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: lot of things all the way through. Not once in 160 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 1: the last two years was a single word of bullshitty 161 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: ever said. I told it like it was. I told 162 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: the truth about Joe Biden and what would happen. I 163 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: told the truth about the consequences. When Kamalajara said not 164 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: a thing on an interview with the View, I'll help 165 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: you understand what's happening because I will never back down, 166 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: be intimidated, pull a punch, or be afraid. 167 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 2: Of Donald Trump. 168 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: Right now, an ecstatic group of bullies is preparing to 169 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: come to Washington as revolutionaries to remake America. Fundamentally, they're 170 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: going to get bogged down. They're going to make mistakes 171 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: and their arrogance and then their hypocrisy will appall the 172 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: American people. Donald Trump has been beaten, and he's beatable 173 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: and he's stoppable. He's a man, not a god. And 174 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: in America, we don't bow to our presidents either. I'm 175 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. America is in crisis 176 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that every day for the next 177 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: four years. 178 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: Come along with us on this journey. 179 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite 180 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: you to join. 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