Speaker 1: This is the warning.
Speaker 2: This will be and ask me anything where I answer
Speaker 2: your questions. The question is from Janice, and in summary,
Speaker 2: it's this, why is Haiti and American responsibility? Why are
Speaker 2: in other countries in the world stepping up? And Janie
Speaker 2: adds she understands the issue, she lives in Florida. Well, Janice,
Speaker 2: there's not an easy answer other than the truth. And
Speaker 2: the truth is the United States of America is the
Speaker 2: most powerful nation in world history, and what happens outside
Speaker 2: of our borders will affect us here at home. The
Speaker 2: chaos inside of Haiti will leave Haiti now and it
Speaker 2: will come to Florida. We have a stake instability in
Speaker 2: the hemisphere and all over the world. American leaders have
Speaker 2: always understood this, going all the way back to the
Speaker 2: beginning of the Republic with the Monroe Doctrine, for instance.
Speaker 2: There is a question of humanity at hand, and one
Speaker 2: of the things in our divided time that we forget
Speaker 2: to do is show each other grace, to be able
Speaker 2: to look at the opposition in politics and find decency
Speaker 2: and shared humanity. You may not know this, but the
Speaker 2: effort begun under the George W. Bush administration and followed
Speaker 2: on by the Obama administration and even the Trump administration
Speaker 2: after that. PEP Far, the President's emergency plan for age
Speaker 2: relief in Africa has saved nearly thirty million human lives.
Speaker 2: Think of the genius that has been saved, and it
Speaker 2: will be saved for generations of writers, of painters, of scientists,
Speaker 2: of engineers. It's impossible to fully understand and comprehend what
Speaker 2: it means to save that many lives. It would be
Speaker 2: wonderful if Canada was able to meet its responsibilities, but
Speaker 2: it cannot because it will not. And whether they do
Speaker 2: or not, it does not abrogate the fundamental moral responsibility
Speaker 2: of the United States to act, not unilaterally, not as
Speaker 2: a police force, but in the name of humanity. For
Speaker 2: the sake of humanity in Haiti, the United States of
Speaker 2: America must act. It must lead where it will pay
Speaker 2: the heaviest price, next to the Haitian people themselves. The
Speaker 2: question is about the state of the Union address and
Speaker 2: whether there are any rules imposed on members of Congress
Speaker 2: with regard to when they stand, when they sit, when
Speaker 2: they cheer, when they boo, if there are any policies,
Speaker 2: if you will, regarding decorum, And the answer is there
Speaker 2: is not. Unfortunately, the State of the Union is a
Speaker 2: special occasion because it is the gathering of the whole
Speaker 2: American government under the Capital Dome, where the democratic branch
Speaker 2: is coequal come together. The Court is represented the legislative branch,
Speaker 2: and the executive the legislative branch. The Article one branch
Speaker 2: of government invites the executive branch, in the form of
Speaker 2: the Office of the President of the United States, to
Speaker 2: the capital to give an address on the State of
Speaker 2: the Union, which is constitutionally mandated, though its form is not.
Speaker 2: For much of the history, the State of the Union
Speaker 2: was delivered as a letter. The practice of delivering it
Speaker 2: as an address is a modern invention, but it has
Speaker 2: become steeped in tradition. There are ceremonies in most democratic
Speaker 2: nations the preface the opening of their parliamentary bodies. Many
Speaker 2: times the head of state is represented, and that head
Speaker 2: of state is a constitutional monarch. This is the case
Speaker 2: in the United Kingdom, in Norway and Sweden, Denmark and
Speaker 2: other countries. In the United States, the only time all
Speaker 2: the coequal branches of government together that the American people
Speaker 2: see is for this occasion, and when they stand and
Speaker 2: cheer when the House Sergeant of Arms announces, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: the President of the United States of America. A great
Speaker 2: war goes. It is for the continuity of the Republic
Speaker 2: that the elected representatives are cheering. It is for the
Speaker 2: continuity of the peaceful transition of power the day are cheering.
Speaker 2: It is for the preservation of the Union through tribulation, war,
Speaker 2: civil war, depression that they are cheering. It is a
Speaker 2: magnificent event that should evoke patriotic pride. It is a
Speaker 2: dignified occasion that has been soleied by the antics of
Speaker 2: this era's depraved members of Congress. Going back to Joe Wilson,
Speaker 2: who a Republican from South Carolina, like Nancy Mace, like
Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham, like Tim Scott, was well drunk on the
Speaker 2: floor of the House when he shouted, you lie at
Speaker 2: the President of the United States, opening this modern era
Speaker 2: of a total collapse of all dignity when the three
Speaker 2: branches of government come together. The stripping of dignity from
Speaker 2: our democracy, from our process, from our country, from our
Speaker 2: institutions is something that matters. Trump tries to pose that
Speaker 2: strength is dignity, that cruelty is dignity, but it's not.
Speaker 2: The restoration of dignity around our most solemn occasions and
Speaker 2: gatherings is something of the utmost importance. We ponder how
Speaker 2: to move beyond this wretched err The question is around
Speaker 2: Liz Cheney and whether Liz Cheney might run as an
Speaker 2: independent candidate for president, whether there is a viable path
Speaker 2: for that independent candidacy, and whether said independent candidacy would
Speaker 2: hurt or help Donald Trump in his quest to take power.
Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is is there is no
Speaker 2: viable path for Liz Cheney to win the presidency as
Speaker 2: an independent candidate, and any any effort to do so
Speaker 2: would splinter the anti Trump coalition, which would benefit Trump
Speaker 2: and make it more likely, as opposed to less likely,
Speaker 2: that Trump would be elected to the presidency. Which is
Speaker 2: the one thing that Liz Cheney has said all along
Speaker 2: that she would never do, that she would do anything
Speaker 2: to make sure that doesn't happen. So I doubt very
Speaker 2: much that she would run as an independent for the
Speaker 2: office and ensure that Trump in fact won the presidency.
Speaker 2: So it would be very damaging, which is why it's
Speaker 2: unlikely to impossible that it will happen given the president's age.
Speaker 2: Why has not the administration given more exposure to Vice
Speaker 2: President Harris Well. The truth of the matter is the
Speaker 2: Vice President has been mishandled and mismanaged at an epic
Speaker 2: level by the senior communications officials of the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: One of the mysteries and wonders of the world will
Speaker 2: always be in American politics, how it happened that Kamala Harris, right, smart,
Speaker 2: brilliant at communicating, has become a deeply unpopular figure and
Speaker 2: known for being in effective communicator. None of that was
Speaker 2: true until she became Vice president, and this is important.
Speaker 1: She was an asset.
Speaker 2: Until she was mismanaged into becoming a liability. And the
Speaker 2: reality is for an eighty two year old candidate for
Speaker 2: president who is running underneath him on the ticket will matter,
Speaker 2: and she will be a factor in the race because
Speaker 2: many Americans will look and they will say, this is
Speaker 2: an election in the end that will decide whether Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris fulfills ultimately the duties of the presidency at some
Speaker 2: point in Joe Biden's second term when he inevitably becomes incapacitated.
Speaker 2: This is a core underlying message that should not be
Speaker 2: shied away from. Walked away from or pretended doesn't exist
Speaker 2: in this election. It's a critical issue and the fact
Speaker 2: of the matter is that Kamala Harris needs to be
Speaker 2: reintroduced to the country effectively, this time by the Biden
Speaker 2: White House. The failure to do so is the equivalent
Speaker 2: of shooting yourself in the foot. They need to do
Speaker 2: better on this front. The good news here is Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris is not dan Quail. She is an able political leader.
Speaker 2: What she needs is a ring where she can do
Speaker 2: well in and that's the responsibility in the job of
Speaker 2: the White House Communication Operation. Gary asks, given the dangers
Speaker 2: of the border as a political issue for Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: why won't he make changes? And that's a good question.
Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is this, if we imagine
Speaker 2: and visualize, and it's important to do so for the
Speaker 2: purposes of defeating him. Donald Trump as the forty seventh
Speaker 2: president of the United States, and we pondered deeply the
Speaker 2: question of how that happened. How did the man who
Speaker 2: tried to hang his vice president and incite an insurrection
Speaker 2: managed to get elected president again?
Speaker 1: And the answer to the question.
Speaker 2: Will be that over the course of the Biden presidency,
Speaker 2: many millions of people came into the country illegally, and
Speaker 2: when they did so, the national media lectured the American
Speaker 2: people about the inappropriateness of the word illegal when applied
Speaker 2: as a preface to immigrant to describe an immigrant in
Speaker 2: the country illegally. And the fact of the matter that
Speaker 2: the millions of people who came into the country illegally
Speaker 2: and that the migrant crisis that led them to the
Speaker 2: border in the first place is in fact not happening
Speaker 2: at at all, according to many people who have political
Speaker 2: positions of authority in the country.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 2: And the American people will go into the voting booth
Speaker 2: and they'll take care of business on this issue. What
Speaker 2: people want is law and order. And this fits perfectly perfectly,
Speaker 2: round peg roundhole with Trump's blend and style of authoritarian politics,
Speaker 2: of strongman politics, where he declares I alone can fix it.
Speaker 2: Pass at the border is something that the Biden team
Speaker 2: has not taken seriously for three years. But they need
Speaker 2: to hear the American voter while there's two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty five days in this election, to make this issue
Speaker 2: as much as possible go away, to get it all
Speaker 2: off of the front pages of the newspapers all around
Speaker 2: the country, and to come up with a remedy in
Speaker 2: partnership with America's cities that alleviates the crisis in them
Speaker 2: caused by all of the release of these migrants who
Speaker 2: have come to the border. This is a serious issue
Speaker 2: politically for the president. Underestimating it, turning a blind eye
Speaker 2: to it, not listening to the American people is not
Speaker 2: a strategy.
Speaker 1: It's a suicide wish.
Speaker 2: Stopping Donald Trump means understanding the root, the cause, the
Speaker 2: power of his demagogurey. And there is no issue that
Speaker 2: he has been more adept at tapping into than the
Speaker 2: native ast strains, the jingoist strains of the American right,
Speaker 2: the paranoid nature of the American right, and it's belief
Speaker 2: that it is being invaded by an uncivilized horde. It
Speaker 2: is racist, it is toxic, it is dangerous, It is divisive,
Speaker 2: but it is real and should be faced directly.
Speaker 1: Clearly, and unabashedly.
Speaker 2: The question is is are we ever going to get
Speaker 2: our country back and heal these nasty divisions? First, let
Speaker 2: me say I appreciate the sentiment of the question and
Speaker 2: the frustration of how nasty, divisive, cruel, and disgusting American
Speaker 2: politics seems and is, and it is absolutely true that
Speaker 2: there was something better within living memory for so many people.
Speaker 2: When we look at the degradations that exist in this
Speaker 2: moment to a system that everybody understands is necessary, important,
Speaker 2: and must be preserved. Nobody has taken your country from you.
Speaker 2: A small capal has become a minority faction that has
Speaker 2: taken power in the Republican Party. And because that party
Speaker 2: is one of two, the third oldest in world history,
Speaker 2: the Democrats are the first. They have a chance of
Speaker 2: taking executive power and constitutional authority, with the possibility for
Speaker 2: catastrophic consequences being very high. There's never been a genteel
Speaker 2: time in American history. There was never a utopia moment
Speaker 2: in American democracy where wise people gathered together and reasoned.
Speaker 2: It's always been a tough business. It's always had vicious players,
Speaker 2: but at the core, it was always grounded in a
Speaker 2: mutuality of belief in the primacy of democracy as an
Speaker 2: instrument to restrain humanity's darkest impulses and keep the individual
Speaker 2: free and safe.
Speaker 1: We have evaporated from.
Speaker 2: That understanding, which is the cornerstone of our society, has
Speaker 2: evaporated and we cannot let it dissolve. It must be
Speaker 2: fought for. It must be fought for by citizen action,
Speaker 2: by caring and participation. Thank you for listening to my
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