1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: Let's talk numbers. Seven hundred and twenty and one thousand, 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty five. Those are the days seven 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty until the midterm election and one thousand, 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:18,159 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty five until Vice President Dvance is 5 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: the Republican nominee seeking his presidency. This is the warning. 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: People are depressed, angry, searching for answers. There's finger pointing, recriminations, 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: blame gaming, and a lot of it is deserved. Much 8 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: of it is necessary because seven hundred and twenty days 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: from now, it has to be a bad day for 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the corrupt rubber stamp MAGA Congress practice it, 11 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: get used to saying it. This should be the talking 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: point starting immediately. Magas corrupt rubber stamp Congress. The other 13 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: thing that Democrats who are flat on their backs should 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: start practicing because it will melt down. Donald Trump's fragile 15 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: ego are these words President Vance and President Musk. Every time, 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: according to Maga, that they feel like they've won something, 17 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: Democrats should respond by crediting it to co President's Vance 18 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: and co President Musk. The Democratic position rhetorically should be 19 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is feeble, Donald Trump is failing, and everything 20 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: is run by Vance and Musk. This will cause chaos. 21 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: The more chaos there is, the more infighting there will be, 22 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: The more infighting there will be, the more insanity there 23 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: will be. The more insanity there is, the more circular 24 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: firing squads there will be, and the more circular firing 25 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: squads there are, with vicious magas in the White House 26 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: leaking on each other, trying to tear each other down 27 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: to be the closest maga to Trump. From there, there 28 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: will be opportunity, starting with the fact they'll have less 29 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: time to do the truly awful things that they plan 30 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: to do. A week has passed, and now it's clear 31 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,839 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was not just talking during the election. He's 32 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: arriving in Washington, d C. With a sledgehammer, and he's 33 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: going to use it. He's going to use it on 34 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: the marble edifices of some of our most important institutions. 35 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: Now they're not perfect, far from it, but the ones 36 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is going to smash mostly came into 37 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: being in the aftermath of humanity's greatest event and most 38 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: deadly crisis, the Second World War. Within the span of 39 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: a human lifetime, one hundred million people were snuffed out, killed, 40 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: including millions of Jews. In the aftermath, the survivors human civilization, 41 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: led of course by the United States of America, committed 42 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: itself to never again. Donald Trump Junior is taunting the 43 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: President of Ukraine as North Korean troops attack with Russian 44 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: hordes and a criminal war. The lessons have been forgotten. 45 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: We have reached the end of history. Like FDR said, 46 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: nothing lasts forever. Donald Trump will smash NATO. Donald Trump 47 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: will smash the Justice Department. Donald Trump will go after 48 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: his enemies, and for at least the next two years, 49 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: every day Donald Trump will be in a position to say, 50 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: I told you exactly what I was going to do, 51 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: and now I am doing it. But we don't live 52 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: in a dictatorship. We live in the most complex society 53 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: in the history of human civilisation, a constitutional republic that 54 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: has endured for almost two hundred and fifty years. We 55 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: will use the Constitution of the United States of America 56 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: as our shields. We will use the First Amendment as 57 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: our shields. We will talk about the future of the 58 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: country under the First Amendment as free Americans born that way, 59 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: who have every right to stand up at every turn 60 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: for any reason and to look at Donald Trump and 61 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: say no. And we will have to do that because 62 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: Trump is assembling a team of extremists who will do 63 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: terrible things. The simple truth is Donald Trump was treated 64 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: for the last four years as Voldemort, a prop a convenience, 65 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: and now instead of being a get out to vote monster, 66 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: he's going to be something very different. Let's look at 67 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: two of the people who are appointed to high office 68 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: by Donald Trump, the white nationalist and political extremist Stephen Miller. 69 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: Let's watch the cartels are gone, the criminal migrants are gone, 70 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: the gangs are gone. America is for Americans and Americans only. 71 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: The simple truth of the matter is most of Donald 72 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: Trump's nominees will not be successfully opposed by the Democrats. 73 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: But it is essential that the Democratic Party draw a 74 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: line in the sand and oppose the worst of the worst. 75 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: And the worst of the worst is Christy Nun. This 76 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: woman should have been convicted for animal cruelty. The story 77 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,799 Speaker 1: she told about shooting a misbehaving dog was the sickest 78 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty four election cycle. This woman is 79 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: reported to be Corey Lewandowski's mistress. She gave a replica 80 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: of Mount Rushmore to Donald Trump, with Donald Trump's likeness 81 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: carved into it, next to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln 82 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: and Teddy Roosevelt. It was obscene, just like the obscenity 83 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: of Christy Nomes's appointment. Christy Nome at Homeland Security is 84 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: a sycophant with immense power, an incompetent small state governor 85 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: who has no business whatsoever and no capacity whatsoever to 86 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: manage a large portion of the federal bureaucracy. Christy Nome 87 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: is going to keep America safe? What a joke. She'll 88 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: be paired with another extremist, the purported Attorney General of 89 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: the United States, who can't wait to get the job, 90 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 1: not to administer justice equally and fairly, not for the 91 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: honor to be the chief law enforcement officer of the 92 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: United States, instead to cage children. Democrats will not control 93 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: the majority in the Senate, and there's a strong chance 94 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: that Republicans will circumvent the confirmation processes all together, allowing 95 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: Trump to make recess appointments these people full statutory power 96 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: without the constitutionally required confirmations. It may be that Republicans 97 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: discard the filibuster and operate the United States Senate on 98 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: a simple majority. What we will see from the Senate 99 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: Republicans and the House Republicans is a rubber stamp MAGA 100 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: Congress Presidents, in my view, are entitled to a benefit 101 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: of the doubt and a broad discretion surrounding the people 102 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: they wish to serve the country working for them. Democrats 103 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: must draw a line. Democrats will soon need to get 104 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: up off their backs. And this is why it is 105 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: so important for Senate Democrats to throw Chuck Schumer over 106 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: the side. He is incompetent, He cannot communicate. He is 107 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: a disaster who makes it more likely that there will 108 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: be a MAGA Senate in two years as opposed to 109 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: less likely. The Republicans are getting of Mitch McConnell. His 110 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: constant pair, His yin to McConnell's yang is Schumer. The 111 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: hands of the country are now in Trump's and the 112 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: opposition is in Chuck Schumer's. I hope all of you 113 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: see the problem and you're outraged over it. One of 114 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: the principal architects of a billion dollar failed political strategy 115 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: that resulted in Homeland Security Secretary designate Christin Nome and 116 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: an Attorney General nominee who wants to cage children for sport. 117 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: Trump ran as a fascist. He's putting the people in 118 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: place to governors. One soon he'll take his first action 119 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: as one. And this site will not be afraid to 120 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: call it for what it is. The failure of imagination 121 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: about the Trump threat, the failure to confront this effectively, 122 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: the failure to stop it is among the gravest and 123 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 1: greatest in American history. It is otherworldly, yet here we are, 124 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: and the people who are the architects of it say 125 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: it's time to move on. One week later, don't look here. 126 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: You can't make it up. These are going to be 127 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: tough years for America, and each hour Trump's appointments are 128 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: going to make the picture ahead darker and darker. The 129 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: spectacular unfitness of these people, combined with the spectacular emotional 130 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: disorders of so many, will harvest a disaster. It's coming. 131 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: But the country's resilient, and so are the American people, 132 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: and out of this disaster better will emerge. We'll find 133 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: our way to it. Someone somewhere will rise up with 134 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: a clarion voice that says, follow me, do not be afraid. 135 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: I am an American, and an American is a free 136 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: person who believes in the dignity and liberty of others 137 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: and will stand up and fight for the rights of others, 138 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: no matter their skin color or their religion, because Americans 139 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: believe in a mutuality of connection between all of us 140 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: through all times. That's what freedom is. It's a gift 141 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: that has been passed down to us. It has been 142 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: handed to us so we may strengthen it and pass 143 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: it down. That freedom is under threat. A lot of 144 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: it is going to be taken away or attempted to 145 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: be stolen from us in the next four years by 146 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: a cabal of dishonest tuxtures led by a fascistic grifter, 147 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: a world class demagogue who exploited the dishonesty and hypocrisies 148 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: of his opponents, which the American people saw clearly and 149 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: took power with the promise built on a foundation of lies, 150 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: that's one of the oldest in the book, that I 151 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: alone can fix it, and with enough power, I can 152 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: sweep away all of your problems. It never works out 153 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: that way. And the truth is, for the most part, 154 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: our ancestors, they had the wisdom, they had the discernment, 155 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: they had the common sense to see it come out 156 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: when it came, unlike their children and grandchildren. But here 157 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: we are, and the test of American character is not 158 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: going to be how we wound up in this disaster. 159 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: It's going to be how we get out of it, 160 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: and in that there will be much to be proud of. 161 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: The American story rolls forward, but it's going to go 162 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: in the wrong direction for quite a long while. Now. 163 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 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