1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: It is Friday, September nineteenth. 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 2: This is the warning, and the. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: Warning is that the First Amendment is under assault by 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: a fascist regime that won an election by forty nine 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: and a half percent of the vote. A week after 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: a tragic assassination. The fascist regime of Donald Trump has 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: attacked and accused all of its opposition as being co 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: conspirators and murder, and a fascist digital mob has taken 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: to the Internet to hunt, to find, and to purge 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: any person who dares to dissent from the deification of 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: a Christian nationalist, divider and outrage pimp named Charlie Kirk. 12 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 3: So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 3: ount in hell, call their employer. We don't believe in 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there 15 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 3: is no civility in the celebration of political assassination. Get involved, 16 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 3: Get involved, Get involved. It's the best way to honor Charlie. 17 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk, in his death, has become an instrument of propaganda. 18 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 4: He's like Socrates. 19 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 3: He asks questions and he does it with a smile. 20 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 5: So, yeah, I'm going to go back to Socrates, who 21 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 5: did the very same thing and challenge the bureaucrats and 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 5: the status quo and those empower. 23 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 2: Parties and Plato and everyone around the table has one 24 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 2: thing I leave you with. We talk about Socrates and 25 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 2: playtno't no one ever asked during that era who was 26 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 2: the richest person. They wouldn't know who was the most thoughtful, and. 27 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 5: Who was shocked into a career in philosophy to continue 28 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 5: the fight Plato. So there are there's an entire generation 29 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 5: of people who have heard Charlie Kirk's message, and Charlie 30 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 5: Kirk found that philosophy on acceptable and that's why he 31 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 5: is a great American inventor. Because this is how the 32 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 5: Industrial Revolution went forth, was because of tinkerers and inventors 33 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 5: who saw problems and chose to solve them themselves. 34 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 6: An incredible legacy, a movement that will only become stronger 35 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 6: because of this young man who made a decision to 36 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 6: take a different course. 37 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 4: You know, Maya Angelou said, courage is the virtue that's 38 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 4: required for all others. And when I see something like this, 39 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 4: so I can think of in terms of what he 40 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 4: was made. 41 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 3: Of, Laura, I believe that Charlie Kirk would have been 42 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: president one day. 43 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 2: I believe that in my heart of hearts, and that. 44 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 7: For them, this is an RFK and MLK moment. 45 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 6: He is a. 46 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 7: Generational leader, taken down in his prime, but the message 47 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 7: has been magnified in a way that these young men 48 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 7: and women feel empowered and they're following his example. 49 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: The use of US Air Force personnel to tend his 50 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: casket is inappropriate. It is as inappropriate as the use 51 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: of US soldiers in Washington, DC to maulch the flower beds. 52 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: This is an outrage. This video posted by Charlie Kirk's 53 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: widow and sent out by the White House Good Evening. 54 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 8: My name is Erica Kirk. Charlie Kirk is my husband. 55 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 8: Charlie always said that when he was gone, he wanted 56 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 8: to be remembered for his courage and for his faith. 57 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 8: Now and for all eternity, he will stand at his 58 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 8: Savior's side wearing the glorious crown of a murder. 59 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: Charlie loved loved life. 60 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 8: He loved his life, he loved America. 61 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 9: But most of all, Charlie loved his children, and he 62 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 9: loved me with all of his heart. 63 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 8: And I knew that every day. 64 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 9: I knew that. 65 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 8: The evildoers responsible for my husband's assassination have no idea 66 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 8: what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached 67 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 8: a message of patriotism, faith, and of God's merciful love. 68 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 8: They should all know this. If you thought that my 69 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 8: husband's mission was powerful before, you had no idea. 70 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: It is as if Lenny Riefenstahl herself directed it. Absolute propaganda, 71 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: and it takes a dark turn. The accusation of guilt 72 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: leveled by MAGA against its enemies for the assassination of 73 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk committed by a known gunman is purposeful. It's deliberate, 74 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: and it's provocative. It is aimed to inflame. It is 75 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: aimed to create zelots and fanatics. Now, amongst the many 76 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: sordid aspects of this propaganda campaign, none exceed the plans 77 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: by the incompetently led Pentagon to use the Charlie Kirk 78 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: assassination as a recruitment tool, trying to merge Turning Point, 79 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: a political organization, into the armed forces, to recruit from 80 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: Turning Point warriors who fit the mode of Pete hag 81 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: Seth's imagination. Now, while the degraded the US military and 82 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: competently led seeks to use an assassination to recruit political 83 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: fanatics to serve MAGA, not the nation. Russian fighter jets 84 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: are intruding on NATO airspace in Estonia and in Poland 85 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: as the world steps ever closer to World War three. 86 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: US senators, members of Congress, media executives, all of them 87 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: have made an accusation. The accusation is, if you happen 88 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: to disagree with the idea that one race is superior 89 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:44,799 Speaker 1: to another, or that you support the separation of church 90 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: and state, or that you deplore the venom that Charlie 91 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: Kirk had for gay people, then you were guilty a 92 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: co conspirator in assassination. And the evidence of the and 93 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: the puppets on the string making the accusation is everywhere. 94 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 10: For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful 95 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 10: Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass 96 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 10: murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible 97 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 10: for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, 98 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 10: and it must stop right now. My administration will find 99 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 10: each and every one of those who contributed to this 100 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 10: atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that 101 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 10: fund it and support it, as well as those who 102 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 10: go after our judges. 103 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 11: And here what's next, Because there's a lot of talk 104 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 11: about is now a moment to reach out, have a 105 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 11: Kumbaya moment with the other side, lower the temperature? 106 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 2: Is now a moment. 107 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 11: To step over the other side and forge forward without them? 108 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 11: You know just what you say, We're winning, Just just 109 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 11: complete the victory without them. 110 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 2: I'd love to do the former. But who is better 111 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 2: at that or kinder in doing that than Charlie Kirk 112 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 2: and they killed him. I don't think it's possible again. 113 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 2: You know, you see it. You know the amount of 114 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: normal people who aren't even political, who have really they 115 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: they've hit a breaking point. You know, they're not having 116 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 2: these conversations on Twitter. I'm sure they are sick of 117 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 2: this crap. 118 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: Amongst all of these is the constant string of threat, 119 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: the demand that everybody more and Charlie Kirk by acceding 120 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: to the idea that there are no restraints on Donald 121 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: Trump's power. And so in this week we have seen 122 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: on precedented cowardice by men men like Bob Iger at 123 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: ABC at Disney, and we have seen unprecedented malice from 124 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: men like JD. Vance, men like Sean Hannity, men like 125 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: Brendan Carr, and all of the people who in a 126 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: moment of tragedy saw an opportunity to inflame, to divide, 127 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: and to take a little bit more of your freedom. 128 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: Because why anybody who opposes Trump is guilty of murder. 129 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: Didn't you know that's justice in the new Maga America. 130 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: Except for in America, we have a Bill of rights, 131 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: and they include the freedom of speech and the freedom 132 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: of assembly and the right to petition the government. And 133 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 1: they don't exist at the whim of the FCC Commissioner 134 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: or JD. Vance or Donald Trump. They come from a 135 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: higher power. And it is a big mistake for Donald 136 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: Trump to both trample and trifle with those rights. This 137 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 138 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise 139 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 140 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:13,239 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 141 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. 142 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 9: Thank you.