Speaker 1: When Donald Trump attacked the media while appearing on the
Speaker 1: set of a Sean Hannity hosted town hall, the Fox
Speaker 1: curated crowd went nuts. They cheered, stomped their feet, laughed
Speaker 1: and clapped. What were they cheering for? What exactly is
Speaker 1: it that they are against? What do they oppose? What
Speaker 1: is the media? One way to think about it isn't
Speaker 1: through an ideological prism, but as a roaring rabbid. Anything
Speaker 1: that falls into it is swept away, taken by the river,
Speaker 1: immediately swallowed by the churn, and it's gone. It erases
Speaker 1: everything that is tossed into it by taking it away, disappearing.
Speaker 1: It isn't that how much of the American media functions today.
Speaker 1: It runs like a children's soccer team and mass towards
Speaker 1: one event, say the war in Ukraine, and then runs away,
Speaker 1: just as fast, careening towards another. So on one day,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump talks about building concentration camps, and then poof,
Speaker 1: it's gone from the conversation. And the next day he
Speaker 1: talks about arresting political opponents, and then poof, it's gone
Speaker 1: from the conversation. It's as if each day is a new, disconnected,
Speaker 1: siloed reality television episode. In one moment, Meatloaf and Little
Speaker 1: John can be great friends and in the next the
Speaker 1: most bitter of enemies, but nothing occurs between the two
Speaker 1: to explain what happened and why what changed? Isn't that
Speaker 1: what the media is. It is the projection of disconnected events,
Speaker 1: chosen for their momentary ability to sensationalize, to get clicks,
Speaker 1: to entice, to draw people in and keep them from
Speaker 1: looking away. And there has been no star greater in
Speaker 1: this era than a con man, a hustler, a wanna
Speaker 1: be dictator named Donald Trump, who very narrowly took the
Speaker 1: presidency in two thousand and sixteen and then was defeated
Speaker 1: by Joe Biden in twenty twenty. Well, let's understand Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's aspiration to be a dictator and broaden it out
Speaker 1: just a bit. Donald Trump became the first person running
Speaker 1: for president of the United States as an incumbent president
Speaker 1: or as a challenger from either of the major parties
Speaker 1: who refused to concede an election and to acknowledge the
Speaker 1: will of the sovereign. Even during Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
Speaker 1: understood that if the people chose to remove him from power,
Speaker 1: then he would go as did Franklin Roosevelt. Every president,
Speaker 1: even the presidents, in the midst of our most important
Speaker 1: a dangerous crises understood, the sovereign will decide who is
Speaker 1: given temporary legal authority, with plenty of restraints imposed upon them,
Speaker 1: to make the laws, interpret the laws, or to execute
Speaker 1: the laws. The achievements of our ancestors are extraordinary. They
Speaker 1: have given us the oldest republic in the world, and
Speaker 1: we as a people, many of us have become indifferent
Speaker 1: to it. But we should not be indifferent to the
Speaker 1: magnitude of the breach of faith and Americanism in the
Speaker 1: betrayal of the United States, which we should all hold
Speaker 1: in our parts with the deepest contempt for the people
Speaker 1: who did it. They must never ever hold political power
Speaker 1: again in this country, in any form and in any combination.
Speaker 1: And what that means is that we, the people of
Speaker 1: all different faiths and political beliefs, and ethnicities and identities,
Speaker 1: must come together under the most important umbrella of identity
Speaker 1: that we all share. We are Americans. There have only
Speaker 1: ever been in all the history of the world slightly
Speaker 1: more than six hundred million of us were the half
Speaker 1: of the Americans who have ever lived are alive. Right now.
Speaker 1: Our story is unfolding, and once again a generation of
Speaker 1: Americans has a rendezvous with destiny, has an assignment to
Speaker 1: prevent the overturning of the greatest experiment in self governance
Speaker 1: in the affairs of human history, the United States of America.
Speaker 1: What Donald Trump did is an unforgivable brief. He sought
Speaker 1: to burn down what over a million Americans have given
Speaker 1: a blood sacrifice to maintain, or, as Abraham Lincoln called it,
Speaker 1: the last full measure of devotion. He has no right
Speaker 1: and we have no right, to steal our inheritance, as
Speaker 1: trustees of it, and take it from the millions of
Speaker 1: Americans yet born. We must feel appreciate the connection between
Speaker 1: all of us in this moment, but also to all
Speaker 1: of us who have come before. The great moral leader.
Speaker 1: John Lewis made the incredibly important point that it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what ship our ancestors arrived in, whether it was
Speaker 1: a slave ship or an immigrant ship or a luxury liner,
Speaker 1: because we're all in the same boat now, and that
Speaker 1: boat is taking on water because an idea that had
Speaker 1: been unimpeachable, an idea that had been untouchable, has been cracked.
Speaker 1: And what has been cracked. Is this the notion that
Speaker 1: in order to hold political power in America you must
Speaker 1: be elected? And because that has cracked, another idea has sprouted.
Speaker 1: Political power can be taken by the strong against the weak.
Speaker 1: And understand this, it's a recipe for disaster and a
Speaker 1: harbinger of evil. There has never been a calm period
Speaker 1: in American history, but there are eras that are exceptional
Speaker 1: in their turmoil. Franklin Delanar Roosevelt wasn't just a great visionary.
Speaker 1: He was the most important and exceptional leader of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century. Truly, he was Abraham Lincoln's peer. He saved
Speaker 1: free market American capitalism, American democracy, and ultimately the world.
Speaker 1: He was the architect of the American led world order
Speaker 1: that followed the most brutal event in all of human history,
Speaker 1: the Second World War, which killed across the globe more
Speaker 1: than one hundred million people. It saw the near extermination
Speaker 1: of Europe's Jews. Franklin Roosevelt, in nineteen thirty six, appearing
Speaker 1: before the Democratic National Convention, said to the assembled delegates
Speaker 1: that this generation has a rendezvous with destiny. He was correct.
Speaker 1: It is also true that this generation of Americans has
Speaker 1: a rendezvous with destiny, because we too live in momentous times.
Speaker 1: We live at the fracture of the tectonic place between
Speaker 1: one era and another. Roosevelt understood the vision that he held
Speaker 1: would not endure forever. His goal, as he told the
Speaker 1: Canadian Prime Minister, was that the era of American dominance
Speaker 1: that he saw coming, an era of peace and stability
Speaker 1: where there would be no more global wars, would last
Speaker 1: for as long as everybody who was alive on the
Speaker 1: day the war was won was still alive. We have
Speaker 1: come to the end of that era and the end
Speaker 1: of the long lives of the generation that had a
Speaker 1: rendezvous with destiny, the generation of Jimmy Carter, the generation
Speaker 1: of President George Herbert Walker Bush and Eleanor Roosevelt. We
Speaker 1: all know that there is something terribly wrong in America,
Speaker 1: and we all know that a momentous election is ahead.
Speaker 1: Many commentators, including me, say this is the most important
Speaker 1: election in American history, because for the first time we
Speaker 1: have a president who is overtly stating that he is
Speaker 1: against the republic, hostile to the Constitution, that he has
Speaker 1: no intention of being president of all Americans, but rather
Speaker 1: the leader of a faction seeking retribution against his enemies.
Speaker 1: He seeks to imprison them, he seeks to lock them up.
Speaker 1: He is talking about building concentration camps and deporting millions
Speaker 1: and millions of people. He is talking about deploying the
Speaker 1: United States military as a police force into the streets
Speaker 1: to restore order in the name of some event that
Speaker 1: hasn't yet occurred. And this person is winning the election.
Speaker 1: All around us are signs of decay, markers of corruption.
Speaker 1: The explosion of anti Semitism is one of them. Jews
Speaker 1: are only ever safe in one form of government, healthy democracies.
Speaker 1: Jews were not safe in Israel on October seventh because
Speaker 1: of the epic failure of the Net and Yahoo government,
Speaker 1: which is broken Israeli democracy, and thus even in Israel
Speaker 1: made it unsafe for Jews. And here in the United States,
Speaker 1: the poisonous dogmas seen at Ivy League schools have seeped
Speaker 1: into many many quarters of American life, and even in America,
Speaker 1: Jews do not feel safe. Many people don't feel safe
Speaker 1: in America. They feel like everything is unraveling. Let's look
Speaker 1: at something that happened this weekend. The world's richest man,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and anti Semi, a man who repeated almost
Speaker 1: verbatim the colony and the slur of the treat of
Speaker 1: life Synagogue killer before he went into murder Jews with
Speaker 1: an ar fifteen with the words I'm going in. Musk
Speaker 1: said the same thing. His platform is Munich in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight. It is the home of a digital mob pursuing, hunting, assaulting, attacking,
Speaker 1: degrading and dehumanizing. And now because of Elon Musk, the
Speaker 1: world's richest man, the propriet of Digital Munich circa nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight, Linda Yakarino's corrupt boss, we have the return
Speaker 1: of Alex Jones, the tormentor of the parents of the
Speaker 1: murdered children, the murdered first graders of Sandy, UK. And
Speaker 1: there was Alex Jones chatting it up with Andrew Tate,
Speaker 1: an accused rapist and human trafficker, and of course the bully,
Speaker 1: the fascist, the music man himself, vvek Ramaswami vveck Ramaswami,
Speaker 1: who is emblazoned the word truth on his campaign signs,
Speaker 1: with no hint of the irony that he appears more
Speaker 1: like a character from a George Orwell novel, Scheming seeking
Speaker 1: power to destroy freedom. All around us. We see the
Speaker 1: signs of a great decay. It means something when Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and Alex Jones and vivak Ramaswami and Andrew Kate
Speaker 1: convening together on a platform with our restraint, it means
Speaker 1: something because our bonds are fraying. The ability to discern
Speaker 1: real from false, right from wrong, reality from delusion. Democracy
Speaker 1: requires commitment, and the fight ahead will require a fierce
Speaker 1: devotion to the truth, to decency into a defense of
Speaker 1: ideas that human beings do not get their liberty from
Speaker 1: men like Elon Musk and Alex Jones and Andrew Tate
Speaker 1: in vivek Ramislami, that rights come from a creator above
Speaker 1: our power to control, to understand, to condemn, to litigate with,
Speaker 1: and those rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of
Speaker 1: happiness for all of us. And we must rekindle the
Speaker 1: spirit in the country in order to defeat the ugliness
Speaker 1: and the extremism and the menace of the forces who
Speaker 1: have arisen once again like they have many times in
Speaker 1: the past, who seek to take power by tearing it
Speaker 1: all down. The answer to.
Speaker 2: It is a powerful weapon. It's Americanism. It's the idea
Speaker 2: that we the people can maintain a government by the
Speaker 2: people of the people for the people, that we are
Speaker 2: capable of self government. We are capable of perfecting the union,
Speaker 2: of making things better, and we can do it. We
Speaker 2: can do it without demeaning and dehumanizing and forgetting the
Speaker 2: lessons of the twentieth century, which are as important as
Speaker 2: they have ever been to fully appreciate and absorb.
Speaker 1: In this moment of crisis. There is something terrible happening
Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. In the United States Congress that
Speaker 1: every American should know about and every American should care about,
Speaker 1: because the actions of radical and extreme members will make
Speaker 1: our children world profoundly more dangerous. It will increase the
Speaker 1: chances dramatically that America's young men and women will die
Speaker 1: in a European country fighting Russians in the twenty first century.
Speaker 1: Should that ever happen, it can be remembered as the
Speaker 1: most unnecessary war that has ever been. Right now in Washington,
Speaker 1: extremist politicians, working in concert with extremists from foreign governments,
Speaker 1: are seeking to throttle and choke off military funding to
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian people, to the Ukrainian nation so that they
Speaker 1: may survive Russian aggression. Let's be clear about something. There
Speaker 1: is a deadly war underway that was started by the
Speaker 1: Russian Federation on the direct orders of Vladimir Putin. This
Speaker 1: is a criminal war and illegal war. And there are
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of incidents of documented war, crimes of barbarity,
Speaker 1: the rape of women and girls, sexual violence, murder, and
Speaker 1: the kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children who
Speaker 1: have been taken east. They're whereabouts completely unknown. Ukraine has
Speaker 1: been invaded in the twenty first century by a far
Speaker 1: more powerful nation, a contravention of every international law that
Speaker 1: there is. It is a war of naked aggression, and
Speaker 1: it is intolerable. The United States also has moral and
Speaker 1: political obligations that should be stated clearly. In nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: when Ukraine became fully independent from the tyrannical It's atalitarian
Speaker 1: Soviet Union, guarantees were made to Ukraine so that she
Speaker 1: would give up her nuclear armaments. In return, the United
Speaker 1: States guaranteed a commitment to Ukraine's sustained sovereignty. In the
Speaker 1: real world, the fickleness of the American attention span can
Speaker 1: be a deadly thing. Not long ago, President Zelensky was
Speaker 1: cheered as a global hero in the United States Congress,
Speaker 1: a symbol of resistance, of a brave people fighting a
Speaker 1: superior foe. All they asked for were the armaments to
Speaker 1: do so, and the free world responded. But now the
Speaker 1: free world is growing tired. Fascistic Senator JD. Vance from
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio said this, We've already given the
Speaker 1: Ukrainians one hundred billion dollars. If they're going to get
Speaker 1: another sixty billion, what result will be different than what
Speaker 1: happened with the first one hundred billion. Well, I can
Speaker 1: answer the question for him and rebut the absurd premise
Speaker 1: of the argument. The one hundred and sixty billion dollars
Speaker 1: has kept NATO has kept the West out of a
Speaker 1: Russian war of aggression by making sure that war is
Speaker 1: fought inside of Ukraine. There is a simple truth, and
Speaker 1: this is not rocket science, and any official who cannot
Speaker 1: understand this should be questioned if they suffer from an
Speaker 1: addleman that blocks the digestion of history, that impedes the
Speaker 1: absorption of fact, that diminishes the ability to summon common sense.
Speaker 1: The Russian war cannot expand outside of Ukraine, so long
Speaker 1: as Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, but the
Speaker 1: second the Russians win in Ukraine, the war will expand
Speaker 1: outside of Ukraine, and the places where it will expand
Speaker 1: to NET include NATO territory. Now, Donald Trump's campaign has
Speaker 1: promised that among the first things that he does, besides
Speaker 1: seeking retribution and declaring himself a dictator on day one,
Speaker 1: is to withdraw America from the most successful military alliance
Speaker 1: in world history. That alliance has kept the peace in
Speaker 1: Europe after the deadliest war in all of human history
Speaker 1: that saw the greatest acts of barbarism and man's inhumanity
Speaker 1: demand in all of history. A withdrawal from Europe will
Speaker 1: gary tee European war and the destruction once again of
Speaker 1: some of the greatest cities of the world. The Heritage
Speaker 1: Foundation was once a great conservative think tank. Today it
Speaker 1: has become an arm of the conspiracy to destroy the
Speaker 1: government of the United States and a Trump's second term,
Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation is deeply involved in the project to
Speaker 1: fundamentally disassemble America's democracy, and now, alongside with agents of
Speaker 1: Victor Orbon's Hungary, an authoritarianist state in Central Europe. Though
Speaker 1: a NATO ally and an EU member, sided with Nazi
Speaker 1: Germany in the Second World War and with the German
Speaker 1: Empire in the First, and is increasingly hostile and anesthetical
Speaker 1: to Western values, including pluralism and democracy. Just a year
Speaker 1: ago go Victor Orbon gave a speech where he summoned
Speaker 1: the words of Hitler himself. Victor Orbon is no friend
Speaker 1: of the West and no friend of democracy, but he
Speaker 1: does have a putin fetish like his friend Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Victor Orbon and his agents from Hungary, along with the
Speaker 1: Heritage Foundation, will be briefing United States senators of the
Speaker 1: Republican Party urging them to cut off military funding for Ukraine.
Speaker 1: There is a conspiracy of extremism that is as historically
Speaker 1: illiterate and blind as their antecedents as their predecessors the
Speaker 1: America First Movement of Charles Limberg that preceded the Second
Speaker 1: World War. Limberg tried to end America's Draft, which would
Speaker 1: have devastated America's preparations to fight the Nazi Menacets. They
Speaker 1: tried to cut off funding for the United Kingdom. These
Speaker 1: people have always been wrong. They have stood on the
Speaker 1: side of segregation domestically, and they have stood on the
Speaker 1: side of appeasement abroad. These dangerous hours deserve rebuttal and response.
Speaker 1: The United States government must fund an arm the Ukrainian
Speaker 1: military for as long as Ukraine is fighting Russia, and
Speaker 1: that war may last one year, two years, five years,
Speaker 1: or ten. And the American commitment must be this, whatever
Speaker 1: it takes to defeat and break the Russian army in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: so that it cannot cause aggression in Europe, that it
Speaker 1: cannot war Americans to war, that it does not cause
Speaker 1: the Third World War or a massive casualty war on
Speaker 1: European soil involving another generation of Americans. All over Europe
Speaker 1: are the cemeteries where Americas war, dead or buried armies
Speaker 1: of liberation. Let us honor them by making sure that
Speaker 1: there is never another young American that joins them under
Speaker 1: a white Cross or a Star of David in a row,
Speaker 1: an army at rest facing back home across the ocean
Speaker 1: they did not return from like their grandfathers a great
Speaker 1: great grandfathers