1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: Tomorrow is election day in America. There is one day 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: left before it. This is the warning. Tomorrow, some one 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: hundred million of US will turn up at the polls 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: and cast a vote for President of the United States. 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: It is a singular office. The President is commander in 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: chief of the most powerful armed forces in the history 7 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: of the world. They are the head of state, and 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: they are the head of government. The presidency in the 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: United States is given to a person at the moment 10 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: they complete an oath that is written into the Constitution 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: of the United States. In fact, it is the only 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: oath that is written into the Constitution. It is specifically 13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: for the president. The exact same words have been sworn 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: from George Washington all the way through Joseph Robin at 15 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: Biden of Delaware. These thirty five words are profound. They 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: commit the person who's to them to preserve, protect, and 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: defend the Constitution of the United States to the best 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: of their ability. George Washington was the first person to 19 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: pass power in America to a successor. His name was 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: John Adams. John Adams was the first person to lose 21 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: an election and pass power to his successor. His name 22 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: was Thomas Jefferson. The ideas and the ideals of these 23 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: men is very much on the ballot. Though the words 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: were written by the hand of a hypocrite, when they 25 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: touched paper, they became the most profound ever put there 26 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: by the pen in the hand of a man across 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: all of human history. The idea that we are all 28 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: created equal and endowed by a creator withinalienable rights, among 29 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is 30 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: the essence of the American creed, and today freedom and liberty. 31 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: When we say all men means in twenty first century America, 32 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: all people, until very recently when Donald Trump has started 33 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: to take away rights and to make categories of Americans 34 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: more equal than some and less equal than others. I'd 35 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: like to talk about my credentials. I was a Republican 36 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: for twenty nine years. I'm a Democrat now and have 37 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: been for some time. Early in my career, I ran 38 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: political campaigns all around the country. Later, I was one 39 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: of the top strategists for the House Republicans. I was 40 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: one of the top strategists on the two thousand and 41 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: four campaign. I served in the White House as a 42 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: deputy assistant to the President councilor to Vice President Chaney. 43 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: I ran two Supreme Court confirmations, one for the Chief 44 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: Justice Roberts, the other for Alito. I ran Arnold Schwarzenegger's 45 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: come from behind victory in California. I ran John McCain's campaign. 46 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: I was the person who placed the phone call and 47 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: connected John McCain to Senator Barack Obama. I was there 48 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: at that luminescent moment when an American is elevated through 49 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: the will of the people, to an exalted office, the 50 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: highest honor that we can give another citizen, the presidency. 51 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: I was there when a young man improbably rose and 52 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: was addressed for the first time by the opposition as 53 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: mister President elect. Listen to what John McCain said that night. 54 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 2: I would not be an American worthy of the name 55 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: should I regret a fate that has allowed me the 56 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: extraordinary privilege of serving this country for half a century. 57 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 2: Today I was a candidate for the highest office in 58 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: the country I love so much, and tonight I remain 59 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone, and I 60 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 2: thank the people of Arizona for it. Tonight, Tonight, more 61 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 2: than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but 62 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 2: love for this country and for all its citizens. Whether 63 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 2: they supported me are Senator Obama, whether they supported me 64 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 2: or Senator Obama, I wish godspeed to the man who 65 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: was my former opponent and will be my president. And 66 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 2: I call on all Americans, as I have often in 67 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 2: this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but 68 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: to believe always in the promise and greatness of America. 69 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: The name of this platform is the Warning, and I've 70 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: been issuing warnings about Donald Trump for a long time. 71 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: Mine go all the way back to two thousand and nine, 72 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: when Fox News led the Tea Party Republicans in a 73 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: paradive insanity over the edge of a cliff, and all 74 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: these years later, we're still in free fall. My first 75 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: dust up with Trump came in twenty and twelve. 76 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: Have a look Steve Schmidt, who have managed John McCain's 77 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 3: campaign four years ago. He says this about you. He says, 78 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,239 Speaker 3: for three and a half years, a lot of people 79 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,239 Speaker 3: who should have known better have been complicit and cow 80 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 3: telling to a Republican whack pack, of which Trump is 81 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 3: a leading member. The result is a diminished Republican brand 82 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: that appears unhealthy to millions of Americans who are looking 83 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 3: for an alternative to the status quo. 84 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 4: Well, I can only say this, Look, Steve Schmidt is 85 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 4: a lightweight. He is a guy who did a horrible 86 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 4: job running John McCain's campaign. You just said, John mccains, 87 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 4: he will, John McCain lost. He did a horrible job 88 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 4: running John McCain's campaign. You just said, John mccains, he will, 89 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 4: John McCain lost. He did a horrible job running it. 90 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 4: I watch him on your show, and I don't even 91 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 4: know how he gets on your show, and I'm sure 92 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 4: the ratings are very bad. 93 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 5: As he speaks. 94 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 3: He's an MSNBC contributor, so he's been on my show 95 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:12,559 Speaker 3: in the past. 96 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 4: But he's a lightweight, total lightweight. 97 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: Eight years later, I issued this morning about the violence 98 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: that would come. When I issued it, it was September 99 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. The American experiment is not going to 100 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: end because of Donald Trump. But when he tries to 101 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: claim a victory when he was rejected by the popular will, 102 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: how many of our former friends, for power's sake, will 103 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: take that final step across the line line of absolutely 104 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: no return to seek to actively undermine the two hundred 105 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: and forty four year long American experiment paid for in 106 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: the blood of patriots, from Lexington to Gettysburg to Normandy 107 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: to the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Who's going to sign up 108 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: to step across the line to to be a co 109 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: conspirator in the fabrication of completing total bullshit around the 110 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: stolen election to retain power by any means necessary. Who's 111 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: going to be complicit in that? We're going to find 112 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: out very very soon. And at that moment you're going 113 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: to know where the bottomless pit of corruption that's endemic 114 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: to trump Ism and this era of Republicanism finally hits 115 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: its rock bottom. What will happen next in America is 116 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: perfectly clear. There will be chaos because Donald Trump is 117 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: about to try and take something should he lose, that 118 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: is not his to take, and when he tries it, 119 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: he will not be able to take it. But he 120 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: will be able to lose a type of chaos that 121 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: will frighten everybody. And should he win, he'll also try 122 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: to take He'll try to take riots, He'll try to 123 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: take power that is not the president's to take. He 124 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: will try to strip away rights that are not the 125 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: presidents to grant. We stand at the us of a profound, 126 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: a grave moment in America's long history. We should not 127 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: be frightened of it. Instead, we should gird ourselves for it. 128 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: A moment of truth has arrived. When we asked the 129 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: question how is it that we got here? One of 130 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: the answers will be greed. The lust is deeply embedded 131 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: in the American soul for money, for profit, at the 132 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: expense of ideas and ideals. It's nothing new. Hollywood didn't 133 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: make an anti Nazi movie until nineteen thirty nine. The networks, 134 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: the newspapers, they made billions covering not a mortal threat 135 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: to American civilization, to the American way of life, but 136 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: rather a circus, a carnival, American politics degenerated with a 137 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: reality star as its star into a reality show. Except 138 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: this is real life, not a reality show. And so 139 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: instead of covering the mortal threat, they covered the horse race, 140 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: They covered the poll. They covered the sensationalism at the 141 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: expense of the truly menacing and dangerous. And through all 142 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: that fog and through all that noise, it was hard 143 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: to hear sometimes what Trump was saying. Listen carefully, because 144 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,839 Speaker 1: by tomorrow I can play it again, but there really 145 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: won't be anything to do about it anymore. I beg 146 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: you to listen. 147 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 5: I only want to be a dictator for one day, 148 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 5: and it'll be nasty a little bit at times, and 149 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 5: maybe at the beginning, in particular. 150 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 6: One rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word 151 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 6: will get out and it will end immediately. To get me, 152 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 6: somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. 153 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 5: And I don't mind that so much. 154 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 6: I don't mind. 155 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 5: Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine 156 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 5: barrel shooting at her. Okay, see how she feels about it, 157 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 5: you know, when the guns are trained on her face. 158 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: Though Donald Trump does have a letter next to his name, 159 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: it's deceptive because his should be an F for fascism. 160 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: He's a fascist, and he shares nothing in common as 161 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: a fascist with any of his predecessors who believed in 162 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: American is Donald Trump is Unamerican. He's un American because 163 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: you cannot love your country if you despise half the 164 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: people who live in it. My friends, listen carefully to 165 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: this man's venom, his venomous words that he calls love. 166 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: Look at this mob attacking something that we share and 167 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: belongs to all of us. It was not an act 168 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: of love. It was an active betrayal of treachery. I 169 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: believe treason certainly for anybody with judgment who loves their country. 170 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: It was all the warning they will ever need keep 171 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: this man far from power. We face a threat. We 172 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: must deal with it in the American fashion. We must 173 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: choose our freedom again. We must embrace our liberty again, 174 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: and we must reject this poison, this sickness, this rots, 175 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: this decay, this cancer that has infected our lands for 176 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: ten long years. Let's end the Trump era tomorrow and 177 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,839 Speaker 1: go forward into the future like our ancestors have always done, 178 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: with pride in our country, and hope that tomorrow can 179 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: be a little bit better than today for our kids. 180 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmid. This is the warning, 181 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 182 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.