Speaker 1: This is the warning.
Speaker 2: There is some terrible news that is unfolding in Utah,
Speaker 2: and that is that the MAGA activist, the founder of
Speaker 2: the youth organization Turning Point USA, has been shot. Charlie
Speaker 2: Kirk has been shot in Utah. Let me say that
Speaker 2: this is a terrible crime. It is an act of
Speaker 2: reprehensible violence, and it should be condemned unequivocally and directly
Speaker 2: by every American, but especially by all of those who
Speaker 2: stand opposed to the descending curtain of fascism in America.
Speaker 2: This act of violence stands the shooter on the side
Speaker 2: of what we must be against, against the depravity, against
Speaker 2: the violence, against the evil that the Trump regime has manifested,
Speaker 2: and that Charlie Kirk, misguidedly, in my view, supported and endorsed.
Speaker 3: But in this country we believe unequivocally and without exception
Speaker 3: in the freedom of speech and conscience and thought.
Speaker 2: And this act of violence directed by a democratic activist
Speaker 2: will be used by the demagogues of the MAGA movement,
Speaker 2: the propagandists to justify the use of force in the
Speaker 2: imposition of control by government authority against the citizen.
Speaker 3: Because at the.
Speaker 2: Core of the mag ideology is a victim and grievance
Speaker 2: industry that has told people for a generation that they
Speaker 2: are victims and that they are hunted. And today the
Speaker 2: evidence of that was laid down with bloody, perfect cloudy.
Speaker 2: And so a political leader of an opposition that I
Speaker 2: disdain and detest has been done down while trying to
Speaker 2: persuade people that he was right. And the act of
Speaker 2: evil perpetrated against him is an act of evil that
Speaker 2: was perpetrated against America and against our highest ideals in
Speaker 2: furtherance of an evil. Violence. Violence begets violence. And we
Speaker 2: look at a democracy that's two hundred and fifty years old,
Speaker 2: atendants of the United States, and we think about Donald
Speaker 2: Trump inciting violence at the Capitol on January sixth, and
Speaker 2: we know that hundreds of police officers were assaulted, but
Speaker 2: the violence was dismissed. The violent criminals were pardoned and
Speaker 2: said loose and now they will be ready for their war.
Speaker 2: We know that a week ago, upon the celebration of
Speaker 2: the destruction of a speedboat off of Venezuela, the eleven
Speaker 2: human beings aboard, when it was pointed out to JD.
Speaker 2: Vance that he lacked the authority the legality to word
Speaker 2: a lethal strike. There, he responded with, I don't give
Speaker 2: a shit the erosion that we have seen taken place
Speaker 2: in the talk about killing and death and the escalation
Speaker 2: and rhetoric.
Speaker 3: There is no.
Speaker 2: Voice that has ever been in the history of the
Speaker 2: United States has done more to court violence in the
Speaker 2: twentieth and twenty first century between US as a people
Speaker 2: than Donald Trump and the MAGA movement constantly divided, calling
Speaker 2: out to the American people that were each other's enemies.
Speaker 2: And the answer to this hatred is etched in granite
Speaker 2: at the memorial of doctor Martin Luther King in Washington
Speaker 2: and in Atlanta, and in the permanence of the record
Speaker 2: that makes clear the defeating hate requires the application of
Speaker 2: love and the love of country and the ideas and
Speaker 2: ideals that we hold dear about freedom, about liberty, the
Speaker 2: rule of law, or the answer to the great crisis
Speaker 2: at hand, the solution to the American crisis at hand,
Speaker 2: and the only moral method of opposition and resistance to it.
Speaker 2: And the man who shot Charlie Kirk tried to assassinate
Speaker 2: today his country, tried to assassinate the rule of law,
Speaker 2: tried to assassinate a human being because he didn't like
Speaker 2: his politics, and he thought, in all of his sickness.
Speaker 3: In all of his arrogance, that he had.
Speaker 2: The fucking right to be the judge and the jury
Speaker 2: and the executioner. And let every single one of us
Speaker 2: make clear our contempt and our disassociation in our demand
Speaker 2: that when we stand together, we do it with nonviolence
Speaker 2: as patriots. This is madness and sanity. Earlier today, I
Speaker 2: shared a story about a Life magazine that I've written about,
Speaker 2: and it's from November of nineteen thirty eight. And on
Speaker 2: the cover of that magazine is a toddler and there's
Speaker 2: a cupcake with two candles. And I've always made the
Speaker 2: point then and now the media believes the news is
Speaker 2: about the media. The evidence, of course that upon the
Speaker 2: second anniversary of Life magazine, with all that was going
Speaker 2: on in the world, the thing that was on the
Speaker 2: cover was the second anniversary of Life magazine. But inside
Speaker 2: the cover were the first images of the events that
Speaker 2: we remember as the Krystal Knock, the Night of the
Speaker 2: Broken Glass, which followed the assassination of a Nazi official
Speaker 2: in Paris and the act of collective revenge punishment spilled
Speaker 2: out all over the Jews and those pictures are in
Speaker 2: that Life magazine, and you turn the story and accompanying
Speaker 2: those pictures for publication, where the first publicity photos of
Speaker 2: the occasion of Hermann Goring's nieces christening, and you see
Speaker 2: Hitler and you see Gouring together in the church with
Speaker 2: the children surrounding them, and you see a ad in
Speaker 2: the next pages for Coca Cola telling the American people
Speaker 2: to relax and to take it easy during the hours
Speaker 2: and the days ahead. This terrible crime will be the
Speaker 2: foundation the basis to say that there is a cure
Speaker 2: for the disease that we just witnessed, that there is
Speaker 2: a type of justice that can be restored of, and
Speaker 2: that justice is to give to Donald Trump and for
Speaker 2: Donald Trump to use the power of the state to
Speaker 2: avenge this terrible crime against who the criminal and the assassin,
Speaker 2: or against all of Donald Trump's uponts. And so we
Speaker 2: will hear now from the people who change the Department
Speaker 2: of Defense to the Department of War, those people who
Speaker 2: talk about lethality and violence and fetishize it and have
Speaker 2: divided the American people and told the proud boys to
Speaker 2: stand back and stand ready, and have said that the
Speaker 2: country has been invaded and that we are at war. Well,
Speaker 2: they have their Reichstock fire now. And that's what this
Speaker 2: will become, the justification for the expansion of state power
Speaker 2: to suppress political dissent name of punishing the side of
Speaker 2: a political proposition from which this murderous scumbag came. And
Speaker 2: it is important to understand that we must deplore the violence.
Speaker 2: We must pray for Charlie Kirk, we must pray for
Speaker 2: our country, but we cannot submit to the abuses of
Speaker 2: power that will be asserted on the basis of this
Speaker 2: terrible crime. Our children are not safe in their schools.
Speaker 2: We live in a country that glorifies this in sanity
Speaker 2: from billboards and with a gun shop on every corner,
Speaker 2: and the rhetoric the cold civil war that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has stoked for many years a decade is flashing red,
Speaker 2: lashing hot on the periphery, turning violence. Violence is a
Speaker 2: cancer on a democracy. No democratic nation debates issues with
Speaker 2: a rifle. Fascism rose in the nineteen thirties not because
Speaker 2: it was strong, but because democracy was weak. And in
Speaker 2: this country we are to descend into extremists left wing
Speaker 2: violence versus right wing violence. I have bad news for
Speaker 2: every left of center person who believes in democracy in America,
Speaker 2: in the United States. In that fight, the dominant faction
Speaker 2: is the fascisade, and it will win.
Speaker 3: It will prevail.
Speaker 2: The ideas that we must stand for require us to
Speaker 2: have the bravery to embrace nonviolence and the wisdom to
Speaker 2: reject hatred. If you know, people cannot see the humanity
Speaker 2: of Charlie Kirk, young father, those people are the worst
Speaker 2: of the worst, just like the worst of the worst
Speaker 2: that so many of us in opposition to this are
Speaker 2: so fiercely against, and so terrible day, an awful moment,
Speaker 2: an act of political terror, on the eve of September eleventh,
Speaker 2: twenty four years, on.
Speaker 3: The eve to the day of a day that will live.
Speaker 2: In infamy, as a fascist curtain descends on our country.
Speaker 2: It's massed agents in the military, is threatened to be
Speaker 2: deployed into the streets. Man who picked up the rifle,
Speaker 2: the sick individual, it's responsible for his actions, his crimes,
Speaker 2: and he is an enemy of the United States. He
Speaker 2: is a he is a domestic enemy of the of
Speaker 2: the Constitution of the United States. And he stole something
Speaker 2: from all of us today that he had no right
Speaker 2: to take from any of us. But we must also
Speaker 2: consider causations, and we must remember that just days ago,
Speaker 2: an American president pictured himself as the Robert Duval character
Speaker 2: from Apocalypse Now ready to wage war on an American city.
Speaker 2: And there are unbalanced and sick people out there. When
Speaker 2: the president of the United States declares that his enemy
Speaker 2: is the American people, the sickness manifests itself, and the
Speaker 2: violence that is coming and the violence that has already happened,
Speaker 2: should cause the deepest of reflection. And for those of
Speaker 2: you out there say fuck Charlie Kirk and all the
Speaker 2: sick of fants, what I say to you is Ken
Speaker 2: Goldsmith is no Ken.
Speaker 3: You're the worst of the worst. The people who.
Speaker 2: Are cheering for the assassins, for the violence, just as
Speaker 2: responsible as MAGA for taking your country from you. And
Speaker 2: what I want you to understand tonight is something that
Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy said a long time ago. Well, we need
Speaker 2: in America is not more hate, but we need more love.
Speaker 2: And let everybody be resolved. And no matter what, we
Speaker 2: reject the idea that the government has the right to
Speaker 2: avenge this evil by attacking the American people.
Speaker 1: And I'm Steve Schmidt, this is the warning. I invite
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