1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: It is July first, twenty twenty four. Happy Canada Day 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: to all of those who are celebrating north of the 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: forty ninth parallel and around the world. This is the warning. 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: It is the Monday after the most disastrous debate in 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: American history, and the American media is filled with calls 6 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: for the President of the United States to do the 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: right thing, to retire, to announce his withdrawal from the race, 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: and his opening of the Democratic National Convention so that 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: a winning ticket can be put together for the purposes 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: of defeating once and for all Maggat extremism and Donald Trump. 11 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: Here are some of the many candidates that Democrats could 12 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: produce to form that national ticket. There is Governor Andy 13 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: Brashier from Kentucky. There's Governor Wes Moore from Maryland. Secretary 14 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: Jenny Romando, the former governor of Rhode Island. There is 15 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: Ambassador Ram Emmanuel. There is Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor 16 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, Governor Josh Shapiro, Governor Gretchen Witmer, Senator Corey Booker. Now, 17 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 1: it is important to understand and to comprehend a few things. 18 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: The MAGA extremist movement has never been more popular, more powerful, 19 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: more politically strong than it is in this moment. Joe 20 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 1: Biden lost a debate in front of fifty one million 21 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: people by thirty four percent to a pathological, lying, incoherent braggert, 22 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: a con man, by thirty four percent. Four years ago, 23 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden crushed Donald Trump in their three debates together, 24 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: as did Secretary Clinton. There was no poll in the 25 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: immediate aftermath of those debates where the majority of Americans 26 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: thought Trump had won, let alone dominate further. During the 27 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen race and they twenty race, there were a 28 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: total of two days in the polling averages where Donald 29 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: Trump was ahead. He has been consistently ahead in the 30 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four campaign. 31 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 2: He is ahead in the swing states. He is ahead. 32 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 2: What the warning has always. 33 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: Said is the election will be lost by the person 34 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: whom the. 35 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: Election is about. I've talked about it. 36 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: The election is not about Donald Trump, his extremism, his 37 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: calls to violence, his menace, his insurrection, his insanity, his 38 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: disordered personality, or any of his pathologies. It is about 39 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's feebleness. Donald Trump is the most prolific liar 40 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: in American history, bar none. He lied more than thirty 41 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: five thousand times. As president, he told more than thirty 42 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: direct outrageous lives during the debate. 43 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: He lies constantly, but. 44 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: At the same time he has the wisdom of the 45 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 1: drunk on the barstool at the end of the bar 46 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: on a Friday night. Even though it's mostly a bramble 47 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: of incoherence and nonsense, occasionally there is a sprout of 48 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: truth and wisdom. And as such, Trump is an honest president, 49 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: one who is honest about Joe Biden's condition. 50 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: Let's watch this clip. 51 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: Of Donald Trump looking Biden in the eye and saying, 52 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: I don't think you know what you're saying, which is 53 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: the conclusion that three quarters of the country, including a 54 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: lot of people like myself who are disgusted with Donald Trump, 55 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: have reached. I don't know what he said at the 56 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: end of this sentence. 57 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: I don't think he knows what he said either. 58 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: The party that produced the president that inspired entire generation 59 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: who asked asked, not what your country can do for you, 60 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: but what you can do for your country, that party 61 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: stands at the edge of a great political suicide. They 62 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: are offering for the American people gaslighting. And here is 63 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: first Lady doctor Joe Biden's answer to all of the 64 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: calls that her eighty two year old husband that she 65 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: clearly functions as some type of regent for a latter 66 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: day Edith Wilson here is her answer. Does it remind 67 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: you of anyone the Biden team has given up honesty 68 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,239 Speaker 1: as an issue against Trump? The people that are looking 69 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: into the camera and telling you that everything is fine, 70 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is completely in command, that he's involved 71 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: in the details. 72 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 2: It's absurd. 73 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: It's gas lighting, and it won't work because gaslighting doesn't 74 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: connect when it's associated with the good guy side of 75 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: the equation. I'm going to read something that I wrote 76 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: two years ago, and what I wrote has come to 77 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: pass from the moment I was the first person in 78 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: America to predict that when Trump came down the escalator 79 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: that he could win, and when I was the first 80 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: person in America to predict that there would be violence 81 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: when Trump denied the results of the election, and when 82 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: I predicted this debacle. 83 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 2: Let me read what I wrote. 84 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: Imagine being a board a sinking ocean liner on a 85 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: cold April evening in the North Atlantic, when the iceberg 86 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: sliced into the hull and severed the watertight compartments. There 87 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: was barely a shutter after that short moment. No more 88 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: damage would be inflicted on the ship. The collision happened 89 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: approximately twenty minutes before midnight, and the ship would reach 90 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic two hours and 91 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: forty five minutes later. Time matters in situations like this. 92 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: Every second counts. Time is the great equalizer in life. 93 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: It moves forward relentlessly. Each moment that passes is gone forever, 94 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: while the next, unwritten one offers infinite possibilities. 95 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 2: Time is the glacier that carves the future. 96 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: A great drama would play out on a stage of 97 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: two hours and forty five minutes. Time was invariable, while 98 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: the consequences built into a frantic and chaotic conclusion that 99 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: was inevitable. From the moment of the barely noted collision. 100 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: The Titanic lost electricity, snapped in half and went to 101 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: the bottom of the ocean in fourteen minutes. The dramatic 102 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: conclusion is always the locus of the story when it 103 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: is inevitably memorialized and documented. It is the beginning, though, 104 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: that matters. It is at the beginning where the outcome 105 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: was certain, but where decisions and actions could still determine 106 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: who lived and died. There was no urgency when the 107 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: mostly empty first lifeboat was lowered into the frigid and 108 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: placid North Atlantic fifty minutes after impact. The ship's designer 109 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: was aboard and knew the ship was doomed, as did 110 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: her captain, who plowed it at full speed into an 111 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: ice field on the orders of the CEO of the 112 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: White Star Line, who was also aboard. Predictably, it was 113 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: the CEO, Bruce Ismay, who was the sole survivor among 114 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: the three. One hundred minutes would pass between the lowering 115 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: of the first boat and the chaotic moment when the 116 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: electricity ceased. There were no lifeboats left for the terrified 117 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: passengers who prayed for salvation. That was theirs an hour 118 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: and a half earlier. Why didn't they get in the 119 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:03,559 Speaker 1: life vote? 120 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: Then? 121 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: That is an obvious question, but an unfair one because 122 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: it is asked in hindsight and in a context where 123 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: time and its use are dissociated from the urgency that 124 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: comes from emotions. Loss of life, property, a loved one, 125 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: or even an elected office tend to focus attention more 126 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: acutely when the event is at hand. Even if the 127 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: outcome was never in question. The moment at hands for 128 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, for every Democratic candidate running for office, 129 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: is more than just about the danger of Donald Trump 130 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: getting elected and implementing his plan to disassemble American democracy 131 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 1: with his Project twenty twenty five plan and blueprint for fascism. 132 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: It's much more than that the Democratic Party will be 133 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: wholly discredited as an institution. 134 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: This cannot stand. 135 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: It cannot and the greed for more won't work on 136 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: the Democratic side. For the cause of the person who's 137 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: supposed to be the good guy, not the selfish one. 138 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: The Biden campaign is surrounded. They chose to run on 139 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: Biden nomics and they lost. They personally picked this debate 140 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: and they lost. And now there is no choice but 141 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: to do the right thing. Simple truth is, Joe Biden 142 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: is going down in November, and we can see it coming. 143 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: We have been able to see it coming. It cannot 144 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: be stopped, it will not be stopped, but the rules 145 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: of the game can be changed. All the president has 146 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: to say is I will not accept my party's nomination 147 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: for another term, and then Donald Trump will be defeated 148 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: and America can move forward. This is a low and 149 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: appalling moment. This is the fruits of selfishness and dishonesty 150 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: and cynicism. It is a poisoned garden, and it is 151 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: time for somebody in this country's leadership to at long 152 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: last do the right thing and put the country first. 153 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 154 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 155 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel follow us. 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