1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Seventy seven days until the day of decision, when the 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: American people decide whether this man who descended an escalator 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: in his gaudy building a decade ago will become the 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: commander in chief again. 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: This is the warning. 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: This weekend, Donald Trump continued his spiral. 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 2: Let's watch. It has to be seen to be believed. 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: I'm a better looking person than Kamala. 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: They used to call a TiVo dow. 10 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: They have TiVo all the I think it's the single 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: greatest invention. 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 2: I think they should reimburse me for one hundred million. 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: I don't ramble. A really smart guy, you know, really smart. 14 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: I don't ramble. It isn't just a Donald who's melting down. 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: It's his fan base, his supporters. At the Republican National Convention, 16 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: we saw some MAGA delegates, really cult members, tape bandages 17 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: to their uninjured ears in solidarity with Donald Trump. It's strange, 18 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: it's not normal behavior at a political convention, and it's 19 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: important to talk about it. This guy, let's look at him. 20 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about him, but this is a 21 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: weird guy. And I can tell he's a weird guy 22 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: from the key shirt and from the cuppies holding look 23 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: at it. This movement has gone off the rails. At 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: some level. There's weirdos like this guy, this strange couple, 25 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: that are probably harmless. But then there are people like 26 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller and Stephen Chung who are certified grade A 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: little likemans Howard in their hands becomes very dangerous. Stephen 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: Miller was in the Oval Office and he was rebuked 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when 30 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: he asked if the military could open fire on migrant 31 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: boats filled with defenseless women and children off the coast 32 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: of San Diego. Again, power in the hands of a 33 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: great many of the people around Donald Trump is existentially 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: dangerous for me, for you, for everyone you love and 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: care about, for your children. Donald Trump is running for 36 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: the most powerful and important office in the world, and 37 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: he's incoherent. He is delusional, and he is spiraling live 38 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 1: on the stage in front of three hundred and fifty 39 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: million people. He has dominated America's culture for ten years, 40 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: and now this gathering in Chicago should be the beginning 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: of his end. Because what ends Trump and trump Ism 42 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: is better, and the Democrats this week must offer a 43 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: vision of the future that is better, that breaks. 44 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: Out of the Donald Trump era. 45 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: That doesn't just signal a plan to defeat it in 46 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: the election, but to end it for all time, to 47 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: move on from this. There was a great consensus in 48 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: America about how we share power. It's why there was 49 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: a peaceful transition of power for over two hundred years. 50 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: But that's all done now because of Donald Trump. And 51 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 1: so we live in this fraud space wondering if our 52 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: democracy will survive, Can it survive, can it overcome the 53 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: cancer that has attacked it? 54 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: And this is the cancer. The cancer is Trump. 55 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: And so now at this Democratic Convention, we will see 56 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: figures of the past. We will see President Clinton and 57 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton, and Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. But this 58 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: election is not about the first decade of this century. 59 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: It's not about the second. It must be about the third, fourth, fifth, 60 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: at sixth. It must be about the creation and sustainment 61 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: of peace in the world of another American century. We 62 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: are a nation that has gone through a long season 63 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 1: of political crisis, and it must end for the sake 64 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: of our children. The consequences of a complete collapse of 65 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: trust in every institution that I can think to name 66 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: in the country is the election of someone like Trump. 67 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: When a people believe in nothing, when they think everything 68 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,799 Speaker 1: is rotten, this guy becomes possible. And there is something 69 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 1: that must be said on this the first day of 70 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: the Democratic now National Convention, when President Biden speaks and 71 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: delivers a valedictory. Had he remained in the race, defeat 72 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: would have been certain, and the defeat would have been 73 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: for American democracy caused by Joe Biden at the hands 74 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Democrats came very close. They have evaded 75 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: an avoided disaster through an act of surrender and submission 76 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: by pretending that a candidate who is failing and could 77 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: not win was winning. 78 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,559 Speaker 2: Thankfully, that's all over. 79 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:44,679 Speaker 1: Now. The Vice President has performed lawlessly, in fact, more 80 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: flawlessly than any presidential candidate ever for a sustained period 81 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: of time while introducing herself. It has been an extraordinary 82 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: season leading into this Democratic Convention. 83 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 2: But now the tough part begins. 84 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris will leave the convention with momentum, She will 85 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: leave the convention with energy, and she will lead the 86 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: convention ahead. But those poll numbers in the week ahead 87 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: will stop stretching out and after Labor Day they'll start 88 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: to fall back. Gravity will adjust the race, it will 89 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: tighten it, and when it does, there will be a 90 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: lot of panic in a time where steadiness is called for. 91 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: Don't get too up, don't get too down. Maintain and 92 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: even keel is the best advice I can give to 93 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: everybody who feels passionately about this race and is rooting 94 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: hard for Kamala Harris to be the president, though she 95 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: has not had her first one yet. There will be 96 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 1: tough days. There will be days where it seems that 97 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has gotten his magic and his luck back, 98 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: But those days are not going to determine the outcome. 99 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: The American people are, and the American people have a serious, 100 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: monumentally important choice, this qualified woman versus this adjudicated rapist, 101 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: this abuser of women, this convicted felon, this insider of insurrection, 102 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: this demagogic loser. 103 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: We should not have. 104 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,119 Speaker 1: Malice in our heart for any weirdo, even the ones 105 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: carrying JD Vance's sperm cups. We just don't want them 106 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: to have any control over any of our lives. I 107 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: don't want my daughters to have to sit in the 108 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: ob GYN office with these people, with Lindsey Graham looking 109 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: over their shoulder. What does election is about is the 110 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: American people. What the cause the election is about is 111 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: American freedom. We saw a lot of weirdness at the 112 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: Republican Convention. We're going to get to see a lot 113 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: of America at the Democratic Convention, the full beautiful mosaic 114 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: of the country, our extraordinary nation. It will look different 115 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: at the Democratic Convention and than it did at the 116 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: Republican Convention. Because the Democratic Party is America's party. It 117 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: is a party that reflects what the country looks like. 118 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: And our country is made up of all the world's people. 119 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: They've come from every corner of the earth. In our nation, 120 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: every language is spoken commonly every day. Every religion known 121 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: to mankind is practiced somewhere every day. Our country, made 122 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: up of all the people from the world, has fed 123 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: more people, liberated more people, clothed more people, and cured 124 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: more people that all of the other nations put together 125 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: since the beginning of time. And we are a young country, 126 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: not yet two hundred and fifty years old, just getting started. 127 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: What are these days about? When the American Revolution was won, 128 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: in the moment of victory, the Marquis de Lafayette, Gilbert 129 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: du Montier a young Frenchman who had come to America 130 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: to help fight for freedom, said, humanity has its victory, 131 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: liberty has its country. And he went on to predict 132 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: this country of freedom and liberty would abolish slavery and 133 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 1: would save the world. The Marquis de Lafayette was right. 134 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: America is not a perfect nation. But this week in Chicago, 135 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: a perfect idea and ideal will be celebrated, and an 136 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,479 Speaker 1: American woman will be tapped on the shoulder by destiny 137 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: and become the nominee, the standard bearer of the oldest 138 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: organized political party in the world, the Great Democratic Party 139 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: of the United States of America, the Party of John Kennedy, 140 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: the Party of Franklin Roosevelt, the Party of Harry Truman. 141 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: This party, Democratic Party, has been called forward by destiny 142 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: many many times at hours of grave crisis for the 143 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: United States, and it has put forward the leaders that 144 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: have saved freedom time and time and time again. And 145 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: now the party has chosen another. Kamala Harris and Tim 146 00:10:52,960 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: Walls are the candidates who will stop these two this rotten, rancid, 147 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: maliced maga. Cause the Democratic National Convention is open. Democracy 148 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: is being practiced. This is the warning seventy seven days 149 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: to go. Get involved. You're an American. 150 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. 151 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: This is the warning and I invite you to join. 152 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 2: Subscribe on our substack, on our. 153 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: YouTube channel, follow us. 154 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 2: Welcome to the community.