WEBVTT - Steve Schmidt: The World Has Finally Answered Trump

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<v Speaker 1>The broken American media has covered Donald Trump like they

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<v Speaker 1>cover Survivor. Each day in the news is an episode

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<v Speaker 1>of a reality show, with the Sunday shows beginning the

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<v Speaker 1>week with a special edition of Catch Me if you can,

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<v Speaker 1>over and over and over again. The insanity has been indulged.

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<v Speaker 1>A perfect example of Scott Bessen being interviewed on CNBC.

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<v Speaker 2>Four years in the Europeans are still financing the war

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<v Speaker 2>against themselves.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, let's talk about it.

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<v Speaker 2>But what I do want to say is same thing

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<v Speaker 2>that I said after Liberation Day on April second. Everyone

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<v Speaker 2>take a deep breath. Do not escalate, do not escalate.

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<v Speaker 2>And President Trump has a strategy here hear him out,

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<v Speaker 2>and then everything will be fine.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't escalate, don't escalate. But what did anybody expect to

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<v Speaker 1>happen when the United States abandon its values, abandon its ideals?

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<v Speaker 1>The world has answered. This is January two. First, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. At the World Economic

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<v Speaker 1>Forum in Davas, American flags were burned. The United States,

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<v Speaker 1>according to Reich fior Miller, has declared itself a predator nation.

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<v Speaker 1>The world watches Donald Trump's secret police assault American citizens

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<v Speaker 1>and attack ollies threatening to invade the Kingdom of Denmark

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<v Speaker 1>and destroy Nata. Here is the answer from President Emanuel Macron.

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<v Speaker 4>But we do prefer respect to bullie, we do prefer

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<v Speaker 4>science to plutism, and we do prefer rule of law

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<v Speaker 4>to brutality. We have a place where rule of law

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<v Speaker 4>and predictability is still the rule.

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<v Speaker 5>Of the game. And my guess is that it is

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<v Speaker 5>largely unenterprised by the market. Having a place like Europe

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<v Speaker 5>which sometimes is too slow for sure and needs to

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<v Speaker 5>be reformed for sure, which she's predictable, loyal, and when

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<v Speaker 5>where you knew that the rule of the game is

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<v Speaker 5>just the rule of lou it's a good place.

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<v Speaker 1>Here was the Democratic front runner Gavin Newsom, making clear

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<v Speaker 1>that appeasement in the twenty first century leads to the

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<v Speaker 1>same road of ruin as it did in the twentieth.

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<v Speaker 3>And stop being complicity. It's time to stand tall and firm,

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<v Speaker 3>have a backbone. I can't take this complicity people rolling over.

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<v Speaker 6>I should have brought up a bunch of knee pads

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<v Speaker 6>for all the world leaders. And I hope people understand

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<v Speaker 6>how pathetic they look on the world stage. I mean,

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<v Speaker 6>at least from an American perspective, it's embarrassing.

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<v Speaker 3>So what should you and I doing?

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<v Speaker 6>They usually decide. The European should decide for themselves what

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<v Speaker 6>to do. But one thing they can't do is what

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<v Speaker 6>they've been doing. And they've been playing. So it's been

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<v Speaker 6>playing folks for fools and it's embarrassing European state.

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<v Speaker 3>This is deploymacy and this will also this is diplomacy

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<v Speaker 3>with Donald Trump. He's a t rex. You mate with

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<v Speaker 3>him or he devours you one or the other. I

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<v Speaker 3>need to stemon No.

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<v Speaker 6>The Europeans could be if they continue to put down

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<v Speaker 6>this path and process. They need to stand tall, stand firm,

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<v Speaker 6>stand united. Look, you said this a year ago. We

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<v Speaker 6>should have been having this conversation and they didn't. Okay,

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<v Speaker 6>and now you're paying the price exactly what anyone Objectiveserver

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<v Speaker 6>would have anticipated with the where we are to.

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<v Speaker 1>Here is the Prime Minister of Belgium.

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<v Speaker 7>But now so many red lines are being crossed that

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<v Speaker 7>you have the choice between your self respect. Being a

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<v Speaker 7>happy vessel is one thing, being a miserable slave is

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<v Speaker 7>something else. If you back down now, you're going to

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<v Speaker 7>lose your dignity. And that's probably the most precious thing

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<v Speaker 7>you can have in a democracy.

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<v Speaker 3>It's your dignity.

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<v Speaker 1>A happy vassal or an unhappy slave, is how he

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<v Speaker 1>sees it. And of course there is the address by

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<v Speaker 1>the Canadian Prime Minister. It is a world historic speech.

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<v Speaker 1>One year after Trump's vile inaugural that rejected and repudiated

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<v Speaker 1>the Atlantic Charter. One of the charter members of the

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<v Speaker 1>Free World, Canada has answered.

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<v Speaker 8>We knew the story of the international rules base order

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<v Speaker 8>was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient,

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<v Speaker 8>that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that

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<v Speaker 8>international law applied with variant rigor depending on the identity

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<v Speaker 8>of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful.

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<v Speaker 8>An American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open

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<v Speaker 8>sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support

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<v Speaker 8>for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign

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<v Speaker 8>in the window, We participated in the rituals, and we

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<v Speaker 8>largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

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<v Speaker 5>This bargain no longer works.

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<v Speaker 1>It is an extraordinary address. It is a smashing through

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<v Speaker 1>the potempting window of normalcy. Morc Carney explained how tutalitarianism works,

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<v Speaker 1>and he refuses to be the shopkeeper that puts the

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<v Speaker 1>sign up every day no more. Carney demonstrated he's a

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<v Speaker 1>serious man in a serious time. Eighty years ago, the

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<v Speaker 1>world paid a terrible price for appeasement. Here's what Winston

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<v Speaker 1>Churchill said then. And late last night, Democratic senators capitulated

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<v Speaker 1>to Donald Trump suggesting that they will deliver the votes

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<v Speaker 1>to fund his gestapo, his secret police, the collaborators, Corey Booker,

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<v Speaker 1>Patty Murray. They're the same appeasers that Gavin Newsome is

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<v Speaker 1>warning about in Europe.

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<v Speaker 6>This is co read. I mean, you guys are still

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<v Speaker 6>playing by all set of rules. Everybody with Globe is

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<v Speaker 6>with this guy. He's unmoored. It's the law of the jungle.

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<v Speaker 6>It's the rule of Don and I hope it's donning

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<v Speaker 6>on the world what we're up against.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, this is this is serious.

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<v Speaker 6>This guy is.

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<v Speaker 3>He's he's not mad, he's very.

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<v Speaker 6>Intentional, but he's unmoored and he's unhinged and it requires

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<v Speaker 6>the goal is whatever he wants it to be about.

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<v Speaker 3>The goal is the world in his image. What would yours?

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<v Speaker 3>A narcissay? I mean, it's just it's no advice of

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<v Speaker 3>common sense.

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<v Speaker 6>Why don't Why don't folks do what they say publicly,

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<v Speaker 6>what they're saying in private. Why don't they just simply

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<v Speaker 6>do what they know is right. I mean, everybody's talking

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<v Speaker 6>behind his back, they're laughing, and I don't. Meanwhile, they're sucking

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<v Speaker 6>up to him. It's embarrassing. I mean, this is your

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<v Speaker 6>modeling behavior for our kids, generations of folks. This is

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<v Speaker 6>not the pomacy.

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<v Speaker 3>This is stupidity.

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<v Speaker 1>Appeasement and malice together have led us to the edge

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<v Speaker 1>of ruin. And so let me leave you with these

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<v Speaker 1>words from the Canadian Prime Minister, because they are a

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<v Speaker 1>warning of things to come where we will be poorer

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<v Speaker 1>and our children will have left because of the fascist

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump.

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<v Speaker 5>Let me be direct.

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<v Speaker 8>We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

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<v Speaker 8>Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy,

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<v Speaker 8>and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.

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<v Speaker 8>But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration

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<v Speaker 8>as weapons. Tariffs's leverage, financial infrastructure, is coercion, supply chains

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<v Speaker 8>as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the

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<v Speaker 8>lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the

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<v Speaker 8>source of your subordination.

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<v Speaker 1>Bob Steve met this is the warning. I invite you

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<v Speaker 1>to join this community where I promise to be honest,

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<v Speaker 1>blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.

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