1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: All of this unpleasantness could have been dealt with. Joe 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: Biden could be leading the country, uniting the country as 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: a one term president. He would have been beloved. He 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: could have ushered in generational change. But no, he made 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: a different choice. If Donald Trump becomes the president of 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: the United States, we will have a crisis in this 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: country that is acute, that is real, and is as 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: deep as the one this country faced on the edge 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: of civil war, which Donald Trump talks about and stokes 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: all the time. It is Friday, June twenty eighth, the 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: morning after the historic CNN debate between the two presidents, 12 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Joe Biden. One hundred and thirty days 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: remained until the election, until the last polls close. Fifty 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: two days remain until the opening of the Democratic National Convention, 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: and there Democrats must make a decision, followed by a 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: decision that President Biden must make. This is the warning. 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: President Biden's entire legacy is on the line. He should 18 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,559 Speaker 1: understand this. If he loses to Donald Trump, the only 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: thing he will be remembered for is his ego, the 20 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: brittle ego of an elderly man who couldn't get enough. 21 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: That is all there will be, and incredibly, there will 22 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: be two presidents Trump and Biden back to back, who 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: never have a library. The legacy is singular. Trump is 24 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: the man who desecrated his oath, who attacked the country, 25 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden will be remembered as the man who 26 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: let him do it, the man who could not make 27 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: an argument about American democracy on the edge of the 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: country celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth year of 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: its independence. Let's understand something from the debate. A president 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: swears an oath. It's the only one written in the 31 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: Constitution to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the 32 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: United States. Let's look at Donald Trump's answer to the 33 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: question he finally got. Note the time mark about how 34 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: deep into the debate it was before this question was asked. 35 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: Can Trump? The question was, will you accept the results 36 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 2: of the election regardless of who wins? Yes or no? Please, 37 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 2: if it's a fair and legal and good election, absolutely 38 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 2: I would have much rather accepted these But the fraud 39 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,399 Speaker 2: and everything else was ridiculous. That if you want, we'll 40 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 2: have a news conference on it in a week, or 41 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: we'll have another one of these in a week. But 42 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: I will absolutely, There's nothing I'd rather do. It would 43 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: be much easier for me to do that, then I'm 44 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 2: running again. 45 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: Trump's answer is insanity. It's incoherent, and like all of 46 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: his answers, it's built on a foundation of Donald Trump 47 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: lied with a bandon last night. He lied more than 48 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: any presidential candidate has ever lied in any debate. And 49 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: he held all the previous records from his three debates 50 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: against Secretary Clinton and from his three debates against President Biden. 51 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: But this debate, the seventh debate, the debate that he 52 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: lied the most in, was the debate where finally he 53 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: was able to steam roll his opponent. 54 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 2: But when he talks about a convicted fella and his 55 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 2: son is a convicted heelen at a very high level. 56 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: His son is convicted, going to be convicted, probably numerous 57 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 2: other times, should have been convicted before, but his Justice 58 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: apartment let the statue limitations laps on the most important things. 59 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: But he could be a convicted fella as soon as 60 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: he gets out of office. Joe could be a convicted 61 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: fellow with all of the things that he's done. He's 62 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 2: done horrible things. 63 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: There's a simple truth. Joe Biden does not have the 64 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: capacity to speak coherently, to form arguments, to push back 65 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: against the worst cause and the worst set of ideas 66 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: since the Confederacy, since fascism. Donald Trump and his agents 67 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: have a nine hundred page, detailed playbook to disassemble the 68 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: workings of the American civil service and to tear apart 69 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: the infrastructure that supports and sustains our democracy. It is 70 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: a blueprint for the seizure of power, and then, according 71 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: to Trump, it will be the mechanism by which political 72 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: retribution is delivered. President Biden was unable to make a 73 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: single effective argument. Joe Biden and the Democrats say they 74 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: intend to win the election on abortion. They don't have 75 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: a prayer of winning the election on abortion because the 76 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: President can't speak coherently about it. It was his chance 77 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: to score point, like the January sixth issue, like a 78 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: lot of issues that were brought up, but he cannot 79 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: do it. The decline of Joe Biden between his debates 80 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: four years ago with Trump and this debate tonight is shocking. 81 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: And the truth is the White House staff and a 82 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: great deal of media has gas lit the country telling 83 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: the American people over and over and over again that 84 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, despite the cuts that they saw on the 85 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: news clips, despite the social media clips, was up for 86 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: the job. Last night, in one of the largest television 87 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: audiences in history, President Biden ended the debate. He demonstrated 88 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: he's not up for the job. There will be no 89 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: second debate, audience that convenes, no opportunity for recovery. This 90 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: is it. When Barack Obama had a bad debate, people 91 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: didn't think it was because Barack Obama wasn't capable. People 92 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: thought it was because Barack Obama didn't prepare. George Bush 93 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: had a bad first debate. Ronald Reagan had a bad 94 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: first debate. But no president has ever had a debate 95 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: so definitional as the one we just witnessed. And so 96 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: what happens now, Well, the Democratic Party and its leadership 97 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: has foisted this on the country. A small group of 98 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: White House advisors did everything they could and successfully shut 99 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: down primary competitions. There was no primary, there was no 100 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: test for Biden. So when he faced his first tests, 101 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: like many of us predicted, hoped, prayed would have happened, 102 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: it happened. He collapsed and what was seen cannot be unseen. 103 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom went on television and immolated his credibility last 104 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: night when he talked about that Joe Biden was fine. 105 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 2: Was your reaction to what we saw on screen? Well, 106 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 2: on a substance, he won the debate. 107 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: I'm old school. 108 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: I'm old fashioned. That's what matters to me. 109 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: He's not, and Gavin Newsom should understand if he has 110 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: higher political ambitions to stop it. Stop gaslighting, Stop lying 111 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: to the American people about the conditions they can clearly see. 112 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: I'm a Gavin Newsom fan. And the fact that Joe 113 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: Biden has put him in the position to act as 114 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: his personal Sean Spicer telling the American people that A 115 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: is bigger than B when in fact it's a lot smaller. 116 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: It's reprehensible and it won't work. All that it will 117 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: do is destroy the credibility of the next generation of Democrats. 118 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is one of the most important institutions 119 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: for the preservation of human freedom and dignity in world history. 120 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is unable to perform at a moment of 121 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: crisis the duties that are required to lead the party. 122 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: He can't make an argument about the great issues of 123 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: the day. He did not talk for a second about 124 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: the future. Every answer when Trump attacked him, ends with 125 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: Biden declaring, this moment is the best that it's ever 126 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: been and he has a thirty eight percent approval rate. 127 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: If Donald Trump wins this election, it will be a 128 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: catastrophe for America and the world, and it must not happen. 129 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 1: Something must be said. This country is bigger than Joe Biden. 130 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: This country is bigger than doctor Jill Biden's ambitions to 131 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: live in the White House for four more years. This 132 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: country is a project through the centuries, not the months, 133 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: not the decades, not the years. The White House staff 134 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: that has foisted this on the country should be hanging 135 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: their heads in shame today. The MSNBC hosts that have 136 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: foisted this on the country, who looked away, who gas 137 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: lit their audience, who told them that everything was fine, 138 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: who knew that in the green room all of the 139 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 1: Democratic Congressmen say one thing, but on the camera something else. 140 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: The split screen that played throughout this debate will become 141 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: poisonous over these next days as it's cut up, as 142 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: it's distributed. And there's one takeaway from the debate, and 143 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: it's that the president is feeble, unwell, unable to lead 144 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: because That's the takeaway. Nobody saw the real danger, the lying, 145 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: the menace, the go yourself look on Trump's face, the 146 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: purse lips, the sense that he knows that he's winning, 147 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: that he's coming back, and he's going to get even 148 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: the worst part of this tragedy is the irresponsibility of 149 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: the Biden team in cheerleading Donald Trump for four years. 150 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: Do you know what the Biden legacy is? It's simple. 151 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: Extremism is worse today than it has ever been in America. 152 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: And it got worse on Joe Biden's watch because he 153 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: didn't assault it from day one. He stoked it. Because 154 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: Trump's comeback was the rationale for his ability to break 155 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: his promise and run for re election. And now here 156 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: we are, the panic we are seeing is just beginning. 157 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: It is epic and it is like an avalanche. It 158 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: will roll downhill and it will take out everything in 159 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: its path. It cannot be stopped. What is it that 160 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: the White House staff intends to tell the Democratic members 161 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,439 Speaker 1: of Congress who will lose their seat, the state legislatures 162 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: that will flip to Maggi extremists, all because Joe Biden 163 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: won't let go. Well, if those members of Congress treasure. 164 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: They're elected positions. They're going to urge their leadership to 165 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: go on down to the White House. Hakeem Jefferies is 166 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: going to have to do with Howard Baker once did 167 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: all of this unpleasantness have been dealt with. Joe Biden 168 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: could be leading the country, uniting the country as a 169 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: one term president, he would have been beloved. He could 170 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: have ushered in generational change. But no, he made a 171 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: different choice. And now all the bullshit, all the talk, 172 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: all of it has faded away to nothingness. And all 173 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: that is left is what the American people saw for 174 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: ninety minutes, And what they saw was an American tragedy, 175 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: a catastrophe. Two old men lying about their golf scores, 176 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: two old men with their personal animus spewing forth. I've 177 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: been involved in American politics for a long time. I 178 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: can't think of a night that was more pathetic. Remember this, 179 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: when you hear people lying to you that it's going 180 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: to be okay, it's not. If Donald Trump becomes the 181 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: president of the United States, we will have a crisis 182 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: in this country that is acute, that is real, and 183 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: is as deep as the one this country faced on 184 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: the edge of civil war, which Donald Trump talks about 185 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: and stokes all the time. Donald Trump is a tomato can. 186 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: There's never been an easier candidate to laugh out, to mock, 187 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: to humiliate, any steamrolled Joe Biden. Joe Biden didn't land 188 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: a single punch on Trump, not one, not even close. 189 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: He couldn't make a single argument against the biggest easiest 190 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: target ever. But do you know who could? Gretchen Whitmer could, Joshapiro, could, 191 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: Wes Moore could? The Democratic Party faces an emergency, but 192 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: it can get out of it. What it requires is humility, reality, 193 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: and understanding from the Biden clan that their time is up. 194 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: It's time right now to pass the torch. And if 195 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: they don't on election night, when Donald Trump is announced 196 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 1: on CNN and on Fox and ON and ABC and 197 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: NBC and CBS is the president elector of the United States, 198 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: it will not be Donald Trump's achievement. It will be 199 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's failure, his neglect. Fascism rose in the nineteen 200 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: thirties not because it was strong, not because it was popular, 201 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: but because democracy was weak. And what everyone saw last 202 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: night was an enfeebled, weak American president. Chaos is good 203 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: for Trump. He feeds off of it. Last night was 204 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's best night politically ever, including the night he 205 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: surprised the world and beat Secretary Clinton. He has never 206 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: wanted a debate, he has never had a commanding victory 207 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: until he got on the stage for ninety minutes with 208 00:13:54,360 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: President Biden, who just can't do it anymore. He now faild. 209 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: This is a choice his ego or the country, and 210 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: if he needs help with that choice, then the leaders 211 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party need to march on up to 212 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: the White House and help him with it. This is 213 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: the warning, and we are out of time. I'm Steve Schmidt. 214 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,439 Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 215 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. 216 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community.