Speaker 1: All of this unpleasantness could have been dealt with. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden could be leading the country, uniting the country as
Speaker 1: a one term president. He would have been beloved. He
Speaker 1: could have ushered in generational change. But no, he made
Speaker 1: a different choice. If Donald Trump becomes the president of
Speaker 1: the United States, we will have a crisis in this
Speaker 1: country that is acute, that is real, and is as
Speaker 1: deep as the one this country faced on the edge
Speaker 1: of civil war, which Donald Trump talks about and stokes
Speaker 1: all the time. It is Friday, June twenty eighth, the
Speaker 1: morning after the historic CNN debate between the two presidents,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Joe Biden. One hundred and thirty days
Speaker 1: remained until the election, until the last polls close. Fifty
Speaker 1: two days remain until the opening of the Democratic National Convention,
Speaker 1: and there Democrats must make a decision, followed by a
Speaker 1: decision that President Biden must make. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: President Biden's entire legacy is on the line. He should
Speaker 1: understand this. If he loses to Donald Trump, the only
Speaker 1: thing he will be remembered for is his ego, the
Speaker 1: brittle ego of an elderly man who couldn't get enough.
Speaker 1: That is all there will be, and incredibly, there will
Speaker 1: be two presidents Trump and Biden back to back, who
Speaker 1: never have a library. The legacy is singular. Trump is
Speaker 1: the man who desecrated his oath, who attacked the country,
Speaker 1: and Joe Biden will be remembered as the man who
Speaker 1: let him do it, the man who could not make
Speaker 1: an argument about American democracy on the edge of the
Speaker 1: country celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth year of
Speaker 1: its independence. Let's understand something from the debate. A president
Speaker 1: swears an oath. It's the only one written in the
Speaker 1: Constitution to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the
Speaker 1: United States. Let's look at Donald Trump's answer to the
Speaker 1: question he finally got. Note the time mark about how
Speaker 1: deep into the debate it was before this question was asked.
Speaker 2: Can Trump? The question was, will you accept the results
Speaker 2: of the election regardless of who wins? Yes or no? Please,
Speaker 2: if it's a fair and legal and good election, absolutely
Speaker 2: I would have much rather accepted these But the fraud
Speaker 2: and everything else was ridiculous. That if you want, we'll
Speaker 2: have a news conference on it in a week, or
Speaker 2: we'll have another one of these in a week. But
Speaker 2: I will absolutely, There's nothing I'd rather do. It would
Speaker 2: be much easier for me to do that, then I'm
Speaker 2: running again.
Speaker 1: Trump's answer is insanity. It's incoherent, and like all of
Speaker 1: his answers, it's built on a foundation of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: lied with a bandon last night. He lied more than
Speaker 1: any presidential candidate has ever lied in any debate. And
Speaker 1: he held all the previous records from his three debates
Speaker 1: against Secretary Clinton and from his three debates against President Biden.
Speaker 1: But this debate, the seventh debate, the debate that he
Speaker 1: lied the most in, was the debate where finally he
Speaker 1: was able to steam roll his opponent.
Speaker 2: But when he talks about a convicted fella and his
Speaker 2: son is a convicted heelen at a very high level.
Speaker 2: His son is convicted, going to be convicted, probably numerous
Speaker 2: other times, should have been convicted before, but his Justice
Speaker 2: apartment let the statue limitations laps on the most important things.
Speaker 2: But he could be a convicted fella as soon as
Speaker 2: he gets out of office. Joe could be a convicted
Speaker 2: fellow with all of the things that he's done. He's
Speaker 2: done horrible things.
Speaker 1: There's a simple truth. Joe Biden does not have the
Speaker 1: capacity to speak coherently, to form arguments, to push back
Speaker 1: against the worst cause and the worst set of ideas
Speaker 1: since the Confederacy, since fascism. Donald Trump and his agents
Speaker 1: have a nine hundred page, detailed playbook to disassemble the
Speaker 1: workings of the American civil service and to tear apart
Speaker 1: the infrastructure that supports and sustains our democracy. It is
Speaker 1: a blueprint for the seizure of power, and then, according
Speaker 1: to Trump, it will be the mechanism by which political
Speaker 1: retribution is delivered. President Biden was unable to make a
Speaker 1: single effective argument. Joe Biden and the Democrats say they
Speaker 1: intend to win the election on abortion. They don't have
Speaker 1: a prayer of winning the election on abortion because the
Speaker 1: President can't speak coherently about it. It was his chance
Speaker 1: to score point, like the January sixth issue, like a
Speaker 1: lot of issues that were brought up, but he cannot
Speaker 1: do it. The decline of Joe Biden between his debates
Speaker 1: four years ago with Trump and this debate tonight is shocking.
Speaker 1: And the truth is the White House staff and a
Speaker 1: great deal of media has gas lit the country telling
Speaker 1: the American people over and over and over again that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, despite the cuts that they saw on the
Speaker 1: news clips, despite the social media clips, was up for
Speaker 1: the job. Last night, in one of the largest television
Speaker 1: audiences in history, President Biden ended the debate. He demonstrated
Speaker 1: he's not up for the job. There will be no
Speaker 1: second debate, audience that convenes, no opportunity for recovery. This
Speaker 1: is it. When Barack Obama had a bad debate, people
Speaker 1: didn't think it was because Barack Obama wasn't capable. People
Speaker 1: thought it was because Barack Obama didn't prepare. George Bush
Speaker 1: had a bad first debate. Ronald Reagan had a bad
Speaker 1: first debate. But no president has ever had a debate
Speaker 1: so definitional as the one we just witnessed. And so
Speaker 1: what happens now, Well, the Democratic Party and its leadership
Speaker 1: has foisted this on the country. A small group of
Speaker 1: White House advisors did everything they could and successfully shut
Speaker 1: down primary competitions. There was no primary, there was no
Speaker 1: test for Biden. So when he faced his first tests,
Speaker 1: like many of us predicted, hoped, prayed would have happened,
Speaker 1: it happened. He collapsed and what was seen cannot be unseen.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom went on television and immolated his credibility last
Speaker 1: night when he talked about that Joe Biden was fine.
Speaker 2: Was your reaction to what we saw on screen? Well,
Speaker 2: on a substance, he won the debate.
Speaker 1: I'm old school.
Speaker 2: I'm old fashioned. That's what matters to me.
Speaker 1: He's not, and Gavin Newsom should understand if he has
Speaker 1: higher political ambitions to stop it. Stop gaslighting, Stop lying
Speaker 1: to the American people about the conditions they can clearly see.
Speaker 1: I'm a Gavin Newsom fan. And the fact that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden has put him in the position to act as
Speaker 1: his personal Sean Spicer telling the American people that A
Speaker 1: is bigger than B when in fact it's a lot smaller.
Speaker 1: It's reprehensible and it won't work. All that it will
Speaker 1: do is destroy the credibility of the next generation of Democrats.
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is one of the most important institutions
Speaker 1: for the preservation of human freedom and dignity in world history.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is unable to perform at a moment of
Speaker 1: crisis the duties that are required to lead the party.
Speaker 1: He can't make an argument about the great issues of
Speaker 1: the day. He did not talk for a second about
Speaker 1: the future. Every answer when Trump attacked him, ends with
Speaker 1: Biden declaring, this moment is the best that it's ever
Speaker 1: been and he has a thirty eight percent approval rate.
Speaker 1: If Donald Trump wins this election, it will be a
Speaker 1: catastrophe for America and the world, and it must not happen.
Speaker 1: Something must be said. This country is bigger than Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: This country is bigger than doctor Jill Biden's ambitions to
Speaker 1: live in the White House for four more years. This
Speaker 1: country is a project through the centuries, not the months,
Speaker 1: not the decades, not the years. The White House staff
Speaker 1: that has foisted this on the country should be hanging
Speaker 1: their heads in shame today. The MSNBC hosts that have
Speaker 1: foisted this on the country, who looked away, who gas
Speaker 1: lit their audience, who told them that everything was fine,
Speaker 1: who knew that in the green room all of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Congressmen say one thing, but on the camera something else.
Speaker 1: The split screen that played throughout this debate will become
Speaker 1: poisonous over these next days as it's cut up, as
Speaker 1: it's distributed. And there's one takeaway from the debate, and
Speaker 1: it's that the president is feeble, unwell, unable to lead
Speaker 1: because That's the takeaway. Nobody saw the real danger, the lying,
Speaker 1: the menace, the go yourself look on Trump's face, the
Speaker 1: purse lips, the sense that he knows that he's winning,
Speaker 1: that he's coming back, and he's going to get even
Speaker 1: the worst part of this tragedy is the irresponsibility of
Speaker 1: the Biden team in cheerleading Donald Trump for four years.
Speaker 1: Do you know what the Biden legacy is? It's simple.
Speaker 1: Extremism is worse today than it has ever been in America.
Speaker 1: And it got worse on Joe Biden's watch because he
Speaker 1: didn't assault it from day one. He stoked it. Because
Speaker 1: Trump's comeback was the rationale for his ability to break
Speaker 1: his promise and run for re election. And now here
Speaker 1: we are, the panic we are seeing is just beginning.
Speaker 1: It is epic and it is like an avalanche. It
Speaker 1: will roll downhill and it will take out everything in
Speaker 1: its path. It cannot be stopped. What is it that
Speaker 1: the White House staff intends to tell the Democratic members
Speaker 1: of Congress who will lose their seat, the state legislatures
Speaker 1: that will flip to Maggi extremists, all because Joe Biden
Speaker 1: won't let go. Well, if those members of Congress treasure.
Speaker 1: They're elected positions. They're going to urge their leadership to
Speaker 1: go on down to the White House. Hakeem Jefferies is
Speaker 1: going to have to do with Howard Baker once did
Speaker 1: all of this unpleasantness have been dealt with. Joe Biden
Speaker 1: could be leading the country, uniting the country as a
Speaker 1: one term president, he would have been beloved. He could
Speaker 1: have ushered in generational change. But no, he made a
Speaker 1: different choice. And now all the bullshit, all the talk,
Speaker 1: all of it has faded away to nothingness. And all
Speaker 1: that is left is what the American people saw for
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, And what they saw was an American tragedy,
Speaker 1: a catastrophe. Two old men lying about their golf scores,
Speaker 1: two old men with their personal animus spewing forth. I've
Speaker 1: been involved in American politics for a long time. I
Speaker 1: can't think of a night that was more pathetic. Remember this,
Speaker 1: when you hear people lying to you that it's going
Speaker 1: to be okay, it's not. If Donald Trump becomes the
Speaker 1: president of the United States, we will have a crisis
Speaker 1: in this country that is acute, that is real, and
Speaker 1: is as deep as the one this country faced on
Speaker 1: the edge of civil war, which Donald Trump talks about
Speaker 1: and stokes all the time. Donald Trump is a tomato can.
Speaker 1: There's never been an easier candidate to laugh out, to mock,
Speaker 1: to humiliate, any steamrolled Joe Biden. Joe Biden didn't land
Speaker 1: a single punch on Trump, not one, not even close.
Speaker 1: He couldn't make a single argument against the biggest easiest
Speaker 1: target ever. But do you know who could? Gretchen Whitmer could, Joshapiro, could,
Speaker 1: Wes Moore could? The Democratic Party faces an emergency, but
Speaker 1: it can get out of it. What it requires is humility, reality,
Speaker 1: and understanding from the Biden clan that their time is up.
Speaker 1: It's time right now to pass the torch. And if
Speaker 1: they don't on election night, when Donald Trump is announced
Speaker 1: on CNN and on Fox and ON and ABC and
Speaker 1: NBC and CBS is the president elector of the United States,
Speaker 1: it will not be Donald Trump's achievement. It will be
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's failure, his neglect. Fascism rose in the nineteen
Speaker 1: thirties not because it was strong, not because it was popular,
Speaker 1: but because democracy was weak. And what everyone saw last
Speaker 1: night was an enfeebled, weak American president. Chaos is good
Speaker 1: for Trump. He feeds off of it. Last night was
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's best night politically ever, including the night he
Speaker 1: surprised the world and beat Secretary Clinton. He has never
Speaker 1: wanted a debate, he has never had a commanding victory
Speaker 1: until he got on the stage for ninety minutes with
Speaker 1: President Biden, who just can't do it anymore. He now faild.
Speaker 1: This is a choice his ego or the country, and
Speaker 1: if he needs help with that choice, then the leaders
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party need to march on up to
Speaker 1: the White House and help him with it. This is
Speaker 1: the warning, and we are out of time. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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