1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: One. Nineteen days remain until the American people decide whether 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: they save the United States from Trump. This is the warning. 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: Forty two days remain until the Democratic National Convention decides 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: if they save their party from Donald Trump, if they 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: take action to win an election that according to David Axelrod, 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: the chief strategist of the winning Obama two thousand and 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: eight campaign, says, Joe Biden is losing and he is. 8 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: David Axelrod and I share something in common. We are 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: bound together for all time. I was the chief strategist 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: for the losing campaign of that two thousand and eight campaign, 11 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: John McCain's I have worked at the highest level of 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: two presidential campaigns, a winning and a losing one. David 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: Axelrod is one of the most brilliant political strategists that 14 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: there has ever been. He is an expert in his field, 15 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: is the founder of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. 16 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: He is a good man, and unlike many many people 17 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: who work at the highest level of national politics, David 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: Axelrod is an idealist. He is a believer. As his 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: book says, he believes deeply in the Democratic Party in 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: the United States and in our political system to make 21 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: life better for ordinary people. It is what he has 22 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:38,479 Speaker 1: spent his entire life dedicated towards. Trust me, he takes 23 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: no pleasure. One hundred and nineteen days before a presidential election, 24 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: announcing it is over. This is the Patriot Front of 25 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: fascist group marching in Nashville this week. When Trump becomes 26 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: the forty seventh president of the United States without an 27 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: intervention by democratic leaders who put the country before the 28 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: ambitions and the ego of a man or that man's wife, 29 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: We're going to see more of this, more and more, 30 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: and then they'll take the masks off. The head of 31 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation, the home of Project twenty twenty five, 32 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: talked about the fact that if we all get in line, 33 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: then the next American revolution, the one that's coming with 34 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: Trump's election, can be bloodless. If everybody submits and there 35 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: is no defiance, Kevin Roberts said, it can be a 36 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: bloodless revolution. This is the state of things. A week 37 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: and a half after the catastrophic debate between President Biden 38 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump. Let me ask you a question. When 39 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: is the last time somebody landed a punch on Donald 40 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 1: Trump's chin? When is the last time there has been 41 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: an assault on MAGA that has hit home. When is 42 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: the last month that somebody somewhere laid a glove on 43 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 1: these people? And the answer is, I can't think of one. 44 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: They're not in the fight, They're out of it. If 45 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: the Biden campaign were a ship, it would be stalled, 46 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: it would be drifting in the current and listing very 47 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: very badly. The Biden campaign since the debate has spun 48 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: and sunk, and spun some more and sunk some more. 49 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: It has become a jumble of incoherence of delusion. The 50 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: President's interview with George Stefanopholis was a case in point. 51 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: Let's watch George Stefanopholis asked the President about his approval level. 52 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: If you are told reliably from your allies, from your 53 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 2: friends and supporters in the Democratic Party, in the House 54 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: and the Senate that they're concerned you're going to lose 55 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 2: the House in the Senate if you stay in, what 56 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: will you do? 57 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: I'm not can answer that question. It's not gonna happen. 58 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: I really wish George Stefanoppholis had asked. It took me 59 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: twelve hours after the fact to come up with the question. 60 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: So I appreciate not doing it in the moment, but 61 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: I really wish he had asked here, what do you 62 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: think the approval level is, mister President. The President believes 63 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: his accomplishments are historic. He is deeply aggrieved that they 64 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: are not recognized as such. He is help bent a 65 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: more more power, more time, more more, and more. He 66 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: thinks the American people believe something they don't see, they 67 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: don't believe. In the modern era of the United States 68 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: and the American presidency, there has never been an interview 69 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: with the commander in chief who is more completely out 70 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: of touch with the sentiments of real people. Not in 71 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: a maliced, vicious way, not in the Trump way, but 72 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: just lost, completely unmoored, like a hermit crab living in 73 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: a terrarium that thinks it is the jungle instead of 74 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: a small glass ball. President is disoriented and the catastrophe 75 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: that it has led all of us to the edge 76 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: of is profound. Here is Mark Robinson, the Lieutenant Governor 77 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: of North Carolina. Mark Robinson is running for governor. He 78 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: is a Holocaust denier. He denies the murder of the 79 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: Jews by the Nazis. He denies Auschwitz and trublinka and Magonik. 80 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: He denies it all. Mark Robinson also last week stood 81 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: in the pulpit of Magachurch. Do you know what he said? 82 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: Did he talk about love, compassion? How about decency forgiveness? 83 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: Did he talk prist message? He did not. Here's what 84 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: he talked about killing. He said, some people need killing. 85 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: Up against the wall, right, Mark, where is the outrage, 86 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: Where is the response to this evil? Where is the 87 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: mighty voice of the Democratic Party asserting Americanism. It's absence, 88 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: it's whisper can't be heard. And this is the tragedy. 89 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: Because Mark Robinson needs ferocious opposition. Mark Robinson needs to 90 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: be called out. He needs to be castigated and rebuked 91 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: and mocked, denigrated and humiliated, just like Trump, just like 92 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: all of these people. But these people are on the 93 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: march and they're winning. Democracy is collapsing, not because it's 94 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: not good, but it's become weak and corrupt, and fascism 95 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: is rising in its place, as he did almost one 96 00:06:54,240 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: hundred years ago. This is an extraordinary moment, a dangerous one, 97 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: but it remains safely in the hands of the American people. 98 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: The leaders of the Democratic Party have deluded themselves, lied 99 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: to themselves, engaged in a gain of pretend. They looked away, 100 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: they wished away what was clearly in front of their eyes. 101 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: And here's the deal. Life does not permit such things. 102 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: It always catches up, and so it has. This moment 103 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: requires leadership, patriotism, conviction. It requires on the part of 104 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and active humility and active patriotism the Patriot Front, 105 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: Mark Robinson, Donald Trump. This is all connected, and it 106 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: has been always from the beginning. We should understand it 107 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: as such. We should appreciate what we're witnessing. We don't 108 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: have much time left to stop it. In fact, there 109 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: are forty two days until the Democrats give away the 110 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: country to Project twenty twenty five and to Donald Trump. 111 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: And there are one hundred nineteen days until Donald Trump 112 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: will wait somewhere in a hotel suite, perhaps at Mar 113 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: A Lago, waiting as the seconds tick down, until the 114 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: networks are ready to make their projections. The difference is 115 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: in twenty and sixteen, the world was surprised, and in 116 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty we all saw it happen and knew it 117 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: was over for Trump. But this time Trump is winning 118 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,719 Speaker 1: and there won't be a surprise. When ABC News and 119 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 1: NBC News and CBS News and CNN and Fox all 120 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: say the words. Donald John Trump, the forty fifth President 121 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: of the United States, is tonight the President elect of 122 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: the United States. It will be a moment of immense tragedy, 123 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: a tragedy that could be seen as far are off 124 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: as any that has ever been able to be seen forming. 125 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: And we will have watched it come down the tracks 126 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: at us from the moment the light was just a 127 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: little pinprick peeking out in the dark until it ran 128 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: over everything. What shameful moment for the country, for the media, 129 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party. What a terrible low moment. But 130 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: it can be redeemed. There must be, though, another road taken. 131 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 1: And what that road rejects is self interest. What that 132 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: road rejects is power for the sake of war. What 133 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: it embraces is duty and honor and sacrifice. It is 134 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: the American road. And down that road awaits a brilliant 135 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: legacy for the forty sixth President of the United States. 136 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: And on the road not taken, something terrible waits, not 137 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: just defeat, an eradication of everything that Joe Biden has done, 138 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: because the only memory that will remain, the only indentation 139 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: in the sand that will persist is a legacy of 140 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: losing to Trump, the man whose ego found a rival 141 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: at long last, one hundred and nineteen days ago, forty 142 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: two days until Chicago. This is the warning. We are 143 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: running out of time. I'm Steve Schmidt. 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