1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Sixty seven days until the American people will make a 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: decision that could be national suicide. This is the warning, 3 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: the decision to put this pig and this vile man 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 1: his running made into a position of global power, to 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: give them the nuclear weapons keys, to unleash their cruelties 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: on the country, to let it flow over. Our culture 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: willingly will be the end of us. There have never 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: been two more unfit people. This creature, cantina of malice, 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: of insanity, of weirdness, has desecrated our most sacred grounds. 10 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery is on the grounds 11 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: of the Confederate General enslave Master Robert E. 12 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: Lee. 13 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: His home was confiscated when he betrayed the nation and 14 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: took up arms against the Civil War. Dead, whose bodies 15 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: accumulated faster than anybody's worst nightmare could have imagined, needed 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: a place to be buried, and so they were laid there. 17 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: And the Americans who have given the last full measure 18 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: of devotion through all of our wars can be found there. 19 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,839 Speaker 1: The rules are clear, the federal law is clear. There 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: is to be no filming, no partisan political activity of 21 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: any type, because this space does not belong to a faction, 22 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: does not belong to a party. It does not belong 23 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. This is our sacred cemetery. This is 24 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: a place where John Kennedy and his brothers are buried. 25 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: This is a place where Field Marshall John Dill is buried, 26 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: who died while in wartime service in Washington and was 27 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: honored to be put to rest in America's most hallow grounds. 28 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: The story of America is found in that cemetery. The 29 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: story of grief in our time is found in that cemetery. 30 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: And now the story of our politics can be found 31 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: in that cemetery. Because until now, there never ever would 32 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: have been imaginable a scene that played out like the 33 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: one that played out the other day, where a federal employee, 34 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: a woman, was trying her best to maintain the dignity 35 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: of this sacred space and she was assaulted by Trump's thugs, 36 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: maybe by Coreylewandowski. Wouldn't be the first time they pushed 37 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: her aside. She's afraid to press charges. She fears the intimidation. 38 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: When you think about your life's work, everybody wants to 39 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: have worth and purpose. You don't become a billionaire. Working 40 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: at Arlington National cemetery. But your work has deep meaning 41 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: and serious purpose. It puts you into a role of 42 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: a custodian of our values, American honor, American sacrifice, American courage, 43 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: American loves, American decency. The story of the American Soldier, 44 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: the Sailor, the Airman, and the Marine is found at 45 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery was desecrated earlier this year 46 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: when Republicans tried to put back into it a Confederate 47 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: memorial a soldier from the slave autocracy who fought ply. 48 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: The statue depicts an enslaved woman, his mammy handing him 49 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: a child to say goodbye. Well, his other slave gets 50 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: ready to follow him into battle his chattel property. In 51 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Republicans sought to replace that monument in 52 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: this cemetery. There are no words, but there must be more, 53 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: because Trump wasn't done yet. There was his insanity endorsment QAnon, 54 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: and there was this He's talking about the Medal of Freedom, 55 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: stowing it on a billionaire and a fellow pig like 56 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: Brush Limbaugh, and comparing it to the receipt of a 57 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: medal of honor, the nation's past valor award. 58 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 2: When we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That's 59 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: the highest award you can get as a civilian. It's 60 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 2: the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. 61 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal 62 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: of Honor. That soldiers they're either in very bad shape 63 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 2: because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or 64 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 2: they're dead. She gets it, and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. 65 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 2: It's like and they're rate an equal, but she got 66 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 2: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 67 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: These people Advance and Trump, Loewandowski, all of them are 68 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: a cancer. They're an American cancer, and they eat at 69 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: our values, our honor are in and without those things 70 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: alive thriving into society, freedom will not endure because freedom 71 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: is sustained by those values and by great sacrifice. The 72 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: United States Army has rebuked Donald Trump. 73 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:15,799 Speaker 2: Good. 74 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: He deserves it. We don't deserve him. Every American, every 75 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: decent American, should be shamed and embarrassed by this. What 76 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: an appalling moment. And Donald Trump, shame, shame, Shame on you, 77 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: and shame on the people who assaulted to that woman, 78 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: and shame on the people who desecrated this sacred site, 79 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 1: Shame on you. It is so important for Vice President 80 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: Harris and Governor Walls to talk about this not once, 81 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: not twice, but every day for the remaining sixty seven 82 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: days of the campaign. She must be the decency candidate. 83 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: She must be the virtue candidate, the honor candidate, the 84 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: truth telling candidate. She is represent tenting American values in 85 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: this race. Clearly, indisputably, the two Democratic candidates stand for continuity, 86 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: a proposition that would be understood by the men who 87 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: laid down their lives so that generations of Americans could 88 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: live in freedom. They are part of a chain that 89 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: connects all of us together through time. They are custodians, stewarts, 90 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: trustees like the woman who is assaulted in the cemetery. 91 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: They are trustees of a flame. A flame is liberty, 92 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump is trying to douse it. He's trying 93 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: to extinguish it because he wants power more than he 94 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: cares about your freedom. And Trump is made clear when 95 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: he goes to a gravesite and desecrates it, when he 96 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,479 Speaker 1: demands a wounded warrior be removed from his eyesight. He's 97 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: a sick man. But here's the thing. Only a really 98 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 1: sick country elects a sick man like that. And I 99 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: guess the question at hand is, are we that sick 100 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: to this country make the decision it made it in 101 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen again, Because if it does, the catastrophe coming, 102 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: no one gets to say we didn't all see it 103 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: coming together, because it can be seen coming from as 104 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: far away as anything has ever been seen. Vote this 105 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: man out of American life, repudiate him to it, for 106 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: your country to it, for decency. This is the warning. 107 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. 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