1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Ninety days to go, and this is a big one. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: The Democratic ticket has been formed. Vice President Kamala Harris 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas to be her running maid. 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: This is the warning, what a story it is the 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: surprise pick has put forward a man who will be 6 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: ready on day one to be president of the United States. 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: Speaking about weird Donald Trump buried one of his ex 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: wives on the first whole of his Bedminster golf course. 9 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: I suppose when he goes out there to reflect on 10 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: the good days and better days, because he's never had 11 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: a bad day in his life. He was not just 12 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: a man born on third base. He was a man 13 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: born an inch away from home plate and spend most 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: of his business career packing away from it. It was 15 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: like he was stealing first base from home. At any rate, 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump did succeed as a con man, a blusterer, 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: and a world class weirdo and demagogue, and by a 18 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: combination of fate and circumstances in the intervention of James Comy, 19 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: by the very narrowest of margins, he was able to 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: make the twenty twenty election about his opponent for just 21 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: long enough and just enough to narrowly win becoming the 22 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: worst president in American history. Tim Walls, the Governor of Minnesota, 23 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: has had bad days, tough times. He grew up in Nebraska. 24 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: His middle name is his father's name, James. His dad 25 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: was diagnosed with lung cancer when Tim was a senior 26 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: in high school. Tim Walls lost his dad at eighteen. Today, 27 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: Governor of Minnesota is the Democratic nominee for Vice President 28 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: of the U s United States. He joins the ranks 29 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: of giants from Minnesota. Hubert Humphrey, the Happy Warrior, the 30 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: conscience of the Democratic Party, the man who fought for 31 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: a civil rights plank in nineteen forty eight, a man 32 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: who broke the Democratic Party on a matter of conscience. 33 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: Walter Mondale, the former Vice President of the United States 34 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighty four Democratic nominee for president, and 35 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: later the US Ambassador to Japan, the distinguished patriot and 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: public servant. Tim Walls will face off against JD. Vance 37 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: in a debate, and it's going to be great. One 38 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight years or so, before Donald Trump 39 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 1: pronounced he could shoot somebody in Times Square and get 40 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 1: away with it, there was a New York Congressman named 41 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: Dan Sickles, who did something similar. He shot his wife's 42 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: lover and lafay f Square, across the street from Saint 43 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: John's Episcopal Church, where one day later, Donald Trump would 44 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: order a teargas attack so he could desecrate the Bible 45 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: and get a photo op. It's important to remember that 46 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: he guessed priests at the President's Church, or maybe more precisely, 47 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: the Church of the Presidents, where American presidents leave the 48 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: Blair House and route to inauguration, stopping there at the 49 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: church before they are inaugurated as commander in chief. This 50 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: sacred space is where Donald Trump ordered government thugs to 51 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: attack peaceful protesters, but that was later. Back in the day, 52 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: Sickles shot his wife's lover in La Fayette Square and 53 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: the result of it was America's first insanity defense. And 54 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: Sickles got off only to find himself on the second 55 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: day of the Battle of Gettysburg as a general in 56 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: command of Union troops at the edge edge of the line. 57 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: Now what this meant was that if the Confederate army 58 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: could get around that edge, it could conceivably get up 59 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: onto the high ground, and from the high ground it 60 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: could sweep away the Union positions, and then the Confederate 61 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: Army of Robert E. Lee would stand with nothing in 62 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: its way between them and Washington, DC. The Union Army 63 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: would be in their rear. So it was extremely important 64 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: that that Union line held. But like many generals of 65 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: the day who were appointed because of political connection, not experience, 66 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: not competence, Dan Sickles was way out of position, and 67 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: men from Alabama were storming forward, about to charge up 68 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: and overwhelm the Union forces taking the high grounds. It 69 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: would have ended the battle in a Confederate victory, and 70 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: a Confederate victory in the Battle of Gettysburg would have 71 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: ended the United States. Thousands of Alabama men were rushing forward, screaming, charging, yelling. 72 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: William Scott Hancock, who would become the Democratic nominee for 73 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: Vice president in eighteen eighty, was a dashing, handsome man, 74 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: a West Point graduate, a professional soldier, and he saw 75 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: it all happening. He charged at full speed down the 76 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: line on his horse. But he didn't stop to offer speeches. 77 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: He didn't offer praise. He simply asked what unit is? 78 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: This response was the first Minnesota. He told them to 79 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: fix bayonets in charge, which they did instantly. The first 80 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: Minnesota made up of hundreds a unit charged thousands and 81 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: it turned them back. And to this day, through this 82 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: very second, it remains the most heroic action in the 83 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 1: history of the United States military, the highest casualty action 84 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: in American history, eighty four percent casualties. That's what it 85 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: took to save the Union. That's the price to keep 86 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: the Confederate flag out of the Capitol through which it 87 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: was carried on the day of Trump's insurrection. Minnesota has 88 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: played an outsized role in the story of America. There 89 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: are some who say, like JD. Vans, that real Americans 90 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: look a certain way or believe certain things. But that's garbage. 91 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: And Tim Wallas, the governor of Minnesota, is going to 92 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: stand up for the right and take it to him. 93 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: He's a man who can speak, who can argue and 94 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: point out the obvious. He's earthy, he's salty. That's a 95 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: good thing. And what a moment for America is this 96 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: historic ticket comes together and for the people of the 97 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: state of Minnesota. Another Midwesterner has resen into a position 98 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: of national leadership. And surely Hubert Humphrey is smiling in heaven. 99 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: The bottom half of the ticket hailing from his stay, 100 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: the man who had the courage to say this in 101 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight. My friends, to those who say that 102 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say 103 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: to them that we are one hundred and seventy two 104 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,239 Speaker 1: years late. To those who say that this civil rights 105 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: program is an infringement on states rights, I say this, 106 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party 107 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: to get out of the shadow of states rights and 108 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: to walk forth rightly into the bright sunshine of human rights, people, 109 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: human beings. This is the issue of the twentieth century, 110 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: people of all kinds, all sorts of people, and these 111 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: people are looking to America for leadership, and they're looking 112 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: to America for precept and example. Things are today as 113 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: they ever were. What a historic moment for the country. 114 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: What a fulfillment of a vision and a dream and 115 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: a mark of progress. That it will be President Harris 116 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: and Vice President Walls who defeat the MAGA fascist threat 117 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: and stand proudly as the commander in chief and vice 118 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: president as America celebrates two hundred and fifty years of 119 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: independence and renews itself on that day and sets course 120 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: towards the city on a hill that John Winthrop prophesied 121 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: and dreamed about so long ago, refreshed by the vision 122 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: of John Kennedy. That is the obligation of each American 123 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: to sail towards. This is the warning, and today history 124 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: has been made. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 125 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 126 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.