1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: At exactly twelve noon on January twentieth, Donald Trump will 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: raise his right hand and swear for the second time 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: States that he assaulted and attacked on January sixth. This 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: is the warning. The American people have made a judgment, 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: and they have given Donald Trump power again. The reason 7 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was elected overwhelmingly was because of the 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: ego of Joe Biden, who promised that he would not 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: run for a second term but did, and in doing so, 10 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: made certain that the country would experience Donald Trump's retribution 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: and revenge. I could talk about this all day and 12 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: all night, but the fact of the matter is the 13 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: victory of Donald Trump was preordained the moment Joe Biden 14 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: broke his promise. It's as simple as that. It's important 15 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: for everybody to understand who has followed politics deeply, transactionally 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: off and on that the Democratic Party has held itself 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: out as the better party, not the party with better ideas, 18 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: though that has been argued, but the more moral party, 19 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: the party that remained committed and faithful to the concepts 20 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was assaulting with his threats, with his promises, 21 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: of retribution with his actions that did not accept the 22 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: result of a presidential election, which frankly is the cornerstone 23 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: around which our society is built. There was no fraud. 24 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: Joe Biden ran and he won far and square. He 25 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: was talked about as the better man. But more than 26 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: anything else, and more than any place else, MSNBC became 27 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: home base to a very important argument about the primacy 28 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: and the necessity for the rule of law to reign 29 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: supreme in a democracy. And there is something special about 30 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: the American justice system. We've talked about it for nine years. 31 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: Just listen to some of the comments about it on MSNBC. 32 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: I've been a defense lawyer and prosecutor. 33 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 3: It's just so hard to see because it's so antithetical 34 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 3: to the rule of law. 35 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 2: This level of sustained public attack is not usually the 36 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 2: price of entry for doing your job as a district attorney, 37 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 2: nor should it be in a country where the rule 38 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 2: of law is supposedly the rule. 39 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 4: The test for all of us is, are we up 40 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 4: to obeying the rule of law even when it goes away. 41 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 2: We may not like the history of the rule of 42 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: law in this country tells us that the rule of 43 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 2: law does not magically defend itself, and it is mortal. 44 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: It can be killed when it is attacked. It breaks. 45 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: Think about this comment from Jensaki, who walked out of 46 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: the White House job and into an anchor seat at 47 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: a cable news network delivering the party line. 48 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 5: But Joe Biden's character as a public servant is what 49 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 5: drove him to make clear that the law applies to everyone. 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 5: His decision not to pardon his son is not an 51 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 5: expression of restraint or removal in any way from what 52 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 5: his son has gone through and is continuing to go through, 53 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 5: but of principle because the justice system that convicted his 54 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 5: only surviving son is the same justice system he's vowed 55 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 5: to protect. And if that doesn't tell you who Joe 56 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 5: Biden is, I don't really know what does. 57 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: There was this famous moment, of course, with Joe Scarborough 58 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: telling the American people what he thought of them. When 59 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: the American people observed Joe Biden's incapacity. 60 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 4: Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell 61 00:03:58,680 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 4: you the truth. 62 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: F you if you. 63 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 4: Can't handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically 64 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 4: is the best Biden ever, not a close second, and 65 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 4: I've known him for years. The Brazenskis have known him 66 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 4: for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't 67 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 4: say it. 68 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: But over and over again, the rule of law, the 69 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: rule of law, the rule of law. 70 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 3: I take great pride in what's happened because I feel 71 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 3: it's such a sweet vindication of the rule of law, 72 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 3: in all of the complicated parts of it that frustrate 73 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 3: people because it slows things down. 74 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 2: The rule of law and health of our democracy depend 75 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 2: not just on the conduct of this criminal case, but 76 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 2: on our ability as citizens to take this with the 77 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 2: sort of hef to that it needs. 78 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 4: I'll continue to speak out strongly for our democracy, stand 79 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 4: up for our constitution, the rule of law. 80 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: Our great democracy, our norms, all of these things. Let's 81 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: look at this person, Molly Johnfest, who is a contributor 82 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: commentator paid to comment about politics by MSNBC, by The 83 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: Daily Beast, by Vanity Fair. This is Molly John Fast 84 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: talking about the rule of law. 85 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 6: So Biden has this opportunity here to say, you know, 86 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 6: this is how the you know, this is how the 87 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 6: law works. And if this jury of his peers finds 88 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 6: him guilty, that is how justice is supposed to work. 89 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: And then she's asked about the Hunter Biden Pardon, I 90 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: just heard it. I have to process that. 91 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 6: I don't have a take. I'm sorry. 92 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: Why is she a commentator about politics? Why isn't she 93 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: interning at the DNC or on a campaign? What is that? 94 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: This idea that you'll reverse on a i'm your position 95 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: because the leader does it. It kind of reminds me 96 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: of a criticism that we've been making for a long 97 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: time against oh him, the Trump hitler. We live in 98 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: a ludicrous and utterly fraudulent time. Soon the American people 99 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: are going to experience an utterly radical administration asserting power 100 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: without restraint, with the clear aim of achieving profound transformation 101 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: of the country, claiming a mandate they don't actually have. 102 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 1: We'll see how it all goes one hundred and twenty 103 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: days from now. But there's a simple truth that democrats 104 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: need to understand. In a choice between two corrupt parties, 105 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: even if one of them is more benign than the other, 106 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: what will be evaluated is which of the two corrupt 107 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: parties is stronger than the other, and the MAGA Party 108 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: the Republican Party, will always be viewed as the stronger 109 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: party and the Democrats the weaker one, because they are 110 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: and they're constant trampling by the stronger party indicates that 111 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: now some Democratic strategists have taken too X and other 112 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: places to say it's time to get mean, It's time 113 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: to be like Trump. After nine years of fighting them, 114 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: staring into the abyss. The takeaway is, let's become Trump. 115 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,239 Speaker 1: It's disgraceful and it's disgusting, and it's a loser because 116 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: the only way to beat Trump is to be better 117 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: than Trump. And it really doesn't matter what the Democrats 118 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: are saying right now in the moment defending the indefensible 119 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: about this pardon about Joe Biden's dishonesty, shamelessness, his absolute egotism. 120 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: Because Joe Biden's legacy is going to be too heavy 121 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: for Democrats to carry on January twentieth, Democrats will be 122 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: starting off on a long march uphill now. Biden legacy 123 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: is a rock, a heavy one, and some Democrats want 124 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: to carry that heavy rock in their backpack. They want 125 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: to keep pretending this is an honest man, a man 126 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: of rectitude and probity, squander that a man who puts 127 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: the country first. He flushed that away, the man whose 128 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: legacy has been reduced to but a single word, Trump. 129 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: And so Democrats will set up off that hill with 130 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: that rock in their backpack, but they will all drop it, 131 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: and they'll drop it pretty quick because the hike will 132 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: be too arduous to carry. The hypocrisy is unsustainable. How 133 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: did Trump win? He's very, very lucky with his opposition. 134 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: It's not honest. And Donald Trump thrives in the swamp 135 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: of dishonesty where he is unbeatable. He breathes in the 136 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: hypocrisy and the smugness and the sanctimony. For nine long years, 137 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: the American people have been preached to about the rule 138 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: of law, and then just like that, and now everyone 139 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: is supposed to what clown themselves. The most pathetic thing 140 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: about it is the road it leads back to and 141 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: takes Democrats down, the justification that Trump made us do it. 142 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: What Donald Trump has done is revealed every single person 143 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: in American public life with him against him before their forum, forum, 144 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: before they're against them, and forum again. Every single person 145 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: has been revealed by Trump for who they truly are. 146 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: Everybody got to be who they were meant to be. 147 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: Every coward has been painted yellow. Every hypocrite is dyed 148 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: in fluorescent orange. They can be seen, all of them 149 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: from outer space. And there has been a fiction that 150 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: the opposition was good and decent and virtuous. Truth is 151 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: Molly John Fast is out on tour with the principle 152 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: of a superpack that over the last four years has 153 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: raised fifty five million dollars and pocketed eighty nine cents 154 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: of it and called it democracy. The grifters, the frauds, 155 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: the spineless principalists, capitulants who lead the Democratic Party, that 156 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: have authored in given the country what is about to 157 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: come deserve and have earned the disdain of us all 158 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: the key to defeating Donald Trump and trump Ism, and 159 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: Maga has always been offering something better, not a diet 160 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: version of his indecency, cooked a little lighter, a little healthier, 161 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 1: and a little less indecently. It is the foundation of 162 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 1: the catastrophe at hand. The defeat the Democratic Party by 163 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: Donald Trump in twenty twenty four was not preordained. It 164 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: was written by Joe Biden and a small group of 165 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: people and their titanic arrogancies. I thought things were going 166 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: to be bad. It's going to be a lot worse. 167 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: Than I thought. What a depressing day for Trump's opposition. 168 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: This country deserves a decent one, not a calow one, 169 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party that will come back and defeat 170 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: this man this cause his vice president, when he's the 171 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: nominee four years from now, will leave all of this behind. 172 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: Shame on it, every single person who has justified this 173 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: after condemning Lindsey Graham and everyone like him for almost 174 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: a decade, because when the moment came, you're Lindsay Graham. 175 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: No words, truly, no words. This is the warning. I'm 176 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you 177 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 178 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.