Speaker 1: At exactly twelve noon on January twentieth, Donald Trump will
Speaker 1: raise his right hand and swear for the second time
Speaker 1: to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
Speaker 1: States that he assaulted and attacked on January sixth. This
Speaker 1: is the warning. The American people have made a judgment,
Speaker 1: and they have given Donald Trump power again. The reason
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was elected overwhelmingly was because of the
Speaker 1: ego of Joe Biden, who promised that he would not
Speaker 1: run for a second term but did, and in doing so,
Speaker 1: made certain that the country would experience Donald Trump's retribution
Speaker 1: and revenge. I could talk about this all day and
Speaker 1: all night, but the fact of the matter is the
Speaker 1: victory of Donald Trump was preordained the moment Joe Biden
Speaker 1: broke his promise. It's as simple as that. It's important
Speaker 1: for everybody to understand who has followed politics deeply, transactionally
Speaker 1: off and on that the Democratic Party has held itself
Speaker 1: out as the better party, not the party with better ideas,
Speaker 1: though that has been argued, but the more moral party,
Speaker 1: the party that remained committed and faithful to the concepts
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was assaulting with his threats, with his promises,
Speaker 1: of retribution with his actions that did not accept the
Speaker 1: result of a presidential election, which frankly is the cornerstone
Speaker 1: around which our society is built. There was no fraud.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden ran and he won far and square. He
Speaker 1: was talked about as the better man. But more than
Speaker 1: anything else, and more than any place else, MSNBC became
Speaker 1: home base to a very important argument about the primacy
Speaker 1: and the necessity for the rule of law to reign
Speaker 1: supreme in a democracy. And there is something special about
Speaker 1: the American justice system. We've talked about it for nine years.
Speaker 1: Just listen to some of the comments about it on MSNBC.
Speaker 2: I've been a defense lawyer and prosecutor.
Speaker 3: It's just so hard to see because it's so antithetical
Speaker 3: to the rule of law.
Speaker 2: This level of sustained public attack is not usually the
Speaker 2: price of entry for doing your job as a district attorney,
Speaker 2: nor should it be in a country where the rule
Speaker 2: of law is supposedly the rule.
Speaker 4: The test for all of us is, are we up
Speaker 4: to obeying the rule of law even when it goes away.
Speaker 2: We may not like the history of the rule of
Speaker 2: law in this country tells us that the rule of
Speaker 2: law does not magically defend itself, and it is mortal.
Speaker 2: It can be killed when it is attacked. It breaks.
Speaker 1: Think about this comment from Jensaki, who walked out of
Speaker 1: the White House job and into an anchor seat at
Speaker 1: a cable news network delivering the party line.
Speaker 5: But Joe Biden's character as a public servant is what
Speaker 5: drove him to make clear that the law applies to everyone.
Speaker 5: His decision not to pardon his son is not an
Speaker 5: expression of restraint or removal in any way from what
Speaker 5: his son has gone through and is continuing to go through,
Speaker 5: but of principle because the justice system that convicted his
Speaker 5: only surviving son is the same justice system he's vowed
Speaker 5: to protect. And if that doesn't tell you who Joe
Speaker 5: Biden is, I don't really know what does.
Speaker 1: There was this famous moment, of course, with Joe Scarborough
Speaker 1: telling the American people what he thought of them. When
Speaker 1: the American people observed Joe Biden's incapacity.
Speaker 4: Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell
Speaker 4: you the truth.
Speaker 1: F you if you.
Speaker 4: Can't handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically
Speaker 4: is the best Biden ever, not a close second, and
Speaker 4: I've known him for years. The Brazenskis have known him
Speaker 4: for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: say it.
Speaker 1: But over and over again, the rule of law, the
Speaker 1: rule of law, the rule of law.
Speaker 3: I take great pride in what's happened because I feel
Speaker 3: it's such a sweet vindication of the rule of law,
Speaker 3: in all of the complicated parts of it that frustrate
Speaker 3: people because it slows things down.
Speaker 2: The rule of law and health of our democracy depend
Speaker 2: not just on the conduct of this criminal case, but
Speaker 2: on our ability as citizens to take this with the
Speaker 2: sort of hef to that it needs.
Speaker 4: I'll continue to speak out strongly for our democracy, stand
Speaker 4: up for our constitution, the rule of law.
Speaker 1: Our great democracy, our norms, all of these things. Let's
Speaker 1: look at this person, Molly Johnfest, who is a contributor
Speaker 1: commentator paid to comment about politics by MSNBC, by The
Speaker 1: Daily Beast, by Vanity Fair. This is Molly John Fast
Speaker 1: talking about the rule of law.
Speaker 6: So Biden has this opportunity here to say, you know,
Speaker 6: this is how the you know, this is how the
Speaker 6: law works. And if this jury of his peers finds
Speaker 6: him guilty, that is how justice is supposed to work.
Speaker 1: And then she's asked about the Hunter Biden Pardon, I
Speaker 1: just heard it. I have to process that.
Speaker 6: I don't have a take. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Why is she a commentator about politics? Why isn't she
Speaker 1: interning at the DNC or on a campaign? What is that?
Speaker 1: This idea that you'll reverse on a i'm your position
Speaker 1: because the leader does it. It kind of reminds me
Speaker 1: of a criticism that we've been making for a long
Speaker 1: time against oh him, the Trump hitler. We live in
Speaker 1: a ludicrous and utterly fraudulent time. Soon the American people
Speaker 1: are going to experience an utterly radical administration asserting power
Speaker 1: without restraint, with the clear aim of achieving profound transformation
Speaker 1: of the country, claiming a mandate they don't actually have.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it all goes one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: days from now. But there's a simple truth that democrats
Speaker 1: need to understand. In a choice between two corrupt parties,
Speaker 1: even if one of them is more benign than the other,
Speaker 1: what will be evaluated is which of the two corrupt
Speaker 1: parties is stronger than the other, and the MAGA Party
Speaker 1: the Republican Party, will always be viewed as the stronger
Speaker 1: party and the Democrats the weaker one, because they are
Speaker 1: and they're constant trampling by the stronger party indicates that
Speaker 1: now some Democratic strategists have taken too X and other
Speaker 1: places to say it's time to get mean, It's time
Speaker 1: to be like Trump. After nine years of fighting them,
Speaker 1: staring into the abyss. The takeaway is, let's become Trump.
Speaker 1: It's disgraceful and it's disgusting, and it's a loser because
Speaker 1: the only way to beat Trump is to be better
Speaker 1: than Trump. And it really doesn't matter what the Democrats
Speaker 1: are saying right now in the moment defending the indefensible
Speaker 1: about this pardon about Joe Biden's dishonesty, shamelessness, his absolute egotism.
Speaker 1: Because Joe Biden's legacy is going to be too heavy
Speaker 1: for Democrats to carry on January twentieth, Democrats will be
Speaker 1: starting off on a long march uphill now. Biden legacy
Speaker 1: is a rock, a heavy one, and some Democrats want
Speaker 1: to carry that heavy rock in their backpack. They want
Speaker 1: to keep pretending this is an honest man, a man
Speaker 1: of rectitude and probity, squander that a man who puts
Speaker 1: the country first. He flushed that away, the man whose
Speaker 1: legacy has been reduced to but a single word, Trump.
Speaker 1: And so Democrats will set up off that hill with
Speaker 1: that rock in their backpack, but they will all drop it,
Speaker 1: and they'll drop it pretty quick because the hike will
Speaker 1: be too arduous to carry. The hypocrisy is unsustainable. How
Speaker 1: did Trump win? He's very, very lucky with his opposition.
Speaker 1: It's not honest. And Donald Trump thrives in the swamp
Speaker 1: of dishonesty where he is unbeatable. He breathes in the
Speaker 1: hypocrisy and the smugness and the sanctimony. For nine long years,
Speaker 1: the American people have been preached to about the rule
Speaker 1: of law, and then just like that, and now everyone
Speaker 1: is supposed to what clown themselves. The most pathetic thing
Speaker 1: about it is the road it leads back to and
Speaker 1: takes Democrats down, the justification that Trump made us do it.
Speaker 1: What Donald Trump has done is revealed every single person
Speaker 1: in American public life with him against him before their forum, forum,
Speaker 1: before they're against them, and forum again. Every single person
Speaker 1: has been revealed by Trump for who they truly are.
Speaker 1: Everybody got to be who they were meant to be.
Speaker 1: Every coward has been painted yellow. Every hypocrite is dyed
Speaker 1: in fluorescent orange. They can be seen, all of them
Speaker 1: from outer space. And there has been a fiction that
Speaker 1: the opposition was good and decent and virtuous. Truth is
Speaker 1: Molly John Fast is out on tour with the principle
Speaker 1: of a superpack that over the last four years has
Speaker 1: raised fifty five million dollars and pocketed eighty nine cents
Speaker 1: of it and called it democracy. The grifters, the frauds,
Speaker 1: the spineless principalists, capitulants who lead the Democratic Party, that
Speaker 1: have authored in given the country what is about to
Speaker 1: come deserve and have earned the disdain of us all
Speaker 1: the key to defeating Donald Trump and trump Ism, and
Speaker 1: Maga has always been offering something better, not a diet
Speaker 1: version of his indecency, cooked a little lighter, a little healthier,
Speaker 1: and a little less indecently. It is the foundation of
Speaker 1: the catastrophe at hand. The defeat the Democratic Party by
Speaker 1: Donald Trump in twenty twenty four was not preordained. It
Speaker 1: was written by Joe Biden and a small group of
Speaker 1: people and their titanic arrogancies. I thought things were going
Speaker 1: to be bad. It's going to be a lot worse.
Speaker 1: Than I thought. What a depressing day for Trump's opposition.
Speaker 1: This country deserves a decent one, not a calow one,
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party that will come back and defeat
Speaker 1: this man this cause his vice president, when he's the
Speaker 1: nominee four years from now, will leave all of this behind.
Speaker 1: Shame on it, every single person who has justified this
Speaker 1: after condemning Lindsey Graham and everyone like him for almost
Speaker 1: a decade, because when the moment came, you're Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 1: No words, truly, no words. This is the warning. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you
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