1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,399 Speaker 1: This is the warning. There is something important to understand. 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants you to be afraid. He wants you 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: to have anxiety. It is all part of his political 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: strategy to provoke rage and then more rage. He wants 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: people to be angry because anger, in his estimation, is 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: a preface to surrender, to hopelessness, to capitulation. There is 7 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: something true about Donald Trump. Every time in his life 8 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: that he has pushed forward, it has worked for him. 9 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: He has never been held to account. He declared bankruptcy 10 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: and got richer. He defiled the constitution and was elected president. 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: And now Donald Trump, enraged, angry, filled with retribution against 12 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: the American people, against his opponents, has decided that he 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: will smash it all, burn what has been built over 14 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: two hundred fifty years to the ground, and say when 15 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: he is done that he has made America great again. 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: Over and over and over again. Donald Trump lies. The 17 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: lies are coming faster, and they're getting bigger, and they're 18 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: becoming more aggressive, more authoritarian in nature, because they demand 19 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: that you submit reason to his command. They demand that 20 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: you have amnesia about what you just saw under his command, 21 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: and they demand that you accept as explanation for whatever 22 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: happens in the world. What Donald Trump tells you it 23 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: is no matter how stupid, how venal, or how false. 24 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: His ideology is malicious, his methods are sinister, and the 25 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: damage is just beginning. This must be opposed. Do not 26 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: be afraid. Now. Each day there is a reason to panic. 27 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: But instead of panicking, let me suggest that you breathe, 28 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: because breathing will help you be still and gird yourself 29 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: for the things that must be done in the weeks, 30 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: in the months, and the years ahead. I'll tell you 31 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: right now how this ends. We win, but it won't 32 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: be easy getting there. Yesterday we saw the fullness of 33 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's star wars bar seen cabinet fully assembled. It 34 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: is a frightening sight. There has never ever in the 35 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: history of the United States ever been an assemblage of 36 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: such unqualified, incompetent, disordered people, sickophants, all none of whom 37 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: have any business serving in positions of public responsibility and trust. 38 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 1: But because as Winston Churchill observed, Trump won, we get 39 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: the government we deserve. Now, what I want to talk 40 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: about is a return to first principles. That is what 41 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: we must talk about today. First principles. And so i'd 42 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: like you to listen to three things. First, we're going 43 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: to hear from the thirty fifth President of the United States, 44 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: John Kennedy, speaking in January of nineteen sixty one to 45 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: the Massachusetts Legislature on the eve of his heading to Washington. 46 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: He will talk about character, integrity, and judgment. We'll listen 47 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: and we'll look at the faces of the Trump cabinet. Next, 48 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: we'll hear from Sir Winston Churchill speaking in Missouri in 49 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: nineteen forty six. And then we'll hear from Radislaw Sikorski, 50 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: Polish foreign Minister, about the crisis at hand and the 51 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: biggest lie that you are being sold in this moment, 52 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: President Kennedy over to you. 53 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 2: For those to whom much is given, much is required. 54 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: And when, at some future date, the High Court of 55 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: History sits in judgment on each one of us, recording 56 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 2: whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our 57 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 2: responsibilities to the state. Our success or failure in whatever 58 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: office we may hold will be measured by the answers 59 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 2: to four questions. First, were we truly men of courage, 60 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: with the courage to stand up to one's enemies and 61 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 2: the courage to stand up when necessary to one's owns associates, 62 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 2: the courage to resist public pressure as well as private breed. Secondly, 63 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 2: were we truly men of judgment, with perceptive judgment of 64 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 2: the future as well as the past, of our own 65 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 2: mistakes as well as the mistakes of others, with enough 66 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 2: wisdom to know what we did not know, and enough 67 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 2: candor to admit it. Third, were we truly men of integrity, 68 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 2: Men who never ran out on either the principles in 69 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: which they believed or the people who believed in them, 70 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: Man whom neither financial gain nor political ambition could ever 71 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 2: divert from the fulfillment of our sacred trust. Finally, were 72 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 2: we truly men of dedication, with an or honor, mortgaged 73 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: to no single individual or group, and compromised by no 74 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 2: private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the 75 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: public good and the national interest. Courage, judgment, integrity, dedication. 76 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: These are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and 77 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 2: of the Bay State, the qualities which this state have 78 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: consistently sent to this chamber here in Beacon Hill in 79 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: Boston and a Capitol Hill back in Washington. And these 80 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 2: are the qualities which, with God's help this son of 81 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:28,679 Speaker 2: Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four 82 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: stormy years that lie ahead. 83 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: It is a miracle of sorts. Never before the twentieth 84 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: century could anyone have ever hoped to have heard the 85 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 1: voice of the dead. But because of video and audio recordings, 86 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: Winston Churchill is with us, and boy do we need him. 87 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: We must heed his words because they are enduring. The 88 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: man who stood alone telling the world that the danger 89 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: was gathering, that the war was coming, was not just 90 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,679 Speaker 1: right about the Second World War, but was right about 91 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: what followed it, the Cold War. Let us listen to 92 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: a great friend of America, a man for whom a 93 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: US naval vessel is named, A man whose bust has 94 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: sat in the American Oval Office, where he sat with 95 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: the man the world's leaders called the Apostle of Peace, 96 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt, the architect of the world order. In its 97 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: darkest days, at five o'clock every day, where Donald Trump 98 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: now desecrates the resolute desk, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill 99 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: sat and mixed cocktails and dreamed about a world at peace, free, 100 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: with liberty and justice for all. Winston Churchill was an 101 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: honorary American, first man ever to be made an honorary 102 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: US citizen, and he loved this country. Let's listen to 103 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: him talk to us about our responsibilities. 104 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 3: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle. 105 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: Of world power. 106 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 3: It is a solemn moment for the American democracy, for 107 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 3: with primacy in power, it also joined an awe inspiring 108 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 3: accountability to the future. If as you look around you, 109 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 3: if you look around you, you must feel not only 110 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 3: the sense of duty done, but also you must feel 111 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: anxiety lest you fall below the level of a treatment. 112 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 3: In these states, control is enforced open the common people 113 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 3: by various kinds of all embracing police governments, to a 114 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 3: degree which is overwhelmed and contrary to every principle of democracy. 115 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 3: The power of the state is exercise without restraint, either 116 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 3: by dictators or by compact oligarchists operating through a privileged 117 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 3: party and a political police. It is not our duty 118 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 3: at this time, when difficult it are so numerous, to 119 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 3: interfere forcibly in the internal affairs of countries which we 120 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 3: have not conquered in war. But we must never cease 121 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom 122 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 3: and the rights of man, which are the joint inheritance 123 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 3: of the English speaking world, and which through Magna Carta, 124 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 3: the Bill of Rights, the habeas corpus, trial by jury, 125 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 3: the English common law find their most famous expression in 126 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,239 Speaker 3: the American Declaration of Independence. 127 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: And now let us come forward into the future. Let 128 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: us listen to the words of the Paul Pish Foreign 129 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: Minister Radislaw Sikorski. There is no country it was more 130 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: brutalized by aggression, Nazi aggression, Russian aggression and Western indifference 131 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: than Poland. Poland is on the edge of the frontier. 132 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: It has absorbed millions of Ukrainian refugees. The Poles fought back, 133 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: and the Poles will always fight back. Yet should it 134 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: become necessary that they must fight, it will be on 135 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: the back of a tragedy that is unspeakable, for it 136 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: will have been as unnecessary as the other European wars 137 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 1: that brought civilization to the edge of collapse. And that 138 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: a generation of statesmen and women had the wisdom to 139 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: save the world so that it could be redeemed from 140 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: the ashes of the miseries of the war that almost 141 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: destroyed everything, and enslaved the peoples of the world, the 142 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: Polish Foreign Minister. 143 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 4: In times like these, when the world seems out of joint, 144 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 4: when the old seems to be dying but the new 145 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 4: cannot yet be born, what we need is a return 146 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 4: to basics. Two questions about what's right and what's wrong, 147 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 4: what's true and what's false, what's actually happened and what's 148 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 4: just a figment of propaganda. 149 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: My friends, we are connected by history and a mutuality 150 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: of ideals and ideas and values. America's greatest export has 151 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: been freedom, the concepts of liberty, the dignity of the 152 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: human being, and they are all under threat. There is 153 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: great indifference by the American people to the fate of Europe, 154 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: and there has been great ingratitude towards the American people 155 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: from the leaders of Europe who have not traveled into 156 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 1: the middle of the United States to say hello to 157 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: the American people in a very long time. That should 158 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: be fixed immediately. The Democratic governors should invite, on this 159 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: edge of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, 160 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: the Chancellor of Germany to the country, to the crossroads 161 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: of the American Revolution in New Jersey, the President of France, 162 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: Macrone to repeat the steps of the Marquis de la Fayette. 163 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom should invite the leaders of America's greatest allies 164 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: to come speak to the California Legislature and let them 165 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: deliver the type of speech that fore administer so Courski delivered. 166 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: These days of crisis pit two opposing forces against one another. 167 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: One is freedom, the belief in humanity, and the other 168 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: is a belief in power, a diffusion of it with 169 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: technology and greed, the philosophy of the locust, the doctrine 170 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: of the taker. It is immoral, it is repellent, and 171 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: it must be resisted by a faith in humanity that 172 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: finds its mana denifestation in politics, in the practice of democracy. Today, 173 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: I've tried to give you a bit of a history 174 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: lesson have faith and do not be afraid. This is 175 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and 176 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on 177 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.