Speaker 1: This is the warning. There is something important to understand.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants you to be afraid. He wants you
Speaker 1: to have anxiety. It is all part of his political
Speaker 1: strategy to provoke rage and then more rage. He wants
Speaker 1: people to be angry because anger, in his estimation, is
Speaker 1: a preface to surrender, to hopelessness, to capitulation. There is
Speaker 1: something true about Donald Trump. Every time in his life
Speaker 1: that he has pushed forward, it has worked for him.
Speaker 1: He has never been held to account. He declared bankruptcy
Speaker 1: and got richer. He defiled the constitution and was elected president.
Speaker 1: And now Donald Trump, enraged, angry, filled with retribution against
Speaker 1: the American people, against his opponents, has decided that he
Speaker 1: will smash it all, burn what has been built over
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty years to the ground, and say when
Speaker 1: he is done that he has made America great again.
Speaker 1: Over and over and over again. Donald Trump lies. The
Speaker 1: lies are coming faster, and they're getting bigger, and they're
Speaker 1: becoming more aggressive, more authoritarian in nature, because they demand
Speaker 1: that you submit reason to his command. They demand that
Speaker 1: you have amnesia about what you just saw under his command,
Speaker 1: and they demand that you accept as explanation for whatever
Speaker 1: happens in the world. What Donald Trump tells you it
Speaker 1: is no matter how stupid, how venal, or how false.
Speaker 1: His ideology is malicious, his methods are sinister, and the
Speaker 1: damage is just beginning. This must be opposed. Do not
Speaker 1: be afraid. Now. Each day there is a reason to panic.
Speaker 1: But instead of panicking, let me suggest that you breathe,
Speaker 1: because breathing will help you be still and gird yourself
Speaker 1: for the things that must be done in the weeks,
Speaker 1: in the months, and the years ahead. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now how this ends. We win, but it won't
Speaker 1: be easy getting there. Yesterday we saw the fullness of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's star wars bar seen cabinet fully assembled. It
Speaker 1: is a frightening sight. There has never ever in the
Speaker 1: history of the United States ever been an assemblage of
Speaker 1: such unqualified, incompetent, disordered people, sickophants, all none of whom
Speaker 1: have any business serving in positions of public responsibility and trust.
Speaker 1: But because as Winston Churchill observed, Trump won, we get
Speaker 1: the government we deserve. Now, what I want to talk
Speaker 1: about is a return to first principles. That is what
Speaker 1: we must talk about today. First principles. And so i'd
Speaker 1: like you to listen to three things. First, we're going
Speaker 1: to hear from the thirty fifth President of the United States,
Speaker 1: John Kennedy, speaking in January of nineteen sixty one to
Speaker 1: the Massachusetts Legislature on the eve of his heading to Washington.
Speaker 1: He will talk about character, integrity, and judgment. We'll listen
Speaker 1: and we'll look at the faces of the Trump cabinet. Next,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Sir Winston Churchill speaking in Missouri in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty six. And then we'll hear from Radislaw Sikorski,
Speaker 1: Polish foreign Minister, about the crisis at hand and the
Speaker 1: biggest lie that you are being sold in this moment,
Speaker 1: President Kennedy over to you.
Speaker 2: For those to whom much is given, much is required.
Speaker 2: And when, at some future date, the High Court of
Speaker 2: History sits in judgment on each one of us, recording
Speaker 2: whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our
Speaker 2: responsibilities to the state. Our success or failure in whatever
Speaker 2: office we may hold will be measured by the answers
Speaker 2: to four questions. First, were we truly men of courage,
Speaker 2: with the courage to stand up to one's enemies and
Speaker 2: the courage to stand up when necessary to one's owns associates,
Speaker 2: the courage to resist public pressure as well as private breed. Secondly,
Speaker 2: were we truly men of judgment, with perceptive judgment of
Speaker 2: the future as well as the past, of our own
Speaker 2: mistakes as well as the mistakes of others, with enough
Speaker 2: wisdom to know what we did not know, and enough
Speaker 2: candor to admit it. Third, were we truly men of integrity,
Speaker 2: Men who never ran out on either the principles in
Speaker 2: which they believed or the people who believed in them,
Speaker 2: Man whom neither financial gain nor political ambition could ever
Speaker 2: divert from the fulfillment of our sacred trust. Finally, were
Speaker 2: we truly men of dedication, with an or honor, mortgaged
Speaker 2: to no single individual or group, and compromised by no
Speaker 2: private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the
Speaker 2: public good and the national interest. Courage, judgment, integrity, dedication.
Speaker 2: These are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and
Speaker 2: of the Bay State, the qualities which this state have
Speaker 2: consistently sent to this chamber here in Beacon Hill in
Speaker 2: Boston and a Capitol Hill back in Washington. And these
Speaker 2: are the qualities which, with God's help this son of
Speaker 2: Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four
Speaker 2: stormy years that lie ahead.
Speaker 1: It is a miracle of sorts. Never before the twentieth
Speaker 1: century could anyone have ever hoped to have heard the
Speaker 1: voice of the dead. But because of video and audio recordings,
Speaker 1: Winston Churchill is with us, and boy do we need him.
Speaker 1: We must heed his words because they are enduring. The
Speaker 1: man who stood alone telling the world that the danger
Speaker 1: was gathering, that the war was coming, was not just
Speaker 1: right about the Second World War, but was right about
Speaker 1: what followed it, the Cold War. Let us listen to
Speaker 1: a great friend of America, a man for whom a
Speaker 1: US naval vessel is named, A man whose bust has
Speaker 1: sat in the American Oval Office, where he sat with
Speaker 1: the man the world's leaders called the Apostle of Peace,
Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt, the architect of the world order. In its
Speaker 1: darkest days, at five o'clock every day, where Donald Trump
Speaker 1: now desecrates the resolute desk, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
Speaker 1: sat and mixed cocktails and dreamed about a world at peace, free,
Speaker 1: with liberty and justice for all. Winston Churchill was an
Speaker 1: honorary American, first man ever to be made an honorary
Speaker 1: US citizen, and he loved this country. Let's listen to
Speaker 1: him talk to us about our responsibilities.
Speaker 3: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle.
Speaker 1: Of world power.
Speaker 3: It is a solemn moment for the American democracy, for
Speaker 3: with primacy in power, it also joined an awe inspiring
Speaker 3: accountability to the future. If as you look around you,
Speaker 3: if you look around you, you must feel not only
Speaker 3: the sense of duty done, but also you must feel
Speaker 3: anxiety lest you fall below the level of a treatment.
Speaker 3: In these states, control is enforced open the common people
Speaker 3: by various kinds of all embracing police governments, to a
Speaker 3: degree which is overwhelmed and contrary to every principle of democracy.
Speaker 3: The power of the state is exercise without restraint, either
Speaker 3: by dictators or by compact oligarchists operating through a privileged
Speaker 3: party and a political police. It is not our duty
Speaker 3: at this time, when difficult it are so numerous, to
Speaker 3: interfere forcibly in the internal affairs of countries which we
Speaker 3: have not conquered in war. But we must never cease
Speaker 3: to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom
Speaker 3: and the rights of man, which are the joint inheritance
Speaker 3: of the English speaking world, and which through Magna Carta,
Speaker 3: the Bill of Rights, the habeas corpus, trial by jury,
Speaker 3: the English common law find their most famous expression in
Speaker 3: the American Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 1: And now let us come forward into the future. Let
Speaker 1: us listen to the words of the Paul Pish Foreign
Speaker 1: Minister Radislaw Sikorski. There is no country it was more
Speaker 1: brutalized by aggression, Nazi aggression, Russian aggression and Western indifference
Speaker 1: than Poland. Poland is on the edge of the frontier.
Speaker 1: It has absorbed millions of Ukrainian refugees. The Poles fought back,
Speaker 1: and the Poles will always fight back. Yet should it
Speaker 1: become necessary that they must fight, it will be on
Speaker 1: the back of a tragedy that is unspeakable, for it
Speaker 1: will have been as unnecessary as the other European wars
Speaker 1: that brought civilization to the edge of collapse. And that
Speaker 1: a generation of statesmen and women had the wisdom to
Speaker 1: save the world so that it could be redeemed from
Speaker 1: the ashes of the miseries of the war that almost
Speaker 1: destroyed everything, and enslaved the peoples of the world, the
Speaker 1: Polish Foreign Minister.
Speaker 4: In times like these, when the world seems out of joint,
Speaker 4: when the old seems to be dying but the new
Speaker 4: cannot yet be born, what we need is a return
Speaker 4: to basics. Two questions about what's right and what's wrong,
Speaker 4: what's true and what's false, what's actually happened and what's
Speaker 4: just a figment of propaganda.
Speaker 1: My friends, we are connected by history and a mutuality
Speaker 1: of ideals and ideas and values. America's greatest export has
Speaker 1: been freedom, the concepts of liberty, the dignity of the
Speaker 1: human being, and they are all under threat. There is
Speaker 1: great indifference by the American people to the fate of Europe,
Speaker 1: and there has been great ingratitude towards the American people
Speaker 1: from the leaders of Europe who have not traveled into
Speaker 1: the middle of the United States to say hello to
Speaker 1: the American people in a very long time. That should
Speaker 1: be fixed immediately. The Democratic governors should invite, on this
Speaker 1: edge of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence,
Speaker 1: the Chancellor of Germany to the country, to the crossroads
Speaker 1: of the American Revolution in New Jersey, the President of France,
Speaker 1: Macrone to repeat the steps of the Marquis de la Fayette.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom should invite the leaders of America's greatest allies
Speaker 1: to come speak to the California Legislature and let them
Speaker 1: deliver the type of speech that fore administer so Courski delivered.
Speaker 1: These days of crisis pit two opposing forces against one another.
Speaker 1: One is freedom, the belief in humanity, and the other
Speaker 1: is a belief in power, a diffusion of it with
Speaker 1: technology and greed, the philosophy of the locust, the doctrine
Speaker 1: of the taker. It is immoral, it is repellent, and
Speaker 1: it must be resisted by a faith in humanity that
Speaker 1: finds its mana denifestation in politics, in the practice of democracy. Today,
Speaker 1: I've tried to give you a bit of a history
Speaker 1: lesson have faith and do not be afraid. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and
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