1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: There is an enormous crisis on America's southern border, and 2 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: that crisis is destabilizing American democracy because the American people 3 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: demand that the United States of America maintain its sovereignty. 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: And though this is not understood in Washington, d C. 5 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: This point is perfectly clear to the mind of most Americans. 6 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: A nation that does not have control of its border 7 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: is not a nation. It cannot maintain its sovereignty if 8 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: it does not have control over who is and who 9 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: is not in the country. The scenes at the southern 10 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: border border apocalyptic as they're relayed and played on national 11 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: television by the likes of Fox News News and others. Now, 12 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: before going further, let's watch a snarling Lindsey Graham pleading 13 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: on Fox News for the governor of Texas to send 14 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants out into 15 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: the country to states with democratic senators. What Lindsey Graham 16 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: is arguing here for is a policy of punishment inflicted 17 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: by the governor of a red state on blue state senators. Now, 18 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: as a practical matter, what the snarling senator from South 19 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: Carolina is advocating is a type of cold or perhaps 20 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: better yet, lukewarm civil war, the period that prefaces violence, 21 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: where we build contempt, where government de humanizes human beings, 22 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: where Americans are pitted against one another. We're violence cheaters 23 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: just outside the boundary, incited by rhetoric but not yet 24 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: executed by the gun. Let's watch Lindsey Graham. 25 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 2: I'm not going to give money to foreign countries until 26 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 2: we secure our own border. Ten Democratic senators wrote a 27 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: letter opposing efforts to provide border security, opposing policy changes 28 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 2: that would secure our border. Governor Abbott, if you're watching 29 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 2: Sean Hannity tonight, do me a favor. Make it real 30 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: to those ten senators in their states what you've been 31 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 2: dealing with in Texas. Instead of sending them all to 32 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: New York, why don't you look at the states in question, 33 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Oregon. Governor Abbott, make it real to 34 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: these ten senators what it's like to live with a 35 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 2: broken border, thousands of illegal immigrants. To make it real 36 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 2: to the politicians who oppose border security, the Democratic position 37 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 2: has remain in Texas. They're okay with Texas being overrun. 38 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: Governor Ebbott, send bus loads of legal immigrants to these 39 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 2: senators so they will understand what it's like to live 40 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: with a broken border. 41 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: At a personal level, it is truly astonishing because I 42 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: logged so many thousands of miles with Lindsey Graham. I 43 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: flew for over a year with Lindsay Graham all over 44 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: the country on campaign planes, on buses, hotels, from coast 45 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: to coast, and there was not a single day where 46 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: there was any evidence that Lindsey Graham would become a snarling, 47 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: demagoguey fascist by the time America hit twenty twenty five. 48 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: Now today, there's roughly three hundred and fifty million Americans. 49 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: By twenty fifty, there will be four hundred million Americans 50 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: in a world of eight billion people. There is no discussion, 51 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: serious or otherwise whatsoever in the United States about what 52 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: the country will look like in twenty five years with 53 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: another fifty million people in it. It is an astonishment. 54 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: We live in a time where our politicians are so 55 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: deeply demagogic, so profoundly irresponsible, that there is an absence 56 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: of any discussion about the obvious issues that are barreling 57 00:04:55,480 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: down the train tracks. The country is insolvent with regards 58 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: to its entitlement programs that the American people and all 59 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: of America's senior citizens, but the wealthiest view rely on 60 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: None of this has ever talked about ever. It's a secret, 61 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: but from who exactly. In a government of the people, 62 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: by the people, for the people, the catastrophe is looming 63 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: and the catastrophe is approaching now. There is no issue 64 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: in American life that is more ripe for demagoguery than 65 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: the issue of immigration. There are so many powerful feelings. 66 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: Though it will rarely ever be reported in the national 67 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: cable news media, the truth is Hispanic voters, or more precisely, 68 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: Americans of Hispanic descent, don't want the illegal Hispanic immigration 69 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: from south of the border, just like huge numbers of 70 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: American Jews in the nineteen thirties did not want more 71 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: Jewish immigration into the country from Nazi Germany. Understanding this 72 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: human psychology is fundamental to understanding some of the complexities 73 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: involved regarding public opinion and this issue. There's something that's elemental, 74 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: foundational to understand with regard to immigration. In the United 75 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: States of America, there was a native indigenous population that 76 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: lived in peace and harmony with the land, the mountains, 77 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: the rivers, the lakes, the oceans. For six hundred human 78 00:06:52,760 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: generations before European settlers arrived. Those settlers primarily came from 79 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: these countries in the beginning Spain, France, England, the Netherlands, Portugal. 80 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: When those countries came to the North American continent, they 81 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: brutalized that population, and they brought with them another brutalized population, 82 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: and that would be Africans, stolen from their homeland, forced 83 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: into slavery, and delivered not just to the United States 84 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: but throughout the Western hemisphere, including the islands of the Caribbean, 85 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts, Jamaica, Hispaniola. Every other person that 86 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: lives and breeds in the United States today is a 87 00:07:53,840 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: descendant of someone who came from somewhere, not here, and 88 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: they came to the United States willingly. Often for those people, 89 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: whether they be Polish or Irish, or German like my ancestors, 90 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: or wherever they may be from, from India, from Pakistan, 91 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: there is a moment now in the family history that 92 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: is transcendent, but not often spoken about, because the moment 93 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: that is remembered is the moment of arrival in America, 94 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: not the moment that exists immediately before a departure. I 95 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: think about that moment. I think about it from my 96 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: ancestors in Ireland, in Germany, in Poland, they didn't have television, 97 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: there was no radio. Then, there were no photographs, no internet. 98 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: America was an idea, an ideal, a concept, a belief, 99 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: a fa a promise that things could be better than 100 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: the misery of their existence. And so they had a 101 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: final meal because in the morning they were leaving for America, 102 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: and they were leaving everything, everything behind to a place 103 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: that existed in their imaginations. And they arrived and there's 104 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: no chance. The streets were not paved in gold. Everything 105 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: that glittered was not a jewel. Life in America was hard, 106 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: but anything was possible here. If you worked hard and 107 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: you played by the rules, you could climb, you could 108 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: get ahead, Your dreams could become real. And that is 109 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: the American dream. It's worth preserving, and it bears mentioning 110 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: that all of the people, the desperately poor people, God's children, 111 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: like John McCain referred to them, are seeking to come 112 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: to America, seeking to get in, seeking to build a 113 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: life here, while our politicians, while our candidates for president, 114 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: by and large, run the country down, degraded, humiliated, with 115 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: their words, and like Lindsey Graham, seek to divide it, 116 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: to pit us against one another, to make us weak. 117 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: There's something that must be said in this moment. We're 118 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:50,239 Speaker 1: an imperfect people. But together in union, the fifty States, 119 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: bound together by the Constitution, fed by a constant wellspring 120 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: of humanity who buy into the idea of freedom. It's 121 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: created the most powerful nation in world history. And there's 122 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: something else that must be said in our despairing times. 123 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety two, thirds of the world's population that 124 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: was living in abject, absolute subsistence level poverty has been 125 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,959 Speaker 1: lifted out from it. And they were lifted out from 126 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: it because the U as led liberal global order prevailed 127 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: in a mighty struggle against despotic and evil competing systems 128 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 1: of government that include fascism and include communism in every 129 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: other system that seeks to declare that the rights of 130 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: the state and the powerful are far more important and 131 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: transcendently so over the dignity and the rights of the 132 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: human being. But that's not the American creed, and that's 133 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: not the creed of our allies, the great democracies of 134 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: the world, that hold that the human being will always 135 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: be above the power of the state, because there is 136 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: an innate dignity to the human being all of us, 137 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: regardless of race or creed, or ethnicity or religion, and 138 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 1: the defense of those values is paramount in this moment. 139 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: The statue of liberty is more than a gift. It 140 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: is more than words on a monument. It is a 141 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 1: and ethos to a way of life, to an American 142 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: nation that was made powerful and strong by the contributions 143 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: of all of the peoples of the world. Ours is 144 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: the only country every day where every language is spoken 145 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: that is known to man somewhere by someone. And those 146 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: people who arrived yesterday or last year, or are taking 147 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: the oath of citizenship and becoming equal in that citizenship 148 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: to a descendant of the Mayflower. All of us are 149 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: entwined together, part of the greatest experiment in all of 150 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: humanity's history, under great crisis, under great threat because of 151 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: unprincipled men like Lindsey Graham, demagogues who have chosen hate 152 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: in division over love and patriotism. Beware of small men 153 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: like this. I was fooled by him traveling around the country. 154 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: I thought we both loved it. But Lindsey Graham despises 155 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: it because he hates He hates so many people in it, 156 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: as do so many of the candidates who seek power 157 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: to write the future for the next twenty five years, 158 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: as we grow from a nation of three hundred and 159 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: fifty million to four hundred million. Do not turn over 160 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: America's future to small men who hate, because our children 161 00:14:49,560 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: will lose their freedom. Mark my words.