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Speaker 1: This is the morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody. It's Steve Schmidt from Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: And behind me is one of the mightiest warships ever

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Speaker 2: built in the history of the United States Navy United

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Speaker 2: States Ship North Carolina, the Mighty battleship, a veteran of

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Speaker 2: the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of the Second World War.

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Speaker 2: If you look out over my left shoulder, you can

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Speaker 2: see in the distance there the battle stars and also

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Speaker 2: the Japanese flags from when it was engaged in combat

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Speaker 2: the prizes that the Mighty North Carolina claimed. Here in Wilmington,

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Speaker 2: North Carolina, the Marines were celebrating the two hundred and

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Speaker 2: fiftieth anniversary, the birthday of one of the most important

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Speaker 2: institutions in the history of the United States, the United

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Speaker 2: States Marine Corps. It's an institution created by the Continental

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Speaker 2: Congress before the United States was created, just like the Navy,

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Speaker 2: just like the army institutions that helped bring the United

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Speaker 2: States into existence. The first commander of the Continental Army,

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Speaker 2: George Washington, the first President of the United States, George Washington,

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Speaker 2: a man who walked away from power. And that's what

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Speaker 2: the issue is that we have to talk about. It's

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Speaker 2: the use of power in the United States. Because of

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Speaker 2: a lot of factors, indifference, hypocrisy, the American people gave,

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Speaker 2: with forty nine and a half percent of the vote,

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Speaker 2: lawful power to Donald Trump. They made him President of

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Speaker 2: the United States. He took the oath and was endowed

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Speaker 2: with constitutional power that we always understood in America, the

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Speaker 2: president is not a king. At the beginning, John Adams

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Speaker 2: talked about all of the adornments for the title. George

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Speaker 2: Washington shut him down. He said, mister President would do

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Speaker 2: when you look at Trump and his walk along the

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Speaker 2: portico connected the Oval Office and the residents of the

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Speaker 2: White House, with all the gilded crap, he's super glued

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Speaker 2: to the wall to the delight of the Saudi tyrant.

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Speaker 2: You can see the evidence of the desecrations, but have

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Speaker 2: an appreciation they won't be permanent.

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Speaker 1: Nothing is. Donald Trump was given power as.

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Speaker 2: A constitutional chief executive in a republic with two coequal

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Speaker 2: branches of government. He has limited power for a limited time.

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Speaker 2: There is no king. There is no caesar in America.

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Speaker 2: In America, the law is the constitution, and the Constitution

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Speaker 2: says that we are a government of the people by

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Speaker 2: the people. For the people. We are a government constituted

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Speaker 2: by a choice of the sovereign the people. The people

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Speaker 2: of the United States have rights, and those rights in

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Speaker 2: include the right to the freedom of speech, the freedom

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Speaker 2: of conscience, the freedom of religion. What unites us as

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Speaker 2: a people, as Americans, what the young men went out

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Speaker 2: and fought and died for aboard that vessel during a

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Speaker 2: supreme test between liberty and the darkness, was a proposition.

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Speaker 1: The freedom must endure.

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Speaker 2: And though the journey has been and long and difficult,

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Speaker 2: the side that has prevailed and that we cannot back

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Speaker 2: up from, is the side that believes that all men

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Speaker 2: and women are created equal down by a creator, with

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Speaker 2: inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Speaker 2: This idea must be defended at all costs, this concept

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Speaker 2: of self government.

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Speaker 1: And so one of the problems we have in the country.

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Speaker 2: Is the schumercratic caucus of feckless geriatrics that have capitulated

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Speaker 2: and compromised.

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Speaker 1: With Trump to the edge of an abyss.

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Speaker 2: And below them is some of the finest democrats there's

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Speaker 2: been in three generations, and among them are the six

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Speaker 2: that signed a letter about the necessity as a matter

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Speaker 2: of law, of honor and moral principle, that orders passed

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Speaker 2: down by an immoral command meaning Trump and Hagsath that

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Speaker 2: says lower a weapon and shoot a fellow American because

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Speaker 2: they're an enemy, as an illegal order.

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Speaker 1: Martha McCollum.

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Speaker 2: Is a blow dried, not too smart Fox News well

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Speaker 2: and she came up against Jason Crow, who is a

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Speaker 2: veteran of the seventy fifth Ranger Regiment, a combat veteran,

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Speaker 2: an army ranger in the motto of the Rangers, of course,

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Speaker 2: are rangers lead the way. And Martha McCallum reveals herself

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Speaker 2: as both a nitwit.

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Speaker 1: And a person of the utmost shallowness.

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Speaker 2: And and what Martha McCallum starts spouting off in pure

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Speaker 2: problem is that, oh, I believe in the military, and

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Speaker 2: this and that and YadA, YadA, YadA, all the Fox

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Speaker 2: News performative empty suited bs.

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Speaker 1: And Jason Crow.

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Speaker 2: Talks about the intelligence of the American soldier, sailor airman,

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Speaker 2: marine who understand that they are not killers for hire,

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Speaker 2: they are not mercenaries. They're the shield of a republic,

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Speaker 2: who serve no man but a constitution, a higher cause.

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Speaker 1: Than a man. And what do we know about Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has said that our cities are burning under

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Speaker 2: siege from imaginary terrorists, and yet amongst the radical right extremists,

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Speaker 2: amongst the red hat fascists that for us, well, not

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Speaker 2: enough evidence to be alarmed, not enough to invent a constant, continuing,

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Speaker 2: perpetual restock fire, not enough to imitate the furres rhetoric

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Speaker 2: when it came to the supposed transgressions of Poland against

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Speaker 2: the Reich that necessitated the Nazi German invasion of Poland,

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Speaker 2: not enough. Donald Trump cal as Vice President Calie about

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Speaker 2: Haitians eating pets.

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Speaker 1: We can see the scapegoating.

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Speaker 2: We can see the easiest targets in society targeted. Everything

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Speaker 2: is the fault of someone else, always.

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Speaker 1: Always that person, different.

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Speaker 2: Skin, religion, faith, and divided by the algorithm, put at

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Speaker 2: each other's throats. The force that protects all of us,

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Speaker 2: made from all of us, a whole that salutes, not

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Speaker 2: a party flag, not a rainbow flag, only one flag,

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Speaker 2: the American flag, one flag, one people. And Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: we know, has been in the presence of the most

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Speaker 2: senior leaders of our military and asked of them.

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Speaker 1: To order their men.

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Speaker 2: To kill us. Stephen Miller wanted it. In fact, what

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Speaker 2: he wanted was the obliteration of boats of migrants off

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Speaker 2: of the Pacific coast. And he was told in the

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Speaker 2: Oval Office to shut the fuck up, Stephen by General Millie,

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Speaker 2: who talked about the code of the American soldier. Now,

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Speaker 2: all of those words about honor are fine, but I've

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Speaker 2: been to Meli and I've been to the spot where

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Speaker 2: an American major named Hugh Thompson ordered his calicopter lowered

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Speaker 2: and the crew on it pointed their weapons at American

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Speaker 2: soldiers who became murderers. And an American officer commanding a

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Speaker 2: helicopter gunship with his crew pointing his weapons at America's

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Speaker 2: soldiers who had become murderers, came to define at some

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Speaker 2: level the madness of a moment when things break and

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Speaker 2: discipline cracks. There is no Department of War or under statute,

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Speaker 2: the Department of Defense is the name of the institution

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Speaker 2: that Pete Hegsath tragically and sorrowly commands, without the respect,

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Speaker 2: without the affection of the men that it's his honored

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Speaker 2: to lead. Is a reality TV show store a psychologically

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Speaker 2: addled adult child who can't keep his zipper up can't

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Speaker 2: keep the champagne off his lips. He can't keep the

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Speaker 2: stupid out of his mouth.