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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Steve Schmidt here, and I wanted to react

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Speaker 1: to what's going on in Wisconsin. The arrest of a

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Speaker 1: county judge by the Cash Patel gestapo, the FBI, now

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Speaker 1: the American gestapo. It took sixty four days after Cash

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Speaker 1: Patel was sworn in for that to happen. This is

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Speaker 1: an ominous event. This is a lawless administration. And we

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Speaker 1: know that this arrest by the FBI is not legitimate

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Speaker 1: because of the tweet that was sent out by Reischferer

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Speaker 1: Patel that he quickly deleted. Now, common sense tells you

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Speaker 1: that the director of the FBI does not make ministerial

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Speaker 1: announcements about the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin. This

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Speaker 1: is about politics. This is about an abuse of power.

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Speaker 1: This is about the jack boot coming down on the

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Speaker 1: throat of the rule of law. I led Chief Justice

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Speaker 1: John Roberts confirmation in two thousand and five, twenty years

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Speaker 1: ago for George W. Bush. When Roberts was nominated to

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Speaker 1: be the Chief Justice. I am appalled at his weakness.

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Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts during his confirmation sat there and he

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Speaker 1: talked about the US Constitution, and what he said was

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Speaker 1: that all of the freedoms that we have in America

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Speaker 1: are prescribed in the Constitution. I didn't know that, but

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Speaker 1: he went on and he said that it is the

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Speaker 1: tradition of the rule of law that is the difference.

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Speaker 1: And so the lawless Trump regime is an open defiance

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Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court. Each day, the pathetic White House

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Speaker 1: Press Corps watches Donald Trump sign performative decrees as if

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Speaker 1: he was a king dressed up as lawless executive orders,

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Speaker 1: and the deposit questions, does Trump have the legal authority

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Speaker 1: of a dictator? As if it is an open question?

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Speaker 1: Can Donald Trump do as he please? Does an election

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Speaker 1: with forty nine point nine percent of the vote give

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Speaker 1: somebody the power of a caesar? Has our democratic tradition

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Speaker 1: been immolated? Has two hundred and fifty years of liberty

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Speaker 1: out the window? Because for the first time in American history,

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Speaker 1: whether it is the rancid Laura Ingram on Fox News,

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Speaker 1: whether it is the odious Megan Kelly, there is an

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Speaker 1: argument being asserted and being made that people in the

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Speaker 1: United States can be shackled, that they can be chained,

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Speaker 1: that they can be pushed into a van by hooded people,

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Speaker 1: shoved into a trunk, or whatever, it disappeared to a

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Speaker 1: concentration camp, and that's what it is in El Salvador.

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Speaker 1: That's what's happening in America. So we should know a

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Speaker 1: name in this moment, and that name is Avner Less. Now,

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Speaker 1: some people say that it's inappropriate to talk about Nazi

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Speaker 1: Germany because Nazi Germany, if you reference it, well, you're

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Speaker 1: losing the argument. Well, those people are naive, and they're

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Speaker 1: also probably ignorant of the history of Nazi Germany beyond

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Speaker 1: the outcome the murder of eleven million people in death camps.

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Speaker 1: They probably don't know that Auschwitz was late to the

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Speaker 1: killing because it couldn't get the sewage treatment plant stamped

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Speaker 1: by a German water bureaucrat. That's how Auschwitz opened. It

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Speaker 1: took Outolf Hitler twenty years to start the killing of

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Speaker 1: the Jews he hated. The putch was in nineteen twenty three,

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Speaker 1: when Hitler got out of prison. In nineteen twenty five,

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Speaker 1: the New York Times wrote a story, and The New

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Speaker 1: York Times said that Hitler had retired from radical politics.

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Speaker 1: Hitler became chancellor in nineteen thirty two. It took one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twelve days for the enabling degree to be

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Speaker 1: passed for German democracy to be stripped. It was two

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Speaker 1: more years until Jews lost their citizenship. It was another

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Speaker 1: four until Krystal knocked, five until the World War two began,

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Speaker 1: and it was another three after that, at the height

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Speaker 1: a meeting in Wansea that Adolf Hitler did not attend

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Speaker 1: that was hosted by Reinhardt Heidrich and Adolf Eichmann. The

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Speaker 1: lesson of Nazi Germany is not what they did in

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Speaker 1: the end. It is what happened next that was unimaginable

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Speaker 1: but clearly in sight. He only did the things that

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Speaker 1: he said he would do for twenty years, and when

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Speaker 1: Dwight Eisenhower walked into a concentration camp, this man born

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Speaker 1: in the eighteen eighties in Kansas, who graduated from West

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Speaker 1: Point in nineteen fifteen, has the wisdom, has the foresight

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Speaker 1: immediately to understand that someday this will all be denied.

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Speaker 1: So he summons the world's media to come and record

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Speaker 1: it now af nor less. He is the chief is

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Speaker 1: rarely interrogator of Iikman, a German Jew an Israeli police captain,

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Speaker 1: and he spends two hundred and seventy five hours without

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Speaker 1: all Iikmen. And in nineteen eighty one, twenty years after

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Speaker 1: Eikman is hung Avner Lasti's asked a question if the

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Speaker 1: experience of interrogating him changed his perspective on intervy, thing,

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Speaker 1: on anything, and he said, indeed, it did. It gave

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Speaker 1: him a passion for democracy, because he said, there are

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Speaker 1: little Aikmans all around us, but they are in a democracy,

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Speaker 1: but they turned deadly in an instant, in a dictatorship

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Speaker 1: of the left or the right. Democracy is what keeps

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Speaker 1: us safe. The constitution is what keeps us safe. The

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Speaker 1: Constitution of the United States is the law of the land,

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Speaker 1: not Donald Trump's decrees. Cash Ptel is a Littleikman and

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Speaker 1: he's turning dangerous. Christinoam is a little Aikman. Corey Lewandowski

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Speaker 1: little Iikman. Pastor Paula is a little Iikman. This is

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Speaker 1: an administration of little aikman's. Carolyn Levitt is is a

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Speaker 1: little Iikman, all of them. And so now in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: the rubicon has been crossed. Let us understand, yes, the

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Speaker 1: FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the world,

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Speaker 1: or it was, But the FBI has a long and

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Speaker 1: sordid history of civil liberties and civil rights abuses in

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Speaker 1: the United States. And this law enforcement agency, in this

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Speaker 1: moment has been transformed. It is guestapa. It is a

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Speaker 1: secret police force, and it has arrested a judge in

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Speaker 1: a moment when the country is under assault from a

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Speaker 1: domestic enemy within that has declared that they are above

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Speaker 1: the law, in violation of Supreme Court orders and are

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Speaker 1: saying there is nothing that we can do about it,

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Speaker 1: and if they wish, if you speak up too loud,

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Speaker 1: you'll be an El Salvador in the concentration camp. No,

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Speaker 1: we will not tolerate it. So what I want to

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Speaker 1: say to all of you with two thousand people on

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Speaker 1: just spontaneously, is get ready. You will be called as

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Speaker 1: American patriots, all of you and your friends to take

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Speaker 1: to the streets, maybe to travel if you can, to Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: But there will be a need for sustained protest, sustained

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Speaker 1: sustained civil disobedience until this regime is toppled. It will

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Speaker 1: be toppled from power in four years time, but it

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Speaker 1: must be defenestrated from its abuses of powers much sooner

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Speaker 1: than that. And here's the deal. The Democratic Party needs

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Speaker 1: to stop fucking around. Democrats need to go out and

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Speaker 1: to face the American people with whom they have lost trust,

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Speaker 1: to apologize, to say we hear you clearly, and we

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Speaker 1: understand what it is that we need to fight for.

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Speaker 1: We need to fight for American freedom. We need to

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Speaker 1: fight for the Constitution. We need to fight for ordinary

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Speaker 1: people all over the country to look down on nobody

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Speaker 1: and to lift up everybody, to stop the hyphenated American crap,

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Speaker 1: and to embrace all of us as Americans who love liberty.

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Speaker 1: We are in a great contest in this country. Now.

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Speaker 1: There are two sides. There is the American side and

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Speaker 1: there is a fasciscide. And that fascis side is trying

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Speaker 1: to burn down with George Washington, with Thomas Jefferson and

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Speaker 1: James Madison and Alexander Hamilton gave us what Harriet Tubman

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Speaker 1: and Sojourner truth, and Frederick Douglas saw the possibilities within that.

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Speaker 1: Martin Luther King and the movement redeemed. And so we

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Speaker 1: will not go gently into this in a avalanche of

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Speaker 1: officious abuse from a man who has decided that he

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Speaker 1: wishes to be America's first king, our first dictator, our caesar. No,

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Speaker 1: no way. So Democrats will have to ask we need power.

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Speaker 1: We need power to put a stop to it. We

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Speaker 1: need a democratic majority in the House of Representatives to

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Speaker 1: control the per strings of the federal government. And we

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Speaker 1: need enough senators, enough senators to remove abusers of power

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Speaker 1: from office if necessary. I'm not talking about a Trump impeachment.

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Speaker 1: Get sixty seven Democratic senators, he's gone. But short of that,

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Speaker 1: get enough to get rid of Kashpitel, Pam Bondi, and

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Speaker 1: all of these people who have assumed the role not

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Speaker 1: of American Cabinet secretary but as attendance to their fuer

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Speaker 1: And the American people are going to have to take

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Speaker 1: care of this matter, because the American people's lassitude allowed

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Speaker 1: the fire to start that we must now put out.

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Speaker 1: In the most significant crisis that this country has faced

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Speaker 1: since the Civil War, we do not face an external threat.

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Speaker 1: We face the lethal threat that Abraham Lincoln understood, which

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Speaker 1: is this, if we are to fall, it will be

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Speaker 1: by our own hand. He said, No army, no matter

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Speaker 1: how powerful, could ever land in America and hope to

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Speaker 1: take a sip from the Ohio River. He was right then.

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Speaker 1: It's true today, my freench This arrest by the FBI

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Speaker 1: of a judge in her court in Wisconsin is an

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Speaker 1: all out blitzkrieg on the rule of law in this country.

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Speaker 1: This is a criminal, lawless regime, and the American people

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Speaker 1: must rise up, they must revolt against it, and they

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Speaker 1: must take to the streets. We the people, run this country,

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Speaker 1: not the Trump regime, and that fight is on. Good

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Speaker 1: afternoon to you all,