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Speaker 1: It is the nineteenth of May.

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Speaker 2: This is the morning we must talk about the insanity

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Speaker 2: that broke loose link on Sunday night in another meltdown

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Speaker 2: on social media by the untreated psychiatric patient that works

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Speaker 2: in the Oval office. America is Nero our dime store. Mussolini,

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Speaker 2: the Donald a bragger and cheap Queen's hustler, through the

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Speaker 2: make believe lens of television, went from being a serially

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Speaker 2: bankrupt buffoon to the all American success presiding over disputes

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Speaker 2: between Gary Busey and Meatloaf. And so, with that deep

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Speaker 2: experience and for a lot of other reasons, this man

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Speaker 2: has come to dominate American politics for ten long years.

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Speaker 2: And we should think about the journey and how far

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Speaker 2: we've come as a nation over that ten years.

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Speaker 1: As if we were on a river, we don't know.

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Speaker 2: Where the river ends, how long will journey down it.

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Speaker 2: We can just since how far we've come, and within

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Speaker 2: that I have a question. But if you think back

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Speaker 2: to that moment where Trump came down the escalator to

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Speaker 2: this where he's calling for the imprisonment and the investigation

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Speaker 2: and the punishment of Bruce Springsteen and Oprah and Bono

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Speaker 2: and Beyonce, because they dared to express an opinion, dared

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Speaker 2: to offer a breath of dissent against the Donalds, who

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Speaker 2: many many tens of millions of Americans one hundred million

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Speaker 2: strong and growing at least, who think is a tyrant

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Speaker 2: without comparison, except perhaps the King George the Third, who

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Speaker 2: is the last man who declared him self sovereign and

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Speaker 2: didn't work out well for him. Donald Trump should appreciate

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Speaker 2: that in America we don't lock up our political opponents.

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Speaker 2: That in America we have freedom of speech, and we

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Speaker 2: have a rule of law, and we have due process,

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Speaker 2: and the American soldier swears an oath of allegiance to

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Speaker 2: the Constitution, not to a man, not to a person.

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Speaker 2: Though Donald has become deluded because around him are all

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Speaker 2: his many apostles and all his many disciples, and all

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Speaker 2: of these people around him have deluded themselves and deluded

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Speaker 2: him into believing that they are a type of new

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Speaker 2: royalty in America, with Donald Trump as the king and

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Speaker 2: then his dukes and duchesses at court with a license

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Speaker 2: to take from all of you. And that is what

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Speaker 2: is going on. This incredible taking, this demand by the

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Speaker 2: report publicans for a five trillion dollars tax cut, eviscerating

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Speaker 2: the federal government's ability to function across all of its

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Speaker 2: responsibilities in the most complex society and earth.

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Speaker 1: The shattering of trust.

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Speaker 2: The social compact, the social safety net, its evisceration. All

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Speaker 2: of that is happening right now at the exact moment

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Speaker 2: when an American president is militarizing the southern border of

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Speaker 2: the United States, and clowns who have no business in

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Speaker 2: a position of responsibility and authority have incredible responsibility and

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Speaker 2: authority and power running the FBI, America's internal police with

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Speaker 2: America's federal police force with a long history of abuses,

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Speaker 2: civil rights abuses, and abuses against the rights of American

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Speaker 2: citizens who are unlawfully and illegally surveilled, including for example,

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Speaker 2: doctor Martin Luther King, now two of the most unfit

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Speaker 2: people in all of the Trump consolation of unfitness, dam

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Speaker 2: bongino at conspiracy nut and.

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Speaker 1: Whack job of the highest.

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Speaker 2: Scale and order of toulsy gabber grade whack job. A

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Speaker 2: Pete Pensaff level incompetent, is the number two man at

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Speaker 2: the FBI, working side by side with the grifter cash

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Speaker 2: Battel who has an enemy's list as long as his greed,

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Speaker 2: as long as his grift. Now Cash Battel and Dan

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Speaker 2: Bongino are together with Maria Bartiromo of Fox News. All

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Speaker 2: of these people are creations of Fox News, conspiracy theorists,

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Speaker 2: and whack jobs. All they are part of a balance

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Speaker 2: of nuttery and sinister malice that has a risen from

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Speaker 2: this poisonous propaganda network and merged with real power. Now

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Speaker 2: we know that none of these people can be believed,

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Speaker 2: none of these people can be trusted. All of these

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Speaker 2: people are liars. All of these people are dishonest. Yet

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Speaker 2: they have great power, and they have platforms that make

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Speaker 2: billions and are protected in doing so by the power

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Speaker 2: accrued from the revolving door between Fox News now in

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Speaker 2: the US government. Well, extremists that rows up on television

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Speaker 2: shows have real power.

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Speaker 1: And so when you think about.

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Speaker 2: The insanity of Donald Trump, our dime store, Mussolini, our Nero,

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Speaker 2: and this threat and the journey that we've been on

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Speaker 2: for ten long years, let me pose a question.

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Speaker 1: What seems like it would be longer in duration the journey.

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Speaker 2: From the escalator to the place where the President of

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Speaker 2: the United States is promising to launch investigations against Bruce

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Speaker 2: Springstein and Oprah for daring to oppose him, or from

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Speaker 2: this spot today where the investigations are being threatened, to

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Speaker 2: people being jailed, to people being picked up, people being

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Speaker 2: swept up off the streets by masked federal agents that

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Speaker 2: could never happen in America without due process. Right now,

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Speaker 2: when you see a jsse Waters or any of these

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Speaker 2: people sneering, preening, smirking into the camera while they're stoking violence,

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Speaker 2: while making claims ludicrously that Trump is being threatened and

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Speaker 2: therefore the federal government must crack down on free speech,

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Speaker 2: That the threats against Trump laid out in a picture

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Speaker 2: of seashells, somehow have risen to such a titanic level,

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Speaker 2: a threat as grave as the Civil War, and beyond

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Speaker 2: that all freedom in America must be suspended to accommodate them.

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Speaker 1: Does that seem right? Does that make sense?

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Speaker 2: The idea that with each crisis that is manufactured by

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Speaker 2: Trump himself, that the answer always seems to be an

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Speaker 2: award of more power to Trump to control every aspect

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Speaker 2: of a free person's life, including what they can think,

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Speaker 2: what they can say, particularly when it comes to what

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump may take because anybody who seems to want

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Speaker 2: to speak out and say something is wrong that's going

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Speaker 2: on is instantly targeted in Trump's America and called a

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Speaker 2: terrorist or worse, some type of criminal at any rate.

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Speaker 2: But the only crime I see as patriotic Americans asserting

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Speaker 2: their First Amendment right, and that's no crime at all.

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Speaker 1: In fact, that's an act.

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Speaker 2: Of patriotism, as all dissent is and always has been.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes people must fight, sometimes people must stand up, sometimes

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Speaker 2: people must speak out, and now is such time, and

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Speaker 2: nobody should be intimidated by the unlawful threats by the

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Speaker 2: illegal operators who are abusing their offices, abusing the American people, abusing.

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Speaker 1: The law and breaking it.

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Speaker 2: In many cases, those people will face justice and accountability

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Speaker 2: in America someday because the American people will not tolerate

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Speaker 2: this excess, will not tolerate this abuse, will not tolerate

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Speaker 2: the outrageous arrogance has led this cabal to believe that,

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Speaker 2: upon the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the independence

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Speaker 2: of the United States, that now is the time to

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Speaker 2: cash it all in and to make the Trump family

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Speaker 2: herd king. No, this is the warning I'm Steve Schmidt,

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Speaker 2: this is the warning. I invite you to join this community,

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Speaker 2: where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about

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Speaker 2: what is happening in this country. America is in crisis.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,