1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: This is the warning the American people and the whole 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: world witnessed a Titanic lie. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 2: and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 2: with graffiti all over the walls. It's another part of it, 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 2: by the way, because we're talking about safety, we're also 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 2: talking about beautification. We're the most beautiful, potentially capital in 8 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: the world. We always had. But people come from Iowa, 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: they come from Indiana, They come and then they get mugged. 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 2: Not going to happen. Keep coming because within by the 11 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 2: time you get your trip set, it's going to be 12 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: safe again, and it's going to be cleaned very quickly. 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,919 Speaker 1: President of the United States stood flanked by the Attorney 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: General and the Defense Secretary and said that the capital 15 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: city of the United States was a dystopian healthcape. It 16 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: was besieged by roving youth gangs, and what was required 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: was the calling out of the army. And so Donald 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: Trump made the announce flanked on the one side by 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: his Attorney General and on the other side by his 20 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: Defense Secretary. And that was deliberate because what he was 21 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: saying was that in America, the military doesn't serve the nation, 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: or the Constitution or the people, but the whims of 23 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: a man, and it is an instrument of his personal power. 24 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 3: And on the other. 25 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: Side was the woman deeply implicated in the cover up 26 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: of Jeffrey Epstein coast playing in a new role as 27 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: head of the DC Homicide Task Force. 28 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 4: Let me be crystal clear, crime in d C is 29 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 4: ending and ending today. We are going to use every 30 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 4: power we have to fight criminals. Here. President, thank you 31 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 4: for caring about our capital. Families come here every summer. 32 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 4: Our museums are free. We have the National Zoo, we 33 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 4: have the National Gallery. DC should be a place where 34 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 4: everyone can come and feel safe. Behind me and to 35 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 4: my side. We have some of the best career law 36 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 4: enforcement and prosecutors in the country who are ready to 37 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 4: take this on. 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: Pambondi, a liar, stood there as a symbol that the 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: rule of law in the United States is dead, that 40 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: it's expired. She is the President's personal lawyer, and the 41 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: Justice Department is his personal. 42 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 3: Instrument of revenge and retribution. The whole point of. 43 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: What the American people witnessed yesterday was to chill dissent. 44 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: Now Trump likes to talk about the fact that he 45 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: received a historic landslide. 46 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 3: It's nonsense. 47 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: There have been sixty presidential elections in the history of 48 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: the country. Here is the rank order of them. Here's 49 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: where Donald Trump fits in. As you can see, it 50 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: was a small victory, it was a plurality victory, and 51 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: it was a victory that ranks near. 52 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 3: The bottom on the totality of the list. 53 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: There is no majority in America that supports what Donald 54 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: Trump is doing. This man elected with forty nine and 55 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: a half percent of the votes, has decided to use 56 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: the full power, the full weight, the full authority of 57 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: the federal government to occupy democratic cities. Some of the 58 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: most dangerous cities in America are the big cities in 59 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: Red States, cities like Saint Louis. But where is the 60 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: army in the Red States? The reality is the performance 61 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: theater wouldn't be popular there. So what we are witnesses 62 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: to is one political faction, a minority of the country, 63 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: using the full power of the American military against a 64 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: different faction in the country, a white minority using the 65 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: power of the state to suppress, to oppress, and to 66 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: take away the democracy from the Washington DC black voter 67 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: from the Washington, d C. 68 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 3: Black Citizen. 69 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: Washington was a city where slavery was legal, where slaves 70 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: built the capital, in built the White House, a city 71 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: that Doctor King march to in August of nineteen sixty 72 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: three at the head of what was called All Day 73 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: Freedom Parade. And in that Freedom Parade, Doctor King shared 74 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: a dream, and that dream was shared from a spot 75 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: that remembers the legacy and the memory of the man 76 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: who preserved the Union, Abraham Lincoln. 77 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 3: And on that site, on the walls of that memorial 78 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 3: are the. 79 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: Great speeches that Lincoln left for the country, the Gettysburg 80 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: Address that makes clear the purpose of the country is liberty, 81 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: and the Second Inaugural, which makes clear that the purpose 82 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: of the nation must be the defense of that liberty. 83 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: And then, after the ending of a terrible war, that 84 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: it killed eight hundred thousand people in a nation of 85 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 1: thirty four million, that there be mercy, that there be 86 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: malice towards none, that the nation seek to bind up 87 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: its wounds. Donald Trump represents the opposite spirit, an aggressive spirit, 88 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: a spirit that wants to dominate, to use power to subjugate. 89 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 2: Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and 90 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out many 91 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 2: and homeless people, and we're not gonna let it happen anymore. 92 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 2: We're not gonna take it. 93 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 3: Now. 94 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: Imagine if it came to be that there is a 95 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: legitimate need to use the type of force that Donald 96 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: Trump is talking about, that there was disorder, that there 97 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: was chaos, that there was anarchy. 98 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 3: Would that not be lamentable. 99 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: Would it not be a tragedy, a sober moment, a 100 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: serious one that would require careful explanation about the necessitous 101 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: nature of the use of violence to bring about peace. 102 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: There's none of that from Trump because there's no circumspection, 103 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: there's no thought, because this isn't real, it's steered. 104 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 2: When I look at Chicago and I look at La, 105 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: if we didn't go to La three months ago, La 106 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 2: would be burning like the part that didn't burn. If 107 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: he would have allowed the water to come down, which 108 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 2: I told him about in my first term, I said, 109 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 2: you're gonna have problems, let it come down. We actually 110 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 2: sent in our military to have the water come down 111 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 2: into La. They still didn't want it to come down 112 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: after the fires, but that was it. We have a 113 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 2: coming down, but hopefully la is watching that may are 114 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 2: also the city's burning. 115 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: What's real are the thugs with federal badges who are 116 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: being asked to betray the constitution for the whim of 117 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: a man. And so it came to be that these 118 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: people spread out over Fox News to tell America that 119 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: up is down, and down is up, and right is 120 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,799 Speaker 1: left and left is right, and that crime is soaring 121 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: when it's down, and that what's needed is a dose 122 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: of fascism and a display of presidential power unprecedented in 123 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: the history of the country to deal with it. 124 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Does that seem right? 125 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump said, this is coming to a city near you, 126 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: But not if you live in a red state, not 127 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City that has plenty of problems, not 128 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: in Dallas, not. 129 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 3: In Houston, in the Blue states. So they face. 130 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: Military occupation by the mega faction in control of the 131 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: armed forces, led by a vile man named Pete Hagseth, 132 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: who is politicized. 133 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 3: The desecrated them. 134 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 5: At your direction as well, sir, there are other units 135 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 5: we are prepared to bring in, other National Guard units, 136 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 5: other specialized units. They will be strong, they will be tough, 137 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 5: and they will stand with their law enforcement partners. This 138 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 5: is nothing new for God. As the President noted, at 139 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 5: the border, we've got ten thousand troops down there who've 140 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 5: been operating in defense cooperation areas, defense zones. 141 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 3: Where there's zero, zero illegal. 142 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 5: Crossings because of troops on strikers scanning the border. We've 143 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 5: been protecting other people's borders for twenty years. It's about 144 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 5: time we protect our own. 145 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: These people, these villainous cretons standing behind Trump, each a charlatan, 146 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: each a desecrator of the republic, each an arsonist of 147 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: some of the most sublime ideas ever put to paper 148 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: by the mind of man. And what they are doing 149 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: is assaulting each and every one of us in our liberty, 150 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: our rights. They're making a declaration of repudiation against the 151 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: independence of the country and the idea that are created 152 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: equal and our rights come not from government but from 153 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: a creator, a higher power. 154 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: And there is no compromise to be had on these questions. 155 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: And no good American will back down in the face 156 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: of this maga obscenity. Behind me, it's the fourth largest 157 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: city in North America, great city, Toronto, and it's a 158 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: free city, one without an army on the streets, one 159 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: without mass men snatching people off the streets. Later today, 160 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: the will be a baseball game played in the stadium 161 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: behind me, the Rogers Center, and the national anthem of 162 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,479 Speaker 1: the United States will be played, and it will celebrate 163 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: a country the professes to be the home of the free, 164 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: in the land of the brave. Now you tell me, 165 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: do these look like images from the home of the free? 166 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: And what brave people would ever allow that to happen. 167 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: Fascism has come to America. It is wrapped in the flag, 168 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: it is carrying the cross, and it is as dangerous 169 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: and it is as malignant as the variant of the 170 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: disease that came before. This is the I'm Steve Schmidt. 171 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,599 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I invite you to join this community, 172 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 1: where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about 173 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: what is happening in this country. 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