1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, August fifth. This is the warning. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 2: Let's talk honestly about what's happening in America. Conditions are deteriorating. 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 2: The assault on the republic, on democracy, on freedom, liberty, 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 2: however you wish to think about, is worsening. One of 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: the grave offenses of this era is the arrogance of 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: the political elite, who have decreed that it is their 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: right to take away your right to pick, to choose, 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: to elect who leads you. 9 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: What they seek is a world. 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 2: Where the professional politician, using very intricate software, picks their voters. 11 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: And so this is why congressional districts look like this 12 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: and this and this modern art design, where block by block, 13 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: a Republican house is carved in a Democratic household carved out, 14 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: or vice versa to give one side the advantage over 15 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 2: the other. And what it has produced is a Congress 16 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: where over ninety percent of all the members know that 17 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 2: once they're in there, it is impossible for them to 18 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: lose an election, except perhaps maybe in a primary, for 19 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: not being pure enough in holding the line and being 20 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 2: extreme enough to the satisfaction of their faction. Because there 21 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 2: is no moderate middle whatsoever. It has literally figuratively, like 22 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: with a laser, been carved out of existence, like minded 23 00:01:52,880 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 2: hive communities online reinforce hive communities that have come to 24 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: exist in real life, and congressional districts carved between the 25 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 2: two that exist in this space where the hive mind floods. 26 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 2: They're fellow travelers with information curated so that no offense 27 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: is ever given, that celebrates their leader as pure and 28 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: true and making America great again. So we have witnessed 29 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 2: over the last six months the effects of all of this. 30 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: We've seen the consequence the massed agents, a secret police 31 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 2: force now funded to the size of the fifteenth largest 32 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 2: military in the world, concentration camps, migrants sleeping on concrete, 33 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: the evisceration of America's scientific industrial complex, the evisceration of 34 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 2: the concept of facts. 35 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: And data from the government. 36 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 2: The reduction of the word of the United States around 37 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: the world to that of a Banana Republic dictator from 38 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 2: a Hollywood cartoon. Mostly, it has happened on the watch 39 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 2: of the schumercrats in Washington, d c. It is there 40 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 2: that Trump has steamrolled his opposition and has eviscerated the 41 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 2: checks and balances. It is there against Chuck Schumer, a 42 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: man who is not competent to the task, not competent 43 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: to the moment, A feckless man, a man who is appeased. 44 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 2: Donald Trump, a deluded man, a man who, when there 45 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 2: was an opportunity to arrest this, to stop it, to 46 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 2: slow it, instead went out and delivered this. 47 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand with you in this fight, and we 48 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: will win. 49 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 3: We will win. 50 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: We will win, we will win. 51 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 2: He was not winning, and America still is not winning. 52 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 2: But the battleground is moving. Politics is zero sum, and 53 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 2: what we have seen from the Maga imperialists, from the 54 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 2: Maga fanatics, is a desire not to perfect the union, 55 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 2: but to eradicate dissent and opposition, to securitize their power 56 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 2: forever more. And so Greg Abbot, the malicious governor, extremist governor, 57 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 2: corrupt governor of Texas, is. 58 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: Going for it. 59 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 2: In the middle of a decade, seven years off from 60 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 2: the redistricting, Greg Abbot looks around and he says, Wow, 61 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 2: Trump is unpopular. So what do we do? 62 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: Well? We better take. 63 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 2: Votes away from unhappy people and distribute them through modern 64 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 2: science and technology on a map that creates five new 65 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 2: Republican districts for the purposes of maintaining Trump's unchecked ambitions 66 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 2: and unchecked power pristine. In the end, this aggression, of course, 67 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 2: is answered by let's see the governor of New York. 68 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 3: But here in New York, we will not stand on 69 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 3: the sidelines with the timid souls on the sidelines who 70 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: don't care, will not investor their heart and soul into 71 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 3: this battle. This is a war. 72 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: We are at war, and that's why the gloves are off, 73 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: and I say bring it on war. 74 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 2: I as an American, do not want war, and I 75 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: don't like the Governor of New York talking about war. 76 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 2: But what Democrats must realize is that Donald Trump's aggressions 77 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: must be answered and that power must be used to 78 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 2: stop the abuse of power. Here's California Governor Gavin Newsom, 79 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 2: who's much closer to the line of where the party 80 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 2: must be active. 81 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: We're going to play fair in the world that is 82 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 3: wholly unfair. We may have the higher moral ground, but 83 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: the ground is shifting from underneath us, and I think 84 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 3: we have to wake up to that reality. And I'm 85 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 3: talking to members of my legislature. Whatever our alternatives, we 86 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 3: could do a special session. I can call from one today. 87 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,679 Speaker 3: If I would chose to, we can then put something 88 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 3: on the ballot and I could call special election. We 89 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 3: could change the Constitution with the consent of the voters, 90 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: and I think we will win. 91 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 2: That Republicans cannot be allowed to redraw congressional maps and 92 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 2: pick up ten, fifteen, twenty seats to insulate themselves from 93 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: voter outrage about their aggressions against the Constitution, against civil liberties, 94 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: against the least of us, by the richest amongst us, 95 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 2: who have taken great license with the people's government. It's 96 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 2: time to remind the powerful politicians that in fact, we 97 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 2: are a government of the people, by the people, for 98 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 2: the people, and that requires the people having a vote. 99 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 2: And that is what the mag extremists are trying to 100 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 2: take away. 101 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: But war. 102 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: We must never think about this as war, or allow 103 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 2: Donald Trump to pull us into thinking about our filled 104 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: citizens as our enemies, because then we will have lost 105 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: our country and we must not allow that to have. Instead, 106 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 2: let's keep our focus on the corruption and on the outrage, 107 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 2: and be precise and say to the American people with 108 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: candor and truth that in these hours we must use 109 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: all of the power that is lawfully available to us 110 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: to defend freedom, to defend liberty, we must meet these 111 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 2: maximum positions with maximum strength, and then we will defend 112 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 2: straight power and its accumult relations in the wrong hands 113 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 2: in this country. In the next presidential election, we will 114 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: restrain executive power. 115 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,239 Speaker 1: We will restrain the powers. 116 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 2: Of CEOs, of the big corporations, of the big banks, 117 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 2: of the big tech companies, of the big agg companies, 118 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 2: of the big surveillance companies, of the big defense contractors. 119 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 2: It will be time to rebalance the scales and to 120 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 2: set things right, with the American Constitution at the center, 121 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 2: as it should be in perpetuity of all things. 122 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: This is the challenge ahead. 123 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 2: There should not be loose talk of war or any 124 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 2: other such things. Instead precise explanation about why it is 125 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: necessary to do unprecedented things to fight back against unprecedented 126 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 2: aggressions by people who swore an oath that they have desecrated. 127 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,599 Speaker 2: They they have violated as they have turned against their country, 128 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: turned against its people for their own selfish enrichment, for 129 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 2: their own selfish power and gains. And what it has 130 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 2: created is something monstrous. Look at these people. Ted Cruz, 131 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:26,319 Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth, Carolyn Levitt, Donald Trump Junior, jd Vance, Pam Bondie, 132 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 2: Christy Nome, Corey Lewandowski. These people are but a handful 133 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 2: in the multitudes of us, and they are the worst 134 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 2: of the worst of us. And it is time that 135 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 2: we become much less tolerant of their arrogance, their officiousness, 136 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 2: their misconduct, and their aggression against us, the people of 137 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 2: the United States. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 138 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 2: This is the warning. I invite you to join this 139 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 2: commune unity, where I promise to be honest, blunt and 140 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 2: direct about what is happening in this country. America is 141 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 2: in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack. 142 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: Thank you.