Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, August fifth. This is the warning.
Speaker 2: Let's talk honestly about what's happening in America. Conditions are deteriorating.
Speaker 2: The assault on the republic, on democracy, on freedom, liberty,
Speaker 2: however you wish to think about, is worsening. One of
Speaker 2: the grave offenses of this era is the arrogance of
Speaker 2: the political elite, who have decreed that it is their
Speaker 2: right to take away your right to pick, to choose,
Speaker 2: to elect who leads you.
Speaker 1: What they seek is a world.
Speaker 2: Where the professional politician, using very intricate software, picks their voters.
Speaker 2: And so this is why congressional districts look like this
Speaker 2: and this and this modern art design, where block by block,
Speaker 2: a Republican house is carved in a Democratic household carved out,
Speaker 2: or vice versa to give one side the advantage over
Speaker 2: the other. And what it has produced is a Congress
Speaker 2: where over ninety percent of all the members know that
Speaker 2: once they're in there, it is impossible for them to
Speaker 2: lose an election, except perhaps maybe in a primary, for
Speaker 2: not being pure enough in holding the line and being
Speaker 2: extreme enough to the satisfaction of their faction. Because there
Speaker 2: is no moderate middle whatsoever. It has literally figuratively, like
Speaker 2: with a laser, been carved out of existence, like minded
Speaker 2: hive communities online reinforce hive communities that have come to
Speaker 2: exist in real life, and congressional districts carved between the
Speaker 2: two that exist in this space where the hive mind floods.
Speaker 2: They're fellow travelers with information curated so that no offense
Speaker 2: is ever given, that celebrates their leader as pure and
Speaker 2: true and making America great again. So we have witnessed
Speaker 2: over the last six months the effects of all of this.
Speaker 2: We've seen the consequence the massed agents, a secret police
Speaker 2: force now funded to the size of the fifteenth largest
Speaker 2: military in the world, concentration camps, migrants sleeping on concrete,
Speaker 2: the evisceration of America's scientific industrial complex, the evisceration of
Speaker 2: the concept of facts.
Speaker 1: And data from the government.
Speaker 2: The reduction of the word of the United States around
Speaker 2: the world to that of a Banana Republic dictator from
Speaker 2: a Hollywood cartoon. Mostly, it has happened on the watch
Speaker 2: of the schumercrats in Washington, d c. It is there
Speaker 2: that Trump has steamrolled his opposition and has eviscerated the
Speaker 2: checks and balances. It is there against Chuck Schumer, a
Speaker 2: man who is not competent to the task, not competent
Speaker 2: to the moment, A feckless man, a man who is appeased.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, a deluded man, a man who, when there
Speaker 2: was an opportunity to arrest this, to stop it, to
Speaker 2: slow it, instead went out and delivered this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand with you in this fight, and we
Speaker 1: will win.
Speaker 3: We will win.
Speaker 1: We will win, we will win.
Speaker 2: He was not winning, and America still is not winning.
Speaker 2: But the battleground is moving. Politics is zero sum, and
Speaker 2: what we have seen from the Maga imperialists, from the
Speaker 2: Maga fanatics, is a desire not to perfect the union,
Speaker 2: but to eradicate dissent and opposition, to securitize their power
Speaker 2: forever more. And so Greg Abbot, the malicious governor, extremist governor,
Speaker 2: corrupt governor of Texas, is.
Speaker 1: Going for it.
Speaker 2: In the middle of a decade, seven years off from
Speaker 2: the redistricting, Greg Abbot looks around and he says, Wow,
Speaker 2: Trump is unpopular. So what do we do?
Speaker 1: Well? We better take.
Speaker 2: Votes away from unhappy people and distribute them through modern
Speaker 2: science and technology on a map that creates five new
Speaker 2: Republican districts for the purposes of maintaining Trump's unchecked ambitions
Speaker 2: and unchecked power pristine. In the end, this aggression, of course,
Speaker 2: is answered by let's see the governor of New York.
Speaker 3: But here in New York, we will not stand on
Speaker 3: the sidelines with the timid souls on the sidelines who
Speaker 3: don't care, will not investor their heart and soul into
Speaker 3: this battle. This is a war.
Speaker 1: We are at war, and that's why the gloves are off,
Speaker 1: and I say bring it on war.
Speaker 2: I as an American, do not want war, and I
Speaker 2: don't like the Governor of New York talking about war.
Speaker 2: But what Democrats must realize is that Donald Trump's aggressions
Speaker 2: must be answered and that power must be used to
Speaker 2: stop the abuse of power. Here's California Governor Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 2: who's much closer to the line of where the party
Speaker 2: must be active.
Speaker 3: We're going to play fair in the world that is
Speaker 3: wholly unfair. We may have the higher moral ground, but
Speaker 3: the ground is shifting from underneath us, and I think
Speaker 3: we have to wake up to that reality. And I'm
Speaker 3: talking to members of my legislature. Whatever our alternatives, we
Speaker 3: could do a special session. I can call from one today.
Speaker 3: If I would chose to, we can then put something
Speaker 3: on the ballot and I could call special election. We
Speaker 3: could change the Constitution with the consent of the voters,
Speaker 3: and I think we will win.
Speaker 2: That Republicans cannot be allowed to redraw congressional maps and
Speaker 2: pick up ten, fifteen, twenty seats to insulate themselves from
Speaker 2: voter outrage about their aggressions against the Constitution, against civil liberties,
Speaker 2: against the least of us, by the richest amongst us,
Speaker 2: who have taken great license with the people's government. It's
Speaker 2: time to remind the powerful politicians that in fact, we
Speaker 2: are a government of the people, by the people, for
Speaker 2: the people, and that requires the people having a vote.
Speaker 2: And that is what the mag extremists are trying to
Speaker 2: take away.
Speaker 1: But war.
Speaker 2: We must never think about this as war, or allow
Speaker 2: Donald Trump to pull us into thinking about our filled
Speaker 2: citizens as our enemies, because then we will have lost
Speaker 2: our country and we must not allow that to have. Instead,
Speaker 2: let's keep our focus on the corruption and on the outrage,
Speaker 2: and be precise and say to the American people with
Speaker 2: candor and truth that in these hours we must use
Speaker 2: all of the power that is lawfully available to us
Speaker 2: to defend freedom, to defend liberty, we must meet these
Speaker 2: maximum positions with maximum strength, and then we will defend
Speaker 2: straight power and its accumult relations in the wrong hands
Speaker 2: in this country. In the next presidential election, we will
Speaker 2: restrain executive power.
Speaker 1: We will restrain the powers.
Speaker 2: Of CEOs, of the big corporations, of the big banks,
Speaker 2: of the big tech companies, of the big agg companies,
Speaker 2: of the big surveillance companies, of the big defense contractors.
Speaker 2: It will be time to rebalance the scales and to
Speaker 2: set things right, with the American Constitution at the center,
Speaker 2: as it should be in perpetuity of all things.
Speaker 1: This is the challenge ahead.
Speaker 2: There should not be loose talk of war or any
Speaker 2: other such things. Instead precise explanation about why it is
Speaker 2: necessary to do unprecedented things to fight back against unprecedented
Speaker 2: aggressions by people who swore an oath that they have desecrated.
Speaker 2: They they have violated as they have turned against their country,
Speaker 2: turned against its people for their own selfish enrichment, for
Speaker 2: their own selfish power and gains. And what it has
Speaker 2: created is something monstrous. Look at these people. Ted Cruz,
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth, Carolyn Levitt, Donald Trump Junior, jd Vance, Pam Bondie,
Speaker 2: Christy Nome, Corey Lewandowski. These people are but a handful
Speaker 2: in the multitudes of us, and they are the worst
Speaker 2: of the worst of us. And it is time that
Speaker 2: we become much less tolerant of their arrogance, their officiousness,
Speaker 2: their misconduct, and their aggression against us, the people of
Speaker 2: the United States. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt.
Speaker 2: This is the warning. I invite you to join this
Speaker 2: commune unity, where I promise to be honest, blunt and
Speaker 2: direct about what is happening in this country. America is
Speaker 2: in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack.
Speaker 1: Thank you.