1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Sixty nine days to go, and we are in the 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: dog days of some earth. The conventions are passed, Labor 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: Day is ahead. The debate will be upon us soon. 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Who knows if Donald Trump will show up. This is 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: the warning. More than two hundred and thirty Republican staffers 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: aids who worked for President Bush, Senator McCain, and Senator 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: Romney have endorsed the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris. Why would 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: so many Republicans do such a thing? And the answer 9 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: is two parts. The first is these people have all 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: worked in government, in the executive branch and around the 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: political campaigns that sought to elect the Republican candidate to 12 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: the presidency. They have some comprehension about what is entailed 13 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: in the job the duties. They are offended by Trump's obscenities. 14 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: They are deeply worried about the country's future. There has 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: never been hundreds of people from the opposing party who 16 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: worked in politics at the highest level of the campaigns 17 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: on behalf of their party who have crossed over end 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: mass to endorse the other party's nominee. Ever, except for 19 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: four years ago, Donald Trump is the most unfit man 20 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: to ever be president of the United States, and he 21 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: is the most unfit candidate in twenty twenty four. Now 22 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: that Robert Kennedy has dropped out and joined the cause. 23 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: What a strange and very bizarre man. And one of 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: the most overlooked stories about the entire Kennedy endorsement is 25 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: Kennedy's claim that Trump called him asking to form a 26 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: unity government unity with what what create cause? Does Robert 27 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: Kennedy suppose the represent What great banner is he carrying 28 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: and who exactly is following him? Nobody? It's all insanity, 29 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: But the pile on continues. What Trump is adding is 30 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: a circus of unfitness. He carries with him, this menagerie, 31 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: the Star Wars creature cantina of American weirdos and political figures, 32 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: right down to his pick Jay d Vance. He is 33 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: somebody who is genuinely worried about a conspiracy of childless 34 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: cat ladies. 35 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 2: We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via 36 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies 37 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: who are miserable at their own lives and the choices 38 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: that they've made. 39 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: He looks around the world. He doesn't see Vladimir Putin 40 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: as a threat. He doesn't necessarily see the Chinese as 41 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: a threat. It's childless cat ladies that are the great 42 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: threat to our civilization. You're calling it a sarcastic comment, sure, 43 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: and yet some women and you got the feedback in 44 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: real time, felt like it was a gut punch to 45 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: them personally. 46 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 3: Do you regret making that comment? 47 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 2: Look, I regret certainly that a lot of people took 48 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 2: it the wrong way, and I certainly regret that the 49 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 2: DNC and Kamala Harris lied about it. 50 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 3: Do you regret what you said, Senator Christen. 51 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: I'm going to say things from time to time that 52 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 2: people disagree with. 53 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: I'm a real person. 54 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: I'm going to make jokes, I'm going to say things sarcastically, 55 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: and I think that what's important is that we focus 56 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: on the policy. 57 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 3: There are certainly going to be things that I say. 58 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: If I'm elected vice president, people are going to say, well, 59 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: I wish you had said that differently. I think it's 60 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: most important to actually be the person I actually am, 61 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: and to say those sarcastic comments. 62 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 3: Were made in the service of a real substantive point. 63 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: This country has become too anti family, it's too expensive 64 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 2: to afford a house. 65 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 3: It's too expensive to afford groceries. 66 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: Donald Trump and I want to change that, and unless 67 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 2: we get better readership, we're not gonna But again. 68 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 4: Just very quickly, given that people have told you directly, 69 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 4: have spoken out, have said that they were offended, they 70 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 4: were hurt by those comments. 71 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: Do you wish you never made those childless cat lady comments. 72 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: I think that it's much more important for me to 73 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 2: just be a normal human being who sometimes says things. 74 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 3: I disagree with. 75 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 2: I have a lot of regrets, Kristen, but making a 76 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 2: joke three years ago is not on the top ten 77 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: a list. 78 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: It's not sarcastic. It's revelatory. And so is this quote 79 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: by JD Fans. 80 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: He calls me weird, but then he lies about who 81 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 2: is how his kids were conceived? 82 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 3: Who does that? 83 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 2: That's just the weirdest thing I've ever seen. And this 84 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: one she is, I will say, the best grandmother that 85 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: my kids could ask for. They are seven, four and two. 86 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 2: Spoils them a little bit too much, Mom, No more 87 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 2: Pokemon cards in front of a thousand people. No more 88 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 2: Pokemon cards. 89 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 3: The kids have got enough. 90 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: By the way, what is it that Donald Trump was 91 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: trying to say, as he garbled his words at his 92 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: rally the other day. 93 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 4: We had so many missiles. We didn't we could fire 94 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 4: him all. We had to hire teams of people. Even 95 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 4: the concept these people are just so destructive. So you know, 96 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 4: I always look for good words, highly sophisticated, I'm highly educated. 97 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: The national media is failing to report on the incoherence 98 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: that we're seeing on a daily basis from a man 99 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: who is obese, orange, and turning eighty years old soon. 100 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: His mental fitness seems to be spiraling like his poll numbers. 101 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: His cognition seems to be damaged. His illiteracy is something 102 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: we've all watched for many, many years. His pension for 103 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 1: making up words isn't new, but he's spouting nonsense. It's 104 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: time to end the Trump Show. Time to turn the page. Now, 105 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: there's other interesting news out there. Our Trump's rallies backfiring 106 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: on him is the spectacle of insanity, turning off even 107 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: some of his own supporters. The show is stale. It's 108 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: not funny anymore, if it ever was. Trump rarely can 109 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: make anybody left. He used to be able to crack 110 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: people up. Donald Trump is a decomposing in spiraling presidential 111 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: candidate seeking to get the keys to the nuclear weapons codes. 112 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like a very good idea, does it. 113 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: There is something important that should be said regarding his 114 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: use of Arlington National Cemetery as a political prop Today, 115 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: he vulgarized wreathlaying at the tombs of our soldiers who 116 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: gave the last full measure of devotion to score cheap 117 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: shots at President Biden and the Vice President over the 118 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: disastrous and bungolds afghan withdrawal. But it's a good thing 119 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: that Hr McMaster, retired Army Lieutenant general and Trump National 120 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: Security is around to set the record straight. Do you 121 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: know who he blames for the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal? The 122 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: man who unilaterally surrendered to the Taliban? That would be Trump. 123 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 3: That's right. 124 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: One of the most highly decorated general officers of the 125 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: last twenty years said about Trump's decision making. 126 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 3: Does Trump bear part of the responsibility for what happened? 127 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, I mean so the whole premise of talking 128 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 4: to the Taliban before you leave Afghanistan? 129 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 3: Why the heck were we even doing that? 130 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: Summer is drifting to a close fall will start blow 131 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: and pick up speed. Very very fast. This is going 132 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: to be a slug fast, and it's going to be close. 133 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's numbers now will start to come down a 134 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: bit as her post convention bounce settles out. What will 135 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: happen is that bounce will be cut by half over 136 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: the next fifteen days, and structurally we'll be looking at 137 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: a three point where consequences for the American people, for 138 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: our children, the whole world are immense in this election. Vote, 139 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: get involved, contribute to the campaigns, do something. Every vote 140 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: counts in these vital hours for our country's future. This 141 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 142 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 143 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.