1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: It is the twenty fourth of October. Twelve days remain. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: This is the warning. Already seventeen million Americans have voted 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: on election Day. Somewhere out there, the last American will 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: cast the last vote of the election, and when they do, 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: the total number will exceed one hundred and sixty million 6 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: votes cast for President of the United States. In the 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: late nineteen sixties, on the edge of an era of 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: turmoil and turbulence, the banned Buffalo Springfield saying there's something 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: happening here and what it is ain't exactly clear. And 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: she did not evade it, She did not dodge it. 11 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: She called Donald Trump out for what he is, what 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: he has become, what his MAGA movement is, and what 13 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: his Maga movement has become. 14 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: You've quoted General Millie calling Donald Trump a fascist, You 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: yourself have not used that word to describe him. 16 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump 17 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: is a fascist? 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 3: Yes? 19 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 4: I do, Yes, I do, And I also believe that 20 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 4: the people who know him best on this subject should 21 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 4: be trusted. Again, look at their careers. These are not 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 4: people with the exception I think of only Mike Pence. 23 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 4: These were not politicians. These are career people who have 24 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 4: served in the highest roles in national security, who have 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 4: served as generals in our military, who are highly respected. 26 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 4: Talking about the person who would be commander in chief. 27 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a fascist. What is fascism? How does 28 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: it differ from democracy? Well, at its core, these are 29 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: oppositional political philosophies. Democracies aren't perfect, but they have a 30 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: perfect understanding about the dignity of the human being, which 31 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: they place at the center of system. Democracies are the 32 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: only form of government that has ever been that place 33 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: the individual human being above the power of the state. 34 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: Fascism has the absolute opposite viewpoint. What they believe in 35 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: is a natural social hierarchy, like the animal kingdom. Some 36 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: animals are predators, some are prey, some are weak, and 37 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: some are strong. In this world, the strong dominate the 38 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: weak because it's the natural order of things, and the 39 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: individual is a cop in the machinery of the state. 40 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,519 Speaker 1: The collective and the service of it is the definition 41 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: of freedom. In this warped and perverse model, nationalism the 42 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: virulent idea that militarism, that force, that strength, that violence 43 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: are the key to the found of a state and 44 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: a coherent society. All of this is madness, but it's 45 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: very real. It's identifiable, it's tangible, and it's not new, 46 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: though it seemed extinct for a long, long while, because 47 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: this philosophy has killed more people than any other political 48 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: philosophy except for communism, which is its close competitor. More 49 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:33,399 Speaker 1: than a hundred million people died because of fascism by 50 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: the midpoint of the twentieth century. What is maga? What 51 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: is trump Ism? It's this, We just have to cross 52 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: out the dates. It is the same proposition. Listen to 53 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: what Trump is saying. 54 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 5: We had to go back to seventeen ninety eight, that's 55 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 5: when we had laws that were effective seventeen ninety eight. 56 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 5: We had to go back to And if. 57 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 3: They come back into our country, it's an automatic ten 58 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 3: years in jail with no possibility or parole, automatic if 59 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 3: they come back into our house. And I'm here by 60 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 3: calling for the death penalty for any migrant that kills 61 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 3: an American citizen or a law enforcement officer. 62 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: Listen to what his pop propagandists are saying. 63 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 2: If they go out of their way to crush families, 64 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: to make it impossible for your kids to buy a 65 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 2: house in getting involved in the sex lives of your children, 66 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 2: which they are. If they do all of that, they 67 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 2: need to lose. And at the end of all of it, 68 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: when they tell you they've won noe, you can look 69 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 2: them straight in the face and say, I'm sorry. Dad's 70 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: home and he's Can you hear the darkness the threats? 71 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: Look at this crowd of young people. They are cheering 72 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: for madness. They're cheering for a lie, for the proposition 73 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: that if you turn over liberty, and you turn over 74 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: freedom to strength and force, that all of your problems 75 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: can be swept away under the wise hand of the 76 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: strong leader, who is wise and never wrong. What you're 77 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: seeing is a cult of personality. All cults of personality 78 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: cheer madness, cheer incoherence because they're not cheering what the 79 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: leader says. They're cheering the leader no matter what he says. 80 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: It's a most dangerous moment we've arrived at in the 81 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: life of the United States. We are in the life 82 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: of a nation. We are in the crowded hours. This 83 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: is not a time of stillwater, but rather raging rapids. 84 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: A great proposition is laid before us. A political party 85 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 1: is asking to be invested with power that no American 86 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: political party has ever asked for. Donald Trump has promised 87 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: he will throw out the Constitution of the United States 88 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: of America. Don't worry about how, don't believe that it's impossible. 89 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: Focus on the intention he wants to and he will 90 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: not have restraints in a second term. He's threatened violence, mayhem. 91 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: He talks about our fellow Americans as our enemies. He's 92 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: incited an insurrection against the peaceful transition of power. He 93 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,239 Speaker 1: doesn't believe in elections. He doesn't believe in free speech. 94 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: He doesn't believe in the freedom of conscience. He doesn't 95 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: believe that it's appropriate for the most powerful person in 96 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: the country to be criticized by the lesser people. He 97 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: believes in the power of putin, in the power of 98 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: g He believes in systems where strength is manifested by 99 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: the leader's will to make things happen through an order. 100 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: He's a dictator. It's why he fetishizes them. There's never 101 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: been anybody ever who has said more Unamerican things than 102 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and what he's saying at the close of 103 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: an election is a radical departure from anything anyone has 104 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: ever said at the close of an election. Here's what 105 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter was saying. 106 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 6: I hope you don't mind about don't make a lungs Paige, 107 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 6: I need you need mine who together with let's ta God, 108 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 6: you make it you once again. 109 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: Okay, here's what Reagan was saying. 110 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 7: At this very moment, some young American coming up along 111 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 7: the Virginia or Maryland shores of the Potomac, you're seeing 112 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 7: for the first time the lights glow in the great 113 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 7: halls of our government and the monuments to the memory 114 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 7: of our great men. Let us resolve tonight that young 115 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 7: Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will 116 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 7: always find there a city of hope in a country 117 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 7: that is free. And let us resolve they will say 118 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 7: of our day and of our generation, that we did 119 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 7: keep faith with our God, that we did act worthy 120 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 7: of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly 121 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 7: that shining city on a heel. 122 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: Here's what al Gore was saying. 123 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 6: According to our constitution, there's one day that comes around 124 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 6: every four years when you have the power, and the 125 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,359 Speaker 6: special interests tremble at the thought that you will penetrate 126 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 6: the veil, lift the smoke screen. See clearly the interests 127 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 6: of your loved ones and your families. 128 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 3: That day is tomorrow. 129 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 7: And need your vote and I need your support. 130 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: There's what Clinton was saying. 131 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 6: If you vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, there'll 132 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 6: be a lot of nights We worked till ten o'clock 133 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 6: looking into your problems, your promise, you're a future, You're America. 134 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 4: Billy people up, not tearing them about. 135 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: Here's what Trump is saying. 136 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 5: They're taking over Times Square in New York, and they 137 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 5: have weapons that our military doesn't even have. You say, 138 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 5: where the hell are they getting the weapons? But we 139 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 5: have guys that want to confront them, and they're going 140 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 5: to be allowed to confront them, and we're going to 141 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 5: get them the hell out of here. 142 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: The American people are strong and defiant, and this is 143 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: a moment to appreciate that Donald Trump and his movement 144 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: of extremists are trying to take something from all of 145 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: us that doesn't belong to them. It's not theirs to 146 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: take because what they're trying to steal is God given. 147 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: It's our rights as Americans. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, 148 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: freedom of these things are not for sale. These things 149 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: are not Donald Trump's to take. Ortigrant they were purchased 150 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 1: a long, long time ago with the blood of patriots, 151 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: the blood of our ancestors. And what they gave us 152 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 1: is our trust to hold, to preserve, and to strengthen 153 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: for our children. And so now we stand, in these 154 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: crowded hours, twelve days out, a monumental question on the table. 155 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: Who's hands do we place the baton that continues the 156 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: story of America? That hands it to another leader that 157 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: has the qualities perhaps of goodness and greatness that were 158 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: once ascribed to Abraham Lincoln. There's no possibility that that 159 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: person could be Donald Trump, the most vile man to 160 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: ever reach for power in American history. Kamala Harris, the 161 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States, is the person singularly 162 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: who stands between you and a fascist as the chief 163 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: executive of the American government, commander in chief of the 164 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: most powerful military in the world. The standard, the only one, 165 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: the only one that matters is Kamala Harris is for 166 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: your freedom and Donald Trump is for his power. This 167 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 168 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 169 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.