Speaker 1: It is the twenty fourth of October. Twelve days remain.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. Already seventeen million Americans have voted
Speaker 1: on election Day. Somewhere out there, the last American will
Speaker 1: cast the last vote of the election, and when they do,
Speaker 1: the total number will exceed one hundred and sixty million
Speaker 1: votes cast for President of the United States. In the
Speaker 1: late nineteen sixties, on the edge of an era of
Speaker 1: turmoil and turbulence, the banned Buffalo Springfield saying there's something
Speaker 1: happening here and what it is ain't exactly clear. And
Speaker 1: she did not evade it, She did not dodge it.
Speaker 1: She called Donald Trump out for what he is, what
Speaker 1: he has become, what his MAGA movement is, and what
Speaker 1: his Maga movement has become.
Speaker 2: You've quoted General Millie calling Donald Trump a fascist, You
Speaker 2: yourself have not used that word to describe him.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is a fascist?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: I do, Yes, I do, And I also believe that
Speaker 4: the people who know him best on this subject should
Speaker 4: be trusted. Again, look at their careers. These are not
Speaker 4: people with the exception I think of only Mike Pence.
Speaker 4: These were not politicians. These are career people who have
Speaker 4: served in the highest roles in national security, who have
Speaker 4: served as generals in our military, who are highly respected.
Speaker 4: Talking about the person who would be commander in chief.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a fascist. What is fascism? How does
Speaker 1: it differ from democracy? Well, at its core, these are
Speaker 1: oppositional political philosophies. Democracies aren't perfect, but they have a
Speaker 1: perfect understanding about the dignity of the human being, which
Speaker 1: they place at the center of system. Democracies are the
Speaker 1: only form of government that has ever been that place
Speaker 1: the individual human being above the power of the state.
Speaker 1: Fascism has the absolute opposite viewpoint. What they believe in
Speaker 1: is a natural social hierarchy, like the animal kingdom. Some
Speaker 1: animals are predators, some are prey, some are weak, and
Speaker 1: some are strong. In this world, the strong dominate the
Speaker 1: weak because it's the natural order of things, and the
Speaker 1: individual is a cop in the machinery of the state.
Speaker 1: The collective and the service of it is the definition
Speaker 1: of freedom. In this warped and perverse model, nationalism the
Speaker 1: virulent idea that militarism, that force, that strength, that violence
Speaker 1: are the key to the found of a state and
Speaker 1: a coherent society. All of this is madness, but it's
Speaker 1: very real. It's identifiable, it's tangible, and it's not new,
Speaker 1: though it seemed extinct for a long, long while, because
Speaker 1: this philosophy has killed more people than any other political
Speaker 1: philosophy except for communism, which is its close competitor. More
Speaker 1: than a hundred million people died because of fascism by
Speaker 1: the midpoint of the twentieth century. What is maga? What
Speaker 1: is trump Ism? It's this, We just have to cross
Speaker 1: out the dates. It is the same proposition. Listen to
Speaker 1: what Trump is saying.
Speaker 5: We had to go back to seventeen ninety eight, that's
Speaker 5: when we had laws that were effective seventeen ninety eight.
Speaker 5: We had to go back to And if.
Speaker 3: They come back into our country, it's an automatic ten
Speaker 3: years in jail with no possibility or parole, automatic if
Speaker 3: they come back into our house. And I'm here by
Speaker 3: calling for the death penalty for any migrant that kills
Speaker 3: an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.
Speaker 1: Listen to what his pop propagandists are saying.
Speaker 2: If they go out of their way to crush families,
Speaker 2: to make it impossible for your kids to buy a
Speaker 2: house in getting involved in the sex lives of your children,
Speaker 2: which they are. If they do all of that, they
Speaker 2: need to lose. And at the end of all of it,
Speaker 2: when they tell you they've won noe, you can look
Speaker 2: them straight in the face and say, I'm sorry. Dad's
Speaker 2: home and he's Can you hear the darkness the threats?
Speaker 1: Look at this crowd of young people. They are cheering
Speaker 1: for madness. They're cheering for a lie, for the proposition
Speaker 1: that if you turn over liberty, and you turn over
Speaker 1: freedom to strength and force, that all of your problems
Speaker 1: can be swept away under the wise hand of the
Speaker 1: strong leader, who is wise and never wrong. What you're
Speaker 1: seeing is a cult of personality. All cults of personality
Speaker 1: cheer madness, cheer incoherence because they're not cheering what the
Speaker 1: leader says. They're cheering the leader no matter what he says.
Speaker 1: It's a most dangerous moment we've arrived at in the
Speaker 1: life of the United States. We are in the life
Speaker 1: of a nation. We are in the crowded hours. This
Speaker 1: is not a time of stillwater, but rather raging rapids.
Speaker 1: A great proposition is laid before us. A political party
Speaker 1: is asking to be invested with power that no American
Speaker 1: political party has ever asked for. Donald Trump has promised
Speaker 1: he will throw out the Constitution of the United States
Speaker 1: of America. Don't worry about how, don't believe that it's impossible.
Speaker 1: Focus on the intention he wants to and he will
Speaker 1: not have restraints in a second term. He's threatened violence, mayhem.
Speaker 1: He talks about our fellow Americans as our enemies. He's
Speaker 1: incited an insurrection against the peaceful transition of power. He
Speaker 1: doesn't believe in elections. He doesn't believe in free speech.
Speaker 1: He doesn't believe in the freedom of conscience. He doesn't
Speaker 1: believe that it's appropriate for the most powerful person in
Speaker 1: the country to be criticized by the lesser people. He
Speaker 1: believes in the power of putin, in the power of
Speaker 1: g He believes in systems where strength is manifested by
Speaker 1: the leader's will to make things happen through an order.
Speaker 1: He's a dictator. It's why he fetishizes them. There's never
Speaker 1: been anybody ever who has said more Unamerican things than
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and what he's saying at the close of
Speaker 1: an election is a radical departure from anything anyone has
Speaker 1: ever said at the close of an election. Here's what
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter was saying.
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Speaker 6: I need you need mine who together with let's ta God,
Speaker 6: you make it you once again.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's what Reagan was saying.
Speaker 7: At this very moment, some young American coming up along
Speaker 7: the Virginia or Maryland shores of the Potomac, you're seeing
Speaker 7: for the first time the lights glow in the great
Speaker 7: halls of our government and the monuments to the memory
Speaker 7: of our great men. Let us resolve tonight that young
Speaker 7: Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will
Speaker 7: always find there a city of hope in a country
Speaker 7: that is free. And let us resolve they will say
Speaker 7: of our day and of our generation, that we did
Speaker 7: keep faith with our God, that we did act worthy
Speaker 7: of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly
Speaker 7: that shining city on a heel.
Speaker 1: Here's what al Gore was saying.
Speaker 6: According to our constitution, there's one day that comes around
Speaker 6: every four years when you have the power, and the
Speaker 6: special interests tremble at the thought that you will penetrate
Speaker 6: the veil, lift the smoke screen. See clearly the interests
Speaker 6: of your loved ones and your families.
Speaker 3: That day is tomorrow.
Speaker 7: And need your vote and I need your support.
Speaker 1: There's what Clinton was saying.
Speaker 6: If you vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, there'll
Speaker 6: be a lot of nights We worked till ten o'clock
Speaker 6: looking into your problems, your promise, you're a future, You're America.
Speaker 4: Billy people up, not tearing them about.
Speaker 1: Here's what Trump is saying.
Speaker 5: They're taking over Times Square in New York, and they
Speaker 5: have weapons that our military doesn't even have. You say,
Speaker 5: where the hell are they getting the weapons? But we
Speaker 5: have guys that want to confront them, and they're going
Speaker 5: to be allowed to confront them, and we're going to
Speaker 5: get them the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: The American people are strong and defiant, and this is
Speaker 1: a moment to appreciate that Donald Trump and his movement
Speaker 1: of extremists are trying to take something from all of
Speaker 1: us that doesn't belong to them. It's not theirs to
Speaker 1: take because what they're trying to steal is God given.
Speaker 1: It's our rights as Americans. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
Speaker 1: freedom of these things are not for sale. These things
Speaker 1: are not Donald Trump's to take. Ortigrant they were purchased
Speaker 1: a long, long time ago with the blood of patriots,
Speaker 1: the blood of our ancestors. And what they gave us
Speaker 1: is our trust to hold, to preserve, and to strengthen
Speaker 1: for our children. And so now we stand, in these
Speaker 1: crowded hours, twelve days out, a monumental question on the table.
Speaker 1: Who's hands do we place the baton that continues the
Speaker 1: story of America? That hands it to another leader that
Speaker 1: has the qualities perhaps of goodness and greatness that were
Speaker 1: once ascribed to Abraham Lincoln. There's no possibility that that
Speaker 1: person could be Donald Trump, the most vile man to
Speaker 1: ever reach for power in American history. Kamala Harris, the
Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States, is the person singularly
Speaker 1: who stands between you and a fascist as the chief
Speaker 1: executive of the American government, commander in chief of the
Speaker 1: most powerful military in the world. The standard, the only one,
Speaker 1: the only one that matters is Kamala Harris is for
Speaker 1: your freedom and Donald Trump is for his power. This
Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning,
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