1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,719 Speaker 1: It's less than one week to go to the historic 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: conveniing of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and it 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: is eighty three days until somewhere out there in the 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: vast expanse that is the United States, the last American 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: will cast their vote in a fair and legitimate election 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: for president of the United States. And if Donald Trump 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: loses that election, he's made clear, insurrection is on the 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: holiday season event calendar. This is the warning. The polling 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: meetings at the Trump campaign must look like the early 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: days of Chernobyl. For Gorbitraw, it's meltdown city. Every day 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: the numbers are worse. Kamala Harris's lead is growing. States 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was stretching into his column and probably 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: are gone, and swing states that he was leading he's 14 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: now losing. It's all flipping away, and he is in 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: aged about it. He's looking for a reboot. So who 16 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: else do you turn to? That's right, Elon Musk, I 17 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: guess the best way to summarize what happened last night 18 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: are the pleadings of fellow billionaire Bill Ackman. Elon, we 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: can't get on. We can't get on. Donald Trump said 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: crazy things this week, things like to crowds and Kamala 21 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: Harris's rallies aren't real. They're AI generated. The conspiracy theories 22 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: are a bit much ten years in. What we're seeing 23 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: is somebody melting down because their toy is being taken away. 24 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: And that toy is our lives America power. He's not 25 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: going to get it back, and he knows it. He 26 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: sniffs it out of the air, he feels it, he 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: knows the energy is gone. Look at him, he's pale. 28 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: And this man wants to be commander in chief of 29 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: the nuclear Arsenal again. No, they are a serious events 30 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: transpiring in the world. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin did 31 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: something that is rarely done. He announced the presence of 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: a ballistic missile submarine in the presence of the Middle East. 33 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: It's an announcement, it's a warning to the Iranians. They're 34 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: preparing an attack. It's said to be massive. Will it. 35 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: Events can still determine the outcome of the presidential race. 36 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,679 Speaker 1: Home Depot has ominous news about the economy. Consumer spending 37 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: on home improvements is slowing. There will be bumpy days ahead. 38 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: Tim Walls is being smeared by Donald Trump and by 39 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: the right wing media, and sadly by dishonorable former colleagues, 40 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: despicably including a former battalion commander of the unit, disparaging 41 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: the twenty four year service of the command sergeant major 42 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: of the battalion who retired with the rank of master 43 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: sergeant but served honorably as the lieutenant colonel knows. But 44 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: this is politics, cruel business, despicable business. But somehow Kamala 45 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: Harris is one of those people that's touched, touched enough 46 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: to bring back some joy, some grace. Look at the smile. 47 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's noticed it. He said she's beautiful. Compared her 48 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: to Milania. Well, one thing's for sure, Milania hates him, 49 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: even if Kamala Harris doesn't. He just wants to retire 50 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: him forever from public life. The fact of the matter 51 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: is is that soon Donald Trump will be regaling patio guests, 52 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: captives club members, however you wish to think about it 53 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,839 Speaker 1: at Mari A Lago for declining membership prices every year 54 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: for the rest of his natural life, which no doubt 55 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: will last to one hundred and fifteen. Those people will 56 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: get to hear how the election was stolen, how he's 57 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: a victim. All the grievances, all the millions of them, 58 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: but all the rest of us won't. We'll be spared 59 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: from it because the country's moving on from ten years 60 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: of this insanity, ten years of debacle, ten years of 61 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: Trump the dominant cultural figure, because of the broken media, 62 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: because of the greed of the media corporations, because of cynicism, 63 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: because of the lust for power. Something better is on 64 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: the way, and it's coming soon. Nine days until Kamala 65 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: Harris gets ready to speak, it's going to be great. 66 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: This is a moment of generational change. This is a 67 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: moment of renewal, and this is a moment that will 68 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: demonstrate the resilience of democracy. How quickly things can go 69 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: from darkness to light, how quickly from despair to hope. 70 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: These are historic days, on precedented days. Politically, all of 71 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: the science point to a breaking system. And the system 72 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: has lifted somebody up. Who has offered a restaur it 73 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: of and that's Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Oakland, California, 74 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States, on the edge of 75 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: becoming the Democratic nominee at a consequential hour when freedom 76 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: is on the ballot, freedom to choose to live, your 77 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: life to pursue happiness. That is what MAGA seeks to 78 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: take away with a dogma of control that holds you 79 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: are a cog in the machinery of the state. You 80 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: serve the leader and his cause. No thanks, This is America. 81 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: If you want to bandite your ear and venerate Donald Trump, 82 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: build a big shrine in your backyard, knock yourself out. 83 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: But the majority of US I suspect, will not stand 84 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,799 Speaker 1: for your imposing the imposition of Trump on the country 85 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: by a minority that is angry that the majority of 86 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: US don't want it. We don't want it. We don't 87 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,359 Speaker 1: want to be told what to do from cradle to 88 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: grave by religious suctures and political fraudsters. We don't want 89 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: to be bossed around. We don't want to be intimidated 90 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: it threatens. We don't want a president who promises revenge 91 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: and retribution. We want normalcy. We want decency, We want respect, 92 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: good judgment, kindness. The country will want Vice President Kamala Harris. 93 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,679 Speaker 1: I'm standing on the shores of a beautiful spot, Lake Huron, 94 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: Mackina Island in Michigan. This is a place is frozen 95 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: in time. There are no motorized vehicles here. It has 96 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: always been that way from eighteen ninety six. Yet the 97 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: signs of American progress are all around us. Americans walk 98 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,119 Speaker 1: down the streets eating ice cream cones, not at war 99 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: with one another, Blacks and whites, women wearing hit jobs, 100 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: men wearing yamicas. This is the real America, not a 101 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: country at war with itself, not a collection of the 102 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: lowest common denominator thugs who got elected to in office 103 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: in Washington, in DC. We are not three hundred and 104 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: fifty million Marjorie Taylor Greens. But in a nation at 105 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty million people, you're going to get 106 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: some of those. We should understand, though, that those people 107 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: aren't us, and don't embody the great virtues that build 108 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: the country to make it possible to dream of the 109 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: day when we will truly live in a just society. 110 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: And that's what politics is about. That's what these conventions 111 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: are about. These are historic affairs and gatherings. History will 112 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: be made this week on the way to the election 113 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: of the first woman president of the United States, President 114 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, forty seventh President of the United States, who 115 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: will take the oath of office at noon on January twentieth, 116 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: while Donald Trump, Crize and mar Lago and that will 117 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: be a good day. This is the warning. Eighty three 118 00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: days do something. Get involved. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is 119 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: the warning and I invite you to join. Subscribe on 120 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to 121 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: the community.