Speaker 1: It's less than one week to go to the historic
Speaker 1: conveniing of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and it
Speaker 1: is eighty three days until somewhere out there in the
Speaker 1: vast expanse that is the United States, the last American
Speaker 1: will cast their vote in a fair and legitimate election
Speaker 1: for president of the United States. And if Donald Trump
Speaker 1: loses that election, he's made clear, insurrection is on the
Speaker 1: holiday season event calendar. This is the warning. The polling
Speaker 1: meetings at the Trump campaign must look like the early
Speaker 1: days of Chernobyl. For Gorbitraw, it's meltdown city. Every day
Speaker 1: the numbers are worse. Kamala Harris's lead is growing. States
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was stretching into his column and probably
Speaker 1: are gone, and swing states that he was leading he's
Speaker 1: now losing. It's all flipping away, and he is in
Speaker 1: aged about it. He's looking for a reboot. So who
Speaker 1: else do you turn to? That's right, Elon Musk, I
Speaker 1: guess the best way to summarize what happened last night
Speaker 1: are the pleadings of fellow billionaire Bill Ackman. Elon, we
Speaker 1: can't get on. We can't get on. Donald Trump said
Speaker 1: crazy things this week, things like to crowds and Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's rallies aren't real. They're AI generated. The conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: are a bit much ten years in. What we're seeing
Speaker 1: is somebody melting down because their toy is being taken away.
Speaker 1: And that toy is our lives America power. He's not
Speaker 1: going to get it back, and he knows it. He
Speaker 1: sniffs it out of the air, he feels it, he
Speaker 1: knows the energy is gone. Look at him, he's pale.
Speaker 1: And this man wants to be commander in chief of
Speaker 1: the nuclear Arsenal again. No, they are a serious events
Speaker 1: transpiring in the world. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin did
Speaker 1: something that is rarely done. He announced the presence of
Speaker 1: a ballistic missile submarine in the presence of the Middle East.
Speaker 1: It's an announcement, it's a warning to the Iranians. They're
Speaker 1: preparing an attack. It's said to be massive. Will it.
Speaker 1: Events can still determine the outcome of the presidential race.
Speaker 1: Home Depot has ominous news about the economy. Consumer spending
Speaker 1: on home improvements is slowing. There will be bumpy days ahead.
Speaker 1: Tim Walls is being smeared by Donald Trump and by
Speaker 1: the right wing media, and sadly by dishonorable former colleagues,
Speaker 1: despicably including a former battalion commander of the unit, disparaging
Speaker 1: the twenty four year service of the command sergeant major
Speaker 1: of the battalion who retired with the rank of master
Speaker 1: sergeant but served honorably as the lieutenant colonel knows. But
Speaker 1: this is politics, cruel business, despicable business. But somehow Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is one of those people that's touched, touched enough
Speaker 1: to bring back some joy, some grace. Look at the smile.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's noticed it. He said she's beautiful. Compared her
Speaker 1: to Milania. Well, one thing's for sure, Milania hates him,
Speaker 1: even if Kamala Harris doesn't. He just wants to retire
Speaker 1: him forever from public life. The fact of the matter
Speaker 1: is is that soon Donald Trump will be regaling patio guests,
Speaker 1: captives club members, however you wish to think about it
Speaker 1: at Mari A Lago for declining membership prices every year
Speaker 1: for the rest of his natural life, which no doubt
Speaker 1: will last to one hundred and fifteen. Those people will
Speaker 1: get to hear how the election was stolen, how he's
Speaker 1: a victim. All the grievances, all the millions of them,
Speaker 1: but all the rest of us won't. We'll be spared
Speaker 1: from it because the country's moving on from ten years
Speaker 1: of this insanity, ten years of debacle, ten years of
Speaker 1: Trump the dominant cultural figure, because of the broken media,
Speaker 1: because of the greed of the media corporations, because of cynicism,
Speaker 1: because of the lust for power. Something better is on
Speaker 1: the way, and it's coming soon. Nine days until Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris gets ready to speak, it's going to be great.
Speaker 1: This is a moment of generational change. This is a
Speaker 1: moment of renewal, and this is a moment that will
Speaker 1: demonstrate the resilience of democracy. How quickly things can go
Speaker 1: from darkness to light, how quickly from despair to hope.
Speaker 1: These are historic days, on precedented days. Politically, all of
Speaker 1: the science point to a breaking system. And the system
Speaker 1: has lifted somebody up. Who has offered a restaur it
Speaker 1: of and that's Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Oakland, California,
Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States, on the edge of
Speaker 1: becoming the Democratic nominee at a consequential hour when freedom
Speaker 1: is on the ballot, freedom to choose to live, your
Speaker 1: life to pursue happiness. That is what MAGA seeks to
Speaker 1: take away with a dogma of control that holds you
Speaker 1: are a cog in the machinery of the state. You
Speaker 1: serve the leader and his cause. No thanks, This is America.
Speaker 1: If you want to bandite your ear and venerate Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: build a big shrine in your backyard, knock yourself out.
Speaker 1: But the majority of US I suspect, will not stand
Speaker 1: for your imposing the imposition of Trump on the country
Speaker 1: by a minority that is angry that the majority of
Speaker 1: US don't want it. We don't want it. We don't
Speaker 1: want to be told what to do from cradle to
Speaker 1: grave by religious suctures and political fraudsters. We don't want
Speaker 1: to be bossed around. We don't want to be intimidated
Speaker 1: it threatens. We don't want a president who promises revenge
Speaker 1: and retribution. We want normalcy. We want decency, We want respect,
Speaker 1: good judgment, kindness. The country will want Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: I'm standing on the shores of a beautiful spot, Lake Huron,
Speaker 1: Mackina Island in Michigan. This is a place is frozen
Speaker 1: in time. There are no motorized vehicles here. It has
Speaker 1: always been that way from eighteen ninety six. Yet the
Speaker 1: signs of American progress are all around us. Americans walk
Speaker 1: down the streets eating ice cream cones, not at war
Speaker 1: with one another, Blacks and whites, women wearing hit jobs,
Speaker 1: men wearing yamicas. This is the real America, not a
Speaker 1: country at war with itself, not a collection of the
Speaker 1: lowest common denominator thugs who got elected to in office
Speaker 1: in Washington, in DC. We are not three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million Marjorie Taylor Greens. But in a nation at
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty million people, you're going to get
Speaker 1: some of those. We should understand, though, that those people
Speaker 1: aren't us, and don't embody the great virtues that build
Speaker 1: the country to make it possible to dream of the
Speaker 1: day when we will truly live in a just society.
Speaker 1: And that's what politics is about. That's what these conventions
Speaker 1: are about. These are historic affairs and gatherings. History will
Speaker 1: be made this week on the way to the election
Speaker 1: of the first woman president of the United States, President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, forty seventh President of the United States, who
Speaker 1: will take the oath of office at noon on January twentieth,
Speaker 1: while Donald Trump, Crize and mar Lago and that will
Speaker 1: be a good day. This is the warning. Eighty three
Speaker 1: days do something. Get involved. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is
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