1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: To day. January sixth, twenty twenty four, marks the third 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: anniversary of the darkest day in American history since the 3 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: Civil War. America has had many tragic hours since eighteen 4 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: sixty five, but none are as terrible as what happened 5 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 1: on the January Day with thousands of Americans in the 6 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: second decade of the twenty first century, and cited by 7 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: a president of the United States who lost an election, 8 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: attacked government of the people, by the people, for the people. 9 00:00:52,600 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: They assaulted police officers, and they assaulted America. The insurrectionists 10 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: ransacked the floor of the House of Representatives and the 11 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: chambers of the United States Senate. They desecrated the United 12 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: States Capital, the citadel of democracy. They urinated on the floors, 13 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: and they shit on the floors. They killed, they mamed, 14 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: They broke faith with all of American history and the 15 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: sacrifice of a million dead patriots who gave what Lincoln 16 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: called the last full measure of devotion, so that we 17 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: may live in liberty, and that we may pass on 18 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: that liberty to our children. This is an appalling day, 19 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: and it is a fine day. This day marks a 20 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: dissent as well as an act. Because the extremist movement 21 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: that attacked America on January sixth of twenty twenty one 22 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: is better organized, better funded, and in a stronger political 23 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: position than it was on that day. For a few 24 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: days after the January sixth attack, the American people stood 25 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: uneasily united. What Trump did was clear through the smoke 26 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: of that event. The defenses all dropped, even the loathsome. 27 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy denounced Donald Trump. Liz Cheney looked up at 28 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: a television screen on that day and she said, we 29 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: know who did this, and we're going to hold him accountable. 30 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: America's largest corporation said they would cut off funding for 31 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: the Congressmen and the senators that joined Trump in assaulting democracy. 32 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: Their principles and commitment held out at most for two months, 33 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: the issue faded. It dropped. January sixth wasn't treated like 34 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: an imminent threat an ongoing emergency. It became the source 35 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: of political conspiracy theories, and today, incredibly, three years after 36 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: the horrific act, support for the insurrectionists in the country 37 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: is rising. The attack on America has become a partisan act. 38 00:03:54,040 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: It is celebrated by huge portions of the Republican Party. 39 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: Understand this democracy, liberty, What they are sustained by is 40 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: belief and faith, and collapse of that faith will lead 41 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: directly to collapse of government of the people by the 42 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: people were the people. What Donald Trump did on January 43 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: sixth was attacked the cornerstone of American civilization, the idea 44 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: that we are a free people, that we decide, we 45 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: decide who leads the nation. There was no fraud, there 46 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: was no election theft, all of it, every word of it, 47 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: is a monstrous lie, and that monstrous lie has spread. 48 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: The response by opponents and friends of democracy over these 49 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: last years has been tepid, ineffectual, and now we stand 50 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: three years after the fact, at a most dangerous hour. 51 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:24,359 Speaker 1: January sixth marks one of the most appalling days in 52 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: all of American history. What Donald Trump did was something 53 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: that no American president has ever done, or frankly thought 54 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: about doing. It stains him with a mark of ignominy 55 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: that will endure for all time. He is the president 56 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: the only one besides Jefferson Davis, who has ever attacked 57 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: the United States. The American people will have to decide, 58 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: do we want to live in a country that looks 59 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: more like Russia, that looks more like China? Where government 60 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: is big and powerful and can do whatever it wants 61 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: to whoever it wants, whenever it wants, because power makes right. 62 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: This is the antithesis of the American idea and ideal. 63 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: This is a day where if you pray, pray for 64 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: your country. This is a day where, if you are 65 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: a patriot, mourn for your country. But more importantly, prepare 66 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: to be defiant. Prepare to fight back. Prepare to defend 67 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: the inheritance, the inheritance given to us by our founding fathers, 68 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: redeemed for us through the blood sacrifice of the American 69 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: Civil War and through the Civil Rights movement. Fighting for 70 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: America is a noble thing. Government of the people, by 71 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth. 72 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: As Abraham Lincoln said, it will not be taken by 73 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: a queen's hustler named Donald Trump. But it will require 74 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: the American people to do something that they have not 75 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: yet mustered the strength to do, and that is this. 76 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: It is time for all of us Americans, Americans before 77 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: we are Democrats or Republicans or independents, or white or 78 00:07:55,240 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: black or whatever, but as Americans, to crush this terrible 79 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: fascist movement once and for all so this country can 80 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: move on and find its way back on the path 81 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: that leads us up to the mountaintop from where Martin 82 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: Luther King, through his prophetic vision at the hour of 83 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: his martyrdom, saw the valley of a just society. Ad 84 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: we can reach that place, but only a free people 85 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: can reach this place. And that's what January sixth was. 86 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, and attack on America, 87 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 1: and attack on your freedom, and attack on your liberty, 88 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:49,599 Speaker 1: and assault on the one million graves of American patriots 89 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: spread around the world who defended freedom at the highest 90 00:08:54,559 --> 00:09:00,079 Speaker 1: cost imaginable. This is a day we're good Americans and 91 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: look with the deepest contempt at any person who tried 92 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 1: to take what was given to us. Benjamin Franklin answered 93 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: the question of a woman outside Philadelphia's Independence Hall at 94 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 1: the end of the Constitutional Convention. He was asked, doctor Franklin, 95 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: what have you given us? And he looked and said, madam, 96 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: a republic. If you can keep it, we have kept 97 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: it for nearly two one hundred and fifty years. And 98 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: now this generation of Americans is called to defend it 99 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: against domestic terrorists, domestic enemies who seek to burn it. 100 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 1: Down so they can take what they want, like locusts 101 00:09:51,040 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: feeding rapaciously, caring nothing for the next moment, let alone, year, decade, 102 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: or century. Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, 103 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: is running a gallant campaign against Donald Trump in the 104 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: state of New Hampshire, and he is facing calls every day, 105 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: whether it's from Elisa Farah on the view Hugh Hewitt, 106 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: a Trump apologist of the highest order, to drop out 107 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: of the race. He should not, He must not, because 108 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: Chris Christie is the last man standing of the old 109 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: Republican Party, the Party of Eisenhower and the Party of Reagan, 110 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: the Party of Lincoln, the Republican Party that believes in liberty, 111 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: that believes in democracy, that believes in the sovereignty, the 112 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: dignity of human rights, and the ability of the American 113 00:10:53,880 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: people to choose their own leaders. The Republican Party, born 114 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty four, as an institution, has succumbed. It 115 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: has succumb to a demagogue, to a hustle, to a 116 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: lust for power. The corruption of the modern Conservative movement 117 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: beggars belief. There is Wayne Lapierre, the grifter, who has 118 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: bankrupted the National Rifle Association and spread mayhem and chaos 119 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: through its extremism around the country. All of the death 120 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: was in support of a giant financial grift. There is 121 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: Matt Schlapp, the accused sexual predator, who remains firmly ensconced 122 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: on top of the seething, malice fueled Seapack organization. There 123 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: is Nick Fuentis, the Nazi who dined with Donald Trump. 124 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: Everywhere you look, from Marjorie Taylor Green to Lauren Bobert, 125 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: there is the signs of decay, a ransidity of spirit, 126 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: an ominous warning. People who have been trusted with political 127 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: power in the United States have turned against the founding 128 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: fathers who redeemed America through the Civil Rights movement and 129 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:31,479 Speaker 1: finally gave this country the promise that it could meet 130 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: its high ideals and ideas laid down on paper that 131 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: declared we are all created equally. Nikki Haley, the former 132 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: governor of South Carolina, stands firmly on the MAGA side 133 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: of the line. Her political campaign is performative. She isn't 134 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: running for president, She's running for vice president. She's running 135 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: for secretary of State. She'll get back in line as 136 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: quickly as vvk Ramaswami will. All these people care about 137 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: is their self interest. They don't care about the country. 138 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: They care about Trump's pleasure, and that is what must 139 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: be stopped. Chris Christie is truly the man in the arena. 140 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: What he did in twenty sixteen was wrong, and he 141 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: has acknowledged it. Of the tens and thousands of officials 142 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party, elected officials and others, there have 143 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,839 Speaker 1: been very few who have said what Chris Christie said, 144 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: that he was wrong to support Donald Trump, he was 145 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: wrong to endorse Donald Trump, and that he will never 146 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: do it again. The Republican primary, like all of American politics, 147 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: is terribly covered by America's corrupted media. But the only 148 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: issue that has ever mattered in the Republican primary was 149 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: the issue that came from the question asked in the 150 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: first debate. It was this, which of you presidential candidates 151 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: will continue to support Donald Trump even if he is 152 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: convicted as a felon of violating the Nation's Espionage Act. 153 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: Chris Christie kept his hand down, Nikki Haley kept her 154 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: hand up. And that is the answer to the question 155 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: why Chris Christie cannot get out of the Republican race. 156 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: Not after New Hampshire, not after South Carolina. Not ever, 157 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: he has to go, like Bill Clinton once said, until 158 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: the last dog dies. So Chris Christie is doing is noble. 159 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: He is standing up and telling the truth. In America. 160 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: Too many times, members of the media draw a hypocritical 161 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: standard and the American people assigned an impossible one. They 162 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: demand their politicians be saints. People who apply for positions 163 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: of political leadership are not perfect. Many are flawed, like 164 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: all people, Chris Christie has flaws. At least he's open 165 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: about them. But one of his flaws is he's never 166 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: ever going to lie to the American people again about 167 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: the unfit demagogue from Queen's. So when Chris Christie is 168 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: asked by Hugh Hewitt, a disgraced Trump apologist, his answer 169 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: should be never. When he's asked by Elisa Farah, who 170 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: cashed in big time pretending to be against Trump after 171 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: serving him loyally through the detention of children, the answer 172 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: should be never. There's an American spirit of defiance that 173 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: Chris Christie is embracing, and who knows, it may be 174 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: that there's a moment ahead where the American people wake 175 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: up and appreciate that defiance. There may be a great 176 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: moment ahead for Chris Christie, but he must pass the 177 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: endurance test. On Christmas Eve in nineteen forty four, the 178 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: one hundred and first Airborne Division was completely surrounded in 179 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: the town of Bastone. They were zeroed in for destruction. 180 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: They didn't have rations, they didn't have food, they didn't 181 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: have water, they were low on ammunition. They were freezing, hungry, 182 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: and about to be killed. The German commander sent a 183 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: note under a white flag through the American lines demanding 184 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: the immediate surrender of American forces. The American commander gave 185 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 1: a historic response. He wrote back to the Nazi officer 186 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: from the American commander nuts that was the answer to 187 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: the demand for surrender. There will be no surrender for 188 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: Chris Christie, and there must be no surrender on the 189 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: part of the American people against a movement that seeks 190 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: literally to destroy the American way of life, which is 191 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: utterly dependent on a simple, sacred, elegant, and historic idea 192 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: that we the people decide. Who leads that we the 193 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: people bow to no king, to no emperor, to no 194 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: high priest, and to no caesar. Donald Trump wants to 195 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: be a dictator, But this is the United States and 196 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: the answer is no. And the difference between Chris Christie 197 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: and Nicky Haley is this. Nicky Haley will fully support 198 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's attempts to take power by any means, and 199 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: Chris Christie will stand on the line and do anything 200 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: he can to stop him. That's the difference and that's 201 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: why Chris Christie must stay in this campaign.