1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: It is maybe eighth, twenty twenty five. This is the warning. 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Eighty years ago. Today, there was jubilation in every corner 3 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: of the United States, from every small town square to 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: New York City, from Piccadilly in London and Paris, wherever 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: people had endured through the night. They danced into the 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: night for freedom, liberty that had been won at great cost. 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: This day marks, within still the span of a single 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: human lifetime, the end of history's greatest cataclysm, the Second 9 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:51,319 Speaker 1: World War that Winston Churchill described in his memoirs as 10 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: an unnecessary war. It was a war that began by 11 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: appeasing madness, over and over and over again until it 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: was too late. Adolf Hitler had a mountain, and at 13 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: the top there was a teahouse, a gift from the 14 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: Nazi Party. The road to the top cost many lives 15 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: in its engineering and manufacture. There was a hole, a 16 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: boring drilled into the mountain. You can walk into it 17 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: to this day, to the Golden Elevator. The s s men, 18 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: the Adolf Hitler legion would have lined the rock inside, 19 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: holding torches. All of it. A theater meant to intimidate 20 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: anybody walking into that mountain into the Furer's layer, and 21 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: up the golden elevator they went, and Adolf Hitler at 22 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: the top shook down, intimidated, sought to rule the world. 23 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: What he did to the Austrian Prime Minister is precisely 24 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office to President Zelenski. 25 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: The Oval Office is where Winston Churchill would sit by 26 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: the side of the deaths, next to Franklin Roosevelt, and 27 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: in the evening they would drink cocktails and talk about 28 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: the world. FDR is the most important visionary of the 29 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: twentieth century, the man who envisions what would come after catastrophe, 30 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: and it began with his fundamental belief in the value 31 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: and dignity of human liberty and human rights. The United 32 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: Nations Declaration of Human Rights is an American author document. 33 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: It was put forward ultimately by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt 34 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: after the death of the President. It is amongst his 35 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: greatest legacies. The entire architecture of an interconnected world where 36 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: the value of human dignity has been asserted, is rooted 37 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: in the Titanic vision of Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt had a 38 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: dream that the world that would emerge from the night, 39 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: from the darkness, from the slavery that would be better, 40 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: would endure for as long as everybody on the day 41 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: this war was won, was still alive. He shared that 42 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: one evening at the White House with the Canadian Prime Minister. Today, 43 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: the Canadian Prime Minister is the leader of the free 44 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: people of North America. When we look at who is 45 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: the person who embodies the spirit of John Kennedy, of 46 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt, of Ronald Reagan, of people who believe deeply 47 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: in the Constitution, it's Mark Carne who embodies not an 48 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: American fidelity to an American document, but to the principles 49 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: that informed that document. Brands principles important and noble ideas 50 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: about human dignity and human liberty. Now, in this moment, 51 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,119 Speaker 1: some said, well, the issue is the economy, and they're right, 52 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: because it is the oligarch that is a fundamental threat 53 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: to liberty. It is the oligarch that is a fundamental 54 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: threat to capitalism. It is the oligarchic that is a 55 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: fundamental threat to opportunity, to upper mobility, to the pursuit 56 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: of happiness so that they may have more and more 57 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: and more and more so that their rapaciousness may be stated. 58 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: With more power, with more money, with more access, everybody 59 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: else will be reduced to surfdom. It's an unacceptable proposition 60 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: and one the American people cannot tolerate. So, yes, there 61 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: is an economic crisis, but that economic crisis is steeped 62 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 1: in fundamental questions of right and wrong at the court. 63 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: This crisis that Donald Trump has sent into the homes 64 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: of every American family that will get much worse, is 65 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: a moral crisis. There is a security crisis in the world. 66 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: The flames of war are growing, and this is directly 67 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: related to the weakness of Donald Trump, to his shallowness, 68 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: to his imbecilities, to his idiocy. Now, Jesse Waters and 69 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, they may see a strategic genius, a grand 70 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: chess master, but what the rest of the world sees 71 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:29,559 Speaker 1: is a clown who is easily manipulated. What Jizinpang takes 72 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: away from the encounter between Donald Trump and Prime Minister 73 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: Mark Carney is that all you need to do to 74 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: win a negotiation with Donald Trump is perhaps offer him 75 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: an extra slice of chocolate cake after dinner. Donald Trump 76 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: is the living proof of the wisdom of the old 77 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: Turkish proverb. If a clown goes to the palace, he 78 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: does not become a sultan. Palace becomes a circus. And 79 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: look at this place. What would you call this? From 80 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: a decorative style of the corps latter day pemp It 81 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: is appalling, tacking just the creative of a sacred American space. 82 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has turned it into Nero's layer. And while 83 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: America's economy is burning, global security is burning, a moral 84 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: disaster is unfolding that is fundamental to who we are 85 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: as a people. And the feckless Democratic Party does not 86 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: seem to appreciate, outside of a small minority of its 87 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: elected members, that some fights are imposed not on your timeline, 88 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: but your opponents, or in this case, the fascists, the 89 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: domestic enemies who wish to end the bedrock principles of 90 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: American society, all of which are invested in the idea 91 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: that liberty and rights are bestowed by a higher power 92 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: than the government of men. We believe that all men 93 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: are created equal and doubt by a creator, with inalienable 94 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And this 95 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: requires us as Americans to hold ourselves to a higher standard, 96 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: into a higher faith and to say, though that there 97 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: is evil in the world, and even if that evil 98 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: is directed out Americans, that we will treat the most 99 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: evil human being with a fundamental level of dignity, even 100 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: if they do not reciprocate it, because in the end, 101 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: Americanism is superior to the evil. We are better than that, 102 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: We are more moral than that. John McCain understood this. 103 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: It was, in the essence fundamentally an aspect of what 104 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: you can look back on as a public ministry around 105 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: torture and the degradation of human beings rights of which 106 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: he was a foremost champion of human freedom for prisoners 107 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: of war, prisoners of conscience, prisoners everywhere. And what John 108 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: McCain understood was that the American people have a right 109 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: to know what is being done in their name, because 110 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: we are a government of the people, by the people, 111 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: for the people, and so we must face together an 112 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: urgent reality. And that urgent reality is that the Homeland 113 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: Security Department, which has always carried a sinister name, has 114 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: turned senister. There is an American gestapo on the loose, 115 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: and they are being used and abused and directed to 116 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: abused by immoral men and women like Tom Hoeman and Christino, 117 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: guided by Corey Lewandowski and by Stephen Miller. And what 118 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: these people are is littlekmans. And do not mistake what 119 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 1: it is that you are seeing. The man who interrogated 120 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: Aikman understood when he was asked twenty years after Aikman 121 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: swung from the road what the core lesson was. He said, 122 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: it gave him his faith in democracy, because in democracies, 123 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: little Aikmans are harmless, and they are everywhere, he said. 124 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: It is in a dictatorship of the left or right 125 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: that they turned deadly in an instant. It is unacceptable 126 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,559 Speaker 1: for federal law enforcement to be used as a weapon 127 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: to instill fear in ordinary Americans and innocent people who 128 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: travel to this country for whatever reason, who do not 129 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: deserve the inhumanity directed at them. And even if it 130 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: is the case that it is decided lawfully that somebody 131 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 1: is to be deported, their deportation should be carried out 132 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: with a dignity deserving of every human life. America is 133 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: better than the lowest amongst us. And that is a 134 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: fundamental proposition, because it is anchored in our faith, the 135 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: quarterstones of our society, that the human being and their 136 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: rights come from God, not from man. And if they 137 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: are protected for the worst of the worst, they are 138 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: protected for everybody. And that is what keeps us safe 139 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: in a democracy. And so when Donald Trump sends jack 140 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: booted thugs into a Washington restaurant owned by the husband 141 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: of the CBS evening news anchor, two days after a 142 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: sixty minutes investigation, I have doubts. And I have doubts 143 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: because of the record that's clearly at hand, a record 144 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: of lying and dishonesty and abuses of power that is 145 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: growing every day. And every day Donald issues decrees, and 146 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: he's decrees our lawless. They have no force of law, 147 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: no power. They are testaments to his psychiatric condition, not 148 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: his authority. We do not have kings. And the feeble 149 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: and feckless American media that compares Donald Trump's first one 150 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: hundred days to FDRs is complicit in the gaslighting and 151 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: abuse of the American people because in FDR's first one 152 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: hundred days he passed and signed into law seventy six 153 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: pieces of legislation. He did not issue seventy six decrees. 154 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: And those decrees are arrows dipped in a poison of malice. 155 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 1: On this the eightieth anniversary of America's defeat of Nazi 156 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: Germany as an American general led the European war effort 157 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force made up 158 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: of the United Nations countries that stood together in the 159 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: moment of supreme testing. Eighty years we must consider what 160 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: we have become, which is very different from what we 161 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: have been and what we must be. And so it 162 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: is a time for standing up again because what's happening 163 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: all about and all around us is deeply wrong. This 164 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 165 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise 166 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 167 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 168 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.