Speaker 1: It is maybe eighth, twenty twenty five. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: Eighty years ago. Today, there was jubilation in every corner
Speaker 1: of the United States, from every small town square to
Speaker 1: New York City, from Piccadilly in London and Paris, wherever
Speaker 1: people had endured through the night. They danced into the
Speaker 1: night for freedom, liberty that had been won at great cost.
Speaker 1: This day marks, within still the span of a single
Speaker 1: human lifetime, the end of history's greatest cataclysm, the Second
Speaker 1: World War that Winston Churchill described in his memoirs as
Speaker 1: an unnecessary war. It was a war that began by
Speaker 1: appeasing madness, over and over and over again until it
Speaker 1: was too late. Adolf Hitler had a mountain, and at
Speaker 1: the top there was a teahouse, a gift from the
Speaker 1: Nazi Party. The road to the top cost many lives
Speaker 1: in its engineering and manufacture. There was a hole, a
Speaker 1: boring drilled into the mountain. You can walk into it
Speaker 1: to this day, to the Golden Elevator. The s s men,
Speaker 1: the Adolf Hitler legion would have lined the rock inside,
Speaker 1: holding torches. All of it. A theater meant to intimidate
Speaker 1: anybody walking into that mountain into the Furer's layer, and
Speaker 1: up the golden elevator they went, and Adolf Hitler at
Speaker 1: the top shook down, intimidated, sought to rule the world.
Speaker 1: What he did to the Austrian Prime Minister is precisely
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office to President Zelenski.
Speaker 1: The Oval Office is where Winston Churchill would sit by
Speaker 1: the side of the deaths, next to Franklin Roosevelt, and
Speaker 1: in the evening they would drink cocktails and talk about
Speaker 1: the world. FDR is the most important visionary of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century, the man who envisions what would come after catastrophe,
Speaker 1: and it began with his fundamental belief in the value
Speaker 1: and dignity of human liberty and human rights. The United
Speaker 1: Nations Declaration of Human Rights is an American author document.
Speaker 1: It was put forward ultimately by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Speaker 1: after the death of the President. It is amongst his
Speaker 1: greatest legacies. The entire architecture of an interconnected world where
Speaker 1: the value of human dignity has been asserted, is rooted
Speaker 1: in the Titanic vision of Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt had a
Speaker 1: dream that the world that would emerge from the night,
Speaker 1: from the darkness, from the slavery that would be better,
Speaker 1: would endure for as long as everybody on the day
Speaker 1: this war was won, was still alive. He shared that
Speaker 1: one evening at the White House with the Canadian Prime Minister. Today,
Speaker 1: the Canadian Prime Minister is the leader of the free
Speaker 1: people of North America. When we look at who is
Speaker 1: the person who embodies the spirit of John Kennedy, of
Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt, of Ronald Reagan, of people who believe deeply
Speaker 1: in the Constitution, it's Mark Carne who embodies not an
Speaker 1: American fidelity to an American document, but to the principles
Speaker 1: that informed that document. Brands principles important and noble ideas
Speaker 1: about human dignity and human liberty. Now, in this moment,
Speaker 1: some said, well, the issue is the economy, and they're right,
Speaker 1: because it is the oligarch that is a fundamental threat
Speaker 1: to liberty. It is the oligarch that is a fundamental
Speaker 1: threat to capitalism. It is the oligarchic that is a
Speaker 1: fundamental threat to opportunity, to upper mobility, to the pursuit
Speaker 1: of happiness so that they may have more and more
Speaker 1: and more and more so that their rapaciousness may be stated.
Speaker 1: With more power, with more money, with more access, everybody
Speaker 1: else will be reduced to surfdom. It's an unacceptable proposition
Speaker 1: and one the American people cannot tolerate. So, yes, there
Speaker 1: is an economic crisis, but that economic crisis is steeped
Speaker 1: in fundamental questions of right and wrong at the court.
Speaker 1: This crisis that Donald Trump has sent into the homes
Speaker 1: of every American family that will get much worse, is
Speaker 1: a moral crisis. There is a security crisis in the world.
Speaker 1: The flames of war are growing, and this is directly
Speaker 1: related to the weakness of Donald Trump, to his shallowness,
Speaker 1: to his imbecilities, to his idiocy. Now, Jesse Waters and
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, they may see a strategic genius, a grand
Speaker 1: chess master, but what the rest of the world sees
Speaker 1: is a clown who is easily manipulated. What Jizinpang takes
Speaker 1: away from the encounter between Donald Trump and Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Mark Carney is that all you need to do to
Speaker 1: win a negotiation with Donald Trump is perhaps offer him
Speaker 1: an extra slice of chocolate cake after dinner. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is the living proof of the wisdom of the old
Speaker 1: Turkish proverb. If a clown goes to the palace, he
Speaker 1: does not become a sultan. Palace becomes a circus. And
Speaker 1: look at this place. What would you call this? From
Speaker 1: a decorative style of the corps latter day pemp It
Speaker 1: is appalling, tacking just the creative of a sacred American space.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has turned it into Nero's layer. And while
Speaker 1: America's economy is burning, global security is burning, a moral
Speaker 1: disaster is unfolding that is fundamental to who we are
Speaker 1: as a people. And the feckless Democratic Party does not
Speaker 1: seem to appreciate, outside of a small minority of its
Speaker 1: elected members, that some fights are imposed not on your timeline,
Speaker 1: but your opponents, or in this case, the fascists, the
Speaker 1: domestic enemies who wish to end the bedrock principles of
Speaker 1: American society, all of which are invested in the idea
Speaker 1: that liberty and rights are bestowed by a higher power
Speaker 1: than the government of men. We believe that all men
Speaker 1: are created equal and doubt by a creator, with inalienable
Speaker 1: rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And this
Speaker 1: requires us as Americans to hold ourselves to a higher standard,
Speaker 1: into a higher faith and to say, though that there
Speaker 1: is evil in the world, and even if that evil
Speaker 1: is directed out Americans, that we will treat the most
Speaker 1: evil human being with a fundamental level of dignity, even
Speaker 1: if they do not reciprocate it, because in the end,
Speaker 1: Americanism is superior to the evil. We are better than that,
Speaker 1: We are more moral than that. John McCain understood this.
Speaker 1: It was, in the essence fundamentally an aspect of what
Speaker 1: you can look back on as a public ministry around
Speaker 1: torture and the degradation of human beings rights of which
Speaker 1: he was a foremost champion of human freedom for prisoners
Speaker 1: of war, prisoners of conscience, prisoners everywhere. And what John
Speaker 1: McCain understood was that the American people have a right
Speaker 1: to know what is being done in their name, because
Speaker 1: we are a government of the people, by the people,
Speaker 1: for the people, and so we must face together an
Speaker 1: urgent reality. And that urgent reality is that the Homeland
Speaker 1: Security Department, which has always carried a sinister name, has
Speaker 1: turned senister. There is an American gestapo on the loose,
Speaker 1: and they are being used and abused and directed to
Speaker 1: abused by immoral men and women like Tom Hoeman and Christino,
Speaker 1: guided by Corey Lewandowski and by Stephen Miller. And what
Speaker 1: these people are is littlekmans. And do not mistake what
Speaker 1: it is that you are seeing. The man who interrogated
Speaker 1: Aikman understood when he was asked twenty years after Aikman
Speaker 1: swung from the road what the core lesson was. He said,
Speaker 1: it gave him his faith in democracy, because in democracies,
Speaker 1: little Aikmans are harmless, and they are everywhere, he said.
Speaker 1: It is in a dictatorship of the left or right
Speaker 1: that they turned deadly in an instant. It is unacceptable
Speaker 1: for federal law enforcement to be used as a weapon
Speaker 1: to instill fear in ordinary Americans and innocent people who
Speaker 1: travel to this country for whatever reason, who do not
Speaker 1: deserve the inhumanity directed at them. And even if it
Speaker 1: is the case that it is decided lawfully that somebody
Speaker 1: is to be deported, their deportation should be carried out
Speaker 1: with a dignity deserving of every human life. America is
Speaker 1: better than the lowest amongst us. And that is a
Speaker 1: fundamental proposition, because it is anchored in our faith, the
Speaker 1: quarterstones of our society, that the human being and their
Speaker 1: rights come from God, not from man. And if they
Speaker 1: are protected for the worst of the worst, they are
Speaker 1: protected for everybody. And that is what keeps us safe
Speaker 1: in a democracy. And so when Donald Trump sends jack
Speaker 1: booted thugs into a Washington restaurant owned by the husband
Speaker 1: of the CBS evening news anchor, two days after a
Speaker 1: sixty minutes investigation, I have doubts. And I have doubts
Speaker 1: because of the record that's clearly at hand, a record
Speaker 1: of lying and dishonesty and abuses of power that is
Speaker 1: growing every day. And every day Donald issues decrees, and
Speaker 1: he's decrees our lawless. They have no force of law,
Speaker 1: no power. They are testaments to his psychiatric condition, not
Speaker 1: his authority. We do not have kings. And the feeble
Speaker 1: and feckless American media that compares Donald Trump's first one
Speaker 1: hundred days to FDRs is complicit in the gaslighting and
Speaker 1: abuse of the American people because in FDR's first one
Speaker 1: hundred days he passed and signed into law seventy six
Speaker 1: pieces of legislation. He did not issue seventy six decrees.
Speaker 1: And those decrees are arrows dipped in a poison of malice.
Speaker 1: On this the eightieth anniversary of America's defeat of Nazi
Speaker 1: Germany as an American general led the European war effort
Speaker 1: as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force made up
Speaker 1: of the United Nations countries that stood together in the
Speaker 1: moment of supreme testing. Eighty years we must consider what
Speaker 1: we have become, which is very different from what we
Speaker 1: have been and what we must be. And so it
Speaker 1: is a time for standing up again because what's happening
Speaker 1: all about and all around us is deeply wrong. This
Speaker 1: is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise
Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening
Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe
Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.