1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: It is Friday, June the twentieth. This is the warning 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: across America. There is a great unease. Americans feel anxiety 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: about the economy, about the impending war, about the malice 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: of the government towards the people. We see out of 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: control federal agencies. We see federal agents who feel a 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: license to wear masks and to hide themselves as they 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: go about the business of abducting people. The government has 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: taken it upon itself to be able to ship people 9 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: that it has abducted to places like El Salvador. When 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: this moment is contemplated, let it never be said that 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: we didn't see it coming, because the truth of the matter, 12 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: as what we've seen, has been coming for a long time, 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: and those forces that have gathered this ill tied, this 14 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: foul wind that brings it closer and closer to all 15 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: of our life lives. It must be confronted now. And 16 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: what Donald Trump is trying to do is so fear 17 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: fear in people who might speak out against what is 18 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: obviously wrong. 19 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: This is wrong. 20 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 3: The world. You'll have a your digital work, and of 21 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 3: course what happened to us, Senator Alex Badia was wrong. 22 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 4: I have questions for the secretary, because the fact that 23 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 4: the matter is half a dozen of criminals that you're 24 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 4: hitting on your on you I also head of. 25 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 5: Your beauty. 26 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: These impertinent responses by Pete Hesath, the disrespect, the extremism, 27 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: It's all wrong. Pete Hecath is not somebody who can 28 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: be trusted to lead the United States armed forces into war. 29 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: He despises half the country, as does his boss. 30 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: Now. 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: The deployment of the American military to America cities where 32 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: the American people are made to submit to Donald Trump's 33 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: authority at the tip of a bayonet, is an obscenity. 34 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: And it should be considered that the parents of the 35 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: soldiers and sailors and marines and airmen who will be 36 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: sending a harms way in Iraq the Trump calls vermin 37 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: and scumbags, have to recognize the strange duality that it 38 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: is them, the scumbag and the vermin, who would be 39 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: handed the folded American flag if their child were to 40 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: give the last full measure of devotion to their nation 41 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: upon the orders of Donald Trump or Pete Hagsath, who 42 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 1: disdained them so very much, and whose political movement disdains them. 43 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: And it should be remembered that it is not political 44 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: movements that wage war. Donald Trump Junior will not be 45 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: parachuting out over Tehran. The war drums that are beating 46 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: on the Hannity set and with Mark Levin, they sound familiar, 47 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: don't they like from twenty two years ago to talk 48 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: about an invincible military and fearless leaders and absolute power 49 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: and easy conquests. But shouldn't leading senators know the population 50 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: of Iran? Shouldn't we have a plan strategy. Shouldn't we 51 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,519 Speaker 1: know what victory looks like? How will we know? And 52 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: how do we trust? Here's Donald Trump on the election 53 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: he lost. 54 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 5: They use those cards to vote on the second election, 55 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 5: My second, the one twenty twenty, because, as everybody here knows, 56 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 5: I won that election by a lot. 57 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: Here's Donald Trump on the economy. 58 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 3: When does it become the Trump economy? 59 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 5: It partially is right now, And I really mean this. 60 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 5: I think the good parts of the Trump economy and 61 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 5: the bad parts of the Biden economy. 62 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: Here's Donald Trump on COVID. 63 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 5: Virtually nobody, it's an amazing thing. By the way, open 64 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 5: your schools. 65 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 4: Everybody opened your school. 66 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: He's a man who can't tell the truth and a 67 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: man who can't tell the truth is a man who 68 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: can't be counted upon in a moment of crisis, when 69 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: the truth is needed. 70 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: When the people have to be rallied. 71 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: Nobody among half the country that opposes Donald Trump trusts. 72 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 2: Him, respects him. 73 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: I was part of a political opposition that stood on 74 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: the other partisan side of the fence from Barack Obama. 75 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 2: But he could be trusted. He was a man of 76 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 2: his word. 77 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: He was a man who had the trust of the 78 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: military because he valued their lives, unlike Donald Trump, who 79 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: constantly disrespects their service. 80 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 2: Because I don't like losers. But Frank, Frank, let me 81 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: get to him. 82 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 4: He hit me. 83 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 2: He's not a war hero, war hero. 84 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 5: He's a war five and a half years. 85 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 2: He's a war hero because he was captured. I like 86 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 2: people that weren't captured. 87 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 4: Okay, I hate to tell you. 88 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: My rhetoric going. 89 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 5: To keep us out of wars. And that's what happened. 90 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 2: Eighty two years. 91 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 5: Other than I finish off Isis, but that was already started. 92 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 5: We had stupid generals like Millie and Mattis, weak stupid people. 93 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 2: But fear not, we have great generals. 94 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 5: It's not the ones that you see on television all 95 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 5: the time, and we wiped them out very quickly. It 96 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 5: was going to take five years, Mattis said it would 97 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 5: take five years, and I'm not sure we could do 98 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 5: it. It took us like four weeks. 99 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: So in this moment of extremism, on the edge of war, 100 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: we should look at the actions of America's sickest senator, 101 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: the one who released the sick tweets on x after 102 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: an assassination. Mike Lee has grown increasingly strange in extreme 103 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: and this sixth Senator, so detached from humanity, so bubbled 104 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: in by the small world of his social media feed 105 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: and the protective bubble of his staff that warships him 106 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: because he worships Trump. This man is the leader of 107 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: a plan, an amendment to sell off hundreds of millions 108 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: of acres of public lands across the West, magnificent spaces 109 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: across Utah, across Idaho, across New Mexico. And these hundreds 110 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: of millions of acres of public lands owned by all 111 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: the American people will be selled off to a rapacious 112 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: billionaire class and too power hungry Arab sheikhs, and to 113 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: the investors, and to the sovereign wealth funds and to 114 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: the private equity funds. But these lands belong to us. 115 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: And so while Donald Trump deploys the Marines against the 116 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: American people, his supporters in the right wing media beat 117 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: war drums, his most extremist and six senators cheer assassination 118 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: invent lies to cast dispersions on their opponents while dealing 119 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: in plots to sell off America's lands. It is an 120 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: awful moment and one that demands opposition and fearlessness of purpose, 121 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: because what the American people have to fight for in 122 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: this moment will be remembered. It will be remembered by 123 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: the generations look back and can appreciate. At a moment 124 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: when people mistook quiet for peace, a demagogue rose and 125 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: ended the quiet and all illusions of peace, and put 126 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: on the table a prospect that forces all of us 127 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: to embrace some fundamental values again, values about our freedom, 128 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: values about our liberty that are necessary for free people 129 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: to be connected to lest those free people lose their liberties. 130 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: And that is what we should consider this weekend on 131 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: what will be a historic summer in the United States 132 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: that begins tomorrow. Donald Trump has written the reamble during 133 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: his first months in office, for a season of insanity. 134 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,239 Speaker 2: And it is now upon us. And this is the warning. 135 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 136 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,679 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise 137 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 138 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 139 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. 140 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 2: Thank you.