Speaker 1: It is Friday, June the twentieth. This is the warning
Speaker 1: across America. There is a great unease. Americans feel anxiety
Speaker 1: about the economy, about the impending war, about the malice
Speaker 1: of the government towards the people. We see out of
Speaker 1: control federal agencies. We see federal agents who feel a
Speaker 1: license to wear masks and to hide themselves as they
Speaker 1: go about the business of abducting people. The government has
Speaker 1: taken it upon itself to be able to ship people
Speaker 1: that it has abducted to places like El Salvador. When
Speaker 1: this moment is contemplated, let it never be said that
Speaker 1: we didn't see it coming, because the truth of the matter,
Speaker 1: as what we've seen, has been coming for a long time,
Speaker 1: and those forces that have gathered this ill tied, this
Speaker 1: foul wind that brings it closer and closer to all
Speaker 1: of our life lives. It must be confronted now. And
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump is trying to do is so fear
Speaker 1: fear in people who might speak out against what is
Speaker 1: obviously wrong.
Speaker 2: This is wrong.
Speaker 3: The world. You'll have a your digital work, and of
Speaker 3: course what happened to us, Senator Alex Badia was wrong.
Speaker 4: I have questions for the secretary, because the fact that
Speaker 4: the matter is half a dozen of criminals that you're
Speaker 4: hitting on your on you I also head of.
Speaker 5: Your beauty.
Speaker 1: These impertinent responses by Pete Hesath, the disrespect, the extremism,
Speaker 1: It's all wrong. Pete Hecath is not somebody who can
Speaker 1: be trusted to lead the United States armed forces into war.
Speaker 1: He despises half the country, as does his boss.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The deployment of the American military to America cities where
Speaker 1: the American people are made to submit to Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: authority at the tip of a bayonet, is an obscenity.
Speaker 1: And it should be considered that the parents of the
Speaker 1: soldiers and sailors and marines and airmen who will be
Speaker 1: sending a harms way in Iraq the Trump calls vermin
Speaker 1: and scumbags, have to recognize the strange duality that it
Speaker 1: is them, the scumbag and the vermin, who would be
Speaker 1: handed the folded American flag if their child were to
Speaker 1: give the last full measure of devotion to their nation
Speaker 1: upon the orders of Donald Trump or Pete Hagsath, who
Speaker 1: disdained them so very much, and whose political movement disdains them.
Speaker 1: And it should be remembered that it is not political
Speaker 1: movements that wage war. Donald Trump Junior will not be
Speaker 1: parachuting out over Tehran. The war drums that are beating
Speaker 1: on the Hannity set and with Mark Levin, they sound familiar,
Speaker 1: don't they like from twenty two years ago to talk
Speaker 1: about an invincible military and fearless leaders and absolute power
Speaker 1: and easy conquests. But shouldn't leading senators know the population
Speaker 1: of Iran? Shouldn't we have a plan strategy. Shouldn't we
Speaker 1: know what victory looks like? How will we know? And
Speaker 1: how do we trust? Here's Donald Trump on the election
Speaker 1: he lost.
Speaker 5: They use those cards to vote on the second election,
Speaker 5: My second, the one twenty twenty, because, as everybody here knows,
Speaker 5: I won that election by a lot.
Speaker 2: Here's Donald Trump on the economy.
Speaker 3: When does it become the Trump economy?
Speaker 5: It partially is right now, And I really mean this.
Speaker 5: I think the good parts of the Trump economy and
Speaker 5: the bad parts of the Biden economy.
Speaker 2: Here's Donald Trump on COVID.
Speaker 5: Virtually nobody, it's an amazing thing. By the way, open
Speaker 5: your schools.
Speaker 4: Everybody opened your school.
Speaker 1: He's a man who can't tell the truth and a
Speaker 1: man who can't tell the truth is a man who
Speaker 1: can't be counted upon in a moment of crisis, when
Speaker 1: the truth is needed.
Speaker 2: When the people have to be rallied.
Speaker 1: Nobody among half the country that opposes Donald Trump trusts.
Speaker 2: Him, respects him.
Speaker 1: I was part of a political opposition that stood on
Speaker 1: the other partisan side of the fence from Barack Obama.
Speaker 2: But he could be trusted. He was a man of
Speaker 2: his word.
Speaker 1: He was a man who had the trust of the
Speaker 1: military because he valued their lives, unlike Donald Trump, who
Speaker 1: constantly disrespects their service.
Speaker 2: Because I don't like losers. But Frank, Frank, let me
Speaker 2: get to him.
Speaker 4: He hit me.
Speaker 2: He's not a war hero, war hero.
Speaker 5: He's a war five and a half years.
Speaker 2: He's a war hero because he was captured. I like
Speaker 2: people that weren't captured.
Speaker 4: Okay, I hate to tell you.
Speaker 2: My rhetoric going.
Speaker 5: To keep us out of wars. And that's what happened.
Speaker 2: Eighty two years.
Speaker 5: Other than I finish off Isis, but that was already started.
Speaker 5: We had stupid generals like Millie and Mattis, weak stupid people.
Speaker 2: But fear not, we have great generals.
Speaker 5: It's not the ones that you see on television all
Speaker 5: the time, and we wiped them out very quickly. It
Speaker 5: was going to take five years, Mattis said it would
Speaker 5: take five years, and I'm not sure we could do
Speaker 5: it. It took us like four weeks.
Speaker 1: So in this moment of extremism, on the edge of war,
Speaker 1: we should look at the actions of America's sickest senator,
Speaker 1: the one who released the sick tweets on x after
Speaker 1: an assassination. Mike Lee has grown increasingly strange in extreme
Speaker 1: and this sixth Senator, so detached from humanity, so bubbled
Speaker 1: in by the small world of his social media feed
Speaker 1: and the protective bubble of his staff that warships him
Speaker 1: because he worships Trump. This man is the leader of
Speaker 1: a plan, an amendment to sell off hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of acres of public lands across the West, magnificent spaces
Speaker 1: across Utah, across Idaho, across New Mexico. And these hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of acres of public lands owned by all
Speaker 1: the American people will be selled off to a rapacious
Speaker 1: billionaire class and too power hungry Arab sheikhs, and to
Speaker 1: the investors, and to the sovereign wealth funds and to
Speaker 1: the private equity funds. But these lands belong to us.
Speaker 1: And so while Donald Trump deploys the Marines against the
Speaker 1: American people, his supporters in the right wing media beat
Speaker 1: war drums, his most extremist and six senators cheer assassination
Speaker 1: invent lies to cast dispersions on their opponents while dealing
Speaker 1: in plots to sell off America's lands. It is an
Speaker 1: awful moment and one that demands opposition and fearlessness of purpose,
Speaker 1: because what the American people have to fight for in
Speaker 1: this moment will be remembered. It will be remembered by
Speaker 1: the generations look back and can appreciate. At a moment
Speaker 1: when people mistook quiet for peace, a demagogue rose and
Speaker 1: ended the quiet and all illusions of peace, and put
Speaker 1: on the table a prospect that forces all of us
Speaker 1: to embrace some fundamental values again, values about our freedom,
Speaker 1: values about our liberty that are necessary for free people
Speaker 1: to be connected to lest those free people lose their liberties.
Speaker 1: And that is what we should consider this weekend on
Speaker 1: what will be a historic summer in the United States
Speaker 1: that begins tomorrow. Donald Trump has written the reamble during
Speaker 1: his first months in office, for a season of insanity.
Speaker 2: And it is now upon us. And this is the warning.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.