1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: It is the seventeenth of July. It is the third 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: day of the Republican National Convention, the night where vice 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: presidential nominee Ohio Senator JD. Vance will take to the 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: podium to celebrate the life and times of the man who, 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 1: just a few short years ago, he said, was America's Hitler. 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: This is the warning. Last night's disgrace at the Republican 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 1: National Convention gave the whole world and all of America's 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: children an abject lesson in the qualities of debasement. There 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: are few better shining examples of what it means to 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: debase yourself than what Nicki Haley and Ron DeSantis did 11 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: last night. Let's, in the words of that great former 12 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: sportscaster Warner Wolf, go to the videotape and let's watch 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: Nicki Haley tell you what she thought about Donald Trump. 14 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in 15 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: the name of unity. It was a gracious invitation and 16 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 2: I was happy to accept. I'll start by making one 17 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: thing perfectly clear. Donald Trump has my strong endorsement. 18 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 3: Period. 19 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: Now let's listen to Ron DeSantis. 20 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 3: Donald Trump has been demonized, He's been sued, he's been prosecuted, 21 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 3: and he nearly lost his life. We cannot let him down, 22 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: and we cannot let America down. 23 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 1: It's very important to remember that Donald Trump attacked Nikki 24 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: Haley's husband, attacked his military service, subjected her family to 25 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 1: abject cruelty. But yet this broken woman is up there 26 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: on the stage celebrating the leader. I suppose this is 27 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 1: what Donald Trump means when he talks about unity through debasement. 28 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: The abandonment of any principle, any conviction, is clearly how 29 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 1: you get ahead, how you climb the greasy pole of 30 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: the parties in American politics. It is astonishing we have 31 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: eradicated a demand for character in our society, in our country. 32 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: What preposterous equal these are. Now, I'll say this about 33 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who I am no fan of to say 34 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: the least, but at least Donald Trump would never debase 35 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: himself for another person. He would never lie down and 36 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: lick Ron De Santis's feet like Ron De Santis does Trump's. 37 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: He just wouldn't. He doesn't have it in him. And 38 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: I guess in some way that's admirable because witnessing Nikky 39 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: Haley and Ron De Santis was stomach turning. What we 40 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: are witnessing in this moment in time is a collision 41 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: of cowardice and cynicism, diffusion of the two into some 42 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: type of nuclear like energy that is irradiating our democracy 43 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: and killing it. If the political leaders of the country 44 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: literally believe in nothing, will say anything, do anything for 45 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: a bit of attention in the spotlight, we're doomed. Jd. 46 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: Vance is a first rate fraud and he is a 47 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: first rate political extremist. His views are repugnant and dangerous. JD. 48 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: Vance does not believe in democracy. He has called for 49 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: an American Caesar. He has said that in order to 50 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: defend freedom, we have to lessen our commitment to democracy. 51 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: It's the exact same argument that Adolf Hitler made. Democracy 52 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: was a threat to freedom because some people you see 53 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: are unequal because they are lesser than, and those lesser 54 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: than people who get to vote equally, are stealing something 55 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: from the true Americans. It's an evil ideology and it 56 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: should be treated as such. JD. Vance rose on the 57 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: patronage of a weirdo billionaire named Peter Teele. And when 58 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: I say weirdo, I mean weirdo. This is a guy 59 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: who talks about sea steading that new nations should be 60 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: created out of shipping containers strung together on floating islands. 61 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: It's nonsense. Peter Keiel accepted citizenship in New Zealand, yet 62 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: he still is involved enough to spend tens of millions 63 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: on JD Vance's political campaign. Now. The Republican National Convention 64 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: has been an exquisite clinic thus far, in its preliminary 65 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: nights of weirdness and debasement. When you sit back, if 66 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: you can lower the partisan temperature, take out your partisanship, 67 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: just remove it, pretend even if you disagree with Nikki 68 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: Haley that she's right on every single issue. Can you 69 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: imagine getting up and giving a speech where everybody, and 70 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: I mean everybody knows how full of shit you are. 71 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: Can you imagine going and turning on the television when 72 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: you get back to your hotel room watching the speech, 73 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: and the pleasure, the sadism of the look on Trump's 74 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:19,799 Speaker 1: face as you debase yourself, humiliate yourself, the lack of dignity, 75 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: the abject weakness. Ron DeSantis is a delusional man and 76 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: truly one of the worst political candidates of all time 77 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: who ran for national office, who ran one of the 78 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: pathetic and worst political campaigns of all time. But in 79 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: this age of delusion, Ron DeSantis believes he's a future 80 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: president and he will never be because Maga loves strength, 81 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: and those two have been defenestrated beyond any ability of 82 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: mind to conceivably explain the weakness oozes from them out 83 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: of every or debasement, weakness, submission, a surrender of intellectual agency. 84 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: These are the requirements to be a good Maga. No thanks, 85 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: I reject that unity, and so should you, because when 86 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: the media talks about we need unity in America and 87 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: they don't explain that unity on Trump's terms means debasement 88 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: and submission to every idea that Trump has at the 89 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: expense to the ideas and ideals our fathers and mothers 90 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: died defending and nurturing for two hundred and forty eight years. No, 91 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: we must not, and we will not. The President Joe 92 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: Biden has some deep thinking to do because his campaign 93 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: increasingly looks like a suicide mission headed straight at an iceberg, 94 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: and the strategy seems to be that weak and cowardly 95 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: people who won't tell truth to power feel invigorated to 96 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: scream at the rest of us that we did not 97 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: see what we saw and that the polling numbers that 98 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: are real are not as a kareem down a pathway 99 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: of national catastrophe. Tonight, j D Vance takes the stage 100 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: and the main event will be close at hand. There's 101 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: been no person as manifestly unfit for national office standing 102 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: behind a podium speaking to a national convention since Sarah Palin. 103 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: He's like Sarah Palin, except smarter, as deeply cynical, a 104 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: lot more stable, and deeply deeply and I mean deeply ambitious. 105 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: He's the Republican nominee for vice president. That's a terrifying thing. 106 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: And let me say something else. The decision to remove 107 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazenski from the air by Rashida Jones, 108 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: the MSNBC president, and Caesar Conda, the NBC President, was 109 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,839 Speaker 1: a despicable act. And more importantly, it was an act 110 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: of cowardice, not journalism, cowardice. And you should understand this 111 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: is exactly how freedom erodes when Donald Trump becomes president 112 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: in November. It's a phone call and it's only a 113 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: few people. What Jones and Conda were terrified of was 114 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: offending Donald Trump. They were afraid of offending a presidential 115 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 1: candidate in the wake of an assassination. They were afraid 116 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: that somebody might say the wrong thing. But you know what, 117 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: this is the United States, and there are no rights 118 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: to not be offended, and certainly the most powerful people 119 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: in the world don't get to regulate what offense is. No, 120 00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: these people, after hiring Rona Romney McDaniel, did not not 121 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: learn any lessons. In fact, they've just revealed themselves more. 122 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: And they may be wonderful business people, but they have 123 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: no business running a news operation in a moment where 124 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: freedom of the press is about to be tested like 125 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: it has never been in the modern era of the country. 126 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: The Washington Post says democracy dies in darkness. It doesn't 127 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: democracy dies when The Washington Post has a publisher who 128 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: deleted thirty million emails. Cynicism is strangling faith in the 129 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: most glorious traditions of our freedom. It's killing idealism in 130 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: this country. It's killing principle, it's killing conviction, and we 131 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: must stop it. There will be a new cause that 132 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: arises from Trump's ascendency, and that cause will be one 133 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: that must be nonviolent and represents the best traditions of 134 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: American justice and liberty and freedom. The Warning will speak 135 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: to that cause. Always join us, be part of this community. 136 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: Understand what's happening around you, keep your eyes open. This 137 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: is an hour where all of us must be wide awake. 138 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the Warning and I invite 139 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: you to join. 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