WEBVTT - How Low Can They Go?

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<v Speaker 1>It is the seventeenth of July. It is the third

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<v Speaker 1>day of the Republican National Convention, the night where vice

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<v Speaker 1>presidential nominee Ohio Senator JD. Vance will take to the

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<v Speaker 1>podium to celebrate the life and times of the man who,

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<v Speaker 1>just a few short years ago, he said, was America's Hitler.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the warning. Last night's disgrace at the Republican

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<v Speaker 1>National Convention gave the whole world and all of America's

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<v Speaker 1>children an abject lesson in the qualities of debasement. There

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<v Speaker 1>are few better shining examples of what it means to

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<v Speaker 1>debase yourself than what Nicki Haley and Ron DeSantis did

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<v Speaker 1>last night. Let's, in the words of that great former

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<v Speaker 1>sportscaster Warner Wolf, go to the videotape and let's watch

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<v Speaker 1>Nicki Haley tell you what she thought about Donald Trump.

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<v Speaker 2>President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in

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<v Speaker 2>the name of unity. It was a gracious invitation and

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<v Speaker 2>I was happy to accept. I'll start by making one

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<v Speaker 2>thing perfectly clear. Donald Trump has my strong endorsement.

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<v Speaker 3>Period.

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<v Speaker 1>Now let's listen to Ron DeSantis.

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<v Speaker 3>Donald Trump has been demonized, He's been sued, he's been prosecuted,

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<v Speaker 3>and he nearly lost his life. We cannot let him down,

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<v Speaker 3>and we cannot let America down.

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<v Speaker 1>It's very important to remember that Donald Trump attacked Nikki

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<v Speaker 1>Haley's husband, attacked his military service, subjected her family to

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<v Speaker 1>abject cruelty. But yet this broken woman is up there

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<v Speaker 1>on the stage celebrating the leader. I suppose this is

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<v Speaker 1>what Donald Trump means when he talks about unity through debasement.

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<v Speaker 1>The abandonment of any principle, any conviction, is clearly how

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<v Speaker 1>you get ahead, how you climb the greasy pole of

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<v Speaker 1>the parties in American politics. It is astonishing we have

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<v Speaker 1>eradicated a demand for character in our society, in our country.

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<v Speaker 1>What preposterous equal these are. Now, I'll say this about

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump, who I am no fan of to say

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<v Speaker 1>the least, but at least Donald Trump would never debase

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<v Speaker 1>himself for another person. He would never lie down and

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<v Speaker 1>lick Ron De Santis's feet like Ron De Santis does Trump's.

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<v Speaker 1>He just wouldn't. He doesn't have it in him. And

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<v Speaker 1>I guess in some way that's admirable because witnessing Nikky

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<v Speaker 1>Haley and Ron De Santis was stomach turning. What we

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<v Speaker 1>are witnessing in this moment in time is a collision

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<v Speaker 1>of cowardice and cynicism, diffusion of the two into some

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<v Speaker 1>type of nuclear like energy that is irradiating our democracy

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<v Speaker 1>and killing it. If the political leaders of the country

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<v Speaker 1>literally believe in nothing, will say anything, do anything for

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<v Speaker 1>a bit of attention in the spotlight, we're doomed. Jd.

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<v Speaker 1>Vance is a first rate fraud and he is a

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<v Speaker 1>first rate political extremist. His views are repugnant and dangerous. JD.

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<v Speaker 1>Vance does not believe in democracy. He has called for

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<v Speaker 1>an American Caesar. He has said that in order to

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<v Speaker 1>defend freedom, we have to lessen our commitment to democracy.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the exact same argument that Adolf Hitler made. Democracy

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<v Speaker 1>was a threat to freedom because some people you see

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<v Speaker 1>are unequal because they are lesser than, and those lesser

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<v Speaker 1>than people who get to vote equally, are stealing something

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<v Speaker 1>from the true Americans. It's an evil ideology and it

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<v Speaker 1>should be treated as such. JD. Vance rose on the

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<v Speaker 1>patronage of a weirdo billionaire named Peter Teele. And when

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<v Speaker 1>I say weirdo, I mean weirdo. This is a guy

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<v Speaker 1>who talks about sea steading that new nations should be

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<v Speaker 1>created out of shipping containers strung together on floating islands.

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<v Speaker 1>It's nonsense. Peter Keiel accepted citizenship in New Zealand, yet

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<v Speaker 1>he still is involved enough to spend tens of millions

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<v Speaker 1>on JD Vance's political campaign. Now. The Republican National Convention

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<v Speaker 1>has been an exquisite clinic thus far, in its preliminary

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<v Speaker 1>nights of weirdness and debasement. When you sit back, if

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<v Speaker 1>you can lower the partisan temperature, take out your partisanship,

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<v Speaker 1>just remove it, pretend even if you disagree with Nikki

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<v Speaker 1>Haley that she's right on every single issue. Can you

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<v Speaker 1>imagine getting up and giving a speech where everybody, and

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<v Speaker 1>I mean everybody knows how full of shit you are.

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<v Speaker 1>Can you imagine going and turning on the television when

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<v Speaker 1>you get back to your hotel room watching the speech,

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<v Speaker 1>and the pleasure, the sadism of the look on Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>face as you debase yourself, humiliate yourself, the lack of dignity,

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<v Speaker 1>the abject weakness. Ron DeSantis is a delusional man and

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<v Speaker 1>truly one of the worst political candidates of all time

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<v Speaker 1>who ran for national office, who ran one of the

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<v Speaker 1>pathetic and worst political campaigns of all time. But in

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<v Speaker 1>this age of delusion, Ron DeSantis believes he's a future

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<v Speaker 1>president and he will never be because Maga loves strength,

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<v Speaker 1>and those two have been defenestrated beyond any ability of

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<v Speaker 1>mind to conceivably explain the weakness oozes from them out

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<v Speaker 1>of every or debasement, weakness, submission, a surrender of intellectual agency.

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<v Speaker 1>These are the requirements to be a good Maga. No thanks,

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<v Speaker 1>I reject that unity, and so should you, because when

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<v Speaker 1>the media talks about we need unity in America and

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<v Speaker 1>they don't explain that unity on Trump's terms means debasement

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<v Speaker 1>and submission to every idea that Trump has at the

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<v Speaker 1>expense to the ideas and ideals our fathers and mothers

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<v Speaker 1>died defending and nurturing for two hundred and forty eight years. No,

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<v Speaker 1>we must not, and we will not. The President Joe

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<v Speaker 1>Biden has some deep thinking to do because his campaign

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<v Speaker 1>increasingly looks like a suicide mission headed straight at an iceberg,

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<v Speaker 1>and the strategy seems to be that weak and cowardly

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<v Speaker 1>people who won't tell truth to power feel invigorated to

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<v Speaker 1>scream at the rest of us that we did not

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<v Speaker 1>see what we saw and that the polling numbers that

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<v Speaker 1>are real are not as a kareem down a pathway

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<v Speaker 1>of national catastrophe. Tonight, j D Vance takes the stage

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<v Speaker 1>and the main event will be close at hand. There's

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<v Speaker 1>been no person as manifestly unfit for national office standing

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<v Speaker 1>behind a podium speaking to a national convention since Sarah Palin.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like Sarah Palin, except smarter, as deeply cynical, a

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<v Speaker 1>lot more stable, and deeply deeply and I mean deeply ambitious.

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<v Speaker 1>He's the Republican nominee for vice president. That's a terrifying thing.

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<v Speaker 1>And let me say something else. The decision to remove

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazenski from the air by Rashida Jones,

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<v Speaker 1>the MSNBC president, and Caesar Conda, the NBC President, was

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<v Speaker 1>a despicable act. And more importantly, it was an act

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<v Speaker 1>of cowardice, not journalism, cowardice. And you should understand this

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<v Speaker 1>is exactly how freedom erodes when Donald Trump becomes president

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<v Speaker 1>in November. It's a phone call and it's only a

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<v Speaker 1>few people. What Jones and Conda were terrified of was

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<v Speaker 1>offending Donald Trump. They were afraid of offending a presidential

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<v Speaker 1>candidate in the wake of an assassination. They were afraid

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<v Speaker 1>that somebody might say the wrong thing. But you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>this is the United States, and there are no rights

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<v Speaker 1>to not be offended, and certainly the most powerful people

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<v Speaker 1>in the world don't get to regulate what offense is. No,

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<v Speaker 1>these people, after hiring Rona Romney McDaniel, did not not

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<v Speaker 1>learn any lessons. In fact, they've just revealed themselves more.

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<v Speaker 1>And they may be wonderful business people, but they have

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<v Speaker 1>no business running a news operation in a moment where

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<v Speaker 1>freedom of the press is about to be tested like

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<v Speaker 1>it has never been in the modern era of the country.

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<v Speaker 1>The Washington Post says democracy dies in darkness. It doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>democracy dies when The Washington Post has a publisher who

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<v Speaker 1>deleted thirty million emails. Cynicism is strangling faith in the

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<v Speaker 1>most glorious traditions of our freedom. It's killing idealism in

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<v Speaker 1>this country. It's killing principle, it's killing conviction, and we

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<v Speaker 1>must stop it. There will be a new cause that

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<v Speaker 1>arises from Trump's ascendency, and that cause will be one

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<v Speaker 1>that must be nonviolent and represents the best traditions of

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<v Speaker 1>American justice and liberty and freedom. The Warning will speak

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