1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Today we celebrate the two hundred and forty eighth anniversary 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: of the independence of the United States of America. It 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: is July fourth, twenty twenty four, one hundred and twenty 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: three days to go until election day and forty six 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: until the Democratic National Convention. This is the warning today 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: we celebrate as Americans today that ruptured history, that began 7 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: a new epoch. When the white flag flew over the 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: British lines at York Town, the young major general commanding 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: American forces, Gilbert Dumontier, the Marquis de Lafayette, remarked, humanity 10 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: has its victory, liberty has its country. Lafayette prophesied that 11 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: the new world, the United States, would be the salvation 12 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: of the old and it was. American forces stormed the 13 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: beaches of France and liberated Europe from the darkness of 14 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: fascism in the middle years of the twentieth century. The 15 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 1: July fourth independence of the United States of America gave 16 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: rise to the most powerful nation the world has ever known. 17 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: We are a nation today of three hundred and thirty 18 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: million people. Since our beginning, there have only ever been 19 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: even hundred million of US. At that beginning, there were 20 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: three million Americans three million who rebelled against the king, 21 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: thirteen states on the eastern seaboard of the United States 22 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: that would go on to become what Churchill called the 23 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: Great Republic. We are the only country made up of 24 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: all of the peoples of the world where every known 25 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: language is commonly spoken every day. Our nation, despite all 26 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: of its flaws and manifest hypocrisies, has done more good 27 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: in the world than all of the other nations put 28 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: together since the beginning of time. If the measurement is liberation, clothing, feeding, curing, 29 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: the record of the United States and the improvement of 30 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: humanity is clear, and our country over time has moved 31 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: closer to its goals, to its charter. Today, it is 32 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: true in America that all of us are created equal 33 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: and now by a creator, with inalienable rights that include life, 34 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Think about it, How 35 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: radical a concept that the purpose of life of government 36 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: is to secure the pursuit of happiness, not the service 37 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: of a king or a dictator. This is a nation 38 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: that places the citizen at the center. And we have 39 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: rights and freedoms that have been handed down to us 40 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: for us to be trustees of for every future American 41 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: not yet born, we are obligated to hand to them 42 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: a country that is stronger, closer to its ideas and 43 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: its ideals. There has never been a tranquil or genteel 44 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: period in American history. There has never been calm seas 45 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: and placid waters. Never. This is a moment where Americans 46 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: live in a tumultuous time, where there is an opportunity 47 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: to participate, to practice citizenship because our democracy in many 48 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: ways is on the line. What will you do? Will 49 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: you be in the fight or will you be on 50 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: the sidelines. July fourth is a day famous around the world, 51 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: a day of defiance and courage and hope. July fourth 52 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: is a America's birthday. It's one of the most important 53 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: days in all of the history of the world. And 54 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: here we are, two years shy of the two hundred 55 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution of its declaration 56 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: of independence, in the middle of a most momentous election. 57 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: The stakes are high on this July fourth. Freedom as 58 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: it has ever been is precious, it's fragile, and it's 59 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: on the line. Always. We should remember that this July fourth, 60 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: it is a day of hope and optimism, the day 61 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: of gratitude, of remembrance and banks and responsibility and obligation. 62 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: What a thing it is to be an American. We 63 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: are the luckiest people on Earth. Happy July fourth. I'm 64 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite you 65 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 66 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.