1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: This is Steve Schmidt with the warning, and I just 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: wanted to talk a little bit about the four hundred 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: million dollar bribe extended to Donald Trump and to the 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: Trump family by the government of Qatar, the primary hosts 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: of hamas a double dealing terror sponsoring regime. What Donald 6 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: Trump is doing is touring the Middle East surrounded by 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: a pretorian guard of corruption, Hedge Fund corruption Steve Schwartzman, 8 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: multimillion dollar Trump donor, feasting at the trough that Trump 9 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: has built. The CEOs of some of the biggest companies 10 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: in the world, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, 11 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: amongst them who shook hands with Muhammad had been Solomon Praised, 12 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: the crown prince who chopped up a Washington Post columnist 13 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: after having him murdered in the Saudi embassy in is 14 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: dount Bull. The corruption that we are seeing simply defies 15 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: any known comparison, any known description, and it's incredible to 16 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: behold at a couple of different levels. And I wanted 17 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: to talk about it and also talk about Project twenty 18 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: twenty nine, which the Democrats should start to think about 19 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: what the restoration of the rule of law and American 20 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: democracy looks like and if necessary, what the very first 21 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: thing the next Democratic president of the United States which 22 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: would be compelled to do, which would be to seize 23 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: this airplane that gave Trump his last ride from whatever 24 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: air Force base it may be at. And let me 25 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: suggest what should happen to the Katori airplane seized from 26 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: an air force base by the next Democratic president. It 27 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: should be towed to the water's edge, put on a 28 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: barge an order to be dropped by the US Navy 29 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: into the Atlantic Ocean off of mar Alago where it 30 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: can be an artificial reef. And what the president ought 31 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: to do is sign an executive order throwing a few 32 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: bucks at low income kids so they can learn to 33 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: dive off of mar Alago on the artificial reef. And 34 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: I think that would be an appropriate place for the 35 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: Katari bribe for Hamas, one of which Donald Trump intent 36 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: to paint a different color than the traditional color of 37 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: the presidential aircraft. It's been in service since Jackie Kennedy 38 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: picked out those colors. That Trump has taken it upon 39 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: himself to give it a new paint job. And Donald 40 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: Trump air Force one isn't good enough for him. He 41 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: wants to fly around like America's first pimp on hamas 42 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: one decked out by the Arab thugs and potentates and 43 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: shakes that he is enamored with. And the reality of 44 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: this moment is he talks about trillions of dollars of 45 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: investment while planning to carve up and sell off America's 46 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: public lands to the highest bidder, including the Saadas and 47 00:03:53,040 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: obviously the Arab thugacrats mind in the em in Qatar 48 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia doesn't appreciate the fact that in the 49 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: United States and our constitutional system, where we have a 50 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: rule of law, where we have restraint on power, that 51 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will not be in power in four years time. 52 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: And so these countries that, along with Elon Musk and 53 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: a handful of some of the richest people in the world, 54 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: have decided to make their intentions clear as day to 55 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: attack the oldest republic in the world, to try to 56 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: tear it down. All of them will pay a heavy price. 57 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: And the relations between the United States and these countries 58 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: that have so widely, so openly engaged in Trump's corruption 59 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: and his attack from within on the constitution on the country, 60 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: they will all pay a very very heavy price. And 61 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: so it is a first order piece of business for 62 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: Democrats to start imagining how to deal with the abuses 63 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: of power that are manifests that are at hand, and 64 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: how to bring them to heal. How to break up 65 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: the companies that have assaulted the American way of life, 66 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: how to defenestrate the gangsters that have assaulted the American 67 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: way of life, How to set right our relations with 68 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: the countries that thought they could bribe their way into 69 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: taking their piece of the American government, the Emiratis, the Qataris, 70 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: and the Saudis. And let it be said, when we 71 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: look at these sick scenes, that Mohammed bin Salmon, who 72 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: ordered a Washington Post reporter murdered and dismembered, according to 73 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: the intelligence analysts, is the leader of a regressive kingdom, 74 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: a religious autocracy, that is a human rights disaster, that 75 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: is the home country of fifteen of the nineteen nine 76 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: to eleven hijackers who killed three thousand Americans, including with 77 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: the support of senior members of the Saudi royal family. 78 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: And what Donald Trump should do is to classify all 79 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: of the documents as opposed to cashing in at the 80 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,679 Speaker 1: Saudi trough, at the Amaradi trough, at the Katari trough. 81 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: And so when you see Elon Musk sitting next to 82 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: the Saudi crown Prince, what you see is a despicable image, 83 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: a historically despicable image. The world's richest man, who has 84 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: signed the death warrant for some of the world's poorest 85 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: children sitting there, who has accumulated who knows what electronically 86 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: on each one of us and giving it to who 87 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: knows whom. And so the assault on our civil liberties, 88 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: the assault on our basic civil rights, the assault on 89 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: the Constitution, all of it, all of it is very 90 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: real and it's happening. And yesterday Chuck Schumer had another 91 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: day where he was called to lead and he appeased. Now, 92 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: when we think about this moment and we think about 93 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: what's at hand, there's a very important article that has 94 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: been written that is essential, essential that it be read 95 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: and that it be appreciated and absorbed by the American people. 96 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: And it's been written by Judge Lutig, who's one of 97 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: the foremost legal scholars of this era. He's a conservative jurist, 98 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: but an American patriot who has not gotten on board 99 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: with this. And I want to I want to read 100 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: some excerpts from this so you can appreciate this moment. 101 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: This is from the Atlantic magazine. This is Judge Lootig, 102 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:57,479 Speaker 1: and this informs this moment because it's a articulation of reality. 103 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: The President of the United statesers to have long ago 104 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to 105 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: secure their independence from the British monarchy, but to establish 106 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,719 Speaker 1: a government of laws, not of men, so that day 107 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 1: and future generations of Americans would never again be subject 108 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: to the wings, to the whims of a tyrannical king, 109 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in seventeen seventy six, 110 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 1: for as in absolute governments, the king is law, so 111 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: in free countries the law ought to be king, and 112 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: there ought to be no other. Donald Trump seems also 113 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,959 Speaker 1: to not understand John Adams's fundamental observation about the new 114 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: nation that came into the world that same year. Just 115 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: last month, an interviewer from Time magazine asked the President 116 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: in the Oval office, Mister President, you were showing us 117 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: the new paintings you have behind us. You put all 118 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: these new portraits, one of them includes John Adams. John 119 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: Adams said, we are a government ruled by laws, not 120 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: by men. Do you agree with that, to which the 121 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: president replied, John Adams said that where was the painting. 122 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: When the interviewer pointed to the portrait, Trump asked, We're 123 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: a government ruled by laws, not by men. Well, I 124 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: think we're a government ruled by law. But you know, 125 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: somebody has to administer the law, so therefore men, certainly, 126 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: men and women certainly play a role in it. I 127 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't agree with it one hundred percent. We are a 128 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: government where men are involved in the process of laws, 129 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: and ideally you're going to have honest men like me. 130 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: And earlier this month, the television journal has to asked 131 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: Trump the simple question, don't you need to uphold the 132 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: Constitution of the United States as president? Astonishingly, Astonishingly, the 133 00:10:55,240 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: president answered, I don't know. The interviewer then asked, don't 134 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: you agree that every person in the United States is 135 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: entitled to due process? The president again replied, I don't know. 136 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: This is not a man who respects the rule of law, 137 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: nor one who seeks to understand it. Now listen carefully, everybody. 138 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: Thus far, Trump's presidency has been a reign of lawless 139 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: aggression by a tyrannical wanna be king, a rampage of 140 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: presidential lawlessness, in which Trump has proudly wielded the powers 141 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: of the office and the federal government to persecute his enemies, 142 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: while at the same time pardoning, glorifying, and favoring his 143 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: political allies and friends, among them those who attacked the 144 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: US capital during the insurrection that Trump fomented on sixth 145 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: January twenty one. The President's utter contempt for the constitution 146 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: and laws of the United States States has been on 147 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: spectacular display since inauguration Day. For almost two hundred and 148 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: fifty years, since the founding of this nation, America has 149 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: been the beacon of freedom to the world because of 150 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: its democracy and rule of law. Our systems of checks 151 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: and balances has been strained before, but democracy, government by 152 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: the people, and the rule of law have always won 153 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: the day. Until now. That is, America will never again 154 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: be that same beacon to the world, because the President 155 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: of the United States has subverted America's democracy and corrupted 156 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: its rule of law. And so this is one of 157 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: the foremost jurists of our age. And he says this 158 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: on the same day where the Chief Justice of the 159 00:12:55,160 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: United States says the rule of law is endangered in America. Well, 160 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: you don't say, mister Chief Justice. One thing I suppose 161 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: we should be thankful for. As bad as a chief 162 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: justice he may be, he's at least not America's chief detective, 163 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: because the obvious is a revelation to our Chief Justice. Now, 164 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: I want to read the conclusion, the conclusion to Judge 165 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: Ludig's piece. The forty seventh President of the United States 166 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: may wish he were a king, But in America, the 167 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: law is king, not the President. Donald Trump may wish 168 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: he could dictate his unconscroonable global tariffs, dispense with due process, 169 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: and deport whomever he pleases citizens and not, and vanish 170 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: away huge swaths of the federal government without check or rebuke. 171 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: He may wish he did not have to contend with 172 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: the First and Fourteenth Amendments, the free press, or the 173 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: Constitution's birthright citizenship Guarantee. He may wish he could ignore 174 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: the Constitution's elections clauses and run America's elections from the 175 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: White House. And he may wish he could intimidate the 176 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: nation's lawyers and law firms from challenging his abusive power. 177 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: And come and dear them to do his personal bidding. 178 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: But it is these constitutional obstacles to a tyrannical president 179 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: that have made America the greatest nation on earth for 180 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: almost two hundred and fifty years, not the fallen America 181 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: that Trump delusionally thinks he's going to make great again tomorrow. 182 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: After these first three tyrannical, lawless months of this presidency, 183 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: surely Americans can understand now that Donald Trump is going 184 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: to continue to decimate America for the next three plus years. 185 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: He will continue his assault on america It's democracy and 186 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: rule of law until the American peopleeople finally rise up 187 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: and say no more. From across the agents, Frederick Douglas 188 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:16,119 Speaker 1: is crying out that we Americans never forget the limits 189 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those of 190 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: those who may oppress. The limits of tyrants are prescribed 191 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: by the endurance of those whom they oppress. And so 192 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: let us understand in this moment, when lawlessness is declared legal, 193 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: when the federal government has weaponized federal law enforcement to 194 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: wear masks and cover their faces like Gestapo, and turn 195 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: them loose to instill fear in the people, fear in 196 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: the people of their government, which I'm pretty sure I 197 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: read somewhere is a government of the people, by the people, 198 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: and for the people. And so the nature of the 199 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: fight is not one that has been chosen by the people. 200 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: The fight has been waged by the aggressor against the 201 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: people with declarations of a new superiority, where we are 202 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: to be their serfs and they are to be our 203 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: kings and dukes. And by the they let me be specific. 204 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: Unlike Donald Trump's use of the ubiquitously to spin and 205 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 1: weave conspiracies, when I talk about today, what I'm talking 206 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: about is Donald Trump's kebab of losers. The Secretary of Defense, 207 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: Pete Hegsath and Christy nom and Pam Bondi and Sebastian 208 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: Gorka and Stephen Miller. Every one of these little. 209 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 2: Aikmans is drunk with power, drunk with megalomania, and drunk 210 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 2: with the delusion that they are above the law and 211 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 2: service of a. 212 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: King in the middle of a revolution, that they are 213 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: to take from OUs our birthright so they can steal 214 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 1: everything in this country, the minerals in the ground, the 215 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: freedom in the air, and the money in our bank. 216 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: Accounts so that they can have a little bit more 217 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: and more and more and more, and so in this moment, 218 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what the old labels mean. I don't 219 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 1: know what it means to be a liberal or what 220 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: it means to be a conservative, because I had always 221 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: believed that those were two fates that believed in democracy 222 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: and believed in the rule of law, and believed in 223 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: the republic, and that argued on the margins, and the 224 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: difference is about how to bring into being the more 225 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: perfect union. But I know now that a lot of 226 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: those people didn't believe in any of it. What they 227 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: saw in all of it was a super highway to 228 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: their power, a super highway to riches, and they'll do 229 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: anything to take it, anything to keep it, including burning 230 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: down the greatest idea in the history of the world, 231 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: which is the United States of Maria, made up of 232 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: all of the peoples of the world, where every language 233 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: is spoken every day, that together has done more good 234 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: in the world than all of the other peoples and 235 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: all of the other nations put together. From the beginning 236 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: of time. We have fed more people, we have liberated 237 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: more people, we have cured more people. We have led 238 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 1: the world in scientific discovery and achievement. We have lit 239 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: the world with the incandescence of the concept of human 240 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: liberty and the idea that the individual human being is 241 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: more important, more powerful than the greatest king in the world, 242 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: and their rights are equal, and what protects us is democracy. 243 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: The man who sat across from Adolf Heikman for two 244 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five hours and interrogated them and never 245 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: talked about it twenty years after the fact said his 246 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: takeaway from the experience was that it gave him his 247 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: faith in democracy because everywhere there are Adolph Iikmans. He said, 248 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 1: they are all around us, but they're latent, they're harmless. 249 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: But in a dictatorship of the left and right, they 250 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:29,719 Speaker 1: turned deadly in an instant, and we're watching that in 251 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: this moment. In this instant, we know who the little 252 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: Aikmans are. Stephen Miller is a little Iikman, and Pam 253 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: Bondi is a little Aikman, and Christin Noman Corey Lewandowski, 254 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: the Happy fashionst couple, are both little Aikmans. We know 255 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: that Carolyn Levitt is a little Aikman. We know that 256 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: the propagandis and the weird children Trump's children of the 257 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: corn assembled in that briefing room. They're all little Ikemans. 258 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: And if they could, they put you against the wall, 259 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: and they put you in a camp. And let's be 260 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: honest about that, because the danger's too great to deceive 261 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: each other anymore. And I want to talk about a 262 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 1: final thing today. Your duty and our obligation is not 263 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: to the politicians. You don't owe Chuck Schumer anything. Chuck 264 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: Schumer was asked a question yesterday on CNN by Casey Hunk, 265 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: and she asked in advance of Jake Tapper's book coming out, 266 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: Original Sin. She asked, Chuck Schumer, you were around the 267 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: president a lot Biden. Did you ever see his incapacity? 268 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: And you know what Chuck Schumer said, Well, he didn't 269 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: answer the question. Doesn't think he asked. He just said, 270 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: we're moving on, and I would love to move on. 271 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 1: But Casey Hunt observed something that's deeply true. We wouldn't 272 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: be here in this national disaster if we didn't have 273 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: two dishonest parties. And I don't mean dishonest Democrats in 274 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: the country, because the Democrats in the country were against us. 275 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: What I'm talking about is the leaders of the party 276 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: who sold out the Democrats in the country because they 277 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: would rather they would rather have taken the risk than 278 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: offend power, to defend the ego of an old man 279 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: and his wife. And look what they did to us. 280 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: And they don't think they have to answer the question. 281 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: And Jake Tapper, who wrote the book, is being celebrated 282 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: at a DC gathering of journalists tonight. Jake Tapper, who 283 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: hosts a show on CNN every single day, He's going 284 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: to pretend that he covered this, he went for it, 285 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: that he was a truth teller, that he confronted power. 286 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman, the celebrated New York Times journalist, became a 287 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 1: multi millionaire writing books about Trump, where she withheld news 288 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: from The New York Times on her daily job and 289 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: is called by Trump his psychiatrist. She's the Walter Duranty 290 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: of this era, the person whole Trump, but never once 291 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 1: reported the inherent danger of who he was, of what 292 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: he is. The American news media that shouted down the 293 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: people who tried to warn, who tried to say what 294 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: would happen? Those people want to give themselves an award. 295 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough, who presides over four hours of television programming, 296 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: on something that calls itself a news network, right, that 297 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: has voices of integrity on it, like my friend Nicole Wallace, 298 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: like Rachel Maddow, like Ray Melberg. But for four hours 299 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: in the morning, you had a guy with his wife 300 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: who made twenty million dollars a year, and they looked 301 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: into the camera and they said, if you don't believe 302 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: this is the best version of Joe Biden ever, fuck you. 303 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: He said that. And then after saying on one day 304 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: that every single person he talks who says Biden's not 305 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: up to this, he delivers the fu the next day 306 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: says Trump is a Nazi. Then is the first person 307 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: to run tomorrow a lago to get on his knees 308 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: in Genufleck, And now, without comment, he'll lead the discussion 309 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: about what America needs next from his cable news platform 310 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: for the next four years. Are you kidding me? Insanity 311 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,679 Speaker 1: doesn't begin to describe it. And what all of the 312 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: accumulated corruption has brought is this disaster. And unless we 313 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: get out of it, we can't move forward. And so 314 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: somebody says, why are we litigating this? Why are we 315 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: litigating this? Because for a very simple reason, the opposition 316 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: that defeats Donald Trump. Has to be honest in nature 317 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: and disposition and character. It has to be honest. And 318 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: the fundamental threshold question that every single Democrat's going to 319 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: have to answer. The first one is about the gaslighting 320 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, because you know what happened to 321 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: the person who asked the question. The most prolific liar 322 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: in American history won an election because a slight plurality 323 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: thought he was more honest than the guy who was 324 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: running against, more honest than them about the economy, more 325 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: honest than them about the border, more honest about Joe 326 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 1: Biden's health, and everybody shouted down the truth tellers. And 327 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: so now in a moment when you have a corrupt 328 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: Attorney general saying the four one hundred million dollar gift 329 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: from the principal sponsors of Hamas is legal, there's a 330 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: lack of credibility and character to stand up and call bullshit. 331 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: So in this moment, it's time to drop the fandom 332 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: of some of the most powerful people in the country. 333 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: It demands was as the demands on representatives represent us, 334 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: and what we want to see, millions of us, is 335 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 1: maximum use of power to stop the maximum abuse of power. 336 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 1: We do not seek to match the abuses of power. 337 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: We seek to use constitutional power to stop the abuses 338 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: against the Constitution. And what that means is, every single day, 339 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: in every single transaction, one hundred percent of the time, 340 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day, the Trump administration is relentlessly 341 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: confronted on every lie, on every abuse, on every insanity, 342 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: and that the Democratic Congress starts work immediately on our 343 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: takes relating a legislative agenda designed to bring this insanity 344 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: to an end, stop the insider trading and the corruption, 345 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: real penalties, real enforcement. And if you can't set, if 346 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: you can't set that Joe Biden wasn't up for this 347 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, how are you going to stand 348 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: up to every powerful interest in this country the way 349 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: that FDR did. Because everything Trump has done for the 350 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: first one hundred plus days has been utterly loss loss, 351 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: and the next president and the next Congress won't have 352 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: the luxury of meeting lawlessness with more lawlessness. There will 353 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: have to be hundreds of pieces of legislation passed that 354 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:55,959 Speaker 1: break up the accumulation of power and capital and money 355 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: that has sought to strangle the American Eagle fundamental to 356 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: how we win the next election. And so when a 357 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: Gretchen Witmer walks into the Oval office and hides her 358 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: face full stop, you know who she is. She can't 359 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: lead the fight. When the people who spend nine hundred 360 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: million dollars losing to Donald Trump meet at a fifteen 361 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: hundred dollars a night hotel in Half Moon Bay, California, 362 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: over caviar and champagne to plot how they'll spend the 363 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: next nine hundred million dollars of Grandma's five million dollar donations, 364 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: it's time to say enough is enough is enough. And 365 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: so in this next election, there will be a tsunami 366 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: that wipes out this Trump Maga Congress. But that victory 367 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: doesn't belong to the powerbrokers at the DNC. It belongs 368 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: to the American people and the people who run for 369 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: office who should make it in this election, and it's 370 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: within our power as a nation to help them make it. 371 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: Should be like us, They should represent us. They should 372 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: be ordinary people who will get joy in fighting for 373 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: ordinary people against the most powerful interests that have accumulated 374 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: together and asserted power against the common collective interests in 375 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: perhaps all of American history. We need candidates who do 376 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: not need twenty consultants to tell them why it is 377 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: they're running. We need people. We need teachers, we need plumbers, 378 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: we need truck drivers, We need people who coach Little 379 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: league games and understand that not everybody sees the world 380 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: like they do. Their job is to get in a 381 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: room to do right by the majority of the people 382 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 1: a majority of the time by trying to find common 383 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: sense agreement. Of course, AOC isn't going to see the 384 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: world from the bronx like some guy who grew up 385 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: in a ranch in Montana. But it's enough with the 386 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: people who've tried to get those two different sides to 387 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: hate each other, because you know what, they're not on 388 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: two different sides. They're on the same side, the American side, 389 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: and we share something. We share something beautiful, We share 390 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: an inheritance of freedom. And the last thing I want 391 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: to say, and I thank all of you for taking 392 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: time to listen, is that there was a moment that 393 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: many of us share in terms of a common experience 394 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: that took place outside of our lifetimes. I had the 395 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: experience at the beginning of my service in the White 396 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: House of flying with lvs L in the US delegation 397 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: to the sixtieth anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz in 398 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and five. And it was an extraordinary moment 399 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: in my life and definitive in terms of who I 400 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: became and what I saw. And when I landed in 401 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: Poland a board Air Force two, we were able to 402 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 1: see the plane landing on the television sets inside the aircraft, 403 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: and that was the first time I had ever experienced that, 404 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 1: watching on a news channel the blue and white airplane 405 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: carrying the Vice President, that you're a board landing in 406 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: a foreign country. That's the country that my grandmother came 407 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: to the United States from. She was born in the 408 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: United States, but she returned to Poland as a little 409 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: girl and came back to the United States in the 410 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:41,439 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties not speaking a word of a word of English. 411 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: And there's only seven hundred million of us, less than 412 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: the population of China and min India, that have ever 413 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: been Americans from the beginning of time. Half of all 414 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: Americans are alive right now. In the total history of 415 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: our country, more than seventy million people. This was the 416 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of our ancestors were born, took their first 417 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,280 Speaker 1: breath in a foreign land came to the United States, 418 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: and when people came to the United States, like my 419 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: ancestors in the nineteen twenties, in the eighteen seventies, there 420 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: was no Instagram, and there was no movie theater, no television. 421 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: There were books, there were photographs, sketches, but America was 422 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: not a place that was easy to come to, and 423 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,319 Speaker 1: America was not a place that was easy to see 424 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 1: images of pictures of what America was was an idea, 425 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: And we tend to think about that American as beginning 426 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 1: when our ancestors arrive in the country. In the American mythology, 427 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:14,359 Speaker 1: we tend to remember that in our family lore, as 428 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 1: it was passed down that moment they saw the Statue 429 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,720 Speaker 1: of Liberty, or they crossed the threshold at Ellis Island 430 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: or some other port of entry. But that journey doesn't 431 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: begin there. It begins that night before the departure from 432 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: the only home our ancestors ever knew. And so I 433 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 1: don't know what that last dinner was like, and I 434 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 1: can't really imagine what that home was. I just know 435 00:36:54,800 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: it didn't have electricity. It would have been modest. There 436 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,359 Speaker 1: would have been a dinner, and it would have been 437 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: the last dinner, and it took place by candlelight, and 438 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: maybe they were quiet, and maybe they were excited. But 439 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 1: in the morning, whatever their state may have been, they 440 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 1: were leaving for America, and they didn't know will lied ahead. 441 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: And to think of a man whose face I've never seen, 442 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: the father of my grandmother, who would have been a 443 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: younger man than I am, now made that decision, I'll 444 00:37:54,160 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: go to America. Why the streets were not paved in gold. 445 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: The myth was not true. It was hard here, but 446 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:13,160 Speaker 1: anything was possible here. In the purpose of the country 447 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,840 Speaker 1: was it to become a billionaire, though it was possible 448 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: to be one. It was to pursue happiness. In this concept, 449 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:40,080 Speaker 1: over our history has evolved, it has changed. When the 450 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 1: moment occurred in seventeen eighty three, when independence was won, 451 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:56,800 Speaker 1: the white flag went up over the British lines, Gilbert 452 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: du Montier, who history remembers America's first Frank Lafayette in 453 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:22,439 Speaker 1: command at your town, says, at this moment, humanity has 454 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:34,359 Speaker 1: its victory, liberty has its country. And he knew that slavery, 455 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: which he desecrated, he hated, would not survive liberty. He 456 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 1: understood the hypocrisy. He understood the duality, but he understood 457 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: that the force of liberty could not comedy the evil 458 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,799 Speaker 1: of slavery. Predicted the last place it would exists in 459 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,120 Speaker 1: the Western world was in the Deep South of the 460 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:16,480 Speaker 1: United States. And so this story unfolds. And in nineteen 461 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: sixty eight, in a time of chaos, Martin Luther King, 462 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 1: at thirty nine years old, at the edge of his death, 463 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 1: I believe has a prophetic vision, and he tells the 464 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: audience that in Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation workers for a strike 465 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:55,960 Speaker 1: that he imagines the Lord coming to him and saying, 466 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: I want to take you on a tour of the 467 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,399 Speaker 1: world to any place you've ever wanted to go at 468 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,400 Speaker 1: any time that's ever been. And Martin Luther King talks 469 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,240 Speaker 1: about the fact that he wants to go to Egypt 470 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 1: and to Pharaoh's time and see the delivery of God's people, 471 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,600 Speaker 1: and he talks about that he'd want to go and 472 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,799 Speaker 1: see Aristotle, to ancient Greece, and he want to go 473 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:31,720 Speaker 1: to ancient Rome. But he adds that though he would 474 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:36,399 Speaker 1: want to see these places in these times, he'd want 475 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:44,280 Speaker 1: to come to his time, to his place, this time, 476 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,880 Speaker 1: our time, the year nineteen sixty eight, and he said, 477 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 1: if he didn't live in that time, he wouldn't have 478 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,840 Speaker 1: been in Montgomery, he wouldn't have been in Selma, and 479 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,319 Speaker 1: he would choose to live in the time that he 480 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:04,560 Speaker 1: was born into. And that's the first thing when people 481 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,440 Speaker 1: ask the question, what do we do in this moment? 482 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:15,319 Speaker 1: Is to have gratitude to be in this moment when 483 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: everything that we care about is under siege and assault. 484 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,560 Speaker 1: And this is the first moral test, is the wisdom 485 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:32,719 Speaker 1: to appreciate what Thomas Pain saw at the beginning, and 486 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,319 Speaker 1: what Thomas Pain saw at the beginning was an ungenerous 487 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:43,320 Speaker 1: parent standing with a child saying, no, I do not 488 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:51,080 Speaker 1: want trouble. Now I have a child. Thomas Pain delivered 489 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,799 Speaker 1: an American rebuke and the American proposition, which was, no, 490 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,000 Speaker 1: if there must be trouble, let it be in my time. 491 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 1: Tomas Paine did not live in a country that counted 492 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:12,400 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King as a full human being three fifths 493 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:17,239 Speaker 1: of a man. But Tomas Paine was there at the 494 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:22,440 Speaker 1: birth of a nation that would see in due time 495 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,960 Speaker 1: a man like Martin Luther King, like Frederick Douglass, become 496 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:31,280 Speaker 1: one of the most monumental men in all the history 497 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,040 Speaker 1: of the nation. And so Martin Luther King, on that 498 00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:40,360 Speaker 1: night in Memphis starts talking about the second part of 499 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:45,520 Speaker 1: that speech, and he says that he wants to have 500 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:55,040 Speaker 1: a long life. He was thirty nine years old. Thirty nine, 501 00:43:55,360 --> 00:44:00,000 Speaker 1: thirty nine years old. He says, longevity has a purpose, 502 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:09,680 Speaker 1: but none of that mattered to him, because he said 503 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:20,399 Speaker 1: he had been to the mountaintop. Now, from the mountaintop, 504 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King sees something that other prophets have seen, 505 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 1: all the way back to the Pilgrims, all the way 506 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:38,359 Speaker 1: back to John Winthrop. I think what Martin Luther King 507 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:45,840 Speaker 1: must have seen from the mountaintop is the completed city, 508 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:53,960 Speaker 1: the city upon a hill that John Winthrop imagined when 509 00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:04,360 Speaker 1: the Mayflower sailed into Providence Bay. And when Martin Luther 510 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:11,239 Speaker 1: King saw the city upon a hill from that mountaintop completed, 511 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:23,960 Speaker 1: he understood that he was at peace and that nothing 512 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:31,120 Speaker 1: else mattered, because the life he had lived had led 513 00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:40,840 Speaker 1: him to a revelation that confirmed for him his faith 514 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:46,960 Speaker 1: that the moral arc of the universe was long, but 515 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:56,040 Speaker 1: bended towards justice. This is what Martin Luther King saw 516 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:01,719 Speaker 1: from the mountaintop. But he did not tell us when, 517 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:07,000 Speaker 1: and he did not tell us that it will be 518 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:14,319 Speaker 1: reached in our lifetime. What he obligated us to do 519 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:26,880 Speaker 1: is to fight step by step up the mountain until 520 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,600 Speaker 1: we are on its summit and we can't see what 521 00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 1: he saw and so attest his come. And it's clear 522 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:52,760 Speaker 1: as that in this moment compels every American to reconnect 523 00:46:53,920 --> 00:47:08,640 Speaker 1: with something that is indisputable, inviolable, unalterable in our creed, 524 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:21,279 Speaker 1: in our faith. We are free. And our freedom is 525 00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:25,960 Speaker 1: not given by a man, and it cannot be taken 526 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:36,160 Speaker 1: away by one. Our freedom is our birthright. And any 527 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:43,680 Speaker 1: person who seeks to lead in this moment, whether they 528 00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:49,800 Speaker 1: be in the media, whether they be in politics, whether 529 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:55,920 Speaker 1: they be in business, should appreciate, as the Canadian Prime 530 00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:04,279 Speaker 1: minister does, there's some things are not for sale. And 531 00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:10,040 Speaker 1: for this American, and I suspect for the two thousand 532 00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:19,520 Speaker 1: people that are all on this together, it's not for sale. 533 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:24,680 Speaker 1: So we gotta fight for it. And what you have 534 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:29,000 Speaker 1: to do today and what you have to do tomorrow, 535 00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:38,960 Speaker 1: is to arm yourself with the faith that even in 536 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:46,480 Speaker 1: the worst moments of what's coming in the end, the 537 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:53,800 Speaker 1: power of what we believe in is so much greater 538 00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:02,000 Speaker 1: than the golden calf. The Maga extreme believe in. They 539 00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:07,680 Speaker 1: believe in something empty and hollow and deeply wrong. But 540 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,439 Speaker 1: we believe in something that is good and noble and right. 541 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:19,080 Speaker 1: And what we have to appreciate in this era where 542 00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:25,879 Speaker 1: people have tried to divide, and people have said that 543 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:31,720 Speaker 1: if somebody disagrees with you, they're your enemy, that all 544 00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:39,600 Speaker 1: of it is a mirage that has clouded your vision 545 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:47,200 Speaker 1: about able to see what lies behind all the false divisions, 546 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:52,000 Speaker 1: And it's the blue sky of a better society, a 547 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,840 Speaker 1: better country, and we're gonna make it better by taking 548 00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:04,080 Speaker 1: it back. But it starts with it demands in this moment, 549 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:14,080 Speaker 1: a fierceness in an opposition that calls itself American, that 550 00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,640 Speaker 1: seeks to exclude no person of good faith or goodwill 551 00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:23,720 Speaker 1: from it, but demands that if you seek to face 552 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:30,200 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and contest the ideas that must be contested, 553 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,719 Speaker 1: that you must do it from a place that is 554 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: pure of motive and heart. It's not about your power. 555 00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:45,440 Speaker 1: It's about the power of the American people to pursue 556 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:50,960 Speaker 1: their happiness. And that's what's at staken, That's what's been taken. 557 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,279 Speaker 1: And so for ten long years the storm rolled in, 558 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:04,160 Speaker 1: and each day there was always someone out there telling 559 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:11,280 Speaker 1: you that that storm won't make landfall, or that storm 560 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:15,959 Speaker 1: is not a dangerous one, or that storm is good 561 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:21,120 Speaker 1: for you, or that storm may benefit you. Or if 562 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,120 Speaker 1: you're in the boat building business, you may be able 563 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,160 Speaker 1: to sell a boat, or if you're in the wood business, 564 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:31,160 Speaker 1: you may be able to cover some windows, or somehow 565 00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,400 Speaker 1: somewhere in that storm was an opportunity for you. And 566 00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:40,880 Speaker 1: when enough people in powerful positions surveyed the situation, and 567 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:46,000 Speaker 1: they looked and they said, like a thousand Lindsay grams, Oh, 568 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,640 Speaker 1: I can get this out of this, And all I 569 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,000 Speaker 1: have to do is throw away everything I used to 570 00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:58,840 Speaker 1: say I believed in. But the truth was maybe you 571 00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,279 Speaker 1: didn't believe in anything else, so it wasn't a hard 572 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:09,200 Speaker 1: thing to throw away. And so hollow men and women 573 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,440 Speaker 1: are hollow men and women. Regardless of what letter they 574 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:20,600 Speaker 1: have next to their name, and whether it's the aggressor 575 00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:26,719 Speaker 1: or the appeaser, they both equally threaten you. And so 576 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:33,400 Speaker 1: in this moment we will experience together the wisdom of 577 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:38,560 Speaker 1: that old adage that says the days are long, but 578 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,799 Speaker 1: the years are short, and we're gonna have some very 579 00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:49,200 Speaker 1: long days. We're gonna have some heartbreaking days. But then 580 00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:53,239 Speaker 1: we're gonna have a day when these people hear from 581 00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:59,640 Speaker 1: all of us loudly and clearly. And that day is 582 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:04,279 Speaker 1: gonna be in two thousand and twenty six, and there's 583 00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:08,080 Speaker 1: gonna be another one in twenty twenty eight. There are 584 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:14,480 Speaker 1: two commodities that are utterly perishable in a political campaign. 585 00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:23,040 Speaker 1: One is time and one is money. The opposition cannot 586 00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:29,360 Speaker 1: afford to waste either. As we get ready for the 587 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:35,920 Speaker 1: biggest political fight in the history of the country, and 588 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,640 Speaker 1: one of the most intense that has ever been outside 589 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:48,280 Speaker 1: of the American Civil War. The aggression, the use of fear, 590 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:56,160 Speaker 1: the use of power, the use of law enforcement to 591 00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:05,439 Speaker 1: take to scare is a moral abomination. And so last 592 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,959 Speaker 1: thing I'm going to say is this, at the core, 593 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:15,799 Speaker 1: fight we're in is about right and wrong, and it's 594 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:23,040 Speaker 1: as simple as that. What we're witnessing is a deep wrong, 595 00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:33,759 Speaker 1: a deep corruption, and epic lawlessness and incandescent arrogance that 596 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:45,120 Speaker 1: defies description. And in this moment, there will be moments 597 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:52,240 Speaker 1: where people feel helpless and alone, and that's the goal. 598 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,840 Speaker 1: But You're not alone. There are a one hundred million 599 00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:02,960 Speaker 1: of us and more who will not accept this, not 600 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:08,040 Speaker 1: to tolerate this, and will fight it until the end. 601 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:14,160 Speaker 1: And so with that, I just wanted to say, do 602 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:19,200 Speaker 1: not give up the fight. It hasn't even begun yet 603 00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:27,360 Speaker 1: ten years into this madness. A couple of things are true. 604 00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:34,880 Speaker 1: Dishonesty is Trump's magic rocket fuel, and he's ridden it 605 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:45,640 Speaker 1: back to power. And the same dishonest people that brought 606 00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:52,280 Speaker 1: him back to power now demand our silence and holding 607 00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:57,400 Speaker 1: them accountable. And very soon, no doubt, we will hear 608 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:02,600 Speaker 1: from all of them that there's no more time left 609 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:08,640 Speaker 1: to talk about any of this, because if we do, 610 00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:15,520 Speaker 1: then Trump may win. And I'm sorry, but I'm not 611 00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:19,719 Speaker 1: getting in line with it ever again, and I didn't 612 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,640 Speaker 1: last time, and I hope you won't next time either, 613 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:30,840 Speaker 1: because if we do, that's it. It's lights out. And 614 00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:35,439 Speaker 1: so Casey Hunt may be a ludicrous person to ask 615 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,360 Speaker 1: a question of Chuck Schumer from the platform of CNN 616 00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:44,480 Speaker 1: about his obvious condition, but that's not what the issue is. 617 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:51,640 Speaker 1: The issue is about the honesty. And so in twenty 618 00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:57,520 Speaker 1: and sixteen, Jim Bush got the gold medal for the 619 00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:01,279 Speaker 1: craziest answer of the campaign, which is tough to do 620 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,759 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump is running. And the question that Jeff 621 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,239 Speaker 1: Bush was asked is a similar question of the one 622 00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,120 Speaker 1: the Democrats are all going to be asked, and it 623 00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:17,840 Speaker 1: was this, knowing then, what you know now, would we 624 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:22,960 Speaker 1: have invaded Iraq again? And Jeff Bush's answer was, oh, yes, 625 00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,640 Speaker 1: of course right, the world is much safer, would have 626 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:33,200 Speaker 1: done it again. Here's the point. Nobody needed Jeff Bush 627 00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,160 Speaker 1: to tell us the answer. The American people knew the answer, 628 00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,520 Speaker 1: and the answer was, of course, it was a mistake. 629 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,360 Speaker 1: It was one of the foremost disasters in the history 630 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,040 Speaker 1: of the country. Here's what the question was about. The 631 00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:49,800 Speaker 1: question was about, are you going to tell the American 632 00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:55,480 Speaker 1: people the truth even if it upsets your brother? And 633 00:57:55,520 --> 00:58:01,320 Speaker 1: the answer the American people got was no, I'm gonna 634 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,280 Speaker 1: guesslight the American people and bullshit them about something they 635 00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:12,160 Speaker 1: obviously know is true. Because whatever card that may be, 636 00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:16,600 Speaker 1: the one about not embarrassing my brother is just a 637 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:21,240 Speaker 1: little bit higher. And so the question whether it goes 638 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,800 Speaker 1: to Tim Walls or any of these people about Joe 639 00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:28,360 Speaker 1: Biden isn't a question because we already know the answer. 640 00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,800 Speaker 1: The question that's being answered is if the person who's 641 00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,760 Speaker 1: answering the question is going to tell the truth or not. 642 00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:41,560 Speaker 1: That's the question and the degree to which there is 643 00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:46,120 Speaker 1: a constituency of people that demand that they be lied 644 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:51,640 Speaker 1: to in the interest of the politician. I don't have 645 00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,720 Speaker 1: a fix for that. And what the cost of that 646 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,880 Speaker 1: is is we lose the country. It's over. So that's 647 00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:08,480 Speaker 1: how serious that demand honesty. Demand it in the media, 648 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:14,360 Speaker 1: demand it in your politics, demand it in this moment, 649 00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:21,240 Speaker 1: and demand an honest opposition. This is the warning. Thank 650 00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:25,000 Speaker 1: you for joining us. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 651 00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:28,000 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise 652 00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:32,120 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 653 00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:36,680 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 654 00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:42,280 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.