1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, November fourth, this is the morning it's 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: election day. Let's talk about that. One year from now, 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: the American people will decide if Donald Trump has a 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: check put on him, not by Democrats, but by us, 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: the American people, using the institution of the Democratic Party, 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: to say, you're not a king, you're out of control. 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: And your cabinet secretaries who come to the Congress with 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: both middle fingers waving, preserve your records. The choice that 9 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: we get to make about who leads us is not accidental. 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: It just isn't because and it just doesn't exist because 11 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: either we get to pick our leaders because of the 12 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: blood sacrifices of more than a million American patriots who 13 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: died so that people not yet born could live in freedom. 14 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: Let's look at some laws, some things that are commonplace 15 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: that if they went away, really wouldn't change things very 16 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: much in America. For example, let's say there was no 17 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: more right on red you lost that choice. Would it 18 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: mean you weren't free? It would not. It would just 19 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 1: mean you needed to be more patient. If you live 20 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: in a country where the politicians decide who rules, the 21 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: party decides who leads, and the leader decides what's real. 22 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: You don't live in a free country, you live in 23 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: a despotic one. In America, there are a couple of 24 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: ideas that are foundational, and there's some of the best 25 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: ideas that human beings have ever come up with, not 26 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: just in the last one hundred years, not just in 27 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: the last thousand years, but in all the years, in 28 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: all the times put together, from the beginning of time. 29 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: They start with the separation of church and state, but 30 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: it goes on from there to include the greatest American 31 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: invention of them all, the peaceful transfer of political power 32 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: after the sovereign, the people decide who gets temporary power 33 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: with limits on it for a set time until the 34 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: people can choose again. This is the quarnerstone of our civilization. 35 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: It is the bedrock. Everything is dependent on this belief. 36 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: This is what Donald Trump threw against the bricks and 37 00:02:53,880 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: shattered in an act of supreme selfishness, historical illiteracy, and 38 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: faithlessness to his country. Each time he said the election 39 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: only counts if I went was a lash across the 40 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: back of Lady Liberty, and each lash cut deeper until 41 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: the infection entered and the people didn't believe that the 42 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: elections were legitimate anymore, and came to believe the legitimacy 43 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: of the lie over the reality of the votes. And 44 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: so it came to be that there was a coup 45 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: an insurrection, and then it came to be that the 46 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: man who incited the coup, a criminal, was re elected. 47 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: He then partoned the criminals and denied the coup and said, again, 48 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: unless my side wins, it's a rigged election. 49 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: But the argument from Republicans is that Biden used an 50 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 2: autopen for pardons and that he didn't know who he 51 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: was pardoning. I mean, he did not know who he 52 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: was pardoning. 53 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 3: Well, he said it was recommended to him, and so 54 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 3: he said he was recommended to him. He gets a 55 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: lot of recommendations. He pardons a lot of people. Those 56 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 3: were that. That was his words. If you talk about 57 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 3: the difference between Biden Biden, his pardons were an auto 58 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 3: pin that's not even up in. 59 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 2: First also knew I mean he pardoned his family members, 60 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: he knew who they were. Well, that was. 61 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 3: One of how many thousands did he pardon? 62 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 2: Uh. 63 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 3: So my point that I'm trying to get to Caitlin, 64 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 3: I'm not trying to avoid the question. I don't know 65 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 3: anything about it. This is the first time I've heard 66 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 3: about the pardon. 67 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: Uh. 68 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: The president has the right to pardon who he wants to. 69 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 3: I guarantee he signed the pardon himself, not an old 70 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 3: auto pin And I know he has to take recommendations. 71 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 3: That's what we all do. 72 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: We take. 73 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 3: You take recommendations, we take I take recommendations. We've got 74 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 3: a great team that works around us. He's got a 75 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 3: great team that works around him, and he trusts them. 76 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 2: Uh. 77 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 3: He trusts him good enough that if he thinks I 78 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 3: mean he hears you heard him say that, if if 79 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 3: they think he needs to be pardoned, then he'll sign 80 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 3: the pardon. If he thinks they need to be dug 81 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 3: in farther, then they'll dig in farther. He has a 82 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 3: right to question whoever he wants, but he also trusts 83 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 3: his team around him. 84 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 2: But would do you want to know who you're partnering? 85 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 3: If I'm not the president of the United States nor 86 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 3: the governor of a state, I'm a senator, one of 87 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 3: one hundred. 88 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: It is the losing side of an election in a 89 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: democratic system that gives the winner legitimacy by conceding the 90 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: will of the people. But Donald Trump does not care 91 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: about the will of the people because he hates the people. 92 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: He wants to take from the people by ruling over 93 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: the people. And he has a massed allegian of enablers 94 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: and sycophants, weirdos and extremists and given them power. Today, 95 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: the press will look at this and report to you 96 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: about who won. What the press should be reporting is 97 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: the threat that exists for all of us around being 98 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: able to choose. Donald Trump doesn't believe we the people 99 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: have a right to choose our leaders. He believes, because 100 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: he is sick and he is surrounded by Nazis and nutters, 101 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: that he was chosen by God to be our king. 102 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: And there are no kings in America. But there are elections, 103 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: and today we should remember and for everybody who lives 104 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: somewhere where there is an election, remember to vote, because 105 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: you either choose or choices get imposed on you. You 106 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: either decide or a despot will. Indifference is choosing a side, 107 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: choosing the side of Maga. And there are two sides 108 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: in American life. There is the American side of the 109 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: debate and there is the Maga side. There are the 110 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: traders to the foundations, of our civilization. And there are 111 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: the faithful, there are the believers, and there are the apostates. 112 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: In the end, and the faithful, believing in the American creed, 113 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: will triumph in a great contest that will be remembered 114 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: as a great crisis. Have no doubt about the fortitude 115 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: that will be required to defeat this insanity. It has 116 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: risen from the lowest places, and it is the darkest 117 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: of threats. It is a threat that says you, me 118 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: and our children don't get to decide our future with 119 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: a vote. Instead, we get told what we will be, 120 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: how we will be, and what to believe. Has the 121 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: outcome of a vote already taken that we didn't get 122 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: to take part in. It is an unacceptable offer and 123 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: it should be thought about deeply on this election day 124 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: because it is very real and it stinks, and we 125 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: don't have to take it day. And I'm Steve Schmidt. 126 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: This is the warning. 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