WEBVTT - Top Republicans: Russian Propaganda Has "INFECTED" Our Party

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<v Speaker 1>With the evidence is of cancer that has consumed so

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<v Speaker 1>much of America's political life by elevating the worst amongst

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<v Speaker 1>us to some of the highest positions of political power.

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<v Speaker 1>And when they get there, because they are unprepared. They

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<v Speaker 1>are disordered personalities, malignant, narcissists, ignorant, and in some cases

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<v Speaker 1>just plain dumb. They are easy to fool, easy to

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<v Speaker 1>lie to, easy to dupe, and easy to trick. That's

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<v Speaker 1>why these two men, these two chairmen, are talking about

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<v Speaker 1>their colleagues being under the influence of Russian propaganda. It

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<v Speaker 1>is April eleventh, and there are two hundred and eight

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<v Speaker 1>days left until the American people will choose the next

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<v Speaker 1>American commander in chief. This is the warning. Mike Turner

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<v Speaker 1>from Ohio is the chairman of House Republican Intelligence Committee,

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<v Speaker 1>and his colleague, Mike McCall of Texas is the chairman

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<v Speaker 1>of the House Foreign Relations Committee. The two men said

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<v Speaker 1>something totally obvious but still rather remarkable. What they said

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<v Speaker 1>is that Russian propaganda has influenced, has penetrated, has affected

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<v Speaker 1>their colleagues. Think about that Russian propaganda has reached its

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<v Speaker 1>way into the House of Representatives and into the Republican

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<v Speaker 1>cloak grow where it has swayed the opinions. Now, what

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<v Speaker 1>does this mean? What is Russian propaganda? Is it a

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<v Speaker 1>magical elixir, a secret element, some type of enigmatic powder

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<v Speaker 1>that wasps through the vents. It's none of those things.

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<v Speaker 1>What it is is is carefully constructed and packaged lies.

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<v Speaker 1>And those lies have merged and melded with Donald Trump's magalies.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a practical effect, an outcome, a cause, an effect,

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<v Speaker 1>a consequence for a society. When the president of the

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<v Speaker 1>United States over four years times lies by documented count

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<v Speaker 1>more than thirty five thousand times to the American people,

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<v Speaker 1>the incessancy and constancy of the lies has a practical

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<v Speaker 1>effect in the end. What it does is it erodes

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<v Speaker 1>the ability of normal people to distinguish what is real

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<v Speaker 1>and what is not, what is true and what is fake,

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<v Speaker 1>what is false and what is real, What is the

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<v Speaker 1>lie and what is the truth? And the distinguishment between

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<v Speaker 1>what is the lie and what is the truth is

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<v Speaker 1>elemental in a democracy because in a democracy, it is

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<v Speaker 1>the people that are sovereign. Specifically, the American government is

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<v Speaker 1>constructed on the basis of a republic of the people,

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<v Speaker 1>by the people, for the people. If the people can't

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<v Speaker 1>tell what is real, can't tell up from down, down

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<v Speaker 1>from up, red from blue, blue from red, then we

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<v Speaker 1>are in big trouble. Democracies, the United States in particular,

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<v Speaker 1>are constructed on truth, on elemental truths about the dignity

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<v Speaker 1>of the human being, about this premissy of the individual

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<v Speaker 1>over any collective. These ideas about the dignity of life

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<v Speaker 1>are perhaps most clearly and best manifested in these words

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<v Speaker 1>from the American Declaration of Independence, that all men are

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<v Speaker 1>created equal and endowed by a creator, with certain inalienable rights,

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<v Speaker 1>among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This

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<v Speaker 1>is a truth, an inalienable truth, that is at the

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<v Speaker 1>center of the idea that created the United States of America,

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<v Speaker 1>which has endured for nearly two hundred and fifty years.

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<v Speaker 1>But there are other ideas, and every one of those

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<v Speaker 1>ideas subordinate the dignity and then the freedom and the

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<v Speaker 1>liberty of the individual below the power of the state,

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<v Speaker 1>or a party, or a man, or all three acting

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<v Speaker 1>together in concert with the man declaring that I am

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<v Speaker 1>the party, the party declaring that we are the state.

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<v Speaker 1>When this happens, it's a recipe for atrocity and evil.

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<v Speaker 1>The most famous examples of lies overwhelming reality, consuming the

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<v Speaker 1>world and a fire of rage and hate and violence

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<v Speaker 1>was what happened in Europe during the nineteen twenties and

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<v Speaker 1>thirties and forties, with the rise of the Nazis in

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<v Speaker 1>Germany and the genocide they perpetrated and committed. All of

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<v Speaker 1>it was built on a mountain of lies and delusions.

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<v Speaker 1>Lies that the Germans were a superior race, a master race,

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<v Speaker 1>and that all around them were lesser people, some of

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<v Speaker 1>them needed to be annihilated, exterminated, while others simply could

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<v Speaker 1>exist as slaves. The German people would live in a

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<v Speaker 1>paradise of open space, in an agrarian society where they

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<v Speaker 1>would multiply, having many, many children, while all around them

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<v Speaker 1>slave laborers would till the soil in their perfect utopia.

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<v Speaker 1>It was madness. But this idea, like all of the

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<v Speaker 1>other ideas, all of the other isms, at its core,

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<v Speaker 1>is built around a lie. And that lie is always

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<v Speaker 1>sold on the belief that a man, a party, something

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<v Speaker 1>can cure all the problems by blaming it on some

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<v Speaker 1>type of common enemy, always the easy scapegoat for the Nazis.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the Jews, who made up one percent of

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<v Speaker 1>the German population and were held liable by the Nazis

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<v Speaker 1>for all the wrongs that had come to Germany from

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<v Speaker 1>the defeat in the War of Aggression. Everything was blamed

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<v Speaker 1>on one percent of the population. Today, there are similar

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<v Speaker 1>lies being told by an autocrat, by a dictator who

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<v Speaker 1>is waging a war of a great of violence, a

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<v Speaker 1>war that involves kidnapping children and shipping them east, a

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<v Speaker 1>war that involves systemic rape and murder and brutality under

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<v Speaker 1>the premise that the nation of Ukraine does not exist. This,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, is a lie, and the lies that support it,

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<v Speaker 1>the fake history that embodies it, or what Russian propaganda is.

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<v Speaker 1>The notion that the war that is being fought is

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<v Speaker 1>some type of reaction defensively by Russia to a greedy

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<v Speaker 1>and over expanse of NATO. The notion that this is

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<v Speaker 1>repeated on the floor of the United States House of

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<v Speaker 1>Representatives and in the Republican cloakroom. This propaganda, this lie

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<v Speaker 1>by a foreign enemy at the disadvantage of our democratic

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<v Speaker 1>action and the cause of freedom, is something that should

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<v Speaker 1>be sickening to all Americans, because to fall for propaganda

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<v Speaker 1>requires you to be something requires you to be a dupe,

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<v Speaker 1>a fool, a vessel that can be tricked, manipulated. And

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<v Speaker 1>so when you see people like Marjorie Taylor Green and

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<v Speaker 1>all of the loons and all of the cynics who

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<v Speaker 1>have been so easily manipulated by the Kremlin, remember this

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<v Speaker 1>that their manipulation has made life more dangerous for all

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<v Speaker 1>of us, for all of our children, for all of

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<v Speaker 1>the people in the world, because it serves violence, it

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<v Speaker 1>serves the cause of dictatorship, that is attacking of people

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<v Speaker 1>who wish to be free, who wish to have their

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<v Speaker 1>own life, language, their own traditions, their own customs. When

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<v Speaker 1>two Republican chairmen say, when we look around, what we

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<v Speaker 1>see are our colleagues who have been overcome, who have

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<v Speaker 1>become dupes to foreign lives by a hostile country that

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<v Speaker 1>has been our enemy for eighty years, trying to undermine

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<v Speaker 1>America's standing in place in the world, which is the

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<v Speaker 1>lynchpin and the guaranteur of peace and security, not just

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<v Speaker 1>for the American people, but for all people. Understand what

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<v Speaker 1>these comments mean, Understand the honesty of them, how important

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<v Speaker 1>they are. With the evidence is of cancer that has

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<v Speaker 1>consumed so much of America's political life, elevating the worst

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<v Speaker 1>amongst us to some of the highest positions of political power.

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<v Speaker 1>And when they get there because they are unprepared. They

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<v Speaker 1>are disordered personalities, malignant, narcissists, ignorant, and in some cases

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<v Speaker 1>just plain dumb. They are easy to fool, easy to

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<v Speaker 1>lie to, easy to dupe, and easy to trick. That's

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<v Speaker 1>why these two men, these two chairmen, are talking about

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<v Speaker 1>their colleagues being under the influence of Russian propaganda. All

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<v Speaker 1>propaganda is immoral, because all propaganda is a lie. We

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<v Speaker 1>must remember this and understand that even when it comes

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<v Speaker 1>from two complicit Republican chairmen, that when they tell the

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<v Speaker 1>truth about the infestation at hand, that we must take

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<v Speaker 1>it seriously. There has never been an era in American

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<v Speaker 1>life where there has been more voracious foreign influence directed

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<v Speaker 1>openly at American policymakers with no rebuttal and no consequence,

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<v Speaker 1>whether it's the army of Saudi agents and Katari agents

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<v Speaker 1>and influence peddlers representing who knows what, dictator who knows

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<v Speaker 1>what all, or gark from where that are all over Washington,

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<v Speaker 1>or the obvious efforts of the Russians which are parroted

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<v Speaker 1>every night, a mere shadow of what you can see

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<v Speaker 1>on Moscow on Fox News, lie after lie after lie,

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<v Speaker 1>madness after madness, conspiracy after conspiracy. To the American people,

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<v Speaker 1>that's what Russian propaganda is. And in the end, it's

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<v Speaker 1>lethal because in the end, what it seeks to do

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<v Speaker 1>is to smother the flame of liberty with a wet

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<v Speaker 1>blanket of lies, to bring on the darkness that subjugates

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<v Speaker 1>the human below the jackboot of the state. And the

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<v Speaker 1>American people's answer to that proposition has always been, for

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred and forty eight years, never give me liberty

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<v Speaker 1>or give me death. That has been the American position,

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<v Speaker 1>and let it always be so. Thank you for listening

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