1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: To surrender to bullies, to bow down the dictators is 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: simply unthinkable. Were ready to do that, it means we'd 3 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: be forgetting what happened here in these hollow beaches. Make 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: no mistake, we will not bow down. We will not forget. 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,159 Speaker 1: Let me end with this history tells us freedom is 6 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: not free. If you want to know the price of freedom, 7 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: come here to Normandy. Come to Normandy, and look. 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: We have been here before. Appeasement, denihialism, a fifth column 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 2: at home that, for whatever reason, denigrates our freedoms, denigrates Americanism, 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: and warships far and fascists, whether they be Outolf Hitler 11 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: in the nineteen thirties or Vladimir Putin or Victor Orbon 12 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 2: in the twenty twenties, we are not faded. To live 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 2: in freedom permanent. We cannot give up what these men 14 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: paid their lives for. Americans cannot lay down their freedoms 15 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: to a demagogue and a corrupted party of fascists who 16 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: want power at all costs. Is it possible that the 17 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: American people will decide to replace this man, the President 18 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: of the United States of America, with this man, an 19 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 2: orange tinged fascist, a convicted felon, a man found liable 20 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 2: for rape and then for defaming the woman he raped, 21 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 2: a serial liar, a man who ripped off every small 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 2: contractor whoever had the misfortune to work for him, a 23 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 2: conspiracy theorist, and somebody utterly incoherent on even his best days. 24 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty two days remain until the American 25 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: people will make the decision. This is the warning. Jute sixth, 26 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Eighty years have passed since the commencement 27 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: of what is remembered by history as the Day of Days. 28 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 2: These four beats on a kevel drum, three dots and 29 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: a dash were Morse code. It stood for victory. It 30 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 2: was the preface of every BBC broadcast, and eighty years ago, 31 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: on June fifth, the BBC broadcast a message for our 32 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 2: French friends, John has a long mustache, and with that 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 2: the resistance went into action and struck. A few minutes 34 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 2: past midnight, the first gliders carrying Major John Howard and 35 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 2: his men of the British sixth Airborne landed to seize 36 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: the bridges over the Orne River to make certain that 37 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: the British troops landing on Sward Beach could make it inland, 38 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 2: establishing a beachhead. The British landed near the bridge and 39 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 2: secured it. They liberated the first home in France. On 40 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 2: the west side, Americans of the eighty second Airborne in 41 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: the one hundred and first Airborne began falling from the 42 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: sky over Saint mary Lees, the first town to be 43 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: liberated by the American Army. One hundred and twenty thousand 44 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: soldiers of eleven nations stormed the beaches Utah Beach, Sword, Juno, Gold, 45 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 2: and Omaha, the deadliest of them all. It is above 46 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 2: that beach where the American Cemetery lies. There are nearly 47 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 2: ten thousand graves in it. All of them face west, 48 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 2: back towards home, back towards America, back across the ocean 49 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: from which these young men crossed, but did not return home, 50 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: to their wives, to their mothers, to their sisters and 51 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: brothers and girlfriends. They lie there an American Army in formation, 52 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: at permanent rest, in silent judgment of their sacrifice for 53 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 2: freedom and liberty. There is a thing about remembrance that 54 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 2: should be noted. Had there been a war that was greater, 55 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: that was deadlier, survived, that the world survived, then there 56 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: would not have been a commemoration at Normandy. Today, we 57 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: remember the Second World War in the sacrifices and the 58 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: commencement of the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of Europe, 59 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: because it was history's climactic event. So far as killing goes, 60 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 2: it has not been repeated, It has not been succeeded 61 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: for almost one hundred years minus a score. The question 62 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 2: at hand in Ukraine and Europe around the world, when 63 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 2: we look as free people at the growing menace of 64 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: the access of Iran and North Korea and Russia and China, 65 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 2: is the confrontation one nearly a lifetime ago to be 66 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 2: re fought in a new century. And if it is 67 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 2: to be re fought in a new century, is it survivable? 68 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 2: The Polish President Donald Tusk has already warned young Poles 69 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 2: people who fought heroically and valorously during the Second World 70 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 2: War like no other captive people, people who never gave up, 71 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: who never stopped fighting. President Tusk told his nation and 72 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 2: its young people to be ready to fight for existence, 73 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 2: for freedom. Back in nineteen forty, when Britain was under siege, 74 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 2: many Americans said, that wasn't our fight, it wasn't our problem. 75 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 2: Who cares. In fact, there were scores of thousands of 76 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 2: Americans who filled up Madison Square Garden to give the 77 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: Hitler salute fascists. There were many Americans in open support 78 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 2: of the fascist cause. There were many more indifferent to 79 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: the plight of freedom. The Draft, which was necessary for 80 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: the survival of the United States in nineteen forty, was 81 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 2: sustained by the Congress by just one vote. We have 82 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: been here before. Appeasement, denialism, a fifth column at home 83 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 2: that but for whatever reason, denigrates our freedoms, denigrates Americanism, 84 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 2: and warships foreign fascists, whether they be Outolf Hitler in 85 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: the nineteen thirties or Vladimir Putin or Victor Orban in 86 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 2: the twenty twenties. We are not faded to live in 87 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 2: freedom permanently. That is what President Biden talked about today, 88 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 2: and he said something that almost precisely echoed what President 89 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 2: Reagan said forty years ago. Now, when you put President 90 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: Reagan and President Biden next to each other, some people 91 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 2: will say these two men don't belong next to each 92 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 2: other because they were in different political parties. And that 93 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 2: is nonsense. Both of these men, forty years apart, have 94 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 2: delivered a seminal message, a meaningful warning. They have reminded 95 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 2: us that there are causes greater than life itself. They 96 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 2: reminded us that there are causes worth dying for. We 97 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: remember today, on this day of freedom that we celebrate, 98 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 2: that we thank with great gratitude did that so that 99 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: we may live in freedom, and we owe them a 100 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 2: great debt. Listen to Ronald Dragon. 101 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 3: You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so 102 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 3: you and those others did not doubt your cause, and 103 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 3: you were right not to. Don't doubt. You all knew 104 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 3: that some things are worth dying for. One's country is 105 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 3: worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for because 106 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 3: it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised 107 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 3: by man. All of you loved liberty, all of you 108 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 3: were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people 109 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 3: of your countries were behind you. 110 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 2: Listen to Joe Biden. 111 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: Everyone then knew the probability of dying was real, but 112 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: they did it anyway. They knew and beyond any doubt, 113 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: there are things that are worth fighting and dying for. 114 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: Freedom is worth it, Democracy is worth it, America is 115 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: worth it. The world is worth it, then, now and always. 116 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 2: This is not a democratic message, It is not a 117 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 2: republican message. It is a message of the leader of 118 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: a free people. Forty years ago freedom was threatened. President 119 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 2: Wagan talked about it. 120 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 3: We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be 121 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 3: an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with expansionist intent. But 122 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 3: we try always to be prepared for peace, prepared to 123 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 3: deter aggression, prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms, and yes, 124 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 3: prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. 125 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 3: In truth, there is no reconciliation. We would will more 126 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 3: than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union. So together we 127 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 3: can listen lessen the risk of war now and forever. 128 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: And today his successor talked about the threats to our world. 129 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: Today he named the tyrant. Vladimir Putin called him out directly, forcefully, clearly. 130 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 2: He drew the. 131 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: Line, Ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant, been on domination. 132 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: Ukrainians are fighting with extraordinary courage, suffering great losses, but 133 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: never backing down. 134 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 2: President Biden made clear and reminded everyone what keeps us safe, 135 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 2: what keeps us free? Is overwhelming strength. We must remember 136 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 2: what President Biden tried to help the country remember today, 137 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 2: which at its core is this today was not a 138 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 2: speech about the past. It was a speech about gratitude 139 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 2: for our freedom and an urgent warning about the danger. 140 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 2: We should heed it because let us do whatever we 141 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 2: can to make sure there is no need ever for 142 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: the creation of an American cemetery in Europe. Ever, again, 143 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 2: Colon Powell beautifully pointed this out once he said, America 144 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 2: is not a conquering nation. We came to Europe as 145 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 2: an army of liberation, and when that war was over, 146 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 2: the only land we asked for was enough to bury 147 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: our dead. And make no mistake, it doesn't matter if 148 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: you are alive when the events occurred. It doesn't matter 149 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 2: that they occurred before your existence. This American sacrifice and 150 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 2: achievement belongs to all Americans for all time through the ages. 151 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 2: But that achievement occurs an obligation, and that obligation, when 152 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: it comes to the memory of this day, requires deep 153 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: respect and gratitude. We cannot give up what these men 154 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 2: paid their lives for. Americans cannot lay down their freedoms 155 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: to a demagogue and a corrupted party of factious who 156 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 2: want power at all costs, including at the expense of 157 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 2: the ideals of the nation. That's what today is about, 158 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: and we should remember the lessons of history because when 159 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: they are ignored, there is a fearsome price that is paid. 160 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite 161 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 2: you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 162 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 2: follow us. Welcome to the community.