Speaker 1: It is September the seventeenth. Forty nine days remain until
Speaker 1: the American people decide who sits behind the resolute desk,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon, or the
Speaker 1: vice president of the United States. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has survived a second assassination attempt, joining President Ford,
Speaker 1: who survived two in a few weeks in August of
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, one in San Francisco, one in Sacramento.
Speaker 1: How should we think about this violence that has come
Speaker 1: into the presidential campaign? The first question we should ask
Speaker 1: ourselves as Americans is has the nature of our civic
Speaker 1: discourse changed since Donald Trump came down his golden escalator.
Speaker 1: If we were to look at that moment as a hinge,
Speaker 1: a before and after event, are we able to observe
Speaker 1: any changes in our society, in our culture, in our media,
Speaker 1: in our political parties that followed Donald Trump gliding down
Speaker 1: that escalator. In denouncing Mexicans as murderers and rapists.
Speaker 2: They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're
Speaker 2: bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime,
Speaker 2: their rapists, and some I assume are good people.
Speaker 1: What was the meaning of that quote? What was it
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was trying to do? Was he trying
Speaker 1: to instigate violence against Mexicans? Was he trying to instigate
Speaker 1: violence against the Central Park five when he called for
Speaker 1: their execution? What exactly is it that Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: trying to do here?
Speaker 3: I think there's blame on both sides, and I have
Speaker 3: no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt
Speaker 3: about it either. You also had people that were very
Speaker 3: fine people on both sides. You had people in that group.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as
Speaker 3: you did.
Speaker 1: How could any American look at Nazis marching chanting Jews
Speaker 1: will not replace us carrying torches in Charlottesville, Virginia and
Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that there are good people on
Speaker 1: both sides. Let's talk about some more of Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: good people, peaceful people.
Speaker 4: There was such love at that rally. You had over
Speaker 4: a million people there. They were there for one reason,
Speaker 4: the rigged election. They felt the election was rigged. That's
Speaker 4: why they were there, and they were peaceful people. These
Speaker 4: were great people.
Speaker 1: It is extraordinary that Donald Trump has such power over
Speaker 1: a population in this country that he's able to say
Speaker 1: that this violence was perfectly peaceful, a beautiful protest. This
Speaker 1: was not a peaceful event on January sixth. It was
Speaker 1: incited by Donnald Trump. Donald Trump lost a free and
Speaker 1: fair election and had the greatest temper tantrum in human
Speaker 1: history that's lasted for years, and he sent a mob
Speaker 1: in the United States of America to topple the government
Speaker 1: in the Marra A Lago push. Donald Trump tried in
Speaker 1: spectacularly stupid fashion, but he tried to make himself a
Speaker 1: dictator over and over again. Donald Trump has summoned violence.
Speaker 1: He has called for protesters to be shot, for immigrants
Speaker 1: to be attacked, for people at his rallies to be
Speaker 1: beaten and punched. So when examining this record, it is
Speaker 1: astonishing to see his running met JD. Vance say this.
Speaker 5: I do think that we should take this opportunity to
Speaker 5: call for a reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political
Speaker 5: rhetoric coming from too many corners of our politics. Look,
Speaker 5: we can disagree with one another, we can debate one another,
Speaker 5: but we cannot tell the American people that one candidate
Speaker 5: is a fascist and if he's elected, it is going
Speaker 5: to be the end of American democracy.
Speaker 1: Everything that jd Vance just said is absurd on the
Speaker 1: basis of the evidence of events and the record and
Speaker 1: the things Trump said. But what makes it thermonuclear in
Speaker 1: the hypocrisy category isn't anything that Trump is done. It's
Speaker 1: what occurred within the last forty eight hours on CNN
Speaker 1: with Dana Bash interviewing jd Vance.
Speaker 5: The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump
Speaker 5: and I start talking about cat means. If I have to,
Speaker 5: if I have to create stories so that the American
Speaker 5: media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people,
Speaker 5: then that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 7: So you just said that you're creating the story. Is that, Dana,
Speaker 7: you just said that this is a story that you've
Speaker 7: created so that the eating dog we are not.
Speaker 5: We are creating we are, Dana. It comes from first
Speaker 5: hand accounts from my constituents. I say that we're creating
Speaker 5: a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it.
Speaker 1: This extraordinary moment is unlike anything I've ever seen in
Speaker 1: a television news interview. In fact, there's only one comparable
Speaker 1: moment that I can think of from my lifetime. That
Speaker 1: equals what the American people got to see Dana Bash
Speaker 1: do to jd Vance Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Caffey questioning
Speaker 1: Colonel Jessop in a Few Good Men. When Nicholson finally
Speaker 1: breaks and says, I did it, the Tom Cruise character
Speaker 1: is flabberg asked it. For ten years, reporters have been
Speaker 1: asking Donald Trump questions. Most of them result in absurd
Speaker 1: responses or inane responses. He was asked the other day
Speaker 1: a question about crypto, and he talked for five minutes
Speaker 1: about electricity.
Speaker 6: Well as scrypto. It's AI, it's so many other things.
Speaker 6: You know, AI thinking of an interesting future. It needs
Speaker 6: tremendous electricity capability beyond anything I've ever heard. It never
Speaker 6: made sense to me, but this is what it needs.
Speaker 6: If you take all of the electricity coming out of
Speaker 6: the US in order to have it to be dominant
Speaker 6: in AI, you need twice sat amount just for this
Speaker 6: one thing. Who would think that you need twice the
Speaker 6: electricity we already have. And you got to get started,
Speaker 6: I mean you have to be if you're the US,
Speaker 6: you have to get set. You don't want to be
Speaker 6: left in the dust and China's already building electric plants,
Speaker 6: and they want to build them for you know, for
Speaker 6: the uh Ai, and it's very important. But you need
Speaker 6: tremendous electric and in this country because of our strong
Speaker 6: environmental impact statement problems that we have. You know, China
Speaker 6: doesn't have those problems. They don't do them. They just build.
Speaker 6: They said build over, he build over. There With us,
Speaker 6: you have to go through years, but I'll make it
Speaker 6: possible to create tremendous amounts of electricity very rapidly.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has always been light on the facts. He
Speaker 1: has always been incoherent. A long time ago, it became
Speaker 1: clear when he speaks mostly they are the ramblings and
Speaker 1: musings of an imbecile. Incoherent doesn't begin to describe it.
Speaker 1: But the parts of the Trump message that are always
Speaker 1: clear is the malice and the menace and the intimations.
Speaker 1: But at any rate, back to JD. Vans, back to Dana.
Speaker 7: Bash, nobody is disputing that that the town of Springfield,
Speaker 7: Ohio needs help. But you're not just a bystander. You're
Speaker 7: the senator from Ohio. So instead of saying things that
Speaker 7: are wrong and actually causing the hospitals, the schools, the
Speaker 7: government buildings to be evacuated because of bomb threats, because
Speaker 7: of the cats and dogs thing. Why not actually be
Speaker 7: constructive in helping to better integrate them into the community,
Speaker 7: because there are a lot of employers there who say
Speaker 7: that the Haitian workers are helping fill jobs that they
Speaker 7: need desperately filled.
Speaker 1: Dan Bash has spoken to the mayor of Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 1: His town is under siege by bomb threats to the schools,
Speaker 1: to the hospitals, and what the mayor has said is
Speaker 1: the bomb threats haven't spontaneously appeared. They haven't been providentially assigned.
Speaker 1: They didn't just combust into being. They are a consequence
Speaker 1: directly of the rumor that Haitians have taken over the
Speaker 1: town and are eating the pets. A United States Senator
Speaker 1: from the state of Ohio, upon learning that a mayor
Speaker 1: in a town is begging him, begging trauma, to stop
Speaker 1: it because a sick person may act on the derangements
Speaker 1: that they're hearing. JD. Vance stays, It's okay for me
Speaker 1: to make it up because this is the only way
Speaker 1: I can help the people suffering in Springfield. Ignored by
Speaker 1: the national media, think about that. This is straight out
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty four. What JD. Vance is saying is
Speaker 1: that in order to free the village, it must be destroyed.
Speaker 1: It's absurd, it's sick, it's an evil, it's a deception,
Speaker 1: and it's triggering violence in the community of Springfields. But
Speaker 1: now the mag of movement has decided that they are
Speaker 1: messengers of peace.
Speaker 4: They're rhetoric. It's not just over the top. It is
Speaker 4: potentially deadly.
Speaker 5: We need to see it toned down, starting on the left.
Speaker 1: They've got to tone down that rhetoric the whole. You know,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, we're going to put a bullseye on Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: That has to end. Rhetoric is out of control. It
Speaker 1: is dangerous.
Speaker 8: The rhetoric is every day, all day, and as it's
Speaker 8: directed against President Trump, it's saying that he's a threat
Speaker 8: to democracy, that he's going to destroy America. It's absolutely
Speaker 8: absurd and it is irresponsible.
Speaker 9: If anything happens to Trump, there's going to be a
Speaker 9: lot of sorrow and a lot of pain and a
Speaker 9: lot of anger. But there won't be looting, there won't
Speaker 9: be rioting, there won't be crime, because, you know.
Speaker 5: We get up, we go to work, we try to
Speaker 5: be good people.
Speaker 1: With Donald Trump and his people are rooting for is
Speaker 1: not peacefulness, is not a lowering of the temperatures, but
Speaker 1: for more violence, for the violence to spread. What they
Speaker 1: are upset about is a sick person hasn't yet pointed
Speaker 1: a weapon at the first black woman to be a
Speaker 1: major party nominee. It's exactly what Elon Musk said, but
Speaker 1: of course, as he routinely does, he deleted it just joking,
Speaker 1: ha ha. This is a country that's one of the
Speaker 1: most violent in the world, and it always has been.
Speaker 1: Our destiny has been shaped by political assassination, which is amongst,
Speaker 1: if not the worst crime a citizen can inflict on democracy,
Speaker 1: because in the end, the right of the people to
Speaker 1: commit national suicide must not be taken away by any
Speaker 1: single citizen. Only the American people can stop Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and the moment to stop him is in the election.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not a fascist because it's convenient to
Speaker 1: call him one for the purposes of winning the election.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a fascist because he embraces fascism. He
Speaker 1: embraces the concept that there is nothing that matters but
Speaker 1: the state. The individual is but upon and freedom is
Speaker 1: not about the right of a human being but the
Speaker 1: prerogatives of a group to dominate. That's Trump is. It's
Speaker 1: an evil ideology. It is an ideology that seeks to
Speaker 1: take away the rights of people to control their lives
Speaker 1: and their bodies, and to impose a dogma on free people.
Speaker 1: It is the greatest threat to the American citizen since
Speaker 1: the Confederate States and since fascism in the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1: And these assassination attempts must not blur the clear lines
Speaker 1: or inhabit the Harris campaign from painting clearly the boundaries
Speaker 1: at the fork in the road that decide whether we
Speaker 1: go down a path of national rejuvenation and renewal that
Speaker 1: leads us to twenty first century greatness, or whether we
Speaker 1: journey down a path of national catastrophe. We are at
Speaker 1: that choice now. Donald Trump is a man of violence
Speaker 1: whose rhetoric has brought to him a terrible malevolence. He
Speaker 1: has inflamed our politics, profoundly changed it, weaponized. Our difference
Speaker 1: is into a cold civil war. And now they dare
Speaker 1: to try to choke debate about what it is they said,
Speaker 1: what it is they've done, what it is they have planned.
Speaker 1: Because the violence they have curated has found its way
Speaker 1: back to them in a boomerang. We must reject this absurdity.
Speaker 1: We must pray for peace in this country. We must
Speaker 1: spread love in America. But we must be tough and
Speaker 1: strong in the face of this fascist threat and never
Speaker 1: ever ever be intimidated or inhibited for calling it out
Speaker 1: for what it is. It's all bullshit cancer on our country,
Speaker 1: and it's time in forty nine days to eradicate the cancer.
Speaker 1: That's not a call to violence, It's a plea for
Speaker 1: liberation from this miserable, rotten, rancid era brought to us
Speaker 1: by this most immoral of men. There has never been
Speaker 1: a person more intellectually, psychologically and morally unfit for national
Speaker 1: leadership than this orange hued con man from Queens, New York,
Speaker 1: an adjudicated rapist, a conman, and a thug, a first
Speaker 1: rate bully, a purveyor of violence. Let us pray for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump that he may live a long life free
Speaker 1: from the violence that he stoked and incited. All you
Speaker 1: need to ever know about this man is he called
Speaker 1: this disgrace a beautiful, perfect, peaceful protest, and you ought
Speaker 1: to think carefully about what it means in a free country.
Speaker 1: When free people can be told by a leader in
Speaker 1: politics that what they clearly saw with their own eyes
Speaker 1: isn't so because the leader said it wasn't so. If
Speaker 1: you don't understand the danger at our door from the
Speaker 1: reality of scores of millions of our fellow countrymen who
Speaker 1: have been duped into believing this sick man, then you
Speaker 1: can't see danger. And this is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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