WEBVTT - Team Trump Blames Democrats for Violence 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.440 It is September the seventeenth. Forty nine days remain until 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.920 the American people decide who sits behind the resolute desk, 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.840 Donald Trump, the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon, or the 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.760 vice president of the United States. This is the warning. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:22.360 Donald Trump has survived a second assassination attempt, joining President Ford, 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.720 who survived two in a few weeks in August of 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:30.160 nineteen seventy five, one in San Francisco, one in Sacramento. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:34.200 How should we think about this violence that has come 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.040 into the presidential campaign? The first question we should ask 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.760 ourselves as Americans is has the nature of our civic 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:47.960 discourse changed since Donald Trump came down his golden escalator. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.240 If we were to look at that moment as a hinge, 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.840 a before and after event, are we able to observe 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:59.880 any changes in our society, in our culture, in our media, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:05.440 in our political parties that followed Donald Trump gliding down 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:11.560 that escalator. In denouncing Mexicans as murderers and rapists. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.840 They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.679 bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.760 their rapists, and some I assume are good people. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.160 What was the meaning of that quote? What was it 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.600 that Donald Trump was trying to do? Was he trying 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:36.560 to instigate violence against Mexicans? Was he trying to instigate 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.360 violence against the Central Park five when he called for 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.240 their execution? What exactly is it that Donald Trump was 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:45.360 trying to do here? 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.280 I think there's blame on both sides, and I have 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.480 no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:55.080 about it either. You also had people that were very 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.720 fine people on both sides. You had people in that group. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.680 Excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:02.040 you did. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:09.680 How could any American look at Nazis marching chanting Jews 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:15.480 will not replace us carrying torches in Charlottesville, Virginia and 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.280 come to the conclusion that there are good people on 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.040 both sides. Let's talk about some more of Donald Trump's 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.040 good people, peaceful people. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.520 There was such love at that rally. You had over 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.000 a million people there. They were there for one reason, 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.880 the rigged election. They felt the election was rigged. That's 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.320 why they were there, and they were peaceful people. These 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.240 were great people. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:45.600 It is extraordinary that Donald Trump has such power over 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.760 a population in this country that he's able to say 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.960 that this violence was perfectly peaceful, a beautiful protest. This 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.680 was not a peaceful event on January sixth. It was 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:03.240 incited by Donnald Trump. Donald Trump lost a free and 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.280 fair election and had the greatest temper tantrum in human 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.959 history that's lasted for years, and he sent a mob 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.760 in the United States of America to topple the government 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.520 in the Marra A Lago push. Donald Trump tried in 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:27.520 spectacularly stupid fashion, but he tried to make himself a 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:34.360 dictator over and over again. Donald Trump has summoned violence. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:40.400 He has called for protesters to be shot, for immigrants 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:45.280 to be attacked, for people at his rallies to be 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:50.120 beaten and punched. So when examining this record, it is 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:55.960 astonishing to see his running met JD. Vance say this. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.400 I do think that we should take this opportunity to 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:04.560 call for a reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:14.200 rhetoric coming from too many corners of our politics. Look, 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.240 we can disagree with one another, we can debate one another, 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:22.000 but we cannot tell the American people that one candidate 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.840 is a fascist and if he's elected, it is going 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.360 to be the end of American democracy. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.440 Everything that jd Vance just said is absurd on the 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.880 basis of the evidence of events and the record and 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:40.320 the things Trump said. But what makes it thermonuclear in 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.960 the hypocrisy category isn't anything that Trump is done. It's 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.359 what occurred within the last forty eight hours on CNN 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.880 with Dana Bash interviewing jd Vance. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.960 The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.840 and I start talking about cat means. If I have to, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.920 if I have to create stories so that the American 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.400 media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:07.880 then that's what I'm gonna do. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:08.160 Dan. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.320 So you just said that you're creating the story. Is that, Dana, 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.200 you just said that this is a story that you've 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.159 created so that the eating dog we are not. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.840 We are creating we are, Dana. It comes from first 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.839 hand accounts from my constituents. I say that we're creating 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.920 a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:34.080 This extraordinary moment is unlike anything I've ever seen in 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.400 a television news interview. In fact, there's only one comparable 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:42.080 moment that I can think of from my lifetime. That 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.640 equals what the American people got to see Dana Bash 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:50.640 do to jd Vance Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Caffey questioning 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.800 Colonel Jessop in a Few Good Men. When Nicholson finally 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.960 breaks and says, I did it, the Tom Cruise character 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.800 is flabberg asked it. For ten years, reporters have been 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:09.400 asking Donald Trump questions. Most of them result in absurd 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.760 responses or inane responses. He was asked the other day 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.120 a question about crypto, and he talked for five minutes 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:18.480 about electricity. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.760 Well as scrypto. It's AI, it's so many other things. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:28.479 You know, AI thinking of an interesting future. It needs 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:34.120 tremendous electricity capability beyond anything I've ever heard. It never 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.520 made sense to me, but this is what it needs. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.120 If you take all of the electricity coming out of 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.960 the US in order to have it to be dominant 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.359 in AI, you need twice sat amount just for this 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.200 one thing. Who would think that you need twice the 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:51.200 electricity we already have. And you got to get started, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.720 I mean you have to be if you're the US, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.240 you have to get set. You don't want to be 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.240 left in the dust and China's already building electric plants, 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.719 and they want to build them for you know, for 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.800 the uh Ai, and it's very important. But you need 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.920 tremendous electric and in this country because of our strong 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.320 environmental impact statement problems that we have. You know, China 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.800 doesn't have those problems. They don't do them. They just build. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.920 They said build over, he build over. There With us, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.840 you have to go through years, but I'll make it 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:24.480 possible to create tremendous amounts of electricity very rapidly. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.200 Donald Trump has always been light on the facts. He 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:34.239 has always been incoherent. A long time ago, it became 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:39.360 clear when he speaks mostly they are the ramblings and 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:44.920 musings of an imbecile. Incoherent doesn't begin to describe it. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.440 But the parts of the Trump message that are always 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.920 clear is the malice and the menace and the intimations. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.240 But at any rate, back to JD. Vans, back to Dana. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:02.640 Bash, nobody is disputing that that the town of Springfield, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.920 Ohio needs help. But you're not just a bystander. You're 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.000 the senator from Ohio. So instead of saying things that 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.320 are wrong and actually causing the hospitals, the schools, the 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.400 government buildings to be evacuated because of bomb threats, because 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.080 of the cats and dogs thing. Why not actually be 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.800 constructive in helping to better integrate them into the community, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.880 because there are a lot of employers there who say 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.040 that the Haitian workers are helping fill jobs that they 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.280 need desperately filled. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:40.640 Dan Bash has spoken to the mayor of Springfield, Ohio. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:46.000 His town is under siege by bomb threats to the schools, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.280 to the hospitals, and what the mayor has said is 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:56.679 the bomb threats haven't spontaneously appeared. They haven't been providentially assigned. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:01.320 They didn't just combust into being. They are a consequence 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.199 directly of the rumor that Haitians have taken over the 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:11.480 town and are eating the pets. A United States Senator 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.920 from the state of Ohio, upon learning that a mayor 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.960 in a town is begging him, begging trauma, to stop 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:25.400 it because a sick person may act on the derangements 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:31.040 that they're hearing. JD. Vance stays, It's okay for me 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:35.160 to make it up because this is the only way 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:41.839 I can help the people suffering in Springfield. Ignored by 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.679 the national media, think about that. This is straight out 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.360 of nineteen eighty four. What JD. Vance is saying is 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.960 that in order to free the village, it must be destroyed. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.439 It's absurd, it's sick, it's an evil, it's a deception, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:03.760 and it's triggering violence in the community of Springfields. But 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.520 now the mag of movement has decided that they are 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.320 messengers of peace. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.160 They're rhetoric. It's not just over the top. It is 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.160 potentially deadly. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.559 We need to see it toned down, starting on the left. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.800 They've got to tone down that rhetoric the whole. You know, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.960 Joe Biden, we're going to put a bullseye on Donald Trump. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.840 That has to end. Rhetoric is out of control. It 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:29.600 is dangerous. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.160 The rhetoric is every day, all day, and as it's 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.040 directed against President Trump, it's saying that he's a threat 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.720 to democracy, that he's going to destroy America. It's absolutely 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.000 absurd and it is irresponsible. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.480 If anything happens to Trump, there's going to be a 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.440 lot of sorrow and a lot of pain and a 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.400 lot of anger. But there won't be looting, there won't 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.800 be rioting, there won't be crime, because, you know. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.800 We get up, we go to work, we try to 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:58.840 be good people. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.200 With Donald Trump and his people are rooting for is 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.800 not peacefulness, is not a lowering of the temperatures, but 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.000 for more violence, for the violence to spread. What they 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.679 are upset about is a sick person hasn't yet pointed 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.320 a weapon at the first black woman to be a 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.720 major party nominee. It's exactly what Elon Musk said, but 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:24.280 of course, as he routinely does, he deleted it just joking, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.000 ha ha. This is a country that's one of the 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.320 most violent in the world, and it always has been. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:34.839 Our destiny has been shaped by political assassination, which is amongst, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.480 if not the worst crime a citizen can inflict on democracy, 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.480 because in the end, the right of the people to 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.920 commit national suicide must not be taken away by any 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:51.600 single citizen. Only the American people can stop Donald Trump, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.520 and the moment to stop him is in the election. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.920 Donald Trump is not a fascist because it's convenient to 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.080 call him one for the purposes of winning the election. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.880 Donald Trump is a fascist because he embraces fascism. He 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:12.760 embraces the concept that there is nothing that matters but 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:18.079 the state. The individual is but upon and freedom is 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.640 not about the right of a human being but the 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:26.480 prerogatives of a group to dominate. That's Trump is. It's 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:31.240 an evil ideology. It is an ideology that seeks to 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.880 take away the rights of people to control their lives 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:40.360 and their bodies, and to impose a dogma on free people. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:45.760 It is the greatest threat to the American citizen since 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:50.280 the Confederate States and since fascism in the nineteen thirties. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:56.400 And these assassination attempts must not blur the clear lines 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:02.680 or inhabit the Harris campaign from painting clearly the boundaries 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.640 at the fork in the road that decide whether we 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:11.720 go down a path of national rejuvenation and renewal that 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.280 leads us to twenty first century greatness, or whether we 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.160 journey down a path of national catastrophe. We are at 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.960 that choice now. Donald Trump is a man of violence 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:30.600 whose rhetoric has brought to him a terrible malevolence. He 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:38.599 has inflamed our politics, profoundly changed it, weaponized. Our difference 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.800 is into a cold civil war. And now they dare 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.680 to try to choke debate about what it is they said, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.560 what it is they've done, what it is they have planned. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.920 Because the violence they have curated has found its way 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.640 back to them in a boomerang. We must reject this absurdity. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.200 We must pray for peace in this country. We must 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.640 spread love in America. But we must be tough and 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.760 strong in the face of this fascist threat and never 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:17.280 ever ever be intimidated or inhibited for calling it out 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:22.720 for what it is. It's all bullshit cancer on our country, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:27.560 and it's time in forty nine days to eradicate the cancer. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.240 That's not a call to violence, It's a plea for 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:36.720 liberation from this miserable, rotten, rancid era brought to us 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.280 by this most immoral of men. There has never been 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:48.160 a person more intellectually, psychologically and morally unfit for national 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:53.040 leadership than this orange hued con man from Queens, New York, 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:58.600 an adjudicated rapist, a conman, and a thug, a first 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:03.600 rate bully, a purveyor of violence. Let us pray for 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.000 Donald Trump that he may live a long life free 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.040 from the violence that he stoked and incited. All you 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.440 need to ever know about this man is he called 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:19.760 this disgrace a beautiful, perfect, peaceful protest, and you ought 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.200 to think carefully about what it means in a free country. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.720 When free people can be told by a leader in 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:31.400 politics that what they clearly saw with their own eyes 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.520 isn't so because the leader said it wasn't so. If 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.320 you don't understand the danger at our door from the 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:45.000 reality of scores of millions of our fellow countrymen who 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.960 have been duped into believing this sick man, then you 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:54.240 can't see danger. And this is the warning. 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