1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Lay out that choice, mister President, make it perfectly clear. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: You'll need to do that most every hour of every 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: day for two hundred and forty six days. It is Monday, 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: March fourth, and there are two hundred and forty six 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: days remaining until the American people will decide who is 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,479 Speaker 1: the next president of the United States. And a quick 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: reminder this morning, remember subscribe to the Warning YouTube channel 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty six days. Yet each day will 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: not referral equally, Each will not hold the same importance. 10 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: Some weeks determine the course. There are events that occur 11 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: during the course of the presidential campaign that are unequal, 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: that shine hot lights of attention on the choice on 13 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: the candidates, that call for the American people to examine 14 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: them with fresh eyes, with a new look. They are 15 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: few and far between. For example, President Biden will speak 16 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: to three huge audiences during the course of an election year. Incredibly, 17 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,919 Speaker 1: the first opportunity the Super Bowl, he took a pass 18 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: on and denied himself the opportunity to speak to upwards 19 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: of one hundred million Americans assembled for the largest broadcast 20 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: and world history. The second opportunity is the one the 21 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 1: president has this week. The State of the Union address 22 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: he will speak before the United States Congress for however 23 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: long he wishes, directly to a global audience. We'll talk 24 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: more about that speech in a second. And the last 25 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: speech that the president will give, barring a national catastrophe 26 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: of some type where he must address the nation under 27 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: extraordinary circumstances, will be the speech he makes accepting the 28 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: Democratic nomination in July in Chicago. After that, there are 29 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: the debates, and then there is the election. These moments 30 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: when the commander in chief or his opponent are able 31 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: to capture the attention of the entire electorate for the 32 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: purposes of saying something consequential are rare, and they must 33 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: be taken advantage of. What is the state of the Union? 34 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: Is it really strong? Is it great? Are the people happy, optimistic, grateful, 35 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: intented about the economy, satisfied with their choice for president, 36 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: comfortable with the direction of the most important institutions in 37 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: the country. Do they trust them? Do they admire them? 38 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: Do they revere them? What all of the polling shows 39 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: is the American people are angry, discontented, distrusting, and profoundly 40 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: unhappy with the choice before them for president of the 41 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: United States. Between Donald Trump and President Biden. Look at 42 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: these incredible numbers. More than seventy percent of the country 43 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: is acutely worried about the president's age and his capacity 44 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: to perform. Look at these numbers regarding Trump, they too 45 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: are astounding. Six out of ten Americans doubt the mental 46 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: competency of the Democratic and Republican nominees to be for 47 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: the presidency. In the third decade of the twenty first century, 48 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: as the world is spiraling, moving towards an abyss, the 49 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: chances of a global war, once unthinkable, loom ever closer. 50 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: The American people are told over and over again on 51 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: cable news programs that they should be celebrating the economy. 52 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: They should be grateful that Joe Biden is Franklin Roosevelt. 53 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: The American people don't see it, they don't feel it, 54 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: and trust me when I say this. Lecturing them and 55 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: telling them they're wrong triggers defiance, not abeyance. Currently, Donald Trump, 56 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: who led an insurrection and faces ninety one felony counts, 57 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: is leading President Biden outside the margin of era. According 58 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: to The New York Times Sieno pol the president is 59 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: in a precarious political position, so the question at hand 60 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: is what must he do? The first and most important 61 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: thing to recognize about the twenty twenty four election is this. 62 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: It is a choice, and in the end it is 63 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: a binary choice. But participation or non participation often is 64 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: not accumulated as counting by the pundits. What do I 65 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: mean by that? If somebody who voted for President Biden 66 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: in the last election does decides not to vote for 67 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: him in this election goes from a voter for Biden 68 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: to a non participant. That loss of a vote accumulates 69 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: in the total. In an election in the last instance 70 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: that was won by forty thousand votes across three states. 71 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: Every vote matters, And so the Trump coalition by definition, 72 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: is one that is comprised of three core groups true believers, 73 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: cynics and opportunists like Lindsey Graham, and the indifferent who 74 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 1: look at both sides and say a pox on both 75 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 1: of them without the ability to see or to realize 76 00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: that overwhelmingly the threat to our way of low life 77 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: has emerged from one of the two political parties, not both. 78 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: What is it that President Biden needs to say? What 79 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: is it that the country needs to hear? What is 80 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: it about this moment that matters. If we are to 81 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: say this is the most consequential election in American history, 82 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: then it stands to reason there should be able to 83 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: be an articulation about what is so consequential about it. 84 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: Trump is explicitly running on a campaign platform of vengeance 85 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: and retribution. His words have caused death, they incited an insurrection. 86 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: He has promised mass deportations and the police state to 87 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: deliver on the promise. He's called for what will become 88 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: American concentration camps, called for complete and total bands on 89 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: the lifeblood of the country, legal immigration. He has encouraged 90 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: a Russian dictator to invade NATO territory, triggering World War 91 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: three or perhaps a wider European war, but nothing good 92 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: will come from it. He has promised lawlessness and corruption. 93 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: He is the greatest taker in demagogue in American history. 94 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: Perhaps it should be talked about what is American fascism 95 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: how does it relate to European fascism in the twentieth century, 96 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: what danger does it pose in the twenty first And 97 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: the third thing the president must talk about are the 98 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: restrictions on American liberty, the reduction of the notion and 99 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: I idea and ideals of freedom, a recision of the 100 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: civil rights movement, a subjugation of women. The ability of 101 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: men to legislate what a woman can and cannot do 102 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: with their body, what a husband and wife or a 103 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: woman on her own decides to do with a pregnancy 104 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: is radical, reventist, and profoundly dangerous. These policies fall hard 105 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: of poor women, poor white women, poor Black women. And 106 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: the question that has to be asked is democracy going 107 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: to be sustained in America for all people or just 108 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: the people at the top who gained favor with the leadership. 109 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: Because that's not democracy, that's oligarchy. That's what Russia is, 110 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 1: not what America must be, can be, has been, and 111 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 1: will be again. When the President speaks, there are urgent 112 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: issues at hand, opportunity, liberty, security. He must speak directly, 113 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 1: He must speak clearly and hopefully with brevity. State of 114 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: the American Union is troubled, country is divided. There should 115 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: not be an hour for happy talk, but rather a 116 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: declaration that Americans must engage and recommit to some central 117 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: ideas that we have forgotten. Lessons have been learned at 118 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: a terrible cost and a terrible price all over the world. 119 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: There are American cemeteries filled with young people. Most of 120 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: them had never gone far from their hometowns. But they 121 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: died not to conquer territory, not for aggression, but to 122 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: liberate lands from an idea. The idea is a form 123 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: of slavery that holds that the state, or an emperor 124 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: or a leader is above the law, above what is 125 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 1: right and wrong. When leaders with malice in their heart 126 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: take control and taste power, it corrupts them profoundly. It's 127 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: what's happened to Donald Trump. It's what's happened to Jijingpeng, 128 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,839 Speaker 1: and to Vladimir Putin, to all of the presidents for 129 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: a life, to all of the aspirants to thousand year empires. 130 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: They become overcome by fantasy, by delusion of their power, 131 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 1: their longevity, their necessity. And when it happens, the whole 132 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: world can suffer, because the whole world can burn. Perhaps 133 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: President Biden should think about communicating what's at stake as 134 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: clearly and directly as John Kennedy might have, as urgently 135 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: as Franklin Roosevelt might have. It's not too late to 136 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: take the hour twenty minute draft by committee and tear 137 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: it to pieces, and to rewrite something that matters in 138 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: a moment of great urgency ahead of a profound choice. 139 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: Lay out that choice, mister President, make it perfectly clear. 140 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: You'll need to do that most every hour of every 141 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: day for two hundred and forty six days, because the 142 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: cost the failure is the price of losing liberty in 143 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: the United States to the greatest menace that it has 144 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: faced since fascism and communism in the twentieth century, and 145 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: since the Confederacy and slavery in the nineteenth Losing is 146 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: not an option. 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