1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: This is the warning I thought that I would say 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: a few things as Donald Trump's incoherent, fascistic news conference 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 1: continues to onferral. Standing on either side of him is 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: the Attorney General of the United States, the galactically unfit 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: Pam Bondi, really a Fox News television character actress who 6 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: is boycotting that network because she went on and talked 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: about the fact that she was reading the Epstein files 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: and is now deeply implicated in the cover up of that. 9 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: The movement of Gislaine Maxwell and Pam Baldendy will ultimately 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: be a person deeply implicated with Pam Bondi and Donald 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: Trump and the rest of them free with presidential pardon 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: Gawaine Maxwell from federal custody. Standing next to Donald Trump 13 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: is the inept and incompetent Secretary Area of Fence, the 14 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: most unfit leader of the armed forces of the United 15 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: States and the entire history of the country bar none. 16 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: This is a man a company to work every day 17 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: by his shadow, his third wife, his Jenny, the woman 18 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: referred to by the Pentagon staff as Yoko Ono. Her 19 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: soul responsibility besides outfitting the makeup room for Secretary Champagne 20 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:34,839 Speaker 1: Pete's frequent television appearances is to make sure the secretary's 21 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: pants stay on lest the wives of the Navy captains 22 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: on seed duty be in danger, and to make certain 23 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: that the bottle stays away from Champagne Pete's thirsty lips. 24 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: He is an incompetent that beggars description. Of course, the 25 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: placement of classified information and war plan ends onto a 26 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: signal chat. We see him every day, blustering, sneering, abusing 27 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: his authority and position. What we see today is something 28 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: deeply ominous, frankly terrifying, and let's unpack it. First. Washington, 29 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: DC is the Federal district. It is not a state, 30 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: It is not an American territory. The federal district was 31 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: created by land donated from the states of Maryland and Virginia, 32 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: and the federal capital was named for the father of 33 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: the country, George Washington, who twice, when having the opportunity 34 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: to be a king, walked away from power. The monument 35 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: in the middle of the city commemorates George Washington, the 36 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: father of the country. At the time of his death, 37 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: he was eulogized as first in war, first in peace, 38 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: first in the hearts of his countrymen. And when you 39 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: look at the Washington Monument, you'll notice that there's a 40 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: line of discoloration about a third of the way up 41 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: and there The monument sat unfinished for almost twenty five 42 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: years because the Pope had donated marble for its construction, 43 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: along with the heads of states of many other nations. 44 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: But the know nothings threw that marble into the Potomac 45 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: River protesting against Irish immigration, protesting against German immigration, protesting 46 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: against Catholic immigration. And that Catholic marble was thrown in 47 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: to the Potomac. And the man that Champagne Pete has 48 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: reinstalled on a marble pedestal, a middling Confederate general named 49 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: Albert Pike, was a no nothing, an anti Catholic bigot. 50 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth is a Christian nationalist. His crazed pastor, doing 51 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: an interview on CNN in the last forty eight hours, 52 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: doesn't believe women should have the right to vote. A 53 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: real life handmade's tail character, a real life want to 54 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: be commander. And so what we see here on Furrowing 55 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: today is ominous. It's dangerous. This is the face of 56 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: American fascism. And as was long predicted ago apocryphally attributed 57 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: to Upton Saint Clair, that when fascism came to America, 58 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: I would be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. 59 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: And so today the American people are subjected to a 60 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: level of lying that's on precedented, a level of concoction 61 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: that is beyond belief, as Donald Trump talks about a 62 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: crime apocalypse as a justification to militarize under federal authority 63 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: the nation's capital to wipe out the slums. As he says, now, 64 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: I he's the founding of the country and the founding 65 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: father of the country. Because it's important to appreciate that 66 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: when the city was built, the White House, which would 67 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: one day be the home of the forty fourth President, 68 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: a black man, capital of the United States, saved from 69 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: destruction by terrorists in two thousand and one by ordinary 70 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: Americans of all walks of life, gay and straight, black 71 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: and white. It was built by slaves. It would be 72 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: redeemed by men like Marian Luther King and John Lewis, 73 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: and that slavery would be eradicated in a war of 74 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: liberation against Southern slaveholders secessionists who these people venerate but 75 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: tried to destroy the union, the Washington and Adams and 76 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: Jefferson gave the country that imperfect union. And so today 77 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, in the two hundred and fiftieth 78 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: anniversary year of the country, what we're witnessing peer is 79 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 1: a clown pack Fox News characters, Jeanine Piro, Cash Bentel. 80 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: The conspiracy here is Pam Bondi, pie Hegsa Cash Btel. 81 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: And we see this all white cadre about to impose 82 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: order without the will of the community, without the will 83 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 1: of the people who live in Washington, d C. On 84 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: the black majority. And that should be noted, they should 85 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: be noted up front that we shouldn't dance around the 86 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: racist overturns, the racist overtones, and the clear and loud 87 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: usurpation of the rights of the people of Washington, d C. 88 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: To have elected leaders that make decisions in their city instead, 89 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: as Trump indicated, Washington, d C. Is about the beginning. 90 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 1: And this will spread out all over the country. Everywhere 91 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: there's a crime. Everywhere, something has has been happened that's 92 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: an evil. Donald Trump will have a rationale to asserve 93 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: more power as the cure over and over and over again. 94 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: And what you're witnessing at this news conference today is 95 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: a collection of some of the most dishonest public officials, 96 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: unfit public officials that have ever been lining up to 97 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: lie in the further into of the interests of the 98 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: power of a single man. And so in this moment, 99 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: when DC crime rates are down and dropping, Donald Trump 100 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: has deployed the military. Donald Trump has told the American 101 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: people the crime is so bad despite crime rates droppings, 102 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: that he has to deploy the army to occupy the 103 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: nation's capital, and that it's an urgent enough issue that 104 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: soon it will be coming to a city near you. 105 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: Led by Field Marshall, Pete Hegseat and Pam Bondi and 106 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: Judge Janine and all the Fox detritus. What we are 107 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: watching play out on international television on CNN. And if 108 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: that's what you're watching, like I am with Pam Bondy 109 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: Shining Cross as she's involved in building concentration camps where 110 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: immigrant detainees are abused and tortured by personnel of the 111 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: federal government of the United States on orders of some 112 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: of the senior officials of the government. As Donald Trump said, 113 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: you spit, we hit, foreshadowing that fascistic use of force, 114 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: foreshadowing more abuses of power, foreshadowing his luss to unleash 115 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: the violence of the state against people, any people, so 116 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: long as it's in the name of Trump's control and authority. 117 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: And so what a dangerous moment we have arrived at 118 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: year before the middle of August, in the year twenty 119 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: twenty five. Now, in the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 120 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: year of the United States of America, Washington, DC is 121 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: to be an occupied city, a federalized city. The rights 122 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: of the black majority have been stripped away, disenfranchised out 123 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: of necessity for security. Seems interesting how that goes together. 124 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: In order to be safe, the black majority of Washington 125 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: must be less free. Doesn't seem quite right. As we 126 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: approach that anniversary of doctor King's speech about a dream 127 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: he had that seems to be regressing. But again, as 128 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: he pointed out, the moral arc of the universe is long, 129 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: and it bends towards justice, which means in that long arc, 130 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: in that bend, there any long, flat sessions that can 131 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: cast off a mirage that show regression, when in fact 132 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: what they indicate is the necessity for fighting and struggling 133 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: to maintain the trajectory of that arc. But let's be clear, 134 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: what is being seen today is about one thing, power, 135 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: and there's a proposition that we're watching play out. Donald 136 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: Trump's policies are rejected by a clear majority of Americans, 137 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: and yet Trump, through his aggressive maximalism, grows more powerful 138 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: by the hour as he grows less popular by the day, 139 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party maintains a flat line of weakness 140 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: in the face of aggressions that cannot be tolerated in countenance. 141 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: There must be a react hink this that is beyond 142 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: an appearance by Democratic leaders members of Congress on MSNBC. 143 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: There must be a meeting of governors. There must be 144 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: a caucus of political leaders to announce in a compact 145 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 1: that they will not stand for a rising federal tyranny 146 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: under the dictatorship of Donald Trump and his cabinet of 147 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 1: loons and losers, of conspiracy, dranks, cranks, nutjobs, and liars. 148 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: The goons assembled to announce what effectively is martial law 149 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: as a distraction to the scandal that draws effort nearer 150 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: his friendship with the most notorious child sex traffic or 151 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: pedophile of the twenty first century, and his right hand, 152 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: his accomplice Gislaying Maxwell. There's a lot of movie plots 153 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: that ponder what would happen if a terrorist had a 154 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: nuclear weapon and they could blackmail the president. It seems 155 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,359 Speaker 1: like on any given day these days that Gislaine Maxwell 156 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: is a person who has a nuclear weapon of sorts 157 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: and a relationship with the President, who gets to use 158 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: powers in an announcement of a sea of white faces 159 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 1: to impose control and order on the black people of Washington, DC, 160 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: in the name of the security of as Homeland Security 161 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: puts it. Our culture, and what culture might that be? 162 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: The culture that venerates the Confederate General, the Confederate cause, 163 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: that venerated the cause of racial domination and supremacy. Here 164 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, those values, those things are ascended, 165 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: and what's descending down on all of us is the 166 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: black curtain of fascism. Trump's heavy hand is everywhere in 167 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: the economy, me in your business. It's there to punish, 168 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: to seek retribution. There is to be noice sent just 169 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: sick a fancy, just the gleamy eyed zealotry of the people. 170 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: Like Pam Bondy with her shiny little cross upon her chest, 171 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: standing next to Pete Hegseth, a certifiable whack job on 172 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: national television announcing against all of the statistics and all 173 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: of the facts, the necessity to an essence militarily occupied Washington, 174 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: d C. As the test case. It's the test case 175 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: to clean up the slums and get rid of the homeless. 176 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: And I wonder, just wonder with what he is Pete 177 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: Hagseth would give the order to line up some of 178 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: those homeless against the wall or the Pam BONDI would 179 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: or cash ptel because what you're seeing today is a 180 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: gathering of little likements from the White House soon to 181 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: be desecrated by the ballroom for the man who just 182 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: with the stroke of a pen disenfranchised hundreds of thousands 183 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: of Americans, took away their vote, took away their rights, 184 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: and occupied their city while calling them criminals. Welcome to 185 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: Trump's America, the America where the law is what Judge 186 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: Genine from Fox News says it is. It is a 187 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: most appalling moment. This is the warning. 188 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 189 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 2: to join this community where I promise to be honest, 190 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 2: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 191 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 2: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 192 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 2: and on substack. 193 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: Thank you.