Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, September thirtieth. This is the warning, and
Speaker 1: the American crisis is deepening everywhere you look.
Speaker 2: The evidence of this rings out.
Speaker 1: There is a meeting in Quantico, Virginia today where eight
Speaker 1: hundred generals and admirals, every what they call flag officer
Speaker 1: from around the world has been summoned to a meeting
Speaker 1: to be lectured by the drunken Secretary of War Pete
Speaker 1: Hagsath about the warrior ethos.
Speaker 2: But now, of course Donald.
Speaker 1: Trump has hijacked the meeting, and the commander in Chief
Speaker 1: himself will expect to bask in the adulation of the
Speaker 1: men who swore an oath not to a president, but
Speaker 1: to a republic, to a constitution, a constitution that goes
Speaker 1: all the way back to the beginning, the constitution that
Speaker 1: George Washington became president, after it became the law of
Speaker 1: the land. The country's in big trouble, and there's something
Speaker 1: that we should talk honestly about. Three years ago, in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, after playing a leading role in the
Speaker 1: twenty campaign running the Lincoln Project that helped elect Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: I made the point that was screaming in every poll,
Speaker 1: which was the American people thought a rematch between Biden
Speaker 1: and Trump was a national catastrophe. Think of the absurdity
Speaker 1: of the message. The Democratic Party, on the one hand,
Speaker 1: said correctly, as it turned out, the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: was an existential election, that everything was on the line,
Speaker 1: that our democracy was on the line, that liberty was
Speaker 1: on the line. And yet the corrupt leaders of that
Speaker 1: party demanded the same type of submission of their voters
Speaker 1: demanded by Donald Trump. Of hises, Democratic leaders demanded their
Speaker 1: voters be deaf and dumb and blind and on their
Speaker 1: knees to the idea that the only person in the
Speaker 1: whole Democratic Party that could defeat Trump was Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: who couldn't make it up the stairs and couldn't speak
Speaker 1: in a coherent sentence. So his wife, in a hand
Speaker 1: full of aids, bullied weak people into submission, and they
Speaker 1: lit the fuse for this moment. They are the architects
Speaker 1: of defeat and the reason the Democratic Party is stuck
Speaker 1: at twenty five percent today. We are where we are
Speaker 1: because the Chuck Schumer led Senate helped seat Donald Trump's incompetent, insane,
Speaker 1: and absolutely lawless cabinet of constitutional vandals.
Speaker 2: And arsonists.
Speaker 1: And in March, during a negotiation where Chuck Schumer had
Speaker 1: a great deal of leverage, he used none and instead
Speaker 1: went out after appeasing Donald Trump in giving away the store,
Speaker 1: promising to lay down on the tracks. He claimed victory,
Speaker 1: and everything that has happened since then until now was
Speaker 1: set in motion by that. Here is his counterpart, Hakim Jeffreys.
Speaker 3: Yesterday there was a frank and direct discussion with the
Speaker 3: President of the United States and Republican leaders, but significant
Speaker 3: and meaningful differences remain. Democrats are fighting to protect the
Speaker 3: healthcare of the American people, and we are not going
Speaker 3: to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to
Speaker 3: gut the healthcare of everyday Americans, period full stop. Is
Speaker 3: a Republican caused health care crisis that is causing hospitals
Speaker 3: and nursing homes and community based health clinics all across
Speaker 3: the country, in rural America, urban America, small town America,
Speaker 3: the heartland of America, and black and brown communities throughout
Speaker 3: this country. And that crisis is happening right now. And
Speaker 3: that's why we believe there is urgency to both keeping
Speaker 3: the government open, reaching a bipartisan spending agreement that actually
Speaker 3: meets the needs of the American people in terms of
Speaker 3: their health, their safety, their economic well being, and quality
Speaker 3: of life, while also addressing the dangerous Republican healthcare crisis.
Speaker 1: Yes, Leader, bipartisanship is right around the corner. By the way,
Speaker 1: did you see the AI video the White House released
Speaker 1: after the meeting.
Speaker 4: Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes
Speaker 4: Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all
Speaker 4: of our woke trans bullshit. Not even black people want
Speaker 4: to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So
Speaker 4: we need new voters. And if we give all these
Speaker 4: illegal aliens free healthcare, we might be able to get
Speaker 4: them on our side so they can vote for us.
Speaker 2: They can't even speak English.
Speaker 4: So they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke
Speaker 4: pieces of shit, you know, at least for a while
Speaker 4: until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.
Speaker 1: They's the answer to the bipartisanship And Chuck Schumer as
Speaker 1: hapless a person as there could conceivably be for this
Speaker 1: moment in history. First elected to office fifty years ago
Speaker 1: when I was five years old, just turned fifty five,
Speaker 1: which means I'll be getting my AARP card.
Speaker 2: It's time for them to go.
Speaker 1: They are ineffective, they are incompetent, and they have blundered
Speaker 1: into a fight on healthcare that they will not hold
Speaker 1: the line on in this government shutdown. Their message is incoherent,
Speaker 1: and Trump is zeroing in on their weak points. Competent
Speaker 1: political leaders would have recognized in this moment the elegance
Speaker 1: of something very simple. They didn't need to do much.
Speaker 1: In fact, even now they should aspire to do less.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has presented himself to the American people as
Speaker 1: an all powerful king. He controls a corrupt Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: he controls a capitulan Congress that has surrendered its checks
Speaker 1: and balances.
Speaker 2: He controls it all.
Speaker 1: So what is it that King Donald could conceivably need
Speaker 1: from the Democrats.
Speaker 2: Let's role play for a second.
Speaker 1: Imagine We're sitting across from each other at the conference table,
Speaker 1: and I'm the Democratic leader, and I say, what is
Speaker 1: it that you could conceivably want with us, aside from
Speaker 1: giving us the news personally that you're going to investigate
Speaker 1: us and our families and maybe lock us up for
Speaker 1: the crime of dissenting against the obscenities occurring in this country.
Speaker 2: What could you need from us? Certainly it's not, Oh,
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 1: You guys don't have the working votes. You don't have
Speaker 1: the votes you need us to pass something. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: you're going to have to buy that. Purchase it by
Speaker 1: doing things that we want you to do.
Speaker 2: They no doubt you don't want to do.
Speaker 1: And unless and until you do those things, there's no
Speaker 1: votes possible. That's the negotiating position, that's the line. And
Speaker 1: yet not only can't they draw a line, not only
Speaker 1: can't they hold the line that they have drawn, they
Speaker 1: can't even speak a sensible, coherent sentence about.
Speaker 2: Why it's necessary to draw a line.
Speaker 1: About what that line is about, about what's happening in
Speaker 1: the country. Because these are bubble men who live inside
Speaker 1: cloistered spaces, detached from reality, hollow men surrounded by how
Speaker 1: men and women, and they are not up to this moment,
Speaker 1: not in any way, not in any shape, not in
Speaker 1: any form. And so in a way they are the
Speaker 1: essential partner to Maga. They are the weak sisters. They are,
Speaker 1: in the end, the appeasers every fascist dreams of for
Speaker 1: their conquest. My friends, it is time for them to
Speaker 1: go because there is a republic to save and these
Speaker 1: two guys, they're not up for the job. I'm Steve Schmidt.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. I invite you to join this
Speaker 1: community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct
Speaker 1: about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.