1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, September sixteenth. This is the morning our 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: country it's in big trouble. Yesterday the American people were 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: witnessed to a disgrace without precedent. There are some things 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: that need to be said, and I will do my 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: best to say them clearly. Charlie Kirk, during his public ministry, 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: divided the United States. He humiliated and he degraded people. 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: He did not stand for the proposition that we are 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: all created equal. He stood for the idea that some 9 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: are above others, more equal than others. And he went 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: about his business not trying to spread reason, not embracing dissent, 11 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: but engaged in a type of performance. Theerer that sought 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: to punch down. Charlie Kirk's legacy is not something that 13 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: at the moment of his assassination was particularly interesting. It 14 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: was enough to deplore the killing, to say that it 15 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: has no place and a free in democratic society. That 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: the killer had no right to steal from Charlie Kirk's children, 17 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: from his wife, from his family, Charlie Kirk's life. It 18 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: was not his. The author of Charlie Kirk's life was 19 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: the supreme judge of the universe, not some hate filled 20 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: twenty two year old Charlie Kirk. When I look at 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: his life from the perspective of midlife, had many many years, 22 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: including in those years, was the possibility, from my perspective, 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: that he would have turned his perspectives around and seen 24 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: something that helped him grow up. But that was taken 25 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: away in an instant. And I'll say this, if I 26 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: had an employee and on their social media account in 27 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: public was celebrating the death of this young man, I 28 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: would fire them immediately because I wouldn't trust their judgment. 29 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: I wouldn't trust their decency and their morality. I would 30 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: know that there was something broken within them. There is 31 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: no question that we live in an idiotized era that 32 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: is beyond the dimensions of most of us to be 33 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: able to articulate. The reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination 34 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: proves this. When Charlie Kirk lived, he said what he believed, 35 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: and here is what he believed. 36 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: For these blacks trying to go rob her happening all 37 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 2: the time in urban America. Prowling blacks go around for 38 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 2: fun to go target white people. 39 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 3: That's a fact. 40 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 2: Black crime is a major issue in our country. Why 41 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: are you pushing criminal justice reform exactly? Joy Reid and 42 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 2: Michelle Obama and Shila Jackson Lee and Catangi Brown Jackson. 43 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because 44 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: of affirmative action. We know you do not have the 45 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. 46 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: These quotes demonstrate what he believed and the things that 47 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: he believed, right down to the idea that empathy is 48 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: weakness should be deplored. And this pastor understands that. 49 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But I'm 50 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 4: overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America 51 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 4: at half staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate 52 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: a man who was an unapologetic racist, has spent all 53 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 4: of his life sowing seeds of division and hate, and 54 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 4: to this land. 55 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: Everybody in America should appreciate that two things can be 56 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: true at once. We have to condemn the violence, but 57 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: not at the point of threat on our knees in 58 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: submission and to the causes and ideas that Charlie Kirk's 59 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: life served, because those ideas were indecent. It is not 60 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: fair to impose on Charlie Kirk at the hour of 61 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: his death, responsibility for the actions of the living who 62 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: have sought to fundraise and profit off of his open casket, 63 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: have sought to assign blamed for his murder on every 64 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: person who opposes Donald Trump. The reaction of the Vice 65 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: President of the United States, it is terrible crime, demonstrates 66 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: his utter and absolute unfitness for high office. That he 67 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: is there is the result of a misjudgment of the 68 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: American people that will carry tragic consequences for our nation 69 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: for a very long time. 70 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 5: So when you see someone celebrating charlie murder, call them 71 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 5: out in hell, call their employer. We don't believe in 72 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 5: political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there 73 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 5: is no civility in the celebration of political assassination. Get involved, 74 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,239 Speaker 5: Get involved, Get involved. It's the best way to honor 75 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 5: Charlie's legacy. 76 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: The Attorney General of the United States is a buffoon 77 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: who is threatening the erasure of the free speech right, 78 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: as if the First Amendment doesn't exist, But it does. 79 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: Across the depth and breadth of the government. At the 80 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: hour of a man's death, in a premeditated and calculated campaign, 81 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: we have seen fascists seek to expand their political power, 82 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: and they have done so by making demands, by threatening, 83 00:05:54,600 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: and using propaganda to intimidate. And every American should being 84 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: prepared to say enough is enough. 85 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 6: And while our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, 86 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 6: it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics 87 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 6: in American politics today are proud members of the far left. 88 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was a devisive figure of a fascist faction. 89 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: He is not a national hero, and it is inappropriate 90 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: to try to impose upon the nation him as one. 91 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: The ceremony in Yankee Stadium under the uniform number of 92 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson was a disgrace. Charlie Kirk embraced the philosophy 93 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: of the Yankee Ben Chapman. If you don't know who 94 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: Ben Chapman is, look him up and see what he 95 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: did to Jackie Robinson standing on the sidelines in a 96 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: Philly uniform. Charlie Kirk embraced a long running poison in 97 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: American life. Charlie Kirk denied an election result, which is 98 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: the keystone of American life. None of those things gave 99 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: that young man in Utah the right to kill him 100 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: to assassinate him. It was an attack on liberty in 101 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: this country. It was an attack on free speech. And 102 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: instead of de escalating the situation, and instead of making 103 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: an argument about liberty, an argument about free speech, what 104 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: we have seen from the Trump regime are threats from 105 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: fascists like Steven Miller, insanity from the FBI director, an 106 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: incompetent loom, a bug eye freak show, in competence from 107 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: the Attorney General, and more threats, threats everywhere. Here's the deal. 108 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: Many years ago, in Nazi Germany, there was a perfection 109 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: of the public mourning ritual, and no person personified it 110 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: more than a man named horse Vessel. What you're seeing 111 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: is something that is is un american, is anything that 112 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: has ever been witnessed. You are watching a fascist movement 113 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: try to cloak a member of their faction in the 114 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: national cloth, in the American flag, trying to impose upon 115 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: the nation the idea that the appropriate response to a 116 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: murder is the seizure of political power and the stifling 117 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: of dissent lest there be more violence. By incredibly, the 118 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: people making the argument are the chief instigators of political violence. 119 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: On a ten year basis, bar none and against any 120 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: standard in American history. There has never been a political 121 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: leadership that is called more consistently, more often for violence 122 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: than has the MAGA leadership. When we meet our creator, 123 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: we will all be judged, And in that moment of judgment, 124 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: what is said about us here whom I'm matter at all? 125 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk deserves to have a long life, and it 126 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: was cut short in an act of terrible malevolence and 127 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: violence and evil and hate. But it is deeply unfair 128 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: to involve Charlie Kirk into debate that has raged in 129 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: the world that he is no longer a part of 130 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: the world that exists after his death, the world in 131 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: which his absence from it has become the springboard a 132 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: rationale for mass murder, concentration camps in prison meant professional 133 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: obliteration for anybody who dared to disagree with such hateful 134 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: notions as the fact that Donald Trump lost the election 135 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. This madness, all of it, must be rejected. 136 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: I want to share with you a brilliant eulogy by 137 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: the Reverend Jesse Jackson of the American I Jackie Robinson. 138 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: Watch it, appreciate it, and know this In the end 139 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: what we do with our time here does not get 140 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: washed away at the moment of our expiration. The record stands. 141 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson's life was about justice, and there should never 142 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: be a baseball stadium in America where a crowd of 143 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: baseball fans and baseball players from all over the world 144 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: are made to salute an idea that is poisonous, that 145 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: is obnoxious and steeped in the racial arrogance that has 146 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: hurt and harmed and killed so many. Still within the 147 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: living lifetime of so many watch this and contemplated. 148 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 3: Today, we must balance the tears of some with the 149 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 3: tears of joy, nix the bitter with the suite death 150 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 3: and life. Jackie has a in history. Was a rock 151 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 3: in the wall, creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility. 152 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 3: He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching 153 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 3: the diseases that he thought. The Lord's arms of protection 154 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 3: enabled him to go through dangers seen and unseen, and 155 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 3: he had the capacity to wear glory with grace. Jack's 156 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 3: body was a temple of God, an instrument of peace. 157 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: We would watch him disappear into nothingness and stand back 158 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 3: as spectators and watch the suffering from a far the 159 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 3: mercy of God, antercepted this process. Tuesday, he committed him 160 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 3: to steal away home where referees out of place. Only 161 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 3: the stream of judge of the universe. 162 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: Speaks, And I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I 163 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: invite you to join this community where I promise to 164 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening in 165 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to 166 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: this channel and on substack. Thank you.