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Speaker 1: I have a theory that I want to put out there.

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Speaker 1: I believe that Trump because he mentioned Diddy and it's

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Speaker 1: not the first time you mentioned that. I think he'll

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Speaker 1: pardon Glen Maxwell, Didty and George Santos in the same

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Speaker 1: day to blur the moral lines and to cause chaos.

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Speaker 1: And so there's no singular story that is focused on

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Speaker 1: because it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent right, it's but over and there's

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Speaker 2: a there's a straight line on this and I and

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Speaker 2: I talked about it in the moment, uh, going back

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Speaker 2: to two thousand and seventeen of January twentieth, when Sean

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Speaker 2: Spicer walked out and stood behind a White House podium

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Speaker 2: and said, crowd size A, which was much smaller than

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Speaker 2: crowd size B, was in fact bigger. And from that

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Speaker 2: moment on, fifty thousand lies, sixty three, whatever whatever number

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Speaker 2: you want to use, and then those are just Trump flies, right,

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Speaker 2: and then all the lies that swarm around those lies. Right.

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Speaker 2: So the accumulation literally, right social media of millions and

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Speaker 2: millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and

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Speaker 2: millions of lies have eradicated the ability of people to

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Speaker 2: see the plain truth, right, in front of them, whether

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Speaker 2: it's Giselaine Maxwell and Katie Johnson, whether it's no, there's

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Speaker 2: not a war in Portland. There is a guy in

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Speaker 2: a frog suit and a chicken outfit out there, but

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Speaker 2: it's America. It's Portland, and there's a lot of weird

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Speaker 2: shit going on, and you have National Guard troops arriving

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Speaker 2: from Texas invading another state, and everything that is happening

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Speaker 2: is at odds completely from the rationale being used to

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Speaker 2: justify every action. And so each day, every day, all day,

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Speaker 2: government officials belligerently get in the face with whoever dares

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Speaker 2: to ask him a question and insist two plus two

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Speaker 2: is five and fuck.

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Speaker 1: You, yeah right, and I agree, deal with it.

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Speaker 2: And his political approval numbers are collapsing while his power

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Speaker 2: is increasing, and while he's collapsing, the Democratic Party remains

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Speaker 2: absolutely stuck, frozen in place. Normal In a two party system,

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Speaker 2: politics works like a teeter tar right, one side up,

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Speaker 2: goes up, the other goes down. When one goes down,

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Speaker 2: the other goes up. Trump is going down, but the

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Speaker 2: Democrats are not going up. And what's happening is in

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Speaker 2: a visceration of trust completely with all institutions that benefit

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Speaker 2: in the end one institution, and that's the one with

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Speaker 2: the most power, the office a president. So it's a

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Speaker 2: it's a very dangerous set of things that are all

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Speaker 2: coming together in this in this moment. And I can't

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Speaker 2: think of a deeper type of corruption right in a

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Speaker 2: in a society where your political party, the letter you

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Speaker 2: person to justify in their mind that, oh, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to abide the rape of a thousand young girls because well,

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Speaker 2: I think that could benefit me politically. And it's there's

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Speaker 2: there's truly, there's truly nothing, nothing sicker, And every every

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Speaker 2: founding father of the country talked about you have to

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Speaker 2: have some characteristics in a society for democracy to thrive,

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Speaker 2: and no person could objectively look at this country, our

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Speaker 2: country and see those characteristics in play. We we do

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Speaker 2: not live in a virtuous society.

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Speaker 1: Hmm, Yeah, I don't know, see if it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: hard to follow that, but yeah, it's all I don't

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Speaker 1: many people around President Trump who will not push back,

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's a uh, there's a there's a there's

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Speaker 2: I was like, wow, that's a Nazi bad was from

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Speaker 2: But all of the the systems right of state in

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Speaker 2: It was a death penalty offense to conceal a Jew.

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Speaker 2: And so at any rate, these guys, this police battalion,

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Speaker 2: these were ordinary people who did not want to join

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Speaker 2: And the commander of these guys was beloved by his men.

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Speaker 2: the commanders of those men said something nasty and he

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Speaker 2: He said, no, no, right, this is a matter of conscience.

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Speaker 2: But everybody who did the killing volunteered to do the killing.

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Speaker 1: And in that vision, I'm sure too, they wanted to

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Speaker 2: And that is the central lesson, most important lesson of history,

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Speaker 2: these events. And the terribleness of these events was when

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Speaker 2: stops talking immediately after he says the sentence the president

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Speaker 2: has plenary authority, which that means absolute power. And then

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Speaker 2: Stephen Miller in this interview just stops talking realizing I

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Speaker 2: think that he just said the cry at part out loud.

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Speaker 2: And I can go into some detail about this, but

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Speaker 2: the main point is this the maga regime of Trump

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Speaker 2: and Miller in Nome and Bondye or asserting powers that

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Speaker 2: to possess on the eve of them being used against

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Speaker 2: the people in a democratic society. Corresponding to the moment

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Speaker 2: when you have senior adminification officials saying if you oppose Trump,

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Speaker 2: you're a terrorist. Yeah, And that's Nazi language, because a

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Speaker 2: Nazi holds that an opponent is a terrorist because they

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Speaker 2: don't believe in democracy, freedom, dissent, liberty or the right

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Speaker 2: to disagree, and democracy is what keeps every person safe

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Speaker 2: from the government jackboot. And that's what we're seeing collapse

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Speaker 2: in real time under a blizzard of lies. It's a

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Speaker 2: while maintaining hope and faith that there have been other

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Speaker 2: dark and terrible times that the country has endured through.

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Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, Abraham Lincoln said,

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Speaker 2: in the United States, with public opinion, anything is possible.

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Speaker 2: Without it, nothing is possible. And so in a few days,

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Speaker 2: we're going to see many scores and millions of people

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Speaker 2: the old song says, battle lines are being drawn, and

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Speaker 2: what's going on is not exactly clear, but it's all

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Speaker 2: coming to a head. And I'm Steve Schmidt. This is

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Speaker 2: the warning. I invite you to join this community where

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Speaker 2: I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about what

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Speaker 2: is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow

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