Speaker 1: The United States stands on this Friday, January the sixteenth,
Speaker 1: and an hour of crisis.
Speaker 2: But the leader of the Senate Democrats.
Speaker 1: Who wishes to be the majority leader, Chuck Schumer, doesn't
Speaker 1: say it. This is the warning. Does anybody believe that
Speaker 1: fifteen years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years
Speaker 1: from now, in these crowded hours, that this will be
Speaker 1: remembered as the decisive issue.
Speaker 3: In the weeks and months to come. The American people
Speaker 3: will also hear from Democrats on other areas where we're
Speaker 3: fighting to lower costs. As I mentioned, food costs, energy costs, groceries, healthcare, childcare,
Speaker 3: and so many other things Americans pay for every day.
Speaker 3: Democrats are ready to get to work.
Speaker 2: The answer is, of course not.
Speaker 1: In order to appreciate how it is that there is
Speaker 1: stoppa on the street, shooting people, abducting people, harassing people,
Speaker 1: demanding of American citizens papers please, you have to recognize
Speaker 1: that none of it would have happened but for the
Speaker 1: appeasement and fecklessness of Chuck Schumer, who.
Speaker 3: Said this, and as I said, costs, the high cost
Speaker 3: of living, the affordability crisis will be our focus throughout
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, because that's what the American people are demanding,
Speaker 3: and we will show how the Trump administration and Republicans
Speaker 3: have made costs even worse and what Democrats will do
Speaker 3: when we get power to reduce those costs in a
Speaker 3: very significant way that will affect every single American.
Speaker 1: When he could have used his leverage, held the Democrats
Speaker 1: together and said no, why this is a moral abomination,
Speaker 1: he did not do that, and history will judge him
Speaker 1: brutally for it. But he is sinking further because in this.
Speaker 2: Moment, we are in our.
Speaker 1: Last moment for one year to be able to stop
Speaker 1: this insanity. And instead of making a demand that says
Speaker 1: we are going to ask as Democrats for the American
Speaker 1: people to stand up for their liberty and insist that
Speaker 1: these ice masks come off, that the abuses of the
Speaker 1: First Amendment, the abuses of the Fourth Amendment, the unreasonable searches,
Speaker 1: the kicking in.
Speaker 2: Of doors stop.
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer has the power to demand the release of
Speaker 1: the Epstein files. All he has to do is look
Speaker 1: into a camera and say we will hold the line.
Speaker 1: All he has to do is say, Donald, you don't
Speaker 1: have the votes. Congress controls the funding and yet Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer thinks the issue is affordability.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Yes, everybody knows everything in America is more expensive than
Speaker 1: it used to be because of Donald Trump. Let's watch
Speaker 1: the MAGA moron of the day explain the cost of chicken.
Speaker 4: The question you're asking, and it's a really important one,
Speaker 4: is while we're asking Americans to reconsider what they're eating,
Speaker 4: are we actually asking Americans, especially those who are living
Speaker 4: on the margins, are we asking them to spend more
Speaker 4: on their diet? And the answer to that is no.
Speaker 4: We've run over one thousand simulations. It can cost around
Speaker 4: three dollars a meal for a piece of chicken, a
Speaker 4: piece of broccoli, corn, tortilla, and one other thing. And
Speaker 4: so there is a way to do this that actually
Speaker 4: will save the average American consumer money.
Speaker 1: Normal people not blame Trump for this. The polling suggests
Speaker 1: they blame him completely. The question is do they trust
Speaker 1: the Democrats to make anything more affordable?
Speaker 2: And the evidence would suggest not.
Speaker 1: The only institution in the country that is less popular
Speaker 1: then MAGA is the Schumer led Democratic Party. It is
Speaker 1: an incredible achievement. The road to victory requires Democrats to
Speaker 1: stand for things that must be stood up for. This
Speaker 1: is not a moment for dial tests, for polling.
Speaker 2: It is a.
Speaker 1: Moment to plant a stake in the ground about right
Speaker 1: and wrong. All of us are created equal and doubt
Speaker 1: by a creator, with inalienable rights, among them life, liberty,
Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness. I'm sure I read that
Speaker 1: somewhere the freedom of speech is under assault, the freedom
Speaker 1: of religion is under assault. The prosperity of the American
Speaker 1: people is under assault.
Speaker 2: By a titanic.
Speaker 1: Crook who sits in the White House running wild. And
Speaker 1: yet Chuck Schumer does not even have the guts to
Speaker 1: do a daily news conference to illuminate the wrongs. Feckless
Speaker 1: does not begin to describe it, and it is not new.
Speaker 1: Here is what Winston Churchill said, And this is a
Speaker 1: photograph of Neville Chamberlain with Hitler, and he came back
Speaker 1: and he said, we shall have peace in our time.
Speaker 2: His appeasements and.
Speaker 1: Naivete before it was overkilled one one hundred million people
Speaker 1: around the world. Chuck Schumer is setting in motion through
Speaker 1: this foolishness, horror in our country, in our world because
Speaker 1: he won't take a stand. Here is Senator Chris van
Speaker 1: Holland from Maryland.
Speaker 5: This is off on so many levels. First, we have
Speaker 5: the unnecessary shooting death of a thirty seven year old mom, unjustified,
Speaker 5: and then we have the Trump administration from the Secretary
Speaker 5: of Homeland Security Christinome to the President of the United
Speaker 5: States lying about it, Christinome saying this was an act
Speaker 5: of domestic terrorism, calling this thirty seven year old mom
Speaker 5: essentially a terrorist.
Speaker 1: Here is Senator Alissa Slockin from Michigan.
Speaker 6: To be clear, this is the President's playbook. Truth doesn't matter,
Speaker 6: facts don't matter, and anyone who disagrees with him becomes
Speaker 6: an enemy, and he then weaponizes the federal government against them.
Speaker 6: It's legal intimidation and physical intimidation meant to get you
Speaker 6: to shut up. He's used it with our universities, our corporations,
Speaker 6: our legal community, and with politicians falsely believe that doing
Speaker 6: his bidding and staying quiet will keep them safe. No,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to do that because this president does
Speaker 6: not represent the views of a majority of Americans. Even
Speaker 6: if you voted for him, I do not believe that
Speaker 6: his vision of America is shared by a majority of Americans.
Speaker 6: Because this country is worth fighting for. Our freedom of
Speaker 6: speech is worth fighting for. Our values, our core values
Speaker 6: are worth fighting for, and right now, speaking out against
Speaker 6: the abuse of power is the most patriotic thing we
Speaker 6: can do.
Speaker 1: They are right and he is wrong, and the life
Speaker 1: of the American Republic hangs in the balance. My friends,
Speaker 1: we can defeat MAGA, but we may not be able
Speaker 1: to escape the appeasement of Hakim Jeffries and Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: the feckless boys of Brooklyn. We have become their hostages.
Speaker 1: And for some reason, Democrats in the Senate do not
Speaker 1: have the integrity, the guts, the character to get into
Speaker 1: a room, talk honestly with each other about what is happening,
Speaker 1: and do something about it. Let me close today with
Speaker 1: these words of warning from Governor Tim Wallas on the
Speaker 1: front line of a battle for freedom. They should matter
Speaker 1: a great deal to every American because first they came
Speaker 1: from Minnesota.
Speaker 2: But Minnesota will not be lost.
Speaker 7: My fellow Minnesotans, what's happening in Minnesota right now defies belief.
Speaker 7: News reports simply don't do justice to the level of
Speaker 7: chaos and disruption and trauma. The federal government is raining
Speaker 7: down upon our communities. Two to three thousand armed agents
Speaker 7: of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked,
Speaker 7: undertrained ice agents are going door to door ordering people
Speaker 7: to point out where their neighbors of color life of
Speaker 7: They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including US citizens, and demanding
Speaker 7: to see their papers, and at grocery stores, at bus stops,
Speaker 7: even at our schools. They're breaking windows, dragging pregnant women
Speaker 7: down the street, just playing grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them
Speaker 7: into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent people with no warning and
Speaker 7: no due process. Let's be very very clear, this long
Speaker 7: ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead it's
Speaker 7: a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota
Speaker 7: by our own federal government.
Speaker 1: And this is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is
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Speaker 2: Thank you.