1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Let's watch his daughter in law, now the grifter in 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,119 Speaker 1: chief at the Republican National Committee, where she steals millions 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: for the cause of Trump's legal defense every day, assert 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: the big lie. 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 2: What Donald Trump has said, and I think is exactly right, 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 2: is that we should have freefare and transparent elections. And unfortunately, Eric, 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: there are millions and millions of Americans out there who 8 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 2: don't feel like they can trust our electoral process. We 9 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 2: can't function as a country like that. So he said, yes, 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: if I feel like this is a fair election, if 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: I feel like you guys didn't interfere in any way 12 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: like they are obviously trying to do with all these 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 2: bogus cases against him, then no problem. I'm happy to 14 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 2: accept the results of the election. 15 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: Are we ready to say, Donald Trump, we are so indifferent, 16 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: we care so little about this country. Could we make 17 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: Trumpets dictator? If that is the case, What a contemptible 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: people we are. It is May the fifteenth, twenty twenty four, 19 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: one and seventy four days remain until the American people 20 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: will decide the next American commander in chief. This is 21 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: the warning. There is a singular feature of this dysfunctional 22 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: era in American politics, and it is the inability to 23 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: understand what is plainly happening all around us through the 24 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: thick cordon of smoke and fog that is constantly spewed 25 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: by the American media for profit, for cliques, for ratings. 26 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: It is a disaster because what it has done is 27 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: level the truth and the lie into an even status 28 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: where they are indistinguishable from one another. And in a 29 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: democracy where it is impossible to tell the lie from 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: the truth, what is real, from what is false, what 31 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: is delusional and fantasy, from what is true and historic, 32 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: then the country will be lost, the nation, the people, 33 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: and they will be at the precipice of an abyss 34 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: a disaster. This has played out all through human history. 35 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 1: It says in Proverbs, pride cometh before the fall. Our 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: chants of USA USA have grown jingoistic. We unfurled giant 37 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: American flags on the NFL football fields. Service members waive 38 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: them for a few minutes. Maybe there'll be a squadron 39 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: of fighter jets or attack helicopters overhead. Sometimes even parachutists 40 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: Navy seals are from the Army Golden Knights. The people cheer, 41 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: but this country is founded on ideas and ideals which 42 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: rose up and grew from an ember to a great 43 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: light that in time lit the world. The statue of liberty. 44 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: It's an enduring symbol, hope, of opportunity, of values, most 45 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: importantly of ideals that we have not always lived up to. 46 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: But in life it is the struggle that matters, and 47 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: the struggle towards these worthy goals of a just society, 48 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: the one that Martin Luther King talked about, should be 49 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: pre eminent in a debate where everything is on the line, 50 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: where there is a growing fascist menace sustained in part 51 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: by a Christian nationalist front merged with armed militant fascist 52 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: militias like the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters, both 53 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: of whom have members in federal prison convicted of seditious conspiracy. 54 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: It is so hard to understand what is happening in 55 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: the world, what is swirling all about us, especially when 56 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: the news organizations that proclaim themselves the paper of record, 57 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 1: like the New York Times, so deliberately and purposely evade 58 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: informing the public about what's happened. What is happening in 59 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: the world today in America, if you were just to 60 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,479 Speaker 1: turn on American media, the only thing that's really happening 61 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: in the world is a trial in New York City, 62 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: and it is a tadd ReSpectacle being covered like it's 63 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: the royal wedding. The anchors are there, the boots are there. 64 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: But a generation later OJ is dead, and so is 65 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: the passion for walla wall trial coverage. Here's what's happening 66 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: in the world that really matters. The Russian Spring Offensive 67 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: is underway. The Ukrainians are out of troops, out of reserves, 68 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: out of ammunition. That's the case because the Ukrainians have 69 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: been starved of the weapons, the weapons systems, the ammunition, 70 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: the lethal aid that they need by the Maga fascist 71 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: congress that fetishizes Vladimir Putin. Though the aid has recently passed, 72 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: the fact that it was held up for so long 73 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: means the Ukrainians are in a very tough spot with 74 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand Russian soldiers bearing down. Do you know 75 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: what happened in the nation of Georgia. Do you know 76 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: about the Foreign Agent's Law, which is really a way 77 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: for the Kremlin to take control of civil society in 78 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: a democratic nation that they already invaded. In fact, Georgia 79 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: was the first nation the Vladimir Putin invaded outside of 80 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: his borders in his attempt to restore the Russian Empire. 81 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of Georgians are on the street, fighting 82 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: for democracy, fighting against the takeover through legislative process, through 83 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: some version of their nation of their democracy by Putin's Russia. 84 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: There's no word of it whatsoever on the front pages 85 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: of The New York Times, which is unsurprising because its 86 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: executive editor has expressed his disinterest about the issue of democracy, 87 00:06:55,200 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: proclaiming it doesn't even register in the polls. The executs 88 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: an editor of The New York Times, who is four 89 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: years old in nineteen sixty eight, declares he feels like 90 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: these campus protests, which are a fringe protest, feel like 91 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight. It's all nonsense, and the result has 92 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: properly been criticized by the legendary New York Times columnist 93 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: Nick Christoff, who risks his life all over the world 94 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: from places as dangerous as the Congo to report to 95 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: Times readers about what was happening, why it was happening, 96 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: Trying to explicate complexity, trying to unlock the riddles of evil. 97 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: Nick Christoff understands the moral and intellectual bankruptcy a hand 98 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: at the New York Times. That's why he is critical 99 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: of it. And another example of this ridiculousness played out 100 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: in the Trump trial. It was the moment when the 101 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: prosecution asked the witness, Michael Cohen about the email exchanges 102 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: betwe him Trump's fixer and the New York Times star 103 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: reporter Maggie Haberman, who, incredibly, though she is a subject 104 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: of the trial, covers the trial as she has covered Trump, 105 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: to whom she has always been conflicted because of her 106 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: family's deep and long ties with the Kushner and Trump family. 107 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman's coverage, its access driven, transactional nature, has always 108 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: been a journalistic obscenity, and the sum of all of 109 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:42,079 Speaker 1: it is The Times has redefined reality under a dogma 110 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: of balance, which is in fact a delusion, wrapped in 111 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: an illusion to make the fascism disappear, to go away, 112 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: to obliterate it from existence. Though it's right in front 113 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: of our faces, right in front of our Donald Trump 114 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 1: is talking about massive prison camps to deport millions of people. 115 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: He's talking about building the police state to execute that vision. 116 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: He is talking about locking up political opponents and punishing them. 117 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is talking about deploying the military into American streets. 118 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has given a green light for Russia to 119 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: invade Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, all native nations. He has 120 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: given the Russians a green light to invade Poland, to 121 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: invade Germany, to invade Moldova. Donald Trump may not be 122 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: bright enough to understand this, but he's also given a 123 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: green light, at least intellectually, to Xijenpeng to invade Taiwan. 124 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: What Donald Trump has asserted is that right is based 125 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: on might, not values. This is a world where right 126 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: and wrong doesn't exist. And in a world where right 127 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: and wrong doesn't exist, evil is at hand. A week ago, 128 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: I documented the strange case of a Catholic bishop who 129 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: became a political hit man. For this man, Leonard Leo, 130 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: the architect of Donald Trump's Supreme Court picks. In fact, 131 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump allowed Leonard Leo to pick the Supreme Court 132 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: nominees for him, and as a result of the power 133 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: that was accrued from those choices, Leonard Leo is given 134 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: one point six billion dollars by a reclusive billionaire. That's 135 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: enough money on the interest alone to open a new 136 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: Heritage Foundation every year. And make no mistake, Leonard Leo 137 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: is an extremist who wants to subvert not just the 138 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: American Constitution, but the concepts of the separation of church 139 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: and state and the checks and balances. He is the 140 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: leading edge of Project twenty twenty five, a key organizer, 141 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: a key funder in the effort to dismantle the American 142 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: Civil Service. But you will read about none of this 143 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: in the New York Times on a daily basis. It 144 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: is invisible. The story of the century isn't even happening, 145 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: though it is today and everywhere, all at once. Nine 146 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: years ago, Donald Trump came down an escalator in Trump Tower. 147 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: He has been the nominee of the Republican Party for 148 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: three consecutive elections. He has turned that party away from 149 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: fidelity to the American Constitution, away from belief and election outcomes, 150 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: away from belief in reality. He has turned it into 151 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: a cult of personality. He has turned it into a 152 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: dangerous instrument of fascism. He has turned it into an 153 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 1: illiberal force. He has turned it into a domestic enemy, 154 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: menacing the nation that it is obligated to be fidelitist 155 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 1: towards what Donald Trump has become is the great danger. 156 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 1: The founders warned us all about it, and it has 157 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: been rendered invisible. What the New York Times is and 158 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: has become is a great stealth machine, looking the obscenities, 159 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: the insanities, the dangers under a delusional architecture of balance 160 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: that purports to say that the most immoral causes has 161 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: to be way aid in the balance against the most 162 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: moral disobliteration of all standards, of all values, of all decency. 163 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: It's very, very dangerous in a menacing world. Not so 164 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: long ago, if the speaker of the United States House 165 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: of Representatives showed up at a criminal trial in Manhattan 166 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: to put his finger on the scale, most people would 167 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: have understood that that was a grotesque abuse of power. 168 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: The fact that it came from a man who believed 169 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: that people in dinosaurs walked around together six thousand years ago. 170 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: But again, it's difficult to know what's happening, what's coming, 171 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: what's ahead. There is a reality, and it should be 172 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: talked about. It's good the President Biden wants to debate 173 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. The President will have to win those debates. 174 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: If he falls short, he risks his presidency and thus 175 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: the country and the truth of the matter is is 176 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: right now, Joe Biden is losing the election to Donald Trump. 177 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 1: If the election worre tomorrow, Donald Trump would be elected, 178 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: which will lead to a catastrophic result. And here's the 179 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: thing one hundred and seventy four days away that is 180 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: not being talked about. That is the most essential thing 181 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: to talk about, because there is a looming catastrophe that 182 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: is unavoidable. No matter the outcome of the election, there 183 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: will be a catastrophe. On the one hand, should Trump 184 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: be elected, he is promised to do the things he 185 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: has promised to do, which again, and it can't be 186 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: said enough times, he plans to dismantle the civil service 187 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: and the architecture of the federal government. He has people 188 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: around him talking about abolishing and banning the FBI, the 189 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: Department of Justice, the Department of Education, the Department of 190 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: Homeland Security, stripping everything to its bones, creating a new 191 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: class of federal employee who will not swear an oath 192 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: to the Constitution, but an oathe the personal loyalty to 193 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. This is all in writing. It's real. It's 194 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: called Project twenty twenty five. It's architect it out of 195 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: the Claremont Institute out of the Heritage Foundation. This is 196 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: what is funded by Leonard Leo. Donald Trump is promised 197 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: to open mass deportation camps and to fill them, and 198 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: it will require the building of a police state to 199 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: do it. Donald Trump is asked a military to use 200 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: force against the American people, and now he is promising 201 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: to send that military, the American People's military, into the 202 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: streets of America against the American people. Should he come 203 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: to power, there will be catastrophe in Europe and ultimately 204 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: an Americans. There will also be catastrophe because Donald Trump 205 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: and his entire party will refuse to concede the results 206 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: of an election again, which they have denied and continue 207 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: to deny right through to today. Let's watch his daughter 208 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: in law, now the grifter in chief, at the Republican 209 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: National Committee, where she steals millions for the cause of 210 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: Trump's legal defense every day assert the big lie. 211 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 2: What Donald Trump has said, and I think is exactly right, 212 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 2: is that we should have free, fair and transparent elections. 213 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: And unfortunately, Eric, there are millions and millions of Americans 214 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: out there who don't feel like they can trust our 215 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 2: electoral process. We can't function as a country like that. 216 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 2: So he said, yes, if I feel like this is 217 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 2: a fair election, if I feel like you guys didn't 218 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 2: interfere in any way like they are obviously trying to 219 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: do with all these bogus cases against him, then no problem. 220 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 2: I'm happy to accept the results of the election. 221 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: You see, it's not votes that decide elections anymore. It's 222 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: the feeling of the candidate. I've sat in a lot 223 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: of rooms on election nights, have won elections and be 224 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: involved in losing elections. But never ever was the outcome 225 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: of the election determined by the feeling of the candidate. 226 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 1: This is insanity and dangerous nonsense. These vanities, this egotism, 227 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: must be talked about so it can be defeated. And 228 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: there is a reality at this moment in time. The 229 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: New York Times poll bears this out all of the 230 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: poll and bears this out in the swing states. And 231 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: it's this that Joe Biden is losing the election. And 232 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,479 Speaker 1: there will never be a day over the next one 233 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four where the American people suddenly snap in, 234 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: whether it's July eighteenth in the imagination, August third, September 235 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: twenty second, or whatever, where they say, Oh, have you 236 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: heard about the Chips Act? What about the Infrastructure Bill? Oh? My, 237 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: now on for Joe Biden. This is a delusion. It's 238 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: not real. It's spoon fed bullshit, and it numbs the 239 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: American people to the danger at hand, which is the 240 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: very real possibility that Donald Trump could win this election. 241 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: And one of the primary reasons for that is the 242 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: massive communications deficit that exists. It exists behind the presidential 243 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: seal with the president, it exists with the Vice president 244 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: of the United States. Let's watch. 245 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 3: Sometimes people will open the door for you and leave 246 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 3: it open. Sometimes they won't, and then you need to 247 00:18:50,800 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 3: kick that phone door down, use my language. 248 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: And it exists from behind the White House press podium. 249 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: There is a fundamental inability to communicate, and the result 250 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: of that failure has been devastating. A wave of lies 251 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: has washed over this White House, and they have been 252 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: undefended from it. They have been unable to fight back 253 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: from it. They have been crushed by it. And so 254 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: even when an AP reporter makes up a number of 255 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: eighty to one hundred thousand people ludicrously, the Biden campaign's 256 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: communication operation can't handle it. They are overwhelmed by the 257 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: misinformation all the time, and inside the poll in numbers, 258 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: the devastation is clear. The Biden coalition has been liquefied. 259 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: It is god. There is not enough time, there is 260 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: not enough money to rebuild it. The coalition that matters 261 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: in American politics right now is the coalition to stop 262 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump from taking power. And that is different than 263 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: a Probiden coalition built around his legislative accomplishments which most 264 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: people don't know about, don't care about, and don't think 265 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: much about. That's the truth, harsh though it may be. 266 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,479 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, on the other hand, is a fascist and 267 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: a dangerous maniac, a serial abuser, a liar, and somebody 268 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 1: who can never be trusted with political power again, who 269 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: will cause chaos and disaster in the world, who will 270 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: strip away rights from women, for black people, from Hispanics, 271 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: who will try to lock up people with brown skin, 272 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: and will seek to use the power of the state 273 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: to crush dissent and to punish his opponents. And it 274 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: must be opposed, it must be stopped, it must be confronted, 275 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 1: and it must be accepted as the threat that it is. 276 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: There are one hundred and seventy four days left and 277 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: There's a lot happening in the world today, but you 278 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: know where you won't see it. You know where you 279 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: won't read about it, you won't see it on TV, 280 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: and you won't see it in the newspapers because so 281 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 1: much of that space is filled with well bullshit, weapons 282 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: grade bullshit aimed in the end at all of our 283 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: collective peace, prosperity, lives, liberty, and our pursuit of happiness. 284 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: There is much on the line and a lot happening 285 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: in the world. You can figure it out, you can 286 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: find your way to it. In the end, great question 287 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: at hand is coming down the pike, and it's this. 288 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 1: Are we ready to say Donald Trump, we are so indifferent, 289 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: we care so little about this country. Could we make 290 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: Trumpets dictator? If that is the case, what a contemptible 291 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 1: people we are. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning 292 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 293 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.