Speaker 1: Two years ago today. I started the Warning, and it's
Speaker 1: grown into a vibrant community where tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: people are engaged in what's happening to our country around
Speaker 1: the world, understanding and orienting towards the events of the day,
Speaker 1: making sense of them without having to wait for a
Speaker 1: corrupted journalist book deal to find out the news you
Speaker 1: needed yesterday, two years from now. I started the Warning
Speaker 1: because there needs to be fearless voices who are not
Speaker 1: intimidated by growing menace and fascism, who are indifferent to
Speaker 1: being patted on the head in the green room, who
Speaker 1: don't aspire to sit at the head table of the
Speaker 1: White House correspondence dinner, who understand that the purpose of
Speaker 1: political power is the public interest in public good. The
Speaker 1: Warning is a place where you can find reality, truthfulness
Speaker 1: as a first quality, as an essential virtue. This dangerous
Speaker 1: moment has not arrived overnight. It is not a building
Speaker 1: block of disconnected events, like a giant djenga game that
Speaker 1: has sprawled up from the ground, spontaneously, generated from nothing.
Speaker 1: We are on a river with a current, and we
Speaker 1: have moved far down over these last nine years. Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: for nearly a decade has been America's dominant political and
Speaker 1: cultural figure. He is the biggest star there is. The
Speaker 1: national media can't look away. The politicians who were appalled
Speaker 1: by him now lay prostate at his feet. The Warning
Speaker 1: is a place where I will try to make sense
Speaker 1: of it all, for you, to lay it all out
Speaker 1: in fearless and direct terms, to connect it to history,
Speaker 1: to talk about what's coming, how to prepare for it,
Speaker 1: and how to stop it while there's still time left.
Speaker 1: But no matter what happens two years from now, the
Speaker 1: Warning will be here, and it will be growing, and
Speaker 1: it will be a voice in the constellation of American
Speaker 1: voices that advocate for liberty, for justice for all people,
Speaker 1: for all Americans. We live in a consequential time, and
Speaker 1: during my adult life, the journey down that river has
Speaker 1: been monumental. When I was a young man at twenty
Speaker 1: one years of age, some of the greatest historians of
Speaker 1: their time predicted history was at its end. The liberal
Speaker 1: democracies had triumphed pluralism, humanism, equality, human rights had prevailed
Speaker 1: against human slavery. It was a respite a season, but
Speaker 1: it has not endured, whether it was squandered or whether
Speaker 1: it was history's natural arc is a different debate. But
Speaker 1: here we sit today, two years after the founding of
Speaker 1: The Warning, in the middle of a profound political crisis
Speaker 1: here at home and a growling, growing menace around the world.
Speaker 1: The world is moving towards war for its conflict. Come
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Speaker 1: Be a good citizen. It means being an informed citizen.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Warning community. I hope you'll stick around.
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the Warning, and I invite
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