1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: We are living through an awful moment of national hollowness, 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: where the idea of America is being challenged by an 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: extremism that has risen from Donald Trump's political ambitions. Donald 4 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: Trump's narcissism, his pettiness, all of his vices have melded 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: together and fused with an incipient fascism. On a seven 6 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: year basis, the American people saw cynicism bloom. They saw 7 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: a political party completely succumb to a cult of personality, 8 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: and they saw their politicians abandon every pretense of principle 9 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: for power. And the result is the madness we see 10 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: all around us. It is the neholism of Kevin McCarthy's 11 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: government shutdown. It is the insanity of Paul Gossar and 12 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: Mac Gates and Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Greed. It 13 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: is the decay that is happening in real time all 14 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: around us. But there are antidotes to it, and there 15 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: is a choice. The American people will make the ultimate 16 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: choice if we are to abandon democracy or whether we 17 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: are to renew it or to refresh it. Every generation 18 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: of Americans is called to face challenges and struggles and 19 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: hardships and to advance a proposition. That proposition is freedom 20 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: and liberty, and in the United States, inexorably over time 21 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: that has been an expanding proposition. The proposition that all 22 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: men are created equal a doubt by a creator, with 23 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: inalienable rights that include life, liberty in the pursuit of 24 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: happiness is a political proposition but also a moral proposition. 25 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: When the United States was built, when it was founded, 26 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: when it was constructed as an idea, there was an 27 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: understanding in that moment about how important it would be 28 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: to protect the freedom of the press, the presses, the 29 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: places where the newspapers were laid out printed. George Washington 30 00:02:54,600 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: was smeared during the Revolutionary War by loyalist presses in Manhattan. 31 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: His wife was smeared, and George Washington loved Martha Washington, 32 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: and he didn't appreciate it at all at any rate. 33 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: When the Revolutionary War ended, George Washington rode into Manhattan, 34 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,239 Speaker 1: and the first place he went to was the presses 35 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: that slandered him and his wife. Did he go there 36 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: to hang the man who smeared him? He did not. 37 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: He posted guards on his door and made sure that 38 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: there would be no retribution. Now again, retribution. That is 39 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: why Donald Trump is running for president of the United States. 40 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: He made clear why he is running again in a 41 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: very chilling statement which I'm going to read out loud. 42 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: This is important. Everything that Donald Trump says should be 43 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: taken literally and seriously. When Donald Trump speaks, listen and 44 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: hear and always root out within whatever he says, the 45 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: kernels of truth that become the basis for the malignancy 46 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: of his lie. When he talks about the dishonesty of 47 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: the media and you hear this, Remember, forty million Americans 48 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: on social media reacted in some form or fashion to 49 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: seeing the lie of the New York Times dark columnists 50 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: exposed over a cheeseburger, fries and many scotches at Newerk Airport. 51 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: The stupidity of it isn't the issue. The fact that 52 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: when he found himself in a hole that he couldn't 53 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: stop digging isn't the issue. The issue is the lie 54 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: and the abandonment of integrity and principle from an institution 55 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: that claims it holds those values as first principles. This 56 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: is what fuels Donald Trump's ability to demagogue any issue, 57 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: the ability to find the fissure the dishonesty and to 58 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: exploit it, and to create, at a core the what aboutism, 59 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: which is essential to blinding his sickophans, his fans, his 60 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: supporters to the realities of his own corruption. A few 61 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: minutes ago, I showed you a clip of Dean Phillips. 62 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 1: Nobody should be surprised that the Congressman, by my count, 63 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: was the first person to demand that Senator Menendez resigned. 64 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: A man the chairman of the Senefar Relations Committee, whose 65 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: home was found filled with gold bars from the Egyptian government, 66 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars sewn into the linings of 67 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: his suit jackets. A man profoundly unfit to serve in 68 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: the United States Senate, but remains there as the Senate 69 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: majority leader. Chuck Schumer says he's a great fighter for 70 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: the state of New Jersey and thanks him for his 71 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: public service. They are almost all dishonest and corrupt, but 72 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: comcast with its one side and vicious coverage by NBC 73 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: News and in particular MSNBC often ain't correctly referred to 74 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: assd NC Democrat National Committee exclamation Point should be investigated 75 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: for its quote country threatening treason, their endless coverage of 76 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: the now fully debunked scam known as Russia, Russia, Russia 77 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: and much else is one big campaign contribution to the 78 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: radical left Democrat Party. I say upfront, openly and proudly 79 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: that when I win the presidency of the United States, 80 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: they and others of the lame stream media will be 81 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, 82 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: and events. Why should NBC or any other of the 83 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: corrupt and dishonest media companies be entitled to use the 84 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: very valuable airwaves of the USA free. They are a 85 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: true threat to democracy and are in fact the enemy 86 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: of the people. The fake news media should pay a 87 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: big price for what they have done to our once 88 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: great country. What this is is a promise, and it 89 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: is a threat. And understand this the origin the phrase 90 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: enemy of the people, the concept enemy of the state. 91 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: It's gotten one hundred million people killed in the previous century, brutally, systematically, 92 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: and violently. These are the words of a former president 93 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: of the United States. These words matter, They should be heated, 94 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: They should be taken seriously. There were some polls out 95 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: this weekend. I'm going to put them on the screen 96 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: as I close. These should be taken and seriously too. 97 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: The man, the man who wants to burn the books, 98 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: the man who wants to lock up his political opponents, 99 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: the man who wants to get rid of elections and 100 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:19,839 Speaker 1: imprison the news media. Right now, if the election were tomorrow, 101 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: apparently he would be the forty seventh President of the 102 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: United States. The catastrophe that would follow will linger for 103 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: the rest of history.