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Speaker 1: Think about Trump's insanities and madness over these last ten days.

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Speaker 1: President matters in America. It is February nineteenth, President's Day,

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Speaker 1: and there are two hundred and sixty days until the

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Speaker 1: election that will decide who is the next American commander

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Speaker 1: in chief, head of state, President of the United States

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Speaker 1: of America. And so here on this President's Day, let

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Speaker 1: us look back over the last ten days. A Republican

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Speaker 1: lawyer a hack puts in a report where he has

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Speaker 1: no medical qualifications whatsoever, that the President of the United

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Speaker 1: States is an elderly man with a bad memory who

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Speaker 1: is not capable of performing his duties. The White House

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Speaker 1: response makes it worse. I'm well meeting, and I'm an

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Speaker 1: elderly man, and I know what the hell I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm in president. I put this country back on his feet.

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Speaker 1: I don't need his recommendation. That's totally memory. And can

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Speaker 1: you continue as president? My memory is so bad, I

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Speaker 1: let you speak. That's that's memory has gotten worse. My

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Speaker 1: memory is not good. My memory is fine. Well, that's happening.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump goes to a rally and he celebrates Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Putin and he says, please Vladimir putin start World War

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Speaker 1: three by attacking Germany or Poland or any NATO country.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said. Donald Trump, a former president of

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Speaker 1: the United States and one of his greatest episodes of insanity,

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Speaker 1: invited the Russian Federation to attack NATO if Trump isn't

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Speaker 1: satisfied with the level of defense spending against the nation's GDP.

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Speaker 1: He did that, and then his crowd went wild. Psychologists

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Speaker 1: talk about group contagion, the contagion that can come in

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Speaker 1: crowds where people lose themselves, abandon their sense of propriety,

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Speaker 1: their sentience, their sovereignty. And that's exactly what happened. Whether

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Speaker 1: it's a frenzied crowd in Munich at nineteen thirty sevens

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Speaker 1: chanting Zeke Hal or it's the Trump crowd chanting f

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, it's all exactly the same. The Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs won the Super Bowl, had a parade, and like

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Speaker 1: any event in America, the gun came. Dozens are wounded.

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Speaker 1: Ten days of chaos in American politics are immediately behind us.

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Speaker 1: The important thing to understand on this President's Day is

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Speaker 1: this office matters. It could shape the destiny of the world.

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Speaker 1: The Oval office is a place where life and death

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Speaker 1: decisions are made, where the qualities of restraint are required,

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Speaker 1: where there must be vision and wisdom and love. Love.

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Speaker 1: You cannot love your country if you want to punish

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Speaker 1: half the people in it. You cannot love your country

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Speaker 1: if you hate half the people in it. And you

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Speaker 1: cannot love America if you believe one race is superior

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Speaker 1: to another. On this President's Day, it is important to

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Speaker 1: understand this. Across our history, forty five men, all men,

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Speaker 1: have taken the oath of office. There is none that

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Speaker 1: is more despicable, more dishonest, more corrupt than the convicted

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Speaker 1: rapist Donald Trump. He is the worst president in American history,

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Speaker 1: bar none, and should he come to again, we will

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Speaker 1: face national and global catastrophe. Donald Trump is being talked

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Speaker 1: about as appointing Stephen Miller as Attorney General of the

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Speaker 1: United States. Stephen Miller is a man who in the

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Speaker 1: Presidents of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

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Speaker 1: General Mark Milly, asked if the military could fire on

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Speaker 1: unarmed migrants at sea, killing them. The Chairman of the

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Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to news reports in the

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Speaker 1: Oval Office, looked at Stephen Miller and said shut the

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Speaker 1: fuck up, Stephen, which was absolutely the appropriate response. President's

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Speaker 1: Day is a day where every American should reflect not

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Speaker 1: on the mattress sale, but on the most important office

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Speaker 1: in the world, one that can have a profound impact

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Speaker 1: for good or for bad, on the lives of all

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty million of us, and all of

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Speaker 1: our children and all of our grandchildren, and epic choices ahead.

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Speaker 1: Think about that choice, Think about the last ten days.

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Speaker 1: Think about the murder of Alexander n'valney. Think about Trump's

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Speaker 1: insanities and madness over these last ten days, President matters

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Speaker 1: in America. President's Day, in its original inception, was a

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Speaker 1: holiday that honored the founder of the country, George Washington,

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Speaker 1: and the savior of the country, Abraham Lincoln. Both men

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Speaker 1: bring profound virtues to the presidency that must be understood

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Speaker 1: in this moment of division and malice as we get

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Speaker 1: ready for another week after an incredible pass ten days.

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Speaker 1: What is it that made George Washington great? There's a

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Speaker 1: painting that hangs in the capital of the United States,

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Speaker 1: and it shows George Washington resigning his commission. The painter

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Speaker 1: viewed it as the most noble act in history. King

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Speaker 1: George the Third would ask about George Washington. He wanted

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Speaker 1: to know what would Washington do? Would he be emperor,

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Speaker 1: would he be king? George the Third worried that the

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Speaker 1: American empire and kingdom could be bigger than his. When

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Speaker 1: he was told that Washington would walk away from power,

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Speaker 1: that he would yield it, George the Third was astonished.

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Speaker 1: The King said, if that were to be the case,

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Speaker 1: then George Washington would be the greatest man of his

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Speaker 1: or any age. And it's exactly what Washington did. When

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Speaker 1: you look at the painting, what you see the man

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Speaker 1: who could be king or military dictator, a man who

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Speaker 1: could be Caesar, voluntarily subordinating himself. There is a chair

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Speaker 1: in the painting that's bigger than the rest, and on

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Speaker 1: it is draped Washington's military cape. He will not sit

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Speaker 1: in that chair. He will not take the throne. He

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Speaker 1: will not be Caesar. He will be a citizen. And

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Speaker 1: George Washington's restraint set in motion the greatest of all

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Speaker 1: American inventions, the peaceful transition of power, which he made

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Speaker 1: to John Adams in seventeen ninety seven. Four years later,

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Speaker 1: John Adams was defeated, and he turned over power to

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Speaker 1: the man who won his former friend, who by then

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Speaker 1: he was badly estranged from. Thomas Jefferson. The United States

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Speaker 1: of America was the first country in the world conceived

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Speaker 1: by the power of an idea that all men are

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Speaker 1: created equal. Of course, our ideals an idea did not

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Speaker 1: include vast cohorts of the population. America was founded in slavery.

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Speaker 1: Women did not have the franchise. But over the course

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Speaker 1: of history, through the passage of time, the nation has

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Speaker 1: moved closer and closer to those ideals by expanding the

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Speaker 1: concept and the reach of liberty and freedom to include

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Speaker 1: all people of all creeds and races and genders. Abraham

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Speaker 1: Lincoln was the President of the United States who saved

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Speaker 1: the nation during the Civil War that was inevitable to

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Speaker 1: reconcile the nation's high ideal against its original sin, slavery.

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Speaker 1: That war was one of the bloodiest in human history

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Speaker 1: per capita, and it remains today the bloodiest war the

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Speaker 1: United States has ever fought. In fact, a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: the casualty estimates from the war that had long been

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Speaker 1: held at six hundred and fifty thousand killed, were revised

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Speaker 1: upwards eight hundred and fifty thousand fatalities in a country

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Speaker 1: of thirty four million people. But Abraham Lincoln did not

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Speaker 1: seek revenge. What Abraham Lincoln said was with malice towards none,

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Speaker 1: with charity towards all, let us bind up the wounds

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Speaker 1: of the nation. Abraham Lincoln did not have within him

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Speaker 1: the capacity for had he was strong, he was resolved.

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Speaker 1: He understood the more world magnitude of the war. In

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Speaker 1: Lincoln at Gettysburg, after the decisive battle, reconsecrates the United

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Speaker 1: States of America. He gives it a new birth of

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Speaker 1: freedom as he makes the war about the fulfillment of

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Speaker 1: liberty as the national purpose and attaches to the beating

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Speaker 1: heart of the country the concepts embodied in the Declaration,

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Speaker 1: the most important words ever put to paper by the

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Speaker 1: mind of man, that all men are created equal, endowed

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Speaker 1: by their creator with inalienable rights. Thank you for listening

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