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While civil unrest rages on in Los Angeles, Trump and Pete Hegseth gave a speech to troops at Fort Bragg with a very clear message. Steve Schmidt reacts to the Fort Bragg speeches and explains why it's a desecration of our military.
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It is Wednesday, June the 11th. This is the warning
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There were troubling scenes yesterday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home of the 18th Airborne
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Corps in the 82nd Airborne Division, the All-American Division. These are the paratroopers
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who jumped into Normandy, who liberated St. Mayor Eglise. They are distinct in the United
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States Army by their maroon beret. And it was the paratroopers who were assembled behind Donald
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Trump and behind Champagne Pete Hegseth in their home base at Fort Bragg yesterday. And what is it
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that the American people saw from their paratroopers, from the 82nd Airborne, from one of
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the most feared, storied, celebrated, disciplined, and effective units in the history of the U.S
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Army. This was a division that was led in the Second World War by General James Gavin
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Jumping Jim, the only general officer who made four combat jumps, always the first out of the
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plane. Yesterday, what the American people saw was a total collapse of discipline, of good order
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As Donald Trump delivered a partisan speech and American soldiers booed an American governor
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and the elected mayor of Los Angeles. Let's watch. In Los Angeles, the governor of California, the mayor of Los Angeles
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they're incompetent and they paid troublemakers agitators and insurrectionists they're engaged in
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this willful attempt to nullify federal law and aid the occupation of the city by
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criminal invaders it's what it is this was a campaign rally a MAGA rally and the troopers
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were the props and the cheerleaders. Where they should have sat still
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they oohed and they aahed. They shouted and they cheered. And for a little news for the fake news back there
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the fake news, ladies and gentlemen, look at them. Look at them all. Oh, what I have to put up with
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Fake news What I have to put up with But they all right They been very nice today They were impressed with that display I can tell you that
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I think it took them a little by surprise. Including tragically the black soldier clapping for the renaming of a base after Robert E. Lee
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who, if he was there, would have chained that soldier and sent him back into slavery
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For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee
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we won a lot of battles out of those forts it's no time to change
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and i'm superstitious you know i like to keep it going right i'm very superstitious we want to keep
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it going so that's a big story we just announced that today to you for the first time they said
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why didn't you wait till saturday i said i can't wait i gotta talk to my friends here today this is
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record crowd. You never had a crowd this big. That's an honor. You think this crowd would have
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showed up for Biden? I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so. Maybe I'm wrong
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It is sad to see the desecrations of American history taking place
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the veneration of Confederate soldiers. But there is no desecration greater than seeing
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American soldiers wildly cheer for Pete Hegseth when he says this. standards, accountability, readiness, training, warfighting, lethality. We're not a college or
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a university. We're not interested in your woke garbage and your political correctness
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We're warfighters who close with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our nation when we come home
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to those we love because we don't fight because we hate what's in front of us
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We fight because we love what's behind us. It is a dream come true for the Fox News producers
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And by the way, this is the price of having Fox News on in every military PX
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on as the station of choice on almost every base in America
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obviously a radicalized military. And what about the commanders the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne the division sergeant major What do they have to say about the loss of bearing of discipline their troops the shedding
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of the nonpartisan tradition, the breaking of faith in a fundamental way with the American people
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The U.S. military is the most admired institution in the United States because it is seen
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as above politics. But Donald Trump is very quickly politicizing it, and it won't take much
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for the U.S. military to break trust with the American people. The 82nd Airborne and the troopers
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behind Trump, they're well on their way. One of the outputs, the consequences of the war on terror
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is that we live in a country where 1% serve and 99% have come to, in some way, fetishize the
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American military. Patriotism has devolved to a clap and a stand and a stomp of your feet
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maybe a singing of Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA at a baseball game or at a halftime show
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where everyone whoops and cheers and does a few USAs as the fighter jets fly over
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That's not patriotism. What patriotism is, is the love of country, of the republic
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its values, its ideals, its constitution that enshrines forever the freedom of conscience
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the freedom of speech, the freedom of dissent, the freedom of religion, the freedom to worship
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the freedom to pursue happiness as you see it in a land where liberty is supreme
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The United States Army is of the nation. It is made up of the nation's sons and daughters
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from every state, from every territory. They defend the nation. They swear an oath to the
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Constitution, seeing them riled up by their commander-in-chief and turned against their
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fellow citizens, while the Secretary of Defense simultaneously talks about his soldiers are
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stone-eyed, clear-eyed killers, and they're needed in LA. What could go wrong? We have arrived at a
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very dangerous hour in the United States where Donald Trump is foreshadowing the deployment of
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the United States military into the interior of the country for law enforcement purposes
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which will only be legal when he declares that the country is in a state of insurrection
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Now, here's the truth. Let me show you what an insurrection looks like
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January 6th, 2021. There was no insurrection in Los Angeles
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There was a lot of heavy-handed federal activity and it instigated a riot for a singular purpose
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which is for Donald Trump to declare he needs more power and he needs to use more force to restore order
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Yesterday, Gavin Newsom ended the day in California by speaking to the nation
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What he said was important. And finally, at long last, the governor seems clear-eyed about what's looking back at him from across the table, or the skirmish line in this instance
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California will keep fighting. It will keep fighting on behalf of our people, all of our people, including in the courts
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Just yesterday, we filed a legal challenge to Donald Trump's reckless deployment of American troops to a major American city
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Today, we sought an emergency court order to stop the use of the American military to engage in law enforcement activities across Los Angeles
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If some of us could be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe
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These are dangerous days, growing more dangerous. This Saturday is the 250th anniversary of the United States Army made up of citizen soldiers
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The greatest force for liberation in the history of the world. And it's made to march for Trump in the name of Trump, by Trump, for his birthday, not the army's
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What we're witnessing is a desecration and a tragedy. And the American people are paying $150 million for it
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What happened at Fort Bragg should not have happened. It's an alarming sign of things falling apart
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I'm Steve Schmidt. This is The Warning. I invite you to join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt, and direct about what is happening in this country
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Thank you
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