In this episode, Alex lays out the most horrifying information we ve ever broken down that is all in plain view, and it is staggering. This is only a small snapshot of what is currently happening, because everything is out in the open now. The whole UN COVID-19 rollout is now confirmed to be the cover for mass euthanasia, the killing of the old, the handicapped, and the "learning disabled" people of the planet. And it's being done because in the West, you have a massive aging population from Japan to the US and the big banks, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and others have said they want to legalize basically state-sponsored murder of the Old.
00:01:00.000And this is only a small snapshot of what's currently happening because everything's out in the open now.
00:01:08.000The whole UN COVID-19 lockstep Great Reset rollout is now confirmed to be the cover for the beta testing of
00:01:18.000mass euthanasia, the killing of the old, the handicapped, the "learning disability" people of the
00:01:27.000planet. And it's being done because in the West you have a massive aging population from Japan to the
00:01:34.000United States and the big banks, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, others have said they want to
00:01:41.000legalize basically state-sponsored murder of the old. Now, there's a lot of people who are saying, "Well,
00:01:45.000we're not going to do that. We're Now under Hitler and under Lenin and under Stalin, this all started with the old and the mentally retarded first.
00:01:56.000And then it moved on to everyone else.
00:01:58.000So we know exactly where this is going, but it's now confirmed that the mRNA so-called vaccine is a strategic kill weapon.
00:02:10.000A soft kill weapon that takes months or years to kill most people, but in many cases kills people within minutes, hours, or days.
00:02:17.000And I'm going to show you all this from the federal government's own reporting system.
00:02:23.000They talk about deaths in clusters, whether it's in Sweden or Germany or the UK or the US or Canada or Australia, because it's only certain hospitals and nursing homes that report that they give 200 patients or 100 nursing home people or 50 nursing home people and 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 10 die per nursing home.
00:03:40.000And they cite the head of the EU Advisory Commission, Wolfgang Ludarg, and his associate, who's also a scientist, the former chief scientist at Pfizer, saying, This is not a vaccine.
00:03:51.000And it's got a whole human genome in it and an entire jellyfish genome.
00:03:56.000And they won't explain what that's for.
00:04:17.000And it will settle out this protein it creates that's antiviral in the cells, and when those cells divide or die, give you a horrible autoimmune response or a cytokine storm.
00:04:26.000Now, I did that report a few months ago, back in December, off of their emergency report, with top scientists warning it'll sterilize women and kill a lot of people.
00:04:35.000The UK government came out two weeks into their operations a month and a half ago and said, whoa, whoa, whoa, here's the three groups that shouldn't take this, above 75, under 16, or pregnant.
00:04:47.000And now you see all these medical doctors that are women that are pregnant taking it and having miscarriages.
00:04:52.000But they say, it's okay, I did it for the team, very sick.
00:05:17.000Merck, three weeks ago, arguably the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, it's definitely in the top three, said we're abandoning the vaccine program.
00:06:02.000Let's move on to this gigantic article out of the Epoch or Epoch Times.
00:06:07.000And it links directly to the Federal Registry.
00:06:12.000Directly to the Federal Registry of these clusters in Kentucky and Arkansas and other areas where you'll have one nursing home with 100 people or 200 people or 50 people, they list them here, and you'll have 5 die, 6 die, 8 die, 10 die.
00:06:29.000They had 20-something people in one Swedish nursing home die.
00:06:33.000Same things happen in other countries.
00:07:09.000Seniors who already beat COVID-19 are dying after taking the vaccine, and they're testing positive for COVID after they've had the vaccine.
00:07:20.000Because it's all BS, ladies and gentlemen.
00:07:22.000This is a societal collapse system, just like murder up 30%, general crime up 50%.
00:08:09.000You owe it to yourself to find out how real this is.
00:08:13.000Now, if you think that's incredible, that India has suspended the vaccine program, that Merck has suspended their two vaccines, that, oh, I forgot, Australia pulled their vaccine because it was making people sick, killing them, and giving them false positives for HIV.
00:08:32.000If you think that's crazy, Get ready for this.
00:09:18.000And I've seen Dutch TV programs years ago come out and talk to a very high-functioning, very high IQ for a Down Syndrome man, and they say, you cost three, four times society.
00:09:30.000When a normal person does, he says, I apologize, and they laugh at him.
00:09:47.000And Bill Gates famously gets up at these TED Talks and other talks and says, well, if we kill an old lady and don't give her that last year of care, we can hire 10 teachers.
00:09:56.000The idea that if you kill somebody and don't spend money on them, that then you get 10 teachers.
00:11:14.000And Bill Gates gets so happy about that because he's doubled his wealth during this collapse.
00:11:19.000And so the access that used to be available to the middle class or whatever is just rapidly going away.
00:11:26.000That's a trade-off society is making because of very, very high medical costs.
00:11:32.000And a lack of willingness to say, you know, is spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient, would it be better not to lay off those ten teachers and to make that trade-off in medical costs.
00:11:46.000But that's called the death panel, and you're not supposed to have that discussion.
00:11:50.000So you — of course — That's an interesting thing you just said, which is just the last three months in life for one person or something, because we haven't had a discussion of how to allocate that money, it means we lay off three teachers to do so.
00:12:06.000I mean, in other words, we haven't had this type of allocation.
00:12:09.000We're making that trade-off because of huge medical costs that are not examined to see which ones actually have no benefit whatsoever.
00:12:18.000And because of pension generosity, we will be laying off over 100,000 teachers, which, you know, I'm very much against that.
00:12:28.000And the whole AFP will agree with me on that.
00:12:30.000And that's going to be based on the number of people, The services each person's using on average, the energy on average for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy.
00:12:44.000So let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero.
00:12:50.000Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero.
00:12:54.000That's back from high school algebra, but let's take a look.
00:13:06.000Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
00:13:15.000So you've written, both in your paper that's on Gates Notes, which I really recommend people read, and you've said elsewhere, the economy is not going to be anything like it was.
00:13:27.000It's going to take a long time to recover.
00:13:30.000People are going to be surprised at how slow and how fitful this is.
00:13:34.000Now, I want something to run through your mind for a second, as a viewer of InfoWars, as the few, the proud, the brave.
00:13:47.000From the bottom of my heart, from the very pit of my gut, from the very focus of my consciousness, from my third eye, from my very soul, you are the only people that care about this.
00:14:03.000And you are the genesis point, the seed, the germination point to defeat this.
00:14:07.000And if you don't get excited about this, we have no future.
00:15:13.000But I'm not just talking to the head of Twitter.
00:15:18.000I'm talking to all these censors and all these control freaks who are pretending that you're part of the winning team.
00:15:24.000Do you understand the London Guardian is reporting what I had Members of Parliament on years ago?
00:15:32.000That half the kids, the little boys that they're saying are transgender, are autistic and the school convinces them to be chemically castrated.
00:16:40.000The infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
00:16:54.000And he goes, and we make the decision with the mother after the baby's born to resuscitate or not.
00:18:00.000And this literally came out of the Rockefellers and the British Royalty, and they literally created Hitler as a test of this, and it's all in the history books.
00:18:52.000Now ladies and gentlemen, if that's admittedly going on, can you imagine What else is going on?
00:19:02.000I see reports, because I scan the news, every hour of another person, an 18-year-old, a 30-year-old, a 45-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 50-year-old, a 70-year-old, taking the shot, having a convulsion, and being dead in 15 minutes.
00:19:19.000And those doctors are moral and call and report, this dude just died.
00:19:43.000They mean that they then take the baby away and keep it comfortable, it's put in a special wing with highly paid nurses, and then Instead of just getting the organs right on the spot, once they name it as not resuscitated, as subhuman, once the baby's subhuman, they can then say it's dead, not resuscitated, but it's actually alive, they keep it comfortable, in a wing, the orders go out of its blood type, China does this too, and so people, rich people that have kids that need organs, they put their orders in, they get told, hey, a donor came available, it's a baby that died, the baby's still alive, on life support.
00:20:23.000And then they go in, when they get enough orders in for the lungs, the heart, the liver, the kidneys, and they take everything, and including for transfusions, they suck the blood out of everything.
00:20:32.000When they're done, it is just a shell of itself, gutted like a deer.
00:20:37.000Now, does anybody think God likes that?
00:20:41.000Does anyone want a state and a system doing all this behind the scenes and now passing laws in Virginia and New York to kill babies after they're born?
00:20:54.000God, I mean, is the left really this evil?
00:20:57.000And is the general public really this evil?
00:21:02.000Because we're so politically correct, we won't say anything that offends the left because they're the boss.
00:21:07.000And now they're censoring everybody, and they work for big mega-corporations that are the most oppressive evil groups in the world, exploiting populations all over the planet, and we let them dictate to us that They are the moral high ground and they are the left.
00:21:45.000But I predicted this about eight months ago.
00:21:46.000I said, they sent people with COVID to kill the one group they can kill, old people who don't have vitamin D, because any virus will kill you if you're vitamin D deficient.
00:21:54.000They sent, now first it was 5,000, then they covered it up as 12,000.
00:22:02.000More than half the deaths in New York were old people above 85 that got COVID or whatever it was they put on the sheet because they put sick people in the rooms with them.
00:22:11.00020-year-old homeless, 30-year-old homeless in the same rooms.
00:22:15.000You've seen the video of the homeless beating up the old people.
00:22:19.000They did this as a test and then told the families, you're not allowed to come see your family, whether it was Texas, Or whether it was New York, every state did what the U.N.
00:22:48.000If they can't even look through the window.
00:22:51.000But we're going to bring people in that have diseases to kill them, and then when we kill them, we're going to cover it up.
00:22:57.000But I predicted last year, I said, they're going to set Cuomo up to send shockwaves to all other 50 governors, including Republicans that didn't know what happened.
00:23:44.000They get you into sin, they get you into evil, they get you under their control, and now they've got you right where you want you, because you have no rudder.
00:24:13.000And so, that's what these dark magicians do, is they trick us, ladies and gentlemen, to go along with evil, so that literally who we are, our energy, because these are dark magicians, they know what they're doing, resonates with them.
00:24:26.000And then they have a bridge into our lives.
00:24:28.000They have a control system into our lives.
00:24:30.000When we, not just metaphysically, but intellectually, buy into what they're doing and what they've established, then we're spiritually blind and can't oppose them.
00:24:40.000And I'm going to finish up here and get to the whole impeachment news.
00:24:43.000And that incredible stuff that's unfolding, but Cuomo was set up.
00:24:48.000Cuomo is a low-grade moron from a very corrupt mafia family.
00:24:56.000But the point is, is that he was set up and it shows how the very minions of the system are being set up because now the globalists own Greg Abbott.
00:25:07.000They own Whitmer, they own Wolfe, they own Newsom, and they'll all be burned.
00:25:27.000Now you see how the enemy tricks you to give up your moral high ground,
00:25:32.000your spiritual high ground, so they have you.
00:25:34.000All right, so moving to the next piece of information.
00:25:37.000*shrugs* Oh, UK government could grant vaccine exemptions to ethnic minorities.
00:25:46.000First, that says the government has a right to give you exemptions when they don't have a right to put something in your body that's been banned in all these other countries, and where Bill Gates has been kicked out of India over and over again and just got kicked out again.
00:26:00.000And then the idea of, oh, minorities don't want to take vaccines because they came from Pakistan where the UN got caught sterilizing them and giving them polio?
00:26:09.000Or how about people in Africa where they caught the UN giving them polio under Bill Gates?
00:26:43.000So, UK government could grant vaccine exemptions to ethnic minorities.
00:26:47.000Summit.News is also up on Infowars.com and it goes through their announcements.
00:26:51.000Okay, if minorities don't trust the government because of Tuskegee, giving black people syphilis, and all these other tests, then you don't have to.
00:27:25.000But on the national news, the big official TV shows, oh, no side effects, COVID's totally safe, all the fine print, death, disease, autoimmune, everything else.
00:27:39.000This is an assault on the family, an assault on humans, an assault on our very genetics.
00:27:44.000And people of every race, color, and creed who have red blood, who are one human race, are coming together.
00:27:51.000Rapper Zoobie identifies as female to smash weightlifting record.
00:27:55.000I've decided I'm going to go introduce myself in the private weightlifting groups here.
00:28:00.000And I'm going to identify as a 100-pound 18-year-old female and I'm going to win all the things.
00:28:04.000And I'm not going to do this to be mean.
00:28:06.000I'm going to do it to show the lie that I'm not a woman, that I have testosterone, that my muscles and bones are twice as strong on average.
00:28:16.000And we've got other articles here where so many other people are coming out and pointing this out.
00:28:22.000This is an assault on humanity, an assault on the regular order of things to confuse us so much these crazy mad scientists can have their way with us.
00:28:32.000But I want to just slow down again and ask you all to realize if you try to talk about vaccine deaths, about vaccine illnesses, about how this isn't a vaccine, Robert Kennedy Jr.
00:28:47.000put out a big report With all these admitted medical reports and top scientists and copies and screenshots of the insert admitting it can kill you or give you Guillain-Barre's or narcolepsy or epilepsy and what's the other one?
00:31:23.000That's what this social credit score is.
00:31:25.000That's why wearing yellow stars isn't a good idea.
00:31:29.000We lock our doors at night, not because we have something to hide, but because there are some bad people out there, and that puts a barrier to them.
00:31:35.000And giving the power structure total surveillance and total control is always going to end up creating a nightmare scenario, and now it has.
00:31:47.000I'm giving you truth bomb after truth bomb here.
00:31:50.000Of social media, of dopamine, of getting attention, of getting clicks, of getting likes, that in almost no cases makes you any money, makes you depressed, makes you alone.
00:31:59.000People will, by increment, become total fascists, supporters of Xi Jinping, death camps, killing old people, arresting their political opposition, having the Pentagon and CIA go after Trump supporters, all because they get celebrated and promoted by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
00:32:29.000I'm going to go to break for a moment.
00:32:30.000I'm going to come back and lay out for a few minutes what the world's going to look like in a few years under this plan, if you don't resist and speak up and say no, and ways we can speak up and say no.
00:32:39.000And then I'm going to shift gears into the most powerful highlights of the Trump team finally putting on a good defense on Friday.
00:32:56.000I have told you for nine weeks that once they implement this, if we cower in fear properly and grovel, it will then become a permanent emergency by saying, we can't let one person die from this virus.
00:33:12.000And so until there's no death, zero, out of seven and a half million people, it's impossible.
00:33:18.000We are going to keep the social distancing and the lockdown in place.
00:33:28.000We're going to probably have to cycle this and throttle it.
00:33:31.000And, oh, you can't go out here, you can't go out there.
00:33:33.000They're going to have a county by county thing at first.
00:33:35.000And just getting us all trained that we can't go out until we're told.
00:33:39.000And that's the way it is, to keep us safe from the virus.
00:33:45.000Obama and Dr. Faustus, Fauci, Are now the ones telling us the lockdown could never end.
00:34:00.000And then when it wasn't even one-tenth of what they said it would be, they went, oh sorry, it's so devastating because it's not even one-tenth of what we said, we never reopen.
00:34:09.000They just wanted to get you to accept it up front.
00:34:14.000Like a kidnapper does, puts the gun on you, somebody put the handcuffs on you, and they put the gag on you, and then everything will be alright.
00:34:19.000Just put the handcuffs on, put the ball gag in.
00:34:23.000Look, you're getting taken to a basement to get tortured and raped.
00:34:39.000And they're gonna, by increments, put the pressure on, Get you to give up more rights, and then they'll take a little pressure off.
00:34:47.000And then they'll tell you to give up more rights, and then pressure will be taken off.
00:34:51.000But then, always it'll be put back on even tighter.
00:34:54.000That's the psychology of the stakeholder.
00:35:00.000And they plan to lock things down again this winter, causing all the flu deaths and regular deaths from other things, calling it COVID-19.
00:35:08.000And they're gonna try to have another big lockdown that will guarantee a mega-depression, First they tell you 15 days to flatten the curve, leave hospitals open.
00:35:20.000Then it's a month, then it's two months, then it's eight months.
00:37:12.000They're going to hit us with different waves of bio attack over the years, locking us down tighter each time.
00:37:23.000All I do is research this information.
00:37:26.000That's how I'm able to predict what's coming next.
00:37:29.000So let me tell you what's coming next.
00:37:31.000I'll cover it more tomorrow on the Sunday show, 4 to 6 p.m.
00:37:35.000What's coming next is more of the same, but intensified.
00:37:38.000Cell phones by law, digital systems in your car tracking you, face scanning, thumb printing to go into businesses to buy and sell, showing your QR code that you've been vaccinated to have a job, get into a parking garage, go to the grocery store, go to church.
00:37:54.000And then with that, they can add more and more restrictions and more and more demands to what you do.
00:38:00.000And they legitimize the social credit score already perfected in Communist China.
00:38:06.000And then you've got to go to this social engineering class to keep your credit score high.
00:38:11.000You've got to submit and send your children to a certain school that's been recommended by the algorithm.
00:38:17.000It's a nightmare scenario and we know what they're going to do because the globalists are on record.
00:38:26.000You stop engaging in one-dimensional and two-dimensional thought processes and you study history, you study how the globalists operate, you study the claims we've made here that have been documented, And then you realize you're under attack and the globalists are never going to recognize you begging them to stop.
00:38:43.000And that means you're going to have to run for office.
00:38:45.000You're going to have to educate others.
00:38:46.000You're going to have to be a resistor.
00:38:49.000You're going to have to be a conscientious objector.
00:38:54.000You're going to have to engage in civil disobedience.
00:38:57.000Everything short of offensive violence.
00:38:59.000And you're going to have to put pressure on governors like Greg Abbott.
00:39:03.000And pressure on others, because the globalists are putting pressure on them with the dirt they have on them to engage in this stuff or they'll hang them out to dry.
00:39:10.000We've got to let Greg Abbott and all these other globalists know, hey, listen here, buddy boy, you're not keeping the lockdown on forever.
00:39:15.000You're not keeping masks on us forever.
00:39:17.000You're not keeping our schools closed forever.
00:39:20.000You're not going to bring in the social credit score and the Google contact tracers run by the Clinton Foundation on us in the future.
00:39:26.000This whole thing's a giant overblown fraud like Governor DeSantis has been exposing.
00:39:32.000Even Governor DeSantis is like, but let's get all the old people vaccinated first.
00:39:36.000Hey DeSantis, here's a Yahoo News headline right out of the UK.
00:39:40.000Government Advisory Board says three groups should not take the vaccine.
00:39:48.000So again, stop the virtue signaling and realize the vaccine doesn't work.
00:39:53.000If India could ban the Pfizer vaccine, If South Africa can man three of the vaccines, if Australia can wake up, my God, it's killing their people!
00:40:03.000The British military two months ago started giving people shots, and a bunch of them died that were old, and they said, let's stop this!
00:40:10.000Oh, but we just have Snopes saying, well, they did die a bunch of them right after they took it, but no, that's not what did it.
00:40:17.000No judge, no jury, no coroner, no nothing.
00:40:20.000So you just better realize you're under attack, and you better realize that Jones was never paranoid.
00:40:29.000I grew up reading a lot of history books, and having a lot of family that was involved in a lot of things, and doing my own research and my own experience on the street.
00:40:36.000I got busy very, very young learning how the world really worked, and I'm going to leave it at that.
00:40:41.000I mean, 12 years old, ladies and gentlemen.
00:40:43.000I was living the life of a 20-year-old.
00:40:45.000And I've already been around the block at 47 a bunch, and I know what's going on.
00:40:49.000So, the good news is a lot of people said, well, Jones is right about some stuff, but he goes too far.
00:40:54.000Now people are going, how the hell does he know all this?
00:40:57.000Because they tell you what they're doing.
00:41:00.000They don't say we're going to sterilize half the boys in the Western world.
00:41:03.000They go, oh, we're going to teach them they're girls and then convince them it's cool.
00:41:07.000But first we're going to brain damage them with vaccines and pesticides, because boys are more susceptible to it, and then convince them it's cool and make it trendy to be a slave.
00:41:26.000Look at the one guy in Naples, Alfie Oaks, that started his own three grocery stores, is super successful, and says you don't have to wear a mask, it's not even a law, and suddenly he's got more business than ever.
00:42:08.000And you've got to realize that psychology and you've got to get aggressive.
00:42:11.000You've got to get loud and you've got to let Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and all the New World Order and Klaus Schwab know that when Klaus Schwab tells us that, oh,
00:42:23.000Anyone that is in a profession where you are close to people, your profession is over.
00:42:28.000Humans can never talk to each other again.
00:42:30.000Realize what a cult announcement that is.
00:42:48.000But you've got to, at least around everybody you know, not submit to this, and if enough people do that, this globalist push will fail.
00:42:55.000If it doesn't, man, if it doesn't, Katie, bar the door, because these vaccines are bad enough, but they're already saying, oh, we've got all these new ones for new mutations that are going to do all sorts of things.
00:43:15.000And they are just normalizing people being sick and dying all around you.
00:45:38.000All right, I want to shift gears now into the political attack and how they're trying
00:45:44.000to demonize the populist movement and trying to punish the American people and trying to
00:45:49.000make the idea of demonstrating illegal with the sham impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate
00:45:53.000because finally some of the Republicans are fighting back.
00:45:59.000Now, I just spent a lot of time covering crimes against humanity, violations of the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Code, mass extermination with experimental, illegal, deadly, mutagenic gene therapy systems in a giant experimentation operation.
00:46:20.000But I'm about to get into Trump, who on this Saturday evening just got acquitted.
00:46:26.000They were going to go through most of next week.
00:46:28.000They were going to call all these witnesses the Democrats were going to get him.
00:46:30.000But Friday so annihilated the Democrats.
00:47:00.000Those Democrats had to back off because the Republican lawyers finally understood that there was a lot of American people angry at them and they better do their job.
00:47:25.000But it shows how just three hours of truth made them put their tail between their legs and end the rest of the trial.
00:47:33.000This will be spun as, oh, well, for some reason they just voted to end the trial.
00:47:38.000Because the establishment knew that it was making Trump into a victim, and the American people into a victim, and an underdog, and really heroes that had been persecuted.
00:47:49.000So, like I told you, a lot of negative stuff happening.
00:48:00.000But if we're steadfast and expose it, it will blow up in their face.
00:48:02.000So, I'm going to go ahead and lay this out now.
00:48:06.000And break it all down and why it's still incredibly important.
00:48:11.000So there is a major move to demonize President Trump so that the criminal elements of the government, the globalist collaborators, can basically use the security services against the American people claiming we're domestic terrorists.
00:48:29.000In fact, I recommend, in fact, at the end of this report, we'll play it, that you watch Greg Reese's The End Game is now.
00:48:35.000Seven minutes and 20 seconds of them admitting, we're going to put you in camps, we're going to kill you, we're going to shoot you, we're going to have the CIA murder you.
00:48:55.000Well, At first, the lead lawyer was scared a few days ago, and he really threw Trump under the bus, but there was a big backlash.
00:49:03.000See, pressure was put on him, so suddenly the defense is incredible, because they were testing.
00:49:09.000If the public didn't get mad, if Trump didn't get mad, Trump's defense is scared of the Democrats.
00:49:14.000They were going to sell him out, but because we put pressure on him, which is an example of not laying down, Suddenly they did a really, I'd say about a 95% job.
00:49:25.000And I'm going to play you a 20 minute clip and like a 30 minute clip of this.
00:49:30.000And you should really watch it because they admit that when they would show Democrat senators that called for violence and murder of Trump supporters and murder of Trump, they would laugh and giggle and pass notes.
00:49:58.000I'm just going to show you the actual footage of what the lawyers laid out in his defense.
00:50:02.000Now they're going to have witnesses coming up this week.
00:50:04.000It's going to be crazy on both sides, but this is an underdog story where Trump was getting destroyed.
00:50:11.000Because of no defense the first few days, but on Friday came roaring back.
00:50:15.000But Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were the prosecution.
00:50:20.000I can kind of defend Trump's group now on Friday saying at least they put on three hours of defense, but wait a minute.
00:50:28.000If you're in a trial or you're in this thing, why did they give them three days of prosecution during prime time, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but then Trump's people only did three hours?
00:50:39.000So they're not even getting equal time.
00:50:40.000They rested their case in three hours and notice they were on a Friday when nobody's watching.
00:50:47.000And now, I was watching today, Democrats are still going on Saturday attacking.
00:51:23.000The seven most memorable moments from Friday's session of Trump's impeachment trial.
00:51:28.000Michael Van Der Veen, attorney for former President Trump, shows video Democrats, politicians, using fighting language in the past to make a point that Trump's words before the January 6th Capitol riot were no different.
00:52:53.000I have to drink some to try to settle down.
00:52:56.000This is, this, I mean, I feel like, I mean, let me tell you, I'll be honest with you.
00:53:00.000I'm fighting my cells wanting to go out and defend, I mean, I want to go stop.
00:53:05.000Folks, they've, all over the country and the world, no one can see their parents for a year inside nursing homes, and they're having record deaths inside, and they're shipping COVID patients in?
00:53:16.000I mean, this is all an exercise in murdering people, and now they admit it!
00:53:21.000And now they're going to kill handic—they are killing handicapped kids and handicapped adults!
00:53:28.000COVID is the cover for the eugenics extermination.
00:54:58.000A new attorney for the President here.
00:55:05.000The article of impeachment now before the Senate is an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional act of political vengeance.
00:55:16.000This appalling abuse of the Constitution only further divides our nation when we should be trying to come together around shared priorities.
00:55:28.000Like every other politically motivated witch hunt the left has engaged in over the past four years, this impeachment is completely divorced from the facts, the evidence, and the interests of the American people.
00:55:45.000The Senate should promptly and decisively vote to reject it.
00:55:51.000No thinking person could seriously believe that the President's January 6th speech on the Ellipse was in any way an incitement to violence or insurrection.
00:56:04.000The suggestion is patently absurd on its face.
00:56:09.000Nothing in the text could ever be construed as encouraging, condoning, or enticing unlawful activity of any kind.
00:56:24.000Far from promoting insurrection against the United States, the President's remarks explicitly encouraged those in attendance to exercise their rights peacefully and patriotically.
00:56:40.000Peaceful and patriotic protest is the very antithesis of a violent assault on the nation's capital.
00:56:50.000The House impeachment article slanderously alleges that the president intended for the crowd at the Ellipse to, quote, interfere with the joint session's solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
00:57:08.000This is manifestly disproven by the plain text of the remarks.
00:57:14.000The president devoted nearly his entire speech to an extended discussion of how legislators should vote on the question at hand.
00:57:23.000Instead of expressing a desire that the joint session be prevented from conducting its business, the entire premise of his remarks was that the democratic process would and should play out according to the letter of the law, including both the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act.
00:57:47.000In the conclusion of his remarks, he then laid out a series of legislative steps that should be taken to improve democratic accountability going forward, such as passing universal voter ID legislation, banning ballot harvesting, requiring proof of citizenship to vote, and turning out strong in the next primaries.
00:58:15.000Not only President These are not the words of someone inciting a violent insurrection.
00:58:23.000Not only President Trump's speech on January 6th, but indeed his entire challenge to the election results was squarely focused on how the proper civic process could address any concerns through the established legal and constitutional system.
00:58:42.000The President brought his case before state and federal courts.
00:58:55.000In the past, numerous other candidates for president have used many of the same processes to pursue their own election challenges.
00:59:07.000As recently as 2016, The Clinton campaign brought multiple post-election court cases, demanded recounts, and ridiculously declared the election stolen by Russia.
00:59:23.000Many Democrats even attempted to persuade the Electoral College delegates to overturn the 2016 results.
00:59:32.000House Manager Raskin objected to the certification of President Trump's victory four years ago, along with many of his colleagues.
00:59:43.000You'll remember it was Joe Biden who had to gavel them down.
00:59:49.000I have an objection because 10 of the 29 electoral votes cast by Florida were cast by electors not lawfully certified.
00:59:57.000I object to the votes from the state of Wisconsin which should not be legally certified.
01:01:20.000To litigate questions of election integrity within this system is not incitement to resurrection.
01:01:27.000It is the democratic system working as the founders and lawmakers have designed.
01:01:34.000To claim that the president in any way wished, desired, or encouraged lawless or violent behavior is a preposterous and monstrous lie.
01:01:46.000In fact, the first two messages the president sent via Twitter once the incursion of the Capitol began were, stay peaceful and no violence because we are the party of law and order.
01:02:01.000The gathering on January 6th was supposed to be a peaceful event.
01:02:08.000And the overwhelming majority of those in attendance remained peaceful.
01:02:14.000As everyone knows, the President had spoken at hundreds of large rallies across the country over the past five years.
01:02:24.000There had never been any mob-like or riotous behaviors, and in fact, a significant portion of each event was devoted to celebrating the rule of law, protecting our Constitution, and honoring the men and women of law enforcement.
01:02:45.000Contrast the President's repeated combinations of violence with the rhetoric from his opponents.
01:02:53.000I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.
01:03:00.000The vast majority of the protesters have been peaceful.
01:03:05.000Republicans stand for law and order, and we stand for justice.
01:03:10.000I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
01:04:37.000According to publicly available reporting, it is apparent that extremists of various different stripes and political persuasions pre-planned and premeditated an attack on the Capitol.
01:04:53.000One of the first people arrested was a leader of Antifa.
01:04:57.000Sadly, he was also among the first to be released.
01:05:02.000From the beginning, the President has been clear The criminals who infiltrated the Capitol must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
01:05:12.000They should be in prison for as long as the law allows.
01:05:18.000The fact that the attacks were apparently premeditated, as alleged by the House managers, demonstrates the ludicrousness of the incitement allegation against the President.
01:05:32.000You can't incite what was already going to happen Law enforcement officers at the scene conducted themselves heroically and courageously, and our country owes them an eternal debt.
01:05:47.000But there must be a discussion of the decision by political leadership regarding force, posture, and security in advance of the event.
01:05:57.000As many will recall, last summer, the White House was faced with violent rioters night after night.
01:06:09.000They repeatedly attacked Secret Service officers and at one point pierced a security wall, culminating in the clearing of Lafayette Square.
01:06:20.000Since that time, there has been a sustained negative narrative in the media regarding the necessity of those security measures on that night, even though they certainly prevented many calamities from occurring.
01:06:36.000In the wake of the Capitol attack, it must be investigated whether the proper forced posture was not initiated due to the political pressure stemming from the events at Lafayette Square.
01:06:52.000On January 5th, the mayor of the District of Columbia explicitly discouraged the National Guard and federal authorities from doing more to protect the Capitol, saying, and I quote, The District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment.
01:07:19.000This sham impeachment also poses a serious threat to freedom of speech for political leaders of both parties at every level of government.
01:07:31.000The Senate should be extremely careful about the precedent this case will set.
01:07:38.000Consider the language that the House impeachment article alleges to constitute incitement.
01:07:47.000If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.
01:07:55.000This is ordinary political rhetoric that is virtually indistinguishable from the language that has been used by people across the political spectrum for hundreds of years.
01:08:09.000Countless politicians have spoken of fighting for our principles.
01:08:15.000Joe Biden's campaign slogan was battle for the soul of America.
01:08:22.000No human being seriously believes that the use of such metaphorical terminology is incitement to political violence.
01:08:33.000While the president did not engage in any language of incitement, there are numerous officials in Washington who have indeed used profoundly reckless, dangerous, and inflammatory rhetoric in recent years.
01:08:50.000The entire Democratic Party and national news media spent the last four years repeating, without any evidence, that the 2016 election had been hacked, and falsely and absurdly claimed the President of the United States was a Russian spy.
01:09:15.000Speaker Pelosi herself said that the 2016 election was hijacked and that Congress has a duty to protect our democracy.
01:09:25.000She also called the president an imposter and a traitor and recently referred to her colleagues in the House as the enemy within.
01:09:36.000Moreover, many Democrat politicians endorsed and encouraged the riots that destroyed vast swaths of American cities last summer.
01:09:48.000When violent left-wing anarchists conducted a sustained assault on a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, Speaker Pelosi did not call it an insurrection.
01:10:03.000Instead, she called the federal law enforcement officers protecting the building stormtroopers.
01:10:14.000When violent mobs destroyed public property, she said, people will do what they do.
01:10:23.000The Attorney General of the state of Massachusetts stated, Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow.
01:10:36.000Representative Anya Pressley declared, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives.
01:10:47.000The current Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, urged supporters to donate to a fund that bailed out violent rioters and arsonists out of jail.
01:11:00.000One of those was released and went out and committed another crime, assault.
01:11:11.000She said of the violent demonstrations, Everyone beware!
01:11:20.000They're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after Election Day.
01:11:27.000They're not going to let up, and they should not.
01:11:33.000Such rhetoric continued even as hundreds of police officers across the nation were subjected to violent assaults at the hands of angry mobs.
01:11:45.000A man claiming to be inspired by the junior senator from Vermont came down here to Washington D.C.
01:11:53.000to watch a softball game and kill as many senators and congressmen as he could.
01:11:59.000It cannot be forgotten that President Trump did not blame the junior senator.
01:12:06.000The senior senator from Maine has had her house surrounded by angry mobs of protesters.
01:12:13.000When that happened and unnerved her, one of the house managers, I forget which one, tweeted, "Cry me a river."
01:12:22.000Under the standards of the House impeachment article, each of these individuals should be retroactively censored,
01:12:40.000expelled, Punished or impeached for inciting violence by their supporters?
01:12:49.000Unlike the left, President Trump has been entirely consistent in his opposition to mob violence.
01:12:57.000He opposes it in all forms, in all places.
01:13:01.000Just as he's been consistent that the National Guard should be deployed to protect American communities wherever protection is needed.
01:13:10.000For Democrats, they have clearly demonstrated that their opposition to mobs, and their view of using the National Guard, depends upon the mob's political views.
01:13:26.000Not only is this impeachment case preposterously wrong on the facts, no matter how much heat and emotion is injected by the political opposition, It is also plainly unconstitutional.
01:13:42.000In effect, Congress would be claiming that the right to disqualify a private citizen, no longer a government official, from running for public office.
01:13:54.000This would transform the solemn impeachment process into a mechanism for asserting congressional control over which private citizens are and are not allowed to run for president.
01:14:09.000In short, this unprecedented effort is not about Democrats opposing political violence.
01:14:17.000It is about Democrats trying to disqualify their political opposition.
01:14:30.000History will record this shameful effort as a deliberate attempt by the Democrat Party to smear, censor, and cancel not just President Trump, but the 75 million Americans who voted for him.
01:14:47.000I stand before you on what I have always thought is the hallowed ground of democracy.
01:14:53.000In this room, American lives have been changed so dramatically In just my lifetime, through so many of your legislative initiatives, from the Civil Rights Act when I was a child, through most recently the First Step Act, laws that have provided major opportunities for Americans to move forward and upward and more fully enjoy all of the attributes of what has been the greatest nation on earth.
01:15:18.000I've seen the changes these laws have made through my clients every day for the past 36 years.
01:15:24.000These laws have enabled me to fight for their enjoyment of a fair stake in our American project.
01:15:31.000I stand before a group of 100 United States Senators who have chosen to serve your country from all corners of this great nation, giving up all sorts of professions, time with family, and perhaps other more lucrative opportunities to serve your country.
01:15:47.000Mr. President, you are a man who so honorably served this nation in the Senate and in public service before your tenure here.
01:15:57.000It is an honor to appear in this historic hall of democracy, yet today, that honor is tempered by an overriding feeling of grave concern.
01:16:08.000Grave concern for the danger to the institution of the presidency that I believe even convening these proceedings indicates.
01:16:16.000The joy I believed I would feel if I ever had the great privilege of appearing before this body is replaced by sadness and pain.
01:16:25.000My overriding emotion is, frankly, wanting to cry for what I believe these proceedings will do to our great, so long enduring, sacred Constitution and to the American people on both sides of the great divide that now characterizes our nation.
01:16:43.000Esteemed members of the Senate, going forward with this impeachment trial of a former President of the United States is unconstitutional for reasons we have set out in our brief, some of which we will focus on here.
01:16:56.000And as a matter of policy, it is wrong, as wrong can be for all of us as a nation.
01:17:04.000We are told by those who favor having these proceedings that we have to do it for accountability.
01:17:09.000But anyone truly interested in real accountability for what happened at the Capitol on January 6th would, of course, insist on waiting for a full investigation to be completed.
01:17:23.000Indeed, one is underway in earnest already, intent on getting to the bottom of what happened.
01:17:28.000Anyone interested in ensuring that it's truly the one or ones responsible from whom accountability is sought Would more than willingly wait for the actual evidence, especially with new evidence coming in every day about pre-planning, about those who are involved, and about their agenda bearing no relationship to the claims made here.
01:17:52.000They say you need this trial before the nation can heal, that the nation cannot heal without it.
01:17:59.000I say our nation cannot possibly heal with it.
01:18:04.000With this trial, you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation, for a great many Americans see this process for exactly what it is.
01:18:13.000A chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate Donald Trump from the American political scene and seeking to disenfranchise 74 million plus American voters and those who dare to share their political beliefs and vision of America.
01:18:33.000They hated the results of the 2016 election and want to use this impeachment process to further their political agenda.
01:18:42.000These elitists have mocked them for four years.
01:18:44.000They've called their fellow Americans who believe in their country and their Constitution deplorables.
01:18:49.000And the latest talk is that they need to deprogram those who supported Donald Trump and the grand old party.
01:18:57.000But at the end of the day, this is not just about Donald Trump or any individual.
01:19:03.000This is about our Constitution and abusing the impeachment power for political gain.
01:19:25.000And they know this so-called trial will tear the country in half, leaving tens of millions of Americans feeling left out of the nation's agenda, as dictated by one political party that now holds the power in the White House and in our national legislature.
01:19:41.000But they're proud Americans who never quit getting back up when they're down, and they don't take dictates from another party, based on partisan force-feeding.
01:19:51.000This trial will tear this country apart, perhaps like we have only seen once before in our history.
01:20:00.000We now learn that the House managers, in their wisdom, have hired a movie company and a large law firm to create, manufacture, and splice for you a package designed by experts to chill and horrify you and our fellow Americans.
01:20:17.000They want to put you through a 16-hour presentation over two days, focusing on this as if it were some sort of blood sport.
01:20:32.000For surely there are much better ways to achieve each.
01:20:36.000It is again for pure, raw, misguided partisanship that makes them believe playing to our worst instincts somehow is good.
01:20:46.000They don't need to show you movies to show you that the riot happened here.
01:20:50.000We will stipulate that it happened and you know all about it.
01:20:54.000This is a process fueled irresponsibly by base hatred by these House managers and those who gave them their charge and they are willing to sacrifice our national character to advance their hatred and their fear that one day they might not be the party in power.
01:21:12.000They have a very different view of democracy and freedom from Justice Jackson who once wrote But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much.
01:21:28.000That would be a mere shadow of freedom.
01:21:30.000The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch at the heart of the existing order.
01:21:38.000They have a very different view of democracy and freedom.
01:21:44.000This is nothing less than the political weaponization of the impeachment process.
01:21:48.000Pure, raw sport, fueled by the misguided idea of party over country, when in fact both will surely suffer.
01:21:57.000I can promise you that if these proceedings go forward, everyone will look bad.
01:22:02.000You will see and hear many members of our Congress saying and doing things they must surely regret, but perhaps far worse than a moment of personal shame in a world in which history passes from our memories in a moment, our great country A model for all the world will be far more divided and our standing around the world will be badly broken.
01:22:27.000Our arch enemies who pray each and every day for our downfall will watch with glee, glowing in the moment as they see you at your worst and our country in internal divide.
01:22:41.000If you vote to proceed with this impeachment trial, future senators will recognize that you bought into a radical constitutional theory that departs clearly from the language of the Constitution itself and holds, and this is in their brief, That any civil officer who ever dares to want to serve his or her country must know that they will be subject to impeachment long after their service in office has ended.
01:23:07.000Subject only to the political and cultural landscape of the day that is in operation at any future time.
01:23:16.000This is exactly the position taken by the House managers at page 65 of their brief.
01:23:27.000Imagine the potential consequences for civil officers you know and who you believed served so honorably, but who in the view of a future Congress might one day be deemed to be impeachment worthy.
01:23:39.000Imagine it now, because your imagination is the only limitation.
01:23:45.000The House managers tell you a correct reading of the impeachment power under the Constitution is that it has no temporal limit and can reach back in time without limitation to target anyone who dared to serve our nation as a civil officer.
01:23:58.000Now add that to their demand that you members put your imprimatur on the snap impeachment they returned in this case, and can do again in the future if you endorse it by going forward with this impeachment trial.
01:24:12.000This is an untenable combination that literally puts the institution of the presidency directly at risk.
01:24:24.000Under their unsupportable constitutional theory and tortured reading of the text, every civil officer who has served is at risk of impeachment if any given group elected to the House decides that what was thought to be important service to the country when they served now deserves to be cancelled.
01:24:47.000They've made clear in public statements that what they really want to accomplish here in the name of the Constitution This to bar Donald Trump from ever running for political office again.
01:24:56.000But this is an affront to the Constitution, no matter who they target today.
01:25:01.000It means nothing less than the denial of the right to vote and the independent right for a candidate to run for elective political office, guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, under the guise of impeachment, as a tool to disenfranchise.
01:25:19.000Perhaps my friend put the situation simply and sharply into focus last week on his radio show.
01:25:25.000My friend is a distinguished lawyer who served as an ambassador to former President Obama and has friends among you.
01:25:31.000He described himself to his listeners as a died-in-the-wool, lifelong Democrat.
01:25:36.000But he said, the idea of a hundred people in these circumstances deciding the tens of millions of American voters cannot cast their vote for their candidate for president ever again is unthinkable.
01:25:52.000I will discuss today several reasons this matter should not and must not proceed.
01:25:56.000Why the Senate lacks jurisdiction to conduct this trial of a former president.
01:26:01.000A president no longer in office and now a private citizen.
01:26:04.000Any single reason in our trial memorandum or discussed today suffices.
01:26:08.000But I want to start with a discussion of the fundamental due process lacking from the start.
01:26:14.000And that would last through the end if this goes forward.
01:26:16.000Because it is this irretrievably flawed process and its product, a dangerous snap impeachment, that brings us here and that threatens to send a message into the future that we will all regret forever And that stain this body, which up to now, our founding fathers believed, was uniquely suited for the most difficult task of conducting an impeachment trial, as Mr. Hamilton wrote in Federalist 65.
01:26:49.000I make no apology for demanding, in your name, in the name of the Constitution, that the rights to due process guaranteed under the Constitution are adhered to in a process as serious as this.
01:27:06.000The denial of due process in this case, of course, starts with the House of Representatives.
01:27:11.000In this unprecedented snap impeachment process, the House of Representatives denied every attribute of fundamental constitutional due process that Americans correctly have come to believe is part of what makes this country so great.
01:29:07.000The relevant timeline in the House reveals the rush to judgment.
01:29:13.000On the day following the January 6th riot, the House leadership cynically sensed a political opportunity to score points against the outgoing then-President Trump.
01:29:21.000And the Speaker demanded that Vice President Pence invoke the 25th Amendment, threatening immediate impeachment for the President if Mr. Pence did not comply with this extraordinary and extraordinarily wrong demand.
01:29:34.000Four days later, on January 11th, 2021, the instant article of impeachment was introduced in the House.
01:29:41.000Speaker Pelosi then gave the Vice President another ultimatum, threatening to begin impeachment proceedings within 24 hours if he did not comply.
01:29:51.000Vice President Pence rejected Speaker Pelosi's demand, favoring instead adherence to the Constitution and the best interests of the nation over a politically motivated threat.
01:30:01.000On January 12th, Speaker Pelosi announced who the nine impeachment managers would be.
01:30:06.000And on January 13th, 2021, just days after holding a press conference to announce the launching of an inquiry, the House adopted the article of impeachment.
01:30:16.000Completing the fastest impeachment inquiry in history, And according President Trump, no due process at all.
01:30:23.000over strong opposition based in large part on the complete lack of due process.
01:30:28.000To say there was a rush to judgment by the House would be a grave understatement.
01:30:31.000It is not as if the House members who voted to impeach were not mightily warned about the dangers to the institution of the presidency and to our system of due process.
01:30:41.000They were warned in the strongest of terms, from within their own ranks, adamantly, clearly, and in no uncertain terms, not to take this dangerous snap impeachment course.
01:30:51.000Those warnings were framed in the context of the constitutional due process that was denied here.
01:30:57.000Consider the warnings given by one member during the House proceedings, pleading with the other members to accord this decision the due process the Constitution demands.
01:31:07.000This is Representative Cole of Oklahoma.
01:31:10.000With only one week to go in his term, the majority is asking us to consider a resolution impeaching President Trump.
01:31:16.000And they do so knowing full well that even if the House passes the resolution, the Senate will not be able to begin considering these charges until after President Trump's term ends.
01:31:26.000I can think of no action the House can take that is more likely to further divide the American people than the action we are contemplating today.
01:31:35.000Emotions are clearly running high, and political divisions have never been more apparent in my lifetime, Representative Cole said.
01:31:43.000Mr. Cole's words on the floor, emphasizing the care that must be taken with respect to the consideration of an article of impeachment, echoed the concerns by our Founding Fathers on this subject.
01:31:54.000Listen to this from Mr. Hamilton in Federalist No. 65.
01:31:57.000Quote, a well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective.
01:32:08.000The prosecution of them for this reason will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community and to divide into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.
01:32:21.000In many cases, it will connect itself with pre-existing factions and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence and interest on one side or on the other.
01:32:32.000In such cases, there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.
01:32:44.000Prescient thinking by Mr. Hamilton, as we see often.
01:32:48.000In what I say to you is a proof of the need for due process based on the critically serious nature of the singular role the impeachment process has in our government.
01:32:58.000Mr. Hamilton characterized the consideration of an impeachment in these terms.
01:33:02.000The delicacy and magnitude of a trust which so deeply concerns the political reputation and existence of every man engaged in the administration of public affairs speak for themselves.
01:33:22.000In the name of healing, a path forward, he said, our people so desperately need, he warned that, quote, the House is moving forward erratically with a truncated process that does not comport with the modern practice and that will give members no time to contemplate the serious nature of action before us.
01:33:38.000Mr. Cole emphasized to his colleagues that such care must be taken with the consideration of an article of impeachment, quote, in order to ensure that the American people have confidence in the procedures the House is following and because the presidency itself demands due process in the impeachment proceedings.
01:33:59.000Congressman Cole continued, unfortunately, This is a quote.
01:34:03.000The majority has chosen to race to the floor with a new article of impeachment, foregoing any investigation, any committee process, or any chance for members to fully contemplate this course of action before proceeding.
01:34:18.000Mr. Cole complained that the majority is failing to provide the House with an opportunity to review all the facts which are still coming to light, to discuss all the evidence, to listen to scholars, to examine the witnesses, and to consider precedents.
01:34:31.000He's noted further, this is not the type of robust process we have followed for every modern impeachment, and the failure to do so does a great disservice to this institution, And to this country, Mr. Cole said.
01:34:49.000Mr. Cole complained right on the House floor that rather than following the appropriate processes, he said, the House has used, in every modern impeachment, the majorities rushing to the floor, tripping all over themselves in their rush to impeach the President a second time.
01:35:06.000And in Mr. Cole's words, it was doing so to, quote, settle scores.
01:35:12.000And he warned that this snap impeachment approach would cause great division as the country looks ahead to the start of a new administration.
01:35:20.000He said to them, in a matter as grave and consequential as impeachment, shouldn't we follow the same process we've used in every modern impeachment rather than rushing to the floor?
01:35:31.000And he implored them, on behalf of generations of Americans to come, we need to think more clearly about the consequences of our action today.
01:35:39.000And Mr. Cole then reached across the aisle and credited a member of this body, Senator Manchin, with having voiced similar sentiments.
01:35:48.000About how ill-advised this rushed process was, suggesting that the underlying events were a matter for the judicial system to investigate, not one for a rushed political process.
01:36:05.000Finally, Mr. Cole admonished his fellow House members, telling them, we need to recognize that we are following a flawed process.
01:36:15.000The alarm Mr. Cole sounded went unheeded.
01:36:18.000Now let us consider the process in the House that actually was due.
01:36:23.000The House managers assert in the memorandum that the House serves as a grand jury and prosecutor under the Constitution.
01:36:31.000If this is accurate, then they highlight the complete failure to adhere to due process.
01:36:37.000One should not diminish the significance of impeachment's legal aspects, particularly as they relate to the formalities of the criminal justice process.
01:36:45.000It is a hybrid of the political and legal, a political process moderated by legal formalities.
01:36:59.000The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, in relevant part, that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
01:37:07.000The Supreme Court long ago recognized in Matthews v. Eldridge that at its core, due process is about what we all want, what we all have the right to demand, fundamental fairness.
01:37:20.000One scholar, Brian Owsley, has written that the impeachment process should and does include some of the basic safeguards for the accused that are observed in a criminal process such as fairness, due process, presumption of innocence, and proportionality.
01:37:39.000And of course we know that the Supreme Court has recognized that due process protection attend congressional investigations.
01:37:45.000While Congress is empowered to make its own rules of proceeding, it may not make rules that ignore constitutional restraints or violate fundamental rights.
01:38:00.000While the case law is limited in terms of spelling out what due process looks like in impeachment hearings, And of course, in the Nixon case, Walter, not Richard, we know that there's a great deal of leeway afforded Congress with respect to its impeachment rules.
01:38:14.000It is clear that the fundamental principles that underlie our understanding of what due process must always look like apply.
01:38:24.000court case, we first vacated on different grounds, they addressed the matter, clearly concluding that the Due Process Clause applies to impeachment proceedings and that it imposes an independent constitutional constraint on how the Senate exercises its sole power to try all impeachments under Article I, Section 3, Clause 6.
01:38:44.000Court wrote in Hastings, Impeachment is an extraordinary remedy.
01:38:48.000As an essential element of our constitutional system of checks and balances, impeachment must be invoked and carried out with solemn respect and scrupulous attention to fairness.
01:38:59.000Fairness in due process must be the watchword whenever a branch of the United States government conducts a trial, whether it be in a criminal case, a civil case, or a case of impeachment.
01:39:12.000A 1974 Department of Justice memo suggested the same view, opining that, quote, whether or not capable of judicial enforcement, due process standards would seem to be relevant to the manner of conducting an impeachment proceeding.
01:39:26.000More specifically, as the Hastings Court described it, one of the key principles that lies at the heart of our constitutional democracy.
01:39:35.000The Supreme Court's precedents establish the general rule that individuals must receive notice and an opportunity to be heard before the government deprives them of a constitutionally protected interest.
01:39:48.000It is also true that in any proceeding that may lead to deprivation of a protected interest, it requires fair procedures commensurate with the interests at stake.
01:40:01.000Impeachment proceedings plainly involve deprivations of property and liberty interests protected by the Due Process Clause.
01:40:08.000And the House surely seeks to strip Donald Trump of his most highly cherished constitutional rights, including the right to be eligible to hold public office again, should he so choose.
01:40:20.000Due process must apply, and at a minimum, due process and the impeachment process Must include that the evidence must be disclosed to the accused and the accused must be permitted an opportunity to test and confront the evidence.
01:40:37.000Particularly through the rights to confront and cross-examine witnesses, which have long been recognized as essential to due process.
01:40:43.000In almost every setting where important decisions turn on questions of fact, due process requires an opportunity to confront and cross-examine.
01:40:53.000It is unfathomable that the framers, steeped in the history of Anglo-American jurisprudence,
01:40:59.000would create a system that would allow the chief executive and commander-in-chief of
01:41:04.000the armed forces to be impeached based on a process that developed evidence without
01:41:09.000providing any of the elementary procedures that the common law developed over centuries
01:41:14.000for ensuring the proper testing of evidence in an adversarial process.
01:41:19.000We would never countenance such a system in this country.
01:41:24.000Current members of the House and Senate leadership are themselves on record repeatedly confirming
01:41:28.000these procedural due process requirements.
01:41:30.000Indeed, Congressman Nadler is on record asserting that in the context of a House impeachment investigation, due process includes, quote, the right to be informed of the law of the charges against you, to call your own witnesses, and to have the assistance of counsel.
01:41:47.000Then-President Trump was not given any semblance of the due process Congressman Nadler clearly believes he deserves, based on the Congressman's description of due process that must be afforded to an accused in an impeachment proceeding, as reflected in a statement he made relating to another impeachment in 1998.
01:42:09.000No reason was found for the apparent change in the Congressman's point of view with respect to the two objects of the impeachment at issue.
01:42:18.000These fundamental attributes of due process have been honored as required parts of modern impeachment protocol since at least 1870.
01:42:24.000It's not seriously debatable, nor should it be, by any American legislator.
01:42:32.000In spite of all this, the House leadership defied all the norms and denied the then President all of his basic and constitutionally protected rights.
01:42:39.000For then President Donald Trump, the House impeachment procedure lacked any semblance of due process whatever.
01:42:45.000It simply cannot be credibly argued to the country, and we do not make special rules for different targets.
01:42:52.000It's the very integrity of the institution that suffers when we do, and that is what the House leadership knowingly has caused.
01:43:00.000A review of the House record reveals that the Speaker streamlined the impeachment process, House Resolution 24, to go straight to the floor for a two-hour debate and a vote without the ability for amendments.
01:43:10.000The House record reflects no committee hearing, no witnesses, no presentation or cross-examination of evidence, and no opportunity for the accused to respond or even have counsel present to object.
01:43:21.000As the New York Times recently reported, there were no witness interviews, no hearings, no committee debates, and no real additional fact-finding.
01:43:30.000House managers claim the need for impeachment was so urgent that they had to rush the proceedings with no time to spare for a more thorough investigation or really any investigation at all.
01:43:41.000But that claim is belied by what happened or didn't happen next.
01:43:46.000The House leadership unilaterally and by choice waited another 12 days to deliver the article to this Senate to begin the trial process.
01:43:54.000In other words, the House leadership spent more time holding the adopted article than it did on the whole process leading up to the adoption of the article.
01:44:03.000That intentional delay, designed to avoid having the trial begin while Mr. Trump was still president, led to yet another egregious denial of due process.
01:44:19.000Article 1, Section 3 of our Constitution, Clause 6 of our Constitution, of course provides, in pertinent part, that the Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.
01:44:31.000When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation, and when the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.
01:44:39.000By intentionally waiting until President Trump's term of office expired before delivering the article of impeachment to the Senate to initiate trial proceedings, Speaker Pelosi deprived then-President Trump of the express constitutional right And the right, under the Senate's own Rule 4, to have the Chief Justice of the United States preside over his trial and wield the considerable power provided for in the rules of procedure and practice in the Senate when sitting on impeachment trials.
01:45:09.000That power includes, under Rule 5, the presiding officer's exclusive right to make and issue all orders, under Rule 7, to make all evidentiary orders subject to objections by a member of the Senate.
01:45:21.000We say respectfully that this intentional delay by Speaker Pelosi, such that in the intervening period, President Trump became private citizen, Mr. Trump, constitutes a lapse or waiver of jurisdiction here.
01:45:33.000For Mr. Trump no longer is the President, described as subject to impeachment in Article 1, Section 3, Clause 6, and in Article 2, Section 4.
01:45:44.000And this body, therefore, has no jurisdiction as a function of that additional due process violation by Speaker Pelosi.
01:45:51.000Moreover, with all due respect, then-President Trump suffered a tangible detriment from Speaker Pelosi's actions, which violates not only his rights to due process of law, but also his express constitutional right to have the Chief Justice preside.
01:46:07.000That tangible detriment includes the loss of the right to a conflict-free, impartial presiding officer, with all due respect.
01:46:14.000The very purpose behind requiring the Chief Justice to preside over the President's impeachment trial, along with the other benefits of having the two branches combined, the Chief Justice from the Judiciary and the Senate, for the impeachment trial of the President, reflected in Federalist 66.
01:46:32.000One of the reasons the Chief Justice was chosen for that task.
01:46:36.000Mr. Trump now faces a situation in which the presiding officer will serve as both judge
01:46:41.000with all the powers that the rules endow him with and juror with a vote.
01:46:47.000And beyond that, the presiding officer, although enjoying a lifelong honorable reputation,
01:46:52.000of course, has been Mr. Trump's vocal and adamant opponent throughout the Trump administration.
01:46:59.000And in fact, in the very matter on trial, the presiding officer respectfully already
01:47:04.000has publicly announced his fixed view before hearing any argument or evidence that Mr.
01:47:10.000Trump must be convicted on the article of impeachment before the Senate and indeed that
01:47:15.000members in both parties have an obligation to vote to convict as well.
01:47:22.000Nowhere in this great country would any American, and certainly not this honorable presiding officer, consider this scenario to be consistent with any stretch of the American concept of due process and a fair trial, and certainly not even the appearance of either.
01:47:40.000By no stretch of the imagination could any fair-minded American be confident that a trial so conducted would or could be the fair trial promised by the leader.
01:51:15.000The first part of this particularly is incredibly important.
01:51:26.000COVID is a confirmed worldwide eugenics cover for euthanasia, to not do all the regular medical stuff and let millions die of cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, when all the big actuary banks and insurance companies make record profits.
01:52:33.000Share those links or bow down to the New World Order and worship Satan and die!
01:52:39.000During his inauguration speech, Joe Biden spoke of confronting and defeating domestic terrorism.
01:52:46.000A rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
01:52:57.000John Brennan, former director of the CIA, went on MSNBC that evening and labeled libertarians as domestic terrorists.
01:53:06.000I know looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed People are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
01:53:39.000A libertarian is a supporter of a political philosophy that advocates minimal state intervention in the free market and the private lives of citizens.
01:54:09.000The tyrants will now go after all political dissidents.
01:54:13.000There was a time when the liberal media supported democracy and freedom.
01:54:17.000During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the American media seemed to recognize the dangers of the CCP.
01:54:25.000But now, along with Hollywood and major sports, the news media is all owned by globalist multinational corporations and the CCP.
01:54:36.000The pop culture media machine has made all of this possible, and it is now busy preparing their brainwashed flock for mass arrests and re-education camps.
01:54:46.000A Bernie Sanders staffer and the principal counsel for PBS were separately caught on camera calling for rounding up Trump supporters and putting them in re-education camps.
01:54:57.000But that was before Biden was in the White House.
01:55:02.000Popular Morning Television co-host Megan McCain, daughter of John McCain, who funded ISIS and Al-Qaeda in the ongoing War on Terror debacle, says that American patriots need to be treated the same as Al-Qaeda terrorists.
01:55:18.000I'm not against sending these people to Gitmo.
01:55:21.000These are domestic terrorists who attacked our own republic.
01:55:23.000They should be treated the same way we treat Al-Qaeda.
01:55:25.000MSNBC's Nicole Wallace suggests the possibility of killing Americans with drone strikes.
01:55:32.000Attacking terrorism at its root, of going after and killing, and in the case of Omar al-Awlaki, an American, a Yemeni American, with a drone strike for the crime of inciting violence, inciting terrorism.
01:55:45.000Regional Director of California Democrats unapologetically suggests rounding up 75 million Americans and putting them in concentration camps.
01:55:55.000Americans are now being psychologically prepared for the rounding up, brainwashing, torture, and mass murder of American patriots.
01:56:04.000It is critical that the FBI does launch the largest manhunt in U.S.
01:56:08.000history, drag all of these people into prison, and if they're inside the Capitol, for a full 20 years for committing sedition against the United States of America.
01:56:18.000The question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?
01:56:26.000Almost all white, almost all Republicans, who some Somehow need to be deprogrammed.
01:56:33.000Once we educate them, we coach them on how to interact.
01:56:37.000We probably need to double, triple, quadruple or increase funding for these de-radicalization programs.
01:56:45.000Biden's press secretary announces how leftist NGOs will be involved in performing threat assessments on domestic terrorists.
01:56:55.000Meaning, if you oppose their Marxist ideology, you're a threat to them.
01:57:00.000This is all part of the leftist playbook.
01:57:03.000The Weather Underground was planning for this in the 1970s.
01:57:07.000They felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education centers in the Southwest.
01:57:18.000Where we would take all the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.
01:57:28.000I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate?
01:57:53.000HR 127 will require psychological evaluations and a public database for all gun owners.
01:58:03.000With the entire nation divided into patriots and obedient cowards, they know who you are.
01:58:10.000And they know they have the support of the brainwashed masses.
01:58:14.000They have been preparing the entire world population with COVID-19.
01:58:20.000Almost a year ago, the WHO's Dr. Ryan announced that they will be entering people's homes and removing family members.
01:58:29.000Now we need to go and look in families to find those people who may be sick and remove them and isolate them in a safe and dignified manner.
01:58:38.000The leftists in power are ready to break our will.
01:58:46.000They will destroy anyone who stands in their way.
01:58:49.000And they are now vetting the military to weed out any patriots who might have a problem with the unlawful mass arrests of American citizens.
01:59:00.000And you can be sure that at least one major false flag, if not several, is already being planned to act as the catalyst for all of this.
01:59:11.000Another Oklahoma City bombing to blame on libertarian terrorists and American constitutionalists.
01:59:18.000The new war on domestic terror is beginning.