>>> WHO WANT TO TAKE YOU NOT TO BLUE BELL, PENNSYLVANIA WHERE IS BY HIS MARKS MARKING YOUR THREE YEARS SINCE THE JANUARY SIX ATTACH AT THE CAPITOL. LET'S WATCH. >> THANK YOU. PLEASE. THANK YOU. PLEASE. THANK YOU, VERY, VERY MUCH. TODAY THE TOPIC OF MY SPEECH TODAY IS DEADLY SERIOUS. AND I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE MADE AT THE OUTSET OF THIS CAMPAIGN. IN THE WINTER OF 1777 WAS HARSH ARMY MARCHED TO VALLEY FORGE. GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON NEW HE FACED THE MOST DAUNTING OF TASKS. TO FIGHT AND WIN A WAR AGAINST MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE IN EXISTING IN THE WORLD AT THE TIME. HIS MISSION WAS CLEAR. LIBERTY. NOT CONQUEST. FREEDOM. NOT DOMINATION. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE. NOT INDIVIDUAL GLORY. AMERICA MADE A VOW, NEVER AGAIN WOULD WE BOW DOWN TO A KING. MONTHS AHEAD WOULD BE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT. BUT GENERAL WASHINGTON KNEW SOMETHING IN HIS BONES. SOMETHING ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF THE TROOPS HE WAS LEADING. SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOUL OF THE NATION. THAT HE WAS STRUGGLING TO BE BORN. IN HIS GENERAL ORDER HE PREDICTED AND I QUOTE, WITH ONE HEART AND ONE MIND WITH FORTITUDE AND WITH PATIENTS. THEY WOULD OVERCOME EVERY DIFFICULTY. THE TROOPS HE WAS LEADING. AND THEY DID. THEY DID. THEY LACK THE BLANKETS AND SHOES AND CLOSE AND FOOD AND THIS ARMY THAT MARCHED IN THE SNOW AND THIS RAGTAG ARMY MADE OF ORDINARY PEOPLE, THEIR MISSION, GEORGE WASHINGTON DECLARED, WAS NOTHING LESS THAN A SACRED CAUSE. THAT WAS A PHRASE USED. A SACRED CAUSE. FREEDOM. LIBERTY. DEMOCRACY. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. I JUST VISITED THE GROUNDS OF VALLEY FORGE AND HAVE BEEN THERE A NUMBER OF TIMES. IT'S VERY SITE THAT I THINK EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD VISIT BECAUSE IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE PAIN AND THE SUFFERING AND THE TRUE PATRIOTISM THAT IT TOOK TO MAKE AMERICA. TODAY WE GATHER IN THE NEW YEAR SOME 246 YEARS LATER WITH ONE DAY BEFORE JANUARY 6. A DAY FOREVER SHARED IN OUR MEMORY BECAUSE IT WAS ON THAT DAY THAT SOME OF US LOST AMERICA. LOST IT ALL. TODAY WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION. IS DEMOCRACY STILL AMERICA'S SACRED CAUSE? THIS IS NOT RHETORICAL ACADEMIC OR HYPOTHETICAL. IF DEMOCRACY IS STILL AMERICA'S SACRED CAUSE IS THE MOST URGENT QUESTION OF OUR TIME. IT'S WHAT THE 2024 ELECTION IS <u>LL ABOUT. </u> THE CHOICE IS CLEAR. DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT HIM. NOT AMERICA. NOT YOU. DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN IS OBSESSED WITH THE PAST AND NOT THE FUTURE. HE'S WILLING TO SACRIFICE OUR DEMOCRACY AND PUT HIMSELF IN POWER. OUR CAMPAIGN IS DIFFERENT. FOR ME AND CAMILA IT'S ABOUT AMERICA AND YOU AND EVERY AGE AND BACKGROUND THAT OCCUPY THIS COUNTRY. IT'S ABOUT THE FUTURE WE WILL BUILD TOGETHER AND OUR CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT PRESERVING OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. THREE YEARS AGO TOMORROW WE SAW WITH OUR OWN EYES THE VIOLENT MOB STORMED THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL. IT WAS ALMOST IN DISBELIEF AS YOU FIRST TURNED ON THE TELEVISION. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY INSURRECTIONIST HAD COME TO STOP THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER IN AMERICA. THE FIRST TIME. SMASHING WINDOWS AND SHATTERING DOORS AND ATTACKING THE POLICE. OUTSIDE. GALLOWS WERE ERECTED. AS THE MAGA CROWD CHANTED, HANG MIKE PENCE. INSIDE THEY HUNTED FOR SPEAKER POLICY. THE HOUSE WAS CHANTING, AS THEY MARCHED THROUGH AND SMASHED WINDOWS. WHERE IS NANCY? OVER 140 PLEASE OFFICERS WERE INJURED. WE ATTENDED THE FUNERAL OF POLICE OFFICERS WHO DIED AS A RESULT OF THE EVENTS THAT DAY. BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP'S LIES, THEY DIED BECAUSE THESE LIES <font color="#00FF00">ROUGHT A MOB TO WASHINGTON. </font> HE PROMISED IT WOULD BE WILD AND IT WAS. HE TOLD THE CROWD TO FIGHT LIKE . AND ALL WAS UNLEASHED. HE PROMISED HE WOULD WRITE DOWN -- WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING THEY DID. HE WOULD BE SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH THEM. AND AS USUAL, HE LEFT THE DIRTY WORK TO OTHERS. HE RETREATED TO THE WHITE HOUSE. AS AMERICA WAS ATTACKED FROM WITHIN, DONALD TRUMP WATCHED ON TV IN THE PRIVATE SMALL ROOM OFF THE OVAL OFFICE. THE ENTIRE NATION WATCHED IN HORROR. THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHED IN DISBELIEF. AND TRUMP DID NOTHING. úMEMBERS MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY GOT REPUBLICAN LEADERS WHO WERE UNDER ATTACK AT THAT VERY MOMENT PLED WITH HIM. úACT. CALL UP THE MOB. IMAGINE HAD HE GONE OUT AND SAID STOP. AND STILL TRUMP DID NOTHING. IT WAS A WHILE AMONG THE WORST DERELICTION OF DUTY BY A PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AND AN ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION BY FORCE AND VIOLENCE. A RECORD 81 MILLION PEOPLE VOTED FOR MY CANDIDACY AND TO END HIS PRESIDENCY. TRUMP LOST THE POPULAR VOTE BY 7 MILLION. TRUMPS CLAIMS ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION NEVER COULD STAND UP IN COURT. TRUMP LOST 60 COURT CASES. 60. TRUMP LOST THE REPUBLICAN CONTROL OF STATES. TRUMP LOST BEFORE A TRUMP APPOINTED JUDGE AND THEN JUDGES AND TRUMP LOST BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. ALL LOST. TRUMP LOST RECOUNT AFTER RECOUNT AFTER RECOUNT IN STATE AFTER STATE. BUT IN DESPERATION AND WEAKNESS, TRUMP AND HIS MAGA FOLLOWERS WENT AFTER ELECTION OFFICIALS WHO INSURED YOUR POWER AS A CITIZEN WOULD BE HEARD. THESE PUBLIC SERVICE HAD THEIR LIVES UPENDED WITH THE TAX AND DEATH THREATS FOR SIMPLY DOING THEIR JOBS. IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA A BRAVE LACK MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER GOT RUBY FREEMAN AND SHAYE MOSS WERE DOING THEIR JOBS ELECTING WORKERS. UNTIL DONALD TRUMP AND HIS MAGA FOLLOWERS TARGETEDAND THREATENED THEM FORCING THEM FROM THEIR HOMES AND UNLEASHING RACIST VITRIOL ON THE. TRUMPS PERSONAL LAWYER, RUDY GIULIANI WAS JUST HIT WITH $148 MILLION JUDGMENT FOR CRUELTY AND DEFAMATION THAT HE INFLICTED AGAINST THEM APPEARED OTHER STATE AND LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY FACED SIMILAR PERSONAL ATTACKS. IN ADDITION, FOX NEWS AGREED TO PAY A RECORD $787 MILLION FOR THE LIES THEY TOLD ABOUT VOTER FRAUD. LET'S BE CLEAR. ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. TRUMP EXHAUSTED EVERY LEGAL AVENUE AVAILABLE TO HIM TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION. EVERYONE BUT THE LEGAL PATH TOOK TRUMP BACK TO THE TRUTH. THAT I HAD WON THE ELECTION AND HE WAS A LOSER. KNOWING HOW HIS MIND WORKS NOW, HE HAD ONE ACT LEFT. ONE DESPERATE ACT AVAILABLE TO HIM AND THE VIOLENCE OF JANUARY 6. AND SINCE THAT DAY MORE THAN 1000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGE FOR AN ASSAULT ON THE CAPITAL. NEARLY 900 OF THEM HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OR PLAYED GUILTY. COLLECTIVELY TO DATE THEY HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 840 WHAT HAS TRUMP DONE? INSTEAD OF CALLING THEM CRIMINALS, HE HAS CALLED THESE INSURRECTIONIST PATRIOTS. THEY ARE PATRIOTS. AND HE PROMISED TO PARDON THEM IF HE RETURNS TO OFFICE. TRUMP SAID THERE WAS A LOT OF LOVE ON JANUARY 6. THE REST OF THE NATION, INCLUDING LAW ENFORCEMENT SAW A LOT OF HATE AND VIOLENCE. ONE CAPITOL POLICE UPS ARE CALLED IT A MEDIEVAL BATTLE. THAT SAME OFFICER CALLED -- HE SAID HE WAS MORE AFRAID IN THE CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE CHAMBERS, THEN WHEN HE WAS FIGHTING AS A SOLDIER IN THE WAR IN IRAQ. HE SAID HE WAS MORE AFRAID INSIDE THE HALLS OF CONGRESS THAN FIGHTING A WAR IN IRAQ. TRYING TO WRITE THE FACTS OF JANUARY 6, TRUMP IS TRYING TO STILL HISTORY THE SAME WAY HE TRIED TO STEAL THE ELECTION. BUT WE KNEW THE TRUTH. BECAUSE WE SAW IT WITH OUR OWN EYES. IT WASN'T A STORY BUT WAS ON TELEVISION REPEATEDLY. WE SOUGHT WITH OUR OWN EYES. TRUMPS MOB WAS NOT A PEACEFUL PROTEST. IT WAS A VIOLENT ASSAULT. THEY WERE INSURRECTIONIST AND NOT PATRIOTS. THEY WERE THERE TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION. THEY WERE THERE TO DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION. TRUMP WON'T DO WHAT AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT MUST DO. HE REFUSES TO DENOUNCE POLITICAL VIOLENCE. SO HEAR ME CLEARLY. I WAS A WHAT DONALD TRUMP WON'T. OCAL VIOLENCE IS NEVER, EVER ACCEPTABLE IN THE UNITED STATES. IT'S NEVER, NEVER, NEVER. IT HAS NO PLACE IN A DEMOCRACY. NONE. IT CAN'T BE PRO INSURRECTIONIST AND PRO-AMERICAN. TRUMP AND HIS MAGA SUPPORTERS EMBRACE POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND LAUGH ABOUT IT. AND HIS RALLY HE JOKES ABOUT AN INTRUDER WITH THAT BY THE BIG TRUMP LIFE TAKING A HAMMER TO PAUL PELOSI'S SKULL. ECHOING THE VERY SAME WORDS USED IN JANUARY 6. WHERE IS NANCY? AND HE THINKS THAT IS FUNNY. HE LAUGHED ABOUT IT. WHAT A SICK -- MY GOD! I THINK IT IS DESPICABLE. SERIOUSLY. NOT FOR A PRESIDENT FOR BUT FOR ANY PRESENT TO SAY. BUT TO SAY TO THE WHOLE WORLD LISTENING, I WAS OVERSEAS. ANYWAY, OH MY GOD. TRUMPS ASSAULT ON THE DEMOCRACY IS NOT JUST PART OF HIS PAST. IT'S WHAT HE'S PROMISING FOR THE FUTURE. HE'S BEING STRAIGHTFORWARD. HE'S NOT HIDING THE BALL. HIS FIRST RALLY FOR THE 2024 CAMPAIGN OPENED WITH A CHOIR OF JANUARY 6 INSURRECTIONIST SINGING FROM PRISON ON A CELL PHONE. WHILE IMAGES OF THE JANUARY 6 RIOT PLAYED ON A BIG SCREEN BEHIND HIM ON HIS RALLY. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? THIS IS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A FAIRYTALE. A BAD FAIRYTALE. TRUMP AGAIN HIS 2024 CAMPAIGN BY GLORIFYING THE FAILED VIOLENT INSURRECTION AT OUR CAPITOL. THE GUY WHO CLAIMS LAW AND ORDER, SOWS LAWLESSNESS AND DISORDER. TRUMP IS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR FUTURE, I PROMISE YOU. TRUMP IS NOW PROMISING A FULL- SCALE CAMPAIGN OF REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION. HIS WORDS. FOR SOME YEARS TO COME. THEY WERE HIS WORDS, NOT MINE. HE WENT ON TO SAY HE WOULD BE A DICTATOR ON DAY ONE. IF I'M WRITING A BOOK OF FICTION, AND I SAY THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT SAID THAT, AND NOT IN JUST, HE CALLED AND I QUOTE, THE TERMINATION OF ALL THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND ARTICLES EVEN THOSE FOUND IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE TERMINATED AT HIS WILL. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE. EVEN FOUND IN THE CONSTITUTION. HE CAN TERMINATE? HE'S THREATENED THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WITH THE DEATH PENALTY. HE SAID HE SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH BECAUSE THE CHAIRMAN PUT HIS OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION AHEAD OF HIS PERSONAL LOYALTY TO TRUMP. THIS IS COMING FROM A PRESIDENT. WHO CALLED WHEN HE VISITED CEMETERIES. HE CALLED DEAD SOLDIERS SUCKERS. AND LOSERS. REMEMBER THAT? SOMETIMES I AM REALLY HAPPY THAT SOMETHIGS CAN'T BE SEEN. IT'S RIGHT AROUND THE TIME THAT I WAS -- HOW DARE HE? WHO IN GOD'S NAME DOES HE THINK HE IS. WITH FORMER AIDES TRUMP PLANS TO INVOKE THE INSURRECTIONIST ACT. WHICH WILL ALLOW HIM TO DEPLOY U.S. MILITARY FORCES ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA. HE SAID IT. HE CALLS THOSE WHO OPPOSE HIM VERMIN. HE TALKS ABOUT THE BLOOD OF AMERICA BEING POISONED. ECHOING THE SAME EXACT LANGUAGE <u>SED IN GERMANY. </u> HE POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA THE WORDS THAT BEST DESCRIBE HIS 2024 CAMPAIGN QUOTE, REVENGE, QUOTE, POWER, QUOTE, DICTATORSHIP. THERE IS NO CONFUSION ABOUT WHO TRUMP IS AND WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO. I PLACE MY HAND ON OUR FAMILY BIBLE AND I SWORE AN OATH ON THE VERY SAME STEPS OF THE CAPITAL JUST 14 DAYS AFTER THE ATTACK ON JANUARY 6. AS I LOOKED OUT OVER THE CAPITAL CITY WHOSE STREETS WERE LINED WITH NATIONAL GUARDS TO PREVENT ANOTHER ATTACK. I SAW AN AMERICAN THAT HAD BEEN PUSHED TO -- AND AMERICA THAT WAS PUSHED TO THE BRINK. BUT I FELT ENORMOUS PRIDE NOT IN WINNING BUT ENORMOUS PRIDE IN AMERICA BECAUSE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY HAD BEEN TESTED. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY HAD HELD TOGETHER. AND WITH TRUMP, A WEAKNESS IN OUR DEMOCRACY AND CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT IT. I SAW STRENGTH. YOUR STRENGTH. NOT HYPERBOLE. YOUR STRENGTH. YOUR INTEGRITY. AMERICA'S STRENGTH AND INTEGRITY. ORDINARY CITIZENS AND STATE ELECTION OFFICIALS. THE AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM. PUT THE CONSTITUTION FIRST. AND SOMETIMES AT THEIR PERIL. BECAUSE OF THEM, BECAUSE OF YOU, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE PREVAIL. NOT THE ANGER OF THE MOB OR THE APPETITES OF ONE MAN. THE ATTACK ON JANUARY 6 HAPPENED AND THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT THE TRUTH. AT THE TIME, EVEN REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND FOX NEWS COMMENTATORS PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY CONDEMNED THE ATTACK. AS ONE REPUBLICAN SENATOR SAID, TRUMPS BEHAVIOR WAS EMBARRASSING AND HUMILIATING FOR THE COUNTRY. NOW THAT SAME SENATOR AND THOSE SAME PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED THEIR TUNE. AS TIME HAS GONE ON, POLITICS, FEAR AND MONEY HAVE ALL INTERVENED. AND NOW THESE MAGA VOICES WHO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP ON JANUARY 6 HAVE HEADBAND AND ABANDONED THE TRUTH AND ABANDONED DEMOCRACY. THEY MADE THEIR CHOICE. NOW THE REST OF US, DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND MAINSTREAM REPUBLICANS, WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR CHOICE. I KNOW MINE. AND I BELIEVE I KNOW AMERICA'S. WE WILL DEFEND THE TRUTH. NOT GIVEN TO THE BIG LIE. WE WILL EMBRACE THE CONSTITUTION AND THE DECLARATION AND NOT ABANDONED IT. WE WILL HONOR THE SACRED CAUSE OF DEMOCRACY AND NOT WALK AWAY FROM IT. TODAY I MAKE THE SACRED PLEDGE TO YOU. THE DEFENSE, PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY WILL REMAIN AS IT HAS BEEN A CENTRAL CAUSE OF MY PRESIDENCY. AMERICA AS WE BEGIN THIS ELECTION YEAR WE MUST BE CLEAR. DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT. YOUR FREEDOM IS ON THE BALLOT. WE WILL BE VOTING ON MANY ISSUES. ON THE FREEDOM TO VOTE. AND HAVE YOUR VOTE COUNTED. AND THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE. THE FREEDOM TO HAVE A FAIR SHOT. THE FREEDOM FROM FEAR. AND WE WILL DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITHOUT DEMOCRACY, NO PROGRESS IS POSSIBLE. THINK ABOUT IT. THE TERM DEMOCRACY THE ALTERNATIVE OF DEMOCRACY IS DICTATORSHIP. THE RULE OF ONE AND NOT THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE. THAT'S WHAT THE SOLDIERS OF VALLEY FORGE UNDERSTOOD. WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS AS WELL. WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED SO LONG WITH A STRONG AND STABLE DEMOCRACY THAT IT'S EASY TO FORGET WHY SO MANY BEFORE US RISK THEIR LIVES AND STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY. WHEN WHAT WOULD OUR LIVES BE WITHOUT IT. DEMOCRACY MEANS HAVING THIS FREEDOM THE FREEDOM TO SPEAK YOUR MIND AND TO BE WHO YOU ARE. TO BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE. DEMOCRACY IS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO BRING ABOUT PEACEFUL CHANGE. DEMOCRACY. DEMOCRACY IS HOW WE OPEN THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY WIDER AND WIDER WITH EACH SUCCESSIVE GENERATION NOTWITHSTANDING OUR MISTAKES. BUT IF DEMOCRACY FALLS, WE WILL LOSE THAT FREEDOM. WE WILL LOSE THE POWER OF WE THE PEOPLE AND SHAPE OUR DESTINY. IF YOU DOUBT ME, LOOK AROUND THE WORLD. TRAVEL WITH ME AS I MEET WITH OTHER HEADS OF STATE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. LOOK AT THE AUTHORITARIAN LEADERS AND DICTATORS TRUMP SAYS HE ADMIRES. THE OUTLET SAYS HE ADMIRES. REMEMBER HOW HE REFERS TO WHAT HE CALLS LOVE LETTER EXCHANGES BETWEEN HEAT AND THE DICTATOR OF NORTH KOREA? THOSE WOMEN AND MEN IN THE AUDIENCE WHO HAVE EVER FOUGHT FOR THE AMERICAN MILITARY. DID YOU EVER BELIEVE YOU WOULD HEAR A PRESIDENT SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT? HIS ADMIRATION FOR PUTIN. I COULD GO ON. AND LOOK AT WHAT THESE AUTOCRATS ARE DOING TO LIMIT FREEDOM IN THEIR COUNTRIES. THEY ARE LIMITING FREEDOM OF úP PEOPLE ARE GOING TO JAIL AND SO MUCH MORE. IT'S TRUE THE PUSH AND PULL OF AMERICAN HISTORY IS NOT A FAIRYTALE. EVERY STRIDE FORWARD IN AMERICA IS MET WITH FEROCIOUS BACKLASH MANY TIMES FROM THOSE WHO FEAR PROGRESS OF THOSE WHO EXPLOIT THAT FEAR FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAIN. FROM THOSE WHO TRAFFIC IN LIES FOR POWER AND PROFIT. FOR THOSE WHO ARE DRIVEN BY GRIEVANCE AND GRIT. CONSUMED BY CONSPIRACY AND VICTIMHOOD. FROM THOSE WHO SEEK TO BURY HISTORY AND BANNED BOOKS DID YOU EVER THINK YOU'D BE IN A POLITICAL EVENT THAT TALK ABOUT BOOK BANNING BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THE CHOICE AND CONTEST BETWEEN THOSE FORCES AND THOSE COMPETING FORCES BETWEEN SOLIDARITY AND DIVISION IS PERENNIAL. BUT THIS TIME IT IS SO DIFFERENT. YOU CAN'T HAVE A CONTESTS. YOU CAN'T HAVE A CONTEST IF YOU SEE POLITICS AS AN ALL OUT WAR INSTEAD OF A PEACEFUL WAY TO RESOLVE OUR DIFFERENCES. ALL OUT WAR IS WHAT TRUMP WANTS. THAT'S WHY HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH ABOUT THIS COUNTRY. UNLIKE OTHER NATIONS ON EARTH, AMERICA IS NOT BUILT ON ETHNICITY, RELIGION, GEOGRAPHY. WE ARE THE ONLY NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD BUILT ON AN IDEA. NOT HYPERBOLE. BUILT ON AN IDEA. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF- EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN AND WOMEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. IT'S AN IDEA DECLARED IN THE DECLARATION. CREATED IN A WAY THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD BE TREATED EQUAL THROUGHOUT THE LIVES. WE NEVER FULLY LIVED UP TO THAT. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BUT WE NEVER WALKED AWAY FROM THE IDEA. WE NEVER WALKED AWAY FROM IT. AND I PROMISE YOU, I WILL NOT LET DONALD TRUMP AND THE MAGA REPUBLICANS -- WE LIVE IN AN ERA WHERE A DETERMINED MINORITY IS DOING EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER TO TRY TO DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY FOR THEIR OWN AGENDA. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW IT. AND THEY ARE STANDING BRAVELY IN THE BREACH. REMEMBER AFTER 2020, JANUARY 6 INSURRECTION WHERE MORE AMERICANS HAD VOTED THAN ANY OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AMERICA SAW THE THREAT POSED TO THE COUNTRY. AND THEY VOTED HIM OUT. IN 2022 HISTORIC MIDTERM ELECTION IN STATE AFTER STATE ELECTION AFTER ELECTION THE ELECTION DENIERS WERE DEFEATED. NOW IN 2024 TRUMP IS THE DENIER IN CHIEF. THE ELECTION DENIER IN CHIEF. ONCE AGAIN HE SAID HE WON'T HONOR RESULTS OF THE ELECTION IF HE LOSES. TRUMP SAYS HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND AND HE STILL DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE BASIC TRUTH AND THAT IS YOU CAN'T LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ONLY WHEN YOU WIN. YOU CAN'T LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ONLY WHEN YOU WIN. I WILL KEEP MY COMMITMENT TO BE PRESENT FOR ALL OF AMERICA. WHETHER YOU VOTED FOR ME OR NOT. I'VE DONE IT FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO IT. TOGETHER WE CAN KEEP PROVING THAT AMERICA IS STILL A COUNTRY THAT BELIEVES IN DECENCY, DIGNITY, HONESTY. HONOR, TRUTH. WE STILL BELIEVE THAT NO ONE, NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT IS ABOVE THE LAW. WE STILL BELIEVE. THE VAST MAJORITY OF US STILL BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE DESERVES A FAIR SHOT AT MAKING IT. WE ARE STILL A NATION THAT GIVES HATE NO SAFE HARBOR. I WILL TELL YOU FROM MY EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH LEADERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. I MEAN THIS SINCERELY AND NOT A JOKE. AMERICA IS STILL VIEWED AS A BEACON OF DEMOCRACY FOR THE WORLD. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY WORLD LEADERS AND I HAVE KNOWN ALL OF THEM, VIRTUALLY ALL OF THEM, GRABBED MY ARM IN PRIVATE AND SAY, YOU CAN'T -- HE CAN'T WIN. NO, MY COUNTRY WILL BE AT RISK. THINK OF HOW MANY COUNTRIES YOU KNOW ARE ON THE EDGE. IMAGINE. WE STILL BELIEVE IN WE THE PEOPLE. THAT INCLUDES ALL OF US. NOT SOME OF US. LET ME CLOSE WITH THIS. IN THE COLD WINTER OF 1777, GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS AMERICAN TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE WAGED THE BATTLE ON BEHALF OF A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA. THAT EVERYDAY PEOPLE LIKE WHERE I COME FROM AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF YOU, NOT A DICTATOR. BUT EVERYDAY PEOPLE CAN GOVERN THEMSELVES WITHOUT A KING OR A DICTATOR. IN FACT IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITAL, THERE'S A GIANT PAINTING OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. NOT PRESIDENT WASHINGTON. AND HE IS RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. THE EUROPEAN KING AT THE TIME SAID AFTER HE WON THE RESOLUTE REVELATION THAT NOW WAS TIME FOR HIM TO DECLARE HIS KINGSHIP. BUT INSTEAD THE MOB THAT ATTACKED THE CAPITAL WAVING TRUMP FLAGS AND CONFEDERATE FLAGS STORMED RIGHT PAST THAT PORTRAIT. THE IMAGE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON GAVE THEM NO POSITIVE THAT IT SHOULD HAVE. THE ARTIST WHO PAINTED THAT PORTRAIT MADE THAT MOMENT BECAUSE HE SAID WAS QUOTE ONE OF THE HIGHEST MORAL LESSONS EVER GIVEN TO THE WORLD.". GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWER HAVING JUST DEFEATED THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE ON EARTH. HE COULD HAVE HELD ONTO THE POWER AS LONG AS HE WANTED. HE COULD HAVE MADE HIMSELF NOT A FUTURE PRESIDENT BUT A FUTURE MONARCH IN EFFECT. AND BY THE WAY, AS THE PRESENT HE COULD HAVE STAIN FOR UP TO FIVE TERMS UNTIL HE DIED. BUT THAT WASN'T THE AMERICAN HE AND THE AMERICA TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE THOUGHT FOR. AND AMERICA GENUINE LEADERS AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERS DON'T HOLD ONTO POWER RELENTLESSLY. OUR LEADERS RETURN POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND THEY DO IT WILLINGLY BECAUSE THAT IS THE DEAL. YOU DO YOUR DUTY AND YOU SERVE YOUR COUNTRY. OURS IS A COUNTRY THAT IS WORTHY OF SERVICE AS MANY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS HAVE SHOWN OVER THE YEARS. WE ARE NOT PERFECT. BUT AT OUR BEST, WE FACE HEAD ON THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE TRUTH OF WHO WE ARE. WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND ULTIMATELY NEVER PRETEND WE ARE SOMETHING WE ARE NOT. THAT'S WHAT GREAT NATIONS DO. AND WE ARE A GREAT NATION. WE ARE THE GREATEST NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. WE REALLY ARE. THAT IS THE AMERICA I SEE IN OUR FUTURE. WE GET UP. WE CARRY ON. WE NEVER BOW AND NEVER BEND. WE SPEAK OF POSSIBILITIES AND NOT CARNAGE. WE ARE NOT WEIGHED DOWN BY GRIEVANCES. WE DON'T FOSTER FEAR. DON'T WALK AROUND AS VICTIMS. WE TAKE CHARGE OF OUR DESTINY. WE GET OUR JOB DONE AND WITH THE HELP OF THE PEOPLE WE FIND IN AMERICA WHO FIND THEIR PLACE IN A CHANGING WORLD AND THE DREAM AND BUILD A FUTURE THAT NOT ONLY THEY BUT ALL PEOPLE DESERVE A SHOT AT. WE DON'T BELIEVE, THAT NONE OF YOU BELIEVE AMERICA IS FEELING. WE NOTE AMERICA IS WINNING. THAT IS AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. NOT WINNING BECAUSE OF JOE BIDEN BUT WINNING. IT'S THE FIRST NATIONAL ELECTION SINCE JANUARY 6 AND INSURRECTION PLACE A DAGGER AT THE THROAT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY SINCE THAT MOMENT. WE ALL KNOW WHO DONALD TRUMP IS. THE QUESTION WE HAVE TO ANSWER IS, WHO ARE WE? THAT IS WHAT IS AT STAKE. WHO ARE WE? IN THE YEAR AHEAD AS YOU TALK TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND CASTOR BALLOTS, THE POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS. AFTER ALL WE'VE BEEN THROUGH IN OUR HISTORY FROM INDEPENDENCE TO CIVIL WAR TO TWO WORLD WARS TO A PANDEMIC TO INSURRECTION. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT IN 2024 WE AMERICANS WOULD CHOOSE TO WALK AWAY FROM WHAT HAS MADE US THE GREATEST NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. FREEDOM. LIBERTY. DEMOCRACY IS STILL A SACRED CAUSE. AND THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BETTER POSITIONED TO LEAD THE WORLD THAN AMERICA. THAT IS WHY I HAVE SAID IT MANY TIMES THAT'S WHY I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE AND I'VE BEEN DOING THIS A OF A LONG TIME . JUST REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. WITH PATIENTS AND FORTITUDE AND ONE HEART. WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR GOD'S SAKE. I MEAN IT. THERE IS NOTHING -- I BELIEVE IN EVERY FIBER THERE'S NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY IF WE ACT TOGETHER AND ACT DECENTLY TOWARD ONE ANOTHER. NOTHING. WHEN EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD COMES OUT OF EVERY CRISIS LONGER THAN GOING INTO THAT CRISIS. THAT WAS TRUE YESTERDAY. AND IT IS TRUE TODAY. AND I GUARANTEE YOU IT WILL BE TRUE TOMORROW. GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS. >>> WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING PRESIDENT BIDEN SPEAK AS WE APPROACH THREE YEARS AS THE JANUARY 6 ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL. A DAY THAT I DIDN'T SAID QUOTE WE NEARLY LOST AMERICA. THIS WAS A CAMPAIGN SPEECH AS YOU CAN CLEAR HERE BY TAKE ON TRUMP IN HIS REMARKS ACCUSING HIM OF EVEN USING THE SAME LANGUAGE ASGERMANY. DESPITE CALLED JENNY WAS SIX AMONG THE MOST DERELICTION OF DUTY BY PRESENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND ACCUSE HIS PREDECESSOR OF TRYING TO QUOTE STEELE HISTORY JUST LIKE HE TRIED TO STEAL THE ELECTION.". CBS NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT WEIJIA JIANG JOINS US WITH MORE. THIS IS THE PRESENCE FIRST CAMPAIGN SPEECH IN THERE. HE TOOK ON DONALD TRUMP IN DEEPLY PERSONAL TERMS. PRESIDENT BIDEN AT ONE POINT SAID I WON THE ELECTION AND HE WAS A LOSER. WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU? >> EVEN THOUGH THE THEMES AND EVEN SOME OF THE LINES FROM THE SPEECH ARE NOT NECESSARILY NEW, THE DELIVERY WAS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT VERSION OF PRESIDENT BIDEN THAN WE HAVE SEEN. THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO HAS GONE TO GREAT LENGTHS SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE FOR THREE YEARS AND SOMETIMES REFUSING TO MENTION DONALD TRUMP'S NAME. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER HE USED TO CALL HIM THE FORMER GUY. THAT'S BECAUSE HE WAS TRYING TO ADMINISTRATION AND MOVE FORWARD FROM JANUARY 6 AND HE SAID HE WANTED TO TRY TO UNITE THE COUNTRY. AND SO HE WANTED TO MAKE PROGRESS AND NOT WITH BACK TO THE PAST. BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP TO HIM BECAUSE CLEARLY IF YOU ARE ANY OTHER CANDIDATE RUNNING TO BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, THEN YOU HAVE TO WONDER ABOUT WHAT JOE BIDEN THINKS OF THAT BECAUSE CLEARLY JOE BIDEN AND THE CAMPAIGN BELIEVES THAT DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO BE HIS OPPONENT. AND THAT'S WHY UNLIKE THE PAST THREE YEARS AND ONLY TOOK THE PRESIDENT ABOUT THREE MINUTES TO NAME CHECK DONALD TRUMP AND THEN AFTER THAT LOST TRACK BECAUSE HE SAID TRUMP SO MANY TIMES IN THIS SPEECH TO TRY TO REMIND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT THEIR CHOICES ARE úA AND HE MADE VERY CLEAR THAT IN HIS VIEW CHOOSING TO REELECT TRUMP WOULD BE CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEMOLISHING OF OUR DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW IT. SO THIS IS A MESSAGE WE SHOULD EXPECT TO HEAR MORE OF ESPECIALLY RECEIVE FORMALLY LAUNCHES HIS CAMPAIGN AND GOES ON THE TRAIL BECAUSE CLEARLY THIS IS GOING TO BE THE CENTER OF HIS EFFORTS. >> YOU SAY HE NAME CHECKED HIM RIGHT AWAY. AND ALSO GAVE HIM PNEUMONIC IS PRETTY CALLED TRUMP SICK AND ALSO THE DENIER IN CHIEF. WE ALSO HEARD PRESIDENT BIDEN TAKING ON MAGA SO PORTIS" YOU CAN'T BE PRO-INSURRECTION AND RO-AMERICAN. BEYOND THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE ALREADY SUPPORTING BY, WHO DO YOU THINK THE PRESIDENTWAS HOPING TO REACH IN THIS SPEECH? >> I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF MODERATES TOO THAT HE NEEDS THEIR SUPPORT. FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM IN 2020, HE WANTS TO ENSURE THAT THEY RETURN TO THE BALLOTS TO SUPPORT HIM AGAIN IN 2024. THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT HE WAS THERE TO ANSWER THE MOST IMPORTANT OF QUESTIONS. IS DEMOCRACY STILL AMERICA'S SACRED CAUSE. WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS WHETHER THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES TO VOTERS. BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH CLEARLY PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS EXTREMELY IMPASSIONED IN THE SPEECH AND WE KNOW WHERE HIS PRIORITIES LIE, HE EVEN SAID AS MUCH, FOR THE REST OF HIS PRESIDENCY. YOU KNOW, IT'S UNCLEAR IF THE AMERICAN VOTER AGREES THAT THIS IS THE TOP -- AT THE TOP OF THEIR LIST WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR CONCERNS. THERE WILL ALSO BE JUDGING HIM ON HIS ECONOMIC POLICIES AND FOREIGN POLICIES. THERE'S A LOT OF TIME
