Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) - full transcript

Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!

Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!
Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!

Was it all just a dream?

♪ This is my fight song♪

♪ Take back my life song♪

♪ Prove I'm all right song♪

It was the night
before the election, 2016.

Everything seemed to be going
as planned.

Amateurs and experts alike had already called the election months ago.

There's not going to be
a President Donald Trump.

Um--
That's not going to happen.



Donald Trump is not
going to be president
of the United States.

Donald Trump will never be
elected president
of the United States.

He's not going to be president.

Is there a path to victory

-for Donald Trump at this point?
-No.

Do you still think
she has 100% chance
of winning the election?

Mm, I do.

I'm not sure
the Republican party

is going to survive.

I would like to
introduce to you

the next president
of the United States,

Miss Hillary Clinton.

Thank you all,
and thanks to Jay-Z
and Beyoncé.

And thanks to Chance the Rapper
and J-Cole and Big Sean.



She had no idea
who any of these rappers were,

but it didn't matter.

♪ This is my fight song♪

The big day is finally here
and it's time to vote.

A giddy nation
awoke that morning

to the news
in The New York Times

that Trump had only
a 15% chance of winning.

You know,
growing up as a little girl,

I never thought
I could be president.
It's becoming very real.

Congrats, Hillary.
Our first woman president.

Ooh! Hillary all the way.

All the way to the White House.

I waited over an hour to vote.
I'm so happy.

In Rochester, New York,

thousands put "I voted" stickers

on the grave of suffragist
Susan B. Anthony.

This is the most
important election

that I have ever voted in.

I got to vote
for a woman for president.

Incredible.

We finally made it.

♪ This is my fight song♪

♪ Take back my life song♪

Once the polls closed,

before the votes
were even counted,

the champagne corks
were popping at
Hillary's victory party

in New York City.

This has
a literal glass ceiling.

A glass ceiling they're hoping
to symbolically burst through
tonight.

Let's be one nation,
indivisible,

with a kick-ass president.

♪ And that is my life for me♪

Meanwhile,
just 17 blocks away...

It's a decidedly
small venue.

Perhaps the smallest one
I've ever seen for an event
like this.

Things were looking bad
for the other candidate.

The crowd was glum.

GOP officials
now fear that if Donald Trump
loses by a landslide,

he could take down
the congressional majorities
with him.

Fox News seemed relieved

that they wouldn't have
to support this man

-for the next four years.
-I think Hillary's
going to win.

The betting odds on the
presidential race are 3 to 1,

in favor of Secretary Clinton.

♪ Somewhere in the night♪

Look at all these wins
we're projecting for
Hillary Clinton right now.

She wins New Jersey
with 14 electoral votes.

Mrs.
Clinton is also performing strongly on the East Coast.

- Massachusetts, Maryland...
- -And Illinois with 20 electoral votes.

Hillary Clinton,
projected the winner.

No huge surprises thus far.

Then something strange
began to happen.

Big news
for the first time tonight.

Really big news
in the presidential race.

We can project that Donald Trump
will win the state of Ohio.

Donald Trump
will carry the state
of North Carolina.

And that is huge
for Donald Trump.

This is exactly
what he needed to do.

Donald Trump
will carry the state of Florida.

-The state of Wisconsin.
He will win Wisconsin.
-No!

Trump doing very well
in Pennsylvania right now.

The cliffhanger going on
here in Michigan.

Fifty-six percent of the vote
is in.

Look at how close it is.

Right now
Donald Trump is ahead.

It's completely flipped now.

To make matters worse,

Fox News was using my name.

Michael Moore, who knows
white working-class voters,

has made movies about them,
grew up in Michigan,

had been saying all along
to the Democrats,

"Dismiss him
at your own peril."

And he said,
"I'm warning you.

I know the people
who live in my state,

and I know how they think,

and I know what
their concerns are."

♪ This is my fight song♪

♪ Take back my life song♪

♪ Prove I'm all right song♪

Everybody
should head home.

You should get some sleep.

We're not going to
have anything more
to say tonight.

This is a Fox News
election alert.

Donald Trump is the president
of the United States.

It looked like a perp walk.

He had written
no victory speech.

USA! USA! USA!

Never did a group
of people look as sad

to win the presidency

as this crowd.

At 2:29 a.m., on 11-9-16,

our new leader's image
was projected onto
the Empire State Building.

How the fuck did this happen?

Yes, it was the Russians.

And, of course,
it was James Comey.

What a job.

But history
will record...

that no one was more responsible

for Donald Trump
being in the White House

than this woman.

♪ I'm just a girl♪

♪ Guess I'm some kind of freak♪

That's right.

Gwen Renée Stefani.

Allow me to explain.

Ladies and gentlemen,
my father Donald J. Trump.

What you are about to witness

is a fake announcement

for a run for president
of the United States.

This idea was cooked up
by Donald Trump

when he found out that NBC was paying Gwen Stefani on The Voice

more than they were paying him
to star on The Apprentice.

He paid a bunch of extras
50 bucks apiece

to be his cheering supporters.

He would prove to NBC

that he was more popular
than Gwen Stefani

and then they would give him
more money.

He would also show them
how good he was at improv

with his fake presidential
announcement.

And that's when things
went off the rails.

They sweated like dogs.

I'm really rich.
I'll show you that.

They do a website.
It cost me three dollars.

That I got from China
in a war.

The sun will rise,
the moon will set.

He wasn't a cheerleader,
he was the opposite.

Even our nuclear arsenal--
Does it work?

I think I'm actually
a very nice person.

We have nothing.

I just sold an apartment
for $15 million...

to somebody from China.

I learned so much
just sitting at his feet,

playing with blocks.

They're rapists

and some...
probably from the Middle East.

And I promise I will never
be in a bicycle race,
that I can tell you.

We now have a gun
on every table.

We're ready to start shooting.

The American dream...
is dead.

NBC says
it's cutting business ties
with Donald Trump.

Donald Trump receives
a pink slip of his own.

...citing
his derogatory statements,

calling Mexican immigrants
rapists, drug dealers,
and criminals.

His plan backfired.

He was now out of a job.

Though he had no real plans
to run for president,

his sons encouraged him to go ahead with the two rallies

that he had booked and paid for.

USA! USA!

As he looked around
at the adoring masses,

a crowd the size of which
he'd never seen before,

he had his epiphany.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable!

Thank you.

Maybe running for president

wasn't such a bad idea
after all.

In fact,
it was a brilliant idea.

"Fuck Gwen Stefani.

And fuck NBC.

I'm going to be
king of the world."

There was no one happier
with this decision

than the nation's media.

Trump was about to become
their cash cow.

And NBC could now put him on TV for free.

First,
he gave them a good laugh.

We better be ready for the fact
that he might be leading
the Republican ticket.

Next--
I know you don't believe that.

But I want to go on to--

Then he started
telling them what to do.

But I want the cameras
to span the room.

Go ahead, fellas. Watch.

They don't turn them.
They don't turn them.

They don't turn them.

Go ahead. Turn them.

Look. Turn the camera.
Go ahead.

You with the blonde hair,
turn the camera.

Show them how many people
come to these rallies.

Then he started
dictating how the interviews
would be conducted.

Hey, welcome back.
Good morning, Joe.

Let's bring him right now
on the phone, Donald Trump.

- How are you doing this morning, first of all, Donald?
- -I'm doing good.

I did a phoner. It's always good
when they take you by phone.

That means you're hot.
We do phoners to Meet the Press.

- Donald Trump himself.
- Good morning, Chuck.

-Welcome back to Meet the Press,
sir. -Good morning, Chuck.

I'm joined now on the phone,
from New York...

It's so much easier, folks.
You sit at home,

"Hi, how ya doing?
How's everything going?"

And then, just for fun,

he'd mess with them
by keeping them waiting.

Like on this day,
in Portland, Maine.

...potential frontrunner
Donald Trump, expected to speak

- at a campaign rally in Portland, Maine.
- -And waiting.

...we're just expecting him
to come out here
in just a few minutes.

- And waiting.
- We're waiting his remarks, moments from now.

Not on stage
yet, as you can see.

Once again,
we're standing by live.

The candidate is--

Go ahead and toss it
back to you.

I think Trump is
coming out now, Craig?

No, no. No, you're good.
You're good, Hallie.
You're good.

-Oh, I can keep going?
-He's not coming out yet.

Thanks.

- What will he say?
- We are again waiting.

He can't seem to get
a rally started on time.

- Watching that podium--
- Any moment now.

A Fox News alert,
still waiting
for that Donald Trump.

Let me show. They're even up
in the balcony. Take a look.

- It's supposed to begin
about 25 minutes ago--
- Donald Trump.

Um, false alarm.
A bunch of people coming.

Uh, not one of them
is Donald--

He's getting ready
to walk over to that--

Any minute now--

We've been waiting for
the better part of the half--

I imagine he got
a kick out of seeing

just how long
they'd put a live TV camera

on his empty podium.

Let's just keep a watch here
because--

Let's go,
Donald Trump.

Thank you so much.
What a turnout.

What a turnout.

If you go back
to the rallies--

Let me ask you a question.
Did you put the rallies on

because they were of news value,
or because they were
driving ratings?

Well, uh--

Uh--

All of the big networks were run by men.

And some of their biggest stars

shared a lot in common
with Donald Trump.

The word "judgment"
has been used a lot,

concerning your use
of your personal e-mail.

Why wasn't it disqualifying?
If you want to be commander--

♪ Come on Take everything♪

♪ Take everything I want you to♪

She has to learn to do it
with humor.

And when she does it now,
she's being kind of aggressive.

I'm Mark Halperin.And I'm Donald Trump.

♪ Take everything I want you to♪

Do you think the e-mail crisis
contributed to
the question of trust?

It was certainly not a choice
I would do again.

But I want to hear you out
on this. You've said,

-"I'm sorry. I made a mistake.
It was the wrong thing to do."
-That's right.

♪ Go on
Take everything♪

♪ Take everything
I want you to♪

Fox News has a secret formula,
and we're never gonna tell
anybody what it is.

♪ Go on
Take everything♪

♪ Take everything
I want you to♪

There's gotta be some downside
to having a woman president,
right?

Something.

♪ Go on, take everything Take everything♪

Hold it.
Let's get some more
air conditioning.

Hey, um, Matt.

Turn up
the air conditioning.

Up the air conditioning.

This malignant narcissist--

uh, the one on the right--

has always played the media
for suckers

and gotten away with it.

I should know.

Back in 1998,

Trump and I were booked together on Roseanne Barr's new talk show.

He did not know
that he was scheduled
to appear with me.

I was all set to take him down,

but he wanted nothing to do
with it.

I saw he was getting
ready to leave.

Tell her, "Have a good time."

Excuse me, Mr. Trump?

Roseanne's producers
asked him to hold up

and came
and spoke with me

and begged me to go easy on him.

I don't know. He was scheduled
to be on Politically Incorrect
with me,

and when he heard I was on,
he, um, skedaddled, so--

Did he really?Yeah.

I didn't want
Trump to walk,

which would screw up
Roseanne's show,

so the next thing I knew,

I was playing nice.

I've been on unemployment
three different times
in my life.

But you know what?
Neither one of us was ever
a billion dollars in the hole.

I was down, you know,
almost about 900 million
in the negative sense.

Instead of ask him
which Russian mobsters

bailed him out of his
billion-dollar debt,

I just decided to make a joke.

And-- And what unemployment line
were you standing in?

I did learn
one interesting tidbit.

He had seen my movie,
Roger and Me.

Can I tell ya, I loved--
I loved what he did.

If I was Roger,
I wouldn't have liked it,

but I-- I enjoyed it.

I hope he never does one
on me, though.

You know,
it's very interesting, though,

because I met Michael
and had dinner with Michael
years ago.

And I found him to be
a really nice guy.
A great guy.

I never had dinner
with Donald Trump.

He just made that up.

And that's not the only time
I've been in TrumpLand.

Here I am giving a back rub
to Jared Kushner.

Back in 2007,
Trump's future son-in-law

was so excited about
socialized medicine,

he threw the opening night party for my new movie.

I think Michael chooses
very interesting topics.

And I think he's also
one of the great people of
stringing together an argument.

He does a great job
of putting together

a lot of different clippings
and a lot of
different information

in a way that it's very easily
digestible by a lot of people.

And if you had
to throw out a topic
for his next film,

what do you think
that would be?

Knowing Michael,
it would be something that
we're not thinking about

and something that really needs
a light to be shined on it.

And you want to know
who else had their grubby paws
in my film?

This guy.
Years later, I discovered that
it was Steve Bannon's company

that did
the home video release.

He has integrity.I do--

Okay, I don't know
what to make of that,

but it seems I'm a bit too comfortable with the enemy.

Here I am on Facebook Live.

Just two days before
the election.

Trying to inspire people
to vote for Hillary

and guess who pops in?

Oh? Oh, my God.

Kellyanne Conway.
Oh, my God.

Hi, Michael Moore.

Michael, be honest.
Who's going to win Michigan?

Even if I did know
Kellyanne from being on
talk shows with her,

this was over the top.

As I snuggled there with Kellyanne on Fifth Avenue,

66 floors above us,

sat the soon-to-be president,

snuggling his bucket of KFC.

And it made me think,

"How well did we really know
Donald Trump?"

She's a really
beautiful baby
and she's got Marla's legs.

We don't know whether or not
she's got this part yet
but time will tell.

Who is his favorite?

I'm going with Ivanka.
I'm going with Ivanka.

She's six feet tall.
She's got the best body.

When Ivanka Trump came on stage,

it's nice to see a dad
kiss his daughter.

Trump responded he kisses her
every chance he gets.

Did your
daughter get breast implants?

No, she didn't. I mean,
I would know if she did.

She's actually always been
very voluptuous.

"You. You are special.
You remind me of my daughter.

And I like you. I like you."

- And you had sex with him?
- -Yes.

He's very proud of Ivanka.

He said I was beautiful
like her.

If Ivanka weren't my daughter,
perhaps, I'd be dating her.

Stop it!
Oh, it's so weird.

What's the favorite thing
you have in common
with your father?

Either real estate
or golf.

Donald,
with your daughter?

Well,
I was going to say sex,

but I can't relate that
to her.

Does this make you feel...
uncomfortable?

I don't know why.

None of this is new.

He's always committed his crimes in plain sight.

We expect to be
successful in court.

We knew about this.

Should he have ever been
able to build or own
another apartment building?

He did this too, right?

Demanding the execution of
five innocent black teenagers?

And let's all
hate these people

because maybe hate
is what we need

if we're going
to get something done.

You don't know
who did that crime.

And we all definitely
knew about this.

All I want to do is see
this guy's birth certificate.

And yet, neither you nor I,
called or wrote NBC...

America's boss, Donald Trump!

...to have an admitted racist
removed from the air.

You can never satisfy enough...

His racism, his misogyny...

To have the owner
come waltzing in,

when we're naked,
in a very physically
vulnerable position--

All of this
done out in the open...

as if by doing it publicly...

it was okay.

No one would object.

Even committing treason
on worldwide TV,

was acceptable
because he didn't hide it.

President Putin was
extremely strong and powerful

in his denial today.

Trump loves the strongman,

the autocrat,

the dictator.

Take these two
strongmen CEOs.

They go way back.

The one on the right became the governor of Michigan

before the one on the left
became the president
of the United States.

Before Donald J. Trump would be unleashed on the world,

we here in Michigan,
got a coming attraction

for what you would all
soon experience.

It began in 2010,

when a Republican
named Rick Snyder

was elected
governor of Michigan.

He had no experience
in public service,

but he was very, very good
at Foosball.

Yes!Oh, not again.

And he was very, very rich.

He had been CEO of
Gateway Computers.

You remember, right?
The piece of shit computer.

And he told the voters
of my state

that he was going to run
Michigan like a business.

I was hired to serve
our citizens.
They're my customers.

Ah, yes.
We're the customers.

The customers of
the big business
that he was running.

The ones that would pay for his billion-dollar tax break for the rich.

The Michigan
business tax is gone.

Emboldened by his victory,

he was not satisfied
with just being governor.

He wanted more power.

And how do you get more power?

You scare the people
and declare an emergency.

Governor Rick Snyder
appoints an emergency manager.

-Prop 1 of the emergency--
-The citizens got their
emergency manager--

-And it is official.
-The state police
and a security team

out to try
and keep the peace.

Emergency Manager Bill
is now a law.

Governor Snyder signed
the Emergency Manager Law.

Even though
there was no emergency.

He staged a coup.

He removed from power

the elected mayors
and city councils

of Detroit, Flint,

Pontiac, and Benton Harbor,

and installed his cronies
to run them in the way
that he saw fit.

This was a pre-meditated plan

to reduce and privatize
public services

so that corporate people
like him

could make more money.

People don't think this
is happening in United States.

If you don't say
like Flint, Michigan,

and you just say that
the powers of this person--

Like, they'll think like
it's Honduras.

This is a way to target
black and brown communities.

It was a king.

The governor put a king
into the city of Flint,

and he ruled without being
responsible to anyone.

Look at the cities in Michigan
that are under
emergency management.

The ones
the governor took over.The governor took over.

At one point, 50% of
African Americans in the state

were under emergency management

compared to two percent
of whites.

Governor Snyder's idea
to remove democracy

from Michigan's black cities,

so impressed
the future president

that he came to offer
his support.

Well, that is unfolding.
I've been reading about
the emergency manager,

and my attitude is
whatever it takes
to make that next step.

You know, you can say this
maybe a little bit
about the country.

Governor Snyder
wanted to flex his
new autocratic powers.

He saw an opportunity to take advantage of the poorest city in the country

and of the largest source
of freshwater in the world.

Option A was that he could
just leave well enough alone.

After all, for five decades

the city of Flint got its water from Lake Huron.

A 10,000-year old
pure glacial lake,

water delivered to Flint through publicly-owned pipelines.

Or there was Option B.

Why not build a new, completely unnecessary pipeline

that would benefit investors,
his major campaign donors,

and banks like Wells Fargo.

The only catch was that
while the new pipeline
was being built,

Flint would have to switch over from Lake Huron

to the industrial sewage ditch
known as the Flint River.

We believe there was
a significant financial fraud
that drove this.

Was it for the benefit
of the local unit government
or for the individual?

Individuals were doing it
for themselves?Individuals. Yes.

You know, I believe greed,
um, drove this.

In April of 2014,

the governor switched
the city of Flint's
drinking water

to the Flint River.

-Here's to Flint.
-Here's to Flint.

Hear, hear!

Here is his team
toasting each other

over what would amount to,
in essence,

a slow motion ethnic cleansing.

Three, two, one.

Some residents are wondering
will we see a change?

No. The average resident
won't notice any difference.

- Look down in there.
- -Within days,

the average residents
notice the difference.

A big difference.

That's nasty.

Their hair started to fall out.

Skin rashes appeared
all over their bodies.

And the children got sick.

Parents whose children
showed no symptoms

were still worried that
they might be sick.

Because as one doctor noticed,

nearly every child
had ingested lead.

There is no safe level of lead
in a body of anybody.

There is no safe level of lead.

Um, it is potent
and it is irreversible.

Which means
once it is in your blood,

it wreaks havoc.

Um-- You mean,
irreversible for how long?

Forever.

It literally drops IQ levels
of children.

It leads to impulse disorder
and then memory issues.

Violent behavior.
Aggressiveness.

It also impacts your DNA.

Moms exposed to lead--

You can see the DNA changes
in their grandchildren.

Word of the developing disaster reached the governor's office.

And so he quietly dispatched
an aide to Flint

to find out what exactly
was going on.

The report came back
with bad news.

The state investigator
recommended switching
immediately

back to the Lake Huron water.

But the governor seemed
to have other thoughts.

Like getting PR people
to make the problem go away.

Water that is leaving the plant
is always assured to be
at the top-notch of quality.

For the governor, there was an even greater tragedy.

The Flint River water
was corroding the auto parts

at the General Motors factory.

When the governor heard this,
he blew his top.

After all, General Motors had
donated hundreds of thousands
of dollars

to the Republican
Governors Association,

to help elect candidates
like Rick Snyder.

And here he was,
damaging their property.

For Governor Snyder,
that was a bridge too far.

He immediately ordered
the water in Flint

to be switched back
to Lake Huron,

but only for
the General Motors factory.

The people of Flint
would continue to drink
the poisoned water.

Nobody's going to believe this
that the one GM factory

that's remaining
here in Flint,

they got to hook back up
to the fresh,
clean Lake Huron water.

And everybody else--And we were like,

"Well, what's happening
to our bodies?"

And they were like--
They went back to, "It's safe.

It's meeting all federal
and state guidelines."

And that was, like,
the drum--

For the auto parts,
it had to be washed
in the factory.

It had to have clean,
pure water.Yeah.

From Lake Huron.Yeah, because
profit reigns supreme.

We didn't own General Motors.

That's why we didn't, uh,
we didn't get, like,

the clean, safe water.

So, you know,
Trump is looking at this whole
Flint water poisoning,

and he's gotta be thinking,
"Wow.

The governor got away
with poisoning
a majority black city?

What will I be able
to get away with?"

Look at my African American
over here. Look at him.

Fuck you, fuck you!
Fuck you!

Go home and get a job.

Go home, get a job.

Knock the crap out of them,
would you? Seriously.

I will pay for the legal fees,
I promise.

Now there's a remnant.
Yeah, he's right there.

Hello. Uh-oh.

In the good old days,

they'd rip him out of
that seat so fast.

Build that wall.
Build that wall.

Build that wall!
Build that wall!

Build that wall!
Build that wall!
Build that wall!

We are going to make
America great again.

I will tell you
that our system is broken.

You know, most of the people
on this stage I've given to.
Just so you understand.

Before this,
before two months ago,
I was a businessman.

I give to everybody.
When they call, I give.

And you know what?
When I need something from them,

two years later,
three years later,

I call them,
they are there for me.

- So what'd you get?
- And that's a broken system.

He was right.

It is a broken system.

So he decided
to break it some more

by eliminating
all 16 Republican contenders.

You're not going to
be able to insult your way
to the presidency.

Excuse me, one second.
Well, this guy's a choke artist,
and this guy's a liar.

One by one,
he took down
the Republican elites.

Donald Trump said, quote,

"Look at that face.
Would anyone vote for that?

Can you imagine that,
the face of our next president?"

And, boy,
did it feel good

watching him neuter
the final Bush.

They lied.
They said there were
weapons of mass destruction.

There were none.
And they knew there were none.

We should have never
been in Iraq.

I am sick and tired of him
going after my family.

I didn't want-- Jeb.

Okay, more energy tonight.
I like it.

Get back in the business
of creating a more
peaceful world.

Please clap.

After destroying
the Republican party,

Trump decided to outflank
Hillary on the left.

Unlike her,
who voted for the war without
knowing what she was doing,

I would not have had
our people in Iraq.

Taking one position
after another

that was more liberal than hers.

Don't vote for
a Wall Street sellout
like Hillary Clinton.

You made three speeches
for Goldman Sachs.

-You were paid $675,000.
-That's what they offered.

On days where
she would make one or two
campaign stops...

Hillary Clinton
attending a number of
private fund-raisers,

building those
campaign coffers.

...Trump was holding...

...big rallies
in important swing states.

You know, it's not a good sign when your campaign

is sending cardboard cutouts instead of you.

Her approval ratings
are still underwater,

and so, better to send in
either surrogates who are
more popular,

or surrogates who can
sort of fly under the radar

and just visit with volunteers.

And make sure
that your bumper sticker

is just big enough,
so no one can see it.

The American people that live
outside the Beltway,

that's the real America,
that's the real people
out there.

And those are the real people
who are going to go vote by the
millions for Donald J. Trump.

Real America sees
what's going on here.

What I would call
the real America,

which is working class.

The people out here in
real America think it's crazy.

There seems to be
a misunderstanding

about who the real America is.

Let me share with you a fact

that has never been stated
in the press

or reported on the nightly news,

or even spoken
amongst ourselves.

The United States of America
is a leftist country.

That's right.

We are one rocking,
shit-kicking, gay-loving,

gun-rejecting, race-mixing,

pot-smoking, tree-hugging,

hip-hopping,
anywhere breastfeeding,
quinoa-cooking,

left-leaning liberal nation.

♪ There's a land that I see♪
- Here are the facts.

The vast majority of Americans
are pro-choice.

They want equal pay for women.

Stronger environmental laws.

Legalized marijuana.

A raise in the minimum wage.

Medicare for all.

Tuition-free college.

Free child care.

Support for labor unions.

A cut in the military budget.

Break up the big banks.

Most Americans
don't even own a gun.

And 75% believe
that immigration is good
for the US.

And on, and on, and on.

Heck, Texas isn't even white anymore.

Houston had a lesbian mayor.

When you think Texas,
you need to think lesbian.

All power to the people!

The values they stood for

in the '60s and '70s...

This is a meeting
of American radicals.

...are now the beliefs
of this great land.

Put your whole face over that.
Yes, there.

Those crazy motherfuckers
have won.

And I love the smell of
essential oils in the morning.

If America is us,
and we're the majority,

why is it that we do not
hold a single seat of power?

Not the White House,
not the Senate,

not the House,
not the Supreme Court.

In 50 of our state capitals,

the Democrats control
only eight of them.

Yet, in six of the last
seven presidential elections,

the popular vote
was won by the Democrats.

Which means the Republicans
have won only once...

in the last 30 years.

This is the ceremony that
takes place every four years.

When the votes of
the electoral college

are brought in
to the US Congress,

inside baby coffins.

What they should do
is bury those ballots with
the electoral college itself.

The last vestige
in our Constitution

that was written to appease
the slave states

over 200 years ago.

People, can we please
be done with this?

The Sergeant at Arms
will remove the protesters
from the gallery.

Chamber will be in order.

The Chamber will be in order.

You can't call it a democracy

if the person
who gets the most votes

doesn't win.

So if the American people
have made it very clear

that they want the Democrats
running the country,

then why aren't they?

I'm prepared to make
a whole range of compromises.

-A compromise.
-A compromise.

-Compromise.
-Compromise.

Well, we sat down
and made a compromise.

-Compromise.
-Compromise.

-Compromise.
-And real compromises.

- Compromise.
- Compromise.

Compromise. Compromise.

God bless you,
Speaker Boehner.

So when did all this
compromising start?

As far back as the last president who said--

Make America great again.

No, not him.

We can make America great again.

Him. Mr. Bill Clinton.

The man from Hope, Arkansas.

Back in the '80s and '90s,

Republican campaigns were flush with corporate cash,

and they were winning elections.

The Democrats, meanwhile, saw their labor base decimated.

Labor was so lost, they couldn't even come up with something to put on their picket signs.

So what better way
to get in on the action

than to start acting
like a Republican?

Bill Clinton went on a tear,

launching a mass incarceration
of black people,

deregulating the banks
to let them run amok,

shipping a million jobs
to Mexico

under the guise of free trade,

eliminating most welfare support for the poor,

and making it illegal to marry someone of your gender.

You might have started
asking yourself

why you should even
be participating
in the political process.

Millions began to drop out.

The 100 million non-voters
of America

were essentially the country's
largest political party.

Yet neither the Democrats
nor the Republicans
sought their vote.

As the Democrats
became more like Republicans,

so did the entire
liberal establishment,

led by the paper of record.

Our source
was The New York Times.

Catering to big business,

minimizing social movements
like Occupy Wall Street,

and cheerleading every war
we got into.

We needed to go over
to that part of the world,

and what they needed to see
was American boys and girls

going house to house,
from Basra to Baghdad,

basically saying,
"Suck on this."

It also tries
to dictate elections.

Bernie Sanders' message
resonates with a certain
age group,

his own.

That's the headline.

When you read that now,
after, you know, seeing
what actually happened--

Bernie! Bernie!

Seeing Bernie in person
and hearing--

Go Bernie!

The purpose of that article
was to try to stop you.

Michael, it was more
than just that article.

Look, we were a real threat
to the liberal establishment.

Because if you think
that The New York Times
or the Washington Post

is really gonna be talking
about the issues

that are important
to working people
in this country,

are gonna be talking about
the need to take on
the billionaire class,

you would be very mistaken.

People believed Bernie,
and he was sincere in what--

They believed, if he
got elected, he was
gonna do these things.

-Right.
-I was a big, big Bernie person.

And Bernie won every single
county in West Virginia.

- Counties.
- Yes.

Every single county
went for Bernie.

And in Mingo,
Hillary came in third place

behind somebody
named Paul Farrell.

I don't even know
who that is. Okay?

Even though Bernie Sanders

won all 55 counties
in West Virginia--

with Hillary not winning
a single county--

the West Virginia
Democratic Party

went to the Democratic
National Convention

and told this lie
to the American people.

West Virginia, how do
you cast your votes?

Madame Secretary, 19 votes
for the next president
of the United States--

Hillary Rodham Clinton.

And 18 votes
for Senator Bernie Sanders.

A single lone West Virginian

did her best to put
her little homemade sign

within the camera frame

so that the American people
would know the truth.

The West Virginia
Democratic Party

decided to alter the results
of the West Virginia primary

by ignoring
the will of the people

and adding
their own super delegates,

i.e., party loyalists,

people picked
by the party hacks.

Just like all the state
Democratic parties did.

Indiana.

Hillary Rodham Clinton!

Michigan.

Hillary Clinton.

Montana.

Hillary Clinton.

New Hampshire.

Hillary Clinton.

Rhode Island.

Hillary Rodham Clinton.

-Vermont.
-Hillary Clinton.

I move that the convention

suspend the procedural rules,

and I move that
Hillary Clinton be selected

as the nominee
of the Democratic Party

for president
of the United States.

It was a betrayal.

People were so disgusted
with it,

people left
the Democratic party.
They just Dem-exited.

This just tells people
to stay home.

- I think so.
- Don't bother.

Bingo.

When the people
are continually told

that their vote doesn't count,

that it doesn't matter,

and they end up believing that,

the loss of faith
in our democracy

becomes our death knell.

The strongman, the autocrat,
only succeeds

when a vast swath
of the population

decides they've seen enough
and give up.

Drink that shit!
Drink that shit!
Drink that shit!

But as the people of Flint
protested,

the governor
and his spokespeople

kept lying about the water.

This is certainly a situation
that deserves attention.

I do not think that
it rises to the level

of a statewide emergency.

Why not?

There's-- There's just, uh--

The pub-- We are here with
the resources necessary

to address the situation
without that declaration.

Let's get the facts.
Let's keep working this,

and let's remember
water isn't the only
source of lead,

and so we need to make sure
we're encouraging people

to look at other places
that could create a threat.

I actually started working
for the health department
November of 2015.

This is April Cook Hawkins.

She was asked to participate
in the cover-up.

I was
the case manager
here in Flint, Michigan.

All of the results
in regards to the blood levels--

I inputted those numbers
and made sure all of
those numbers were correct.

And while doing so,
she discovered

that the government officials
had cooked the books.

My supervisor
asked if I would go in

and, um, help them out
with the numbers and--

not show certain things.

If someone came in
and they test high,

the health department
didn't want that number
to be shown.

She began secretly
making print-outs

of the falsified records

and was afraid
to show them to anyone

until she brought them to me.

Is this an actual document
that you kept as a piece
of evidence?

Yes. The normal number is 3.5,

and anything over a 3.5
is considered a high lead level.

Six, six, five,

six, five, five,

six, seven, ten,

six, eight, six, six, 14.

That means every child
on this sheet of paper

has an elevated level
of lead.

Yeah. And I said,
"Let's just call the parents
and re-test."

And they said,
"No. We can't do that.

Just put 'em in
as a 3.5 then."

And so the parents
aren't able to start taking
immediate action

to help the child
that's been lead poisoned.

They think their child is fine.

And they-- Ah!"My child tested low."

You knew
these parents
were getting letters

that were not
telling the truth.

Correct.

"Just put 'em in
as a 3.5, then."

- And you said?
- I said no, I couldn't do it.

And that's when things
kinda hit the fan for me.

Somebody told somebody
to do this--

to cover up what the state
was really up to.

Yes.

I look at the lifestyles
of the kids that's being
born into this.

You know what they know?

They know a bottle of water

and a toothbrush and toothpaste
is normal.

That's how I brushed my teeth
in Iraq.

I took bottled-water showers
in Iraq.

So I compare how I live now
to how I lived in Iraq

as far as it comes to water.
I had more water supply in Iraq
than I do now.

And we need to not have
the highest water bills
in the nation,

especially since Michigan has
85% of the nation's
fresh surface water,

20% of the world,
you know?

Then there's people
who have to choose

between their water bill
or medication.

Water bill or child care.

Water bill or car note.
Water bill or rent.

When you have the highest,
um, water rates in the nation

and the poorest city
in the nation,
statistically,

who has time to protest?

You might want to,
but you have to feed
your family.

What this disaster created
is a prison called Flint.

No one would move here,

which meant no one could leave.

If I was gonna describe Flint

to someone
from out of the state

that had never been here,

I would, uh, let them know
that we have a very--

a very good, um--

Uh...

So that is usually
the most common question.

People say,
"Why don't you just move?"
Would you buy my house

for what I owe on it?

Unfortunately,
this water crisis

could be almost the...

final nail in the coffin
for Flint.

And then people started dying
of Legionnaires' disease,

This outbreak of Legionnaires'
was one of the highest
in the country,

and it was directly related
to the water crisis.

This is the family
of NBA star,

Flint's own Roy Marble.

They lost their mother
to Legionnaires' disease,

which she contracted
from the contaminated water

at Flint's hospital.

And I miss her so much.

I do.

And I wish to this day

I would've just taken
my mom to Ann Arbor.

I wish I would have.

I wish I would have.

And they knew
what was going on.

That's the sad part
about it.

They knew
what was going on.

No!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Get your hand off me!

...get out.

Don't touch my wife!

He did nothing wrong!

Not Nestle!

Ho, ho!
Snyder's got to go!

Fight, fight, fight!
Water is--

Let's call this
what it is.

- It's not just a water crisis.
- It's a genocide.

It's a racial crisis.

- It's a poverty crisis.
- That's right!

We need the president
of the United States here.

We need federal help.

We need FEMA.

We need--
We need the EPA.

We need the CDC,

and we need the Army
Corps of Engineers.

You're asking
three questions then?

- Okay.
- And that goes to your point

about being civil.

In many respects, you haven't
been the most civil

about this whole situation.

And I'm always happy
to answer questions.

We stayed here to answer
additional questions,

and we're trying to be
open and transparent.

He had been anything
but open and transparent.

Thanks to an investigation
by the Michigan ACLU,

the public learned
that the governor's office

had covered up
the poisoning of Flint

for nearly a year and a half.

We've been to homes,
like Saturday and one today,

where the windows--
There's holes in the windows.

And there's little, like,
young children,

and they've got
a little blanket around them.

And many of them
have fallen on hard times.

I saw two babies
shivering.

And I'm bringing them
bottled water,

and the mother thinks
I'm like the Second Coming.

You want to know
what my thought was?

I thought,
"That son of a bitch."

That's what I thought.The governor.

To do that.
To do that to our people.

Right. Right. Right.

He should be charged
criminally.

Once he was advised
by his chief of staff

that the water had lead levels
above what was acceptable

and he continued
the program,

didn't bring it
to anyone's attention,

any of his administrators,
in fact, fought it,

that makes it
an intentional act.

So for every hour
after he knew

that that water was essentially
poisoning these children--Whether--

...it's a criminal act.

I think it's a criminal act.

No terrorist organization

has yet to figure out
how to poison an entire
American city.

That took the Republican Party
of Michigan

and its CEO governor
to pull off.

I decided to go and make
a citizen's arrest.

Uh, here for
the governor's office.

Okay. Just hold on
a minute.All right.

We'll get someone
out here for you.All right.

Hi. Ari Adler, governor's
Director of Communications.

-Oh, great. Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.
-What can I do for you?

Well, I'm here to make
a citizen's arrest
of the governor.

And I'm wondering if you
could help facilitate
that for me.

Okay, no.
Governor's not here.

For poisoning
the people of Flint.

Well...Knowingly poisoning
the people of Flint.

There were mistakes made.

There was a water crisis
in Flint.

Water quality in Flint
is now testing

uh, well below any kind
of action level
at the federal level.

So the water's safe?

Some of the tests
are currently showing

that it's actually testing
better than bottled water.

Better than bottled water?

I actually have
a glass of water here

from the city of Flint,

I brought with me
all the way from Flint.

If it is great water,
would you mind drinking it
right now?

I'm not gonna just drink
a glass of water that I
don't know where it came from.

I just told you.
It came from Flint.

If you'd like information,
or whatever I can do--

You think this water
is still poisoned.

I do not think that at all.

Governor Snyder?
Hello?

Hello. Hi.

It's Michael Moore.
Are you home?

He's not coming out.

All right.
Let's hose him down.

♪ I just got back from Flint ♪

♪ Yeah♪

♪ That Flint♪

♪ I saw that dirty water
With my own eyes♪

♪ But not to my surprise♪

♪ Governor Snyder♪

♪ You're not much
Of a provider♪

♪ 'Cause Flint ain't fixed♪

Every single child in Flint--

♪ Flint ain't fixed♪

10,000 children...

♪ Flint ain't fixed♪

...had drank the lead.

♪ Flint ain't fixed♪

♪ The children up there
Are sick♪

♪ The lead in the water
Is thick♪

♪ Flint ain't fixed♪

I wasn't born here,
and we came to this country very
much for that American dream.

Um, and, you know,
with nothing besides education.

My dad was a GM employee.
My mom was a teacher.

Benefited from union contracts.

Um, sent their kids to two--
to Michigan's public schools.

The American dream
worked for us.

It worked for me and my family
the way that it does not work

for the kids that I take care of
in my clinic every day.

They are literally waking up
to a nightmare.

A nightmare of injustice,
poverty, lost democracy.

And that is another lesson
we need to learn from Flint.

Maybe that's why
it's called a dream,

because it's not
a reality for everybody.

No, it's not.Right?

No. There are multiple Americas.

People are scared
of challenges--

You deploy because

your nation sends you
to these places.

And then one day,
you come home, and you realize
it was all a lie.

Our town is dying.
One out of every four homes

is an abandoned,
dilapidated structure,

and you get told,
"Keep picking up trash

and let leaders do
what leaders do."

Elected leaders
in our towns, in our states,
in our country

absolutely are self-serving.

They have no idea
of what it's like
for a single parent

to put food on the table
for her child.

You come home
and you realize-

I can take you
five minutes from here

and show you where kids
have it worse

than the kids I saw
in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So that's why I come back here
and I started speaking up for
the things that I believe in.

And I will not shut up
for nobody.

And I don't give a shit
who you are.

I'll fight you
in the damn street right now.

Okay. Um... Um...

I'm sick and tired
of people telling me that
America's the greatest country.

Because we can whip your ass?

I mean, we don't have
health care for everybody.
We don't have that.

We have homelessness
that's everywhere.

We have an opioid epidemic

that has absolutely destroyed
our communities.

Has killed more people last year
than all the lives lost
in the Vietnam War.

And we're not willing
to go to war against Big Pharma.

How come we don't have
more people like you
on our side?

We do.
Let me tell you something.

-There are many people
out there.
-Where are they?

My name's Alexandria.
I'm running for Congress here.

Yeah.

I looked at the map
between our representation,
our community,

the special interests
that are kind of hurting
what's going on here.

And then I looked around
and saw the seat hadn't been
challenged in 14 years.

It really just felt like,
if nobody's gonna do it,

then I gotta do it.

My name is Rashida Tlaib.
I'm running for
the US Congress.

I'm running to become
their next congressman
in the midterm elections.

I'm here doing this because

listening to the speeches

at the Women's March
inspired me.

I'm a professional
backyard chicken farmer.

I had never run before.

And you're an author?

It's just a how-to book.

It's called My Pet Chicken.

In the back, I have recipes.

I believe that in a modern,
moral, and wealthy society,

- no person in America
should be too poor to live.

- That's what I think.
- That seems simple.

Her views, her policy positions
are actually downright scary.

Let's see. Single payer
universal health care.

Universal jobs.
Government subsidized housing.
Free colleges.

She wants to abolish ICE
and, of course,
impeach President Trump.

I don't think he knows
how to deal with
a girl from the Bronx.

We'll see.

People always say,
"You gotta wait your turn,
Rashida."

I was, like, "What turn?
I didn't know there was a line."

I'm actually running
for Congress. Hi, sweetie.

You've probably also seen me
get kicked out of
the Trump rally.

Donald Trump was coming.
He was less than a couple miles from my house.

We found out that
the Detroit Economic Club

was not going to
allow questions.

First time ever in history.

Well, we were taken aback
by that.

Why can't we ask questions?

So 12 women came there,
and every two minutes
interrupted.

...in terms of violent crime.

Asking questions about
what is his stance
on labor organizing,

what's his stance
on sexual harassment?

Today I will outline
my economic vision.

In the coming weeks--

My campaign
is about reaching out
to everyone as Americans

and returning to a government
that puts
the American people first.

My question was,
"Have your read
the Constitution?

What part of the Constitution?"

That was
the most American thing
I could have done.

A lot of my colleagues said,

"It's a little too aggressive."

A Democratic state senator
called and said,

"Do you think
that was really necessary?"

And two of my Republican
colleagues were, like,

"Really proud of you, girl.
I don't agree with everything,
but good for you."

There's a sense of respect
ironically from the other side

for the way I approach issues.

One thing was abundantly clear.

These candidates were fighters.

People deserve someone
who are gonna fight
for the people

and not for corporations.

To be able to encourage someone
to run for office--

Man, it is truly
the lack of political will
from our Democrats.

And their backbone
is literally just missing.

Right? And you put both
of those components together.

On top of that, you taking money
from the same folks

the Republicans are
taking money from--

The Democratic Party
should be

recruiting
extraordinary ordinary Americans

that actually
get on the same bus
as their constituents.

Actually have kids
in those public schools

and understand
what it feels like

for a teacher not to get paid
real salaries

or lack of resources. Right?

The definition of
electoral insanity

is trying to reelect
these same guys
over and over again

and expecting our country
to be any different.

For the first time,
Democrats will have
an all-female statewide ticket.

And on that list,
Rashida Tlaib.

She is poised to become
the first Muslim woman
in Congress.

We're not ready
to give up on the party.

We're just ready
to take it over,

and let's put some people
in there that get it,

because we felt the--

Take it over.Take it over.

Take it over, Michael.

It was already being taken over.

Hundreds, if not thousands
of insurgent candidates,

many of them women.

They weren't just running
against Republicans.

They were running against
the establishment
of the Democratic Party

that has led them to defeat
for so many years.

This old guard had tried to keep the candidates on the moderate side of things,

to stay in the center,
to not rock the boat.

In other words, to lose.

Fifty-one percent of people
between 18 and 29

no longer support
the system of capitalism.

Well, I thank you
for your question,

but I have to say
we're capitalist.

And that's just the way it is.

The "we"
who are capitalist,

is she talking
about her constituents?

Or maybe she means the people
who fund the Democratic Party.

They enlisted their friends
in the media

to tamp down
the Democratic revolution
that was underway.

I think the party moved
too far to the left.

Much farther to the left
and out of touch

with working class voters.

And if her win makes her into

what Kellyanne Conway called
the new face of
the Democratic Party

the Democratic Party's
not gonna have
a very bright future.

The worst damage happens
behind closed doors,

where Democratic Party leaders
do their best

to stomp out
the hopes and dreams

of those who would like
the Democrats to actually win.

Take the case of Levi Tillemann of Colorado,

a Democrat who was running
for Congress.

Levi was struggling
because the Democratic leaders
threw all of the Party's money

behind a more moderate,
handpicked candidate.

So Levi secretly recorded
his conversation

with the number two Democratic leader in the House, Steny Hoyer,

who then schooled Levi
on how this all works.

My name is Alexandria.

Getting on the ballot,

we ended up rolling
into the board of elections,

and we turned in almost
five times the required amount
of signatures.

On this street?

We left, and within 15 minutes,

these, like,
super high-priced lawyers

came rolling into
the Board of Elections,

demanding to pull our files,

- looking through every single one.
- -Democratic Party.

Looking through to see
who they could bump off.

I'm running
a grassroots campaign.

I'm not accepting money
from Big Pharma and Big Energy.
You know?

My team--
I have received messages
from people all over America

that says,
"Who's running your campaign?"

And when I tell 'em,
they are floored.

What do you mean by who's--
You mean who's

your campaign director,
your finance director.

My campaign manager drives
a truck across--

He's a cross-country
truck driver.

Right now,
he's in North Carolina,
driving a truck.

-That's his full-time job?
-He's another person that will
fistfight you in the street

-for what he believes in.
-Now I have to fight
two of you in the street.

F-- Come on. You get--

It's how we roll
down here in West Virginia.

You don't have to be ex-military to have the fighting spirit.

Sometimes the bravest people are the ones you'd least expect.

When you're a teacher
in West Virginia, you're
so much more than a teacher.

We're social workers.
We're mothers.

I know last year--
I teach seniors--

There were eight students
in my class that had me
in their cell phone as "Mom."

That was how I was listed
in their contacts.

As "Mom"?"Mom."

Yes. You are the mother figure,
because their mother
abandoned them five years ago.

Their mother died
of a drug overdose.

I've had all of these situations
that's happened.

But we still live
paycheck to paycheck

simply because we don't make
hardly any money.

The teachers' pay
in West Virginia

is ranked 48th
out of the 50 states.

Some of these teachers
live below the poverty line
and qualify for food stamps.

I think every teacher
in West Virginia knows several
that's in that situation.

In addition to teachers being on food stamps,

things were about to get
even worse.

Not only was
their health insurance
going to double--

They also started this thing
called Go365.

- It's kind of a wellness program.
- -Go what?

Introducing Go365.

To even get health insurance,

teachers were being forced to buy and wear a Fitbit device.

The Fitbit would track
all their physical activity
all the time.

And if you don't register enough steps into the online database--

Then you pay a $500 penalty
at the end of the year.

You know how weird this sounds,

like how darkly strange
and wrong?

Yes. Yes.

And who was behind this

"tracking the teachers" idea?

A man named Justice.

Governor Jim Justice.

Nobody loves education
more than me.

Nobody loves our teachers
more than me.

Tonight in Pineville
a meeting was held

to discuss changes
to the public employees'
insurance agency--

If the Fitbits
could measure pissed-off
West Virginian teachers,

they'd be lighting up
right about now.

But the leaders
of the teachers' union
weren't much help.

They discouraged
a statewide strike.

Our union reps, they told us
about all the risks.

We could lose our job.
We could lose our seniority.

We could lose a day's pay.
We could lose all these things.

I just say, guys, listen.

The eyes of West Virginia
are on us right now.

If we can just have
the courage to step out,

other counties will follow.

This was the chilly scene

outside Point Harmony Elementary
Friday morning.

Upwards of 50 teachers
lining the sidewalk,
all on a mission.

The teachers decided on their own to go out on strike

and do it by themselves.

One school district at a time.

All of Mingo County
is on the courthouse steps.

People are chanting.
We're Facebook Live streaming that.

And other counties are
commenting on there and saying,
"I wish I was there."

It escalated really quickly.

So four go out,
then seven go out,
and then--

Fifty-five of 55 counties.

The strike will go on
in all of them tomorrow.

It is unlawful
to have a work stoppage.

The teachers were warned
the strike is illegal.

They face anything
from being fined,

being fired, to going to jail.

But for them,
it was worth risking jail
to get what they wanted.

A five percent raise
and health insurance

without Fitbits.

The teachers weren't alone,

because the bus drivers
and other school staff

were part of
the same strike.

Except, there was one problem.

Over half the schoolchildren
in West Virginia

got their breakfast
and their lunch at school.

So the teachers decided
to prepare food for the
students during the strike.

The group
not only packed the bags,

but also hand delivered them
to each student's home.

Oh, my stars.

Make no mistake about it.
They want the voice of
the working class citizens

to be gone.

If you are not a member
of a labor union,

you better become one.

If you notice, many days,
they had red bandanas

wrapped around their necks.
They're proud of that.

The bandanas have
a special meaning going back
to the 1920s

when tens of thousands of
coal miners went on strike,

wearing red bandanas around
their necks to identify
themselves as pro-union.

And thus, popularizing
the term "redneck."

And you might think
it might be
a derogatory term,

but where we're from,
that is a term of pride.

That says,
"We will not back down."

The labor unions across
this country needs to take up
the red bandana.

And needs to put 'em around
their necks and say,

"We are tired of being
overlooked, mistreated,

underpaid, overworked,
understaffed.
We're tired of it."

Public schools in West Virginia
will remain closed today,

the third day of a statewide
strike by teachers and other
school employees.

...will be closed tomorrow
for a fourth day.

...already lasted five days.

Like true rednecks,
the teachers stood firm.

Those people in that capital
right now wouldn't be here
if it wasn't for them teachers.

But the union leaders
reached a compromise
with the state.

We believe the best
course of action at this time
is to return to school tomorrow.

The union leadership
had sold out.

They got the teachers
less than what they wanted

and left the bus drivers
and the lunch ladies
out in the rain.

The teachers
rejected this and insisted

that the bus drivers got the same raise that they wanted.

They continued
to stay out on strike.

They held firm day after day.

And after nine days
of striking...

♪ ...take it, no ♪

♪ No, we ain't gonna take it

...and singing Twisted Sister,

the teachers finally won
the raise they were
fighting for.

Not just for themselves

but the same raise
for the bus drivers,

the lunch ladies,
and everyone else.

Oh, and the Fitbits?

They were finito.

The moment we won, we celebrated
for, like, five minutes,

and then we put the rest
of the nation on notice.

And it's starting
to spread all over Kentucky.

Arizona, North Carolina.

Oklahoma is pissed off.

Now on Monday, teachers
right here in Colorado

will join in the walkouts.

♪ Country road ♪

♪ Take me home

♪ To the place I belong

When working class
people come together and say,

"We're not leaving
till you give us what we want,"

there's no money
or-- or anything
more powerful than that.

And that's why politicians,
since the beginning
of this country,

they have tried to divide
people by race or gender.

And so that's--
The Republicans do it.

But you know what?
The Democrats do it, too.

The Democrats say that the
concerns of the people here

don't have anything to do with
the concerns of the people in
Flint, Michigan.

And that's bullshit.

All right. So, here's the plan.

We're gonna go take Uber.

In the afternoon, before 2:40--

From there, I'll go
into the school campus,

unload my bags,

and get my AR-15
and a couple of trace rounds.

Wait, and people will die.

Location is Stoneman Douglas,

in Parkland, Florida.

...two, one.

Yeah.

Holy shit! Oh, my God.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God.

Shh.

It'll be okay.
It'll be fine. Come on. Come on.

Let's go.

Single file. Go ahead.
That's it.

Teachers, make sure you
stay with your students, okay?

And, like clockwork,
came the thoughts and prayers.

- Thoughts and prayers.
- -In our thoughts and prayers.

In our thoughts
and prayers.

Quote,
"Our thoughts and prayers."

Our thoughts
and prayers.

Our continued thoughts
and prayers go out to all.

And they always tell us not to make these shootings political.

A group of teenagers said, "Well, that's the end of that."

They decided
to make it political,
because it was political.

In response to President Trump,
I would say this...

You wanna look back on our
history and blame the Democrats?
That's disgusting.

You're the president.
You're supposed to bring this
nation together, not divide us.

How dare you.
Children are dying

and their blood is on your hands
because of that.

I'm gonna happily ask him
how much money he received

from the
National Rifle Association.

It doesn't matter
because I already know!

Thirty million dollars!

And divided by the number
of gunshot victims
in the United States,

in the one and one half months
in 2018 alone,

that comes out to being $5,800.

Is that how much these people
are worth to you, Trump?

They say that tougher gun laws
do not decrease gun violence.

They say a good guy with a gun
stops a bad guy with a gun.

They say that us kids don't know
what we're talking about.

That we're too young
to understand how
the government works.

We call BS!

To all of the generations
before us, we sincerely
accept your apology.

And we-- And we appreciate

that you are willing to let us
rebuild the world
that you fucked up.

These fearless kids
are on fire...

and the fire was spreading.

One month after the shooting,

there was a national
student walkout day.

But this middle school principal didn't want to let the kids off campus.

Basically, just all ran out.
I'm not sure if they're
letting us back in.

They can't expel
everyone here,
because that's insane.

Westglades, you may go back
to second period.

We were able to go
because so many people--

One person can't stop
at least over 500 kids.

Westglades Middle School,
you may go back to second period
at Westglades.

The tweens
had tasted power

and they now knew
that the adults are, well,

kind of just a bunch
of ineffective dweebs.

We want change!
We want change!

This was a bona fide
political movement.

And I was there
to see it for myself.

The Parkland students
invited me into their
secret headquarters.

I think it's just insane
to think that within a month
of this happening,

the pace that we've gone at...

We have an international NGO
that we're running

out of an office space
in the same city now.

Running--Twenty-two students--

Being run by 23 walking hormones

with probably a lot of ADD
in between.

I don't know if it was
the hormones or the ADD,

but the international march
they were organizing
was taking off.

What's it up to? It's at 820.

Yesterday it was at, like,
760-something.

That's, like...

Several more marches,
in a day!

Did you just say 830 marches?

My generation
and the generation after me--

Maybe we did one thing right.
We raised you.

- On the contrary.
Social media raised us.
- Yes!

- My phone.
- And you see it--

You mean,
communicating
with other young people.

- Yes.
- -About what the real truth is.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

One of the fake news
networks, CNN,

last night was saying
I want teachers to have guns.

I don't want teachers
to have guns.

I want certain
highly adept people,

people that understand
weaponry, guns-- uh--

If 20% of the teachers
have guns--
It may be 10% or maybe 40%.

We need to let people know.
You come into our schools,
you're gonna be dead.

And it's gonna be fast.

This is about us
demanding change,

and this is about the fact
that we have already won.

It's just a matter of when.

Thrust into instant activism,

the students went to the place
where change is supposed
to happen...

The State Capitol building
in Tallahassee.

One of the few places in Florida where you're safe from guns.

Please note,
he didn't even reach
18 years old yet.

He was a boy
who got shot in the head
because of your law saying that

an 18-year-old boy can carry
a military grade weapon
to kill.

The students were
impeccably prepared.

Some of the legislators,
not so much.

You can shoot as many bullets
with a handgun as you can
with these rifles.

But civilians with
such high capacity magazines,
you support that?

-Bullets.
-Yeah, I've heard
different, uh...

positions on that.

All we want is an answer
as to how are we gonna fix this

and continue our life
not living in fear.

Yeah, it's, uh,
it's gonna take a lot.
It's gonna take a lot.

It's gonna be multifaceted
bullet points of comin' in from
all kinds of different angles.

Government is set up
to move slow. Okay?

There's committees.
There's dual houses.

It's not like cuttin' grass.
Cuttin' grass, you can
immediately turn around and see

this is the product
of what I've done, but--

Yeah, it's a head-scratcher
where we are, so, uh--

It's gonna be, uh--
It's gonna be a debate.

I've always, uh,
defended people's right
to defend themselves.

Uh, I haven't got specifics.

So you're asking me specifics,
Jake, and I--
I don't know.

They quickly learned
that asking for help
from a politician

who gets an A+ rating
from the NRA
gets you nowhere.

Take the camera off for me.

You need to challenge them
directly.

Senator Rubio,
can you tell me right now

that you will not accept
a single donation from the NRA
in the future?

I-- There-- That--
That is the wrong way to look--

First of all, the answer is
people buy into my agenda.

You can say no.Number second--

Well...

I su-- I--

Or another option
is to vote them out,

even if you're too young
to vote.

I get tweets from people.

They're like,
"Hey, I'm a mom from Tennessee.

I've never voted before,
but I'm gonna vote now."

So people
who are non-voters--Yes.

...are telling you--"I'm gonna vote."

At all these marches,
we're having booths
to register yourself to vote.

'Cause we know that we're
gonna be the generation that
are gonna vote those people out.

Case in point:
this guy.

Maine Republican
Leslie Gibson,

running unopposed
for State Representative,

tweeted about a Parkland
shooting survivor,
calling her a skinhead lesbian.

They're already down,
and he knocked them down more
by saying that.

That wasn't very nice of him.

After Gibson's
hate speech,

David Hogg immediately put out
a call to action on Twitter.
And sure enough...

In district 57,
there's a candidate
who was unopposed.

He now has competition.

28-year-old
Eryn Gilchrist of Green

submitting the necessary amount
of signatures

required by the secretary
of state's office to run.

And then this happened.

Guys, guys. Breaking news.What?

The guy who called Emma
a skinhead lesbian,

who was running unopposed
as of, like, a day ago--

And he dropped out!

Oh, my God!

Of all people...

She had just met
the deadline at five o'clock
in Maine yesterday

to run against this asshole.

I just can't believe
that it was a day.
It was literally a day.

Literally.It's amazing.

Both Emma and I failed,
uh, two psych tests today.

Oh, no.

But it's fine.
We're changing the world.

In hindsight,
I'm not gonna care about that.

What I'm gonna remember
about this day

is getting that woman
in Maine pretty much in office.

Yeah,
not your psych test.Yeah.

Another memorable day
was this one.

Welcome to the revolution.

Teenagers organized this
all by themselves.

No adults were allowed onstage
to speak.

And with over 700 marches
underway in American cities,

and another 100 globally,

it was the largest single day
of protest

in the history
of our nation's capital.

Raleigh,
North Carolina. Tampa, Florida.
Central Los Angeles.

All echoing the same message.

And when a message
is urgent enough,

sometimes help arrives.

City of Flint, USA.

May 5, 2016. POTUS has arrived.

The people of Flint
had one last beacon of hope.

We were all invited
to this big thing

where President Obama
was going to speak to us
about the problem.

Oh, my gosh.
This is so cool!

Oh, yes!

Oh, yes!

He's finally here,
and we've been waiting.

Once he sees, he's gonna make
a conscious decision

-to push this with urgency.
-President Obama!

While President Obama
was on his way to the event,

Governor Snyder thought
he'd take to the stage
and warm up the crowd.

Good after--

Good after--

Good afternoon!

Good afternoon!

I understand why you're angry
and frustrated.

Not like we do!

- I wanna come here today
to apologize.

- Too late!
- It's too late!

Too late!

It's too late. We already sick!

We have a short term
water crisis that needs
to be repaired.

Thank you for caring for us,
Obama!

Flint's recovery
is everybody's responsibility.

And I'm gonna make sure
that responsibility is met.
That's why I'm here.

To tell you directly...

that I see you and I hear you.

We invest--

Uh, can-can I get some water.

Come on up here.

I want a glass of water.

Get a bottle.
A bottled water.

I want a glass of water.

Everybody settle down.
This is a feisty crowd.

Thank you.

I really did need
a glass of water.
This is not a stunt.

What? He wet his lips.
He did not drink it.

He didn't sip it.
He wet his lips.

There was an audible gasp
in the audience.

People were just, like,
absolutely dejected.

Why would you do that?

I am sure that somewhere
when I was two years old,

I was taking a chip of paint,
tasting it.

And I got some lead.

Yeah, that's like talkin' about,

"Well, I didn't wear
a seat belt, and I'm fine."

It's like,
"But there are tons
of people that died!"

Backstage,
the President,

sitting at the table
with the criminal governor,

decided to perform his stunt
all over again.

You know, generally
I have not been doing stunts
here, but, you know...

That's not what I expected.

That's what Snyder did.

It felt like he minimized,
like, what people were
actually going through

and struggling with.

If you were actually
lead poisoned,

you would not be president.

You would be
Janitor Barack Obama.

We were holding onto hope

that he would declare
a disaster area.

A disaster would give us FEMA.

It would give us
pipe replacement,

get engineers in here.

Then we could get Medicare
for all the residents of Flint.

As soon as he took a drink
of the water and said,
"Everything's fine,"

that was-- that was that.

And look at it.
Years later, it's still poison.

When he came here
he was my president.

But when he left
he was not my president.

I would, again, go back
to the President's visit
last week.

He reinforced the message
that filtered water

has been determined
to be safe for people to drink.

This, again, was our hero,
and we thought he was gonna
come here and help us.

But they do have a mural of him,

and you ride past it now
and his head is busted out.

It was devastating.
And it depressed the vote.

And I know people that
stayed home and just said,
"To hell with all of 'em."

I don't know.
I just-- I don't know.

But to--I don't know why--

I don't know why anybody would
have advised him to do that,

and I don't know
why he would do it.

To the average person, then,

the Democrats don't look
like the people

who are gonna
come to the rescue.

the number is something like
8,000 African American voters
who voted twice for Obama,

chose not to vote.

Hillary lost in Michigan

by two votes per precinct
on average.

Two votes per precinct.

10,000 and some votes was it.

So where are we left?Yeah.

The worst thing
that President Obama did was
pave the way for Donald Trump.

Because Donald Trump did not just fall from the sky.

The road to him
was decades in the making.

Under President Obama,
it became okay to imprison
whistleblowers

more than all previous
presidents combined.

He used drone strikes
to bomb civilian populations.

And he deported a record number of immigrants and refugees.

What Flint needed
was for President Obama
to dig up the toxic pipes

and have them replaced.

But instead of sending in
the Army Corps of Engineers,

he just sent in the army.

Those are not normal
in Flint.

It's goin' down
like a motherfucker.

Wow, where is it?

- Holy shit!
- -Oh, my God, there's another one.

- He's there.
- Why are they so low?

Holy shit!

June 25,
Flint, Michigan.

-It was like, "Boom!"
-Didn't warn nobody
in the neighborhood.

Oh, God,
this is so insane.

And it freaked me out.

Obama's Department of
Defense decided to use Flint
as a training ground

to prepare army troops so they could fight future wars in urban communities.

- What are you guys
doing this training for?

It's just, uh, to conduct
some realistic training.

- No one in Flint
was warned in advance

that they would now be used
for target practice.

A few things broke in our house.
Glass started to fall off
the table and stuff.

What are we going to do?
Everybody better fucking get ready.

What organization
are you a part of?

I'm part of
the United States Army.

US Army!

In what other part of this city
would they have did this

without notifying the people?

Why are they doing this
in Flint? Why here?

Probably because
of the availability
of the abandoned buildings.

- 12:11 a.m.
- in the city of Flint--

See that? Coming to
an American city near you.

'Cause if it can happen
in Flint,
it can happen anywhere.

If you are from Flint,

you have a whole different
definition of terrorism.

He was the only candidate
of the 2016 election,

Democratic or Republican,

who decided to visit
the scene of the crime.

Perhaps he wanted to admire
the handiwork of fellow
Republican,

Governor Rick Snyder.

Somebody once
asked Donald Trump,

"How do you handle being
at the center of all of
this media attention?

The whirlwind around you?

How do you
weather the storm?"

And he looked up
and he said,

"I am the storm."

"I am the storm."

And as you know, there's only
one person who can navigate
the storm.

And that's the person
who created the storm.

And the rest of us
are just looking for cover.

Thank you very much.

You folks are in here,
place is packed.

There are lines
that go back six blocks.

There is such love
in this country
for everything we stand for.

You saw that on Election Day.

And you're gonna see it
more and more.

So, we're all part of this
very historic movement.

A movement the likes
of which, actually, the world
has never seen before.

Often the move is to say,

"You're making a comparison
to Hitler, it's not
a perfect comparison,

and therefore, let's throw
all of history out."

Whereas, what I would say is
of course, the comparison's
not perfect.

No comparison's ever perfect.
History doesn't repeat,

but history is this huge
resource of patterns.

It's this huge resource
of structures. It's a way
to try to get your bearings

in a moment
like the present one,

where we're not really
sure what's going on.

They were one of the
greatest liberal democracies
in the world.

They were the first country
to have universal health care
for all citizens.

They not only invented
the printing press,

they read more books
than any other country.

And it was not unusual
for each of their cities

to have a dozen
daily newspapers,
a robust free press.

And they made the best movies.

The art,

the culture,

the science.

They were considered the most
intelligent people on Earth.

In November of 1932,

they elected an immigrant, an Austrian, to be their leader.

He had no political experience.

He didn't talk like
a regular politician.

He just told it like it is.

It was so refreshing.

Women loved him.

Children were always excited
to see him.

Oh, and he loved animals.

Look what Hitler dines on.
Not even soup for the ascetic vegetarian.

Just a couple of crackers
for a victory banquet.

He told jokes,
he told stories.

He was a great dancer.

He talked about
putting Germany first.

And when German
football players disrespected
the national anthem,

they were punished.

He talked about
creating jobs for everyone.

He built roads
and infrastructure.

And camps.

He knew how to use
the new media.

Radio.

News reels.

And in 1935, he started
his own TV network,

four years before Americans
were introduced to television.

Heil Hitler.

He even knew
how to use fake news.

Oh, how the crowds
flocked to see him.

But his Nazi party only won 32% of the seats in parliament,

which the Germans called
the Reichstag.

The popular vote was won by Germany's left liberal parties.

Hitler wanted more.

A few weeks after
his inauguration,

there was
a "terrorist incident."

Somebody set the German
Parliament building,
the Reichstag, on fire.

Many believe it was
the Nazis who did it,

in order to create
a national emergency.

But Hitler blamed the communists, the communist party was banned,

and their seats in parliament
taken away.

The liberals were vanquished,
and the public supported
Adolf Hitler,

taking complete control.

This Jewish weekly in Germany published a front-page editorial

saying that everyone
should calm down.

Back in the US,

The New York Times agreed.

They reassured
the American people

that things
would not be that bad.

They even wrote flattering
articles and said that,

When you track
how people first reacted
to Hitler and Mussolini,

they said,
"Oh, he's just insane."

Or the classic thing
is that the elite party,

in this case, the GOP--

we're gonna invite 'em
in to power

and then we're going
to control him.

How am I doing? Am I doing okay?
I'm president.

Hey, I'm president!

Can you believe it? Right?

Over and over in history,
what has happened is

that these people
get invited in,
they get legitimized,

and then
they take over the show.

There is no Republican Party.

There's a Trump party.

At 12:05 p.m.
on January 20, 2017,

just minutes after
being sworn in as president--

...so help me God.

...Trump filed the
paperwork for the Trump 2020
reelection campaign.

Within days, he went right back to holding rallies--

Keep America great,

exclamation point.

...and campaigning
for an eight-year presidency.

Unless they give me an extension
for the presidency.

These are what I call
"trial balloons."

You throw out an idea
that previously was unthinkable.

Four years, eight years,

or, as you know, FDR,
in one case, 16 years.

Should we go back to 16 years?
Should we do that?

Congressman,
can we have that extended?

Unthinkable in democracy
or unthinkable for
human rights reasons.

They float these ideas,
they get them out there,

and then the press
does its job for him.

President Trump offering
his congratulations

to Turkey's President Erdogan
for winning a referendum

that grants him
sweeping new powers.

It picks them up,
amplifies them, circulates,

and then it becomes a thing.

You know, the last time
I jokingly said that--

Sixteen years.

...the papers started saying,

"He's got despotic tendencies!"

No, I'm not looking to do it.

Unless you wanna do it.
That's okay.

And it becomes part
of the discourse.

Half of all Republicans
in a poll said

they would agree to postpone
the 2020 election

if President Trump
asked them to.

Fifty-two percent of Republicans
would support postponing
the 2020 election

if Trump proposed it.

And he hasn't even proposed it.

People do think,
"Well, we have this democracy.

We've had it for over 200 years.

It's not going anywhere."

But that's so bogus.
That's just not true, Michael.

We've had a democracy
since circa 1970.

I mean,
if black people can't vote,
it's not really democracy.

If women can't vote,
it's not really democracy.
Democracy--

I mean, I love the fact
that I live in a country which
is more democratic than others.

But I will say that democracy
in America is an aspiration.

It's somewhere we gotta get.

I mean, when only half
the population is voting,

when there's unlimited money
in politics,

we're not there yet.

Over one million new jobs,

companies investing billions
in America,

stock market reaching
all-time record highs.

Our country, strong again.

Never in American history

has a president kept
more of his promises

in his first two years
in office.

Not the promises
he made to the voters,

but the promises he made
to his fellow billionaires
in the ruling class.

A record tax cut for the rich-- passed. Obamacare--

It's obvious that it's failing.
It's dead.

...dead.

Banking regulations--

either weakened or removed.

Doesn't get much bigger
than that, right?

And is on his way
to packing the court

with 140
conservative judges--

A modern-day record.

...and making
lifetime appointments

to the Supreme Court
with right-wing judges.

-The Paris climate accords.
-We'll withdraw.

- The Iran nuclear deal.
- We'll withdraw.

Our reconciliation
with Cuba.

I am canceling...

Privatized prisons.

...whose stock
has nearly doubled.

Privatized public schools.

And he's building that wall.

We wanna make it perfecto.

We shall establish

beyond the realm of doubt

facts which,

before the dark decade
of the Third Reich,

would have seemed incredible.

I had a defendant
who killed 90,000 Jews

and I asked him,
"Why did you do that?"

and he said,

"Hitler knew more than I did,

and he told me the Jews
were planning to attack.

It was a matter of self-defense,
to defend ourselves
against that attack."

Now, that was the same argument
being made by the president
of the United States.

What Trump is doing?

We're doing something
for which I hanged this man.

You can roughly locate
any community in the world

somewhere along a scale

running all the way
from democracy to despotism.

I hated watching
this stuff in civics class,

but, boy, do I miss it now.

When a competent observer

looks for signs of despotism
in a community,

he looks beyond fine words
and noble phrases.

...for which it stands...

USA! USA!

As a community
moves towards despotism,

common courtesy is withheld

from large groups of people
on account of their race.

Nasty fucking nigger!

- Are you a citizen?
- Yes, I am a citizen.

Are you a United States-- Can you please
get away from me?

Then you should not
be wearing that.

Can you please get away from me?

Fuck you! And your nigger
fucking people. Okay?

Get the fuck out of my country!

...or because they don't like
a man's religion.

Is there
a Muslim problem in the world?

Absolutely.
Christianity is under tremendous siege.

It's death by a million cuts.

We are getting less
and less and less powerful

in terms of a religion
and in terms of a force.

If a community's
middle-income groups
grow smaller,

the likelihood
of despotism is increased.

I make $7.30 an hour.
I only get 17 hours a week.

It's... shit.

Everything around here is.

Mr. President!
Mr. President!

And when citizens have to accept what they're told--

-The media. Well--
-You mean fake news?

...despotism
stands a good chance.

Sleazy people.
Crooked media.

The media's been
unbelievably dishonest.

- The most dishonest groups
of people I've ever met.

- But I'd never kill 'em.
- I hate 'em.

I would never kill them.
I would never do that.

Uh, let's see.

Well... No, I wouldn't.

Wait, let's see. Who's--

I wanna find
a friendly reporter.

Questions are not encouraged.

Don't ask me questions
like that.

You're not
a very good reporter doing that.

How can you ask
such a question?

Do you have a question that
now is a legitimate question?

How dare you
question a fact.

I guess I don't understand.
If the information coming
from those leaks is real,

then how can the stories
be fake? The reporting is fake.

And if books
and newspapers

and the radio are
efficiently controlled--

- Sit down. Sit down.
- Sit down!

I have the right
to ask a question.

No, no, I'm a reporter
and I have-- I'm--

Don't touch me, sir.
Don't touch me, sir.

...the people
will read and accept

exactly what the few
in control want them to.

But it must be true.
I saw it in this book.
Right here.

Now that's what I call
a nice question.

What I say goes, see?

I'm the law around here.

I'm president and they're not.

He knows what he's doing.
It's the same thing

that authoritarians and fascists
have done in the past.

You need to make sure that
when charges of corruption
or other wrongdoing come forth,

nobody believes the judiciary.

We're the only country
essentially that has judges.

The intelligence services.

The corruption
at the top of the FBI.

- The press.
- Fake news.

We need to make sure
that they are discredited.

What you're seeing
and what you're reading
is not what's happening.

People believe him,
and this is of course puzzling
to many of his critics,

but if the strongman,
the authoritarian,
has done his job,

he has bonded people to him
a long time ago.

Trump was doing that
with his rallies
and his loyalty oaths.

Should we do the pledge?

Raise your right hand.

Do you pledge that
on Tuesday you will go...

...to vote for Donald Trump
tomorrow? Raise that hand.

I love you! I love you!

People don't care if he's lying.

They believe in him,

and that's more important
than believing the truth.

You've been hearing me say it's
a rigged system, but now I don't
say it anymore because I won.

Okay? It's true.

You know, now I don't care.
I don't care.

The founders thought,
this thing's gonna last
a decade, a few decades,

We'll be lucky
if it's a few generations.

Democracy means
rule by the people,
and if the people aren't

asserting themselves,
then democracy will go away.

And whether it's to some
drastic form, like fascism,

or whether
it's to some form where,
yeah, we keep voting,

but fewer of us are allowed
to vote every year,

and there's some kind
of emergency statute,

or, you know, the money
just makes the voting
basically a joke,

which is unfortunately
where we're tending anyway,

whether it's one or the other,
there's so much to lose.

There will be a civil war
in the United States of America.

The Christians will finally
come out of the shadows.

The sign says:
"Hey, liberals,

Better get your guns if you try
to impeach President Trump."

Just try it. You will have

a spasm of violence
in this country,

an insurrection
like you've never seen.

Three percent of us

own over 160 million guns.

Why would they need
all those guns?

I would take up arms,
because I think that...

I think we need a revolution.

I'm not a violent person.

I'm even an ordained pastor.

Michael Moore's everywhere,
saying, "Surround the Capitol!

Surround them! Uprise!"

You know, "Get violent!"

How did I know?

I told you, I'm not that smart!

We're in a-- literally,
a ten or 20-year struggle
for the future of the country.

And that's where you're
just gonna have to man up,

toughen up, just like
our forefathers, right?

We're gonna have to do exactly
the kind of effort they had,
and we can win.

The white establishment
is now the minority.

You ready to shoot Barry?Uh-huh.

All right. Let's go.

- Neat.
- -He's bleeding now, isn't he?

Uh-huh.

Susan Sontag, she said,

"We're just one 9/11 away
from losing our democracy."

Yeah. I mean, I may be
a bit more pessimistic.

I think we're zero 9/11s away.

We have to think,
we have to reflect.
We have to think,

"These are the kinds of things
which happen in history."

Let's not trade the real freedom

for fake safety
when there's a terrorist attack.

The thing we have to mobilize
for is not safety but freedom.

There is one report
as of yet unconfirmed

that a plane has hit
the World Trade Center.

And you can see
that there is smoke there

coming out of at least
two sides of the building.

The search is underway
for those who are behind
these evil acts.

The US Patriot Act,
adopted by Congress

and signed by Bush
six weeks after the attacks,

allows for searches of medical
and financial records,

computer and telephone
conversations

and even for the books
you take out of the library.

Most of the people we spoke to
say they are willing
to give up some liberties

to fight terrorism.

Either you're with us,
or you are with the terrorists.

Donald J.
Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown

of Muslims entering
the United States.

Last week, ICE agents
fanned out in raids,
like this one, in every state.

Ripping children away
from their families
under this new policy.

Taking babies away
from their mother,

and locking up one or the other
and separating them

because they did no harm
to anybody.

They just didn't comply
with the stupid regulations.

That's a crime against humanity
in my judgment.

The Statue of Liberty
stands there.

You know, "Send me your tired,
your huddled masses

yearning to breathe free,

I lift my...

my lamp beside the golden door!"

Where? Where?

We don't see it in this country,
and it pains me.

And, uh...

That's the world
in which we live.

And, uh...

We've gotta change it or perish.

Months from now,
when we realize
that the democracy

we wished we'd had,

never came to be...

and what we did have
was eliminated

due to some national emergency,

will we ask ourselves,
"When was that moment we
could've turned things around

before it was too late?"

Was it when the teacher
in your family
had to get a second job?

Was it when you saw
the friendly cop on your beat
wearing this,

and driving around in that?

Was it when after months
of being addicted

to the pills you'd been given
to make the pain go away

that you realized
it really wasn't the pain

that needed to go away?

Was it when you first heard
that the president
you dearly loved

took more money
from Goldman Sachs
than any other contributor?

And you wanted to tell someone.

But instead, you just
quietly threw up
in your mouth.

Was it when
you convinced yourself
that this misfortune...

would never come
to your town?

Was it when you realized
that we do indeed
love our guns

more than we love our kids?

And that if this is the America we're trying to save,

maybe, we need to ask ourselves,

Why?

Why save this America?

The America I want to save is the America we've never had.

It didn't need
to end up like this.

And it still doesn't.

Evil is a slow moving organism.

By the time it coalesces
into one giant terror,

it is too late.

We had spent too much time
trying to comfort ourselves

with the belief
that the Constitution
would save us.

Elections would save us.

The special prosecutor
would save us.

Impeachment would save us.

We kept hoping,

but it was that hope
that killed us.

Hope was wishful
and passive
and comforting.

We didn't need comfort.

We needed action.

And sometimes, I guess
it takes a Donald Trump

to make us wake up and realize
that what we need to do
is to acknowledge

that we have to get rid of
the whole rotten system
that gave us Trump.

And to realize that now,
right now, our time is up.

We need to act immediately--

Oh.

Oh, gosh. What happened?

"Ballistic missile threat
inbound to Hawaii.

- Seek immediate shelter.
- This is not a drill."

Oh, my God! What do we do?

It says, "This is not a drill."

"This is not a drill."
Those are the exact words.

"Ballistic missile threat
inbound to Hawaii.

Seek immediate shelter.
This is not a drill."

What about tourists?

We have no idea where to go.

But, I mean,
this literally could be
the start of a nuclear war.

Shit!

The US Pacific Command

has detected a missile threat
to Hawaii.

A missile may impact
on land or sea
within minutes.

This is not a drill.

Holy shit.

This is a missile prank.

It was just an accident.

A mistake.

But make no mistake about it,

this is the world
in which we now live.

911. What is the emergency?

Stoneman Douglas High School.

They were shooting
into my classroom.

Six minutes
and 20 seconds

with an AR-15
and my friend Carmen

would never complain to me
about piano practice.

Aaron Feis would never call
Kyra "Miss Sunshine."

Alex Schachter would
never walk into school
with his brother, Ryan.

Scott Beigel would never
joke around with Cameron
at camp.

Helena Ramsay
would never hang out
after school with Max.

Gina Montalto would never wave
to her friend Liam at lunch.

Joaquin Oliver would never
play basketball
with Sam or Dylan.

Alaina Petty would never...

Cara Loughran would never...

Chris Hixon would never...

Luke Hoyer would never...

Martin Duque Anguiano
would never...

Peter Wang wound never...

Alyssa Alhadeff would never...

Jaime Guttenberg would never...

Meadow Pollack would never...

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