Was it all just a dream?
It was the night before the election in 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.
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.
You still think she has a 100% chance of winning the election?
Mmm, 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, Mrs. 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.
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.
Whoo! Hillary all the way.
All the way to the White House.
I waited over an hour to vote. I am 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.
We finally made it.
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.
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 is going to win.
The betting odds on the presidential race are three-to-one
in favor of Secretary Clinton.
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.
State of Wisconsin. He will win Wisconsin...
No!
Trump doing very well in Pennsylvania right now.
A cliffhanger going on here in Michigan.
56% 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,
he's made movies about them, he 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."
Everybody should head home.
You should get some sleep.
We are 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.
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.
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 a piece
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 assure you that.
They do a website. It cost me $3.
...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 doesn't 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.
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!
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.
I know you don't believe that, but I wanna go on...
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.
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 to Morning Joe.
Let's bring in 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...
That's so much easier, folks. You sit at home,
"Hi, how are you doing? How is everything going?"
And then, just for fun,
he'd mess with them by keeping them waiting,
like on this day in Portland, Maine.
...Donald Trump expected to speak at a campaign rally in Portland, Maine.
- And waiting. - So, we're just expecting him
to come out here in just a few minutes.
And waiting.
We are awaiting his remarks moments from now.
Not on stage yet, as you can see.
Once again, we're standing by live.
The candidate is just not...
Go ahead and toss it back to you.
Trump is coming out now, Craig?
No, no, no. 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 you. They're even up in the balcony. Take a look.
It was supposed to begin about 25 minutes ago.
Donald Trump.
Uh, false alarm. A bunch of people coming.
Not one of them is Donald.
He's getting ready to walk over to that...
Any minute now.
We've been watching and waiting for the better part of a half-hour here.
I imagined 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...
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 the use of your personal email.
Why wasn't it disqualifying, if you want to be commander-in-chief...
She has to learn to do it with humor,
and if she doesn't, actually, she's being kind of aggressive.
- I'm Mark Halperin. - And I'm Donald Trump.
Do you think the email crisis contributed to the question of trust?
Well, it's certainly not a choice I would do again.
I want to hear you out on this.
- You said, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake." - That's right.
- It was the wrong thing to do. - That's right.
Fox News has a secret formula,
and we're never going to tell anybody what it is.
There's got to be some downside to having a woman president, right?
Something.
Hold it. Let's get some more air-conditioning.
Hey, Matt.
Turn up the air-conditioning.
Up the air-conditioning.
This malignant narcissist, 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 skedaddled.
- 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, neither one of us was ever a billion dollars in the hole.
I was down almost about 900 million in the negative sense.
Instead of asking which Russian mobsters
bailed him out of his billion dollar debt,
I just decided to make a joke.
And what unemployment line were you standing in?
I was there...
I did learn one interesting tidbit.
He had seen my movie Roger & Me.
I tell you, I loved what he did.
If I was Roger, I wouldn't have liked it, but I enjoyed it.
I hope he never does one on me, though.
You know, it's very interesting, Bill,
because I met Michael
and had dinner with Michael years ago.
And I found him to be a really nice guy, 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 lot of different information
in a way that it's very easily digestible by a lot of people.
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.
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?
Huh? Oh, my God!
- Kellyanne Conway, oh, my God. - 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 really a 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.
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.
"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...
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.
Let's all hate these people
because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna 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.
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 strongman 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, the emergency financial...
The manager...
The emergency manager.
And it is official.
...state police and a security team out to try and keep the peace.
The 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 premeditated plan to reduce and privatize public services,
so that corporate people like him could make more money.
People don't think that this is happening in the United States.
If you don't say, like, Flint, Michigan
and you just say the powers of this person...
They all think 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 the African-Americans
in this state were under emergency management
compared to 2% 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.
I could 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 fresh water 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 government
- or for the individual? - Individual.
- Individuals doing it for themselves? - Yes.
You know, I believe greed 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. - 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 noticed a 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.
It is potent and it is irreversible.
Which means, once it is in your blood, it wreaks havoc.
- 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 aid 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 is 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 went back to, "It's safe.
"It's meeting all federal and state guidelines."
And that was like the drum...
But the auto parts that had to be washed in the factory
had to have the clean, pure water.
- Yeah. - From Lake Huron.
Yeah, because profit reigns supreme.
We didn't own General Motors.
That's why we didn't get the clean, safe water.
So, you know, Trump is looking at this whole Flint water poisoning
and he's got to 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.
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!
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.
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.
Well, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.
Excuse me, one second.
This guy is a joke artist and this guy is 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.
They were none and they knew they were none.
We should have never been in...
I am sick and tired of him going after my family.
- Excuse me. One second. - No.
- I didn't want to... - The simple fact is you cannot...
More energy tonight. I like that.
...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 fundraisers,
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 it's 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 breast-feeding,
quinoa-cooking, left-leaning liberal nation.
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 U.S.
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, remove the protesters from the gallery.
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.
Compromise.
We sat down and made a compromise.
Compromise.
And real compromises.
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...
Seeing Bernie in person and like hearing...
- Whoo! - 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 going to be talking about the issues
that are important to the working people in this country,
are going to be talking about the need to take on the billionaire class,
you would be very mistaken.
People believed Bernie
and that he was sincere in what he was saying.
They believed that if he got elected, he was going to 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... - Madam 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 dim-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.
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 just...
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 can create a threat.
I actually started working for the Health Department in 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 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 printouts of the falsified records
and was afraid to show them to anyone until she brought them to me.
This is 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, 10,
six, eight, six, six, 14.
Not a single number that says 3.5 or lower.
- No. - That means every child
on this sheet of paper has an elevated level of lead.
Yeah.
And I said, "So let's just call the parents and re-test,"
and they said, "No, we can't do that.
"Just put them in as a 3.5, then."
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.
"My child tested low."
You knew these parents were getting letters that were not telling the truth.
Correct.
"Just put them in as a 3.5, then."
- And you said... - I said, no, I couldn't do it.
And that's when things kind of 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 been born into this.
You know what they know?
They know a bottle of water and 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 when 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 Flint,
Michigan has 85% of the nation's fresh surface water,
20% of the world.
You know, 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 water rates in the nation
and the poorest city in the nation, statistically, who has time to process?
You may 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 going to describe Flint to someone from out of the state,
that had never been here,
I would let them know that we have a very good...
Um...
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.
And they knew what was going on.
That's the sad part about it.
They knew what was going on.
Yeah.
Yeah!
Get your hand off me.
Don't touch my wife.
Non-testing.
Snyder has got to go!
You know, let's call this what it is.
It's not just a water crisis.
- It's 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 the EPA, we need the CDC,
and we need the Army Corps of Engineers.
- You are asking three questions now. - 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 there's holes in the windows.
And there's little, young children,
they've got a little blanket around them and many of them had 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 know what my thought was? I thought, "That son of a bitch."
- That's what I thought. - The governor.
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 and didn't bring it to anyone's attention,
many 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, 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.
I'm here, governor's office.
- Okay, just hold on a minute. - All right.
- I'll get someone to help you. - All right.
Ari Adler, Governor's director of communications.
Oh, great, thank you. Thank you very much.
Sure, what can I do for you?
So, I'm here to make a citizen's arrest of the governor
and I'm wondering if you can 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
well below any kind of action level at the federal level.
So, the water is safe?
Well, some of the current 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. - Mmm-hmm.
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...
You think this water is still poisonous.
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 them 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
Ten thousand 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.
And you know, with nothing besides education.
My dad was a GM employee, my mom was a teacher,
benefited from union contracts.
Sent their kids 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.
The 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.
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 know, 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, well...
Um...
I am sick and tired of people telling me that America is the greatest country.
Because we can whip your ass?
I mean, we don't have healthcare 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 of the lives lost in the Vietnam War.
And we are 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 a people out there.
Where are they?
My name's Alexandria, I'm running for Congress here.
I looked at the match 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 that 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 feel.
It's simple.
Her views, her policy positions are actually downright scary.
Let's see, single-payer universal healthcare,
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 is 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 you read the Constitution?
"What part of the Constitution?"
That was the most American thing I could have done.
A lot of my colleagues said, "Oh, 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's gonna fight for the people and not 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,
and then on top of that, you're 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 re-elect 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's 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'tjust 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.
51% 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 capitalists.
And that's just the way it is.
The "we" who are capitalists, 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 the working class voters.
And if her win makes her
into what Kellyanne Conway called
"the new face of the Democratic Party,"
the Democratic Party is not going to have a very bright future.
The worst damage happens behind closed doors,
where Democratic Party leaders do their best
to stamp 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. - The 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 say, "Who's running your campaign?"
And when I tell them, they are floored.
What do you mean by who's...
You mean, like, who's your campaign director, your finance director...
My campaign manager drives a truck. He's a cross-country truck driver.
Right now, he's in North Carolina, driving a truck.
- And that's his full-time job? - And he's another person
that will fist-fight you in the street for what he believes in.
Now I have to fist-fight two of you in the street.
Fuck, come on man...
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 contact.
- So... Mom. - As "Mom"?
Yes, you're the mother figure because
their mother abandoned them five years ago.
Their mother died of a drug overdose.
I've had all these situations that's happened.
But we still live paycheck to paycheck simply because
we don't make hardly any money.
The teacher's 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 are 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 a kind of 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's 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' unions weren't much help.
They discouraged a statewide strike.
Our union reps, they've 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...
...55 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 5% 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.
Do you notice, many days, they had red bandanas wrapped around their necks?
- Mmm-hmm. - And 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 need to take up the red bandana
and needs to put them 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 capitol 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.
55 united, 55 united!
They held firm, day after day.
And after nine days of striking,
We're not gonna take it, no!
No, we ain't gonna take it...
...and singing Twisted Sister,
the teachers finally won the raise they were fighting for.
Notjust 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...
When working class people come together and say,
"We're not leaving until you give us what we want,"
there's no money or anything more powerful than that.
And that's why politicians since the beginning in this country,
they have tried to divide people by race or gender.
And so 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 people in Flint, Michigan,
and that's bullshit.
All right, so here's the plan.
I'm gonna go take an Uber.
Afternoon, before 2:40,
from there, I'll go into the school campus,
load my bags.
And get my AR-15 and a couple of tracer rounds,
wait, and people will die.
Location is Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida.
Holy shit! Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Teachers, make sure you stay with your students, okay?
And, like clockwork, came the thoughts and prayers.
Thoughts and prayers...
And our thoughts and prayers...
Quote, "Our thoughts and prayers..."
- 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 want to 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.
$30 million!
And divided by the number of gunshot victims in the United States,
in the one and one and a 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 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, we all just ran out.
I'm not sure they're letting us back.
Wasn't really organized.
They can't expel everyone here, because that's insane.
Westleys, 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.
Westleys Middle School, you may go back to second period.
The tweens had tasted power, and they now knew that the adults are,
well, kind ofjust a bunch of ineffective dweebs.
We want change!
This was a bona fide political movement.
And I was there to see it for myself.
The Parkland students invited me in to 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 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.
It's up to... It's at 820. Yesterday, it was at, like, 760-something.
That's, like, several more marches in a day.
My generation, the generation after me,
maybe we did one thing right. We raised you.
- On the contrary, social media raised us. - Yes.
- My phone. - Like, do you see it...
And communicating with other young people
- about what the real truth is. - 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...
If 20% of the teachers have guns, maybe 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.
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 positions on that.
All we want is an answer
as to how are we going to fix this and continue our life, not living in fear.
Yes, it's, uh, going to take a lot.
It's going to take a lot.
It's going to be multi-faceted,
bullet points coming 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 cutting grass.
It's cutting grass, you can immediately turn around and see
this is the product of what I've done, but, um...
It's a head-scratcher, where we are.
So, uh, it's gonna be, uh...
It's gonna be a debate.
I've always defended people's right to defend themselves.
Um, I haven't got specifics.
So you're asking me specific shit, Jake, and 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.
Turn 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?
That is the wrong way to look...
First of all, the answer is, people buy into my agenda.
- Number second, well... - You can say no.
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 going to 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 going to 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 even more by saying that.
That wasn't very nice of him.
After Gibson's hate speech,
David Hogg had 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 Greene,
submitting the necessary amount of signatures
required by the Secretary of State's office to run.
And then, this happened.
Guys, guys, breaking news.
The guy who called Emma a skinhead lesbian
who was running unopposed as of, like, a day ago,
and he dropped out!
- We did it! - Oh, my God.
Of all people.
She had just met the deadline at 5:00
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 like...
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,
- like, pretty much in office. - Yeah, not your psych test.
Another memorable day was this one.
Welcome to the revolution.
Teenagers organized this all by themselves.
No adults were allowed on stage 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 5th, 2016.
POTUS has arrived.
The people of Flint had one last beacon of hope.
We were all invited to this big thing
where the President Obama was going to speak to us about the problem.
Oh, my God, this is so cool!
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes!
He's finally here. We've been waiting.
Once he sees, he can make a conscious decision
to push this with urgency.
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 afternoon.
I understand why you're angry and frustrated.
Not like we do.
I want to come here today to apologize.
- Too late! - It's too late!
Too late.
Too late, we're already sick.
We have a short term water crisis that needs to be repaired.
Thank you for coming 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 I get some water?
Come on up here.
I want a glass of water.
Get a bottle.
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 a sip. 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,
tasted it, and I got some lead.
Yeah, that's like talking about, like, well,
"I didn't wear a seatbelt, and I'm fine,"
and it's like, "But there were tons of people that died."
Backstage, the president, sitting at the table
with a 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 what people are 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 it 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.
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 them."
I don't know. I just don't... I don't know.
I don't know why anybody would have advised him to do that.
I don't know why he would do it.
And to the average person,
then the Democrats don't look like the people
who are gonna come to the rescue.
Right.
So in Flint, 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.
Ten thousand 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 notjust 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.
This is not normal in Flint.
It's going down like a motherfucker.
Wow, where is it?
What is that?
Why are they so low?
Holy shit!
June 25th, Flint, Michigan, it was like, boom!
Didn't warn nobody in the neighborhood.
Oh, my 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're you guys doing this training for?
Uh, 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? Like, why here?
Probably because of the availability of the abandoned buildings.
12:11 a.m. in the city of Flint.
You see that?
Coming to an American city near you.
'Cause if it can happen in Flint, it can happen anywhere.
You see this?
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 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 healthcare
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, newsreels.
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 believed 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 Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine
or violent as it sounded,
and he was merely using anti-Semitism as a bait
to catch followers.
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 him in to power,
"and then we're gonna 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's no Republican Party.
There's a Trump party.
At 12:05 p.m., on January 20th, 2017,
just minutes after being sworn in as president...
So help me, God.
Trump filed the paperwork for the Trump 2020 re-election 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 threw 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?
Congressmen, 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.
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 want to 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.
52% 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, only half the population is voting,
when there's unlimited money in politics.
We're not there yet.
Over one million newjobs.
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 he's 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...
Will withdraw...
The Iran nuclear deal...
Will withdraw.
A reconciliation with Cuba...
I am canceling.
Privatized prisons...
Stock has nearly doubled.
Privatized public schools.
And he's building that wall.
We want to 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,
"as 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?
- Yeah, I am a citizen. - Are you a United States citizen?
Can you please get away from me?
Then you should not be wearing that.
Can you please get away from me?
Fuck you and you nigger fuckin' 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 has 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 are told...
- The media. - You mean fake news?
Despotism stands a good chance.
Sleazy people.
Crooked media.
The media has 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. Nah. No, I wouldn't.
Wait, let's see, who's... I want to 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 the 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, newspapers and the radio
are efficiently controlled...
Sit down. Sit down.
Sit down.
I have the right to ask a question.
I have... No, no, I'm a reporter, and I have...
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.
You 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.
And there's Trump, who's 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 that 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 ruled 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, that 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,
and insurrection like you've never seen.
3% of us own over 160 million guns.
Why would they need all those guns?
I would take up arms because I think we need a revolution.
I'm not a violent person.
I'm even an ordained pastor.
Michael Moore is everywhere, saying,
"Surround the Capitol, surround them, uprise, get violent."
How do... No!
I told you! I'm not that smart!
We're in a, literally, a 10-or-20-year struggle
for the future of the country,
and that's why 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? All right, let's go. - Uh-huh.
He's bleeding out, 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 were behind these evil acts.
The USA 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're willing to give up some liberties to fight terrorism.
Either you're with us, or you're 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 got to 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 have 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 first 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 were 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.
I mean, this literally could be the start of a nuclear war...
Shit.
The US Pacific Command
has detected a missile threat to Hawaii.
What do we do?
A missile may impact on land or sea within minutes.
This is not a drill.
Holy shit.
This is a missile threat!
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 Kiera "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 would never... Alyssa Alhadeff would never...
Jaime Guttenberg would never... Meadow Pollack would never.