1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: There are sixty five days until the inauguration, and then 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: at noon, Donald Trump will swear the thirty five word 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 1: oath that was taken by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: and that he already desecrated once. When he completes it, 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: he will be the most powerful man in the world again. 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: He will sit atop the national Command Authority, with the 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: ability to trigger armageddon at whim. This is the warning. 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: He has created a cabinet of unfitness that beggars, description clowns, dupes, 9 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists, and more clowns, grifters, an assemblage that should 10 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: frighten the American people. But it doesn't, at least not 11 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: all of us, at least not yet. But it will 12 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: when the history of this era is written fifty years 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: from now, seventy five years from now, what will be 14 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: observed is the fragility of the Americans of this era, 15 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: who could not handle the things that our parents and 16 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: our grandparents and their parents were able to deal with 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: in a period of mild inflation, of economic prosperity and peace. 18 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 1: The American people whipped into a frenzy by algorithms, then 19 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: imprison them intellectually by Fox News hosts who poisoned their 20 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: minds with propaganda that brainwash them and idiotized them with 21 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: a malice in our politics that's indescribable. The people, by 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: slim plurality, decided to blow it up. The US Justice Department, 23 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 1: the US justice system, far from perfect, is the envy 24 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: of the world. What Donald Trump has done, his nominated 25 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: arsonist to go and wreck the greatest investigative body in 26 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: the world, the FBI, to poison its mission, turn it 27 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: against political enemies. The organizing principle of the Trumpet administration 28 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: is very simple. Donald Trump doesn't want to hear no ever, 29 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: and he's surrounded by unelected sycophants like his son and 30 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: the richest man in the world. It's an extraordinary thing. 31 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: I say this to someone who's been in the room 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: where it happens, who's been in the room with the 33 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: president and the vice president. It's astonishing. The richest man 34 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: in the world, who can launch himself into space, can 35 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: have anything he wants, craves power, and it is as 36 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: it has always been. And so the richest man in 37 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: the world has purchased it like he purchased Twitter, and 38 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: turned it into a cesspool of disinformation, misinformation, ahive of 39 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: Neo Nazis, insanity, venom. And now the South African Musk 40 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: has taken a police out in the Oval office. He's 41 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: meeting with the Iranian ambassador. I wonder what it is 42 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: that Elon and the Iranians are talking about. You think 43 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: he knows what he's talking about because he's rich. Well, 44 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: let's listen to Elon on politics. 45 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 2: Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. If people don't 46 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 2: know what's what's going on, if they don't know the truth, 47 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: how can you make an informed vote. You must have 48 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 2: free speech in order to have democracy. That's why it's 49 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 2: the First Amendment, and the and the and the second 50 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 2: Amendment is there to ensure that we have the First Amendment. 51 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: And by the way, it shouldn't be forgotten that this 52 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: man has an extraordinary distaste for Jews. And one thing 53 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: that is always true about any far right government the Jews, well, 54 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: they're never safe for long. Who will be safe in 55 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: America and who will not? It now rests with the 56 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: whims of Donald Trump and his cabinet of unfitness, who 57 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: will do as they're told, will exercise their power indiscriminately, 58 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: and will abuse it with abandon. America is in trouble. 59 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: A great crisis is upon us, and the only way 60 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: out of it is through it. These are the early 61 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: hours of the crisis that has been nine years in 62 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: the making. There were nine years to stop what was coming, 63 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: and now we'll find out the hard way. This moment 64 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: requires the rising of an opposition, not of Democratic senators 65 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: and a few Republicans who remain attached by threads maybe 66 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: to common sense and to patriotism, and that may look 67 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: or may not at Gates and Hagsath and Gabbert and 68 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy and Christy Nome and say no way. For 69 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: all the rest of us, it's important to understand and 70 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: to orient around what is happening. Donald Trump is probing, 71 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: he's testing the boundaries in the lines. He's daring the 72 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: Republican Senators to say no to him. The most appalling 73 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: moment on television over the last seventy two hours were 74 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: those of Republican senators earnestly looking into television cameras saying 75 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: that they'll study the case for and against Matt Gates, 76 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: as if there is anything that Matt Gates could say 77 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: that would justify his confirmation as the chief law enforcement 78 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: officer of the United States. 79 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 3: Americans don't trust the Justice Department right now, and Matt 80 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 3: has the talent to go in there and really make 81 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,239 Speaker 3: a difference. 82 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 2: He's very talented. But let's face it. 83 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 4: It'll be a little bit of a. 84 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: Challenge for him. But I'm optimistic we'll do all we 85 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: can do to get him across the finish line. 86 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 3: I completely trust President Trump's decision making on this one. 87 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 3: I think Matt Gates is very bright. I think he's qualified. 88 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 3: He'll have a hearing and he'll have some tough questions 89 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 3: to answer. But to every Republican, please follow a process 90 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 3: to give President Trump the ability to pick the people 91 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 3: he thinks can do the job. 92 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 4: President Trump was elected by you almost vote, and he 93 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 4: deserves a team around him that he wants. It's not 94 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 4: us to determine that we've got fifty three votes in 95 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 4: the Senate. We can confirm with fifty one. I've already 96 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 4: seen where a couple of them says I'm not voting 97 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 4: for him. Wait a minute, you are not the United 98 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 4: States of America. You have one vote in the US Senate. 99 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 4: You do not get an elected president vote with President Trump. 100 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 4: This is the last chance. We're going to have a 101 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 4: saving this country. And if you want to get in 102 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 4: the way, fine, but we're going to try to get 103 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 4: you out of the Senate too if you try to 104 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 4: do that. 105 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: The only thing that anybody should say about a potential 106 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: Gates confirmation is turn over the mac Gates file. Tulsi Gabbard, 107 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: she's a cult member. She believes that yoga gives her 108 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: the power not to stretch, but to divine real truth. 109 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: A lot of people have escaped from her cult and 110 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: described the abuses of the person she calls her spiritual father. 111 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that Tulsi Gabbard may 112 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: or may not be good at. Being Director of National 113 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: and Intel Intelligence is definitely not one of them. There 114 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: must be celebrations in the Kremlin, not because she's an agent, 115 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: but because Donald Trump picked one of the most dim 116 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: witted amongst us for one of our most important jobs. 117 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: Trump is just getting started. What will fill in under 118 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: these people? Should they make it is even worse, and 119 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: should he get them through, Trump will push harder and 120 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: he will take more. His nominating of these people's a 121 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: declaration of I'm going to do whatever I want, and 122 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: I dare you to stop me. He's feeling his oats, 123 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: he's feeling his power, he's feeling his immunity. The era 124 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: of lawlessness is upon us, brought to us by one 125 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: of the greatest acts of cynicism in American history. It's 126 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: not important to dwell on it for sake of punishing 127 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. It's just important to realize that when the 128 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: same people say the same old things in the next 129 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: few weeks and try to cling to their power, then 130 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: it's for them, not for you. It's a scam for them, 131 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: not for you, and the cost for you is so 132 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: catastrophically high. What's coming is frightening. The abuses are frightening, 133 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: the corruption is frightening. And if you appreciate that all 134 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: of this is very fragile, it's even more frightening still. 135 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: And yet a good American does not quit. A good 136 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: American does not turn away from the fight. A good 137 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: American is undeterred when it comes to fighting for the right. 138 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,719 Speaker 1: A good American understands that sometimes there are setbacks, and 139 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: sometimes patience is required in a fight. A good American 140 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: realizes that they will never submit to the whims of 141 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: a tyrant trying to take things from them, things like 142 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: their liberty, control of their body. Donald Trump won an 143 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: election does not give him purchase to fill the government 144 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: indiscriminately with loans, turn them loose, attacking the American way 145 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 1: of life. There are checks and there are balances, if 146 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: they'll be exercised by Republican senators along with their Democratic colleagues. 147 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: The next election is more than seven hundred and fifteen 148 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: days away, but it will come and faster than it seems. 149 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: When it does, the punishment for the extremism that's about 150 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 1: to be set upon us must be taken out on 151 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 1: those moderate Republicans who try to hide and get in line. 152 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: Those people must pay the price. Chuck Schumer is the 153 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: leader of the Senate Democrats, and that's a tragedy because 154 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: he's even less prepared than Biden was to succeed. He 155 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: is overmatched at every conceivable level, and yet the Democratic 156 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 1: senators will rally to him because failing upwards that's their dogma. 157 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: And soon Stacy Abrams will likely be the chair of 158 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: the Democratic National Committee, A two times failed gubertatorial candidate 159 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: who wanted to defund the police and refuse to concede 160 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: the election, a perfect pick. To reform the party, to 161 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: fix it, to mend it, and to get it into 162 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: fighting shape. To oppose Vans four years from now. What 163 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: a carnival of stupidity. And yet pointing that out doesn't 164 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: give me any satisfaction. It makes me angry and it 165 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: makes me sad because the DNC has to be in 166 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: the fight because of these people. These people are a 167 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: tremendous threat to the American way of life, to the 168 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: public health, to our safety, to our security, and to 169 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: our liberty. And there must be an American movement that 170 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: rises in opposition and the career Washington DC politicians with 171 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: magic letter D next to their name have failed. They 172 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: failed the Democratic Party, and they failed the country, and 173 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: they failed you. Donald Trump means every word of what 174 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: was written in Project It's all coming. And they told 175 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: you it was coming over and over and over again, 176 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: and now it's here. Stand up and fight back. This 177 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 178 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 179 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.