1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: This is the Warning, and the fallout continues at pace 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: over what might be the greatest act of incompetence, abject idiocy, recklessness, carelessness, 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: deep irresponsibility that any presidential national security advisor Secretary of 4 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: Defense has ever been involved in, and that of course, 5 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: is the sharing in a group text. The war plans 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: were for an American attack by Pete Hegseth that was 7 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: almost certainly seen, according to every national security expert, in 8 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: advance by the Chinese, by the Russians, and all that 9 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: was required to destroy all of those American aircraft and 10 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: kill the pilots in it was a hat tip to 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: the Houtis who could have been made ready for the 12 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: attack because of Pete Hagsat's carelessness, and their families, their kids, 13 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: their husbands, or their wives are owed more. Seth Moulton 14 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: is a Massachusetts congressman recipient of multiple valor awards. He 15 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,199 Speaker 1: commanded marines at a platoon and at a company level 16 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: over four combat tours. We're going to listen to Seth 17 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: Moulten speak fully about this matter. But he appeared on 18 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: the Warning podcast not so long ago, and I want 19 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: to share the introduction to set him up a bit 20 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: so you can refresh in your sense of who Seth 21 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: Moulton is. Thrilled to be joined today by the representative 22 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: of the sixth District of Massachusetts. Seth Moulton, a Marine 23 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: Corps officer, a captain, a recipient of the Bronze store 24 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: with Valor, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Valor. 25 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: Seth Welcome, Good to be here. Good to be here. 26 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 2: I never talked about my awards. Not something I feel 27 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,919 Speaker 2: comfortable discussing. There are a lot of breens I served 28 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 2: with who never really got recognized for what they do. 29 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: But thank you, thank you for having me. What I 30 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: want to say to all of the people listening to 31 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: this podcast who are upset with the Democratic leadership. You 32 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: ought to be But there are great leaders in the 33 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: Democratic Party, and one of them is Seth Moulton, Captain 34 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: Seth Moulton, United States Marine Corps. We'll hear from him 35 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: in a moment. But first, this astonishing exchange between a 36 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: member of Congress and the CIA Director John Ratliffe, who 37 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: was on the text exchange and didn't notice because the 38 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: CIA director is a political extremist, unfit, unqualified, and inattentive 39 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: to detail. Now, well, you'll note about this kind of 40 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: coversation is the effrontery. The CIA director responds, how dare you? No, 41 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: The CIA director has it exactly backwards, how dare you? 42 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: And this tone of questioning is spot on, And what 43 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: Seth Moulten says is spot on because at the core 44 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: he's either so stupid there's not a word for it 45 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: in English, he's b so incompetent there's not a word 46 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: for it in English, or C he was drunk or 47 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: d it was all three. Pete xs alcohol abuse is 48 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: well documented by this nation's leading newspapers. It was a 49 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: subject of his confirmation hearings, and his gross misconduct in 50 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: this instance raises it as a fair question. John Ratcliffe 51 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: should know that in Texas there's a saying hit dawn 52 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: bark and he looks like a hit dog barking to me. 53 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 2: To your knowledge, do you know whether Pete Hexa had 54 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: been drinking before he lead classified information? I don't have 55 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 2: any knowledge of Secretary Hegsath's personal habits. 56 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: Director Radcliffe, same question, yes or no? You know no, 57 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: I'm going to answer that. I think that's an offensive 58 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: line of question. The answer is no. I find it 59 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: interesting that you want to you know, I know I'm 60 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: going to answer you ask a question you want to answer. No, listen, 61 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: I don't want to focus on the good work that 62 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: the CIA is doing, that the Intelligence community Director. I 63 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: want to reclaim my time, Director, I reclaim my time. Now, 64 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: let's go to Seth Moulton's news conference. 65 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 2: Now the debate among national security professionals is over whether 66 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: the secretary was just incompetent or whether he was drunk. 67 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: That's how low this is gone. And those are serious 68 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 2: debates happening among national security professionals today. 69 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: Perfectly said, importantly said the words over the door that 70 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: Seth Moulton walked through as a young Marine officer candidate said, 71 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: Dicto's exemplos lead by example. Every private in the Marine 72 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: Corps knows the same thing that every seaman in the 73 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: Navy knows. Every airman in the air as space forces. 74 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: Now they all know that the greatest dipshit in the 75 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: US military attached to it in any capacity, a man 76 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: who is unfit mentally, morally, a man who is the 77 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: poster child of what not to be. That the air 78 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: drill instructors that their officers try to instill into all 79 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: of them, do not be like This person is their leader, 80 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Defense p except he is a comic 81 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: book character sprinkled by Trump fairy dust, created in the 82 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: Fox News Press and come to life. He is ludicrous, 83 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: as is Tulsei Gabbard, as is Marco Rubio, as is 84 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: all of these people, and for many long years, in 85 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: a growing style, these people have taken to screaming at 86 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: all of us, The rules are for you, The rules 87 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: are for me, but not for them. They live by 88 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: their own set on your dime, flying around the world 89 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: on the blue and white jets on your dime. These 90 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: people are not princes, they are not dukes. They are 91 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: officials of the United States government, and the jobs they 92 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: hold should be the privilege and honor of a lifetime. 93 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: And instead they are on an ego trip, leaning out 94 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: the proverbial car window, screaming yeah America with their middle 95 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: fingers up for all the American people. It is the 96 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: most debased, disgusting, reprehensible conduct that any American has ever 97 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: witnessed from the beginning of the country. And that means 98 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: half of all Americans who've ever lived have seen it. 99 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: Aren't those other half of the Americans who've ever lived 100 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: lucky that they did not live ever in a country 101 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: for a nanosecond consumed by the leadership of imbeciles at 102 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: the edge of a great catastrophe that comes closer every day, 103 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: because when you line up people like this and give 104 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: them the power that they have been given, there is 105 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: no escaping the disaster that will happen. And when it does, 106 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: just like they said, no, no, what happened here is 107 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Goldberg the reporter? Did it? When there are thousands 108 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: of dead Americans? Maybe an aircraft carrier sunk on the 109 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: bottom of the South China Sea with five thousand dead 110 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: Americans on it. Whatever it may be, it will be 111 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: their fault because they combine the qualities of the mentally disordered, 112 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: narcissistic mental patients, incompetent clowns, toxic extremists who have found 113 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: their way to power and to its use. And to 114 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: suggest that they're immoral in its use might be the 115 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: moral understatement of the twenty first century. America has can't 116 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: America can be killed by this cancer. The American people 117 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 1: have it within their power to save America from the cancer. 118 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: But make no mistake, it is a cancer, and it 119 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: isn't evil, and it is bearing down on us. This 120 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 121 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community, where I promise 122 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt, and direct about what is happening 123 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 124 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.