1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Do you believe in miracles, Well, when it comes to 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: the gold medal US Olympic hockey team, they did pull 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: off a miracle of sorts. In reverse. They took the 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: universal admiration of hockey fans, including heartbroken Canadian hockey fans, 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: after the game of a lifetime, and lit it on 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: fire by allowing it to be politicized by Cash Pattel. 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: I'm going to explain in clear terms to the US 8 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: hockey team the decisions they made, the consequences that they 9 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: need to think through, and also about the failure of 10 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: the coaches and other men in their life to help 11 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: them understand something of about the importance of character. It 12 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: is February twenty sixth and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is 13 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: the morning everything touched by Maga is disgraced. Cash Ptel 14 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: is a buffoon and a grifter. And though these young 15 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: men play hockey, it does not explicate them from the 16 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 1: responsibility to be attached to the world to know what's 17 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: happening around them. Many of them are professional athletes who 18 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: travel the country, but the cheers that take place in 19 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: an arena should not deafen them to the miseries that 20 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: are happening outside, including in the state of Minnesota. Cash 21 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: Batel is deeply involved, deeply implicated in an assault on 22 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: the rule of law and justice in America. Fascists have 23 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: long sought to appropriate the Olympic rings for their own propaganda. 24 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: Juan Antonio Samaranch, the IOC chairman, was famously a fascist. 25 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: Fascists love to hang medals. Here's a fascist medal being 26 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: hung on Charles Lindberg's neck. Here's the Duke of Windsor 27 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: having a Hitler medal hung on his neck. The young 28 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: man who won a gold medal by stopping a lot 29 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: of Canadian shots, Connor Holliback, has now been announced by 30 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: Trump during his State of the Union in a truly 31 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: terrible moment, that he will receive the Presidential Medal of 32 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: Freedom and he should refuse it because he has not 33 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: earned it. What his achievements in Milan earned him. Is 34 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: what terribly one of his teammates draped around the neck 35 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: of both Donald Trump, who did not earn it, and 36 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: Cash Pttel, who did not earn it. But that prize 37 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: was a gold medal, not the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 38 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: And accepting such an award by a man who has 39 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: desecrated his oath of office as an adult, implicates you 40 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: in that political movement and will implicate you for all 41 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: time in it. I'll be honest. When people my age 42 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,119 Speaker 1: and I'm fifty five talk about sports and we talk 43 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: about the great athletes that we've seen in our lifetime, 44 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: there is one name that stands out that most people 45 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: will say in conversation, at least with me, he was 46 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: the greatest athlete that anyone has ever seen, and that 47 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: was Bo Jackson. I think it's fair to say, when 48 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: you look at these Olympics that the toughest athlete of 49 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: my lifetime, bar none person with more grit, resolve, determination, 50 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: A true Olympian, an inspiration to everybody, but certainly to 51 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: my daughter Lindsay Vaughn. The disrespect shown by the men's 52 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: hockey team to the gold medal women's hockey team was 53 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: a blight on their character. It showed a lack of respect, 54 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: the lack of discipline. It revealed who they were at 55 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: a moment that they were on top. They did not 56 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: show humility, which is the mark of a true champion 57 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: and was the most celebrated virtue by a Lakota Warrior 58 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about a crisis in masculinity, 59 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: and it's raised for years, and what it has produced, 60 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: as the pendulum has swung to and fro wildly, is 61 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: the performative antiques and buffoonery of Pete Hegseth and Cash 62 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: Pattel and Corey. I want to get a gon Lewandowski, 63 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: Greg Vivina, Tom Holman, a corrupt official who took ten 64 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: thousand dollars at least in a bag. All these performative, 65 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: tough guys who lacked virtue, empathy, dignity. All of those 66 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: young men missed out on getting to know anyone from 67 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: the World War two generation. And I looked at them, 68 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: and I thought that was to their great detriment, because 69 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: that generation would have looked at them with a lot 70 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: of disdain and wouldn't have tolerated the smirking behavior. It 71 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: was undignified of champions, undignified for an American team. They 72 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: politicized a moment where the whole country stood with them 73 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: and lost two thirds of the country by making themselves 74 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: witting tools in a propagandisk plan. They stripped from themselves 75 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: a universal American admiration by yoking themselves to this. 76 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 2: The worst president, did the worst job at the worst policy. 77 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 2: We have to even run against these people. I won't 78 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 2: say cancel the election. They should cancel the election, because 79 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: the fake news will say he wants the elections cancel. 80 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 2: He's a dictator. They always call me a dictator. Nobody's 81 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: worse than Obama and the people that surrounded Biden. Not Biden. 82 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 2: I don't think it was he didn't know what the 83 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: hell was going on. Okay, the election was rigged. He 84 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 2: had no he had no idea what happened. He still 85 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 2: doesn't in this did you plan to apologize to the 86 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 2: family of Alex Preddy for what for? You know, label 87 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: him in assassion with ill intent? 88 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: Well, again, I just described to you what I said 89 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: about Alex Pretty, which is that he's a guy who 90 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: should ill intent to an ICE protest, but it's determined 91 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: that his civil rights were violated. Buy this FBI investigation. 92 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: Will you apologize so if if this hypothetical leads to 93 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: that hypothetical leads to another, do a thing. The murders 94 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: of Alex Pretty and Renee Good. They were used wittingly, 95 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,119 Speaker 1: and their coaches didn't stop it. And it's too bad 96 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: some of the players have some regret, I obviously because 97 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: they have peeled off that they regret the disrespect shown 98 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: to the women's team. And that's good because in an 99 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: age of Tucker Carlson and Andrew Tate and Clovicular in 100 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: all of this insanity, there is a lot of confusion. 101 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, at my stage in life, I've 102 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: seen a lot of championship teams. But if ever there 103 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: were to be some sort of EQ or IQ test 104 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: around fitting into the moment and getting it, some type 105 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: of shared consciousness knowing what's happening around you in the 106 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: country that you live, I've never seen a lower IQ 107 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: team of young men just utterly lost greatness achieved and 108 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: then lost not because of skill, but an absence of 109 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: character in a sense of duty, of honor and of country. 110 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: They wore the American flag but don't appreciate American values. 111 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: They stand on ice, the nation cheering for them, and 112 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: then they subjugate themselves to a person who says elections 113 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: aren't rights but privileges, and that some Americans are less 114 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: than other Americans. Oh, but they're just kids. These are men, 115 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: and the country should react to them as such. Sometimes 116 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: men are required to stand up for things. When they 117 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: were required to stand up for their colleagues, their teammates, 118 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: the gold medal women's team, they failed in the moment 119 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: they laughed along with a pedophile protector and a adjudicated 120 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: rapist standing next to the beer swilling FBI director in 121 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: a moment of disgrace, and so politics, in a moment 122 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: where the good and the right or in contest against 123 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: the wicked and the wrong, we all make our choices. 124 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: And the US men's hockey team, young men were used 125 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: and seduced by a terrible cause and doing so their 126 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: complicity in it. They've lost the affection of a great 127 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: many Americans who not so long ago cheered for them 128 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: with our full hearts. And this is the warning. Taking 129 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: sides says something about you, and we get to make 130 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: a judgment about it, just like millions are about our 131 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: gold medal hockey team, Maga's team, Trump's team. And that 132 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: young man who thinks that the Medal of Freedom is 133 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 1: a frivolous thing, he should appreciate it that when it's 134 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: hung on him, he will be as undeserving as any 135 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: American who has ever been considered for it by any 136 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: president not named Trump. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 137 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community, where I promise 138 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 139 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: in this country. ARCA is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 140 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.