1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to the response room. In this segment, I'm going 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: to answer the attacks of the Trump campaign against the 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: Harris campaign. I'm going to give voice and say some 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: things maybe that the campaign can't say. I'll be direct, 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: I'll be clear, and I'm going to be truthful. There 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: are all sorts of different types of attacks in politics. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: One of them, the worst type is the wining type, 8 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: the oh they're not playing fair type, and that usually 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:41,319 Speaker 1: manifests itself when the losing campaign starts complaining about the 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: press treatment that the winning campaign is receiving. 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 2: She should be doing interviews. She doesn't want to do interviews. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: Why does she refuse to answer questions from the media. 13 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,959 Speaker 1: She's not doing any news conference. You know why she's 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: not doing it because she can't do a news conference. 15 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: She doesn't know how to do a news conference. She's 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: not smart enough to do a news conference. 17 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: And again, I really can't believe she's been a subde 18 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 2: doominatee for seventeen days and she hasn't taken a real 19 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 2: question from reporters. 20 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: She won't even do interviews with friendly people because she 21 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: can't do better than Biden. Now specifically here, Donald Trump 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: and JD. Vance are complaining that Kamala Harris hasn't done 23 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: enough news conferences with the American press. The answer to 24 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: the criticism is to laugh and laugh some more and 25 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: some more after that, and to feel no pressure whatsoever. 26 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: The Vice President should speak and engage with the journalists 27 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: who have demonstrated competence, have demonstrated fairness, have demonstrated integrity, 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: and demonstrated trust, which surely she will do after the convention. 29 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: The Vice President, through the selection of Governor Watts, has 30 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: run a flawless campaign. They are on path to win. 31 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: It is the press, such as it is, is a 32 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: reviled institution, such as it can be counted as one. 33 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: The White House Press Corps asks inname questions every day. 34 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: If the news conferences that we see on television, or 35 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: any indication of the necessity of answering their questions good, 36 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: because there is none whatsoever. The Vice President should not 37 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: bend an inch. Instead, the campaign should take a very 38 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: offensive position and wonder why the New York Times hasn't 39 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: asked any of the leading Republicans directly, do you have 40 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: any discomfort about supporting someone found to be a rapist 41 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: by a jury? And the questions can go on and 42 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: on and on and on. The simple truth of the 43 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: matter is all of these big companies, they are giant companies, 44 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: view politics because it's a billion dollar business as a 45 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: massive profit center, which is fine, but their interest is 46 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: not the public interest, and so hiding behind oh, you 47 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: must answer our questions doesn't hold up because so many 48 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: of these institutions have lost trust. Nor O'Donnell hasn't lost trust. 49 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: Gail King hasn't lost trust. Robert Costa hasn't lost trust. 50 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: There are lots of people who haven't lost trust. But 51 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: standing up and answering questions that theater that's spectacle, well, 52 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: it's trumpion, and it doesn't quite fit the vice president's style. 53 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: She'll do what she wants to do when she wants 54 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: to do it, and that's how the campaign needs to 55 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: operate because the stakes are enormous. She answers and engages 56 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: with the American people every day, and the American people 57 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: like what they're seeing. 58 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: When Tim Waltz was asked by his country to go 59 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 2: to Iraqi, you know what he did. He dropped out 60 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: of the army and allowed his unit to go without him. 61 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 2: Ever lied about my military service. He clearly has what 62 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 2: bothers me about Tim Waltz is the stolen valor garbage. 63 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: Do not pretend to be something that you're not lying 64 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: about your military service in order to procure political points. 65 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 2: That's really disgraceful conduct at the slap of the face 66 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: to millions of American veterans. And I think it's totally 67 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 2: reasonable with Foley. 68 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: The smearing of Tim wall service record is pathetic, if 69 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: not predictable. Tim Wall served as command sergeant major of 70 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: his National Card battalion period. He did not serve as 71 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: command sergeant major at a permanent rank. He retired as 72 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: a master sergeant. Was not demoted. It was a reduced 73 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: rank because he did not complete the sergeant major school, 74 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: maybe because he had other shit to do. For whatever 75 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: reason he didn't do it, maybe because he was a 76 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: teacher and a coach, he was running for Congress, he 77 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: was busy. He didn't have the ambition to retire at 78 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: the rank permanently. But it's fair in any common usage 79 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: to refer to the governor as sergeant major because that's 80 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: the rank the highest that he served at, not the 81 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: reduced rank that he retired at. But he served honorably. 82 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump didn't serve. He dodged the draft. He relied 83 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: on bone spurs. He said that dodging VD in Studio 84 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: fifty four was his Vietnam. Donald Trump wanted wounded warriors 85 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: wheeled away out of his sightline, out of his Trumpian presence, 86 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: because he thought it was a bad look. He wouldn't 87 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: go to an American cemetery. He stood in Arlington, the 88 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,559 Speaker 1: nation's most hallowed grounds, and he said to his chief 89 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: of staff, a retired Marine general, what was in it 90 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: for them? He denigrated John McCain's service. He asked the 91 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: military to open fire peacefully protesting Americans. He's threatened to 92 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: deploy the American military. There's a recruiting crisis. The Army, 93 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: the Navy, the Air Force, the Space Force all need recruits. 94 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 1: Does anybody wonder why there's a recruiting crisis when you 95 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: see the constant denigration of service by people like Trump 96 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: who cheapen it through their demagogery, it's grotesque. Tim Walls 97 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: wasn't an officer, wasn't a general. He's a master sergeant 98 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: serving as target major. There's nothing to attack. He did 99 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: nothing wrong. Service was good, it was decent, it was right, 100 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: It was honorable. It was filled with integrity. Shame on 101 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and JD Van. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is 102 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: the warning and I invite you to join. Subscribe on 103 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to 104 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: the community.