1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: It is Thursday, June the nineteenth. This is the morning. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: The entire exchange you're about to see is remarkable. Michigan's 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: completely normal and superb freshman senator at least. Lock In 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: is going to ask the Secretary of Defense a fundamentally 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: important question, and it's about whether he would give an 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: order that would allow America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: to open fire on the American people. The question is 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: asked so he can say no emphatically, directly and on 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: the record, under oath. This matters because it's been well 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,639 Speaker 1: documented that during his first term in the Oval Office, 11 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump asked his Defense Secretary Mark Asper, in the 12 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: presence of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: about the possibility of opening fire on peacefully protesting Americans. 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: Though be reassured Donald just wanted to shoot in the legs. 15 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,639 Speaker 2: What specifically was he suggesting that the US military should 16 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 2: do to these protesters there? 17 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 3: He says, can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them 18 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 3: in the legs or something, And he's suggesting that that's 19 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 3: what we should do, that we should bring in the 20 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 3: troops and shoot the protesters. 21 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller on the other hand, in the Oval Office 22 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: wanted the US Navy to destroy boats full of migrants 23 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: off of San Diego. And there's a word for what 24 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: that would have been, and that word is murder. But 25 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: let's watch this incredible exchange. 26 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 2: Do they have the ability the uniform military to arrest 27 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: and detain protesters? Currently? Today? It's a yes or no 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: thing authorit. 29 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: It's it's seat of amusing the extent to which the 30 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: speculation is out there. These troops are given very clear. 31 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 2: Orders, and what is the order? Then list it out 32 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: for us be a man listed out. You authorize them 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: to detain or arrest? That is a fundamental issue of democracy. 34 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be a snot here. I'm just 35 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: trying to get the actual did you authorize them to 36 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 2: do that? 37 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 3: All of these orders there and what they're sent there 38 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 3: to do are public the. 39 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: So say it, so say it yes or no. I'd 40 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 2: like to please yes or no. 41 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 3: As I've said time and time again through interruption, they're 42 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: there to protect law enforcement. 43 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: They have the ability to Y're. 44 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 3: Trying to do their job deporting illegals who have were 45 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 3: allowed in by the previous series. 46 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: So they cannot arrest and detain citizens of the United 47 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 2: States the uniform military, as. 48 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 3: We've stated, if necessary in their own self defense, they 49 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 3: could temporarily detain and hand over to ice. Resting going on. 50 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 3: And you know this better than. 51 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 2: You authorize political military. There's no arrest of the US 52 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: military against members of the protest. Have you authorized US 53 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 2: military cyber tools to investigate people participating in these yes 54 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 2: or no? 55 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 3: Certainly, in no way that i'd be aware of. 56 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. I love that answer. That's great. Have 57 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 2: you given the order for to be able to shoot 58 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 2: at unarmed protesters in any way? I'm just asking the question. 59 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: Don't laugh like the whole country, and by the way, 60 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: my colleagues across based. 61 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 3: On what evidence, would you have a favor. 62 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: Donald Trump giving giving that order to your predecessor, to 63 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 2: a Republican Secretary of Defense, who I give a lot 64 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: of credit to because he didn't accept the order. He 65 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 2: had more guts and balls than you, because he said, 66 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 2: I'm not going to send in the uniform military to 67 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 2: do something that I know in my gut isn't right. 68 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: He was asked to shoot at their legs. He wrote 69 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: that in his book. That's not hearsay. So you're pooh 70 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: poohing of this. It just shows you don't understand who 71 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: we are as a country, who we are, and all 72 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: my colleagues across the aisle, especially the ones that served, 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 2: should want an a political military and not want citizens 74 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 2: to be scared of their own military. I love the 75 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 2: military I served alongside my whole life, So I'm worried 76 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: about you tainting it. Have you given the order? Have 77 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 2: you given the order that they can use lethal force 78 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 2: againstnor I want the answer to be no. Please tell 79 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 2: me it's no. Have you given the order? 80 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 3: Senator? I'd be careful what you read in books and 81 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 3: believing it except for the Bible. 82 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 2: Oh my God, so your former predecessor, I guess that's 83 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 2: not enough for you. 84 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: The incredible part about the Bible that elicited the oh 85 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: my God is precisely the correct reaction. And I have 86 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: a suggestion the next time that Pete Hagsath testifies, he 87 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: should be seated next to the uniform chiefs of the services, 88 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: and that question should be put to all of them, 89 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: and they should answer it directly to the American people 90 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: whom they serve, not Pete Hagseth. Meanwhile, Donald who ran 91 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: on a platform of peace is now puffing out his chest. 92 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: Just days ago, Donald recited the lesson of the last 93 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: twenty five years, and it was about the invincibility of 94 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: America's armed forces, an unconquerable force of Pete Hegseth's warriors, 95 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: who have never been defeated and who've never bled. Trump 96 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: doesn't like that seeing the visual reminders of the cost 97 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: of war, He said, no one wants to see it. 98 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: When he was confronted with a wounded warrior in a wheelchair. 99 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: But yet Donald Trump says, trust us, trust me, trust 100 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: Tulsea Gabber, trust Pete Hegseth. A man with no shame, 101 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: a man with less judgment, a man of profound incompetence, 102 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: an extremist, a yes man, a person with no self 103 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,799 Speaker 1: awareness whatsoever, a clown wrapped inside the skin of a buffoon, 104 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: a performing monkey on a string. That's what Pete Hegseth 105 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: is the most unfit man ever in the history of 106 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: the United States to ever be in command of the 107 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: armed forces. And Donald Trump says of the parents of 108 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: the American soldier, sailor, airmen, and marines, many of them 109 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: are scumbags, and they're vermin and he sent massed agents 110 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: to arrest them and their neighbors in the cities that 111 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: he says must be occupied by the military to be 112 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: liberated from the democratically elected officials that the people in 113 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: those cities voted for. And this man wants to take 114 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 1: the United States to war. Here's the deal, MAGA doesn't 115 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: go to war. The United States of America goes to war. 116 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: Nations go to war. And what Donald Trump is saying, 117 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: trust me, There is no evidence to suggest that he 118 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: can be trusted. How can the word of a man 119 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 1: who denies the result of an election that he lost 120 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: be trusted. How can the word of a man who 121 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: said that January sixth was a beautiful day be trusted? 122 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: How can the man who has made billions of dollars 123 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: through corrupt acts be trusted? How can the man who 124 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: has lied thirty thousand times be trusted? How can the 125 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: man who ran as a peace president promising that there 126 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: would be no foreign entanglements be trusted? And of course, 127 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: the answer to the question is Donald Trump cannot be trusted. 128 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has never been trustworthy, and so though he 129 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: may have the statutory authority to order the US Air 130 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: Force to Bollob a target. He certainly lacks the moral authority, 131 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: and so does Pete Hexath, and so does Tulca Gabbrick, 132 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: and so does the entirety of the Rowen Maga enterprise. 133 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: That has divided the nation, that has sundered the American people, 134 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: that has put them at their throats, that has abused 135 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: its power, that has broken the law, that has desecrated 136 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: military service, desecrated the military, erased the history of service 137 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: from Black Americans, from Hispanic Americans, from the record of memory, 138 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: and now Pete Hegsath and Donald Trump want to put 139 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: on their field Marshall uniforms. Ted Cruz has asked a 140 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: question that's elementary of Iran, what's its ethnic makeup? Might 141 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: after the experience of Iraq, there be some wisdom accrued 142 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: about invading societies where delusional people in Washington say, we're 143 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: going to be greeted as liberators. Ted Cruz, his arrogance, 144 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: his ignorance, It is appalling. He is, like Pete Hegsath, 145 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: a yes man, and so surrounded by yes men who 146 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: tell Donald Trump that he's a god, that he has 147 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: a divine purpose and he has the power to fulfill it. 148 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: The American people have been yoked to another misguided adventure, 149 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: at the edge of another season of disaster by a 150 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: president who cannot be trusted, surrounded by sycophants who cannot 151 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: be trusted. What an appalling moment. But thankfully there are 152 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: senators like Elise Slocking who are on the case, on 153 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 1: the job, who represent American normalcy, in American decency and 154 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: American grit and toughness and smarts, and who will not 155 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: stop answering the call of the American people to keep 156 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: asking the questions that must be asked in a moment 157 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: that nobody thought possible but has arrived because of the 158 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: fecklessness of an opposition, because of the malice of Donald Trump, 159 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: and because of the indifference of the American people. And 160 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: so we stand in this new era at its beginning days, 161 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: looking for leaders, and be grateful that Elise Slocking is 162 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: in the United States Senate because she's a leader, she's 163 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: a leader of the opposition, and she's fighting for you, 164 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: and she's on your side. This is the warning, and 165 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 166 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: to join this community, where I promise to be honest, 167 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 168 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 169 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: and on substack. Thank you.