1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about two things today, the appeasement 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: of Senate Democrats to Donald Trump and the Quebec conference 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: that's taking place, the G seven meeting in Quebec, Canada 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: that Marco Rubio is attending. This is the warning. Let 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: me start out today by reading from Politico, which gives 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: an accurate description of what is going on within Well, 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,959 Speaker 1: I don't know what mind of Chuck Schumer. Now the 8 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 1: White House is openly mocking and laughing at the weakness 9 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: and the ineptitude of Chuck Schumer. And before I say 10 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: another word, last night with Stephen Beschloss, I had a 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: couple of thousand people on a substack life and every 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: single person in every comment scrolling through had but one 13 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: overwhelming priority and concern, which was the immediate cessation of 14 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: everything and anything that the unelected, unappointed, unconfirmed Elon Musk 15 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: and his team of teenagers, the doge children of the 16 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: corn are thrown out of the halls of government. That's 17 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: what the people want. They wanted to stop, that's what 18 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: democratic constituencies want, and they want to know everything that 19 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: has happened. Democrats have the power to make this happen 20 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: because Donald Trump, who is the President, John Thune who 21 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: is the Senate majority leader, and Mike Johnson, who is 22 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House, need Democratic votes. Now, Chuck 23 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: Schumer has a job that requires an ability to negotiate. 24 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: Anybody like me who's my age knows if they grew 25 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: up in New Jersey, that Donald Trump is a clown 26 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: and a commn that he's a demagogue, that he is 27 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: the cleon, the demagogic leader that the founders prophesied and 28 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: worried about, that has finally risen and taking control. But 29 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: nobody ever viewed Donald Trump as a great deal maker. 30 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: There is nobody what deals Dave McCormick, the new Senator 31 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania, was the COO of Bridgewater Ray Dalyo's hedge fund. 32 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: What deals did Dave McCormick do with Trump? What deals 33 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: did Jamie Morrigan do with Trump? Who did deals with Trump? Nobody? 34 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: He is a reality television show store that has played 35 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: a role, has manipulated the media, which was primarily his 36 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: chief skill. Always Donald Trump had the best press agent 37 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: in the world, John Barron. But the crisis of this 38 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: moment is one of leadership and one of ineptitude. In 39 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: the opposition facing Donald Trump. Let me read from Politico 40 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: a story that is astonishing by the chief Capitol Hill correspondent, 41 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: Rachel Bade. Senate Democrats haven't even surrendered yet on a 42 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: government shutdown, but already White House officials are gloating about 43 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: making them, etcro almost taunting them to vote no. Senate 44 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, proclaiming 45 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: that Republicans don't have the sixty votes, but President Donald 46 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: Trump and senior White House officials are increasingly confident Schumer 47 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: will release enough Centrist to put up the votes for passage. 48 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: According to multiple White House officials I spoke to over 49 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, they're one hundred percent going 50 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: to swallow it. One White House of Fife official told 51 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: me they're totally screwed. The confidence is especially noteworthy given 52 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: that Schumer has yet to detail his plans. Many lawmakers 53 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: in both parties are privately predicting that some sort of 54 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: deal will be reached in which Senate Democrats get amendment 55 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: votes in return for allowing the House pass Continuing Resolution 56 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: to advance and ultimately pass. Chuck Schumer again has made 57 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: threats that are empty and hollow and meaningless, has been 58 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: unable to construct a wall, an obstacle, or even so 59 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: much of a speed bump. A few weeks ago, the 60 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: man who well did this and we will win. We 61 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: will win. We will win, We will win, we will win, 62 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: We will win, said that his strategy would be to 63 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: lay across the railroad track, and that appears to be 64 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: exactly what is happening now. Within the Democratic Conference. There's 65 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: a divergence of opinion. Schumer can either communicate or lead. 66 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: He's utterly weak, completely comically inact, and his presence as 67 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: leader turns the entire Senate Democratic Conference into a joke. 68 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: It will become clear in the months ahead what the 69 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: cost of Schumer's leadership is when the Senate Democrats have 70 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: no money. But the good news is all that means 71 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: is Schumer has no control. There is no better year ever. 72 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: If you're a normal person out there, a firefighter, a nurse, 73 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: a teacher, or a plumber. You ride a motorcycle, you 74 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: like to go out on hikes in the mountains, you 75 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: like to paint, You like to do the things that 76 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: normal people do, not the sociopaths we have now, but 77 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: good and decent people. This is your year. To run 78 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: for office because there will be no safe seats anywhere 79 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: in this country, at a Senate level or at a 80 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: House level. But those races, per usual, will not be 81 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: top down affairs. They will be bottom up because the 82 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: surrender Chuck Conference to all of this madness, or a 83 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: group of weak need appeasers who simply want sheep to 84 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: vote for Schumer so he can remain in power and 85 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,679 Speaker 1: they can remain in good stead with the person in power. 86 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: If I, for example, was running for the US Senate 87 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: in the state like New Hampshire, I would rather cut 88 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: my hand off as a US Senator than vote for 89 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer as majority leader. But that's a story for 90 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: a different day. There are good men in the US 91 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: Senate like Mark Kelly who are wrong. They evaluate the 92 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: situation and they say, wow, if we don't keep the 93 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: government open, then Trump, and they're right about this, will 94 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: have more power to damage the government because he'll have 95 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: more discretion within the boundaries of the decision making that 96 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: comes with a shutdown government. Senator Kelly is right about that. 97 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: He will have more power, but he will also break 98 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: Donald Trump knows right now how all of this ends. 99 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: He gets the Democratic votes that Chuck Schumer says he 100 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: can't get and he'll do it without giving anything up, 101 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: which will incentivize his worst instincts and conduct. And so 102 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: Mark Kelly has to appreciate in this moment with respect, 103 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: his oath is not to keep the government open. It's 104 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: to defend the constitution. And the threat to the constitution 105 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: is elon Musk's presence within the government, and absent the 106 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: application of pressure to make it stop right now inside 107 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: this continuing resolution, then Democrats will abandon all leverage to 108 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: make it stop and will then put themselves on the 109 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: opposite side of their voters and an opposition movement. They 110 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: will have to take to the streets. We'll have to protest, 111 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: We'll have to engage in civil disobedience. We'll have to 112 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: escalate the situation everywhere at once to make it stop. 113 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: That is the price of appeasement. And these are all 114 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: acts of appeasement. There is no scenario other than in 115 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: the mind of the appeasers where they will, in actuality 116 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,599 Speaker 1: over the duration of the stalemate and the conflict, be blamed. 117 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will be blamed because Donald Trump as president, 118 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the leader, the facto of the Senate 119 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: and the House because there by thin margins his polop 120 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: bureau rubber stamps everything he does, as Lindsey Graham said, 121 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: and yet another series of principalists flipflops. I trust Trump, 122 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: And so then Marco Rubio is off to Canada to 123 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: the Quebec Conference where there were two at the creation 124 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: of the international system that Rubio and Vance and Musk 125 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: and Trump are smashing. And Rubio, having just arrived, is 126 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: now meeting with Canadian officials, the neighbor to the north 127 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: that America is attacking and waging economic warfare against. Maybe 128 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: it should occur to the Senate Democrats that disobscenity be 129 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 1: part of the negotiation. Also maybe, but no. The appeasement 130 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: is a philosophy that holds if I feed the crocodile, 131 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: he'll eat me last. It is a stupid philosophy, a 132 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: dangerous one, and one that we are watching be practiced 133 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: in plain sight by the people who should be stopping 134 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 1: Trump as opposed to enabling him. And so, if you 135 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: are an American and you are disgusted, I'll leave you 136 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: with this question this morning. Why is it that the 137 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 1: strongest toughest criticism of our nero came on the floor 138 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: of the Senate of the French Republic, not on the 139 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: floor of the polyp Buro in Washington. They used to 140 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: be known as the world's greatest deliberative body, but has 141 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:52,079 Speaker 1: become a shallow callo joke, destroyed in equal parts by 142 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: the collaboration between the two old men Chuck Schumer and 143 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell peas in a po god opposite images in 144 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 1: the same mirror. This is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. 145 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I invite you to join this 146 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct 147 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. 148 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: Follow and subscribe to this channel on YouTube and on substack. 149 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: Thank you.