Speaker 1: When you think about it, at some level, it makes
Speaker 1: sense that MAGA would try to reinvent the story of
Speaker 1: the Titanic. You know, in their version it doesn't sink.
Speaker 2: But you remember the tale, right.
Speaker 1: The CEO of the White Storeline, a guy named Bruce Ismey,
Speaker 1: demanded the captain, a fellow named John Smith, plowed the
Speaker 1: Titanic on its maiden voyage through the ice at full
Speaker 1: speed to set a speed record, as the marketers declared
Speaker 1: it the ship that God himself could not sink. When
Speaker 1: the Titanic struck the ice, when Frederick Fleet, the lookout,
Speaker 1: saw it through the black of the night, it was
Speaker 1: already too late. At the point of contact, the ship trembled,
Speaker 1: but most people didn't even notice. The people who got
Speaker 1: into the lifeboats before midnight, well they survived and went
Speaker 1: on to live long lives.
Speaker 2: Those who stayed too long, they.
Speaker 1: Rowed as the ship that God himself could not sink
Speaker 1: sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. The ceo,
Speaker 1: of course, well he made it off. The rumors in
Speaker 1: the age, though a slur, were he had dressed like
Speaker 1: a woman, because as the old saw went women and
Speaker 1: children first. But that didn't matter to the third class passengers,
Speaker 1: mostly Irish, who were chained in the decks below. That's
Speaker 1: the story of the Titanic. But according to jd Vance, it's.
Speaker 3: This Democrats talk a lot about the affordability crisis in
Speaker 3: the United States of America, And yes, there is an
Speaker 3: affordability crisis, one created by Joe Biden's policies. You don't
Speaker 3: turn the Titanic around overnight. It takes time to fix
Speaker 3: what was broken.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, January the twenty third. I'm Steve Schmidt.
Speaker 2: This is the warning.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance has a peculiar point of view about the Constitution,
Speaker 1: about the immunities afforded to master men unleashed without consent
Speaker 1: on American cities to do violence, to kick indoors and
Speaker 1: point long guns, and to arrest children.
Speaker 2: Here's what he said. After the Renegad shooting.
Speaker 4: The administration seemed to suggest that ICE officers enjoyed near
Speaker 4: complete immunity. But today you told the Washington Examinor that,
Speaker 4: when appropriate, the administration might take disciplinary actions against ICE agents.
Speaker 2: So is that a change of opinion.
Speaker 3: I didn't say, and I don't think any other official
Speaker 3: within the Trump administration said that officers who engaged in
Speaker 3: wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd. What I did say
Speaker 3: is that when federal law enforcement officers violate the law,
Speaker 3: that is typically something that federal officials would look into.
Speaker 3: We don't want these guys to have kangaroo courts. We
Speaker 3: want them to actually have real due process, real investigation,
Speaker 3: because again, sometimes they're accused of wrongdoing and it turns
Speaker 3: out when you learn the context, they didn't actually do
Speaker 3: anything wrong. First of all, I wish the state officials
Speaker 3: in Minnesota would an investigate why you have so many
Speaker 3: people who are using their vehicles and other means to
Speaker 3: actually interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation.
Speaker 2: The president here is very simple.
Speaker 3: You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal
Speaker 3: law enforcement action.
Speaker 2: That's a federal issue.
Speaker 3: That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing
Speaker 3: his job. The idea that Tim Walls and a bunch
Speaker 3: of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and
Speaker 3: make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the
Speaker 3: job that he was asked to do is preposterous.
Speaker 1: And here's what Greg Bavino said about that.
Speaker 2: Five year old child.
Speaker 4: Final question, do you have any moral or ethical qualms
Speaker 4: about detaining a five year old on his way back
Speaker 4: from preschool.
Speaker 5: Be more specific, Liam Ramos from the Columbia Heights School District,
Speaker 5: do you have any moral or ethical qualms about that?
Speaker 6: We conduct legal, ethical and moral law enforcement missions here
Speaker 6: in Minneapolis. So as far as what you're saying with
Speaker 6: that particular individual, to be more specific, because I didn't
Speaker 6: detain a five year old and we're going to continue
Speaker 6: with that law enforcement mission. Oftentimes you will see violent
Speaker 6: illegal aliens that perhaps do have families.
Speaker 2: And here's what jd. Vance said, Well.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of the fact that we're standing behind law enforcement,
Speaker 3: and I'm proud of the fact that we're enforcing the
Speaker 3: country's laws. But you know, you asked a question about
Speaker 3: this five year old kid. I actually saw this terrible
Speaker 3: story while I was coming to Minneapolis. We just left Toledo,
Speaker 3: Ohio this morning for an economic Messican event, and I
Speaker 3: see this story and I'm a father of a five
Speaker 3: year old, actually a five year old little boy, and
Speaker 3: I think to myself, oh my god, this is terrible.
Speaker 3: How did we arrest a five year old?
Speaker 2: Well, I do a little bit.
Speaker 3: More follow up research, and what I find is that
Speaker 3: the five year old was not arrested, that his dad
Speaker 3: was an illegal alien, and then they when they went
Speaker 3: to arrest his illegal alien father, the father ran. So
Speaker 3: the story is that ICE detained a five year old.
Speaker 2: Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed
Speaker 2: to let.
Speaker 3: A five year old child frees to death? Are they
Speaker 3: not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United
Speaker 3: States of America.
Speaker 1: He is, of course a man who looked into the
Speaker 1: camera and said Haitian's raiding pass.
Speaker 7: He brought up, which I was kind of surprised by.
Speaker 7: I guess I would say, is he brought up this misleading,
Speaker 7: false claim that you yourself have talked about in recent
Speaker 7: days about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio abducting people's pets
Speaker 7: and eating them, which officials there have said is not true.
Speaker 7: You yourself acknowledged it may be false on Twitter, you
Speaker 7: still told people to keep spreading it. But Trump just
Speaker 7: amplified it to tens of millions of people who were watching.
Speaker 7: Why push something that's not true?
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, city officials have not said it's
Speaker 5: not true. They've said they don't have all the evidence.
Speaker 5: There no evidence. We've heard from a number of constituents
Speaker 5: on the ground, Caitlin, who both first hand and second
Speaker 5: hand reports saying this stuff is happening. So they very
Speaker 5: clearly meaning the people on the ground dealing with this,
Speaker 5: think that it is happening. And I think that it's
Speaker 5: important for journalists to actually get on the ground and
Speaker 5: uncover this stuff for themselves. When you have a lot
Speaker 5: of people saying, Mike Petts are being abducted, or geese
Speaker 5: at the city Pond are being abducted and slaughtered right
Speaker 5: in front of us, this is crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: He's a man who, over and over again has lied
Speaker 1: and lied and lied in the pursuit of power. A
Speaker 1: peculiar man, a fraud, a man who's called himself four
Speaker 1: different names at various times during his life. A man
Speaker 1: who famously made love to his.
Speaker 2: Couch Jay d Vance.
Speaker 1: We should appreciate the lessons of history when it comes
Speaker 1: to the tanking of children. These words by Anne Frank,
Speaker 1: because here in America it has come to pass that
Speaker 1: children are recording from their ceiling rooms the deprivations below
Speaker 1: of rights of liberty, of human dignity. In the United States,
Speaker 1: the Secret police have been given orders to invade and
Speaker 1: attack jurisdictions to avenge Donald Trump's political laws. It is
Speaker 1: the most outrageous, it is the most un American, and
Speaker 1: it is the most unpatriotic thing that any president has
Speaker 1: ever done in the history of the United States. The
Speaker 1: only peer to all of this is the work of
Speaker 1: the Confederate States. And that's what Trump and Baveno and
Speaker 1: Nom are.
Speaker 2: They are the modern.
Speaker 1: Day Confederates, extremist fascists, and their abuse of power will
Speaker 1: long be infamous, but it will not long last. And
Speaker 1: this is the warning criminal acts by mass men in
Speaker 1: this country. The bill will come due for them. The
Speaker 1: America that they are attacking will not go so easily
Speaker 1: into the night. And there are many more of us
Speaker 1: than there will ever be of them.
Speaker 2: And I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community, where I promise
Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening
Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe
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Speaker 2: Thank you.