Speaker 1: It is Thursday, the fifteenth of May. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is hourring his way across the Middle East,
Speaker 1: creating images that are unprecedented and unimaginable for an American president.
Speaker 1: I remember reading somewhere that in America, we care about
Speaker 1: human dignity, we care about human rights, we care about
Speaker 1: the rule of law, we care about fundamental values. Alas
Speaker 1: not anymore. Now Trump surrounded by Arab thugs, desecrated, denigrated,
Speaker 1: and slandered the United States. You see, it was a
Speaker 1: miserable hellhole for two hundred and forty nine years until
Speaker 1: Trump became our king. Look at these pictures of the
Speaker 1: oligarchs gathered, Look at the corruption, Look at the grift,
Speaker 1: contemplate the greed. It is otherworldly, to say the least. Now,
Speaker 1: under the Capitol Dome, attacked by Trump's mob of rioters,
Speaker 1: his editionist on the sixth of January, a very different
Speaker 1: type of contest. The type of battle is unfolding between
Speaker 1: the worst of the worst and the best of the best.
Speaker 1: There are two types of democrats that exist together under
Speaker 1: the Capitol Dome. There are schumercrats, appeasers, and there are
Speaker 1: fighting democrats like Dan Goldman, like Senator Chris Murphy, and
Speaker 1: it's these fighting Democrats like Congressman Eric Smallwell that are
Speaker 1: the salvation to this crisis. The fight is necessary, and
Speaker 1: let's talk about what it is that we're witnessing when
Speaker 1: we see this exchange, incredible exchange between Senator Murphy and
Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy.
Speaker 2: Instead that the measles vaccine was never fully tested for safety,
Speaker 2: you said there's fetal debris in the measles vaccine and
Speaker 2: this morning, all true, all true this morning, and from
Speaker 2: the public, that's not. None of that is none of.
Speaker 1: True. Product, You're not what you're talking not.
Speaker 3: For the record, Let's have a little bit of order
Speaker 3: so that you can get I'm speaking.
Speaker 2: I didn't ask, I didn't ask for a response, yet
Speaker 2: I like to lay out the predicated my question before
Speaker 2: I'm interrupted by the witness. You should respect for this committee.
Speaker 1: Or incredibly, between Eric Swollwell and Christina.
Speaker 4: You agree though that this is doctor Is that right?
Speaker 3: The same protocols that are secretary.
Speaker 4: I want you to have credibility and I want you
Speaker 4: to be taken seriously. Is this doctored or is it not?
Speaker 3: I'm taken quite seriously.
Speaker 4: Is it doctored or not doctor the.
Speaker 3: Importance that the President has given me.
Speaker 4: To I understand is it doctored or not?
Speaker 3: And that's important to remembers that every single time a
Speaker 3: case is built.
Speaker 4: I'm secretary, i have a seven year old, a six
Speaker 4: year old and a three year old. I have a
Speaker 4: bullshit detector. I'm just asking you, is this doctored or
Speaker 4: not doctored.
Speaker 1: The US Constitution establishes three branches of government. There is
Speaker 1: the Article one branch, the Congress. There is the Article
Speaker 1: two branch, the executive, And there is the Article three branch,
Speaker 1: the judiciary. All three of these branches check and balance
Speaker 1: the other. They create a constitutional harmony, and this balance
Speaker 1: is what keeps the citizens safe from the state because
Speaker 1: it holds that no branch is dominant over the other.
Speaker 1: Each branch is coequal, each is separate, each has its mission,
Speaker 1: and so one of the vital constitutional missions of the
Speaker 1: Congress is to perform oversight on the executive. The President,
Speaker 1: who administers but does not make the laws, does not
Speaker 1: point a finger, and accused does not have the power
Speaker 1: to convict. That rests with the judiciary. It is the
Speaker 1: Congress that spends the taxpayers money. It is the Congress
Speaker 1: that has powers that are not granted to the president.
Speaker 1: And so when a cabinet secretary comes to the United
Speaker 1: States Congress, they come not as a guest, but because
Speaker 1: they are required under American law, under the Constitution. The
Speaker 1: Congress on the matters that you're watching is supreme. And
Speaker 1: what we see, whether it's from Robert Kennedy, his evasiveness
Speaker 1: is insanity, his delusions epic dishonesty. Christy no Her unbridled
Speaker 1: contempt is distain for the concept that the United States
Speaker 1: is a constitutional republic. What christin Noma is saying is
Speaker 1: go yourself. And so an incredible drama is playing out
Speaker 1: moment by moment by moment every day as two forces collide,
Speaker 1: shaped by a third. The shaping force is the appeasement,
Speaker 1: which puts a magnifying lens on the conflict when it
Speaker 1: comes because it's so striking to see the duplicity, the mendacity,
Speaker 1: the utter indecency fully exposed. So Eric Swollwell in this moment,
Speaker 1: will not let it go, and he only has five minutes.
Speaker 1: My question is, and I want them Democrats to seriously
Speaker 1: consider this. What do they think might happen if the
Speaker 1: next Democratic member after Eric Swallowell picks up exactly where
Speaker 1: he left off and let it go all day long.
Speaker 1: She's not there to give a campaign speech, and the
Speaker 1: United States Congress is not the Fox News set. Let
Speaker 1: the confrontation go on. The weak spot of the attack
Speaker 1: is all that matters. Getting in more questions is irrelevant
Speaker 1: because in this moment, Christy Gnoman is being fundamentally exposed
Speaker 1: as a liar, as a chief hustler, as a vapid, delusional,
Speaker 1: power mad abuser of the Constitution of the United States,
Speaker 1: the worst of the worst, and this is an appropriate
Speaker 1: use of power, and it sets up the most fundamental
Speaker 1: of questions, and that is the one that has to
Speaker 1: be put to the American people by the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: which is in a bad state right now. The party
Speaker 1: doesn't speak monolithically, so the party won't be asking the question.
Speaker 1: Candidates across America will be saying, send me to Washington
Speaker 1: and give me the power to fight and stand up
Speaker 1: for you against all of this. And all of this
Speaker 1: means standing up not just against Trump, but against the
Speaker 1: appeasement and the appeasers that have let Trump run effing
Speaker 1: wild for one hundred and fifty days and have created
Speaker 1: a scenario where contempt is the currency of the Trump
Speaker 1: administration in its dealings with the representatives of the American
Speaker 1: people who were elected just like Trump. Should Trump have
Speaker 1: a mandate, then so do the people like Eric Swallwell,
Speaker 1: Dan Goldman, and Chris Murphy who are asking the essential questions.
Speaker 1: And this is all that matters in these exchanges. Christino, Cash,
Speaker 1: Battel and all of the rest of Trump's contemptuous handmaids
Speaker 1: do not have the standing, do not have the right
Speaker 1: to tell a member of Congress who works for us,
Speaker 1: elected by us, to go f themselves in the name
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. These confrontations must increase, they must build.
Speaker 1: Chris Murphy is putting on a master class clinic of
Speaker 1: how to conduct us Senate oversight. It is phenomenal. And
Speaker 1: Chris Murphy, whether he has the title or not, so
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, that guy is the leader of
Speaker 1: the Senate Democrats, because that guy is the leader of
Speaker 1: the fight. He is tough, he is smart, he is focused,
Speaker 1: he is committed. He is an American patriot on top
Speaker 1: of his game. And what Chris Murphy cares about isn't
Speaker 1: a title, isn't a job. It's his actual public service.
Speaker 1: He is the best of the best. Watch Dan Goldman
Speaker 1: give Christie Nome the business here. Why is your opinion better?
Speaker 1: We have more authority than the Supreme.
Speaker 3: Court, investigators, to judges and Immigration Court that all said
Speaker 3: he was MS thirteen and was removed to this from this.
Speaker 1: Did you understand that is you saying that? That is
Speaker 1: you saying.
Speaker 3: That no, no, no no, that is not making that
Speaker 3: determination against him.
Speaker 1: If you don't, court has considered all that. The judge
Speaker 1: is considered all that, Madame secretary, if you would be quiet,
Speaker 1: because I'm reclaiming my time. Dan Goldman is not backing down.
Speaker 1: Dan Goldman has righteous anger. Dang Goldman understand that at
Speaker 1: the core what's happening is deeply wrong, and he puts
Speaker 1: it to Christy Nome right here and explains to her
Speaker 1: her opinion doesn't matter. It's her compliance with an order
Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court that's at stake and at hand.
Speaker 1: She has no right to plunge this country into a
Speaker 1: constitutional crisis by betraying her oath. And what can be
Speaker 1: said about Eric Swallwell The demand, at long last, after
Speaker 1: ten years of insanity, to make one of these people
Speaker 1: look at a doctored image in front of their faces
Speaker 1: and to confront the lie. This is the Orwellian moment
Speaker 1: we've been waiting for. The truth is not what's real,
Speaker 1: it's what Christy Nome and Donald Trump declare it to be.
Speaker 1: Just like O'Brien prophesied in nineteen eighty four while torturing Winston,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, he said to Winston, how many fingers
Speaker 1: you see? What matters is how many the party tells
Speaker 1: you you see. And so what Murphy, what Goldman, what
Speaker 1: Swallwell are doing is shining a light into the abyss,
Speaker 1: into the darkness while we still have that opportunity as
Speaker 1: a nation as a people, and they're showing us the contempt,
Speaker 1: the depravity, the indecency, and the injustice that is gathering
Speaker 1: and coming for every one of us if we don't
Speaker 1: stop it right now. That's what's happening in America today.
Speaker 1: Some members are better than others, and when we see
Speaker 1: the best, we ought to celebrate it, and we ought
Speaker 1: to spread it to model the type of stamina, the
Speaker 1: type of courage that all of us expect from the
Speaker 1: people in the United States Congress, who must defend the
Speaker 1: Constitution against the daily assault in vandalism if they says
Speaker 1: at the hands of the MAGA regime and its contemptuous leadership.
Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. I invite you to join this community where
Speaker 1: I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about what
Speaker 1: is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow
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