WEBVTT - Steve Schmidt DESTROYS Tim Scott’s comments on the UAW strike

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<v Speaker 1>I'm about to show you a performance. The performer is

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<v Speaker 1>a South Carolina senator, a politician running for president, and

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<v Speaker 1>he's starting to feel his oats. He's starting to get

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<v Speaker 1>his game on. He's getting used to being in front

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<v Speaker 1>of the crowd. You can tell that he can feed

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<v Speaker 1>off the energy a bit. Let's watch Tim Scott talk

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<v Speaker 1>about the United Auto Workers strike by turning back the

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<v Speaker 1>clock to the Patco strike of nineteen eighty one.

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<v Speaker 2>I think ro Ra Ronald Reagan gave us a great

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<v Speaker 2>example when Federal Voice decided there was a strike. You strike,

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<v Speaker 2>you're fired. Simple concept to me to we can use

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<v Speaker 2>that once again. Absolutely. The second thing I would do, though,

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<v Speaker 2>is very important. This is a probably not a well

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<v Speaker 2>known fact. The first thing part of the challenge that

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<v Speaker 2>we have at a with president then is I don't

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<v Speaker 2>mean this would be disingenuous. I mean this would be

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<v Speaker 2>here unles sure if the words are bought and paid for,

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<v Speaker 2>but it certainly he has been leased by the unions.

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<v Speaker 3>And I say that.

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<v Speaker 2>Because the first bill he passed, y'all remember the one

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<v Speaker 2>point nine trillion dollars COVID relief backage I only had

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<v Speaker 2>for COVID vaccines. I had eighty six billion dollars. I

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<v Speaker 2>believe for union pensions.

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<v Speaker 3>Because they keep making these deals and as a result

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<v Speaker 3>of the deal, they promised too much, deliver too little,

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<v Speaker 3>and the tax payers pick up the tab.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, first, it is incredible that a United States senator

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<v Speaker 1>can possibly be so ignorant. It's why we probably shouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>get rid of teaching history in schools because someday some

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<v Speaker 1>of those kids may grow up to be senators. And

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<v Speaker 1>unlike Kim Scott, it would be healthy and helpful in

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<v Speaker 1>moments if those senators knew what it was that they

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<v Speaker 1>were talking about. Now, the ua W strike of twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty three has exactly, absolutely nothing to do with the

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<v Speaker 1>pat Goo air traffic controller strike of nineteen eighty one,

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<v Speaker 1>But something Tim Scott said talking about the air traffic

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<v Speaker 1>controller strike of nineteen eighty one has a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>relevance to workers in twenty twenty three. Sometimes politicians, when

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<v Speaker 1>they're sloppy, say the quiet part out loud. Let's watch

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<v Speaker 1>Tim Scott do it again when he says, if you strike,

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<v Speaker 1>you should be fired as a worker.

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<v Speaker 2>I think all Unald Rayton gave was a great example

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<v Speaker 2>when Federal Voice side was strike you sight your fired

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<v Speaker 2>civile concept to me, No.

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<v Speaker 1>Tim Scott, that's not how it works in America. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to explain this to you. In the mid nineteenth century,

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<v Speaker 1>there was something called the Industrial Revolution. What the Industrial

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<v Speaker 1>Revolution was, Senator, was an epoch in history when people

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<v Speaker 1>who worked on farms began to move into the cities

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<v Speaker 1>as machines began to mass produce products that could be

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<v Speaker 1>sold at an increasingly globalized scale. Now there were the

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<v Speaker 1>people who owned the factories and the geniuses who invented

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<v Speaker 1>the machines, and then there were the people who worked

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<v Speaker 1>in the factories, and society had to deal with a

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<v Speaker 1>changing circumstance and dynamic. The people who worked in the factories.

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<v Speaker 1>Were they entitled to dignity? Were they entitled to a

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<v Speaker 1>decent living from their labor? Were they slaves? Indentured servants, disposable?

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<v Speaker 1>Were they the equivalent of what you see in China

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<v Speaker 1>today slave labor? And in the United States of America,

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<v Speaker 1>through a long process of struggle and sacrifice, the American

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<v Speaker 1>labor movement was born, the union movement. And in the

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<v Speaker 1>United States, Senator, workers have a right to organize and

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<v Speaker 1>they have a right to strike. Now, in nineteen eighty one,

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<v Speaker 1>the air traffic controllers went on strike, and then there

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<v Speaker 1>was a problem with that. The problem has nothing to

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<v Speaker 1>do with anything that the UAW workers are talking about today.

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<v Speaker 1>The problem in nineteen eighty one was a nineteen fifty

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<v Speaker 1>five law. It made it illegal for federal employees to

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<v Speaker 1>go on strike. Now, Tim Scott, I'm going to set

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<v Speaker 1>the record straight about the history on this for you

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<v Speaker 1>a bit so you can do better when you're on

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<v Speaker 1>television next time. So one you probably didn't know. In

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty Pat go endorsed Ronald Reagan did the Teamsters.

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<v Speaker 1>It made sense. Ronald Reagan was the only union president

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<v Speaker 1>to ever become President of the United States. He was

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<v Speaker 1>president of the Screen Actors Guild, which currently, like the

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<v Speaker 1>United Auto Workers and the Writer's Guild of America, is

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<v Speaker 1>out on strike now. The reason for the strike is

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<v Speaker 1>because those people are part of a process that creates

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<v Speaker 1>billions in profits, and they don't get a fair cut

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<v Speaker 1>of the profits. What they get is detritus, a sprinkling,

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<v Speaker 1>not a living wage, but at any rate, what the

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<v Speaker 1>Writer's Guild of America, what the United Auto Workers, and

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<v Speaker 1>what the Screen Actors Guild have in common as opposed

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<v Speaker 1>to Pat Coo, is that those union members are not

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<v Speaker 1>federal government employees. They are private sector employees. The UAW

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<v Speaker 1>senator is not the federal government workforce, and they have

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<v Speaker 1>a right under law to strike, and your calls to

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<v Speaker 1>fire the UAW workers who are demanding higher wages so

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<v Speaker 1>they can send their kids to college is deeply offensive

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<v Speaker 1>and wrong in a historic Now, coming back to Ronald

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<v Speaker 1>Reagan in nineteen eighty one, what he promised the air

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<v Speaker 1>traffic controllers was that he would negotiate in good faith

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<v Speaker 1>when they went out on strike. Whether you think Reagan

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<v Speaker 1>was right or wrong, Reagan took that strike as an

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<v Speaker 1>assault on his presidency and on his authority, and Ronald

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<v Speaker 1>Reagan used his maximum power under the law to end

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<v Speaker 1>the strike. Again, this has nothing to do whatsoever with

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<v Speaker 1>anything that's happening forty years later. But for Tim Scott,

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<v Speaker 1>it's always nineteen eighty it's always the Reagan Revolution, It's

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<v Speaker 1>always Ronald Reagan's morning in America, despite the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>it's Donald Trump's maga Republican Party today, and that is

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<v Speaker 1>a dark party, an insidious force that is advancing fascism

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<v Speaker 1>in America now, in the end, when Ronald Reagan fired

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<v Speaker 1>the air traffic controllers, someone paid attention to that. The Soviets,

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<v Speaker 1>many years later in the archives the correspondence between Soviet

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<v Speaker 1>officials watching domestic politics in the United States play out.

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<v Speaker 1>Wrote to each other, and they said, this American president

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<v Speaker 1>is different. He means what he says, he will do

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<v Speaker 1>exactly what he says. Here's the point about that our

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<v Speaker 1>foreign adversaries haven't stopped watching our domestic politics. When they

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<v Speaker 1>see people like Tim Scott, when they see the eight

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<v Speaker 1>clowns on a Republican debate stage, raise their hands and say,

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<v Speaker 1>we pledge forever fidelity to the man who tried to

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<v Speaker 1>burn down the constitution. When they see Kevin McCarthy, when

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<v Speaker 1>they see Lauren Bobert and mark my words, they do

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<v Speaker 1>see them. What they see is decay. What they see

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<v Speaker 1>is weakness, and what they confuse is the national character

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<v Speaker 1>for the lack of character, and our politicians everything that

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<v Speaker 1>matters in this moment, every virtue that you can think

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<v Speaker 1>of is under assault. That's why it's important to understand

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<v Speaker 1>when you hear a United States senator talk that they

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<v Speaker 1>have no idea what they're talking about.