1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,359 Speaker 1: Steve, you know this, this this idea of the Insurrection 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: Act being invoked. You know to me that is it's 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: kind of it's not game over, but it feels like 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: we're getting close to it. 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 2: Well, good to see a Jim game over for what 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 2: what do you mean? 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: I mean? I I think if Trump is allowed to 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: invoke the Insurrection Act and send the National Guard into 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: just about wherever he wants, and the Supreme Court says, okay, 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: we'll let you do that outside the wishes against the 11 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: wishes of people like JB. Pritsker or the governor of Illinois, 12 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom and so on, that that gives me great pause. 13 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: That gives me. That makes me worry a great deal. 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what you think. 15 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 2: It makes me. It makes me worry. Look at the 16 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I think the focus 17 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: on the Supreme Court uh with our with your last guest, 18 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: when you said that if the Supreme Court permits this, 19 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: and I don't, I don't think that's the right place, 20 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 2: the right the right line. I think the Supreme Court 21 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: is likely to permit it. The question is will the 22 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 2: American people about it. I certainly won't about it, and 23 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 2: they can't shoot everybody and I and I mean that 24 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 2: dead serious. The American people will have to take a 25 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 2: stand on the on the streets in peaceful protests. Now 26 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 2: that decision will break the United States Army as an institution, 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: the admiration the people feel for the American military and 28 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 2: the consequence of the military being deployed against its own 29 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: I think it's very important to appreciate seventeen percent of 30 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: the of the military is black, and a lot of 31 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: the black service members come from America cities. And the 32 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: truth of the matter is Trump's delusions are delusions. There 33 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 2: is no war in Portland or in any of these places, 34 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 2: and the pretext that there is is refuted by playing 35 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: video evidence and the idea that on the basis of 36 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: the pretext and the delusion, I'll deploy the eighty second 37 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 2: Airborne while the Deputy Chief of Staff who apparently functions 38 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 2: as the prime minister and in the MAGA chain of command, 39 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 2: and we will know in detail through every email, every 40 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 2: aspect is we will know who who shot the priest 41 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 2: in the head with the pepper ball behind the mask 42 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 2: on the roof, will know the entire chain of events, 43 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 2: the chain of command and what it will show in 44 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: time was that Stephen Miller, the architect of all of this, 45 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: is functionally a top the chain of command of the 46 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 2: Attorney General of the United States. Stephen Miller is Pam 47 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: Bondi's boss. She's an actress and a bad one. Stephen 48 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 2: Miller is Christy NUM's boss. Stephen Miller is the corry crook, 49 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: Tom Holman's boss. And Stephen Miller said something on television, 50 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: and the words matter here. He said, Donald Trump has 51 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: plenary power. And what that word means is absolute And 52 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: an example of someone who had plenary power was Hitler 53 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 2: and Stalin and h As a matter of American law, 54 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: the constitution, history, precedent, everything that you wish to consider 55 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: in the pot of consideration, President of the United States 56 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 2: has limited power. He has temporary power. He functions as 57 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: the head of a constitutional branch and a constitutional republic 58 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: for a set term under the constitution. And so that 59 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: is not true. And he's saying it is while pointing 60 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 2: a gun at the head of the country. And so 61 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:48,799 Speaker 2: it's a dangerous moment. But the military in America, while 62 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 2: terrifying when considering that it could be turned against the 63 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 2: civilian population, labeled terrorists for not loving Trump enough that, 64 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: having had the experience of spending some time in Iraq 65 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: in two thousand and five, two years after the invasion, 66 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 2: the US Army wasn't able to secure the road between 67 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 2: the airport and the Green Zone rought Irish the Highway 68 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 2: of Death. And so the notion that there'll be a 69 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 2: military occupation of the United States in the name of 70 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 2: Trump and Stephen Miller using the American army against the 71 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: American people is fucking delusional. And if there is a 72 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 2: wish to test the proposition, I think that what the administration, 73 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 2: or more rightly the regime will discover is that the appeasers, 74 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 2: the people that led them to believe that there would 75 00:05:54,720 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 2: be an indifference to all of this, that those people 76 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: were outside of the main. Yeah, those people were representatives 77 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 2: over rotten elite that lost to Donald Trump, and that 78 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: in the main the American people want to buy by 79 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 2: who were day to anger but fierce when provoked. 80 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I am you know these images of ice 81 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: and what they've been doing since they were unleashed by 82 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller. I mean, they just get more got awful 83 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: by the day. You mentioned the pastor in Chicago who 84 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: was hit with a pepperball shot at by an Ice officer. 85 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: There's video that we can show and talk about this. 86 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: And this just took place at a West Group, which 87 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: is the neighborhood in Chicago elementary school. I showed up 88 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: and they were pulling a mother out of the car 89 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: as she was picking up her kids from school. I'm 90 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: old enough to remember when Donald Trump said he's going 91 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: after the criminals and the gang members. I've said on 92 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: my show repeatedly, that's probably the biggest line of the 93 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four campaign. I mean, that was that was 94 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: all horseshit. And they're just going after anybody. Moms of 95 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: Boiler's car wash owners who were legal US citizens, they're 96 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: you know, you name it. And I mean you talk 97 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: about retribution and accountability and and and maybe some of 98 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: these Ice officers who are masked might be unmasked some days. 99 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: There's a lot of these masked Ice officers just all 100 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: over Chicago just doing ungodly unbelievable things. I mean, it's 101 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: shocking to me and I and I've seen a lot 102 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: of shit. This is shocking. 103 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 2: Uh. These acts are indecent, Yeah, they are at moral 104 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 2: and in time they will be held to be unlawful. 105 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 2: They are tremendous abuses of power, And as Congressman Crow suggested, 106 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: never ever again must be the response to this, and 107 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 2: there must be a resolve amongst people who aspire to 108 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: the presidency. This agency is a threat to the liberty 109 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 2: of every American. It is a national obscenity, and it 110 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 2: must be abolished. And there will come a time where 111 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 2: every one of these jack booted thugs will sit in 112 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 2: a conference room and be asked with a pen in 113 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 2: one hand and a pad in front of them, to 114 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 2: detail their involvements and operations where they were masked, and 115 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 2: to account for every instance where they drew a weapon 116 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 2: and pointed one at an American civilian. Yeah, drawing a 117 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: weapon and pointing it at someone. From the very first 118 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 2: time you ever set foot on a firing range, a 119 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 2: rifle range, first time you ever pick up a gun, 120 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 2: you're taught you don't point a weapon at somebody or 121 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 2: anything unless you're prepared to fire the weapon. And so 122 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 2: the act of a law enforcement officer even drawing their 123 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 2: weapon is a big fucking deal. And routinely pointing submachine 124 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 2: guns impoors at American civilians who point iPhones back is 125 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 2: not acceptable in a free society. No question, what is 126 00:09:51,880 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 2: happening will be long remembered, and this shameful period and 127 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 2: those who allowed it will occupy a place of ignomy 128 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 2: and infamy in the American story. And the American people 129 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 2: should reject this. This is not right. And what it 130 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 2: means to be an American is to be faithful to 131 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: the ideas of the Republic and the Constitution. This is 132 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: American gestapo. This is not something that happens in a 133 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: free society. And so what that means is America under 134 00:10:54,080 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: Trump is not in fact a free society. And unless 135 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: that trend is arrested, unless an opposition can say this 136 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 2: must stop and the American people embrace that, then things 137 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 2: will get worse. And I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 138 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 2: I invite you to join this community where I promise 139 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 2: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 140 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 2: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 141 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 2: to this channel and on substack. Thank you.