1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: The third week of Donald Trump's presidency, and things are 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: not okay. This is the warning there is an unprecedented 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: assault underway by unelected people against the people's government. Chuck 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: Schumer is the minority leader of the United States Senate, 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: and his strategy, as articulated in the New York Times, 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: is to lay down on the railroad tracks and get 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: run over. Chuck Schumer thinks this is winning. We will win. 8 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: We will win. We will win, we will win. 9 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: We want we won't rest. 10 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 2: We won't rest. 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: We won't rest, we won't rest. This is a serious 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: moment for the nation and for the Democratic Party, and 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: the leader of the Senate Democrats is an inarticulate loser 14 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: who has no capacity whatsoever to articulate the stakes of 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: the moment. Let's watch this encounter with the media, and 16 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: let's understand what he's saying. 17 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: Look, here's the bottom line. The Republicans are already shutting 18 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 2: down good chunks of the government. Democrats don't want to 19 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: shut down, but it's in Republicans' hands. It's up to them. 20 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: The only point of leverage that Democrats have to stop 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: this is to signal to Donald Trump immediately that they 22 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: will not entertain even discussing providing votes for the upcoming 23 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: government funding bills unless and until three things happen. Number One, 24 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Big Balls and his team of computer 25 00:01:52,720 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: weirdos cease immediately their unconstitutional and unlawful assault in rampage 26 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: in the federal government. Number Two, they disclose immediately what 27 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: it is that they have done. And three, the inspector 28 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: generals be restored to each federal agency, so the golden 29 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: age of corruption that Trump has instigated can be delayed 30 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 1: a bit. Those are the terms, and they are unconditional. Instead, 31 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: Americans get this from the befuddled Democratic leader. 32 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 2: Democrats don't want to shut down, but it's in Republicans' hands. 33 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: It's up to them. 34 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: Incredible doesn't begin to describe it. And so the threat 35 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:46,239 Speaker 1: continues to grow because it faces no resistance. And yesterday 36 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: resistance was needed because what the world saw yesterday was 37 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: an example of American decay and American weakness that is 38 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: as vivid, that is as pungent as an image could 39 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 1: conceivably be. This office is a sacred space in a 40 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: secular society. It's the place where the person who swore 41 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: the same oath that George Washington did comes to work 42 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: every day. It's a place of enormous dignity. It's not 43 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: a place that's degraded and disrespected by bringing a child 44 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: that you put on your shoulders, wearing a baseball hat, 45 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: talking all manner of bullshit like this. 46 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 3: Marvin a democracy. Well, if you don't have a feedback 47 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 3: with THATX, we'd have to. 48 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: Sorry until your gramtas can be difficult sometimes in this. 49 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 2: Your detractors, mister Musky, including a lot of Democrats. 50 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 3: I have detractors, sir. 51 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: I don't believe it in this. 52 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: You couldn't ask for a stronger manage from the public. 53 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 3: The public voted to have a majority of the public 54 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: vote voting for President Trump, and this if the people 55 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,119 Speaker 3: cannot vote on hop they will be decided by their 56 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 3: elected representatives in the form of the President and the 57 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 3: Senate in the House, then we don't live in a democracy. 58 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 3: We live in a bureaucracy. 59 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: This isn't a moment of confrontation the show business Steven 60 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: Miller standing on the side, Elon Musk holding court, and 61 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: nobody ever asks where's the evidence for all of this? 62 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: Like when Elon Musk says. 63 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 3: This, there's a limestone mine where we store all the 64 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 3: retirement paperwork. And you look at picture of a picture 65 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: of this mine. We'll post the pictures afterwards. And this 66 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 3: is this mine looks like something out of the fifties 67 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 3: because it was started in nineteen fifty five, so it 68 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 3: looks like it's like a time warp. And then the speed, 69 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 3: then the limiting factor is the speed at which the mine, 70 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 3: the shaft elevator can move, determines how many people can 71 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 3: retire from the federal from the federal government. 72 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: Or this we. 73 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 3: Actually have trying to be as transparent as possible. In fact, 74 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: our actions, repost our actions to the DOGE handle on 75 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 3: x and to the doge website or this. Some of 76 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 3: the things that I say will be incorrect and should 77 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 3: be corrected. So nobody's going to bat one thousands, I 78 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 3: mean any you know, we will make mistakes, but we'll 79 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 3: act quickly to correct any mistakes. 80 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: Just nonsense spewed out from a place where the life 81 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: and death decisions are made, from a place where the 82 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: man who inhabits the office has the power of arm. Again, 83 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: and there is the richest man in the world, acting, talking, 84 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: conducting himself as if he has some entitlement, some mandate 85 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: to do what and from whom? Why are the American 86 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: people watching the unelected, richest man in the world with 87 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: his child on his shoulders, with a baseball hat on 88 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: his head, telling us what canon can't happen in government? 89 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: Why are we watching this? What is happening? It is unacceptable. 90 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: The richest man in the world has many prerogatives, but 91 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: telling us as king what the government canon will do 92 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,679 Speaker 1: is not one of them. Donald Trump isn't strong. Donald 93 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: Trump is weak, and there has never been a moment 94 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 1: of American weakness like the one the world saw yesterday, 95 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: where the president the puppet shared power with his master, 96 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: the richest man in the world. You can't make it up. 97 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: Yet nobody asked, what does it feel like, mister Musk, 98 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: to be standing here with your kid on your shoulders, 99 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 1: wearing that hat. For only three hundred million dollars spent 100 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: to have purchased the American presidency and a license to 101 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: do as you please. None of that happened, no confrontation, 102 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: because in Trump's Washington, being nice to Trump is the 103 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: mandate of the day, and this is unacceptable. What happened 104 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: in the Oval office was unacceptable. What's happening across the 105 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: government is unacceptable. But more than anything else, it is 106 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: the capitulation that is unacceptable. It is the tepidness of 107 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: the response that is unacceptable. What Chuck Schumer doesn't understand 108 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump isn't attempting to shut down programs. 109 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: He's attempting to seize control of it all. And in 110 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: order to do so, he requires that the government be funded. 111 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: And in order to stop him from doing so, you 112 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: can leverage the Act that you have the votes to 113 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: defund the government because you can make him stop. You 114 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: can bring him to heal if you exercise the power. 115 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: But no one will follow Chuck Schumer because Chuck Schumer 116 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: is weak and Donald Trump is corrupt and strong, at 117 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: least in the eyes of the weak Democrats who don't 118 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: know what strength looks like. In this is an enormous 119 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: problem because Trump isn't strong, He's weak. A strong man 120 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: doesn't have a man like Elon Musk hovering over him. 121 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: At this moment, in the third week of the Trump presidency, 122 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: inflation is rising, the cost of groceries is rising, the 123 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: economy is already wobbly. The price of this chaos is 124 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: going to be very high. It's going to be felt 125 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: very wide, and it's going to be felt first and 126 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: most profoundly by the people who voted for Donald Trump. 127 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: They will be hurt terribly by the man they voted for. 128 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: They will be disappointed, and so in this instant, it's 129 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 1: time to start thinking about better and what to say 130 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: to them, because the only way to make this stop 131 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: for good and forever is two years from now by 132 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: getting a check on Donald Trump in the House of Representatives. 133 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: But the truth is, a feeble majority against Trump is 134 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 1: the same thing as a feeble minority. If they are 135 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: not willing to exercise power, what good are they? This 136 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 137 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack 138 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.