1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You have questions, 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: I've got answers, so let's get started. And the first 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 1: one has to do with the unprecedented scheduling of every 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: general being recalled to Washington, DC for a meeting with 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth. And the question is what's going on with 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: the eight hundred generals coming to Quantico, Virginia the marine base. 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, but it is frightening, it's unacceptable, and 8 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: it's a major story. There are eight hundred general officers 9 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,959 Speaker 1: in the US military. That's about one hundred and fifty 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: to two hundred too many. One of the inflations we 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: don't talk enough about is the inflation in the ranks. 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: An incredible statistic is that there were more generals in 13 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: Baghdad in two thousand and seven than there were in 14 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: all of Europe on V Day victory in Europe eighty 15 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: years ago. And at that time, the US forces had 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: sixteen million men and women under arms at any rate, 17 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: removing from their combatant commands and from their jobs all 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: over the world. The senior enlisted advisors, the sergeant majors 19 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: and command master chiefs, if they're in the Navy along 20 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: with the four Stars, three stars, two stores, and one stars. 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: To bring them all together isn't just a massive security 22 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: risk with regard to the continuity of command, It's just 23 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: plain stupid. Now everybody knows that no professional military officer 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: has any respect whatsoever for Pete Hegseth, because when they 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: look at him, they recognize that standing in front of 26 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: them in a nation of three hundred and forty million 27 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: people is one of our greatest diptions. The tattooed Christian 28 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: nationalist freak show with his third wife Jenny, trailing about 29 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: taking him to his makeup room in the Pentagon, to 30 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: the TV room here and there, bouncing around like a 31 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: rubber ball on the Fox newsroom wall. Third wife Jenny 32 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: helps Pete with his makeup and sits in on all 33 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: the meetings with the generals, and no doubt Jenny will 34 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: be in the room with the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Truly, 35 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: there are no words other than the words of prayer 36 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: that this nation not fight a war, because there has 37 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: never been a moment in American history, not a single second, 38 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: where the men under arms have been more preposterously led 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: by the commander in chief and by this buffoon there 40 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 1: are no words for the National Guard. Major Field Marshall Pete, 41 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: Secretary of War. The next question has to do with 42 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: the prosecution of James Comy, and the question is are 43 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: you afraid of being locked up and sent to prison? 44 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: I'm with James Comy on this. I refuse to be 45 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: afraid of these people. If I am sent to prison 46 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: for some concocted crime, I do hope I get to 47 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: work with the puppies in the prison where Gislaine. 48 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: Maxwell has been set. 49 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure they have male facilities where you get to 50 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: work with the dogs. 51 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: At any rate. 52 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: The thing about political prisoners is they're guilty of no crime. 53 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: In James Comy is a political prisoner of sorts. His life, 54 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: his family's life has been taken hostage by the government 55 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: by a raging mob boss named Donald Trump, who said, 56 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: get this guy, and then the prosecutor said, show me 57 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: the man, I'll find you the crime and voila. And 58 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: if they can do that to James Comy, they can 59 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: do it to anybody. This is arbitrary justice, and it 60 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: is evil. It is un American, and this malicious prosecution 61 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: will fail and the jury should nullify the prosecution. It 62 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: is an awful abuse of power, and James Comy will 63 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: be acquitted of this nonsense, because James Comy acquitted no crime. 64 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: The third question is about Jimmy Kimmel in his return 65 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: to television, and it is this, why did Disney cave? 66 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: Disney caved because the cost of firing Jimmy Kimmel to 67 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: appease Donald Trump was many billions of dollars and it 68 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: would have destroyed the company's brand, and in fact, it's 69 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 1: illegal and unconstitutional. And what the records will show, and 70 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: they will all be made public someday, what they will 71 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: show is the panic in the Disney c suite and 72 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: demands from government officials to the CEO of the company, 73 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: Bob Biger, demanding that Jimmy Kimmel be returned. 74 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: And Bob Biger is a coward. 75 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: He's feckless, utterly fatuous, And that yellow striped coward took 76 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he was afraid, and 77 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: he put him back on the air because he was afraid. 78 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: Appeasing Trump only brings the next demand. And it's a 79 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: lesson for every CEO and every minister of government everywhere 80 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: in the world. The way you deal with a bully 81 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: is you hold the line and you never back up, 82 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: and when he comes and punches you, you slug them back. 83 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: And that's how you deal with a bully. And the 84 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: bottom line is this idea in America that the CEO 85 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: class has some type of moral conviction or standing to 86 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: speak out on anything, this religion of the CEO. When 87 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: you think back on Indra Newey performance with purpose, it's all. 88 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 2: Bullshit and it always has been. 89 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: She's an example of a person who sells poison sugar water. 90 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: She's in the obesity business. 91 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: Yet America's news media sanctified her and Bob Iger and 92 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: many more. In fact, these people have no guts, they 93 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: have no ethics, they have no grit, no stamina, no nothing. 94 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: And you saw that play out with Jimmy Kimmel, who 95 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: has a lot of guts and a lot of stamina 96 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: and a lot of grit. And it's grit, stamina and 97 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: guts that will get us through this terrible Trump era. 98 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 1: But here's the deal. Free speech doesn't come from branding 99 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: Carr and he doesn't get to threaten anybody over speech. 100 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: I have been a consistent critic of Ted Kruz. But 101 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: in this instant, on this occasion, it was Ted Cruz's 102 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: finest hour in America. 103 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: We don't debate speech. 104 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: You can say, can think and express yourself in most 105 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: any way you want. You get to make fun of 106 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: the president in America, you get to laugh at him, 107 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 1: you get to offend people. That's the price of living 108 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: in a free country, being offended. And the idea that 109 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: Donald's will eliminate offense by dealing with the speech that offends, well, 110 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: let's just say that's offensive and it's never going to happen. 111 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 2: This is the warning. 112 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 113 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: to join this community where I promise to be honest, 114 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 115 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 116 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: and on substack. 117 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: Thank you.