Speaker 1: So I don't know if you guys watch The Bachelor,
Speaker 1: but every season they say, oh, this is the most
Speaker 1: dramatic season ever. I feel like we often say that
Speaker 1: with elections, this is the most important election ever. But
Speaker 1: it is this November. We have a choice to make
Speaker 1: about what kind of country we want to be. Do
Speaker 1: we want to be a free country like our founding
Speaker 1: fathers envisioned, like the Founding generation envisioned, or do we
Speaker 1: want to be a tyranny where you have a dictator
Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, who went out and addressed the nation
Speaker 1: in a primetime speech at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, a place
Speaker 1: where both the United States Declaration of Independence in the
Speaker 1: United States Constitution were debated and adopted by our founding
Speaker 1: fathers in the Founding Generation, who went out there, looked
Speaker 1: Americans in the eye, and a primetime address in a
Speaker 1: slap to the face of that legacy, making a mockery
Speaker 1: of the sacrifice that those brave men charted. They charted
Speaker 1: a different path for our nation, making a mockery out
Speaker 1: of this constitutional republic, making a mockery out of her freedoms,
Speaker 1: making a mockery out of our country. And sitting there
Speaker 1: and slandering seventy million patriotic Americans, smearing them, saying that
Speaker 1: they are the enemy. There are enemies of the state.
Speaker 1: And you saw that that imagery of Joe Biden sitting
Speaker 1: there with the blood red stage, the Marines and the
Speaker 1: backdrop looking like he's standing in front of the gates
Speaker 1: of Hell as a dictator. I mean he is. But
Speaker 1: that was intentional. I mean, he wanted to stoke fear
Speaker 1: and people. The message was clear, I'm in control. Submit
Speaker 1: That's what he wanted. And what he was doing was
Speaker 1: the mother ing of seventy five million Americans, You and me,
Speaker 1: the people listening to this podcast, many of them are
Speaker 1: or maybe you didn't vote for Trump, that's fine too,
Speaker 1: but it was the mothering of them. And we've seen
Speaker 1: this in society's if you go through it, I mean,
Speaker 1: this has happened before. I mean you look at the
Speaker 1: most extreme example, the horrors we witnessed in Europe and Germany.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was a uniquely terrible time in history.
Speaker 1: I pray to God we ver see that again. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're heading down that path, but it's always
Speaker 1: instructive to look at history, and you can look at
Speaker 1: Holocaust survivors like Paul Herzegg and he said that he
Speaker 1: remembers the precise moment he was made to feel fundamentally
Speaker 1: different in n after the Nazis invaded his home country
Speaker 1: of Hungary, and he said, it didn't take very long
Speaker 1: before the edict came out every Jew must wear yellow star.
Speaker 1: This is the first time I realized that I'm different,
Speaker 1: even among my friends. We've we've seen it all over
Speaker 1: the world, not just in what we saw in Germany
Speaker 1: and Europe. We've seen are in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, We've
Speaker 1: saw it in the Jim Crow South. I mean, is
Speaker 1: that the kind of stuff we want to return to?
Speaker 1: This other rang of people, but this time based on
Speaker 1: political views seventy million Americans, the intentional dehumanization of this group,
Speaker 1: which then sets up a path for potential discrimination and persecution.
Speaker 1: They've called this fascist. I mean, think about it. The
Speaker 1: guy the president in the United States, the guy who
Speaker 1: is quite literally at this time, trying to imprison his
Speaker 1: political opponent, has thoughts on fascism, uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: and less it's an instructional how too. He doesn't really
Speaker 1: have a leg to stand on. But we've seen this
Speaker 1: mothering happen in more recent events, right, I mean remember
Speaker 1: COVID and the forced vaccinations of Americans. I mean Joe
Speaker 1: Biden knew that the COVID shots would not stop the
Speaker 1: spread of COVID, Yet he went out there and outsweeping mandates,
Speaker 1: trying to force the vaccination on you know, at least
Speaker 1: a hundred million Americans, almost two thirds of all workers.
Speaker 1: In addition of purging the military of people who didn't
Speaker 1: want to get at healthcare workers as well. This is
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I chose not to get vaccinated one.
Speaker 1: I didn't need it too. I saw it as an
Speaker 1: affront to me and my freedom. I saw it as tyranny.
Speaker 1: It was my own fight against tyranny to the degree
Speaker 1: I could. And if you saw what he did, even
Speaker 1: ahead of Christmas, he warned of this winner of severe
Speaker 1: illness and death for the unvaccinated, for themselves, their families,
Speaker 1: and the hospitals soon overwhelmed. And he sent that message intentionally,
Speaker 1: and the message was clear, your unvaccinated family members and
Speaker 1: your unvaccinated friends are a danger to society. They are
Speaker 1: a threat. It was a stoke division. It was to
Speaker 1: other the unvaccednade in the country. I felt it. I
Speaker 1: had friends and family turned their backs to me. I'm
Speaker 1: sure many people listening have experienced this, either during COVID
Speaker 1: or just with stuff with Trump stuff politics. We've seen
Speaker 1: the other ring happen in places like Canada. You had
Speaker 1: the Trudeau regime freeze bank accounts belonging to the Freedom
Speaker 1: Convoy protesters and their supporters, I mean authorities in that
Speaker 1: country seized bank accounts associated with protest organizers and and
Speaker 1: businesses tied to the blockade. You have the two main
Speaker 1: organizers are expected to go on trial in September of
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty three. And in the IRN is
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden says that this is because Maga Conservatives
Speaker 1: are dangerous because they questioned election. But then he hires
Speaker 1: a spokesperson who has a history of questioning elections. Or
Speaker 1: you look at Nancy Pelosi tweeting, and I think it
Speaker 1: was seen that election was hijack so clearly they don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with questioning elections. And then he cites
Speaker 1: violence which we saw on January six, but was silent.
Speaker 1: Cities burned down, and his dozens of people were murdered.
Speaker 1: He was silent when there's an attempted assassination against Supreme
Speaker 1: Court Justice Brett Cabina. I don't remember strongly worded defenses
Speaker 1: of Brett Kavanaugh. We saw some you know, mealy mouse stuff,
Speaker 1: nothing strong. I don't remember hearing from him in any
Speaker 1: strong way or even at all during the assassination attempt
Speaker 1: against congressional Republicans that left the House Manority whip leader
Speaker 1: Steve Scalise, who was shot critically injured during the attack,
Speaker 1: had to have several surgeries to save his life. Where
Speaker 1: was Joe Biden? Then? You know? I don't remember hearing
Speaker 1: from him heading into the twenty six election when in
Speaker 1: San Jose protesters attacked Trump supporters and are on video
Speaker 1: of punching Trump supporters. I don't remember hearing from him.
Speaker 1: On August nine, two thousand and sixteen, when a sixty
Speaker 1: two year old man wearing a Donald Trump shirt was
Speaker 1: viciously attacked by a crowbar wielding man. I don't remember
Speaker 1: hearing from him. In October or of two thousands sixteen,
Speaker 1: when the Republican headquarters in North Carolina was firebombed. I
Speaker 1: don't remember hearing from him in at the inauguration when uh,
Speaker 1: they're setting the city on fire and setting cars on fire,
Speaker 1: or in March when a Tennessee mortarists and try to
Speaker 1: run Representative David Kustof off the road. I mean, the
Speaker 1: list goes on. There's so many examples. I just I
Speaker 1: don't have time to give him, so I don't remember
Speaker 1: him being there. Or when Maxine Waters was encouraging, you know,
Speaker 1: protesters and rioters to get up in the faces of people,
Speaker 1: or Kamala Harris told Jacob Blake who showed up at
Speaker 1: a woman's house to revictimize her and pulled a knife
Speaker 1: on police officers. Kamala Harris, his own vice president who
Speaker 1: he picked, said she was proud of him. Where was
Speaker 1: he then? Or when she was encouraging people to bail
Speaker 1: out violent rioters? Where was he then? Does he have
Speaker 1: a problem with that violence? But we all know why
Speaker 1: he's dehumanizing us, why he's demonizing us. One he wants
Speaker 1: to use the power of government against us. We've seen
Speaker 1: this happen with President Trump. We've seen it happen with
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice labeling parents as terrorists, or what
Speaker 1: we're going to see with the I R S soon
Speaker 1: with the beefed up EIGHTI seven thousand agents, so we've
Speaker 1: seen that. But also because he's a failing regime. Nothing
Speaker 1: in this country is going right. He's ruined everything, inflation,
Speaker 1: the border, crime, in the streets, nothing is going right.
Speaker 1: And everybody knows that. The majority of the country thinks
Speaker 1: we're on the wrong track. He's destroying the country. So
Speaker 1: this is desperation. It's a man clinging to power as
Speaker 1: he feels power slipping through his hands like sand. He's
Speaker 1: losing power. And this is what desperate people do, desperate things.
Speaker 1: And it's desperation to go on a primetime speech and
Speaker 1: label seventy five million Americans as enemies of the state.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a real effort to demoralize conservatives
Speaker 1: in the turnout for the mid terms. Even see a
Speaker 1: lot of these bogus registered voter surveys which helped Democrats.
Speaker 1: When you look at likely voter surveys, Republicans are doing
Speaker 1: much better. Of the landscape looks much more favorable two Republicans.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was even a recent pull from the
Speaker 1: Trafalgar Group showing the Republican in Washington State who's running
Speaker 1: for Senate in striking distance in Washington State. That's insane.
Speaker 1: So don't believe a lot of this garbage you're being fed.
Speaker 1: Or you can look at the state of Florida. Republican
Speaker 1: registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats by over two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: thousand people in Florida, which used to be a purple state.
Speaker 1: You look at New Jersey new registration number. Since Democrats
Speaker 1: netted seven thousand, six hundred eighty four new voters, Republicans
Speaker 1: gained seventy nine thousand, one hundred and eleven. So don't
Speaker 1: let yourself get demoralized, don't let yourself fiel down trodden.
Speaker 1: This is what they want. We've got to turn out
Speaker 1: in November. This is one of the most important elections,
Speaker 1: if not the most important election of our lifetime. And
Speaker 1: we've got a candidate who is running for Senate in Missouri.
Speaker 1: You know him as the Attorney General, Eric Schmidt. He's awesome,
Speaker 1: right how he is because of a lawsuit that he
Speaker 1: and the Attorney General of Louisiana filed has uncovered critical
Speaker 1: information about collusion between our own government and big tech
Speaker 1: and trying to silence and censor Americans. So we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to him about that he also fought on
Speaker 1: the vaccine as well to try to protect Americans from
Speaker 1: having to get it. This guy is a fighter and
Speaker 1: he's running for Senate. So we're going to talk to
Speaker 1: him about everything I just laid out in my concerns
Speaker 1: and hearing from him someone who is going to go
Speaker 1: to the Senate and fight for us, going to go
Speaker 1: to the Senate and fight this tyranny that we are
Speaker 1: seeing and we are experiencing in America. So with that,
Speaker 1: the current Attorney General of Missouri, or Schmidt, but soon
Speaker 1: to be Senator enjoy Attorney General Eric Schmidt, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining the show. You're running for Senate, so
Speaker 1: you're a busy I right now, so I really appreciate
Speaker 1: you taking the time. It's great to be with you.
Speaker 1: It really is. I mean, what a time to be life.
Speaker 1: We watched that speech from Joe Biden, you know, taking
Speaker 1: the stage in a primetime address to essentially say that
Speaker 1: seventy five million Americans are enemies of the state. I
Speaker 1: want to play a clip and then get your reaction
Speaker 1: on the other side. What as I stand here tonight,
Speaker 1: equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no
Speaker 1: favor to pretend otherwise, too much of what's happening in
Speaker 1: our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the
Speaker 1: Migor Republicans representing extremism that threatens the very foundations of
Speaker 1: our republic. Why do you think he gave that speech?
Speaker 1: What what's the intent behind it? I think it's meant
Speaker 1: to distract from his abysmal record as president. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see, look, coming out of the Trump presidency, we had,
Speaker 1: you know, record job growth and wage growth. You had
Speaker 1: a secure border, you had energy dominance, and that has
Speaker 1: all gone away, and you how have record inflation. Um,
Speaker 1: you have a struggling economy. We have a president that's
Speaker 1: going to Saudi Arabia begging for oil and shipping our
Speaker 1: strategic national patroleum to China with gas prices that are
Speaker 1: sky high. I mean, and and and and by the way,
Speaker 1: a totally poorous order where you have sent and all
Speaker 1: streaming across the border, killing people in our community. So
Speaker 1: his record is terrible. So all he has left is
Speaker 1: really kind of an unprecedented assault by an American president
Speaker 1: on half of the country. I mean, that is essentially categorizing,
Speaker 1: you know, seventy five million people as the enemy. And
Speaker 1: it's just it's a very desperate attempt, and I think
Speaker 1: it came across as such, I hope to most of
Speaker 1: the American people that, um, you know, this is just
Speaker 1: this president is completely lost his bearings. The left, which
Speaker 1: controls the Democrat Party is hell been on power and control.
Speaker 1: And I think they know reckoning is coming Lisa in November,
Speaker 1: and this is just their latest attempt to distract from that. Well,
Speaker 1: and we've already seen them, you know, walk it back,
Speaker 1: clearly realizing that having him in front of this freery
Speaker 1: red backdrop, looking like he's in front of the gates
Speaker 1: of Hell with his arms up like a dictator, might
Speaker 1: not be the best imagery heading into a deter images matter, right,
Speaker 1: I mean Reagan of course, you know, standing in front
Speaker 1: of the Brandenburg Gate and saying Mr Gorba chop teared
Speaker 1: down this wall. And then you you having a president
Speaker 1: now that looks like it's out of a movie, like
Speaker 1: he's like a sith lord, you know, standing in front
Speaker 1: of these red gates demanding you know some sort of
Speaker 1: struggle session or some you know from half the country.
Speaker 1: Is very bizarre. So whoever, and then he had you know,
Speaker 1: the military behind them. It was just all the optics
Speaker 1: were terrible in the content of the speech, and you
Speaker 1: just you know, played a precipit of that was just
Speaker 1: so divisive. And this is a guy that supposedly ran
Speaker 1: as the you know, the nice grandpa that was gonna
Speaker 1: unite the country. I mean, far be it from that.
Speaker 1: So well, I didn't want to play too much of
Speaker 1: it because I didn't want to do that to you
Speaker 1: or the audience again for you know, and then for
Speaker 1: those of us who are forced to watch it. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think what concerns me is it really was this
Speaker 1: other ring of seventy five million people. And you can
Speaker 1: really go throughout history and see what can it leads to.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you have this other ring, We've seen it
Speaker 1: in Germany, we've seen it in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkety, this
Speaker 1: dehumanization of a group of people. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that should be taken lightly. Where where does this go? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's important to put at least in a
Speaker 1: broader context. So you're right, it's a very dangerous ideology
Speaker 1: where you're dehumanizing, you know, stello countrymen because they have
Speaker 1: a different political belief than you. And meanwhile, here's what
Speaker 1: else is happening. You've got the FBI that's been weaponized
Speaker 1: now by the Department of Justice, which is after past
Speaker 1: political opponents, likely future plitical opponent and former president that
Speaker 1: just looks like it comes out of a third world
Speaker 1: banana republic. You've got the FBI weaponized against parents, investigating
Speaker 1: parents under the Patriot Act for showing up to school
Speaker 1: board meetings. You have eighties seven thousand I R S
Speaker 1: agents being fanned across the country to go after taxpayers
Speaker 1: and the middle class. Uh. And then you know, uh,
Speaker 1: the FBI looking the other way on like the Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden laptop story and things like that. So you put
Speaker 1: all of that stuff together in by the way, with
Speaker 1: our recent lawsuit and some of the revelations that have
Speaker 1: come out this week against the by administration Missouri suit
Speaker 1: their coordination with big tech. They are directing Facebook and
Speaker 1: Twitter on content in d platforming people for quote unquote misinformation.
Speaker 1: The same administration that had a Ministry of Truth, a
Speaker 1: Disinformation Governance Board. I mean, talk about not being normal.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not having traditional political debates right now
Speaker 1: about tax cuts and entitlement reform. The Democrats literally are
Speaker 1: two votes away in the United States Senate, from adding
Speaker 1: states the Union and pack in the Supreme Court and
Speaker 1: federalizing elections, granting amnesty, trying to fundamentally change this country forever.
Speaker 1: That's what's at stake in this election. And so I
Speaker 1: think as conservatives, as Republicans, our role here is to
Speaker 1: save the country and to get it back, not so
Speaker 1: that Washington can aggregate more power and reward and punish,
Speaker 1: but to give that power back to people, whether it's
Speaker 1: deregulation or tax cuts, and get back to a place
Speaker 1: where people find meaning in their communities and at church,
Speaker 1: in other organizations, as opposed to consolidating all of that,
Speaker 1: you know, everything you want in life with one person
Speaker 1: in Washington. It doesn't work that way, and it's dangerous.
Speaker 1: It is dangerous. I mean, fortunately, we still have the
Speaker 1: bare bones of what are founding fathers built as a country.
Speaker 1: You know, checks and balances in the first and second moment,
Speaker 1: which are critical for free societies and which are both
Speaker 1: under attack. You know, talk a little bit more about
Speaker 1: that lawsuit that you file, the law with the Attorney
Speaker 1: General of Louisiana and the information that you uncovered with it,
Speaker 1: which is crucial with about the First Amendment, so, so
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the lawsuit and what you found. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and to such on a broader point that you
Speaker 1: mentioned is thankfully our founders recognize there are great students
Speaker 1: of history and these tyrannical regimes that had you know,
Speaker 1: existed at the time they knew human nature, right, and
Speaker 1: people try to aggregate power. That's what every tyrant and
Speaker 1: dictator does, so they meant to spread it out right,
Speaker 1: checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism where states created
Speaker 1: the federal government to be a government of limited powers,
Speaker 1: and when they get out of that lane, the states
Speaker 1: can sue to check that. And it's all meant to
Speaker 1: protect individual liberty. And so a lot of the lawsuits
Speaker 1: that we filed these have been based on this right
Speaker 1: that an agency like OSHA, which was created to make
Speaker 1: sure forklips deep when they back up, isn't supposed to
Speaker 1: be forcing a medical procedure on eighty million Americans, right.
Speaker 1: So we filed that lawsuit Missouri was the first of
Speaker 1: files in the Supreme Court, and one but we filed
Speaker 1: earlier this year, a landmark lawsuit um against the Biden
Speaker 1: administration for their direct coordination, collusion, and direction of this
Speaker 1: you know, vast censorship enterprise they have with big tech.
Speaker 1: Big tech is so we filed that lawsuit a judge
Speaker 1: order recovery. So we're getting documents now, and what we've
Speaker 1: found is senior Facebook officials direct you know, communicating directly
Speaker 1: with the surgeon. Here's some more we call a censorship
Speaker 1: roundtable essentially right to figure out what else they can
Speaker 1: be doing. Two D platform people who dared to question
Speaker 1: you know, the regime's uh, you know, stated position on things.
Speaker 1: And then they had like these special ways that they
Speaker 1: could government officials could go and essentially takedown content themselves
Speaker 1: as for I think they're called preferred um flagging status
Speaker 1: or something like that. So this was pretty extensive. And
Speaker 1: in addition to that, those are the things that we
Speaker 1: currently know. What we don't know now is what the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice is trying to block, which are communications
Speaker 1: with White House officials, you know, in the White House
Speaker 1: with Facebook. And that's the next phase of the lawsuit
Speaker 1: is we're gonna get at that stuff too, because we
Speaker 1: want to know how high this go, how high it goes,
Speaker 1: and how wide it goes, because I think it's important
Speaker 1: to making sure this stuff stops and it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1: And what kind of information were they try were they
Speaker 1: trying to suppress in center specifically? Do we know? So
Speaker 1: a lot of this had a lot of this had
Speaker 1: to do with COVID. So essentially the lawsuits based on
Speaker 1: a few things, right, you know, election issues, um Hunter, Biden,
Speaker 1: laptop issues, and COVID related stuff. And the vast majority
Speaker 1: of the stuff that we were able to encode cover
Speaker 1: so far having to do with COVID, right, them trying
Speaker 1: to you know, snuff out misinformation or disinformation and the
Speaker 1: government's direct role in doing that. And and they were,
Speaker 1: you know, sort of unapologetic about this, you know they
Speaker 1: and you had Jen Psaki standing there's saying we're working
Speaker 1: with our Facebook partners, are you know, our social media
Speaker 1: partners in trying to take this stuff down? I mean,
Speaker 1: they were admitting it. And so this is the first
Speaker 1: time in this lawsuit now where we've got to you know,
Speaker 1: look under the hood where we actually get documents, because
Speaker 1: a lot of times what happens, Lisa is people file
Speaker 1: these lawsuits against Facebook or something and ends up in
Speaker 1: the Northern District of California and never sees the light
Speaker 1: of day. So this is the first lawsuit, you know,
Speaker 1: we filed against the government of the United States, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and his administration, and we're getting, um, some documents.
Speaker 1: There's a lot more to uncover here, but this is
Speaker 1: more than anybody's seen before. But again, these are we've got,
Speaker 1: you know, example after example in our motion to get
Speaker 1: more information some of the stuff we've gotten, and it's
Speaker 1: these are text messages again directly to the Surgeon General.
Speaker 1: These are uh, you know, emails saying can you take
Speaker 1: this down? You know, and then somebody from Instagram saying
Speaker 1: on it and it's taken down. I mean, that's not
Speaker 1: what's supposed to happen. Like, the government doesn't get to
Speaker 1: say what you get to say. They don't get to
Speaker 1: tell you what content is appropriate. And then you heard
Speaker 1: the um, you know, the Press Secretary this week say, well,
Speaker 1: what do you consider extremism something that's outside the mainstream? Well,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? You know, the government again in
Speaker 1: the United States doesn't get to decide that right descent
Speaker 1: is important. Um, you know, having people having unpopular opinions
Speaker 1: at the time. By the way, most of those have
Speaker 1: been proven to be true, you know, especially as it
Speaker 1: relates to COVID when we were told you know, masking,
Speaker 1: you know these cloth masks work, Well that was bogus.
Speaker 1: But people were being you know, the platforms and reputations
Speaker 1: ruined because they dare to question the regime. And that's
Speaker 1: something that should be very scary to people in this country.
Speaker 1: And why this lawsuits is so important, Well, I feel
Speaker 1: that because I tend to very often have unpopulargeole. Well
Speaker 1: I'm by nature, I mean, I'm kind of like, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of a contrarian to uh maybe that's how I
Speaker 1: ended up doing what I do now. But it's it's
Speaker 1: an important case because, I mean, the First Amendment is
Speaker 1: the beating heart of our constitution. You know, it is
Speaker 1: the ultimate pressure release foul because most places in the
Speaker 1: world they resolve these disputes through violence, and in this country,
Speaker 1: we decided, hey, we're going to settle these issues on
Speaker 1: the town square and people get to say things that
Speaker 1: are unpopular. It might actually make you angry, but they
Speaker 1: get to say them. So when the government is basically
Speaker 1: coming in and cracking down on the speech and saying
Speaker 1: you don't get to do that, that's a problem. And
Speaker 1: again that's at the heart of this lawsuit. What's also
Speaker 1: to your point, it's you know, the heartbeat of freedom
Speaker 1: in a country. I mean, there's a reason why you
Speaker 1: can go through and look at communist regimes, whether it
Speaker 1: was Ford or Castro, when you took over the you know,
Speaker 1: Communist Party of China, Nazi Germany. What they do is
Speaker 1: they go in and they control the flow of information.
Speaker 1: Because if you control the flow of information, if you
Speaker 1: control what people read, see and here, then you control society.
Speaker 1: So you know that freedom of speech is paramount to
Speaker 1: living in a free country. Yeah, that's that's the first Amendment.
Speaker 1: And then what else do they do what's in the
Speaker 1: second Amendment? Right, they take the guns away. Uh, and
Speaker 1: they you know, make sure that you know, no one
Speaker 1: can ever resist tyranny. Um and so again, and you
Speaker 1: see what's happening with this administration. You had the FBI
Speaker 1: coming in Missouri try and to uh, you know, doing
Speaker 1: quote unquote audit of concealed carry permits in Missouri, which
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to do. And we push back and said,
Speaker 1: you're not going to do that in Missouri. So just
Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff that's happening right now. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure we've ever really seen, but these are important
Speaker 1: questions that we're gonna have to answer in this election
Speaker 1: cycle about you know, what kind of country we're gonna be.
Speaker 1: Are we going to remain the freest country in the
Speaker 1: istory of the world, or are we're going to kind
Speaker 1: of sink to the level of a lot of places
Speaker 1: around the world now and in history. And that's I
Speaker 1: think that's a fight we're fighting, which is why you
Speaker 1: know I'm running for the United States Senate because I've
Speaker 1: I've taken on those tough fights as Attorney General. Want
Speaker 1: to do it in the Senate as well. Quick commercial
Speaker 1: breakback with the Attorney General on the other side. I
Speaker 1: hope people are waking up. I mean I really during COVID,
Speaker 1: I felt like, uh, what is that quote where you
Speaker 1: know everyone's running towards the cliff. It's the person going
Speaker 1: to the opposite direction that looks like the crazy brain. Know, Like,
Speaker 1: I was like, what is going on? And this is insanity?
Speaker 1: And then even with the vaccine and I was just
Speaker 1: like pulling my hair out trying to get people to
Speaker 1: see the light. And so I just I I hope
Speaker 1: people have seen it. I hope people watch that speech
Speaker 1: with Joe Biden. You know, looking like a dictator. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I hope their eyes are open. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you do you think their eyes are open? I think so.
Speaker 1: I mean you can feel it on the ground. And uh,
Speaker 1: I shared that belief with you. I mean in Missouri
Speaker 1: we took on I mean, we sued forty seven school
Speaker 1: districts in Missouri for forcing the masking of kids. I
Speaker 1: just felt like it was it was wrong. And that
Speaker 1: was by the way, when you know the case numbers,
Speaker 1: which was everyone's measure at the time, right like on
Speaker 1: some of those peak days. But if you're doing what's right, um,
Speaker 1: I think you get vindicated over time. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what's happened now with these ridiculous COVID tyrant edicts that
Speaker 1: were coming down that made no sense. You could you know,
Speaker 1: you had to have your mask and when you walked
Speaker 1: into the restaurant, but when you're eating your food somehow,
Speaker 1: you know, no one cared about it. It was just
Speaker 1: all nonsense. But but yeah, I think people are waking up.
Speaker 1: I think people understand what's at stake and why. I
Speaker 1: think you know, you hear it a lot. This is
Speaker 1: the most consequential election in our lifetime. But I really
Speaker 1: believe that, and I also believe in the broader context,
Speaker 1: as I said, these issues that we're dealing with are
Speaker 1: not typical political issues. They're not the issues that like
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was wrangling with Tip O'Neil about. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're asking and going to have to answer some fundamental
Speaker 1: questions about who we are as a country and whether
Speaker 1: we will remain that place or not. And so you've
Speaker 1: got to get the right people there too understand what's
Speaker 1: at stake well. And you know, I mean Joe Biden
Speaker 1: had it right when he said, you know, this is
Speaker 1: a battle for the soul of the nation. It's just
Speaker 1: the soul of the nation is not you know, a
Speaker 1: dictator standing at a podium and with the military behind him,
Speaker 1: you know, calling seventy five billion people like the enemies
Speaker 1: of the state, Like, that's not that should not be
Speaker 1: the soul of this country that we love. And you know,
Speaker 1: smearing people, you know, veterans, people who love this country,
Speaker 1: who just want to live, we just want to be
Speaker 1: able to provide a good life for their family, you know,
Speaker 1: and be left alone by the government. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: that that's not that's not the soul of of America.
Speaker 1: It's not the way it's supposed to be. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: only and the only time his polling numbers, you know,
Speaker 1: they're terrible, historically low, but when they go up a
Speaker 1: point or two, it's usually when he's not around, you know,
Speaker 1: when he's like hiding um. But when you you know,
Speaker 1: when you kind of reveal, he reveals who he is
Speaker 1: and what the modern Democrat Party is all about. I
Speaker 1: think most Americans look at that that say, we don't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with that, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we believe in freedom, we believe in opportunity. We believe that,
Speaker 1: you know, people should be able to pursue their dreams
Speaker 1: and government should have as little role to people's lives
Speaker 1: as possible. That's not the vision of Joe Biden in
Speaker 1: this administration. And so we're going to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: where the American people stand in November, and I'm optimistic,
Speaker 1: you know, we really need to get back to that
Speaker 1: or digital vision of decentralization and put the power into
Speaker 1: the states and you know, kind of just lead people
Speaker 1: alone to the larger part um, you know, and absent
Speaker 1: from his speech, you know, there was no talk about
Speaker 1: crime inflation. The board like any of these real issues
Speaker 1: that I mean that people are are facing that you know,
Speaker 1: there a lot of people are suffering right now economically.
Speaker 1: You know they're they're trying to figure out how they're
Speaker 1: going to provide for their families right now. And it
Speaker 1: just seems like this the Biden regime couldn't care less now.
Speaker 1: And as you get around when you're running, you know
Speaker 1: statewide in the state like Missouri, which has a bunch
Speaker 1: of different cultural influences as the diverse state, the Bootheel,
Speaker 1: you know, which is in the southeast Missouri, it's different
Speaker 1: than northwest Missouri. And Saint Wister in Kansas City have
Speaker 1: their differences in nuances. You get a sense of where
Speaker 1: people are at, and you have to meet voters where
Speaker 1: they're at, and you know they're not talking about a
Speaker 1: lot of these ridiculous policies that that Joe Biden, um,
Speaker 1: you know what they care about those kitchen table issues, right,
Speaker 1: the price of gas, the cast of milk, the cost
Speaker 1: of groceries. And why is that, Well, we have a
Speaker 1: supply problem, right, we have some energy for no good reason.
Speaker 1: We have all the energy they will ever need in
Speaker 1: this country for generations and generations, and we ought to
Speaker 1: be all the above on that, and we ought to
Speaker 1: be exporting that liquefied natural gas to Europe because Germany,
Speaker 1: by the way, has been relying on other sources. And
Speaker 1: you know, for whatever reason, with this climate alarmism, Um,
Speaker 1: people are making terrible decisions. Um, people are making terrible decisions,
Speaker 1: and now they're having rolling blackhouts. So we don't want
Speaker 1: to see that in this country. We want to, you know,
Speaker 1: be energy dominant, and that's what people care about. They
Speaker 1: care about inflation. They think this student loan debt forgiveness stuff,
Speaker 1: which you know, robs the truck driver to pay for
Speaker 1: the Harvard grad you know, who's got a bunch of
Speaker 1: student loan that they think it's crazy. They look around
Speaker 1: and they see this and they can't believe this is
Speaker 1: happening in their country. They can't believe that there's eighty
Speaker 1: seven thousand I R. S agents now fading across They
Speaker 1: can't believe that the FBI is being used this way
Speaker 1: by top leadership. And so I think people want like
Speaker 1: a sense of normal, They want some sandy. They can't
Speaker 1: believe the spending that's happening in Washington right now. They're
Speaker 1: completely out of touch this quote unquote inflation reduction bill
Speaker 1: does just the opposite. But they stand there at the
Speaker 1: podium and act like it's going to reduce inflation when
Speaker 1: nobody believes that. It's Orwellian in that way. It's like
Speaker 1: this new speak, so um again. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of great common sense folks out there that see
Speaker 1: what's happening. They're tired of it, and they went their
Speaker 1: country back well and like that of it makes sense,
Speaker 1: like you know, California banning the sale of new gas
Speaker 1: powered cars by five and then they're like, oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, like you can't charge your electric vehicle right now.
Speaker 1: It's like, how does how does this work out there
Speaker 1: in practice? Right? This doesn't This doesn't really make sense. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. And that's that's the fallacy and all of
Speaker 1: this stuff. Right, because you've got a guy like John
Speaker 1: Kerry flying around the world in a private jet talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, rising sea levels because of CEO two output,
Speaker 1: and then Barack Obama bought a house on the coast
Speaker 1: of Martha's Vy near right. The elites are like, they're
Speaker 1: just it's a scam. This whole thing is like a
Speaker 1: pyramid scheme, and uh, and look, people they see it.
Speaker 1: They now, there are some true believers. It's become sort
Speaker 1: of like a religion for some for some people, but
Speaker 1: most people see it and they say, look, you know,
Speaker 1: I want my to be able to make these decisions myself.
Speaker 1: I don't want the government to be dictating all of
Speaker 1: this stuff to me all the time. Quick break back
Speaker 1: with Attorney General Eric Spitt. It's all of these policies
Speaker 1: are geared towards, you know, their elitist coastal base while
Speaker 1: sticking it to you know, hard working Americans and the
Speaker 1: rest of the country. I do think the student loan,
Speaker 1: you know, robbing hard working Americans to pay for some
Speaker 1: liberals gender studies degree, I think is going to hit
Speaker 1: a nerve heading into the mid terms because it's just
Speaker 1: such fundamental unfairness. That's exactly what. That's the right word.
Speaker 1: It's just fundamentally unfairly said. It's people you know who
Speaker 1: worked and saved you know, and maybe they even you know,
Speaker 1: forwent college for a while to to make sure they
Speaker 1: didn't go into debt, or they made a decision about,
Speaker 1: you know, what school to go to. I mean, I
Speaker 1: went to Truman State University, which one of the reasons
Speaker 1: I went there in Northeast Missouri was I got you know,
Speaker 1: I got a chance to play sports, which was great,
Speaker 1: but also it is affordable. It was a great education.
Speaker 1: And so people are making these decisions and they don't
Speaker 1: take on certain debt, right because they don't want be
Speaker 1: saddled with that. But then when somebody who, like you said,
Speaker 1: has that kind of degree, um, you know, in in
Speaker 1: the in the coal miner or the truck driver, of
Speaker 1: the waitresses having to pay their way when they had
Speaker 1: to pay everything off or what, it just strikes people
Speaker 1: as totally unfair. And I think the Democrats now have
Speaker 1: become the party of by and for the elites, and um,
Speaker 1: they're not the party of working people. I think President Trump.
Speaker 1: One of the great legacies of President Trump, you know,
Speaker 1: I think with the Republican Party is it is the
Speaker 1: party for working people, who the forgotten men and women
Speaker 1: this country to build things, who take care of their
Speaker 1: families and want to do the right thing, and they
Speaker 1: constantly get vilified by politicians like Joe Biden and that
Speaker 1: speech last night, And like I said, I think people
Speaker 1: are tired of it. Well, I mean that's the thing,
Speaker 1: Like there's seventy five million people that he is uh
Speaker 1: smearing or are some of the best of America? You
Speaker 1: know they're there are people that are just hard working,
Speaker 1: they love their neighbors, They're good people, they want to
Speaker 1: pay their taxes, they want to do right in society,
Speaker 1: and you know they're being unjustly uh smeared. And I
Speaker 1: want to ask you, so, what should people know about
Speaker 1: You've got a Senate race, you're running for Senate. What
Speaker 1: should people know about your race? Look, this is uh
Speaker 1: you know, it's a fifty fifty centate Lisa, and this Missouri.
Speaker 1: There's no path to the majority if we don't hold Missouri.
Speaker 1: Right the show me state. We got to win Missouri.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get one. And it's you know when you
Speaker 1: look at the map and there's you know, there's a
Speaker 1: there's other states. There's Pennsylvania, and there's Arizona and Georgia.
Speaker 1: Are these important states. We've got to hold Missouri. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we came out of primary really strong, with
Speaker 1: a with a really big win. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of momentum and I think people people have seen my
Speaker 1: record as a training journal taking on these tough fights,
Speaker 1: and I want to take these same fights, that same
Speaker 1: fighting spirit to Washington. We need proven conservative fighters right now,
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm gonna do. And I'm running against
Speaker 1: somebody who's completely out of touch. She's an heiress who
Speaker 1: got into this race and the you know things, she
Speaker 1: can buy this sentence seat. And the bad news for
Speaker 1: her is the seat belongs to the people, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to be their voice. And so we're in a
Speaker 1: good position. There's some pulling that has us up, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out of primary season. But you know,
Speaker 1: these races really start to heat up after Labor Day
Speaker 1: and and uh, but nobody's gonna outwork me. And I
Speaker 1: think it's just critical. It's just such an important seat
Speaker 1: to get, not just the majority, but the right people
Speaker 1: there who are going to shake things up. I'm not
Speaker 1: interested in being, you know, the most popular person in Washington.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in being invited all the cocktail parties.
Speaker 1: I want to go there and represent Missouri values, fight
Speaker 1: back against the socialism we see. And so we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of support. If you know, people, people want
Speaker 1: to be supportive, they can text Schmidt. You know, we've
Speaker 1: got a three zero four zero nine. They can text
Speaker 1: get involved in our campaign, but it's a big one.
Speaker 1: It's one of these races that's going to get a
Speaker 1: lot of national attention. No, and people should definitely. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a critical election and we need to send
Speaker 1: people like you to the Senate who are are going
Speaker 1: to fight for us and and stand up against a
Speaker 1: lot of the threats we're facing. What else do you
Speaker 1: you want to leave us with before we go? I
Speaker 1: know you're you're a busy guy running for Senate here.
Speaker 1: I think that as we talked about, this is a
Speaker 1: not only important election, but he put it in a
Speaker 1: broader context. I think this we're entering the most consequential
Speaker 1: decade in our republic since the Civil War, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of for grabs. You know, we mentioned the
Speaker 1: things that the Democrats are just two votes away from doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Manchet and Christian Cinema are not like
Speaker 1: rock slid on any of the stuff. Anyway, we found
Speaker 1: that with the reckless spending bills that go through like
Speaker 1: there there's a way for them to come around. And
Speaker 1: so when you're talking the Democrats are obsessed in power
Speaker 1: and control added states of the Union and packing the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court of the United States because they don't like
Speaker 1: certain decisions. Um, we need to win and we need
Speaker 1: to hold these people accountable. I think one of the
Speaker 1: things I want people to know abou me is when
Speaker 1: I get up there, I mean, we ought to have
Speaker 1: hearings round the cloth, bring Fauci and for Iran Contra
Speaker 1: like hearings, you know, prime time hearings on what did
Speaker 1: you know about the origins of COVID? What did you
Speaker 1: know about being a functional research where we funding it?
Speaker 1: Did you work with the World Health Organization to suppress
Speaker 1: that information? You know while it spread? Did you know
Speaker 1: that China was restricting flights you know internally but not internationally.
Speaker 1: Did you know they were hoarding P P P you know,
Speaker 1: um ppe uh and then uh, you know going from
Speaker 1: a net export import all these important questions that have
Speaker 1: not been answered. And that's just one thing. Bringing senior FBI,
Speaker 1: you know, d o J officials. We got to start
Speaker 1: holding these people accountable. And Lisa, I think one of
Speaker 1: the things that's most important to me is we have
Speaker 1: to take on the administrative state and we have to
Speaker 1: take a wrecking ball to these bureaucrats that are accountable
Speaker 1: to no one. It is not what the founders intended.
Speaker 1: They thought in our system of self government, you could
Speaker 1: send people there and send them back. That was the
Speaker 1: ultimate check. But right now, you know, the Deputy under
Speaker 1: Secretary of the e p A, whoever that is, can
Speaker 1: change and affect someone's life with a guidance letter. And
Speaker 1: so we gotta put that genie back in the bottle.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump had a two for one rule where
Speaker 1: you can pull back if you're proposing a new rule,
Speaker 1: pull back to Biden just got rid of it. We
Speaker 1: ought to put that stuff in statute and do a
Speaker 1: lot more so we get back to a place where
Speaker 1: you know, the article one branch Congress is responsive to
Speaker 1: the people in These bureaucrats don't run wild. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. You've got to get
Speaker 1: the right people there and people who are unafraid of
Speaker 1: the fight. And that's you know, that's been my record.
Speaker 1: Eric Schmidt, Attorney General Missouri running for Senate. Everyone go
Speaker 1: out and support him, sir, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time. I really appreciate it. Great to be with you.
Speaker 1: So that was the Attorney General of Missouri. He is
Speaker 1: running for Senate. He's awesome. We got to support him,
Speaker 1: Eric Schmidt. I mean, look, he's not lying when he
Speaker 1: says that this is one of the most consequential elections
Speaker 1: that we've faced in our lifetime. I mean, what kind
Speaker 1: of country or we're gonna be that's on the ballot
Speaker 1: this November. Where everyone's got to get out, get excited,
Speaker 1: turn out, get your friends, your family, go work on campaigns,
Speaker 1: do whatever you can to try to turn this country
Speaker 1: around and support candidates like him. I want to thank
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