1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, October first. This is the morning yesterday. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth fulfilled obviously a long held masturbatory fantasy. He 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: is the first Defense secretary to outfit the war fighting 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: center of America's military lethality with a makeup room, and 5 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: for yesterday's gathering, no doubt, Pete Hegseth's sophora bag was 6 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: very heavy. Indeed, there has been no mention in the 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: leading news reports about whether third wife Jenny was present 8 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: at the confab at the Pentagon, she's nicknamed Yoko Ono, 9 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: where she routinely is known to attend even the highest 10 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: level meetings. How did it come to be that a 11 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: loser like Pete Hegseth, a drunken Fox News morning host 12 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 1: who couldn't run a veteran's advocacy group without bringing it 13 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: into disgrace, came the Minister of War in Trump's cabinet. 14 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: The answer to that question is a deeply corrupt political 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: system has produced President Trump twice over the course of 16 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: ten years, the most wretched man to ever hold power 17 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: in the Republic. After a coup that was incited by 18 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: his words, the violence done in his name, he by 19 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: the choice of forty nine and a half percent of 20 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: the people was elected, and since then he has been 21 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: appeased morally and philosophically, not just by the sycophants that 22 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: surround him, by the losers who worship him because he 23 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: has elevated them into positions of power in pre eminence, 24 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: but by all of those who think he has the 25 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,279 Speaker 1: power to take things from them that he, in fact 26 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: does not have the power to take, because they are 27 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: free Americans, with freedom of speech and conscience, and the 28 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: right to worship and choose and believe whatever it is 29 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: they wish, and to create whatever it is they wish 30 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: to create. And so in this moment, the heads of 31 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: the big law firms have capitulated to Donald Trump's threats. 32 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: The heads of the major networks have capitulated to Donald 33 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: Trump's threats. Everywhere, from the agricultural sector to the tech 34 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: sector to the media sector, we see consolidations of power, 35 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: of wealth, political influence, and all of it merging together 36 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: in a toxic stew where a few order and direct 37 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: the lives of multitudes, the few give advantage to the few, 38 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: and the many are the victims of their their malice, 39 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: their recklessness, their carelessness, and their greed. America has a 40 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: growing and exploding billionaire class, yet it has many millions 41 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: tied to nineteen and twenty two percent and thirty percent 42 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: interest rate credit cards that beggar them. There are millions 43 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: that are unbanked. Forty percent of the country does not 44 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: have four hundred dollars available. Prices are rising, farm prices 45 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: are rising. Did you know that farming and farmers have 46 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: once again taken over the dubious distinction of being the 47 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: number one demographic for suicides. Things are falling apart in 48 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: the economy and all over the world, and so it 49 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: makes sense that Champagne Pete would want to assemble every 50 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: flag officer, every Navy admiral, every Army and marine in 51 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: air forces general to listen to him deliver his no 52 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: fat general speech in front of the identical setup made 53 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: famous from the movie Patent. 54 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: If the Secretary of War can do regular hard pt, 55 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 2: so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's 56 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any 57 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 2: formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to 58 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the 59 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 2: Pentagon and leading commands around the country in the world. 60 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 2: It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not 61 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 2: who we are. So whether you're an airborne ranger or 62 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 2: a chairborn ranger, a brand new private or a four 63 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 2: star general, you need to meet the height and weight 64 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 2: standards and pass the PT test. And as the Chairman said, 65 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: yes there is no PT test, but today, at my direction, 66 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 2: every member of the Joint Force, at every rank is 67 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 2: required to take a PT test twice a year, as 68 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 2: well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year 69 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 2: every year of service. 70 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: Pete hegsath, who's fulfilling a masturbatory fantasy they could only 71 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: have dreamed about from the set of Fox News' weekend 72 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: anchor duty. He is a clown, and he is a buffoon. 73 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: And yesterday the political independence, the loyalty, the non partisan 74 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: tradition of the United States military was tested. Donald Trump 75 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: told the generals, they're going to war against the American people, 76 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: who are the source of their soldiers and their men. 77 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump aims to point a gun at them, the 78 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: parents of his men, that is, and their brothers and sisters, 79 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: and their friends and their neighbors, especially the black and 80 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: the brown ones, the ones who are part of the 81 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: insidious enemy from within. 82 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 3: Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training 83 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 3: for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. 84 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 3: This is going to be a big thing for the 85 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 3: people in this room, because it's the enemy from within, 86 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 3: and we have to handle it before it gets out 87 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 3: of control. It won't get out of control once. Once 88 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 3: you're involved at all, they all joke, they say, oh, 89 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 3: this is not good. You saw it in Washington. We 90 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 3: had gangs of trenda rug. We said, ten twelve, fifteen 91 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 3: kids and there's military guys walk up to them and 92 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 3: they treat them with disrespect, and they just got pounded. 93 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 3: They just got pounded. The gang just pounded, then thrown 94 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 3: into paddy wagons and taken back to their country. Some 95 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 3: are so dangerous. We don't't even do that because we 96 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 3: don't want to have some of the stone call murders. 97 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 3: We don't have the conference. Even though they're not coming 98 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 3: back very easily. We don't have the conference. We put 99 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 3: them in jails. But these service members are following in 100 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: a great and storied military trade, from protecting frontier communities 101 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 3: to chasing outlaws and bandits and the wild West, and 102 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 3: our history is filled with military heroes who took in 103 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 3: all enemies, foreign and domestic. You know that phrase very well, 104 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 3: that's what the Oaths says, foreign and domestic. Well, we 105 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 3: also have domestic. 106 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: Yesterday was a day of infamy, a day of broken trust, 107 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: a faithless day where Donald Trump lit on fire the 108 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: values of the United States military. And he did it 109 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: at Quantico, Virginia, the training center for Marine Corps officer candidates. 110 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: And through the door where those officer candidates proceed, there 111 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: is a motto Deukto's examples lead by example. Donald Trump 112 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: is a convicted felon and a liar who's disgraced and dishonored. 113 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: The war dead at Arlington has pondered out loud why 114 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: he can't have generals like the one Hitler's had. He's 115 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: a despicable man. Yesterday was a despicable and dangerous day, 116 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: and the American people should understand it as such. And 117 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: they should know that their president hates them, and they 118 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: should know that their president wants to make war against them. 119 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: How should they know? How can they know? The answer 120 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: is simple. Donald Trump said it out loud again yesterday. 121 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: The problem is no one ever seems to listen. But 122 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: one day it won't be just talk. It will be 123 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: talk turned into action. And I guess on that day 124 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: will all of us hear them loud and clear, And then, 125 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: as they say in the military, it'll be over and out. 126 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 127 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: to join this community where I promise to be honest, 128 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 129 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 130 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: and on substack. Thank you.