1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. I'm in London, 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: but you got questions and I have answers. Let's get started. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: The question is are there any laws that would prevent 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump from nominating one of his sons to a 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: cabinet position. Answer to that question is no, there are 6 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: no restrictions on that. But there is a check on that, 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: and that is the advice and consent of the United 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: States Senate, who could look at Uday and Kusy as 9 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: I like to call them, and say, you aren't allowed 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: to run a charity in the state of New York 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 1: because of the fraudulent activity found by the court, and 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: therefore you probably shouldn't run a cabinet agency. Because we 13 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: now live in an era where co equal members of government, 14 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: member of the legislative branch have taken that, crumpled it 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: up and thrown it away and said things like a 16 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: congressman just did that. If Donald Trump tells us to jump, 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: we say how high? Which is not how this is 18 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: supposed to work, any of it. The question is, was 19 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: the crazy nominations that Donald Trump put forward part of 20 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: a plan to clear the way for people he really wanted. 21 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: That would be much easier to get confirmed once the 22 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: cannon fodder went down. I think about this sometimes. If 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: he is that shrewd, for sure, Trump is a better 24 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: negotiator than his Democratic adversaries in the Congress. And there's 25 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: no question that he took a bunch of pasta, splattered 26 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: it in red sauce, and threw it against the wall. 27 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: And when you look at all of these people, nobody 28 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: thinks that all of the most seriously unfit people as 29 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: a package can be stopped together. So there obviously is 30 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: a distinction of craziness and unacceptability between mac Gates and 31 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: everybody else for one hundred different reasons. So Gates is 32 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: the person who gets the attention. And then we move 33 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: on to Pete Hegseth, because a drunk cannot be in 34 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: the chain of command with access to the nation's nuclear 35 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: arsenal in the way that the Secretary of Defense has 36 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: no way. But the pursuit of heg Seth until he 37 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: goes down means that Tulci Gabbert, who is as equally unfit, 38 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: is not getting the scrutiny she deserves, to say nothing 39 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: of nominees like Robert F. Kennedy, who will absolutely one 40 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: hundred percent get Americans killed through his insanity, like he 41 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: did in American Samoa with vaccine denial. You can look 42 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: up this story. It's it's sad, it's a travesty, but 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,119 Speaker 1: he's likely to get through. And so when we look 44 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: at all of this, I do think that Trump understands 45 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: that if he can do a lot, and he can 46 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: do a lot fast, he's able to overwhelm the system. 47 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: He's able to overwhelm the media, and the media is 48 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: in a capitul in state. They're afraid of him. Everything 49 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: is lining up right now in a way that gives 50 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: a maximum advantage to Donald Trump in his assembly of 51 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: the craziest group of Americans that have ever come together 52 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: into the federal government with real power to exercise over 53 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: three hundred and forty five million people. So yes, I 54 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: think there is a deliberateness to it, but it's an 55 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: accidental deliberateness. At first. Trump is an instinct player. He's 56 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: not a plan he's not a strategist. He's not working 57 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: backwards from an outcome. He's feeling his way forward through 58 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: a very predictable reaction set from his opponents that he's 59 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: learned to into it. The question is what do I 60 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: think about Gavin Newsom's plans to Trump proof the state 61 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: ahead of Trump taking power. I have said for a 62 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: long time that I like Gavin Newsom, I admire Gavenussom, 63 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: and I support Gavin Newsom. But Gavin Newsom is out 64 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: of position politically. And Gavin Newsom is out of position 65 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: politically because his first foray here into national politics in 66 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four race was not successful in the 67 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: sense that he used a great deal of capital explaining 68 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: to the country why Joe Biden was fit to run 69 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: when some c bridge was required. He's clearly had little 70 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: reflection about that. Gavin Newsom has two years left to 71 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: be governor of California. When he was the mayor of 72 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: San Francisco, just like when Willie Brown was the mayor 73 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: of San Francisco, the city was not like it is today. 74 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: He has no other job but to make Los Angeles 75 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: and San Francisco and the big cities of California Jules again, 76 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: or at least to hand off to his successor a 77 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: slightly better state than the state it's in right now. 78 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: Because the country looks at California and they are a 79 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: guest California as a brand is thoroughly broken. It is 80 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: not admired. It is not a place where people think 81 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: about as one to go to like it used to 82 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: be for reinvention, for opportunity. California has become synonymous with 83 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: government failure, and it has become the prop of the 84 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: American cleon Donald Trump, a world class demagogue. So the 85 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: results of the election were that America wanted to California 86 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: prove the United States by making Trump president. And what 87 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom should start doing is governing and stop doing 88 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: is posturing. All of us would be much better off. 89 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: Ambition is a fine thing, and it's a necessary thing 90 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: in politics. But we're entering a period when politics is 91 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: going to be about one thing, to be about who's 92 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: on your side and who's tough enough to stand up 93 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: to an array of powerful interests, which include, for the 94 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: first time in our lifetime, the government of the United 95 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: States directly threatening opposition and directly threatening acts of conscience 96 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,239 Speaker 1: because they can things are about to get serious and real, 97 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: and for Democrats to be able to win again at 98 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: the national level, they have to repair the sense of 99 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: alienation that exists between them and a lot of ordinary 100 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: people about their ability to keep them safe, to keep 101 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: order in the big cities, and to maintain prosperity in 102 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: their core and for good reason. The question is with 103 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: Matt Yatesgan and Pete Hagsath's about to join him over 104 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: a cameo, who is the next most vulnerable Trump pick. 105 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: That is obviously the spectacularly unfit, unqualified, Russian useful idiot 106 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: Tulci Gabbert, who has grown up I shit you not 107 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: in a cult in Hawaii. Read all about it. The 108 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: bottom line is that the National Intelligence Director cannot be 109 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: a person who can't distinguish reality from fantasy, can't English 110 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: Russian propaganda from news, So Tulsa Gabert cannot be the 111 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: National Intelligence Director. Plus Tulsa Gabbert is not smart enough 112 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: intellectually to navigate the nomination hearings, so she will be 113 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: the next up. And of course Robert Kennedy. The Tara Palmer, 114 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: one of the best political reporters in the country, has 115 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: reported that this posted here is the questionnaire for Robert 116 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: Kennedy over at the Department of Health and Human Services. 117 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: Why is Robert Kennedy quizzing prospective female employees about their 118 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: sexual history? The era we're entering into is one I 119 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: still continue to believe there's a great deal of a 120 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: lack of imagination about and so the unfitness at a 121 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: moral level, at an intellectual level, at a mental health level, 122 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: amongst the team that Trump is assembling is extraordinary. And 123 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: during these next weeks of months, that unfitness will stretch 124 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: down to confirmable position at a sub cabinet level, and 125 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: there will be too many to name, and most of 126 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,119 Speaker 1: them will get through. And the Senate is not inclined 127 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: at a basic level to do much exercising of its 128 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: advice and consent power, So most of these people will 129 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: end up in government. That's going to be bad for America, 130 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: bad for you, and it's going to cost some people 131 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: their lives out there. And we'll see how many when 132 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: we get to the end of the catastrophe and can 133 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: look back. But the position of the warning is that 134 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: I'm warning you that there is a catastrophe coming. If 135 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: at the end I'm wrong and we wind up on 136 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: the other edge of the rainbow with a pot of 137 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: gold and Donald Trump smiling behind it, I'll be the 138 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: first to admit I'm wrong. But I don't think we're 139 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: headed in that direction. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the 140 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: warning and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our 141 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: sub stack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to 142 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 1: the community.