WEBVTT - Cabinets, Corruption & California | The Schmidt Storm 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.200 Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. I'm in London, 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:09.119 but you got questions and I have answers. Let's get started. 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.200 The question is are there any laws that would prevent 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.760 Donald Trump from nominating one of his sons to a 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.600 cabinet position. Answer to that question is no, there are 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.040 no restrictions on that. But there is a check on that, 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.800 and that is the advice and consent of the United 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.800 States Senate, who could look at Uday and Kusy as 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.960 I like to call them, and say, you aren't allowed 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.920 to run a charity in the state of New York 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.879 because of the fraudulent activity found by the court, and 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:54.680 therefore you probably shouldn't run a cabinet agency. Because we 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.520 now live in an era where co equal members of government, 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.600 member of the legislative branch have taken that, crumpled it 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.880 up and thrown it away and said things like a 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.679 congressman just did that. If Donald Trump tells us to jump, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.120 we say how high? Which is not how this is 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:21.160 supposed to work, any of it. The question is, was 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:28.080 the crazy nominations that Donald Trump put forward part of 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:33.520 a plan to clear the way for people he really wanted. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.400 That would be much easier to get confirmed once the 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:43.960 cannon fodder went down. I think about this sometimes. If 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.440 he is that shrewd, for sure, Trump is a better 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:52.360 negotiator than his Democratic adversaries in the Congress. And there's 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.680 no question that he took a bunch of pasta, splattered 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.800 it in red sauce, and threw it against the wall. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.080 And when you look at all of these people, nobody 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:08.160 thinks that all of the most seriously unfit people as 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:13.160 a package can be stopped together. So there obviously is 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:19.200 a distinction of craziness and unacceptability between mac Gates and 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:24.160 everybody else for one hundred different reasons. So Gates is 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.320 the person who gets the attention. And then we move 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.280 on to Pete Hegseth, because a drunk cannot be in 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.400 the chain of command with access to the nation's nuclear 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.400 arsenal in the way that the Secretary of Defense has 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.280 no way. But the pursuit of heg Seth until he 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:48.160 goes down means that Tulci Gabbert, who is as equally unfit, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.920 is not getting the scrutiny she deserves, to say nothing 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.880 of nominees like Robert F. Kennedy, who will absolutely one 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:01.680 hundred percent get Americans killed through his insanity, like he 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.760 did in American Samoa with vaccine denial. You can look 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.720 up this story. It's it's sad, it's a travesty, but 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:14.119 he's likely to get through. And so when we look 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.160 at all of this, I do think that Trump understands 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.919 that if he can do a lot, and he can 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.840 do a lot fast, he's able to overwhelm the system. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.120 He's able to overwhelm the media, and the media is 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.280 in a capitul in state. They're afraid of him. Everything 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.400 is lining up right now in a way that gives 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:39.480 a maximum advantage to Donald Trump in his assembly of 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.440 the craziest group of Americans that have ever come together 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:48.840 into the federal government with real power to exercise over 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.240 three hundred and forty five million people. So yes, I 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.800 think there is a deliberateness to it, but it's an 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:59.320 accidental deliberateness. At first. Trump is an instinct player. He's 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.720 not a plan he's not a strategist. He's not working 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.320 backwards from an outcome. He's feeling his way forward through 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:12.200 a very predictable reaction set from his opponents that he's 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.880 learned to into it. The question is what do I 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.320 think about Gavin Newsom's plans to Trump proof the state 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.680 ahead of Trump taking power. I have said for a 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.440 long time that I like Gavin Newsom, I admire Gavenussom, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:35.920 and I support Gavin Newsom. But Gavin Newsom is out 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.920 of position politically. And Gavin Newsom is out of position 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.880 politically because his first foray here into national politics in 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:49.560 the twenty twenty four race was not successful in the 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:54.000 sense that he used a great deal of capital explaining 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:58.920 to the country why Joe Biden was fit to run 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.760 when some c bridge was required. He's clearly had little 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:08.279 reflection about that. Gavin Newsom has two years left to 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.680 be governor of California. When he was the mayor of 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.039 San Francisco, just like when Willie Brown was the mayor 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.200 of San Francisco, the city was not like it is today. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:26.200 He has no other job but to make Los Angeles 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:31.920 and San Francisco and the big cities of California Jules again, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.920 or at least to hand off to his successor a 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.760 slightly better state than the state it's in right now. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.320 Because the country looks at California and they are a 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:50.320 guest California as a brand is thoroughly broken. It is 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.520 not admired. It is not a place where people think 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.919 about as one to go to like it used to 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:03.560 be for reinvention, for opportunity. California has become synonymous with 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.800 government failure, and it has become the prop of the 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:13.200 American cleon Donald Trump, a world class demagogue. So the 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:19.360 results of the election were that America wanted to California 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.560 prove the United States by making Trump president. And what 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:28.320 Gavin Newsom should start doing is governing and stop doing 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.400 is posturing. All of us would be much better off. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.680 Ambition is a fine thing, and it's a necessary thing 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.599 in politics. But we're entering a period when politics is 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.360 going to be about one thing, to be about who's 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.479 on your side and who's tough enough to stand up 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.680 to an array of powerful interests, which include, for the 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.880 first time in our lifetime, the government of the United 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.839 States directly threatening opposition and directly threatening acts of conscience 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.239 because they can things are about to get serious and real, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.640 and for Democrats to be able to win again at 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.039 the national level, they have to repair the sense of 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.280 alienation that exists between them and a lot of ordinary 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.920 people about their ability to keep them safe, to keep 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.280 order in the big cities, and to maintain prosperity in 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.040 their core and for good reason. The question is with 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.360 Matt Yatesgan and Pete Hagsath's about to join him over 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:34.040 a cameo, who is the next most vulnerable Trump pick. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:42.160 That is obviously the spectacularly unfit, unqualified, Russian useful idiot 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.960 Tulci Gabbert, who has grown up I shit you not 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.720 in a cult in Hawaii. Read all about it. The 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.800 bottom line is that the National Intelligence Director cannot be 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.440 a person who can't distinguish reality from fantasy, can't English 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:05.640 Russian propaganda from news, So Tulsa Gabert cannot be the 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.880 National Intelligence Director. Plus Tulsa Gabbert is not smart enough 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:15.000 intellectually to navigate the nomination hearings, so she will be 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.160 the next up. And of course Robert Kennedy. The Tara Palmer, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.480 one of the best political reporters in the country, has 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:28.000 reported that this posted here is the questionnaire for Robert 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.440 Kennedy over at the Department of Health and Human Services. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.600 Why is Robert Kennedy quizzing prospective female employees about their 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.960 sexual history? The era we're entering into is one I 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.439 still continue to believe there's a great deal of a 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.440 lack of imagination about and so the unfitness at a 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:52.160 moral level, at an intellectual level, at a mental health level, 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:57.720 amongst the team that Trump is assembling is extraordinary. And 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.480 during these next weeks of months, that unfitness will stretch 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.920 down to confirmable position at a sub cabinet level, and 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.120 there will be too many to name, and most of 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.119 them will get through. And the Senate is not inclined 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.040 at a basic level to do much exercising of its 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:18.040 advice and consent power, So most of these people will 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.520 end up in government. That's going to be bad for America, 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.720 bad for you, and it's going to cost some people 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.000 their lives out there. And we'll see how many when 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.200 we get to the end of the catastrophe and can 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.080 look back. But the position of the warning is that 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:38.040 I'm warning you that there is a catastrophe coming. If 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.680 at the end I'm wrong and we wind up on 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.360 the other edge of the rainbow with a pot of 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.440 gold and Donald Trump smiling behind it, I'll be the 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.840 first to admit I'm wrong. But I don't think we're 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:54.160 headed in that direction. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.439 warning and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.040 sub stack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:01.719 the community.