1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: You're gonna jump right in step because we're talking. Before 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: we went live, I said, I feel like we we 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: have to talk about Matt Gains like we can't, can't 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: ignore the literal elephant in the room. All right, So 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: give me your okay, let me ask you this way, 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: and then you go take it the way you want. 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: Will Matt Gates serve a day as the attorney general 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: in a Donald Trump administration? No? Okay, tell me. 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: Why, No, he's not. He's not going to get confirmed. 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: And I think that there's a couple of things going 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 2: on right now. So I look at the numbers and 12 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: I actually think this is gonna be a big deal 13 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 2: in the weeks ahead. Small moral victory, but Donald Trump 14 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: will not wind up with majority support in the electorate. 15 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: It will be a plurality victory. He will drop down, 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 2: I suspect looking at the numbers coming in under that 17 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: fifty percent mark. And so this is and still is 18 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: a closely divided country. 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: Yep. So I could go on for a long time about. 20 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: Some of the deficiencies that led to the scene that 21 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: we saw today in the White House with Trump and Biden, 22 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: and we moved in to that, and. 23 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: That's Biden's legacy. 24 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 2: There it is, And a couple of hours later we 25 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: have Tulca Gabbert, who's as equally unfit to be the 26 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: Director of National Intelligence, joining Pete head Seth, who's as 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: equally unfit nominated as Defense Secretary. So the American people 28 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 2: are fickle. And I just would remind everybody watching the 29 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: approval level for the Iraq War on the day the 30 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: bombing began with seventy seven percent yep, and it doesn't 31 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: end up like this. So experience and suffering are great teachers. 32 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: I would say to everybody, like, we're gonna get into this. 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: There is no department that Elon Musk is heading. It 34 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: doesn't exist. Nope, there is no agency. There's no budget, 35 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 2: there's no statute, there's no authority. 36 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: I mean literally, just like you and I could make 37 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: up it and that would happen. 38 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 3: You and I could say Chrystmalas and Stever doing the 39 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 3: you know, the department of whatever substack in YouTube, like 40 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 3: it has the exact same current authority as the thing 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 3: for Ramswami and Buster are doing. 42 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: Now. 43 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 2: Trump won the election. Trump controls the Senate, MAGA controls 44 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: the Senate. It's supposed to be a coequal branch of government. 45 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 2: Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins plus plus plus, And I 46 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 2: guess my question is what is the line? Because no 47 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 2: serious person who cares about civil liberties the constitution vote 48 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 2: for Matt Gays, who was under investigation until literally the 49 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 2: moment he resigned Congress for illegal drug use, hard drugs, coke, 50 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 2: sleeping with underage women Attorney General of the United States 51 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: is just unacceptable and it gives you a glimpse into 52 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 2: the future of what this is gonna be like. And 53 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 2: literally tomorrow morning is seven hundred and thirteen days until 54 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 2: the midterm election, which is right. The years are right, 55 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: the years are short, the days are long and gonna 56 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: We're gonna have some long days over the next two 57 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: short years. 58 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: I think. I think my favorite reaction like just so 59 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: people know, like Matt Gates is not for everything. Steve said, 60 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: I'll add one thing. Matt Gates is very I don't know, 61 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if reviled this white word, but very 62 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: disliked among Republicans even in Congress. My favorite response was 63 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: Mike Simpson, who's like an old timey Republican. He's from Idoh, 64 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: he's been there. Forever kind of established and guy he said, 65 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,119 Speaker 1: some reporter said, what did you hear that Gates got 66 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: a denomination from Trump? For ag? He said, you gotta 67 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: be shitting me, which is like my favorite, like honest response. 68 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: And I do think I'm stunned that he You know, what, 69 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: were you sur Let me ask you this and then 70 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: we'll move on. Were you surprised when you heard the 71 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: Gates thing or not? I am? 72 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: I have an emotional dissonance that every time one of 73 00:04:55,480 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: these is revealed, I'm simultaneously shocked yet not surprised. So 74 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 2: the experience of it sitting and I'm not happy about this. 75 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 2: Let's just say that my public disposition towards this has 76 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: been worst case scenario for a long time. And so 77 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 2: there are people that are close to me that, in 78 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: the twenty four to forty eight hours after the election, 79 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 2: you know, call up and say, I don't think you 80 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 2: should use the word fascist, which I've used to describe 81 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 2: and I think is appropriate. You are catastrophizing this, And 82 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 2: I listen, and I try to be humble, and I 83 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: try to look in the mirror and say, but then 84 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 2: when he makes disappointment, I know that I am right 85 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: and that everything that I have said is going to 86 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 2: come to pass, that this will be a catastrophe. You 87 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 2: have in the form of Tulci Gabbert for those of 88 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: you you know listening may or may not remember her 89 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 2: trip to Syria to bascharel Assade. Extremely strange. This a 90 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: just a fringe congresswoman. No difference between her and a 91 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green, same same person. Uh, this is a deeply, 92 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 2: deeply unfit person who parrots all the time Vladimir. 93 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: Putin talking points. 94 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 2: So the she is what is called a useful idiot, right, 95 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 2: and she's gonna be the director of National Intelligence and 96 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: a nothing nothing of the Fox News loom who's been 97 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 2: nominated as Defense secretary. And the reality is is the 98 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 2: is the Senate has to kill all three of these 99 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 2: these nominees. I mean, if you're a United States senator 100 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 2: and you give a fuck at all, and I and 101 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 2: I mean that at all. There's some conversation that takes 102 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 2: place in Washington, and I'm encouraged, and by encouraged, I 103 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 2: mean a cintilla of encouragement with John fun because that 104 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: signals that of the three, the Senate was sending a 105 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: message to Maga that we're the United States Senate. We're 106 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 2: gonna be independent, so I don't know what happens here, 107 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 2: but but these people right are unfit. 108 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: And by the way, the. 109 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 2: Senate Democrats have some prerogatives here. They're gonna get the 110 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 2: FBI reports on these people, They're they're going to vet them, 111 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 2: they're gonna get to question them. 112 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: And these processes should be brutal. 113 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 2: And this idea that Trump is going to circumvent the 114 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: Senate confirmation process and collusion, I cannot imagine that it's 115 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: gonna happen. 116 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: But if it does. 117 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: If it does, and Trump is able to assemble the 118 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 2: most unfit cabinet in American history with a capitulation on 119 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 2: the part of the US Senate regarding their advice and consent, 120 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 2: then we're at a place in the country really where 121 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 2: our democracy. 122 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,559 Speaker 1: Is under a deep threat by action, not just word. 123 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: And at that point we start having questions about civil disobedience, 124 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 2: about mass protests, or it's all gone in six months 125 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 2: to a year. 126 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: I think that it's so interesting you mentioned and we're 127 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: gonna move on. It's interesting you mentioned Telsea Gabbert because 128 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 1: I had a friend in the intelligence world say, after 129 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: the Gate thing, which was right almost simultaneous with the 130 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: Gabbart things, say, look, I know the Gates thing is 131 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: gonna get the most attention, you know, like, I get it, 132 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: but that the Gabbert thing was what he was more 133 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: concerned about because of who she is, in her back 134 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: and the role right and his estimation of the likelihood 135 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: that she would she was more likely to get confirmed 136 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: than Gates, which which I thought was like, I know, 137 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: we focused on Gates. I get why we focus on Gates, 138 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: but I actually think I'm glad you mentioned that because 139 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: I think it's a good point. 140 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite 141 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 2: you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 142 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 2: follow us. Welcome to the community.