Speaker 1: This is the warning before we watch this interview of
Speaker 1: two maga members of Congress on morning. Joe, let's set
Speaker 1: the stage. I'll interrupt throughout the interview to make a
Speaker 1: couple of points. But I want to be crystal clear
Speaker 1: about what it is that you are seeing and why
Speaker 1: it is so appalling. There are many people who appear
Speaker 1: on television who talk about political issues who are fools.
Speaker 1: Scott Jennings is an example of a dishonest fool. Scott
Speaker 1: doesn't know a lot about a lot of things. Scott
Speaker 1: couldn't have a deep conversation about the history of the country,
Speaker 1: about the Constitution, about the twentieth century. He's a cable
Speaker 1: news blatherer who is like Mikey from the serial Commercials.
Speaker 1: He's there to say anything. There are people like Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith who now routinely invey about politics, which of course
Speaker 1: is right as an American citizen. But he too is
Speaker 1: a fool who knows nothing about anything but can't stop talking.
Speaker 1: That's not Joe Scarborough's problem. He's as deeply read and
Speaker 1: knowledgeable about American history as I am, which means when
Speaker 1: he hears what these members of Congress are saying, he
Speaker 1: appreciates exactly what it is that I'm hearing, And what
Speaker 1: I'm hearing is members of Congress saying, we have reached
Speaker 1: an hour of crisis that is so great that we
Speaker 1: have to get rid of the Constitution of the United
Speaker 1: States so we can let Elon Musk and his nineteen
Speaker 1: year old lieutenant named big Balls takeover spending and who
Speaker 1: gets paid from the United States Congress because the Congress
Speaker 1: has wrung up thirty six million dollars in debt.
Speaker 2: As an Article one champion. I'm concerned by what I'm
Speaker 2: seeing with the Elon Musk going around and and and
Speaker 2: and going from bureaucracy to bureaucracy, and he's seeming to
Speaker 2: do like sort of a line item vetos saying well,
Speaker 2: we don't want this.
Speaker 1: We don't want that.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, are you all concerned at all about this
Speaker 2: infringing upon your Article one powers because you all, as
Speaker 2: you know, you authorize it, uh and and and then
Speaker 2: you appropriate it and then it moves forward for the
Speaker 2: President and the executive branch to spend it. Are you
Speaker 2: concerned now or is there a moment is there a
Speaker 2: red line Elon Musk could cross that would cause you
Speaker 2: real constitutional concerns.
Speaker 3: Listen. I think what President Trump is doing by appointing
Speaker 3: Elon Musk is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough appreciates that Article one of the Constitution is
Speaker 1: not transferable, it is not fungible, and it is not debatable.
Speaker 1: Every single member of Congress has already taken a position
Speaker 1: on the debate when they swore an oath of allegiance
Speaker 1: to preserve the Constitution of the United States of America
Speaker 1: against all enemies, foreign and domestic. This is not a
Speaker 1: debate about provisions in the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Speaker 1: This is not a technical disagreement about a provision in
Speaker 1: the Farm Bill. This is not a fiscal disagreement about
Speaker 1: tax policy where one side says the top rate ought
Speaker 1: to be thirty nine percent, in the other thirty five percent.
Speaker 1: This what is being said is a radical repudiation of
Speaker 1: the most elemental idea in American history history. And so
Speaker 1: what Joe Scarborough knows is that Elon Musk, he does
Speaker 1: not have the right to spend the people's money. He
Speaker 1: is operating outside the constitution, outside the law. He has
Speaker 1: not been commissioned, he has not been confirmed, he has
Speaker 1: not been appointed and he has not been elected, and
Speaker 1: yet what we see from Scarborough is a lack of
Speaker 1: energy and passion. Joe Scarborough could have instigated a debate,
Speaker 1: could have said, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: President Trump is doing an amazing job by actually telling us, Hey,
Speaker 3: we have a problem and look look at what we're uncovering.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy we're having the discussion.
Speaker 2: Well, and I'm happy we're having a discussion too, about waste,
Speaker 2: fraud and abuse, about using best practices.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal. Article one is Article one for a reason.
Speaker 1: The people the foundation of government of the people, by
Speaker 1: the people, for the people choose the elected representatives who
Speaker 1: spend the people's money. Elon Musk and a nineteen year
Speaker 1: old named big Balls, and until yesterday their colleague, a
Speaker 1: young Nazi whose social media feed is filled with praise
Speaker 1: of eugenics and hatred towards Indian engineers. These are the
Speaker 1: people for whom we are ready to suspend the American Constitution.
Speaker 1: And Joe Scarborough's approach is like, hey, let's hear him out,
Speaker 1: as opposed to confronting the fascists who are on the screen.
Speaker 1: Two months after he called Trump hitler and then went
Speaker 1: to the Bergoff got on his knees, capitulated, and set
Speaker 1: off an avalanche of media capitulation, each company racing the
Speaker 1: next to be the first to get in line to
Speaker 1: be fair, which means being nice, nice to try accommodating
Speaker 1: to all of the craziest on American ideas. What's next,
Speaker 1: troops in the street. Already there are news accounts of
Speaker 1: ice agents boarding school buses, seizing little children, and of
Speaker 1: course American citizens with brown skin speaking Spanish from let's say,
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico being seized by their government and incarcerated for
Speaker 1: no cause whatsoever. These are American citizens who do not
Speaker 1: have to show their papers on the streets of America. Yet,
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, America's media, in the
Speaker 1: form of powerful corporate companies, many owned by billionaires, have
Speaker 1: capitulated out of fear that the next merger will be denied,
Speaker 1: out of fear that the twenty five million dollar salary
Speaker 1: might go away, out of fear that I might be
Speaker 1: frivolously sued, And so the coward rules. And when a
Speaker 1: radical Republican member of Congress comes on to television and says,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing that Elon Musk and a couple
Speaker 1: of children have seized control of America's US Treasury Department
Speaker 1: payment system without oversight, without accountability, because we're in a crisis,
Speaker 1: and he hears them out. He was on his show
Speaker 1: that he marked out a fence line to the Washington
Speaker 1: elite about what you could say and what you could
Speaker 1: not say, what was fair to say and unfair to say,
Speaker 1: knowing that you would have Joe Scarborough to deal with
Speaker 1: if you got out of line about Joe Biden. He
Speaker 1: made it perfectly clear. Came the first television host to
Speaker 1: say you to his audience live on air.
Speaker 4: Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell
Speaker 4: you the truth and FU if you can't handle the truth.
Speaker 4: This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
Speaker 4: not a close second. And I've known him for years.
Speaker 4: The Brazinskis have known him for fifty years. If it
Speaker 4: weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.
Speaker 1: And now he does it with a little less bomb best,
Speaker 1: but make no mistake, it's still a fuck you because
Speaker 1: he should have some bomb beast when it comes to
Speaker 1: defense of the Constitution. Unlike most television hosts, he swore
Speaker 1: an oath to defend, and his swearing of that oath
Speaker 1: doesn't end with the end of his tenure. Once you
Speaker 1: take that oath, it endures for the rest of your life,
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough. And so when a member of Congress from
Speaker 1: the institution you served that you have walk in privileges
Speaker 1: to sit on the floor, to go on the floor
Speaker 1: sends two members to go on your show and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we'll let elon decide. You ought to do a lot
Speaker 1: better than making the point. Hey, I'm an article one guy.
Speaker 1: You made that point, but we don't know where you
Speaker 1: stand because you're not standing. You're laying down. In an
Speaker 1: hour when it is time to stand up. Too many
Speaker 1: people are laying down. Too many fools are leading the charge,
Speaker 1: like this one from New York.
Speaker 2: We will win.
Speaker 4: We will win. We will win.
Speaker 1: We will win.
Speaker 4: We won We won't rest, we won't rest. We won't rest,
Speaker 4: we won't rest.
Speaker 1: We will win. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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