1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: This is the warning across the world. At this exact moment, 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: there are hundreds of thousands of American forces standing vigil 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: in defense of liberty and freedom. They are ready to 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: fight tonight in Korea if necessary. They are on ballistic 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: missile submarines and on aircraft carriers. American forces later today 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: will be fired on by Huti rebels. They will shoot 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 1: down ballistic missiles headed to Israel. From the Arctic to 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: the Horn of Africa. The American military is the guaranteur 9 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: of stability and peace. It is the singularly deadliest and 10 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: most complex organization in world history. There is nothing more 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: complex than it. The individual service branches, like the Army, 12 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: are older than the United States. The Marine Corps motto 13 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: semper fidelis always faithful. The young men and women who 14 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: raise their hand and swear an oath deserve competent able 15 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: moral leadership. Pete Heggsath is unfit, spectacularly so at every 16 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: conceivable level. The answer to his nomination by the United 17 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: States Senate must be a hard no. It must be 18 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: Pete Heggsath is a drunk and an abuser of women. 19 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: There are millions of Americans who struggle with addiction. All 20 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: of those people's lives have worth and purpose, but the 21 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: choices we make in life limit some of them. If 22 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: you are a person who is slosh at five in 23 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: the afternoon or at two in the morning, you can't 24 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: be the person who gets the phone call when an 25 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: American destroyer is attacked by a terrorist. You can't get 26 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: the phone call when a missile is fired at Israel, 27 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: and you most certainly cannot be the person who wakes 28 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: up the President of the United States with news of 29 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: an invasion. These jobs are deadly jobs. They require stature 30 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: and decency, judgment, rectitude. This was a position that was 31 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: held by George Marshall. Here's what Jane Mayer, arguably the 32 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: nation's best investigative journalists, wrote about Donald Trump's defense nominee. 33 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: A trail of documents corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, 34 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: indicates that Hegsath was forced to step down by two 35 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: of the nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran, Veterans for 36 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America, in the face of 37 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct. 38 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: It should be noted that these organizations were ten people's 39 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: staff and five million dollar bar. The Pentagon is the 40 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: largest and most complex organization on the Earth, with a 41 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: trillion dollar budget and thousands of nuclear weapons warheads under 42 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: its command and control. Let me continue reading. A previously 43 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: undisclosed whistleblower report on Hegseth's tenure as the president of 44 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: Concerned Veterans for America from twenty and thirteen and twenty 45 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: and sixteen describes him as repeatedly intoxicated while acting in 46 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: his official capacity, to the point of needing to be 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: carried out of the organization's events. The detailed seven page report, 48 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: which was compiled by multiple former CVA employees and said 49 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: to the organization's senior management in February twenty fifteen, states 50 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: that at one point, Hegseths had to be restrained, while drunk, 51 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana 52 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: strip club where he had brought his team. The report 53 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, 54 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: and other members of his management team sexually pursued the 55 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: organization's female staffers, whom they divided into two groups, the 56 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: party Girls and the not Party Girls. In addition, The 57 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: report asserts that under Hegseth's leadership, the organization became a 58 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an 59 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: allegation made by a female employee that another employee on 60 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: Hegseeth's staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the 61 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: Louisiana Strip Club. In a separate letter of complaint, which 62 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: was sent to the organization in late twenty fifteen, a 63 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: different former employee described Hegseeth being at a bar in 64 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: the early morning hours of May twenty nine, twenty fifteen, 65 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: while on an official tour through cyah Hoga Falls, Ohio. 66 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: Un can lee chanting quote, kill all Muslims, Kill all Muslims. 67 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: This is what Pete Hegsath's mother wrote to him in 68 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: a letter obtained by The New York Times. Again, I 69 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: want you to comprehend these words duty, honor, country, words 70 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: like semper fidelus, the Marine Corps motto always faithful, the 71 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: Army motto founded in seventeen seventy five. This we will defend. 72 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: According to missus heg Seth talking about the son she 73 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: gave birth to on behalf of all the women. And 74 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: I know it's many you have abused in some way. 75 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 1: I say, get some help and take an honest look 76 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: at yourself. I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, 77 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. 78 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: You are that man, and have been four years and 79 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: as you were mother. It pains me and embarrasses me 80 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. Americas, 81 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: all volunteer military force and their families do not deserve this. 82 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 1: The eighteen year old seamen does not deserve this. The 83 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: nineteen year old marine does not deserve this. The twenty 84 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: year old soldier does not deserve this. None of them do. 85 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: They deserve decency and honor and integrity in their chain 86 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: of command. They deserve good judgment. They deserve a Secretary 87 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: of Defense that will be stone cold sober at two 88 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: in the morning when he's wakened in the middle of 89 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: the night and told that a terror attack has killed 90 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: hundreds of Americans somewhere in the world, or that an 91 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: invasion has begun, or that a coup has occurred, or 92 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: that missiles have hit an American destroyer in the Red Sea. 93 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:09,239 Speaker 1: Who knows Pete Hegscheth is a Fox News Morning show clown, 94 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: and that's where he should go back to. But even 95 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: Nay won't have him. Now he's going to end up 96 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: on the island of Misfit Toys, where all the toys 97 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: can make a forever living on. 98 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 2: CAMEO, Hey, Jerry, this is Matt Gates. I wanted to 99 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: extend my thanks for you supporting me President Trump. And look, 100 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I know Penn State is getting ready for 101 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 2: the big college football playoff and I wanted to wish 102 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 2: them luck and I hope you get the chance to 103 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 2: watch a bunch of their games. Look, there are times 104 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: in life where all of us have to go through 105 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 2: some stuff. Sometimes life is not just a straight line. 106 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: Sometimes it's two steps forward, one step back. But one 107 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: thing I can tell you is when you have great 108 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 2: folks around you, like your former colleagues, who are rooting 109 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 2: for you, then you can really approach life's challenges with 110 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 2: the greatest determination, the greatest grit, and the best chance 111 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 2: of success. You know, we only achieve success in the 112 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 2: things that we have to face when we visualize that 113 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 2: success and then do everything we can to see it through. 114 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 2: I hope the Nindi Lions do great I'll be rooting 115 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: for him a little extra now because I know you're 116 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: rooting for them. So get well soon, and know your 117 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 2: former colleagues care about you a great deal and are 118 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: wishing you all the best in the coming new year. 119 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: Instead of running the Defense Department and having to worry 120 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: about nuclear weapons, Pete Hegsheth will soon be doing this 121 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: along with his friend mac As. The decision before the 122 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: US Senate is fundamentally about whether to desecrate the integrity 123 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: of these institutions, to assault the concepts of honor and 124 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: sacrifice that are at their root, making a mockery of them, 125 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: a punchline out of them, and of course, the endangering 126 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: of lives with a clown life and death job. There 127 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: are no words. We have arrived in a moment in 128 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: time where forty nine percent of the country has sent 129 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: a signal to the commander in chief to be that 130 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: they want him to burn it down. They don't have 131 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: the mandate to do it. What they have is the 132 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: power to do it, the matches to do it, and 133 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: all the gasoline that is required to do it. The 134 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: good news is the opposition still controls a lot of 135 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: water and a lot of hoses. So the worst of 136 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: these people can be stopped, and they must be stopped 137 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: from the power cabinet jobs, the ones that have police 138 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: state possibility, the ones that control nuclear weapons, the ones 139 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 1: that have within their arsenal ballistic missile submarines. There is 140 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: no greater and no more serious responsibility than the charge 141 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: the President has for the lives of the young American 142 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: men and women under his command. Full stuff. No serious 143 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: person with any sense of responsibility for that vital moral 144 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: role could conceivably stand by this nomination. Maybe it's the 145 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: case that Donald Trump is terribly advised, which of course 146 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: he is. Maybe it's the case that somebody ran wild 147 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: and didn't do any vetting on Pete Hegsath. Whatever the 148 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: case may be, it's time for Pete Hegsath to find 149 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: his way to cameo. You ought to give mac Gates 150 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 1: a call. They seem like a great batman and Robin Duo. 151 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: I'm not sure who'd be the better wingman. Just so 152 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: long as it's not in any position of public trust 153 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 1: and responsibility, an alleged rapist cannot be must not be. Ever, 154 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Defense, this is the morning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 155 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: This is the warning and I invite you to join. 156 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us, 157 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community.