1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: It is Monday, July to seventh, twenty twenty five. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: This is the morning. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 1: And what happened over the long two hundred and forty 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: ninth anniversary of the United States July fourth weekend is 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: that the monstrosity Trump perversely named the Big Beautiful Bill 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: is law. And what it has done is strip tens 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: of millions of Americans from their health insurance, placing the 8 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: cost of all of that on the backs of the 9 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 1: American middle class. Millions of the neediest Americans have lost 10 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: food aid, placing that burden squarely on the backs of 11 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: the American middle class. The bill is the greatest single 12 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: transfer of money of wealth from poor people, an ordinary 13 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: working class middle class America ends to the richest people 14 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: in the history of civilization. It is the most irresponsible 15 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: piece of budgeting ever in the history of the country, 16 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: raising the debt ceiling to five trillion dollars, adding trillions 17 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: of dollars of more debt, beggaring the next generation, guaranteeing 18 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: that they will have less. But all of that is 19 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: not what the bill was about. What the bill was 20 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: about was the funding of an American gestapo, a secret police. 21 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: And now Trump has it, he will have one hundred 22 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: and twenty five billion dollars, an amount of money so grotesque, 23 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: so large, it exceeds most military budgets of the world's 24 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: most powerful nations. In fact, it is a tenth plus 25 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: a little bit of the entire gone budget. ICE has 26 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: been transformed into the largest, most powerful law enforcement agency 27 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: in American history, barnun And there is a budget of 28 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: forty five billion dollars for the construction of Trump concentration 29 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: camps across the country. And soon the masked men will 30 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: be in every American city and town, and I suspect 31 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: the American people won't like it very much. A few 32 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: weeks ago, Mike Johnson, the Christian nationalist house speaker who 33 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: believes that people and dinosaurs lived together on Earth a 34 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: couple thousand years ago, took an Associated Press reporter into 35 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 1: a chapel off of the house floor. 36 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:48,959 Speaker 2: He said, that's where. 37 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: He gets on his knees to pray, like George Washington 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: did in moments when the American cause was very much 39 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: in doubt. Comparing himself to Washington, this cruel little man, 40 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: this Sicka fan, this man on his knees in front 41 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: of Trump, said he prayed for the wisdom to take 42 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: away healthcare from the poorest people in the country, to 43 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: take away food from the neediest. 44 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 2: That's where he prays. 45 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: And of course that's what Mike Johnson said in the 46 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: aftermath of the deadly floods. 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: Well, what else can we do but pray? 48 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: And Mike Johnson usually says that after a school shooting 49 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 1: or some other tragedy. 50 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: But here's the deal. 51 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: Nobody should be interested in the prayers of the Christian 52 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: nationalist Mike Johnson, because he's a fraud, he's a hypocrite, 53 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: he's a blasphemer. 54 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: He worships Trump. 55 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: And we ought to be able to have real conversations 56 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: in America about consequences. So here's Howard Lutnik testifying before 57 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: the Senate and he's asked a question about the cuts 58 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: to Noah the Weather Service. 59 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: I want to be crystal clear, every single person the 60 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 3: National Weather Service, we are at full staff, We have 61 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 3: full capacity, and we will have the best forecasting capacity 62 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 3: that we possibly can to protect Americans. And I will 63 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 3: not sleep if that were not true. 64 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: And now you have one hundred dead people in Texas, 65 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: and why well, a lot of weather forecasters weren't at 66 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: their post weren't at their desk because they were fired 67 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: by doge as indiscriminately Elon musk In this whole gang 68 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: of vandals decimated the federal government, stigmatized and desecrated the 69 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: service of the scientists, of the experts. And so there 70 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: was no warning on that river bank. And now there's 71 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: just a lot of dead kids on the river because 72 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: they didn't get a warning that they should have gotten, 73 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: that they should have gotten until the government services that 74 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: delivered them were vandalized, and now they're dead. And so 75 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: here's the thing, there is consequences for all of this. 76 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: When Donald Trump signs into law a budget gives him 77 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five billion dollars for a secret 78 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: police force, it will transform America when all of the 79 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: rural hospitals close. These maga congressmen will be on television 80 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: one and all saying, not me. 81 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: Wasn't us. It just happened to close. 82 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: Because nothing in the age of Trump is ever caused. Well, 83 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: there is no cause and effect. What happens today is 84 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: completely detached from what happened yesterday, like an episodic reality 85 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: show script. So, for example, how did it come to 86 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: be that Democrats found themselves in this position here in July. Well, 87 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: it goes all the way back to Chuck Schumer's appeasement 88 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: in March, when Democrats could have made Donald Trump fight 89 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: for it, when they could have shut down the government 90 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: to get Elon Musk out of it and to put 91 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: it into a temporary coma to save it from this. 92 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: But instead Chuck Schumer went out and declared he was winning. 93 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 2: Let's watch, we will win. We will win. 94 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 3: We will win, we will win, we will win. 95 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: Remember he wasn't winning. We're not winning. Trump is winning. 96 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: And Trump passed his budget, and the American people will 97 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: bear the cost of it, and it will be a 98 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: heavy cost. The cost of his police state will be 99 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: heavy on the soul of the country, on the heart 100 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: of the country, as we see the cruelties and the 101 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: indecencies and the abuses. 102 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 2: Of power amass. 103 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: The cost of his concentration camps will be heavy on 104 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: the country and on the soul of the country, and 105 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: on the heart of the country. And his obliteration of 106 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: the American middle class with his tariffs, with his cuts, 107 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: with his taking from them to give to Zuckerberg, to 108 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: give to Bezos, to. 109 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 2: Give more and more and more and more. 110 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: To people have everything that will have a heavy cost. 111 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: It will beggar the country. It will superheat the economy, 112 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 1: it will drive prices higher, it will depress wages, and 113 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: we will see that job cuts come along with the 114 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: transformation that can't be stopped as AI proliferates into every 115 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: crevice of American society with the most irresponsible, visionless leader 116 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: possible to have at that exact moment in charge. Two 117 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years is both a short time in 118 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: history and an era incomprehensible outside the span of a 119 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: single human life. The project of America is bigger, has 120 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: endured longer than any of us are or will, and 121 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: so we are called to defend our country in the 122 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary year of its creation. What 123 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: happened this weekend in America is one year short of 124 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: the most momentous current in world's history, the birth of 125 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: the United States. Donald Trump got up in front of 126 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: a crowd on July fourth and announced his hatred for 127 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: half the country. 128 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,239 Speaker 2: Here's what he said. 129 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 4: As we approached the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 130 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 4: America's founding, exactly one year from now, we are creating 131 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 4: an economy that delivers wealth for the middle class, a 132 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 4: border that is sovereign and secure, and a military that 133 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 4: is unmatched, unequaled anywhere in the world. And you saw that, 134 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 4: and what a beautiful sight that was, especially after watching 135 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 4: what they did just a short while ago. The golden 136 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 4: age of America is upon us. We are in the 137 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 4: golden age. It's going to be a period of time 138 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 4: the likes of which I don't think this country has 139 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 4: ever experienced before. We're going to make America great again. 140 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 4: And it's happening very fair. 141 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: And that plus is mass men and its budget, and 142 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: his federal siege in Los Angeles and more vengeance and 143 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: revenge to come. 144 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 2: Is perfectly clear. 145 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is using the power of his office to 146 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: wage war on half the country. 147 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 2: And it's an active evil and it must be a 148 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 2: posed And. 149 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: Yet where is the Democratic leadership? Well, that's right, I 150 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: can't hear them either, And I suppose more than anything else, 151 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,839 Speaker 1: it is the deafening silence in a moment when we 152 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: should hear a thunderous war in defense of freedom that 153 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: has made this such a depressing July fourth holiday. 154 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 2: But there have. 155 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: Been moments and seasons of despair and hopelessness in America before. 156 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: We must not lose hope in the fight ahead, because 157 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: in that fight, this side, the American side, stands on 158 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 1: the right side of history. And in that contest which 159 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: is enduring between right and wrong, Trump is nothing new. 160 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: He's just the latest poser claiming to stand for something 161 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: he doesn't believe in for the sake of his own 162 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: power and his own selfish interest. And as time goes by, 163 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: as the impact of what he did becomes clear, more 164 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: and more people will see that. Every day this is 165 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 166 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community where I promise 167 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 168 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 169 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: to this channel and on substack. 170 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 2: Thank you.