1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. You have questions, 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: I have answers. Let's get started. The question is is 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: America better off with Mike Johnson a Speaker of the 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: House or better off with someone new? It doesn't really matter. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: Here's the deal. The Republicans have an extraordinarily narrow majority, 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: and the person who is the Speaker of the House, 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: honest to God, believes that human beings and dinosaurs lived together, 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: worked together, walked around together when the Earth was first 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 1: made by God ten thousand years ago. The man is 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: a religious fanatic and fundamentalist who is unfit to be 11 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: second in line for the American presidency. He's an election denier, 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: and he is a conspiracy theorist with a nice bedside manner. 13 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: I suppose he is as unfit as the rest of them, 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: and all of them are interchangeable parts, cogs in a 15 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: machine that serves one purpose, one person, one cause, Donald Trump. 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter in the end. The divisions, the joints, 17 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: the fault lines, all the places where the magic coalition 18 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: connects to its adjacent space is where Democrats need to strike. 19 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: So Mike Johnson cannot hold his team together and he's 20 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: going to be overthrown or it's going to become close 21 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: to an overthrowing. Either way, whether he stays, whether he goes, 22 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: the danger to the country doesn't diminish or grow. It 23 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: remains steady. Donald Trump has said he wants to end 24 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. Where do you stand? So my position is, 25 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: any child who was born on American soil, as is 26 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: the case under US law and the American Constitution, is 27 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: a US person, a US citizen. Now what Trump is 28 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: talking about is not crazy. Let's imagine somebody from China 29 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: who does everything they can to deliver a child in 30 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: the United States for the purposes of making sure that 31 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: child has United States citizenship, really almost as a commercial act. 32 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: Should they have US citizenship because their mom figured out 33 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: how to make it into the United States to give birth. 34 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: I think it's a legitimate discussion to be able to 35 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: have in the country. Donald Trump's position is not mine, 36 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: but I don't think his position is completely off the wall. 37 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: The question is do I agree with James Carville that 38 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: Democrats lost the election because of the economy. I most 39 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: certainly do not. Here's why Democrats lost the election, honesty. 40 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: They lost the election because of honesty. They lost the 41 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: election on the question of honest to the biggest scumbag 42 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: who's ever held a political office in the history of 43 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: the United States and the most prolific liar, Donald Trump. 44 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: Because and James knows this, because he wasn't one of 45 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: these people. The entire Democratic Party participated in a conspiracy. 46 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: They propped up somebody who was unfit to run for 47 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: four more years, and the American people rejected it, and 48 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: they rejected it by burning down the Democratic Party and 49 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: putting Maga in charge. It was sick, It was wrong, 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: and the idea the Democratic leaders who were in on 51 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: it pretend now that they were just off on the 52 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: wrong issue is disgraceful. Here's the deal. Democrats should have 53 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: won this election because there has never been and will 54 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: never be a more unfit choice than Donald Trump. But 55 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: the American people cannot stand hypocrisy. They hated, They hated 56 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: so much they elected Trump and that's why he's back. 57 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: And by the way, what great idea did Kamala Harris 58 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: propose in this campaign? What big thought? Did she express, 59 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: great conviction? Did she share great vision? Did she articulate? 60 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: What was it? The politics of vapidity of I'm a 61 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: person who wants an office. I'm going to read things 62 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: to you off a teleprompter, surrounded by staff and data 63 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 1: scientists who will measure and distill through the research words 64 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: into sentences that I can say it's all over. None 65 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: of those people will ever ever have a chance of 66 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: defeating a Maggie candidate who speaks authentically. And as we 67 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: get further from this Biden era, the Biden legacy is 68 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: going to drop and drop and drop and drop, and 69 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, there's exact actly one word, 70 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: only one that defines Joe Biden's four years what he 71 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: gave America Trump. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 72 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 73 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.