1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Americans. We'd like to make lists. We like to rank things. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: If you turn on any sports radio show in the country, 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,319 Speaker 1: you'll get to listen to ballplayers being ranked. Who never 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: played against one another, Who was the greatest of all time? 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: Who was the best fighter? Who is the best basketball player, 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: the best ballerina, It doesn't matter. We can't help but 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: rank things as Americans. Who was the best president? Who 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: was the worst? Well, the answer of that, of course, 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: is the guy who was just re elected to a 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: second term after his first with forty nine percent of 11 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: the vote. The forty fifth president was the worst in history. 12 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: We'll see how he combines with the forty seventh. This 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: is the warning. The United States government is sustained by 14 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: a principle we call checks and balances. Do you know, 15 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: for example, that the presidency the executives branch, is not 16 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: more powerful than the legislative branch or the judicial branch. 17 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: They're all equal. They all have powers that are enumerated 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,559 Speaker 1: to fancy word for listed listed in the Constitution. That's 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: what a lot of the legal fights before the Supreme 20 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: Court are about who has power to do what? Now? 21 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: How many of you thought that a United States senator 22 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: works for the president. They don't co equal. Each state 23 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: sends two representatives to work in the United States Senate 24 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: to vote on life and death matters, to cooperate with 25 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: the president, to oppose him when necessary. But the senators 26 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: the state sends just like the members of Congress it elects, 27 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: it just like the president it chooses. In the American system, 28 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: though they have different powers, they have different roles, they 29 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: have different responsibilities, they are all equal. Now, one of 30 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: the responsibilities that Donald Trump has is to appoint a cabinet, 31 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: and so immediately in the media, the ranking game starts. 32 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: Who's the most incompetent? Is it Tulca Gabbard or is 33 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: it Pete Hegseath? Or is it Matt Gates? Or is 34 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: it Christy Nole or is it Robert F. Kennedy. The 35 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: American media lacks the capacity to cover all five, which 36 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: is incredible if you think about it. They can't take 37 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: all five of these people and communicate about them as 38 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: if they are separate but equal threats to your life 39 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: and health, which they surely are. So instead they're ranked. 40 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: There is no evidence to suggest that Tulsi Gabbert is 41 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: any less or more dangerous than Robert F. Kennedy. At 42 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: this point, the evidence concludes, if you read it, that 43 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: they're all equally unfit, that none of these people should 44 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: ever have a position of public trust because psychologically they're 45 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: unsuited for it. Tulsa Gabbert is and smart enough for 46 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: the job she's been nominated for. She can't deduce complex 47 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: information into a simple conclusion. And she's a cult member 48 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: who believes her yoga gives her the power to see 49 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: full truth. 50 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: Robert F. 51 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,519 Speaker 1: Kennedy is an addict, sex addict, drug addict, pathological liar, 52 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: somebody who causes profound pain wherever they walk in life. 53 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: He will kill a lot of people, profoundly unfit to 54 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: regulate America's public health. And by the way, yes, the 55 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: FDA is corrupt and it is broken, but an unfit, 56 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: dangerous narcissist isn't the person to fix it. There's Matt Gates. 57 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: There are no words now. Matt Gates was under an 58 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: ethics committee investigation because in part he did this. 59 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 2: You gotta think about this guy. This is a guy 60 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 2: that didn't have that. The media didn't give a time 61 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: at day to after he was accused of sleeping with 62 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: an underage girl, and there's a reason why no one 63 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: and the conference came definite him because we had all 64 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: seen the videos he was showing on the house floor 65 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 2: that all of us had walked away of the girls 66 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: that he had slept with. He'd brag about how he 67 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 2: would crush ed medicine and chase it with with an 68 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 2: energy drink so he could go all night. 69 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: But then Mark Wayne Mullen, since he's a cult member 70 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: who lacks toughness, and Gret is going to say, but 71 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump picked him, everything is okay. 72 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: Are you going to vote for mccans? You know, Matt 73 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: Gates And either's no question that we've had our differences. 74 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 2: They've been very public about it. I completely trust President 75 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: Trump's decision making on this one. But at the same time, 76 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 2: he's got to come to Congress and selling self. There's 77 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: a lot of or to the Senate and selling self. 78 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions that are going to be 79 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: out there. He's got to answer those questions and hopefully 80 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 2: he's able to answer the questions right and if he can, 81 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: then we'll we'll go through the confirmation process. 82 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: Why not get Diddy out of Rikers Island and maka 83 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: at Gates's deputy Make America Great Again. Pete Hegseth, Trump's 84 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: nominee to be Secretary of Defense, claims, get this, he 85 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: the tough guy, was sexually assaulted by a mom at 86 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: a Republican conference in Monterey. Now, the woman went and 87 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: got a rape kit. The woman's friend made the report. 88 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: She had bruising on her thighs, and Pete Hegseth wrote 89 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: her a check. I want to see every detail of 90 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseath's payoff. The military has a rape crisis, and 91 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: this man has been accused of allegedly raping a civilian. 92 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: We know already that Pete Hegseth will bring dishonor and 93 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: shame and the sensibility of a loser to the Pentagon. 94 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: And he'll go in there and he will wreck as 95 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: quickly as he can the apolitical traditions of the American military. 96 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: He's a threat to the most lethal military in all 97 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: the world. If he gets in there, it's going to 98 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: hurt it very, very badly. Now more than anything else. 99 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,799 Speaker 1: When we ask the question, how is it that this happened? 100 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: How is it that after nine years, Donald Trump is 101 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: back in the White House, The answer is the American 102 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: media above all others. America's access media helped produce a 103 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: reality show. That reality show pushed every serious issue to 104 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel, and it made billions celebrating 105 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: the freak show. There's an old saying, if a clown 106 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: goes to a castle, he does not become a king. 107 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: The castle becomes a circus, and the ring masters of 108 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: the circus or the American media. Now, yesterday there was 109 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: a ludicrous interview that took place between Jake Tapper and 110 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The purpose of interviews 111 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: with powerful public officials is to hold them to account 112 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: in the name of the public interest. The reason that 113 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: so many of these people like Mike Johnson line up 114 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: to go on Jake Tapper's show is they know they're 115 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: going to a softball game. There will be no tough questions, 116 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: there will be no interruptions. They can do it in 117 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: their sleep without preparation. I've told a lot of politicians 118 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: over the years, there's no bad questions, just bad answers. 119 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: We're going to watch Mike Johnson filibuster an answer without interruption. 120 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: But the question that Tapper doesn't ask successfully is one 121 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: about hypocrisy. Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist who's been 122 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: credibly accused of assaulting dozens of women. Pulsey Gabbard is 123 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: a Russian stooge. Robert F. Kennedy should be in a 124 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: psych ward, Christy Nome is a dog killing sadist and 125 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: allegedly openly Corey Lowandowski's girlfriend. And then there's Matt Gates. 126 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: The Matt Gates who walked around on the floor of 127 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: the house showing naked pictures of seventeen year old girls, 128 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: bragging about how he would snort viagra, chase it with 129 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: Monster Energy drinks, and go all night long. And Jake 130 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: Tapper asked Mike Johnson, shouldn't there be any standard? And 131 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: here's Mike Johnson's answer. 132 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 3: You're a man of faith, You're a man of God, 133 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 3: You're a man of family. With some of these nominees, Gates, 134 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 3: Hegsath RFK Junior, I wonder does it matter anymore for 135 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 3: Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral 136 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 3: in their personal lives? Is that still important to the 137 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 3: Republican Party. 138 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 4: Sure, it's an important issue for anyone in leadership. This 139 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 4: is what I'll say about the nominees that the President 140 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 4: has put forward is that they are persons who will 141 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 4: shake up the status quo. And I think what the 142 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 4: American people have believe in what they've delivered with the 143 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 4: mandate in this election is demand that we shake up 144 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 4: the status quo. It's not working for the American people. 145 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 4: So use the term in the opening about how these 146 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 4: are disruptors. 147 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: They are. 148 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 4: I think that's by design. Any president has the right 149 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 4: to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they 150 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 4: think will fulfill their agenda, and the people that are 151 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 4: on this list will do that. They will go into 152 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 4: the agencies that they're being asked to lead and they 153 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 4: will reform them. These agencies need reform, and I think 154 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 4: the vast majority of the American people understand that you can't 155 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 4: have status quo appointments in a moment like this. I'm 156 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 4: really excited about the days ahead. I think the America 157 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 4: First policies will deliver for the American people. I think 158 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 4: we're going to have a warm embrace of all the 159 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 4: new folks who came into the Republican Party in this 160 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 4: election cycle. The demographic shifts that we saw that were historic, 161 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 4: because we have a chance now to demonstrate for them 162 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 4: that our policies are conservative, constitutional policies, common sense policies 163 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 4: are best for them as individuals and families and communities 164 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 4: in state, in the nation as a whole. So exciting 165 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 4: days ahead. It is a new day in America. These 166 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 4: individuals will help deliver that, and I think the Senate 167 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 4: needs to do its job and get him appointed so 168 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 4: that the president President Donald J. Trump and JD. Vance 169 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 4: can begin that administration and run with it on day one. 170 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: We're in a lot of trouble. The good news is 171 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: this The cardinal sin in American life is hypocrisy. And 172 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 1: the one thing that Donald Trump was able to skate 173 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: by on in twenty twenty four was hypocrisy. He's not 174 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: so much a hypocrite because he is exactly what he 175 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: appears to be, but Mike Johnson and most of the 176 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: rest are, and it will start to be there on 177 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: doing There's a couple of things that Democrats have to 178 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: insist and we'll practice the lines right now. Release the 179 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: headset report. It's not hard to say, and Democrats will 180 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: have to get good as saying these words. Maga rubber 181 00:10:53,800 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: stamp Congress and Maga rubber stamp House and Maga rubber stamp. 182 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: Senate Democrats will have to fight back now, will have 183 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: to attack. These are some of the most unworthy people 184 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: that have ever been nominated to anything in the history 185 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: of the United States. These confirmations need to be brutal. 186 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: They need to be fought, They need to be opposed. 187 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: A marker needs to be laid down, A fight, even 188 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: if it's lost, needs to be initiated. Fight back against 189 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: these unqualified people. It will be hard because the Democratic 190 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: Senate is poorly and incompetently led by Chuck Schumer, so 191 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: it will likely come to pass that a lot of 192 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: these people will lead the departments of the American government 193 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: that have the capacity to kill a lot of us, 194 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: imprison a lot of us, poison a lot of us, 195 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: or do as they wish. We don't have to tolerate it, 196 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: and we have other recourses than to have feeble Democratic 197 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 1: senators who don't know how to fight, who won't fight, 198 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: who can't talk, who can't ask questions, and a decrepit 199 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: media do it for us. We're going to have to 200 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: do it ourselves, the American people. We'll have to push back, 201 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: fight back, resist, protest. Terrible days are ahead. But beyond 202 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: them is the beginning of renewal and an American reawakening. 203 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: We'll get there, but first there will be pain. This 204 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, 205 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 206 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.