Speaker 1: Americans. We'd like to make lists. We like to rank things.
Speaker 1: If you turn on any sports radio show in the country,
Speaker 1: you'll get to listen to ballplayers being ranked. Who never
Speaker 1: played against one another, Who was the greatest of all time?
Speaker 1: Who was the best fighter? Who is the best basketball player,
Speaker 1: the best ballerina, It doesn't matter. We can't help but
Speaker 1: rank things as Americans. Who was the best president? Who
Speaker 1: was the worst? Well, the answer of that, of course,
Speaker 1: is the guy who was just re elected to a
Speaker 1: second term after his first with forty nine percent of
Speaker 1: the vote. The forty fifth president was the worst in history.
Speaker 1: We'll see how he combines with the forty seventh. This
Speaker 1: is the warning. The United States government is sustained by
Speaker 1: a principle we call checks and balances. Do you know,
Speaker 1: for example, that the presidency the executives branch, is not
Speaker 1: more powerful than the legislative branch or the judicial branch.
Speaker 1: They're all equal. They all have powers that are enumerated
Speaker 1: to fancy word for listed listed in the Constitution. That's
Speaker 1: what a lot of the legal fights before the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court are about who has power to do what? Now?
Speaker 1: How many of you thought that a United States senator
Speaker 1: works for the president. They don't co equal. Each state
Speaker 1: sends two representatives to work in the United States Senate
Speaker 1: to vote on life and death matters, to cooperate with
Speaker 1: the president, to oppose him when necessary. But the senators
Speaker 1: the state sends just like the members of Congress it elects,
Speaker 1: it just like the president it chooses. In the American system,
Speaker 1: though they have different powers, they have different roles, they
Speaker 1: have different responsibilities, they are all equal. Now, one of
Speaker 1: the responsibilities that Donald Trump has is to appoint a cabinet,
Speaker 1: and so immediately in the media, the ranking game starts.
Speaker 1: Who's the most incompetent? Is it Tulca Gabbard or is
Speaker 1: it Pete Hegseath? Or is it Matt Gates? Or is
Speaker 1: it Christy Nole or is it Robert F. Kennedy. The
Speaker 1: American media lacks the capacity to cover all five, which
Speaker 1: is incredible if you think about it. They can't take
Speaker 1: all five of these people and communicate about them as
Speaker 1: if they are separate but equal threats to your life
Speaker 1: and health, which they surely are. So instead they're ranked.
Speaker 1: There is no evidence to suggest that Tulsi Gabbert is
Speaker 1: any less or more dangerous than Robert F. Kennedy. At
Speaker 1: this point, the evidence concludes, if you read it, that
Speaker 1: they're all equally unfit, that none of these people should
Speaker 1: ever have a position of public trust because psychologically they're
Speaker 1: unsuited for it. Tulsa Gabbert is and smart enough for
Speaker 1: the job she's been nominated for. She can't deduce complex
Speaker 1: information into a simple conclusion. And she's a cult member
Speaker 1: who believes her yoga gives her the power to see
Speaker 1: full truth.
Speaker 2: Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy is an addict, sex addict, drug addict, pathological liar,
Speaker 1: somebody who causes profound pain wherever they walk in life.
Speaker 1: He will kill a lot of people, profoundly unfit to
Speaker 1: regulate America's public health. And by the way, yes, the
Speaker 1: FDA is corrupt and it is broken, but an unfit,
Speaker 1: dangerous narcissist isn't the person to fix it. There's Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: There are no words now. Matt Gates was under an
Speaker 1: ethics committee investigation because in part he did this.
Speaker 2: You gotta think about this guy. This is a guy
Speaker 2: that didn't have that. The media didn't give a time
Speaker 2: at day to after he was accused of sleeping with
Speaker 2: an underage girl, and there's a reason why no one
Speaker 2: and the conference came definite him because we had all
Speaker 2: seen the videos he was showing on the house floor
Speaker 2: that all of us had walked away of the girls
Speaker 2: that he had slept with. He'd brag about how he
Speaker 2: would crush ed medicine and chase it with with an
Speaker 2: energy drink so he could go all night.
Speaker 1: But then Mark Wayne Mullen, since he's a cult member
Speaker 1: who lacks toughness, and Gret is going to say, but
Speaker 1: since Donald Trump picked him, everything is okay.
Speaker 2: Are you going to vote for mccans? You know, Matt
Speaker 2: Gates And either's no question that we've had our differences.
Speaker 2: They've been very public about it. I completely trust President
Speaker 2: Trump's decision making on this one. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: he's got to come to Congress and selling self. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of or to the Senate and selling self.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions that are going to be
Speaker 2: out there. He's got to answer those questions and hopefully
Speaker 2: he's able to answer the questions right and if he can,
Speaker 2: then we'll we'll go through the confirmation process.
Speaker 1: Why not get Diddy out of Rikers Island and maka
Speaker 1: at Gates's deputy Make America Great Again. Pete Hegseth, Trump's
Speaker 1: nominee to be Secretary of Defense, claims, get this, he
Speaker 1: the tough guy, was sexually assaulted by a mom at
Speaker 1: a Republican conference in Monterey. Now, the woman went and
Speaker 1: got a rape kit. The woman's friend made the report.
Speaker 1: She had bruising on her thighs, and Pete Hegseth wrote
Speaker 1: her a check. I want to see every detail of
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseath's payoff. The military has a rape crisis, and
Speaker 1: this man has been accused of allegedly raping a civilian.
Speaker 1: We know already that Pete Hegseth will bring dishonor and
Speaker 1: shame and the sensibility of a loser to the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: And he'll go in there and he will wreck as
Speaker 1: quickly as he can the apolitical traditions of the American military.
Speaker 1: He's a threat to the most lethal military in all
Speaker 1: the world. If he gets in there, it's going to
Speaker 1: hurt it very, very badly. Now more than anything else.
Speaker 1: When we ask the question, how is it that this happened?
Speaker 1: How is it that after nine years, Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: back in the White House, The answer is the American
Speaker 1: media above all others. America's access media helped produce a
Speaker 1: reality show. That reality show pushed every serious issue to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel, and it made billions celebrating
Speaker 1: the freak show. There's an old saying, if a clown
Speaker 1: goes to a castle, he does not become a king.
Speaker 1: The castle becomes a circus, and the ring masters of
Speaker 1: the circus or the American media. Now, yesterday there was
Speaker 1: a ludicrous interview that took place between Jake Tapper and
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The purpose of interviews
Speaker 1: with powerful public officials is to hold them to account
Speaker 1: in the name of the public interest. The reason that
Speaker 1: so many of these people like Mike Johnson line up
Speaker 1: to go on Jake Tapper's show is they know they're
Speaker 1: going to a softball game. There will be no tough questions,
Speaker 1: there will be no interruptions. They can do it in
Speaker 1: their sleep without preparation. I've told a lot of politicians
Speaker 1: over the years, there's no bad questions, just bad answers.
Speaker 1: We're going to watch Mike Johnson filibuster an answer without interruption.
Speaker 1: But the question that Tapper doesn't ask successfully is one
Speaker 1: about hypocrisy. Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist who's been
Speaker 1: credibly accused of assaulting dozens of women. Pulsey Gabbard is
Speaker 1: a Russian stooge. Robert F. Kennedy should be in a
Speaker 1: psych ward, Christy Nome is a dog killing sadist and
Speaker 1: allegedly openly Corey Lowandowski's girlfriend. And then there's Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: The Matt Gates who walked around on the floor of
Speaker 1: the house showing naked pictures of seventeen year old girls,
Speaker 1: bragging about how he would snort viagra, chase it with
Speaker 1: Monster Energy drinks, and go all night long. And Jake
Speaker 1: Tapper asked Mike Johnson, shouldn't there be any standard? And
Speaker 1: here's Mike Johnson's answer.
Speaker 3: You're a man of faith, You're a man of God,
Speaker 3: You're a man of family. With some of these nominees, Gates,
Speaker 3: Hegsath RFK Junior, I wonder does it matter anymore for
Speaker 3: Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral
Speaker 3: in their personal lives? Is that still important to the
Speaker 3: Republican Party.
Speaker 4: Sure, it's an important issue for anyone in leadership. This
Speaker 4: is what I'll say about the nominees that the President
Speaker 4: has put forward is that they are persons who will
Speaker 4: shake up the status quo. And I think what the
Speaker 4: American people have believe in what they've delivered with the
Speaker 4: mandate in this election is demand that we shake up
Speaker 4: the status quo. It's not working for the American people.
Speaker 4: So use the term in the opening about how these
Speaker 4: are disruptors.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 4: I think that's by design. Any president has the right
Speaker 4: to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they
Speaker 4: think will fulfill their agenda, and the people that are
Speaker 4: on this list will do that. They will go into
Speaker 4: the agencies that they're being asked to lead and they
Speaker 4: will reform them. These agencies need reform, and I think
Speaker 4: the vast majority of the American people understand that you can't
Speaker 4: have status quo appointments in a moment like this. I'm
Speaker 4: really excited about the days ahead. I think the America
Speaker 4: First policies will deliver for the American people. I think
Speaker 4: we're going to have a warm embrace of all the
Speaker 4: new folks who came into the Republican Party in this
Speaker 4: election cycle. The demographic shifts that we saw that were historic,
Speaker 4: because we have a chance now to demonstrate for them
Speaker 4: that our policies are conservative, constitutional policies, common sense policies
Speaker 4: are best for them as individuals and families and communities
Speaker 4: in state, in the nation as a whole. So exciting
Speaker 4: days ahead. It is a new day in America. These
Speaker 4: individuals will help deliver that, and I think the Senate
Speaker 4: needs to do its job and get him appointed so
Speaker 4: that the president President Donald J. Trump and JD. Vance
Speaker 4: can begin that administration and run with it on day one.
Speaker 1: We're in a lot of trouble. The good news is
Speaker 1: this The cardinal sin in American life is hypocrisy. And
Speaker 1: the one thing that Donald Trump was able to skate
Speaker 1: by on in twenty twenty four was hypocrisy. He's not
Speaker 1: so much a hypocrite because he is exactly what he
Speaker 1: appears to be, but Mike Johnson and most of the
Speaker 1: rest are, and it will start to be there on
Speaker 1: doing There's a couple of things that Democrats have to
Speaker 1: insist and we'll practice the lines right now. Release the
Speaker 1: headset report. It's not hard to say, and Democrats will
Speaker 1: have to get good as saying these words. Maga rubber
Speaker 1: stamp Congress and Maga rubber stamp House and Maga rubber stamp.
Speaker 1: Senate Democrats will have to fight back now, will have
Speaker 1: to attack. These are some of the most unworthy people
Speaker 1: that have ever been nominated to anything in the history
Speaker 1: of the United States. These confirmations need to be brutal.
Speaker 1: They need to be fought, They need to be opposed.
Speaker 1: A marker needs to be laid down, A fight, even
Speaker 1: if it's lost, needs to be initiated. Fight back against
Speaker 1: these unqualified people. It will be hard because the Democratic
Speaker 1: Senate is poorly and incompetently led by Chuck Schumer, so
Speaker 1: it will likely come to pass that a lot of
Speaker 1: these people will lead the departments of the American government
Speaker 1: that have the capacity to kill a lot of us,
Speaker 1: imprison a lot of us, poison a lot of us,
Speaker 1: or do as they wish. We don't have to tolerate it,
Speaker 1: and we have other recourses than to have feeble Democratic
Speaker 1: senators who don't know how to fight, who won't fight,
Speaker 1: who can't talk, who can't ask questions, and a decrepit
Speaker 1: media do it for us. We're going to have to
Speaker 1: do it ourselves, the American people. We'll have to push back,
Speaker 1: fight back, resist, protest. Terrible days are ahead. But beyond
Speaker 1: them is the beginning of renewal and an American reawakening.
Speaker 1: We'll get there, but first there will be pain. This
Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning,
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