1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: I appreciate that television is a live medium and that 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: people are being asked to respond to events that are 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: occurring in real time. Sometimes people may not have time 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: to think through what it is they're saying. Sometimes they 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 1: may not appreciate in the moment what fools they look like. 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: Let's watch a pristine example. Here's David Challion on CNN 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: talking about Donald Trump's softer tone at the exact same 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: moment that across the country his Homeland Security Department is 9 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: attempting to turn eat commerce warehouses into concentration camps. 10 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 2: Speaking of Minneapolis, what did you learn? 11 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 3: I learned that maybe we can use a little bit 12 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 3: of a softer touch, but you still have to be tough. 13 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 3: He's a criminal. We're dealing with really hard criminals. 14 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: David Challion the warnings fool. 15 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 4: Of the day, a change of tone for the president's 16 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 4: softer touch, But he's also seeing everyone's criminals when we 17 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 4: know they're not. 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, he's clearly not looking to change the overall approach 19 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 5: and strategy of what he ran on and what he 20 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 5: was elected to do in mass deportation. But it is 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 5: interesting to hear him take the rhetoric and try to 22 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 5: place it back on the worst of the worst criminals, 23 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 5: that he understands that what occurred in Minneapolis got far 24 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 5: afield from what he had actually sort of talked about 25 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 5: and promised and saw the backlash from the country on this. 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 5: And so normally you would hear somebody ask President Trump 27 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 5: say what have you learned? You would think you'd get 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 5: bluster of like I've learned what I always knew or something. No, 29 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 5: he like acknowledged learning something that this requires a softer touch. 30 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 5: Now again, I don't want to say we're going to 31 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 5: see one hundred and eighty degree turn here, but he's 32 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 5: clearly responding to the fact that the country was really 33 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:58,559 Speaker 5: displeased with what they were seeing. 34 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: It is Thursday, February the fifth. I'm Steve Schmidt. This 35 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: is the warning, and this morning I have little dog 36 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: Mabel behind me. 37 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 2: Well, just for a second I did. 38 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is there is nobody 39 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: behind David Challion with a gun to his head. How 40 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 1: can it be that he sees the world like that? 41 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: How can it be after eleven years he cannot see 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: or understand what is happening around him. 43 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: Here is jd Vance being asked a question, did. 44 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 4: You plan to apologize to the family of Alex Preddy 45 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 4: for what for you know? Label him in assassin with 46 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 4: ill intent? 47 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 3: Well, again, I just describe to you what I said 48 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: about Alex Pretty, which is that he's a guy who 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 3: should have ill intent to an ice approaches. 50 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 4: But guy, it's determined that his civil rights were violated. 51 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 4: Buy this FBI investigation. Will you apologize? 52 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,679 Speaker 1: So if this hypothetical leads to that hypothetical leads to another, 53 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:00,399 Speaker 1: I do a thing. 54 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: Let's watch again. 55 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 4: Should you plan to apologize to the family of Alex 56 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 4: Preddy for what for you know? Labeling and assassion with 57 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 4: ill intent? 58 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: Do you see the arrogance, the smugness, the total disregard 59 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: Alex Pretty didn't have ill intent. The ill intention came 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: from Greg Beveno, the Maga Nazi with the Himmler haircut, 61 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: who says in an email to his boss todd lyons 62 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: that in fact his boss is Corey Lewandowski. It's important 63 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: to understand the ill intention came from this guy who 64 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: said this about Minneapolis being his city. 65 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: Here's the deal. 66 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: Minneapolis is an American city where the people have a 67 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: First Amendment right to speak out against these atrocities. A 68 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: Second Amendment right to be legally armed on the streets, 69 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: a Fourth Amendment right to be safe in their home, 70 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: and a fifth Amendment right to be considered innocent until 71 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: proven guilty in a court of law. They have an 72 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment. In Minnesota 73 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: has a tenth Amendment right as a sovereign state to 74 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: shape its own destiny. The federal government has invaded Minnesota 75 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: not to catch the worst of the worst, but to 76 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 1: abuse as many as possible, to strike fear across the 77 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: American people and the heart while simultaneously saying the only 78 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: fair election in America is one where Maga wins. Why 79 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: can't David Challion see why can't he here? Why can't 80 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: he hear the threats to the constitution? 81 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 2: Why can't he. 82 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: Process the fact that when a president of the United 83 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,799 Speaker 1: States says there are no free and fair elections unless 84 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: I win, that that strikes at the cornerstone not of 85 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, but of the American civilization, which is 86 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: built upon the concept of choice through liberty and freedom 87 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,239 Speaker 1: for the people to be sovereign and author their own 88 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: destinies with choice. 89 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 3: And I said, you know, it's a really smart guy. 90 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 3: If I ever get this thing, I got to get it. 91 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 2: Issue wasn't easy. 92 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: You know, they rigged the second election. I had to 93 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 3: win it, had to win it. I needed it for 94 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 3: my own ego. I would have had a bad ego 95 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 3: for the rest of the mill. Now I really have 96 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: a big ego. The beating these beating these lunatics was incredible, right, 97 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 3: What a great feelure, winning every swing state, winning the 98 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 3: popular vote the first time. You know, they said I 99 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 3: didn't win the popular vote. I did, but they said 100 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 3: so they always say that when always thought that introduce 101 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: me while Donald Trump did not win the popular vote. 102 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 3: You know, I'm sitting up being introduced by a Democrat 103 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 3: or somebody, and he said, why Donald Trump did not 104 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 3: win the popular vote? He won? The brothers here he is, 105 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 3: I said, I. I said, we won the popular vote 106 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 3: by a lot. We didn't want to play any games. 107 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 3: This has been a much different We had a great 108 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 3: first term. We had the greatest economy in history. But 109 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 3: this one's going to blow it away. Already has blown 110 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 3: everything away. 111 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has won two out of the last three elections. 112 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: I believe that is one of the greatest catastrophes of 113 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: American history. But I do not dispute his victory. It 114 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: would be immoral, It would be on patriotic. It would 115 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: be deeply wrong to suggest that the choice of the 116 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: people was not legitimate, no matter how awful that choice was, 117 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: no matter how much they will come to regret it. 118 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: He won the most prolific liar since Hitler and Goebels. 119 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 1: Was considered to be the more honest candidate in the 120 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: race about the border, about the economy, and yes, about 121 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: Biden's fundamental fitness. But the corruption of the American elite 122 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: is coming into clearer focus, isn't it. Deepak Chopra, Peter Attia, 123 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: Kathy Rummler, Barack Obama's White House counsel, the chief legal 124 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: officer at Goldman Sachs all over the Epstein files. She 125 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: knew he was a Tier one sex offender, but that 126 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: didn't stop her from receiving gifts and writing love notes 127 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,679 Speaker 1: to her uncle Jeffrey. And who is she exonerated by? 128 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: Who is her spokesperson? Of course, it's George W. Bush's 129 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: former deputy Press secretary. The men in the Epstein files 130 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: represent a cohort of wealth and privilege and power at 131 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: the very top of American society. And what we see 132 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: is the rock and that explains the collapse of trust, 133 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: along with the awfulness of the analysis, the evil of 134 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: the CNN panels. They give voice to Scott Jennings, Donald 135 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: Trump is getting a softer tone. We'll tell it to 136 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: the people who are going to be shipped to warehouses. 137 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt, and this is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 138 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I invite you to join this 139 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct 140 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. 141 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack. 142 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: Thank you.