1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: It is the final schmid storm before the inauguration. I'm 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: in Vegas. You've got questions, I have answers. Let's get started. 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: The question is what can Democratic senators do to oppose 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: the worst of Trump's nominees. Democratic Senators, as you know, 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: are in the minority, and they're going to stay in 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: the minority. This is very important for Democrats to understand 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: the action is in the house. Chuck Schumer is the 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: ultimate Washington DC checkers player, routinely hailed as a genius, 9 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: who's not. He's a person who got sixteen hundred on 10 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: his SAT scores but would have a hard time making 11 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: it around the block without assistance. You have a guy 12 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: who's been hailed for twenty years as a political genius, 13 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: who has played the hand over these last elections and 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: left to Democrats without much possibility of getting back into 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: the majority before twenty twenty eight because of the map. 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: It's appalling the Democratic senators did not coordinate their messaging, 17 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: did not coordinate their questions. So maybe they'll coordinate their opposition, 18 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: because if they don't coordinate their opposition, what's the point 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. The opposition to Trump will have 20 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: to come from somewhere else. The simple truth about this 21 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: moment is the Democrats are as capitulant towards Trump as 22 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: everybody else. Tommy Tuverville, the adult from Alabama, put a 23 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: hold on the nominations of the entirety of the senior 24 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: military leadership. The Senate is filled with rules and procedures 25 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: to give the minority power. Every single rule should be exploited. 26 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: Democrats should put holds on these nominations or make clear 27 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: that they'll hold up nominations everywhere grime the government to 28 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: a holt make it clear that the ascension of Pete 29 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: hag Seth and Tulsei Gabbert into these life and death 30 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: position is unacceptable. And the Democrats should be on every 31 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: television show. They should be shouting from the mountaintops, they 32 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: should be holding news conferences, and instead they're appeasing Trump 33 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: and they're rolling over and it is utterly, absolutely unacceptable. 34 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: Particularly with America's fighting men and women, these Democratic senators 35 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: have an absolute obligation and responsibility to have the backs 36 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: of those men and women. In a way, for example, 37 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: that Jony Ernst does not question is how should Americans 38 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: feel about the big tech CEOs descending on Washington, d C. 39 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: For the inauguration Ais Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon must 40 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: all of them, Jeff Bezos, Ed Moore gathered together. They're 41 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: not there to witness the peaceful transition of power and 42 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: the majesty of an American inauguration that did not happen 43 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and so this inauguration is stained by 44 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: that travesty. The tech bros, oligarchs all are coming to 45 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: Washington to celebrate not the peaceful transfer of power, but power, 46 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: raw political power. They are coming like feudal lords to 47 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: the court of the king with tribute. They're coming to 48 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: be nice. And how should the average American feel about 49 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: these people. They should be scared of them. They should 50 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: be frightened because they have immense power, and the fear 51 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: isn't baseless. American people should view them the way our 52 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: ancestors viewed the railroad barons at the beginning of the 53 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: Industrial Age, with a lot of skepticism. And in the end, 54 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: these people are not all powerful in their dreams of 55 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: conquest and power and control over all things everywhere. Will 56 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: come to dust like all such dreams, because the American 57 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: people in the end will break up these companies. There 58 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: was a king once. He was a bad king, and 59 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: the American farmers overthrew him and we became a country. 60 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: Because mankind is ingenious. There are all sorts of people 61 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: who have tried in all sorts of new ways to 62 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: become kings. In America. These guys are the latest batch, 63 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: and like everybody else, their ambitions will seem reachable for 64 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: a while, and then the American people will rise up 65 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: and say no, and we will break up their companies, 66 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: and all of the things that happened to all of 67 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: the railroad and all of the oil trusts a century 68 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: ago will happen to them because we're a free society 69 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,799 Speaker 1: and they are impediments to the exercise of freedom because 70 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: their companies are about control. The question is, what is 71 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: my reaction to Donald Trump raising the American flag to 72 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: full staff in violation of protocol during the morning period, 73 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: which lasts thirty days. For President Jimmy Carter, I think 74 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: it's despicable, and I think it's even more despicable that 75 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House, who lacks dignity, toughness, and judgment, 76 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: would allow him to do it. The speaker is like 77 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: the mayor of an institution, the House of Representatives. It's 78 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: one of the most important institutions in the country. And 79 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: he's the guy where Nancy Pelosi was, the woman who 80 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: makes the decision about these things. Flags, protocol, rank, everything 81 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: matters in Washington. The symbolism. There's a reason the flags 82 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: are flown at half staff for thirty days in a 83 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: period of morning. When a president does what Donald Trump 84 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: is doing is an action which is typical in that 85 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: it aggrandizes him while diminishing an institution, disrespecting it. And 86 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: so it is an act of disrespect on the one hand, 87 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: and an act of appeasement and weakness on the part 88 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: of Mike Johnson who's letting him do it. And it's 89 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: despicable and every American should be offended by it. The 90 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: question is if I would react to Joe Biden's farewell 91 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: addresses and speak to his legacy. Joe Biden's legacy is 92 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: going to be one word five letters in Boston, fake gold, 93 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: letter T, letter R, letter U, letter M, and letter P. 94 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: But together it spells Trump. And it's what Joe Biden 95 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: gave America. It's what he left America. It is his legacy. 96 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: And let me just say when doctor Jill says that 97 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: she's upset with Nancy Pelosi because somehow Nancy Pelosi betrayed 98 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: the Bidens by pointing out too late, as was the 99 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: case that he was unfit to finish the campaign, let 100 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: alone another term. She felt betrayed personally, as if Nancy 101 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: stole the favor of Biden heir loom from the coffee table. 102 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: The American presidency does not belong to the Bidens, or 103 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: to the Bushes, or to the Clintons. It belongs to you. 104 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,679 Speaker 1: It's offensive in the extreme, and so in an era 105 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: of selfishness where it is practiced by too many people, 106 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: nobody should be surprised that the guy who won the 107 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: race was the Michael Phelps of selfishness, was the usine 108 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: Bolt of corruption, the fastest man alive when it comes 109 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: to scump baggery, Donald Trump, and in a race where 110 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: the scum baggery is featured, scumbag wins. And the great 111 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: achievement politically of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party of 112 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: this moment, and one around which there's not been much 113 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: real soul searching but a lot of denialism, is Joe Biden. 114 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: A very small group of people, through their abject selfishness 115 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: managed to lose an election not on the economy, not 116 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: on national defense issues, but on honesty to the most 117 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: prolific liar in American history. They lost the election on 118 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: the border. Who was telling the truth about it? Trump 119 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: or Biden? That to be Trump? Border was out of control. 120 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,559 Speaker 1: The American people saw it. Who was telling the truth 121 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: about the economy? Trump said it sucked? Biden said it 122 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 1: was the best it could ever be, the greatest economy 123 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: in American history. They called the Biden nomics, and the 124 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: people around him called him fder. Who's being honest about 125 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: the economy? That would be Trump? Again, it did suck 126 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: if you were a working person. And who is being 127 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: honest about Joe Biden's condition? Who is being honest about 128 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: the one term pledge? Would that have been Biden? Or 129 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: would that have been the most prolific liar in American history? 130 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: You see, one of the great problems American life is 131 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: the cult of fandom that's taken root. For example, let's 132 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 1: talk about another broken promise. Karen Bass. She said she 133 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: would never ever leave the state except for it to 134 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: go to Washington and New York if she had to. 135 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: She left the state she went to Ghana and it 136 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: burned down. And when you point that out, there's a 137 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: sizeable portion of the American elector that says, how dare 138 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: you say that about Karen Bass? And because of those people, 139 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: we got Trump. And until the opposition party can offer 140 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: something new and fresh and better produce candidates with conviction, 141 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: who can speak extemporaneously, don't need a teleprompter, know what 142 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: they're talking about, have some manner of expertise about law, 143 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: about politics, about sociology, psychology, history of the country. They're doomed. 144 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: Just the greatest defeat by a political party in American history, 145 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: not by the nature of the vote count, but because 146 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: of who the opposition was. When a political party loses 147 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: to an unfit movement and an unfit and moral leader, 148 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: it must reflect on itself. If you're a Democrat out there, 149 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: you're mad at me for saying this, You're nuts. This 150 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: is the warning. I want to win again in four 151 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: years before they burn the country completely down. I'm Steve Schmidt. 152 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 153 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our substack on our YouTube channel, follow us. 154 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community.