Speaker 1: It is the final schmid storm before the inauguration. I'm
Speaker 1: in Vegas. You've got questions, I have answers. Let's get started.
Speaker 1: The question is what can Democratic senators do to oppose
Speaker 1: the worst of Trump's nominees. Democratic Senators, as you know,
Speaker 1: are in the minority, and they're going to stay in
Speaker 1: the minority. This is very important for Democrats to understand
Speaker 1: the action is in the house. Chuck Schumer is the
Speaker 1: ultimate Washington DC checkers player, routinely hailed as a genius,
Speaker 1: who's not. He's a person who got sixteen hundred on
Speaker 1: his SAT scores but would have a hard time making
Speaker 1: it around the block without assistance. You have a guy
Speaker 1: who's been hailed for twenty years as a political genius,
Speaker 1: who has played the hand over these last elections and
Speaker 1: left to Democrats without much possibility of getting back into
Speaker 1: the majority before twenty twenty eight because of the map.
Speaker 1: It's appalling the Democratic senators did not coordinate their messaging,
Speaker 1: did not coordinate their questions. So maybe they'll coordinate their opposition,
Speaker 1: because if they don't coordinate their opposition, what's the point
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. The opposition to Trump will have
Speaker 1: to come from somewhere else. The simple truth about this
Speaker 1: moment is the Democrats are as capitulant towards Trump as
Speaker 1: everybody else. Tommy Tuverville, the adult from Alabama, put a
Speaker 1: hold on the nominations of the entirety of the senior
Speaker 1: military leadership. The Senate is filled with rules and procedures
Speaker 1: to give the minority power. Every single rule should be exploited.
Speaker 1: Democrats should put holds on these nominations or make clear
Speaker 1: that they'll hold up nominations everywhere grime the government to
Speaker 1: a holt make it clear that the ascension of Pete
Speaker 1: hag Seth and Tulsei Gabbert into these life and death
Speaker 1: position is unacceptable. And the Democrats should be on every
Speaker 1: television show. They should be shouting from the mountaintops, they
Speaker 1: should be holding news conferences, and instead they're appeasing Trump
Speaker 1: and they're rolling over and it is utterly, absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 1: Particularly with America's fighting men and women, these Democratic senators
Speaker 1: have an absolute obligation and responsibility to have the backs
Speaker 1: of those men and women. In a way, for example,
Speaker 1: that Jony Ernst does not question is how should Americans
Speaker 1: feel about the big tech CEOs descending on Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: For the inauguration Ais Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon must
Speaker 1: all of them, Jeff Bezos, Ed Moore gathered together. They're
Speaker 1: not there to witness the peaceful transition of power and
Speaker 1: the majesty of an American inauguration that did not happen
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and so this inauguration is stained by
Speaker 1: that travesty. The tech bros, oligarchs all are coming to
Speaker 1: Washington to celebrate not the peaceful transfer of power, but power,
Speaker 1: raw political power. They are coming like feudal lords to
Speaker 1: the court of the king with tribute. They're coming to
Speaker 1: be nice. And how should the average American feel about
Speaker 1: these people. They should be scared of them. They should
Speaker 1: be frightened because they have immense power, and the fear
Speaker 1: isn't baseless. American people should view them the way our
Speaker 1: ancestors viewed the railroad barons at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: Industrial Age, with a lot of skepticism. And in the end,
Speaker 1: these people are not all powerful in their dreams of
Speaker 1: conquest and power and control over all things everywhere. Will
Speaker 1: come to dust like all such dreams, because the American
Speaker 1: people in the end will break up these companies. There
Speaker 1: was a king once. He was a bad king, and
Speaker 1: the American farmers overthrew him and we became a country.
Speaker 1: Because mankind is ingenious. There are all sorts of people
Speaker 1: who have tried in all sorts of new ways to
Speaker 1: become kings. In America. These guys are the latest batch,
Speaker 1: and like everybody else, their ambitions will seem reachable for
Speaker 1: a while, and then the American people will rise up
Speaker 1: and say no, and we will break up their companies,
Speaker 1: and all of the things that happened to all of
Speaker 1: the railroad and all of the oil trusts a century
Speaker 1: ago will happen to them because we're a free society
Speaker 1: and they are impediments to the exercise of freedom because
Speaker 1: their companies are about control. The question is, what is
Speaker 1: my reaction to Donald Trump raising the American flag to
Speaker 1: full staff in violation of protocol during the morning period,
Speaker 1: which lasts thirty days. For President Jimmy Carter, I think
Speaker 1: it's despicable, and I think it's even more despicable that
Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House, who lacks dignity, toughness, and judgment,
Speaker 1: would allow him to do it. The speaker is like
Speaker 1: the mayor of an institution, the House of Representatives. It's
Speaker 1: one of the most important institutions in the country. And
Speaker 1: he's the guy where Nancy Pelosi was, the woman who
Speaker 1: makes the decision about these things. Flags, protocol, rank, everything
Speaker 1: matters in Washington. The symbolism. There's a reason the flags
Speaker 1: are flown at half staff for thirty days in a
Speaker 1: period of morning. When a president does what Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is doing is an action which is typical in that
Speaker 1: it aggrandizes him while diminishing an institution, disrespecting it. And
Speaker 1: so it is an act of disrespect on the one hand,
Speaker 1: and an act of appeasement and weakness on the part
Speaker 1: of Mike Johnson who's letting him do it. And it's
Speaker 1: despicable and every American should be offended by it. The
Speaker 1: question is if I would react to Joe Biden's farewell
Speaker 1: addresses and speak to his legacy. Joe Biden's legacy is
Speaker 1: going to be one word five letters in Boston, fake gold,
Speaker 1: letter T, letter R, letter U, letter M, and letter P.
Speaker 1: But together it spells Trump. And it's what Joe Biden
Speaker 1: gave America. It's what he left America. It is his legacy.
Speaker 1: And let me just say when doctor Jill says that
Speaker 1: she's upset with Nancy Pelosi because somehow Nancy Pelosi betrayed
Speaker 1: the Bidens by pointing out too late, as was the
Speaker 1: case that he was unfit to finish the campaign, let
Speaker 1: alone another term. She felt betrayed personally, as if Nancy
Speaker 1: stole the favor of Biden heir loom from the coffee table.
Speaker 1: The American presidency does not belong to the Bidens, or
Speaker 1: to the Bushes, or to the Clintons. It belongs to you.
Speaker 1: It's offensive in the extreme, and so in an era
Speaker 1: of selfishness where it is practiced by too many people,
Speaker 1: nobody should be surprised that the guy who won the
Speaker 1: race was the Michael Phelps of selfishness, was the usine
Speaker 1: Bolt of corruption, the fastest man alive when it comes
Speaker 1: to scump baggery, Donald Trump, and in a race where
Speaker 1: the scum baggery is featured, scumbag wins. And the great
Speaker 1: achievement politically of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party of
Speaker 1: this moment, and one around which there's not been much
Speaker 1: real soul searching but a lot of denialism, is Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: A very small group of people, through their abject selfishness
Speaker 1: managed to lose an election not on the economy, not
Speaker 1: on national defense issues, but on honesty to the most
Speaker 1: prolific liar in American history. They lost the election on
Speaker 1: the border. Who was telling the truth about it? Trump
Speaker 1: or Biden? That to be Trump? Border was out of control.
Speaker 1: The American people saw it. Who was telling the truth
Speaker 1: about the economy? Trump said it sucked? Biden said it
Speaker 1: was the best it could ever be, the greatest economy
Speaker 1: in American history. They called the Biden nomics, and the
Speaker 1: people around him called him fder. Who's being honest about
Speaker 1: the economy? That would be Trump? Again, it did suck
Speaker 1: if you were a working person. And who is being
Speaker 1: honest about Joe Biden's condition? Who is being honest about
Speaker 1: the one term pledge? Would that have been Biden? Or
Speaker 1: would that have been the most prolific liar in American history?
Speaker 1: You see, one of the great problems American life is
Speaker 1: the cult of fandom that's taken root. For example, let's
Speaker 1: talk about another broken promise. Karen Bass. She said she
Speaker 1: would never ever leave the state except for it to
Speaker 1: go to Washington and New York if she had to.
Speaker 1: She left the state she went to Ghana and it
Speaker 1: burned down. And when you point that out, there's a
Speaker 1: sizeable portion of the American elector that says, how dare
Speaker 1: you say that about Karen Bass? And because of those people,
Speaker 1: we got Trump. And until the opposition party can offer
Speaker 1: something new and fresh and better produce candidates with conviction,
Speaker 1: who can speak extemporaneously, don't need a teleprompter, know what
Speaker 1: they're talking about, have some manner of expertise about law,
Speaker 1: about politics, about sociology, psychology, history of the country. They're doomed.
Speaker 1: Just the greatest defeat by a political party in American history,
Speaker 1: not by the nature of the vote count, but because
Speaker 1: of who the opposition was. When a political party loses
Speaker 1: to an unfit movement and an unfit and moral leader,
Speaker 1: it must reflect on itself. If you're a Democrat out there,
Speaker 1: you're mad at me for saying this, You're nuts. This
Speaker 1: is the warning. I want to win again in four
Speaker 1: years before they burn the country completely down. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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