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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. I'm here

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Speaker 1: in Berlin. You have questions, I've got answers. Let's get

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Speaker 1: to it. The question is, do I believe that there

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Speaker 1: is a correlation between Trump's recent actions his first month

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Speaker 1: in office and the uptick in aviation accidents. I do not.

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Speaker 1: There is no correlation. That being said, there has been

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Speaker 1: an uptick over recent years of near misses and accidents,

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Speaker 1: including the first fatal accident in many years in the

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Speaker 1: United States at Reagan National Airport. And as somebody who

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Speaker 1: travels frequently, I know that I'm concerned, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of people out there are concerned. And so when Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump talks about dismantling the FAA with no plan to

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Speaker 1: modernize the air traffic control system, when he employs a

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Speaker 1: strategy of hey, I'm going to send magic Elon to

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Speaker 1: go assess it and whatever Elon says, even though Elon

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Speaker 1: has no core experience in the subject area, the issues

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Speaker 1: could become that Donald Trump and his mismanagement of the

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Speaker 1: government and the deregulatory deal endangers air travel in the

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Speaker 1: United States, which is the safest in the world, and

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Speaker 1: the FAA isn't just really the American regulator, but is

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Speaker 1: really the world regulator on safety. So it's very concerning

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Speaker 1: what his rhetoric has been on a number of different fronts.

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Speaker 1: But right now, you can't turn around and blame every event,

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Speaker 1: whether event, air travel, crash, train crash, that every time

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Speaker 1: something bad happens that it's Trump's fault. That is not

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Speaker 1: a successful strategy to deal with MAGA and to defeat MAGA. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: the question is why do Elon Musk and Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: continue to prevaricate pathologically? For example, why have they lied

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Speaker 1: about the stranded astronauts, why have they lied about immigrants

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Speaker 1: eating pets in Springfield, Ohio? And why won't they ever

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Speaker 1: admit that they're wrong when they lie about something. It's

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Speaker 1: a great question. I'm not a psychiatrist, so it's hard

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Speaker 1: for me to give an answer that delves into the

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Speaker 1: pathology of telling thirty six thousand lives. Obviously, if you're

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, to be detached enough for reality to have

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Speaker 1: an orientation that every audience you're in front of you

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Speaker 1: evaluate through a prism of what can I say to

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Speaker 1: cause a reaction, regardless of its grounded in truth or not.

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Speaker 1: And so the cost of this after ten years is

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Speaker 1: we have a profoundly disoriented society that is unable to

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Speaker 1: appreciate in any given situation what is real what is not.

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Speaker 1: And this is so important, I think not just about

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. There is Joe Scarborough on Mourning Joe who

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Speaker 1: looked the camera in the eye and told the country

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Speaker 1: you if you don't believe that Joe Biden is the

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Speaker 1: best analytical Biden has ever been. So what does it

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Speaker 1: mean when one of the leading news hosts of the

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Speaker 1: most important public affairs show for America's elites tells the

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Speaker 1: people watching the show, fu, if you see something with

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Speaker 1: your eyes that you know to be true and process

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Speaker 1: is true, but say it out loud. This issue is

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Speaker 1: one that Democrats have to appreciate because to that liar,

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Speaker 1: the most prolific in American history, they lost an election

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Speaker 1: on questions of honesty, Honesty about Biden's condition, honesty about

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Speaker 1: the state of the border, honesty about the state of

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Speaker 1: the economy which sucked, and Democrats said was Bidenomics and

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Speaker 1: that he he was fdr and it was the best

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Speaker 1: economy there could ever be. So credibility is of the

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Speaker 1: utmost importance when engaging Trump. And we live in an

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Speaker 1: environment where Trump's capacity for lying has infected a number

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Speaker 1: of other institutions, including the media and including the opposition.

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Speaker 1: So when a Chuck Schumer, for example, goes out and

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Speaker 1: says when a Robert Menendez is indicted, that he's been

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Speaker 1: a great public servant for the people of New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: what it means is that most normal people can look

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Speaker 1: at the tribalism of the parties and see everybody apologizing

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Speaker 1: for their liars but not particularly caring about lying. As

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Speaker 1: a general proposition, if you care about lying, you have

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Speaker 1: to insist on honesty all the time. And so Trump's

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Speaker 1: lies are crazy, but they have to be effectively repelled

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Speaker 1: with a commitment to being honest by an opposite position

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Speaker 1: that has the burden of being honest all the time

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Speaker 1: or none of the time, and that higher burden. Well,

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Speaker 1: sometimes life's just not fair. But when you're running against

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Speaker 1: a prolific liar, you can't run as the lester liar.

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Speaker 1: You have to run as the truth teller. You have

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Speaker 1: to run is better, And that's what's missing from the

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Speaker 1: recognition of the political reality of this moment. The question is,

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Speaker 1: am I surprised that Fox News and Newsmax and other

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Speaker 1: propaganda outlets signed on to a letter demanding the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration reinstate the access of the Associated Press to the

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Speaker 1: Oval Office for media events and onto Air Force One.

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Speaker 1: The issue, of course, is that the Associated Press and

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Speaker 1: the Associated Press Style Guide has refused to adopt to

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's name change of the four hundred year old

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Speaker 1: Golf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and because

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Speaker 1: of that, Donald Trump has retaliated, which is blatantly unconstitutional.

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Speaker 1: Yet the Associated Press, under Julia Pace, who is an

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Speaker 1: extremely incompetent and dishonest reporter who is in over her head,

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Speaker 1: has been to threaten, has been to bluster, but to

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Speaker 1: take no action. And the action she has taken is

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Speaker 1: to send a meaningless letter from a collection of news organizations,

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Speaker 1: among which is Fox News and Newsmax, which shows how

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Speaker 1: absurd and conflicted this entire enterprises. The AP's making a

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Speaker 1: journalism argument standing on the back of Fox News, who

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Speaker 1: had to settle a defamation suit to the tune of

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Speaker 1: almost a billion dollars because of the lies that's spread

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Speaker 1: all over the country about a stolen election that wasn't.

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Speaker 1: But that Lia is destabilized the societ and we want

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Speaker 1: to have discussions about the truth and objective reality and

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Speaker 1: the First Amendment. And what this letter is is evidence

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Speaker 1: of how full of shit, the full of shittery is

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Speaker 1: and it is incredible. And so the Associated Press has

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Speaker 1: been picked out by the White House because of the

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Speaker 1: stupidity of this fight on a most serious subject matter,

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Speaker 1: and because the AP has contradicted its position, the AP position,

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Speaker 1: its policy requires it. Trump is right about this on

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Speaker 1: the substance of what the AP position is. And so

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Speaker 1: the AP has locked themselves into a dispute with Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump that amazingly they've given Donald Trump the upper hand on.

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Speaker 1: So it's just another example of Donald Trump being very

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Speaker 1: lucky in his opponents and his enemies. Over and over again,

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Speaker 1: he takes advantage of their stupidity. And that's what this

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Speaker 1: story at the Association presses fundamentally about. The question is

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Speaker 1: there seems to be so much darkness everywhere? Can you

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Speaker 1: share something that's light that we can all be proud of? Listen,

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Speaker 1: this is a moment of testing for the country, for

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Speaker 1: the American citizen. We are in the swirl of momentous times,

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Speaker 1: momentous events. I've talked for a couple of years now

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Speaker 1: about the fact that the post World War II international

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Speaker 1: order an era of history and epoch of history. It

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Speaker 1: is coming to an end and it will not survive

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Speaker 1: the Trump presidency. The American people have made that decision

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Speaker 1: with forty nine point nine percent of the vote. The

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Speaker 1: things that are broken, the things that are smashed, will

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Speaker 1: not be restored. The Democrats cannot run in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: eight saying we're going back to twenty twenty four. So

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Speaker 1: the thinking about how do we deliver a service, how

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Speaker 1: do we do these things? This is an exciting opportunity

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Speaker 1: out of defeat to imagine beyond what has been into

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Speaker 1: the new age of what can be. Abraham Lincoln was

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Speaker 1: the greatest president in America's history, in part because he

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Speaker 1: was preceded by James Buchanan, one of the worst in

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Speaker 1: American history, and followed by Andrew Johnson, also one of

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Speaker 1: the worst in American history. After Donald Trump, I pray

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Speaker 1: that we're ready for a great president, and Lord knows

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Speaker 1: we will need one to deal with what has to

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Speaker 1: be done. But this opportunity right now, in defeat, in opposition,

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Speaker 1: is a resplendent one to start imagining a future that

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Speaker 1: is better than the place that we're getting taken to

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Speaker 1: put down the victim mentality you're an American. Being an

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Speaker 1: American means being tough, It means having conviction, means standing

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Speaker 1: up for what you believe in, and it means being

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Speaker 1: unafraid of confronting Pawer for the right. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's something that we can all be proud of because

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Speaker 1: here's the deal. The Constitution of the United States, the

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Speaker 1: First Amendment of the United States, gives all of us

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Speaker 1: tremendous power and that can never ever be taken away

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Speaker 1: by an American politician. Thank God for that. I'm Steve Schmidt.

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