1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Seven hundred and nineteen days from now we get a vote, 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: a referendum on the first two years of the Trump 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: presidency and on the corrupt MAGA rubber stamp Congress. This 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: is the warning Donald Trump is off to a fast 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: start assembling his cabinet. The Democratic Party is in no 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: real functional position to oppose all of them, particularly given 7 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: the resounding victory Donald Trump achieved in the election last week. 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: Yet the American people and the Trump opposition are on 9 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 1: the edge of an extremely important moral victory. When all 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: of the votes are cast, it seems that Donald Trump 11 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: will not have a majority support of the American people. 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: He will be a plurality winner, and the scale and 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: the size of his victory will be less than what 14 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: George W. 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,959 Speaker 2: Bush achieved when he beat. 16 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: John Kerry by one hundred and forty one thousand votes 17 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: in the state of Ohio, becoming the nation's forty third president. 18 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: We should talk about the man that he picked to 19 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: be Secretary of Defense, because when he was picked, Donald Rumsfeld, 20 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: who had at one point been the youngest secretary in 21 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: the nation's history, was celebrated. He went on to become 22 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: the worst defense secretary in American history by a lot. 23 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: He was the principal architect of two losing wars that 24 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: killed a million human beings, five thousand plus of them Americans, 25 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: wounded tens of thousands, incited a suicide epidemic, and cost 26 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: four trillion dollars. The arrogant Rumsfeldt sent the first cavalry 27 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: division to Bagdad without its armor. He mandated that the 28 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: United States Army fight a war of ideology on the 29 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: basis not of doctrine, not on training, but the whims 30 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: of rumsfeld ego. 31 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 2: And it was a disaster. 32 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: And now Donald Trump has raised the anti He has 33 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: appointed somebody to become the Secretary of Defense, a National 34 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: Guard officer and Princeton graduate with no real world experience 35 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: outside of Fox News, to become the leader of the 36 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 1: trillion dollar a year Department of Defense, which cannot pass 37 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: an audit. Pete Hegseeth will be taking the place of 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: Lloyd Austin, a competent, decent, qualified man. Pete Hegseth, a 39 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: man who believes women should not be in combat, a 40 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: tinkerer with the codes and customs of the military, trying 41 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: to impose the MAGA worldview on its system of honor, 42 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: including his demand that war criminals be pardoned by Donald Trump, 43 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: who violated the most important codes and mores of the military. 44 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: When the Navy Seals wanted to take Eddie Gallagher's tried 45 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: in a way, Pete Heegsath was there to politicize it, 46 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: to foxify it. And now he'll be the Secretary of 47 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: Defense unless Democrats can stop him, and he should be 48 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: target Numero Uno for the confirmation hearings. Democrats should demand 49 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: immediately the full release of his service files, all of them. 50 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 1: What were his fitness reports? The simple fact is, I'm 51 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: not somebody who believes that the personal lives of leaders 52 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: should be a disqualification. But the simple truth is Pete 53 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: Hegsath is on his third marriage and two times he's 54 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: had affairs with coworkers. Adultery is a crime in the military. 55 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: Pete Hegsath is a clown who has no business leading 56 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: the American armedforces. Democrats should fight this all the way home. 57 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: The American people love their dogs, me included. There is 58 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: no maga whatever who is quite like Corey Lewandowski's mistress, 59 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: Governor Christy Noam of South Dakota, who is to be 60 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Homeland Security because in the way that 61 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: Trump is a narcissist, it appears that Christie Nome is 62 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: a sadist in her own words, with her own confessions, 63 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: She's a small state governor who is not competent to 64 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: the task of running America's bloated homeland security behemoth. Christi 65 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: nom will do whatever Trump tells her to do. Will 66 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: she take away people's tsa pre because she doesn't like 67 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: their politics or their Nexus cards or global traveler cards? 68 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: Who gets to be on the no fly list Democratic committeemen. 69 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: With Trump's reign of revenge set to fall upon the country, 70 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: Christie Nome is going to have a hard time answering 71 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: tough questions and a confirmation and Democrats should go after 72 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: her heart with discipline and focus. Fact that the matter 73 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,799 Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party right now is not in fighting shape, 74 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: but it has to, like a wolf pack or a 75 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: lion pack, go after the weakest members of the Trump 76 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: heard That's how zebras get eaten. And the slowest zebras 77 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: in Trump's Maga pack are Pete Hegseth and Christy No. 78 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: They're extremely vulnerable and they have been nominated for some 79 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: of the most important offices in the country Now the 80 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: grifting former governor of Arkansas and Fox News host Mike. 81 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: Huckabee has been nominated to be ambassador to Israel. 82 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: That's a joke, not unsuspected, but Democrats should do everything 83 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: they can to embarrass this man because he deserves it. 84 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: During his confirmation hearings, he's a political extremist who will 85 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: go to the Middle East, to a place of tension 86 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: in a time of war and say manifestly stupid things 87 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: that will inflame the situation and get people killed. Now, 88 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: most people don't remember how corrupt Mike Huckabee was when 89 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: he was the governor of Arkansas. I shit you not, 90 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: but he released the equivalent as governor of a wedding 91 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: registry where you could send the governor gifts for the 92 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: governor's mansion, and of course Huckabee pocketed all of them. 93 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: We never really got to talk about it on the 94 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: McCain campaign because it wasn't our political interest. 95 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 2: But one of my long lost. 96 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: Regrets is that we never really got to mix it 97 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: up with Mike Couckabee and call this clown and fool 98 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: and liar and grift or out for what he is. 99 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: One of the worst Americans out there. Truly, and so 100 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: the confirmation process for Mike Cookabee should not be courteous. 101 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: It should be brutal. Every one of the Trump grits 102 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: who comes before the Congress should get it with both barrels, 103 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: because that's the job of the Congress, not to rubber 104 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: stamp Trump's most obnoxious picks. And by the way, let's 105 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: talk about the co presidents, the conspiracy theorist vvak Ramaswami 106 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: and Elon Musk. Together they will be reinventing government, leading 107 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: the government Efficiency Office. As Senator Elizabeth Warren points out, 108 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: why not an efficiency office? The job of one person 109 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: will now be run by two giant egos, the South 110 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: African Elon Musk and vvak Ramaswami, the nine to eleven 111 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists. 112 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: What could go wrong? 113 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: They probably aren't up to the task. And that's okay 114 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: because sooner or later, no matter how inept the Democratic 115 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: Party is, Donald Trump and his team of nut jobs 116 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: will be undone. By the combination of their incompetence, their arrogance, 117 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: and their streams. They will trip themselves up. That it 118 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: would be good if a decent opposition formed as quickly 119 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: as possible. That was tough, that was focused and was 120 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: brutally honest. And what that means is it's time to 121 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: discard all of the grifters and all of their groups 122 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: that raise money from senior citizens promising to be centurions 123 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: of democracy while pocketing ninety eight cents on the dollar. 124 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: It ought to be illegal, and it probably is. But 125 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: here's the thing. A decent opposition is what is required 126 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: to beat Donald Trump. A mirror image opposition will lose 127 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 1: to him every time because the. 128 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: Small time grifters of the. 129 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: Resistance movement are nothing compared to the big time grifters, 130 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: the big sharks of the Maga movement. A decent opposition 131 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: stealed by conviction and fortitude will have a great victory 132 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: seven hundred and nineteen days from now if it is 133 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: built on a foundation of principle and conviction, in fierceness 134 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: in defense of the Constitution from the attack and assault 135 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: that it's about to sustain. An election was lost that 136 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: shouldn't have been. But everybody who is part of the 137 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: movement that stands opposed to Donald Trump as a matter 138 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: of conviction and conscience can be certain that they are 139 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: on the right side of history because they are on 140 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: the side that believes all Americans are created equal, that 141 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: they have inalienable rights, that we should not bow to 142 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: a king or a caesar, and that nobody has the 143 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: right to persecute any American for speaking out with regard 144 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: to what they think, what they believe, or the faith 145 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: they have. 146 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 2: To threaten to do so is un American. 147 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: And though it was given a mandate by the American people, 148 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: the American people are fickle, and soon Donald Trump will 149 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: have full control of the entire government, and the American 150 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: people will get to see what MAGA looks like in 151 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. They're going to get to see incredible brutality. 152 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: They're going to get to see in humanity. They're going 153 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,959 Speaker 1: to get to see a repudiation of our exceptionalism as 154 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: a country, our excellence as a people. It's going to 155 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: be a shameful period sad one. It requires, in this moment, 156 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: tough and focus people who can tell the truth, who 157 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: can rally people to a cause and communicate something better 158 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 1: than what Donald Trump is capable of. If that is done, 159 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: then victory is not so far off. If it is not, 160 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: and terrible things will happen, and the situation will worsen. 161 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: It's time to start talking about and to start thinking 162 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: about better, and the first step to that means letting 163 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: go of the past. 164 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 2: And that past includes. 165 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: A lot of failed democratic leaders who's incompetence purchased us 166 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: four years of Donald Trump. Every one of you who 167 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: sees this should be outraged over it, but that outrage 168 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,439 Speaker 1: cannot deter you from participation and the work of fighting 169 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: back and taking back one house of government and then 170 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: a second. This is the work at hand. The country's 171 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: future depends on it. Quitting, tuning out, disengaging at the 172 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: moment of maximum danger when MAGA has maximum power is 173 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: simply not an option. It will make everything worse and 174 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 1: all of us less safe. A great contest is underway, 175 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: and its end result is unclear. Donald Trump has won 176 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: two elections and lost one. The midterm elections between did 177 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,599 Speaker 1: not break his way. He will not have achieved a majority, 178 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: and the country is closed divided. The next rounds in 179 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: this fight are undecided. Let's get back to work. There's 180 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: much to be done. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 181 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 182 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our substack on our YouTube channel follow us, 183 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community,