1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: It is January sixteenth, twenty twenty five. There are four 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: days left until Donald Trump swears the oath that makes 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: him Commander in Chief, head of State, President of the 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: United States. This is the warning. His henchmen are gathering. 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: They're being questioned, and every one of them will make 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: it through because of the impotence of this man, Chuck Schumer, 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: the Democratic leader, who is not up to this task 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. In fact, his services 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: the Democratic Minority leader is preposterous. He is the worst 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: political strategist, the worst political tactician, and the worst communicator 11 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: in the modern age to hold the job. He is 12 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: as overmatched and as in over his head as Pete 13 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: Hegseeth will be at the Pentagon. No Democratic leader should 14 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: allow this nomination to go forward without going to the mattresses. 15 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: Pete Hegsath is a moral abomination. The petulance, the sneering, 16 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: and the contempt by these nominees for the United States 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: Senate is staggering. There was this extraordinary moment in the 18 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: hearing when Senator Elizabeth Warren makes the point Pete Hegsath 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: refused to meet with her. 20 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: You and I agree on the corrosive effects of the 21 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: revolving door between the Pentagon and defense contractors is something 22 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 2: I would have liked to talk to you about, if 23 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: you'd come and been willing to visit with me. 24 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: She is the elected representative of the people of Massachusetts. 25 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: U lest anybody forget history, one oh one, no Massachusetts, 26 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: no America. Elizabeth Warren is a United States Senator. And 27 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: here is how this is supposed to work. It's how 28 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: it worked when John McCain was the chairman. Roger Wicker, 29 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: and let's be clear, is as big a joke as 30 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: is Pete Hegseth. He's as unfit to be the chairman 31 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: of the Armed Services Committee as any of these people 32 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: are to be Cabinet secretaries. And it functions like the 33 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: old super Friends cartoons. When they close their fists and 34 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: bump them together, the superpowers activate, except these are anti superpowers, 35 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: where the combinations are imbecility and idiocy, in vanity and venality, 36 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: and arrogance and ignorance. Roger Wicker's job as chairman of 37 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: the committee is to defend the prerogatives of the Committee 38 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: and the institution the United States Senate. He serves the 39 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: right answer to mister Hegseeth is to say, you will 40 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: meet with all of the senators on this committee and 41 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: show them courtesy and respect, or you will not have 42 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: a hearing. It's as simple as that. What we are 43 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: watching is the rise of Trump's rabid and unqualified cabinet, 44 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: but also functionally the collapse of the Congress, held by 45 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: the Republicans as a coequal branch of government. Mike Johnson, 46 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: the Louisiana religious fundamentalist who believes the people in dinosaurs 47 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: walked around together ten thousand years ago, called up the 48 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: Ohio Congressman Mike Turner and relieved him of his post 49 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: as chairman of the Intelligence Committee on orders from Donald Trump. 50 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: The Speaker of the House is a Titanic office in 51 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: the American system. The Speaker of the House does not 52 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: work for the president. The Speaker of the House is 53 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: a top a coequal institution. The Speaker is equal to 54 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: the President unless he subordinates himself by allowing the President 55 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: to tell him what to do. And when that happens, 56 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: when the Congress capitulates and surrenders its agency, its sovereignty, 57 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: its institutional equality, then the balance that keeps American democracy 58 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: aligned collapses. It would be as if gravity ceased on 59 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: the earth, or it became much heavier, everything would change. 60 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: Trump isn't so much president if he commands the Congress 61 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: in the way that he does. He's the speaker, and 62 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: he's the majority leader, and he's the president, which makes 63 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: him a caesar. Marco Rubio's ideoc was staggering. Rubio knows 64 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: how to act in the United States Senate. He's smoothed 65 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: as opposed to the sneering idiocy of Pete Hegsath. Marco Rubio, though, 66 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: told a lie, a big one, to the American people. 67 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,679 Speaker 1: He told the American people that our being the most 68 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: powerful nation of the world atop the international order that 69 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: we created, has somehow made us weak. What he seeks 70 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: to tear down is what makes us strong. In some sense. 71 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: No stupider words were spoken yesterday. Of course, none of 72 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 1: this would be happening but for Joe Biden, the man 73 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: whose ego has delivered the country into Donald Trump's hands. 74 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: Because Joe Biden treated Donald Trump like a prop because 75 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: Joe Biden needed Donald Trump foundationally as the justification to 76 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: break his promise. He did not confront him, He did 77 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: not hold him accountable, He did not order his attorney 78 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: General to do so. And so now the next Attorney 79 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,239 Speaker 1: General of the United States will be a paid Guitari agent, 80 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: and nobody in the United States Senate is even remotely 81 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: interested in it. Nobody, a corporate lobbyist will be the 82 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: Attorney general. And you know what she's so scared of 83 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump? She won't say factually as a lawyer, who's 84 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: about to be the chief law enforcement officer of the 85 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: United States, Who won the twenty twenty election, who won. 86 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 3: The twenty twenty presidential election. 87 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 2: Joe Biden is the President of the United States. 88 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 3: MS BONDI you know that there is a difference between 89 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 3: acknowledging it and you know I can say that Donald 90 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: Trump won the twenty twenty four election. I may not 91 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 3: like it, but I can see it. You cannot say 92 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 3: who won the twenty twenty presidential election. Yeah, it's disturbing 93 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 3: that you can't give voice to that fact. 94 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: What that means is she'll lie about anything, big things 95 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: and small. The hour of disaster is coming closer, and 96 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: there is no plan. What is the purpose of a 97 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: great political party if it is not a national purpose, 98 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: if it is not to strengthen the nation. Soon we'll 99 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: start hearing the lectures from people like Chuck Schumer about 100 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: how the rise of a third party or a movement 101 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: spoils something, What exactly does it spoil Chuck Schumer's job, 102 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: the view from the patio, because Chuck Schumer and the 103 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: Democratic Party have delivered us to Donald Trump and Magot, 104 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: and a lot of the people in the party think 105 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: they ran a flawless campaign around which they are to 106 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: be congratulated. Joe Biden's singular legacy can be reduced to 107 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: five letters, A, T, N, R, U, and M and 108 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: the P Trump by refusing to step aside with humility 109 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: and grace and commence the generational change that could have 110 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: saved the country from Trump. No, instead, we have Trump, 111 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: and we have Pete Hagsay, and we have Pam Bondi, 112 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: and we have Tulca Gabbert, and we have no plan 113 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: from Chuck Schumer of any fur or any fashion. And 114 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: so here's my question. If Tommy Tuberville, one of the 115 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: dumbest sons of bitches to ever be elected to office 116 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: in the history of the United States, was successfully able 117 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: to block Joe Biden's military nominees for ascension to the 118 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: rank of lieutenant general and general and Vice admiral and admiral. 119 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: Why can't the Democratic Party block Pete Hagsath. Why can't 120 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: the entirety of the Democratic Caucus put a hold on 121 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth's nomination. Why can't the Democratic Party from Chuck 122 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: Schumer on down? See the manifest danger of this imbecile's 123 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: ascension to the role of Defense Minister with command of 124 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: the nation's five thousand plus nuclear warheads. Shut down, the Congress, 125 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: shut down every other nomination, make it impossible for him 126 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: to firm a judge. There is nothing more important than 127 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: the security of the country. It is the paramount issue. 128 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: And Pete Hegsat is unfit, staggeringly unfit, mentally, morally unfit, ignorant. 129 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: He's somebody who has deep personal problems, substance abuse disorder, 130 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: he has post traumatic stress. He's talked about it, he's 131 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: written about it. He has white nationalist tattoos festooned across 132 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: his chest. And the simple truth is the military doesn't 133 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: need a white nationalist leading it. Military needs honor. The 134 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: Democratic Party in this moment has failed more spectacularly than 135 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: any political party ever anywhere. It lost to these people. 136 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: Look at the pictures. January sixth, an event basically denied 137 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: by the next Attorney General, who, by the way, will 138 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: have her signature on the pardon paperwork too. As all 139 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: of these criminals are let out of jail. Unless Chuck 140 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: Schumer finds his way to do his duty, Pete Hegsas's 141 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: signature will be on the paperwork. Firing a great many 142 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: of the senior leaders of the United States military and 143 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's guilt by association purges. The revenge and the 144 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: retribution has started. Donald Trump knows best. He is not 145 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: to be challenged, He is not to be told no. 146 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: The tech dolargarchs are in line. We must be nice 147 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. The elites of this country have preyed 148 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: on the people and created a cynicism as hot as 149 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: the sun, hot enough to elect Donald Trump is going 150 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: to burn it all down. We are at a tragic moment, 151 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: and it didn't just come accidentally or providentially. A lot 152 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: of people only have anger for Donald Trump. They should 153 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 1: open their hearts a bit, create some space in room 154 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: for the people who gave it all away to him 155 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: with their selfishness, their venality, and their stupidity. Their corruption 156 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: opened the door, and Chuck Schumer is now the Democratic 157 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: leader again in opposition. We're in a lot of trouble 158 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: because the opposition is unworthy. This is the warning. I'm 159 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you 160 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 161 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.