1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: It is December one. This is the warning. It has 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: been a momentous weekend in the United States as Pete Hegsath, 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 1: the self titled Secretary of War, is unmasked as a 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: war criminal. Pete Hegsath is the singularly most incompetent leader 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: of the American Armed forces in American history. And I 6 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: do not say that lightly. I say it precisely. His 7 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:36,919 Speaker 1: leadership is an obscenity. He is a buffoon who has 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: been granted enormous power, but no power Pete Hagsath holds 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: is a power that places him above the law. There 10 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: has been murder ordered on the high seas by Pete 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: Hegsath and executed illegally by a subservient and obedient chain 12 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: of command that violated its constitutional oath, followed in illegal order, 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: and broke the Geneva Conventions, international law, international treaty, and 14 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: the Uniform Code of Military Justice. This is a moment 15 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: where even the worst Congress in American history, the unuch Congress, 16 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: the one hundred and nineteenth on their knees Congress, the 17 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: capitulent and appeasement Congress, has signaled that even it, through 18 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: the Armed Services Committee, led by Chairman Roger Wicker will 19 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: conduct vigorous oversight of the murder of the lawlessness, and 20 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: let us understand this same lawless man who committed murder 21 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: in the name of Trump for a reality television show 22 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: that he cast himself as a star in after building 23 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: a makeup room in the Pentagon, after being tailed around 24 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: by his wife, that guy who is stoking war in Venezuela, 25 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: that guy credibly accused of rape, that guy on his 26 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: third marriage, that guy drunk on a table shout and 27 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: kill all the Muslims, is unfit and should be removed 28 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: from his job immediately. The unfit guy who put war 29 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: plans in a signal message and who should never, ever, ever, 30 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: ever ever have been confirmed, but was in a historic 31 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: and tragic mistake. Now, one of the things that matters 32 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: a great deal are the tough questions that need to 33 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: be asked. And here the American people are failed over 34 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: and over and over again. And I want to give 35 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: you a pristine example of a very fine person who 36 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: is failing to meet the moment and ask the tough questions. 37 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: Her job and the legacy of the program she sits 38 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: on demand, and she asked so many of the interactions 39 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: between top Trump officials and the media, particularly on Sunday shows, 40 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: have become farcical. They have become second city improv acts, 41 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: a type of theater of the absurd, designed not to 42 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: create laughter or joy, but slack jawed wonderment about the 43 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: capitulants of reason to insanity, over and over and over again. 44 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: Let's watch Christen Welker ask a question of Homeland Secretary 45 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: Christie Nome. Christine Nome is challenged on a question about 46 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: whether DHS violated a federal judge's order. Let's watch. 47 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: The judge wanted to ensure that people were given due process. 48 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: He said very clearly, quote any plane containing these folks 49 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: that is going to take offers in the air needs 50 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: to be returned to the United States. But those people 51 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 2: need to be returned to the United States. However that's accomplished, 52 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 2: I leave to you, but this is something that you 53 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: need to make sure is complied with immediately. Did you 54 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 2: defy the court's order, Madam. 55 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 3: Secretary No, Kristen. And that's one of the things that 56 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 3: we continue to face across this country is activist judges 57 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 3: who are using radical decisions that have no standing and 58 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 3: no grounds to try to stop what President Trump is 59 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 3: doing to protect American to keep us safe. So we'll 60 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 3: continue to do the right thing, continue to work and 61 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 3: do protect Americans no matter what radical judge comes out 62 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 3: and tries to stop us. We'll do the right thing 63 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 3: and know that we're on the side of the law, 64 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: the side of the Constitution, and the side of the 65 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 3: American people. 66 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: Let me translate it. We do not accept the authority 67 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: of the federal judge because we decreate the federal judge 68 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: is an activist judge, and Trump regime doesn't follow the 69 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: orders of an activist judge. The Trump regime would do 70 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: what they did again, would do it again tomorrow, and 71 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: we'll do whatever we want to do, while simultaneously saying 72 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: we follow the court order, we obey the constitution, and 73 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 1: the media is lying by asking us a question, just 74 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: as the Democrats are when they talk about the possibility 75 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: of their being illegal orders. Meanwhile, there is no follow 76 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: up onto the next question, and the circuses roll on. 77 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: Ever on. The R word is debated and Tucker Carlson, 78 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: like Arthur Fleck with Piers Morgan debate the efficacy of 79 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: a slur against gay. 80 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 4: People, the gay thing, which was not a thing forty 81 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 4: years ago, gay was a slur. All of a sudden 82 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 4: becomes a mandatory to worship at the altar of gain 83 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 4: us or whatever trend stuff. So to me, we're pride. 84 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 4: All this stuff was not a thing forty years ago. 85 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 4: We're the same age. You know that it was reviled. 86 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 4: Now it's beloved. That's a culture change. It's not multi culture. 87 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 4: I don't think you get sent that you can't descend 88 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 4: from it you're talking to from that's I think what 89 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 4: economy is wrong? 90 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 5: I good for you? 91 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 6: What's out of jail in your country? 92 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 5: What's happened with the gay things? You put it is 93 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 5: that actually we were an extremely homophobic society. We actually 94 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 5: it was only only legal to be gay from the 95 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 5: mid sixties in the United Kingdom, and I'm very glad 96 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 5: I now live in the country where it's perfectly legal 97 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 5: to do so. 98 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 4: You you buy the culture, you buy, Okay. 99 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 5: People obviously feels right to have their own sexuality. 100 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 6: That my argument that that's never never happened of your country. 101 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 6: Well different to the gay it's not different, it's not 102 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 6: it is it is. 103 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 4: I'm attacking gaze, I'm not attacking trans I'm making a 104 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 4: larger point that I know that you are capable of grasping, 105 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 4: which is that these are cultural determinations. We decide what 106 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 4: our culture is, what are our values? 107 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: And the media reacts with outrage, and the people are 108 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: told the great crises are words, while people are obliterated 109 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: on the seas, while mass men terrorize communities, And while 110 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: Homeland Security secretary speaks in the language that Orwell warned about, 111 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: the language of tyranny, the language of double speak, the 112 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: language of absurdism, that make the truth of farce and 113 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: equivocate between right and wrong. But the opposition to this, 114 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: steeped in decency, does not need a lecture or a 115 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: primer on right and wrong. They see it clearly, and 116 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: they see the abominations at hand, and they see the 117 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: lawlessness at hand. We all see it. The question is 118 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: what will we do about it? Time is running out. 119 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: Don't be distracted, be focused. The chaos is growing, the 120 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: pace of its metastasisation is increasing. Dangerous days are upon us, 121 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: and the American crisis grows worse with them. This is 122 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 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