1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: This is the warning mat Gates has been taken down. 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: He will not be the Attorney General of the United States. 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: His ambitions have been defenestrated. Donald Trump has been forced 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: to take his first step backwards, and before all of 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: this is over, he will take many, many more. At 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: some level, it is remarkable that his transition plan has 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,319 Speaker 1: started to implode sixty days before the inauguration, but that's 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: what happens when nepotism rules the day. Trump Junior is unqualified, 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: to say the least, and his picks have been a disaster. 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: The successor to mat Gates is as equally unqualified, former 11 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:49,319 Speaker 1: Florida Attorney General Pambondi. Her problem is who she's sleeping with. 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: In her case, it's not a seventeen year old girl, 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: it's the Katari government. Pam Bondi is a registered foreign 14 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: lobbyist and agent for the government of Qatar, which has 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: hosted hamas for many, many years. That's way too close 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: for comfort. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: officer of the United States. If she had been the 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: General Council for Exxon, it would have been disqualifying, But 19 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: working for the qataris as their lobbyist. As their agent 20 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: contrary to American interests is not just disqualifying but immoral. 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: What loyal American would dare to cash a paycheck from 22 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: these thuggish regimes. If they do, they should always understand 23 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 1: that forever more, they have lost the ability to hold 24 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: a position of public trust around the security of the 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: American people period. Pambondi for Attorney General ludicrous. What's even 26 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: more ludicrous is this man stitching sexually a cult woman 27 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: in Monterey, California. 28 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 2: I have as far as the media's concern, ah, it's 29 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: very simple, no matter what's fully investigated, and I was 30 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: completely cleared. And that's from a. 31 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: Leaders Thank you very mud. The Monterey City, California police 32 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: report was released twenty two pages long. It details very 33 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: serious allegations against Pete Hegsath. Whether he raped the woman 34 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: or not, I don't know, but I do know his 35 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: conduct was unbecoming, and I do know his conduct was piggish. 36 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth is unfit to lead the Department of Defense, 37 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: and I want to go through very clearly the reasons 38 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: why he doesn't meet the standards of excellence and leadership. 39 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: He is a clownish buffoon who's going. 40 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 2: To win this battle in the Lumberjacks that I'm putting 41 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 2: my money on. 42 00:02:51,680 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: Clayton a misogynist who hates women. 43 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 2: I'm straight up just saying we should not have women 44 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 2: in combat roles hasn't made us more effective? Has it 45 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: made us more lethal? Has made fighting more complicated. We've 46 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 2: all served with women and they're great. It just our 47 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 2: institutions don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally 48 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 2: not traditionally over human history, men in those positions are 49 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 2: more capable. 50 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: He seems to know extremely little about US military doctrine. 51 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 3: If we're going to fight to prevent Iran from getting 52 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 3: a nuclear bomb Vish regime, then we need to rewrite 53 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 3: the rules that are advantageous to us. I don't want 54 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 3: to get cultural sites on purpose, but if you're using 55 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 3: one to harbor your most dangerous weapons, then that should 56 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 3: be on the target list. 57 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: What enrages him is not America's enemies, but the fact 58 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: that the chief of naval operations is a woman. I 59 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: don't know what his problem with women is. Maybe his 60 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: mommy didn't pay enough attention to him. Democrats should focus 61 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: on that forensically and psychiatrically. At the hearings probe into 62 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: it unravel him. He's under stress, trust me, because he's 63 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: all in. Fox isn't going to have him back. He 64 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: has well and truly burned the boats on the beach, 65 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: and I want to talk clearly and directly about political strategy. 66 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: The reasons for the Democratic defeat in November are many. 67 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: What fueled it more than anything with cynicism and vapidity. 68 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: This is a momentous time and the dangers that all 69 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: of us are facing are very real. This extremist Trump 70 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: movement does not have a mandate. He won, but not 71 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: by a lot. A couple million votes, and he did 72 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: not win a majority. His victory was a plurality. He 73 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: will have gotten forty nine percent of the vote. The contest, 74 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: the debate is not over. Donald Trump is going to 75 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: do a lot of sledgehammering against America's institutions. They can 76 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: be repaired. A momentous event in the history of the 77 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: world happened just two days ago. For the first time 78 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: ever in lethal combat in war, the Russians fired and 79 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: intercontinental ballistic missile. They fired it at Ukraine. Pete Hegsath 80 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: cannot must not become the Secretary of Defense and the 81 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: Attorney General cannot be a Katari lobbyist who is compromised 82 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: in that foreign agency by her relationship and compromised by Hamas. 83 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,559 Speaker 1: Now there is much happening, like a waterfall. It's tough 84 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: to stop it all. Some people are outraged that doctor 85 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: Oz will be overrunning and overseeing Medicare and Medicaid. I 86 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: am too, but in a triage, and that's where Democrats 87 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: are stopping the core unqualified national security nominees who have 88 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: the power in the capacity if they make it through 89 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: over life and death issues is the priority. Matt Gates 90 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: is gone. I want you to think about a zebra 91 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: herd running on the outside of that herd, or the 92 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: Zebras in danger. First, they're tired, they take the headwinds 93 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 1: head on. They're buffeted by the sand. There's no fluidics, 94 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: there's no drag on the edge of the herd. The 95 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: Zebras have to work harder and run faster, and thus 96 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: they're more vulnerable. The Democratic Senate, working with the Democratic House, 97 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: working with their outside allies, working with the free media, 98 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: must face the obvious threat head on and take it off. 99 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: And politically, the Democrats must attack like a lion pride. 100 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: The pride has just consumed Mackids, and now it must 101 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: feast on the next weakest zebra, the alleged rapist Pete Hegsath. 102 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 1: And the goal is his abject humiliation and his being 103 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: chased forevermore from the public square. His confirmation hearings should 104 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: be talked about openly, directly and clearly, starting two days 105 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: ago as the most brutal that will ever be. Pete 106 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: Hegseth fought in the Iraq War and was in Afghanistan 107 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: the National Guard officer, and the position of the Democratic 108 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: Conference towards that should be thank you for your service. 109 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: We don't give a fuck. It doesn't make you qualified 110 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: for the job. He should be brutally questioned about US 111 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: military strategy and doctrine. He should be questioned brutally about 112 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: the history, the customs, and the traditions of the Armed forces. 113 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: He should be questioned brutally his character or lack thereof. 114 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: He should be questioned brutally about the rape allegations and 115 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: about his conduct unbecoming. He should be questioned brutally about 116 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: the US Navy, about naval warfare, about naval warfare theory. 117 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: He should be asked questions about Navy seal war criminal 118 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: Eddie Gallagher. The United States military is an institution that 119 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: has been battered by a quarter century of war. Military 120 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: lost two of those wars and sustained an enormous moral 121 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: injury in doing so. Pentagon has a trillion dollar budget 122 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: and it cannot pass an audit. It's what Dwight Eisenhower 123 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: talked about when he warned the country about a military 124 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: industrial complex. Pete Headseth will make it worse. The United 125 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: States military needs to be reformed. Every major general in 126 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: the army is rolling like a Roman proconsul with the 127 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: staff of fifteen. There are more general officers today than 128 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: there were in Europe on V Day, when there were 129 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: sixteen million Americans under arms. The US military needs to 130 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: be faster, more lethal, reformed, and ready not for the 131 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: last wars, but for the next one. And it's as 132 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: if that Donald Trump somehow, using a supercomputer, scanned all 133 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: three hundred and forty million of US, reduced the list 134 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: by everyone under eighteen and everybody over ninety, and then 135 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: figured out how to get the computer to pick the 136 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: most unqualified person in the country. Astonishing. Pete Hegshaft will 137 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: not survive this, and the lion pride needs to take 138 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: him out. And when the Pride consumes him proverbially and 139 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 1: leaves his bones to bleach under the hot Savannah sun, 140 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: it will be time for the next chase. Let Pam 141 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: Bondi run a little bit. She has fresh legs. But 142 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: the Kataris will not control, cannot control, must not control, 143 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: cannot be the employer of the master, of the pimp 144 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 1: of the Attorney General of the United States of America. 145 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: It is unacceptable and it is the gravest security threat 146 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: to the contrary one can imagine. Since Trump appointed Matt 147 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: Gates and appointed Pete Hagsat An appointed Christie Known, all 148 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: of these people are vulnerable. There must be a plan 149 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: to bring them down. There's an old saying in the 150 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 1: Marine Corps the seven piece prior proper planning prevents his 151 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: poor performance. The concept should be embraced by Senate Democrats 152 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: and House Democrats and whatever else is going on. There 153 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: is little time to get ready and to mount the 154 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: most ferocious opposition that is capable of being mounted to 155 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: stop grave threats, bad people, and terrible things from happening. 156 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: All of this must be confronted with truth candor and toughness. 157 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: Whatever else Democrats are in Washington doing, there is nothing 158 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: that matters more than this. This is the warning. I'm 159 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you 160 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 161 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.