1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: What is going on, because we've been trying to come 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: up with a rational answer, logical answer, and I don't 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: even know if that's possible about why we're in this 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: moment with this war. 5 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 2: Is there a rational logical answer. 6 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Did Caroline Leavitt give it away yesterday that Donald Trump 7 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: went into this war based on a feeling that he had. 8 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 3: Well, I think that Donald Trump is and is showing 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 3: today what has been clear for a very long time. 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 3: He is a fascist, and fascists always always bring their 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 3: nations to war. And in the end, Donald Trump promised 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: peace while using words of violence. He has always been 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: a man who is incited violence, incited violence when he 14 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 3: lost an election, when he sent a mob to attack 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 3: the capital, to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. He 16 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 3: sent armed, masked federal agents into the cities to wage 17 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 3: war against the American people, against their rights. And we 18 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 3: see an attack without any notion of what comes next. 19 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 3: And so there are many many reports including arming Assunni 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 3: Arab minority the Kurds to attack and to wage war 21 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 3: against a Persian Shia majority. And this has implications across 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 3: all of the countries where there's a stateless Kurdish minority 23 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 3: population that's living with some degree of autonomy or not, 24 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 3: and so enormous implications. Fifteen countries have been fired on again. 25 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 3: What happens next? You look at all the qualities that 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 3: you want to see present in command through history of 27 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 3: a dangerous situation like this, and Pete Hegsath, for instance, 28 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 3: possesses none of them, not a single one. You see 29 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 3: the blustering, the idioses, the preposterous pronouncements, the script reading 30 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 3: as if he is an extra from a remake of 31 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 3: a parody of a stage production of Red Dawn Right 32 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 3: Wolverine in the Middle Years. It is it is, It 33 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 3: is a you know, for our age, it's you know 34 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 3: those nineteen eighties movies. It's a He's a South Park character. 35 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 3: He's the He's the living opposite of General Marshall, Secretary Marshall, Steve. 36 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: He reminds me of He sounds like he speaks in riddles. 37 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: It may not be in regime changed, but a regime 38 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: certainly did change. 39 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: And it's like, what are you eminem? But you know, 40 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: what is he? What is he doing? He's not even 41 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: that good. I think he's more like. 42 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: Chet Hanks, Tom Hanks's son, who you know who does 43 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: the black scent? And he's like and why is he there? 44 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: But you think about you? I forgot to mention Pete 45 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: Hegseth who his excuses for this war? But the thing 46 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: is are they doing it? Because it could be for 47 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: a number of reasons that they don't have an excuse 48 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: that they and or also they don't want to be 49 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: tied down to one excuse i e. Weapons of mass destruction. 50 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: Therefore it's they're very easily caught in a lie and 51 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: maybe they don't have to face the Hague. I don't know, 52 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: what do you what do you think? 53 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 3: I think that there are an enormous number of contradictions 54 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 3: that all impeach one another. We have six different reasons 55 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 3: that have been offered and we have to weigh all 56 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 3: of them in the balance. Marco Rubia was was pretty 57 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 3: clear that the Israeli NET and Yahoo government had had 58 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 3: a made a decision to attack, and because they were 59 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 3: going to attack, we were compelled to attack with them. 60 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 3: And the president that was established is now that if 61 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 3: there's an imminence of threat declared by Natin Yahoo, US 62 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 3: forces must fight, and so we were and Marco Rubio 63 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 3: can't have this both ways, we either have the upper 64 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 3: hand in the relationship or NAT and Yahoo has the 65 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 3: upper hand. And in this instance it's very clear, according 66 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 3: to Marco Rubio, that the United States acted not because 67 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 3: there was a threat to the United State, but because 68 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: there was a threat to Israel, as asserted by Benjamint 69 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 3: in Yahoo. And so we know in the very first 70 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 3: actions of the war, though we don't know which country's 71 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 3: air force dropped the bombs, those precision munitions are dropped 72 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:28,239 Speaker 3: on a school. One hundred and sixty eight young women killed. 73 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 3: And you can't have it both ways. You can't stand 74 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 3: up there and bluster with all the tough talk about 75 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: the precision munition that kills this Ayahtola in forty seven more. 76 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 3: And I don't lament the loss of Ayatola at all. Right, 77 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 3: it's good Raidens, But here's the deal. But here's the deal. 78 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 3: All of the contradiction to add up to allow lack 79 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 3: of planning around what comes next, that this country is 80 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 3: now in a position as a firm by a Secretary 81 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 3: of State that was not in our interest but in 82 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 3: natan Yahoo's asserted stated interest that because there's an imminent 83 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 3: threat and attack had to be made against Iran, and 84 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 3: that consequence has now spiraled out across fifteen countries. And 85 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 3: now we have an armed Sunni population orchestrated by Israel, 86 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 3: orchestrated by the United States, that's supposed to march on 87 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 3: Tehran against the Shia Persian majority, stoking a secretarian war 88 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 3: in a country with a stable boundary through the Ottoman 89 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 3: Empireicas all the way back to the sixteen thirties. 90 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 1: See no, pardon my French. What the fuck kind of 91 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: answer is the president started a war based on a feeling? 92 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: Can you imagine if any other imagine if Joe Biden 93 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: said that Republicans MAGA would be losing their minds, calling 94 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: him cognitively declined, you know, feckless, impotent, weak? What kind 95 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: of an answer is that? And I just want to 96 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: play this because they don't even well, let's do Kelly, 97 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: because I think Kelly's right. Senator Kelly says, people off 98 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: the streets would run government better roll it. 99 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 4: You could pick a random group of people off the 100 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 4: street tonight here in Washington, DC, just a random group, 101 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 4: and they could probably do a better job than our 102 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 4: government is doing right now with this. They don't have 103 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 4: a goal, there's no strategic plan, there's no timeline, and 104 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 4: what this is likely to lead to is again a 105 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 4: long war with a lot of dead Americans and no 106 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 4: rationale for how this is helping the American people. 107 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: The last time we did something like this, Steve, I 108 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: think he's right, the last time we did something like this, 109 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: it took us twenty years to get out of it. 110 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 3: Well, yes, but this is even worse than that because 111 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 3: when that happened, the Iraqi regime was deposed in about 112 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 3: one hundred hours of fighting, and in this instance, we're 113 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 3: past one hundred hour mark with an air campaign that 114 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:47,359 Speaker 3: has no end in sight and has no objective attached 115 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 3: to changing the regime in Iran, which won't be able 116 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 3: to be accomplished without the proverbial boots on the ground. 117 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 3: So the fundamental question is what happens next? What what 118 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 3: happens next? And there's no there's no plan. And so 119 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 3: when you when you look at the totality of this 120 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 3: around is a country that's larger than Alaska, it's two 121 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 3: and a half times the size of Texas as ninety 122 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 3: million people to mountainous country. And that country is not 123 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 3: something that is going to be taken over by words 124 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 3: from the podium by Pete Hagsath after bombs get dropped 125 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 3: on installations in the country. And so what we what 126 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 3: we've tried to do is to say that we're going 127 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 3: to change the regime. Right, we did achieve that in Iraq, 128 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 3: and what comes after is twenty years of disaster and 129 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 3: mission creep and a change and so on and so forth, 130 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 3: and the weapons not there in this instance, though, we 131 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 3: have said we're going to change a region with no 132 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 3: plan to accomplish the changing of the regime. So we 133 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 3: will lose this war against Iran if the Malas remain 134 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 3: in power, and there's no plan to dislodge the Mulas 135 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 3: from power, but dropping bombs, and never in history has 136 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 3: dropping bombs dislodged a regime from power. Ever. 137 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: He was in the Oval office the other day talking 138 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: about boots on the ground, uh and saying, you know, 139 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: perhaps of you know, these forever wars that we could 140 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: be there forever with the type of equipment and the 141 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: amount of equipment that assets that we have there. And 142 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 1: so again, as you mentioned in the very beginning when 143 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: you came on, this is supposed to be the administration. 144 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: I call it a regime. I don't call it an administration, 145 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: the regime of peace that stopping them for ever wars. 146 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: We don't want your sons and daughters going off to 147 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: war and dying, And they are doing the exact opposite 148 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: of what they said. My thing is that I've been 149 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: saying is that the people who still support him, including 150 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: the people in his administration and the MAGA people, it's 151 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: something else besides the lies that he tells them about 152 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: who he is and what he stands for and what 153 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: he's going to do. 154 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 2: At the end of the day. 155 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: It is I believe the racism, the sexism, the bigotry, 156 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: the supremacy, the power that they will do rationalize whatever 157 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: he says, whatever this administration does, because they are too. 158 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 2: Far into it. 159 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's too close to it, but 160 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: I think they're too far into it to recognize or 161 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: even to allow themselves to admit that they recognize that 162 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: they made a deep and disturbing blunder by supporting this man. 163 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, so there's a lot of different ways 164 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 3: is to get into this. I mean, what you're talking 165 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 3: about is that there's a reality that in this country 166 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:16,199 Speaker 3: right now, he's at about thirty five percent support, So 167 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 3: despite everything that's happened in total, the abuses of justice, 168 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 3: including against you, the armed ice, thuggery, the indiscriminate pointing 169 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 3: of weapons at American citizens, the threats against American citizens, 170 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 3: federal agents completely off their chain, all of it, the 171 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 3: incompetence of Christy Nome, the impertinence of Pam Bondi before 172 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 3: the Congress of the United States, the utter corruption everywhere, 173 00:12:54,400 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 3: right all of the accumulated indecency over Epstein or over 174 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 3: all of it. Right right now, it's at thirty five percent, 175 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 3: and it's going lower. He's going to be at twenty nine, 176 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 3: twenty eight, twenty seven, but he'll never go lower than 177 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 3: twenty six percent. And so the question about the twenty 178 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 3: six percent is to appreciate for a while longer that 179 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 3: they're the spine of a disgraced political movement that's going 180 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 3: to be repudiated by the country. And now he's going 181 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 3: to start going out and talking in a series of 182 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 3: interlinked connections in his fantasy about stolen elections engineered by 183 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 3: Iranians and Chinese, and all of it necessary to take 184 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 3: over the state administration of election by federal decree, all 185 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 3: of it on constitution, all of the illegal, none of 186 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 3: it having any connection to any government authority, that he 187 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 3: needs to do these things to protect liberty, to protect freedom, 188 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 3: and that the elections themselves will need to somehow be 189 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 3: impaired to accomplish that goal. And so what we know 190 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 3: is that in the months ahead, as he gets cornered, 191 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 3: he'll act crazier. But the American people, three quarters of us, 192 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 3: have all said wow, Wow, woe. Don't like it. And 193 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 3: the place on the ballot to express your disapproval is 194 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: by voting for that Democratic opposition in November, or in 195 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 3: a couple of places, if there's an independent that can win. 196 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 4: I e. 197 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 2: As in Texas. Look I have up there. You know, 198 00:14:58,400 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 2: we have been saying. 199 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: That Trump's war lies could kill us, and my question 200 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: is it's costing us a lot of money. It's fucking 201 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: up the economy right, gas prices are going up. 202 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 2: Is that I don't believe that that's hyperbole? 203 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: How concern should the American people be because they're sending 204 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: troops boots on the ground. We don't know if they're 205 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: actually going to be involved in some combat, but we 206 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: know at least six service members have died. 207 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 2: How concern should the American people be right now, Steve. 208 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 3: You have to you know, when you're in any type 209 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 3: of crisis, just like any type of crisis in the past, 210 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 3: it unfolds day by day, and the length of time 211 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 3: in that day is the same, and so twenty four 212 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 3: hours a day, the weight of everything bears down. There's 213 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 3: a momentum to this. So we can look back just 214 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 3: a bit. It go that the Iranian people were on 215 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 3: the streets before tens of thousands of them were murdered 216 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 3: by the Tolos, and they begged for American intervention, and 217 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 3: Donald Trump incited them to protest. He said, if there's 218 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 3: any mass killing, we'll be there to defend you. And 219 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 3: he broke his word. He broke his promise. Tens of 220 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 3: thousands are killed, and then he strikes later without a 221 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 3: plan to win, without any answer to the question of 222 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 3: what comes next, but beyond just the bluster of his 223 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense, who preposterously calls him Secretary of the 224 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 3: war's pronouncement about silent killing like he's a cartoon character. 225 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 3: So we're at a very dangerous inflection point where this 226 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 3: war is expanding. And so we're old enough to remember 227 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 3: at the turn of the century when the world was 228 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 3: at peace. Bill Clinton talked about a bridge through the 229 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 3: twenty first century. We're a quarter away, and we have 230 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 3: a war in Europe that's killed a million, three hundred 231 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 3: thousand Russians, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. We now have 232 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 3: a military action that has involved fifteen different countries in 233 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 3: the Middle East that was incepted by a decision behind 234 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 3: the desecrated chair there in the Oval office. Look at 235 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 3: all that shit on the walls. It's so gross, so grotesque. 236 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 3: And there he is the American neuro And we have 237 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 3: a situation. Now. We have war in Europe, we have 238 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 3: war across the Middle East, and right now you have 239 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 3: to look at everything and say, well, what's going to happen. 240 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 3: The war's going to escalates, what's going to happen, and 241 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 3: the economic impacts can escalate because that choke hold there 242 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 3: when you look at the map, when you close in 243 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 3: at the straits of Horror moves, there's no commercial traffic 244 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 3: flowing through it at all whatsoever. And that's the connection 245 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 3: point that the world's oil, a lot of it flows through. 246 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 3: Right so there's going to be a tremendous economic shock, 247 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 3: economic economic impact. The other thing I want to I 248 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 3: want to mention, is this when you talk about what MARKA. 249 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 3: Rubio said, this is this is terrible for Israel. If 250 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 3: you're a supporter of the State of Israel, the implications 251 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 3: for the relationship between Israel and the United States, if 252 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 3: you accept the fact that we had to act, as MARKA. 253 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 3: Rubio said that we had to act because Israel had 254 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 3: decided to act. We had no leverage over Benjamin Net 255 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 3: Yahoo making a decision that risked the lives and put 256 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 3: into harm's way hundreds of thousands of American citizens across 257 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 3: all of these fifteen countries that are now being fired 258 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 3: upon by Iran as a consequence, as an effect of 259 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 3: the decision that Donald Trump made alongside bb Net Yahoo. 260 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 3: And that was not a consideration as an ally and 261 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 3: as a friend, as a foreign relationship with the United 262 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 3: States spents how much money on Israel. What was the 263 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 3: consideration to the safety and security of the hundreds of 264 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 3: thousands of American citizens who were stranded in the Middle 265 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 3: East without a plan or any idea about how to 266 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 3: get out of there and get out of harm's way. 267 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 3: Which is another signal failure of this administration. It's be 268 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 3: Ghazi on Super duper steroids. It is a monument of 269 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 3: incompetence that we're staring at moment by moment in this well. 270 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 2: I can tell you. 271 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: Let's see for when you talked about the amount of 272 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: money that was spent on Israel, and I think it 273 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: was I think we give them here. 274 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 2: It is right here. 275 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: According to Brown University twenty five Costs of War Report, 276 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: since October seventh of twenty twenty three, the US has 277 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: provided Israel with some twenty one point seven billion dollars 278 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: in military aid. In addition to that, the American taxpayer 279 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: has funded US operations in support of Israel and Yemen, 280 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: Iran and the wider Middle East at a cost of 281 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,719 Speaker 1: nine point six billion dollars to twelve point seven billion. 282 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: That brings a total US spending connected to conflict in 283 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: between thirty one point three five billion and thirty three 284 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,959 Speaker 1: point seven seven billion in counting. And that is not 285 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: including the new operations that we have in Iran. 286 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 2: All right, we are back back with Steve Schmid. 287 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: Steve, can we let's talk about did you want to 288 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: add anything on to what I said about the amount 289 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: of money that we spend, because otherwise I want to 290 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: move on to Christinome. 291 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 3: No, it's just a it's an extraordinary amount of money, 292 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 3: and we have to appreciate about it. Is that despite it, 293 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 3: what Marcarubio said is, hey, not only do we not 294 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 3: have any leverage, not only can we not stop an 295 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 3: action that threatens the lives of our US citizens. That 296 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 3: the simple declaration of the prime minister of a faction 297 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 3: that that yokes the United States to take a military action. 298 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 3: That's what marcar Rubio said, And we have to we 299 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 3: have to appreciate the implications of that because it puts 300 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 3: us into an unchartered territory that we have to talk about. 301 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 3: We have to talk about. 302 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 2: It a lot. 303 00:21:53,480 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: H Here is Jamie Raskin confronting or questioning Christinome over 304 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: her smearing Renee Nicole Good and others. 305 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 2: Here it is. 306 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 5: Renee Good was a thirty seven year old poet, about 307 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 5: twenty years younger than you are now, and like you, 308 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 5: both a devout Christian and the mother of three. She 309 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 5: was on her way home from school drop off when 310 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 5: she encountered an ice operation and one of your agents 311 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 5: shot her dead, shot her three times. She bled out 312 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 5: in the driver's seat of her car. After your agents 313 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 5: refused to let a doctor or EMTs approach her. You 314 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 5: expressed no sympathy for her family and no regret for 315 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 5: her killing by an ICE agent. You ran a smear 316 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 5: campaign against Renee Good. You called her a domestic terrorist. 317 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,239 Speaker 5: Alex Pretti was also thirty seven, and, like you, a 318 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 5: federal worker. He was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, 319 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 5: outstanding in his job, providing comfort to many of our 320 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 5: vets in their final hours. He was standing on a 321 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 5: street corner filming your agents as they roughed up peaceful protesters. 322 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 5: Americans have a First Amendment right to record government agents 323 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 5: in public places, as eight different federal Circuit courts have 324 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 5: unanimously found. But your agents pepper sprayed Alex Preddi for 325 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 5: helping a woman that they had pushed to the ground. 326 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 5: Then they threw him to the ground, They beat him up, 327 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 5: They stripped him of a lawful firearm he had never touched, 328 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 5: and then after confiscating it, they shot him dead with 329 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 5: ten bullets before his body was even cold. You launched 330 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 5: a smear campaign against him using the same language, asserting 331 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 5: without evidence that Alex Preddi had committed a quote act 332 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 5: of domestic terrorism and intended to kill law enforcement. This 333 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 5: disturbing video tells the true facts you tried to cover 334 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 5: up with aganda, and we can play it only because 335 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 5: other brave Americans used their phones to capture the actual reality. 336 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 2: Of this horror. She has no answer for that. 337 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: And then you know, you've seen the sound bites of 338 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: her obfuscating, lying, no empathy, no apology, not saying that 339 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 1: she did anything wrong. 340 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 2: She hasn't done anything wrong according to her. Now there's 341 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 2: a report. 342 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: Now you would think that what Jamie Raskin just said 343 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: would be the impetus for Donald Trump wanted to get 344 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: rid of her. But according to the reports, Trump is 345 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: floating firing Christine Noman's fuming over GOP allies after bruising 346 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: hearings report And by the way, I think. 347 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 2: I play I should have played this. 348 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: This is the one, if you'll bear with me here, 349 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: Steve John Kelly of Louisiana is the one that apparently 350 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: is the This is the impetus of him wanting to 351 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: get rid of her because he didn't like her performance 352 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: and his questioning here it. 353 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 6: Is after the two killings and Minneapolis, and I think 354 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 6: I think there's a lot of video on Madam Secretary. 355 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 6: I think people can see the video and draw their 356 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 6: own conclusions. Uh are you you and your department conducting 357 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 6: an investigation of those sir? 358 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 7: The investigation is being led by the FBI. 359 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 2: H S. 360 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 7: I was involved in fact our h S. 361 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 6: I hard to cut you off, but I got so 362 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 6: little time. I believe at the time you you said 363 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 6: these were acts of domestic terrorism. Is that right, sir? 364 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 8: In answer to questions at the press conference that afternoon, Uh. 365 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 7: It was that it appeared to be. 366 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 6: But you said these appeared to be acts of domestic terrorists. 367 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 7: And as I've said previously, in this hearing is the. 368 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 8: First information from chaotic scene on and relaying information to 369 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 8: the American people. 370 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 6: Now again, those videos are public. People can draw their 371 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 6: own conclusions. 372 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 4: You. 373 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 6: I think it'd be safe to say you gotta you 374 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 6: got some pushback on that, but that'd be fair, Yes, sir, 375 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 6: And you have some criticism. I'm not saying the criticism 376 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 6: was accurate or inaccurate. I think you just you did. 377 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 6: What got my attention was that you you blame those 378 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 6: statements from mister Stephen Miller at the White House. 379 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 8: No, sir, I did not, And in fact, where you're 380 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 8: seeing that is in a news article of anonymous sources, 381 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 8: and anonymous sources say a lot of things, but it 382 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 8: is I've never said that. 383 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: Okay, Steve, you get the gist that that performance was abysmal, 384 00:26:58,640 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: But go on. 385 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 3: Well, I mean at that at that place right there 386 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 3: is is just as a core matter of reality. We've 387 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 3: all seen her say on on video that I just 388 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 3: did what Stephen Miller and the President told me to do. 389 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 3: I just did it. We all saw it when she's 390 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 3: denying exists on on video. And I think what you 391 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 3: got to appreciate yesterday right in the upside down world 392 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 3: of Washington, is her refusal to say the word no 393 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 3: about the questions around Corey Lewandowski and her sleeping with them. 394 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 3: Were we're fundamentally about avoiding a perjury trap, and that's 395 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 3: why she couldn't say the word no. She can call it, 396 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 3: she can say everything that that she said. She can 397 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 3: she can lie about it, she can deny it, she 398 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 3: can implicate the question, but she can't say the word 399 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 3: no without leading to a federal indictment. And so we're 400 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 3: risking a federal indictment. And so yesterday we saw the 401 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 3: web of corruption splay out, plus the indecency this out 402 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 3: of control agency, this woman playing dress up, the performances, 403 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 3: the fleet of private aircraft, the bedroom, the boyfriend, the contracts, 404 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 3: the blatant corruption, just the madness of it all, the 405 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 3: total incompetence of Donald Trump's island of misfit toys. And 406 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 3: we saw two spectacular performances yesterday of idiocy, of imbecility, 407 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 3: one from Christy Nome over two days and these hearings, 408 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 3: and of course won by the man who calls himself 409 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 3: the Secretary of War, a job that doesn't exist under 410 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 3: US law, under US statute, a made up title by 411 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 3: a blusterer and a buffoon, a clown with power, a 412 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 3: deadly malice poser. 413 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 2: Does she look this is the worst kept secret I know. 414 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: This is alleged, a rumor that she and Corey Lewandowski 415 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: are I must say the word that they're having relations. 416 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: And you said, she can't answer that because you believe 417 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: it to be or she believes it. She knows it's true, 418 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: and she can't say it because she wants to avoid 419 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: lying under oath. 420 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 3: Well, I mean the question, the question that she was 421 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 3: asked yesterday is that are you having a sexual relationship 422 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,959 Speaker 3: with Corey Lewandowski? And this is a fair question to 423 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 3: ask if you're at an oversight here, it's an uncomfortable question. 424 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 3: But there have been so many reports and there's been 425 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 3: so much credible journalism about that. This is an open secret, 426 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 3: and so one of the things that when you look 427 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 3: at when you look at where we are, we have 428 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 3: to restore trust by restoring transparency. And so there's a 429 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 3: lot of questions about that. Let's let's peel them back 430 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 3: a little bit. The questions about Corey Lewandowski and the 431 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 3: contracts that were asked before the US Senate and the 432 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 3: House Committee are basically questions about is your boyfriend a 433 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 3: special government employee? Does does he decide to contracts and 434 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 3: award them? We need to know And that's what that's about, 435 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 3: is what is the relationship? What is in the bag 436 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 3: that they lost their mind about when Corey Lewandowski fired 437 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 3: the Coastguard pilot. The behavior is outlandish, it's egregious. And 438 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 3: all she had to do when she was asked the 439 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 3: question was today the word no, I'm not in a 440 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 3: relation with them, But she couldn't. What she said is 441 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 3: I don't like the question. How dare you ask me 442 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 3: the question? It's from a tabloid. It's from this, it's 443 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 3: from that how dare you have? Dare you hear? Dare you? 444 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 3: But we have to appreciate here the indecency is not 445 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 3: in the asking of a question that he's asking. It's 446 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 3: in this woman sitting there the top of the chain 447 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 3: to command of a paramilitary of indecency mass federal agents 448 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 3: that that murdered Renee Good, that murdered alex Pretty, that 449 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 3: have abused children, violated the rights of American citizens, kicked 450 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 3: indoors without warrants, and there needs to be an accounting 451 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 3: for that her and Corey Lewandowski and the people around them, 452 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 3: This corrupt media deal that that Joe Nogoose unlayered, and 453 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 3: really the question that that the Congress. 454 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: Hey, Steve, not to cut you off. That's really important 455 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: that you're mentioning that. Can we play Joe Nogose so 456 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: that you can diss it? 457 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, proud, Okay, let's play. 458 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 7: It two of them. 459 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 9: Let's accurate, Madam, Madame Secretary. I'll read from the notice 460 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 9: from your agency. Given the immediate action to significantly reduce 461 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 9: I legal immigration and border crossings, DHS invited excuse me, 462 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 9: identified four companies, four of the hundreds of thousands of 463 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 9: companies in the United States, you identified four. One of 464 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 9: those is this Safe American Media company. Where is Safe 465 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 9: American Media headquartered? 466 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 7: I don't know. 467 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 9: I don't know either, Madam Secretary. We can't find it. 468 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 9: We can't find a website. We did find an address 469 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 9: that's registered for this company. Do you know where that 470 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 9: address is? 471 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 7: Is there a problem with this contract? 472 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 9: I'll tell you about, Madam Secretary. They address registered to 473 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 9: a political operators. Then, Madam, Madam Secretary, the company and 474 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 9: I'll give you an oportuity to respond. The company is 475 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 9: registered to a political operative in Virginia. Do you know, 476 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 9: just by way of example, whether this company that received 477 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 9: one hundred and forty three million dollars in taxpayer dollars 478 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 9: has it ever done work for the government before. 479 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 7: I don't know, I can. 480 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 9: The answer is it has not. And do you know 481 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 9: why we know that because it was incorporated eight days 482 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 9: eight days before this contract went out. You want the 483 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 9: American people to believe that this is all above board, 484 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 9: that one hundred and forty three million dollars of taxpayer 485 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 9: money just happened to go to this one company that 486 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 9: doesn't have a headquarters doesn't have a website, has never 487 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,719 Speaker 9: done work for the federal government before, and is registered 488 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 9: apparently or attached to a residence. 489 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 7: From a political operative. 490 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 9: And of course, one of the subcontractors of that contract, 491 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 9: as you know, is a political firm that's tied to 492 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 9: you back when you were governor of South Dakota. The 493 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 9: reason why I ask these questions is that this is 494 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 9: taxpayer money, and I present zoom. I don't know this 495 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 9: for a fact, but Senator Tillis noted yesterday the way 496 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 9: in which your agency is blocking the Inspector General from 497 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 9: eleven different investigations that it is trying to conduct. I 498 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 9: don't know if this happens to be one of them. 499 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,919 Speaker 9: I certainly hope it is, because eventually the facts will 500 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 9: become public in this regard. 501 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: And so look, they had the Doze Department, but the 502 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: calls were coming from inside the house as it relates 503 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: to waste, fraud and abuse. 504 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 2: Now, a lot of people missed. 505 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: That yesterday with Joe Nogoose, with Congressman Negoose, but that 506 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: was a really important thing that he brought up. 507 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 2: And also the ad campaign. 508 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: That's why Donald Trump is pissed that she said that 509 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: she was questioned about Donald Trump being approved. This is 510 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: this is outrageous, Steve go On, you were mentioning it. 511 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 3: Well, first off, is somebody who's often critical of some 512 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 3: of the Democratic leadership and the lack of fighting spirit. 513 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 3: I just want to say a Congressman, Joan de Goose, 514 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 3: that's what I want. That's what I want, right, That's 515 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 3: that's like five stars. That's what I'm for. That's what 516 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 3: I know, and elected leaders. That's how I want to 517 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 3: see these guys, these women function right that that guy 518 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 3: is doing his job right. Great job to Joe de Goose. 519 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 3: Now there's a question that that has not been asked. 520 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 3: That's an important question in all of this. What is 521 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 3: the fee structure, the commission structure that comes from the 522 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:48,040 Speaker 3: advertisement in the placement that would be in the federal contract. 523 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,879 Speaker 3: The industry standard that existed for a long time would 524 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 3: be fifteen percent, And it costs to buy television advertising 525 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 3: by a placement from in politics these are political firms, 526 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 3: about two percent. So on an expenditure of one hundred 527 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 3: and forty three million dollars, that's about twenty one million 528 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 3: dollars in fees that would have flown through flowed through 529 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 3: safe America, Inc. And then it disappears into a nebulous 530 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:33,720 Speaker 3: web of contracts, including to a company that's owned by 531 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 3: the husband of Trishia McLaughlin, who until a few days 532 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 3: ago was Christy Nomes lead mouthpiece. So you have twenty 533 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 3: minut one million dollars of fees, and you have a 534 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:53,239 Speaker 3: lot of evidence to suggest that the contracts are approved 535 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 3: and instigated by Corey Lewandowski. And so is Corey Lewandowski 536 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 3: getting kickback? Is Corey Lewandowski getting money? Why did Christy 537 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 3: know him have that much cash in or purse When 538 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,719 Speaker 3: we look back to that event on that day in 539 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 3: Washington when that purse was stolen an unusually large amount 540 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,760 Speaker 3: of cash. We know that Tom Homan has taken large 541 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 3: amounts of cash, reportedly under FBI surveillance in a kava bag. 542 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 3: So the corruption is everywhere. We see the corruption of 543 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,280 Speaker 3: these private prison companies. We see the abuses of human 544 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 3: beings by these private prison companies. The fundamental moment right 545 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:49,240 Speaker 3: that we're looking at as a person who's just completely depraved, 546 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 3: completely arrogant, meeting one day, this bubble of delusion she's 547 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 3: built around herself from her appearance and every other facet 548 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,359 Speaker 3: that she's concocted of this bubble just shattering. That's what 549 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,480 Speaker 3: that's what we're looking at here, that that what just 550 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 3: happen is just unbelievable, unbelievable to watch the total collapse 551 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 3: of all and any credibility is she confronts actual reality 552 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,200 Speaker 3: and people start asking about this. You know you have 553 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 3: these and by the way, these ads, these ads will 554 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:36,399 Speaker 3: someday right going to be in the Holocaust Museum. They're 555 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,080 Speaker 3: gonna be in the African American History Museum. Uh, they're 556 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 3: going to be studied rights this era of American fascists. 557 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 3: These ads are hideous. They're racist. They are a call 558 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 3: to white nationalism, to white supremacy. They are aimed at 559 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 3: the other. Uh. They are a summons to the greatest 560 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 3: lion history that your life will have meaning, that what 561 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 3: you feel loss about will be restored if only we 562 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 3: can crush the Jew or the black, or the immigrant, 563 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,839 Speaker 3: whomever is not like us, that if we break them, 564 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,240 Speaker 3: if we get rid of them, we can be great again. 565 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,400 Speaker 3: It is a deadly, deadly, deadly lie. 566 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,719 Speaker 1: And Steve, that's what I'm sorry, Date, I thought you 567 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,040 Speaker 1: were dumb with your comments. I'm sorry, sorry, to cut 568 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,319 Speaker 1: you off, but Steve, I hate to. As we put 569 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 1: Steve's I'm going to put a substack up. 570 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:38,840 Speaker 2: It's very important. 571 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 1: It's a very popular substect that I would encourage everyone 572 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 1: to read. 573 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,839 Speaker 2: And we have to do a substack together. 574 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,880 Speaker 1: I know that I owe you one or two or five, 575 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,520 Speaker 1: but it's called the warning with Steve Schmidt, and just 576 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,440 Speaker 1: go to substack and subscribe. Become a member paid or 577 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 1: paid would be preferred, but you can also become a 578 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 1: free subscriber as well. But I would encourage you to 579 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,840 Speaker 1: go and become a subscriber and pay for the content 580 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 1: because it's really great. And look, you said, fools with 581 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,680 Speaker 1: power are legal, and that's what you're talking about to 582 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 1: us today. I'm afraid to ask you this question, Steve, 583 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,560 Speaker 1: because I think everything depends on this, and that is 584 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,840 Speaker 1: November of twenty twenty six. Are we going to have 585 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 1: a free and fair election or is Donald Trump going 586 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,360 Speaker 1: to pull some Shenanigan to. 587 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 2: Make us not have that. 588 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 3: We're at a fork in the road, not on the 589 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,920 Speaker 3: question about whether we're gonna have elections, but on how 590 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,000 Speaker 3: we should talk about Donald Trump's threat that we may not. 591 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000 Speaker 3: And that's not up to Donald Trump. That's up to 592 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 3: the American people. And this is the two hundred and 593 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 3: fiftieth anniversary year of our independence, and the right to 594 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 3: vote has been a hard fought, long struggle in this 595 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:59,360 Speaker 3: country and nobody should be inclined to take a step back. 596 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:04,480 Speaker 3: What Democrats have to stop doing is pretending that this 597 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 3: can happen. And with each instance of aggression that Donald 598 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:16,200 Speaker 3: Trump makes, with each insane tweet, with each careless work 599 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 3: that suggests he may do something because the last election 600 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 3: was stolen, or that this is necessary or that is necessary, 601 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:33,560 Speaker 3: all of it needs to be impeached and refuted aggressfully, aggressively, forcefully, 602 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:40,279 Speaker 3: and immediately, right now, NonStop, and to rally the American 603 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,799 Speaker 3: people to understand what's happening is that he's seeking to 604 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 3: intimidate you into taking something that there's no right to take, 605 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 3: and we won't tolerate it. Every democratic governor should have 606 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,160 Speaker 3: a plan. Every governor should have a plan, But we 607 00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 3: rely on the democratic governors to have a plan to 608 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,400 Speaker 3: enforce the dignity of the election process for every American. 609 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,680 Speaker 3: We have clean elections, We have fair elections. Twenty twenty 610 00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:14,279 Speaker 3: election was a fair and clean election. Donald Trump lost them. 611 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,840 Speaker 3: Losing does not mean that it was an unfair election. 612 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 3: It means Donald Trump lost and Megan's going to be 613 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,000 Speaker 3: wiped out in this midterm, and we just have to 614 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,840 Speaker 3: have no tolerance for it. We need to say, and 615 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,799 Speaker 3: we need to understand that this is the cornerstone of 616 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:37,720 Speaker 3: our civilization. Martin Luther King comes in nineteen sixty three 617 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:44,160 Speaker 3: to the Lincoln Memorial Right forty years after its original dedication, 618 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:49,400 Speaker 3: with a very specific purpose to collect a promissory note 619 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:57,440 Speaker 3: that's gone uncashed for one hundred years time since emancipation, 620 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,439 Speaker 3: since the end of the Civil War. And Luther King 621 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 3: doesn't go there to tear down the Republic. He comes 622 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,480 Speaker 3: to say that we have to be included in its 623 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:14,000 Speaker 3: promise because we're fully American, fully human, and our dignity 624 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,640 Speaker 3: requires that we have a vote, that we have a say. 625 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:23,640 Speaker 3: Women got that right. The right to vote is not 626 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,279 Speaker 3: a privilege, as Donald Trump said, it's a right. It 627 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,840 Speaker 3: doesn't come from Donald Trump, and so any impediment to 628 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 3: that right. We've had elections through Civil War, through World War, 629 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:41,279 Speaker 3: through Great Depression, through all manner of crisis. If the 630 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,440 Speaker 3: election had gone the other way in eighteen sixty two 631 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 3: or eighteen sixty four, the South would have won that war. 632 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,560 Speaker 3: We have to trust in the judgment of the American people. 633 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,440 Speaker 3: We know that there's a great title wave of repudiation 634 00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:00,400 Speaker 3: building and it can't be stopped by Donald Trump's fear 635 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,840 Speaker 3: mongering that he has a power to stop it. This 636 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,759 Speaker 3: is wizard of Oz stuff. We have elections in America, 637 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,880 Speaker 3: we have a constitution in America, and there's going to 638 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,480 Speaker 3: be an account and for all of this. We look 639 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,200 Speaker 3: at this insanity of this war. We look at the lies, 640 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:24,360 Speaker 3: we look at the contradictions, we look at the conspiracy 641 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 3: that we know happened. We look at the Epstein files. 642 00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,200 Speaker 3: This this rod has to be cleaned out. And that's 643 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,520 Speaker 3: what that's what this moment is summoning us to do. 644 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,160 Speaker 2: Steve Schmidt, thank you. 645 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,040 Speaker 1: It's called the warning on substack and I can't wait 646 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:47,040 Speaker 1: to do one a substack hit with you. We appreciate 647 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,240 Speaker 1: all your knowledge and intelligence and for informing the lemination here, 648 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:52,480 Speaker 1: and thank you so much. 649 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,560 Speaker 2: For your support, especially over the past couple of weeks. 650 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:55,200 Speaker 2: I appreciate it. 651 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,399 Speaker 3: You know, hang toughed on everyone in the country who 652 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,440 Speaker 3: loves just just sustainding with you. You're a great journalist, 653 00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,800 Speaker 3: and journalism is not a crime in America. 654 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 6: Uh. 655 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,800 Speaker 3: John Miller famously went to interview uh Osama bin Laden 656 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 3: in the cave in Afghanistan. Later became the head of 657 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:22,280 Speaker 3: counter intelligence at the NYPDS. Back on CNN, John Miller 658 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,960 Speaker 3: didn't become a member of Alcata when he went into 659 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,480 Speaker 3: the cave, right. He went into the cave as a journalist, 660 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,719 Speaker 3: and he came out of the cave as a journalist. 661 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,960 Speaker 3: It's what journalists do. They they tell stories. And journalists 662 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,040 Speaker 3: have the resources and wherewithal to find themselves at the 663 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:43,320 Speaker 3: places where stories are going to be happening, uh, where 664 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 3: where things are coming together. And and that's what you did. 665 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 3: And this abuse of power, this unlawful prosecution, this abuse 666 00:45:55,040 --> 00:46:01,240 Speaker 3: of the constitution. Know this that that scores and scores 667 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,120 Speaker 3: and tens of millions of Americans stand with you and 668 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:09,520 Speaker 3: admire your grit, your courage, and your determination to face 669 00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,840 Speaker 3: the bullshit down with a smile on your face and 670 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,160 Speaker 3: good cheer. Admire you mentally. 671 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,120 Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve, Thank you. I admire you as well, 672 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,040 Speaker 1: and I'll see you soon. I really appreciate you coming on. 673 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:20,759 Speaker 1: Thanks so much.