WEBVTT - Steve Schmidt: America Cannot Ignore This 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.600 The United States stands on this Friday, January the sixteenth, 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:05.680 and an hour of crisis. 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.920 But the leader of the Senate Democrats. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.240 Who wishes to be the majority leader, Chuck Schumer, doesn't 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:17.880 say it. This is the warning. Does anybody believe that 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.440 fifteen years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:27.800 from now, in these crowded hours, that this will be 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.880 remembered as the decisive issue. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.800 In the weeks and months to come. The American people 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:37.159 will also hear from Democrats on other areas where we're 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:44.480 fighting to lower costs. As I mentioned, food costs, energy costs, groceries, healthcare, childcare, 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.320 and so many other things Americans pay for every day. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.000 Democrats are ready to get to work. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.320 The answer is, of course not. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.400 In order to appreciate how it is that there is 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:06.840 stoppa on the street, shooting people, abducting people, harassing people, 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:13.760 demanding of American citizens papers please, you have to recognize 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.119 that none of it would have happened but for the 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:22.880 appeasement and fecklessness of Chuck Schumer, who. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.920 Said this, and as I said, costs, the high cost 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.880 of living, the affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.840 twenty twenty six, because that's what the American people are demanding, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.119 and we will show how the Trump administration and Republicans 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.720 have made costs even worse and what Democrats will do 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.080 when we get power to reduce those costs in a 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.200 very significant way that will affect every single American. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:57.320 When he could have used his leverage, held the Democrats 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:03.480 together and said no, why this is a moral abomination, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.680 he did not do that, and history will judge him 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:13.320 brutally for it. But he is sinking further because in this. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.280 Moment, we are in our. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.480 Last moment for one year to be able to stop 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:24.600 this insanity. And instead of making a demand that says 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.160 we are going to ask as Democrats for the American 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:34.040 people to stand up for their liberty and insist that 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.240 these ice masks come off, that the abuses of the 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:43.920 First Amendment, the abuses of the Fourth Amendment, the unreasonable searches, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:44.760 the kicking in. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.560 Of doors stop. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.240 Chuck Schumer has the power to demand the release of 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.240 the Epstein files. All he has to do is look 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.359 into a camera and say we will hold the line. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.560 All he has to do is say, Donald, you don't 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.840 have the votes. Congress controls the funding and yet Chuck 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.000 Schumer thinks the issue is affordability. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:10.120 Here's the deal. 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:17.079 Yes, everybody knows everything in America is more expensive than 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.200 it used to be because of Donald Trump. Let's watch 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.960 the MAGA moron of the day explain the cost of chicken. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.400 The question you're asking, and it's a really important one, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.440 is while we're asking Americans to reconsider what they're eating, 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.280 are we actually asking Americans, especially those who are living 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.480 on the margins, are we asking them to spend more 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.440 on their diet? And the answer to that is no. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.800 We've run over one thousand simulations. It can cost around 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.920 three dollars a meal for a piece of chicken, a 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.600 piece of broccoli, corn, tortilla, and one other thing. And 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.560 so there is a way to do this that actually 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.880 will save the average American consumer money. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:04.640 Normal people not blame Trump for this. The polling suggests 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:09.160 they blame him completely. The question is do they trust 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.440 the Democrats to make anything more affordable? 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.440 And the evidence would suggest not. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:19.400 The only institution in the country that is less popular 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.680 then MAGA is the Schumer led Democratic Party. It is 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:29.760 an incredible achievement. The road to victory requires Democrats to 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.920 stand for things that must be stood up for. This 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:38.400 is not a moment for dial tests, for polling. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:39.719 It is a. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.640 Moment to plant a stake in the ground about right 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.119 and wrong. All of us are created equal and doubt 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.719 by a creator, with inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.400 and the pursuit of happiness. I'm sure I read that 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.640 somewhere the freedom of speech is under assault, the freedom 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.600 of religion is under assault. The prosperity of the American 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.599 people is under assault. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.359 By a titanic. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.080 Crook who sits in the White House running wild. And 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.640 yet Chuck Schumer does not even have the guts to 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:18.760 do a daily news conference to illuminate the wrongs. Feckless 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:23.039 does not begin to describe it, and it is not new. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.160 Here is what Winston Churchill said, And this is a 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.520 photograph of Neville Chamberlain with Hitler, and he came back 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.599 and he said, we shall have peace in our time. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.920 His appeasements and. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:42.080 Naivete before it was overkilled one one hundred million people 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:46.600 around the world. Chuck Schumer is setting in motion through 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:52.279 this foolishness, horror in our country, in our world because 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:56.400 he won't take a stand. Here is Senator Chris van 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:57.920 Holland from Maryland. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.520 This is off on so many levels. First, we have 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:10.880 the unnecessary shooting death of a thirty seven year old mom, unjustified, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:16.440 and then we have the Trump administration from the Secretary 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.159 of Homeland Security Christinome to the President of the United 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.239 States lying about it, Christinome saying this was an act 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.200 of domestic terrorism, calling this thirty seven year old mom 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.200 essentially a terrorist. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:34.120 Here is Senator Alissa Slockin from Michigan. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.719 To be clear, this is the President's playbook. Truth doesn't matter, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.200 facts don't matter, and anyone who disagrees with him becomes 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.560 an enemy, and he then weaponizes the federal government against them. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.080 It's legal intimidation and physical intimidation meant to get you 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.799 to shut up. He's used it with our universities, our corporations, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.720 our legal community, and with politicians falsely believe that doing 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.400 his bidding and staying quiet will keep them safe. No, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.080 I'm not going to do that because this president does 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.720 not represent the views of a majority of Americans. Even 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.960 if you voted for him, I do not believe that 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.320 his vision of America is shared by a majority of Americans. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.720 Because this country is worth fighting for. Our freedom of 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.200 speech is worth fighting for. Our values, our core values 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.920 are worth fighting for, and right now, speaking out against 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.280 the abuse of power is the most patriotic thing we 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:34.640 can do. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.120 They are right and he is wrong, and the life 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.800 of the American Republic hangs in the balance. My friends, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.880 we can defeat MAGA, but we may not be able 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.560 to escape the appeasement of Hakim Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:58.440 the feckless boys of Brooklyn. We have become their hostages. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.720 And for some reason, Democrats in the Senate do not 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:08.000 have the integrity, the guts, the character to get into 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.960 a room, talk honestly with each other about what is happening, 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.800 and do something about it. Let me close today with 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.040 these words of warning from Governor Tim Wallas on the 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.600 front line of a battle for freedom. They should matter 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.520 a great deal to every American because first they came 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:28.680 from Minnesota. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.240 But Minnesota will not be lost. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.400 My fellow Minnesotans, what's happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.920 News reports simply don't do justice to the level of 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:44.560 chaos and disruption and trauma. The federal government is raining 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.360 down upon our communities. Two to three thousand armed agents 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:53.080 of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.800 undertrained ice agents are going door to door ordering people 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.200 to point out where their neighbors of color life of 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:06.720 They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including US citizens, and demanding 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.360 to see their papers, and at grocery stores, at bus stops, 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.640 even at our schools. They're breaking windows, dragging pregnant women 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.040 down the street, just playing grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:22.400 into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent people with no warning and 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.160 no due process. Let's be very very clear, this long 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:30.160 ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead it's 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.679 a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.160 by our own federal government. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.920 And this is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.840 the warning. I invite you to join this community where 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.960 I promise to be honest, blunt, and direct about what 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.080 is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.119 and subscribe to this channel and on substack. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:00.120 Thank you.