1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: It is Monday, June the twenty third. This is the morning. 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 2: It has been an eventful weekend in the United States, 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: with Donald Trump and Champagne Pete Hegsath ordering the United 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: States Air Force to attack three Iranian nuclear facilities with 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 2: a sortee of more than one hundred and twenty five warplanes. 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: It has become fashionable all of a sudden for media 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 2: reporters who couldn't tell the difference between a captain and 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 2: a lieutenant colonel, a United States Marine and a soldier, 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: to cite with joy and smiles the power of the 10 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: GBU fifty seven A and B massive ordnance penetrator, of 11 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 2: which there were reportedly twenty in the American arsenal until 12 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 2: this week, where we are now down to eight after 13 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 2: Halving dropped twelve. 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: Of them on Iran. 15 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: Now, the reaction to the attacks has ranged from the 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 2: surreal to the ludicrous, but none top this from the 17 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 2: editors of Barry Weiss's The Free Press, at the end 18 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 2: of their editorial celebrating the dropping of bombs on Iran. Again, 19 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 2: I don't think there's a single editor that could tell 20 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: us what the strategy is, what the plan is, what 21 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: victory looks like. Or what comes next, and we'll talk 22 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 2: about that in the minute. 23 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: But first the surreal conclusion. 24 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 2: To the cheerleading essay, the editorial by the Free Press, 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: let me read one final point. 26 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: During Donald Trump's first term. 27 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: His critics often noted how lucky it was for the 28 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 2: US that he didn't face the serious foreign policy crisis. 29 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 2: Their assumption is that he would be in over his 30 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: head and act irrationally. More recently, Wall Street coined the 31 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 2: acronym Taco Trump always chickens out. That's the opposite of 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,839 Speaker 2: what happened on Saturday night. No matter what you think 33 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: of Trump's policies on immigration, tariffs, or anything else, there 34 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 2: is only one adjective to describe his action in this crisis, presidential. 35 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 2: There are no words to describe the ludicrousness of that statement. First, 36 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 2: there is a prerequisite required for any commander in chief 37 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 2: to send American men and women into harm's way, and 38 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 2: that's some semblance of moral authority beyond the statutory authority. 39 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: And so at the end of the day, Donald Trump 40 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 2: is a liar who can be trusted with nothing about anything, 41 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 2: but with regard to the specifics of the attack, was 42 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: it presidential to come out immediately before all of the 43 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 2: information was known, and declare that the attack was a 44 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: complete success. 45 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: Let's watch Trump do. 46 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 3: It here tonight. I can report to the world that 47 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 3: the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear 48 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 3: and Richmond facilities have been completely and totally obliterated around 49 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 3: the bully of the Middle East must now make peace. 50 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: If they do not, future attacks would be far greater 51 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 3: and a lot easier. 52 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: And are these truth social posts? Are they presidential? 53 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: And what about the Secretary of Defense, a man who 54 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 2: put classified war plans onto an unclassified group chat now 55 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 2: ordering American men and women into harms way a presidential 56 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: fanboy of the ten star variety. Let's watch Champagne Pete 57 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: Hegsath do his best ass licking that there is in America. 58 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 4: Many presidents have deamed of delivering the final blow to 59 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear program, and none could until President Trump. The 60 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 4: operation President Trump planned was bold and it was brilliant, 61 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 4: showing the world that American deterrence is back. When this 62 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 4: president speaks, the world should listen. 63 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 2: Of course, the great presidential decision and its impact is 64 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 2: immediately refuted by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, who, 65 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: according to Trump, was picked because Trump liked the cut 66 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 2: of his jib wearing the red Maga hat, which the 67 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 2: General denies. At least in this instance, the General seems 68 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:50,119 Speaker 2: to understand that he needs to maintain some credibility. Now, 69 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 2: Marco Rubio and the Vice President and the Secretary of 70 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 2: Defense all went on the Sunday shows and they said 71 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: absolutely that regime change was. 72 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: Not the goal. 73 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 2: And Iran, according to the Vice President, this was an 74 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 2: act of war against the nuclear reactors. 75 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: But of course that. 76 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 2: Held up for a couple of hours before that great 77 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: President of ours undermined all of those people from his 78 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: administration in the top national security jobs when he said, 79 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 2: in fact, miga make Iran great again. And so it 80 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: comes to be that one hundred and fifty seven days 81 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: into the administration that was supposed to end foreign entanglements, 82 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 2: that was supposed to end the foreign wars, that the 83 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 2: United States has dropped twelve of the twenty massive ordinance 84 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 2: penetrators in its arsenal on Iran, a country that Field 85 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: Marshall ted Cruz has no idea how many people live 86 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: in or their ethnic makeup. And so here we are 87 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: again the question about the Iranian nuclear program a straightforward. 88 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: This evil regime cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. 89 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 2: But according to the Trump administration, the Iranians had no 90 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: imminent threat of building a weapon. The Israelis claimed that 91 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 2: the threat was imminent that contradicted American intelligence. And when 92 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 2: the Israelis struck the Iranian reactors, the Israeli government said 93 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 2: the strike was decisive and the reactors were destroyed, which 94 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 2: does beg the question if they were destroyed in the 95 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 2: first strike by the Israelis, why did Donald Trump have 96 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: to send one hundred and twenty five airplanes and just 97 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 2: saying it seems that the one thing this attack shared 98 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: with the Israeli attack was the quick draw to declare 99 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 2: it a success before any of the assessments were done. 100 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: According to The New York Times, it may be the 101 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 2: case that the highly enriched use uranium was quartered away 102 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: from the Mountain reactor site in the days before the attack. Now, 103 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: the Iranians have used this nuclear program as a bargaining check, 104 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 2: but wouldn't the lesson be for the Iranians if the 105 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 2: program was not completely destroyed. Did they better do everything 106 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: they can to get their hands on a nuclear warhead 107 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 2: as quickly as possible to immunize themselves from attack. 108 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: So if it is the worst case. 109 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 2: That the regime has not been toppled and the program 110 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 2: has not been destroyed, what next. The Iranians might still 111 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 2: have the highly enriched uranium. They certainly still have the 112 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 2: knowledge there are lots of mountains in Iran. 113 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: The cheerleading on. 114 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 2: A military attack within twenty five years time of the 115 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 2: same people cheerleading the beginning of the last Middle Eastern 116 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 2: War is astonishing. The one thing that should be perfectly 117 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 2: clear to every American where they sit is it's a 118 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 2: lot easier to start a war than to end one. 119 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: And Don Junior and Eric and none. 120 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 2: Of these people will be parachuting into Tehran. Of course, 121 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 2: the people that will, one day, like the veterans who 122 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 2: fought in the Iraq War, can look forward to their veterans' 123 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 2: benefits being cut as the VA is closed down, as 124 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: the promise is made, are broken again. 125 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: And so here we go again. 126 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 2: The most dis honest group of political leaders, the most incompetent, 127 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 2: the most extreme, the people that have deployed the United 128 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 2: States Marine Corps, the seventh Marines, the Guadalcanal Marines, with 129 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 2: their M four slum and. 130 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: Live ammunition issued. 131 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 2: According to the Free Press, have acted presidentially to use 132 00:08:55,280 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 2: the military to bomb a foreign nation, while simultaneously components 133 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 2: of that military face forward the American people in a 134 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 2: government of the people, by. 135 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: The people, for the people. 136 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 2: Yes, indeed very presidential. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 137 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: I invite you to join this community where I promise 138 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 2: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 139 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 2: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 140 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 2: to this channel and on substack. 141 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: Thank you.