DEAD AIR: Cornered Rats with Steve Schmidt and Dean Blundell

0:12 We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend

0:14 a war with a country that starts with the letters IRA.

0:17 That we are currently failing that is going to put

0:18 us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt.

0:20 I was only a few years old while

0:22 you were in the administration defending prior endless wars.

0:25 Now this war is failing.

0:26 8 weeks is endless to you.

0:27 Okay.

0:27 You said it was going to be 46 weeks.

0:29 You have the attention span of a net.

0:31 I debated you on TV four to six weeks

0:32 ago when you said we were weeks away from it.

0:34 Now you're making condescending remarks because you can't defend

0:36 the fact that this war is not going your way.

0:38 Wait one more time.

0:40 Name one political concession.

0:42 Name one political concession.

0:43 Honestly, I'm not going to help you guys.

0:46 Everybody hang tight.

0:48 Okay.

0:49 No.

0:49 Everybody calm down.

0:50 Okay.

0:51 You're we're having a debate.

0:53 You can respond to the points that he's making.

0:54 Can you name a political concession that we've got?

0:56 We are in a flashback to the the war the skin heads had in my studio.

1:00 I would be mad if we I would be mified to defend.

1:04 You can respond.

1:05 We have a very simple we have a very simple goal to keep terrorists

1:08 and a terrorist regime from having a nuclear

1:11 weapon that can threaten the United States,

1:13 our interests in the region, our allies in Europe, anybody else in the world.

1:17 You can't answer the question.

1:19 I would get mad too.

1:20 We're going to leave it there, guys.

1:21 Next for us.

1:24 Uh, what a night for Scott Jennings.

1:26 What a time to be alive.

1:28 Welcome to Dead Air.

1:29 My name is Dean Blendell from dean blendell.substack.com with my friend Mr.

1:33 Steve Schmidt from The Warning at Steve Schmidt and The Warning on Substack.

1:37 And we just had our very first Dead Air Heraldo appearance at the end

1:43 of maybe one of the most incredible meltdowns on cable television in history.

1:48 Scott Jennings getting stuffed in a body bag by Adam Mockler, a 23y old kid.

1:54 Get your hand out of my[ __] face.

1:56 I'm not dealing with this anymore.

1:57 Hi, Steve.

1:58 Wow, that happened.

1:59 Holy moly.

2:01 What?

2:01 And like what?

2:03 Like the most incredible part about it is that if you watch long enough,

2:09 like out of out of nowhere like appearing like

2:13 a like a like a cameo of cameos is Heraldo Rivera.

2:17 It's incredible.

2:18 [laughter] There's Haraldo Rivera.

2:20 And Heraldo Rivera is like cool as a cucumber.

2:23 He looks great.

2:25 And he's like, "You guys are like the skin heads on my old show.

2:33 Wow.

2:36 That's CNN, buddy.

2:37 That's Abby Phillips." Uh folks, thanks for joining us here on Dead Air.

2:41 We got a few things to get to.

2:42 We've got the King's visit to get to.

2:45 Uh, we not only have that, we've also got some Heg

2:48 Seth testimony to get to from last week, which is insane.

2:51 And we've got some heartfelt stuff to get to, which

2:54 is really good for the soul when it comes

2:56 to the difference that our friends here at the Save America

2:59 movement are making in the United States of America for democracy.

3:02 But let's just deal with that clip real quick, Steve,

3:05 because we're gonna cover a bunch of stuff no one wants us talking about today.

3:07 That's the point of this entire Substack live.

3:10 Scott Jennings came unglued.

3:12 And that's the third time Adam Mockler, a 23-year-old kid,

3:15 has owned his soul, stuffed him in a locker,

3:18 and he loses composure to the point where you're like,

3:22 "This guy is not a real boy.

3:24 He is not a real man.

3:25 He can't do this.

3:27 He is on his last legs trying to figure out how he can

3:30 somehow justify who and what the Trump regime stand for." That was unbelievable.

3:37 I want your thoughts cuz you're no stranger to these things and I highly

3:41 doubt you've ever come out of your shoes like that screaming at a 23-y old,

3:45 "Get your hand out of my[ __] face, man.

3:47 Get it out." It's so unbelievable to me.

3:51 I have I've been involved in over the course of my career a lot

3:55 of crisis management situations for all manner

4:00 of companies and CEOs and athletes and whatever

4:08 in all kinds of different different situations.

4:12 You get to

4:13 measure people up under stress.

4:16 Uh and certainly you get to see that on a on a political campaign.

4:20 Scott Jennings was one of those guys like that was kept

4:24 away from the campaign in '04 over in the White House, right?

4:28 Like and in 2004, you know,

4:31 I never had a political discussion with them, which you know,

4:35 he was not a he was not a player, right, for for reason in that.

4:39 And you want people who are calm under pressure.

4:45 Yeah.

4:44 Right.

4:44 that and that is somebody who just snapped total of of of composure

4:51 and I'm sitting there because Adam Mockler what a credit to Midas touch

4:57 and that young man keeping his composure but one of the things

5:03 that he's missed out on that we did not miss out on uh

5:09 that is just a part of the ribbon ribbon of life is

5:13 that he get to meet anyone in the greatest generation as they're called, right?

5:18 That that generation of men who had some stoic bearing,

5:23 some capacity to not complain, to be constantly victims and agrieved, right?

5:30 Back when men were men, as they say.

5:34 And you just see like you just see, you know,

5:38 from what that generational archetype was that we grew up with.

5:43 Mhm.

5:42 Compared to someone like a Scott Jennings today, total loss of control,

5:45 total loss of composure reflects terribly on the management of CNN,

5:53 terribly on the judgment of the president of CNN.

5:57 It's an embarrassment to the whole network, to all the journalists.

6:03 Mhm.

6:03 there'll be no consequence because there are

6:05 no standards and there are no ethics.

6:07 And that's that's an important thing to point

6:09 out when we're talking about the corporate media.

6:13 There are good journalists on CNN, but the corporate culture is rotten.

6:18 Yeah.

6:17 And you know, the corporate culture is

6:19 rotten because the corporate culture indulges Scott Jennings.

6:23 Yeah.

6:22 And it indulges that show.

6:23 You know, Abby Phillips is probably one of the smartest people on TV.

6:27 She presides over a democracy snuff hour, a snuff film.

6:32 That's what it that's what it is, right?

6:35 It's a snuff film.

6:36 [laughter] I mean, it's it's un it's unbelievable.

6:39 And you got you got Scott Jennings there.

6:41 He's like he's like my the wig maker from Good Fellows, right?

6:45 He's unbelievable.

6:47 My the wig.

6:48 What a bully.

6:49 What a bully.

6:50 Well, and just and he's got no no constitution for this, right?

6:53 He presents himself every night spinning the ridiculous,

6:56 trying to convince everybody that no harm, no foul from a rapist,

7:00 felon, con man, probable pedophile,

7:02 and sex trafficking guru that happens to be the president of the United States.

7:07 And he continues to try to normalize all of it in any of it.

7:10 And and you know, I'm reminded of a couple of things when I watch that clip,

7:12 and I want to play the clip again here in just a second.

7:15 But one of the things that I think is really important,

7:16 you mentioned stoic values or or that, you know,

7:19 the leadership, that calm perspective.

7:21 You see it in Mark K.

7:22 He was a practicing stoic.

7:23 You see it in different people who understand.

7:25 George Washington kept uh you know uh Epictitus in the meditations

7:29 by Marcus Aurelius next to his bed and read it every night.

7:32 Never went anywhere without it.

7:33 What would Epictitus say to to Scott Jennings?

7:37 He would say any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

7:41 He can anger you only when you permit yourself

7:44 to be disturbed by him because you yourself are disturbed.

7:48 And that is a philosophical, cognitive, behavioral[ __] fact that Scott,

7:54 say that more slowly because Adam Mockler needs to hear it.

7:59 Has has owned Scott Jennings.

8:02 He is his master.

8:03 Oh yeah, he owns Scott Jennings.

8:06 Jennings is his slave.

8:10 Yeah.

8:09 He [laughter] submitted to him slavery.

8:13 Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

8:16 He can anger you only when you permit yourself

8:18 to be disturbed by him because you yourself are disturbed.

8:23 That's what I saw.

8:24 You see that with all kinds of people.

8:25 You see that now coming out of the mag regime.

8:28 And there's going to be a throughine here

8:29 today of people that could not control themselves,

8:32 that are currently on the hot seat, that are involved with the Trump regime,

8:35 that have tried desperately for the past 13

8:37 months to spin uh evil, to spin genocide,

8:42 to spin executing its own citizens, to spin destroying the world economy,

8:47 to spin destroying every alliance the United States has had.

8:51 and the actions and the consequences

8:53 of that when you ask anybody like Scott Jennings,

8:56 "Hey dude, I got you cornered.

8:58 Explain this." And when he says,

8:59 "Get your hand out of my[ __] face." Or you see a guy like

9:02 Pete Haget that will get to literally

9:04 come unglued in an armed services committee hearing.

9:07 It is because of those character flaws

9:09 because they know you're close to the truth.

9:11 Listen, it's the exact same thing where I come from, right?

9:13 is when when I was a young man and I wanted to hide

9:17 my shitty behaviors from people and the second someone would get close

9:19 to finding those shitty behaviors out or at least airing out who

9:24 I really was in a group of people and everybody's dealt with this.

9:26 We've all grown up.

9:27 We've all been that guy or that girl.

9:29 You get angry.

9:30 You blow a gasket because you don't have any[ __] tools at all.

9:34 And I think in this case, a guy like Scott Jennings,

9:37 he's starting to see the writing on the wall

9:39 through a 31% approval rating for Donald Trump.

9:41 He's starting to see his writing on the wall

9:43 through the evisceration of a guy like Pete

9:44 Hegsmith in the Armed Services Committee hearing this last

9:47 week and the Senate Armed Services Committee last week.

9:49 The this this is a regime that is desperately on the run.

9:53 And it it is it is atypical of anybody that gets paid the kind of money Scott

9:58 gets paid to react that way to a very

10:02 simple debate which you know you're[ __] losing.

10:05 I accept I accept all that.

10:07 I stipulate to every word of that.

10:09 I believe every word of that is true.

10:12 But more deeply than that, what what set him off there?

10:18 What what made him lose his lose his mind there?

10:23 Why did he lose control there?

10:25 Let's play it again.

10:26 Can we play it again?

10:26 And we'll go through it.

10:28 Yeah, let's go through.

10:28 Can we play that again?

10:29 Mike.

10:29 Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country

10:31 that starts with the letters IRA that we are currently failing.

10:34 That is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt.

10:37 I was only a few years old while

10:38 you were in the administration defending prior endless wars.

10:41 Now this war is failing.

10:43 Eight weeks is endless to you.

10:44 Okay.

10:44 You said it was going to end.

10:45 You had the attention span of a net.

10:47 I debated you on TV four to six weeks away from making condescending remarks.

10:53 So like right right through that line.

10:55 Right now you're making condescending remarks.

10:57 Right.

10:57 Just from a debate study.

10:59 He's just got right.

11:01 20 23 year old kid which isn't fair to call him a 23 year old kid.

11:06 I do it all the time.

11:07 I got a 21 year old.

11:09 You got kids.

11:10 So now we're watching Right.

11:12 Now we're watching, right?

11:14 Like a young man there, right?

11:16 That's like the age of our sons roughly.

11:18 Like you know, he's he's a year and a half old.

11:21 He's a year older than my daughter.

11:23 He's he's he's two years older than my son.

11:25 He's the age of your son.

11:27 Yes.

11:27 Yes.

11:29 Right.

11:29 And so you got a you got a 23 year old young man kid there,

11:34 whatever whatever you want to call him,

11:35 but you know, if he's he's in any one

11:38 of the things that I've ever worked for in my career, right?

11:41 He's got a very junior job.

11:44 Y

11:43 uh he's just right out of school, but boy is he impressive.

11:47 And he's been on a couple times and so

11:50 this isn't his first uh ride around the rodeo.

11:54 and he is into Scott Jennings from the beginning.

11:59 He takes him on the he's got a clever line, the three letters IRA.

12:05 Um he he talks about, hey, you know, when all this began,

12:10 I was just I was just barely born and here we are again,

12:14 you know, and and you know,

12:15 Scott Jennings then personalizes it, attacks them, right?

12:19 You have the you have the character of anat.

12:22 That's the the first low blow, right?

12:25 You know, first loss of control.

12:27 He's personalizing this.

12:29 Adam has said nothing that is inappropriate.

12:32 That's not

12:33 nothing porative.

12:34 No, nothing porative whatsoever.

12:36 Just he's been smooth.

12:37 He's been articulate.

12:39 He's been in control.

12:40 And then we got and then we got the the total loss of control here coming up.

12:45 But what do you see before we get there?

12:47 I mean, what do you see there?

12:48 Like I see what you see.

12:50 You started he's angry obviously.

12:52 Yeah.

12:53 Well, I I see this this like a dimminionative[ __] eating grin

12:56 on people like Scott Jennings all the time after they say something, you know?

13:00 And I think if you study human behavior a little bit,

13:02 you understand uh how people's reactions dictate how they feel, right?

13:06 You can really see it inside someone's face when they do something

13:09 like this after they say something or like whatever like dismissive and shitty.

13:14 But what I saw there was a guy

13:15 get confronted with the truth about his own record.

13:18 a guy that got confronted with facts who then started to insult the young man.

13:23 And the young man, Adam Mockler, to your point,

13:26 exact same age as my middle guy, is so cool and calm,

13:30 he just continues to present the facts to him that, hey,

13:34 you just insulted me because you don't have an argument.

13:36 You just insulted me because I'm right.

13:38 And as he's, and this is really, really important,

13:41 as he moves a little closer to him,

13:44 that's when that inner fire comes out of Scott because he knows he's got right.

13:48 He knows he's done.

13:49 He knows he has nowhere to go.

13:51 And much like Donald Trump, when they get when he gets asked, "Hey, uh, sir, Mr.

13:55 President, um, what can you tell me about, uh, the manifesto?" Nor O'Donnell,

14:02 what can you tell me about the manifesto

14:04 of the of the Hilton shooter or the alleged assassin?

14:07 And he's like, "You're the worst.

14:08 You're terrible.

14:09 I can't believe you asked me that.

14:11 You're awful.

14:12 I knew you'd ask me that." It's just insult after

14:15 insult because they are so afraid of anybody scratching the truth.

14:18 And Mr.

14:19 Mockler there didn't just scratch at the truth.

14:21 He kicked the truth door in until it bled daylight in about two seconds.

14:24 And then we get this reaction.

14:26 Let's play the reaction one more time if we can, Mike.

14:28 I think we're there already in the clip.

14:32 I debated you on TV four to six weeks

14:34 ago when you said we were weeks away from it.

14:35 Now you're making condescending remarks because you can't defend

14:37 the fact that this war is not going your way.

14:39 Wait one more time.

14:40 Not going one political concession.

14:43 One political concession.

14:44 Honestly, I'm not going to everybody.

14:48 Did you see that?

14:48 Okay, stop.

14:49 Stop that clip there.

14:50 I'm not going to have this guy do that in my face.

14:53 The entitlement, the ego,

14:56 what he thinks he is that he's presenting to other

14:58 people is never more apparent than in that clip.

15:01 Sure, he snapped, but then he puts himself above the phrase like,

15:04 "I'm not having that guy stick his finger in my face."

15:07 What is it about that guy?

15:09 What is it about?

15:10 What is it?

15:10 What is triggering him there?

15:13 I don't even think Adam Mockler's close to being inside his physical space

15:23 that that that triggers that.

15:24 He just turns and snaps at him.

15:29 Yes.

15:29 Right.

15:29 Like I mean he's like a school shooter in that.

15:34 Yeah.

15:34 In that moment, right?

15:35 He's just he's just jackal jackal and hide there.

15:39 And it it has to say something, right?

15:43 say about the culture of the leadership to tolerate

15:50 this right behavior that he feels entitled to say,

15:57 "Get your hands out of my[ __] face on a global broadcast on on CNN." Mhm.

16:11 That's exactly what happened.

16:12 [laughter] Wow.

16:14 I think I think I think you nailed it.

16:16 And and you're right.

16:16 It's the through line of MAGA.

16:18 It is they are cornered rats.

16:21 And you know, from that clip to, you know,

16:24 Thursday and Friday of this last week,

16:26 we had Pete Hegath for the first time in the 60-day war

16:30 get hauled into the Armed Services Committee in the House and the Senate.

16:33 not only perjur himself but he also came unglued a half a dozen times

16:39 and I want again I mean this is you know this is good news

16:43 everybody while we're watching this it's

16:45 insane it's insanity it's all those things

16:47 but we're trying to act as your sherpa to help you understand that this is

16:51 good this is they are cracking they

16:53 are snapping they cannot maintain composure there's

16:55 no more calm involved in any of this they are all cornered and they

16:58 know it and Pete Hex found out with Roana yesterday this is an unbelievable

17:03 able clip and I want to play it for everybody and I want your thoughts.

17:06 This is the Secretary of Defense.

17:07 I refuse to call him the Secretary of War.

17:09 He's not the Secretary of War.

17:12 Under American law, he's not there is no Secretary of War.

17:15 He made up made up the title.

17:18 Yeah.

17:18 And a new emblem, too, which is illegal.

17:20 And it's I believe it's a uh an indictable offense if I'm not mistaken.

17:23 But anyway, we'll talk about that a little later on.

17:25 But Ro kind of cornered him and again cornered.

17:28 This is the through line between the MAGA nervous system.

17:32 Freak out, deflect, and and then and then project.

17:36 Let's let's watch this clip if we can.

17:38 How much did it cost American taxpayers in terms

17:40 of the strike to the Iranian school where kids were killed?

17:43 Do you have that number in terms of the missiles we used?

17:48 As I've said, that uh unfortunate situation remains under investigation.

17:53 You don't know how much investigation,

17:54 but I wouldn't tie a cost to that to anything.

17:57 It's a reasonable question.

17:58 No, sir.

17:58 I mean, our taxpayer money was going there.

18:00 Do you know how much it will cost Americans in terms of their increased

18:04 cost in gas and food over the next year because of the Iran war?

18:11 I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

18:14 I'm going to give you that.

18:15 I would simply ask you what

18:16 the You're playing gota questions about domestic things.

18:19 I'm not You're asking You're saying it's a gotcha question to ask

18:22 what it's going to be in terms of the increase.

18:24 Why won't you answer what it costs

18:26 to to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb?

18:28 I'll give you that, sir.

18:28 But let me What would it cost?

18:30 What would you pay to ensure Iran doesn't get a nuclear bomb?

18:32 What would you pay?

18:34 I reclaim my time.

18:35 Do you not know?

18:35 You had no one do the analysis of what the increased cost

18:38 of gas and food on the American people are going to be.

18:41 What is the cost of Iran holding that straight at issue with nuclear weapons?

18:45 It's $631 billion, which means it's an increase

18:49 of $5,000 a year for American households.

18:53 Now, Uh, incredible job by Roana in my estimation.

18:58 Uh, but again, you saw that same vibe,

19:00 that same nervous system answer, that same deflection.

19:03 Uh, the same collapse under the weight of facts.

19:07 Uh, would love your thoughts, Steve.

19:09 I saw a couple things yesterday watching this.

19:11 Uh, first behaviorally was the out of control cackling,

19:17 the nervousness, the laughter.

19:21 uh very odd comportment and without hyperbole whatsoever and I

19:29 think it's important sometimes when we make points about this when

19:37 you do what I'm about to do that you have

19:41 to be very specific and and characterize it but over 251 years.

19:52 Institutions of the armed forces are older than the country.

19:57 There there has never been a leader

20:00 that approaches this guy's unfitness at a moral level,

20:08 at an intellectual level, at a mental health level.

20:11 He is he is as unfit a person as has ever been around the US military.

20:19 a 251 years of history of the United States military.

20:29 Then the the second part of this is that I don't think

20:32 the Democrats did a very good job in the hearing with the questions.

20:36 And I say that as someone who thinks Roan is a great member of Congress.

20:41 Yeah.

20:41 Why?

20:44 Um this a this is an Armed Services Committee hearing.

20:47 This ain't a hearing about gas prices.

20:50 What this hearing should be about is the fact that these two

20:53 Kaine and Hegsath have architected a war that we're losing

20:58 to Iran and and that is a serious serious matter

21:02 and that should have been the relentless focus as a political matter.

21:07 You're asking questions.

21:09 Do you know the price of gas?

21:11 Do you know this?

21:12 Do you know this?

21:12 So there are two things there.

21:15 One, the American people have already assigned

21:18 blame to this, which you can explain,

21:22 right, and comprehend by looking at the poll numbers.

21:27 Mhm.

21:26 That that's why, right, they the American people have already cast blame.

21:32 And therefore, you have to be on top of the wave,

21:37 not behind it, and not under it.

21:39 So instead of asking questions about something you already know the answer

21:43 to that the American people have fixed blame to you assert if you want to talk

21:48 about gas prices you assert and you assert in the cause of a losing

21:53 war that strategically what you have achieved

21:58 is the Iranians now control the straight of

22:04 Hormuz they control passage for X percentage of the world tieium

22:08 x percentage of the world's world's hydrogen precursor agents for X Y

22:14 and Z X% of the world's petroleum on a global market

22:19 and now the cost of that to the average American is whatever.

22:26 Mhm.

22:26 And then there's just the simple cost of petroleum

22:31 for the US military that surges for an operation at this.

22:36 So we spend extraordinary scores of billions of dollars.

22:40 I mean, imagine if every state got a billion dollars to build schools.

22:47 It's extraordinary.

22:49 And he sits there, the secretary and the general,

22:54 without being asked questions with a relentless focus

22:57 on the military and the strategic failure and what happens next.

23:04 Mhm.

23:05 So, the questions are prosetorial, which I don't mind,

23:09 but they're gotcha questions when people have already decided you[ __] us.

23:19 Mhm.

23:18 We blame you.

23:21 Right.

23:21 So, 70% of the country roughly looks at this.

23:27 So, this is a catastrophe.

23:30 Mhm.

23:31 Now, everybody now has a grievance against Trump, right?

23:37 Which requires people like in my shoes in America who have

23:42 been against him for 12 years from the beginning, unwaveringly so,

23:48 to get off our high horses and welcome aboard the the mass

23:53 of Americans that are necessary to come aboard to end this atrocity.

23:58 And that's and that's what it is.

24:00 Yeah.

24:00 Fascinating.

24:01 I I I appreciate that perspective because, you know,

24:03 to a to a person and if you understand anything about sound

24:06 bites and how it works in the House of Commons here in Canada,

24:09 uh, you know, the the the actual business

24:11 of sound bites is so much more important

24:13 than the business of actually getting down

24:14 to the business of why you're actually[ __] there, right?

24:17 I It's no different in the United States than it is in Canada.

24:20 But, you know, when you consider the fact that this is going

24:25 to make life even more unaffordable in the United States of America,

24:30 uh, that doesn't seem to be a consideration

24:32 that this regime gives two shits about.

24:35 And I wasn't going to play the the gas prices clip,

24:38 and I know you're not hot on the gas prices,

24:40 but, you know, there's a clip where um,

24:43 ranking member Goodlander asked uh, Hegsath if he knows how much gas costs.

24:48 and and it's in this clip.

24:49 I think it proves your point,

24:50 but I also want to springboard onto something else.

24:52 If we could play that clip real quick, Mike, that'd be great.

24:55 Mr.

24:55 Hexith, can I ask you, do you know what what the average cost of a gallon

24:59 of gas was in this country on on February 28th?

25:04 Well, it depends on where you live.

25:05 If you live in California, it's eight bucks.

25:08 $283.

25:08 Do you know what the average cost of a gallon of gas is today?

25:12 Much higher in California.

25:14 $423.

25:15 I gotta say, Mr.

25:16 Seth, you said you've got a crack economic team that's looking at the impacts

25:21 of this war on the American taxpayer and you can't answer this basic question.

25:25 Uh, that should shock the conscience of every American.

25:30 Yeah.

25:30 I mean, it's the insult to intelligence and that smug[ __] eatating grin

25:35 uh when it comes to the affordability for Americans making gas very expensive.

25:42 And that's that's the street, right?

25:43 like we're not talking about policy [clears throat] here.

25:46 We're talking about the real life effects of what it

25:48 is that that Pete Hegath is downloading onto the American people.

25:53 And to that point, as we kind of go back to the Jennings snap job, the sarcasm,

25:58 the[ __] eating aspects of how he answered

26:00 that pointing the finger at Gavin Nuskum in California,

26:03 gas is eight bucks a liter there.

26:05 It is it is I felt insulted for the American people.

26:10 I felt sad for the American people just in that one crazy moment

26:14 because all Pete Hegath said there to me was Steve,[ __] the American people.

26:18 He even reiterated that yesterday saying the greatest danger to America are

26:23 the Democrats and everybody that's questioning him

26:26 about how much this war is costing.

26:28 Like he said that yesterday.

26:30 I don't I don't So I think that the Democrats

26:38 need to step back and come up with a strategic approach

26:45 that has to do with the heart of the matter which

26:49 is that we started a war with Iran that we're losing.

26:54 Yeah.

26:53 Right.

26:53 at the at the core that is the main issue.

26:57 And there's the cost of that war in human life, American life, Iranian life,

27:04 in national prestige, in our alliances,

27:07 in dollars on so forth, and and and everything else.

27:12 Yesterday was a historic day was April 30th and that means it's been

27:18 51 years since the last American helicopter flew off the helicopter in Saigon.

27:27 And I wish there had been a Democrat who

27:31 was ready to take this to the next level,

27:35 maybe even to show video of that moment and to say you come

27:41 before this committee with very little

27:45 credibility because of your misconduct as secretary.

27:51 And there was no effort

27:56 to put [clears throat] him in his place and in doing so make a big point.

28:04 Starting with can you share with the committee your title please?

28:11 Are you aware of the history of the day?

28:13 Do you remember the five o'clock follyies reading about that from Vietnam?

28:21 the religious crack pottery.

28:25 General Kaine is deeply unimpressive.

28:29 But I I don't want to see the work

28:34 of the Armed Services Committee become

28:38 contaminated with domestic policy gotcha questions.

28:42 Again, the country, you can look at a huge slew of polling indicators

28:50 from their economic anxiety to real world indicators to where everything is.

28:55 They blame Trump.

28:57 They blame Trump.

28:59 what what the Democrats have an obligation to do and this comes now into focus

29:08 for a much larger issue which is

29:10 the questioning that Angus King gets into though

29:13 the the what I'm going to talk about the outcome isn't on point to what

29:17 King was getting at where he is demanding

29:20 that Congress pass a $1.5 trillion defense budget

29:26 and to the answer to that has to be no

29:29 right There's there is nothing that conceivably

29:31 justifies a trillion half dollar defense

29:35 budget which not so long ago pierced one trillion dollars for the first time.

29:40 This is an organization that can't pass an audit and

29:44 they haven't they haven't for 13 months.

29:45 Right?

29:46 They cannot pass an audit, right?

29:49 The military industrial complex, the surveillance state, all of it.

29:54 This needs to be brought to heal.

29:57 And just so just so people can understand and we

30:00 may have talked about this but these numbers are so abstract.

30:04 This is the only meaningful way I can explain this number to people.

30:08 A million seconds from now is 12 days from now.

30:12 A billion seconds from now is 32 years from now.

30:17 A trillion seconds is 32,000 years from now.

30:22 Right?

30:23 We just crested over a trillion dollars.

30:28 And so, so what is the purpose of a trillion half dollar military?

30:35 And what are we spending the money on?

30:38 13.5 billion dollar aircraft carriers that have

30:42 a range from the flight deck that is

30:45 less than the range of the drone

30:48 and the range of the missile that threatens them.

30:52 that denies them an area of operation

30:55 to say nothing of the Chinese hypersonic drone.

30:59 A new era of warfare has revealed itself.

31:04 technologies which equalize and erase America's advantage with a supreme

31:13 threat from Russia which is to put a nuclear

31:18 weapon into space and obliterate 90% of our satellites

31:26 and in an instant modern life ceases in the United States.

31:31 M

31:32 and so we should think deeply about this moment,

31:36 about what we're spending money on, about the country that's falling apart,

31:41 about the people that are being left behind.

31:44 Donald Trump Jr.

31:45 and Eric Trump are signing multihundreds million dollar contracts of drones

31:54 to the government in the war started by their father.

31:58 while the elite forces of the United States are

32:02 engaging in gambling on some of these prediction sites.

32:08 Mhm.

32:08 Are you kidding me?

32:09 And there weren't questions asked yesterday about

32:11 that that I'm aware of that I saw covered anyway,

32:17 right, to either the secretary or the chairman.

32:19 And there and there should have been.

32:21 So I I don't like at the end of the day,

32:25 we're two months into a war that Donald Trump has talked

32:29 months ago about that we're going to ask for unconditional surrender.

32:34 We're going to ask for this.

32:36 What yesterday should have been about is reading those statements back

32:40 and undermining every statement,

32:47 ludicrous statement made with previous ludicrous statements that now we

32:53 can judge two months into how all this is going.

32:59 Well said.

32:59 Well said as always, Steve.

33:00 believe this Lucer's statement in that Angus

33:02 King clip uh really kind of underscore

33:06 and and pin foundationally what you just said

33:10 uh not just about the cost to American taxpayers

33:12 but the the ambiguity in and around military

33:15 spending and to your other point Denver Wman's done

33:18 an incredible job following this stuff when it

33:20 comes to the Trump sons U and Kusay Jr.

33:22 I love I love that.

33:23 I steal it all the time.

33:25 The trademark Steve Schmidt.

33:26 Uh Ro.

33:29 Thanks, Mike.

33:29 Yeah.

33:29 Uh we we'll get to that clip in just a second.

33:31 But you you underscore this$ 1.5 trillion

33:34 budget with $720 million in soul source contracts

33:38 that went from the Pentagon as green lit

33:40 by Donald Trump for the Trump crime family.

33:43 When it comes to two companies, Unusual Machines and Power Us,

33:47 these are two companies that are drone companies that are

33:49 wholly or or partly owned by Donald Trump Jr., Peter Teal, Founders Fund.

33:54 I did an entire thing on Palunteer.

33:56 It's also involved in with Palunteer.

33:58 And you cannot buy around in the drone

34:00 industry and around the military-industrial complex

34:02 in the United States of America without

34:04 enriching the Trump crime family right now.

34:06 And you know, you start a war that you have no

34:09 feasible way of winning and you find out that you're losing.

34:12 And what do you do?

34:13 You send Donald and Eric and Zack Witoff

34:17 to the UAE to pedal their new drones while

34:21 they're currently being rained down upon by the Iranian regime.

34:23 It is truly spectacular.

34:25 And to that point, this$ 1.5 trillion budget,

34:28 a bunch of that money goes to the Trump crime family, because again,

34:32 you cannot buy anything in the military-industrial

34:34 complex in the United States without putting money

34:37 in the pockets of the Trump crime family

34:39 because of the way this is all structured.

34:41 And to that point, let's play the Angus King clip.

34:43 1.5 trillion.

34:44 But how Pete Hegath does not want to talk about it.

34:47 Let's play that clip, Mike.

34:48 Why not?

34:49 What all those items of housing or Golden Dome,

34:52 whatever, why aren't they in the in the regular budget?

34:54 Why do we suddenly have a two-part budget where

34:58 the this committee and the Congress generally has oversight

35:01 and and and input to a process where a a quarter

35:05 of the budget is is essentially a slush fund.

35:09 Well, Senator, I appreciate the question.

35:11 I wouldn't characterize a quarter of it as a as a slush fund,

35:14 but I recognize that we see it

35:15 as a in totality as a $1.5 trillion budget separation.

35:20 Why the two pieces multiple?

35:22 As you know, there are multiple dynamics uh

35:24 that play into why there are multiple vehicles,

35:27 but we are fully committed with working to the committee to ensure

35:29 that the right vehicles are utilized to get precisely this amount, 1.5 trillion.

35:34 Why should we You didn't answer my question.

35:36 Why are there two pieces?

35:37 Why?

35:37 Why not?

35:38 For time in memorial, we've done budgets here.

35:41 We've never to my knowledge,

35:43 we've never used this reconciliation process for a defense budget before.

35:46 What's what's going on?

35:49 Why not?

35:49 My understanding of the reason for the vehicles is to ensure we

35:53 actually get to 1.5 trillion which is the most important bottom line.

35:57 The most important bottom line is that top

35:59 line of 1.5 trillion to fund what we need.

36:01 And we think this process is the most effective way to get there.

36:04 Senator,

36:06 well, what you're really saying is we don't want

36:08 to deal with that pesky Congress and their appropriation process.

36:11 I I think it's I think this is significant, Mr.

36:13 chairman that we're we're basically abdicating a quarter

36:17 of our responsibility in terms of this budget.

36:19 Let me Yeah, I I want your thoughts on that clip,

36:23 but I want to tie it to this next clip because you talk about failure, right?

36:26 We're talking about budget.

36:27 We're talking about downloading that cost onto the American taxpayer.

36:30 We're talking about hidden costs, enriching the Trump crime family.

36:33 We're also talking about extreme military failure on behalf

36:35 of the United States military with Pete Nutsack involved.

36:39 And that was pointed out to him in this clip by ranking member Smith.

36:43 If we could play this clip, Mike.

36:44 Thanks.

36:45 So, they haven't broken yet.

36:47 Okay.

36:47 We haven't gotten there yet for all of the

36:50 Well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated underground.

36:53 They're buried and we're watching them 24/7.

36:56 So, we know where any nuclear material for a second here.

37:01 We had to start this war, you just said 60 days ago,

37:06 because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat.

37:10 Now, you're saying that it was completely obliterated.

37:12 not given up their nuclear ambitions and they

37:15 had a conventional shield of thousands of

37:18 operation midnight hammer nothing of substance left

37:22 in the same place we were before

37:24 so much so

37:25 their facilities were bombed and obliterated their their ambitions

37:29 continued and they're building a conventional shield try again

37:33 it's the North Korea strategy you know this very well

37:35 the North Korea strategy was use conventional missiles to prevent anybody

37:38 from challenging them so they could slow walk their way

37:41 to a weapon President Trump saw Iran at its weakest moment,

37:45 took an action to ensure in a way that only the United States of America

37:48 could do with our Israeli partners

37:50 to ensure their conventional shield was was brought.

37:55 Uh you know what I love about that clip?

37:57 Um uh all of it, but mostly I I love the fact that he said

38:01 we're going to just continue to bomb

38:03 their ambitions [laughter] and I need 1.5 trillion.

38:08 So there's there's a couple things that like I I react to that and you know

38:14 as you know uh and you're involved with uh

38:19 I'm involved with the Save America movement and

38:24 so we have an organization uh that you know

38:29 is you know to keep it in perspective right

38:32 we have we have a country of 350 million

38:35 people but we have an organization that's a year world,

38:38 you know, that's that's coming up on I think half a million donors.

38:44 Um, has content interacted with by some score

38:48 of millions of of people and a lot of folks

38:53 who really are investing in trying to make some

38:58 things stop with an eye on making some things happen.

39:03 And I think you have to get

39:07 to the bottom of the terrible abuses that are discovered

39:15 that are uncovered that will be as Democrats take

39:19 charge and we have to have public hearings about them.

39:24 When I look at the ranking member there, Smith, I see a lot of promise, right?

39:29 And and I and I kind of sit there and I and I and I think to myself,

39:34 why is it that he's on the clock for five minutes?

39:39 His style suggests to me that maybe he should

39:43 be on the clock with Heg Seth for 25 minutes, right?

39:48 Because that line of questioning yields

39:52 answers that deserve unraveling because they're absurd.

40:00 And and what unravels is a justification

40:04 for a war of choice that the administration has put itself in a position where

40:13 it's either forward more escalation or surrender.

40:19 and retreat.

40:21 And the reality is is the sooner we get out,

40:28 the better off and the more secure the situation will be, right?

40:37 And and the reality is is right now because we have no boots on the ground,

40:43 we have no control on the ground in our in Iran.

40:46 And so the aspirations of the Iranian people that Donald Trump sold out when

40:51 he told them that help was on the way crushed maybe for a generation.

40:57 We have a new Ayatollah Kmeni apparently

41:00 more extreme than the last Ayatollah Kmeni.

41:05 We have the nuclear material obliterated, unobliterated,

41:10 obliterated depending on on what day of the week.

41:14 and it's a big thing and and so so the hearing should focus with laserlike

41:23 precision on some of the big things and and with respect to Angus King,

41:29 he knows the answer to the question.

41:32 It's not a Columbbo episode, right?

41:36 You're the ranking member.

41:37 You have some agency and power.

41:39 Stay what you're for and stay what you're against.

41:44 who wish to state that he's against is that over my dead body are we going

41:51 to spend a trillion and a half dollars

41:55 on on the military when we're $40 trillion in debt.

42:06 It's not sustainable.

42:09 And and so what we have to do is we have to have a debate.

42:14 And the debate gets to the heart of some

42:16 things like should we have troops in 110 countries?

42:21 Uh do we have the rightsiz Marine Corps?

42:28 How about the rightsiz navy?

42:33 Do we need to have a smaller army to pay for that?

42:40 And and do we in fact need less

42:42 billion dollar fighter planes and more $100,000 drones?

42:54 [clears throat] But but it appears to any casual observer that God helped

42:58 the United States in a war in the Western Pacific against the Chinese.

43:04 We have a we have a industrial supply capacity problem.

43:11 A lot of the American military budget goes

43:15 to hardware that's dependent on Chinese supply chain.

43:23 And pouring more money onto a bonfire does not help solve this problem.

43:31 M you know he you you have you have

43:35 a you have a you have a military industrial complex.

43:41 We're all Pete Hags assass bluster and[ __] about lethality and all of that.

43:46 What the what the country needs is a is a secretary and an under secretary,

43:51 deputy secretary combo who go on in there with a clear mandate

43:56 from the president to that this this this department will pass a[ __] audit,

44:05 which hasn't happened for 13 months, by the way.

44:07 Well, it's longer than that.

44:08 It hasn't hasn't passed an audit in years.

44:12 Hasn't been able to pass an audit in years.

44:14 And if you go and you read the Eisenhower speech, right,

44:20 and you and you and you and you consider

44:23 it in the context of the George Washington farewell speech,

44:29 you know, you have a couple of profound warnings that were

44:32 essentially the the warnings about the excesses of political parties.

44:37 Mhm.

44:38 about the danger of foreign entanglements and the profound danger

44:45 to liberty of the rise of the national security state.

44:52 And you see that absolutely during the Trump era,

44:56 whether it be through the Homeland Security Department

45:00 or through a trillion half dollar defense budget proposal

45:06 and what they choose to do with it, right?

45:07 like what they choose to do with it.

45:08 And I think the the all girls school in Manib

45:11 and the death of about 175 school children and him saying,

45:14 "Yeah, but you know, nuclear weapons." Yeah.

45:17 I I mean, not just disingenuous,

45:18 but you see the evil that lives inside this regime, number one, number two,

45:23 and the ambiguous nature with which they're treating the American taxpayer

45:26 with complete disrespect and the insult to intelligence uh of this regime.

45:30 I mean, you wrap it all up into what you're talking about, you know,

45:33 and it's it [clears throat] was never more evident

45:35 this week that this regime is in full collapse,

45:38 which is why we're having this conversation.

45:40 And it's not just about the regime in full collapse.

45:43 It's about the appropriation of that money

45:45 and and the insult to the American taxpayer.

45:47 And to that point, you know, ICE is now fully funded.

45:51 You talk about a secret police force.

45:52 This is a secret police force.

45:53 the only democracy in the in the world that has

45:55 a secret police force that is allowed to do whatever they want,

45:58 whenever they want, however they want.

46:00 They got a brand new facelift this this week, and I'm sure you saw it.

46:03 ICE is now nice.

46:06 Yeah.

46:06 They're put they're putting out, you know,

46:07 videos of those unmasked guys helping people with luggage at airports going,

46:11 "See, we're nice about this.

46:14 I know [laughter] talked about it." But it's unbelievable.

46:19 But again, an an absolute insult to the intelligence of every single person

46:24 that knows what ICE has done to Americans for Donald Trump over the past year.

46:30 Whether it's Yeah.

46:33 Everyone disapproves and he's going down.

46:38 You're going to have a wipeout of wipeouts.

46:40 You have Democratic majority in the Senate.

46:43 You're going to have Democratic majority in the House.

46:48 and and what comes next is laying the track

46:54 for the Democratic presidential nominee and a Democratic administration.

47:00 Mhm.

47:01 That's hopefully hopefully the next Secretary of Defense

47:03 doesn't have a coke problem, too.

47:04 That's what that's what has to that's what has to come next.

47:11 Mhm.

47:10 And there and there has to be there has to be plans.

47:12 I I don't know why somebody can't say

47:16 this and I maybe this is my position maybe it

47:20 is my position alone but I but I think

47:23 this would be a position that Democrats could run on

47:28 which is which is to say that to the question of abolishing ICE

47:36 which is [clears throat] there will be a federal

47:39 agency that manages immigration and its name is going

47:45 to be the United States Border Security Agency and it

47:51 it will work with the Canadian Border Security Agency.

47:56 It will be the Border Security Agency, but ICE will no longer exist.

48:03 and every single ICE officer who was hired during

48:08 the Christy era and received 47 days of training.

48:13 Thank you for your service.

48:16 Your badge is gone.

48:18 Your certification is gone.

48:20 Your training is revoked.

48:21 Turn in your badge.

48:24 Customs and Border Patrol.

48:26 If you've read the whack job Dan Pavino's interview that he that he just gave,

48:34 it's an irredeemable organization.

48:40 Yeah.

48:39 Okay.

48:40 So, what what can you do?

48:42 Do we need to have a force that patrols the border?

48:49 We do.

48:52 Right.

48:53 Whatever its name is going to be, it will not be the Custom and Border Patrol.

49:00 Mhm.

49:00 [clears throat] It will have a new name and it will have new uniforms

49:06 and its identity that existed for a hundred years will be remade entirely.

49:16 [clears throat] You go see Pavino's uniform in the Museum of Tolerance.

49:21 no more.

49:25 M and so this stuff needs to be broken up.

49:27 Secret Service Secret Service used to be an elite

49:32 force when when they were Treasury agents, right?

49:38 And that's where they should go back to the the Coast

49:42 Guard doesn't belong in the Homeland Security Department.

49:45 It belongs in the Defense Department.

49:48 And the next person who's the defense secretary who calls himself the secretary

49:54 of war should trigger some type of provision that removes them from office.

50:02 And so on down the list it goes.

50:06 [clears throat] But there there has to be serious repercussions

50:10 and serious adjustments to law to to normalize what

50:17 was once taken for granted about people assuming great

50:22 responsibility and having the capacity to exhibit some restraint

50:26 which is [clears throat] obviously something that is

50:28 that is that is that is lost on this crowd.

50:32 Yeah.

50:32 Protect your borders.

50:33 Don't use a border protection agency to attack your citizens.

50:36 I mean, it's simple.

50:38 __] Every time I see a CBP vest

50:39 or an ice suit running into a house, it's disgusting.

50:42 And it leads us to our last story.

50:44 Uh, learned about her recently.

50:46 Msuna Khan.

50:47 Um, this is an incredible story.

50:50 This is a woman who was in the United States for 30 years since 1997.

50:56 Uh, dutifully showed up to every single immigration hearing she had.

51:01 And not only did she show up to these immigration hearings,

51:05 she also made sure that she was on side

51:10 with every piece of paperwork she brought out.

51:12 Um brought out every single piece of um documentation

51:16 that she needed to stay in the United States.

51:19 Shows up to her immigration hearing.

51:21 I believe this is back in December.

51:22 She was released in November.

51:25 So, this this woman from Bangladesh, as you pointed out,

51:28 she was here on a US visa from 1997.

51:30 She just gets picked up when she goes in to do

51:32 her duty as an immigrant to the United States of America,

51:35 law-abiding, taxpaying, observant US resident.

51:40 She then gets taken, shoved into Cal City,

51:44 which is the California City Detention Center, for 30 days.

51:50 And it's one of the most incredible stories I have ever heard.

51:54 And I've heard a lot of stories.

51:56 We've seen some deaths.

51:56 We've seen some sadness.

51:58 We've seen the Abbrego Garcia thing.

52:00 The the child that was taken from Minneapolis

52:02 and flown to a different country and then hurried back.

52:04 That was about 2 months ago.

52:06 But this story is incredible.

52:07 64 shackle the detained California City Ice Detention Center.

52:11 She's now released and you guys are friends here,

52:15 the beautiful people at the Save America movement sat

52:17 down with her and they asked her about her experience.

52:21 Asked her to share her experience.

52:22 I've got a clip.

52:23 I believe the the actual interview in itself in its entirety with her daughter

52:28 is going to be aired this weekend on the Save America movement.

52:31 I encourage everybody to hit the Chiron at the top here.

52:34 Follow the Save America movement,

52:35 subscribe to the Save America movement, follow them on YouTube.

52:38 I'm pretty sure it'll be on the warning with Steve Schmidt.

52:41 I'll carry it as well,

52:42 but originally it is going to be on the Save America movement Substack site,

52:46 which is really easy.

52:48 We're here now.

52:48 You can find us.

52:49 And you can also go to the savemovement.org

52:52 or to access this after this gets aired.

52:55 But I really want everybody to pay attention

52:57 to this clip because this is humanity in itself.

53:00 This is what Donald Trump and the regime have done to some lawabiding people.

53:03 Who runs this facility?

53:04 Who runs this facility?

53:06 Poor civic runs the facility.

53:07 So yeah, private prison company.

53:11 Yeah, private prison company.

53:12 Uh enriched by Donald Trump.

53:14 If you can, Mike, if we can play the clip.

53:16 I was totally nervous and panicking.

53:20 The first night they took me from here to California city was not nice.

53:28 [music] That transporter was moving.

53:31 I was moving all around the places because [music]

53:36 driving was so rough and I was feeling dizzy.

53:43 They put me in the cell.

53:45 [music] It was freezing temperature.

53:47 I asked for blanket when I said it's too cold and I [music] cannot take it.

53:54 Give me something.

53:56 She said cold kills virus.

53:58 [music] I was there for like all night the lights on.

54:04 We try to call there is a phone but the phone

54:07 is not [music] working and the TV is too loud.

54:14 24 hours running [music] 40 TVs.

54:17 It's like kind of emotional torture and mental torture.

54:24 I love [music] America.

54:26 This is my country now.

54:27 I'm staying here almost 30 years, like 29 years this year.

54:33 This [music] is my home now.

54:36 Uh we'll have that interview on the Save America Substack this weekend.

54:39 Save America movement.

54:40 Look for them on YouTube.

54:41 Follow them on Substack.

54:42 Subscribe to them.

54:43 today.

54:43 Steve, I want your thoughts.

54:44 But real quick, uh on Monday,

54:46 Operation Liberty with the Save America movement is

54:48 going to be back in California with no campa.

54:50 If we have the flyer, can we post the flyer?

54:52 Everybody can see this if you're in California City.

54:55 Uh the No Camps flyer if you can.

54:57 And this is going to be fascinating.

54:59 Would encourage everybody to go support Msuna, support the family,

55:03 and support every single person in a detention center across the United

55:07 States by showing up May the 4th uh in Van Ny, California.

55:10 There's the information.

55:11 can go to save America uh thesaveamemovement.org for more information and again

55:16 follow them here on Substack if you'd like to show up.

55:18 If you're in California, get out, make your voice heard.

55:21 Um because these massuna style stories,

55:23 they're not going away and they're increasing

55:25 in in in uh in volume, if you will, Steve.

55:29 your thoughts on on just that clip and and a tremendous job

55:33 obviously from the people at Save America getting to uh Miss Khan,

55:37 the the the stain, the stench of the dishonor

55:43 of the government sanctioned violence and cruelty will be longlasting.

55:53 And it's something that is going to have to be reckoned with.

55:58 And these camps, these private prisons are a moral abomination.

56:09 And I think that at some level you have to look at it.

56:13 I don't know if the right word is metaphysically,

56:17 but maybe it's not possible for there to be any institution

56:25 that is associated with profit that involves the incarceration of a human being.

56:34 no matter how necessitous that incarceration may be that does not

56:42 go off the edge that doesn't lose touch with the grass.

56:48 So in this case we have a private prison company with a board of directors where

56:55 the 64 year old woman is is being tortured and and that's the right word for it.

57:02 Mhm.

57:03 It can't be.

57:05 She's kept awake.

57:07 She can't uh sleep.

57:11 No necessities.

57:11 Yeah.

57:12 No necessities.

57:14 She's freezing.

57:16 Uh she's pre-diabetic.

57:18 They refused her medication, too, by the way.

57:20 Sadism of the guard, right?

57:24 So, so the question is putting putting aside all

57:27 of the policy debate about this which I which

57:33 I have strong strong feelings about is is is

57:38 in that story there's a there's a deep deep question.

57:44 Why not give her a blanket?

57:49 Why not give her medication?

57:51 Why not give her a pillow?

57:56 Why not give her healthy food?

58:02 And at a minimum, we should all agree with that.

58:10 And how do you serve on a board, Thood Marshall Jr.

58:15 looking at you where the rights of human

58:22 beings are abused as a matter of policy,

58:28 as a as a matter of frivolous policy, right?

58:38 Who who got the notion that you have license to be

58:45 abjectly cruel to a 64 year old woman who's freezing and done everything right

58:50 came from somewhere.

58:54 Yeah.

58:52 Right.

58:53 Came from the same[ __] place that explained Scott Jennings bullying behavior.

59:00 It's where it came from.

59:02 And that place is Donald Trump and MAGA.

59:05 And which is why when you look back I think at the totality

59:10 of everything that went down on the week

59:15 stemming from the White House correspondence dinner.

59:18 Spare me the crocodile tears and the phony outrage please.

59:26 Uh well said as always.

59:28 You know, the the through line here isn't just the collapse.

59:31 It's the lack of humanity behind the Trump regime.

59:34 And and you never never cease to disappoint talking about the moral failings,

59:39 the lack of character.

59:41 Yeah.

59:41 It's disgusting.

59:42 It's disease.

59:42 It's toxicity.

59:43 It's it's everything terrible that you can

59:46 imagine all wrapped up into one regime.

59:48 And the collapse is on.

59:49 Make no mistake about it.

59:51 because of people like Steve and people like

59:53 the good folks at the Save America Movement,

59:55 which is who brings you dead air every Monday.

1:00:00 Sorry.

1:00:00 Yeah.

1:00:00 Is it Monday?

1:00:01 No, we do Fridays.

1:00:02 We do Saturdays.

1:00:03 So, Saturdays and Mondays, that's what we do.

1:00:04 We recap the weekend on a Monday and then we get

1:00:06 out the rest of the week on a Saturday, which is today.

1:00:09 Um and and I need you and every single person

1:00:12 watching to know how much your support for this organization means.

1:00:15 This is a citizen-led organization.

1:00:17 It's right versus wrong.

1:00:18 It's humanity versus inhumity.

1:00:21 It's not about right versus left.

1:00:22 It's not about the ideology.

1:00:24 We are trying to fight this class war for the betterment of America,

1:00:28 for America's relationships and and better America.

1:00:31 And Steve along with Bishop uh William J.

1:00:34 Barber started the Save America movement with some really

1:00:37 really incredible people that have the ability to do

1:00:39 things like do the no camp and van

1:00:41 Knives to support people like this, the Liberty Vans, which will be there.

1:00:44 That'll happen on May the 4th.

1:00:46 If we could stick that uh that screen up there,

1:00:48 that flyer up there, the no camps flyer.

1:00:50 One more time, Mike.

1:00:50 I'd appreciate it.

1:00:51 I would encourage everybody to go because your voice is important.

1:00:53 So is your involvement in making sure that you stand with every single person.

1:00:58 It's not just about Miss Khan.

1:01:00 This is not just about a 64y old who did everything right for 30 years,

1:01:03 loves America, loves living here, brought up a family here.

1:01:05 This is about every single person

1:01:07 that has had their basic fundamental human rights

1:01:09 wiped out by the Trump regime who doesn't give a single[ __] about humanity,

1:01:14 does not care about the uh beautiful people in America.

1:01:17 Your freedom is second.

1:01:18 It's second to what they want for you

1:01:20 and their freedom is always going to be first.

1:01:22 So I would encourage everybody not

1:01:24 only to subscribe to the savemovement substack.

1:01:27 Please do that now.

1:01:28 Go to thesaveamemovement.org and check them out.

1:01:32 Please become a member.

1:01:33 Please donate if you can because that is how Liberty Vans show up and that is

1:01:36 why no camps day happened and that's why we have the ability to bring you

1:01:40 this information get underneath the news and information

1:01:42 you do not get from mainstream media which

1:01:45 is why we call this dead air this massuna story this con story by the way

1:01:49 it is 5 months old and it is now just becoming top of mind you

1:01:53 talk about dereliction of mainstream media duty

1:01:55 that is why we exist that's why we're

1:01:57 doing this I would encourage everybody again

1:02:00 make sure you become part of the fierce opposition to mega and Trump M all 50

1:02:03 states citizenled organizing in every village in town.

1:02:06 It is the Save America movement and one of the founders very

1:02:09 happy and and lucky to be able to do this with you.

1:02:12 Steve Schmidt, host of the warning, an indispensable Substack account.

1:02:17 I would encourage everybody to go and subscribe there.

1:02:19 You can hit that Chiron at the top Schmidt and The Warning.

1:02:22 And if you got a minute, please sub at deanblundell.substack.com.

1:02:26 Uh but we're here because we are you.

1:02:28 I say that all the time, Steve.

1:02:30 You know, it's funny.

1:02:30 we get a chance to kind of communicate and act as sherpas

1:02:33 uh and and and to encourage people to do the right thing,

1:02:36 but they only know how to do the right thing

1:02:38 if they can see that the wrong things being done.

1:02:40 And that's why the Save America movement exists.

1:02:41 It's why you and I are friends.

1:02:43 It's what we do together arm-in- arm with the Bishop Barbers of the world

1:02:46 and the Angie Rasmus of the world and everybody at the Save America movement,

1:02:50 Malcolm Nance, Ken Arbaugh.

1:02:52 Uh, and I couldn't be happier or prouder

1:02:54 to be standing alongside with you as your Canadian

1:02:56 cousin with this fight as we continue to move

1:02:58 towards bringing America back to what America was.

1:03:01 Good to be with you, Dean Blondelle.

1:03:03 Talk to you soon, pal.

1:03:11 Oh yeah, then of course [music] we need to leave

1:03:13 with this Donald Trump pretending to be the king of England.

1:03:17 Take it because [music] said in the famous Mr.

1:03:21 pit episode of Seinfeld to you either have grave

1:03:28 back in this wonderful building part of your democracy.