0:00

So I don't know if you guys watch The Bachelor,

0:03

but every season they say, oh, this

0:06

is the most dramatic season ever. I

0:08

feel like we often say that with elections,

0:11

this is the most important election ever.

0:14

But it is this November.

0:16

We have a choice to make about what kind of

0:18

country we want to be. Do

0:20

we want to be a free country like

0:22

our founding fathers envisioned, like the

0:24

Founding generation envisioned, or

0:27

do we want to be a tyranny where you have

0:29

a dictator like Joe Biden, who went

0:31

out and addressed the nation in a primetime

0:34

speech at Philadelphia's Independence

0:36

Hall, a place where both

0:38

the United States Declaration of Independence

0:41

in the United States Constitution were debated

0:43

and adopted by our founding fathers in the Founding

0:45

Generation, who went out there, looked

0:48

Americans in the eye, and a primetime address

0:51

in a slap to the face of that legacy,

0:54

making a mockery of the sacrifice

0:56

that those brave men charted.

0:59

They charted a different path for our nation, making

1:01

a mockery out of this constitutional republic,

1:03

making a mockery out of her freedoms, making

1:05

a mockery out of our country. And sitting there and

1:07

slandering seventy million

1:10

patriotic Americans, smearing them,

1:13

saying that they are the enemy. There are enemies of the

1:15

state. And you saw that that imagery

1:17

of Joe Biden sitting there with the blood

1:20

red stage, the Marines

1:22

and the backdrop looking like he's standing

1:24

in front of the gates of Hell as a dictator.

1:27

I mean he is. But that was intentional. I

1:29

mean, he wanted to stoke fear and

1:31

people. The message was clear, I'm in control.

1:34

Submit That's what he wanted. And what

1:36

he was doing was the mother ing of

1:38

seventy five million Americans, You and me, the

1:41

people listening to this podcast, many of them are or

1:43

maybe you didn't vote for Trump, that's fine too, but

1:45

it was the mothering of them. And

1:47

we've seen this in society's if you

1:49

go through it, I mean, this has happened before. I mean you

1:51

look at the most extreme example, the horrors

1:53

we witnessed in Europe and Germany. I

1:56

mean, that was a uniquely terrible time in

1:58

history. I pray to God we ver see that again. I

2:00

don't think we're heading down that path, but it's

2:02

always instructive to look at history, and you can look

2:05

at Holocaust survivors like Paul Herzegg

2:07

and he said that he remembers the precise moment

2:10

he was made to feel fundamentally

2:12

different in n after

2:15

the Nazis invaded his home country of Hungary,

2:17

and he said, it didn't take very long before

2:19

the edict came out every Jew must wear yellow

2:22

star. This is the first time I

2:24

realized that I'm different, even among my friends.

2:26

We've we've seen it all over the world, not just in what

2:28

we saw in Germany and Europe. We've seen are in

2:30

Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, We've

2:32

saw it in the Jim Crow South. I

2:34

mean, is that the kind of stuff we want to return

2:37

to? This other rang of people, but this

2:39

time based on political views

2:41

seventy million Americans, the

2:43

intentional dehumanization of this group,

2:46

which then sets up a path for potential discrimination

2:48

and persecution. They've called this fascist.

2:51

I mean, think about it. The guy the president in the United

2:53

States, the guy who is quite literally

2:55

at this time, trying to imprison his political opponent,

2:57

has thoughts on fascism, uh, you know,

2:59

and and less it's an instructional how too. He

3:01

doesn't really have a leg to stand on. But we've

3:03

seen this mothering happen in more

3:06

recent events, right, I mean remember COVID

3:09

and the forced vaccinations of Americans. I

3:11

mean Joe Biden knew that the COVID

3:13

shots would not stop the spread of COVID,

3:16

Yet he went out there and outsweeping mandates,

3:18

trying to force the vaccination on you

3:20

know, at least a hundred million Americans,

3:22

almost two thirds of all workers. In addition of purging

3:24

the military of people who didn't want to get

3:26

at healthcare workers as well. This is one

3:28

of the reasons I chose not to get vaccinated one.

3:30

I didn't need it too. I saw it as an affront

3:33

to me and my freedom. I saw it as tyranny. It

3:35

was my own fight against

3:37

tyranny to the degree I could. And if you saw

3:39

what he did, even ahead of Christmas, he

3:42

warned of this winner of severe illness and death

3:44

for the unvaccinated, for themselves, their families,

3:46

and the hospitals soon overwhelmed. And

3:48

he sent that message intentionally, and the message was

3:50

clear, your unvaccinated family members

3:53

and your unvaccinated friends are

3:55

a danger to society. They are a threat. It

3:57

was a stoke division. It was to other the unvaccednade

4:00

in the country. I felt it. I had friends and family

4:02

turned their backs to me. I'm sure many people listening

4:04

have experienced this, either during COVID or

4:06

just with stuff with Trump

4:08

stuff politics. We've seen the other ring

4:11

happen in places like Canada. You had

4:13

the Trudeau regime freeze bank

4:15

accounts belonging to the Freedom Convoy

4:17

protesters and their supporters, I mean authorities

4:20

in that country seized bank accounts

4:22

associated with protest organizers

4:24

and and businesses tied to the blockade. You

4:26

have the two main organizers are expected

4:29

to go on trial in September of two thousand

4:31

and twenty three. And in the IRN is that

4:33

Joe Biden says that this is because

4:35

Maga Conservatives are dangerous

4:38

because they questioned election.

4:41

But then he hires a spokesperson

4:43

who has a history of questioning elections.

4:46

Or you look at Nancy Pelosi tweeting, and

4:48

I think it was seen that election

4:52

was hijack so clearly they don't have a problem

4:54

with questioning elections. And then he cites

4:56

violence which we saw on January

4:59

six, but was silent.

5:02

Cities burned down, and his dozens of people

5:04

were murdered. He was silent

5:07

when there's an attempted assassination against

5:09

Supreme Court Justice Brett Cabina. I don't remember

5:11

strongly worded defenses of Brett

5:13

Kavanaugh. We saw some you know, mealy

5:16

mouse stuff, nothing strong. I don't

5:18

remember hearing from him in any strong

5:20

way or even at all during the assassination

5:23

attempt against congressional Republicans that left

5:26

the House Manority whip leader Steve Scalise,

5:28

who was shot critically injured during the attack,

5:31

had to have several surgeries to

5:33

save his life. Where was Joe Biden? Then?

5:36

You know? I don't remember hearing from him heading

5:38

into the twenty six election when

5:41

in San Jose protesters attacked

5:43

Trump supporters and are on video of

5:46

punching Trump supporters. I

5:48

don't remember hearing from him. On August nine,

5:51

two thousand and sixteen, when a sixty two year old

5:53

man wearing a Donald Trump shirt was viciously

5:55

attacked by a crowbar wielding man.

5:58

I don't remember hearing from him. In October or

6:00

of two thousands sixteen, when the

6:02

Republican headquarters in North Carolina was

6:04

firebombed. I don't remember hearing from

6:06

him in at the inauguration

6:08

when uh, they're setting the city on fire

6:11

and setting cars on fire, or in March when

6:13

a Tennessee mortarists and try to run Representative

6:17

David Kustof off the road. I mean,

6:19

the list goes on. There's so many examples. I just I don't

6:21

have time to give him, so I don't remember him

6:23

being there. Or when Maxine Waters was encouraging,

6:26

you know, protesters and rioters to get up in

6:29

the faces of people, or Kamala Harris told

6:31

Jacob Blake who showed up at a woman's

6:33

house to revictimize her and pulled

6:35

a knife on police officers. Kamala Harris, his

6:37

own vice president who he picked, said

6:39

she was proud of him. Where was he then? Or

6:41

when she was encouraging people to bail

6:44

out violent rioters? Where

6:46

was he then? Does he have a problem with that violence?

6:49

But we all know why he's dehumanizing

6:52

us, why he's demonizing us. One he wants

6:54

to use the power of government against us. We've

6:56

seen this happen with President Trump.

6:58

We've seen it happen with the Department

7:00

of Justice labeling parents

7:02

as terrorists, or what we're

7:04

going to see with the I R S soon with the beefed up

7:06

EIGHTI seven thousand agents, so

7:09

we've seen that. But also because he's a

7:11

failing regime. Nothing

7:13

in this country is going right. He's ruined everything,

7:15

inflation, the border, crime,

7:18

in the streets, nothing is going right. And everybody

7:20

knows that. The majority of the country thinks we're on the wrong

7:23

track. He's destroying the

7:25

country. So this is desperation.

7:28

It's a man clinging to power as

7:30

he feels power slipping through his hands like sand.

7:33

He's losing power. And this is what desperate

7:35

people do, desperate things. And it's

7:37

desperation to go on a primetime

7:39

speech and label seventy five million

7:42

Americans as enemies of the

7:44

state. And I think there's a real effort

7:46

to demoralize conservatives in

7:49

the turnout for the mid terms. Even

7:51

see a lot of these bogus registered voter

7:53

surveys which helped Democrats.

7:56

When you look at likely voter surveys, Republicans

7:59

are doing much better. Of the landscape looks much

8:01

more favorable two Republicans. I

8:03

mean, there was even a recent pull from the Trafalgar

8:05

Group showing the Republican in Washington

8:08

State who's running for Senate in

8:10

striking distance in Washington

8:12

State. That's insane. So

8:14

don't believe a lot of this garbage you're being

8:17

fed. Or you can look at the state of Florida. Republican

8:19

registered Republicans now outnumber

8:21

Democrats by over two hundred fifty

8:23

thousand people in

8:26

Florida, which used to be a purple state. You

8:28

look at New Jersey new registration

8:30

number. Since Democrats netted

8:33

seven thousand, six hundred eighty four new voters,

8:35

Republicans gained seventy nine

8:37

thousand, one hundred and eleven. So

8:41

don't let yourself get demoralized,

8:43

don't let yourself fiel down trodden. This is what they

8:45

want. We've got to turn out

8:47

in November. This is one of the most important

8:50

elections, if not the most important election of

8:52

our lifetime. And we've got a candidate who

8:54

is running for Senate in Missouri.

8:57

You know him as the Attorney General, Eric Schmidt.

8:59

He's awesome, right how he is because

9:01

of a lawsuit that he and the Attorney

9:03

General of Louisiana filed

9:05

has uncovered critical information about

9:07

collusion between our own government

9:09

and big tech and trying to silence and

9:11

censor Americans. So we're going to talk to him about

9:14

that he also fought on the vaccine

9:16

as well to try to protect Americans from

9:18

having to get it. This guy is a fighter

9:21

and he's running for Senate. So

9:23

we're going to talk to him about everything I just laid

9:26

out in my concerns and

9:28

hearing from him someone who is going

9:30

to go to the Senate and fight for us, going

9:33

to go to the Senate and fight this tyranny that we

9:35

are seeing and we are experiencing in

9:37

America. So with

9:39

that, the current Attorney General of Missouri,

9:42

or Schmidt, but soon to be Senator

9:44

enjoy

9:54

Attorney General Eric Schmidt, thanks so much

9:57

for joining the show. You're running for Senate, so you're

9:59

a busy I right now, so I really appreciate you

10:01

taking the time. It's great to be with

10:03

you. It really is. I mean, what a

10:05

time to be life. We watched

10:08

that speech from Joe Biden,

10:10

you know, taking the stage in a primetime

10:12

address to essentially say that seventy

10:14

five million Americans are enemies

10:17

of the state. I want to play a clip and then get

10:19

your reaction on the other side. What as

10:21

I stand here tonight, equality

10:24

and democracy are under assault.

10:28

We do ourselves no favor to pretend

10:30

otherwise, too much of

10:32

what's happening in our country today is

10:34

not normal. Donald

10:38

Trump and the Migor Republicans representing

10:41

extremism that threatens the

10:43

very foundations of our republic.

10:46

Why do you think he gave that speech?

10:48

What what's the intent behind it? I

10:51

think it's meant to distract from

10:54

his abysmal record as president.

10:56

I mean, you see, look, coming out of the

10:58

Trump presidency, we had, you

11:00

know, record job growth and wage

11:02

growth. You had a secure border, you had

11:04

energy dominance, and that has all gone

11:06

away, and you how have record inflation.

11:09

Um, you have a struggling economy. We

11:11

have a president that's going to Saudi

11:14

Arabia begging for oil and shipping

11:16

our strategic national patroleum to

11:18

China with gas prices that are sky

11:21

high. I mean, and and and and by the way,

11:23

a totally poorous order where you have sent and all

11:25

streaming across the border, killing people

11:27

in our community. So his record is terrible.

11:29

So all he has left is really

11:32

kind of an unprecedented assault by

11:35

an American president on half of the country.

11:38

I mean, that is essentially categorizing,

11:41

you know, seventy five million

11:44

people as the enemy. And

11:46

it's just it's a very desperate attempt,

11:48

and I think it came across as such, I hope

11:50

to most of the American people that, um,

11:53

you know, this is just this president is completely

11:55

lost his bearings. The left,

11:58

which controls the Democrat Party is hell

12:00

been on power and control. And I think they know reckoning

12:02

is coming Lisa in November, and this

12:04

is just their latest attempt to distract from that. Well,

12:07

and we've already seen them, you know, walk it back, clearly

12:10

realizing that having him in front

12:12

of this freery red backdrop, looking like

12:14

he's in front of the gates of Hell with his arms up

12:16

like a dictator, might not be the best imagery

12:19

heading into a deter images

12:22

matter, right, I mean Reagan of course, you

12:24

know, standing in front of the Brandenburg

12:26

Gate and saying Mr Gorba chop teared down this

12:28

wall. And then you you having a president

12:30

now that looks like it's out of a movie, like he's

12:33

like a sith lord, you know, standing

12:35

in front of these red gates demanding

12:38

you know some sort of struggle session

12:40

or some you know from half the

12:42

country. Is very bizarre. So whoever, and

12:44

then he had you know, the military behind them.

12:47

It was just all the optics were terrible

12:49

in the content of the speech, and you just you know, played

12:52

a precipit of that was just

12:54

so divisive. And this is a guy that supposedly

12:56

ran as the you know, the nice grandpa

12:59

that was gonna unite the country. I mean, far be it

13:01

from that. So well, I didn't want

13:03

to play too much of it because I didn't want to do that to

13:05

you or the audience again for

13:07

you know, and then for those of us who are forced

13:09

to watch it. Uh. I think what

13:11

concerns me is it really was this

13:14

other ring of seventy

13:16

five million people. And you can really go

13:18

throughout history and see what can

13:20

it leads to. Sometimes when you have this

13:23

other ring, We've seen it in Germany, we've seen it in Cambodia,

13:25

Rwanda, Turkety, this dehumanization

13:28

of a group of people. So I don't

13:30

think that should be taken lightly. Where

13:33

where does this go? Well, I think

13:35

it's important to put at least in a broader

13:38

context. So you're right, it's a very dangerous

13:40

ideology where you're dehumanizing,

13:43

you know, stello countrymen because

13:46

they have a different political belief than you. And

13:49

meanwhile, here's what else is happening.

13:52

You've got the FBI that's

13:54

been weaponized now by the Department of Justice,

13:56

which is after past political opponents,

13:59

likely future plitical opponent and former

14:01

president that just looks like it comes out

14:03

of a third world banana republic. You've

14:05

got the FBI weaponized against parents,

14:08

investigating parents under the Patriot

14:10

Act for showing up to school board meetings.

14:13

You have eighties seven thousand I R

14:15

S agents being fanned across the

14:17

country to go after taxpayers and

14:19

the middle class. Uh. And then you

14:21

know, uh, the FBI looking the other

14:23

way on like the Hunter Biden laptop story

14:25

and things like that. So you put all of that stuff

14:28

together in by the way, with our recent lawsuit

14:30

and some of the revelations that have come out this

14:32

week against the by administration Missouri

14:34

suit their coordination with big

14:36

tech. They are directing Facebook

14:40

and Twitter on content in d

14:42

platforming people for quote unquote

14:44

misinformation. The same administration that had

14:46

a Ministry of Truth, a Disinformation

14:49

Governance Board. I mean, talk about

14:51

not being normal. You know, we're not having

14:53

traditional political debates right now about tax

14:56

cuts and entitlement reform. The

14:58

Democrats literally are two votes

15:00

away in the United States Senate, from

15:02

adding states the Union and pack in the Supreme

15:04

Court and federalizing elections, granting

15:07

amnesty, trying to fundamentally change this country

15:09

forever. That's what's at

15:11

stake in this election. And so I think as

15:13

conservatives, as Republicans, our

15:15

role here is to save the country

15:18

and to get it back, not so that Washington

15:20

can aggregate more power and reward and

15:22

punish, but to give that power back to people,

15:25

whether it's deregulation or tax cuts,

15:27

and get back to a place where people find meaning

15:30

in their communities and at church,

15:32

in other organizations, as opposed

15:35

to consolidating all of

15:37

that, you know, everything you want in life

15:39

with one person in Washington. It doesn't work

15:41

that way, and it's dangerous. It

15:43

is dangerous. I mean, fortunately, we still have the

15:45

bare bones of what are founding

15:48

fathers built as a country. You know, checks

15:50

and balances in the first and second moment, which

15:52

are critical for free societies and which are

15:54

both under attack. You know, talk a

15:56

little bit more about that lawsuit

15:59

that you file, the law with the Attorney

16:01

General of Louisiana and the information

16:03

that you uncovered with it, which is crucial

16:06

with about the First Amendment, so, so talk a little

16:08

bit about the lawsuit and what you found. Yeah,

16:10

and and to such on a broader point that you mentioned

16:13

is thankfully our founders recognize

16:15

there are great students of history and

16:17

these tyrannical regimes that had you know, existed

16:20

at the time they knew human

16:22

nature, right, and people try to aggregate power.

16:25

That's what every tyrant and dictator does, so they meant to

16:27

spread it out right, checks and balances,

16:29

separation of powers, federalism

16:32

where states created the federal

16:34

government to be a government of limited powers, and when

16:36

they get out of that lane, the states can sue to

16:39

check that. And it's all meant to protect individual

16:41

liberty. And so a lot of the lawsuits that we filed

16:43

these have been based on this right that an agency

16:46

like OSHA, which was

16:48

created to make sure forklips deep when they back up,

16:51

isn't supposed to be forcing a medical

16:53

procedure on eighty million Americans,

16:55

right. So we filed that lawsuit Missouri was the first of files

16:57

in the Supreme Court, and one but we filed earlier

17:00

this year, a landmark lawsuit um

17:03

against the Biden administration for

17:05

their direct coordination, collusion,

17:08

and direction of this you

17:10

know, vast censorship enterprise

17:12

they have with big tech. Big tech is

17:15

so we filed that lawsuit a judge order recovery.

17:18

So we're getting documents now, and what we've found

17:20

is senior Facebook

17:22

officials direct you know, communicating directly

17:25

with the surgeon. Here's some more we

17:27

call a censorship roundtable essentially

17:30

right to figure out what else they can be doing. Two

17:32

D platform people who dared to question

17:34

you know, the regime's uh, you

17:36

know, stated position on things. And

17:39

then they had like these special ways that they

17:41

could government officials could go and essentially

17:43

takedown content themselves as

17:47

for I think they're called preferred um

17:49

flagging status or something like that. So

17:52

this was pretty extensive. And

17:55

in addition to that, those are

17:57

the things that we currently know. What we don't

17:59

know now is what the Department of Justice is trying

18:01

to block, which are communications with White

18:04

House officials, you know, in

18:06

the White House with Facebook. And that's the next

18:08

phase of the lawsuit is we're gonna get at

18:10

that stuff too, because we want to know how high

18:12

this go, how high it goes, and how

18:14

wide it goes, because I think it's important to making

18:16

sure this stuff stops and it doesn't happen again.

18:19

And what kind of information were they

18:21

try were they trying to suppress in center

18:24

specifically? Do we know? So

18:26

a lot of this had a lot of this had to do with COVID.

18:29

So essentially the lawsuits based on a

18:31

few things, right, you know, election issues,

18:34

um Hunter, Biden, laptop

18:36

issues, and COVID related

18:38

stuff. And the vast majority

18:40

of the stuff that we were able to encode cover so far

18:43

having to do with COVID, right, them trying

18:45

to you know, snuff out misinformation

18:48

or disinformation and the government's

18:50

direct role in doing that. And

18:52

and they were, you know, sort of unapologetic

18:55

about this, you know they and you had

18:58

Jen Psaki standing there's saying we're working

19:00

with our Facebook partners, are you

19:02

know, our social media partners in trying

19:05

to take this stuff down? I mean, they were admitting it. And

19:07

so this is the first time in this lawsuit now

19:10

where we've got to you know, look under the hood

19:12

where we actually get documents, because a lot of

19:14

times what happens, Lisa is people file these

19:17

lawsuits against Facebook or something and ends

19:19

up in the Northern District of California and

19:21

never sees the light of day. So this

19:23

is the first lawsuit, you know, we filed against

19:26

the government of the United States, Joe Biden

19:28

and his administration, and we're getting,

19:30

um, some documents. There's a lot more to uncover

19:33

here, but this is more than anybody's seen

19:35

before. But again, these are we've got,

19:37

you know, example after example in

19:39

our motion to get more information some of the stuff

19:41

we've gotten, and it's these are text messages

19:44

again directly to the Surgeon General.

19:46

These are uh, you know,

19:49

emails saying can

19:51

you take this down? You know, and then somebody

19:53

from Instagram saying on it and it's taken

19:55

down. I mean, that's not what's supposed

19:58

to happen. Like, the government doesn't get

20:00

to say what you get to say.

20:02

They don't get to tell you what content

20:05

is appropriate. And then you heard the um,

20:07

you know, the Press Secretary this week say,

20:10

well, what do you consider extremism

20:12

something that's outside the mainstream? Well, what does

20:14

that mean? You know, the government again

20:16

in the United States doesn't get to decide

20:18

that right descent is important. Um,

20:21

you know, having people having unpopular

20:24

opinions at the time. By the way, most of

20:26

those have been proven to be true, you know, especially

20:28

as it relates to COVID when we were told you know,

20:31

masking, you know these cloth masks work, Well

20:33

that was bogus. But people were

20:35

being you know, the platforms and reputations ruined

20:37

because they dare to question the regime. And that's

20:40

something that should be very scary to people

20:42

in this country. And why this lawsuits is so important,

20:44

Well, I feel that because I tend

20:46

to very often have unpopulargeole.

20:53

Well I'm by nature, I mean, I'm kind of like, I'm

20:55

kind of a contrarian to uh maybe

20:57

that's how I ended up doing what I do now.

20:59

But it's it's an important case because,

21:02

I mean, the First Amendment is the beating

21:04

heart of our constitution. You know, it is

21:06

the ultimate pressure release foul because most

21:08

places in the world they resolve these

21:11

disputes through violence,

21:13

and in this country, we decided, hey, we're

21:15

going to settle these issues on the town square

21:18

and people get to say things that are unpopular.

21:21

It might actually make you angry, but

21:23

they get to say them. So when the government

21:25

is basically coming in and

21:27

cracking down on the speech and saying you don't get

21:30

to do that, that's a problem. And again

21:32

that's at the heart of this lawsuit. What's also to

21:34

your point, it's you know, the heartbeat of freedom

21:36

in a country. I mean, there's a reason why you can go

21:38

through and look at communist regimes, whether it was

21:41

Ford or Castro, when you took over the

21:43

you know, Communist Party of China,

21:45

Nazi Germany. What they do is they go in

21:47

and they control the flow of information. Because

21:49

if you control the flow of information,

21:51

if you control what people read, see and here, then

21:53

you control society. So you

21:55

know that freedom of speech is paramount

21:58

to living in a free country. Yeah, that's

22:00

that's the first Amendment. And then what else do they do what's

22:02

in the second Amendment? Right, they take the guns

22:05

away. Uh, and they you know,

22:07

make sure that you know, no one can ever resist tyranny.

22:10

Um and so again, and

22:12

you see what's happening with this administration. You

22:14

had the FBI coming in Missouri try

22:16

and to uh, you know, doing

22:18

quote unquote audit of concealed carry permits

22:21

in Missouri, which they're not allowed to do. And we push

22:23

back and said, you're not going to do that in Missouri. So just

22:25

a lot of this stuff that's happening right now. I'm

22:28

not sure we've ever really seen,

22:30

but these are important questions that we're gonna have to

22:32

answer in this election cycle about you know, what kind

22:34

of country we're gonna be. Are we going to remain the freest

22:36

country in the istory of the world, or are we're going to kind

22:38

of sink to the level of a lot of places around

22:40

the world now and in history. And

22:42

that's I think that's a fight we're fighting, which is

22:45

why you know I'm running for the United States Senate because I've

22:47

I've taken on those tough fights as

22:49

Attorney General. Want to do it in the Senate as well. Quick

22:51

commercial breakback with the Attorney General on the

22:53

other side. I

22:57

hope people are waking up. I mean I really during

22:59

COVID, I felt like, uh, what

23:01

is that quote where you know everyone's running

23:03

towards the cliff. It's the person going to the opposite

23:06

direction that looks like the crazy brain. Know, Like,

23:08

I was like, what is going on? And

23:10

this is insanity? And then even with the vaccine

23:13

and I was just like pulling my hair out trying to get people

23:15

to see the light. And so I just I I

23:17

hope people have seen it. I hope

23:20

people watch that speech with Joe

23:22

Biden. You know, looking like a dictator.

23:24

Uh. And I hope their eyes are

23:26

open. I mean, do you do you think their eyes are open? I

23:29

think so. I mean you can feel it on the ground.

23:32

And uh, I shared that belief with you. I

23:34

mean in Missouri we took on I mean, we

23:37

sued forty seven school districts

23:39

in Missouri for forcing the masking of kids.

23:41

I just felt like it was it was wrong. And that

23:43

was by the way, when you know the case

23:45

numbers, which was everyone's measure at the time, right

23:48

like on some of those peak days. But if you're

23:50

doing what's right, um, I think you get vindicated

23:52

over time. And that's exactly what's happened now

23:55

with these ridiculous COVID tyrant

23:57

edicts that were coming down that made no sense. You

24:00

could you know, you had to have your mask and when you

24:02

walked into the restaurant, but when you're eating your food

24:04

somehow, you know, no one cared

24:06

about it. It was just all nonsense. But

24:09

but yeah, I think people are waking up. I think

24:11

people understand what's at stake and why.

24:13

I think you know, you hear it a lot. This is the

24:15

most consequential election in our lifetime.

24:17

But I really believe that, and I also

24:19

believe in the broader context, as

24:21

I said, these issues that we're dealing with are

24:24

not typical political

24:26

issues. They're not the issues that like Ronald Reagan

24:28

was wrangling with Tip O'Neil about. I

24:31

mean, we're asking and going to have

24:33

to answer some fundamental

24:35

questions about who we are as a country and whether

24:37

we will remain that place or not. And

24:39

so you've got to get the right people there too

24:42

understand what's at stake well.

24:44

And you know, I mean Joe Biden had it right

24:46

when he said, you know, this is a battle for the

24:48

soul of the nation. It's just the soul of the nation

24:51

is not you know, a dictator standing at a podium

24:53

and with the military behind him, you know, calling

24:55

seventy five billion people like the enemies

24:58

of the state, Like, that's not that should not be

25:00

the soul of this country that we

25:02

love. And you know, smearing people,

25:05

you know, veterans, people who love this country,

25:07

who just want to live, we just want to be able

25:09

to provide a good life for their family, you know, and be

25:12

left alone by the government. Uh,

25:14

you know that that's not that's not the soul of

25:16

of America. It's not the way it's supposed to be. Yeah,

25:19

the only and the only time his polling numbers,

25:21

you know, they're terrible, historically low, but when

25:23

they go up a point or two, it's usually

25:25

when he's not around, you know, when he's like hiding

25:28

um. But when you you know, when you kind of reveal,

25:31

he reveals who he is and what the

25:33

modern Democrat Party is all about.

25:35

I think most Americans look at that that say,

25:37

we don't have anything to do with that, and uh,

25:40

you know, we believe in freedom, we believe in opportunity.

25:43

We believe that, you know, people

25:45

should be able to pursue their dreams and government

25:47

should have as little role to people's lives

25:49

as possible. That's not the vision of

25:51

Joe Biden in this administration. And

25:54

so we're going to figure out, you know, where the American people

25:56

stand in November, and I'm optimistic, you

25:58

know, we really need to get back to that or digital vision

26:00

of decentralization and put the power

26:02

into the states and you know, kind of just

26:05

lead people alone to the larger

26:07

part um, you know, and

26:10

absent from his speech, you know, there was no talk

26:12

about crime inflation. The board

26:14

like any of these real issues that

26:16

I mean that people are are facing

26:19

that you know, there a lot of people are suffering right

26:21

now economically. You know they're they're

26:23

trying to figure out how they're going to provide for their families

26:25

right now. And it just seems like this the

26:27

Biden regime couldn't care less now.

26:31

And as you get around when you're running, you

26:33

know statewide in the state like Missouri, which has

26:36

a bunch of different cultural influences as the

26:38

diverse state, the Bootheel, you know, which

26:40

is in the southeast Missouri, it's different

26:42

than northwest Missouri. And Saint Wister in Kansas

26:44

City have their differences in nuances. You

26:46

get a sense of where people are at, and you

26:48

have to meet voters where they're at, and you

26:50

know they're not talking about a lot of these ridiculous

26:53

policies that that Joe Biden, um,

26:55

you know what they care about those kitchen

26:57

table issues, right, the price of gas, the cast

27:00

of milk, the cost of groceries.

27:02

And why is that, Well, we have a supply problem, right,

27:04

we have some energy for no good reason.

27:07

We have all the energy they will ever need in this country

27:09

for generations and generations, and we ought

27:11

to be all the above on that, and we ought to be exporting

27:14

that liquefied natural gas to Europe

27:16

because Germany, by the way, has been relying

27:18

on other sources. And you know,

27:20

for whatever reason, with this climate alarmism,

27:23

Um, people are making terrible

27:25

decisions. Um, people are

27:27

making terrible decisions, and now they're having rolling blackhouts.

27:30

So we don't want to see that in this country. We

27:32

want to, you know, be energy dominant, and

27:34

that's what people care about. They care about inflation.

27:36

They think this student loan debt

27:38

forgiveness stuff, which you know, robs

27:41

the truck driver to pay for the Harvard

27:44

grad you know, who's got a bunch of student loan

27:46

that they think it's crazy. They look around and they see

27:48

this and they can't believe this is happening in their

27:50

country. They can't believe that there's eighty

27:52

seven thousand I R. S agents now fading across

27:54

They can't believe that the FBI is being

27:57

used this way by top leadership. And so I

27:59

think people want like a sense of normal, They

28:01

want some sandy. They can't believe the spending that's

28:03

happening in Washington right now. They're completely

28:05

out of touch this quote unquote

28:08

inflation reduction bill does just the opposite.

28:10

But they stand there at the podium and act like

28:12

it's going to reduce inflation when nobody believes

28:14

that. It's Orwellian in that

28:16

way. It's like this new speak, so um

28:19

again. I think there's a lot of great

28:21

common sense folks out there that see what's happening.

28:24

They're tired of it, and they went their country back well

28:26

and like that of it makes sense, like you know, California

28:29

banning the sale of new gas powered

28:31

cars by five and then they're

28:33

like, oh, by the way, like you can't charge your

28:35

electric vehicle right now. It's like,

28:38

how does how does this work out there

28:40

in practice? Right? This doesn't This doesn't

28:42

really make sense. No, it doesn't.

28:45

And that's that's the fallacy and

28:47

all of this stuff. Right, because you've got a guy like John Kerry

28:50

flying around the world in a private jet talking

28:53

about, you know, rising sea

28:55

levels because of CEO two output, and

28:57

then Barack Obama bought a house on the coast

28:59

of Martha's Vy near right. The elites

29:01

are like, they're just it's a scam.

29:04

This whole thing is like a pyramid scheme, and

29:06

uh, and look, people

29:09

they see it. They now, there are some true

29:11

believers. It's become sort of like a religion for

29:13

some for some people, but most

29:15

people see it and they say, look, you know, I

29:18

want my to be able to make these decisions

29:20

myself. I don't want the government to be dictating

29:22

all of this stuff to me all the time. Quick

29:24

break back with Attorney General Eric

29:26

Spitt. It's

29:30

all of these policies are geared towards,

29:32

you know, their elitist coastal base

29:35

while sticking it to you know, hard

29:37

working Americans and the rest

29:39

of the country. I do think the student loan,

29:42

you know, robbing hard working Americans

29:44

to pay for some liberals gender

29:47

studies degree, I think is

29:49

going to hit a nerve heading into

29:51

the mid terms because it's just such fundamental

29:54

unfairness. That's exactly what. That's

29:56

the right word. It's just fundamentally unfairly

29:58

said. It's people you

30:00

know who worked and saved

30:03

you know, and maybe they even you know, forwent

30:05

college for a while to to make sure

30:07

they didn't go into debt, or they made a decision about,

30:10

you know, what school to go to. I mean, I went to Truman

30:12

State University, which one of the reasons I went

30:14

there in Northeast Missouri was I got

30:16

you know, I got a chance to play sports, which was great, but

30:18

also it is affordable. It was a great education.

30:21

And so people are making these decisions and

30:23

they don't take on certain debt, right because they don't want

30:25

be saddled with that. But then when somebody who, like you

30:27

said, has that kind of degree, um,

30:30

you know, in in the in the coal miner

30:32

or the truck driver, of the waitresses having to pay

30:34

their way when they had to pay everything off or

30:36

what, it just strikes people as totally

30:39

unfair. And I think the Democrats now have become

30:41

the party of by and for

30:43

the elites, and um,

30:46

they're not the party of working people. I think President

30:48

Trump. One of the great legacies of President

30:50

Trump, you know, I think with the Republican Party

30:53

is it is the party for working people, who

30:56

the forgotten men and women this country to build

30:58

things, who take care of their families

31:01

and want to do the right thing, and they constantly

31:03

get vilified by politicians like Joe

31:05

Biden and that speech last night, And like I

31:07

said, I think people are tired of it. Well, I mean

31:09

that's the thing, Like there's seventy five million people

31:12

that he is uh smearing

31:14

or are some of the best of America?

31:16

You know they're there are people that are just hard working,

31:18

they love their neighbors, They're good people, they want to

31:20

pay their taxes, they want to do right in

31:23

society, and you know they're being unjustly

31:26

uh smeared. And I want to ask you, so,

31:28

what should people know about You've got a Senate race,

31:30

you're running for Senate. What should people know about your race?

31:33

Look, this is uh you

31:35

know, it's a fifty fifty centate Lisa, and

31:39

this Missouri. There's no path to the

31:41

majority if we don't hold Missouri. Right the show

31:43

me state. We got to win Missouri. We're gonna get one.

31:46

And it's you know when you look at the map and

31:48

there's you know, there's a there's other states. There's Pennsylvania,

31:50

and there's Arizona and Georgia. Are these important

31:52

states. We've got to hold Missouri. Uh.

31:54

You know, we came out of primary really strong, with

31:57

a with a really big win. We've got a lot

31:59

of momentum and I think people people have seen my

32:01

record as a training journal taking on these tough fights,

32:04

and I want to take these same fights, that same fighting

32:06

spirit to Washington. We need proven conservative

32:08

fighters right now, and that's what I'm gonna do. And

32:11

I'm running against somebody who's completely out

32:13

of touch. She's an heiress who got into

32:15

this race and the you know things, she can buy this sentence

32:17

seat. And the bad news for her

32:19

is the seat belongs to the people, and I'm going to

32:21

be their voice. And so we're in a good position.

32:23

There's some pulling that has us up, uh,

32:26

you know, coming out of primary

32:28

season. But you know, these races really start

32:30

to heat up after Labor Day and and

32:32

uh, but nobody's gonna outwork me. And

32:34

I think it's just critical. It's just such an

32:36

important seat to get, not just the majority, but

32:39

the right people there who are going to shake things

32:41

up. I'm not interested in being, you know, the most

32:43

popular person in Washington. I'm not interested in

32:45

being invited all the cocktail parties. I want

32:47

to go there and represent Missouri values,

32:49

fight back against the socialism we see. And so

32:52

we've got a lot of support. If you know, people, people

32:54

want to be supportive, they can text Schmidt. You

32:57

know, we've got a three zero four zero

32:59

nine. They can text get involved in our campaign, but

33:01

it's a big one. It's one of these races that's going to get a lot

33:03

of national attention. No, and people

33:05

should definitely. I mean, this is a critical

33:08

election and we need to send people like

33:10

you to the Senate who are are going to fight for us

33:12

and and stand up against a lot of the threats

33:14

we're facing. What else do you you

33:16

want to leave us with before we go? I know you're you're

33:18

a busy guy running for Senate here. I

33:21

think that as we talked about, this

33:23

is a not only important election, but

33:25

he put it in a broader context. I think this we're

33:27

entering the most consequential decade

33:30

in our republic since the Civil War, because

33:33

there's a lot of for grabs. You know, we mentioned

33:35

the things that the Democrats are just two votes away from

33:37

doing. I mean, Joe Manchet and Christian Cinema are not

33:40

like rock slid on any of the stuff. Anyway, we

33:42

found that with the reckless spending bills that go through

33:44

like there there's a way for them to come

33:46

around. And so when you're talking the Democrats

33:49

are obsessed in power and control added

33:51

states of the Union and packing the Supreme Court

33:53

of the United States because they don't like certain decisions. Um,

33:56

we need to win and we need to hold these people accountable.

33:58

I think one of the things I want people to know abou me is when

34:00

I get up there, I mean, we ought to have hearings

34:03

round the cloth, bring Fauci and for Iran

34:05

Contra like hearings, you know, prime

34:07

time hearings on what did you know about the origins

34:10

of COVID? What did you know about being a functional research where

34:12

we funding it? Did you work with the World Health Organization

34:14

to suppress that information? You know while it spread?

34:17

Did you know that China was restricting flights you

34:19

know internally but not internationally.

34:22

Did you know they were hoarding P P P you

34:24

know, um ppe uh

34:27

and then uh, you know going from a net export import

34:29

all these important questions that have not been answered.

34:31

And that's just one thing. Bringing senior FBI,

34:34

you know, d o J officials. We got to start

34:36

holding these people accountable. And Lisa,

34:38

I think one of the things that's most important to me is

34:41

we have to take on the administrative state

34:43

and we have to take a wrecking ball to these

34:46

bureaucrats that are accountable to

34:48

no one. It is not what the founders intended.

34:50

They thought in our system of self government,

34:52

you could send people there and send them back. That was

34:54

the ultimate check. But right now, you

34:56

know, the Deputy under Secretary of the e p

34:59

A, whoever that is, can change

35:01

and affect someone's life with a guidance letter.

35:04

And so we gotta put that genie back

35:06

in the bottle. You know, Trump had a two for one

35:08

rule where you can pull back if you're proposing

35:10

a new rule, pull back to Biden just got

35:12

rid of it. We ought to put that stuff in statute and

35:14

do a lot more so we get back to a

35:16

place where you know, the article one branch Congress

35:19

is responsive to the people in These bureaucrats

35:21

don't run wild. So there's a lot of work to do. You've

35:23

got to get the right people there and people who are unafraid

35:26

of the fight. And that's you know, that's been my record.

35:29

Eric Schmidt, Attorney General Missouri

35:31

running for Senate. Everyone go out and support

35:33

him, sir, thank you so much for your time. I really

35:35

appreciate it. Great to be with you. So

35:43

that was the Attorney General of Missouri.

35:45

He is running for Senate. He's

35:48

awesome. We got to support him, Eric

35:50

Schmidt. I mean, look, he's not lying

35:52

when he says that this is one of the most consequential

35:55

elections that we've faced in our lifetime.

35:58

I mean, what kind of country or we're gonna

36:00

be that's on the ballot this November. Where

36:02

everyone's got to get out, get excited, turn

36:05

out, get your friends, your family, go work on campaigns,

36:07

do whatever you can to try to turn

36:10

this country around and support candidates

36:12

like him. I want to thank you for listening

36:15

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