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Senator Eric Schmitt - November 7th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, uh, as I feel like I should be giving out a countdown or an admonition.
Please vote as if the future the country's future depends on it, because that's what I've been saying every day.
And again, my heart is filled with gratitude and appreciation.
Thanks.
I know the people in this audience went out in massive numbers and voted.
Many of you did something you didn't want to do or like to do, but I'm hopeful that we can change the way voting goes on in this country.
There are other countries that you know went to more sophisticated systems of voting only to go back to paper ballots.
Um and by the way, paper balloting is way more sophisticated than you think.
I mean, literally, to make sure that it is a legitimate ballot.
They have you you put it under like a purple light or whatever they call that thing, and and you blue light, and you could just tell whether or not it's real or not.
There's there are checks and balances that you probably wouldn't think of.
You think you're just writing a name down on a piece of paper.
It's not like that.
Uh, but anyway, there's there's so much to get to.
What is what is interesting now is we have a very short window of time in which a lot of decisions have to be made, and a lot of people are gonna have to be hired.
Um there's gonna be a uh a lot of talk.
Um I've listened to some people I I see on social media, etc., you know, people just just salivating at the thought of you know, retribution.
Uh and and yeah, we're gonna get to the bottom of Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney's the least important person in my life right now, and she is absolutely irrelevant.
Now, do I think we should find out what happened to the files for January 6th and things like that?
And do I think we need to look at how the Department of Justice was weaponized?
I do.
Uh do I want the do I want this new Trump administration to ever do to any any Democrat what was done to them?
Never.
But this has to stop.
It's not good for the country.
You don't weaponize the justice system to go after political opponents.
That would be an abuse of power.
And I believe that occurred, and we need to get to the bottom of it and put in place you know, a structure and a system to ensure that that sort of thing never happens again.
Uh anyway, uh here to uh be with us, Senator Eric Schmidt of uh Missouri is with us.
He himself, a former attorney general.
Uh Eric, you was out on the campaign trail in the final days with with President Trump.
Well, first of all, what was that like for you?
Oh, it was great.
I mean, he is uh, as you know, Sean, he is tireless.
And so uh we were doing, you know, three, four rallies a day, uh, traveling from state to state.
And uh, you know, it was an honor to be with him and JD Vance traveling with JD as well.
I mean, they were working really hard in delivering the right message, right?
Which was she broke it, we'll fix it.
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
And I think that resonated.
And I think honestly, as people are reflecting back on this thing now, they were pitch perfect On that message the whole time.
It was the economy.
It was the border.
It was we're not respected around the world.
We were energy dominant under President Trump.
None of those things are true now, or that you know, currently.
But uh the policies are what made President Trump so popular, despite the Democrats' efforts over the last four and eight years to demonize him and marginalize the supporters, the people spoke, right?
Our republic uh will be revived because the people have been empowered, they showed up, they voted, and proved that uh you know this vast censorship enterprise that Democrats put in place, fifteen million people here illegally, the American people don't want that.
They rejected it, and uh it's a it's a bright day in America, there's no doubt about that.
It really is.
Let's talk about now we have a very short time to build a government out, and I had read a reports, for example, that the Biden administration anticipating the possibility that Donald Trump can win again, have been appointing people inside of important agencies like the DOJ um just to have uh sort of like a check on Donald Trump and his administration, which I would find totally completely unacceptable.
Uh is that true?
Have you read the same thing?
Have you heard the same thing?
Yeah, I think there you know, and we're gonna go back next week in the Senate and in the House for this, whatever this lane duck session looks like.
And my guess is Chuck Schumer's gonna try to continue to move um uh activist judges um across the finish line before January.
I would be surprised if he didn't try to do that.
I wouldn't be surprised if they try to uh unleash some of these um, you know, agency rules or or guidance letters.
The good news is that we can come back with the Republican House, Republican Senate, and President Trump, and you can uh through the Congressional Review Act get rid of many of those things.
That's why the sweep, although it's not finalized in the House, is so important.
It's important as we deal with this tax legislation next year to make sure people middle class families get the tax relief they deserve.
There are so many things on the line.
But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to place people in there.
I think no matter what agency that is, job number one for the new head is to make sure those people are gone.
Uh I think there's gonna have to be a real um a house cleaning of some of these individuals that are that are embedded in these agencies that were engaged in this weaponization of government.
It's unprecedented.
You know, w I was on your show before Mar or uh um uh talking about uh Sean, the uh um the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit where the censorship enterprise was exposed before Elon Musk bought Twitter.
It was further amplified with the Twitter files, but that's the kind of thing we cannot have that in this country.
The good news is the American people rejected it, but I do think there needs to be real reform and personnel changes in all of these agencies.
Okay, I agree wholeheartedly with that, but what do you do about people with permanent appointments that may have uh uh biased against Donald Trump?
I mean, we saw what happened the first time, and uh that's a little scary to me when you have people within your own governments kind of sabotaging an administration that has been dutifully elected by the by the American people.
Yeah, and well, I think there's a lesson learned, right?
I think when President Trump was in office the first time, he was brand new to Washington.
Uh you saw that kind of what do you want to call it the administrative state of the deep state ri really resisted a lot of the things that he wanted to do.
He has a clear mandate, and I think it's incumbent upon whoever is in these top jobs to empower people to make sure that uh for the folks that are brought on board that they're on board with you know with the vision here, and that's gonna come down to leadership.
I think President Trump is in a much better position than he was the first time, uh, because you know, there's just there's a little bit more lead time.
I think for him, he's much more familiar with the position of people around him, understand what the stakes are.
He's got four years, Sean.
He's got four years uh to make good on these promises, which are t it's t it's entirely possible to do.
And I think the American people gave him that mandate.
I mean, I don't know about you, but like, you know, the numbers we're gonna have in the Senate, the you know, him sweeping the battleground states, all the Senate candidates essentially wrote many of them great candidates, but wrote the coattails of President Trump, same in the House.
Uh, and then to win the popular vote.
I mean, it's just remarkable.
I think it's the first time in in several decades that Republicans gotten above fifty one percent.
You know, I mean this is Yeah, I think it was two thousand and four was the last time.
Yeah, well, it's certainly winning the popular vote, but I think getting above a certain number the President Trump hit it maybe before that.
So either I thought I it was before that.
You're absolutely right.
Um let's talk about all the different issues that he's been dealing with, and every lawyer that I have been talking to it says that you know, we're soon gonna find out whether or not they'd want to take this this issue of lawfare or weaponization even further.
Uh we're gonna find out soon.
Um you have this Judge Morchon who ruled against Trump.
Uh and, you know, I'm not sure what we're going to see come out of him.
Nothing would surprise me.
Then you have the other case you probably heard from the New York Attorney General with Letitia James.
I interpreted that by the way as as a political move more than anything else that she's prepared to respond to the results.
This was an unprecedented fine against Donald Trump in that case evaluation of Marilago by the judge in the case of $18 million when it's over a billion dollars.
It was insane and they stuck to that the whole time.
Even former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in President elect Trump's first administration is calling on all these prosecutors at the state and federal level to dismiss these pending legal cases against Trump before he takes office and what he said is do the right thing and dismiss the cases and respect the people's decision.
The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump and decisively have chosen him to lead this country for the next four years.
You you cannot indict you cannot or you know imprison as a matter of practice and law an American president.
It doesn't happen.
It's never happened.
It won't happen.
But you know there's such hatred toward him I'm not sure if I've I'm not sure how any of these people are going to act.
Well I think that the there's been a rebuke against that kind of law fair as you mentioned.
I mean the election was decisive.
And um I think it's important that you know the story here is Joe Biden gave a speech after the November midterms in 2022 where he said I'm going to do everything I can constitution that makes sure President Trump never gets in office.
What did you see after that?
You saw these zombie cases resurrected one by one Jack Smith's case, Fonnie Willis case, Alvin Bragg's case, Letitia James, they got the call and by the way there's evidence now that there were lawyers in the White House talking to them.
The number three person at DOJ went to New York to get in that prosecution is all very coordinated.
And so the good news is you were talking about people were talking about they saw it.
They viewed this not just as President Trump versus Kamala Harris, but I think as a cause is is this the direction we want our country to go in, right?
Do we want to become some third world banana republic?
And the American people said no, we don't want to do it.
So all these cases now have been falling apart one by one.
The documents case that was dismissed.
In fact the judge ruled that Jack Smith was improperly appointed in the first place.
Those cases are going to go away Jack Smith has indicated as much the um Judge Marchon like he there's just no way he's going to sentence him by the way that case is already on appeal Sean and the reason why it's on appeal is that immunity case that the Supreme Court decided that said look you can't be criminally prosecuted for official acts as president and they use those communications they used evidence that now would be thrown out as the groundwork for some of those charges in New York and by the way in Atlanta as well.
So each one of these cases now from the political verdict that was rendered in the Supreme Court decision about what the law is, they all go away and I think that's a good thing for the country.
Well evidence that was presented was presented from the time he was president and the Supreme Court case would negate all of that at a minimum they would need a new trial and not be able to bring forward that quote that evidence.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Senator Eric Schmidt.
He was traveling in the final days with President Trump all around the country.
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All right, we continue now.
Senator Eric Schmidt of the Show Me State, Missouri, as we continue.
It's very interesting.
I think we can make a lot of conclusions about how poorly the Democrats ran this campaign.
The big switcheroo, she didn't get a single vote in her primary.
Et cetera, et cetera.
The worst closing argument I ever heard is Republicans are Nazis and they're fascists and they're garbage and they're racist and that went on and on.
But can we not conclude here that the weaponization of justice and lawfare has been rejected resoundedly in a massive way by the American people?
Yeah they saw what they were doing to President Trump and they Rejected it.
They saw exactly what was happening.
They saw through it.
This whole threat to democracy argument uh didn't land, Sean, because the only political party that was trying to keep the other, you know, uh political opponent uh off the ballot trying to jail their political opponent and engage in censorship, which is a threat to democracy.
One of the Democrats, right?
That was all they had because I think the other takeaway here is you're now seeing this multi-ethnic working class coalition that's been brought to the forefront now.
I mean, President Trump won among Hispanic men.
You had double the number of uh black men vote for President Trump.
You've got now truly a party of the working class.
I grew up I know you did.
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood in St. Louis area.
My dad works seven days a week in a midnight shift.
I love that the Republican Party now, that's the home for working class people.
And that is a broad-based party.
The real challenge in this election, Sean was typically they may be more low propensity voters.
Meaning they don't vote all the time.
Like the guy who listens to Joe Rogan podcast, he may not be voting every election.
Well, they showed up.
Our challenge usually moving forward is to make sure they continue to show up to make sure we deliver on those promises to make this economy work for them.
We bring those jobs home.
We make sure we have a secure border, we have peace through strength.
Those are all things we can deliver on, and our core, I think core mission is to make this country great again.
They believe it, and we've got a new coalition.
I think it's exciting.
But yes, they did reject the cynicism.
They did reject this coup.
They did reject everybody half the country being called garbage, half the country being called fascist.
It didn't work.
It's all they had was a stoke fear, and the American people rejected all of it.
It really is amazing, and it was the worst closing argument I think I've ever heard in any presidential campaign.
Would you agree agree with that as well?
Yes.
Usually your closing argument is I want your vote because here, you know, here's what we have in common, and here's what I want to deliver for you.
Well, if you're it if you're an elected official and you're running for basically reelection or and you or uh uh of an increase in position, right?
If you're looking for a promotion like Kamala Harris, don't you have to point to some success that you have had and she had none?
She had none.
And here's the other thing, uh, Sean, is that the most important commodity when you're when you're running for officer, office holder, I think, is is authenticity, right?
You have people have to believe your authenticity.
That's actually who you are.
President Trump is authentic.
I mean, he's you know, he's working at McDonald's.
When you're on Trump Force One, going place, there's McDonald's.
Like, he's an authentic guy.
He's willing to see the McDonald's, Kentucky fried chicken.
I know the whole menu.
Uh but it's not none of it is healthy, but McDonald's is usually the top item.
Uh listen, Eric, I would keep you longer.
I'm just run running out of time, but I do appreciate you and and all the hard work you've done, and uh hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you, sir.
Absolutely.
Thanks, Sean.
All right, Senator Eric Schmidt of the great uh state of Missouri.
All right 25 now till the top of the hour.
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So glad you're with us.
Linda, are you feeling good today?
You feel good, are you happy?
Are you content?
Has has the hate list gotten bigger, smaller?
Are you feeling full of joy do you feel the joy is finally you know sunk in that Donald Trump got re-elected for you?
I can't say that I feel joy because I feel like that word has been hijacked by Kamala and her lunatic liberal followers.
So I'm never gonna say I feel joy ever again, probably.
Um I'm thrilled that the rightful president is in office.
President Trump is phenomenal.
He's an amazing human being uh amazing human being saved by God.
I have nothing but words of kindness and love and admiration for that man.
He is just an inspiration to everybody.
As the backsliding stopped, or we are we reflecting the state.
Oh, no, I have a hate list full of gratitude and no, forget about it.
No, I hate everybody.
I like President Trump.
I love President Trump.
Um, you know, but everybody wants to.
Am I on the hate list?
I'm just curious.
I mean, it depends on the day.
It's Thursday.
You might be all right.
You know what I mean?
It depends.
I think you're good today.
Uh you've ever been your ass.
The days that I should annoy you the most is when your phone goes ping ping ping ping ping.
You know, that doesn't bother me at all.
Rapid succession.
Because that happens on the weekend at all, you know.
What you uh there has to be times you're like out of dinner and it's like ping ping ping ping ping.
I don't go to dinner.
I'm a workaholic like you.
So you know it works.
Go out to dinner, making dinner, whatever you happen.
I've I've got to be able to do that.
I tell you what, January 21st, November 6th, I said I would take a deep breath, and I have and uh it's November 7th.
I probably took it uh last night.
And then um, you know, I think January 21st would be the first day that I'll be like, all right, I'm ready to go out and really enjoy the world again.
Now, yesterday was a hard day for me.
I mean, when I said no sleep the night before, I had none, and I just I just drove through it.
But a couple of my really close friends said, You look kind of tired on TV.
I'm like, Well, I haven't slept in 48 hours.
What do you expect from me?
Give me a break.
Um I think we were all afraid to go to sleep, too.
You know, everybody wanted to stay up and watch those elections and watch those numbers and make sure that everything came in the way it was, and it was changing so rapidly.
It's like I don't think I could have gone to sleep if I tried.
But if you recall, I was on Fox News, it was about 9 30 in the evening, and I told everybody exactly how the night would play out, and I was exactly right.
Was I not?
Yeah, you were.
Anyway, it was sort of like E.F. Hutt, and people are like, Wow.
And I said, I don't really want to go out our skis here, but let me go over my skis and tell you exactly what's gonna happen.
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You know, I've been pointing out a lot of liberal hypocrisy and insanity and madness, and it's it's out there.
Um I think one of the scariest things I heard, and one of the most chilling things I've heard.
We talk about what goes on in our school systems all the time.
We talk about, you know, there are people that think it's perfectly fine to offer gender-affirming care to students like in California, Tampon Tim, uh, without parental consent.
I actually believe in parental rights.
They they they will do this in California as well.
This is madness to me.
I think that parents uh were not potted plants, and that we ought to have a say in something that might forever change our children's lives.
Shouldn't even be a controversial issue.
And I I actually do think it played a part in people's voting in this in this past election.
Uh so here you have this guy, his name is Leonard Serrado.
Where do we find this?
On social media, he actually proudly defined who he was.
Is that how he did it?
Yeah.
You know the details behind it?
Or is it just his posting?
He it this is his social media, but I mean, he has that he works there.
He has that, you know, that he's you know, uh got it out for his students, his family, his friends, but he's loud and proud about the fact that he's at Oregon.
All right, so he doesn't hide the fact that he's the assistant director For fraternity sorority life at the University of Oregon, right?
That's on his social profile.
Mm-hmm.
Wow.
So he takes to TikTok.
I have no access to my social media.
That's why I have to ask these questions.
Anyway, and he tells people who voted for Trump.
Now, again, this is the assistant director for fraternity sorority life at a college university.
Listen to what he's telling people who voted for Donald Trump and what they ought to do.
I'm done crying.
My sadness is over.
My anger has set in.
Um I am a very petty person, and I am very proud of that.
A little bit about myself, actually.
And so I say this in the most disrespectful way possible.
I don't care if you are my family.
I don't care if you're my friend.
I don't care if we've been friends our entire lives.
You can literally go f yourself if you voted for Donald Trump.
If you are so sad about your groceries being expensive, get a better fing paying job.
Do better in life.
Get a fing education.
Do something.
You're stupid.
And I hope you go jump off of a f bridge.
Wow.
Now, Linda, we kid around about your hate list, although it's very real, but we kid around about it a lot.
And that's why, you know, now that it's post-election, I'm gonna have to have that call with your pastor, and we're gonna have to talk about the issue of potential blacks backsliding, which we you know, we have discussed a number of times in fun on this program.
Uh you don't want anybody to die.
You just don't like people.
It's a very big difference.
I think there's a big difference.
And these people, you know, there was a girl last night, and uh, I'm gonna find this video for you, but she came out and she said, I would like to do a group fund where we're gonna find a way to kill the president.
Can anybody tell me how to get a hitman?
And I'm like, yeah, that's not a joke.
That like the Secret Service should be at her house immediately.
Sorry that your feelings are hurt.
Sorry that your your choice didn't win.
Really, it's it's terrible.
But this man won overwhelmingly.
So, you know, the temperature of the nation is not with you.
It's the opposite of you, and you're just gonna have to learn that you know, nobody cares about your feelings.
We care about the facts of the nation.
So they're like, all right, well, we don't like that, so we're just gonna kill them.
I'm like, they already tried that twice.
I mean, I I think people like that are just unhinged.
That's why the the rhetoric leading into the final days in this campaign was so over the top.
I mean, it is it is a pretty chilling time.
Uh to our busy phones we go, Washington State.
Jeff will start with you.
Glad you called, sir.
Thank you for checking in.
Thank you for taking my call.
New to listening to the show, I try to watch it every night uh on your on your broadcast for the last at least four years.
If not, I've set my D VR for you.
I just deeply deeply want to thank you and your colleagues, Laura, Jesse, so many more, Mark Levin, some of the truth tellers out there for just keeping it real with us.
Without without you guys doing what you do, you guys and gals doing what you do.
I believe that the election would have not gone the way that it did.
And we need you guys, we need the Charlie Kirks, we need the Dan Bon Ginos, we need you guys, and I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for just spreading the truth on a daily and nightly basis for us.
Well, uh I kind of look at it first of all, thank you for your kind words.
I I also have been saying to everyone listening to this program, and I I tried to I tried to express the best way I possibly could and convey as much urgency about the moment that I felt the country was facing in the lead up to Tuesday, and and everybody they they rose to the occasion and people went out and voted, and people that are low propensity and mid propensity and and high propensity voters all voted, and some people that don't like voting early, they didn't anyway.
They understood the principle that being down a hook of hundreds of thousands of votes on election day when the polls open is a risky proposition.
And I'm very I'm thankful to all of you because in many ways I kind of look at what I do as I am a spoke In the wheel.
Um, I might have some of the bigger platforms than other people, but you know what?
It's no more important than every one of you that voted.
It really isn't.
I don't view it that way.
And for the for the names of many of the names you mentioned, you know, Mark Levin, Dan Bungie and the friends of mine.
Hank me, God bless us.
Um, you know, I'm very proud of the work and grateful for the work that they do.
You know, the way what I view this job and how I approach this job is to provide a service.
I mean the service that I'm providing is news information in as entertaining a way as I can, uh, that I know you're not going to get anywhere else.
And and that to me is a mission.
It's not even so much a job.
It it's at this point in my life, it is a mission.
And I I work because I love it.
I'm grateful that I have it.
And you know, unfortunately, we don't win every election we wanted.
This one to me meant maybe more than any other one in my lifetime, to be very honest with you, because I felt like I didn't think we'd be able to recover if the stated policies of Kamala were implemented.
I felt it was it was that much of a an inflection point for the country.
But God bless you, my friend.
Your kind words mean more than you know.
All right, quick break, right back to our phones.
We go 800-941 shown us on numbers.
We continue.
Uh look, it is one of the most consequential elections in history, and one of the best things to come out of this, I think we had the least supportive administration in history towards our friends, our allies, the only democracy in the Middle East, and that being Israel.
And now we will have the most supportive president that Israel has ever had back in office.
And by the way, in swing states, I saw numbers this morning uh among Jewish Americans.
The numbers were uh dramatically higher for Donald Trump.
Interestingly, even uh Arab Americans that want peace that don't identify with the radicalism and and don't want Iran to have hegemony in the Middle East, you know, are going for Donald Trump because they know that that the Iranians' days are numbered when Donald Trump is there.
Uh and anyway, and Donald Trump along with Prime Minister Netanyahu, I mean, they have basically declared war against the rest of the entire Middle East, and and those countries will unite against this.
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