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00:00:33.760Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:00:38.320Our guest today is one of the nation's leading senators in holding the Biden administration to account.
00:00:44.620He's Senator Eric Schmidt of the great state of Missouri.
00:00:48.560And now, Senator Eric Schmidt, and I have to say thanks for being with us here today, and it's great to see you.
00:00:55.820I would just like to start with all that is going on here.
00:00:58.840I'm going to begin, if I may, with a takeout in the Wall Street Journal this morning.
00:01:03.760Center page, front, above the fold, all about Biden's incapacity to be in the job he now has.
00:01:12.500Your thoughts about the fact that both parties now are talking about his infirmity, his cognitive impairment.
00:01:20.160Well, I think it's obvious that he's in a diminished capacity, and I really don't, as a human being, I don't take any pleasure in pointing that out.
00:01:31.000It's just a reality, and it's a very – the president of the United States is a very tough job.
00:01:36.560It requires a lot of energy, a lot of capability, a lot of mental acuity, and he doesn't have that.
00:01:42.140And I think that that's not – Lou, that's not going to get any better for him.
00:01:46.220There's a few realities that he's not going to be able to change between now and Election Day, you know, the crushing inflation, the crisis at the border, and his diminished capacity in his age.
00:01:59.040I think it's the American people, you know, sort of underlying a lot of the polls with their dissatisfaction.
00:02:05.120There's an underlying kind of belief that he's not up to the job, and I think that's going to play out in November.
00:02:10.280The American people have made it pretty clear they're aware of his impairment.
00:02:16.320What is not clear is why the national corporate media are pretending that he is perfectly fine, no matter how many times he stumbles across a stage or up a ladder going on to Air Force One or loses his place in a teleprompter read.
00:02:33.900What do you think of the fact they won't even acknowledge that reality, let alone tell the truth on so many issues?
00:02:41.660Well, I think there's two reasons for it.
00:02:43.360One is journalism in many ways is dead.
00:02:47.660These have essentially become advocates with keyboards, and they're pushing the regime's narrative all the time.
00:02:54.940The second piece of that is Trump derangement syndrome.
00:02:57.500I think these folks are, you know, many of them are broken.
00:03:00.720COVID and Trump broke a lot of these people, and they can't conceptually put their minds around the idea that Donald Trump's going to be the 47th president of the United States,
00:03:10.920and they're willing to do anything, including hide information for the American people, is what sort of what their job is, right, to speak truth to power.
00:03:19.680They won't do it because they're covering for Joe Biden because they want to, you know, they just despise President Trump so much.
00:03:25.920And the Trump derangement syndrome, I know that a lot of people, and perhaps yourself, consider that a real thing.
00:03:36.640I think of it as a device, a subterfuge on the part of the Marxist left in this country.
00:03:42.340As they talk about him, they gin up all sorts of disinformation, outright lies about this president and ignore entirely the fact that he was one of the most successful presidents in one term in American history.
00:04:01.020That's right, and not only do they deny the success that President Trump had and his administration had, it's also in many ways, Lou, an extension of their kind of disdain they have for real America, right?
00:04:20.040In many ways, they're passing judgment on everybody who would support him or defend him or vote for him.
00:04:27.060I mean, it's the basket of deplorables, right, that Hillary Clinton talked about.
00:04:57.240I mean, one of the things social media has been good for is sort of exposing these so-called journalists like a ticket, Dan Rather, for example.
00:05:07.540So growing up in the 1980s and watching, you know, whether it's a CBS Evening News or Nightly News or whatever, you know, when you didn't have the diffusion of information, when you watch this, you were presented that Dan Rather was like this objective journalist.
00:05:35.320And unfortunately, one other point on that, I think that I think is worth making, because we're about to enter this phase of the campaign where all Joe Biden has is fear mongering and scare tactics.
00:05:49.760So getting back to this Trump arrangement syndrome, all they have left is to try to scare the bejesus out of the American people to say that, you know, President Trump's going to end democracy.
00:06:37.780And control and power is precisely what they're trying to preserve.
00:06:43.840President Biden, obviously, is nothing more than a puppet.
00:06:46.460And the Obama acolytes, perhaps Obama himself, who are gathered together to manage Joe Biden and the agenda, they don't want to lose that very safe enclave they've created at the White House and at the top of our government.
00:07:04.940One of the most amazing frauds is Mayorkas, Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, saying we've been doing a great job on the border.
00:07:18.380There is it's perfectly secure border, even as millions of illegal aliens were being invited into the country across that perfectly secure border.
00:07:26.580I think it may be more secure if you include the fact that Joe Biden turned that border over to the Mexican drug cartels.
00:07:34.940For sex trafficking, deadly drugs, you name it, illegal aliens.
00:07:41.420But so now suddenly he is bragging about what he's going to do to secure the border with five months remaining in the year to Election Day.
00:07:53.040Give us your sense of what in the world he's thinking, his strategists are thinking, because it looks preposterous.
00:08:00.440Well, it strikes me if you could draw some analogy, like an arsonist who sets a major building ablaze and then shows up to put out the fire with a garden hose.
00:08:14.400It literally at the end of 2020, the end of President Trump's firm, we had the most secure border we have had in 45 years.
00:08:23.080OK, that's that's the reality that Joe Biden was inheriting.
00:08:26.460But again, this this sense of undoing everything that was Trump dominated the thinking at the White House.
00:08:34.440And what did they do? They Joe Biden instituted about 100 executive orders undoing all of those successes and they didn't hide it like they bragged about it.
00:08:45.020Myorkis was on national TV bragging about this.
00:08:48.320And so, you know, the party is a full blown open borders party now.
00:09:44.460And the idea that he's going to have this executive order now that normalizes a million people a year, you know, at a minimum, a million people.
00:09:51.960And I think it's important to point out, Lou, historically, the policy of the United States of America among Republican and Democrat administrations typically was if you come here illegally, you're detained and then you are deported unless you have a reason that to stay that is recognized by the court system like asylum.
00:10:11.280Nine out of 10 asylum claims are typically rejected.
00:10:19.340And so the cartels now know that they've got free reign to bring millions and millions of people here illegally and all the problems that come with that.
00:10:27.860And whatever this executive order does, it doesn't solve the problem.
00:10:31.540And it also, by the way, excludes people who come here by way of the app or unaccompanied children, which is insane because completely opens the door and keeps the door open, I should say, for the cartels to traffic kids.
00:10:47.340Yeah, it's to the point, this partnership between the Biden regime and the cartels, it's to the point now that one wouldn't be surprised to learn that Joe Biden is getting his customary 10 percent of all of the proceeds from trafficking, from illegal aliens, from deadly drugs.
00:11:06.700We're talking with Eric Smith, senator of the great state of Missouri.
00:11:11.360We're going to come right back as we continue the conversation.
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00:12:53.480We're talking with Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri.
00:12:56.460And I just have to say, this is a moment in politics I didn't think any of us would be sharing, frankly, because to think we have an administration that has declared the American people to be their public enemy number one, the government itself is weaponized against Americans, at least of one party.
00:13:16.180And I don't hear the Republicans talking particularly aggressively about what we face here, which is a government weaponized, despite having the weaponized subcommittee.
00:13:27.860It's just we just don't seem to be hearing the Republican Party talk about how serious the assault is on America itself, our values, our heritage and our and our future.
00:13:41.280Well, listen, I think leadership requires sort of recognizing the moment that you're in, having the courage to speak out about it and then lead with some solutions right on how to fix it.
00:13:55.520And there is no doubt, Lou, we've we are not we're not arguing anymore with Democrats about what the marginal tax rate should be.
00:14:04.060Those are not the debates that we're really having in this country right now.
00:14:07.140The Democrats want to fundamentally change this country forever.
00:14:11.260And, you know, I mean, if they ever had power of both the Senate, the House and the presidency again, I mean, they have stated people are campaigning on this, by the way, which is to say that they would end the filibuster.
00:14:53.220I got here in the history of our republic, Lou.
00:14:56.360There have been there are 23 impeachments that came over from the House of Representatives.
00:15:00.500In every instance, in every instance, we've lived in difficult times, civil war, you know, there's a lot of things that have happened in this country.
00:15:08.420Every instance, there has been a trial in the United States Senate.
00:15:11.500Now, there could be an acquittal and there could be a removal.
00:15:15.000Chuck Schumer just decided, yep, we don't want to do the trial.
00:15:18.900So they voted among party lines to not have a trial.
00:15:21.240Like that's the level of control that they want to have and just blow away any norms or the Constitution or any laws that we have.
00:15:29.320I think you've articulated powerfully the motivation of the Marxist Dems who control the Democrat Party, a power control, of course.
00:15:41.020But I don't hear the motivation of the Republican Party in a rejoinder, a rebuttal, or just a response with some significant energy and purpose to what the assault is by the left.
00:15:57.160And if there were a time, to your point, these are extraordinary times in which we live.
00:16:03.240A critical election is before us five months out.
00:16:06.160And I just hear too little from the Republicans.
00:16:12.240Well, you know, I'm certainly trying to do everything that I can.
00:16:15.560It's one of the reasons why, again, look, there's one other example of this is this divisive and discriminatory DEI, right?
00:16:23.960They push it in the military, which has been, you know, a great meritocracy where people from any background or walk-alive can have ticker tape parades in New York because they're war heroes.
00:16:37.680I said, listen, you're talking about, you know, you have, first of all, you fired 5,000 people who, because they didn't get the COVID shot, you're driving away recruits through this divisive DEI policy.
00:16:51.000And you're here to tell us that you don't think that has affected our readiness as a military.
00:16:55.160But, again, they're being captured by this ideology.
00:16:58.320And it's way more important than them to virtue signal and to act like they care more than to, you know, believe in and support the things that have made this country great.
00:17:08.480It is ultimately an assault on America.
00:17:33.700You know, you had OSHA, which was an agency created to make sure forklifts people they backed up, was trying to force a medical procedure on 100 million people.
00:17:42.040And if you didn't do it, you were going to be fired and lose your job and your livelihood and your family would suffer.
00:18:04.660We've got to be people who are going to fight back because we love this country and we want our kids to have the same opportunities that we had and live in a society where we value individual rights and not this collectivist mentality.
00:18:16.260We're talking with Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri.
00:18:21.680We are going to continue the conversation right after these quick words.
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00:19:47.980And Senator Fauci put on quite a performance this week before the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus, part of the House Oversight Committee.
00:19:57.380He was assailed for his lack of character and his presumptions to pursue, to your two words, power and control over NIH and the country's public health agencies and policies.
00:20:15.400Your thoughts about how he fared before that questioning in the House Committee?
00:20:23.840Well, I think the American people were reminded of what a total and complete fraud Anthony Fauci is.
00:20:29.600I mean, if there was a statue or if there was a Mount Rushmore of, like, you know, these folks in COVID who were the real villains, I mean, Fauci's on there.
00:20:38.160And it's much deeper than people realize.
00:20:41.100As I mentioned, I filed that Missouri versus Biden lawsuit.
00:20:43.640We took the deposition of Anthony Fauci in that.
00:20:45.860So I saw it firsthand and behind closed doors in a deposition in that lawsuit.
00:22:35.540It was and they dismissed ivermectin, for example, which India used to great effect.
00:22:44.660It was probably what saved them a greater contagion.
00:22:47.020Contagion, the misinformation, the lies that came out of the medical community and the public health establishment and the public health agencies is there's never really been a finding as to how bad it was.
00:23:03.920And no one, to my knowledge, to this day has been held accountable for a pension or anything.
00:23:12.500Yeah, I think, you know, if Republicans take the Senate, one of the things we ought to do, we ought to have a January 6th like committee on COVID.
00:23:21.600And people ought to be held accountable.
00:23:24.120They destroyed lives and many lives were lost because of these terrible decisions.
00:23:28.860They had the information or they didn't just admit they were making it up.
00:23:31.720Got to remember, they were roping off playgrounds, you know, bulldozing skate parks.
00:23:39.460I mean, people weren't allowed on beaches.
00:23:42.220I mean, this was like took us back centuries and how people view lockdowns and things like that, you know.
00:23:47.960But they did it with such arrogance and if you dared to question the regime's narrative, you were ostracized.
00:23:53.980People lost their medical licenses, right?
00:23:56.480The whole idea, I mean, Fauci proclaimed to be the science.
00:24:00.920Science requires constantly challenging assumptions, constantly, you know, testing and retesting and challenging and not accepting things and moving forward.
00:24:11.460Not saying, you know, just everybody being ostracized or censored because they had a dissenting view.
00:25:46.740We know that the Chinese have been funding some of the protests, pro-Hamas protests.
00:25:52.500We know further that we have a real problem in this country on our campuses because the university leadership, chancellors, presidents, boards of trustees, you name it.
00:26:05.760We're slow to in almost every instance, slow to react, to respond.
00:26:10.520And we've got a real problem because at the same time, the Biden administration is attacking free speech like no other, including Barack Obama.
00:26:20.000Our establishment universities and academia are just sitting there, it seems hogtied, paralyzed by the prospect that they might be considered somehow retro or regressive by their peers to actually say, you know, genocide is a bad idea.
00:26:42.480Well, and I, you know, people that have been paying attention to this shouldn't be all that surprised about the anti-Semitism that took hold or has taken hold of on on college campuses and beyond.
00:26:55.040Because here's the thing, if you push this divisive DEI ideology, which is what's happened and now it's in grade schools with critical race theory, it's all under the umbrella of this cultural Marxism that seeks to divide people by race.
00:27:22.060I mean, it didn't really work in this country from an economic perspective as they push this ideology because people still believe that, you know, any, you could come from any walk of life and achieve great things.
00:27:32.140So this idea of merit ultimately took hold, right?
00:27:37.440Well, if you try to undercut the underpinnings of that, right, and that your success depends solely on your race or your failures solely on your race, I mean, you help destroy all of that and the idea of America.
00:28:34.280The idea that we have a mission statement in the Declaration of Independence, that all people are created equal.
00:28:39.900And we're always constantly trying to live up to this, and that you can achieve, you can pursue your dreams, that we believe in individual rights.
00:28:46.600And our Constitution creates a framework for protecting dissenting views.
00:28:50.900And, you know, the separation of powers, which diffuses power to protect us from this aggregation of power.