In this episode of The Great America Show, Lou Dobbs and his guest Eric Schmidt, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, discuss the Democratic Party s desperate attempt to delegitimize President Trump and his presidency.
00:08:02.780And you see this from the left, right, from liberals and from the modern left.
00:08:07.120You know, there's no rule or norm or law they're not willing to break to get their way, right, the result that they want.
00:08:13.740And as conservatives, we actually believe that the law should be interpreted as it's written, not how you want it to be.
00:08:19.720And so this constitutional right that they made up out of whole cloth, you know,
00:08:25.300it took a while to get back to a place where the court said that's actually nowhere in the Constitution.
00:08:29.700The states can decide what they want their laws to look like.
00:08:31.980But it's indicative of where the left is.
00:08:35.100And you see, you know, what, you know, Chuck Schumer standing on the Supreme Court talking about a whirlwind coming for the court.
00:08:41.600There was an assassination attempt of Justice Kavanaugh.
00:08:44.680You know, you've got these radicals outside Supreme Court justices' homes and the Department of Justice won't do anything about it.
00:08:51.600It shows you how political the DOJ is now.
00:08:55.520You know, they're much more interested in sicking the FBI on parents who show up to school board meetings than they are going after, you know,
00:09:03.680people flagrantly violating federal law and trying to intimidate justices to get a result.
00:09:08.740So that is a very sort of dark chapter of all of this.
00:11:09.660He had, you know, measures – I think one of the things that people don't talk about enough is how courageous he was in taking on the administrative state.
00:11:16.640He had something called the two-for-one rule, which if any agency was going to issue one rule, they had to pull back two.
00:11:22.140It was a lot of measures like that, in addition to tax cuts and all the other, you know, border security and energy dominance that we had during those four years that were really making a difference.
00:11:32.440But these unelected bureaucrats and these administrative agencies want to push this radical agenda, too.0.86
00:11:38.260Look no further than the COVID mandates, you know, the vaccine mandate.
00:11:41.160You had OSHA, which was created to make sure forklifts beep when they back up, telling 80 million Americans they were going to be forced to have a medical procedure.
00:11:51.480I mean, it's completely off the rails.
00:11:52.820But this is, again, this is the progressive movement that, you know, you could go back 100 years under Woodrow Wilson, who was a disaster of a president, but ushered in this era of, quote, unquote, experts, right?
00:14:04.000And, you know, the Second Amendment protects that right we're born with to defend yourself.
00:14:08.340And not just in the home, by the way, but outside of the home.
00:14:11.980And so that was, again, New York's law was on a collision course with the Constitution.
00:14:16.200Missouri led the briefing in that case.
00:14:17.740And the court said, yeah, of course, the state doesn't – the state is there and we have laws to protect your rights, not infringe upon them.
00:14:25.800And that's what New York's restrictive regime was all about.
00:14:29.880And you put that up against the Heller decision, Lou, of about 15 years ago where they made it clear it was an individual right because you always hear folks on the left say, oh, it's a well-regulated militia.
00:14:40.540They said in the Heller decision, no, no, no, no, this is an individual right.
00:14:43.920But over the course of the last 15 years, some lower courts were essentially chipping away at that.
00:14:48.880Well, maybe it is in your domicile, in your home, but not, you know, not out on the streets.
00:14:55.540Well, the court made clear that, no, that individual right extends outside the home and the state doesn't get to arbitrarily restrict that right.
00:15:02.820Isn't it an interesting piece of intellectual contradiction on the part of the Marxist Dems?
00:15:09.020They want to defund police, but they don't want you to be able to defend yourself, your person, your family, whomever, when you are outside your home.
00:15:20.260I mean, it's sheer madness, and it's perpetrated, it's expanded, it's evangelized by the national corporate left-wing media.
00:15:33.240And really, it's about, I mean, what is every left-wing or any dictator or any, you know, sort of banana republic in the third world who wants to control its citizenry?
00:15:44.480They try to take away their weapons because the Second Amendment protects not only your protect to, you know, defend yourself and your family, but also against tyranny.
00:15:53.140And the left understands that it's, by the way, Lou, and I don't know if we have time to get into this or not.
00:15:58.700It's one of the reasons why the left is so giddy and energized about indoctrinating kids in schools, right?
00:16:06.880Because if they can cut that cord between the American idea and our kids, right, that we believe that we're the greatest country in the history of the world, we believe in this idea of self-government and people can pursue their dreams and individual rights.
00:16:19.720If they can corrupt that and say America's not special, and by the way, America's inherently racist, all these things that they do to try to undermine it, it's all meant to detach this great bond we have with each other as citizens in this great country so they can remake this country into something very different.
00:16:36.380And they were never able really to do it with class.
00:16:38.680They're trying to do it with race now, with this race essentialism.
00:16:41.920And in Missouri, we've been very aggressive.
00:16:43.600Not only did I sue, you know, 30 or 40-plus school districts for mask mandates and we won, but we're also going after school districts now that have critical race theory.
00:16:52.900They're hiding documents, things like the oppression matrix, Lou, where you divide students by oppressor and oppressed, things like the privilege walk, the gender unicorn.
00:17:04.400This stuff is in our schools, and the left will deny it.
00:17:06.880They used to say it was just a law school class, but it's in our schools, and it's in our grade schools.
00:17:11.520And I think as fighters, as conservative fighters, we've got to stand up and say we're not going to tolerate this.
00:17:17.180We're going to fight on behalf of students and parents, and we're not going to allow the left to indoctrinate our kids to despise America.
00:17:23.760And all of this is a very well-organized effort to fundamentally change this country.
00:17:28.220And I think that's why, you know, this election cycle is so important.
00:17:32.100All these big fights at the court are so important because it's a fight for the soul of America.
00:17:36.660And we're having to answer questions that, quite frankly, we haven't been asked in a long, long time.
00:17:41.540But, you know, again, the leadership of President Trump and other, you know, conservative fighters that are out there, I'm telling you, there's something on the ground.
00:17:48.240As I get around this state, people get it.
00:17:51.420They want their country back, and they understand how radical the left is.
00:17:54.780And so I think there's a great opportunity for us moving forward.
00:18:35.920We're looking at what looks like a red wave election, but at the same time, there are no changes in Biden policies.
00:18:43.960And we do know that right now the Biden White House and the recesses of the West Wing are working very hard to federalize as much as they can of our elections once again in 2022.
00:18:59.380The Democrats have done much and continue to plan and plot and conspire, I think is a reasonable word here, while the Republicans have seemingly – Eric, they've done nothing.
00:19:15.700We need more Trump Republicans, quite frankly.
00:19:18.600And one of the reasons I'm running for the Senate is, you know, that same fighting spirit I've demonstrated as Attorney General, we need more of that in D.C.
00:19:24.780You know, we need people who are going to be disruptors, who are America-first fighters.
00:19:30.380Like, this go-along, get-along stuff is nuts, and that extends to, you know, leadership.
00:19:34.700And we just need people who are willing to stand up and be unafraid and understand what the stakes are, you know.
00:19:41.040And, again, I think that's one of the great, you know, things that President Trump taught us is that you should go into these fights and be unafraid.
00:19:47.380Never quit because they have an agenda, and we need to fight back for this country because it is the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:19:56.100And if you lose it, you don't get it back.
00:19:58.000And freedom doesn't, you know, run through the bloodstream.
00:20:00.640Each generation is charged with defending those principles.
00:20:03.820And that's what motivates me every single day.
00:20:38.360This energy policy that they have, they are willing to let working folks suffer with $5 gas and higher across the country because they are genuflecting to this woke altar of climate alarmism.
00:21:07.320I think they know what's coming, but they want to do as much damage as they can until we can get there and the reinforcements are sent.
00:21:13.120Again, more Trump Republicans who are willing to fight back.
00:21:16.420And that's, again, why I'm running for the Senate.
00:21:17.740But, Eric, I would say to you that what they're doing is making Americans suffer.
00:21:24.380These are all conscious, strategic choices they've made to shut down the pipeline, to carry out a war against the petroleum industry, and the devil take the hindmost.
00:21:37.460Well, and, Lou, not only just on energy, and we could go through the issues, look at the border.
00:21:42.160I mean, what's happening at the southern border is a total disgrace, and it's all on purpose.
00:21:48.000Like, there's nothing accidental about this.
00:21:49.680President Trump had a secure border, and there were a bunch of reasons why.
00:21:53.660One was leadership, and people across the world knew, especially in Central and South America, that this wasn't an open border.
00:21:59.540That's a big part of it, the signal you send.
00:22:01.640But there were three big policies that, you know, President Trump was building the border wall.
00:22:07.620That helps the – and I've been to the border twice.
00:22:09.340Those border patrol agents will tell you that that allows them to galvanize their resources more efficiently, right, to be more – you know, that they can turn more people away or capture more people because there's fewer places for them to come across.
00:22:24.460Missouri and Texas have filed a lawsuit to finish that.
00:22:35.220The other policy, which the Supreme Court's going to decide on that we've won before, Missouri and Texas filed on the Remain in Mexico policy, which made Mexico the waiting room for asylum claims.
00:22:48.020This was a very effective policy under President Trump, as opposed to what Joe Biden wants to do, which is to release people into the interior of the United States, never to be seen again.
00:22:56.820The cartels are running the show, and they know if they can get people across, it's a big business for them.
00:23:02.760And so they're empowering the cartels.
00:23:04.560And the last issue, I would say, or one of the last, is Title 42.
00:23:13.120That accounts for about 50 percent of the expulsions right now.
00:23:16.400So if you think the border crisis is bad now, and it is, double those numbers if Title 42 goes away.
00:23:23.180I was on a show with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and so I'll give him credit in Texas for mentioning this statistic.
00:23:28.840But if you took away all what President Trump had, as Biden's tried to, and the states have pushed back and been winning, but if you did that, there would be 30 million people here in his four-year term illegally.
00:23:46.720And so this is, to your point, Lou, this is intentional.
00:23:50.480They are doing this on purpose, and this is part of their agenda with that and other issues to fundamentally change this country forever, and we have to push back.
00:23:57.860And in New York, the Marxist left ran afoul of a New York Supreme Court judge because they just thought they had it.
00:24:09.460They were going to give a million illegal immigrants in this country the vote in New York City.
00:24:30.260The things that you and I care about, you know, about this – this, you know, republic and these safeguards, the rule of law, all these things that you've spent years talking about, that as AG I'm fighting for, they don't care about any of that.
00:24:46.060But it's just about the raw power that they can get.
00:24:49.660It's the only reason you can explain all these radical proposals that they have and things they're moving on.
00:24:55.060I want to turn to the Senate race and ask you how your campaign is going and give us something of an update, if you would, your attorney general.
00:25:05.980Sure, a poll just came out this weekend that had us in the lead, and, you know, I think this race comes down to me and Eric Reitens, who quit, who was a former governor.
00:25:17.900Lots of scandals, would lose the seat to the Democrats.
00:25:23.380You know, and one of the things I always admired about President Trump is that he was always fighting, always fighting.
00:25:28.560And then I'm running against a guy who quit on the job and is trying to make a comeback.
00:25:31.800And for me, you know, when I say I'm a, you know, a Trump Republican and an America First Republican, that means you go out and you fight these big, important fights like President Trump did.
00:25:41.880And that's what I'm going to do in the Senate.
00:25:43.140And I think we need proven conservative fighters right now, reinforcements, to help save America.
00:28:03.000We ought to have hearings on the Ministry of Truth.
00:28:06.200And so when I get there, you know, we ought to have hearings on how the Department of Justice has completely failed to protect Supreme Court justices.
00:28:13.600When I get there in the Senate, that's the kind of stuff we're going to have hearings on.
00:28:16.900Iran-Contra-like hearings on the real things people care about in this country.
00:28:20.520This January 6th debacle is an absolute joke.
00:28:24.760And to your point, it's part and parcel of the sham impeachments that they had.
00:28:29.140These folks all suffer from Trump derangement syndrome.
00:29:03.920Whether it be their lust for power, whether it be their ideology, which is Marxism, all of that is being played out.
00:29:11.180You're talking about the issue of transparency, if you will, in the parent-student relationship being interrupted by the two teachers' unions.
00:29:27.340We need to have hearings, too, on why we don't just get rid of teachers' unions, period, in this country.0.95
00:29:34.560The voucher system may do that for us, because public education is a calamity now, focused on, as you said, race, trans, you know, however you want to call it, transgender classes and shared experiences on the part of teachers.
00:30:47.120Why don't we get Fauci in there for a week and ask about all this nonsense and the lies and them coordinating with the teachers union to mask our kids, which has done horrible damage to our kids psychologically, emotionally, loss of learning.
00:30:59.220And then you've got this situation, Lou, where literally the National School Boards Association conspired with the Department of Justice to investigate parents showing up to school board meetings to object to things like critical race theory and forced masking.
00:31:12.560I mean, this is out of like a banana world, third world republic stuff.1.00
00:31:17.580And so anyway, the politicization of the DOJ has been unbelievable.
00:31:23.160And quite frankly, the teachers unions are at war with parents.
00:31:26.820And I think this is a really important time for Republicans to step up and stand alongside parents and fight back.
00:31:33.520And so, you know, my home state, like I said, I've sued almost 50 school districts for these things.
00:31:40.120And we're going after the Missouri School Boards Association for hiding documents.
00:31:43.940And I get all the hate from the editorial boards of St. Louis and Kansas City.
00:31:49.860You know, this is the right thing to do.
00:31:51.720And it's why, you know, in the Senate, I'm not interested in getting invited to cocktail parties and, you know, being the most popular guy.
00:31:59.360I want to go there and fight for my state, fight for this republic, because that's what's most important.