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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Congress, Carville and Birthright Citizenship | The Schmidt Storm

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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Politics, Government, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In the latest edition of "The Schmidt Storm", Steve answers your questions about the House Speaker vote, Trump's stance on birthright citizenship and whether or not James Carville was right about the 2024 election. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. You have questions. I have answers. Let's get

0:06.6

started. The question is, is America better off with Mike Johnson a speaker of the House or better off

0:14.3

with someone new? It doesn't really matter. Here's the deal. The Republicans have an extraordinarily narrow majority.

0:23.6

And the person who is the Speaker of the House, honest to God,

0:27.6

believes that human beings and dinosaurs live together, worked together, walked around together

0:34.6

when the Earth was first made by God 10,000 years ago.

0:39.7

The man is a religious fanatic and fundamentalist who is unfit to be second in line for the

0:45.6

American presidency. He's an election denier and he is a conspiracy theorist with a nice

0:51.7

bedside manner, I suppose. He is as unfit as the rest of them, and all of them

0:57.7

are interchangeable parts, cogs in a machine that serves one purpose, one person, one cause,

1:06.2

Donald Trump. So it doesn't matter. In the end, the divisions, the joints, the fault lines, all the places

1:14.5

where the Maga Coalition connects to its adjacent space is where Democrats need to strike.

1:22.6

So Mike Johnson cannot hold his team together and he's going to be overthrown or it's going to

1:31.0

become close to an overthrowing. Either way, whether he stays, whether he goes, the danger to the

1:38.4

country doesn't diminish or grow. It remains steady. Donald Trump has said he wants to end birthright citizenship. Where do you

1:47.4

stand? So my position is any child who is born on American soil, as is the case under U.S. law

1:57.3

and the American Constitution is a U.S. person, a U.S. citizen. Now, what Trump is talking about

2:04.7

is not crazy. Let's imagine somebody from China who does everything they can to deliver a child

2:13.3

in the United States for the purposes of making sure that child has United States citizenship

2:19.2

really almost as a commercial act. Should they have U.S. citizenship because their mom figured out

2:25.6

how to make it into the United States to give birth? I think it's a legitimate discussion to be

2:31.1

able to have in the country. Donald Trump's position is not mine, but I don't

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