Steve Schmidt with the warning here.

And pleased to be able to bring with you today for conversation

and Applebaum from Warsaw and welcome.

Oh, thanks for having me.

So we were just talking for a moment before people started joining about

how unprecedented what we are seeing formed in the United States.

And this has happened. This has been made law. And so when we look at Trump's

perversely named Big Beautiful Bill as a propaganda package. It's so gigantic, so immense.

It was unfathomable and scale and size and cost and damage. One part of it that was stopped was the public land sell-off. And that's an interesting

going forward detail and learning from how you stop Trump, because that's the only area where

they were stopped cold. But this bill adds so much to the debt if you care about fiscal issues.

It demolishes indiscriminately and without much thought, the social safety net.

It is corrupt with regard to the tax code, inverting it very much into a regressive

code. Greatest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top in American history. Rural health care will be decimated by this.

There will be massive amounts of hospital closures, a lessening of access.

But all of those things, not very long from now and forevermore, as bad as they are,

this bill will be remembered, I think, for a singular thing.

This bill, without much debate, without any great speeches of denunciation and dissent that will linger

in the congressional record. This funded a federal police force which has never existed in the

United States. It is by I think any reasonable

definition and you are a sober serious person and you can correct me if I'm wrong if it

doesn't meet the definition of a secret police force, given that these people are masked, they are badgeless.

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