I Underestimated House Speaker Mike Johnson. This Weekend, He Measured Up

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This weekend, the House passed an aid package including $60 billion dollars that will go to Ukraine. Steve Schmidt explains why this is necessary not just to help Kyiv, but for America to ward off World War III. And despite the GOP extremists, House Speaker Mike Johnson formed a coalition and moved along this important legislation. *** To become a The Warning Premium Member and listen to the show 48 hours early with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0	This weekend, an American coalition formed.
0:03.8	It included Mike Johnson.
0:05.5	It included Democrats.
0:07.2	And in the end, the American people have sent the lethal aid necessary for the Ukrainian
0:12.9	people to fight, to stay free, to push back the Russian invaders.
0:17.6	The world is in chaos, stability, order, peace. This is the essential role of the United
0:24.7	States. And it was fulfilled this weekend in a bipartisan vote that represents the best traditions of
0:30.7	this country. It is the 22nd of April, and there are 197 days left until the American people
0:37.4	will decide who the next
0:40.1	president of the United States is between President Biden and the criminal defendant Donald
0:46.7	Trump. This is the warning. A few weeks ago, I went to Poland, and I bore witness to some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
1:00.0	I went to Majonic, to Treblinka, to Auschwitz, to Reichenstadt.
1:07.0	I went to the Krakow ghetto and to the Warsaw ghetto.
1:13.4	I walked the halls of Oscar Schindler's factory.
1:23.0	And the question I kept asking myself over and over again was how did this happen? How?
1:29.2	I couldn't help asking the question, even though I know the answer. There were no monsters at Auschwitz, only ordinary people.
1:34.0	The perpetrators were ordinary, and the victims were ordinary.
1:38.0	It was the one thing that they shared in common.
1:41.9	Did you know that before they could build the barracks for the prisoners,
1:45.9	they had to meet the fire code? Did you know that before Auschwitz could be constructed,
1:51.0	they needed a stamp for the sewage treatment facility? How did it happen? Could it ever
1:56.9	happened again? Well, the truth is, it's happening right now again in Europe, the largest
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