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🗓️ 12 December 2025
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Kristi Noem fled a congressional hearing after being confronted over deporting a U.S. veteran. Steve Schmidt explains why this moment marks a new low, and how an unchecked Homeland Security Department enables authoritarianism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Would you like to say thank you to a decorated, wounded American combat veteran named Sejune Park? |
| 0:12.9 | Would you like to say thank you for your service? |
| 0:15.9 | Would you like to understand why Christy Noem can't do it? |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Steve Schmidt. It's Friday, December the 12th. |
| 0:23.6 | This is the warning. Seth Magizena is a congressman from the state of Rhode Island. There has been |
| 0:30.6 | nobody who's been more critical than me who stands against Trump of the fecklessness of the |
| 0:37.1 | democratic leadership. So I think it's important that I'm Trump of the fecklessness of the democratic leadership. |
| 0:38.9 | So I think it's important that I'm one of the voices that's the first to stand up and praise |
| 0:44.7 | people when they do the right thing, when they exhibit smarts and integrity and courage |
| 0:51.6 | like Congressman Seth Magazineer. |
| 0:55.0 | What a proud day for the people of his district. |
| 0:59.0 | What a winner they sent to the 119th Congress to stand up for them. |
| 1:06.0 | I don't think that I have seen a more compelling moment since the historical tape of this |
| 1:15.6 | with Joseph Welch asking the question that finally ended the reign of terror of the alcoholic |
| 1:23.9 | thug from Wisconsin, Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
| 1:27.7 | Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. |
| 1:31.6 | But you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last. |
| 1:39.3 | Have you left no sense of decency? |
| 1:43.3 | Christy Nome is a liar. |
| 1:46.0 | Secretary Nome, it is a fact that you ignore federal court orders in March and in May of this year. |
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