Steve Schmidt explains why Jim Jordan is "unfit" to be Speaker of the House | The Warning

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Steve Schmidt breaks down the complete and total dysfunction among the Republican members of the House of Representatives and how their inability to govern will only increase if they move forward with plans to make Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio the next Speaker of the House. Steve explains how Jordan's complicity in trying to overturn the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump and his petulant style of governing make him completely unfit to be second in the line of presidential succession. Steve goes on to talk about how Fox News' biggest names like Sean Hannity, have become the Republican conference themselves, even going as far as to pressure GOP holdouts to vote for Jordan.

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0:00.0	The Maga Republican House of Representatives will demonstrate once again this week
0:09.8	it's abject unfitness to do the people's business.
0:14.6	This is a group of 222 people picked, elected, from all over the country, and judged collectively against any other
0:28.2	grouping of 222 Americans. These people are unparalleled for their incompetence, their weirdness, idiocy, and imbecility.
0:42.9	The idea that somebody, anybody, any adult would vote to elect Jim Jordan to be second in line in presidential succession,
0:58.0	a constitutional officer, speaker of the House, is beyond words, truly.
1:06.7	He is unfit, juvenile, petulant, and utterly incapable of functioning at the highest levels of the American government in times of crisis.
1:23.0	The Republican majority has been off the rails for a long time.
1:29.3	But even then, it was able to maintain, even if it was just the thinnest veneer of functionality.
1:39.6	But now, at this moment, the House of Representatives is utterly shut, paralyzed, broken, at a time of genuine global crisis.
1:54.4	The House of Representatives cannot pass appropriations bills, which means the United States of America cannot arm the Ukrainian defense
2:03.7	forces. That means they will be starved, choked, and ultimately overrun by Russian aggression
2:12.5	when they run out of the munitions they need to fight. It is the broken Republican House that is wrecking
2:23.8	America's capacity to function in this moment of crisis as the world's arsenal of democracy.
2:32.2	The House of Representatives cannot pass appropriations bills to support Israel in a time of
2:40.5	existential threat for the Jewish state. Why? Because of the dysfunction and disordered personalities
2:50.5	of the people who in their accumulation have arrived
2:56.1	together with an R next to their names as members of Congress.
3:01.3	It is a political party ruled by a minority faction that bullies, threatens, cajoles, intimidates, and rolls over.
3:13.9	It's cowardly and principled as colleagues time and time again.
3:21.0	Do you want to know how sick and broken American government is in the Republican House
3:28.2	of Representatives? Look no further than this outrageous email from their leader, Sean Hannity.
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