Why Pete Hegseth Should Terrify America

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Pete Hegseth gave a delusional speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Steve Schmidt explains why his extremist rhetoric disgraces the U.S. military and why Reagan would’ve called it out on the spot.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.5	In doing this, we appeal to Almighty God, just as our forefathers did.
0:11.2	George Washington, the founder of the War Department,
0:14.9	appealed to God's providence during every step of our improbable revolution,
0:19.8	on prayer, on bended knee, on the battlefield.
0:24.0	Ronald Reagan did the same.
0:25.8	Appealing to heaven is the world hung in the balance.
0:28.9	We do the same today with Jesus Christ as our God.
0:32.6	May he grant us the wisdom to see what is right and the courage to do it. May God bless our warriors and may God
0:40.7	bless our great republic. Secretary of war crimes, Pete Hagseth appeared at the Reagan Library. And while
0:48.0	there, he talked about the reason why one million Americans gave what Abraham Lincoln called the last full measure of
0:55.9	devotion to the republic.
0:57.8	Here's the question.
0:59.0	Did those men die like Pete Hagseth said for Jesus Christ?
1:04.1	They did not.
1:05.2	It is Tuesday, December 9th.
1:07.8	This is the warning.
1:10.4	The Secretary of War Crimes is profoundly unfit to lead America's military.
1:16.6	And though he stood up at the Reagan Library and tried to claim the mantle of a Republican
1:22.6	president that believed in peace through strength, he failed.
1:26.6	There's a simple reason for that. Ronald Reagan knew
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