So I don't know if you guys watch The Bachelor, but every season they say, oh, this is the most dramatic season ever. I feel like we often say that with elections, this is the most important election ever. But it is this November. We have a choice to make about what kind of country we want to be. Do we want to be a free country like our founding fathers envisioned, like the Founding generation envisioned, or do we want to be a tyranny where you have a dictator like Joe Biden, who went out and addressed the nation in a primetime speech at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, a place where both the United States Declaration of Independence in the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by our founding fathers in the Founding Generation, who went out there, looked Americans in the eye, and a primetime address in a slap to the face of that legacy, making a mockery of the sacrifice that those brave men charted. They charted a different path for our nation, making a mockery out of this constitutional republic, making a mockery out of her freedoms, making a mockery out of our country. And sitting there and slandering seventy million patriotic Americans, smearing them, saying that they are the enemy. There are enemies of the state. And you saw that that imagery of Joe Biden sitting there with the blood red stage, the Marines and the backdrop looking like he's standing in front of the gates of Hell as a dictator. I mean he is. But that was intentional. I mean, he wanted to stoke fear and people. The message was clear, I'm in control. Submit That's what he wanted. And what he was doing was the mother ing of seventy five million Americans, You and me, the people listening to this podcast, many of them are or maybe you didn't vote for Trump, that's fine too, but it was the mothering of them. And we've seen this in society's if you go through it, I mean, this has happened before. I mean you look at the most extreme example, the horrors we witnessed in Europe and Germany. I mean, that was a uniquely terrible time in history. I pray to God we ver see that again. I don't think we're heading down that path, but it's always instructive to look at history, and you can look at Holocaust survivors like Paul Herzegg and he said that he remembers the precise moment he was made to feel fundamentally different in n after the Nazis invaded his home country of Hungary, and he said, it didn't take very long before the edict came out every Jew must wear yellow star. This is the first time I realized that I'm different, even among my friends. We've we've seen it all over the world, not just in what we saw in Germany and Europe. We've seen are in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, We've saw it in the Jim Crow South. I mean, is that the kind of stuff we want to return to? This other rang of people, but this time based on political views seventy million Americans, the intentional dehumanization of this group, which then sets up a path for potential discrimination and persecution. They've called this fascist. I mean, think about it. The guy the president in the United States, the guy who is quite literally at this time, trying to imprison his political opponent, has thoughts on fascism, uh, you know, and and less it's an instructional how too. He doesn't really have a leg to stand on. But we've seen this mothering happen in more recent events, right, I mean remember COVID and the forced vaccinations of Americans. I mean Joe Biden knew that the COVID shots would not stop the spread of COVID, Yet he went out there and outsweeping mandates, trying to force the vaccination on you know, at least a hundred million Americans, almost two thirds of all workers. In addition of purging the military of people who didn't want to get at healthcare workers as well. This is one of the reasons I chose not to get vaccinated one. I didn't need it too. I saw it as an affront to me and my freedom. I saw it as tyranny. It was my own fight against tyranny to the degree I could. And if you saw what he did, even ahead of Christmas, he warned of this winner of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated, for themselves, their families, and the hospitals soon overwhelmed. And he sent that message intentionally, and the message was clear, your unvaccinated family members and your unvaccinated friends are a danger to society. They are a threat. It was a stoke division. It was to other the unvaccednade in the country. I felt it. I had friends and family turned their backs to me. I'm sure many people listening have experienced this, either during COVID or just with stuff with Trump stuff politics. We've seen the other ring happen in places like Canada. You had the Trudeau regime freeze bank accounts belonging to the Freedom Convoy protesters and their supporters, I mean authorities in that country seized bank accounts associated with protest organizers and and businesses tied to the blockade. You have the two main organizers are expected to go on trial in September of two thousand and twenty three. And in the IRN is that Joe Biden says that this is because Maga Conservatives are dangerous because they questioned election. But then he hires a spokesperson who has a history of questioning elections. Or you look at Nancy Pelosi tweeting, and I think it was seen that election was hijack so clearly they don't have a problem with questioning elections. And then he cites violence which we saw on January six, but was silent. Cities burned down, and his dozens of people were murdered. He was silent when there's an attempted assassination against Supreme Court Justice Brett Cabina. I don't remember strongly worded defenses of Brett Kavanaugh. We saw some you know, mealy mouse stuff, nothing strong. I don't remember hearing from him in any strong way or even at all during the assassination attempt against congressional Republicans that left the House Manority whip leader Steve Scalise, who was shot critically injured during the attack, had to have several surgeries to save his life. Where was Joe Biden? Then? You know? I don't remember hearing from him heading into the twenty six election when in San Jose protesters attacked Trump supporters and are on video of punching Trump supporters. I don't remember hearing from him. On August nine, two thousand and sixteen, when a sixty two year old man wearing a Donald Trump shirt was viciously attacked by a crowbar wielding man. I don't remember hearing from him. In October or of two thousands sixteen, when the Republican headquarters in North Carolina was firebombed. I don't remember hearing from him in at the inauguration when uh, they're setting the city on fire and setting cars on fire, or in March when a Tennessee mortarists and try to run Representative David Kustof off the road. I mean, the list goes on. There's so many examples. I just I don't have time to give him, so I don't remember him being there. Or when Maxine Waters was encouraging, you know, protesters and rioters to get up in the faces of people, or Kamala Harris told Jacob Blake who showed up at a woman's house to revictimize her and pulled a knife on police officers. Kamala Harris, his own vice president who he picked, said she was proud of him. Where was he then? Or when she was encouraging people to bail out violent rioters? Where was he then? Does he have a problem with that violence? But we all know why he's dehumanizing us, why he's demonizing us. One he wants to use the power of government against us. We've seen this happen with President Trump. We've seen it happen with the Department of Justice labeling parents as terrorists, or what we're going to see with the I R S soon with the beefed up EIGHTI seven thousand agents, so we've seen that. But also because he's a failing regime. Nothing in this country is going right. He's ruined everything, inflation, the border, crime, in the streets, nothing is going right. And everybody knows that. The majority of the country thinks we're on the wrong track. He's destroying the country. So this is desperation. It's a man clinging to power as he feels power slipping through his hands like sand. He's losing power. And this is what desperate people do, desperate things. And it's desperation to go on a primetime speech and label seventy five million Americans as enemies of the state. And I think there's a real effort to demoralize conservatives in the turnout for the mid terms. Even see a lot of these bogus registered voter surveys which helped Democrats. When you look at likely voter surveys, Republicans are doing much better. Of the landscape looks much more favorable two Republicans. I mean, there was even a recent pull from the Trafalgar Group showing the Republican in Washington State who's running for Senate in striking distance in Washington State. That's insane. So don't believe a lot of this garbage you're being fed. Or you can look at the state of Florida. Republican registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats by over two hundred fifty thousand people in Florida, which used to be a purple state. You look at New Jersey new registration number. Since Democrats netted seven thousand, six hundred eighty four new voters, Republicans gained seventy nine thousand, one hundred and eleven. So don't let yourself get demoralized, don't let yourself fiel down trodden. This is what they want. We've got to turn out in November. This is one of the most important elections, if not the most important election of our lifetime. And we've got a candidate who is running for Senate in Missouri. You know him as the Attorney General, Eric Schmidt. He's awesome, right how he is because of a lawsuit that he and the Attorney General of Louisiana filed has uncovered critical information about collusion between our own government and big tech and trying to silence and censor Americans. So we're going to talk to him about that he also fought on the vaccine as well to try to protect Americans from having to get it. This guy is a fighter and he's running for Senate. So we're going to talk to him about everything I just laid out in my concerns and hearing from him someone who is going to go to the Senate and fight for us, going to go to the Senate and fight this tyranny that we are seeing and we are experiencing in America. So with that, the current Attorney General of Missouri, or Schmidt, but soon to be Senator enjoy Attorney General Eric Schmidt, thanks so much for joining the show. You're running for Senate, so you're a busy I right now, so I really appreciate you taking the time. It's great to be with you. It really is. I mean, what a time to be life. We watched that speech from Joe Biden, you know, taking the stage in a primetime address to essentially say that seventy five million Americans are enemies of the state. I want to play a clip and then get your reaction on the other side. What as I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise, too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the Migor Republicans representing extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. Why do you think he gave that speech? What what's the intent behind it? I think it's meant to distract from his abysmal record as president. I mean, you see, look, coming out of the Trump presidency, we had, you know, record job growth and wage growth. You had a secure border, you had energy dominance, and that has all gone away, and you how have record inflation. Um, you have a struggling economy. We have a president that's going to Saudi Arabia begging for oil and shipping our strategic national patroleum to China with gas prices that are sky high. I mean, and and and and by the way, a totally poorous order where you have sent and all streaming across the border, killing people in our community. So his record is terrible. So all he has left is really kind of an unprecedented assault by an American president on half of the country. I mean, that is essentially categorizing, you know, seventy five million people as the enemy. And it's just it's a very desperate attempt, and I think it came across as such, I hope to most of the American people that, um, you know, this is just this president is completely lost his bearings. The left, which controls the Democrat Party is hell been on power and control. And I think they know reckoning is coming Lisa in November, and this is just their latest attempt to distract from that. Well, and we've already seen them, you know, walk it back, clearly realizing that having him in front of this freery red backdrop, looking like he's in front of the gates of Hell with his arms up like a dictator, might not be the best imagery heading into a deter images matter, right, I mean Reagan of course, you know, standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate and saying Mr Gorba chop teared down this wall. And then you you having a president now that looks like it's out of a movie, like he's like a sith lord, you know, standing in front of these red gates demanding you know some sort of struggle session or some you know from half the country. Is very bizarre. So whoever, and then he had you know, the military behind them. It was just all the optics were terrible in the content of the speech, and you just you know, played a precipit of that was just so divisive. And this is a guy that supposedly ran as the you know, the nice grandpa that was gonna unite the country. I mean, far be it from that. So well, I didn't want to play too much of it because I didn't want to do that to you or the audience again for you know, and then for those of us who are forced to watch it. Uh. I think what concerns me is it really was this other ring of seventy five million people. And you can really go throughout history and see what can it leads to. Sometimes when you have this other ring, We've seen it in Germany, we've seen it in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkety, this dehumanization of a group of people. So I don't think that should be taken lightly. Where where does this go? Well, I think it's important to put at least in a broader context. So you're right, it's a very dangerous ideology where you're dehumanizing, you know, stello countrymen because they have a different political belief than you. And meanwhile, here's what else is happening. You've got the FBI that's been weaponized now by the Department of Justice, which is after past political opponents, likely future plitical opponent and former president that just looks like it comes out of a third world banana republic. You've got the FBI weaponized against parents, investigating parents under the Patriot Act for showing up to school board meetings. You have eighties seven thousand I R S agents being fanned across the country to go after taxpayers and the middle class. Uh. And then you know, uh, the FBI looking the other way on like the Hunter Biden laptop story and things like that. So you put all of that stuff together in by the way, with our recent lawsuit and some of the revelations that have come out this week against the by administration Missouri suit their coordination with big tech. They are directing Facebook and Twitter on content in d platforming people for quote unquote misinformation. The same administration that had a Ministry of Truth, a Disinformation Governance Board. I mean, talk about not being normal. You know, we're not having traditional political debates right now about tax cuts and entitlement reform. The Democrats literally are two votes away in the United States Senate, from adding states the Union and pack in the Supreme Court and federalizing elections, granting amnesty, trying to fundamentally change this country forever. That's what's at stake in this election. And so I think as conservatives, as Republicans, our role here is to save the country and to get it back, not so that Washington can aggregate more power and reward and punish, but to give that power back to people, whether it's deregulation or tax cuts, and get back to a place where people find meaning in their communities and at church, in other organizations, as opposed to consolidating all of that, you know, everything you want in life with one person in Washington. It doesn't work that way, and it's dangerous. It is dangerous. I mean, fortunately, we still have the bare bones of what are founding fathers built as a country. You know, checks and balances in the first and second moment, which are critical for free societies and which are both under attack. You know, talk a little bit more about that lawsuit that you file, the law with the Attorney General of Louisiana and the information that you uncovered with it, which is crucial with about the First Amendment, so, so talk a little bit about the lawsuit and what you found. Yeah, and and to such on a broader point that you mentioned is thankfully our founders recognize there are great students of history and these tyrannical regimes that had you know, existed at the time they knew human nature, right, and people try to aggregate power. That's what every tyrant and dictator does, so they meant to spread it out right, checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism where states created the federal government to be a government of limited powers, and when they get out of that lane, the states can sue to check that. And it's all meant to protect individual liberty. And so a lot of the lawsuits that we filed these have been based on this right that an agency like OSHA, which was created to make sure forklips deep when they back up, isn't supposed to be forcing a medical procedure on eighty million Americans, right. So we filed that lawsuit Missouri was the first of files in the Supreme Court, and one but we filed earlier this year, a landmark lawsuit um against the Biden administration for their direct coordination, collusion, and direction of this you know, vast censorship enterprise they have with big tech. Big tech is so we filed that lawsuit a judge order recovery. So we're getting documents now, and what we've found is senior Facebook officials direct you know, communicating directly with the surgeon. Here's some more we call a censorship roundtable essentially right to figure out what else they can be doing. Two D platform people who dared to question you know, the regime's uh, you know, stated position on things. And then they had like these special ways that they could government officials could go and essentially takedown content themselves as for I think they're called preferred um flagging status or something like that. So this was pretty extensive. And in addition to that, those are the things that we currently know. What we don't know now is what the Department of Justice is trying to block, which are communications with White House officials, you know, in the White House with Facebook. And that's the next phase of the lawsuit is we're gonna get at that stuff too, because we want to know how high this go, how high it goes, and how wide it goes, because I think it's important to making sure this stuff stops and it doesn't happen again. And what kind of information were they try were they trying to suppress in center specifically? Do we know? So a lot of this had a lot of this had to do with COVID. So essentially the lawsuits based on a few things, right, you know, election issues, um Hunter, Biden, laptop issues, and COVID related stuff. And the vast majority of the stuff that we were able to encode cover so far having to do with COVID, right, them trying to you know, snuff out misinformation or disinformation and the government's direct role in doing that. And and they were, you know, sort of unapologetic about this, you know they and you had Jen Psaki standing there's saying we're working with our Facebook partners, are you know, our social media partners in trying to take this stuff down? I mean, they were admitting it. And so this is the first time in this lawsuit now where we've got to you know, look under the hood where we actually get documents, because a lot of times what happens, Lisa is people file these lawsuits against Facebook or something and ends up in the Northern District of California and never sees the light of day. So this is the first lawsuit, you know, we filed against the government of the United States, Joe Biden and his administration, and we're getting, um, some documents. There's a lot more to uncover here, but this is more than anybody's seen before. But again, these are we've got, you know, example after example in our motion to get more information some of the stuff we've gotten, and it's these are text messages again directly to the Surgeon General. These are uh, you know, emails saying can you take this down? You know, and then somebody from Instagram saying on it and it's taken down. I mean, that's not what's supposed to happen. Like, the government doesn't get to say what you get to say. They don't get to tell you what content is appropriate. And then you heard the um, you know, the Press Secretary this week say, well, what do you consider extremism something that's outside the mainstream? Well, what does that mean? You know, the government again in the United States doesn't get to decide that right descent is important. Um, you know, having people having unpopular opinions at the time. By the way, most of those have been proven to be true, you know, especially as it relates to COVID when we were told you know, masking, you know these cloth masks work, Well that was bogus. But people were being you know, the platforms and reputations ruined because they dare to question the regime. And that's something that should be very scary to people in this country. And why this lawsuits is so important, Well, I feel that because I tend to very often have unpopulargeole. Well I'm by nature, I mean, I'm kind of like, I'm kind of a contrarian to uh maybe that's how I ended up doing what I do now. But it's it's an important case because, I mean, the First Amendment is the beating heart of our constitution. You know, it is the ultimate pressure release foul because most places in the world they resolve these disputes through violence, and in this country, we decided, hey, we're going to settle these issues on the town square and people get to say things that are unpopular. It might actually make you angry, but they get to say them. So when the government is basically coming in and cracking down on the speech and saying you don't get to do that, that's a problem. And again that's at the heart of this lawsuit. What's also to your point, it's you know, the heartbeat of freedom in a country. I mean, there's a reason why you can go through and look at communist regimes, whether it was Ford or Castro, when you took over the you know, Communist Party of China, Nazi Germany. What they do is they go in and they control the flow of information. Because if you control the flow of information, if you control what people read, see and here, then you control society. So you know that freedom of speech is paramount to living in a free country. Yeah, that's that's the first Amendment. And then what else do they do what's in the second Amendment? Right, they take the guns away. Uh, and they you know, make sure that you know, no one can ever resist tyranny. Um and so again, and you see what's happening with this administration. You had the FBI coming in Missouri try and to uh, you know, doing quote unquote audit of concealed carry permits in Missouri, which they're not allowed to do. And we push back and said, you're not going to do that in Missouri. So just a lot of this stuff that's happening right now. I'm not sure we've ever really seen, but these are important questions that we're gonna have to answer in this election cycle about you know, what kind of country we're gonna be. Are we going to remain the freest country in the istory of the world, or are we're going to kind of sink to the level of a lot of places around the world now and in history. And that's I think that's a fight we're fighting, which is why you know I'm running for the United States Senate because I've I've taken on those tough fights as Attorney General. Want to do it in the Senate as well. Quick commercial breakback with the Attorney General on the other side. I hope people are waking up. I mean I really during COVID, I felt like, uh, what is that quote where you know everyone's running towards the cliff. It's the person going to the opposite direction that looks like the crazy brain. Know, Like, I was like, what is going on? And this is insanity? And then even with the vaccine and I was just like pulling my hair out trying to get people to see the light. And so I just I I hope people have seen it. I hope people watch that speech with Joe Biden. You know, looking like a dictator. Uh. And I hope their eyes are open. I mean, do you do you think their eyes are open? I think so. I mean you can feel it on the ground. And uh, I shared that belief with you. I mean in Missouri we took on I mean, we sued forty seven school districts in Missouri for forcing the masking of kids. I just felt like it was it was wrong. And that was by the way, when you know the case numbers, which was everyone's measure at the time, right like on some of those peak days. But if you're doing what's right, um, I think you get vindicated over time. And that's exactly what's happened now with these ridiculous COVID tyrant edicts that were coming down that made no sense. You could you know, you had to have your mask and when you walked into the restaurant, but when you're eating your food somehow, you know, no one cared about it. It was just all nonsense. But but yeah, I think people are waking up. I think people understand what's at stake and why. I think you know, you hear it a lot. This is the most consequential election in our lifetime. But I really believe that, and I also believe in the broader context, as I said, these issues that we're dealing with are not typical political issues. They're not the issues that like Ronald Reagan was wrangling with Tip O'Neil about. I mean, we're asking and going to have to answer some fundamental questions about who we are as a country and whether we will remain that place or not. And so you've got to get the right people there too understand what's at stake well. And you know, I mean Joe Biden had it right when he said, you know, this is a battle for the soul of the nation. It's just the soul of the nation is not you know, a dictator standing at a podium and with the military behind him, you know, calling seventy five billion people like the enemies of the state, Like, that's not that should not be the soul of this country that we love. And you know, smearing people, you know, veterans, people who love this country, who just want to live, we just want to be able to provide a good life for their family, you know, and be left alone by the government. Uh, you know that that's not that's not the soul of of America. It's not the way it's supposed to be. Yeah, the only and the only time his polling numbers, you know, they're terrible, historically low, but when they go up a point or two, it's usually when he's not around, you know, when he's like hiding um. But when you you know, when you kind of reveal, he reveals who he is and what the modern Democrat Party is all about. I think most Americans look at that that say, we don't have anything to do with that, and uh, you know, we believe in freedom, we believe in opportunity. We believe that, you know, people should be able to pursue their dreams and government should have as little role to people's lives as possible. That's not the vision of Joe Biden in this administration. And so we're going to figure out, you know, where the American people stand in November, and I'm optimistic, you know, we really need to get back to that or digital vision of decentralization and put the power into the states and you know, kind of just lead people alone to the larger part um, you know, and absent from his speech, you know, there was no talk about crime inflation. The board like any of these real issues that I mean that people are are facing that you know, there a lot of people are suffering right now economically. You know they're they're trying to figure out how they're going to provide for their families right now. And it just seems like this the Biden regime couldn't care less now. And as you get around when you're running, you know statewide in the state like Missouri, which has a bunch of different cultural influences as the diverse state, the Bootheel, you know, which is in the southeast Missouri, it's different than northwest Missouri. And Saint Wister in Kansas City have their differences in nuances. You get a sense of where people are at, and you have to meet voters where they're at, and you know they're not talking about a lot of these ridiculous policies that that Joe Biden, um, you know what they care about those kitchen table issues, right, the price of gas, the cast of milk, the cost of groceries. And why is that, Well, we have a supply problem, right, we have some energy for no good reason. We have all the energy they will ever need in this country for generations and generations, and we ought to be all the above on that, and we ought to be exporting that liquefied natural gas to Europe because Germany, by the way, has been relying on other sources. And you know, for whatever reason, with this climate alarmism, Um, people are making terrible decisions. Um, people are making terrible decisions, and now they're having rolling blackhouts. So we don't want to see that in this country. We want to, you know, be energy dominant, and that's what people care about. They care about inflation. They think this student loan debt forgiveness stuff, which you know, robs the truck driver to pay for the Harvard grad you know, who's got a bunch of student loan that they think it's crazy. They look around and they see this and they can't believe this is happening in their country. They can't believe that there's eighty seven thousand I R. S agents now fading across They can't believe that the FBI is being used this way by top leadership. And so I think people want like a sense of normal, They want some sandy. They can't believe the spending that's happening in Washington right now. They're completely out of touch this quote unquote inflation reduction bill does just the opposite. But they stand there at the podium and act like it's going to reduce inflation when nobody believes that. It's Orwellian in that way. It's like this new speak, so um again. I think there's a lot of great common sense folks out there that see what's happening. They're tired of it, and they went their country back well and like that of it makes sense, like you know, California banning the sale of new gas powered cars by five and then they're like, oh, by the way, like you can't charge your electric vehicle right now. It's like, how does how does this work out there in practice? Right? This doesn't This doesn't really make sense. No, it doesn't. And that's that's the fallacy and all of this stuff. Right, because you've got a guy like John Kerry flying around the world in a private jet talking about, you know, rising sea levels because of CEO two output, and then Barack Obama bought a house on the coast of Martha's Vy near right. The elites are like, they're just it's a scam. This whole thing is like a pyramid scheme, and uh, and look, people they see it. They now, there are some true believers. It's become sort of like a religion for some for some people, but most people see it and they say, look, you know, I want my to be able to make these decisions myself. I don't want the government to be dictating all of this stuff to me all the time. Quick break back with Attorney General Eric Spitt. It's all of these policies are geared towards, you know, their elitist coastal base while sticking it to you know, hard working Americans and the rest of the country. I do think the student loan, you know, robbing hard working Americans to pay for some liberals gender studies degree, I think is going to hit a nerve heading into the mid terms because it's just such fundamental unfairness. That's exactly what. That's the right word. It's just fundamentally unfairly said. It's people you know who worked and saved you know, and maybe they even you know, forwent college for a while to to make sure they didn't go into debt, or they made a decision about, you know, what school to go to. I mean, I went to Truman State University, which one of the reasons I went there in Northeast Missouri was I got you know, I got a chance to play sports, which was great, but also it is affordable. It was a great education. And so people are making these decisions and they don't take on certain debt, right because they don't want be saddled with that. But then when somebody who, like you said, has that kind of degree, um, you know, in in the in the coal miner or the truck driver, of the waitresses having to pay their way when they had to pay everything off or what, it just strikes people as totally unfair. And I think the Democrats now have become the party of by and for the elites, and um, they're not the party of working people. I think President Trump. One of the great legacies of President Trump, you know, I think with the Republican Party is it is the party for working people, who the forgotten men and women this country to build things, who take care of their families and want to do the right thing, and they constantly get vilified by politicians like Joe Biden and that speech last night, And like I said, I think people are tired of it. Well, I mean that's the thing, Like there's seventy five million people that he is uh smearing or are some of the best of America? You know they're there are people that are just hard working, they love their neighbors, They're good people, they want to pay their taxes, they want to do right in society, and you know they're being unjustly uh smeared. And I want to ask you, so, what should people know about You've got a Senate race, you're running for Senate. What should people know about your race? Look, this is uh you know, it's a fifty fifty centate Lisa, and this Missouri. There's no path to the majority if we don't hold Missouri. Right the show me state. We got to win Missouri. We're gonna get one. And it's you know when you look at the map and there's you know, there's a there's other states. There's Pennsylvania, and there's Arizona and Georgia. Are these important states. We've got to hold Missouri. Uh. You know, we came out of primary really strong, with a with a really big win. We've got a lot of momentum and I think people people have seen my record as a training journal taking on these tough fights, and I want to take these same fights, that same fighting spirit to Washington. We need proven conservative fighters right now, and that's what I'm gonna do. And I'm running against somebody who's completely out of touch. She's an heiress who got into this race and the you know things, she can buy this sentence seat. And the bad news for her is the seat belongs to the people, and I'm going to be their voice. And so we're in a good position. There's some pulling that has us up, uh, you know, coming out of primary season. But you know, these races really start to heat up after Labor Day and and uh, but nobody's gonna outwork me. And I think it's just critical. It's just such an important seat to get, not just the majority, but the right people there who are going to shake things up. I'm not interested in being, you know, the most popular person in Washington. I'm not interested in being invited all the cocktail parties. I want to go there and represent Missouri values, fight back against the socialism we see. And so we've got a lot of support. If you know, people, people want to be supportive, they can text Schmidt. You know, we've got a three zero four zero nine. They can text get involved in our campaign, but it's a big one. It's one of these races that's going to get a lot of national attention. No, and people should definitely. I mean, this is a critical election and we need to send people like you to the Senate who are are going to fight for us and and stand up against a lot of the threats we're facing. What else do you you want to leave us with before we go? I know you're you're a busy guy running for Senate here. I think that as we talked about, this is a not only important election, but he put it in a broader context. I think this we're entering the most consequential decade in our republic since the Civil War, because there's a lot of for grabs. You know, we mentioned the things that the Democrats are just two votes away from doing. I mean, Joe Manchet and Christian Cinema are not like rock slid on any of the stuff. Anyway, we found that with the reckless spending bills that go through like there there's a way for them to come around. And so when you're talking the Democrats are obsessed in power and control added states of the Union and packing the Supreme Court of the United States because they don't like certain decisions. Um, we need to win and we need to hold these people accountable. I think one of the things I want people to know abou me is when I get up there, I mean, we ought to have hearings round the cloth, bring Fauci and for Iran Contra like hearings, you know, prime time hearings on what did you know about the origins of COVID? What did you know about being a functional research where we funding it? Did you work with the World Health Organization to suppress that information? You know while it spread? Did you know that China was restricting flights you know internally but not internationally. Did you know they were hoarding P P P you know, um ppe uh and then uh, you know going from a net export import all these important questions that have not been answered. And that's just one thing. Bringing senior FBI, you know, d o J officials. We got to start holding these people accountable. And Lisa, I think one of the things that's most important to me is we have to take on the administrative state and we have to take a wrecking ball to these bureaucrats that are accountable to no one. It is not what the founders intended. They thought in our system of self government, you could send people there and send them back. That was the ultimate check. But right now, you know, the Deputy under Secretary of the e p A, whoever that is, can change and affect someone's life with a guidance letter. And so we gotta put that genie back in the bottle. You know, Trump had a two for one rule where you can pull back if you're proposing a new rule, pull back to Biden just got rid of it. We ought to put that stuff in statute and do a lot more so we get back to a place where you know, the article one branch Congress is responsive to the people in These bureaucrats don't run wild. So there's a lot of work to do. You've got to get the right people there and people who are unafraid of the fight. And that's you know, that's been my record. Eric Schmidt, Attorney General Missouri running for Senate. Everyone go out and support him, sir, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. Great to be with you. So that was the Attorney General of Missouri. He is running for Senate. He's awesome. We got to support him, Eric Schmidt. I mean, look, he's not lying when he says that this is one of the most consequential elections that we've faced in our lifetime. I mean, what kind of country or we're gonna be that's on the ballot this November. Where everyone's got to get out, get excited, turn out, get your friends, your family, go work on campaigns, do whatever you can to try to turn this country around and support candidates like him. I want to thank you for listening The Truth with Lisa Booth every Monday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. Please leave us a review, right us five stars. Let us know what you think. Uh. And I want to thank my team for putting the show together and thanks so much for listening.

So I don't know if you guys watch The Bachelor, but every season they say, oh, this is the most dramatic season ever. I feel like we often say that with elections, this is the most important election ever. But it is this November. We have a choice to make about what kind of country we want to be. Do we want to be a free country like our founding fathers envisioned, like the Founding generation envisioned, or do we want to be a tyranny where you have a dictator like Joe Biden, who went out and addressed the nation in a primetime speech at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, a place where both the United States Declaration of Independence in the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by our founding fathers in the Founding Generation, who went out there, looked Americans in the eye, and a primetime address in a slap to the face of that legacy, making a mockery of the sacrifice that those brave men charted. They charted a different path for our nation, making a mockery out of this constitutional republic, making a mockery out of her freedoms, making a mockery out of our country. And sitting there and slandering seventy million patriotic Americans, smearing them, saying that they are the enemy. There are enemies of the state. And you saw that that imagery of Joe Biden sitting there with the blood red stage, the Marines and the backdrop looking like he's standing in front of the gates of Hell as a dictator. I mean he is. But that was intentional. I mean, he wanted to stoke fear and people. The message was clear, I'm in control. Submit That's what he wanted. And what he was doing was the mother ing of seventy five million Americans, You and me, the people listening to this podcast, many of them are or maybe you didn't vote for Trump, that's fine too, but it was the mothering of them. And we've seen this in society's if you go through it, I mean, this has happened before. I mean you look at the most extreme example, the horrors we witnessed in Europe and Germany. I mean, that was a uniquely terrible time in history. I pray to God we ver see that again. I don't think we're heading down that path, but it's always instructive to look at history, and you can look at Holocaust survivors like Paul Herzegg and he said that he remembers the precise moment he was made to feel fundamentally different in n after the Nazis invaded his home country of Hungary, and he said, it didn't take very long before the edict came out every Jew must wear yellow star. This is the first time I realized that I'm different, even among my friends. We've we've seen it all over the world, not just in what we saw in Germany and Europe. We've seen are in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, We've saw it in the Jim Crow South. I mean, is that the kind of stuff we want to return to? This other rang of people, but this time based on political views seventy million Americans, the intentional dehumanization of this group, which then sets up a path for potential discrimination and persecution. They've called this fascist. I mean, think about it. The guy the president in the United States, the guy who is quite literally at this time, trying to imprison his political opponent, has thoughts on fascism, uh, you know, and and less it's an instructional how too. He doesn't really have a leg to stand on. But we've seen this mothering happen in more recent events, right, I mean remember COVID and the forced vaccinations of Americans. I mean Joe Biden knew that the COVID shots would not stop the spread of COVID, Yet he went out there and outsweeping mandates, trying to force the vaccination on you know, at least a hundred million Americans, almost two thirds of all workers. In addition of purging the military of people who didn't want to get at healthcare workers as well. This is one of the reasons I chose not to get vaccinated one. I didn't need it too. I saw it as an affront to me and my freedom. I saw it as tyranny. It was my own fight against tyranny to the degree I could. And if you saw what he did, even ahead of Christmas, he warned of this winner of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated, for themselves, their families, and the hospitals soon overwhelmed. And he sent that message intentionally, and the message was clear, your unvaccinated family members and your unvaccinated friends are a danger to society. They are a threat. It was a stoke division. It was to other the unvaccednade in the country. I felt it. I had friends and family turned their backs to me. I'm sure many people listening have experienced this, either during COVID or just with stuff with Trump stuff politics. We've seen the other ring happen in places like Canada. You had the Trudeau regime freeze bank accounts belonging to the Freedom Convoy protesters and their supporters, I mean authorities in that country seized bank accounts associated with protest organizers and and businesses tied to the blockade. You have the two main organizers are expected to go on trial in September of two thousand and twenty three. And in the IRN is that Joe Biden says that this is because Maga Conservatives are dangerous because they questioned election. But then he hires a spokesperson who has a history of questioning elections. Or you look at Nancy Pelosi tweeting, and I think it was seen that election was hijack so clearly they don't have a problem with questioning elections. And then he cites violence which we saw on January six, but was silent. Cities burned down, and his dozens of people were murdered. He was silent when there's an attempted assassination against Supreme Court Justice Brett Cabina. I don't remember strongly worded defenses of Brett Kavanaugh. We saw some you know, mealy mouse stuff, nothing strong. I don't remember hearing from him in any strong way or even at all during the assassination attempt against congressional Republicans that left the House Manority whip leader Steve Scalise, who was shot critically injured during the attack, had to have several surgeries to save his life. Where was Joe Biden? Then? You know? I don't remember hearing from him heading into the twenty six election when in San Jose protesters attacked Trump supporters and are on video of punching Trump supporters. I don't remember hearing from him. On August nine, two thousand and sixteen, when a sixty two year old man wearing a Donald Trump shirt was viciously attacked by a crowbar wielding man. I don't remember hearing from him. In October or of two thousands sixteen, when the Republican headquarters in North Carolina was firebombed. I don't remember hearing from him in at the inauguration when uh, they're setting the city on fire and setting cars on fire, or in March when a Tennessee mortarists and try to run Representative David Kustof off the road. I mean, the list goes on. There's so many examples. I just I don't have time to give him, so I don't remember him being there. Or when Maxine Waters was encouraging, you know, protesters and rioters to get up in the faces of people, or Kamala Harris told Jacob Blake who showed up at a woman's house to revictimize her and pulled a knife on police officers. Kamala Harris, his own vice president who he picked, said she was proud of him. Where was he then? Or when she was encouraging people to bail out violent rioters? Where was he then? Does he have a problem with that violence? But we all know why he's dehumanizing us, why he's demonizing us. One he wants to use the power of government against us. We've seen this happen with President Trump. We've seen it happen with the Department of Justice labeling parents as terrorists, or what we're going to see with the I R S soon with the beefed up EIGHTI seven thousand agents, so we've seen that. But also because he's a failing regime. Nothing in this country is going right. He's ruined everything, inflation, the border, crime, in the streets, nothing is going right. And everybody knows that. The majority of the country thinks we're on the wrong track. He's destroying the country. So this is desperation. It's a man clinging to power as he feels power slipping through his hands like sand. He's losing power. And this is what desperate people do, desperate things. And it's desperation to go on a primetime speech and label seventy five million Americans as enemies of the state. And I think there's a real effort to demoralize conservatives in the turnout for the mid terms. Even see a lot of these bogus registered voter surveys which helped Democrats. When you look at likely voter surveys, Republicans are doing much better. Of the landscape looks much more favorable two Republicans. I mean, there was even a recent pull from the Trafalgar Group showing the Republican in Washington State who's running for Senate in striking distance in Washington State. That's insane. So don't believe a lot of this garbage you're being fed. Or you can look at the state of Florida. Republican registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats by over two hundred fifty thousand people in Florida, which used to be a purple state. You look at New Jersey new registration number. Since Democrats netted seven thousand, six hundred eighty four new voters, Republicans gained seventy nine thousand, one hundred and eleven. So don't let yourself get demoralized, don't let yourself fiel down trodden. This is what they want. We've got to turn out in November. This is one of the most important elections, if not the most important election of our lifetime. And we've got a candidate who is running for Senate in Missouri. You know him as the Attorney General, Eric Schmidt. He's awesome, right how he is because of a lawsuit that he and the Attorney General of Louisiana filed has uncovered critical information about collusion between our own government and big tech and trying to silence and censor Americans. So we're going to talk to him about that he also fought on the vaccine as well to try to protect Americans from having to get it. This guy is a fighter and he's running for Senate. So we're going to talk to him about everything I just laid out in my concerns and hearing from him someone who is going to go to the Senate and fight for us, going to go to the Senate and fight this tyranny that we are seeing and we are experiencing in America. So with that, the current Attorney General of Missouri, or Schmidt, but soon to be Senator enjoy Attorney General Eric Schmidt, thanks so much for joining the show. You're running for Senate, so you're a busy I right now, so I really appreciate you taking the time. It's great to be with you. It really is. I mean, what a time to be life. We watched that speech from Joe Biden, you know, taking the stage in a primetime address to essentially say that seventy five million Americans are enemies of the state. I want to play a clip and then get your reaction on the other side. What as I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise, too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the Migor Republicans representing extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. Why do you think he gave that speech? What what's the intent behind it? I think it's meant to distract from his abysmal record as president. I mean, you see, look, coming out of the Trump presidency, we had, you know, record job growth and wage growth. You had a secure border, you had energy dominance, and that has all gone away, and you how have record inflation. Um, you have a struggling economy. We have a president that's going to Saudi Arabia begging for oil and shipping our strategic national patroleum to China with gas prices that are sky high. I mean, and and and and by the way, a totally poorous order where you have sent and all streaming across the border, killing people in our community. So his record is terrible. So all he has left is really kind of an unprecedented assault by an American president on half of the country. I mean, that is essentially categorizing, you know, seventy five million people as the enemy. And it's just it's a very desperate attempt, and I think it came across as such, I hope to most of the American people that, um, you know, this is just this president is completely lost his bearings. The left, which controls the Democrat Party is hell been on power and control. And I think they know reckoning is coming Lisa in November, and this is just their latest attempt to distract from that. Well, and we've already seen them, you know, walk it back, clearly realizing that having him in front of this freery red backdrop, looking like he's in front of the gates of Hell with his arms up like a dictator, might not be the best imagery heading into a deter images matter, right, I mean Reagan of course, you know, standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate and saying Mr Gorba chop teared down this wall. And then you you having a president now that looks like it's out of a movie, like he's like a sith lord, you know, standing in front of these red gates demanding you know some sort of struggle session or some you know from half the country. Is very bizarre. So whoever, and then he had you know, the military behind them. It was just all the optics were terrible in the content of the speech, and you just you know, played a precipit of that was just so divisive. And this is a guy that supposedly ran as the you know, the nice grandpa that was gonna unite the country. I mean, far be it from that. So well, I didn't want to play too much of it because I didn't want to do that to you or the audience again for you know, and then for those of us who are forced to watch it. Uh. I think what concerns me is it really was this other ring of seventy five million people. And you can really go throughout history and see what can it leads to. Sometimes when you have this other ring, We've seen it in Germany, we've seen it in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkety, this dehumanization of a group of people. So I don't think that should be taken lightly. Where where does this go? Well, I think it's important to put at least in a broader context. So you're right, it's a very dangerous ideology where you're dehumanizing, you know, stello countrymen because they have a different political belief than you. And meanwhile, here's what else is happening. You've got the FBI that's been weaponized now by the Department of Justice, which is after past political opponents, likely future plitical opponent and former president that just looks like it comes out of a third world banana republic. You've got the FBI weaponized against parents, investigating parents under the Patriot Act for showing up to school board meetings. You have eighties seven thousand I R S agents being fanned across the country to go after taxpayers and the middle class. Uh. And then you know, uh, the FBI looking the other way on like the Hunter Biden laptop story and things like that. So you put all of that stuff together in by the way, with our recent lawsuit and some of the revelations that have come out this week against the by administration Missouri suit their coordination with big tech. They are directing Facebook and Twitter on content in d platforming people for quote unquote misinformation. The same administration that had a Ministry of Truth, a Disinformation Governance Board. I mean, talk about not being normal. You know, we're not having traditional political debates right now about tax cuts and entitlement reform. The Democrats literally are two votes away in the United States Senate, from adding states the Union and pack in the Supreme Court and federalizing elections, granting amnesty, trying to fundamentally change this country forever. That's what's at stake in this election. And so I think as conservatives, as Republicans, our role here is to save the country and to get it back, not so that Washington can aggregate more power and reward and punish, but to give that power back to people, whether it's deregulation or tax cuts, and get back to a place where people find meaning in their communities and at church, in other organizations, as opposed to consolidating all of that, you know, everything you want in life with one person in Washington. It doesn't work that way, and it's dangerous. It is dangerous. I mean, fortunately, we still have the bare bones of what are founding fathers built as a country. You know, checks and balances in the first and second moment, which are critical for free societies and which are both under attack. You know, talk a little bit more about that lawsuit that you file, the law with the Attorney General of Louisiana and the information that you uncovered with it, which is crucial with about the First Amendment, so, so talk a little bit about the lawsuit and what you found. Yeah, and and to such on a broader point that you mentioned is thankfully our founders recognize there are great students of history and these tyrannical regimes that had you know, existed at the time they knew human nature, right, and people try to aggregate power. That's what every tyrant and dictator does, so they meant to spread it out right, checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism where states created the federal government to be a government of limited powers, and when they get out of that lane, the states can sue to check that. And it's all meant to protect individual liberty. And so a lot of the lawsuits that we filed these have been based on this right that an agency like OSHA, which was created to make sure forklips deep when they back up, isn't supposed to be forcing a medical procedure on eighty million Americans, right. So we filed that lawsuit Missouri was the first of files in the Supreme Court, and one but we filed earlier this year, a landmark lawsuit um against the Biden administration for their direct coordination, collusion, and direction of this you know, vast censorship enterprise they have with big tech. Big tech is so we filed that lawsuit a judge order recovery. So we're getting documents now, and what we've found is senior Facebook officials direct you know, communicating directly with the surgeon. Here's some more we call a censorship roundtable essentially right to figure out what else they can be doing. Two D platform people who dared to question you know, the regime's uh, you know, stated position on things. And then they had like these special ways that they could government officials could go and essentially takedown content themselves as for I think they're called preferred um flagging status or something like that. So this was pretty extensive. And in addition to that, those are the things that we currently know. What we don't know now is what the Department of Justice is trying to block, which are communications with White House officials, you know, in the White House with Facebook. And that's the next phase of the lawsuit is we're gonna get at that stuff too, because we want to know how high this go, how high it goes, and how wide it goes, because I think it's important to making sure this stuff stops and it doesn't happen again. And what kind of information were they try were they trying to suppress in center specifically? Do we know? So a lot of this had a lot of this had to do with COVID. So essentially the lawsuits based on a few things, right, you know, election issues, um Hunter, Biden, laptop issues, and COVID related stuff. And the vast majority of the stuff that we were able to encode cover so far having to do with COVID, right, them trying to you know, snuff out misinformation or disinformation and the government's direct role in doing that. And and they were, you know, sort of unapologetic about this, you know they and you had Jen Psaki standing there's saying we're working with our Facebook partners, are you know, our social media partners in trying to take this stuff down? I mean, they were admitting it. And so this is the first time in this lawsuit now where we've got to you know, look under the hood where we actually get documents, because a lot of times what happens, Lisa is people file these lawsuits against Facebook or something and ends up in the Northern District of California and never sees the light of day. So this is the first lawsuit, you know, we filed against the government of the United States, Joe Biden and his administration, and we're getting, um, some documents. There's a lot more to uncover here, but this is more than anybody's seen before. But again, these are we've got, you know, example after example in our motion to get more information some of the stuff we've gotten, and it's these are text messages again directly to the Surgeon General. These are uh, you know, emails saying can you take this down? You know, and then somebody from Instagram saying on it and it's taken down. I mean, that's not what's supposed to happen. Like, the government doesn't get to say what you get to say. They don't get to tell you what content is appropriate. And then you heard the um, you know, the Press Secretary this week say, well, what do you consider extremism something that's outside the mainstream? Well, what does that mean? You know, the government again in the United States doesn't get to decide that right descent is important. Um, you know, having people having unpopular opinions at the time. By the way, most of those have been proven to be true, you know, especially as it relates to COVID when we were told you know, masking, you know these cloth masks work, Well that was bogus. But people were being you know, the platforms and reputations ruined because they dare to question the regime. And that's something that should be very scary to people in this country. And why this lawsuits is so important, Well, I feel that because I tend to very often have unpopulargeole. Well I'm by nature, I mean, I'm kind of like, I'm kind of a contrarian to uh maybe that's how I ended up doing what I do now. But it's it's an important case because, I mean, the First Amendment is the beating heart of our constitution. You know, it is the ultimate pressure release foul because most places in the world they resolve these disputes through violence, and in this country, we decided, hey, we're going to settle these issues on the town square and people get to say things that are unpopular. It might actually make you angry, but they get to say them. So when the government is basically coming in and cracking down on the speech and saying you don't get to do that, that's a problem. And again that's at the heart of this lawsuit. What's also to your point, it's you know, the heartbeat of freedom in a country. I mean, there's a reason why you can go through and look at communist regimes, whether it was Ford or Castro, when you took over the you know, Communist Party of China, Nazi Germany. What they do is they go in and they control the flow of information. Because if you control the flow of information, if you control what people read, see and here, then you control society. So you know that freedom of speech is paramount to living in a free country. Yeah, that's that's the first Amendment. And then what else do they do what's in the second Amendment? Right, they take the guns away. Uh, and they you know, make sure that you know, no one can ever resist tyranny. Um and so again, and you see what's happening with this administration. You had the FBI coming in Missouri try and to uh, you know, doing quote unquote audit of concealed carry permits in Missouri, which they're not allowed to do. And we push back and said, you're not going to do that in Missouri. So just a lot of this stuff that's happening right now. I'm not sure we've ever really seen, but these are important questions that we're gonna have to answer in this election cycle about you know, what kind of country we're gonna be. Are we going to remain the freest country in the istory of the world, or are we're going to kind of sink to the level of a lot of places around the world now and in history. And that's I think that's a fight we're fighting, which is why you know I'm running for the United States Senate because I've I've taken on those tough fights as Attorney General. Want to do it in the Senate as well. Quick commercial breakback with the Attorney General on the other side. I hope people are waking up. I mean I really during COVID, I felt like, uh, what is that quote where you know everyone's running towards the cliff. It's the person going to the opposite direction that looks like the crazy brain. Know, Like, I was like, what is going on? And this is insanity? And then even with the vaccine and I was just like pulling my hair out trying to get people to see the light. And so I just I I hope people have seen it. I hope people watch that speech with Joe Biden. You know, looking like a dictator. Uh. And I hope their eyes are open. I mean, do you do you think their eyes are open? I think so. I mean you can feel it on the ground. And uh, I shared that belief with you. I mean in Missouri we took on I mean, we sued forty seven school districts in Missouri for forcing the masking of kids. I just felt like it was it was wrong. And that was by the way, when you know the case numbers, which was everyone's measure at the time, right like on some of those peak days. But if you're doing what's right, um, I think you get vindicated over time. And that's exactly what's happened now with these ridiculous COVID tyrant edicts that were coming down that made no sense. You could you know, you had to have your mask and when you walked into the restaurant, but when you're eating your food somehow, you know, no one cared about it. It was just all nonsense. But but yeah, I think people are waking up. I think people understand what's at stake and why. I think you know, you hear it a lot. This is the most consequential election in our lifetime. But I really believe that, and I also believe in the broader context, as I said, these issues that we're dealing with are not typical political issues. They're not the issues that like Ronald Reagan was wrangling with Tip O'Neil about. I mean, we're asking and going to have to answer some fundamental questions about who we are as a country and whether we will remain that place or not. And so you've got to get the right people there too understand what's at stake well. And you know, I mean Joe Biden had it right when he said, you know, this is a battle for the soul of the nation. It's just the soul of the nation is not you know, a dictator standing at a podium and with the military behind him, you know, calling seventy five billion people like the enemies of the state, Like, that's not that should not be the soul of this country that we love. And you know, smearing people, you know, veterans, people who love this country, who just want to live, we just want to be able to provide a good life for their family, you know, and be left alone by the government. Uh, you know that that's not that's not the soul of of America. It's not the way it's supposed to be. Yeah, the only and the only time his polling numbers, you know, they're terrible, historically low, but when they go up a point or two, it's usually when he's not around, you know, when he's like hiding um. But when you you know, when you kind of reveal, he reveals who he is and what the modern Democrat Party is all about. I think most Americans look at that that say, we don't have anything to do with that, and uh, you know, we believe in freedom, we believe in opportunity. We believe that, you know, people should be able to pursue their dreams and government should have as little role to people's lives as possible. That's not the vision of Joe Biden in this administration. And so we're going to figure out, you know, where the American people stand in November, and I'm optimistic, you know, we really need to get back to that or digital vision of decentralization and put the power into the states and you know, kind of just lead people alone to the larger part um, you know, and absent from his speech, you know, there was no talk about crime inflation. The board like any of these real issues that I mean that people are are facing that you know, there a lot of people are suffering right now economically. You know they're they're trying to figure out how they're going to provide for their families right now. And it just seems like this the Biden regime couldn't care less now. And as you get around when you're running, you know statewide in the state like Missouri, which has a bunch of different cultural influences as the diverse state, the Bootheel, you know, which is in the southeast Missouri, it's different than northwest Missouri. And Saint Wister in Kansas City have their differences in nuances. You get a sense of where people are at, and you have to meet voters where they're at, and you know they're not talking about a lot of these ridiculous policies that that Joe Biden, um, you know what they care about those kitchen table issues, right, the price of gas, the cast of milk, the cost of groceries. And why is that, Well, we have a supply problem, right, we have some energy for no good reason. We have all the energy they will ever need in this country for generations and generations, and we ought to be all the above on that, and we ought to be exporting that liquefied natural gas to Europe because Germany, by the way, has been relying on other sources. And you know, for whatever reason, with this climate alarmism, Um, people are making terrible decisions. Um, people are making terrible decisions, and now they're having rolling blackhouts. So we don't want to see that in this country. We want to, you know, be energy dominant, and that's what people care about. They care about inflation. They think this student loan debt forgiveness stuff, which you know, robs the truck driver to pay for the Harvard grad you know, who's got a bunch of student loan that they think it's crazy. They look around and they see this and they can't believe this is happening in their country. They can't believe that there's eighty seven thousand I R. S agents now fading across They can't believe that the FBI is being used this way by top leadership. And so I think people want like a sense of normal, They want some sandy. They can't believe the spending that's happening in Washington right now. They're completely out of touch this quote unquote inflation reduction bill does just the opposite. But they stand there at the podium and act like it's going to reduce inflation when nobody believes that. It's Orwellian in that way. It's like this new speak, so um again. I think there's a lot of great common sense folks out there that see what's happening. They're tired of it, and they went their country back well and like that of it makes sense, like you know, California banning the sale of new gas powered cars by five and then they're like, oh, by the way, like you can't charge your electric vehicle right now. It's like, how does how does this work out there in practice? Right? This doesn't This doesn't really make sense. No, it doesn't. And that's that's the fallacy and all of this stuff. Right, because you've got a guy like John Kerry flying around the world in a private jet talking about, you know, rising sea levels because of CEO two output, and then Barack Obama bought a house on the coast of Martha's Vy near right. The elites are like, they're just it's a scam. This whole thing is like a pyramid scheme, and uh, and look, people they see it. They now, there are some true believers. It's become sort of like a religion for some for some people, but most people see it and they say, look, you know, I want my to be able to make these decisions myself. I don't want the government to be dictating all of this stuff to me all the time. Quick break back with Attorney General Eric Spitt. It's all of these policies are geared towards, you know, their elitist coastal base while sticking it to you know, hard working Americans and the rest of the country. I do think the student loan, you know, robbing hard working Americans to pay for some liberals gender studies degree, I think is going to hit a nerve heading into the mid terms because it's just such fundamental unfairness. That's exactly what. That's the right word. It's just fundamentally unfairly said. It's people you know who worked and saved you know, and maybe they even you know, forwent college for a while to to make sure they didn't go into debt, or they made a decision about, you know, what school to go to. I mean, I went to Truman State University, which one of the reasons I went there in Northeast Missouri was I got you know, I got a chance to play sports, which was great, but also it is affordable. It was a great education. And so people are making these decisions and they don't take on certain debt, right because they don't want be saddled with that. But then when somebody who, like you said, has that kind of degree, um, you know, in in the in the coal miner or the truck driver, of the waitresses having to pay their way when they had to pay everything off or what, it just strikes people as totally unfair. And I think the Democrats now have become the party of by and for the elites, and um, they're not the party of working people. I think President Trump. One of the great legacies of President Trump, you know, I think with the Republican Party is it is the party for working people, who the forgotten men and women this country to build things, who take care of their families and want to do the right thing, and they constantly get vilified by politicians like Joe Biden and that speech last night, And like I said, I think people are tired of it. Well, I mean that's the thing, Like there's seventy five million people that he is uh smearing or are some of the best of America? You know they're there are people that are just hard working, they love their neighbors, They're good people, they want to pay their taxes, they want to do right in society, and you know they're being unjustly uh smeared. And I want to ask you, so, what should people know about You've got a Senate race, you're running for Senate. What should people know about your race? Look, this is uh you know, it's a fifty fifty centate Lisa, and this Missouri. There's no path to the majority if we don't hold Missouri. Right the show me state. We got to win Missouri. We're gonna get one. And it's you know when you look at the map and there's you know, there's a there's other states. There's Pennsylvania, and there's Arizona and Georgia. Are these important states. We've got to hold Missouri. Uh. You know, we came out of primary really strong, with a with a really big win. We've got a lot of momentum and I think people people have seen my record as a training journal taking on these tough fights, and I want to take these same fights, that same fighting spirit to Washington. We need proven conservative fighters right now, and that's what I'm gonna do. And I'm running against somebody who's completely out of touch. She's an heiress who got into this race and the you know things, she can buy this sentence seat. And the bad news for her is the seat belongs to the people, and I'm going to be their voice. And so we're in a good position. There's some pulling that has us up, uh, you know, coming out of primary season. But you know, these races really start to heat up after Labor Day and and uh, but nobody's gonna outwork me. And I think it's just critical. It's just such an important seat to get, not just the majority, but the right people there who are going to shake things up. I'm not interested in being, you know, the most popular person in Washington. I'm not interested in being invited all the cocktail parties. I want to go there and represent Missouri values, fight back against the socialism we see. And so we've got a lot of support. If you know, people, people want to be supportive, they can text Schmidt. You know, we've got a three zero four zero nine. They can text get involved in our campaign, but it's a big one. It's one of these races that's going to get a lot of national attention. No, and people should definitely. I mean, this is a critical election and we need to send people like you to the Senate who are are going to fight for us and and stand up against a lot of the threats we're facing. What else do you you want to leave us with before we go? I know you're you're a busy guy running for Senate here. I think that as we talked about, this is a not only important election, but he put it in a broader context. I think this we're entering the most consequential decade in our republic since the Civil War, because there's a lot of for grabs. You know, we mentioned the things that the Democrats are just two votes away from doing. I mean, Joe Manchet and Christian Cinema are not like rock slid on any of the stuff. Anyway, we found that with the reckless spending bills that go through like there there's a way for them to come around. And so when you're talking the Democrats are obsessed in power and control added states of the Union and packing the Supreme Court of the United States because they don't like certain decisions. Um, we need to win and we need to hold these people accountable. I think one of the things I want people to know abou me is when I get up there, I mean, we ought to have hearings round the cloth, bring Fauci and for Iran Contra like hearings, you know, prime time hearings on what did you know about the origins of COVID? What did you know about being a functional research where we funding it? Did you work with the World Health Organization to suppress that information? You know while it spread? Did you know that China was restricting flights you know internally but not internationally. Did you know they were hoarding P P P you know, um ppe uh and then uh, you know going from a net export import all these important questions that have not been answered. And that's just one thing. Bringing senior FBI, you know, d o J officials. We got to start holding these people accountable. And Lisa, I think one of the things that's most important to me is we have to take on the administrative state and we have to take a wrecking ball to these bureaucrats that are accountable to no one. It is not what the founders intended. They thought in our system of self government, you could send people there and send them back. That was the ultimate check. But right now, you know, the Deputy under Secretary of the e p A, whoever that is, can change and affect someone's life with a guidance letter. And so we gotta put that genie back in the bottle. You know, Trump had a two for one rule where you can pull back if you're proposing a new rule, pull back to Biden just got rid of it. We ought to put that stuff in statute and do a lot more so we get back to a place where you know, the article one branch Congress is responsive to the people in These bureaucrats don't run wild. So there's a lot of work to do. You've got to get the right people there and people who are unafraid of the fight. And that's you know, that's been my record. Eric Schmidt, Attorney General Missouri running for Senate. Everyone go out and support him, sir, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. Great to be with you. So that was the Attorney General of Missouri. He is running for Senate. He's awesome. We got to support him, Eric Schmidt. I mean, look, he's not lying when he says that this is one of the most consequential elections that we've faced in our lifetime. I mean, what kind of country or we're gonna be that's on the ballot this November. Where everyone's got to get out, get excited, turn out, get your friends, your family, go work on campaigns, do whatever you can to try to turn this country around and support candidates like him. I want to thank you for listening The Truth with Lisa Booth every Monday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. Please leave us a review, right us five stars. Let us know what you think. Uh. And I want to thank my team for putting the show together and thanks so much for listening.