Eric Schmitt: 'To My Democrat Colleagues, I Feel Bad For You'

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At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) sounded off on Democrats before questioning Assistant AG nominees.

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00:00I find it interesting that my Democrat colleagues are so enraged by this non-story

00:07and had nothing to say when we had a president who literally couldn't put two sentences together

00:13for two years. President Autopin was the commander-in-chief. No questions, no questions about

00:21his inability to construct sentences, let alone foreign policy, but here we are with

00:26a fake story, but this is what happens when you have a party that has reached actually

00:32not rock bottom yet, not rock bottom yet, but they got nothing, zero, no issues, no leader,

00:40fringe issues define them, so they're going to glom on to the story of the day, and quite

00:46frankly, it's embarrassing for them. Just like, by the way, these calls to come out against

00:51violence, the only thing, district court rulings, the only thing that's been talked about are

00:55political solutions. The only person I remember standing in front of the Supreme Court calling

01:00for a whirlwind on Justice Kavanaugh and other Supreme Court justices that were followed up

01:07by assassination attempts of Supreme Court justices that were followed up by violent protests outside

01:13their homes where they had to move out of their homes was Chuck Schumer. And as long as we're

01:20denouncing violence, how about firebombing Tesla dealerships? This Antarctic kind of strain runs

01:33through the left, and to my Democrat friends, I feel bad for you because your party has been captured by

01:41a radical element that is pro-Hamas, that is pro-violence, that is firebombing Tesla dealerships

01:52because they don't like that Elon Musk has actually found the grift out and is cutting it out. The

01:59NGOs that have laundered money for Democrat causes for years, it's all coming to an end and they don't

02:04know how to handle it. So anyway, as far as sort of some of these rulings, I would point out that

02:11in the most recent case with the Venezuelan thugs who've now been imprisoned in El Salvador, the apex of

02:17presidential power is, as Justice Jackson wrote in the Youngstown Steel case in his concurrence, is that

02:23the apex when you have congressional delegation or core Article II powers as commander-in-chief and the

02:30district court in citing the Alien Enemies Act where, whether wartime or invasion or predatory

02:37incursion, the president is acting within his authority, the district court has no more authority

02:42to tell the president he can't do that than they can, speaking of national security, directing troop

02:47movements or missile strikes. So when we talk about separation of powers, it does go both ways,

02:53it does go both ways, and there's been this obsession with getting all of you on the record about

02:58following court orders. The president of the United States has said he will follow court orders time

03:01and time again, but it's this desire to just stir up something because they have nothing. That's what's

03:09going on here. I did want to ask, with the time that I have left, Mr. Davis, you have done a lot of great

03:18work investigating a lot of things. The origins of COVID, I'm just curious. So when I was Attorney General

03:24Missouri, we actually sued Communist China for unleashing the COVID pandemic. We received a $24

03:28billion default judgment recently. But when we filed that lawsuit, it was interesting, the reaction.

03:38You were called a racist if you implied any way that it leaked out of Wuhan, which was very obvious to

03:44most people. And now the intelligence community, who for some reason resisted that conclusion for such a

03:49long time, has basically said that's what happened. What do you think, as you were investigating this,

03:57what was behind that? What was behind this resistance to all the evidence and the obvious nature of the

04:04origins of COVID? Thank you, Senator, for that question. I appreciated speaking with you yesterday.

04:10That was that was great. The report that I authored on the House Intelligence Committee about the origins of

04:17COVID, unfortunately, is still classified. So I can't really get into the specifics of what it found.

04:21We did do an unclassified summary, which, just given the nature of the underlying information,

04:26was unfortunately not terribly revelatory. I would note that when then President Biden instructed the

04:33intelligence community to do a sort of comprehensive review on the COVID origins, the subsequent report

04:39they put out and the declassified version of it, there were serious flaws with. And I think those flaws,

04:45you've seen you mentioned that individual components have changed their public view. But I do think

04:50that until there's more transparency about what was going on within those elements of the intelligence

04:56community, the people won't really know the full story, unfortunately. Thank you. Well, it is also

05:01interesting that Fauci played a very significant role in this. And maybe we'll be hearing from him in

05:08some committee hearings sometime soon, too. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

05:18Okay, so Mr. Eisenberg, Mr. Shoemate, Mr. Davis, thank you for your testimony today and to your family

05:25and friends who've made the visit. We thank you as well. It's a momentous day, I know, in your lives,

05:30and we're excited about what's to come. For everyone's information, written questions to Mr. Eisenberg and Mr.

05:36Shoemate can be submitted for the record until April 2nd at 5pm. Written questions of Mr. Davis

05:41can be submitted for the record until tomorrow, March 27th at 5pm. I'll ask the nominees to answer

05:47and return the questions to the committee as soon as possible so that we can quickly schedule your

05:52confirmation votes. With that, this hearing is adjourned. Thank you.

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