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'Didn't do their homework' Sen. Eric Schmitt brutally mocked after Jack Smith hearing snafu · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Okay, folks, let's get back to our new exclusive MSNOW reporting.
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  Speaker 1: So gather in. On Senator Eric Schmidt's colossal failure to
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  Speaker 1: falsify that former special counsel, Jack Smith, to a separate
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  Speaker 1: probe with unvetted text. Yeah, we're going to get into that.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a reminder of how that exchange went.
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  Speaker 2: Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden
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  Speaker 2: State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February 3rd, 2024?
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  Speaker 1: What city would that be in?
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: What would you say if I had a series of
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  Speaker 2: text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you know that we have this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll give you a second to process it so
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  Speaker 2: you don't, you know, perjure yourself. You will go down
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  Speaker 2: as a total dirtbag. I recall going to a University
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  Speaker 2: of Maryland basketball game where Caitlin Clark was playing.
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  Speaker 1: Right around that time.
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  Speaker 4: And the Marshal Service was there with me.
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  Speaker 1: I think that people should have their facts.
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  Speaker 3: Straight before they accuse someone of being a dirtbag and
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  Speaker 3: not get the team.
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  Speaker 2: I stand by that statement.
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  Speaker 1: The smugness here was just unconscionable. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: share just a little bit further reporting from our colleague
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  Speaker 1: Michael Snell on this. Schmidt made it clear he was
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  Speaker 1: trying to catch Smith in a lie, but he appeared
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  Speaker 1: to have another goal as well. He seemed to believe
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  Speaker 1: he had found a smoking gun for a long running
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  Speaker 1: theory popular in far right media that Smith was secretly
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  Speaker 1: coordinating with the Georgia state prosecution of Donald Trump. And
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  Speaker 1: there's still folks trying to relitigate and reimagine what happened
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  Speaker 1: in 2020.
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  Speaker 5: It's actually insane. But and I will also note Ken
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  Speaker 5: Delaney and Carol Linick are on the are bylined on
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  Speaker 5: this reporting, too. And I think that also matters, because
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  Speaker 5: to me, that says, you know, as a former comms person,
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  Speaker 5: it the story makes very clear that the Department of
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  Speaker 5: Justice did not suggest they use this information. It's very
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  Speaker 5: clear in my read from the story that the Department
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  Speaker 5: of Justice didn't even it wasn't even included in the
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  Speaker 5: memo that Grassley apparently got from them.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 5: This sounds like the Schmidt folks went and got it.
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  Speaker 5: And the DOJ is like, look, you're going to have
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  Speaker 5: to bet it. And they did not do their homework.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of times what happens in these hearings from,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the Republicans always like to try to accuse
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  Speaker 5: the Democrats of performing for MS now. They were clearly
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  Speaker 5: performing for the bowels of the Internet.
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  Speaker 4: What was clear is that this was a coordinated hit
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  Speaker 4: job between the Trump White House, the DOJ and Senate Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what they were doing. They were working in
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  Speaker 4: tandem to try and discredit Jack Smith and bring him down.
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  Speaker 4: And they look like total fools. And Eric Schmidt, we
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  Speaker 4: were looking at his bio, was an attorney general in Missouri.
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  Speaker 4: That was a state attorney general. This guy who completely
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  Speaker 4: fumbled the ball. You know, when I played football, our
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  Speaker 4: coach had a term that if you really screwed up,
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  Speaker 4: it was called take a lap. I go take a lap,
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  Speaker 4: go run around and take a lap and think about
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  Speaker 4: what you did. But if you screwed up even more
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  Speaker 4: than that, you know what he said? Son, it's time
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  Speaker 4: for you to transfer. Maybe this is not the spot
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  Speaker 4: for you. Maybe this is not the spot for you
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  Speaker 4: to grow to be your best. And I think, Senator Schmidt,
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  Speaker 4: the lights of Washington, D.C. may not be for you.
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  Speaker 4: You might want to go back there to Missouri and
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  Speaker 4: have a nice little life working the book tour circuit
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  Speaker 4: and napping people up at the Chiefs games or whatnot
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  Speaker 4: because this is not your forte, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I think— For my perspective, this is just more of
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  Speaker 1: the same Keystone Cop crazy ass backward nonsense that Republicans
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  Speaker 1: have been doing since they decided to hook up in
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  Speaker 1: what they, you know, has been a longest engagement in politics.
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  Speaker 1: And they have reaped nothing good from it. Nothing good.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that you have, you know, this, to
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  Speaker 1: your point, coordination. Also, the fact that the staff is saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this has not been vetted. Right. Schmidt, you could at least,
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  Speaker 1: to your point, done a Google. I mean, we've all
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  Speaker 1: been principals and staff and know what that relationship is like.
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  Speaker 1: And the reality of it is everybody dropped the ball
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  Speaker 1: because they were hell bent on going after the guy
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  Speaker 1: sitting in front of them. And it didn't matter how
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  Speaker 1: they did it, how clean it was, until it blew
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  Speaker 1: up in their face. And Senator Amy Klobuchar made sure
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  Speaker 1: that it landed airway.
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  Speaker 5: But Smith's not even he's not sorry he hasn't retracted. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he's he's tripling down. He actually went on some right
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  Speaker 5: wing podcast and like tripled down on it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the idiocracy does.
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  Speaker 5: But I think that understanding that that's how they're operating
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  Speaker 5: is very important.
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