Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
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What is the background and purpose of Senator Eric Schmitt’s interview on the All In Pod?
I put on a jacket because, you know, we're interviewing a senator, but I see that uh It's polo day. Senator Schmitz pulled a Zelensky here.
I yeah, I did, but I told them I do have the stiff I have the stiff collar on the polo, which is You look
great. It looks great. And you know, I lost the weight. Thanks for noticing, Senator. And um uh I've been hitting the weights on like sacks and so I am too trying to get the gun show going like you have uh achieved there. Alright, Besties, I think that was another epic discussion. People love the ideas. I could hear him talk for hours. Absolutely. What'd you gotta say? That was fun. That was great. I'm doing all you Alright everybody, welcome back. to a very special interview. Yeah, you know, we're doing these interviews here uh with me. my amazing co host, and your czar of crypto and AI. The rain man himself, David Sachs. David, how you doing, brother? How's your summer wrapping up?
Good to be here. The summer ended way too soon. Way too soon. So sad.
I isn't it? It's just like kids going back to school, all that. And look, you're a civil servant now. You are working for the people and the people demand you're a public servant, yes. And the the people demand results. And hey, we have another civil servant here. David, why don't you introduce our guest today?
This is Senator Eric Schmidt from the state of Missouri. How did we meet? It was uh it was through Another former senator, now vice president, JD Vance, I believe. That's
right. That's right. Yeah. And J you guys
you guys
entered the Senate at together at the same time. We did and uh got to be very close and uh shared a lot of um life experiences and uh and our freshman group got, you know, pretty tight.
How did Missouri’s Attorney General challenge the Biden administration in the Biden v. Missouri lawsuit?
We go to dinner once a month and try to keep that going now that he's even VP, which is a a lot of fun. But yeah, we got introduced through him and uh have enjoyed getting to know ya.
And you now have a new book called The Last Line of Defense, which is about your time in your previous job, which was as Attorney General of the State of Missouri. And I remember talking about before I even knew you on the all in pod when we were dealing with censorship and talking about that issue, the Twitter files. This is back in, I don't know, this is like three or four years ago.
Twenty twenty two, I would say, yeah. We uh time is moving.
We talked about the case Biden v. Missouri, which you were the one who brought that case when you were attorney general. When I met you and then found that out, I knew that we had some views in common, let's say, about free speech and the need to avoid censorship.
And you went right at the show me. Don't tell me with your fancy speak, what's going on? You went directly to discovery. So maybe you could talk a little bit about the approach from the senator from the Show Me State. There were rumors and kind of this feeling people were being censored, but nobody knew exactly how it was occurring. So you had some intuition that if we do some discovery here, there's got to be something under the surface, or had somebody looked leaked something to you? How did you know to go after this? I guess was my question.
Yeah. And one of the reasons I wrote the book was just to, you know, I think it's it's easy. I uh the book starts with, um, you know, in November twenty twenty four, the fever broke. And so if you think about the four previous years, You know, this was a time of lockdowns and compulsory COVID shots and forced masking of five-year-olds, but also this vast censorship enterprise that existed that, in my view, was the greatest affront to the First Amendment we've ever seen in the history of our country. And so if you go back in time, right, to to in 2022, you had seen, to your point, Jason, you had seen um sort of gen. Saki at the podium talking about, hey, we're flagging this for Facebook. There were rumors of a disinformation governance board um with the Mary Poppins herself um right um talking about how this misinformation and disinformation, right?
Yeah, Jenkins, I think. Right. Wasn't that that that they needed to to flag this stuff and do something about it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background and purpose of Senator Eric Schmitt’s interview on the All In Pod?
0:00–1:44
2
How did Missouri’s Attorney General challenge the Biden administration in the Biden v. Missouri lawsuit?
1:44–5:47
3
What are the implications of Section 230 and big‑tech censorship in the age of AI?
5:47–19:47
4
How did alleged censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story affect COVID‑related information?
19:47–32:01
5
What role did the NGO “Leviathan” and the Hamilton 68 project play in laundering censorship requests?
32:01–39:08
6
How does the legacy of Russiagate and the Obama intelligence report shape current political narratives?
39:08–48:54
7
What are the prospects for a peace deal in the Russia‑Ukraine war and U.S. foreign policy?
48:54–1:00:01
8
What key takeaways does Senator Schmitt offer for defending free speech and confronting censorship?
1:00:01–1:00:05
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