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Speaker 1: Scripts News political analyst Steve Schmidt is with US now.

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Speaker 1: He's the founder of the Warning substack and podcast. See.

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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court just decided in the last ninety minutes

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Speaker 1: or so they are going to take up Donald Trump's

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Speaker 1: presidential immunity case in the j sixth case. Do you

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Speaker 1: think they're going to bring that to a tidy resolution?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think ultimately what the Supreme Court will decide

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Speaker 2: in that case is the President of the United States

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Speaker 2: does not have some type of special immunity that places

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Speaker 2: the office or the person above the law, either during

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Speaker 2: the tenure, before the tenure or after the tenure of office.

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Speaker 2: It's a foundationally important claim, one that has riven the

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Speaker 2: entire society, and so I think that the Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: has sent to signal that they will decide this question

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Speaker 2: in American life for all time.

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Speaker 3: But it will be interesting to see, Steve, how quickly

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Speaker 3: they do that, because it could impact the timeline here

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Speaker 3: of if we get a trial before the election. A

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Speaker 3: federal trial I want to talk to you about. Congress

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Speaker 3: seem to have reached a deal, tenative deal to avoid

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Speaker 3: a government shutdown at least for a week or so.

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Speaker 3: This looks like another kick the can down the road moment,

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Speaker 3: doesn't in Steve, I mean, why can't Congress pass a budget?

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Speaker 3: Because I know a lot of our viewers right now

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Speaker 3: are saying, I'm so tired about hearing Joe and Chance

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Speaker 3: and Steve talk about the potential government shutdowns every few months.

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Speaker 2: The incredible thing about this is then that members of

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Speaker 2: Congress will come out and congratulate one another for maintaining

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Speaker 2: this chaos and perpetuity as if this is governing. These

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Speaker 2: are the most basic foundational aspects of the role of

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Speaker 2: the legislative branch in American life, which is to a

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Speaker 2: pro create the nation's money, and so over the course

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Speaker 2: of many, many years, we've seen that break and so

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Speaker 2: maintaining just the basic, basic functionality of the institution has

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Speaker 2: become the entire focus of the institution in the context

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Speaker 2: of what is it that those people are doing up there.

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Speaker 2: It is an extraordinary thing to watch, and it is

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Speaker 2: completely a historic There has never been a moment in

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Speaker 2: time where the Congress has ceased to function in this

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Speaker 2: manner over our entire history.

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Speaker 3: Real quick, got to talk about Michigan. President Biden lost

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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand votes to uncommitted viewers. Campaign manager, you've

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Speaker 3: advised a few campaigns in your time. What would you

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Speaker 3: be saying privately about this a cause for concern? Are

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Speaker 3: we blown it out of the water here in the Washington.

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Speaker 2: The fundamental issue in this race is how many people

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Speaker 2: in the country are unhappy. The fact is is people

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Speaker 2: are told all the time that no one is anything

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Speaker 2: in common. The country's evenly divided. Eighty plus percent of

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Speaker 2: the country says we do not want the rematch between

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Speaker 2: Trump and Biden. Yet both of these political parties, the

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Speaker 2: first and the third oldest in the world, are going

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Speaker 2: to give the country that rematch. And so you will

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Speaker 2: see resistance manifest itself with oppositional voting in a primary,

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Speaker 2: maybe stay at home voters in the general election. But

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Speaker 2: we're going to see this all the way through, and

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Speaker 2: nobody's yet found the rhythm. How do you appeal to

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Speaker 2: that grumpy American voter that doesn't like either of them

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Speaker 2: you will participate and doesn't want to hear, for example,

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Speaker 2: from the Biden campaign if they have a concern about

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Speaker 2: his age, that his age, in fact is his qualification

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Speaker 2: making him the wisest in the land. Neither party has

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Speaker 2: found its way to that equal libium. Yet how to

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Speaker 2: talk to what I think is going to be a

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Speaker 2: determinative part of the electorate, people who are going to

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Speaker 2: vote but are very unhappy with the choice ahead.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people feeling awfully grumpy right about now.

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Speaker 1: I think you got the right word there, And by

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Speaker 1: the way, I want to let people know that in the

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Speaker 1: warning today on your substack, I read your column, Steve,

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Speaker 1: you have a pretty dire warning of if there's appeasement

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Speaker 1: with Vladimir Putin and all the dominoes that could fall,

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Speaker 1: including a nuclear rized you know, South South Korea and

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Speaker 1: Japan and Germany and all these things. So I hope

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Speaker 1: people log on and read that. Yeah, Scripts News political

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Speaker 1: contributor Steve Smith.

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Speaker 2: Thanks