Speaker 1: Scripts News political analyst Steve Schmidt is with US now.
Speaker 1: He's the founder of the Warning substack and podcast. See.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court just decided in the last ninety minutes
Speaker 1: or so they are going to take up Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: presidential immunity case in the j sixth case. Do you
Speaker 1: think they're going to bring that to a tidy resolution?
Speaker 2: Well, I think ultimately what the Supreme Court will decide
Speaker 2: in that case is the President of the United States
Speaker 2: does not have some type of special immunity that places
Speaker 2: the office or the person above the law, either during
Speaker 2: the tenure, before the tenure or after the tenure of office.
Speaker 2: It's a foundationally important claim, one that has riven the
Speaker 2: entire society, and so I think that the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: has sent to signal that they will decide this question
Speaker 2: in American life for all time.
Speaker 3: But it will be interesting to see, Steve, how quickly
Speaker 3: they do that, because it could impact the timeline here
Speaker 3: of if we get a trial before the election. A
Speaker 3: federal trial I want to talk to you about. Congress
Speaker 3: seem to have reached a deal, tenative deal to avoid
Speaker 3: a government shutdown at least for a week or so.
Speaker 3: This looks like another kick the can down the road moment,
Speaker 3: doesn't in Steve, I mean, why can't Congress pass a budget?
Speaker 3: Because I know a lot of our viewers right now
Speaker 3: are saying, I'm so tired about hearing Joe and Chance
Speaker 3: and Steve talk about the potential government shutdowns every few months.
Speaker 2: The incredible thing about this is then that members of
Speaker 2: Congress will come out and congratulate one another for maintaining
Speaker 2: this chaos and perpetuity as if this is governing. These
Speaker 2: are the most basic foundational aspects of the role of
Speaker 2: the legislative branch in American life, which is to a
Speaker 2: pro create the nation's money, and so over the course
Speaker 2: of many, many years, we've seen that break and so
Speaker 2: maintaining just the basic, basic functionality of the institution has
Speaker 2: become the entire focus of the institution in the context
Speaker 2: of what is it that those people are doing up there.
Speaker 2: It is an extraordinary thing to watch, and it is
Speaker 2: completely a historic There has never been a moment in
Speaker 2: time where the Congress has ceased to function in this
Speaker 2: manner over our entire history.
Speaker 3: Real quick, got to talk about Michigan. President Biden lost
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand votes to uncommitted viewers. Campaign manager, you've
Speaker 3: advised a few campaigns in your time. What would you
Speaker 3: be saying privately about this a cause for concern? Are
Speaker 3: we blown it out of the water here in the Washington.
Speaker 2: The fundamental issue in this race is how many people
Speaker 2: in the country are unhappy. The fact is is people
Speaker 2: are told all the time that no one is anything
Speaker 2: in common. The country's evenly divided. Eighty plus percent of
Speaker 2: the country says we do not want the rematch between
Speaker 2: Trump and Biden. Yet both of these political parties, the
Speaker 2: first and the third oldest in the world, are going
Speaker 2: to give the country that rematch. And so you will
Speaker 2: see resistance manifest itself with oppositional voting in a primary,
Speaker 2: maybe stay at home voters in the general election. But
Speaker 2: we're going to see this all the way through, and
Speaker 2: nobody's yet found the rhythm. How do you appeal to
Speaker 2: that grumpy American voter that doesn't like either of them
Speaker 2: you will participate and doesn't want to hear, for example,
Speaker 2: from the Biden campaign if they have a concern about
Speaker 2: his age, that his age, in fact is his qualification
Speaker 2: making him the wisest in the land. Neither party has
Speaker 2: found its way to that equal libium. Yet how to
Speaker 2: talk to what I think is going to be a
Speaker 2: determinative part of the electorate, people who are going to
Speaker 2: vote but are very unhappy with the choice ahead.
Speaker 1: A lot of people feeling awfully grumpy right about now.
Speaker 1: I think you got the right word there, And by
Speaker 1: the way, I want to let people know that in the
Speaker 1: warning today on your substack, I read your column, Steve,
Speaker 1: you have a pretty dire warning of if there's appeasement
Speaker 1: with Vladimir Putin and all the dominoes that could fall,
Speaker 1: including a nuclear rized you know, South South Korea and
Speaker 1: Japan and Germany and all these things. So I hope
Speaker 1: people log on and read that. Yeah, Scripts News political
Speaker 1: contributor Steve Smith.
Speaker 2: Thanks