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Speaker 1: Now we want to go ahead and bring in scripts

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Speaker 1: news contributor and founder of The Warning podcast and newsletter

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Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. Steve, thanks for being with us before we

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Speaker 1: get into some of our questions we have for you,

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Speaker 1: wondering if you have any thoughts after listening to that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it was an astonishing performance, which all

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Speaker 2: of Trump's public comments are at some level. It was

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Speaker 2: mountains of bomb beast and the tuperation piling on top

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Speaker 2: of each other, making all manner of wild claims. The

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Speaker 2: Chinese were giving us billions, the Mexicans gave us twenty

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Speaker 2: eight thousand soldiers. In fact, the greatest orgy of government

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Speaker 2: spending in a four year presidential term is the preface

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Speaker 2: to a Golden Age budget balance. All of the things

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Speaker 2: that he said, taken together, are a compilation of outright

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Speaker 2: lies dishonesty. There's this real symmetry between the jingoism of

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Speaker 2: the crowd chanting USA while he's defaming the country as

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Speaker 2: a third world nation, a country that stands ruined, while

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Speaker 2: at the same time people from all over the world

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Speaker 2: are trying to get in. It's so fear based. And lastly,

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Speaker 2: even ten years ago, the speech such as it was.

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Speaker 2: If you were just to evaluate it in English, you'd

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Speaker 2: be like, that is inco hearing, it's nonsensical, it's Porsche

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Speaker 2: felt insanity. What has happened? Is is it a is

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Speaker 2: it political shtick? Is it a performance theater? What is it?

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Speaker 2: Because it's not coherent yet, you just saw someone win

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Speaker 2: fifteen out of sixteen states and is on a record

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Speaker 2: breaking pace towards the Republican nomination. What you saw tonight

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Speaker 2: was world class demagogrey. It's real, it's coming, and his

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Speaker 2: opponent's party doesn't have a real handle on what it

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Speaker 2: is yet. Steve f one hundred and forty five days away,

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Speaker 2: I want to pick up on.

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Speaker 3: What you just said, which is that the painting of

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Speaker 3: this country as being terrible. I want our audience to

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Speaker 3: once again listen to what the former president had to say,

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Speaker 3: and on the backside, I'm going to ask you because

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Speaker 3: I saw people coming out of polling places today say

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Speaker 3: they agreed with what the former president was saying. So

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Speaker 3: apparently what he is saying is sticking with some portion

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Speaker 3: of the electric particulism.

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Speaker 4: We've watched our country take a great beating over the

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Speaker 4: last three years, and nobody thought a thing like this

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Speaker 4: would be possible. We wouldn't have Russia attacking Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't have Israel being attacked around as.

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Speaker 4: You know is Brooke. When I was running things, they

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Speaker 4: were broke. They didn't have money for Hamas, they didn't

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Speaker 4: have money for Hesbula. We had no inflation. Inflation is

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Speaker 4: destroying the middle class.

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Speaker 3: Even if you take something as simple as we had

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Speaker 3: no inflation. There has been inflation around since I've been

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Speaker 3: a child. It's not that there's not inflation. We're trying

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Speaker 3: to get inflation to two percent. Jobs are staggering. How

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Speaker 3: do you counter so much disinformation in such a short

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Speaker 3: period of time.

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Speaker 2: Well, everything he said there, including that Iran was broke

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Speaker 2: and that they were not arming Hezbillah and Hamas, all

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Speaker 2: of it is fantasy, right, It's simply not true. The

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Speaker 2: Abraham Accords were the preface to this war between Israel

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Speaker 2: and the Palestinians. The war in Ukraine was caused in

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Speaker 2: part by Donald Trump's fecklessness. So the dictator who is

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Speaker 2: lost four hundred thousand men in Ukraine Putin wants Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump to be the president because Donald Trump doesn't believe

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Speaker 2: in the liberal world order. That's been led by the

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Speaker 2: United States for the last eighty years. He wants to

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Speaker 2: see it unravel and other countries, predator countries, will take

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Speaker 2: advantage of that. So what Donald Trump is articulating, this

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Speaker 2: vision of America, it is very bleak. He celebrates the

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Speaker 2: dictators of the world. He has no appreciation for the

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Speaker 2: free nations, for the values, for the ideas, for the ideals.

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Speaker 2: And we know this, right. We know this because John

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Speaker 2: Kelly told us what he said in a military cemetery

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Speaker 2: in Arlington, but also in Europe when he disrespected American troops.

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Speaker 2: We know what Donald Trump thinks about the military. We

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Speaker 2: know what he thinks about power. So there's nothing new here.

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Speaker 2: What's interesting is the faction of the country that chants

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Speaker 2: USA usay as the country is being defame. The reality

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Speaker 2: is in the world, the number one economy in the

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Speaker 2: world is the American economy. We're the number one military power,

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Speaker 2: We're the number one economic power, We're the number one

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Speaker 2: innovation power, we're the number one education power. All of

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Speaker 2: the problems that America faces are nothing compared to the

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Speaker 2: advantages that America has and is perceived as having by

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Speaker 2: all of our competitors, all over the world. But it's

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Speaker 2: incumbent on the President and the Democratic Party to communicate

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Speaker 2: a vision for tomorrow that's better than what you just

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Speaker 2: saw offered by Donald Trump. Fundamentally, that's the nature the

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Speaker 2: inherent challenge, test and choice within the campaign that or

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Speaker 2: something else. What is the something else? And we'll get

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Speaker 2: a preview of that, I suspect in the State of

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Speaker 2: the Union. Look, the Gettysburg address was about six minutes long.

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Speaker 2: Most of these stated the unions go on for an

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Speaker 2: hour twenty minutes, and nobody remembers a word of it.

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Speaker 2: The next day. You know, it's there's still time for

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Speaker 2: the White House to rip up the speech and say

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Speaker 2: something meaningful, something that matters, something that's urgent in a

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Speaker 2: dire moment.

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Speaker 3: I would love to see that, to tell the truth.

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Speaker 3: Steve Schmidt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Scripts News contributor, and I will add my own

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Speaker 1: label a political historian. Steve Schmidt, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We'll check back with you in a little bit.

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Speaker 3: It has been