Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gale. Today I'm joined by my fellow

co-founder, host of LPTV's The Breakdown, an author of Everything Trump Touches Dies,

Rick Wilson. Rick, thanks for joining me.

Hey brother, thanks for having me.

Also on board today is Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, an author of It Was All

Lie, Stuart Stevens. Stuart, good to have you back. Great to be here man, thank you.

And joining us this morning, making his return to the LP podcast is Lincoln Project co-founder

Steve Schmidt. Steve, glad to have you back. Hey Reed, good to be here.

So let's talk about this. Today marks 100 days since the US Capitol was sacked, members

of Congress were running for their lives, all because Donald Trump had instigated a big

lie, not only before Election Day, but during the transition. Hundreds of people marched

on the Capitol. One Capitol police officer was killed, five more people lost their lives,

and it became the first non-peaceful transition in the country's 244 year history. And as

we see that, what I see anyway is that that was not the end point of something, but really

the beginning of what I think we're living in now, which is a very royal politics on

the right, but is now infecting in a pretty big hurry, America writ large. And so Steve,

as you look back on this last 100 days, is there anything that you've had a chance to

reflect on that was of a surprise to you or anything that's particularly concerning

as you're now looking back? Let's talk about why it's important. Let's first talk about

the person we're talking about. We're talking about Donald Trump. Yes, Donald Trump is the

former president of the United States, but he is also the undisputed leader of an extremist,

undemocratic movement in the United States. By every conceivable definition, he's the

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