Dead Air Episode 1: The Sunday Morning News Wasteland In The Age Of Trump
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Steve Schmidt & Dean Blundell have launched a new weekly autopsy of America’s Sunday news cycle starting today. We will grade the hosts, and highlight the news that got ignored.
Today we covered interviews with Trump regime sycophants Scott Bessent, Mike Waltz, Sean Duffy, Tom Homan and Lindsey Graham.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.4 | Go Monday. |
| 0:07.9 | You know, forget Taco Tuesday. |
| 0:09.5 | Forget Taco Wednesday. |
| 0:10.7 | We've got so many days of the week, but it's Monday. |
| 0:13.5 | Trump needed an off-ramp. |
| 0:15.1 | It is Taco Monday. |
| 0:17.3 | And Main Street media did the very best this weekend to try to make sure that everybody |
| 0:21.6 | lived in an alternative reality, including and not limited to one, Scott Bessent, who's |
| 0:27.6 | now doing oil jiu-jitsu. Yes, that's right, oil jiu-jitsu. We are in the dumbest of times. |
| 0:34.6 | It has never been a more dangerous time specifically to travel to the |
| 0:38.1 | united states we've got a story about that that includes a very sad turn of events that happened |
| 0:43.1 | at lauguardia yesterday we have a couple of air canada pilots dead we've got some severely |
| 0:47.0 | injured canadians that landed at laguardia it is all coming down in and around donald trump |
| 0:52.4 | and i am uh as always um in receipts of those receipts, |
| 0:57.9 | as is my very good friend, the co-found of the Save America movement. He is a political |
| 1:03.1 | strategist extraordinaire. He's, you know, he's won a couple of big campaigns, including |
| 1:09.0 | one for president. He served as a senior advisor to George Bush. |
| 1:13.4 | He also helped win a campaign for one, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Road Shotgun for the incredible |
| 1:20.0 | one, John McCain, who we all miss incredibly today. And we've got some Lindsey Graham clips to play for you when it comes to that. |
| 1:26.8 | So without further ado, this is dead air where we go through and we look at what everybody did or did not talk about, the dereliction of duty when it comes to media, what is going on in the media. And to join me to have a chat to this afternoon. Please welcome the co-founder from the warning, co-founder of the Save America movie, Mr. Steve Schmidt. |
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