Scripps News political analyst, Steve Schmidt is with us now. He's the founder of the warning substack and podcast.

Steve, the Supreme Court just decided in the last 90 minutes or so, they are going to take up Donald Trump's presidential immunity case in the J6 case.

Do you think they're going to bring that to a tidy resolution?

Well, I think ultimately what the Supreme Court will decide in that case is the President of the United States does not have some type of special immunity that places the office or the person above the law either during the tenure, before the tenure, or after the tenure of office.

It's a foundationally important claim, one that has riven the entire society.

And so I think that the Supreme Court has sent a signal that they will decide this question in American

life for all time.

But it will be interesting to see, Steve, how quickly they do that because it could impact

the timeline here of if we get a trial before the election of federal trial.

I want to talk to you about Congress seemed to have reached a deal, tentative deal, to avoid

a government shutdown at least for a week or so.

This looks like another kick the can down the road moment, doesn't Steve?

I mean, why can't Congress pass a budget?

Because I know a lot of our viewers right now are saying, I'm so tired about hearing Joe and

Chance and Steve talk about the potential government

shutdowns every few months.

The incredible thing about this is then that members of Congress will come out and congratulate

one another for maintaining this chaos in perpetuity, as if this is governing.

These are the most basic foundational aspects of the role of the legislative branch in American life,

which is to appropriate the nation's money.

And so over the course of many, many years, we've seen that break.

And so maintaining just the basic, basic functionality of the institution has become the entire focus of the institution in the context of what is it

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