Steve Schmidt & Don Lemon: Silence and Denials
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Steve Schmidt joined Don Lemon on “Lemon LIVE at 5” to break down the latest developments surrounding the Epstein files as new questions emerge and key figures step back from public scrutiny. Pam Bondi has canceled her expected testimony, while Melania Trump is now publicly denying any connection to Jeffrey Epstein. With shifting narratives and fewer answers, the question of accountability looms larger than ever. If key witnesses don’t testify, what happens next, and will the full story ever come to light?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:20.0 | It is Friday Eve here on the Don Lemon Show. |
| 0:25.4 | Thank you for joining us, Lemon Live at 5. |
| 0:27.6 | What a day, what a day, what a day. |
| 0:29.0 | I am fighting a cold. |
| 0:30.1 | I told my guest who's going to come up. |
| 0:31.4 | Wait to you hear who it is that I'm hopped up on so much cold medicine or sinuses or |
| 0:35.7 | whatever it is. |
| 0:36.5 | I did the COVID test. I told you guys that. Negative. Thank goodness. The COVID test also had flu A, B on it or whatever. Negative. It's just a good old fashioned cold. And a lot of folks are suffering or sinuses or something. So like and thumbs up. It affects the algorithm. Thank you so much. Our legends are here today as well. We're going to hear from them. And we're going to talk about everything that is going down in the news. So thank you so much for joining. So today, you know, the ceasefire, I don't know. I went out to ask people today about a ceasefire and they're like, what ceasefire? There's no ceasefire. Holding, I guess, barely, if you want to put it in sort of corporate media and, you know, political apparatchets for Trump. |
| 1:20.7 | Israel bombed Lebanon again this morning, Hezbollah fired back. J.D. Vance, who is now heading to Islamabad on Saturday. |
| 1:28.8 | He's going to try to negotiate some sort of peace. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm wondering, is the president setting him up? |
| 1:33.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:34.5 | He described, meaning J.D. Vance, described the whole mess as a misunderstanding. |
| 1:40.1 | 182 people did in Lebanon yesterday. |
| 1:43.1 | A misunderstanding? |
| 1:45.0 | That's crazy. And then, so this afternoon, like nobody saw this coming, and I'm not being sarcastic. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm not being snarky. |
| 1:52.0 | Nobody saw this coming. |
| 1:55.0 | You can't get this out of the headlines, no matter how hard they try, |
| 1:59.0 | even if they try to distract us with a war. Melania Trump, of all people, walked into the grand foyer of the White House and said the lies, she talked about Epstein. Like, I thought, shh, don't talk about Epstein. Said that the lies linking her to Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. She did that unannounced. Several of her own aides didn't know what she was going to say. She said, |
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