Steve Schmidt & Don Lemon: Trump's Iran War Lies & Fallout After Kristi Noem’s Abysmal Testimony
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Steve Schmidt joins "The Don Lemon Show" to discuss the latest developments in the rapidly escalating war with Iran. What does this mean for Americans? How far could this conflict spread, and what is it already costing the American people economically, politically, and in terms of global stability? Then we pivot to the fallout from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s widely criticized congressional testimony.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | What is going on? |
| 0:05.6 | Because we've been trying to come up with a rational answer, a logical answer, |
| 0:09.1 | and I don't even know if that's possible about why we're in this moment with this war. |
| 0:13.7 | Is there a rational, logical answer? |
| 0:15.7 | Did Caroline Levitt give it away yesterday that Donald Trump went into this war based on a feeling that he had? |
| 0:22.2 | Well, I think that Donald Trump is and is showing today what has been clear for a very long time. |
| 0:33.2 | He is a fascist. |
| 0:35.3 | And fascists always, always bring their nations to war. And in the end, Donald Trump |
| 0:45.6 | promised peace while using words of violence. He has always been a man who has incited violence, incited violence when he lost |
| 0:58.2 | an election, when he sent a mob to attack the Capitol to disrupt a peaceful transition of power. |
| 1:05.6 | He sent armed, masked federal agents into the cities to wage war against the American people against their rights. |
| 1:14.5 | And we see an attack without any notion of what comes next. |
| 1:22.7 | And so there are many, many reports, including arming a Sunni Arab minority to Kurds to attack |
| 1:32.9 | and to wage war against a Persian Shia majority. |
| 1:40.0 | And this has implications across all of the countries where there's a stateless Kurdish minority population |
| 1:48.5 | that's living with some degree of autonomy or not. And so enormous implications, 15 countries |
| 1:57.4 | have been fired on. Again, what happens next? |
| 2:03.1 | You look at all the qualities that you want to see present in command through history of a dangerous |
| 2:12.4 | situation like this. |
| 2:13.9 | And Pete Hegsath, for instance, possesses none of them. |
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