Steve Schmidt: Five Years Later, America Is in Crisis
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Today marks the fifth anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. Steve Schmidt revisits the attack and urges Americans to reclaim the constitutional ground that has been lost since.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | This is the fifth anniversary of one of the most infamous events in American history. |
| 0:10.3 | The worst attack against the Constitution since the firing by the Confederacy on Fort Sumter. |
| 0:18.0 | It was a coup, incited by a defeated president and enabled by a gang of sycophants |
| 0:24.2 | who would rather tell Donald Trump yes or maintain their comfort by refusing to tell him no |
| 0:32.3 | over the maintenance of their constitutional oaths and their duty to the republic. |
| 0:37.1 | What happened on January 6th was an attack on the cornerstone of American society. |
| 0:43.3 | Perhaps the greatest invention in all of American history, one that exceeds the invention of the airplane, |
| 0:49.3 | the light bulb, the telephone, all of it was the peaceful transition of power and it held from 1797 until january 6th |
| 1:01.0 | 2021 when this happened This is the warning. |
| 1:19.7 | It was the cost. |
| 1:22.3 | It was the fruit of all of the lies. |
| 1:25.9 | I predicted it in September of 2020. I said that it would happen, |
| 1:30.5 | that it was the inevitable consequence of a president saying that an election had been stolen and |
| 1:36.1 | inferring that it was his opponent who was illegitimate. It broke the back of the country. |
| 1:41.5 | It destroyed functionally the American Republic. Donald Trump got away with the coup, |
| 1:47.9 | and the country has never, ever been the same. The reality of this day is that five years on, |
| 1:54.8 | we stand in a moment of national crisis that's unprecedented across our entire history. |
| 2:01.5 | We have a lawless president, a corrupt Supreme Court, and a Congress filled with Unix. |
| 2:09.8 | The idea that there are checks and balances is a farce. |
| 2:14.2 | There are none. |
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