Steve Schmidt & Jim Acosta - Kristi Noem's Air F*ck One, Trump's dictator banners and more
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
'Holy Schmidt! It's Friday!' With Jim Acosta
Steve Schmidt is about to say something on air that stopped us cold — and we think it's going to stop you too. He's looked at what's sitting in the waters off Iran right now, the silence from Congress, the silence from the generals, the silence from every major network, and he's drawn a conclusion about what happens next that nobody in Washington is willing to say out loud. Before this show is over, he's going to ask the question that should be on every American's lips right now: What's the plan? And whose kids are coming home in boxes? That's not all. The Supreme Court just handed Trump a defeat on tariffs — and Schmidt says what's hidden behind the tariff door is something far darker than anyone is talking about. Plus, NBC News has obtained photos of the inside of a government jet that Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski have been using on your dime — and Schmidt has a name for it that you won't forget. All of that and more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:08.4 | And we're looking at this as kind of a special edition of the show. |
| 0:11.8 | I think we're going to call this, Holy Schmidt, it's Friday. |
| 0:16.2 | It is back with us. |
| 0:18.4 | Steve, great to see. |
| 0:19.4 | I feel like this is becoming such a huge success. |
| 0:22.3 | We just got to keep this ball rolling, man. Let's do it. Always good to be with you, Jim. And no better |
| 0:27.3 | day to do it than Friday. No better. Thank God. It's Friday. And I don't know if I should say |
| 0:32.9 | thank God for the Supreme Court, but maybe thank God for checks and balances because of this tariff |
| 0:38.0 | decision by the Supreme Court. I think there are a couple of things going on. Of course, |
| 0:42.3 | you know, Trump never watched Schoolhouse Rock. He doesn't understand how the Constitution works. |
| 0:47.9 | You know, he is a very simplistic, stupid person. But I think the Supreme Court under John Roberts has discovered that their legacy |
| 0:56.9 | has been shattered by the immunity decision. And to some extent, they're trying to put the toothpaste |
| 1:01.6 | back in the tube. What are your thoughts on this case? Well, John Roberts is the worst chief |
| 1:08.1 | justice in American history since Tanny, who is the author of the Dred Scott decision. |
| 1:14.0 | And I say that as the person who ran John Roberts confirmation in the Bush White House and sat behind him for those hearings. |
| 1:24.1 | And we could go and talk about that for an hour about the disgrace of his presiding |
| 1:32.9 | over the Supreme Court. But what I think we learned today is something important, which is that |
| 1:38.3 | the Supreme Court is not completely and irrevocably corrupt. It's just profoundly corrupt. And so there was no work around for |
| 1:49.2 | this. The tariffs, an economic disaster that are wrecking the economy of the country for ordinary |
| 1:58.0 | people, are a specific congressional authority. |
| 2:04.4 | So these have been illegal from day one. |
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