Steve Schmidt reacts to Donald Trump's "disastrous" interview on Meet the Press

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Steve Schmidt reacts to the sit down interview between Donald Trump and Kristen Welker on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday morning. Steve explains how this interview is the perfect example of the media learning no lessons on how to cover Donald Trump as he prepares to run for President in 2024. To become a The Warning Premium Member with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0	Meet the Press is the longest running television show in American history. It first aired in
0:08.9	1947, and today it got a new host. She was the best moderator of any of the 2020 presidential
0:17.4	and vice presidential debates, Kristen Welker. But her and her team showed up today
0:24.0	for an interview with Donald Trump with a bad game plan. They didn't show up to play like
0:30.8	Coach Prime. Donald Trump steamrolled to meet the press team over and over again.
0:39.4	Showing up prepared to interview Donald Trump should be no mystery at this point.
0:45.3	What was most disappointing about his appearance on Meet the Press is how badly the American
0:51.9	people were served today.
0:54.0	They were not informed. They were served today. They were not informed.
0:56.0	They were misled.
0:57.7	They were not enlightened.
0:59.8	They were gaslit.
1:01.4	They were lied to.
1:02.6	And they were propagandized to by a former president who steamrolled the host asking him questions.
1:11.7	One of the reasons why is this.
1:15.7	Whomever instructs television news anchors that they must run through a schedule,
1:22.8	that they must ask 12 questions or 13 or 14 or whatever the number may be for there to be a successful
1:31.3	interview does not understand the nature of the moment. The only way to sit and effectively
1:41.9	interview Trump is to have the ability to extemporize,
1:48.1	to have the agility to react in real time the way that Medi Hassan did with Vivek Ramasphami.
1:58.2	If you go to Donald Trump's lair with a preset set of questions, he will filibuster,
2:06.4	he will steamroll, he will lie, and he will succeed in delivering his insanities to the
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