Steve Schmidt & Wajahat Ali: 25th Amendment or Nuclear War?
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Steve Schmidt joined The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali to talk about the chaos caused by Donald Trump's threats that a "whole civilization will die tonight" as his 8 pm ET deadline looms. They also talked about the cowardice and complicity of the Republican party in helping an unhinged and desperate Trump threaten nuclear war to mask his failure in Iran.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:05.3 | Everyone always tells us we should reach across the aisle and talk to people who might not agree with us and build alliances and coalitions against fascism. |
| 0:13.9 | So here's Steve Schmidt of the warning. |
| 0:16.9 | A longtime Republican turned never Trump Republican, who does his best to eloquently speak out |
| 0:24.1 | against Donald Trump, the modern GOP, and the threat that MAGA represents to not just America, |
| 0:30.2 | but democracy all around the world. And Steve and I met briefly a few weeks ago during Donald |
| 0:37.1 | Trump's state of the whatever that nonsense was addressed in Washington, D.C., where we were part of Miles Taylor's State of the Swamp response. |
| 0:45.9 | And Steve approached me. I don't know if you remember this, Steve, and said, you know, you actually might agree on a lot more things than we disagree. I'd love to talk to you. So I'm taking you up on it. We have |
| 0:55.1 | no script as to what we're going to talk about, but we don't need a script when we're living in |
| 0:59.3 | the seventh circle of hell. And it's being written by Dante on meth. And earlier today, |
| 1:05.9 | Steve, Donald J. Trump wrote the following. And I know it's the first time on the left hook, so forgive me. |
| 1:12.0 | I have to do his stupid tweets in a stupid voice just so I don't normalize his inanity. |
| 1:19.7 | Donald Trump, the President of the United States, folks, on truth social. |
| 1:22.9 | A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be back again. |
| 1:27.1 | I don't want that to happen, Steve, |
| 1:28.9 | but it probably will. However, now that we have complete intolerant regime change, |
| 1:33.3 | where different, and less radicalized, minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful |
| 1:39.3 | can happen. Who knows? We will find out to it. One of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world. |
| 1:46.6 | 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death would finally end. |
| 1:51.4 | God bless the great people of Iran. |
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