Trump Literally Selling Off America's Democracy | A Conversation with Ryan Lizza

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Whether it's providing funds to Argentina or having oligarchs pay to destroy the White House, Trump's America has always been up for sale. Steve Schmidt sits down with Ryan Lizza to look at the government shutdown and why everyday Americans are paying the price.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.4	What do you think the most significant thing that happened since we last got together on Monday?
0:11.5	Trump demolished the White House, destroyed the White House.
0:16.4	Yep.
0:18.0	Give me your take on this.
0:20.5	Yeah, good. And he did it take on this. Yeah, good.
0:21.2	And he did it with Google and Facebook and Salesforce and all of the.
0:32.7	And Apple.
0:33.9	And Apple.
0:33.9	And tech companies, Apple.
0:37.3	They, they demolished the White House.
0:41.1	And I'm not going to give a lecture on campaign finance reform today.
0:51.2	And I think it is a very complex subject about what to do around it. But one of the things that
1:04.8	caused this disaster was John McCain's politicization of the issue right with without an understanding of the
1:17.7	details of his legislation so so john mccain and mccain find gold said we have a corruption problem
1:26.9	which was a correct observation.
1:30.3	And therefore, this is the solution.
1:33.3	And that was not the solution.
1:36.5	What it was was patently unconstitutional.
1:41.1	And I can go back if I could find them.
2:00.0	I could find quotes of mine on the record when I was 29 predicting what would ultimately become citizens united as a result of the McCain-Feingold legislation.
2:03.5	And that passed.
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