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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Why June 14th Matters More Than You Think | A Conversation with Congressmen Joe Walsh

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Trump and his administration have broken the social contract in America and brought our country closer to fascism. Steve Schmidt sits down with former Congressmen Joe Walsh to talk Trump's defiance of the courts and the importance of the protests on June 14th. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Store: https://thewarningwithsteveschmidt.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

Steve Schmidt here with the warning and I am joined tonight by my friend Congressman Joe Walsh

0:05.8

who writes the social contract. You can find that a substack. It's a great substack site.

0:13.0

I urge you to follow it to subscribe to it. We'll talk about that phrase, what that means,

0:18.8

the social contract, a social compact. And that got

0:24.5

broken in America a long time ago and understanding how it broke, why it broke, when it broke,

0:32.7

is key to understanding why we have a fascist in the White House.

0:40.3

Because, as I pointed out, early on in this at the beginning, 10 years ago,

0:47.3

fascism rose in the 1930s, not because it was strong, but because democracy was weak. It was rotten and was detained in the, in the

0:57.0

We're lucky in America that we have a much stronger democracy with much stronger foundations

1:05.6

and a history, but it's being tested and what Trump is, I think, is certainly clear.

1:13.1

So we'll talk about that, the social contract, the social compact, talk about citizenship

1:18.8

and the meaning of that.

1:21.2

We'll talk about what's going on in the news.

1:24.5

And we'll talk about specifically an issue that's in the news, which is presidential

1:31.0

fitness, presidential coherency. And very specifically, let's talk about that with regard to

1:39.9

Donald Trump, who is severely incoherent, inconsistent.

1:46.9

And I think let's start with right now when you look at this trip across the Middle East

1:55.1

and you see the disrespect from the Trump cabinet officials before the Article I branch of government,

2:05.2

before the Congress, when you see the lying, when you see the law breaking, when you see the sneering,

2:15.2

it leaves you breathless.

2:18.4

And you sit there and you say, wow.

2:22.4

And I kind of lean back and say, these people really believe truly they have a license

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