This Is How Blue Wave Dems Must Humiliate Trump | The Daily Beast Podcast

Democrats need to use the full power of the Constitution. that has given them the Article 1 branch of government. Every corrupt deal, every email, every correspondence between Tim Cook and someone in the West Wing. Go get it. Mark Zuckerberg. Time for accountability. It's important for Democrats to realize nobody is voting for them. to go up there and work with Donald Trump and find bipartisan common ground.

What we're voting for them to do is to make this stop. Make it stop. Welcome to the Daily Beast podcast. And I'm Hugh Dougherty, I’m Executive Editor of The Daily Beast. I'm filling in for Joanna Coles. Don't worry, she will be back on the next episode of Inside Trump's Head. We have got a fantastic guest to speak to today, Steve Schmidt. He is, of course, John McCain's former campaign manager, but now far more significant role, I think, than that. He runs Save America, and he is a voice of reason.

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Steve Schmidt, a voice of moral clarity. Thank you for joining us. There are so many topics that we could be talking about. We are in the, I think, the beginnings of the final race to the midterms. We're past the 50 day mark and things are moving rapidly. But I just wanted to start with a quite remarkable story. that's come out about GT Vance, a man who I know that you have, as part of. the Save America PAC have targeted before, and I suspect my target again.

It turns out that in 2016, he was briefing the Hillary. Clinton campaign on how to defeat Trump. What does that tell us about the character of JD Vance? He has not. He's a person of the lowest. and most despicable character. Who seeks power. and will do anything to get it. His entire public service.

should be understood as a corrupt act. that you have Peter Teel putting. $40 million into this. By the way, you had one of the most exceptional. Democratic candidates of a generation, Tim Ryan, who ran against JD. Vance and was abandoned by Chuck Schumer. Republicans spent in excess of $60 million.

National Democrats spent nothing on Ryan, but they spent tens of millions of dollars on Fetterman next door. Two years after Ryan loses. by five points when the top of the ticket goes down by 27. when he was ahead in August. Chuck Schumer spends. tens of millions of dollars losing. the Sherrod Brown race,

as if they're disconnected from one another, as if an investment. would have not had an impact two years later. So the story of JD Vance, the beneficence of Peter Thiel, his comfort. with the extremism, his wife's comfort. with the extremism speech and have brokenness of our politics. And and frankly, when you watch the Sunday.

shows, a complete inability. for most every single interviewer. to cut to the core. of what his derangements. and deformities are in his character. Observe them, query them, challenge those answers, and expose him for the danger he is to this Republican.

Mark my words, he is a dangerous man. He is the archetype. Written about by Dorothy Thompson. in her Who goes Nazi Peace, the aggrieved, embittered strike. at an Ivy League school who's never quite accepted. Always the guy who, you know, with his couch, the weirdo looking from the outside in, and he's angry about it.

This is a dangerous, unprincipled guy should never, ever. hold the position that he holds. But fortunately for the country, he was picked by the president's. corrupt son, whose wedding was just paid for by a Russian oligarch. Right to bring it full well. And I wanted to talk to you about this, this incredible situation. where a Russian oligarch is, on the one hand, in the getting the order of friendship from Vladimir Putin.

and on the other, bestowing his own order of friendship on Donald Trump junior. and Bettina Anderson. This Umar Lev is a remarkable character in his own right. But here we have Donald Trump Jr, partying with Russians. He was surrounded by his own Secret service. I mean, you've you've been around the Secret Service, in your time in politics. The the security implications seem crazy. The moral implications seem absolutely unspeakable.

I'm old enough to. remember when I was a little kid, the the ethical, screams. My first ethical screams, right. That I can remember in American politics around Billy Beer. Right? Jimmy Carter's brother's beer brand. Right. We've come a long way. We have. We have Russians close into the war criminal Vladimir Putin.

paying for the war profiteer, drone contractor, bitcoin magnate. Donald Trump, Juniors, Bahamas wedding. while his ex-fiancee. is off desecrating the country in Greece. It is incredible and it's intolerable. And he's running around like. his name is Udet, not Donald Jr. And it's unacceptable in the United States.

And and this has to be investigated. There has to be oversight. And and now we know I mean, I think why it is that Donald didn't want to go there. It's more than just laziness and dislike for his wife. They're the social climber in Palm Beach. She's like a character out of Palm Royale, Bettina and I like. I just like a grand Alice and Janney musical number. But.

Right. It's that you. You see, somebody went to the president and said, you can't be there. He didn't want to be there, right? I mean, so he got a got a free pass and he's like, well, if you're going to have this guy pay for the wedding, I can't go. So I can't go, right? I'm going to play golf. I'll hang out with Natalie, I'll do whatever. And so it was a win win for everybody. But what a family of scumbags, right? There's no there's no there's no they are they are scumbags. without parallel across 250 years of history.

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And just to put a put a point on it. Donald Trump, Melania Trump and Eric Trump have all know disowned. this Russian guy and said, oh, we didn't know anything about him. They don't know anything, right? We know nothing. And and the the Russian guys are sister in law. He's married. He is 43, is married to 23 year old And the 23 year old twin is allegedly, or at least according to the Ukrainians, is running the kidnaping of these poor. Ukrainian children who have taken in the the territories.

stolen from Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and brainwashed into being Russian. It's an incredible circular economy. I've written about the kidnaping of Ukrainian children. by the tens of thousands, and I've written about it. A couple of times over the last couple of years. and was so sad to me, is that as somebody writes. every day, of the thousands of things I've written among the lowest performers.

or the stories about the kidnaped Ukrainian children, it's important. for people to appreciate the depravity and the evil of this. The Nazis did this. They kidnaped children. that had the racial characteristics. of of the pure Arian, in their estimation. And they they took them into the Reich and raised them as Germans.

You have this is a crime. unparalleled in our lifetimes. In a European country. where you have tens of thousands. of children who have been stolen. and have been repurposed. as Russians. And this is an act of obliteration, not just of those children's lives, but of the culture.

of the Ukrainian people in an evil act. And this is the son of the president of the United States, who is supporting behaviors. that were architected within the span. of living memory by men who held the names Hydra. and Himmler. and Eichmann and Putin.

The architects of this evil. And and this guy is paying for the wedding, the the level of depravity. of of of corruption. It is unacceptable. And and this is. what Democrats have to appreciate is they have this tremendous victory. that's coming.

It's going to give them control of the Senate and the House. That they have not received this mandate. because the American people have confidence in them. But for any reason other than to make this stop, make it stop. We're looking this week, we've the latest, you know, time. Siena Pool has a 5143 generic ballot.

Number. That's a huge blue wave. What's your very specific advice to Democrats about where. to start tackling this? They're clearly going to the gavel in the House. There is a lot to believe that they're going to get the gavel in the Senate. where and when everything's a priority, nothing's a priority. So where would you start? Where do you start cleaning house? Yeah. You know, it's funny, I had I had discussions, talks, jokes, whatever you want to call it.

A lot of people about like, if you can only stop one of these Trump. cabinet secretaries two years ago, who would it have been? And there's really no wrong answer, right? Whether it was Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Matt Gates. But but I was always a hedge Seth guy. And and I think that's where you have to start. So first off, what Hakeem. Jeffries did with this secret meeting with Jared Kushner, who is the architect of the World In Flames.

with his Abraham Accords, which were off to sell. but never really understood, that Jared Kushner secret meetings with Hakeem Jeffries are unacceptable. Unacceptable. You know, for the man who wishes to be the speaker of the House. and to hold constitutional constitutional office. And I hope he got the message. From his from his, from his base.

And it's wrong to describe that as as progressive outrage. There's opposition outrage to that. The first requirement. for Democrats is to ditch Chuck Schumer. Right. That that's the first thing that that has to be done. The second thing after that is to appreciate that what they have to do. is to bring the checks and balances back to life, that the Congress is a co-equal branch of government,

co-equal to the president, and they're going to rein in. the out of control executive branch. And and the first thing for the Senate. Democrats under new leadership to, to, to assert. is that there will not be one Trump federal judge nominated. who's approved through the two years remaining in his term, not one. And that they're going to open impeachment.

inquiries immediately, and gather the evidence. The public record supports this on. a Robert Kennedy. on on Howard Nick on Jeanine Pirro. on Emile Beauvais, and that they're going to stay on that. The answer to the question about impeaching Trump. is that there are not enough.

jurors in the Senate. who would take their oath seriously. There needs to be legislation passed. that restrains everything by law. that he will veto, which is fine. But the architecture. of what will tragically be described as project 2029. Right. But is not that can be meted out, so to speak,

with, with legislative priorities, right. That, that are, that are voted into law because I think it's important. because this will be a fast starting presidential campaign to to make clear. exactly and precisely what the plan from, from day one is going going to be. But the long and short of it is, Democrats need to use the full power.

of, of the Constitution. that that has given them the article one branch of government. So for example, Leon Black, Leon Black, who is now suing to Congress defying a subpoena, should be arrested by the House origin of arms and locked up. in the basement under the Congress's inherent contempt authority, be a powerful message for the billionaire class.

This is a bad man. who is defying something he has no right to defy. And so the president's children, the president's thugs from Greg Bovino. investigations into the murder of Renee. Good. And Alex. Pretty oversight at every level. We have obliterated military bases across the Middle East that just now.

Are we seeing pictures of the country. has been lied to since February about this war. 66 times Donald Trump has declared victory. Pete is a fascist puppet, a buffoon. Canada, Denmark or countries that trump our allies. He's antagonized every corrupt deal, every email,

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on hexes, specifically, those pictures that you just mentioned. which were showing on screen now are devastating. Yeah. We see there's, you know, sites of an E3 century. It probably costs $500 million to replace this. We were not told. We were told it was damaged. And that picture tells you that it clearly wasn't. But more importantly, some of the other images show just how dangerous.

the conditions are in which US troops in the Middle East are being kept. How how exactly do Democrats know hauled Hegseth feet to the fire? I mean, just talk through the practicalities of impeaching. because people followed the impeachment of Donald Trump? They probably haven't followed the power, the sheer power. that that gives to to the house and what they can do with it.

Yeah. There's an. urgent moral necessity to impeach Pete Hague. Seth, who's a liar, who's incompetent, who's deranged, who has a, proselytized. to the force, who has politicized the force. This is very important. So the very first thing, if you're running for president, you best understand the difference between a Coast Guard.

and a Navy and an Air Force and a marine Corps and an Army uniform. You ought to be able to understand the badges and aerosol badge, the airborne. badge, the rank, the branch of service artillery. or infantry. Familiarity with. the military is going to be important. before. the president speaks on January 20th to 2029.

It's going to be a Democratic president. Cash Patel is fired. General Kane is fired. The chief of Naval Operations is fired. In full investigations. The Army chief of staff is fired. in full investigations into how they got their jobs. Their politicking, which has been documented in reported. and it may. be that they retire at reduced ranks.

General Donahue, one of the preeminent officers. This generation, should be immediately recalled to active duty. He made the Army chief of staff, and there will be other officers. who need to be recalled to active duty, who don't have the stain of the Trump era. to begin reforming the military. The American people, idiot ized.

for many decades, it seems, chanting USA! USA at flyovers we got an undisciplined kid. Rock military. Doing flybys in his mansion. Doubt. Discipline. Blue angels off of the beach. A trillion plus dollars a year. And there's a very simple concept here. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.

And the Pentagon can't pass an audit. If you read the words of Eisenhower's farewell wording. about the military industrial complex, nobody should be surprised. In a country where the president's corrupt son can be a war profiteer. and go into the tram business, that we lost the war to Iran. But the idea that. unlimited spending and having bases in a hundred countries,

all is proven, is imperial overreach, and the US military clearly cannot do the things. that it was expected to do that we thought it could do. It has been mismanaged. It has been run into the ground, its credibility has been reduced to zero. And the lying that's coming out of the Pentagon now. makes the Saigon 5:00 Follies look like child's play. It's full Baghdad, Bob 247.

Abuse of the force. Abuse of the equipment. It's a disaster. We've lost a war. A naval war. to a country whose navy we sank. It's an it's an achievement unprecedented. across 10,000 years of human history. Takes a certain level of incompetence to do that. And Trump has met it. But we have lost control of freedom,

of navigation of the seas in the Strait of Hormuz against Iran, which sends a very clear message to China about the South China Sea. and about their nine dashed line. and about their sovereignty claims to Taiwan. We can't meet our treaty obligations in the Pacific. We won't meet them in the Atlantic. We have abandoned them in Europe. In the Middle East is on fire.

This president has broken the military. He's broken the economy. He's broken the rule of law. He's broken the checks and balances. He's broken the peaceful transition of power. And he has set the world in motion. towards World War three, 80 years ago, on the edge of victory in the Second World War, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, and Franklin Roosevelt, his good friend, were dining. in the white House.

And King recorded the conversation. He said. FDR said his vision for peace. He hoped it would endure for as long as everyone. who was alive on the day the war was one was still alive. The youngest of those people were 82 years old. So here we are. And Donald Trump on the following year. After that, dinner seems to have set on fire. But to what end? To what purpose is there's there's the corruption. There's the incompetence.

You've been a master of messaging as well. What what message do the Democrats take out of this? And if you are running as a Democrat in in a swing district or an even in, you know, in what we thought was a ruby red state might not be. how do you pass that? How do you get that across to voters? This it seems almost impossible to process. It's so big. There's so many things. How do you how do you just get that so that people who are sitting, you know, see the ads between the two, the brakes on jeopardy.

or during the local news or on their phones? What's a simple message that just encapsulates it? I think they should understand a couple things. First off, I think the polling. almost uniformly overstates Trump and Republican strength right now. What I see coming into shape is a collapse of MAGA turnout. and a surge of independent and Democratic turnout. It's going to be one of the great decisive.

political events. ever, right? The reckoning is coming to a powerful mandate will be delivered. But that is a mandate that should not be understood. as victory for Chuck Schumer. It is a rebuke to Donald Trump, and it is an opportunity. for the Democrats, who lost two out of three elections. to Donald Trump, the most prolific liar.

in the world. No joke, no exaggeration. Since Goebbels and Hitler, my lie count. And incredibly, in two out of three American elections, he was viewed. as the more honest candidate. On the border. I'm Biden's fitness. on the economy. You have a Democratic Party.

that explicitly said during the Obama era they didn't need white. working class voters anymore because of the rising Obama coalition. There are not enough college educated voters. in that coalition to discard the majority of the country. Democratic Party or Franklin Roosevelt. understood how important it was that there be no forgotten people, that everybody needs to be seen.

Everyone needs to be heard, that the Democratic Party, the party of the common man, turned away from that common person, and people want to be seen and they want to be heard. And there are huge swaths of the country. where party doesn't really have a claim, a standing to say we're a national party, regional party. Leadership in Congress.

from California and Brooklyn. But you're seeing a rising Democratic party. James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, you're seeing candidates. do very well in Kansas. We have to remember is Bob Dole, his surgeries after his war wounds. came in the form of donations tossed into a cigar box. in Russell, Kansas, and read Bob Dole farewell letter.

Roger Marshall is the antithesis of Dole and Eisenhower. He's an illusion. The state of Kansas. He's a whack job, part of the radical tradition that's come out of the state. But that has always been put down within the state. You have a you have a moment in time right now where every Democrat ought to. when they hear words like being imposed on them by their Democratic pollsters. Right. That sound jargon. Don't say them speak English. Tell the truth, be honest.

This is a immense crisis we're facing in this country. Tell the truth about it and don't blame the voters for it. They're not stupid. And a choice. between two corrupt institutions. Voters pick the Magas. Because they were more honest in the eyes of the voters. Incredibly right. And and so what Democrats have to have his humility with Democrats.

have to have is, hey, this guy. lied to you, and we have to make this stop together. It's bad for your kids, and we don't have to compromise with the 25% of the country. that's batshit crazy and wants to burn the Constitution. To be in a version of the Jonestown called. we need to. We need to run them over at the polls. You mentioned. also often Tyler recall who else should we who else should we be watching?

And I should say, by the way, Daily Beast readers are fascinated by us of their fascinated by Toriko. They obviously see that these are the these are rising stars there. There's obviously there's more out there. You mentioned Kansas. We haven't talked about Iowa. We haven't talked about Ohio, actually, we're there are there are significant candidates. You're going to have. Democratic senator in the state of Ohio.

You're going to have any Andrews who's going to be, is is going to be is going to win the election. I think the Iowa is going to have Democratic governor, Democratic Senate. I think that there's a real chance for a Democrat. to win the Texas governor's race. I think that as you look around. into the South, you have Jamie Davis. In Louisiana, you have Scott column in Mississippi. Democratic party needs to be all in. When you have black candidates running in states.

like Louisiana and Mississippi, when you have a black prosecutor. in the state of Mississippi, the Mega Evers is from when when Elvis. Presley's nephew lost by three points for governor four years ago. You roll in, right, you crack the ceiling and you keep hitting it. until you win a race down there. And so all over the country, you're going to. you're going to see the waters come up on these MAGA candidates.

You have some. independent candidates in in Nebraska, in South Dakota, without Democrats who may win also. But the country is going to reject this, the, the economy, the fuze is lit. I can't tell you what day it's going to blow up, but I know that I've had the experience on a presidential campaign. when that happened, when Lehman Brothers imploded in the economy went down.

And and that's that's what you're seeing. That's what you're seeing happen right now. The country is enraged over over this Trump. any any, any person who believe this, I'll withhold my my opinion for a second. But you were caught by by a person. who history will record as a great con man. as a as a as the demagogue. The founders,

the founders were worried about. Right. It and and the issue is like that my anger at those people for falling for it. That's my issue, not their issue. The bad guy in this story isn't the voters, it's Trump. And so the judge mental wing of the opposition, including the Democratic Party. that's pissed off at those voters who voted for this guy. Time to let it go. We need these people back in our boat. And about 80% of the country.

right now is opposed. on an issue to issue basis. I nearly everything that he's doing. and at a personal level, he's under 30% now. And so there's a wipeout coming up. The cost of gasoline, the implications from this war, the loss of America's standing in the world.

This is. going to start to weigh very heavily over these next 48 days. You just mentioned that you were in a campaign when Lehman Brothers went down. Everybody around Trump. must have a moment, right with the with this becomes clear. Just explain. I mean explain maybe for their benefit, what happens in that moment when. when something when this trigger happens, when there's some moment that you realize.

the economy is against us so catastrophically. that we can't win. Only the stupidest people amongst them. don't understand by now. that this is going down. What? There was a story that was out in the last week as literally reading it. from southern Bavaria at the Obersalzberg. near the bunker complex underneath.

underneath the Nazis final, final redoubt. And, It's it's a story about how nobody will tell them. No. Right. And what's the point? And so what I've said for a long time. is that MAGA hierarchically is aligned. in, in the people in that line have two features that are unique. They all have eyes in the back of their head for the knife.

and the hand behind them, because that's the way you would advance, right? You want to get one seat closer to the Führer table. So all these people are plotting. against one another, the rats jumping off the ship. They don't want to be seen in Dallas. So we're trying to run away from Trump. They're all tied to them. They're married to them. There is no running for Trump. Go to Dallas. Don't go to Dallas. You're all one uniform block of fucking crazy, right?

They tried to light the Constitution on fire. by denying an election result in setting a standard. where the American people, who are the recipients of a 250 year. inheritance of elections and have the freest. and fairest elections in the world, right, that this is now suspect. And this insanity has spread everywhere because we were the foundation, the stability in the world for an order that are not perfect.

was much more perfect than anything that has ever come before. And so Donald Trump began. his presidency with the repudiation of the Atlantic Charter. He is meddling, for example, in fragile Irish politics, out of ignorance. Everywhere he goes, he lights something on fire. And this era of American politics and the decades. that preceded it that produced it will long be studied.

But we're in a we're in a moment of real catastrophe in the world. that's getting that's getting worse, that we all have. an appreciation for that enough evidence is accumulated. I think that the American people are going to put a stop to it, but that's going to cause chaos in, in, in government for two years. But I think it's important for Democrats to realize nobody is voting for them. to go up there and work with Donald Trump and find bipartisan common ground where. we're what we're voting for them to do is to make this stop, make it stop.

Save America has had some of the most brilliant. attacks on Trump and most brilliant, I think, of his character. What your plans for the next, the next six weeks team is at it. Right. So we'll be we're we're we're involved in a vote safe initiative. With the. with Reverend Sharpton, with faith leaders all over the country.

National Action Network, we were involved in that space. We are we're going to be communicating about various campaigns and. and candidates, and we'll be trying to frame. what the choice is for the American people to help people understand. they've been lied to you, that we've lost a war, that there's consequences for that. Right? That, you know, for a long time we had an argument in the country about.

we vote for this guy. Some bad things might happen. Well, we voted for him. And there's no evasion now of those bad things. They are happening. And and some of those things are going to become catastrophic things. And I it was I spent a lot of time in Europe over. the last couple of weeks, and I did some mountain climbing on the, on the border of Austria and Italy in the Dolomites. And you're on the frontier of fighting in the First World War.

And we don't really talk about the First World War. We don't write about it. Right. What happened? Right. If you went out. and asked an average member of Congress, hey, what happened in the First World War? People would be like, I mean, what happened was four empires fell apart the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the German Empire, and the Austria-Hungary Empire. And it set the stage for the deadliest war in history. And and, and one of the great achievements.

in the aftermath of a Holocaust. is the European Union. The 80 years. that Donald Trump lit a fire to. for no other reason than his ignorance and his power and his prejudices. and his vanities, and the weakness of the people around them who couldn't be told no. The greed of media executives who lapped up. every lick of nonsense.

and tried to profit from it. And what we got in a serious world is a version of the Abbey Philip Show. And and here we are, here we are. And I have to say, I've been to those Dolomites, those battlefields and Dolomites as well. The, the tremendously moving because you see, in these. incredibly beautiful mountains that men were facing each other. in trenches dug into the rock in, in winter in horrible conditions.

And as you see, there's a very moving reality that you're there. and realize that there is peace as far as the eye can see, metaphorically. from, you know, from those Dolomites for hundreds and hundreds of miles. And one of the things that that I think captures, captures you when you were there is what progress we have made. And yet here we are. We are talking about the possibility of that, or not even the possibility, the reality of that progress having been halted. We've got not a lot of days to the election.

People are already beginning to vote among those people around Trump because, you know, you know, some of these people, you know them by character. What are they going to do when they lose? I mean, we all saw that the downfall movie about about Adolf Hitler. and that scene that's become a meme of him going crazy and, you know, but you're stuck in this, in this world. around Trump, you might get impeached if you, Pete Haig, Seth, you want to run as president.

How would you what what what are they going to do? It's going to be a catastrophic compulsion, isn't it? I think I think that you should look forward to disgrace and misery, and it will only ever get worse. You made a choice. You raise your hand against your country. You tried to light the Constitution. of the United States of America on fire. You're an American fascist. and you're going to lose.

What you did was an obscenity. and a sin. And. No coming back from it. And so you're going to have careers wiped out, reputations wiped out, and in misery. People will go bankrupt. with the lawyer. Some will go to prison. What I would, I would say is.

I think Kristi Noem is a great example of this. Right. So she got the bang Corey on air one right, 6 or 7 times, flying around the land on the taxpayer dime. And, according to reports, allegedly, of course, yes, he he does deny that they have a relationship. Was it worth it? She doesn't seem to me to be enjoying. life very much right now.

Right. How about Corey Lewandowski? Right. He went for it. Right. Trying to pretend to be Mister Kingpin, right? Head pimp at the. HHS department. I think he's going to go to prison. Pam Bondi. Todd Blanche, I'm 55, but at the time, I'm 65. Todd Blanche will be disbarred.

These Ice agents, every one of you sons of bitches. There are 47 days of training. Right. Set the countdown clock. Right. It's up to the Democrats to lay the track. Deposit your badge in the box. Hit the left in your weapon in the one to the right. You drew your weapon on someone. You may go to prison. The Justice Department, in two years time will be cooperating.

in the murder investigations of Alex, Freddy and Renee. Good. And there's no statute of limitations on murder. The assault on the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The boat strikes, the war crimes, the sinking. of an unarmed Iranian frigate. May be. may be. a naval me lie. United States did not go.

to the aid of those sailors in the sea. Precedent for that out of Nuremberg. famous war crimes trials. So the people who stole. The people who lied. are the people who try to profit from a war. We're going to find out. And and I don't think that. anyone running for president. is going to be in a position.

to appoint a merrick Garland as attorney general. And this isn't revenge. This is justice. Most fundamental American concept. is we get to pick our leaders one. and two. No one is above or below the law. Grant talked about this. Whether I agree with the law or whether I disagree with the law,

my job is president. is to faithfully execute the Los. The law must be executed faithfully. Steve Schmidt you could not end in a better note than an appeal to justice. It's 48 days. We are going to be checking in with you on on the run up. We are looking forward to exactly what Save America gets up to, because I am. I'm assuming that you are plotting an October surprise.

I'd be disappointed. We'd all be disappointed. If you're not, there should be surprise about what you're predicting, but quite how? Quite what a scale this blue wave is going to be. It's common. We will be with you to check in on its progress. Steve Schmidt, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Here. We are going to be. covering the race to the election in-depth every day on The Daily Beast. You can find us at WW. Com. We're also on Substack and on the subject of Substack.

And we put up a link during the show to those extraordinarily. moving pieces that Steve Schmidt wrote about the kidnap creating children. I could not recommend the more highly, but got the link up again on the screen. One small note one. Black has denied allegations of sexual abuse and involvement with Epstein. And thank you to everybody who's joined us who've been part of a community, as I said. Joanna is back with Michael Wolff on the next episode of Inside Trump's Head.

And a big thank you to our production team Ryan Murray, John Romero, Heather Pissarro, Rachel Passer and Neil Rosen, host. So the good news is we have so many Bee Beast tier members now. There are too many names to read out and we really appreciate your support.