Scripts News political analyst Steve Schmidt is with US now. He's the founder of the Warning substack and podcast. See. The Supreme Court just decided in the last ninety minutes or so they are going to take up Donald Trump's presidential immunity case in the j sixth case. Do you think they're going to bring that to a tidy resolution?
Well, I think ultimately what the Supreme Court will decide in that case is the President of the United States does not have some type of special immunity that places the office or the person above the law, either during the tenure, before the tenure or after the tenure of office. It's a foundationally important claim, one that has riven the entire society, and so I think that the Supreme Court has sent to signal that they will decide this question in American life for all time.
But it will be interesting to see, Steve, how quickly they do that, because it could impact the timeline here of if we get a trial before the election. A federal trial I want to talk to you about. Congress seem to have reached a deal, tenative deal to avoid a government shutdown at least for a week or so. This looks like another kick the can down the road moment, doesn't in Steve, I mean, why can't Congress pass a budget?
Because I know a lot of our viewers right now are saying, I'm so tired about hearing Joe and Chance and Steve talk about the potential government shutdowns every few months.
The incredible thing about this is then that members of Congress will come out and congratulate one another for maintaining
this chaos and perpetuity as if this is governing. These are the most basic foundational aspects of the role of the legislative branch in American life, which is to a pro create the nation's money, and so over the course of many, many years, we've seen that break and so maintaining just the basic, basic functionality of the institution has become the entire focus of the institution in the context of what is it that those people are doing up there.
It is an extraordinary thing to watch, and it is completely a historic There has never been a moment in time where the Congress has ceased to function in this manner over our entire history.
Real quick, got to talk about Michigan. President Biden lost one hundred thousand votes to uncommitted viewers. Campaign manager, you've advised a few campaigns in your time. What would you be saying privately about this a cause for concern? Are we blown it out of the water here in the Washington.
The fundamental issue in this race is how many people in the country are unhappy. The fact is is people are told all the time that no one is anything in common. The country's evenly divided. Eighty plus percent of the country says we do not want the rematch between Trump and Biden. Yet both of these political parties, the first and the third oldest in the world, are going to give the country that rematch. And so you will see resistance manifest itself with oppositional voting in a primary,
maybe stay at home voters in the general election. But we're going to see this all the way through, and nobody's yet found the rhythm. How do you appeal to that grumpy American voter that doesn't like either of them you will participate and doesn't want to hear, for example, from the Biden campaign if they have a concern about his age, that his age, in fact is his qualification making him the wisest in the land. Neither party has
found its way to that equal libium. Yet how to talk to what I think is going to be a determinative part of the electorate, people who are going to vote but are very unhappy with the choice ahead.
A lot of people feeling awfully grumpy right about now. I think you got the right word there, And by the way, I want to let people know that in the warning today on your substack, I read your column, Steve, you have a pretty dire warning of if there's appeasement with Vladimir Putin and all the dominoes that could fall, including a nuclear rized you know, South South Korea and Japan and Germany and all these things. So I hope
people log on and read that. Yeah, Scripts News political contributor Steve Smith.
Thanks