Don Lemon

She called on Congress to hold public hearings for Epstein survivors.

Democrats immediately said, yeah, yeah.

So the First Lady, on the same day her husband is selling his ceasefire victory to the world, just handed the opposition a public Epstein hearing on a silver platter.

I don't know what's happening in the White House, but between a misunderstanding that killed 182 people and love Melania to Glenn Maxwell, today is a lot.

And perhaps Steve Schmidt,

the co-founder of the Lincoln Project and the amazingly successful and illuminating podcast, The Warning, excuse me, Substack, The Warning joins us now.

Steve, thanks for joining.

Where do we start?

Do we start with Melania?

You want to start with the war, but Melania.

What got into her?

What's happening?

You asked me a question right before we started.

First off, good to see you, Don.

You asked me a question right before we started.

You were like, is it possible that nobody in the White House had any idea she was going to do this?

And my initial reaction to that was, yeah.

It just seems to me it feels like one of those things when you work in the White House that happens that you have no idea about where you're just like, WTF?

just happened.

And so she goes out there and defies a lot of photographic evidence that she didn't have a relationship with these people.