Steve Schmidt

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1,189 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 29 Jun

Steve Schmidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | Donald Trump's Iran War Lies & Fallout After Kristi Noem's Abysmal Testimony · 5 Mar 2026 podcast

And because they were going to attack voice-verified

we were compelled to attack with them. voice-verified

And the precedent that was established is now that if there's an imminence of threat declared by Netanyahu, US forces must fight. voice-verified

And so we were, and Marco Rubio can't have this both ways. voice-verified

We either, voice-verified

have the upper hand in the relationship or Netanyahu has the upper hand and in this instance it's very clear according to Marco Rubio that the United States acted not because there was a threat to the United States but because there was a threat to Israel as voice-verified

asserted by Benjamin Netanyahu. voice-verified

And so we know in the very first actions of the war, though we don't know which country's Air Force dropped the bombs, those precision munitions are dropped on a school, 168 young women killed. voice-verified

And you can't have it both ways. voice-verified

You can't stand up there and bluster with all the tough talk. voice-verified

about the precision munition that kills this ayatollah in 47 more and i don't lament the loss of uh ayatollah at all right it's good riddance but here's the deal but here's the deal all of the contradictions add up to a lack of planning around what comes next voice-verified

that this country is now in a position, as affirmed by its Secretary of State, that was not in our interest, but in Netanyahu's asserted stated interest, that because there's an imminent threat, an attack had to be made against Iran, and that consequence has now spiraled out across 15 countries, voice-verified

And now we have an armed Sunni population orchestrated by Israel, orchestrated by the United States that's supposed to march on Tehran against the Shia-Persian majority, stoking a sectarian war in a country with a stable boundary through the Ottoman Empire that goes all the way back to the 1630s. voice-verified

Well, yes, but this is even worse than that, because when that happened, the Iraqi regime was deposed in about 100 hours of fighting. voice-verified

And in this instance, voice-verified

We're past the 100 hour mark with an air campaign that has no end in sight and has no objective attached to changing the regime in Iran, which won't be able to be accomplished without the proverbial boots on the ground. voice-verified

So the fundamental question is, what happens next? voice-verified

what what happens next and there's no there's no plan and so when you when you look at the totality of this iran is a country that's larger than alaska it's two and a half times the size of texas has 90 million people to mountainous country and that country voice-verified

is not something that is going to be taken over by words from the podium by Pete Hegseth after bombs get dropped on installations in the country. voice-verified

And so what we've tried to do is to say that we're going to change the regime. voice-verified

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