The Conversation with Steve Schmidt
This podcast features in-depth conversations and political analysis with Steve Schmidt and newsmakers, independent journalists, and elected officials. It covers the biggest stories of the day, including those that aren’t being widely reported by the mainstream media.
Episodes
Steve Schmidt sits down with retired U.S. Naval aviator and combat correspondent Ken Harbaugh, straight from his reporting on the frontlines in Ukraine. Ken shares harrowing, firsthand accounts and deep strategic insights that mainstream cable news rarely covers:
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The 20-mile “death zone” and drone warfare: Inside the lethal frontline corridor where kamikaze drones make any surface movemen...
Steve Schmidt joins "The Jim Acosta Show" to talk about how the coalition that elected Donald Trump is "dead, kaput," as 2026 midterm polls show Democrats and independents competitive in red states like Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska and Alaska. With the map expanding into states Republicans usually take for granted, Schmidt argues the coming mandate isn't a love letter to Democrats, it's a demand to make the chaos stop.
We’re heading west to cowboy country for today's edition of the Save America Movement's "Fighting Americans" series. Steve Schmidt sits down with Brian Bengs to talk about his independent run for U.S. Senate in South Dakota. A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and JAG, Navy veteran, and National Park ranger, Brian talks corruption, restoring the power of individual voters, ethics and accountability in the military, putting...
Harry Dunn knows what it means to defend American democracy because he has done it — literally. In this urgent conversation, Steve Schmidt sits down with the former U.S. Capitol Police officer to talk about the stakes of the coming midterms, the fight to restore the rule of law, and the responsibility that comes after Election Day. They take on January 6, MAGA extremism, accountability, voter suppression, the failur...
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, fabulists and people willing to tell him exactly what he wants to hear. On this week's edition of "Oh Schmidt! It's Friday," Jim Acosta and Steve Schmidt take a hard look at the increasingly strange world inside Trump’s orbit, including the extraordinary story of Natalie Harp and what it reveals about the people who have access to the president of the United States.
They al...
The Save America Movement's "Fighting Democrat" series is back, and Congressman Jared Huffman is not holding back — he's exposing just how deep Christian nationalism has burrowed into American government. Huffman joins Steve Schmidt to break down the tactics and myths Christian nationalists use to advance their agenda, straight from his new book "NO PROPHETS: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism." Huffman is...
Steve Schmidt joins Jennifer Welch on the “I’ve Had It” podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about the crisis unfolding in America — and what it will take to defeat it.
They talk about the humiliation of American power abroad, the rise of gangster capitalism at home, the failures of a Democratic establishment that too often seems incapable of understanding the urgency of the hour, and the corruption, secr...
Steve Schmidt joins "The Jim Acosta Show" with LIVE breaking news, along with Adam Mockler and Abdul El-Sayed.
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Governor Jay Inslee has spent a lifetime governing, and in this conversation with Steve Schmidt — part of the Save America Movement's “Fighting Democrat” series — he explains why America has reached a point where competence, courage and moral clarity matter more than ever. We discuss the growing assault on democratic institutions, the politicization of disaster relief, the future of...
As part of the Save America Movement's 'Fighting Democrat' series, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear joins Steve Schmidt for a conversation about leadership, accountability and the obligations that come with public office at a moment when the American people are demanding answers about Mitch McConnell’s prolonged absence from public life. Public office is a public trust, and there can be no ambiguity about whether those entruste...
Steve Schmidt and Brian Tyler Cohen talk about his newly launched book, “The Day After." Its real subject isn’t Donald Trump. It’s power. More specifically, it’s the refusal of too many Democrats to understand what power is for.
For too long, Democrats have responded to authoritarianism with process, commissions, and endless deference to institutions that their opponents have been systematically dismantling....
On today’s episode of “Oh Schmidt, It’s Friday” on “The Jim Acosta Show,” we discussed how the Pentagon has quietly revised the official death toll from Donald Trump’s war with Iran, reducing it from 18 American service members killed to 14.
Jim and I examine one of the most disturbing episodes of the conflict: the decision to erase four soldiers from the official wartime death count...
Two more Americans are dead. Another is missing. The war is widening, and in this conversation Steve Schmidt and Ken Harbaugh ask the question Washington refuses to confront: is America losing because of its enemies, or because of its own leadership?
They argue that the greatest threat facing the United States is a collapse of strategic leadership at the White House and the Pentagon. They discuss a dangerous erosion of military pro...
Steve Schmidt joins Jim Acosta for a wide-ranging conversation on the assault against democratic institutions, the use of government power, unanswered questions surrounding Mitch McConnell’s prolonged absence, and why today’s White House increasingly resembles a fortress instead of the People’s House. Nick Valencia also joined the show.
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Steve Schmidt sits down with Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove for a wide-ranging conversation on the dysfunction in Congress, the Trump administration’s assault on democratic norms, the politics of grievance, and what Democrats must do to restore accountability and rebuild public trust. This is part of the Save America Movement's "Fighting Democrat" series.
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Lindsey Graham has spent decades mastering one political skill above all others: survival. In this conversation, part of the Save America Movement ”Fighting Democrats” series, Steve Schmidt sits down with Dr. Annie Andrews — a paediatrician, mother, and Democratic candidate for the United States Senate — to discuss why she believes that era can finally come to an end. We explore Gra...
Steve Schmidt and comedian and actor Godfrey joined Don Lemon for "Hot Topics" to examine the troubled rollout of Trump's America 250 festivities, from the Reflecting Pool fiasco to a Confederate flag image displayed at a state pavilion, alongside a wave of hateful, racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric from Megyn Kelly, Tom Emmer, and other prominent Trump allies targeting Somali Americans and Haitians. At a moment meant to celebrate th...
For today's edition of "Holy Schmidt! It's Friday on 'The Jim Acosta Show' Steve Schmidt and Jim Acosta talk about the vile racist comments made by Stephen Miller and Megyn Kelly, the insanity of Trump’s derangement over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and a very special Jim’s Take. Jim and Katie discuss new Supreme Court decisions.
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The Save America Movement's 'Fighting Democrats' series is back as Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland joins Steve Schmidt. Rep. Raskin is not only taking aim at Trump's unprecedented corruption, but at the "super pardon" acting AG Todd Blanche is trying to hand both Trump and his corrupt family members. Accountability is coming and Donald and his crew know it. Don't miss this conversation!
Black rain falls in Moscow after Ukraine executed a series of devastating drone strikes on oil refineries. Steve Schmidt and Ken Harbaugh explain how Ukraine inflicted lasting damage on Russia's resources and morale — not by luck, but by design. Ken was granted extraordinary access to Ukraine's resistance network for his latest feature in The Atlantic, and today he takes you inside their sophisticated "kill chain." Brought to...
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