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The Dispatch
· collected 2026-10-02 · by Michael Warren, Jonah Goldberg, Kevin D. Williamson
On a recent Senate Judiciary hearing, Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt attempted to question former Special Counsel Jack Smith about an NBA game in an effort to potentially set up a perjury trap. However, the exchange failed when Smith confirmed he did not attend the specified game on February 3rd, 2024, as Schmitt had suggested. The podcast discussion highlights how this move by Schmitt was intended to generate political leverage against Smith but instead fell short of achieving its viral and sensational goals.
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On Tuesday, former special counsel Jack Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Senator Chuck Grassley to defend his two criminal investigations into President Donald Trump. Republicans accuse Smith of abusing authority and politically targeting Republicans, while Democrats support him for standing up against Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and mishandling classified documents. The hearing, titled "Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans," also involves scrutiny over subpoenas issued by Smith's office, which were aimed at disrupting certification of Joe Biden's victory in 2020, ultimately leading to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Smith has insisted his decisions were made without political bias and said he would not be silenced despite threats from Trump's Justice Department.
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Mike Warren is joined by Jonah Goldberg and Kevin Williamson to discuss Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt’s failed attempt at setting a perjury trap and the Trump administration’s AI luncheon.
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Warren → join → trap
The Agenda:
—What happened to Capitol Hill staff?
—The GOP’s victory lap
—The superintelligence rebrand
—Trump’s AI luncheon
[instrumental music]
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On today's roundtable, we discuss Senator Eric Schmitt's attempt to catch former Special Counsel Jack Smith in a perjury trap during Capitol Hill testimony this week, and President Trump's meeting with artificial, sorry, super intelligence business leaders and their pact with the administration to, quote, "self-regulate," unquote.
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I'm joined today by Dispatch Editor-in-Chief, Jonah Goldberg, and National Correspondent, Kevin Williamson.
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Let's dive in.
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Well, it feels like it's been a long time since we've had a congressional hearing that has turned into some kind of, I don't know, sensation, internet meme.
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I mean, when, when I have normie friends of mine who have nothing to do with politics, who have actual real jobs, where they, they can't just pay attention to the conversation of what's going on every day in Washington on Capitol Hill, when I'm getting texts from them saying, "Have you seen this congressional hearing?" you know it's a good one.
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Of course, I'm talking about the Senate Judiciary hearing earlier this week, which was intended to be a kind of Republican grilling of Jack Smith, the former special counsel who was leading the investigations into Donald Trump during the Biden administration.
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And this was, I think, in a lot of ways set up to give Republicans something to crow about, to be able to go on cable news and say, "See, we really stuck it to, you know, enemy number one at this point for Donald Trump."
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And I, I think that's what Eric Schmitt, the Republican senator from Missouri, thought he was doing when he was in his line of questioning of Jack Smith.
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I think he was hoping for something viral.
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I don't know if he was going for virality in this way.
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Can we roll the clip of what exactly happened, and then we'll explain a little bit more if it needs explaining.
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Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February 3rd, 2024?
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you → go → 3rd
So your testimony today is that you did not go to a Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024.
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