Scaremonger much, Jim Sciutto? On today's CNN This Morning, subbing for Kasie Hunt, Sciutto suggested that if Americans don't pay sufficient attention to Trump's handling of Ukraine, it could lead to another 9/11. Before making that baleful prophecy, Sciutto began by comparing Trump unfavorably to Neville Chamberlain and his failed attempt to appease Hitler. Sciutto approvingly quoted a post by David Frum noting that at least Chamberlain never parroted Nazi propaganda. Sciutto then observed: "Trump is amplifying the Kremlin propaganda here." Sciutto pulled the 9/11 redux alarm in response to a statement by panelist Edward-Isaac Dovere, a CNN reporter, that "foreign policy is not usually the kind of thing that voters, or Americans, pay deep, deep attention to." Responded Sciutto: "Listen: they don't pay attention until it affects their lives, right? You know, I mean, look at 9/11 as an example, right? We don't have to worry about what's happening in that part of the world. Of course, it came to touch, touch Americans' lives, sadly." Ask yourself: What was CNN doing to warn us of 9/11 before it happened? Or the Clinton administration? But by all means, CNN, suggesting your audience are a bunch of rubes.  Molly Ball of the Wall Street Journal, without necessarily subscribing to the notion, reported that some Republicans have explained Trump's statements on Russia and Ukraine as a means of demonstrating that he can be an honest broker in the negotiations, thereby making a successful outcome more likely. Meanwhile, for the second time during his current run as fill-in host on the show, Sciutto had on Joe Walsh as his supposed "Republican" on the panel. Sciutto kicked off the panel's discussion of Ukraine by asking Walsh what Trump's comments on Ukraine mean "for your party." Walsh is the kind of Republican who attended the 2024 Democrat National Convention as a "Republican for Kamala Harris." In this interview at the convention, a reporter described Walsh's political history: "You went from Tea Party congressman to being a firebrand conservative radio host, not unlike the Sean Hannitys or Tucker Carlsons of the world. What happened when you decided to take a stand against Trump? Because you are about as anti-Trump as any Republican--anybody, Republican or not." Responded Walsh: "It's absolutely crazy. Ten twelve years ago, I'm saying the worst things in the world about Barack Obama. Last night, I'm agreeing with ever single word he said." Walsh also portrayed himself to the reporter as a brave, death-defying hero: "When you are an anti-Trump Republican, you put your life in danger." Walsh never served in the military. Even so, perhaps Biden should have awarded him the Medal of Honor. Walsh is the kind of guy who got thrown out of the Chameleons Club for being too much of a . . . chameleon. For being too much of a disgrace to fellow lizards, the GEICO gecko wouldn't sell Walsh an insurance policy! Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 2/20/25 6:04 am ET JIM SCIUTTO: David Frum tweeted a comment about Neville Chamberlain, of course infamous, right, for attempting to make a deal with Hitler, saying that even: "Neville Chamberlain, to do him justice, never amplified under his own byline Hitler's propaganda against the Czechs." Trump is amplifying the Kremlin propaganda here. . . .  EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE: This is a bigger question about what kind of world we're going to be coming into, perhaps. And look, there may be withdrawals. Let's see what it looks like if we do have Donald Trump try to withdraw troops from Europe or change what the situation is with the war in Ukraine. So it may be that logistically, and it may just be people confronting the idea that what does it mean when America doesn't stand with its allies anymore? What does it mean when America is saying, okay, if a powerful country invades another country, then the other country is the one that needs to give in, and how people process that.  Foreign policy is not usually the kind of thing that voters, or Americans, pay deep, deep attention to. But these are fundamental questions about what America is. SCIUTTO: Listen: they don't pay attention until it affects their lives, right? You know, I mean, look at 9-11 as an example, right? We don't have to worry about what's happening in that part of the world. Of course, it came to touch, touch Americans' lives, sadly.