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WH Excuse for Biden's Debate Performance? "He had a Cold!" · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It was a disaster. The whole world watched it.
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  Speaker 2: There was a large audience, and people saw with their
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  Speaker 2: own eyes just how bad the cognitive decline is of
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden. But Joe Biden doesn't fall down and not
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  Speaker 2: get back up. No, no, folks, He's gonna get back up.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's saying, look, I may not be as
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  Speaker 2: brilliant as I used to be. Right, I may not
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  Speaker 2: be as smart as I used to be. It may
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  Speaker 2: not be as fast as I used to be. But
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  Speaker 2: by golly, when you get knocked down, you get back up.
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  Speaker 2: That is what Joe Biden said, jumping back onto the
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  Speaker 2: campaign trail with a quote renewed energy. Apparently the lie
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  Speaker 2: that he had a cold at the debate disappeared within
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  Speaker 2: twelve hours after that disastrous debate, and so Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: went out there and he's fired up. He returned the
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  Speaker 2: campaign trail on Friday to make it clear I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going anywhere after Democrat went berserk after and actually during
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  Speaker 2: the debate, saying how do we get rid of him?
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  Speaker 2: Who can we replace him with? What does this look like?
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  Speaker 2: What do the laws say if we get rid of
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  Speaker 2: him and no one votes for it? The next person
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  Speaker 2: that we give all the support behind at the Democratic convention.
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  Speaker 2: Will that make voters angry feeling like they were disenfranchised
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  Speaker 2: on the Democratic side. Well, look, you still got to
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  Speaker 2: have one guy agreed to step down for any of
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  Speaker 2: that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Joe Biden. He's eighty one years.
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  Speaker 2: Old, and he has acknowledged now the concerns but pledged
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  Speaker 2: that he has what it takes quote to prevail. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read this for you so you can hear
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he said to the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Biden in his own words, I.
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  Speaker 2: Would not be running if I did not believe with
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  Speaker 2: all my heart and soul that I can do this job.
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  Speaker 2: The crowd jacked up just as much as they were
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  Speaker 2: hoping Joe would have been during the debate, started chanting,
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  Speaker 2: yes you can. So they're rooting for him to like, basically,
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  Speaker 2: stay alive.
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  Speaker 1: The stakes are too high.
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  Speaker 2: He went on to say Donald Trump is a genuine
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  Speaker 2: threat to this nation. Donald Trump will destroy our democracy,
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  Speaker 2: and I will defend it. He conceded, Yes, okay, maybe
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  Speaker 2: I may have lost a step or two since my
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  Speaker 2: victory in twenty twenty, but he was trying to reset
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  Speaker 2: the discussion to make a start contrast in the election.
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  Speaker 2: This is what the campaign team believes they needed to
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  Speaker 2: do right after the disasters. Debate the worst debate in
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  Speaker 2: political history that I've ever seen. And what did Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden say? The writers had him read this. I don't
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  Speaker 2: walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak
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  Speaker 2: as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as
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  Speaker 2: well as I used to. But I know what I
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  Speaker 2: do know. I know how to tell the truth, I
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  Speaker 2: know right from wrong. I know how to do this job.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Biden also had another.
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  Speaker 2: Moment that's going to sound like a dick tator and
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  Speaker 2: or a tyrant moment is I would describe it. And
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  Speaker 2: this was a moment when Joe Biden agreed with the
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  Speaker 2: crowd as they were saying it's time to lock Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump up and there's a very real chance at sentencing
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  Speaker 2: in New York that could actually happen.
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  Speaker 1: And he even says there's time for that.
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  Speaker 2: Listen carefully to Joe Biden's words as the chance explode
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  Speaker 2: at the Biden rally in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: He's got more trials come home.
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  Speaker 3: Time for that.
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  Speaker 1: Look, there's time for that. And then he grins.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to know what a psychopath looks like,
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  Speaker 2: this would be Joe Biden. If you want to know
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  Speaker 2: what psychopaths will look like around a crazy person, look
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  Speaker 2: no further than his wife, Joe Biden, who apparently cares
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  Speaker 2: more about being theay than she does about protecting her
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  Speaker 2: own husband. There is no way that if you watch
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  Speaker 2: the debate and you witnessed him go on the fritz
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  Speaker 2: several times, that you think that he is capable of
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  Speaker 2: handling this job.
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  Speaker 1: There is no way.
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  Speaker 2: And this includes Democratic donors who are watching. They believe
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  Speaker 2: that he's going to be around for I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know if you could say six months months less another
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  Speaker 2: four years. And the other question that everybody should be
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  Speaker 2: asking themselves after the debate, And there was so much
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  Speaker 2: to dissect after debate, and so this is the question
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  Speaker 2: that I said afterwards. I'm like, this is the first
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  Speaker 2: question we should have all been asking ourselves if Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden isn't.
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  Speaker 1: Running the country.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean that when I say that Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: is not running this country, it's obvious then who is
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  Speaker 2: who is running the country. Now think about that for
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, and I want to go to another
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  Speaker 2: article that was written, and it is one that I
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  Speaker 2: really think puts into perspective just how massive the cognitive
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  Speaker 2: decline is of the president.
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  Speaker 1: Quote it pains me quote unquote.
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  Speaker 2: Then it says with his political article, how Biden's devastating
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  Speaker 2: debate went over at an assisted living facility. The reaction
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  Speaker 2: was grim. This coming out of chevy Chase, Maryland. It's
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  Speaker 2: not far from well where the president lives at sixteen
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  Speaker 2: hundred Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: Avenue, just so you know.
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  Speaker 2: And a reporter decided to do something for an article
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  Speaker 2: that was a very interesting idea. Literally go to retirement facility,
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  Speaker 2: an old folks home and sit with those that were
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  Speaker 2: watching the debate and then ask them what they saw
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  Speaker 2: just before the first debate, The writer writes, between the
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  Speaker 2: oldest two major party president of Kenneton history, a TV
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  Speaker 2: ad attacking President Joe Biden asked if he's response to
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  Speaker 2: inflation is dishonest or is it dementia? Watching from an
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  Speaker 2: assistant living facility just outside of Washington, d c. Barbara
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  Speaker 2: Goldberg eighty one groaned and put her head in her hands.
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  Speaker 2: The candidates' ages, she said, are not really relevant to
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  Speaker 2: the other issues that are quote more important.
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  Speaker 1: This is someone who's the same age as the president.
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  Speaker 2: And then, over the course the next ninety minutes, as
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  Speaker 2: the residence of the Brighton Gardens of Friendship, Heights popped
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  Speaker 2: skittles and repeatedly asked for the volume on the community
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  Speaker 2: TV to be turned up. Age suddenly became all that
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  Speaker 2: mattered when by eighty one appeared to lose his train
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  Speaker 2: of thought and said, inexplicably, we finally beat Medicare. Goldberg
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  Speaker 2: put her head in her hands again. We finally beat Medicare.
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  Speaker 2: Question mark, she asked to those sitting around her. For Biden,
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  Speaker 2: it was a disaster. His allies had seen the debate
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  Speaker 2: as his best chance to yet ease the concerns about
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  Speaker 2: his age, a persistent liability for his campaign, and the
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  Speaker 2: perception of older voters, who turned up to vote at
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  Speaker 2: higher levels than any other age group, is critical to
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic presidency. Biden lost voters sixty five and older
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  Speaker 2: to Donald Trump by five percent points back in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: But it is courting them aggressively in the run up
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  Speaker 2: to November because they know they can't lose any more
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  Speaker 2: than that and expect to win. I think that he
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  Speaker 2: is rushing it when Resident said, and he's not looking
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  Speaker 2: at the camera for the most part is what mag
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  Speaker 2: maguire eighty one said, who was visiting the facility to
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  Speaker 2: watch the debate with her husband, She said, quote in
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  Speaker 2: terms of just physical relationship to the camera, Trump is
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  Speaker 2: doing better, even if, as she puts it, Trump says garbage.
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  Speaker 2: I do think Biden's age is showing at the debate,
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  Speaker 2: and it pains me. She went on to say. Goldberg agreed,
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  Speaker 2: saying I don't like to see Biden's gaffes, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't like to see Trump going Haywire and Kakamemi either. Trump,
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  Speaker 2: at seventy eight, has had his own stumbles in recent
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  Speaker 2: months to article rights. While arguing at campaign rally recently
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  Speaker 2: that Biden should take a cognitive test like I did,
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  Speaker 2: he fled the name of Representative Johnny Jackson or Ronnie Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: his former physician, calling him Doc Ronnie Johnson. But at
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  Speaker 2: the debate, while his lies drew criticism the author rights,
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  Speaker 2: Trump's age was nearly a non factor in a Gallop
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  Speaker 2: Pole release this week. Some two thirds of Americans said
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  Speaker 2: Biden is too old to be present, compared to just
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven percent who said the same about Trump, and
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  Speaker 2: of that thirty seven percent, you can guess it overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: the majority of them are Democrats. So when you look
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  Speaker 2: at the age argument s last question, traditionally, people that
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  Speaker 2: are older are willing to give you more of a
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  Speaker 2: pass or leeway before saying that your cognitive decline is
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  Speaker 2: well at a point where you can't be trusted. We
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  Speaker 2: know that, But what we witness from those that were
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  Speaker 2: older when it came to the reality of the situation
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  Speaker 2: with Joe Biden is they were quicker to reach the
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  Speaker 2: point of assessment where they're like, Yeah, this guy's just
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  Speaker 2: too old.
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  Speaker 1: And this is.
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  Speaker 2: Coming from people that were watching this at a senior's
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  Speaker 2: citizen's living facility. There's also something else that happened. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just the age issue. It was also just the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the president of the United States of America
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  Speaker 2: couldn't hide behind his lack of knowledge and lack of
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  Speaker 2: understanding of the basic issues. I mentioned this in my
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  Speaker 2: show the night that we did the debate, and I
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  Speaker 2: said it.
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  Speaker 1: You can go back and listen to it.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Cruz and I did a joint podcast for our
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  Speaker 2: show and my show, and one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I said in there, and I think it's a really
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  Speaker 2: important point to be made, is that you look at
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  Speaker 2: this president on the debate stage. He couldn't even fill
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  Speaker 2: two minutes when he was asked a question about social Security,
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  Speaker 2: which is vitally important. Politicians, by the way, can riff
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  Speaker 2: on virtually anything for like at least ten minutes, it's
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  Speaker 2: not hard, but on something like social Security, the fact
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  Speaker 2: that this man's been involved in it for forty plus
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  Speaker 2: years in elected office, he should have been able to
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  Speaker 2: fill more.
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  Speaker 1: Than like thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: And the moderators had to look at him, and the
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  Speaker 2: monerators had to say, hey, you still have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time left, you want to say anything else. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the only issue. It also was an issue on
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  Speaker 2: the issue of African Americans and the economy, where clearly
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  Speaker 2: he got lost again and didn't have anything to say,
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  Speaker 2: and so they said, hey, you still have more time.
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  Speaker 2: You have your two minutes, mister president, would you like
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  Speaker 2: to use it?
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  Speaker 1: And then he tried to fill again.
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  Speaker 2: Those were the moments that I would refer to as
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  Speaker 2: a catastrophic train wreck. And I'm not the only one
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  Speaker 2: that believes this. I want you to listen to what
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  Speaker 2: was said on CNN. There were two points that were
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  Speaker 2: set on CNN. There was one that was right after
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  Speaker 2: the debate, and that was one where John King came in,
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  Speaker 2: and what John King said was honest, but it was
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  Speaker 2: also I think the rest of the democratic world they
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  Speaker 2: were running around like chickens with their heads cut off,
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out how do we get rid of
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, it's into the debate and it continues right now.
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  Speaker 3: It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers,
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  Speaker 3: and they're having conversations about the president's performance, which they
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  Speaker 3: think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people
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  Speaker 3: down the party in the ticket, and they're having conversations
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  Speaker 3: about what they should do about it. Some of those
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  Speaker 3: conversations include should we go to the White House and
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  Speaker 3: ask the president's step aside or other of the conversations
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  Speaker 3: are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call
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  Speaker 3: because they feel this debate was so terrible.
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  Speaker 1: They do say in moments in the debate.
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  Speaker 3: Later the president got better and got his footing, but
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  Speaker 3: then at the end even his closing statement was a
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  Speaker 3: little halting. The contrast between the two candidates. Let me
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  Speaker 3: be clear, none of them and a lot of Republicans
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  Speaker 3: don't think Donald Trump had a great night. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: broke the fact check machine more than I can count tonight.
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  Speaker 3: That will be on the record as we go forward.
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  Speaker 3: He refused to answer some very specific and direct questions
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  Speaker 3: about his conduct about January sixth.
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  Speaker 1: And what all.
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  Speaker 3: So that will be dealt with out there. And sometimes
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  Speaker 3: there's a parallel universe between the political elites and the
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  Speaker 3: American people. Be nice to see what the voters say.
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  Speaker 3: But I can tell you it started minutes in. It
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  Speaker 3: started with the first couple of answers, and it has
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  Speaker 3: continued throughout the night from oh my god, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: To what do we do about this?
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  Speaker 3: And it involves very senior people in the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 3: including elected.
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  Speaker 1: Officials, saying we have a problem just now.
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  Speaker 2: That was instantly after the debate was over, and they
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  Speaker 2: went to Anderson Cooper. So that was like raw initial
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  Speaker 2: reaction for John King to say what he said so bluntly.
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  Speaker 2: I think those in the senior levels he's describing, which
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  Speaker 2: could have been Chuck Schumer, which could be Kamala Harrison,
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  Speaker 2: her aides right, like going out there going, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: we see it, we know there's a problem. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to try to get him to step aside. He clearly
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  Speaker 2: knew and they knew that he was going to go
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  Speaker 2: on TV and say that they wanted him to. But
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  Speaker 2: then we go back to just the overall train wreck.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't stop. So what I played for you, and
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  Speaker 2: I timestamped this because I think it's important. Was it
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  Speaker 2: about ten thirty eight, right after the debate ended?
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  Speaker 1: All right? That first equipped there from John King.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to fast forward now till a little after
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  Speaker 2: eleven o'clock Eastern time. All right, so about twenty plus
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  Speaker 2: minutes later, and they went into the debate hall where
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  Speaker 2: they have all your sarrogates at the spin room, right
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  Speaker 2: where everybody spending who won, who lost. We didn't have
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  Speaker 2: any of that conversation last night. There was nothing about
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  Speaker 2: winning or losing. It was all about how bad it
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  Speaker 2: was for Joe Biden. There wasn't even a conversation about, well,
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  Speaker 2: who won tonight who lost tonight? Everybody knew who lost,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how they treated it. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: listen to Chris Wallace, remember the guy that used to
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  Speaker 2: be at Fox who acted like a conservative and then
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  Speaker 2: went to CNN and now we know he's a hardcore,
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  Speaker 2: like crazy liberal. Here's what he even said from the
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  Speaker 2: debate spin room.
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  Speaker 4: And this has been quite frankly a car accident in
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  Speaker 4: slow motion that we've seen over and building and questioning it.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, as has been pointed out, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 4: sawt this debate at this remarkably early time because he
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  Speaker 4: knew he was losing and he needed to change the narrative.
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  Speaker 4: And he did change the narrative. He sunk his campaign tonight.
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  Speaker 2: He sunk his campaign tonight. Why do you think he's
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  Speaker 2: saying it that way? Because they believed it, but they
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  Speaker 2: also knew they had I had to turn on Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden quickly and see if they could.
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  Speaker 1: Force him out.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there is zero indication that Joe Biden from his
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  Speaker 2: jumping on stage with his wife saying you're so brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: You answered all the questions like you're a two year
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  Speaker 2: old okay, with the background let's go Joe behind him
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  Speaker 2: and saying I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: Did so great.
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  Speaker 2: There's a human human side of this, like a humanity
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  Speaker 2: aspect of this. I really don't know how the first
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  Speaker 2: lady sleeps at night knowing that this is to me
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  Speaker 2: elder abuse. At this point, they know how far gone
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  Speaker 2: he is. We got to see it. Even after Democrats
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  Speaker 2: lied and they did everything he could to protect him,
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  Speaker 2: they kept saying, oh, these are deep fakes. Right, remember
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  Speaker 2: when they said that just a week and a half ago,
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  Speaker 2: when you saw the president go on the fritz and
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  Speaker 2: his brain stop working at events like oh no, no, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Doctored video, right, it's doctored.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are saying, don't bel leave your lying eyes, right,
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  Speaker 2: And that's what the media was saying.
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  Speaker 1: There's also an incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Level I would argue of lack of credibility here for
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  Speaker 2: so many of the Democratic Party as well as the media.
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  Speaker 2: Like I talk about bias and media a lot, I
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  Speaker 2: take it back, I don't talk about it. I just
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  Speaker 2: pointed out and I move on because it's become so normal.
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  Speaker 2: But there are people that refuse to admit that the
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  Speaker 2: cognitivecline is real, that it's massive, right, Like, they just
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  Speaker 2: at all costs, they just refuse to admit it, and
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  Speaker 2: they sit there and they lie to you to cover
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  Speaker 2: for the president. There has been zero accountability for that
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  Speaker 2: from the elected officials to the members of the media
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  Speaker 2: that continue to just say no, no, no, it's not happening.
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  Speaker 2: Don't believe your lying eyes. And then they say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a doctored video. It's just a doctored it's just
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  Speaker 2: a doctored video. That's not really Joe Biden. There was
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  Speaker 2: nothing last night Primetime Live that was doctored. It was
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  Speaker 2: all real, and they couldn't hide any longer. Just how
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  Speaker 2: far gone Joe bidenss Which brings me back to the
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  Speaker 2: question that.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned at the very beginning what.
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  Speaker 2: We all and I think it was because it was
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  Speaker 2: such a train wreck, It was such a car crash,
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  Speaker 2: as Wallace just described it. I think the question that
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  Speaker 2: we all should have been asking last night is, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: he's not running the country, So who is running the country, Like,
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  Speaker 2: don't believe your lying eyes. Biden's brain is sharper than ever.
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  Speaker 2: That's their line, that's what they said. They lied, And
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  Speaker 2: it's so bad that the next question we should be
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  Speaker 2: asking is who's running the country, because whoever that person
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  Speaker 2: is was not elected. Okay, was not elected. Whoever's running
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  Speaker 2: the country right now was not elected. One other things
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  Speaker 2: that scares the hell out of me as well that
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  Speaker 2: I want to play for you white else. Press Secretary
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  Speaker 2: Jean Pierre was obviously asked about the president's performance. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a lie that they're telling us now, which is, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he had a cold. These people have no souls when
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  Speaker 2: you witness what we witnessed, and then they look at
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  Speaker 2: you and they tell you, don't believe you're lying eyes.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It's just a cold. You should wonder what else they're
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: lying to you about. And I'm going to I would argue,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: it's everything. Who's the president, it's not Joe Biden, so
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: who's ruying the country?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: They won't tell you the truth on that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: They'll tell you the economy is great, when clearly the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: economy is absolutely terrible and a total disaster right now.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And it's just sad that they will. I would argue,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: this is elder abuse. This is the.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: President, as it was described on the front page of
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the New York Posts, just sad. President mumbles, stumbles, freezes
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: in train wrecked debate versus Trump. We've witnessed the end
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: of the Biden presidency. Maybe maybe not white Out Sprest
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: sing or Terry John beerre she believes no, no, no, I
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: can fix this, I can spin this. He's got a cold.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: That's how little respect they have, by the way, for you.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: They think you are so stupid that you will hear
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: them say that go and then instantly just agree with
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: it like a Jedi mind trick.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Listen, can you tell us more about his cold? When
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: did he contracted?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: What did it affect his performance last night? Co Man? So, okay,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: step back for a second.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: So, yes, and I think we shared this with many
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: people yesterday. The president had a cold, he had a
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: sore throat.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: That happens.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: And that's what you've heard last night. Uh.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: And you know I'll leave it there. I don't have
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: anything else to add. I think Michael covered a lot
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: of this just moments ago. But yes, he had a cold,
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: he had a sore throat. Once he knew that he
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: had a cold and a sore throat, he tested, he
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: certainly test to for COVID.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: It was negative.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: And then we moved on from there.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Why didn't in my house wait until the middle of
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the debate to release that information.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you this.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Look, he had a strong debate prep week and uh,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: and he.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Got a cold, which happens. It happens it's not unusual.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Uh, it's not something you know, I mean, you don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: share every time you know the president has a cold.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: It happened, Uh and once once once once he had
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: the cold and had a sore throat. Again he tested
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: negative for COVID And then we moved on.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Curious about the disclosure of that information.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: I mean, Tyler, he got a cold.
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: It happened when the sequencing Mike and said it before
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: the debate in the middle of the way.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: How you decided to went.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, obviously during the debate, we were asked if
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: the president has a cold. We said, well, they would.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: We were asked about his hoarse voice. We shared that
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: he had a cold. We shared that he tested negative,
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: and then we moved.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: On, that's it. It was from his voice as he
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: was speaking during the debate.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Obviously, were there plans to let the public no, if
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: you weren't received, if you weren't asked from asked about it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: It happens he had a cold.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: During the debate. That was the blame for why he
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: wasn't doing well.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Of course, voice, so people asked why he had a
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: horse voice because he had a cold, And we also
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: shared we went a step. We took a step further
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: and share that he tested for COVID.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: It was negative. I mean, he had a cold, that's
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: what it was.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I love the laughter. He had a cold. Just he
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: had a cold. Ha ha, he just had a cold.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Somebody asked about his voice and and why was horse
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: and we just said, oh, he's got a cold and
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: he tested negative for COVID. We're fine, no big deal.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: But here's our excuse. By the way, you can hear,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: they're the media not buying this. Can you imagine if
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump had that excuse when he was going into
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: a debate looking like a senile old man who's lost
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: on stage, you can't put coherent sentences together. Can you imagine?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: They would literate him. And even there the media is
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: like mad, but they're not. They're like, okay, I'm mad,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: but what like, this is our only guy.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: What do we do?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: So we'll get her on the record and we'll kind
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of push her so we can cover our own, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: our ABSs. But but we're gonna, you know, we're gonna
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: let everybody know, yeah, okay, maybe had a cold. Probably not,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: but it might have had a cold. But yeah, that's
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the excuse. But he's an old guy that did really well.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I go back to the question that we should all
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: be asking, and this guy's going to be president for
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: seven more months, even.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: If he loses, Okay, even if he loses.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And the question that we have to ask is who
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: is the president of the United States of America. Who's
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the one making the decisions? Is it Joe Biden? Is
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: it Kamala Harris?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Is is it?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, the twenty fifth Amendment should be a topic
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: of conversation now like never before. It will not be
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: because the Democratic Party is going to unite under the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: fact that Okay, we're going to try.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: To push him out real quick. We get about a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: week to do that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: If we don't do that, if we can't push him out,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: then we got to I guess again, go and try
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: to convince you that it's just not that bad. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: he just had a cold. Let me let you listen
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: by the way to check Todd. And this is what
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: check Todd said on MSNBC later in the evening about
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the debate.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: You know, one of the things was would either candidate
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: look like the caricature that the other campaign has been
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: trying to paint of him? And at the end of
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: the day, Joe Biden looks like the caricature that conservative
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: media has been painting. And there were no clips tonight, right,
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: this was you saw it before your eyes. Look, I
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: don't want to just tell you what I think here, Tom.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: I've been talking to a lot of leaders in the
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: Democratic Party, elected coalition leaders. There's a full on panic
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: about this performance. Not like, oh, this is recoverable. It
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: is more of a okay, he's got a step aside.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of that chatter.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: This is this is about as bad a of a
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: performance in order to that Biden could have delivered. H
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: if his goal was to try to sort of calm
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: the waters among Democrats.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, he's.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Saying we need to get rid of him. He's saying,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: it's clear we need to get rid of him. Now
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you can get Joe Biden back up there, and you
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: can get a crowd around him, as they did today.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: And this is a smart move by the Biden campaign to,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: you know, to get him up there and then chant
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: lock him up, referring to Trump and him saying there's
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: time for that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: And that's the core point I want to go back
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to here.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden is up there, and the only way I
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: think he believes he's going to survive this the Democratic
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Party is through warfare in the legal system.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And when he smiles and grins.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: After their chanting lock him up, and Biden says he's
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: got more trials coming up, and then he said, there's
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: time for that. To lock him up. You may just
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: realize how they keep him in power. You lock up
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: your political opponent.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: He's got more trials coming up.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: High for that, Cook, there's time for that. You have
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: the in theory president of the United States of America. Okay,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: in theory he's the president. I don't actually think he is.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Somebody else is round the country. That's obvious. But you
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: have a president who is now saying I'm desperate. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: am so desperate that maybe we lock him up. We
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: lock him up. And Joe Biden's communications director said President
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Biden didn't have the best night on the debate stage, right,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So you admit that, but then you go back to, oh,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: it's a cold listen to this from the Biden campaign
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: communication director, and last.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Night than he was this morning.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Can you just explain what happened and why he performed
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: like that?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I think the President said it himself today.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: You know, he didn't have the best night on the
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: debate stage, but we'd rather have one bad night than
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: a candidate with a bad vision. Verie wants to take
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: the country. And again, I think that's what the American
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: people saw in Donald Trump last night. Certainly what they're
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: going to see with him as he returns to a
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: MAGA rally in Virginia today, They're going to see exactly
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: why they fired him in the first places, as he
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: continues to be more and more in the linline moving forward.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I listened to that, and I listened to the White
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: House pressiager Jean Pierre, and then I look at it
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: late in the day tweet. Now, this wasn't early on
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I want to be clear about this. Okay, This wasn't
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: like right after the debates. This wasn't early in the morning.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: This was like mid afternoon, one thirty, two thirty Eastern.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I think it was Barack Obama finally came to the
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: aid of Joe Biden, and I want you to listen
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: carefully to what he tweeted. He didn't come out on TV,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: he didn't do an interview, He just put out a
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: tweet He's got twenty four million views as I'm reading
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: this to you, and this is what it says. Bad
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: is still a choice between someone who has fought for
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: about himself, between someone who tells the truth, who knows
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: right from wrong and will give it to the American
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: people straight, and someone who lies through his teeth for
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: his own benefit. Last night didn't change that, and it's
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: why so much as at stake in November. And then
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: he puts a link to Joebiden dot com to give
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: now the comments below that were actually very interesting. One
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: of them said, shame on all of you for putting
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: our country in this vulnerable position without a leader. That
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: comment was very much what I would have written. There
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: was another one that said, the things that you'll say
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: for the for that fourth term, referring to obviously Barack
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Obama really running this White House and all of his
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: top people that were in his in his presidency are
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the ones they're in the highest positions in and around
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: this White House. I think there's some truth to that, right,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: The things you'll say for that fourth term. Another one said,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Joe's a lying old man. He's done yet. Barack Obama
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: says everything's fine, and you know what, he probably does
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: believe what he's saying. He probably does believe that we
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: just got to get him across the finish line because
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: then I get what I need, I get my fourth term,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: and maybe that is exactly who's running this country right now.
• 29:14
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