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The Angry, Bitter, Yelling 'GET-OFF-MY-LAWN' SOTU Speech · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,
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Speaker 2: I feel like the entire show tonight we should just
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Speaker 2: scream at one another and yell in honor of the
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Speaker 2: state of the union that you just walked out of.
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Speaker 2: Are your ears okay?
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Speaker 3: Well, that they're not. I have a little bit of trauma.
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Speaker 3: It is twelve seventeen in the morning, and I just
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Speaker 3: spent a little bit over an hour sitting on the
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Speaker 3: floor of the house being yelled at by a deranged
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Speaker 3: old man.
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Speaker 4: It was an experience, and I'll.
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Speaker 3: Tell you what we're going to talk about that We're
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Speaker 3: going to break down everything that happened. But we also
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Speaker 3: have a very special feature tonight, and it is it
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Speaker 3: is a happy twist of fate because I was not
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Speaker 3: the only person in the chamber listening to that angry
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Speaker 3: old man screaming, but an unemployed podcaster and radio host
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Speaker 3: and former Marquee actor and book author turned out that
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Speaker 3: he was desperately in need of some liquor and cigars
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Speaker 3: and so sent me a text earlier tonight.
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Speaker 4: And so I'm actually.
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Speaker 3: Quite quite proud to welcome back to Verdict, my original
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Speaker 3: co host and my dear friend Michael Knowles, Michael, welcome, Welcome.
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Speaker 5: Back, Senator. It's good to be back, Ben, it's good
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Speaker 5: to be back. But you tricked me. You tricked me
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Speaker 5: because I look, you're right, what do I do? I
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Speaker 5: don't do verdict anymore. So I had a lot of
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Speaker 5: time on my hands. I sauntered down to DC said,
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Speaker 5: I got nothing better to do than listen to this
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Speaker 5: old man yell at me for three hours, however long
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Speaker 5: it took at the State of the Union. And I said,
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Speaker 5: but you know what we'll make this night totally redeemed,
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Speaker 5: is I will text my friend Senator Cruz and we'll
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Speaker 5: have a nice cigar. And you said, absolutely, Michael, come
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Speaker 5: on over and we'll have cigars. Right after we finished
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Speaker 5: the podcast, and I said, all right, you got me.
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Speaker 5: I already agreed, Okay, I'm in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And this is how you and this is how we
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Speaker 2: welcome you back. By the way, you went to this
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Speaker 2: thing tonight as well, which was really just an hysterical
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Speaker 2: State of the Union. If you're ever going to go
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Speaker 2: to State of the Union, there's nothing better than saying
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Speaker 2: you can remember for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 1: I was at the one that lasts an hour and.
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Speaker 2: Eight minutes, where it looked like Joe Biden might have
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Speaker 2: been on some sort of drug and was screaming and
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Speaker 2: talking very fast for at least the first forty five
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Speaker 2: minutes of the speech. Then he went back to old
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Speaker 2: Joe's stature and slowed it back down a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So you can tell your kids and grandkids about that.
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Speaker 3: Wait a second, damn, it was the time, actually an
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Speaker 3: hour and eight minutes. It was, but it was because
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Speaker 3: he talked, Hey, there's a problem. There's a problem with that,
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Speaker 3: which is Roger Marshall sent a text to a bunch
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Speaker 3: of us with all sorts of wagers, and one of
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Speaker 3: them was an over under on the length, and his
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Speaker 3: over under was seventy minutes. And I took the over, dammit,
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Speaker 3: And so I was two minutes off.
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Speaker 4: You took it.
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Speaker 5: I was betting I was just up there in the
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Speaker 5: peanut gallery, but I bet I knew he couldn't go
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Speaker 5: thirty or even under forty because it would be a
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Speaker 5: national news story. Biden can't make it. So I thought
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Speaker 5: he had to go forty five. But I felt he
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Speaker 5: couldn't go more than a minute over that. So I
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Speaker 5: had it at forty six and I he totally blew
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Speaker 5: me out of the water.
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Speaker 4: Say what you will.
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Speaker 5: It was a horrific speech, but it went a long
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Speaker 5: time and he yelled the entire time.
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Speaker 2: I said, fifty five minutes. That was what I thought.
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Speaker 2: I thought it'd be barely under an hour. But he
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Speaker 2: was late, so you know, I guess that maybe got
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Speaker 2: him a little bit more jacked up as he was late.
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Speaker 1: And is it true that he was late.
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Speaker 2: Did either of you guys see the protesters that apparently
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Speaker 2: they stopped the streets, all the pro Palastadian protesters, and
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Speaker 2: that's part of the reason why I was late.
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Speaker 1: Is that true?
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Speaker 4: I have no idea.
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Speaker 3: I know that's what people were saying, but it was strange.
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Speaker 3: I've never seen at the State of the Union where
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Speaker 3: like the President shows up thirty minutes late.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I did not see protesters really. I mean, I
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Speaker 5: guess I was in the Capitol complex relatively early, but
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Speaker 5: I saw a handful of pro Ukraine protest And when
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Speaker 5: I say a handful, I mean like half a dozen,
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Speaker 5: and maybe some of the pro Palestine.
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Speaker 3: But you know that there were none that I saw
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Speaker 3: at the Capitol. Maybe there were at the White House. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: but they're not over at the Capitol that I saw.
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Speaker 2: Hey, when you get the doctors and they got to
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Speaker 2: get you juiced uff for your night, it may take
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Speaker 2: an extra twenty or thirty minutes. I want to break
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Speaker 2: down this and talk about some of the highlights, obviously,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to go through those, But first let
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Speaker 2: support IFCJ dot org center. I want to start with
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Speaker 2: the big shock for me was how he started the
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Speaker 2: State of the Union of the United States of America
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Speaker 2: dealing with we need your money, and I'm gonna yell
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Speaker 2: at you about it, and you better get me the
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Speaker 2: money because otherwise if you don't, Ukraine is going to fall,
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Speaker 2: and the rest of Europe is going to and Russia's
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Speaker 2: going to take over everything. That was really the start
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Speaker 2: of the State of the Union, because that's not the
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Speaker 2: number one issue on the minds of Americans right now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, the whole thing was bizarre. I've been to
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Speaker 3: twelve State of the Unions. This was the twelfth one.
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Speaker 3: This was by far the worst I've ever seen and
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Speaker 3: the strangest I've ever seen. So this was a campaign speech,
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Speaker 3: but it was an exceptionally bad campaign speech. So Biden
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Speaker 3: was angry, he was bitter, he was screaming, he was extreme,
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Speaker 3: and he was completely out of touch. The entire speech
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Speaker 3: reminded me of a grumpy old man standing on his
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Speaker 3: front porch screaming at the kids.
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Speaker 4: Get off my front lawn. It was very odd.
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Speaker 5: I wanted your perspective on it, because You've been to
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Speaker 5: so many of these now and I couldn't tell. Maybe
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Speaker 5: it's just my first one and I didn't know. It
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Speaker 5: did seem much angry, but there was something hollow about it,
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Speaker 5: like as if he thought to prove that I'm alive,
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Speaker 5: I have to be yelling the whole time. But but
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Speaker 5: what was so odd was he was yelling and slurring
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Speaker 5: his words, and it was the cadence was off, like
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Speaker 5: it just seemed like, I don't know, a bad theatrical
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Speaker 5: performance or something.
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Speaker 3: It is also interesting in that it reveals the political
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Speaker 3: strategy of the political White House for this election, which
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Speaker 3: is there were zero nods to the middle. This speech
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Speaker 3: said Republicans across America, I don't want your votes, independence
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Speaker 3: across America.
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Speaker 4: I don't want your votes.
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Speaker 3: That this was an effort to woo the squad, that
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Speaker 3: this was an effort to appeal to bring back on
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Speaker 3: the reservation Elizabeth Warren. And you know, look, she's spent
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Speaker 3: a lot of time in reservation.
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Speaker 4: She knows it well.
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Speaker 3: You know, Bernie Sanders AOC and I don't know if
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Speaker 3: they're scared with the whole Hamas thing.
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Speaker 4: That they've lost the crazy he left.
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Speaker 3: But look, I can tell you one of the things
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Speaker 3: experiencing it, like I enjoy State of the Unions. They're fun,
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Speaker 3: the pageantry, it's it feels like, you know, it's a
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Speaker 3: moment of American history, and frankly, it's just pretty friggin
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Speaker 3: wild to be like sitting on the floor listening to it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a neat thing almost always, and this
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Speaker 3: is true whether you have I've been there for Obama
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Speaker 3: doing it, I've been there for Trump doing it, and
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Speaker 3: I've been there for Biden doing it. Almost always, you
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Speaker 3: have multiple lines that are designed to get everyone on
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Speaker 3: their feet and it's a different experience if it's your
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Speaker 3: own party. It's like being in a Jane Fonda aerobics session.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're just up, down, up, down, up down.
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Speaker 3: Every sentence you stand up wooh. But any president has
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Speaker 3: multiple lines that are designed to unify everyone, to bring
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Speaker 3: Congress to their feet. We're all standing together, and it
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Speaker 3: was weird. Look, I stand at the beginning in a
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Speaker 3: plaud and I will always do that because I respect
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Speaker 3: the office, even if I don't like the job Biden
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Speaker 3: is doing back the office he's holding. But then I
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Speaker 3: sat down, and for the next hour, almost all of
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Speaker 3: us stayed sitting the whole time. I do not recall
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Speaker 3: any other speech that made so little effort to garner
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Speaker 3: even a shred of support from the opposing part.
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Speaker 5: I couldn't figure out the calculus on that, because I agree,
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Speaker 5: I think maybe I think I stood up for the hostage.
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Speaker 5: We're going to bring our hostages back. I mean, that
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Speaker 5: was the one I did. I did stand up for that.
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Speaker 5: It was the hostages back, and that was it. I mean,
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Speaker 5: otherwise I was seated. It made it a very easy night,
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Speaker 5: But I just couldn't understand the calculus. If you're looking
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Speaker 5: at the Poles. The Poles have been reliable at least
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Speaker 5: for the Republican primary, and the Poles are putting Trump
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Speaker 5: up right now in seven out of seven swing states,
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Speaker 5: and nationally it looks like he's up five points. It
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Speaker 5: could change. But if I'm Joe Biden, I don't need
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Speaker 5: AOC and Aana Presley. They were on their feet, they
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Speaker 5: were cheering. I don't need them right now. I really
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Speaker 5: need those nicky Haley voters.
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Speaker 1: Really And I think what it was when I was
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Speaker 1: watching it.
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Speaker 2: Obviously I was watching on TV, and I had a
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Speaker 2: different perspective than you guys that were in the chamber.
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Speaker 2: But when Biden entered the House Chamber and the dim
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Speaker 2: start chanting four more years, to me, what it came
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Speaker 2: across as was I've got to let the Democratic Party
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Speaker 2: in machine know I'm not going anywhere. You're not going
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Speaker 2: to replace me at the convention. I am the candidate.
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Speaker 2: The entire speech, watching again on TV, came across as
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent a partisan campaign speech, and it was like,
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Speaker 2: if you think you're gonna get rid of me, you're wrong.
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Speaker 2: You better get behind me. He clearly was going to
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Speaker 2: the left. And I think it's the left, meaning the
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Speaker 2: Democratic the elites, the Democratic higher ups that are thinking,
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Speaker 2: how the hell do we run this guy? Can we
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Speaker 2: get rid of him? Can we bring somebody else in?
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Speaker 2: It was like, I'm here tonight and I'm not going anywhere.
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Speaker 3: Look, that's not crazy. I will say when when the
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Speaker 3: Dems began four more years, that was weird too. I
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Speaker 3: may be missed remembering, but I don't remember that ever
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Speaker 3: happening before.
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Speaker 5: No, but I think it's like the Lady Doth protests
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Speaker 5: too much in the sense that truly it's not even
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Speaker 5: that I don't like the guy, and I thought he
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Speaker 5: gave a bad speech, but I thought.
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Speaker 4: Four more years?
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Speaker 5: Who are you trying to convience here? You know, I
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Speaker 5: don't think you could convince him of four more years.
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Speaker 3: So seven more months, yeah, yeah, ten more minutes, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: I got thirty three minutes of doctor say it can
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Speaker 1: make it right?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: I mean, we know it.
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Speaker 2: It was a very partisan speech, and I want to
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Speaker 2: get both of you guys reaction to I think what
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Speaker 2: was the most awkward moment of the night from a
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Speaker 2: TV standpoint, and that was when the President went directly
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Speaker 2: after the Supreme Court justices that were sitting in front
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Speaker 2: of him. It did not play well, I think to
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Speaker 2: the American people, take a listen.
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Speaker 6: Francessor came to office determined to see wherever right overturn.
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Speaker 6: He's the reason was overturned, and he brags about it.
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Speaker 5: That was my applause, Chaos.
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Speaker 1: Join us.
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Speaker 6: Tonight is Kate Cox, the wife and mother from Dallas.
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Speaker 6: She's become pregnant again and had a fetus of a
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Speaker 6: fatal condition. Her doctor told Kate that her own life
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Speaker 6: and her ability to have Choo children in the future
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Speaker 6: were at risk if she didn't act because Texas law
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Speaker 6: banned her ability to act. Kate and her husband had
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Speaker 6: to leave the state to get what she needed, but
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Speaker 6: her family got through. Should have never happened as well.
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Speaker 6: But it's happening in too many others. There are state
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Speaker 6: laws banning the freedom to choose, criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors
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Speaker 6: of rape and incest to leave their states to get
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Speaker 6: the treatment they need. Many of you in this chamber
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Speaker 6: and my predecessor are promising to pass the national ban
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Speaker 6: on reproductive freedom. My god, what freedom else would you
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Speaker 6: take away? Look, it's a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade,
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Speaker 6: The Supreme Court majority wrote the following, and with all
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Speaker 6: due respect, Justices, women are not without electoral power. Excuse me,
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Speaker 6: electoral or political power. You're about to realize just how
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Speaker 6: much you get.
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Speaker 1: Write it out, I mean center.
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Speaker 2: That was honestly one of the most shocking moments of
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Speaker 2: any State of the Union I've ever seen. He looked
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Speaker 2: straight down at them, and it came across that way
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Speaker 2: on TV of you sitting beneath me. I'm coming after
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Speaker 2: all of you, including you liberals, down there, and you
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Speaker 2: better get your acted. I think a lot of it
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Speaker 2: also is in a weird way, the anger and the
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Speaker 2: disdain and he had when he was looking at them.
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Speaker 2: At least how it came across on TV was part
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Speaker 2: of the Nino decision I think for Donald Trump and
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Speaker 2: Colorado this past week.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Look, it was a very strange moment, I will say
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Speaker 3: when he said, with all due respect, A number of us,
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Speaker 3: including me, laughed out loud at that because it was like,
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Speaker 3: with all due respect, FU like it was not that
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Speaker 3: there was no respect to do or otherwise. It was
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Speaker 3: reminiscent in some ways of Barack Obama lecturing the Court
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Speaker 3: about citizens United and justice. Alito famously mouthed not true,
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Speaker 3: and actually Justice Alito doesn't go to the State of
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Speaker 3: the Union anymore because of that. That was the last
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Speaker 3: he went. But the temperature on this was three hundred
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Speaker 3: degrees hotter, like it makes Obama's words about Citizens United
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Speaker 3: feel almost quaint and antiquated. This was angry, it was bitter,
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Speaker 3: it was threatening. And look what's also weird about it.
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Speaker 3: Biden almost never smiled, like there was no effort to
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Speaker 3: bring new voters into the fold. And even listen when
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Speaker 3: he's talking about abortion, when he's talking about Kate Cox,
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Speaker 3: Kate Cox's situation was tragic. He doesn't tell her story
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Speaker 3: with empathy. He doesn't actually talk like a normal human
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Speaker 3: being and the horror that any parent would have at
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Speaker 3: finding out that that that that you had a child
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Speaker 3: with a fatal birth defect. Instead he just screams about it,
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Speaker 3: which was a very strange way. And it was the
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Speaker 3: same He had one volume, he had one tempo, he
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Speaker 3: had one affect through the entire speech, and and and
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Speaker 3: it was and by the way he combined it all
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Speaker 3: with massive dishonesty, where he's like, and you Republicans want
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Speaker 3: to want to ban abortion across the country. Look, I
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Speaker 3: am not aware of a single member of Congress that
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Speaker 3: has a bill to ban abortion nationwide.
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Speaker 5: I'm not aware of a presidential candidate, actually a Republican
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Speaker 5: presidential candidate. I mean, even to your point on dishonesty, Senator,
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Speaker 5: obviously part of the Cox story is part of it
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Speaker 5: is just quite tragic, and there's absolutely no nuance in
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Speaker 5: the Democrats telling of it. But part of it is dishonest.
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Speaker 5: When the Democrats say she was not permitted to have
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Speaker 5: an abortion when her life was at risk, that's just
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Speaker 5: a lie. There is no state in the country where
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Speaker 5: if a woman's life is at risk, she can't undergo
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Speaker 5: the medical treatment, some of which would involve an abortion,
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Speaker 5: to deal with that.
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Speaker 3: So that Texas law is explicit allowing an exception for
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Speaker 3: a medical emergency. But Biden would accept no nuance. It
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Speaker 3: was a Manichean world where he was the self righteous
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Speaker 3: avenger and everyone the Supreme Court, every Republican on earth,
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Speaker 3: everyone who disagrees with his view were the evildoers to
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Speaker 3: be vanquished.
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Speaker 5: It was very strange the focus on that. I mean,
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Speaker 5: for a while, when I saw the guest list come out,
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Speaker 5: I said, am I the only guest at the State
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Speaker 5: of the Union.
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Speaker 4: Who isn't invited to promote abortion?
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Speaker 5: I thought, I understand the Democrats think they can really
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Speaker 5: lean on that so much so that they're going to
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Speaker 5: explicitly attack the Supreme Court during the State of the Union.
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Speaker 5: But is that that's really the issue that Joe Biden
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Speaker 5: wants to run on. It is front and center, and
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Speaker 5: then screaming about Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: Ukraine was the top.
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Speaker 2: But there was even weird other moments in their center
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Speaker 2: that were also I would say bizarre. Were you guys
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Speaker 2: taking aback in the room? When he said the vaccine
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Speaker 2: that saved us from COVID are now being used to
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Speaker 2: beat cancer, and everybody that was watching it, I think
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Speaker 2: at home, it was like, what in the world is
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Speaker 2: the president talking about?
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Speaker 6: That all America and all Americans to make every sure
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Speaker 6: everyone has a fair shot, we leave no one behind.
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Speaker 6: The pandemic no longer controls our lives. The vaccines has
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Speaker 6: saved us from COVID are now being used to beat cancer,
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Speaker 6: turning set back into comeback.
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Speaker 1: That's what America does.
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Speaker 6: That's what America does.
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Speaker 2: By the way, when he said that, even Kamawa Harris's
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Speaker 2: eyes got big and looked like I looked at him, like, wait,
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Speaker 2: what the vaccine saved us us from COVID and now
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Speaker 2: it's beating cancer.
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Speaker 3: By the way, Ben I will say, if he was
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Speaker 3: telling the truth, if Joe Biden actually had cured cancer,
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Speaker 3: you'd think he would have told us about it by now.
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Speaker 1: You would have led with it before Ukraine, you would hope.
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Speaker 3: Like, like, wouldn't you just start? Good evening, I want
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Speaker 3: to start by saying we have cured cancer. That's the
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Speaker 3: end of my speech, thank you, and the end of
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Speaker 3: my campaign. I think I won reelection.
18:33
Speaker 5: Actually that the COVID stuff, I guess might have been
18:37
Speaker 5: the most dishonest part of the speech, where because on
18:41
Speaker 5: some of it he's just lying, right, he's lying about abortion,
18:43
Speaker 5: he's lying about the border. But on the COVID stuff
18:47
Speaker 5: he uses partial truths to tell total lies, where he says,
18:51
Speaker 5: you know, are we've cut the deficit by a trillion dollars, Yeah,
18:56
Speaker 5: because the Democrats made us spend an insane amount of
18:59
Speaker 5: money justify by COVID. So yeah, sure tech, Oh we've
19:02
Speaker 5: created a bazillion new jobs. Yeah, you shut down a
19:05
Speaker 5: ton of businesses right on the premise of COVID, so yeah, like, technically,
19:09
Speaker 5: I guess that's true, but that it's just a false
19:11
Speaker 5: economic painting.
19:14
Speaker 2: Well, and I also want to ask you, guys, is
19:16
Speaker 2: anybody looking forward to getting on Air Force one to
19:18
Speaker 2: go to Moscow.
19:19
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in trouble for saying that.
19:20
Speaker 6: But if you want to get an Air Force woman
19:22
Speaker 6: and fly to Toronto, Berlin, Moscow, I mean, excuse me,
19:26
Speaker 6: and well even Moscow.
19:27
Speaker 1: Probably even Moscow. Probably that's how he saved it.
19:31
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, if you're taking all the money from
19:33
Speaker 2: oligarks at Moscow, I guess maybe we are going to
19:35
Speaker 2: fly on Air Force one to Moscow? Why not even
19:37
Speaker 2: though you're saying they're going to invade the world fifteen
19:40
Speaker 2: minutes earlier, and you better give all the money to Ukraine.
19:43
Speaker 3: Look, it was it was out of touch. It was
19:48
Speaker 3: out of touch with the issues that I think people
19:51
Speaker 3: are wrestling with on an inflation I can tell you
19:54
Speaker 3: in Texas, I spent a lot of time listening to
19:56
Speaker 3: Texans when they pay their rent. Remember the the candidate
20:00
Speaker 3: in New York the rent is too damn high.
20:02
Speaker 4: A good friend of mine, actually, well, okay, that like.
20:06
Speaker 3: Mortgages when when you know a young couple goes out
20:09
Speaker 3: and they're gonna buy their first house, and they discover
20:11
Speaker 3: that a seven percent mortgage rate is very different from
20:13
Speaker 3: a two percent mortgage rate, and they can get half
20:17
Speaker 3: the house they used to be able to get when
20:21
Speaker 3: they go to the grocery store and suddenly there's.
20:23
Speaker 1: A lot time.
20:23
Speaker 2: But he's gonna give you four hundred dollars. Didn't he
20:25
Speaker 2: say that tonight in the State of the Union to
20:27
Speaker 2: help you buy that house. It's nono one hundred thousand
20:29
Speaker 2: from last year.
20:30
Speaker 5: It was even better than that when he said the
20:33
Speaker 5: big savings. Forget about the price of groceries. There aren't
20:36
Speaker 5: enough chips in the bag of potato chips. But he says,
20:38
Speaker 5: don't worry, because I'm putting a cap the credit card
20:43
Speaker 5: late payments used to be thirty two dollars, and I'm
20:46
Speaker 5: gonna make it eight dollars, twenty four dollars in the
20:49
Speaker 5: pockets of every American. Reelect me. In twenty twenty four.
20:53
Speaker 3: It was over and over again. He had new things
20:56
Speaker 3: he was going to give away. Look the four hundred
20:58
Speaker 3: dollars to everyone here. This will help you pay you more.
21:00
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna send you four hundred dollars. Mind you,
21:02
Speaker 3: your mortgage gone has gone up because we spent so
21:05
Speaker 3: much money and we drove inflation and drove it up,
21:07
Speaker 3: so we'll just pay you. And our answer the problem
21:11
Speaker 3: is we printed too much money and it caused inflation.
21:15
Speaker 3: My answer is we're gonna print even more money and
21:18
Speaker 3: that's going to help you deal with inflation. And like,
21:21
Speaker 3: did anyone on the White White House staff like like
21:24
Speaker 3: like take econ one oh one, like did they go
21:28
Speaker 3: for like one day?
21:29
Speaker 5: Certainly not under the White House staff since the Obama years.
21:33
Speaker 5: They they usually get MFAs in creative writing, and somehow
21:36
Speaker 5: that's supposed to direct domestic and foreign policy.
21:39
Speaker 3: By the way, I say, also, did you notice there
21:42
Speaker 3: was not only was it angry and bitter and extreme,
21:45
Speaker 3: but there was also very little beautiful about it. I
21:48
Speaker 3: mean sometimes State of the Unions have some poetry to it.
21:52
Speaker 3: I mean there's you think of Peggy Noonan writing for
21:55
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, and and and there is there are full
22:00
Speaker 3: moments in the State of the Union. And there were
22:02
Speaker 3: no beautiful moments tonight.
22:04
Speaker 2: And I think it's because he was running for reelection.
22:07
Speaker 2: He was all about that I'm not going anywhere.
22:10
Speaker 5: Even at the end of the speech though, because I
22:13
Speaker 5: totally agree with you, Ben, he was and I agree
22:16
Speaker 5: with you, Senator. You know, this is this rallying of
22:18
Speaker 5: the base. Maybe it was just to shore up the
22:20
Speaker 5: Democrats because he feels that Gavin Newsom's lurking in the corner.
22:23
Speaker 5: By the end, he started to lean in a little
22:27
Speaker 5: bit toward what could have been poetry, but it was
22:29
Speaker 5: so platitudinous, and also it was a self contradictory. So
22:34
Speaker 5: within the span of about three minutes, at the end
22:36
Speaker 5: of the speech, he says, we are still the United
22:38
Speaker 5: States of America. We have enduring values. We believe what
22:41
Speaker 5: we've always believed, these old enduring ideas, and then not
22:45
Speaker 5: two seconds later, he says, but we got to get
22:46
Speaker 5: rid of the old ideas. We need all the new ideas.
22:49
Speaker 5: And I said, wait a second, but you had two
22:51
Speaker 5: speech writers clearly with separate theses on this, and they
22:55
Speaker 5: don't work together.
22:56
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Speaker 1: Center.
24:22
Speaker 2: You did Hannity tonight, and there was one thing that
24:26
Speaker 2: Handy said that I thought was very interesting in his monologue.
24:29
Speaker 2: He was talking about the obsession with the White House,
24:32
Speaker 2: saying that the economy's strong and Bidenomics is working. I
24:35
Speaker 2: want you to hear what he had to say for
24:37
Speaker 2: everyone that missed it. It's very interesting.
24:39
Speaker 7: Let's start with his lives on the economy.
24:41
Speaker 1: Take a look, I heard it. Economy is on the
24:44
Speaker 1: brink now.
24:45
Speaker 6: Our economy is literally the envy of the world. Fifteen
24:48
Speaker 6: million new jobs in just three years, a record, a
24:52
Speaker 6: record way.
24:53
Speaker 1: Just keep going up. In flash, she keeps coming down.
24:56
Speaker 6: Inflation has dropped from nine percent to three percent, the
24:58
Speaker 6: lowest in the world and tending lower.
25:06
Speaker 1: The land he is and will be saw all right.
25:10
Speaker 1: Here is the truth. Here of the facts.
25:11
Speaker 7: Since Biden took office, cumulative prices have risen over seventeen percent.
25:17
Speaker 7: Real hourly wages have only risen thirteen percent. Sixty percent
25:21
Speaker 7: of our fellow Americans, sadly, they are living paycheck to
25:24
Speaker 7: paycheck now costs across the board. They are surgery, groceries,
25:28
Speaker 7: are eating up more of the American people's paychecks, and
25:32
Speaker 7: they have in over thirty years. In fact, according to
25:34
Speaker 7: a recent study, Americans now need to make eleven four
25:39
Speaker 7: hundred dollars more to afford the same quality of life
25:41
Speaker 7: that they did in twenty twenty one. And his claims
25:44
Speaker 7: about job creation another lie. In reality, almost ten million
25:48
Speaker 7: of those jobs are just well backfield jobs or temporary
25:53
Speaker 7: jobs that were lost during the pandemic. And as we
25:56
Speaker 7: know now many of those other jobs were part time
25:58
Speaker 7: jobs going too many farm born workers.
26:01
Speaker 1: That he's led it in this country on veted illegally.
26:04
Speaker 2: I mean, Senator, you hear that montage. It's spot on.
26:09
Speaker 2: But this goes back to how tone death this White
26:12
Speaker 2: House seems to be. It's the economy, stupid. You walk
26:15
Speaker 2: out there and you the beginning of the stay of
26:18
Speaker 2: the Union was, I'm going to tell the American people
26:21
Speaker 2: you must give massive amounts of money Ukraine or you're
26:24
Speaker 2: an evil person. You better give me abortion on demand
26:28
Speaker 2: and help me allow me to kill more babies, or
26:30
Speaker 2: you're a terrible person. And I'm going to oh and
26:33
Speaker 2: on top of that, I'm going to attack the Supreme
26:35
Speaker 2: Court in front of me and basically say they're illegitimate.
26:38
Speaker 2: And then after forty something minutes, I might mention the
26:43
Speaker 2: number one issue for many Americans, which is border security.
26:46
Speaker 1: It took him forty plus minutes to get to that.
26:49
Speaker 3: Well, and before we turn to border security, which we
26:52
Speaker 3: obviously are going to talk about, let's pause for a
26:55
Speaker 3: second on inflation, and I'll say number one. Hannity referenced
26:59
Speaker 3: the study that's say it's over eleven thousand dollars a
27:01
Speaker 3: year to live the same standard of living you had
27:04
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, just three years ago before Joe
27:07
Speaker 3: Biden came to office. That works out to nearly one
27:10
Speaker 3: thousand dollars more a month. Wow, is what people are
27:14
Speaker 3: having to pay just to tread water, just to stay
27:16
Speaker 3: where they were in twenty twenty one. And I get
27:20
Speaker 3: to say, the moment where Biden seemed most out of
27:23
Speaker 3: touch on this issue was when he did his whole
27:26
Speaker 3: shrink flation thing, And it kind of felt like, you
27:29
Speaker 3: remember Andy Rooney, who'd be like, you ever notice when
27:32
Speaker 3: you have potato chips as many potato chips in the
27:36
Speaker 3: bag as they used to be.
27:39
Speaker 4: Why is that it's a direct quote from the State
27:41
Speaker 4: of the Union.
27:43
Speaker 3: It if you're trying not to seem like a crazy
27:47
Speaker 3: old man ranting, maybe don't sound like a crazy old
27:51
Speaker 3: man ranting. And on the other level, no kidding, Yes,
27:58
Speaker 3: we're aware what shrink inflation is and you caused it,
28:04
Speaker 3: Like there's no actual use of the cranium to say, well,
28:10
Speaker 3: what is causing those mean old corporations to put fewer
28:14
Speaker 3: potato chips in the bag. Do they just hate their
28:18
Speaker 3: customers and don't want them to eat potato chips? Or
28:21
Speaker 3: are they dealing with inflation and it costs more and
28:24
Speaker 3: more and more and they're trying to find ways to
28:27
Speaker 3: fight the inflation that you caused by printing trillions of
28:31
Speaker 3: dollars in money we didn't have. There's no awareness of that.
28:34
Speaker 3: There's just ranting, I don't like shrinkflation, So what are
28:39
Speaker 3: we gonna do? Pass Bob Casey's bill on shrinkflation? And
28:43
Speaker 3: we're all looking at each other going, what the hell
28:45
Speaker 3: does Casey have?
28:47
Speaker 4: Like, like, what does Casey have a law?
28:48
Speaker 3: We're going to count the chips in your bag and
28:50
Speaker 3: if you're below the chips, Joe Biden gives you four
28:53
Speaker 3: hundred dollars.
28:54
Speaker 5: Like Hostito's Protection Act from Casey you know it. It
28:59
Speaker 5: reminded me of that meme of the guy who has
29:01
Speaker 5: the gun and he turns around and he shoots someone,
29:03
Speaker 5: and then he looks at the camera. He says, why
29:05
Speaker 5: did X, Y and Z do that? Right, and blames
29:08
Speaker 5: anything else, And it's Biden with the inflation. He has
29:11
Speaker 5: all this massive spending and then he says, why did
29:13
Speaker 5: the tostitos company do that? But if you had taken
29:17
Speaker 5: even economics one oh one in high school, you would say, look,
29:21
Speaker 5: the chip company has always had an incentive to maximize profits.
29:26
Speaker 5: The thing that has change is not that all of
29:28
Speaker 5: a sudden the potato chip company wants to make money.
29:30
Speaker 5: Clearly something else in the economic He's changed here between
29:34
Speaker 5: the last eight years or so.
29:36
Speaker 3: By the way, when the economy is booming, think what
29:40
Speaker 3: big mean corporations do they sell megamega size even more chips,
29:46
Speaker 3: you know, the big gulp with enough to drink to
29:48
Speaker 3: have you on caffeine for the next thirteen weeks.
29:51
Speaker 4: Like that, Also is the profit.
29:54
Speaker 3: Motive if you're not dealing with crushing inflation and trying
29:57
Speaker 3: to figure out a way to make things work right.
29:59
Speaker 2: All right, I gotta ask you guys about the heckling
30:02
Speaker 2: that happened. There was one person that heckled tonight. It's
30:05
Speaker 2: now being reported that that individual was a gold star
30:11
Speaker 2: father whose son, Lance Colonel Karen nick Koori, who was
30:17
Speaker 2: killed by a terrorist suicide bomber during Joe Biden's disastrous
30:21
Speaker 2: withdraw from Afghanistan. I usually am not a big fan
30:25
Speaker 2: of heckling. I don't think that's heckling once I learned
30:28
Speaker 2: the backstory. That was an angry father who saw a
30:31
Speaker 2: president that was rewriting history.
30:33
Speaker 4: Yeah.
30:34
Speaker 3: Look, we did not know the backstory when he yelled.
30:37
Speaker 3: We could tell he was yelling something about a marine company,
30:40
Speaker 3: but we couldn't tell the details in that room. Obviously,
30:44
Speaker 3: if his son lost his life, I wondered if it
30:48
Speaker 3: was if it was one of the Marines who was
30:51
Speaker 3: killed in Afghanistan, if that's what he was referring to,
30:54
Speaker 3: and apparently it was. Look, Joe Biden accepts no responsibility
30:59
Speaker 3: for anything, and instead his White House tries to whitewash
31:04
Speaker 3: every foreign policy disaster as an absolute success. And you know,
31:11
Speaker 3: when it comes to the thirteen servicemen and women who
31:13
Speaker 3: died in Afghanistan, that was completely unnecessary.
31:16
Speaker 4: It was Biden's fault.
31:17
Speaker 3: By the way, one of my favorite pods we ever
31:20
Speaker 3: did is when we focused on the testimony of the
31:24
Speaker 3: young marine who was there in Afghanistan and had the
31:28
Speaker 3: suicide bomber, had him identified him, was prepared to take
31:32
Speaker 3: him out, and the Biden White House wouldn't let him,
31:35
Speaker 3: and he was prevented from doing so, and those service
31:38
Speaker 3: men and women were killed.
31:39
Speaker 5: You know, I'm seeing a news report now. I don't
31:42
Speaker 5: know if it's been verified or not, that the man
31:45
Speaker 5: who was yelling out about his son and the Marines
31:49
Speaker 5: was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for interrupting Biden.
31:53
Speaker 5: And I didn't know it was a crime at all
31:55
Speaker 5: to interrupt the state of the Union. If it is,
31:58
Speaker 5: I imagine not a court in the land would ever convict
32:00
Speaker 5: him given the circumstances of what he did.
32:03
Speaker 4: Have you seen the DC district courts? Well, fair enough.
32:06
Speaker 2: I was saying, you'll have a much shot, and yeah,
32:08
Speaker 2: trust me, they'll go after them all the way.
32:10
Speaker 5: Right. I forgot where we were broadcasting from right now.
32:13
Speaker 2: It was putting you in the swamp, brother, You were
32:16
Speaker 2: right in the swamp.
32:18
Speaker 5: But putting that particular instance aside it did seem to
32:22
Speaker 5: me that there was more heckling than usual. You've been
32:25
Speaker 5: to a dozen of these centators.
32:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I mean there has been. The Democrats were
32:31
Speaker 3: doing lots of the four more years, which was weird.
32:33
Speaker 3: I don't recall I don't recall anyone doing that for Obama.
32:37
Speaker 3: I don't recall folks doing it for Trump. I may
32:41
Speaker 3: not be remembering it, but if it happened, I don't
32:44
Speaker 3: remember it, you know, I will say, Look, in recent years,
32:48
Speaker 3: I have not like. There are some House Republicans who
32:51
Speaker 3: heckled the president, and I got.
32:52
Speaker 4: To say, I really dislike that.
32:55
Speaker 3: I disagree passionately with Joe Biden, but I respect the
33:01
Speaker 3: office of the presidency and what it represents, and so
33:05
Speaker 3: even if I disagree with him, I just think it's
33:08
Speaker 3: not Look, a gold star father is a different circumstance,
33:12
Speaker 3: But for a member of Congress, I think heckling is
33:15
Speaker 3: is not not consistent with the decorum and respect that
33:21
Speaker 3: is owed, not just the presidency. By the way, did
33:24
Speaker 3: you notice what didn't happen at the beginning of the speech?
33:26
Speaker 3: Did you notice the Speaker of the House speak the
33:28
Speaker 3: House the speech up into shreds, and.
33:31
Speaker 2: He didn't get to introduce him. Did you notice that
33:33
Speaker 2: as well? Usually you have him introduce He didn't do that.
33:36
Speaker 2: The President just walked up there, went straight to the
33:38
Speaker 2: to the podium and started talking. And the entire moment
33:41
Speaker 2: where you're supposed to introduce him that comes to the
33:43
Speaker 2: Speak of the House never happened.
33:46
Speaker 3: It was It was very odd and look the heckling
33:51
Speaker 3: led to So I predicted before the speech that there
33:56
Speaker 3: were four words that that Biden would not say, Lake
34:00
Speaker 3: and Riley and Jeremy Caserras. Now, as it so happened,
34:06
Speaker 3: he kind of sort of said Lake.
34:07
Speaker 4: And Riley, but he almost tried to.
34:09
Speaker 3: But he did so in response to heckling someone calling
34:13
Speaker 3: out say her name, and there were many members of
34:15
Speaker 3: Congress wearing buttons and pins that said Lake and Riley,
34:19
Speaker 3: say her name.
34:21
Speaker 1: And he said the wrong name.
34:23
Speaker 3: He said Lincoln Riley, which the.
34:26
Speaker 1: Head football coach at usc.
34:31
Speaker 3: It and he had one of those buttons. So I
34:34
Speaker 3: think I think one of the members of Congress had
34:36
Speaker 3: given it to him.
34:37
Speaker 5: Yes, I don't know if it was Congressman Andy Ogles
34:40
Speaker 5: who actually invited me tonight, or if it was Marjorie
34:44
Speaker 5: Taylor Green or what but there were a handful of
34:46
Speaker 5: the conservative congressman who had it, and what I heard
34:50
Speaker 5: from one of the members was that they handed it
34:52
Speaker 5: to the president. He leaned it, he said, oh, I
34:55
Speaker 5: like your button. But I don't think it was sarcastic.
34:58
Speaker 5: I think he legitimately had no idea what was going
35:00
Speaker 5: on and what it represented.
35:02
Speaker 3: Well, look when the heckling happened, he responded, and he
35:06
Speaker 3: did sort of try to say her name, although he
35:09
Speaker 3: didn't get it right. But then look what he said.
35:13
Speaker 3: He said, you know, she was killed. I'm sorry she
35:16
Speaker 3: was killed, and he expressed sympathy for the parents. And
35:20
Speaker 3: I got to say that may have been the moment
35:23
Speaker 3: that pissed me off the most because listen, so Lake
35:28
Speaker 3: and Riley's parents were invited, and actually, you know, they
35:33
Speaker 3: were invited and they decided not to come. And I
35:37
Speaker 3: understand they are grieving the loss of their daughter, their
35:39
Speaker 3: home in Georgia, and the Georgia House member who invited
35:46
Speaker 3: them left the seat vacant in honor of Lake and Riley.
35:50
Speaker 3: And you know, frankly, they don't want Joe Biden's empathy.
35:56
Speaker 3: They don't want a Hallmark.
35:57
Speaker 4: Card from him.
35:58
Speaker 3: They want their daughter back and and what Joe Biden
36:02
Speaker 3: didn't do is take responsibility for his direct culpability. And
36:09
Speaker 3: let's walk through. Lake and Riley never should have been killed.
36:14
Speaker 3: The illegal immigrant who murdered her was caught. He was
36:17
Speaker 3: apprehended in Texas, in El Paso. He came illegally from Venezuela.
36:22
Speaker 3: We had him. And what should have happened is the
36:25
Speaker 3: Biden administration should have followed the law. They should have
36:27
Speaker 3: put him on a plane and flown him back to Venezuela.
36:30
Speaker 3: And if Joe Biden had done that, Lake and Riley
36:32
Speaker 3: would still be alive today.
36:34
Speaker 4: But it wasn't.
36:35
Speaker 5: Just l Pass was so so frustrating about this, all
36:40
Speaker 5: a totally preventable tragedy. Yes, they could have gotten him
36:42
Speaker 5: in New York. They did get him in New York.
36:44
Speaker 5: He committed a crime in New York they let him go.
36:46
Speaker 3: He was arrested for endangering a child. But New York City,
36:51
Speaker 3: again run by Democrats, calls itself a sanctuary city, and
36:54
Speaker 3: they let him go. If Joe Biden had deported him,
36:57
Speaker 3: Lake and Riley would be alive. If New York City
36:59
Speaker 3: had kept it and jail, Lake and Riley would be
37:01
Speaker 3: a lot forget.
37:01
Speaker 4: About New York City.
37:02
Speaker 5: He ends up in Athens, Georgia, and he steals from
37:07
Speaker 5: a store. I forget which store. It was the Georgia authorities.
37:11
Speaker 5: I think he was cited with a misdemeanor for shoplifting.
37:15
Speaker 5: You had three distinct opportunities.
37:18
Speaker 1: Three chances to get rid of him.
37:20
Speaker 5: Three chances, three strikes, You're out, and a poor American
37:23
Speaker 5: student winds up dead because.
37:24
Speaker 3: And by the way, let's be clear, Jeremy Cassaris is
37:27
Speaker 3: a two year old boy, a beautiful little boy who
37:31
Speaker 3: was murdered just weeks ago in Prince George's County in Virginia,
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Speaker 3: about thirty miles from where Joe Biden was standing. And
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Speaker 3: that little boy was murdered again by an illegal immigrant
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Speaker 3: that Joe Biden let go. This is happening across the country.
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Speaker 3: We're getting day after day stories of children raped by
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Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. Joe Biden is let go. And he had
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Speaker 3: zero acknowledgment of that, zero intention of changing anything. It
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Speaker 3: was just crocodile tears of I'm so sorry about your daughter,
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Speaker 3: without acknowledging it happened because of his policies, and he
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Speaker 3: continues to do those policies which means there'll be another
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Speaker 3: lake in Riley tomorrow and another set of parents that
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Speaker 3: he again disingenuously apologizes well.
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Speaker 2: And the proof that the President doesn't seem to care
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Speaker 2: about this issue is the fact that it took him
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Speaker 2: forty minutes into an hour speech to even mention the
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Speaker 2: border on his own. That's how far they buried the
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Speaker 2: border issue in his State of the Union speech.
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Speaker 5: What I wondered when he was browbeating the Republicans for
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Speaker 5: not voting for even more illegal immigration, which is what
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Speaker 5: his border bill would have done, is is he just
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Speaker 5: counting on the American people not realizing that he is
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Speaker 5: dismantling the fence that the Texas border authorities are putting up,
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Speaker 5: That it's not merely passivity that he's allowing.
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Speaker 3: Actually give you a little bit of correction on that
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Speaker 3: he wants to dismantle it, but he hasn't actually done it.
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Speaker 4: He hasn't succeeded.
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Speaker 3: No, No, the razor wire is there, and they ended up
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Speaker 3: Texas had gotten an injunction preventing the Biden administration from
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Speaker 3: removing the razor wire, and that injunction got reversed. So
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Speaker 3: the Biden administration is no longer prevented from removing the
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Speaker 3: razor wire, but they have not done so.
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Speaker 5: They wanted to do it, they're prevented from doing it,
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Speaker 5: they're then allowed to do it, but they got spooked
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Speaker 5: by the politics off Yeah. Wow, Wow, that's actually encouraging
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Speaker 5: that someone at the White House is saying, hold on
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Speaker 5: that that really crazy thing that we were going to do.
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Speaker 5: Maybe let's hold off, yeah for a few days.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: All right, before we end, I got to get you
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Speaker 2: guys reaction to two different things, two clips from CNN.
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Speaker 2: You guys were obviously in the chamber and you didn't
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Speaker 2: get to see all the commentary. I want you to
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Speaker 2: hear what CNN had to say about the state of
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Speaker 2: the Union. This is clip one.
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Speaker 1: Listen.
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Speaker 8: He seemed like Walkowski, you talking about this area, he said,
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Speaker 8: like Walkawowski and Grandtarino screaming at kids, get off my lawn,
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Speaker 8: like an old guy screaming agains.
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Speaker 9: My guess is that when he got into the heart
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Speaker 9: of his agenda, the things that you ridicule about the
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Speaker 9: cost of food and you know, price gouging and so on.
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Speaker 1: I bet you that scored.
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Speaker 9: With a lot of people. I think that they the
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Speaker 9: populist economic agenda is a powerful, powerful thing for him.
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Speaker 1: Look, there are parts of it.
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Speaker 9: I'm not sure that the attacks all landed exactly. They
40:38
Speaker 9: may have landed well in that room for sure, and
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Speaker 9: they landed well with base voters for sure. I'm not
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Speaker 9: sure where those swing voters that they landed as well,
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Speaker 9: but I do think.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's David Axrod, the former Obama you know,
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Speaker 2: senior advisor, who's saying, you know, in response to one
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Speaker 2: of the commenters saying, look it was it was like
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Speaker 2: an old guy screaming to the kids get off my lawn.
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Speaker 1: It's what you said earlier. Center.
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Speaker 2: But they're saying CNN and he's even admitting, hey, there's
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Speaker 2: a pretty good chance that didn't play well or land
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Speaker 2: with independent voters.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Ben, you're really scaring me? Are you telling me that,
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Speaker 3: unbeknownst to me, I was channeling David Axelrod on CNN.
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Speaker 4: Holy crap. I might have to just hang it all
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Speaker 4: up right now. It's over.
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Speaker 3: I am off the rails, Michael right now.
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Speaker 4: Something we need to correct something.
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Speaker 3: And I got to say even worse, Axelrod's analogy is better.
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Speaker 3: He threw out the whole grand Tarino like he took
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Speaker 3: it one notch better. I am just thoroughly humiliated.
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Speaker 1: And not only that, you'll like this one.
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Speaker 2: So then there was another commentator on CNN who actually
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Speaker 2: said this about the president's speech.
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Speaker 8: Listen, he talked about snickers and snack chips before he
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Speaker 8: ever got to the border. He was obsessed with his
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Speaker 8: political rival more than he was obsessed with the condition
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Speaker 8: of the American people.
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Speaker 4: It was so weird.
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Speaker 8: This guy lectures us all on unity, the soul of
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Speaker 8: the nation, and he gives the most partisan convention speech
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Speaker 8: in place of a state of a Union that I've
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Speaker 8: ever heard. It's the literal opposite of unity. It's so partisan.
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Speaker 8: He's obsessed with taunting Republicans. It's not statesman life. Can
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Speaker 8: let's say one thing on Israel?
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Speaker 2: I mean, that was Scott Jennings, a former col league
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Speaker 2: of mine, who said that.
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Speaker 1: And he's right, by the way.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he did talk about snickers and snack chips
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Speaker 2: before he ever got to the border.
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Speaker 1: It was his words. It was just weird.
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Speaker 5: I like his observation that Joe Biden thought he was
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Speaker 5: at the DNC.
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Speaker 4: Maybe that's as simple as that.
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Speaker 5: You know, he thought he walked into the convention Whoosie
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Speaker 5: Daisy had actually was a joint session for the state
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Speaker 5: of the Union. But you know, the man doesn't remember
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Speaker 5: his own name.
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Speaker 3: I will say one thing that also, that clip reminded
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Speaker 3: me of It was odd how many times he referenced Trump.
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Speaker 3: I cannot think of any state of the Union in
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Speaker 3: my lifetime with that many references to your opponent, the
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Speaker 3: forer president, the forer president, the former president. And you
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Speaker 3: know he's like, you know, you know, I believe in
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Speaker 3: in truth and happiness and love and puppy dogs and fairies,
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Speaker 3: and my opponent believes in hate and suffering, in misery
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Speaker 3: and dead puppies.
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Speaker 5: Like like it was just like, really, do a little
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Speaker 5: defensive you would.
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Speaker 1: Say, campaign one I want.
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Speaker 2: I will tell you the list of things Biden didn't
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Speaker 2: mention to say the Union. You guys ready for this.
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Speaker 2: He did not mention US service members killed in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 2: He did not mention US service members killed by Iranian
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Speaker 2: backed proxies in the Middle East. He did not mention
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Speaker 2: gas prices. He did not mention TikTok or China uh.
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Speaker 2: He did not mention North Korea. He didn't mention Cuba.
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Speaker 2: He didn't mention school choice. He didn't mention the classified
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Speaker 2: doc scandal. He didn't mention Hunter Biden or the Biden corruption.
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Speaker 2: He did not mention fossil fuels. He did not mention
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Speaker 2: deporting illegals. He did not mention border wall, he did
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Speaker 2: not mention the attacks on pregnancy centers, and he did
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Speaker 2: not mention China's human rights abuses. Notice a lot of
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Speaker 2: those connect with people that have given money the Biden
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Speaker 2: crime family.
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Speaker 1: I'll leave it with that center your reaction.
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Speaker 3: Well, but do you have anything to say about how
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Speaker 3: many chips are in a bag of chips?
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Speaker 5: I think you know, I think he did touch on
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Speaker 5: that important subject.
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Speaker 3: Do you know the state of the Union may be
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Speaker 3: in trouble, but the state of chips is really in trouble.
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Speaker 2: There you go, Michael, Hey, welcome back, my friend. Always
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