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Media’s Role in Biden’s Decline "Only Good Four Hours a Day" · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senter, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 2: you and Senator It is a very big week for
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Speaker 2: putting out books that are full of crap.
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Speaker 3: It truly is stunning. So Jake Tapper from CNN has
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Speaker 3: a book along with Alex Thompson from Axios. The book
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Speaker 3: is entitled Original Sin. President Biden's Decline, its cover up,
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Speaker 3: and his disastrous choice to run again. And when you
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Speaker 3: talk about full of crap, I really don't think you're
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Speaker 3: being fair to crap like this is This is like
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Speaker 3: a book Arsonist discovers a fire he started. This is
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Speaker 3: like a book Tony Montana, the drug dealer says cocaine
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Speaker 3: is bad for you. Like, yes, Jake, there was a
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Speaker 3: cover up, an absolute, complete, total cover up. It was knowing,
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Speaker 3: it was deliberate, and you did it. You, Jake Tapper
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Speaker 3: and CNNA, we're twenty four to seven, engage in the
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Speaker 3: cover up. You knew about his mental decline, and you
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Speaker 3: refuse to tell anybody.
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Speaker 2: It's shocking just how bad it was. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: All right, So let's go back to this lie that
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Speaker 2: I think the part that boys in mind. The most
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Speaker 2: is the fact that Taper is actually probably gonna get
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Speaker 2: a best seller out of this. Everyone in the media
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Speaker 2: is praising him for this incredible reporting. And this is
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Speaker 2: the guy that literally helped cover up the cognitive decline
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Speaker 2: and dismissed anyone who brought it up on a show.
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Speaker 3: So look, the book, as I understand it was originally
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Speaker 3: written by Alex Thompson. Alex Thompson is not nearly as
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Speaker 3: well known as Jake Tapper, yep, And he had a
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Speaker 3: contract with the book publishing company. He wrote the book,
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Speaker 3: and then the book publishing company decided to cancel it
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Speaker 3: and said, no, we're not going to publish this book
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Speaker 3: after all. In other words, the book publishing company engaged
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Speaker 3: in yet another cover up because they didn't want anyone
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Speaker 3: to know. And so Thompson sought out Tapper and convinced Tapper, hey,
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Speaker 3: join with me. You're a big famous guy. They'll publish
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Speaker 3: it if your name's on it. And Tapper said yes.
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Speaker 3: And I gotta say so, there are lots.
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Speaker 1: OF's never got a crisis waste, right.
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Speaker 3: That's looking particularly a chance to make some good money.
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Speaker 3: I mean, hey, what's journalism all about if not monetizing
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Speaker 3: your own hypocrisy and your own cover up. Look, Tapper,
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Speaker 3: some of the facts that are coming out in this book.
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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, Tapper and
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Speaker 3: Thompson report Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that his
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Speaker 3: advisers discussed the possibility he would need to use a
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Speaker 3: wheelchair if he won reelection. That's that's how bad it was.
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Speaker 3: And yet every time anyone tried to bring up those facts,
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Speaker 3: Jake Tapper and the rest of the corporate media covered
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Speaker 3: it up. But don't take my word for it. Listen
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Speaker 3: to Jake Tapper in his own words. This is a
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Speaker 3: collection of Tapper over the years.
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Speaker 1: And this goes back to twenty twenty.
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Speaker 2: The very beginning is him talking to one of the
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Speaker 2: Trump family members, Laura Trump, and he actually like ends
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Speaker 2: the interview like, you can't even say this on my show.
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Speaker 3: So this this montage starts in twenty twenty, then goes
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Speaker 3: to twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and then twenty four.
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Speaker 4: All throughout.
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Speaker 3: Listen, Tapper for five years covered this up aggressively.
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Speaker 4: Give a listen, how do.
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Speaker 5: You think it makes little kids with stutters feel when
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Speaker 5: they see you make a comment.
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Speaker 2: Like that, it's very clearly a cognitive decline.
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Speaker 6: That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: You are no view of age, can't It's so amazing.
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Speaker 5: It's so amazing to me that trying to figure out
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Speaker 5: an answer cognitive Declineative Biden embraces his stutter talking about it,
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Speaker 5: while Trump, mock said, exaggerates it.
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Speaker 1: Belittle zip.
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Speaker 7: He's sharp physically, I mean mentally, yeah, I think the
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Speaker 7: question is physically right right or so right right? And
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Speaker 7: the guy who's his chief opponent is only three or
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Speaker 7: four years younger than him, maybe, I mean, you have
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Speaker 7: questioned President Biden's age, mental fit, and fitness ability to lead.
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Speaker 7: Of those supporting Biden, you said, quote, shame on all
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Speaker 7: of you pretending everything is okay. You're leading us him
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Speaker 7: into a disaster. Do you worry that you damaged him
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Speaker 7: at all? I don't doubt that.
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Speaker 5: You got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today and
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Speaker 5: maybe even publicly, some of them because they like you personally.
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Speaker 5: But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about
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Speaker 5: you from your Democratic college.
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Speaker 1: I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
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Speaker 5: Exercise in narcissism. I mean false claims to the Wall
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Speaker 5: Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's
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Speaker 5: eighty one and his memory. You know, it doesn't seem great.
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Speaker 5: It's not horrible, but I don't understand the outrage. Quote
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Speaker 5: behind closed doors, Biden's shows signs of slipping quote. The
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Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal is owned by NewsCorp, which is run
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Speaker 5: by the Murdocks. Beyond the headline, there is some critical
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Speaker 5: nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans,
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Speaker 5: with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only one going on
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Speaker 5: the record. They do note in the article that most
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Speaker 5: of the criticism comes from Republicans. Have you heard any
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Speaker 5: concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about
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Speaker 5: seeming a little slower? Now the Russians are trying to
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Speaker 5: do to make us in the public not trust the
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Speaker 5: our election integrity. Joe Biden has dimension all this stuff.
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Speaker 2: Let's just stop there and give the title of the
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Speaker 2: book again, Senator, so people understand what they just heard
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Speaker 2: and now what he's writing, Because if you just look
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Speaker 2: at the title of the book, you understand the debauchery
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Speaker 2: of journalistic scumbaggery.
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Speaker 3: The title of the book is Original Sin President Biden's decline,
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Speaker 3: its cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again.
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Speaker 3: And understand Jake Tapper when he was saying that he
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Speaker 3: was lying, he knew he was lying. Everyone else on
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Speaker 3: CNN knew he was lying. They knew they were lying.
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Speaker 3: Everyone on MSNBC knew they were lying. Everyone on ABCNBCCBS
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Speaker 3: knew they were lying. Everyone at the New York Times
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Speaker 3: knew they were lying. Everyone at the Washington Post knew
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Speaker 3: they were lying. Everyone knew this look. One of the
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Speaker 3: facts that his book. He says at a fundraiser in
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Speaker 3: Jude of twenty twenty four, Joe Biden didn't recognize George Clooney,
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Speaker 3: who he's known for decades. He had told Eny by
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Speaker 3: the way, he had to be introduced like Ocean's eleven.
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Speaker 3: What is there a casino you're robbing? I don't understand,
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Speaker 3: like Biden had no idea. This is the same fundraiser
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Speaker 3: you remember where Barack Obama had to lead Biden off
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Speaker 3: the stage because he was just confused and staring out
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Speaker 3: in space, and Tapper and the rest of them just
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Speaker 3: lied to us and said aoka, no problems here.
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Speaker 2: You go back center to what you just said a
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Speaker 2: moment ago, and it's a great point here, and it's
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Speaker 2: one about the fact that they were at this fundraiser.
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Speaker 1: And the president didn't know, like George Clooney.
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Speaker 2: Wise, do you have Barack Obama having to walk him
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Speaker 2: off stage like that was when everyone in his realm
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Speaker 2: that they were even trying.
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Speaker 1: To, I think in protecting from They all knew then,
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Speaker 1: like this is a disaster, and yet they still went
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Speaker 1: full speed ahead with it.
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Speaker 3: No, that's exactly right. You know, the Babylon B had
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Speaker 3: a great headline that summed up this book. So the
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Speaker 3: Babylon B's headline was, quote, Jake Tapper uncovers startling evidence
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Speaker 3: that Biden's decline was covered up by Jake Tapper. And
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Speaker 3: that's exactly what his book is. And listen, listen to
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Speaker 3: this week, Chuck Schumer, because it wasn't just Jake Tapper
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Speaker 3: that was lying. Every Democrat was lying. Every Democrat Senator,
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Speaker 3: every Democrat governor, every Democrat house member. They all knew
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Speaker 3: Biden was seriously declining mentally, and they all covered it up.
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Speaker 3: Schumer was one of the most shameless because he gave
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Speaker 3: his own personal guarantee about how quick Biden was. And
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Speaker 3: listen this week when when finally the media confronts him
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Speaker 3: about his lies, Listen to what Chuck Schumer says, Uh, you.
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Speaker 2: Said in June of last year, in my meeting the
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Speaker 2: President Biden, I found the command president guilded influence to made.
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Speaker 4: Father sent key priorities.
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Speaker 6: But in that same mom violent here that he not
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Speaker 6: even recognized George Pulley.
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Speaker 4: In a fundraiser.
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Speaker 1: Were you being straight with the American palmer for look,
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Speaker 1: would just look forward? I mean, it's the best answer
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Speaker 1: I've ever heard from a politician. Center.
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Speaker 4: We're just looking forward.
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Speaker 1: Hey, we gotta go. We're just looking forward. And I'm
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Speaker 1: walking off stage like we're just looking forward.
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Speaker 3: I mean, so, Governor, tell me about the dead body
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Speaker 3: that we found in your house. We're just looking or
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Speaker 3: tell me about the.
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Speaker 1: The cocaine the White House. We're just looking for just moving.
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Speaker 4: We're just moving forward, guys, Schumer.
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Speaker 3: Not not the tiniest bit of accountability, not the oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: we're not just we're moving forward.
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Speaker 1: To forward, moving the Democrats.
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Speaker 3: You know, it reminded me back if you remember when
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Speaker 3: Mitt Romney ran for president against Barack Obama. Yes, And
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Speaker 3: Harry Reid went and lied and claimed that Mitt Romney
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Speaker 3: hadn't paid income taxes, and he just flat out lied,
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Speaker 3: and he did it on the Senate floor.
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Speaker 4: You know why I did it on the Senate.
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Speaker 1: Floor because you can't argue back with him.
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Speaker 3: Right, Well, that's true. But there's another reason he did
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Speaker 3: it on the Senate floor because the Constitution has a
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Speaker 3: provision called the Speech and Debate Clause that that that
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Speaker 3: immunizes members of Congress for speech and bait on the
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Speaker 3: Senate floor. He did it so no one could sue him.
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Speaker 3: So Mitt Romney wouldn't sue him for defamation because he
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Speaker 3: was lying.
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Speaker 1: And he didn't sit on TV. Interesting and after.
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Speaker 3: The election they asked Harry Reid about wait, you were lying,
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Speaker 3: you had no evidence. And Harry Reid, who was then
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Speaker 3: the Democrat Senate majority leader, he said, well, Romney didn't win,
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Speaker 3: did he Like it's the same thing as Chuck Schumer.
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Speaker 4: We're just looking forward, all right.
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Speaker 3: Listen to now Biden's National security advisor, Jake Sullivan, who
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Speaker 3: worked with Biden every day in the White House and
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Speaker 3: so new to an absolute certainty that that Biden was
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Speaker 3: severely mentally declining, but listen to what Jake Sullivan said.
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Speaker 8: What happened in that debate was a shock to me.
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Speaker 8: I think was a shock to everybody. And I've made
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Speaker 8: that point before. Just finally, do you think in retrospect,
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Speaker 8: given everything that's happened and everything we've talked about today,
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Speaker 8: it was a mistake for President Biden to try to
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Speaker 8: run again. One of the things about being national security
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Speaker 8: advisor is that you're mercifully insulated from politics and political
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Speaker 8: decision making. I was insulated from it to the point
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Speaker 8: where while I was National Security Advisor, uh, my spouse
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Speaker 8: was running for Congress, and I had strict rules about
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Speaker 8: what I could even do to support my spouse, let
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Speaker 8: alone be involved in political decision making, political calls in
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Speaker 8: the White House. So I have not weighed in on
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Speaker 8: those issues and would not weigh in on those issues.
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Speaker 2: Let's let's just be clear. I've known national security advisors.
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Speaker 2: That is the biggest one of crap I've ever heard.
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Speaker 3: I'm just going to put out something really funny. There's
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Speaker 3: something about Democrat men that makes them weenies. Yeah, so
12:37
Speaker 3: he says my spouse was running for Congress, So he
12:41
Speaker 3: is actually married to a woman, yep, Ben, Can you
12:43
Speaker 3: imagine any circumstances which I refer to your wife as
12:47
Speaker 3: my spouse? I mean, isn't like I don't know a
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Speaker 3: man who refers to his wife as my.
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Speaker 2: Spouse who's running for congress, My wife who is running
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Speaker 2: for congress like that like the moldun.
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Speaker 3: Human beings would communicate, but but not not democrat after.
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Speaker 1: Yours would be my smoking hot wife who's running for cocker.
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Speaker 4: But that's the way.
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Speaker 2: Do I know you well or do I know you
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Speaker 2: will any any chance to praise praise your wife.
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Speaker 4: Not your spouse.
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Speaker 3: Yes, my smoking hot wife is exactly exactly the way
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Speaker 3: to put it.
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Speaker 1: I set you up for success there.
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Speaker 2: I just want to know if there's anything you're gonna
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Speaker 2: you should clip from this pod and send to your wife.
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Speaker 1: Be like, go to this minute mark in the pod. Honey,
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Speaker 1: you made the pod.
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Speaker 3: Actually look as you know, listen to the podcast. So
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Speaker 3: that'll be she'll she'll be listening.
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Speaker 1: This is a miss test.
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Speaker 2: I one day I said, think about my wife in
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Speaker 2: my show, and I wanted to see if she heard it,
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Speaker 2: and like her friends text are like, Ben said thing
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Speaker 2: about you, and she's like, what did you say about
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Speaker 2: me day.
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, if you listen to the show,
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Speaker 1: you would have known.
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Speaker 4: It was like, A great, you know that was a mistake.
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Speaker 4: Don't do that. I told you so, you only I'm
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Speaker 4: just saying.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying I want to ask you a on
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Speaker 2: a very serious note here you look at the hypocrisy.
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Speaker 2: But the most disturbing thing for me coming out of
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Speaker 2: this book and how the Axius reporting is that the
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Speaker 2: cabinet members worried about his capacity, specifically in a crisis. Now,
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Speaker 2: there's been interesting reporting, and I'm just want to put
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Speaker 2: it in perspective. He has the bad debate. There was
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Speaker 2: real conversations, we were told and there's reporting on this
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Speaker 2: about the possibility of invoking the twenty fifth. Not because
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Speaker 2: they were afraid, I go back to the you know,
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Speaker 2: worried about the capacity and a crisis.
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Speaker 1: They just didn't want to lose the election.
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Speaker 4: It was all politics.
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Speaker 3: They were perfectly fine having someone with dementia who was
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Speaker 3: not capable of decision making as president as commander in chief.
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Speaker 3: So this Jake Tapper comedy book includes the revelation that
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Speaker 3: multiple cabinet members were worried that he could not be
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Speaker 3: relied on at a time of crisis because his mental
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Speaker 3: diminution was so great. One cabinet secretary said Biden's top
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Speaker 3: aids quote shielded him in every meeting from October two,
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. On quote the cabinet was kept at
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Speaker 3: bay another quote for months. We didn't have access to him.
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Speaker 3: There was clearly a deliberate strategy by the White House
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Speaker 3: to have a meet with as few people as necessary.
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Speaker 3: Another cabinet secretary says that one rare meeting during the time,
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Speaker 3: that cabinet secretary was quote shocked by how the president
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Speaker 3: was acting. He was seemed disoriented and out of it,
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Speaker 3: his mouth agape. They knew they were worried. And you
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Speaker 3: know what, if our enemies attacked us, this was the
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Speaker 3: commander in chief that the Democrats and CNN and the
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Speaker 3: lying corporate media was telling us could protect us. And look,
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Speaker 3: I don't know that i'd trust him to operate the
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Speaker 3: remote control on the television set.
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Speaker 1: By the way, are they going to put this under
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Speaker 1: fiction or nonfiction? That's what I want to know. When
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Speaker 1: you go to the store, right if you go look.
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Speaker 3: For well Sadly, I think they'll put it under nonfiction,
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Speaker 3: which they should, because it is true that Joe Biden's
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Speaker 3: has had a massive mental deterioration. What they should put
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Speaker 3: under fiction is what Jake says on TV every day.
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Speaker 3: That's the fiction part. The irony is this may be
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Speaker 3: the one true thing Tapper has has written or said
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Speaker 3: in the light.
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Speaker 1: Hold on the guy from Access Right. It's true.
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Speaker 4: It was someone else who wrote it, name on it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But but by accident he told the truth, except
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Speaker 3: for the fact that he didn't admit that he's been
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Speaker 3: lying to the country the entire time Biden was in
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Speaker 3: the White House.
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Speaker 2: So let's go back to the cabinet members, because this
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Speaker 2: is the big question. I was doing Fox and I
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Speaker 2: Waters World. Killy mckinneie was filling in form White House
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Speaker 2: pres Singcretary and she was talking about then when when
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Speaker 2: some of this was starting to break and I and
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Speaker 2: I said, look, the headlines are amazing, But I said,
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Speaker 2: the real question that I think we should all be asking,
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Speaker 2: and I want your take on this is if all
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Speaker 2: this is true, and I have no reason believe it's not,
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Speaker 2: who the hell was the president of the United States
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Speaker 2: of America? Who was running the country? Was it thirty
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Speaker 2: people that were elected by no one. I don't think
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Speaker 2: it was one person. I think there's a very good
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Speaker 2: chance that the FBI was the president of the FBI
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Speaker 2: and the DD was the president.
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Speaker 1: I mean, who the hell was running the country?
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Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: Actually, all right, that's why I'm asking you.
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Speaker 3: I've been asked that question probably a thousand times, and
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Speaker 3: I'm going to give you the most terrifying answer you
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Speaker 3: could imagine. I don't know, Okay, I genuinely don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think it was Barack Obama. I think it was
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Speaker 3: Barack Obama. Barack Obama, certainly his minions, is the only
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Speaker 3: president in modern times who at the end of his
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Speaker 3: presidency stayed in DC, bought a big house in Calorama
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Speaker 3: every night, their cars in the driveway, and all of
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Speaker 3: his little apparatic minions are in the White House. And
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Speaker 3: I think it was a combination.
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Speaker 2: When Joe Biden's White House was filled with staffers. I
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Speaker 2: want you to understand this. This is well reported, but
17:38
Speaker 2: this is really important right now for this story. It
17:41
Speaker 2: was well reported on that Biden and his team were
17:45
Speaker 2: the one that placed everyone in the positions of power
17:47
Speaker 2: in the Biden I mean Obama six. Obama and his
17:50
Speaker 2: team placed everyone basically in a position of powers in
17:53
Speaker 2: the Biden administration.
17:54
Speaker 3: So look, in four years of the Biden presidency, I'm
17:58
Speaker 3: in the Senate the whole time. How many times do
18:00
Speaker 3: you think I spoke with Joe Biden while he was president?
18:03
Speaker 2: I would say one to three zero, And I was
18:07
Speaker 2: saying one of three because I thought they were protecting him.
18:08
Speaker 1: So you're saying, as a senator, and that's not normal.
18:10
Speaker 1: People need to understand that.
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Speaker 4: Not a single time, and that is bizarre.
18:14
Speaker 1: How many times with Obama?
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Speaker 9: Free?
18:15
Speaker 4: Lots of times.
18:16
Speaker 1: I mean I spoke.
18:17
Speaker 4: I spoke with Obama regularly.
18:18
Speaker 3: With Trump, I speak with him often every week, sometimes
18:23
Speaker 3: multiple times a week. It is part of the job
18:26
Speaker 3: of being a senator to work with the president, to
18:28
Speaker 3: talk with the president, even the president of the opposing party.
18:32
Speaker 2: Were there ever big lads with Obama? For examle, I'm
18:34
Speaker 2: trying to really paint a picture here of how insane
18:37
Speaker 2: it is.
18:37
Speaker 1: You didn't talk to him for four years.
18:38
Speaker 4: It's bizarre.
18:39
Speaker 3: And the thing to understand is we all know Joe Biden.
18:43
Speaker 3: He was in the Senate for four years. He was
18:46
Speaker 3: a man of the Senate when I was first elected
18:48
Speaker 3: the Senate in twenty twelve, Joe Biden swore me in.
18:51
Speaker 3: In fact, I'll tell you without the cognitive decline, and
18:53
Speaker 3: he was fine. Now when vice president thirteen years ago,
18:56
Speaker 3: he did not have cognitive cline. And in fact, it
18:59
Speaker 3: was funny. So my girls, you know, my daughters, they're
19:02
Speaker 3: fourteen and seventeen. When I was sworn in, they were
19:04
Speaker 3: two and four. They were little bitty and my two
19:07
Speaker 3: year old Catherine, Biden leaned over to pick her up
19:11
Speaker 3: and she screamed. She screamed really loudly, and Biden said,
19:15
Speaker 3: it's okay, it's okay. It's a Democrat, but it's okay.
19:18
Speaker 3: And that was actually quite funny.
19:19
Speaker 4: I laughed.
19:20
Speaker 3: And you don't have time. Magazine does little quotes of
19:22
Speaker 3: like the quotes of the week. Yeah, that next week,
19:25
Speaker 3: the quote of the week was, it's okay, it's okay.
19:27
Speaker 3: It's a Democrat, but it's okay. Vice President Joe Biden
19:30
Speaker 3: to Catherine Cruz, age two. And I've said, you know,
19:34
Speaker 3: when Catherine is married, hopefully a long long time from now,
19:38
Speaker 3: I intend to read that quote at her wedding and say,
19:41
Speaker 3: even at age two, Catherine knew if a Democrat tries
19:44
Speaker 3: to pick you up.
19:45
Speaker 4: Scream loudly.
19:48
Speaker 1: I like that one.
19:49
Speaker 4: So where do we go from And by the way, when.
19:52
Speaker 3: I say I didn't speak with him for four years,
19:54
Speaker 3: that was true of virtually every Republican senator.
19:57
Speaker 1: So we would say, did that be Democrat senators are
19:59
Speaker 1: talking to it? They middle more.
20:01
Speaker 4: The Democrats talked to him early on because.
20:03
Speaker 1: They were isolating him from what the book saying from
20:05
Speaker 1: like everyone.
20:06
Speaker 3: So they talked to him a little more. When when
20:09
Speaker 3: the Senates and session, Republican senators have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday,
20:13
Speaker 3: and Thursday, so we talk at lunch. It's they're working lunches,
20:15
Speaker 3: they're very productive. We would sit at lunch and talk
20:18
Speaker 3: about how weird it was that that none of us
20:20
Speaker 3: had spoken to Biden, had been to the White House
20:22
Speaker 3: to see him, and we all knew him. They were
20:25
Speaker 3: clearly hiding him. I actually remember one of my colleagues,
20:28
Speaker 3: John Kennedy, a good friend senator from Louisiana. He was
20:31
Speaker 3: one of the few who had seen Biden one time,
20:33
Speaker 3: and he actually told us all the story. We're sitting
20:35
Speaker 3: at the table and he said, look, he had passed
20:37
Speaker 3: a bill. He said it was a fairly minor bill,
20:39
Speaker 3: but it was a bipartisan bill that had passed, and
20:42
Speaker 3: and Biden did a bill signing, and so they brought
20:45
Speaker 3: him under and they brought him over because they wanted
20:47
Speaker 3: to say, look how bipartisan were So so Kennedy was
20:50
Speaker 3: in the oval and Biden was there, and and Kennedy
20:53
Speaker 3: started striking up a conversation with Biden and John knew
20:56
Speaker 3: him like we all did, and and Biden asked, and so, John,
21:00
Speaker 3: you ever seen the cabinet room? And John Kennedy being
21:03
Speaker 3: John Kennedy, he said, I lied and said no, and
21:06
Speaker 3: he said, come on, let's go.
21:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he can know where that was going. You
21:09
Speaker 1: say down to that question.
21:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so he takes him in there and he said.
21:13
Speaker 3: Biden begins telling stories from like forty or fifty years ago,
21:17
Speaker 3: and Kennedy said, the White House staff comes in freaking out,
21:21
Speaker 3: Miss President, you go, you gotta go, and Biden yells
21:23
Speaker 3: at him, shut up, I'm telling stories, and he said.
21:26
Speaker 3: He went on for like thirty forty minutes, and it
21:29
Speaker 3: was like listening to your grandfather who's telling the same stories. Ever,
21:32
Speaker 3: the same stories like fifty years ago. They can remember,
21:35
Speaker 3: but but don't ask him what's happening today? And and
21:38
Speaker 3: that was and he was literally at my lunch table.
21:41
Speaker 3: I remember he was the only one of us who
21:42
Speaker 3: had seen Biden since he's been president, and and and
21:45
Speaker 3: that was his one experience with him.
21:46
Speaker 2: Will there be anything now that the mees accept this
21:49
Speaker 2: as fact, they're reporting on his fact. Cabinet members were
21:53
Speaker 2: worried about his capacity in a crisis, That's what they've said.
21:58
Speaker 2: Is there going to be any overside slash investigation? Should
22:02
Speaker 2: there be from Congress? And I know that's a weird
22:04
Speaker 2: question because there's somebody like, look, we want let's move on,
22:07
Speaker 2: But like I do, actually, as an American citizen, want
22:10
Speaker 2: to know who was running the United States of America
22:12
Speaker 2: that was elected by no one. I want to know
22:16
Speaker 2: who was calling the shots it was elected by no one,
22:18
Speaker 2: because whether I win or lose an election, my vote
22:21
Speaker 2: should not be canceled out by some sort of dictator
22:24
Speaker 2: or tyrant within an administration that no one knows who's
22:26
Speaker 2: running a government.
22:27
Speaker 3: And by the way, there's a related question to that Ben,
22:30
Speaker 3: which is we've seen the stories that apparently a substantial
22:33
Speaker 3: number of official things that Biden signed were signed by
22:36
Speaker 3: the autopen.
22:36
Speaker 1: So was he even making the decision to sign them right?
22:39
Speaker 3: And he didn't even seem to know like some of
22:41
Speaker 3: the pardons. And I actually think you'll have this litigated.
22:44
Speaker 3: I don't not aware of any courts that's ever decided
22:47
Speaker 3: is is a pardon Does a pardon have to actually
22:50
Speaker 3: be signed by the president. So look, every elected official
22:53
Speaker 3: has an autopen. I have an autopan, and so for
22:55
Speaker 3: things like constituent correspondence, if you write into your senator,
22:59
Speaker 3: you'll get a response back, and we try to respond
23:01
Speaker 3: substantively in the autop pen will sign it. And I
23:03
Speaker 3: get millions of those letters, so I couldn't physically sign
23:06
Speaker 3: them all.
23:06
Speaker 2: All I'm thinking about right now is how where that
23:08
Speaker 2: autopen isn't how much fun I could happen keep going.
23:10
Speaker 3: But look, it's fine for if something like correspondence, a
23:14
Speaker 3: birthday wish, But the question is for something that has
23:18
Speaker 3: legal force of law. And I actually want to know
23:20
Speaker 3: do they use the autopen to sign any legislation, because
23:23
Speaker 3: it's not clear to me legislation that the president didn't
23:26
Speaker 3: sign has legal force. The autopen is not the commander
23:29
Speaker 3: in chief and the chief judges.
23:31
Speaker 2: For example, if he did an autopen, which means I'm
23:35
Speaker 2: truly convinced that he didn't know what was going on.
23:38
Speaker 1: He didn't know who's appointing. He probably didn't know who's pardoning.
23:41
Speaker 2: And if that happening, the partiers are where it'll be litigated, Okay,
23:45
Speaker 2: and that will Why is that so different, because.
23:47
Speaker 3: Look, it's it's interesting. Like a pardon under the Constitution,
23:51
Speaker 3: all you have to have is a document from the
23:53
Speaker 3: president that said, you know, I pardoned Ben Ferguson and
23:58
Speaker 3: and and suddenly actually only if it's a federal offense,
24:01
Speaker 3: so he can't.
24:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, the p I take, the abece I take.
24:06
Speaker 3: But it literally there's no pomp and circumstance. It doesn't
24:10
Speaker 3: have to have gold leaf on the paper, it doesn't
24:12
Speaker 3: have to be an official it's just a piece of
24:14
Speaker 3: paper with a signature, with those words and his signature,
24:17
Speaker 3: that is legally a pardon. But if you don't actually
24:21
Speaker 3: have a signature. Listen, I've been in the oval dozens
24:24
Speaker 3: of times, probably more when when President Trump is signing
24:28
Speaker 3: things and pulls out he actually so have you seen
24:31
Speaker 3: the president's.
24:32
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I like I've got one of the big
24:34
Speaker 2: sharpieeress like most presidents use like a sharpie to have
24:39
Speaker 2: a signing pen.
24:39
Speaker 3: But but President Trump's it's a marker that's probably what
24:43
Speaker 3: ten inches long, and maybe.
24:45
Speaker 1: It's gold, like gold is signature, and like an inch.
24:48
Speaker 4: In diameter like it's it is massive.
24:51
Speaker 3: But he signs one after the other, after the other
24:53
Speaker 3: after the other, because that's what gives it legal force
24:56
Speaker 3: of law. If you have a president that's mentally incompetent
25:00
Speaker 3: and you have staffers running thing, it makes you wonder
25:04
Speaker 3: doctor Fauci's pardon jine it.
25:07
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, And if it's the auto pen,
25:09
Speaker 1: which I'm sure they can figure that out.
25:12
Speaker 3: It will be It's an interesting question, you know. I'll
25:15
Speaker 3: say a few more of these quotes from the cabinet members.
25:19
Speaker 3: The cabinet members in this book described said. One said quote,
25:25
Speaker 3: the staff did him wrong. If you were with him
25:27
Speaker 3: every day and you knew this was going to be
25:29
Speaker 3: a problem, why didn't you go to him and say something.
25:32
Speaker 3: Another said quote, access dropped off considerably in twenty twenty four,
25:36
Speaker 3: and I didn't interact with him as much. A third said, quote, Yes,
25:40
Speaker 3: the president is making the decisions, but if the inner
25:43
Speaker 3: circle is shaping them in such a way, is it
25:46
Speaker 3: really a decision? And here was another cabinet secretary. I
25:49
Speaker 3: don't think he has dementia. But the thing is, he's
25:52
Speaker 3: an old man. The president can give you four to
25:54
Speaker 3: six good hours a day. When he got tired, sloppy
25:56
Speaker 3: isn't the right word, but his guard was down. That
25:59
Speaker 3: would be the commander in chief of the United States.
26:02
Speaker 2: Now that it's over, now that everybody knows the cognitive decline,
26:05
Speaker 2: now that the books are being written, they're telling you
26:08
Speaker 2: they may have only gotten four hours a day out
26:10
Speaker 2: of the President of United Atsmagra. That is maybe one
26:13
Speaker 2: of the most shocking statements I've ever heard about any
26:15
Speaker 2: present yet.
26:16
Speaker 3: Look, it's he was not mentally capable to do the job.
26:20
Speaker 3: They knew it, and they lied about it. And by
26:22
Speaker 3: the way, Jake Tapper's whole premise that gosh, little old
26:25
Speaker 3: me Jake was deceived. They just didn't tell me the truth.
26:28
Speaker 3: I just didn't know. Well, Jake, if you listened to Verdict,
26:33
Speaker 3: we were telling you the facts, and we were telling
26:35
Speaker 3: you the facts early on. Here, I want you to
26:37
Speaker 3: go back to January of twenty twenty four. I want
26:39
Speaker 3: you to listen to a segment of Enemy in the
26:41
Speaker 3: podcast back in January of twenty four talking about Biden's deterioration.
26:46
Speaker 3: Give a listen, You and I and kind of anyone
26:50
Speaker 3: with eyes and common sense have been observing for a
26:54
Speaker 3: long time that Joe Biden's cognitive decline is massive.
26:58
Speaker 4: But it's easy for.
27:01
Speaker 3: Some observers to dismiss that and say, you know, these
27:04
Speaker 3: guys are biased, they're partisans, they don't like Biden, So
27:06
Speaker 3: what they're saying is not true. In this instance, the
27:13
Speaker 3: people speaking are the Biden Department of Justice and not
27:17
Speaker 3: any department of justice. This is a Department of Justice
27:20
Speaker 3: that has proven itself the most politicized and partisan department
27:24
Speaker 3: of justice in history. And they have argued so, for example,
27:29
Speaker 3: I'm going to read you a paragraph from the report.
27:32
Speaker 3: In his interview with our office, mister Biden's memory was worse.
27:38
Speaker 3: He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting
27:42
Speaker 3: on the first day of the interview when his term ended,
27:45
Speaker 3: quote if it was twenty thirteen, when did I stop
27:49
Speaker 3: being vice president? And forgetting on the second day of
27:53
Speaker 3: the interview when his term began quote in two thousand
27:57
Speaker 3: and nine, am I still vice president? He did not
28:02
Speaker 3: remember even within several years when his son bo died
28:08
Speaker 3: and his memory appeared hazy. When describing the Afghanistan debate
28:14
Speaker 3: that was once so important to him, among other things,
28:18
Speaker 3: he mistakenly said he quote had a real difference of
28:23
Speaker 3: opinion with General Carl Aitkinberry, when in fact Aitkinberry was
28:29
Speaker 3: an ally whom mister Biden cited approvingly in his thanksgiving
28:35
Speaker 3: memo to President Obama. All of that was authored by
28:40
Speaker 3: the Biden Department of Justice. And when they are describing
28:43
Speaker 3: the sitting president as a well meaning, elderly man with
28:48
Speaker 3: a poor memory, the natural question for anyone to say is,
28:53
Speaker 3: holy crap. If he's not competent to stand trial, why
28:57
Speaker 3: is he the commander in chief with the authority to
28:59
Speaker 3: send our sons and daughters into harm's way? Why does
29:03
Speaker 3: he have access to the nuclear codes? Understand the description
29:08
Speaker 3: here They say, you couldn't charge him with a crime
29:10
Speaker 3: because he's not aware of enough to have the requisite
29:14
Speaker 3: mental intent. And yet Joe Biden tonight, if he's so desired,
29:18
Speaker 3: could literally exterminate humanity from the face of the planet
29:23
Speaker 3: as commander in chief if he gave the order launch
29:26
Speaker 3: the nuclear weapons now, unless the military refused to obey
29:33
Speaker 3: the commander in chief, Joe Biden could exterminate every life
29:37
Speaker 3: on this planet. And if he's not mentally competent to
29:40
Speaker 3: stand trial, that is terrifying. So that was a year
29:45
Speaker 3: and a half ago, a year and a half ago
29:46
Speaker 3: on this podcast. And understand the entire basis at Tapper's books,
29:50
Speaker 3: he couldn't possibly know about known about this mental decline.
29:53
Speaker 3: The Department of Justice in this would be the Biden
29:56
Speaker 3: Department of Justice went into court. So the Robert Hurr Report,
30:00
Speaker 3: Remember they did not prosecute Biden.
30:02
Speaker 1: And where was that I won? Do you remember the
30:03
Speaker 1: timeframe on that.
30:04
Speaker 2: That was early twenty four. Yeah, we covered it a lot,
30:08
Speaker 2: and that with them interviewing him in twenty three. So
30:11
Speaker 2: in twenty three when they were interviewing Joe Biden, they
30:15
Speaker 2: then in twenty four told America he's so bad off
30:18
Speaker 2: we can't even charge him with anything.
30:20
Speaker 3: So they concluded if they charged him, he would be
30:24
Speaker 3: found not competent to be convicted.
30:27
Speaker 4: That is a stunning.
30:28
Speaker 3: Look, there's a standard. There are people that are not
30:30
Speaker 3: competent to be tried. If you have dementia, if you're
30:32
Speaker 3: like mentally ill, that you're not able. The legal standard
30:36
Speaker 3: is you have to form what's called mensraa, which is intent.
30:39
Speaker 3: And they said, well, he's so old and senile, we
30:42
Speaker 3: can't charge him. So that's why they said, oh, yeah,
30:44
Speaker 3: he clearly violated the law. He committed a felony. Remember
30:47
Speaker 3: he kept classified materials everywhere, including his garage next to
30:50
Speaker 3: his antique car.
30:52
Speaker 1: Not a joke, that's real.
30:54
Speaker 3: And they said he was guilty of that, but they
30:57
Speaker 3: couldn't charge him because he was incompetent to stand trial.
30:59
Speaker 3: I want you to list in twenty twenty three to
31:02
Speaker 3: me laying out his mental decline and MSNBC Morning Joe
31:07
Speaker 3: making fun of me for it.
31:08
Speaker 1: Gives us like one of their big intros. May fourth,
31:11
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
31:13
Speaker 3: Twenty eleven, when Republicans in the House stood strong on
31:18
Speaker 3: the debt ceiling again because Democrats had had majority of
31:21
Speaker 3: the Congress for two years, had passed trillions in irresponsible spending,
31:26
Speaker 3: and Republicans stood strong and said, we will not raise
31:29
Speaker 3: the debt ceiling without serious fiscal reform. What happened then
31:34
Speaker 3: Vice President Joe Biden came and negotiated a deal, a
31:38
Speaker 3: deal called the Budget Control Act. Vice President Biden sat
31:42
Speaker 3: down with House Republicans and reached a meaningful compromise. President
31:48
Speaker 3: Joe Biden needs to do the same thing. And I'll say, sadly,
31:52
Speaker 3: the reason he hasn't so far, I believe, is because
31:57
Speaker 3: his mental faculties are too diminished right now.
32:01
Speaker 6: You know, I know, hold on, hold on, hold on
32:04
Speaker 6: what he has such a point.
32:07
Speaker 10: His mental faculties are so diminished that he passed more bipartisans,
32:13
Speaker 10: signed more bipartisan legislation.
32:15
Speaker 6: But he was doing it last year.
32:20
Speaker 11: Any president since LBJ My god, if he were his
32:24
Speaker 11: coaching as he had been in twenty eleven, but he
32:27
Speaker 11: could have been like you could have gone back to FDR.
32:31
Speaker 9: What else he did without without apparently realizing what he
32:34
Speaker 9: was doing. He like, held NATO together to fight Russian
32:39
Speaker 9: aggression in Ukraine, and and.
32:42
Speaker 6: My god, I know he only increased eight hundred mile
32:46
Speaker 6: border in NATO.
32:47
Speaker 4: With Russia exactly.
32:49
Speaker 1: But I guess he you know, he thought he was
32:52
Speaker 1: when happened.
32:53
Speaker 10: You know, it reminds me of Ronald Reagan when he
32:55
Speaker 10: was speaking at Harvard, a Eureka College grad and he's
32:58
Speaker 10: sitting there talking to the graund and he's making fun
33:00
Speaker 10: of his education. At the end, he goes, You know,
33:03
Speaker 10: sometimes I just sit here with a presidential steal in
33:06
Speaker 10: front of him, and I wonder what I could have
33:09
Speaker 10: been with a good.
33:14
Speaker 2: Go back and read, go back and read Reagan, He says,
33:19
Speaker 2: By golly, I mean, I love this. And by the way,
33:21
Speaker 2: we do know who was doing it now it was
33:23
Speaker 2: either a and auto pen or a bunch of old staffers.
33:25
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