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CNN Has Uncovered a Scandal...that CNN Covered up Biden's Mental Decline! · 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 CN in We're twenty four to seven, engage in
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Speaker 3: the cover up. You knew about his mental decline, and
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Speaker 3: you 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: we have the receipts just to remind people.
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Speaker 3: You know, you're going to hear the proof momentarily.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're gonna get to that because I want
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Speaker 2: so let's go back to this lie that I think
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Speaker 2: the part that blows my mind the most is the
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Speaker 2: fact that Tafliver is actually probably gonna get the best
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Speaker 2: seller out of this. Everyone in the media is praising
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Speaker 2: him for this incredible reporting, and this is the guy
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Speaker 2: that literally helped cover up the cognitive decline and dismissed
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Speaker 2: 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 got to say so, there are lots of.
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Speaker 1: Never got a crisis waste right that's.
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Speaker 3: Looking particularly a chance to make some good money. I mean, hey,
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Speaker 3: what's journalism all about if not monetizing your own hypocrisy
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Speaker 3: and your own cover up. Look, Tapper, some of the
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Speaker 3: facts that are coming out in this book. In twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty three and twenty twenty four, Tapper and Thompson report
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Speaker 3: Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that his advisors discussed
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Speaker 3: the possibility he would need to use a wheelchair if
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Speaker 3: he won Reelection's that's how bad it was. And yet
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Speaker 3: every time anyone tried to bring up those facts, Jake
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Speaker 3: Tapper and the rest of the corporate media covered it up.
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Speaker 3: But don't take my word for it. Listen to Jake
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Speaker 3: Tapper in his own words. This is a collection of
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Speaker 3: Tapper over the years.
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Speaker 2: And this goes back to twenty twenty. The very beginning
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Speaker 2: is him talking to one of the Trump family members,
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Speaker 2: Laura Trump, and he actually like ends the interview like,
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Speaker 2: you can't even say this on my show.
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Speaker 3: So this montage starts in twenty twenty, then goes to
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Speaker 3: twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and then twenty four
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Speaker 3: all throughout.
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Speaker 4: Listen.
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Speaker 3: Tapper for five years covered this up aggressively.
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Speaker 4: Give a listen.
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Speaker 5: How do you think it makes little kids with stutters
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Speaker 5: feel when they see you make a comment like that.
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Speaker 3: It's very clearly a cognitive decline.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable. You
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Speaker 1: are no view of ita. That's so amazing.
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Speaker 5: It's so amazing to me that trying to figure out an.
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Speaker 1: Answer cognitive declaresatent.
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Speaker 5: Biden embraces his stutter talking about it, while Trump mocks it,
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Speaker 5: exaggerates it, belittles it. He's sharp physically, I mean mentally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the question is physically right right or
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Speaker 1: so right right?
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Speaker 5: And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three
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Speaker 5: or four years younger than him. Maybe, I mean, you
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Speaker 5: have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness ability to lead.
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Speaker 5: Of those supporting Biden, you said, quote, shame on all
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Speaker 5: of you pretending everything is Okay, you're leading us and
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Speaker 5: him into a disaster.
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Speaker 1: Do you worry that you damaged him at all? I
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Speaker 1: don't doubt that you.
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Speaker 5: Got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today, and maybe
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Speaker 5: 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 colleage.
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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 shows signs of slippant quote. The
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Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal is owned by Newscore, 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: him seeming a little slower now the Russians are trying
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Speaker 5: to do to make us in the public not trust
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Speaker 5: the 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.
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Speaker 4: Knew they were lying. Everyone knew this.
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Speaker 3: Look one of the facts in his book, he says
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Speaker 3: at a fundraiser in Judea twenty twenty four, Joe Biden
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Speaker 3: didn't recognize George Clooney, who he's known for decades. He
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Speaker 3: had told by the way he had to be introduced
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Speaker 3: like Ocean's eleven. What is there, casino?
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Speaker 4: You're robbing?
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Speaker 3: I don't understand, like Biden had no idea. This is
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Speaker 3: the same fundraiser you remember where Barack Obama had to
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Speaker 3: lead Biden off the stage because he was just confused
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Speaker 3: and staring out in space, and Tapper and the rest
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Speaker 3: of them just lied to us and said, Aoka, no
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Speaker 3: problems here.
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Speaker 1: You go back, Senator to what you just said a
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Speaker 1: moment ago.
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Speaker 2: And it's a great point here, and it's one about
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Speaker 2: the fact that they were at this fundraiser and.
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Speaker 1: The president didn't know, like George Cooney.
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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 to I think insulate protecting
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Speaker 2: from They all knew then, like this is a disaster,
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Speaker 2: and yet they still went full speed ahead with it.
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Speaker 3: No, that's exactly right. You know, The Babylon Bee 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: and listen this week when when finally the media confronts
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Speaker 3: him about his lies, Listen to what Chuck Schumer says.
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Speaker 2: You said in June of last year, in my meeting
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Speaker 2: for President Biden, I found the command and the president
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Speaker 2: guilded influence to make.
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Speaker 4: Fagress and key priorities.
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Speaker 3: But in that same mom violent here that he not
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Speaker 3: even recognized George in a fundraiser show.
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Speaker 1: We're just looking forward.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's the best answer I've ever heard from
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Speaker 2: a politician center.
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Speaker 4: We're just looking forward.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we gotta go. We're just looking forward. And I'm
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Speaker 2: 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 just looking for just moving.
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Speaker 3: We're just moving for guys, Schumer, not not the tiniest
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Speaker 3: bit of accountability, not the oh yeah, we're not just
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Speaker 3: we're moving forward.
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Speaker 1: To forward movement. 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 debate 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 couldn'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 and Harry Reid, who was
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Speaker 3: then the Democrat Senate majority leader, he said, well, Romney
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Speaker 3: didn't win, did he like, It's the same thing as
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Speaker 3: 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 Biden was severely
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Speaker 3: mentally declining. But listen to what Jake Sullivan said.
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Speaker 6: What happened in that debate was a shock to me.
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Speaker 6: I think was a shock to everybody. And I've made
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Speaker 6: that point before. Just finally, do you think in retrospect,
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Speaker 6: given everything that's happened and everything we've talked about today,
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Speaker 6: it was a mistake for President Biden to try some
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Speaker 6: fun again. One of the things about being national security
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Speaker 6: advisor is that you're mercifully insulated from politics and political
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Speaker 6: decision making. I was insulated from it to the point
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Speaker 6: where while I was National Security Advisor, my spouse was
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Speaker 6: running for Congress, and I had strict rules about what
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Speaker 6: I could even do to support my spouse, let alone
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Speaker 6: be involved in political decision making, political calls in the
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Speaker 6: White House. So I have not weighed in on those
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Speaker 6: issues and would not weigh in on those issues.
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Speaker 2: Let's just be clear. I've known national security advisors. That
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Speaker 2: is the biggest one of crap I've ever heard.
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Speaker 3: I'm just going to point out something really funny. There's
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Speaker 3: something about Democrat men that makes them weenies. So he says,
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Speaker 3: my spouse was running for congress, so he is actually
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Speaker 3: married to a woman. Yep, Ben, Can you imagine any
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Speaker 3: circumstances which I refer to your wife as my spouse?
12:17
Speaker 3: I mean, isn't like I don't know a man who
12:19
Speaker 3: 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.
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Speaker 3: The way like human beings would communicate, but but not
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Speaker 3: not Democrat after.
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Speaker 1: Yours would be my smoking hot wife who's running for congress.
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Speaker 4: Better And by the way, do I know you well
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Speaker 4: or do I know you will.
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Speaker 3: Any any chance to to praise praise your wife, not
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Speaker 3: your spouse. Yes, my smoking hot wife is exactly exactly
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Speaker 3: the way 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 2: like go to this minute mark in the pod.
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Speaker 1: Honey, you made the pod.
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Speaker 3: Actually look as you know the podcast, so that'll bell
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Speaker 3: she'll be listening.
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Speaker 1: This is a litmus test.
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Speaker 2: One day I said thing about my wife in my
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Speaker 2: 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 me?
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Speaker 7: 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 on a
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Speaker 2: very serious note here you look at the hypocrisy. But
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Speaker 2: the most disturbing thing for me coming out of this
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Speaker 2: book and how the axious reporting is that the cabinet
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Speaker 2: members worried about his capacity, specifically in a crisis. Now
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Speaker 2: there's been interesting reporting, and I 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 in 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 twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty three on quote the cabinet was kept at bay
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Speaker 3: 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 him 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 seemed disoriented and out of it, his
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Speaker 3: mouth agape. They knew they were worried. And you know what,
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Speaker 3: if our enemies attacked us, this was the commander in
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Speaker 3: chief that the Democrats and CNN and the lying corporate
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Speaker 3: media was telling us could protect us. And 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 2: By the way, are they going to put this on
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Speaker 2: her fiction or nonfiction? That's what I want to know
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Speaker 2: when you go to the store, right if you go
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Speaker 2: look for like.
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Speaker 3: Well sadly, I think they'll put it on 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 truth thing Jake Tapper has has written or
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Speaker 3: said in the last Hold on the Guy from Access.
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Speaker 3: It's actually true. It was someone else who wrote it
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Speaker 3: and his name name on it. Yeah, but but by
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Speaker 3: accident he told the truth, except for the fact that
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Speaker 3: he didn't admit that he's been lying to the country
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Speaker 3: the entire time Biden was in 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 mcneie was filling in form White House
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Speaker 2: pressingcretary and she was talking about then when when some
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Speaker 2: of this was starting to break and I and I said, look,
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Speaker 2: the headlines are amazing, but I said. The real question
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Speaker 2: that I think we should all be asking, and I
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Speaker 2: want your take on this, is if all this is true,
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Speaker 2: and I have no reason believe it's not, who the
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Speaker 2: hell was the president of the United States of America.
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Speaker 2: Who was running the country? Was it thirty people that
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Speaker 2: were elected by no one? I don't think it was
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Speaker 2: one person. I think there's a very good chance that
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Speaker 2: the FBI was the president of the FBI and the
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Speaker 2: DoD 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 ask 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 gonna give you the most terrifying answer you could imagine.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, Okay, I genuinely don't know. I think
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Speaker 3: it was Barack Obama. I think it was Barack Obama.
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Speaker 3: Barack Obama, certainly his minions, is the only president in
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Speaker 3: modern times who at the end of his presidency stayed
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Speaker 3: in DC, bought a big house in Calorama. Every night,
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Speaker 3: their cars in the driveway, and all of his little
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Speaker 3: apparachic minions are in the White House.
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Speaker 4: And 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 people to understand this. This is well reported, but
17:07
Speaker 2: this is really important right now for this story. It
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Speaker 2: was well reported on that Biden and his team were
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Speaker 2: the one that placed everyone in the positions of power
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Speaker 2: in the Biden I mean Obama, I Saix's Obama and
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Speaker 2: his team placed everyone basically in a position of powers
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Speaker 2: in the Biden administration.
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Speaker 3: So look, in four years of the Biden presidency, I'm
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Speaker 3: in the Senate the whole time. How many times do
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Speaker 3: you think I spoke with Joe Biden while he was president.
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Speaker 2: I would say one to three zero, And I was
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Speaker 2: saying one to three because I thought they were protecting him.
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Speaker 1: So you're saying, as a senator, and that's not normal.
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Speaker 1: People need to understand that.
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Speaker 4: Not a single time, and that is bizarre.
17:42
Speaker 1: How many times with Obama freeing?
17:44
Speaker 4: Lots of times.
17:45
Speaker 3: I mean I spoke with Obama regularly. With Trump, I
17:48
Speaker 3: speak with him often every week, sometimes multiple times a week.
17:54
Speaker 3: It is part of the job of being a senator
17:56
Speaker 3: to work with the president, to talk with the president,
17:58
Speaker 3: even the president of the opposing part.
18:01
Speaker 2: Were there ever big lads with Obama? For example, I'm
18:03
Speaker 2: trying to really paint a picture here of how insane
18:05
Speaker 2: it is. You didn't talk to him for four years.
18:07
Speaker 4: It's bizarre.
18:08
Speaker 3: And the thing to understand is we all know Joe Biden.
18:12
Speaker 3: He was in the Senate for four years. He was
18:15
Speaker 3: a man of the Senate. When I was first elected
18:17
Speaker 3: the Senate in twenty twelve, Joe Biden swore me in.
18:19
Speaker 3: In fact, I'll tell you, without the cognitive decline, and
18:22
Speaker 3: he was fine. Now when vice president thirteen years ago,
18:25
Speaker 3: he did not have cognitive cline. And in fact, it
18:27
Speaker 3: was funny. So my girls, you know, my daughters, they're
18:30
Speaker 3: fourteen and seventeen. When I was sworn in, they were
18:33
Speaker 3: two and four. They were little bitty and my two
18:36
Speaker 3: year old Catherine, Biden leaned over to pick her up
18:40
Speaker 3: and she screamed. She screamed really loudly, and Biden said,
18:43
Speaker 3: it's okay, it's okay. It's a Democrat, but it's okay.
18:47
Speaker 3: And that was actually quite funny.
18:48
Speaker 4: I laughed.
18:48
Speaker 3: And you don't how Time magazine does little quotes of
18:51
Speaker 3: like the quotes of the week. Yeah, that next week,
18:53
Speaker 3: the quote of the week was it's okay, it's okay,
18:56
Speaker 3: it's a Democrat, but it's okay. Vice President Joe Biden
18:59
Speaker 3: to Catherine Cruz age two, and I've said, you know,
19:03
Speaker 3: when Catherine is married, hopefully a long long time from now,
19:06
Speaker 3: I intend to read that quote at her wedding and say,
19:10
Speaker 3: even at age two, Catherine knew if a Democrat tries
19:13
Speaker 3: to pick you up.
19:14
Speaker 4: Scream loudly.
19:17
Speaker 1: I like that one. So where do we go from
19:19
Speaker 1: And by the way, when.
19:20
Speaker 3: I say I didn't speak with him for four years,
19:23
Speaker 3: that was true of virtually every Republican senator.
19:26
Speaker 1: So we would say that Democrat senators are talking to him.
19:28
Speaker 1: They middle more.
19:29
Speaker 4: The Democrats talked to him early.
19:31
Speaker 3: On because they were isolating him from what the book
19:33
Speaker 3: saying from like everyone, so they talked to him a
19:36
Speaker 3: little more. When when the Senates and session, Republican senators
19:40
Speaker 3: have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, so we
19:42
Speaker 3: talk at lunch. It's they're working lunches, they're very productive.
19:45
Speaker 3: We would sit at lunch and talk about how weird
19:47
Speaker 3: it was that that none of us had spoken to Biden,
19:50
Speaker 3: had been to the White House to see him, and
19:52
Speaker 3: we all knew him. They were clearly hiding him. I
19:55
Speaker 3: actually remember one of my colleagues. John Kennedy a good
19:58
Speaker 3: friend Senator from Louisiana. He was one of the few
20:00
Speaker 3: who had seen Biden one time, and he actually told
20:03
Speaker 3: us all the story. We're sitting at the table and
20:04
Speaker 3: he said, look, he had passed a bill. He said,
20:07
Speaker 3: it was a fairly minor bill, but it was a
20:08
Speaker 3: bipartisan bill that had passed, and Biden did a bill siding,
20:12
Speaker 3: and so they brought him under. They brought him over
20:15
Speaker 3: because they wanted to say, look how bipartisan were So
20:18
Speaker 3: so Kennedy was in the oval and Biden was there,
20:20
Speaker 3: and Kennedy started striking up a conversation with Biden, and
20:24
Speaker 3: John knew him like we all did. And and Biden asked, so, John,
20:29
Speaker 3: you ever seen the cabinet room? And John Kennedy being
20:32
Speaker 3: John Kennedy, he said I lied and said no, and
20:35
Speaker 3: he said, come on, let's go.
20:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he care where that was going? You say,
20:38
Speaker 1: now to that question, yeah.
20:39
Speaker 3: And so he takes him in there and he said.
20:41
Speaker 3: Biden begins telling stories from like forty or fifty years ago,
20:46
Speaker 3: and Kennedy said, the White House staff comes in freaking out.
20:50
Speaker 3: Miss President got to go, you gotta go, And Biden
20:52
Speaker 3: yells at him, shut up, I'm telling stories, and he said,
20:55
Speaker 3: he went on for like thirty forty minutes, and it
20:57
Speaker 3: was like listening to your grandfather who tell these same
21:00
Speaker 3: stories and ever the same stories like fifty years ago.
21:03
Speaker 3: They can remember, but but don't ask them what's happening today.
21:06
Speaker 3: And and that was and he was literally at my
21:09
Speaker 3: lunch table. I remember he was the only one of
21:11
Speaker 3: us who had seen Biden since he's been president, and
21:13
Speaker 3: and that was his one experience with him.
21:15
Speaker 2: Will there be anything now that the mees accept this
21:18
Speaker 2: as fact? They're reporting on this fact. Cabinet members were
21:22
Speaker 2: worried about his capacity in a crisis. That's what they've said.
21:26
Speaker 1: Is there going to be any oversight slash investigation? Should
21:31
Speaker 1: there be? From Congress?
21:32
Speaker 2: And I know that's a weird question because there's somebody like, look,
21:34
Speaker 2: we want let's move on, But like I do, actually,
21:37
Speaker 2: as an American citizen, want to know who was running
21:39
Speaker 2: the United States of America that was elected by no one.
21:44
Speaker 1: I want to know who was calling the shots it
21:46
Speaker 1: was elected by no one.
21:47
Speaker 2: Because whether I win or lose an election, my vote
21:50
Speaker 2: should not be canceled out by by some sort of
21:52
Speaker 2: dictator or tyrant within an administration that no one knows
21:55
Speaker 2: who's running a government.
21:56
Speaker 3: And by the way, there's a related question to that
21:58
Speaker 3: Ben which as we see the stories that apparently a
22:01
Speaker 3: substantial number of official things that Biden signed were signed
22:04
Speaker 3: by the autopen.
22:05
Speaker 1: So was he even making the decision to sign them, right?
22:08
Speaker 3: And he didn't even seem to know like some of
22:10
Speaker 3: the pardons. And I actually think you'll have this litigated.
22:13
Speaker 3: I don't not aware of any court that's ever decided
22:16
Speaker 3: is is a pardon? Does a pardon have to actually
22:19
Speaker 3: be signed by the president. So, look, every elected official
22:22
Speaker 3: has an autopen. I have an autopen, and so for
22:24
Speaker 3: things like constituent correspondence, if you write into your senator,
22:28
Speaker 3: you'll get a response back, and we try to respond
22:30
Speaker 3: substantively in the autop pen will sign it. And I
22:32
Speaker 3: get millions of those letters, so I couldn't physically sign
22:35
Speaker 3: them all.
22:35
Speaker 2: All I'm thinking about right now is how where that
22:37
Speaker 2: autopen isn't how much fun I could happen keep going.
22:39
Speaker 3: But look, it's fine for if something like correspondence a
22:43
Speaker 3: birthday wish, But the question is for something that has
22:47
Speaker 3: legal force of law. And I actually want to know
22:49
Speaker 3: did they use the autopen to sign any legislation, because
22:52
Speaker 3: it's not clear to me legislation that the president didn't
22:55
Speaker 3: sign has legal force. The autopen is not the commander
22:58
Speaker 3: in chief and the chief judges.
23:00
Speaker 2: For example, if he didn't autopeny, which means I'm truly
23:04
Speaker 2: convinced that he didn't know what was going on, he
23:07
Speaker 2: didn't know who's appointing.
23:08
Speaker 1: He probably didn't know who's pardoning.
23:10
Speaker 3: And if that happening, the parties are where it'll be litigated, okay,
23:13
Speaker 3: and that will Why is that so different, because look,
23:17
Speaker 3: it's it's interesting, like a pardon under the Constitution, all
23:20
Speaker 3: you have to have is a document from the president
23:23
Speaker 3: that said, you know, I I pardoned Ben Ferguson and
23:27
Speaker 3: and and suddenly actually only if it's a federal offense,
23:29
Speaker 3: so he can't.
23:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, the abuse I take, the abuse I take.
23:34
Speaker 3: But it literally there's no pomp and circumstance. It doesn't
23:38
Speaker 3: have to have gold leaf on the paper, it doesn't
23:41
Speaker 3: have to be an official it's just a piece of
23:43
Speaker 3: paper with a signature with those words and his signature,
23:46
Speaker 3: that is legally a pardon. But if you don't actually
23:49
Speaker 3: have a signature. Listen, I've been in the oval dozens
23:53
Speaker 3: of times, probably more when when President Trump is signing
23:56
Speaker 3: things and pulls out he actually so have you seen
23:59
Speaker 3: the pen? Okay, yeah, I've got I've got one of
24:02
Speaker 3: the big sharpies, like most presidents use like a sharpie
24:07
Speaker 3: to have a signing pen. But President Trump's it's a
24:10
Speaker 3: marker that's probably what ten inches long.
24:13
Speaker 1: And maybe golds like golden signature and like an inch.
24:16
Speaker 4: In diameter like it's it is massive.
24:19
Speaker 3: But he signs one after the other, after the other
24:21
Speaker 3: after the other, because that's what gives it legal force
24:24
Speaker 3: of law. If you have a president that's mentally incompetent
24:28
Speaker 3: and you have staffers running thing, it makes you wonder
24:32
Speaker 3: doctor Fauci's pardon is it?
24:35
Speaker 1: I don't know? Yeah, And if it's the auto pen,
24:38
Speaker 1: which I'm sure they can figure that.
24:39
Speaker 3: Out, it will be It's an interesting question, you know.
24:43
Speaker 3: I'll say a few more of these quotes from from
24:45
Speaker 3: the cabinet members. The cabinet members in this book, uh
24:51
Speaker 3: described said one said quote the staff did him wrong.
24:55
Speaker 3: If you were with him every day and you knew
24:57
Speaker 3: this was going to be a problem, why didn't you
24:59
Speaker 3: go to him and say another said quote, access dropped
25:02
Speaker 3: off considerably in twenty twenty four, and I didn't interact
25:05
Speaker 3: with him as much. A third said quote, Yes, the
25:09
Speaker 3: president is making the decisions, but if the inner circle
25:12
Speaker 3: is shaping them in such a way, is it really
25:15
Speaker 3: a decision? And here was another cabinet secretary. I don't
25:18
Speaker 3: think he has dementia, but the thing is he's an
25:20
Speaker 3: old man. The president can give you four to six
25:22
Speaker 3: good hours a day when he got tired, sloppy isn't
25:25
Speaker 3: the right word, but his guard was down. That would
25:28
Speaker 3: be the commander in chief of the United States.
25:30
Speaker 2: I want to go back to the last quote, Sata,
25:31
Speaker 2: that you just said about the people around the president.
25:36
Speaker 2: Now that it's over, now that everybody knows the cognit decline,
25:39
Speaker 2: now that the books are being written, they're telling you
25:42
Speaker 2: they may have only gotten four hours a day out
25:44
Speaker 2: of the president units Asperagra. That is maybe one of
25:47
Speaker 2: the most shocking statements I've ever heard about any president.
25:50
Speaker 3: Yet, look, it's he was not mentally capable to do
25:54
Speaker 3: the job. They knew it, and they lied about it.
25:56
Speaker 3: And by the way, Jake Tapper's whole premise that gosh,
25:59
Speaker 3: little old mea was deceived. They just didn't tell me
26:02
Speaker 3: the truth.
26:02
Speaker 4: I just didn't know. Well, Jake, if you listened to.
26:06
Speaker 3: Verdict, we were telling you the facts, and we were
26:09
Speaker 3: telling you the facts early on par I want you
26:11
Speaker 3: to go back to January of twenty twenty four. I
26:13
Speaker 3: want you to listen to a segment of Benemy in
26:15
Speaker 3: the podcast back in January of twenty four talking about
26:19
Speaker 3: Biden's deterioration.
26:21
Speaker 4: Give a listen.
26:22
Speaker 3: You and I and kind of anyone with eyes and
26:25
Speaker 3: common sense have been observing for a long time that
26:29
Speaker 3: Joe Biden's cognitive decline is massive.
26:32
Speaker 4: But it's easy for.
26:35
Speaker 3: Some observers to dismiss that and say, you know, these
26:38
Speaker 3: guys are biased, they're partisans, they don't like Biden, so
26:41
Speaker 3: what they're saying is not true. In this instance, the
26:47
Speaker 3: people speaking are the Biden Department of Justice and not
26:51
Speaker 3: any department of justice. This is an apartment of Justice
26:54
Speaker 3: that has proven itself the most politicized and partisan department
26:58
Speaker 3: of justice in history, and they have argued. So, for example,
27:03
Speaker 3: I'm going to read you a paragraph from the report.
27:06
Speaker 3: In his interview with our office, mister Biden's memory was worse.
27:12
Speaker 3: He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting
27:17
Speaker 3: on the first day of the interview when his term
27:19
Speaker 3: ended quote if it was twenty thirteen, when did I
27:23
Speaker 3: stop being vice president? And forgetting on the second day
27:27
Speaker 3: of the interview when his term began quote in two
27:31
Speaker 3: thousand and nine, am I still vice president? He did
27:36
Speaker 3: not remember even within several years when his son Bo died,
27:43
Speaker 3: and his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate
27:48
Speaker 3: that was once so important to him, among other things,
27:53
Speaker 3: he mistakenly said he quote had a real difference of
27:57
Speaker 3: opinion with General or Aitkenberry, when in fact Aitkinberry was
28:04
Speaker 3: an ally whom mister Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving
28:09
Speaker 3: memo to President Obama. All of that was authored by
28:14
Speaker 3: the Biden Department of Justice. And when they are describing
28:18
Speaker 3: the sitting president as a well meaning elderly man with
28:22
Speaker 3: a poor memory, the natural question for anyone to say is,
28:27
Speaker 3: holy crap. If he's not competent to stand trial, why
28:31
Speaker 3: is he the commander in chief with the authority to
28:33
Speaker 3: send our sons and daughters into harm's way? Why does
28:38
Speaker 3: he have access to the nuclear codes? Understand the description here?
28:42
Speaker 3: They say, you couldn't charge him with a crime because
28:44
Speaker 3: he's not aware of enough to have the requisite mental intent.
28:49
Speaker 3: And yet Joe Biden tonight, if he's so desired, could
28:53
Speaker 3: literally exterminate humanity from the face of the planet. As
28:57
Speaker 3: commander in chief, if he gave the order launch the
29:01
Speaker 3: nuclear weapons. Now, unless the military refused to obey the
29:08
Speaker 3: commander in chief, Joe Biden could exterminate every life on
29:11
Speaker 3: this planet. And if he's not mentally competent to stand trial,
29:16
Speaker 3: that is terrifying. So that was a year and a
29:19
Speaker 3: half ago, a year and a half ago on this podcast.
29:21
Speaker 3: And understand the entire basis at Tapper's book is he
29:25
Speaker 3: couldn't possibly know about known about this mental decline. The
29:28
Speaker 3: Department of Justice in this would be the Biden Department
29:30
Speaker 3: of Justice went into court. So the Robert Herr Report,
29:34
Speaker 3: Remember they did not prosecute Biden.
29:36
Speaker 1: And where was that? I wonder do you remember the
29:38
Speaker 1: timeframe on that.
29:39
Speaker 3: That was early twenty four. Yeah, we covered it a lot.
29:42
Speaker 1: And that with them interviewing him in twenty three.
29:45
Speaker 2: So in twenty three when they were interviewing Joe Biden,
29:49
Speaker 2: they then in twenty four told America he's so bad off.
29:53
Speaker 1: We can't even charge him with anything.
29:55
Speaker 3: So they concluded if they charged him, he would be
29:58
Speaker 3: found not competent to the convicted. That is a stunning. Look,
30:02
Speaker 3: there's a standard. There are people that are not competent
30:04
Speaker 3: to be tried. If you have dementia, if you're like
30:07
Speaker 3: mentally ill, that you're not able that The legal standard
30:10
Speaker 3: is you have to form what's called mensraa, which is intent.
30:13
Speaker 3: And they said, well, he's so old and senile, we
30:16
Speaker 3: can't charge him. So that's why they said, oh, yeah,
30:18
Speaker 3: he clearly violated the law. He committed a felony. Remember
30:21
Speaker 3: he kept classified materials everywhere, including his garage next to
30:24
Speaker 3: his antique car.
30:26
Speaker 1: Now to joke, that's real.
30:28
Speaker 3: And they said he was guilty of that, but they
30:31
Speaker 3: couldn't charge him because he was incompetent to stan trial.
30:33
Speaker 3: I want you to listen in twenty twenty three to
30:37
Speaker 3: me laying out his mental decline and MSNBC Morning Joe
30:41
Speaker 3: making fun of me for it.
30:42
Speaker 1: This was like one of their big intros. May fourth,
30:45
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
30:47
Speaker 3: Twenty eleven, when Republicans in the House stood strong on
30:53
Speaker 3: the death ceiling again because Democrats had had majority of
30:56
Speaker 3: the Congress for two years had passed trillions in irresponsible spend,
31:00
Speaker 3: and Republicans stood strong and said, we will not raise
31:03
Speaker 3: the debt ceiling without serious fiscal reform.
31:06
Speaker 4: What happened.
31:08
Speaker 3: Then Vice President Joe Biden came and negotiated a deal,
31:12
Speaker 3: a deal called the Budget Control Act. Vice President Biden
31:16
Speaker 3: sat down with House Republicans and reached a meaningful compromise.
31:21
Speaker 3: President Joe Biden needs to do the same thing, and
31:24
Speaker 3: I'll say sadly the reason he hasn't so far, I
31:29
Speaker 3: believe is because his mental faculties are too diminished.
31:34
Speaker 4: Right now, you know, hold on, hold on.
31:39
Speaker 8: He has such a point. His mental faculties are so
31:43
Speaker 8: diminished that he passed more bipartisan signed more bipartisan legislation.
31:50
Speaker 1: He was doing it last year.
31:54
Speaker 8: Any president since LBJ My god, if he were as
31:58
Speaker 8: coaching as he had been than twenty eleven.
32:01
Speaker 1: But he could have been like you could have gone
32:04
Speaker 1: back to FDR.
32:05
Speaker 7: What else he did without without apparently realizing what he
32:09
Speaker 7: was doing. He like held NATO together to fight Russian
32:13
Speaker 7: aggression in Ukraine, and and.
32:17
Speaker 8: My god, I know he only increased eight hundred mile
32:20
Speaker 8: border in NATO.
32:22
Speaker 4: With Russia exactly.
32:24
Speaker 1: But I guess he you know, he thought he was happen.
32:27
Speaker 8: You know, it reminds me of Ronald Reagan when he
32:29
Speaker 8: was speaking at Harvard, a Eurekan College grad and he's
32:33
Speaker 8: sitting there talking to the grads and he's making fun
32:35
Speaker 8: of his education. At the end, he goes, you know,
32:37
Speaker 8: sometimes I just sit here with a presidential seal in
32:41
Speaker 8: front of him, and I wonder what I could have
32:43
Speaker 8: been with a good.
32:48
Speaker 1: Go back and read.
32:51
Speaker 2: David, go back and read Reagan. He says, by golly,
32:54
Speaker 2: I mean, I love this. And by the way, we
32:56
Speaker 2: do know who was doing it now. It was either
32:57
Speaker 2: an auto pin or a bunch of old staffers.
33:00
Speaker 3: So I'm curious that I may have missed this. But
33:03
Speaker 3: as Joe Scarborough apologized for lying to America, no.
33:07
Speaker 1: It's probably writing a book about the decline of Joe Biden.
33:09
Speaker 3: How they apologized, as MSNBC, as NBC, if any of
33:13
Speaker 3: them apologized, they knew he was mentally diminished, and they
33:17
Speaker 3: covered it up because they were partisans, and they have
33:19
Speaker 3: supported his agenda to heck with whether we had a
33:22
Speaker 3: competent commander in chief or not.
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