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Democrats Go ALL IN to Force BIDEN from Office & Now Harris Looks to Take Over! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I hope you had a fabulous Fourth of July with
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Speaker 1: you and your family celebrating America's birthday. And the White House,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much celebrating they were doing because
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Speaker 1: they've got some serious problems. Now they have now been
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Speaker 1: busted lying to you about the president's medical attention. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he did see a doctor after the debate. That is
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Speaker 1: what we've been told after the White House lie. How
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Speaker 1: do we know this because Biden told the governors who
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Speaker 1: came and met with him that, in fact, he did
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Speaker 1: receive a medical check up. This now coming from Politico.
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Speaker 1: Biden tells governors this is their actual headline. He got
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Speaker 1: a medical a checkup. Two governors also expressed concerns over
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Speaker 1: whether the president could still carry their blue leaning state.
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Speaker 2: So this is all about saving themselves.
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Speaker 1: President Joe Biden on Wednesday evening told more than twenty
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Speaker 1: Democratic governors in a private meeting that he underwent a
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Speaker 1: medical checkup after last week's debate and it's fine that,
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Speaker 1: According to three people with knowledge of the discussion, During
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Speaker 1: an hour long meeting prompted by intensifying concerns about his
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Speaker 1: health and political viability, one governor asked Biden by his
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Speaker 1: physical condition. The President mentioned having had a check up
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Speaker 1: in recent days and serted that he remains in good health,
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Speaker 1: knocking on wood for effect. According to two people that
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Speaker 1: were there, yes, so that happened now. That statement, in
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Speaker 1: a hastily arranged White House meeting that saw nearly a
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Speaker 1: dozen governors travel to DC while others participated virtually, came
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Speaker 1: just hours after the White House Press Secretary Jean Pierre
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Speaker 1: sidestep direct questions from reporters who asked if he had
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Speaker 1: been examined since the debate, saying this, the President has
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Speaker 1: regular annual physicals, and we released it through a report,
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Speaker 1: a thorough report. We're going to continue to do that. Again,
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Speaker 1: that's not the question that was asked. Biden's remarks, according
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Speaker 1: to a person familiar with the president's schedule, was in
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Speaker 1: reference to a short check up by a White House
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Speaker 1: physician days following the debate due to quote, lingering symptoms
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Speaker 1: from his cold. The exam, that person at it was
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Speaker 1: brief and did not include any major tests. Now, Democrats
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Speaker 1: are coming forward now and they are saying it is
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Speaker 1: time for him to step down.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: They're saying this Democratic representative Huffman said, quote we should
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Speaker 1: announce our presidential ticket after the Republican convention so we
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Speaker 1: know what we're running against, implying that Joe Biden is
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Speaker 1: absolutely not going to be their pick. CNN also says
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Speaker 1: this that Biden told Democratic governors he needs more sleep
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Speaker 1: and to stop scheduling events after eight o'clock at night.
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Speaker 1: So again the President being a complainer in chief when
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Speaker 1: meeting with the governors.
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Speaker 3: We have new details coming in this afternoon on President
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Speaker 3: Biden's ongoing fight for his political future. Sources tell CNN
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Speaker 3: and the President told Democratic governors during yesterday's White House
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Speaker 3: meeting that he needs more sleep and he plans to
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Speaker 3: stop scheduling events after eight pm. That meeting was an
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Speaker 3: attempt to reassure Democratic leaders that he could win reelection
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Speaker 3: and serve out another term. His campaign faces a critical
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Speaker 3: test in the next forty eight hours Tomorrow, President Biden
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Speaker 3: is that hit the campaign tr and then we'll see
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Speaker 3: him in his first televised interview since the debate today.
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Speaker 1: Now, this first interview that he's going to do has
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Speaker 1: now been changed to a prime time event with George
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Speaker 1: Stepanopolis at eight o'clock Eastern on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: It is not going to be live. What does that mean.
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Speaker 1: It means that they can protect the president with editing. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the money drawing up for the president
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Speaker 1: as well. Donald Trump's campaign raised three hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: one million in this year's second quarter, and it smashes
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Speaker 1: what Biden has brought in and the money apparently is
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Speaker 1: completely drying up. Barbara Boxer slamming Democrats by the way,
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Speaker 1: calling for Biden to stepped down. They're on TV for
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Speaker 1: their five minutes of fame as it's clear that a
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Speaker 1: civil war has broken out within the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 4: Art Senator, you said, give Biden two weeks to fix
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Speaker 4: his ailing campaign. It has now been a full week
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Speaker 4: since the debate. We haven't even seen a TV interview
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Speaker 4: or press conference yet. That's not going to come until
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Speaker 4: tomorrow and next week, respectively. Is he moving too slow
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Speaker 4: on his reset?
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Speaker 5: No, I meant two weeks from now. The article you're
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Speaker 5: quoting was run today two weeks. I agree with Debbie Dingle.
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Speaker 5: I disagree with these members who are coming on TV
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Speaker 5: for their five minutes of fame and pushing out a
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Speaker 5: man who has been one of the greatest presidents since
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Speaker 5: FDR and by the way I say, because there are
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Speaker 5: two schools of thought. My school of thought is show
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Speaker 5: us the comeback. You've done it your whole life, mister president.
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Speaker 5: You've come back from personal losses, you've come from political losses.
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Speaker 5: And here's the thing about these members and folks who
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Speaker 5: are coming on your station and a lot of your
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Speaker 5: experts pushing this man out right now before he has
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Speaker 5: a chance.
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Speaker 6: Is this.
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Speaker 5: We know that Donald Trump is the truth thread here.
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Speaker 6: We know because he.
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Speaker 5: Talked thirty lies in ninety minutes. That's what he put
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Speaker 5: out there, thirty lies. He refused to accept the results
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Speaker 5: of the election. He's already going after Liz Cheney and
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Speaker 5: saying she's guilty of treason, which, by the way, the
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Speaker 5: penalty for that is murder.
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Speaker 6: It goes on and on.
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Speaker 5: He also said at the debate that Democrats would kill
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Speaker 5: babies after they're born. And everybody's focused on, you know,
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Speaker 5: Joe Biden. And last point, how many times did we
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Speaker 5: some Trump fall asleep at his own criminal trial where
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Speaker 5: he was found guilty of four counts and also liable
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Speaker 5: for sexual assault in another courtroom against Egen Carroll. So
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Speaker 5: please spare me. You're five minutes of fame. Give this
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Speaker 5: man a chance to pick himself up. He's done it
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Speaker 5: so many times.
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Speaker 6: Joe Woodie.
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Speaker 1: Now, I love this, by the way, because that's Barbara Boxer, right,
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Speaker 1: She's dug in for him. She's one of the old guards.
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Speaker 1: She's the one that's saying this. But Debbie Dingle said,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to play this for you a little
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Speaker 1: bit later with my conversation I'm going to have with
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Speaker 1: Center Cruz about this. She said, Biden is a is
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Speaker 1: in a bubble wrap interview with Stepanopholis, and one interview
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Speaker 1: quote won't fix this. David Jolly said, the one person
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Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want to run against this Gavin Newsom. As
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Speaker 1: they're already moving on to who's going to replace him.
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Speaker 1: Over at MSNBC. They're acting like Joe Biden is gone.
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Speaker 7: On the other side of this equation, of course, is
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Speaker 7: the Trump campaign.
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Speaker 8: What scenarios do you think that they are preparing for
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Speaker 8: right now?
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Speaker 9: I look, they hope Joe Biden stays in because they
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Speaker 9: see him as weak, and then they want to run
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Speaker 9: against Kamala Harrer. But I think that they should be
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Speaker 9: very careful here because I do think there's an opportunity
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Speaker 9: for Joe Biden and the Democrats to have a very
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Speaker 9: unifying week. First of all, it's inevitable something has to break,
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Speaker 9: the fever has to break.
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Speaker 2: So either Joe.
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Speaker 9: Biden coalesces all the Democrats this week and says we're
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Speaker 9: going forward as a unified Democratic party and you are
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Speaker 9: sticking with me, or he makes another decision but also
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Speaker 9: creates a very unifying moment for national Democrats and frankly
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Speaker 9: for the nation as well, about a new chapter of
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Speaker 9: democratic leadership. Hollywood could write this script ally for the
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Speaker 9: next week, but look, who do they want to run
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Speaker 9: against it?
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Speaker 2: Look?
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Speaker 9: I would also say Joe Biden one tool he hasn't used,
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Speaker 9: the greatest tool he has is an address to the nation,
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Speaker 9: because this is not just a political question. We talk
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Speaker 9: about it as a political question for November, but this
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Speaker 9: is a question for right now. And if Joe Biden
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Speaker 9: can reassure the nation it begins to answer the questions
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Speaker 9: about November, they could decide whether or not to do that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they are all over the place now.
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Speaker 1: I believe that there's one other aspect of this that
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Speaker 1: must be brought up, and that's this. I believe we're
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Speaker 1: witnessing right now, one of the biggest political cover ups
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Speaker 1: in history of this country. That all these people around
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Speaker 1: the president have been covering for an incapacitated president of
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Speaker 1: the United States of America. This is, by the way,
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Speaker 1: why we have the twenty fifth Amendment. This is why
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Speaker 1: you have a cabinet. Okay, And I'm sorry. It's a
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Speaker 1: moment in history that I think we're going to look
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Speaker 1: back on and we're going to realize that that everyone
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Speaker 1: around the president was covering for him, was lying for him,
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Speaker 1: was protecting him, and insulating him and bubble wrapping him.
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Speaker 1: Is that, one Democrat said a moment ago, and so
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Speaker 1: I look at this. This is a moment that the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party created. Now, even NBC's Allen said this on
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Speaker 1: TV about the moment we're in now.
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Speaker 10: Listen, Jonathan starting with you on this. Now that we're
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Speaker 10: seeing he's getting back on the road, he is going
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Speaker 10: to be in Wisconsin, business as usual. Certainly this week
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Speaker 10: has not been business as usual.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this has been the worst week in a presidential
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Speaker 11: campaign that I can remember in my lifetime. Not only
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Speaker 11: did he have the debate to bacle, but the effort
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Speaker 11: to clean it up has been miserable. At best you
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Speaker 11: hear the arguments for why he didn't do well at
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Speaker 11: the debate, that he had a cold, that he was
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Speaker 11: traveling in Europe, he'd been back in the United States
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Speaker 11: for twelve days. I don't think any American thinks that
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Speaker 11: they want a president that is home from twelve for
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Speaker 11: twelve days from foreign trip and still not quite himself
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Speaker 11: from the jet lag. So the White House messaging has
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Speaker 11: been difficult. In the deed yesterday, as you pointed out,
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Speaker 11: at one moment, Korean John Pierre said he hadn't been
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Speaker 11: checked out for it by a doctor, than Biden said
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Speaker 11: he had been checked out by a doctor. One of
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Speaker 11: those things is true, one of them is not. Right now,
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Speaker 11: his White House has a credibility problem. He has a
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Speaker 11: credibility problem, and I need to make sure that whatever
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Speaker 11: they're saying is actually true and transparent. He is going
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Speaker 11: to try over the course of the next several days
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Speaker 11: to show a different version of himself than people have
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Speaker 11: been seeing over the last week, but he is in
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Speaker 11: making a mistake. This is a crisis moment for the
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Speaker 11: president and his party.
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Speaker 1: They are ready to be done with him, They're ready
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Speaker 1: to move on to Kamala. I think she's probably the
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Speaker 1: front runner right now, even though the polls say she
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Speaker 1: could still be beat. The only person the polling that
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Speaker 1: shows they would take a lead against Donald Trump would
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Speaker 1: be a name that I've said here several times, Michelle Obama.
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Speaker 1: I want to get into my conversation about what is
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Speaker 1: next when it comes to Biden campaign and what Democrats
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Speaker 1: are doing. And we're going to break all this down
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Speaker 1: with Senator Ted Cruz. We were doing our podcast Verdict.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen. I mentioned a moment ago that this
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Speaker 1: White House is floundering on a level I didn't even
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Speaker 1: know was imaginable in their re responds to this debate.
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Speaker 1: And every time you think they can't get any worse,
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Speaker 1: they then do something that is even more incompetent. And
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Speaker 1: the response I want to play for you center this.
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Speaker 1: This is the White House Press secretary floating the idea
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Speaker 1: that the reason why Joe Biden had a bad night
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Speaker 1: the other night is that he was suffering from jet
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Speaker 1: lag almost two weeks, fourteen days after traveling. Here is
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Speaker 1: the White House Press secretary trying to sell this to
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Speaker 1: the American people.
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Speaker 12: Okay, thank you.
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Speaker 13: There's no question that international travel can be rigorous. I
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Speaker 13: think the confusion is that he's still suffering from the
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Speaker 13: effects of that nearly two weeks later. So can you
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Speaker 13: articulate a little bit about like, do you guys usually
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Speaker 13: have accommodations for him after he does a trip that
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Speaker 13: he's going to have jet lag for that long a
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Speaker 13: period of time.
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Speaker 6: So can you can you when you say two weeks later,
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Speaker 6: what do you mean the debate?
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Speaker 13: He arrives back in the United States twelve or thirteen
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Speaker 13: days before the debate, So his explanation for a quar
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Speaker 13: debate for form jetlag.
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Speaker 12: So what I want to say is it's the jet lag.
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Speaker 6: And also the cold.
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Speaker 12: Right. It is the two things, and that occurred, and
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Speaker 12: you all heard it in his voice when he did
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Speaker 12: the debate, right, And it is not even something that
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Speaker 12: we shared ahead of time.
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Speaker 6: You heard it in his voice and we confirmed it.
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Speaker 12: And I think that's important to note as well, like
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Speaker 12: it is the jet lag and the cold. But I
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Speaker 12: want to be really I want to be really clear here.
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Speaker 12: This is not an excuse, right, this is not an excuse.
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Speaker 12: You all asked for an explanation, and we get we're
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Speaker 12: giving it an explanation.
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Speaker 6: It is not an excuse.
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Speaker 12: I don't want that to be the leading piece of
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Speaker 12: this asked for the only reason we're sharing this because
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Speaker 12: it was asked of me here and the President certainly
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Speaker 12: wanted to give an explanation himself, and that's what he
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Speaker 12: did yesterday. We want to We understand that it wasn't
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Speaker 12: his best night.
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Speaker 6: It wasn't a great debate.
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Speaker 12: We understand that, and we understand what supporters saw, what
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Speaker 12: the American people saw, and what you all saw, and
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Speaker 12: so we wanted to give an explanation. So I don't
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Speaker 12: want to get into this or are you giving this
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Speaker 12: excuse that excuse, We're giving.
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Speaker 6: You what our explanation was.
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Speaker 12: We want to continue to make sure that we do
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Speaker 12: everything that we can to deliver for the American people.
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Speaker 6: That's what we're going to continue to.
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Speaker 14: Also want it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Senator, you hear this. It's no excuse.
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Speaker 1: We're just you ask So we're just telling you, fourteen
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Speaker 1: days after international travel, the president was suffering from jetwag.
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Speaker 2: So there's the story.
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Speaker 12: You know.
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Speaker 15: I got to say every time I hear Kaarin John Pierre,
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Speaker 15: I think she is the opposite of William Jefferson Clinton.
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Speaker 15: William Jefferson Clinton, you'll recall was referred to as an
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Speaker 15: unusually good liar, that he could lie and it was believable,
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Speaker 15: and he'd bite his lip and he'd you know, pointed,
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Speaker 15: push his thumb together, and you just you believed he
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Speaker 15: felt your pain. He could lie better than anyone. I
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Speaker 15: think Karee John Pierre is an unusually bad liar. Like
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Speaker 15: when she does it, it's laughably false. One of the
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Speaker 15: things if you're going to be in a job as
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Speaker 15: a media hack and trying to spin people, typically you
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Speaker 15: learn not to tell just brazen lies that are absurd.
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Speaker 15: When Kareem John Pierre stood in the White House press
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Speaker 15: briefing room and said, you know, people are not just
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Speaker 15: coming across the border. It's not happening. They're not walking
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Speaker 15: across the border. It doesn't happen. That was such a
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Speaker 15: wild lie. Literally every reporter could pull up on their
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Speaker 15: phone videos of it happening while she was talking. That's
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Speaker 15: a bad lie here. This jetlag thing is a really
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Speaker 15: bad lie. Like anyone who's actually flown internationally. Look, jetlag
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Speaker 15: is a si thing. It's a reasonable thing. You feel
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Speaker 15: it a day maybe two when you fly from one
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Speaker 15: place to the other. You know, he was in Europe.
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Speaker 15: He was there for Normandy. I was there for Normandy.
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Speaker 15: I got to say the idea that I'd be complaining
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Speaker 15: now you know, I've still got jetlag because several weeks
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Speaker 15: ago I was in Europe. That's just obviously stupid. And
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Speaker 15: they don't want the explanation to be the explanation that
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Speaker 15: every person with eyeballs and common sense saw, which is
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Speaker 15: this is an old man who's suffering from dementia. That's
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Speaker 15: the answer. And so well, you know he wasn't a
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Speaker 15: plane a few weeks earlier. Let's call it jetlag. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 15: maybe people out there are dumb enough to believe that.
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Speaker 1: Well, and they went on TV like a full court
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Speaker 1: press to try to sell this at the White House.
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Speaker 1: This was another one of their interviews outside of Jean Pierre,
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Speaker 1: where they're like, all right, guys, everybody got on TV
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Speaker 1: and sell that the President is jet lagged.
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Speaker 7: Apparently, the President apologized to everyone in the room saying,
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Speaker 7: this is not an excuse, but it is an explanation,
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Speaker 7: and he blamed the extensive foreign travel that he did
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Speaker 7: and the lead up to the CNN debate for his
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Speaker 7: poor performance. Just a reminder for everyone, he did go
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Speaker 7: to France for the D Day anniversary, and then he
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Speaker 7: turned right back around and went to Italy for the
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Speaker 7: G seven summit, and he told the room, I didn't
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Speaker 7: listen to my staff, so the suggestion there being his
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Speaker 7: staff did not think this was a good idea. And
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Speaker 7: then he apparently said, I almost fell asleep on stage.
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Speaker 7: I just want to unpack this new explanation for a second,
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Speaker 7: as the explanation for why his debate performance was so bad.
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Speaker 7: I find it a little bit puzzling, and frankly, I'm
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Speaker 7: not sure that a lot of people are going to
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Speaker 7: find this reassuring. If anything, some folks might hear this
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Speaker 7: and be even more concerned. Yes, there were two foreign
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Speaker 7: trips in the lead up to the June twenty seventh
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Speaker 7: CNN debate, but he returned from Italy on June fifteenth.
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Speaker 7: The debate again was on June twenty seven, so we're
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Speaker 7: talking about roughly twelve days in between when he was
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Speaker 7: back in the States. And remember a part of those
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Speaker 7: twelve days, about a full week, he actually spent with
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Speaker 7: his advisors at Camp David for the sole purpose of
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Speaker 7: really focusing on debate preps. So why is the president
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Speaker 7: falling asleep on the debate stage at the hours of
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Speaker 7: nine pm.
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Speaker 6: To ten thirty.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe by the way that CNN saying that
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Speaker 1: they have all turned on him, like they have just
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Speaker 1: completely turned on him. With Mjlee, they're saying, I find
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Speaker 1: it a little bit puzzling that this guy's at Camp
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Speaker 1: David for a whole week and you've done debate prep.
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Speaker 1: So let's pull back the curtain on that. When you've
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Speaker 1: done your most vigorous debate prep, Senator, and I've been
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Speaker 1: blessed to be in several different debate preps for different
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Speaker 1: major races, it doesn't last twelve hours a day now,
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Speaker 1: the ones I've done certainly not for seven days straight.
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Speaker 1: It's usually two or three hours of intense debate prep
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Speaker 1: and then you take a legit break.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Look, and I've never done a week of debate prep.
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Speaker 15: Typically what I do debate prep, it is one to
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Speaker 15: two days. Is what's involved.
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Speaker 12: You know.
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Speaker 15: The irony of the of their jet lag explanation is
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Speaker 15: the fact that we know he spent a week at
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Speaker 15: Camp David where the only thing on the plate was
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Speaker 15: getting ready for debate prep, and I am certain he
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Speaker 15: slept a lot of hours that week and listen he should.
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Speaker 15: One of the things I do for debate prep. You know,
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Speaker 15: you know there's studies that have been done. This is
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Speaker 15: something when I was arguing cases at the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 15: I looked at there were medical studies that are done
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Speaker 15: that show the more sleep you get, the faster your
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Speaker 15: brain thinks, the faster your neurons fire. Before a Supreme
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Speaker 15: Court argument, I used to the night before try to
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Speaker 15: get nine to ten hours sleep, which is a lot
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Speaker 15: more sleep. I typically get six to seven hours sleep
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Speaker 15: a night before a Supreme Court argument, I would try
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Speaker 15: to get nine to ten hours sleep a night and
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Speaker 15: I'd do that both the night before the argument, and
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Speaker 15: I'd do that two nights before the argument the reason
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Speaker 15: two nights before the argument. Years ago in college, I
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Speaker 15: used to teach at Princeton Review the test prep class
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Speaker 15: that helped students. I taught the SAT and I taught
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Speaker 15: the l SAT. And when I was teaching at Princeton Review,
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Speaker 15: we would teach teach students to do the same thing,
18:47
Speaker 15: get a ton of sleep the night before your exam,
18:50
Speaker 15: and get a ton of sleep two nights before your exam.
18:53
Speaker 15: Because there's scientific studies that show the sleep you get
18:57
Speaker 15: two nights before an event affects your brain speed. And
19:00
Speaker 15: what I found in Supreme Court arguments is that if
19:03
Speaker 15: I had two nights of supercharging sleep, nine to ten
19:07
Speaker 15: hours of sleep, two nights in a row, that when
19:09
Speaker 15: I'd stand up there for the argument at the podium,
19:13
Speaker 15: my brain was a half second faster, a half second
19:16
Speaker 15: quicker to respond to a question, to think about a
19:18
Speaker 15: line of argument, to anticipate where the other side was going,
19:22
Speaker 15: to anticipate where a justice was going. When I'd prepare
19:25
Speaker 15: for political debates, I do the same thing. I try
19:27
Speaker 15: to have two nights of nine to ten hours sleep
19:31
Speaker 15: the two nights before, and it makes a real difference.
19:33
Speaker 15: Your brain is fast and quick. Biden had an entire
19:37
Speaker 15: week where he could sleep. He could have slept twelve
19:40
Speaker 15: hours a day every day for a week. And so
19:42
Speaker 15: the idea that they're saying, well, yeah, but two weeks earlier,
19:45
Speaker 15: he was on a plane, So it's jet lag. Nobody
19:49
Speaker 15: who's ever flown an airplane believes that.
19:52
Speaker 1: There's also this big interview that's about to take place,
19:54
Speaker 1: and it's become actually even bigger since when you and
19:58
Speaker 1: I mentioned it, there is George Stepanopolis and I think
20:01
Speaker 1: we should remind people who he is. He is a
20:04
Speaker 1: hardcore lefty that acts like he's now some sort of journalist,
20:07
Speaker 1: even though he was best known for defending Bill Clinton
20:10
Speaker 1: and giving Bill Clinton some of the best spin lines
20:12
Speaker 1: in history.
20:13
Speaker 2: It's the friendliest person.
20:14
Speaker 15: Look, he was basically Kareem John John Pierre for Bill Clinton. Yeah,
20:19
Speaker 15: he was a press staffer. He was a comm staffer.
20:21
Speaker 15: He was in the White House. He was on the
20:22
Speaker 15: Clinton White House staff. I think his title is communications director,
20:26
Speaker 15: So he wasn't actually the press secretary, but he was
20:28
Speaker 15: the press flack. He was the person. He was the Jensaki.
20:31
Speaker 15: He was the one who was in charge of communications
20:34
Speaker 15: for Bill Clinton for years. He was very close to
20:37
Speaker 15: Bill Clinton, and then he jumped over. As many dem
20:41
Speaker 15: communication hacks do, they leave that role and they jump
20:44
Speaker 15: over and they become like Jensaki, they get their own show. Well,
20:48
Speaker 15: George Stephanopoulos went from being the official spokesperson for the
20:52
Speaker 15: Democratic president to being at abs ABC acting as effectively
20:58
Speaker 15: the official spokesperson for the Democrat press.
21:01
Speaker 1: And he's the guy that's going to get this interview.
21:03
Speaker 1: We now have word that this they've decided to change
21:07
Speaker 1: this interview to a quote prime time special on Friday
21:13
Speaker 1: night to save in essence. I think his presidency and
21:17
Speaker 1: Democrats aren't even buying that. MSNBC and one of the
21:21
Speaker 1: hardcore lefties out there, Debbie Dingle, she said this on
21:25
Speaker 1: MSNBC on July fourth.
21:28
Speaker 8: They've been after Joe Biden all week. So he's got
21:32
Speaker 8: one thing to do, which is to get up and
21:34
Speaker 8: go out to prove to people that he can do
21:36
Speaker 8: the job. We'll do the job, and has the stamina.
21:39
Speaker 8: Took too long to make some of the phone calls.
21:40
Speaker 6: He shut up.
21:41
Speaker 8: I think he's in a bubble wrap. I'm inn of
21:43
Speaker 8: the senior's staff, and I think he's starting to do
21:47
Speaker 8: what he has to do.
21:48
Speaker 2: One interview tomorrow, he's not going.
21:50
Speaker 16: To fix this.
21:51
Speaker 1: One interview tomorrow is quote not going to fix this.
21:55
Speaker 1: This is one of the most extreme lefties on MSNBC
21:58
Speaker 1: saying that.
22:00
Speaker 15: Well, and listen. One of the most revealing things that
22:02
Speaker 15: ABC interview is taped. It's not live. If they were
22:07
Speaker 15: real journalists. You know what ABC should do. You know
22:09
Speaker 15: what George Stephanopholis should insist on doing. The debate was live.
22:13
Speaker 15: Let's have this interview be live. The American people need
22:16
Speaker 15: to see how you answer real time, which means we ABC,
22:20
Speaker 15: We're not going to edit out when you stare blankly
22:22
Speaker 15: out at the wall and don't know what I say.
22:24
Speaker 15: We're not going to edit out when you stumble. The
22:26
Speaker 15: fact that it is taped means that George Stefanopolis can
22:30
Speaker 15: go in and say, okay, oh, this exchange looked really
22:32
Speaker 15: bad for Joe Biden. Let's cut that out.
22:34
Speaker 12: Hmm.
22:35
Speaker 15: Okay, he's staring off at the ceiling and doesn't know
22:38
Speaker 15: what's going on. Let's definitely not air that. And let's
22:41
Speaker 15: find snippets where he seems kjin and let's piece them together. Now,
22:46
Speaker 15: if George Stephanopolis was wearing his hat as Democrat Operative
22:51
Speaker 15: putting together a TV campaign for Biden, that would be
22:55
Speaker 15: a reasonable thing to do. But he's at least pretending
22:58
Speaker 15: to be a journalist. The SEA is pretending to be
23:01
Speaker 15: an actual news organization, and so anyone who actually cares
23:06
Speaker 15: about journalism or news should insist the thing be live.
23:09
Speaker 15: Let the American people see how he acts in real time.
23:13
Speaker 1: Let's take a step back from this, and I want
23:15
Speaker 1: to ask you another question. You and I actually haven't
23:17
Speaker 1: even talked about this yet so I'm I'm genuinely intrigued
23:21
Speaker 1: to know what you think, and that is, are we
23:24
Speaker 1: going to look back weeks, months, years from now, and
23:29
Speaker 1: are we going to look at this moment in history
23:31
Speaker 1: and say, was this the biggest political cover up in history?
23:37
Speaker 1: That we had an incapacitated president, that the American people
23:42
Speaker 1: were sheltered from, that the White House was covering for
23:46
Speaker 1: and lying for, that the media was covering for and
23:49
Speaker 1: lying for. I go back to November, Okay, not that
23:52
Speaker 1: long ago. White House pres seretory Jean Pierre said this
23:55
Speaker 1: to the American people.
23:57
Speaker 12: I would put the President's DaMina Present's wisdom ability to
24:01
Speaker 12: get this done on behalf of the American people against anyone,
24:07
Speaker 12: anyone on any.
24:08
Speaker 6: Day of the week.
24:09
Speaker 1: I mean that was that was November, Senator, And I
24:12
Speaker 1: think this is one of the biggest.
24:14
Speaker 2: Progress that she's a really bad witness.
24:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, she is a really bad liar, But I mean
24:18
Speaker 1: this is this is one of the biggest political cover
24:20
Speaker 1: ups I've ever witnessed.
24:22
Speaker 15: You know, yes, and no, of course it's a cover up.
24:26
Speaker 15: Of course everyone is complicit in. And of course the
24:28
Speaker 15: Democrats all know and they're lying. Of Course, the media
24:31
Speaker 15: all know and they're lying. But at the same time,
24:34
Speaker 15: it's not a cover up anyone whose head is not
24:37
Speaker 15: plunged into the sand. You knew before the debate last
24:41
Speaker 15: week that Joe Biden was mentally incapacitated. You knew that
24:44
Speaker 15: it was obvious. Anyone who's ever had an elderly relative,
24:50
Speaker 15: a loved one, dealing with dementia, dealing with Alzheimer's, You've
24:53
Speaker 15: seen that distant look, that shuffle, that look of confusion.
24:57
Speaker 15: We see that every week. It's obvious. Look, We've never
25:00
Speaker 15: seen a president do what Joe Biden does, which is
25:02
Speaker 15: not talked to anyone in the Senate. In three and
25:06
Speaker 15: a half years, I've had no conversations with Joe Biden.
25:09
Speaker 15: He has had no conversations with virtually any Republican senator.
25:13
Speaker 15: We sit around at lunch and talk about how weird
25:15
Speaker 15: that is, because a major part of the job being
25:19
Speaker 15: in the Senate is dealing with the president, working with
25:21
Speaker 15: the president. You know, just over a month ago, I
25:27
Speaker 15: passed the FA Reauthorization Bill. That is a huge bill,
25:31
Speaker 15: one hundred and ten billion dollars investment in infrastructure, in
25:36
Speaker 15: safety for aviation, enhancing safety for the flying public, hiring
25:41
Speaker 15: new air traffic controllers to keep people safe when they fly,
25:45
Speaker 15: investing billions in airports, putting collision detection technology on runways
25:50
Speaker 15: to keep people safe, also expanding competition. Just Texas alone,
25:55
Speaker 15: hundreds of thousands of jobs depend upon aviation. We have
25:59
Speaker 15: made major airlines based in Texas. Millions of jobs depend
26:04
Speaker 15: indirectly on aviation. It was a huge bipartisan victory. I
26:08
Speaker 15: was the lead author along with Maria Cantwell. We passed it.
26:12
Speaker 15: We passed it on the floor of the Senate eighty
26:14
Speaker 15: eight to Ford. Includes within it, finally, finally, finally, a
26:18
Speaker 15: direct flight from San Antonio to Reagan Washington National Airport,
26:23
Speaker 15: something San Antonio that entire community has been fighting for
26:26
Speaker 15: for twenty years. That was a victory I wrote into law,
26:30
Speaker 15: and we want it now. You know what would normally
26:33
Speaker 15: happen when you pass major bipartisan legislation.
26:37
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you'd say the President might get in contact with.
26:39
Speaker 15: You, you'd have a signing ceremony. In a typical normal
26:44
Speaker 15: functioning administration when there's big bipartisan legislation, the next step
26:50
Speaker 15: is the White House contacts you and says we're going
26:52
Speaker 15: to have a signing ceremony, the signing ceremony, you go,
26:55
Speaker 15: both the Democrats and Republicans who are the authors of
26:58
Speaker 15: the bill, go and the president and it signs the
27:00
Speaker 15: bill into law in the Oval office, and there are
27:03
Speaker 15: people there'd be in this instance, you would have people
27:05
Speaker 15: from the airlines there. You'd have people from airports there,
27:09
Speaker 15: You'd have the pilots unions there, you'd have the flight
27:11
Speaker 15: attendance unions there, you'd have everyone impacted by the bill
27:15
Speaker 15: there in the Oval office. I've been to a lot
27:17
Speaker 15: of signing ceremonies. It's pretty typical. You know what the
27:20
Speaker 15: Biden White House said.
27:21
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't even be surprised. They didn't even know
27:23
Speaker 2: you guys were doing it.
27:25
Speaker 15: Oh no, no, they knew. They knew. And Biden signed the
27:27
Speaker 15: bill when it came over. He signed it into law.
27:31
Speaker 15: But there was no ceremony. And the reason there's no
27:33
Speaker 15: ceremony they cannot have him interact with other people because
27:38
Speaker 15: it is blazingly obvious this man is incapacitated. That has
27:43
Speaker 15: been the way the administration is operated from day one.
27:46
Speaker 15: They don't do signing ceremonies like other administrations. They hide
27:50
Speaker 15: him and so yes, it's a cover up. But at
27:54
Speaker 15: another level, no, it's not really a cover up because
27:57
Speaker 15: everybody knows the thing that is stuff cutting ben. On
28:01
Speaker 15: the Democrat side of the aisle, nobody cares. I have
28:05
Speaker 15: yet to speak to a single Democrat senator or a
28:08
Speaker 15: single Democrat House member who's expressed genuine concern that the
28:13
Speaker 15: commander in chief does not know what type of day
28:16
Speaker 15: it is, that the commander in chief can't find his
28:20
Speaker 15: way out of a locked box. I haven't heard any
28:24
Speaker 15: concern from a single Democrat that America is much less
28:29
Speaker 15: safe because our commander in chief is mister Magoo. He
28:33
Speaker 15: is a confused individual with serious disabilities who is not
28:41
Speaker 15: able to handle a difficult situation. Look when you see
28:44
Speaker 15: the g eight leaders gather together and Joe Biden starts
28:48
Speaker 15: wandering off and the Italian Prime Minister has to go
28:52
Speaker 15: and grab his hand and lead him back. That's not good.
28:56
Speaker 15: It's not good for the American president to be treated
28:59
Speaker 15: as the elderly uncle everyone needs to take care of
29:03
Speaker 15: and cut his food for and make sure they're no
29:05
Speaker 15: big pieces so that he can we can steer the
29:09
Speaker 15: airplane into the mouth. That is horrible for America and
29:13
Speaker 15: frustratingly ben No Democrat cares. The only reason anyone's discussing
29:17
Speaker 15: this now is suddenly on the debate, the American people
29:21
Speaker 15: saw it, and the Democrats are afraid they might lose.
29:24
Speaker 15: If they didn't think they were gonna lose, every Democrat
29:26
Speaker 15: would say, stick with him forever, We're great, doesn't matter
29:30
Speaker 15: if the president is competent or not.
29:33
Speaker 1: One Democrat that went on TV, I guess he's like
29:36
Speaker 1: the sacrificial lamb is representative Democratic Representative Dan Goldman. He
29:42
Speaker 1: said this about the president trying to reassure Americans he's
29:45
Speaker 1: really fine, there's no cognitive decline.
29:47
Speaker 14: And the people who are with him every day have
29:50
Speaker 14: indicated as well that it was an aberration, that it
29:53
Speaker 14: is an anomaly, and if that is the case, then
29:57
Speaker 14: we will see that, and we will see that over
29:59
Speaker 14: the next week, and he will restore our faith and
30:02
Speaker 14: confidence in his fitness.
30:04
Speaker 16: And then everything else between the two of them cuts
30:07
Speaker 16: in favor of Joe Biden. So people are right to
30:10
Speaker 16: have some concerns after that performance. And I don't think
30:13
Speaker 16: there's any excuse that Joe Biden offered. I think he
30:17
Speaker 16: was trying to explain how he had such a poor performance,
30:23
Speaker 16: But he's accepted it, he's owned it, he's acknowledged it
30:26
Speaker 16: as we all have. And what we need to see
30:29
Speaker 16: from him is that vibrant and whip smart president that
30:33
Speaker 16: we have had for the last three and a half years.
30:36
Speaker 1: And the people, I mean, you listen to him, and
30:38
Speaker 1: then you go to the facts. Biden's post debate checkup
30:42
Speaker 1: actually contradicts what the White House said. They have now
30:47
Speaker 1: confirmed that, and President Biden confirmed And again I'm quoting
30:52
Speaker 1: reports coming out of the White House to the Democratic governors.
30:54
Speaker 1: Remember they had this nine to one to one, you know,
30:56
Speaker 1: all hands on deck meeting with Democratic governors to try
30:59
Speaker 1: to reassure them that he had a medical checkup following
31:02
Speaker 1: the president of debate, despite earlier statements from the White
31:05
Speaker 1: House pres secretary on multiple occasions that he had not
31:08
Speaker 1: received any medical exam since February.
31:10
Speaker 2: We played some of that in the last show.
31:12
Speaker 1: The White House later clarified that Biden was seen by
31:15
Speaker 1: a doctor for a brief quote brief checkup due to
31:19
Speaker 1: the lingering symptoms from a cold, which did not include
31:22
Speaker 1: any major tests. So even when they lie to you,
31:26
Speaker 1: they still can't. They're now lying to either the governors
31:29
Speaker 1: or the American people, or they're just lying about all
31:31
Speaker 1: of it.
31:31
Speaker 2: Your thoughts.
31:33
Speaker 15: Yeah, look, the cold is nonsense, the jet lag is nonsense.
31:36
Speaker 15: Everyone knows that the issue is that he's too old
31:40
Speaker 15: and he's suffering from dementia. That that is blazingly true.
31:44
Speaker 15: They're trying to distract from this. Look, I'll give you
31:47
Speaker 15: a sense of how bad it is. Even the Praetorian Guard,
31:51
Speaker 15: even the most zealous defenders of Joe Biden, the Democrats,
31:55
Speaker 15: and by that I mean the New York Times, even
31:58
Speaker 15: there turning on her. On Wednesday of this week, The
32:02
Speaker 15: New York Times wrote a story, the headline of which
32:04
Speaker 15: is Biden tells allies he knows he has only days
32:08
Speaker 15: to salvage candidacy. Here's what The New York Times wrote.
32:12
Speaker 15: By the way, this is not an editorial, This is
32:13
Speaker 15: a news story. President Joe Biden has told key allies
32:17
Speaker 15: that he knows the coming days are crucial and understands
32:19
Speaker 15: that he may not be able to salvage his candidacy
32:22
Speaker 15: if he cannot convince voters that he is up to
32:24
Speaker 15: the job. After a disastrous debate performance last week. According
32:28
Speaker 15: to two allies who have spoken with him, Biden has
32:31
Speaker 15: emphasized that he is still deeply committed to fight for
32:33
Speaker 15: his reelection, but understands that his viability as a candidate
32:38
Speaker 15: is on the line. The President sought to project confidence
32:42
Speaker 15: Wednesday in a call with campaign staff, even as White
32:45
Speaker 15: House officials were trying to calm nerves inside the ranks
32:49
Speaker 15: of the Biden administration. Quote, no one's pushing me out,
32:53
Speaker 15: Biden said in the call, I'm not leaving. Vice President
32:56
Speaker 15: Kamala Harris was also on the line. Quote, we will
32:59
Speaker 15: not back down. We will follow our president's lead. She said.
33:02
Speaker 15: We will fight and we will win. Rah rah rah. Still,
33:06
Speaker 15: Biden allies said the President had privately acknowledged that his
33:10
Speaker 15: next few appearances heading into the July fourth holiday weekend
33:14
Speaker 15: must go well, particularly in an interview scheduled for Friday
33:17
Speaker 15: with George Stephanopolos of ABC News and campaign stops in
33:21
Speaker 15: Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Quote, he knows that if he has
33:25
Speaker 15: two more events like that, we're in a different place
33:28
Speaker 15: by the end of the weekend, said one of the allies,
33:30
Speaker 15: referring to Biden's halting and unfocused performance on the debate.
33:34
Speaker 15: That person who talked to the President in the past
33:36
Speaker 15: twenty four hours spoke on the condition of anonymity to
33:39
Speaker 15: discuss a sensitive situation. The accounts of his conversations with
33:44
Speaker 15: allies are the first indication to become public that the
33:48
Speaker 15: president is seriously considering whether he can recover after a
33:53
Speaker 15: devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta last Thursday.
33:57
Speaker 15: A new poll from The New York Times in Siena
33:59
Speaker 15: College show the former president Donald Trump now leads Biden
34:03
Speaker 15: forty nine to forty three percent among likely voters nationally,
34:07
Speaker 15: a three point swing towards the Republican from just a
34:11
Speaker 15: week earlier before the debate. This is they're terrified. And
34:16
Speaker 15: note they're terrified about one thing. They think Biden's going
34:21
Speaker 15: to lose. If they thought a mentally incompetent person was
34:26
Speaker 15: going to win, they'd be fine. But they're terrified that
34:29
Speaker 15: there are at least some people who say, gosh, maybe
34:32
Speaker 15: the commander in chief should should be aware of what's
34:36
Speaker 15: going on around it.
34:39
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this.
34:41
Speaker 1: In the poll numbers that you just mentioned also connect
34:44
Speaker 1: to some other polls that have come out, and that
34:47
Speaker 1: is they're pulling every name against Donald Trump. There is
34:51
Speaker 1: only one name right now that in the polling shows
34:55
Speaker 1: that it could that they could quote beat Donald Trump.
34:59
Speaker 1: That is the that you gave nine months ago that
35:03
Speaker 1: we've been talking about ever since. In Michelle Obama, there
35:06
Speaker 1: have been pretty queer messages coming from her camp. She's
35:10
Speaker 1: not interested. And then the next person that everyone now
35:14
Speaker 1: seems to be thinking is probably the one that would
35:16
Speaker 1: replace them is Kamala Harris. And that's just from the
35:21
Speaker 1: money aspect of things. She's the one that can use
35:23
Speaker 1: the money they've raised. She's the one that's already set
35:26
Speaker 1: up to just keep walking forward. The same team would
35:28
Speaker 1: be there, the same campaign manager, all the staff is
35:32
Speaker 1: around there, So she would be the quote easiest choice.
35:36
Speaker 1: You look at this, it doesn't say she could win,
35:40
Speaker 1: But is she the front runner or is it Michelle Obama?
35:43
Speaker 2: Or who is it? In your opinion?
35:45
Speaker 15: Look, I still think it's Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama is
35:48
Speaker 15: the only candidate the Democrats could push Kamala aside, for
35:53
Speaker 15: they know Kamala is a terrible candidate. They're really scared.
35:57
Speaker 15: They don't want her at the top of the ticket.
35:59
Speaker 15: But they're bean counters. The way their party is, whatever
36:03
Speaker 15: your race, whatever your gender, whoever you are, that is
36:06
Speaker 15: the dominant feature about you. It matters more than anything else.
36:09
Speaker 15: The people who talk about putting Gavin Newsom in and
36:13
Speaker 15: pushing Kamala aside, the Democrat Party would would would spontaneously
36:18
Speaker 15: explode if they pushed a black woman aside for a
36:23
Speaker 15: rich white man. They're not going to do that. There
36:27
Speaker 15: is the number of people who can push Kamala aside
36:30
Speaker 15: in the Democrat Party. It is a set of one,
36:32
Speaker 15: and the only one is Michelle Obama. She too is
36:35
Speaker 15: an African American woman. She could push Kamala aside. Look
36:40
Speaker 15: the polling we've seen where there's a poll that came
36:42
Speaker 15: out this week that showed Michelle Obama with a double
36:46
Speaker 15: digit lead over Donald Trump. She would be a very
36:50
Speaker 15: very dangerous candidate if it's not Michelle Obama. If Michelle
36:55
Speaker 15: says no, she might. I hope she says no. You know,
36:58
Speaker 15: I want to speak directly to mill Hey, you're really rich.
37:01
Speaker 15: You're enjoying the life of a movie star. Private jets
37:03
Speaker 15: are fun, the Hamptons are fun. You're palide around with
37:07
Speaker 15: people who are famous, with rock stars. You don't need
37:10
Speaker 15: to go to work. You don't need to bother yourself
37:12
Speaker 15: with pushing a Marxist agenda to destroy America. Leave it
37:16
Speaker 15: to others to destroy America. You and your family have
37:19
Speaker 15: done enough to damage the world. Enjoy the life of
37:23
Speaker 15: a gazillionaire. I don't know that my pitch is persuasive,
37:26
Speaker 15: but I hope it is because it would be very
37:27
Speaker 15: good if she decides not to run. If she does
37:31
Speaker 15: decide not to run, then I think the person that
37:34
Speaker 15: replaces Biden probably is Kamala because I don't think anyone
37:37
Speaker 15: else can. I think Kamala is a really weak candidate.
37:42
Speaker 15: She is a very unpopular vice president. There's a reason
37:47
Speaker 15: when she ran for president in twenty twenty she got
37:50
Speaker 15: zero delegates. She couldn't even make it to Iowa and
37:53
Speaker 15: get any support. But if she becomes the nominee, they
37:59
Speaker 15: probably probably plug someone in there as a VP to
38:03
Speaker 15: try to balance it. It wouldn't surprise me to see
38:05
Speaker 15: I could see Gavin Newsom as a VP to either
38:09
Speaker 15: Kamala Harris or to Michelle Obama. I think Gavin Newsom
38:12
Speaker 15: is very much on the VP train. I could see
38:16
Speaker 15: a Gretchen Witmer, the governor of Michigan, as a VP
38:20
Speaker 15: to either one of them, as well both of those.
38:22
Speaker 15: I think are real possibilities. But at the end of
38:25
Speaker 15: the day, I think the only two nominees who have
38:29
Speaker 15: a credible chance replacing Biden or Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris.
38:34
Speaker 15: And if I were a Democrat, I'd be all in
38:36
Speaker 15: on Michelle because the polling shows she wins and Kamala loses.
38:42
Speaker 2: Final two questions for you.
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Speaker 1: One, when do you think the media has to stop
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Speaker 1: this onslaught of attacks on the president because they're going
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Speaker 1: full court press is in another week and then they
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Speaker 1: got to dial it back in case he does continue
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Speaker 1: to be the nominee, they can't push him out. And
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Speaker 1: number two, how important is this is prime time taped
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Speaker 1: interview Friday night for Joe Biden's future?
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Speaker 15: Well, I mean, let me start with number two. The
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Speaker 15: interview on Friday is very important. If he goes and
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Speaker 15: just craps the bed, that could be fatal. I think
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Speaker 15: ABC and Stephanopoulos are going to do everything they can
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Speaker 15: to prevent that from happening. I think they're going to
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Speaker 15: edit the heck out of the interview. They should run
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Speaker 15: it live, and anyone who cares like ABC should be
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Speaker 15: embarrassed about itself that it's not running it live. Because
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Speaker 15: their editing will be designed to create a false impression,
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Speaker 15: to protect Joe Biden, to turn it into a campaign video.
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Speaker 15: If they're a real journalistic outlet. You know when I
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Speaker 15: do interviews, I do them live, and if I say
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Speaker 15: something dumb, you know what, the camera catches it and
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Speaker 15: all the world can hear. And it's not ABC's job
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Speaker 15: to be doing the pr and damage control for the Democrats,
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Speaker 15: but that's what they're doing. I think the interview matters
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Speaker 15: a lot. I also think it's interesting you're seeing Democrats
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Speaker 15: publicly breaking ships. So Lloyd Doggett, very liberal Democrat from Austin, Texas,
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Speaker 15: became the first Democrat member of Congress to say the
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Speaker 15: president should step aside. Two others, Jared Golden and Maine
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Speaker 15: and Marie Gluosen camp Perez of Washington, both Democrats, both
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Speaker 15: said they believe Biden will lose in November. That's significant
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Speaker 15: that you're seeing elected Democrats coming out saying that. Another one,
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Speaker 15: Seth Moulton, another Democrat from Massachusetts, raised real questions about
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Speaker 15: whether Biden can win. He said, quote, I deeply respect
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Speaker 15: President Biden and all the great things he's done for America,
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Speaker 15: but I have grave concerns about his ability to defeat
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Speaker 15: Donald Trump. Winning will require prosecuting the case of the
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Speaker 15: media in town halls and at pain stops all over
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Speaker 15: the country. President Biden needs to demonstrate that he can
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Speaker 15: do that. The unfortunate reality is that the status quo
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Speaker 15: will likely deliver us President Trump. We're seeing that happening
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Speaker 15: more and more and more.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 15: Your first question was how long will the media continue
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Speaker 15: to attack? Listen on the debate night, I predicted if
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Speaker 15: this is gonna happen, it's gonna shake out in twenty
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Speaker 15: one days. So we're a week into it. I think
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Speaker 15: we have two more weeks ahead of us. We will
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Speaker 15: go into the Republican Convention in two weeks. I think
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Speaker 15: we'll know what happens by then. A final point in
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Speaker 15: one that has not been discussed a great deal. I
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Speaker 15: think all of this drama impacts President Trump very significantly,
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Speaker 15: and in particular, it impacts his vice presidential choice. Trump
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Speaker 15: is in the middle of presumably picking who he wants
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Speaker 15: to be VP. Lots of names have been floated, there
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Speaker 15: are lots of short lists, lots of things discussing. Well,
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Speaker 15: normally when you're picking a VP candidate, you know who
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Speaker 15: your opponent is you know what you're fighting against. In
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Speaker 15: this instance, it's a very difficult situation for Trump because
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Speaker 15: the kind of VP he might pick if he's running
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Speaker 15: against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could be a very
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Speaker 15: different VP than if he's running against Michelle Obama. I
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Speaker 15: think right now the Trump team is feeling incredibly confident.
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Speaker 15: I think they think they're gonna win, They're gonna beat
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Speaker 15: Joe Biden. I think they're feeling on top of the world.
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Speaker 15: I can tell you if the news broke tomorrow that
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Speaker 15: Biden was not the nominee anymore and it was gonna
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Speaker 15: be Michelle Obama, the Trump team, if it were not
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Speaker 15: at a major emergency mode level of this is serious,
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Speaker 15: then they'd be misreading the situation because Michelle Obama's the
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Speaker 15: Democrat nominee is incredibly dangerous and that could easily impact
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Speaker 15: the vice presidential nominee. So, for example, if it's Michelle Obama,
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Speaker 15: maybe Trump picks Tim Scott, deciding that he wants to
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Speaker 15: go fight and fight more aggressively for African American votes.
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Speaker 15: That's one possible consideration that maybe that's a little bit
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Speaker 15: less of a consideration. If Joe Biden is at the
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Speaker 15: top of the ticket, so there are complicated, complicated chess
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Speaker 15: moves that are playing out right now because of the
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Speaker 15: uncertainty of who's going to be the nominee.
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