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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, Kings has no idea. Dems embrace violence, and President
Trump embraces the wrecking ball. We guarantee we can gobsmack
you with this week's Did they really just say that?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Audio cuts? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is newspite.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I was wondering what has President Trump done to put
your freedom in dangers that.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
He has done so by Sorry, we weren't expecting to
be all eighty six forty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Explain it to me. I like the colors kill the
son of a bitch kill? Who this forty seven president?
Speaker 6 (00:47):
We're building a world class ballroom. You know, for one
hundred and fifty years they've wanted a ballroom here. We
don't have a ballroom. Putting up our own money with
the government just paying for nothing.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
Destroying like one of the most historic structures on the planet.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Who the White House was a fixer upper? Yeah, it
actually is.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It has moments when it's a little tatty. But some
of the areas are some of them, aren't you know?
They redo sure a lot of the public rooms, and
they redo the oval office in the residents every four years,
but or every aid, depending on who's elected. But there
are some other areas. And here's well, I digress, so
that what you heard in the intro was Joe Scarborough
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on MSNBC having a hissy fit that President Trump is
planning to build an is actually already started building a
ballroom at the White House in the East wing. And
here is the President referencing that in a rose Garden,
addressed to House Republicans Cut six.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
We're building a world class ballroom. You know, for one
hundred and fifty years they've won in a ballroom. Here,
we don't have a ballroom. We have a little cocktail area,
but we don't have a ballroom. The East Room, it's called,
is a very small cocktail area, holds about eighty eight
people if it's tight. And we said, I said, if
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I do this again, I'm going to get a ballroom built.
And we're putting up our own money, with the government
just paying for nothing. You probably hear the beautiful sound
of construction to the back. You hear that sound. Oh
that's music to my ears.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I love that sound. Other people don't like it.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I love it, Josh.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I think when I hear that sound, it reminds me
of money. In this case, it reminds me of lack
of money because I'm paying for it, so it's the opice.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So it sounds reasonable, right, you know, you know what
we're doing now for state dinners because there is no
room big enough for state dinner really anymore. When state dinner,
when state when state dinners were fifty people, they could
do it in the East Room. But now for the
past maybe ten years or so, they've been putting a
tent in the yard and they've been having which is
fine unless it's February. You know, so literally room big
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enough in the White House. So I think it sounds
reasonable to put a ballroom in.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
You know how when they uh, you know, the Super
Bowl moves around for example, right, they have in different
cities every year. I think I think maybe uh uh,
just a showcase of the United States. Every time you're
going to have some kind of state dinner, you have
it somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Look for the nearest Kowan Club.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Maybe do it there is the Elks open.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
You could uh it would be a security nightmare, obviously,
but you.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Could take it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You have to do it in the White House. Now,
President Trump is not the first president to renovate. Okay,
President Truman, uh had a bowling alley installed in balls. Yeah. Uh.
FDR built the east wing for office space and uh
and an indoor pool so he could work out in it.
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Nixon added a lane to the bowling alley and added
an outside pool, uh, to the to the domaisants, and
the inside pool was covered up and made into a
press room. So Nixon did that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Dixon should have done. He's taking out the tape recorders. Yeah, okay,
yes you should have.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So now President Trump is doing a ballroom, so no
more you know, state dinners in the yard. But what
do the likes of Joe Scarborough say to this, Oh,
oh my god, we're destroying history.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Cut six a.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
In front of the facade of the White House that
is not being obliterated. As Donald Trump, who promised that
he was not going to take a wrecking ball to
the existing structure, has taken a wrecking ball to existing structure.
I'm going to say, make it really is.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's it is.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
It is hard to watch that, and it's hard to
believe that any president could destroy the White House and
take a wrecking ball to an existing structure so historic,
that is what's happening. It'd be one thing if if
you were building on or you were doing things inside.
But to take literally a wrecking ball to the White House, yeah,
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it's grow tesque test.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, here's the thing I want to point out. First
of all, the ballroom is in the east wing of
the White House. As I previously mentioned, FDR built that.
That is not the original building of the White House
that was built in the eighteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That is not going to start on fire anyway, ye by.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The British during the war, but still it is not
part of that building. It was built basically for office
space and to hide the bunker for the president during
World War Two. It's not part of the historic building.
But you know, Joe doesn't want to know that. He's
instead would rather be hysterical and say the president is
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destroying the historic White House cut six b.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
It destroying like one of the most historic structures.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
On the planet.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
And the costs and are we saying that whoever we
elect president has a right to destroy just tear things up,
tear it to the ground, turn it into something else.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Kind of crazy. I don't think it's not your your
home that you purchased and you.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Know, no, it's not yours. You rent it from the
American people for forty.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Years, you don't rent it for.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well, can I point out you've heard Meka there the cost, Well,
Mika has apparently done no background information on this because
the cost is nothing to the American people. We are
not paying for it. So the cost is President Trump,
He's the one paying for this. That and he's got
some private donors that are assisting. Has nothing to do
with the American people. We aren't paying a single red
cent for it. So it just it's in another example
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of how you have liberal media and liberal you know,
talking heads jumping in front of the train before before
they know anything. They have no idea that one the
historic part of the White House is not being touched.
B it's at no cost to anybody. These two people
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who are holding themselves out in a very arrogant patchizing fashion,
know nothing about what they're talking about criticizing the president.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Once again, nobody asked me ahead of time, which is
a mistake. But you know, if you wanted to raise
some extra money, because I know, you know you can
always use a little extra. You know you'll have those
overruns when you're doing renovations. But here's what you do, right,
You sell ad time and you run one big or
or maybe a week long special of this Old House. Yeah,
(07:25):
and it's and it's the White House this this week
on this Old House.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It's already had trading spaces that used to be on TLC.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, you could do that. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
The other thing too, is I wonder if when they
have the first ball there, if they're going to use
a c DC's Big Balls as the song for people
coming in, because of course, if you know the words
to the song, and it's kind of a you know,
a double edged kind of song, right, So so we've
got the biggest balls of them all. Uh, and of
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course nobody can argue that Donald Trump has some pretty
big balls, so you could have that double edge there
when you open up the ballroom, so just you could.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't know if I wonder why people are so
hed up. I mean, if when you look at the
actual truth of what's going on, why would they be
so upset about this? And Senator Ted Cruz had a
theory cut seven C.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
I think it's not surprising to anyone the Democrats are
attacking Donald J. Trump, that that is the essence of
their party. They wake up animated by hatred for Trump
and hatred for the American people that voted for him.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I'm grateful. It looks like a phenomenal project.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
A ballroom at the White House will be used by
presidents both Republicans and Democrats, and it's being funded without
a penny of tax payer money. So of course the
Democrats don't like that because that's the second thing they
like to do, is spend trillions of dollars we don't have.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
So this is a two four for them.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So so that's in my opinion. And I don't always
agree with Ted Cruz.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I find them all agree with anybody all the time,
but I agree with him in this particular case.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And it's really interesting because when you lose, listen to
the Democrat or the liberal members of the Senate as
opposed to Senator Cruz there when they asked about, you know,
what's wrong with what they're doing, they come up with
the most tortured responses. I want to have you listen
to Senator Richard Blumenthal otherwise on his denaying Dick because
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you know, he made up his war record, and he
says the problem with this is is it gives contributors
power over President Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Cut seven A.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
I think this project. The White House is a gigantic boondoggle,
and the really important question is not only the damage
that it could do to the architecture of the White House,
but also what contributors would have over Trump if they
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are giving to this project. He's already raised two hundred
million dollars or constant more for his pack. Now he
is going to be sluiciting money from private comriddles for
this boon doggle.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Okay, first of all, a boondoggle is when federal money
is spent on something that it shouldn't be. That's a boondoggle.
This is private money, so it has boondoggles being misupplied here.
And secondly, what are they going to blackmail him? It says, hey,
we gave you one hundred thousand dollars for the for
the ballroom, so hey, you better do what we want. Really,
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do you honestly think Donald Trump gives a rat's ask
that he can be that he can be swayed by people.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Who gave money.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I mean, they may get their name on a plaque
somewhere in the ballroom, but I think that's about as
far as it goes.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Let's rent the joint out for weddings. And high school prom.
There you go, that'll be nice. There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So here's Senator Koons. He says, what's wrong with the
tent cut? Seven B.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Look.
Speaker 11 (10:51):
On the one hand, the white House needs event space.
The state dinners are typically done with a temporary ballroom
that's erected out on the lawn on I've been to
a few in my fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That works fine.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
What I don't know.
Speaker 11 (11:05):
Is whether he actually has the authority to fundamentally alter
the shape and scale of the White House without some
White House Historical Association or some architect of proving it.
And my concern given what I've heard so far, is
that it wouldn't be completed on his timeline, so that
he will be the former president and whoever succeeds him
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will be stuck with what could be a white elephant.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So it's a white house not a white house.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
They're going to be stuck with a multimillion dollar ballroom
that they can have state dinners. And oh the horror
Vans will have to deal with that, Oh my god. Yeah,
no kidding. And that there's one Democrat senator who I
actually thought, you know, I would vote for this guy
if I lived in Pennsylvania. This is John Fetterman, which
is weird because he used to be like then. But no,
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as he has healed from his strokes, he has become
more and more common sense. I like him. I mean,
i'll be honest with you. My favorite senator in the US,
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. The man knows one liner
is like nobody's business. He just makes me smile every day.
He makes me smile. John Fetterman is fast rising in
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my esteem. He was, without a doubt, my favorite Democrat
senator and I would vote for him if I were
in Pennsylvania. And this is his take. I love this.
This is his take on the ballroom cut seven.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I mean, I don't have a strong opinion about expanding
the ballroom, but I'd like to just point out that
currently Trump won't be in office before that's even completed anyway.
And I think everything that I've seen the plans are
going to be done in a tasteful and historical kind
of a way. I mean, they're not putting in a
David Buster's kind of a situation here, So I think
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upgrading some of these facilities seems pretty normal.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, Yeah, they're not putting the chuck e cheese. This
is a ballroom done with taste and great.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
I think I think Fetterman is on something there, though
maybe maybe maybe we do need to David Busters right there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Maybe, but I mean, but the interesting thing to me
is that Fetterman's rational, reasonable response to the ballroom highlights
the nutsos that are in his party. Also in the
US Senator, I mean to say, it's okay to be
in a tent in February in the yard as Coon's did,
or God forbid, contributors want their name on a plaque,
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you know, in regard to Blumenthal. And that's just just
two examples that I got. Never mind, you know, the
the spitting rage that that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski
were in without having any any idea of what they
were talking about, is just kind of highlights how crazy
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the Democrat Party has become. I mean literally crazy, Like
I I like to share my therapist's number with them,
because I.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Think that your therapist's officers and big enough Trump would
have to put an extension on the buildings.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well it's true, I think it's true.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But she could be very helpful to these people, is
what all I'm saying, And you saw another example of
damas acting crazy this past week, because it became very
apparent that they were, of all things, and I still
can't believe this. We're embracing violence. They were actually supporting
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the idea of assassination publicly with no fear of arrest
or reprisal, just saying violence is the way to go.
And I'm going to give you some examples of that.
This is Brandy Kruz. She's a journalist asking a guy
at in Seattle who had a sign intimated that he
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wanted to kill people in the Trump administration. Listen to
what he says, Cut eleven A who are you gonna kill?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Who?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Do you a Nazi? What do you mean in this
in this context?
Speaker 12 (14:59):
Who's a not? Say Stephen Miller?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So you're gonna kill Stephen Miller if I had a chance.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Yeah, I don't know if that's somebody'd say on camera, bro.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
First of all, and just warning him that's saying you
want to assassinate somebody is actually a crime. Saying it
is a crime.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
First of all, he says, if I had the chance,
I would I disagree with that. I think the guy's
are wars and he wouldn't freakin touch anybody.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
No, no, no, I know what you're saying. I'm just saying,
people say kill him. No, you wouldn't sit back down
and shut the hell up, because you're not even serious,
and you're committing a crime while not being serious. I'd
have more respect for the guy if I actually thought
he would go through with it, because I mean, he's
just he's just a loud mouth punk who thinks he
can get away with saying.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Any You have no idea if that's true or not.
And the reason why I say, the reason why I
say that is we've had a bunch of loudmouth punks
lightly who have actually murdered people. So it's so I'm
what I'm saying is you cannot assume that he is
just a loud mouth and not dangerous. You cannot make
that assumition.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And that's what what he committed. I don't think he
would do it, but he did commit a crime. They
say you do it.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
That's my point is, well, I got your point, but
I'm just saying they wouldn't kill him.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But what I'm just saying is this is the level
of nutship that is out there is they think it's
okay to go around talking about killing people.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Curious does anything about it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, here's an elderly guy with a mustache. He's walking
around with a shirt. This is eighty six, forty seven,
and he's approached by some of some other people who
filmed it, going what are you doing? Cut thirteen A
look that, sir, look at that.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Year eighty six forty seven.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Explain it to me, I like, the colors kill the
son of a bitch kill who this forty seven president?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Really?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What's your name? Dick Saver?
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Glad we got that on camera. You know that's illegal. Right,
You don't threaten, right, you don't threaten anybody. But that's
the problem with your guys' side. You guys get so
emotional you feel you need.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
To threaten people. But don't worry.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
We're spreading love and we're going to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
God bless God, bless you, God bless God.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Bless he says, bleep you and their responses coup blessed, God,
bless you. But this is the problem is that people
who are crazy see this and think they're all going
to support me.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
That guy, they're going to kill the president?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Ye he and everybody like him, like the other guy.
They're going to support me when I go and do it,
and then what happens. We've had three attempts and it
looks like there was a fourth planned against President Trump
with a freaking duct blind overlooking Air Force one.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
So and there aren't by the way, in satisfied you
say that these people, these would be assassins, think everybody
will support them.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Problem.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Here's the problem though, and the same thing happened with
Charlie Kirk, who's not the president obviously, but there are sadly,
there are a lot of people who support someone killing
the president.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But I hate it when I hear this there's violence
on side. There isn't violence on both sides. Actually, I
understand why you would want to say that, because it
makes you feel better, But there isn't. I have not
seen a rash of nuts on the right, and there
are nuts on the right at shooting and trying to
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kill people on the left. But I do see it
the other way around. And part of that reason is
because the Democratic Party, the party and people who are
visible within the party are embracing people like that who
say it's okay to kill people and then you have
are you one of the biggest nuts. Robert Niro, who
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you know, an Academy Award winning actor.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Great actor, but losing his mind, and he's out there.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You know, and he promulgates hate speech against Donald Trump,
and people like the nuts you just heard think Robert
de Niro is on our side. It's okay to kill
somebody because of the hate speech Cut fifteen A.
Speaker 14 (19:00):
Trump does not understand anything about humanity people. He has
no empathy. I don't know where what he is, but
he's an alien and he wants to he wants to
hurt this country. It's something deeply psychological in him. He
wants to hurt people.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
I think he's I think he's done too many movies
where he was the you know, the enforcer or the
bad guy.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
But he's putting it out there. Trump wants to hurt you,
so people who are disturbed think, oh my god, I
better do something about this before he hurts more people.
That's what that speech does. And you would say that
I'm an alarmist, except we've seen people respond to it.
People have actually tried to kill President Trump because of it,
and other people and people like Charlie Kirk same thing.
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So you know, and you saw this level of nutship
at there are No King's Rally. And first of all,
can I point out about the No King's rally this
past week that the fact that you can have have
a rally is enough to show that there is no
dictatorship because if there was a dictatorship, you wouldn't be
able to have the No King's rally. So just wanted
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to point that out.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I'll say something to so I know, you know you're
not going to agree with this, but I gotta. I
got to really thank the other people for the No
King's rally. Hell of the job. I'm really proud of them.
I woke up the day after the rally and I went,
holy crap, we don't have a king.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
They did it nice, nice Benjamin, but they you know,
they they were out there at the rally. And the
fact I said before, like the fact that they that
they can do the rally should be enough to show
them that they don't live in an authoritarian, totalitarian.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Dictatorship.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But still they went out there. Here they are chanting.
In this case, this chance is from Seattle cut nine.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Show me what democracy looks like, Show me what democracy
he looks like no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
No is right. Listen, First of all, I don't have one.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
I got I gotta, I got I gotta say this
again and again. Oh my god, go back to freaking
high school. We don't live in a democracy. This is
a democracy. It's a democratic republic, and there is a
major difference. And if you don't start learning it, you're
just gonna keep saying the wrong crap when you go out.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
With your bullet.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
They well, we just yeah, true. But here here's the
thing that it's going to get you more excited.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh god, I know.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And that is so when asked what Trump had done
to make himself king, uh well, you can listen to
the response. This is TikToker Carolyn Joyous, who's asking liberal
protesters at a not King rally what Trump has done
to limit their freedom?
Speaker 15 (21:54):
A I was wondering, what has President Trump done to
put your freedom in danger?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Explorent we have?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I think that he has done so? By We'll wait. Sorry,
we weren't expecting to be on Yeah, sorry weren't. But
we weren't expecting to be questioned like, yeah, why you're here?
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Yeah, I just I was for the donuts. I thought
there was free donuts or something?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, yeah, well she asked more than one person cut twelve? Oh,
wondering you had the King protest today?
Speaker 15 (22:25):
I was wondering how President Trump has uh, but you're
you put your freedom in jeopardy.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
I wanted to say, my freedom for jeopardy. So who's
freedom is?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And why are you out here at the note King's protests?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
I guess sorry?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Right, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
How how dare Caroline? Are you going to and throw
all these trick questions at people? How dare you ask
trick questions?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I mean, oh my god, I'm just why are you here?
But that's the why are you here? That's why are
you here? Is basically what she's asked everywhere, and nobody
had a response. I didn't know there's free coffee and donuts.
I mean, that would have been a better response than
what they gave.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Even if your answer is dumb, you shouldn't have an
answer to that question no matter where you are, whether
you go to somebody's birthday party or a protest.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
If I am here because I get paid to be here, right.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And if you like, let's let's say you go.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
You don't like bowling, but you go bowling and someone says, hey,
why are you here because my wife dragged me here.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
At least that's an answer. When you don't have an answer,
you're a dumb Yes.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, it's enough to make your head hurt.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
It makes my hurt, you know, honestly what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, I had to I had to go get some tunnel.
When I was cutting it up, I was just like.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Listen, I'm already on ten drugs. I don't need this.
I'll be on the more by the morning.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So there were some other people this week that were
making fools themselves or were exposed as fools, which was
kind of interesting. One was Koreine jump Here, former White
House Press secretary.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
She's on a book.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Tour, and after everything we've seen, all the data that's
come out, all the people who've testified, all the actual
documentation of President Biden's failing mental acuity, Karine Jean Pierre
still denies that she ever saw any issues Cut twenty one.
Speaker 15 (24:15):
Well, when we were on the Air Force one going
on the going to the debate, you got to remember
his campaign people were on the team, his family was
on the team. I actually was one of those rare
trips that I didn't really see him until after the debate,
even though I was on the plane. So really, I
take I want everybody to know that I take this
question incredibly seriously.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I do.
Speaker 15 (24:37):
I was his White House Press secretary, which means I
had a role that saw him practically every day and
traveled with him, saw for more than ninety five percent.
We've always said, we're not going to say, oh, he
didn't age.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
He aged and he.
Speaker 15 (24:50):
Poked fun at it. We always owned up and with
age comes what happens when you get older, which is
what I But when we talk about the mental acuity,
and again I take this very very seriously, I never
saw anyone who wasn't there. I saw someone who was
always engaged. I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us
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on the policy, and also understood history.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He was fine.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh my god, we know for sure that they were
hiding him from the cabinet. Why because the cabinet told us,
as as his White House staff has admitted now that
that's what they did. And still still.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
You know what they should have asked Joe Biden, why
are you here? He just like because his answer would
have been, just like those protesters, you wouldn't have heard anything.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, crickets playing and speaking of Joe Biden, this is
something that was revealed this week or dug up, which
I found fascinating.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
This was during he was a senator. He was in.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Charge of chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when Clarence
Thomas was vetted for the Supreme Court, and at the
time he apparently wrote or not wrote, but left a
voicemail for Justice Thomas basically saying, don't let all the
scurreless accusations get you down.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You're a great guy.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
This is the voicemail that he left for Justice Thomas
during his confirmation cut sixteen.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
You are the character, don't let down.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So in other words, a great guy, great character. That's
what he's telling. But this is him when he was
running for president in twenty twenty on Good Morning America
with Robin Roberts had a completely different tone. Sixteen A
bad look.
Speaker 16 (26:51):
I was chairman of the committee. I believed her from
the very beginning. But I was chairman. She did not
get a fair hearing, she did not get treated well.
That's my responsibility, and I committed that I am determined
to continue the fight to see to it that we
basically change the culture in this country.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
So that's about Anita Hell.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So he's saying how Anita Hill was mistreated.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Everything she said was true. I believed her.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yet at the time contemporaneously, he's lying through his teeth
on the campaign trail, because there he is leaving a
voicemail message for Justice Thomas saying, you're a great guy.
Don't let this hearing bother you. In other words, I
don't believe in Needa Hell. So by the voicemail message,
I don't believe in need a Hell on the campaign trail.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Good Morning America. Oh, I believe Innita Hill. I'm just
going to ask. And it's not because I believe it
one way or the other day.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
I'm going to ask, right and because we've all looked,
we've all said something to someone we don't really like.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
That's nice, just to be the nice guy and not
be the a hole.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
But so was he lying on Good Morning America or
was he lying when he left that voicemail message for
Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I don't know if you forgot he left the maybe
message for Clarence Thomas. I tend to doubt because you
really have no interaction with the Supreme Court once the
confirmation is done. The Senate and the Supreme Court have
nothing to do with each other. They really don't. So
he didn't need to curry just as Thomas's favor for anything.
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There was no reason to do it unless he felt
as he left the message, unless he liked Clarence Thomas
and had been grandstanding during the hearings. In other words,
the persona we saw during the hearings was false, and
he really liked Justice Thomas, which I think he did.
I think he really liked Justice Thomas and so and
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you know, Justice Thomas, you know, never shared that with anybody.
Somebody else had it. And okay, so I tend to
think on a private message like that that he that
was the truth.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well, that's fair, I would.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Think, I mean, the only thing I would think is
so the message he left and assuming Joe would never run.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
For president, right, that's just a message. You never know
about it. But either way, that message goes over better than.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Hey, Clarence wanted to call you. You know, I like you,
but you're a real jackass. And I can't believe he
did this.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
He didn't have to call him at all, and he
did it. So that's what makes me thinks it's genuine
because he didn't need to call him at all.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Just like he did.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
It's a question that I felt need to be asked.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I agree with you, it does need to be asked.
But the fact that he actually made the phone call
shows you, Yeah, he didn't have to do anything, but
he did. But then on Good Morning America. He's trying
to court the female vote, and so he's got a
what is one of the big issues of his career
was the you Needa Hell Clarence Thomas hearings, and he
was ahead of it and people say he watched it horribly.
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So he's got to come out and support Anita Hill
if he wants the female vote. I think that's where
his head was at. I don't think he did, but
that's obviously what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So he's lying.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
In other words, we now he's disingenuine on one of
those things. I tend to think it was Good Morning America.
But he's obviously a liar. So it's like, and we
kind of knew this before because he's been caught lying
multiple times, but that's just another example that just came out.
Why he came out.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Now I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I mean, well, he's no longer relevant.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
The appearance on Good Morning America and that phone caller
are well in the past. Yeah, but I do think
to myself, you know, look, people thought you botched the hearing,
then you go on Good Morning America.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And basically say that you did.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
Yeah, shouldn't that right there have made people go, well,
you shouldn't be president because you botched a freaking hearing.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It to me, so it was kind of a he
could have cut his own leg off with that story.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well apparently didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
No, it didn't. But because that's why I said it's
in the past.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It is, no, I mean because nobody cared. Nobody obviously
they were going to vote for him no matter what.
Obviously we knew at that time that there was a
problem with him, and the Democrats hid it and or
tried to hide it. But I think it was pretty
clear to anybody who who who wasn't voting on strict
party lines that there was a problem in twenty twenty.
So but you know, he got elected anyway because people
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fell for it.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Just came in, just popped into my head. Joe Biden's
campaign slogan could have been I sucked at leading committees,
but I'll be a great president.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It could have been, honest to God, because he did
suck at leading committees. We end every week with the
truth Control, and this week our truth control is yes
Who once again Yes, President Trump. He was speaking at
the White House Rose Garden Club lunch and he's he's referencing.
He's talking about how somebody was talking to him about
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who the best presidents in history was. He doesn't mention
it in the cut, but who he's referencing, by the way,
is New Gingridge.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
So this is new.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
You can keep that in the back of your mind
that New Gingridge is the one who gave this assessment
on the air. And the President says he's pretty ticked.
Cut one to eleven.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Somebody went up there, they say, you're the third best
president in the This was on televisions, third best, And
they said who are the first?
Speaker 10 (31:55):
Who?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
And I got.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Extremely angry at this man.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
You know you can't.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
It's gonna be it's gonna be tough to beat mister Senator.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It's going to beat John.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
It's gonna be very tough to beat Washington and Lincoln,
but we're gonna give it a try.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Right, Hey, they didn't put out eight.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Wars nine coming? All right, we put out eight Wars
and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So, and he who is referencing there when he says
John is Senator John Thune, so majority leader, so in
the Senate. So that's who he's talking to, but he's
referencing new Gingridge was asked, you know who the best
presidents in history were? And he's in his opinion, it
goes George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Donald Trump is number three,
and Donald Trump doesn't like being number three.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
He wants to be number one.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
So he says he's gonna when hasn't he wanted to
be number one?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
So he's going to give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Is he trolling? Is he actually touched to be thought
of as the third best president behind Washington and Lincoln?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Or is he is?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Is that the truth? Or is he just kind of
trolling because you know what the hell I think?
Speaker 8 (33:00):
I mean think he would be honored to be third
on that list, but uh, you know, you never know
he's there was touch of sarcasm. And here's the problem
with that list, right, so we're bringing current events into
play here. So George Washington, as General of the Army
ended up beating a king. Uh, made it so there
were were no kings in America. Lincoln didn't do that,
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and we have not had a king since then. So
you got to put Washington first on anybody's list because
he delivered the no kings.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, he did, so he turned down the role. He
was actually asked, do you want to be king?
Speaker 8 (33:36):
He said no, Right, the fact that that that happened,
Washington's first, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I guess you got to do you think number two
is open?
Speaker 8 (33:43):
Well, I think so, And I mean you gotta you
gotta think about the fact that, you know, since Trump
was elected, even the first time, uh, there have been
no kings. So kudos to him for keeping it that way.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yes, but you know, I mean, but Lincoln to give
him his due. Actually, you know, held the nation to
get other during Civil War and got rid of slavery.
And let's not forget Reagan ended the Cold War not
a little thing, that was a big thing. And and
Reagan AMICX was very successful for the country.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
So obviously, if we were sincerely making a list of
best presidents, I don't know that I put Trump third,
I wouldn't put him forty seventh either.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
No, no, no, he's up in the top.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
But I mean there are other there are other contenders,
but I but but not to put too fun a
point on it. Okay, New Gingrid thinks he should be
number three. You know, that's an arguable that's an arguable point.
You can say, maybe I'm I'm, I'm okay with him
maybe on number three, but Donald Trump wants one or two.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I agree with you.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
Nobody can be number It also depends on what your
what your metrics are, right, I mean FDR who I'm
not a huge fan of, but FDR four terms, you know,
steered us through tough times and into World War two
and all that he made mistakes, Oh my god, you
could write a list of things that he did wrong.
But what he Where are your metrics on all this?
Because it really does matter. There was no world war
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when Trump was president. I don't know, does that push
him down a little push him up? Or you don't
want a world war? Of course, but so I don't know. Look,
it's like it's kind of like when people come out
with any sports and they're like, well, who's the best
basketball player ever? What's your You know, it's really hard
to balance twenty twenty five to eighteen twenty three, So
there are a lot of things that come into play there.
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So people who try to make lists, they're fun, they're nice.
You can have a talk show about a whole list
of who's the best at whatever, but you're never going
to get a true answer that everybody says, yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
So this is just a little a side story because
I think about it whenever I hear George Washington's name.
My godmother, my godparents lived in had a house than
Tidewater in the Virginia area, and one of their neighbors
was a direct descendant of George Washington. And the reason
why I mentioned it is because if you went over
to his house and he opened the door, you would think,
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I have seen this guy? Why does he know I
have seen? Where have I seen? And it will drive
you crazy because you've seen him every time you open
your wallet and there's.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
A dollar bill.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
He looks exactly like his great great great great grandfather,
exactly like him, but he's so out of contact because
you don't think money or coin, you know, or portraits whatever,
that it'll drive you freaking crazy, and it did. It
did my dad. My dad's like, well, I could swear
I've seen your neighbor. And my my godmother's like, that's
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because he's the spitting image of George Washington. And my
father's like, well, why would that Because he's the direct
descendant of George Washington.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
She's run for president.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
That it was a good look for the seventeen hundreds.
It's not that good to look for now, I got
to tell you, but it's And George Washington when you
look at him, was not exactly a handsome guy. But
and you really, telegenics has a lot to do these days.
Look at Kennedy Nixon.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
But Martha what a looker?
Speaker 15 (36:57):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Maybe. So if you if you think President Trump was
telling the truth or trolling, you can let us know.
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Speaker 2 (37:13):
Meanwhile, have a great week. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
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