May 14, 2025 • 32 mins
Rep. Jeff Crank (R, CO-5) joins Ryan with an update from Capitol Hill on potential passage of President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' through Congress, which will potentially include the largest federal income tax cut in American history.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You sat next to Biden in the Oval office February
twenty seventh, twenty twenty four, just a handful of months
before the president took that debate stage, and it was
later reported that you and other Democratic leaders were talking
before the debate about having a plan, you and Hakim Jeffries,
Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama. I understand you later denied that
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that ever happened, but I am curious. I'm interested to
know whether the man that you saw us sitting there
on that couch on that day you were in there,
you saw him up close and personal, did you really
not have any idea that he was not fit to
serve a second term?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Casey, we're looking forward.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We have the largest medicaid caught in front of us,
we have the court, federal coments. Think all of this
because you lost a presidential election, and is that not
Joe Biden's responsibility for deciding to run again.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We're looking forward.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's it, Casey hunt.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
This is what you get for all the a kissing
that you've done for all those years, Casey Hunts CNN,
for the Left, for the Biden administration, for former Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, you get that kind of treatment,
Why would you bow down and be beholden to such
a craven old bag of crap like Senator Chuck Schumer,
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completely dodging the question the issue, tries to change the subject.
We're moving forward now. I always want to preface this
by saying the following. Those in this audience, most of you, myself,
you know, we don't sympathize with that political perspective point
of view. However, from a strictly strategic standpoint, if you
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are a liberal Democrat who despises Donald Trump and wanted
him to lose in twenty twenty four, are you not
infuriated with the likes of Chuck Schumer and Casey Hunt,
the media that was hand in hand with the Biden
administration Democrats in putting up this veneer, this facade, this
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false wall, that behind this false wall. Joe Biden's fine,
he's completely coherent, he's on the ball, he's sharp, he's
joining in the conversations, he's correcting us when we're wrong.
You know all of that happened. We know all of
that happened. Chuck Schumer was complicit.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
In that happening, but so was the media. And again,
if you're a Democrat who wanted Trump to lose, who wanted.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
To win that election, I have no doubt that most
Democrats wanted to win. Then why do you allow a
media and these types of representatives to insult your intelligence,
to lie to your face, and then you just go
about your merry way like nothing happened, Like, oh, I
guess Biden wasn't great after all, I say, I would
feel I would feel misled, I would feel doo ooped,
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I would feel taken for granted. I would feel like
a schmuck. I would feel like you think I'm stupid.
I'm not as stupid as you, as you all covering
for Biden. Had this happened on our side, I'd be livid.
I'd be livid because that's why they lost. It's a
big reason why they lost is Biden stayed in the
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race too long, and then he got in the debate
on June twenty seven, twenty twenty four, giving Kamala Harris
only one hundred days to somehow manufacture a campaign out
of whole cloth, out of the wind and try to
go up against a juggernaut that was an incumbent president
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of the United States. Running for reelection, albeit four years later,
you're gonna How arrogant and ignorant and stupid are you
to think that that's possible. These people are high on
their own supply. For some reason, they continue to underestimate
Trump on not sure why. He is a force to
be reckoned with. And unless you respect that, you don't
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have to like it. You don't have to admire it.
But you have to know what you're dealing with. This
is just like sports. He has to know that your
opponent is tough. You can't just overlook an opponent. Ah,
he's an orange man.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
He's bad. Most people know that, right. You can't just.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Enlist law fair or try to get him taken off
the ballot in Colorado, or all these cheap tricks and
smear merchants and spin doctors and whatever else operatives in
the field.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You can't beat him that way. Donald Trump is.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Far tougher, far more cunning, far smarter than they give
him credit for. That's the only thing that could lead
to this, the only thing in my mind. This was
immediately after Chuck Todd righteously indignant. Chuck Todd, former host
of Meet the Press on NBC News.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Chuck Todd go Key is among the people that are
responsible for this. So are you, the Democratic Party, the
staff of the White House, the media. And I have
to say, I find everybody now talking to these authors,
get out of here, go home.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You're part of the problem. Now you tell us.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
So I just and I find the reason why the
Democratic Party has less credibility today. Here's an unpopular president
and the Democratic Party has a worse rating than the
Republican Party with this catastrophic governance that we've seen over
the laste hundred and twenty eight and yet why is
the Democratic Party in worse shape because of this distrust?
Because of this frankly what the public feels as if
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the party leadership let them down and let them let
this happen. He's as responsible as anybody else. He was
a leader in the party. He could have said something sooner.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Chuck Wall has gone to a Chuck Todd rather has
gone to all these wine and cheese parties with the
muckety MUCKs inside the Beltway. His wife works as a
Democratic operative. He is a Democratic operative. Let's not get
lost there. He knows all these people. He travels in
those circles. He's accepted in those circles. He goes to
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the parties of Martha's Vineyard. He is one of those
coastal liberal elites that has access like no one else.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He knew, or he should have known.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
He had to know, so either he was lying to
himself or again he underestimated the intelligence of the American
people and thought, I.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Just passed this off as a lie. We can tell them.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
They're cheap fakes and that you don't believe you're lying eyes.
Joe Biden's perfectly fine behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Don't you know, Chuck, You had a job to do.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
There are those of us in the media, and I
would include myself in this that feel an obligation to
the audience to be upfront with exactly what we think,
what we feel, why we feel it, how we arrived
at those conclusions, and to call balls and strikes. I
support Donald Trump, I'm very upfront about that. In general,
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I have a very favorable opinion of Donald Trump. But
when there are issues where there are times that I
disagree with the president or I think he comes up short,
You're gonna hear that here as well as part of
my analysis. It's not that I'm going to say it's
disqualifying because I don't think it is, and I don't
think that it was. But I'm not going to tell
you that it's the sunshine and when you look outside
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and including right now, it's raining, gonna lie to your
faces and insult your intelligence.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm a guy who does his job. Must be the
other guy.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
That's right, Chuck Todd take that line for the departed
Mark Wahlberg, do your job.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You're not doing your job.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
The media either knew and was in on the cover up,
was complicit with the Biden administration and Democrats probably true,
or they didn't know, and they should have known because
they just materially failed at doing the very job of
journalisming that acquired, just scratching beneath the surface of whatever
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the Biden administration told you.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Here, here's an example.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Joe Biden trips over a sandbag at the Air Force
Academy graduation ceremony and has trouble getting up. Okay, his handling,
it's fine, he's fine. Has it ever occurred to you
to have one ounce of intellectual curiosity if you're on
the left and go, you know what, I'm not buying
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what they're selling me.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I might like Biden. I might hate Trump, I might want.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Democrats to win, but because I want Democrats to win,
I gotta get down to the bottom of this and
if Biden needs to be replaced, that we got to
move now. This is where I don't know. There's some
in the sphere. I think Rama Manual might be one,
some that are very upfront about this, like guys, what
are we doing here? But there are still those that
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are diluting themselves. And then I feel like Will Ferrell
and Zulander, I'm taking they'd melt right again in this
righteous indignation. It just it floors me. And it's not
just Chuck Todd. Here's a guy, Jake Tapper on his
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own network, having written a book with Alex Thompson and Axios.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Breaking news on CNN.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
President Biden came into that Los Angeles fundraiser June fifteenth,
and behind the scenes there were little, tiny fundraisers for
the big, big donors. There was the thing the event
on stage with Jimmy Kimmel and Barack Obama, but then
also behind the scenes photographs and smaller speeches for big donors.
And it was there that President Biden walked over to
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George Clooney, and Clooney realized, and other people witnessing realized
that Biden did not recognize him. This despite the fact
that they'd known each other since roughly after nine to eleven.
They'd had many meetings when Biden was vice president. They'd
known each other for a long time. Biden awarded him
a Entity Center Award in December twenty twenty two, and
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obviously Biden, I mean Clooney was throwing this fundraiser for him,
a record setting fundraiser.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
That fundraiser I believe took place sometime in May of
twenty twenty four. The debate again was late June June
twenty seventh. That same year, it was after the debate
that George Clooney himself came out after consulting with Barack
Obama and wrote a op ed calling for Biden to
step out.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Of the race. But it was a month later.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
If you were George Clooney and you wanted Trump to lose,
and you wanted the Democrats to win, and Joe Biden,
a guy who has known you for over twenty years,
and you're George Clooney, You're not George Smith from Tacoma, Washington.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Even if you are a major, You're.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
George Blanken Clooney, and President Biden doesn't recognize you from
the next guy standing next to you. It doesn't occur
to you to stand up and go whoa, whoa. This
guy's lost it. He's got dementia. He doesn't remember me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Quick personal story. My Bubba, my mom's mom, my grandmother.
She was one of my heroes. An immigrant to this country,
made her own living at Detroit dese on the assembly line,
worked very hard in her life, but later in her
life she had dementia. Physically she was great, she was
still walking five k's well into her eighties. I went
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to visit her at a retirement center and my aunt
and uncle, my mom's younger siblings, had told her, we
need you to come down here to Shanka because she's
not speaking English anymore. She's reverting back to Serbian. My
mom went down there and she speaks Serbian. She spoke
Serbian past tense, far better than my aunt Lily or
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my uncle Bato. And then after trying to speak to
her in Serbian, she turns to my aunt uncle. She's
not speaking Serbian either. It's like some Serblish kind of
blend mix incoherent. Not long after that, I went and
visited her on my way back from Boca Ratone. I
had worked at Florida Atlantic University and was the last
time I would see her. And what I witnessed was
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she couldn't communicate, she could emote a little bit, and
she didn't know who I was, her own grandson who
she had known my entire life, obviously, but I recognized
the throes of dementia. And that's a gradual process. Start
forgetting things, start forgetting names, times, places. Huh did we
see any of that over the last several years with
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President Biden? Him forgetting names, places, dates, numbers of any kind,
forgetting that a woman who served in Congress was dead,
and tried to identify her in the crowd.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Tapper wasn't done.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Biden is walking around saying hello, thanks for being here, Hello,
thanks for being here, and AID said, you know, George,
and the President was like, yeah, sure, how are you,
thanks for being here, and the AID had to say, no,
George Clooney. And it was just shocking for everyone involved.
And in fact, it wasn't just those in that specific
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conversation that were shocked. President Obama was there, he was stunned.
He attributed it to the rough schedule, Oh, come on,
that Biden had going from Europe to Delaware, back to
Europe and then to la But he realized later on
that it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Just the schedule that was the issue.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
No, And even if it was the schedule that the issue,
he's the president of the United States. He'd better be
able to take that kind of schedule on like President
Trump has been able to do. That's not an excuse,
that's not good enough, and their defense does not hold water.
I'm talking about the media now, the Dems. They're going
to circle the wagons. You expect that from them. But
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when a parody show, a comedy program like Saturday Night
Live beats you to the punch and you're supposed to
be the journalists without fear or favor, folks. This was
in March twenty twenty four, before the Clooney fundraiser, before
the debate, and it was the stuff of comedy.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden won the Michigan primary, but
a New York Times pool today has him down five
points and mini voters still have concerns about his age.
Here with me is Governor of California and Biden advocate
Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Great to be with you, Dana.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
I understand people care about the president's age, but what
they should care about is his record. Look at what
Joe Biden has done for America. He's created more jobs
than any president history. Inflation is down, the Shamrock shake
is back, and Beyonce has gone country.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Thank you Joe, right.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
But can he make that case with the speed and
sharpness that someone like you can.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Dana, Joe can do it better.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
I was just with him and behind closed doors, Joe
is incredible. Yesterday we had a big meeting about the border.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And God, he had such command.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
He had charts, tables, powerpoints, he had an interactive AR
display on the Apple Vision Pro that he programmed himself.
The software might be in beta, but the man, he's
an awful governor.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I have to admit I'm a little skeptical. This is
the same man people call sleepy Joe.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Well, he has to sleep, Dana. But even when he's sleeping,
he's on the Other day, he was taking nap and
I whipped the baseball at him and he caught it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Like de Nero in Awakenings.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Lightning quick just ask any of the people who are
with him every day.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Very well, let's go live to Washington with White House
Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
Hello, Dana, pleasure to be with you to talk about
the most vigorous man I've ever known, Joe Biden. Really absolutely,
I was just with him and behind closed doors he's
a whirlwind. I mean, Dana, look at his schedules. Seven am.
Soul cycle class and I'm not talking about taking one.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
He leads it.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Eight thirty am. Play speech, chess in the park. Eight
thirty two am. Wins chess game, points an opponent, and
says next.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Time, young Blood.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Nine thirty am.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Meets with Joint Chiefs for a military strategy meeting and
push up contest. Ten oh two am. Wins contest, points
at the head of the Joint Chiefs and says, next time,
young Blood. Ten oh three to eleven Train time. And
that's all before a lunch where he eats five hole
chickens and a raw potato krein.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Biden is eighty one years old. Isn't that a little concerning?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Only if you're scared of wisdom. Look, Joe Biden was
thirty years old before Roe versu Wade was instated, so
you know he was smashing. He dealt with those restrictions
then as a young, handsome man, and he can deal
with them now as an old, even more handsome man.
Ask anyone who works with him closely.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, let's do that.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
We are now joined live by Secretary of Homeland Security
Alejandro Majorcas.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Thanks for having me, Dana, I'm man, I am exhausted.
I was with Joe Biden for the past wee get
and who he wiped me up out?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Okay, so you feel he's up to the job, Danna.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
I was just with him and behind closed doors he's
a dynamo. This weekend we both went down to the
border town of Brownsville, Texas, and Joe went into beast mode.
He said, we're going to tighten this border. Look how
easy I can cross it. Then he PARKEDRD up to
the top of the border wall. He flipped into the
Rio Grande and came back up with a fish.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
In his mouth.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
But you didn't report that because it doesn't fit your
little narrative.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Well, with all due respected, doesn't fit reality.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh please, Danna, we were all just with him.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
If you don't believe us, just ask a good friend
of mine, one of the NBA's fiercest players, Golden State
Warriors forward Draymond Green.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Let's go live to San Francisco. Hello, mister Green.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, what's up, Danna. We talked about Joe Biden because
he got that dog.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
You know you've met the president.
Speaker 11 (17:52):
I was just wicking and behind closed doors, he is strong.
Joe got that grandpa monkey stred and he can jump.
Could jump so high that I saw him grab a
dollar off the top.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Of the backboard and leave some change.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Did you know he dumped on me, he dumped on you.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah. Yeah, it was disrespectful too.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
He wind kneeled in my face and he talked about yeah,
next time, young blood, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Wasn't having it, so I tried to punch him in
the nuts and I broke three fingers. Yeah, you can't
mess with Joe.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Man, Governor.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
I have to say, we all know the stakes here.
You don't have to exaggerate to make voters feel better.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
I'm not what we're saying about Biden, It's true. Do
you want to call him, Let's FaceTime him.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I'll bet he's tried.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Just ride in the middle of the bike ride, all right,
can you put my phone up on the screen.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hey, all right, Kevin, your.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Show, mister president. Hey, hold on, I'm just gonna turn
off the volume. She gotta try a new button. He
kind of well, it looks like he hung up.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Why the governor tries to get him back on the line.
Let's take a break on line from New York on.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Saturday, now, folks, that was March twenty twenty four, before
the Colony fundraiser, before the debate. They were making fun
of Biden behind closed doors with these exaggerated stories that
when we look back, weren't that exaggerated. Remember KJP at
the podium, cheap fakes, these cheap fakes when he was
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wandering off stage and Barack Obama had to lead him,
And then somebody like Nicole Wallace carefully edited that video
so you didn't see the part that Barack Obama was
helping the current President of the United States off the
stage because he didn't know where the hell he was
or where the hell did go. You've been lied to,
and that includes the media, Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, Casey Hunt, Nicole.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Wallace, and the rest of them.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And they done got themselves because they ended up protecting
Biden for too long, and then he stayed.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
On the ticket, and then he got out too late,
and by.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
The time the rest of America figured it out in
the debate, there was nowhere to go but down a timeout.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
We come back still.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Representative Jeff Crank fifth Congressional Districts on tap to join
us and your taxi five seven seventy three nine.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You're on Ryan Schuling Live. How do you think it.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you
make a comment like that?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Is very clearly a cognitive decline, That's what I'm referring to.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You are, no. I think it's so amazing. It's so
amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That trying figure out an answer cognitive.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Decloneative Biden embraces his stutter talking about it, while Trump,
mockx said, exaggerates it, belittles it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
He's sharp physically, I mean mentally.
Speaker 13 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I think the question is physically right right or.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So right right?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three
or four years younger than him. I mean, you have
questioned President Biden's age, mental fit, and fitness ability to lead.
Of those supporting Biden you said, quote, shame on all
of you pretending everything is okay. You're leading us and
him into a disaster. Do you worry that you damaged
him at all? I don't doubt that you got hugs
and handshakes behind closed doors today, and maybe even publicly,
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some of them because they like you personally. But I've
heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from
your Democratic colleague. I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
Exercise in narcissism? I mean false claims to the Wall
Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's
eighty one and his memory. You know, it doesn't seem great.
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It's not horrible. But I don't understand the outage quote
behind closed doors Biden shows signs of slipping quotes. The
Wall Street Journal is owned by Newscore, which is run
by the Murdocks. Beyond the headline, there is some critical
nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans,
with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
One going on the record.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
They do note in the article that most of the
criticism comes from Republicans. Have you heard any concerns from
anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeming
a little slower now the Russians are trying to do
to make us in the public not trust the our
election integrity. Joe Biden has dimensioned all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
And that was Jake Tapper, the same guy trying to
sell you a book claiming that the Biden administration misled
you about Biden's cognitive decline. Did it sound like Jake
Tapper was astute and objective in his analysis of Biden's
cognitive state, or did he demonized Republicans for daring to
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criticize it. Or Dean Phillips who ran on the Democratic
primary out of Minnesota saying he was talking out of school,
shouldn't say those bad things about Biden always.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Got a stutter?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Where did the stutter go for forty odd years when
he was in public office, going back to his days
in the Senate in the early seventies before I was born,
No stutter. I played a lot of those highlights numerous
times on this program. Joe Biden was there's no great
shakes when it comes to being an intellectual. But in
his questioning as the Chairman of the Judicial Committee with
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Clarence Thomas in those infamous hearings Narius stutter not one
time very clear when he was presenting his crime bill
on the floor of the Senate in nineteen ninety three,
going into nineteen ninety four, Where did the stutter go?
Meet the press appearances in the two thousands with Tim
Russer cognitively, I mean coherent, did not stutter, and all
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of a sudden, the stutter comes back after all these
years later. Get out of here with that nonsense. And
if Jake Tapper believed it, he's even stupider than I thought.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
A time out. When we come back.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Representative Jeff Crank joins us from the fifth Congressional District,
working a past President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill and push
back on criticism from Diana de Gett, congresswoman in the
first district, that they're going to cut Medicaid, You're going
to lose all your services? Is that true? I have
a feeling representative has another opinion. When we come back
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on Ryan Shuling.
Speaker 14 (24:02):
Live, if Republicans are going to say we're going to
cut more than seven hundred billion dollars from Medicaid, but
we're not gonna cut anybody off of Medicaid, that's not true,
and if they really think that, they're lying to themselves.
But what's worse, they're lying to their constituents who are
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going to lose their Medicaid coverage.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Representative Diana to get Congressional District one here in Colorado
with Sean Boyd on CBS four. Joining us will allow
me to retort pulp fiction style like Jules is. Representative
Jeff Crank here on Ryan Schuling Live. Representative Crank, thank
you for your time. Are you lying to yourself? Your
constituents both are neither on medicaid?
Speaker 15 (24:48):
Hey, Ryan thinks, well, I'm not lying to anybody. You
know who's lying other Democrats? And you know it is
really frustrating. I presided over the House yesterday. I was
in the speaker chair and there was a special order
going on, and this Democrat came down on the floor
and was literally held up the bill, the reconciliation text
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and waived it and said, you.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
Know, this bill is going to cut Medicaid.
Speaker 15 (25:16):
And social Security and Medicare, and there is no mention
of social security or Medicare in the bill. We can't
cut social security through the reconciliation process. It would immediately
be thrown out in the US Senate, So they're just
lying about that and on Medicaid, you know, to say
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that we can't get savings out of a government run system.
I mean, these people are defending waste, fraud, and abuse
in a medicaid system that is making us go bankrupt
as a country. So we've got to do some things.
And I think what the Republicans are doing. And I
just spoke to Gabe Evans on the floor. He's just
spent the last twenty eight hours in the Energy and
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Commerce Committee marking this bill up without going to sleep
for twenty eight hours because the Democrats had to do
amendment after amendment after amendment. And some of the great
work that they're doing is, you know, just things that
are common sense. Not allowing illegals to continue to get
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Medicaid in states like Colorado. You know, he was telling me,
Gabe told me that there's four there's people who are
on Medicaid, Medicaid registered for Medicaid in four separate states,
and the federal government is paying four different states for
that same person who is receiving Medicare benefits in Medicaid
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benefits in one state. So why can we not agree
that We're going to go after that kind of waste.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
He is representing the fifth Congressional District, Congressman Jeff Krank,
our guest here on Ryan Schouwing line.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Let me turn that around.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Let's you know, I'm not a lawyer, but let's go
ahead and throw that fast ball right back at them.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Representative Crank.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Is it the position of the Democrats, the Representative Diana
to get that illegal aliens in the state of Colorado
should receive Medicaid benefits from the Colorado taxpayers and the
American taxpayers?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (27:15):
I mean should is it her position that she said
that they should be able to steal Medicaid benefits from
the American taxpayers? I mean that's the question. And should
able bodied you know, thirty five year.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
Old men who live in their parents' basement, who could
go out and work, Should.
Speaker 15 (27:33):
They be able to steal Medicaid benefits from the disabled, from.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
The indigent who that's who the.
Speaker 15 (27:41):
Program is for. If we're not going to have it
for them, you know, what are we here for? And
so that's you know, that's the common sense thing to do.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
I mean, they are.
Speaker 15 (27:52):
Literally defending waste, fraud, and abuse at every turn. The
Democrats are.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Jeff They're also defending we to keem Jeffries earlier today
in an interaction with Chad Program from Fox News, representatives
of Congress just storming into ice detention centers willy nilly,
without authorization, without permission. It just seems like the rules
don't apply to them. But they're on the losing side
of that issue too. What is it about them that
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causes them to die in these hills that are eighty
twenty and they're on the side of the twenty.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (28:24):
I don't understand why they think that that's a good idea. Yeah,
I was thinking of that today as they were. I
saw Alexandri Cassio Cortez complaining about it and saying that,
you know, somehow members of Congress should be able to go,
in her mind, should be able to go and you know,
just storm any federal facility. So I guess if that's
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the case, I can just show up at Peterson's Space
Force Space in my district of Fort Carson, demand access,
demand to go in, whether I have business there or not,
and I guess I can just jump over the over
the fences. Is that the new standard here? Our argument
is that members of Congress are above the law. Right
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like a citizen can't go storm an ice facility, a
regular American taxpayer, a citizen can't go demand to get
into Peterson's space for space, but a member of coiris
should be able to do that. That's just outrageous. It's
arrogance at its finest.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Represented Jeff Crank, fifth Congressional down there in the Springs
Representative Crank. The status of the big beautiful bill as
the President calls it in the House, we know that
has to be reconciled with the Senate as well.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Where does that stand and where do you see it going?
Speaker 15 (29:39):
Well, you know, it's a heavy heavy lift, and especially
because we only have you know, a couple of votes
to spare in the House Republican Caucus and in the Senate,
and so we've got to get everybody because we're not
going to get a single Democrat in the House or
Senate to vote for this bill. And we already know
we're probably going to lose Tom Massey in the House
because he tends to want to vote against the President
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every chance it gets. So we've got to do what
we can to to you know, get this to a
place where everybody's going to vote for it. And look,
it's bottom line is it's not going to be a
perfect build. There's going to be things in it that
I wish weren't in it. It's not going to go
as far on cutting spending as I would like it
to go. But again, I'm for getting rid of, you know,
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the Department of Education and the IRS and most of
the most or many of the federal agencies. It's not
going to do that, but it is going to be
a gigantic step forward in you know, as we talked
about raining in some of the waste, fraud and abuse
and medicaid, getting our oil and gas industry moving again,
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you know, our military. We're going to fund the military
at a higher rate. So and of course these tax
cuts that will keep the American economy moving forward. So
we've got to get it done over the next two weeks.
It looks like we're planning to vote on it next week.
That's the plan of the leadership. They have a very
heavy lift to get us there. But I think people
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need to look at it to can't as a House member,
we can't draw red lines and say, oh, I'm not
going to vote for it if it doesn't do X
or Y. We just have to we have to be
team players. We have to work with the President to
get his agenda across the across the finish.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Line by the narrowest of margins.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
In the House, in particular, as he mentions, Tom Massey
is a no vote on almost any spending belby at
Republican or Democrats, so they've got the heavy lift, as
he puts it, to do. Representative Jeff Crank. Always appreciate
your time. I know today was a busy day. We'll
check in again soon.
Speaker 15 (31:39):
Ryan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 13 (31:40):
I appreciate all you do.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
All right, appreciate all you do.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Represent Jeff Crank right there and closing out with your
text at five seven seven three nine dimension is sad,
says this Texter. One can't recall things they've known for
a long time. Jake Tapper, I mean he forgot that
Sleepy Joe was kinditally disabled until after the election. A
little concerning. Well, yeah, if you still refer to Jake
Tapper as a journalist, which he is not, this one's
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kind of mean.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Gotta admit.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
George Clooney doesn't look the same as he did before
he married his wife. He looks way older, even than
last year, before he was able to keep that youthful
look well into his fifties. I will leave that to
your comment in the aftermath of that text. Thanks for
joining in today. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Here I'm
Ryan Schuling Live
You sat next to Biden in the Oval office February
twenty seventh, twenty twenty four, just a handful of months
before the president took that debate stage, and it was
later reported that you and other Democratic leaders were talking
before the debate about having a plan, you and Hakim Jeffries,
Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama. I understand you later denied that
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that ever happened, but I am curious. I'm interested to
know whether the man that you saw us sitting there
on that couch on that day you were in there,
you saw him up close and personal, did you really
not have any idea that he was not fit to
serve a second term?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Casey, we're looking forward.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We have the largest medicaid caught in front of us,
we have the court, federal coments. Think all of this
because you lost a presidential election, and is that not
Joe Biden's responsibility for deciding to run again.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We're looking forward.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's it, Casey hunt.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
This is what you get for all the a kissing
that you've done for all those years, Casey Hunts CNN,
for the Left, for the Biden administration, for former Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, you get that kind of treatment,
Why would you bow down and be beholden to such
a craven old bag of crap like Senator Chuck Schumer,
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completely dodging the question the issue, tries to change the subject.
We're moving forward now. I always want to preface this
by saying the following. Those in this audience, most of you, myself,
you know, we don't sympathize with that political perspective point
of view. However, from a strictly strategic standpoint, if you
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are a liberal Democrat who despises Donald Trump and wanted
him to lose in twenty twenty four, are you not
infuriated with the likes of Chuck Schumer and Casey Hunt,
the media that was hand in hand with the Biden
administration Democrats in putting up this veneer, this facade, this
(02:08):
false wall, that behind this false wall. Joe Biden's fine,
he's completely coherent, he's on the ball, he's sharp, he's
joining in the conversations, he's correcting us when we're wrong.
You know all of that happened. We know all of
that happened. Chuck Schumer was complicit.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
In that happening, but so was the media. And again,
if you're a Democrat who wanted Trump to lose, who wanted.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
To win that election, I have no doubt that most
Democrats wanted to win. Then why do you allow a
media and these types of representatives to insult your intelligence,
to lie to your face, and then you just go
about your merry way like nothing happened, Like, oh, I
guess Biden wasn't great after all, I say, I would
feel I would feel misled, I would feel doo ooped,
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I would feel taken for granted. I would feel like
a schmuck. I would feel like you think I'm stupid.
I'm not as stupid as you, as you all covering
for Biden. Had this happened on our side, I'd be livid.
I'd be livid because that's why they lost. It's a
big reason why they lost is Biden stayed in the
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race too long, and then he got in the debate
on June twenty seven, twenty twenty four, giving Kamala Harris
only one hundred days to somehow manufacture a campaign out
of whole cloth, out of the wind and try to
go up against a juggernaut that was an incumbent president
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of the United States. Running for reelection, albeit four years later,
you're gonna How arrogant and ignorant and stupid are you
to think that that's possible. These people are high on
their own supply. For some reason, they continue to underestimate
Trump on not sure why. He is a force to
be reckoned with. And unless you respect that, you don't
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have to like it. You don't have to admire it.
But you have to know what you're dealing with. This
is just like sports. He has to know that your
opponent is tough. You can't just overlook an opponent. Ah,
he's an orange man.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
He's bad. Most people know that, right. You can't just.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Enlist law fair or try to get him taken off
the ballot in Colorado, or all these cheap tricks and
smear merchants and spin doctors and whatever else operatives in
the field.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You can't beat him that way. Donald Trump is.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Far tougher, far more cunning, far smarter than they give
him credit for. That's the only thing that could lead
to this, the only thing in my mind. This was
immediately after Chuck Todd righteously indignant. Chuck Todd, former host
of Meet the Press on NBC News.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Chuck Todd go Key is among the people that are
responsible for this. So are you, the Democratic Party, the
staff of the White House, the media. And I have
to say, I find everybody now talking to these authors,
get out of here, go home.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You're part of the problem. Now you tell us.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
So I just and I find the reason why the
Democratic Party has less credibility today. Here's an unpopular president
and the Democratic Party has a worse rating than the
Republican Party with this catastrophic governance that we've seen over
the laste hundred and twenty eight and yet why is
the Democratic Party in worse shape because of this distrust?
Because of this frankly what the public feels as if
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the party leadership let them down and let them let
this happen. He's as responsible as anybody else. He was
a leader in the party. He could have said something sooner.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Chuck Wall has gone to a Chuck Todd rather has
gone to all these wine and cheese parties with the
muckety MUCKs inside the Beltway. His wife works as a
Democratic operative. He is a Democratic operative. Let's not get
lost there. He knows all these people. He travels in
those circles. He's accepted in those circles. He goes to
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the parties of Martha's Vineyard. He is one of those
coastal liberal elites that has access like no one else.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He knew, or he should have known.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
He had to know, so either he was lying to
himself or again he underestimated the intelligence of the American
people and thought, I.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Just passed this off as a lie. We can tell them.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
They're cheap fakes and that you don't believe you're lying eyes.
Joe Biden's perfectly fine behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Don't you know, Chuck, You had a job to do.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
There are those of us in the media, and I
would include myself in this that feel an obligation to
the audience to be upfront with exactly what we think,
what we feel, why we feel it, how we arrived
at those conclusions, and to call balls and strikes. I
support Donald Trump, I'm very upfront about that. In general,
(07:04):
I have a very favorable opinion of Donald Trump. But
when there are issues where there are times that I
disagree with the president or I think he comes up short,
You're gonna hear that here as well as part of
my analysis. It's not that I'm going to say it's
disqualifying because I don't think it is, and I don't
think that it was. But I'm not going to tell
you that it's the sunshine and when you look outside
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and including right now, it's raining, gonna lie to your
faces and insult your intelligence.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm a guy who does his job. Must be the
other guy.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
That's right, Chuck Todd take that line for the departed
Mark Wahlberg, do your job.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You're not doing your job.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
The media either knew and was in on the cover up,
was complicit with the Biden administration and Democrats probably true,
or they didn't know, and they should have known because
they just materially failed at doing the very job of
journalisming that acquired, just scratching beneath the surface of whatever
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the Biden administration told you.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Here, here's an example.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Joe Biden trips over a sandbag at the Air Force
Academy graduation ceremony and has trouble getting up. Okay, his handling,
it's fine, he's fine. Has it ever occurred to you
to have one ounce of intellectual curiosity if you're on
the left and go, you know what, I'm not buying
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what they're selling me.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I might like Biden. I might hate Trump, I might want.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Democrats to win, but because I want Democrats to win,
I gotta get down to the bottom of this and
if Biden needs to be replaced, that we got to
move now. This is where I don't know. There's some
in the sphere. I think Rama Manual might be one,
some that are very upfront about this, like guys, what
are we doing here? But there are still those that
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are diluting themselves. And then I feel like Will Ferrell
and Zulander, I'm taking they'd melt right again in this
righteous indignation. It just it floors me. And it's not
just Chuck Todd. Here's a guy, Jake Tapper on his
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own network, having written a book with Alex Thompson and Axios.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Breaking news on CNN.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
President Biden came into that Los Angeles fundraiser June fifteenth,
and behind the scenes there were little, tiny fundraisers for
the big, big donors. There was the thing the event
on stage with Jimmy Kimmel and Barack Obama, but then
also behind the scenes photographs and smaller speeches for big donors.
And it was there that President Biden walked over to
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George Clooney, and Clooney realized, and other people witnessing realized
that Biden did not recognize him. This despite the fact
that they'd known each other since roughly after nine to eleven.
They'd had many meetings when Biden was vice president. They'd
known each other for a long time. Biden awarded him
a Entity Center Award in December twenty twenty two, and
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obviously Biden, I mean Clooney was throwing this fundraiser for him,
a record setting fundraiser.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
That fundraiser I believe took place sometime in May of
twenty twenty four. The debate again was late June June
twenty seventh. That same year, it was after the debate
that George Clooney himself came out after consulting with Barack
Obama and wrote a op ed calling for Biden to
step out.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Of the race. But it was a month later.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
If you were George Clooney and you wanted Trump to lose,
and you wanted the Democrats to win, and Joe Biden,
a guy who has known you for over twenty years,
and you're George Clooney, You're not George Smith from Tacoma, Washington.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Even if you are a major, You're.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
George Blanken Clooney, and President Biden doesn't recognize you from
the next guy standing next to you. It doesn't occur
to you to stand up and go whoa, whoa. This
guy's lost it. He's got dementia. He doesn't remember me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Quick personal story. My Bubba, my mom's mom, my grandmother.
She was one of my heroes. An immigrant to this country,
made her own living at Detroit dese on the assembly line,
worked very hard in her life, but later in her
life she had dementia. Physically she was great, she was
still walking five k's well into her eighties. I went
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to visit her at a retirement center and my aunt
and uncle, my mom's younger siblings, had told her, we
need you to come down here to Shanka because she's
not speaking English anymore. She's reverting back to Serbian. My
mom went down there and she speaks Serbian. She spoke
Serbian past tense, far better than my aunt Lily or
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my uncle Bato. And then after trying to speak to
her in Serbian, she turns to my aunt uncle. She's
not speaking Serbian either. It's like some Serblish kind of
blend mix incoherent. Not long after that, I went and
visited her on my way back from Boca Ratone. I
had worked at Florida Atlantic University and was the last
time I would see her. And what I witnessed was
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she couldn't communicate, she could emote a little bit, and
she didn't know who I was, her own grandson who
she had known my entire life, obviously, but I recognized
the throes of dementia. And that's a gradual process. Start
forgetting things, start forgetting names, times, places. Huh did we
see any of that over the last several years with
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President Biden? Him forgetting names, places, dates, numbers of any kind,
forgetting that a woman who served in Congress was dead,
and tried to identify her in the crowd.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Tapper wasn't done.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Biden is walking around saying hello, thanks for being here, Hello,
thanks for being here, and AID said, you know, George,
and the President was like, yeah, sure, how are you,
thanks for being here, and the AID had to say, no,
George Clooney. And it was just shocking for everyone involved.
And in fact, it wasn't just those in that specific
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conversation that were shocked. President Obama was there, he was stunned.
He attributed it to the rough schedule, Oh, come on,
that Biden had going from Europe to Delaware, back to
Europe and then to la But he realized later on
that it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Just the schedule that was the issue.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
No, And even if it was the schedule that the issue,
he's the president of the United States. He'd better be
able to take that kind of schedule on like President
Trump has been able to do. That's not an excuse,
that's not good enough, and their defense does not hold water.
I'm talking about the media now, the Dems. They're going
to circle the wagons. You expect that from them. But
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when a parody show, a comedy program like Saturday Night
Live beats you to the punch and you're supposed to
be the journalists without fear or favor, folks. This was
in March twenty twenty four, before the Clooney fundraiser, before
the debate, and it was the stuff of comedy.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden won the Michigan primary, but
a New York Times pool today has him down five
points and mini voters still have concerns about his age.
Here with me is Governor of California and Biden advocate
Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Great to be with you, Dana.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
I understand people care about the president's age, but what
they should care about is his record. Look at what
Joe Biden has done for America. He's created more jobs
than any president history. Inflation is down, the Shamrock shake
is back, and Beyonce has gone country.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Thank you Joe, right.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
But can he make that case with the speed and
sharpness that someone like you can.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Dana, Joe can do it better.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
I was just with him and behind closed doors, Joe
is incredible. Yesterday we had a big meeting about the border.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And God, he had such command.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
He had charts, tables, powerpoints, he had an interactive AR
display on the Apple Vision Pro that he programmed himself.
The software might be in beta, but the man, he's
an awful governor.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I have to admit I'm a little skeptical. This is
the same man people call sleepy Joe.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Well, he has to sleep, Dana. But even when he's sleeping,
he's on the Other day, he was taking nap and
I whipped the baseball at him and he caught it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Like de Nero in Awakenings.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Lightning quick just ask any of the people who are
with him every day.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Very well, let's go live to Washington with White House
Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
Hello, Dana, pleasure to be with you to talk about
the most vigorous man I've ever known, Joe Biden. Really absolutely,
I was just with him and behind closed doors he's
a whirlwind. I mean, Dana, look at his schedules. Seven am.
Soul cycle class and I'm not talking about taking one.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
He leads it.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Eight thirty am. Play speech, chess in the park. Eight
thirty two am. Wins chess game, points an opponent, and
says next.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Time, young Blood.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Nine thirty am.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Meets with Joint Chiefs for a military strategy meeting and
push up contest. Ten oh two am. Wins contest, points
at the head of the Joint Chiefs and says, next time,
young Blood. Ten oh three to eleven Train time. And
that's all before a lunch where he eats five hole
chickens and a raw potato krein.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Biden is eighty one years old. Isn't that a little concerning?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Only if you're scared of wisdom. Look, Joe Biden was
thirty years old before Roe versu Wade was instated, so
you know he was smashing. He dealt with those restrictions
then as a young, handsome man, and he can deal
with them now as an old, even more handsome man.
Ask anyone who works with him closely.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, let's do that.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
We are now joined live by Secretary of Homeland Security
Alejandro Majorcas.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Thanks for having me, Dana, I'm man, I am exhausted.
I was with Joe Biden for the past wee get
and who he wiped me up out?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Okay, so you feel he's up to the job, Danna.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
I was just with him and behind closed doors he's
a dynamo. This weekend we both went down to the
border town of Brownsville, Texas, and Joe went into beast mode.
He said, we're going to tighten this border. Look how
easy I can cross it. Then he PARKEDRD up to
the top of the border wall. He flipped into the
Rio Grande and came back up with a fish.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
In his mouth.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
But you didn't report that because it doesn't fit your
little narrative.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Well, with all due respected, doesn't fit reality.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh please, Danna, we were all just with him.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
If you don't believe us, just ask a good friend
of mine, one of the NBA's fiercest players, Golden State
Warriors forward Draymond Green.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Let's go live to San Francisco. Hello, mister Green.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, what's up, Danna. We talked about Joe Biden because
he got that dog.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
You know you've met the president.
Speaker 11 (17:52):
I was just wicking and behind closed doors, he is strong.
Joe got that grandpa monkey stred and he can jump.
Could jump so high that I saw him grab a
dollar off the top.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Of the backboard and leave some change.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Did you know he dumped on me, he dumped on you.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah. Yeah, it was disrespectful too.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
He wind kneeled in my face and he talked about yeah,
next time, young blood, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Wasn't having it, so I tried to punch him in
the nuts and I broke three fingers. Yeah, you can't
mess with Joe.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Man, Governor.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
I have to say, we all know the stakes here.
You don't have to exaggerate to make voters feel better.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
I'm not what we're saying about Biden, It's true. Do
you want to call him, Let's FaceTime him.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I'll bet he's tried.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Just ride in the middle of the bike ride, all right,
can you put my phone up on the screen.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hey, all right, Kevin, your.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Show, mister president. Hey, hold on, I'm just gonna turn
off the volume. She gotta try a new button. He
kind of well, it looks like he hung up.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Why the governor tries to get him back on the line.
Let's take a break on line from New York on.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Saturday, now, folks, that was March twenty twenty four, before
the Colony fundraiser, before the debate. They were making fun
of Biden behind closed doors with these exaggerated stories that
when we look back, weren't that exaggerated. Remember KJP at
the podium, cheap fakes, these cheap fakes when he was
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wandering off stage and Barack Obama had to lead him,
And then somebody like Nicole Wallace carefully edited that video
so you didn't see the part that Barack Obama was
helping the current President of the United States off the
stage because he didn't know where the hell he was
or where the hell did go. You've been lied to,
and that includes the media, Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, Casey Hunt, Nicole.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Wallace, and the rest of them.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
And they done got themselves because they ended up protecting
Biden for too long, and then he stayed.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
On the ticket, and then he got out too late,
and by.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
The time the rest of America figured it out in
the debate, there was nowhere to go but down a timeout.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
We come back still.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Representative Jeff Crank fifth Congressional Districts on tap to join
us and your taxi five seven seventy three nine.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You're on Ryan Schuling Live. How do you think it.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you
make a comment like that?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Is very clearly a cognitive decline, That's what I'm referring to.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You are, no. I think it's so amazing. It's so
amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That trying figure out an answer cognitive.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Decloneative Biden embraces his stutter talking about it, while Trump,
mockx said, exaggerates it, belittles it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
He's sharp physically, I mean mentally.
Speaker 13 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I think the question is physically right right or.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So right right?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three
or four years younger than him. I mean, you have
questioned President Biden's age, mental fit, and fitness ability to lead.
Of those supporting Biden you said, quote, shame on all
of you pretending everything is okay. You're leading us and
him into a disaster. Do you worry that you damaged
him at all? I don't doubt that you got hugs
and handshakes behind closed doors today, and maybe even publicly,
(21:11):
some of them because they like you personally. But I've
heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from
your Democratic colleague. I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
Exercise in narcissism? I mean false claims to the Wall
Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's
eighty one and his memory. You know, it doesn't seem great.
(21:31):
It's not horrible. But I don't understand the outage quote
behind closed doors Biden shows signs of slipping quotes. The
Wall Street Journal is owned by Newscore, which is run
by the Murdocks. Beyond the headline, there is some critical
nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans,
with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
One going on the record.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
They do note in the article that most of the
criticism comes from Republicans. Have you heard any concerns from
anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeming
a little slower now the Russians are trying to do
to make us in the public not trust the our
election integrity. Joe Biden has dimensioned all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
And that was Jake Tapper, the same guy trying to
sell you a book claiming that the Biden administration misled
you about Biden's cognitive decline. Did it sound like Jake
Tapper was astute and objective in his analysis of Biden's
cognitive state, or did he demonized Republicans for daring to
(22:35):
criticize it. Or Dean Phillips who ran on the Democratic
primary out of Minnesota saying he was talking out of school,
shouldn't say those bad things about Biden always.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Got a stutter?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Where did the stutter go for forty odd years when
he was in public office, going back to his days
in the Senate in the early seventies before I was born,
No stutter. I played a lot of those highlights numerous
times on this program. Joe Biden was there's no great
shakes when it comes to being an intellectual. But in
his questioning as the Chairman of the Judicial Committee with
(23:07):
Clarence Thomas in those infamous hearings Narius stutter not one
time very clear when he was presenting his crime bill
on the floor of the Senate in nineteen ninety three,
going into nineteen ninety four, Where did the stutter go?
Meet the press appearances in the two thousands with Tim
Russer cognitively, I mean coherent, did not stutter, and all
(23:30):
of a sudden, the stutter comes back after all these
years later. Get out of here with that nonsense. And
if Jake Tapper believed it, he's even stupider than I thought.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
A time out. When we come back.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Representative Jeff Crank joins us from the fifth Congressional District,
working a past President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill and push
back on criticism from Diana de Gett, congresswoman in the
first district, that they're going to cut Medicaid, You're going
to lose all your services? Is that true? I have
a feeling representative has another opinion. When we come back
(24:02):
on Ryan Shuling.
Speaker 14 (24:02):
Live, if Republicans are going to say we're going to
cut more than seven hundred billion dollars from Medicaid, but
we're not gonna cut anybody off of Medicaid, that's not true,
and if they really think that, they're lying to themselves.
But what's worse, they're lying to their constituents who are
(24:24):
going to lose their Medicaid coverage.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Representative Diana to get Congressional District one here in Colorado
with Sean Boyd on CBS four. Joining us will allow
me to retort pulp fiction style like Jules is. Representative
Jeff Crank here on Ryan Schuling Live. Representative Crank, thank
you for your time. Are you lying to yourself? Your
constituents both are neither on medicaid?
Speaker 15 (24:48):
Hey, Ryan thinks, well, I'm not lying to anybody. You
know who's lying other Democrats? And you know it is
really frustrating. I presided over the House yesterday. I was
in the speaker chair and there was a special order
going on, and this Democrat came down on the floor
and was literally held up the bill, the reconciliation text
(25:12):
and waived it and said, you.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
Know, this bill is going to cut Medicaid.
Speaker 15 (25:16):
And social Security and Medicare, and there is no mention
of social security or Medicare in the bill. We can't
cut social security through the reconciliation process. It would immediately
be thrown out in the US Senate, So they're just
lying about that and on Medicaid, you know, to say
(25:36):
that we can't get savings out of a government run system.
I mean, these people are defending waste, fraud, and abuse
in a medicaid system that is making us go bankrupt
as a country. So we've got to do some things.
And I think what the Republicans are doing. And I
just spoke to Gabe Evans on the floor. He's just
spent the last twenty eight hours in the Energy and
(26:00):
Commerce Committee marking this bill up without going to sleep
for twenty eight hours because the Democrats had to do
amendment after amendment after amendment. And some of the great
work that they're doing is, you know, just things that
are common sense. Not allowing illegals to continue to get
(26:20):
Medicaid in states like Colorado. You know, he was telling me,
Gabe told me that there's four there's people who are
on Medicaid, Medicaid registered for Medicaid in four separate states,
and the federal government is paying four different states for
that same person who is receiving Medicare benefits in Medicaid
(26:44):
benefits in one state. So why can we not agree
that We're going to go after that kind of waste.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
He is representing the fifth Congressional District, Congressman Jeff Krank,
our guest here on Ryan Schouwing line.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Let me turn that around.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Let's you know, I'm not a lawyer, but let's go
ahead and throw that fast ball right back at them.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Representative Crank.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Is it the position of the Democrats, the Representative Diana
to get that illegal aliens in the state of Colorado
should receive Medicaid benefits from the Colorado taxpayers and the
American taxpayers?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (27:15):
I mean should is it her position that she said
that they should be able to steal Medicaid benefits from
the American taxpayers? I mean that's the question. And should
able bodied you know, thirty five year.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
Old men who live in their parents' basement, who could
go out and work, Should.
Speaker 15 (27:33):
They be able to steal Medicaid benefits from the disabled, from.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
The indigent who that's who the.
Speaker 15 (27:41):
Program is for. If we're not going to have it
for them, you know, what are we here for? And
so that's you know, that's the common sense thing to do.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
I mean, they are.
Speaker 15 (27:52):
Literally defending waste, fraud, and abuse at every turn. The
Democrats are.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Jeff They're also defending we to keem Jeffries earlier today
in an interaction with Chad Program from Fox News, representatives
of Congress just storming into ice detention centers willy nilly,
without authorization, without permission. It just seems like the rules
don't apply to them. But they're on the losing side
of that issue too. What is it about them that
(28:18):
causes them to die in these hills that are eighty
twenty and they're on the side of the twenty.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (28:24):
I don't understand why they think that that's a good idea. Yeah,
I was thinking of that today as they were. I
saw Alexandri Cassio Cortez complaining about it and saying that,
you know, somehow members of Congress should be able to go,
in her mind, should be able to go and you know,
just storm any federal facility. So I guess if that's
(28:46):
the case, I can just show up at Peterson's Space
Force Space in my district of Fort Carson, demand access,
demand to go in, whether I have business there or not,
and I guess I can just jump over the over
the fences. Is that the new standard here? Our argument
is that members of Congress are above the law. Right
(29:07):
like a citizen can't go storm an ice facility, a
regular American taxpayer, a citizen can't go demand to get
into Peterson's space for space, but a member of coiris
should be able to do that. That's just outrageous. It's
arrogance at its finest.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Represented Jeff Crank, fifth Congressional down there in the Springs
Representative Crank. The status of the big beautiful bill as
the President calls it in the House, we know that
has to be reconciled with the Senate as well.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Where does that stand and where do you see it going?
Speaker 15 (29:39):
Well, you know, it's a heavy heavy lift, and especially
because we only have you know, a couple of votes
to spare in the House Republican Caucus and in the Senate,
and so we've got to get everybody because we're not
going to get a single Democrat in the House or
Senate to vote for this bill. And we already know
we're probably going to lose Tom Massey in the House
because he tends to want to vote against the President
(30:02):
every chance it gets. So we've got to do what
we can to to you know, get this to a
place where everybody's going to vote for it. And look,
it's bottom line is it's not going to be a
perfect build. There's going to be things in it that
I wish weren't in it. It's not going to go
as far on cutting spending as I would like it
to go. But again, I'm for getting rid of, you know,
(30:25):
the Department of Education and the IRS and most of
the most or many of the federal agencies. It's not
going to do that, but it is going to be
a gigantic step forward in you know, as we talked
about raining in some of the waste, fraud and abuse
and medicaid, getting our oil and gas industry moving again,
(30:46):
you know, our military. We're going to fund the military
at a higher rate. So and of course these tax
cuts that will keep the American economy moving forward. So
we've got to get it done over the next two weeks.
It looks like we're planning to vote on it next week.
That's the plan of the leadership. They have a very
heavy lift to get us there. But I think people
(31:08):
need to look at it to can't as a House member,
we can't draw red lines and say, oh, I'm not
going to vote for it if it doesn't do X
or Y. We just have to we have to be
team players. We have to work with the President to
get his agenda across the across the finish.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Line by the narrowest of margins.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
In the House, in particular, as he mentions, Tom Massey
is a no vote on almost any spending belby at
Republican or Democrats, so they've got the heavy lift, as
he puts it, to do. Representative Jeff Crank. Always appreciate
your time. I know today was a busy day. We'll
check in again soon.
Speaker 15 (31:39):
Ryan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 13 (31:40):
I appreciate all you do.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
All right, appreciate all you do.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Represent Jeff Crank right there and closing out with your
text at five seven seven three nine dimension is sad,
says this Texter. One can't recall things they've known for
a long time. Jake Tapper, I mean he forgot that
Sleepy Joe was kinditally disabled until after the election. A
little concerning. Well, yeah, if you still refer to Jake
Tapper as a journalist, which he is not, this one's
(32:03):
kind of mean.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Gotta admit.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
George Clooney doesn't look the same as he did before
he married his wife. He looks way older, even than
last year, before he was able to keep that youthful
look well into his fifties. I will leave that to
your comment in the aftermath of that text. Thanks for
joining in today. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Here I'm
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