September 30, 2025 • 36 mins
President Trump announces a major win on drug prices after negotations with 'Big Pharma' (Pfizer), and addresses the troops with a spring in his step reminsicent of Ronald Reagan at the height of his popularity.
Charlie Spiering wrote the original, definitive, unauthorized biography on Kamala Harris, entitled 'Amateur Hour.' His research and investigative reporting revealed the true nature of the Vice President's influence and input (or lack thereof) with the Biden White House.
Now, Harris is on a book tour of her own promoting '107 Days' far and wide across the mainstream media landscape. Charlie joins Ryan to provide his perspective on revelations from the book, and whether they line up with reality or a fictionalized version of events Harris is peddling to the American public.
Amazon.com: Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House: 9781668046074: Spiering, Charlie: Books
107 Days: Harris, Kamala: 9781668211656: Amazon.com: Books
Charlie Spiering wrote the original, definitive, unauthorized biography on Kamala Harris, entitled 'Amateur Hour.' His research and investigative reporting revealed the true nature of the Vice President's influence and input (or lack thereof) with the Biden White House.
Now, Harris is on a book tour of her own promoting '107 Days' far and wide across the mainstream media landscape. Charlie joins Ryan to provide his perspective on revelations from the book, and whether they line up with reality or a fictionalized version of events Harris is peddling to the American public.
Amazon.com: Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House: 9781668046074: Spiering, Charlie: Books
107 Days: Harris, Kamala: 9781668211656: Amazon.com: Books
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've never walked into a room so solid before. This
is very Don't left, don't if you're not allowed to
do that. You know, I just have a good time.
And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if
you want to do anything you want, you can do
anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying,
you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank.
They goes to your future. But you just feel nice
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and loose, okay, because we're all on the same team.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And I always tell.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That, sir, you will hear you will hear a murmur
in the room. I said, we had to loosen these
guys up a little bit, so you just have.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A good time. For those of you who are Gen
X probably or older millennials, probably not enough to remember
this is Donald Trump entering his Ronald Reagan era. I
mentioned the famous scene an episode from thirty Rock in
which Alec Baldwin, who was actually palatable back then as Jack,
plays kind of a right of center corporate executive vision
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maker type on the program. In one episode, everything just
kind of starts going his way. Any explains I'm reaganing,
And that was the eighties. Channon Scott remembers the Detroit connection,
fresh off of Tiger's playoff victory. Today, over the Guardians,
we are rocking and rolling, which bears to mention, I
need some rock and rye Fago style might go to
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via three one three, trying to bring them on board.
It's a good day, folks, and we're gonna play it
up with the positives here in our number one. We're
gonna get it in the meat of the matter of
our number two. Sheriff Steve Rams George Brockler on tap,
and I tell you, those topics are gonna drive you
a little nuts, make you a little bit upset, maybe angry.
(01:44):
But let's focus on the good here. What I mean
by Donald Trump entering is Ronald Reagan era. He has
that swagger, He has that happy warrior glimmer in his eye,
the wink in the nod to the troops there. They
love him. By the way, go ahead and do any
kind of polling you want for our armed forces, our
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military service members, men and women throughout the country, around
the world, and ask them if they approve of the
job that President Trump is doing, if he has their backs,
and that they trust him as their commander in chief,
and I'm going to tell you that number is going
to be off the charts. We'll get back to the military.
He was speaking with military leaders at Quantico earlier today,
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but I just noticed this in a couple of clips,
and this was another one. So you know, the winning continues.
Trump holding a press conference in the Oval Office with
his medical leaders in the Department of HHS, led by
Robert F. Kennedy Junior. And the reason why you know
you can trust me here is throughout that twenty twenty
four primary campaign general election campaign, there were some who
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splintered off. I won't mention any names, but his initials
were Sean Hannity and turned up on RFK Junior. If
you'll recall, and I challenge you the falling of the
audio that says anything to the contrary. I told you
repeatedly time and again. I like Bobby Kennedy. I don't
agree with everything that he says, or stands for, or does,
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but I think he's a good person with his heart
in the right place. He wants to do good for America.
He wants to make America healthy again. And I thought
his aims were true, were noble, and that his heart
was in the right place. I felt that throughout the campaign,
and I said at the time, you know, if Donald
Trump wants our votes and those of people that were
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in the middle, then he needed to go out and
campaign for them and earn them. And if that meant
RFK Junior was in the race and he was taking
votes away from Trump, and it looked like as the
campaign went on that was going to be the case.
And I think that's why they formed the alliance that
they did. This was mega power style. This was WWF
in the eighties style. This was much to me and
Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan brother doing the handshake, feeling
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the flow. Charley Kirk, by the way, helped bring that together.
He was instrumental, He was integral, He was a catalyst
for that. And it happened, as you may remember in Arizona.
RKA Junior comes on board. He is he makes a
deal Donald Trump. He's going to be leader of HHS
And this was his life's work coming to fruition for
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RFK Junior. And one of the things that he wanted
to do was to bring down pharmaceutical prices. Drug prices
in the United States in a nutshell, what had been
happening over the years. We had to fund R and
D research and development for Fiser and various other companies
that were developing these drugs. And these come at great
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cost and risk financially and otherwise to these big pharma
corporations that I know a lot of people don't very
have a very high opinion of, and I share that,
and I understand that I agree with that. But what
would happen is the American people, the American taxpayers, we
were on the hook and American just citizens in general
buying these drugs paying exorbitant prices to help fuel and
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fund the research and development to get these drugs out
to market, to get them approved by the FDIA, to
go through that process. And then meanwhile, overseas and even
just to the north to Canada, they're paying almost pennies
on the dollar for the very same drugs. Republican Democrat
presidents alike, members of Congress called this out. Nobody did
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a damn thing about it until today. Donald Trump strong
armed the leaders the CEOs of these corporations in the
way that only he can, exercising the art of the deal.
An RFK Junior credited President Trump with that doctor Oz
was in attendance there Vice President JD. Vance And this
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could really prove to be a turning point as they
made this deal with Pfizer, and you would think like
a domino effect that other drug companies would fall into line.
You know, Donald Trump can kind of wheel the bully pulpit,
use the carrot and stick approach, you know, threatend to
withhold federal funding. You can make it a real bad
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time for everyone involved. But this is done with a purpose.
It's just like with the tariffs overseas. It's a means
to an end. It's a cudgel. It's a negotiating tactic
to get the deal that Donald Trump wants for whom,
for the American people, because that's who Donald Trump answers to.
This is what scares people in Washington, d C. Part
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of the establishment, the Nancy Pelosi types, the Mitch McConnell's
crosses party lines. They go to Washington to make money.
They have insider trading on stocks. They have big donors
coming in who they answer to and are accountable to,
and really are owned by George Sorows. You can go
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across the political spectrum. Bill Gates, the Koch brothers on
the right side. You can name them all. Donald Trump
is dangerous to the establishment because he is everything that
they are not. He is independently wealthy. He doesn't need them.
He is one of the few, fact, you might say,
in recent history, maybe the last fifty years, one of
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the few American presidents who lost money in the venture
of becoming president of the United States. Look at the
Clinton Foundation, look at the Bush family, look at Obama,
look at Biden. This guy corrupt as hell from start
to finish. At the dawn of his career when he
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was barely old enough to be a US senator, and
we're talking fifty plus years ago, longer than my life
span ago. Joe Biden was first elected to national office
as a senator from the state of Delaware. He has
been living off the public dime ever since. And who
is Joe Biden beholden to? This is what makes the
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whole Russia collusion hopes such a and it was from
the start. Donald Trump doesn't need them, their money, their influence.
Donald Trump was independently wealthy, build his own empire, his
own brand, and he becomes President of the United States
and he's got zero fs left to give, and the
only people that matter to him. And ask any Trump
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voter who's as enthusiastic as I am, as many of
you are. You know, who does Donald Trump work for?
Who does the answer to Let his record show you
the way and the road to where he is going
and why he is going there. Why did he run again?
He didn't have to a third time. He can walk
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off into the sunset going you know what, I got jobbed.
I feel like the election was stolen in twenty twenty
COVID mass mail in balloting. I was screwed over in Georgia.
You know, he can go on and on and he
could just use that and that's a loser's mentality and
just cite those reasons excuses and be like an I tried,
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then he comes back, then have to come back, came back,
survives two assassination attempts and one shooting that clips his ear.
Don't tell me this guy was in it for any
other reason than to win it for the American people,
if his own personal fame he already had that. I
can't stress this enough. He was Donald Trump. And again,
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jen Xters, who remember millennials, you'll remember even in the nineties,
but eighties and nineties Donald Trump was it. He was
the modern day Bruce Wayne billionaire playboy. There was the
Norm Donald joke that we played from yesterday, and he's
trading up for Marlon Maples because he had the audacity
to turn thirty as a norm joked. All this to
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say that there was a big accomplishment today and the
mainstream media, especially CNN, etc. Unlikely to report more on it.
But that's why you come here. And Trump felt so
good about all of this that he cracks this joke
in the Oval Office as R. F. Kennedy Junior sneezes.
They couldn't get it. God bless you, Bobby. Oh but
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I didn't catch COVID just there. He's give me a
pack of it immediately. Donald Trump is in his Ronald
Reagan era, and he spoke to the troops today and
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this is more proof. Folks, you talk about leading the
Democrats around by the noses, He is forcing them to
defend indefensible positions that are ridiculous on their face. But
they're so deluded, so demented with Trump derangement syndrome, they
cannot help themselves. They are making a mockery in a
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joke of themselves. And here is where Donald Trump leads
off beforehanding off to Pete. Hegseeth about what the purpose
of our American military is. We're getting back to basics here, folks.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character, and strength.
And that's because the purposes of American military is not
to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic, bingal
and it's the republic that.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We dearly love.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's to protect our country. We will not be politically
correct when it comes to defending American freedom and women.
We will be a fighting and winning machine. We want
to fight, we want to win, and we want to
fight as little as possible. You have to count on
people like me to keep you out of wars because
we don't want to go intowards many of the wars
that I just told you about. We could have entered
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those wars and settled them in a different way to
lose a lot of our troops. And we're going to
settle them. I guess differently. Maybe not actually, actually you
might not have been able to settle them. I just
sort have been in the middle of a lot of firepower.
But when we do need it, you're going to be
so ready.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No American president in modern history, and I don't know
how far back you want to go with this. I
would include even Eisenhower here because he continued on in
the Korean War. In that conflict, though he did warn
about the military industrial complex, and if there was one
credible voice at that point in American history, and Dwight
David Eisenhower' is one of the most important Americans ever
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to live as the commander of the forces that stormed
the beaches of Normandy on the European Front in that
theater during World War two. Two term president. I like
the fifties were great. It was a time of American
renaissance in the auto industry. Those were good days. My
dad remembers them well as a little boy back then.
But no American president, I would argue, has supported our
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American military more while wanting to use them less in
terms of wars of misadventure overseas as a means to
an end. Donald Trump wants to fund them, wants to
strengthen them, wants to reinforce them, wants to let them
know that he has their backs, while at the same
time telling them I will never send you into battle
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risking your lives unless we absolutely have to do it again.
Pull any military member. You know there's going to be exceptions,
but very few who don't believe that President Trump has
their best interests at heart and in mind with every
decision he makes, and this is one of them. If
any of our American institutions that are left and the Democrats,
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the left, the Marxists are looking to tear them down
by their roots at their foundation and reform them in
their image, woke dei crap has no place in the
American military. If there is one place where it must
be a meritocracy top to bottom, it's our armed forces
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and troops serving overseas that rely on each other with
their lives on the line. And you want to know
that that person next to you in the fox hole
can do everything in his or her power to save
your life. That comes down to that. You don't not
be asking any questions. Here's Pete Hegseth. This is some
straight fire with physical fitness and appearance. If the Secretary of.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
War can do regular hard pt, so can every member of.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Our joint force.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Frankly, it's tiring.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
To look out at combat formations or really any formation and.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
See fat troops.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals
in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around
the country in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not
who we are. Oh no, he's fat shaming our military members.
He wasn't done.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So, whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborn ranger,
a brand new private or a four star general, you
need to meet the height and weight standards.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And pass the PT test. Yep. And as the Chairman said,
yes there is no PT test.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But today, at my direction, every member of the Joint
Force at every rank is required to take a PT
test twice a year, as well as meet height and
weight requirements twice a.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Year every year of service.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Also today, at my direction, every warrior across our Joint
Force is required to do PT every duty day. Shouldn't
be common sense, I mean most units do that already.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He speaks from experience. Pete was one of our warriors,
one of the few, I think, the only, and at
least again in modern history, to serve as Secretary of
Defense now re termed Secretary of War, who was a
warrior himself, putting his money where his mouth is, his
life on the line for this country. So if anybody
could speak to this credibly, it's Pete Hegsas there's Moremistration.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Has done a great deal from day one to remove
the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that
had infected our department.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
To rip out the politics. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
No more identity months, no DEI offices, no dudes in
dresses uh oh, No more climate change worship, no more
division distraction or gender delusions, no more debris.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
As I've said before.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And we'll say again, we are done with that.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
This is gold. And then the left, how do they
react to this? How do they defend what he was attacking?
They tried, here's Kristen Holmes CNN.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Can you take us behind the scenes and explain why
this why now?
Speaker 7 (16:54):
I mean, this is something that President Trump loves to do.
I mean, he loves to be talking to the military.
He loves talking as though he is the commander in chief,
which he is, and this is something that he saw
coming together and wanted to be a part of. I mean,
one of the things that you hear President Trump talk
about a lot when it comes to the military. Is
those recruitment numbers, and he takes credit for that, but
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he also gives credit to Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Hegseth has not been.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Probably Trump has not had the most confidence in hegset
that he hasn't had in some of his other secretaries.
But one of the things that holds true is this
idea of recruitment, is this idea that Hegseth is good
at talking to the troops and rallying the troops, and
he truly does believe that. So in this setting, President
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Trump likes to hear from high Seth. Plus he likes
all the inflammatory stuff. He says, I'm not having any
fat generals and doing all these tys, and that's stuff
that Donald Trump likes to hear.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
Literally shape up or ship out, That's what he was
saying there today.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I think there's gonna be some real pushback from Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Pushed back from Congress on what, well, okay hold on
your position then, is sir. I don't even even know
who that is, but she was kind of hinting at
this too, your position as we should have fat generals,
we should have overweight service members that cannot make physical
requirements of the job. At hand of lives in the
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line of protecting and defending our country and our troops overseas.
Your argument is to go to the contrary of that
and say no, no, no, no, we should have fat generals
and members of our military. I just saw a scene
and you may have seen it too. This video ReViral
and I'm sorry. We're gonna call it what it is
from now on. That's where we're at right now. Done
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with the bull blank as Pete Hess said, sorry, two
female cops, undersized, prim as strong as the average baseline
police officers should be, could not tackle, subdue, handcuff and
remove a perpetrator from a Hooters restaurant that was a
threat to the other paid a worker. A large man
(19:02):
at Hooters had to come over and help them subdue
this suspect. I'm sorry. If there's a brand of Tarth
from Game of Thrones, that's one thing. But if you
can't make the basic requirements of a police force or
the military, you have no business being in it. Now
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Deep Thoughts by Kamala Harris.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
You know, one of my favorite things to see and
it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies and thousands
of people would come and there it would happen is
invariably somebody would want me to take a picture of
a husband child and someone in the back would hand
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that baby over throw the crowd up to you people
who would baby past the baby and then past the baby.
And I don't know, there was something about that when
it would happen. I mean, I could get very emotional
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about it right now, but but but you know, I
believe that we should always feel that, you know, the
the children of the community are the children of the
community of all of.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Us, that our next leaders are next thinkers, and.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
That we all participate in caring about that and in
caring for that child. Yeah, and there was just something about.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That and seeing the babe travel from the parents.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Well, yes, and the parent trusted the stranger that was
next to them, who trusted the next person, and all
of them as.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Though it was their own child. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
There was something so magical in many ways about that
and about affirming about you can create an environment where
people feel safe and feel a sense of communal responsibility
and community.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah. Wow, I'm in awe. Well joining us now on
the heels of that which you just heard, he wrote
the original definitive unauthorized biography on Kamala Harris entitled Amateur Hour,
and now that can be used to compare and contrast
against her novel co authored by a novelist one hundred
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and seven day. She's on a book tour. Charlie Spearing
joins us here on Ryan Schuling Live to set the
record straight. Charlie, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Thanks for having me. Wow, that was quite a clip.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Have you ever been handed a baby and then gone
on to analyze it to that level of detail?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, it's fascinating, you know, because she's the hero in
that story, she's the maternal figure with the mamaa of
the world, and they're passing babies over to her. Just
if they can, just if she can just touch their child,
and then maybe they will grow up to have a
future and then the providential future and a great success,
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if only they just touched the hem of her cloak.
That's the kind of vibe I got from that statement.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm a little surprised, Charlie she didn't slip into some
Whitney Houston and say, I believe the children are a future,
teach them well and let let them lead the way,
and try to pass that off as her own.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, there is a little bit of that where she'll
slip into some other jargons, some other slogans that previous
Democrats have gone before her.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
In one clip, she starts talking about the light we
carrying the importance of carrying the light forward very much,
you know, cribbing from Michelle Obama's own.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Biography that was entitled The Light We Carry. So it
seems like she's kind of just pulling out all the
threads that she can find to come up with some
sort of cohesive narrative as to why she failed to
beat President Donald Trump. She's in a very unique club
right now. There's only two people who have lost to
President Donald Trump in a presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and
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now Kamala Harris Well.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Big Borrow or Steele. I guess is the name of
the game and the theme because one hundred and seven days,
as I mentioned yesterday, already thirty percent off at Amazon.
It has not even been out a full week as
of today. Joining us is Charlie's I highly recommend that
you order his book instead, Amateur Hour Kamala Harris in
the White House, and that was released in January of
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twenty twenty four. Charlie joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live. So, Charlie,
as you've observed Kamala on this book tour trail with
all of her stories and throwing virtually everyone near her
under the bus as to why her campaign failed, I
haven't heard one sentence uttered by her that accepts any responsibility,
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endorse adds any accountability for the failure of her own campaign.
Have you seen anything different?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, that's so true. I read through the book, and
you know it's sharply different from Hillary Clinton's book. Clinton's
conclusion was like, at the end, I was the candidate
and I failed, and I take responsibility. You don't see
that coming from Kamala Harris. Her number one argument isn't
the title I only had one hundred and seven days.
I didn't have enough time, And then proceeds a host
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of excuses of why she failed to deliver a victory
for the Democratic Party to put so much hope into
her after forcing out President Joe Biden. And look, what's
different this time around is that there's a whole bunch
of Biden aids that have finally had their chains loosened.
I've been talking to a lot of them, and Wow,
they are not pleased with what she's doing. They're describing
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her book as just one more sign of how politically
out of touch she was and how terrible her political
instincts were. Look, if you want to have a political
future here, you don't start by dumping on every star
in the party. That's kind of what's going on right now.
And you know, in the hopes that she looks better
by comparison, well that's just not how politics works.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And I don't think.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
That she's going to have a career going forward, but
it's very clear that she kind of wants one.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Charlie Spearing, our guest, he wrote the original definitive book
on Kamala Harris amateur Hour, Kamala Harris in the White
House to your point, and I want to drill down
a little bit deeper on what you just said, this
kind of race to the bottom of trying to make
everyone around her look even worse than she did. I
guess by comparison, this is Kamala Harris fumbling in an
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attempt to answer Rachel Maddow as to why she couldn't
pick a gay man, Pete Buddhajudge to be on her
ticket as VP.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
If his reaction to that, since this part of the
book has come out, if you've had any reflection on that,
or I guess, I guess I'd ask you to just
elaborate on that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's hard to hear.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
With you running as you know, you're the first woman
elected vice president, you're a black woman and a South
Asian woman elected that high office, very nearly elected president,
to say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively
because he was gay, it's hard to go.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
No, No, that's not what I said that. That's that
he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay.
My point, as I write in the book is that
I was clear that one hundred and seven days in
one of the most hotly contested elections for president United
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States against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor
to be a black woman running for president United States
and as a vice presidential running mate a gay man,
with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad,
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But I also realized it would be a real risk.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
A real risk. Charlie and I guess she would say
the same about Josh Shapiro, as the highly popular governor
in a purple state Pennsylvania, that she absolutely had to
win on the electoral map, but he was Jewish, so
they had to settle for Tim Walls, Right.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, that's the overall thinking from so many political consultants
is that you know, he just couldn't. She just couldn't
make the picks that you know, reportedly wanted to. In
the books, she revealed that, you know, her husband Doug
favored Josh Shapiro, and but she didn't even take that
recommendation seriously. She and she's you know, her claim that
(29:08):
she wanted to pick Pete Buda Judge as her running
mate demonstrates for the left, that demonstrates real cowardness. Right,
It's like the left wants you to see to make
to make the right choices despite any sort of identity
politics and political risk On the right, it reveals that
she just thought, Oh, the entire American electorate is either
(29:30):
too racist or too sexist or too homophobic to vote
for a ticket featuring me and Pete Buddha Judge that
I can't possibly choose. Well, that's just that's just nonsense,
you know, And it really shows that she was very
risk averse, which is why she ultimately hemmed and hawed
and picked Tim Waltz. And even she realized that maybe
(29:53):
that wasn't the Maybe that might have been the safe choice,
but maybe not the right choice. But either way, she
you know, her biggest concern was that she didn't want
a vice presidential candidate that would outshine her, and I
think ultimately is why she selected Waltz, who's kind of
a more dutiful, obedient person, rather than somebody who had
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seriously challenged her.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Charlie Spearing, author of Amateur Hour on Kamala Harris joining
us here. And never mind the fact that Trump appointed
Rick Grennell and openly gay man to one of the
highest posts In fact, the highest post at the time
ever for a gay man to be appointed to that
was by Donald Trump. And according to Maggie Haberman's own
reporting from The New York Times back ten years ago,
this is before they all turned on Trump. Donald Trump
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opened mar A Lago to gay couples before any of
their private club in South Florida did. That is Donald
Trump's record on gay rights gay issues. Final point here, Charlie,
because you kind of alluded to it, but I just
want to get your perspective, with all the research that
you've done, all the reporting that went into your book,
all the sources that you were able to harvest in
(31:00):
doing that, and those that you have spoken to recently,
what the biggest thing that's out of phase? In other words,
not in the ven diagram overlap that Kamala Harris loves
so much, between your book, what you know, the truth
that maybe is coming out now in the wake of
all her allegations and accusations, and the book she wrote
in one hundred and seven days.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is how you know
her biggest argument is that if she had had more time,
that she could have pulled it off. Well, we saw
that you know, in the first fifty days, Kamala Harris
pulled actually really well even with Trump, and then she
started to sag once voters realized what she actually believed
in based on her previous failed presidential campaign that she
(31:44):
had to end before she even made it to the
Iowa caucuses. Then once she they decided that, well, maybe
that we have to get her out and do more interviews.
And the more interviews she did, the less the American
electorate liked her because they realized that she very risk averse.
She didn't have strong positions on things. She would just
sort of spin into political jargon and not speak plainly.
(32:07):
And I think that ultimately this book kind of reveals
the real Kamala Harris. You know, if she was more
authentic during the campaign, I don't think that would have
helped her because I think now she's kind of revealing
who she really is. It's really all about her and
her demands and her reputation over anything else. And I
think it's really coming across in a very negative way.
(32:31):
And I don't think you know, maybe she wants to
be wanted back on the political stage, but I don't
think Democrats are seeing her as a serious political candidate
in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Your time, effort, and money are hard earned, and they
would be better spent on his book Amateur Hour Kamala
Harrison the White House than on her book One hundred
and seven Days. That's just my very biased opinion, Charlie Spearing.
Our guests always thankful for your time. Charlie, thanks for
joining us, and we'll talk again down the line.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Do that. Thanks for the kind words about the book,
and I'm really able to come back any time to
discuss it.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
All right, Charlie Sparring, right there you reaction five seven
seven three nine, rounding out our number one of Ryan
Schuling live after this. Look, guys, there's no way to
sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
We have no voters left because of all of our
woke trans both not even black people want to vote
for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So we need
new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens
free healthcare, we might be able to get them on
our side so they can vote for us. They can't
even speak English, so they won't realize we're just a
(33:42):
bunch of woke pieces of you know, at least for
a while until they learn English and they realize they
hate us too.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
King of the Trolls, real Donald Trump that was on
both True Social and x that he reposted that in
to describe the video that it was ai of course
Chuck Humor's voice being manipulated to disclose that, but then
standing next to him in this video a King Jeffries,
minority leader in the House of Representatives, fitted with a
(34:11):
Mexican sombrero and a mustache. So Trump trolls and the
Dems are left just to weep and moan and respond.
And here's a keen Jeffrey is doing just that. He's
not happy leading.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
A lot for our discussion tonight. His House Democratic Leader
chrisman ha Qing Jeffries of New York, thank you very
much for joining us tonight, mister leader. And I'm not
showing this video that Donald Trump put out about you
and Chuck Schumer today, this fake video. People are gonna
see it. They'll see it in other ways. It's easy
to find, but it is absolutely disgusting every way.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It is a lie. It's the man you met with.
Speaker 9 (34:50):
Does not lied about what is said after that meeting.
Could you give us your reaction to that. Trump posted
video tonight not hammering.
Speaker 12 (35:00):
It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to
make clear bigotry will get you.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Nowhere, Bigo Tree.
Speaker 12 (35:06):
What was fighting to protect the healthcare of the American
people in the face an unprecedented Republican assault on all
the things Medicaid, Medicare care ract. Republicans are closing our hospitals,
nursing homes, and community based health clinics, for actively shut
down medical research in the United States of America. Clearly,
(35:30):
Donald Trump and Republicans know that they have a very
weak position because they are hurting everyday Americans continuing to
reward their billionaire donors, just like they did in that
one big, ugly bill with massive tax breaks. Democrats are
united in the House and the Senate, and the point
that we've made will continue to be clear. We are
(35:52):
fighting to lower the high cost of health care, prevent
these dramatically increased premiums, co pays, and deduct that will
take place in a matter of days unless Republicans are
willing to act in terms of renewing the Affordable Care
Act tax credits.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
They want to provide healthcare benefits for illegal aliens who
shouldn't be here and are not American citizens, not paying taxes.
That's the truth of the matter. And President Trump just
announced a day he made a deal with Pfizer to
lower drug costs, So checkmate, Akeem Jefferies
I've never walked into a room so solid before. This
is very Don't left, don't if you're not allowed to
do that. You know, I just have a good time.
And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if
you want to do anything you want, you can do
anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying,
you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank.
They goes to your future. But you just feel nice
(00:23):
and loose, okay, because we're all on the same team.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And I always tell.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That, sir, you will hear you will hear a murmur
in the room. I said, we had to loosen these
guys up a little bit, so you just have.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A good time. For those of you who are Gen
X probably or older millennials, probably not enough to remember
this is Donald Trump entering his Ronald Reagan era. I
mentioned the famous scene an episode from thirty Rock in
which Alec Baldwin, who was actually palatable back then as Jack,
plays kind of a right of center corporate executive vision
(01:00):
maker type on the program. In one episode, everything just
kind of starts going his way. Any explains I'm reaganing,
And that was the eighties. Channon Scott remembers the Detroit connection,
fresh off of Tiger's playoff victory. Today, over the Guardians,
we are rocking and rolling, which bears to mention, I
need some rock and rye Fago style might go to
(01:21):
via three one three, trying to bring them on board.
It's a good day, folks, and we're gonna play it
up with the positives here in our number one. We're
gonna get it in the meat of the matter of
our number two. Sheriff Steve Rams George Brockler on tap,
and I tell you, those topics are gonna drive you
a little nuts, make you a little bit upset, maybe angry.
(01:44):
But let's focus on the good here. What I mean
by Donald Trump entering is Ronald Reagan era. He has
that swagger, He has that happy warrior glimmer in his eye,
the wink in the nod to the troops there. They
love him. By the way, go ahead and do any
kind of polling you want for our armed forces, our
(02:07):
military service members, men and women throughout the country, around
the world, and ask them if they approve of the
job that President Trump is doing, if he has their backs,
and that they trust him as their commander in chief,
and I'm going to tell you that number is going
to be off the charts. We'll get back to the military.
He was speaking with military leaders at Quantico earlier today,
(02:29):
but I just noticed this in a couple of clips,
and this was another one. So you know, the winning continues.
Trump holding a press conference in the Oval Office with
his medical leaders in the Department of HHS, led by
Robert F. Kennedy Junior. And the reason why you know
you can trust me here is throughout that twenty twenty
four primary campaign general election campaign, there were some who
(02:52):
splintered off. I won't mention any names, but his initials
were Sean Hannity and turned up on RFK Junior. If
you'll recall, and I challenge you the falling of the
audio that says anything to the contrary. I told you
repeatedly time and again. I like Bobby Kennedy. I don't
agree with everything that he says, or stands for, or does,
(03:13):
but I think he's a good person with his heart
in the right place. He wants to do good for America.
He wants to make America healthy again. And I thought
his aims were true, were noble, and that his heart
was in the right place. I felt that throughout the campaign,
and I said at the time, you know, if Donald
Trump wants our votes and those of people that were
(03:35):
in the middle, then he needed to go out and
campaign for them and earn them. And if that meant
RFK Junior was in the race and he was taking
votes away from Trump, and it looked like as the
campaign went on that was going to be the case.
And I think that's why they formed the alliance that
they did. This was mega power style. This was WWF
in the eighties style. This was much to me and
Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan brother doing the handshake, feeling
(03:59):
the flow. Charley Kirk, by the way, helped bring that together.
He was instrumental, He was integral, He was a catalyst
for that. And it happened, as you may remember in Arizona.
RKA Junior comes on board. He is he makes a
deal Donald Trump. He's going to be leader of HHS
And this was his life's work coming to fruition for
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RFK Junior. And one of the things that he wanted
to do was to bring down pharmaceutical prices. Drug prices
in the United States in a nutshell, what had been
happening over the years. We had to fund R and
D research and development for Fiser and various other companies
that were developing these drugs. And these come at great
(04:42):
cost and risk financially and otherwise to these big pharma
corporations that I know a lot of people don't very
have a very high opinion of, and I share that,
and I understand that I agree with that. But what
would happen is the American people, the American taxpayers, we
were on the hook and American just citizens in general
buying these drugs paying exorbitant prices to help fuel and
(05:05):
fund the research and development to get these drugs out
to market, to get them approved by the FDIA, to
go through that process. And then meanwhile, overseas and even
just to the north to Canada, they're paying almost pennies
on the dollar for the very same drugs. Republican Democrat
presidents alike, members of Congress called this out. Nobody did
(05:26):
a damn thing about it until today. Donald Trump strong
armed the leaders the CEOs of these corporations in the
way that only he can, exercising the art of the deal.
An RFK Junior credited President Trump with that doctor Oz
was in attendance there Vice President JD. Vance And this
(05:47):
could really prove to be a turning point as they
made this deal with Pfizer, and you would think like
a domino effect that other drug companies would fall into line.
You know, Donald Trump can kind of wheel the bully pulpit,
use the carrot and stick approach, you know, threatend to
withhold federal funding. You can make it a real bad
(06:07):
time for everyone involved. But this is done with a purpose.
It's just like with the tariffs overseas. It's a means
to an end. It's a cudgel. It's a negotiating tactic
to get the deal that Donald Trump wants for whom,
for the American people, because that's who Donald Trump answers to.
This is what scares people in Washington, d C. Part
(06:30):
of the establishment, the Nancy Pelosi types, the Mitch McConnell's
crosses party lines. They go to Washington to make money.
They have insider trading on stocks. They have big donors
coming in who they answer to and are accountable to,
and really are owned by George Sorows. You can go
(06:52):
across the political spectrum. Bill Gates, the Koch brothers on
the right side. You can name them all. Donald Trump
is dangerous to the establishment because he is everything that
they are not. He is independently wealthy. He doesn't need them.
He is one of the few, fact, you might say,
in recent history, maybe the last fifty years, one of
(07:14):
the few American presidents who lost money in the venture
of becoming president of the United States. Look at the
Clinton Foundation, look at the Bush family, look at Obama,
look at Biden. This guy corrupt as hell from start
to finish. At the dawn of his career when he
(07:35):
was barely old enough to be a US senator, and
we're talking fifty plus years ago, longer than my life
span ago. Joe Biden was first elected to national office
as a senator from the state of Delaware. He has
been living off the public dime ever since. And who
is Joe Biden beholden to? This is what makes the
(07:58):
whole Russia collusion hopes such a and it was from
the start. Donald Trump doesn't need them, their money, their influence.
Donald Trump was independently wealthy, build his own empire, his
own brand, and he becomes President of the United States
and he's got zero fs left to give, and the
only people that matter to him. And ask any Trump
(08:18):
voter who's as enthusiastic as I am, as many of
you are. You know, who does Donald Trump work for?
Who does the answer to Let his record show you
the way and the road to where he is going
and why he is going there. Why did he run again?
He didn't have to a third time. He can walk
(08:42):
off into the sunset going you know what, I got jobbed.
I feel like the election was stolen in twenty twenty
COVID mass mail in balloting. I was screwed over in Georgia.
You know, he can go on and on and he
could just use that and that's a loser's mentality and
just cite those reasons excuses and be like an I tried,
(09:02):
then he comes back, then have to come back, came back,
survives two assassination attempts and one shooting that clips his ear.
Don't tell me this guy was in it for any
other reason than to win it for the American people,
if his own personal fame he already had that. I
can't stress this enough. He was Donald Trump. And again,
(09:26):
jen Xters, who remember millennials, you'll remember even in the nineties,
but eighties and nineties Donald Trump was it. He was
the modern day Bruce Wayne billionaire playboy. There was the
Norm Donald joke that we played from yesterday, and he's
trading up for Marlon Maples because he had the audacity
to turn thirty as a norm joked. All this to
(09:47):
say that there was a big accomplishment today and the
mainstream media, especially CNN, etc. Unlikely to report more on it.
But that's why you come here. And Trump felt so
good about all of this that he cracks this joke
in the Oval Office as R. F. Kennedy Junior sneezes.
They couldn't get it. God bless you, Bobby. Oh but
(10:10):
I didn't catch COVID just there. He's give me a
pack of it immediately. Donald Trump is in his Ronald
Reagan era, and he spoke to the troops today and
(10:31):
this is more proof. Folks, you talk about leading the
Democrats around by the noses, He is forcing them to
defend indefensible positions that are ridiculous on their face. But
they're so deluded, so demented with Trump derangement syndrome, they
cannot help themselves. They are making a mockery in a
(10:54):
joke of themselves. And here is where Donald Trump leads
off beforehanding off to Pete. Hegseeth about what the purpose
of our American military is. We're getting back to basics here, folks.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character, and strength.
And that's because the purposes of American military is not
to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic, bingal
and it's the republic that.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We dearly love.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's to protect our country. We will not be politically
correct when it comes to defending American freedom and women.
We will be a fighting and winning machine. We want
to fight, we want to win, and we want to
fight as little as possible. You have to count on
people like me to keep you out of wars because
we don't want to go intowards many of the wars
that I just told you about. We could have entered
(11:48):
those wars and settled them in a different way to
lose a lot of our troops. And we're going to
settle them. I guess differently. Maybe not actually, actually you
might not have been able to settle them. I just
sort have been in the middle of a lot of firepower.
But when we do need it, you're going to be
so ready.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No American president in modern history, and I don't know
how far back you want to go with this. I
would include even Eisenhower here because he continued on in
the Korean War. In that conflict, though he did warn
about the military industrial complex, and if there was one
credible voice at that point in American history, and Dwight
David Eisenhower' is one of the most important Americans ever
(12:29):
to live as the commander of the forces that stormed
the beaches of Normandy on the European Front in that
theater during World War two. Two term president. I like
the fifties were great. It was a time of American
renaissance in the auto industry. Those were good days. My
dad remembers them well as a little boy back then.
But no American president, I would argue, has supported our
(12:53):
American military more while wanting to use them less in
terms of wars of misadventure overseas as a means to
an end. Donald Trump wants to fund them, wants to
strengthen them, wants to reinforce them, wants to let them
know that he has their backs, while at the same
time telling them I will never send you into battle
(13:17):
risking your lives unless we absolutely have to do it again.
Pull any military member. You know there's going to be exceptions,
but very few who don't believe that President Trump has
their best interests at heart and in mind with every
decision he makes, and this is one of them. If
any of our American institutions that are left and the Democrats,
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the left, the Marxists are looking to tear them down
by their roots at their foundation and reform them in
their image, woke dei crap has no place in the
American military. If there is one place where it must
be a meritocracy top to bottom, it's our armed forces
(14:02):
and troops serving overseas that rely on each other with
their lives on the line. And you want to know
that that person next to you in the fox hole
can do everything in his or her power to save
your life. That comes down to that. You don't not
be asking any questions. Here's Pete Hegseth. This is some
straight fire with physical fitness and appearance. If the Secretary of.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
War can do regular hard pt, so can every member of.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Our joint force.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Frankly, it's tiring.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
To look out at combat formations or really any formation and.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
See fat troops.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals
in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around
the country in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not
who we are. Oh no, he's fat shaming our military members.
He wasn't done.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So, whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborn ranger,
a brand new private or a four star general, you
need to meet the height and weight standards.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And pass the PT test. Yep. And as the Chairman said,
yes there is no PT test.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But today, at my direction, every member of the Joint
Force at every rank is required to take a PT
test twice a year, as well as meet height and
weight requirements twice a.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Year every year of service.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Also today, at my direction, every warrior across our Joint
Force is required to do PT every duty day. Shouldn't
be common sense, I mean most units do that already.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He speaks from experience. Pete was one of our warriors,
one of the few, I think, the only, and at
least again in modern history, to serve as Secretary of
Defense now re termed Secretary of War, who was a
warrior himself, putting his money where his mouth is, his
life on the line for this country. So if anybody
could speak to this credibly, it's Pete Hegsas there's Moremistration.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Has done a great deal from day one to remove
the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that
had infected our department.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
To rip out the politics. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
No more identity months, no DEI offices, no dudes in
dresses uh oh, No more climate change worship, no more
division distraction or gender delusions, no more debris.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
As I've said before.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And we'll say again, we are done with that.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
This is gold. And then the left, how do they
react to this? How do they defend what he was attacking?
They tried, here's Kristen Holmes CNN.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Can you take us behind the scenes and explain why
this why now?
Speaker 7 (16:54):
I mean, this is something that President Trump loves to do.
I mean, he loves to be talking to the military.
He loves talking as though he is the commander in chief,
which he is, and this is something that he saw
coming together and wanted to be a part of. I mean,
one of the things that you hear President Trump talk
about a lot when it comes to the military. Is
those recruitment numbers, and he takes credit for that, but
(17:15):
he also gives credit to Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Hegseth has not been.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Probably Trump has not had the most confidence in hegset
that he hasn't had in some of his other secretaries.
But one of the things that holds true is this
idea of recruitment, is this idea that Hegseth is good
at talking to the troops and rallying the troops, and
he truly does believe that. So in this setting, President
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Trump likes to hear from high Seth. Plus he likes
all the inflammatory stuff. He says, I'm not having any
fat generals and doing all these tys, and that's stuff
that Donald Trump likes to hear.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
Literally shape up or ship out, That's what he was
saying there today.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I think there's gonna be some real pushback from Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Pushed back from Congress on what, well, okay hold on
your position then, is sir. I don't even even know
who that is, but she was kind of hinting at
this too, your position as we should have fat generals,
we should have overweight service members that cannot make physical
requirements of the job. At hand of lives in the
(18:20):
line of protecting and defending our country and our troops overseas.
Your argument is to go to the contrary of that
and say no, no, no, no, we should have fat generals
and members of our military. I just saw a scene
and you may have seen it too. This video ReViral
and I'm sorry. We're gonna call it what it is
from now on. That's where we're at right now. Done
(18:42):
with the bull blank as Pete Hess said, sorry, two
female cops, undersized, prim as strong as the average baseline
police officers should be, could not tackle, subdue, handcuff and
remove a perpetrator from a Hooters restaurant that was a
threat to the other paid a worker. A large man
(19:02):
at Hooters had to come over and help them subdue
this suspect. I'm sorry. If there's a brand of Tarth
from Game of Thrones, that's one thing. But if you
can't make the basic requirements of a police force or
the military, you have no business being in it. Now
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Deep Thoughts by Kamala Harris.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
You know, one of my favorite things to see and
it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies and thousands
of people would come and there it would happen is
invariably somebody would want me to take a picture of
a husband child and someone in the back would hand
(21:21):
that baby over throw the crowd up to you people
who would baby past the baby and then past the baby.
And I don't know, there was something about that when
it would happen. I mean, I could get very emotional
(21:41):
about it right now, but but but you know, I
believe that we should always feel that, you know, the
the children of the community are the children of the
community of all of.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Us, that our next leaders are next thinkers, and.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
That we all participate in caring about that and in
caring for that child. Yeah, and there was just something about.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That and seeing the babe travel from the parents.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Well, yes, and the parent trusted the stranger that was
next to them, who trusted the next person, and all
of them as.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Though it was their own child. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
There was something so magical in many ways about that
and about affirming about you can create an environment where
people feel safe and feel a sense of communal responsibility
and community.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah. Wow, I'm in awe. Well joining us now on
the heels of that which you just heard, he wrote
the original definitive unauthorized biography on Kamala Harris entitled Amateur Hour,
and now that can be used to compare and contrast
against her novel co authored by a novelist one hundred
(22:59):
and seven day. She's on a book tour. Charlie Spearing
joins us here on Ryan Schuling Live to set the
record straight. Charlie, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Thanks for having me. Wow, that was quite a clip.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Have you ever been handed a baby and then gone
on to analyze it to that level of detail?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, it's fascinating, you know, because she's the hero in
that story, she's the maternal figure with the mamaa of
the world, and they're passing babies over to her. Just
if they can, just if she can just touch their child,
and then maybe they will grow up to have a
future and then the providential future and a great success,
(23:44):
if only they just touched the hem of her cloak.
That's the kind of vibe I got from that statement.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm a little surprised, Charlie she didn't slip into some
Whitney Houston and say, I believe the children are a future,
teach them well and let let them lead the way,
and try to pass that off as her own.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, there is a little bit of that where she'll
slip into some other jargons, some other slogans that previous
Democrats have gone before her.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
In one clip, she starts talking about the light we
carrying the importance of carrying the light forward very much,
you know, cribbing from Michelle Obama's own.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Biography that was entitled The Light We Carry. So it
seems like she's kind of just pulling out all the
threads that she can find to come up with some
sort of cohesive narrative as to why she failed to
beat President Donald Trump. She's in a very unique club
right now. There's only two people who have lost to
President Donald Trump in a presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and
(24:44):
now Kamala Harris Well.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Big Borrow or Steele. I guess is the name of
the game and the theme because one hundred and seven days,
as I mentioned yesterday, already thirty percent off at Amazon.
It has not even been out a full week as
of today. Joining us is Charlie's I highly recommend that
you order his book instead, Amateur Hour Kamala Harris in
the White House, and that was released in January of
(25:08):
twenty twenty four. Charlie joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live. So, Charlie,
as you've observed Kamala on this book tour trail with
all of her stories and throwing virtually everyone near her
under the bus as to why her campaign failed, I
haven't heard one sentence uttered by her that accepts any responsibility,
(25:32):
endorse adds any accountability for the failure of her own campaign.
Have you seen anything different?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, that's so true. I read through the book, and
you know it's sharply different from Hillary Clinton's book. Clinton's
conclusion was like, at the end, I was the candidate
and I failed, and I take responsibility. You don't see
that coming from Kamala Harris. Her number one argument isn't
the title I only had one hundred and seven days.
I didn't have enough time, And then proceeds a host
(26:01):
of excuses of why she failed to deliver a victory
for the Democratic Party to put so much hope into
her after forcing out President Joe Biden. And look, what's
different this time around is that there's a whole bunch
of Biden aids that have finally had their chains loosened.
I've been talking to a lot of them, and Wow,
they are not pleased with what she's doing. They're describing
(26:23):
her book as just one more sign of how politically
out of touch she was and how terrible her political
instincts were. Look, if you want to have a political
future here, you don't start by dumping on every star
in the party. That's kind of what's going on right now.
And you know, in the hopes that she looks better
by comparison, well that's just not how politics works.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And I don't think.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
That she's going to have a career going forward, but
it's very clear that she kind of wants one.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Charlie Spearing, our guest, he wrote the original definitive book
on Kamala Harris amateur Hour, Kamala Harris in the White
House to your point, and I want to drill down
a little bit deeper on what you just said, this
kind of race to the bottom of trying to make
everyone around her look even worse than she did. I
guess by comparison, this is Kamala Harris fumbling in an
(27:10):
attempt to answer Rachel Maddow as to why she couldn't
pick a gay man, Pete Buddhajudge to be on her
ticket as VP.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
If his reaction to that, since this part of the
book has come out, if you've had any reflection on that,
or I guess, I guess I'd ask you to just
elaborate on that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's hard to hear.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
With you running as you know, you're the first woman
elected vice president, you're a black woman and a South
Asian woman elected that high office, very nearly elected president,
to say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively
because he was gay, it's hard to go.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
No, No, that's not what I said that. That's that
he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay.
My point, as I write in the book is that
I was clear that one hundred and seven days in
one of the most hotly contested elections for president United
(28:06):
States against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor
to be a black woman running for president United States
and as a vice presidential running mate a gay man,
with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad,
(28:28):
But I also realized it would be a real risk.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
A real risk. Charlie and I guess she would say
the same about Josh Shapiro, as the highly popular governor
in a purple state Pennsylvania, that she absolutely had to
win on the electoral map, but he was Jewish, so
they had to settle for Tim Walls, Right.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, that's the overall thinking from so many political consultants
is that you know, he just couldn't. She just couldn't
make the picks that you know, reportedly wanted to. In
the books, she revealed that, you know, her husband Doug
favored Josh Shapiro, and but she didn't even take that
recommendation seriously. She and she's you know, her claim that
(29:08):
she wanted to pick Pete Buda Judge as her running
mate demonstrates for the left, that demonstrates real cowardness. Right,
It's like the left wants you to see to make
to make the right choices despite any sort of identity
politics and political risk On the right, it reveals that
she just thought, Oh, the entire American electorate is either
(29:30):
too racist or too sexist or too homophobic to vote
for a ticket featuring me and Pete Buddha Judge that
I can't possibly choose. Well, that's just that's just nonsense,
you know, And it really shows that she was very
risk averse, which is why she ultimately hemmed and hawed
and picked Tim Waltz. And even she realized that maybe
(29:53):
that wasn't the Maybe that might have been the safe choice,
but maybe not the right choice. But either way, she
you know, her biggest concern was that she didn't want
a vice presidential candidate that would outshine her, and I
think ultimately is why she selected Waltz, who's kind of
a more dutiful, obedient person, rather than somebody who had
(30:14):
seriously challenged her.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Charlie Spearing, author of Amateur Hour on Kamala Harris joining
us here. And never mind the fact that Trump appointed
Rick Grennell and openly gay man to one of the
highest posts In fact, the highest post at the time
ever for a gay man to be appointed to that
was by Donald Trump. And according to Maggie Haberman's own
reporting from The New York Times back ten years ago,
this is before they all turned on Trump. Donald Trump
(30:37):
opened mar A Lago to gay couples before any of
their private club in South Florida did. That is Donald
Trump's record on gay rights gay issues. Final point here, Charlie,
because you kind of alluded to it, but I just
want to get your perspective, with all the research that
you've done, all the reporting that went into your book,
all the sources that you were able to harvest in
(31:00):
doing that, and those that you have spoken to recently,
what the biggest thing that's out of phase? In other words,
not in the ven diagram overlap that Kamala Harris loves
so much, between your book, what you know, the truth
that maybe is coming out now in the wake of
all her allegations and accusations, and the book she wrote
in one hundred and seven days.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is how you know
her biggest argument is that if she had had more time,
that she could have pulled it off. Well, we saw
that you know, in the first fifty days, Kamala Harris
pulled actually really well even with Trump, and then she
started to sag once voters realized what she actually believed
in based on her previous failed presidential campaign that she
(31:44):
had to end before she even made it to the
Iowa caucuses. Then once she they decided that, well, maybe
that we have to get her out and do more interviews.
And the more interviews she did, the less the American
electorate liked her because they realized that she very risk averse.
She didn't have strong positions on things. She would just
sort of spin into political jargon and not speak plainly.
(32:07):
And I think that ultimately this book kind of reveals
the real Kamala Harris. You know, if she was more
authentic during the campaign, I don't think that would have
helped her because I think now she's kind of revealing
who she really is. It's really all about her and
her demands and her reputation over anything else. And I
think it's really coming across in a very negative way.
(32:31):
And I don't think you know, maybe she wants to
be wanted back on the political stage, but I don't
think Democrats are seeing her as a serious political candidate
in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Your time, effort, and money are hard earned, and they
would be better spent on his book Amateur Hour Kamala
Harrison the White House than on her book One hundred
and seven Days. That's just my very biased opinion, Charlie Spearing.
Our guests always thankful for your time. Charlie, thanks for
joining us, and we'll talk again down the line.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Do that. Thanks for the kind words about the book,
and I'm really able to come back any time to
discuss it.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
All right, Charlie Sparring, right there you reaction five seven
seven three nine, rounding out our number one of Ryan
Schuling live after this. Look, guys, there's no way to
sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
We have no voters left because of all of our
woke trans both not even black people want to vote
for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So we need
new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens
free healthcare, we might be able to get them on
our side so they can vote for us. They can't
even speak English, so they won't realize we're just a
(33:42):
bunch of woke pieces of you know, at least for
a while until they learn English and they realize they
hate us too.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
King of the Trolls, real Donald Trump that was on
both True Social and x that he reposted that in
to describe the video that it was ai of course
Chuck Humor's voice being manipulated to disclose that, but then
standing next to him in this video a King Jeffries,
minority leader in the House of Representatives, fitted with a
(34:11):
Mexican sombrero and a mustache. So Trump trolls and the
Dems are left just to weep and moan and respond.
And here's a keen Jeffrey is doing just that. He's
not happy leading.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
A lot for our discussion tonight. His House Democratic Leader
chrisman ha Qing Jeffries of New York, thank you very
much for joining us tonight, mister leader. And I'm not
showing this video that Donald Trump put out about you
and Chuck Schumer today, this fake video. People are gonna
see it. They'll see it in other ways. It's easy
to find, but it is absolutely disgusting every way.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It is a lie. It's the man you met with.
Speaker 9 (34:50):
Does not lied about what is said after that meeting.
Could you give us your reaction to that. Trump posted
video tonight not hammering.
Speaker 12 (35:00):
It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to
make clear bigotry will get you.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Nowhere, Bigo Tree.
Speaker 12 (35:06):
What was fighting to protect the healthcare of the American
people in the face an unprecedented Republican assault on all
the things Medicaid, Medicare care ract. Republicans are closing our hospitals,
nursing homes, and community based health clinics, for actively shut
down medical research in the United States of America. Clearly,
(35:30):
Donald Trump and Republicans know that they have a very
weak position because they are hurting everyday Americans continuing to
reward their billionaire donors, just like they did in that
one big, ugly bill with massive tax breaks. Democrats are
united in the House and the Senate, and the point
that we've made will continue to be clear. We are
(35:52):
fighting to lower the high cost of health care, prevent
these dramatically increased premiums, co pays, and deduct that will
take place in a matter of days unless Republicans are
willing to act in terms of renewing the Affordable Care
Act tax credits.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
They want to provide healthcare benefits for illegal aliens who
shouldn't be here and are not American citizens, not paying taxes.
That's the truth of the matter. And President Trump just
announced a day he made a deal with Pfizer to
lower drug costs, So checkmate, Akeem Jefferies
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