July 8, 2024 • 34 mins
Why the Dems are right to be panicked
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Speaker 1 (01:02):
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nice to have Jeffrey lying back with us.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's nice to be back after America's birthday long weekend celebration,
and welcome to Monday, July the eighth year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty four. This is, after all, your morning show.
Well waking up this morning. Here are statements of fact.
If the electoral college map were to play out today,
and it won't, but if it were to play out today,
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take away all the toss ups. Donald Trump is your
next president three hundred and twelve to two hundred and
twenty six. And I actually believe it can get worse
from here. All right, when we start looking at swing states,
Arizona Trump up five and a half, Nevada Trump up
four point six, Wisconsin Trump up one and a half,
Michigan Trump up point six. Yes, this is the twenty
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sixteen map, but not the twenty tip. Pennsylvania Trump is
up four and a half. No wonder Biden was there.
Georgia Trump's up three point seven. If you start looking
at like Minnesota, Virginia, New Hampshire, and there are some
Virginias that have Trump up, but by and large, if
you look at Virginia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire, it's Biden.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But by three or less.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This was unthinkable from my vantage point five six months ago.
No wonder they're panicked. Look at his approval rating thirty
eight point six percent. I was playing in shameless plug
for our podcast. If you missed the first hour, you
missed a lot. You missed George Stepanophilis and the mainstream
media holding Biden accountable. They have turned on the president now.
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I made the point they've been covering for him. Now
they want to be heroes, but they're not letting him
give a pad answer and just moving on. He relentlessly
pounded the president on cognitive impair and wouldn't budge for
any So many Democrats and the media an all out
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push to get Biden out. Why because they believe he
can't win. Why because of the numbers I'm sharing with
you right now. But at one point, stepanophal has even
said to him, mister President, no one with a thirty
eight percent approval rating has ever won a presidential election.
I thought it was a very Stepanophilis revealing moment. The
reason the media is turning on them is because they
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believe he can't win. They covered for him and got
them to win. They covered for him as president. Now
they see they can't get away with it any longer.
Here's the most damning thing, right direction. Only twenty three
point four percent of America thinks we're heading in the
right direction. Ladies and gentlemen, there are more Democrats than
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there are Republicans. That would suggest a lot of Democrats
think we're heading in the wrong direction. And in total,
sixty six point nine percent think we're heading in the
wrong direction.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
They're panicked, and for good reason. I'll tell you one
even better.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The United States Senate right now forty nine Republican, forty
three Democrat, with eight toss ups, and those toss ups
aren't looking leaning their way. So here are our questions
of the day. Will Joe Biden go He didn't after election?
Will he now? Will he now that all the media's
turned against him? How can this party possibly unite between
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now and the convention when they're so divided over.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Even their candidate? Ask not?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Don't bring Jack into this? Finally, how do you lose
the presidency without losing the House and Senate?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Both?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
These are the panicked questions from the left. Aaron Rayl
is gonna have more on that, including well the media's
turned against him? Have donors turned against him. Also, if
you're just waking up, Hurricane Barrel has now made landfall
near Corpus Christie, about ninety miles from Houston. It's a
Category one hurricane, so probably the greatest threats could be flooding,
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but more likely tornadoes.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
To spicable me sore to the tops of the box office.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Over the holiday weekend and President Biden hit the campaign
trail trying to court black vote in Pennsylvania. All right,
I wanted to take this segment. We highlighted how stepping
off I mean, remember Biden went on Stepanophalis on ABC
to try to make up for the bad debate. It
had doubled down and got worse because he walked into
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a trap and the media turned on him, and it
was nothing but a thirty minute press to get him
to drop out of the race and admit that he's
cognitively impaired. When push came to shove, Stepanoflis came right
out and asked him, would you be willing to take
a cognitive test and a neurological exam?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And the President refused, So no gain from that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Another significant while you were celebrating the birth of America,
you might have missed the dysfunction of our reality. Was
Marco Rubio, who could be tops on the list for
Trump VIEP selection. His one on one State of the
Union visit with Dana Bash. I'm gonna play some of this,
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but just as we did with the stepanoflspiden audio, I
want you to listen how she tries to combat him
with narratives and he comes back at her with reality.
Marco Rubio champions.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Trump and Bash is Bash. Here's how the interview sounded.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Now, for four decades, the Republican Parties platform endorsed a
national abortion ban. Donald Trump opposes that, as you well know,
he thinks it should be left to the states. There
are a lot of conservative groups who are not happy
about the potential to change the platform.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Now she's trying to make this a Republican Party crisis.
It's an American reality. This is an irrelevant question. The
Supreme Court has sent it to the states, all states,
including blue states. And by the way, states are in states,
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they're voters, they're people in a government upformed by the people.
And finally, I don't say this egotistically, but finally someone
gives the right answer. First, was Donald Trump during the
debate and potentially is VP here. Marco Rubio, listen.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Do you support changing the official party platform to Trump's
position that it should be a state issue.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Well, I think our platform has to reflect our nominee,
and our nominee's position has actually happens to be one
grounded in reality. The reality of it, it is the
Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, And what that basically
means is that.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Now it's not states, it's voters at.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Individual states who will get to decide how and to
what level they want to restrict abortion, if at all.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Some states will have restrictions, some stams will not, And
so I.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Hope that that our platform will reflect our nominee. I
also think it's important to remember the Democrats their last
platform basically endorsed a abortion paid for by taxpayers at
any time without any restrictions.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
So I think really the question.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Here is whether they are going to have a radical,
you know, plank of their platform that basically requires Americans
to pay for abortions at any time for any reason
up until the moment of birth. That was their platform
four years ago. Let's see how how what it looks
like now.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Again, I'm not sure, that's entirely true.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But why don't we pause and let you go research
you're not totally sure, get totally sure, that's how you
handle narratives.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Let's keep going.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Want to focus if I'm on what your party is
doing and something that the head of the Susan B.
Anthony Group told me this past week, She and others
Tony Perkins as well, have said that they are concerned
that removing the Federal band from the platform will depress
enthusiasm for Donald Trump among core anti.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Abortion grassroots voters. Is that where were you?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Not? Really?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Because I don't think there's much of an option here.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It looks like no matter who the Democrats nominate, it
looks like maybe Kamala Harris would be the most liberal
presidential candidate in American history, or a continuation of whoever's
running the White House now with Joe Biden as its figurehead.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Did you catch that? That's Marco Rubio acknowledging two realities.
It's a split screen and Dana Bash is doing everything
she can to hold a straight face, but she knows
she's getting her Bash handed to her. He acknowledges that
Joe Biden is even running for president it's whoever's been
(10:05):
I mean, this is the movie Dave. If you've never
seen the movie Dave with Kevin Klein, you need to
go watch it. The real president is brain dead in
the basement of the White House, and a look alike
is pretending to be the president. Well, I don't suggest
that Joe Biden is under the White House brain dead,
but who's If Joe Biden isn't running this country, who is.
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So there's Marco Rubio with a narrativized question answering with reality. Well,
whether it's Kamala Harris, the most liberal candidate in history,
or whoever's been really running this presidency now Joe Biden.
In other words, he throws it back at her. They
really don't have a choice. We Republican would support Kamala
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Harris or whoever's really running this country or Joe Biden
cognitively impaired over Donald Trump. There there's a real answer
to your ridiculous, narrativized, nonsensical question. I mean, Marco Rubio,
what a performance. I hope nobody misses.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
The issue is that they are going to be radical.
There's only one pro life candidate in this race, and
it's Donald Trump. I think his position on this has
been that the reality and that is, you can't You
can't pass a federal law now even if we wanted to,
you couldn't pass one.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
But states, not states.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Voters and individual states now have the ability to influence
what abortion laws look like in their state, and they
can have that debate.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
About how restrictive, to what level, what.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Exceptions, and so forth.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You couldn't even have that debate before the Supreme Court
opened that up. All the Supreme Court ruled was that
this was a political issue, that this was an issue
that now voters would be able to decide via the
people they voted for or voted against at the state level.
And that's the reality.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Let me ask you about the Supreme Court and a
huge ruling that they issued on Monday that Donald Trump
has broad immunity for official acts related to January sixth,
the attack.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
On the US capital.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
When you voted to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial
for January sixth, you said, quote, what history and if necessary,
the courts judge the events of the past. Well, this
ruling by the highest court in the land precludes lower
courts from doing what you suggested at least with some
actions like conversations with the Justice Department.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Are you comfortable with that?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Well, first of all, I'm uncomfortable with the fact now
that we have a president who has targets political opponents.
That's what's happened under Joe Biden. Everybody when Donald Trump
was president. I can't think of a single prominent Democrat
who was chased around, persecuted, prosecuted all the It's funny
to me to read these people and hear these people
out there warning about all the horrible things they ridiculously
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claim Donald Trump is going to do if he becomes
president again. They're the ones that have been going after
their political opponents. Donald Trump has been the one that's
been very clear that his vengeance is going to be
by winning and making America great again, not going after
his political opponents. He said that in your debate that
you hold Senator, and there's the will evidence after political opponents.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
There's no evidence that Joe Biden has gone after political
appontance opponents his Justice Department.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
The evidence is in the headlines every day. Well, the
apartment is going to jail somewhere.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Democrats, I were out of time.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But he's a job a good fellow love or he's
but never mind how he hands hands it to Dana
Bash throughout that interview and better than I've heard anybody
do in probably twenty years. Let that be just as
the stepanophilis interview. It's a lesson in how all interviews
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should be. The media holding elected officials accountable on behalf
of we the people, so that we can be assured
we're getting what we voted for. Let this interview be
a lesson to all in a matrix in an era
of the death of journalism and narrativization and narrative repeating.
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This is how you respond to narratives with reality and facts,
Marco Rubio. And with a performance like that and jd
Vance's interactions over the weekend, is that a signed They're
the top two candidates to be the Beep choice. And
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that's what Telsea Gabbard still out there.
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Will do that in about eight minutes. First, your top
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Speaker 2 (15:01):
The day, starting with no More fourn offer Zeveral House
Democrats have told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries president Biden
needs to bow out of this race. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
During a Sunday call, at least four senior House Democrats
said privately Biden should drop out, joining another five House members.
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Who have called on Biden to withdraw.
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A source familiar with the Democratic senator Mark Warner said
that the similar private meeting that he was trying to
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Speaker 2 (17:31):
Thirty five minutes after the hour, Hurricane Barrel has made
landfall about ninety miles from Houston, Texas, off the coast
of Corpus Christy. Expected wins of eighty miles an hour
and a lot of rain and a possibility of tornadoes
with it. We have several Democrats calling for Joe Biden
to step aside. The media is in a full court
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press to push him aside. He's not budgeting. He was
on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania. Aaron Rayal was joining us.
I guess one of the things that's obvious. I think
to everyone whether or not the president had a bad
debate or has cognitive impairment, and that is that the
media is done carrying water for him. That was a
full court press by George Stepanophilis. We're seeing that throughout
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the media. I guess the question becomes, what about donors
and money and fundraising? Is that becoming a problem.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
It is, And I'm glad that you bring that up
because some people have been like, he performed okay, and
you're like, what, like, was anyone watching this? He performed
like he performs. It's difficult when you're at the age
that he is. If you're lucky enough to get there,
he's not. They make one fit for the presidency. And
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Stephanopoulos kept grilling him like have you had a neurological exam?
Have you met with a neurologist? And he wouldn't let
him go, And that was very interesting to talk. But
now with donor support drying up, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What I was going to say is is you know,
because I thought that that was supposed to be the
make good for the bad debate performance, and I guess,
I mean, if I were friends of the administration, I
would say are you serious you want to do this
with George Steppanophilis. This is a Clinton operative. He's probably
not going to carry water for you. But also the
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media is done carrying water for you. So what I
heard was normally when they give like a pad answer,
oh I had a cold or oh I was tired,
they just let him have it. He just kept coming back,
pouncing back on and then of course the bottom line
to the interview was would you take a cognitive test
and would you have a neurological exam and share it
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with everyone? After all their concern Maybe you're not concerned,
but they're concerned. And the bottom line was he said no.
So the question becomes is Biden being defiant or is
he in denial? And denial is a big part of
this particular dementia aspect that lingers. So he did himself
no favors with George Stepanophalis. Now let's get to the money,
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because he bragged in that interview that he raised thirty
eight million dollars, not nearly what Donald Trump has raised
since being convicted of a felony.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What is happening with donor money?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because if the Democrat Party support and the media support
is gone. The money usually follows that, and it's gone too.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Indeed, and listen, if his family can't convince him stuff aside,
if Nancy Pelosi and the other big Democratic big wigs
who are finally coming out and saying like, okay, yeah,
maybe it's legitimate to ask these questions, then perhaps the
money can because when that's gone, it's over. Michael Novograts
Galaxy ceo, crypto billionaire.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
He actually took.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Two x and said, we need to sweep the floor of.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
The team that's been in charge of the past thirty years.
Abigail Disney, the Disney Heiress, one of them. She said
she's going to embargo future donations to the party as
a whole until the president bows out of the race.
This means, you know, like lower on the ballot names
are going to get annoyed by that. That's when you
have the whole party really really fired up. And by
the way, there's five House Democrats who publicly called on
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Biden to exit. Read Hastein's founder of Netflix. He's given
tens of millions of Democrats says he's got to go.
Mark Cuban, echoing this, Barry Dillar, billionaire chairman of I
SE married to Diane vn. Furstenberg said no, very simply no,
he's not holding firm with the Bidy in campaign.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Bottom line is the left is in a full panic.
And here's why, Aaron, all right, So first we do approval.
Remember in the interview with George Stepanofflis, at one point,
Stepan Offlice goes in exasperation.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Literally, it was one of those exasperative moments.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
No matter what he asked Biden, Biden would stay in
denial or defiance, and then finally he just looks at
me and he goes. Nobody's ever won with a thirty
eight percent approval rating, mister president. It was just a
really kind of exasperated moment. So the president is a
thirty eight percent approval rating of fifty seven point nine
disapproval rating. That's got to be a lot of Democrats too.
Another matrix, right direction, wrong direction. Only twenty three percent
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of America. I think we're headed in the right direction.
So even when he starts going through the laundry list
of all the things he's done, nobody perceives that as
the right direction.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sixty six point nine say the wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
If we did the electoral College map today, and we won't,
but if we did, Trump would win with three hundred
and twelve to his two hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And that's what no toss ups. If you go to.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Swing states Arizona, Nevada, He's up five point four and
four point six Trump is, Wisconsin, Trump's up one and
a half. Michigan, He's up point six. Pennsylvania, where Biden
was this weekend, He's up four point five percent.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Trump is.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
When you start looking at New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Virginia,
some Virginias have Trump up, but those three all of
Biden's leads are down to three percent or less, and
Georgia he now trails by three point seven percent. Oh,
there's a reason to panic. And the question everybody's asking
is is there a way to lose the presidency without
losing the House and the Senate. And I think the
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conclusion is, and what I'm hearing from some of these
big donors, is you can't.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And in the case of Disney, and you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Wow, there's reason for panic if you're trying to keep
the lefts agenda going.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Indeed, and listen, this is why you have other lawmakers E.
Gonna Jim Clyburn, the Democrat from South Carolina. He was
one of Biden's closest allies. He's publicly validated the concerns
about Biden's fitness for re election. And I think if
you just watched the Stephanopolis interview, much like the debate,
so much of it is kind of in the non
verbal or at least like the words in between, Like yes,
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he can, he can talk about his accomplishments, he can
talk about you know, American people and God and all
these things.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
That voters like.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
But the way his voice sounds like this, this is
not me being trite at all, Like it's just he's
he seems quite frail. And if he does get tired
preparing for a debate, the presidency is desiresome, like it's
a very it's it's the most tiresome job. And I
don't it. I don't understand, Like it seems like if
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he was being sincere in the idea that the reason
he ran the first go around is because he the
only way he could be Trump. Okay, sure we're on
board with that, but you can't possibly be holding to
that this go round.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Because it just isn't true he absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Stepanopflis clearly asked him that in those exact words, and
he still thinks he is the only person that can
do it and the only person that can win. Now,
whether that's denial or whether that's defiance. And again, I
think their plan was to hide the hide him in
a basement the first time and then push him aside.
And he wouldn't go then, and he won't go now.
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Now The question is can they get him to go?
He denies that he's heard from anybody. In fact, when
push came to shove in the Stepanofhalis interview, he said,
Nancy Pelosi won't tell me to step aside, Clive Burne
won't tell me to step aside. Schumer won't tell me
to step aside. I think they plan to tell him
to step aside. The question is at that point, at
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that point, we will know it's defiance and not denial.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But I want to I.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Want to end with with something you just kind of
brought up. Can you play the talkback, Jeffrey, And I
hope Aaron can hear it. This was a talkback that
we got. Now, I have an in law who is
going through dementia and so I see this on a
daily basis. I'm seeing what you're sensing, and I'm seeing
what this talkback caller sees every day.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And that's why we're convinced.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
But play it ab force one here. I'm not a doctor,
but I worked for a long time in a memory
care facility and I was very involved in my mom's
care when she suffered with dementia before her death. Defensive
denial is their survival. They're afraid they're going to be
locked away, put away, stigmatized, laughed at, whatever. And that's
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what I see when I'm watching our president.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Let me tell you why. That's such a brilliant comment.
And she uses the talkback a lot, and she gets
on the air a lot. I told her, if anything
ever happens, she can be the fill in or she
can be my closet.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
She's that good.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But there because if the question is is the president
being defiant or is he in denial? Many would vote denial,
some would vote defiance. The answer is actually both, because
the denial is a part of the defiance, because that's
a part of dementia. Both point to dementia. You know,
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those of us what you're seeing, we know the look,
we know the words, and that's and a lot of
Americans who have been dealing with dementia parents know the look.
And that's why the President's not going to have this
test or neurological exam, because we all know what it's
going to come back to.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Fascinating time, isn't.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
It It is? And listen, I think like if it's
truly it's hard to fight that one. And frankly, it
would make his behavior more understandable right now. It actually
kind of makes it much clearer.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Aaron Rayel or national correspondent for your morning show. Great reporting.
You have a great day. I can't wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Likewise, have a good one.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, by a forty four minutes after the hour, we're
just waking up. These are your top five stories of today.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, his party's trying to force him out. He was
busy on Air Force one heading to try to salvage
a swing state he's losing and salvage black votes he's lost.
Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Road to the White House.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Twenty twenty four, President Biden hit the campaign trail in
Pennsylvania on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Speaking at a.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Historically black church in Philadelphia, Biden said as president, he's
only trying to walk his.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Faith across the way. In Delaware, attended the morning.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Mass in my church and head to Sunday services at
Black church.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
As I said.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Early on, I've always felt the power of your faith
in good times and in tough times.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
He talked about his administration's record on supporting black and
minority communities and set his goal in running for re
election is to reunite America again by had An also
made a stop at his campaign headquarters in Philadelphia to
rally workers and repeated his pledge not to drop out
of the twenty twenty four presidential race.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm Markneyfield.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I don't believe the president, but we really think he
went to Mass and then left Mass and went to
a Black church if that was a part of his
annual routine, because I was feeling pretty good about my
days when I used to go on Wednesday service twice
on Sunday, but I never and then I never felt
the need to go to like a Jehovah Witness church.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Vice President Kamala Harris's office as the second Gentleman, Doug
Mhoff has tested positive for COVID nineteen. The announcement said
em Hoff had experienced some mild symptoms well that could
be COVID before now being asymptomatic. The office noted he
is fully vaccinated and the Vice president has tested negative,
just like her approval rating. Meanwhile, heavy rains and winds
(28:42):
reaching the Texas coast hurricane barrel has arrived. Houston, Maryor
John Whitmeyer had a strong message for everyone in southeast Texas.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
We have to take Burrow very very serious. Our worst
enemy is our complacency. We can't allow us to allow
this storm.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
To slip up.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Bonus, we've had notice on it. It's still very unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Category one storm, maximum sustained winds of eighty miles an
hour expected. The storm brings the risk of flooding, expecting
about ten inches of rain by the end of the day,
but more significantly tornadoes that can be associated with hurricanes.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And I said tornadoes not tornadoes. No, I did not.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I would like you to play the We don't have
time for this right now, but I would like to.
I'm throwing the red flag. I'm challenging. I don't say tornado. Meanwhile,
the Houston Mayor once again warned everyone please remain panicked.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Sixty to seventy miles for our wind goes. Tropical winds,
serious rain could reach up to levels to twelve or
more inches, certainly beginning with six to twelve inches.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Despicable Me four top the box office over the long
holiday weekend, bringing in one hundred and twenty two point
six a million dollars. I haven't used the stamp in
a long time. My guess would have been it's at
forty five cents. Boy was I shocked to find out
they're uping it to seventy three cents.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Who is still licking stamps?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
John Cen is retiring from Wwwed Davis Thompson earned his
first career tour victory after winning the twenty twenty four
John Dear Classic, a tpceed deer run with twenty eight
under par Major League Baseball scores of cities of interest
to your morning show Guardians one Cardinals, one Rangers, one
Dbacks one Mariner's raising that it's all lost.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
I'm Andrea del Jorno and my husband, and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Thanks for waking up with your morning show. I am
Michael del Jorno. Hurricane Barrel, a Category one hurricane, has
made landfall. Your morning show correspondent Aaron Aaron Real Ory
O'Neal is keeping an eye on that story. What's the
latest down Barrel.
Speaker 10 (30:49):
I came ashore as a Cat one storm wins maxing
out at eighty miles per hour. It's going to weaken
pretty quickly now that it's moving over Texas. We've got
a Hugh having a pretty stormy day today.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
But it shouldn't. This isn't the big one, you know.
It was much more dangerous as a Cat.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Five when it barreled over Jamaica and then into Mexico.
But now there are still some threats in the Texas area,
especially when it comes to driving.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
People just stay home for the day. They should be
all right, you know, normally.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And I grew up in New Orleans, so I know
too much about hurricanes. You being in Florida know a
lot about them. Usually when these hurricanes hit the warm
golf waters, they intensify. What a blessed this one from
a Category five to a Category one in making its
way to the Houston area and the coastline of Corpus Christie.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That's very rare.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Well right, well, passed over Mexico, which really sapped much
of its strength there, So that's why it got knocked
down to a tropical storm, but then built back up
in the hours just before landfall.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, all right, so probably tornadoes would be the greatest
threat I would think at this point.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right Tona watching until.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
Ten o'clock this morning their local time, So that is
one of the concerns.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Five to twelve inches of rain possible.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
And don't forget there were some pretty bad, strong, straight
lined windstorms in the Houston area just last week. So
it's a bit of a one two punch, although this
one's a bit more serious. And keep in mind, Beryl
isn't going to just disappear. It's going to be bringing
some pretty dangerous weather conditions.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Up to the Midwest very soon.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Expected to be over Arkansas tomorrow afternoon, probably passing by
Kentucky and southern Illinois on Wednesday, and then into towards Ohio,
I guess on early Thursday.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So somebody's thinking tomorrow about getting out of Dodge. Is
Tuesday still the best day to book a flight.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
Sort of by like one percent savings We're talking dollars
and cents now, it's not really the big thing that many.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Believed it was sort of a wives tale.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
Maybe back in the day when you used to call
an operator to book a flight, maybe Tuesday was better,
But these days they find it doesn't really make a difference.
Just avoid Friday is pretty much the rule of thumb.
That's when prices for airline tickets tend to be a
bit higher. The folks over at USA Today asked around
to Google, into Hopper, into Expedia. They found that more
(33:14):
important than which day of the week is how far
in advance you book the flight. Obviously, last minute flights
are more expensive, but if you can sign up for
one of those monitoring services, diffree. Like if you go
on Hopper, it'll tell you if you book a flight
from Nashville to Boston, it'll say for Christmas, it'll say, oh,
it's too early, you know, wait a while to book,
(33:34):
or hurry up and book. Flights are running short.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So when you say Tuesday, do we mean flying on
Tuesday or literally booking your flight on a Tuesday, literally
buying the ticket on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
If you want to head to the airport on a Tuesday,
that's going to be cheaper.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
As well.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Compared to a Friday, departments Wednesday, Thursday options are cheaper,
but when it comes to actually booking for the same date,
same time, there's really no difference unless it's a Friday,
Fridays and more expense.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Now, when I was growing up, if my father said
what do you know it all? It was it was derogatory,
it was a negative. But when we talk about Rory
being a know it all, we mean it in a
very positive sense. I want to test it right now, Rory,
do you know what a stamp costs? Now?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I guessed forty five, You guess fifty two. Jeffrey guests
sixty three. It's up to seventy three cents.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I don't know who's I.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Don't know who's still licking stamps seventy three.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
That just blew me good. Now, I've had the same
two books of stamps.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
In my glove compartment, and I got to feel on
the way they've been there since.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, thank you God, I think you're there for from
car to car. We're all in this together. This is
your morning show with Michael Hill Show or Now
Hi, I'm Michael.
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I can't bring that up in the air to be
(00:44):
very unprofessionally, but make Scooter feel terrible. Well, you're acting
like I'm in such a better mood now because you're back,
and that it's noticeable, which is to suggest that last
week I didn't sound good.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You are the win, believe mine. Oh girl, baby girl,
don't even go there. I am Michael L. Jordan. It's
nice to have Jeffrey lying back with us.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's nice to be back after America's birthday long weekend celebration,
and welcome to Monday, July the eighth year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty four. This is, after all, your morning show.
Well waking up this morning. Here are statements of fact.
If the electoral college map were to play out today,
and it won't, but if it were to play out today,
(01:34):
take away all the toss ups. Donald Trump is your
next president three hundred and twelve to two hundred and
twenty six. And I actually believe it can get worse
from here. All right, when we start looking at swing states,
Arizona Trump up five and a half, Nevada Trump up
four point six, Wisconsin Trump up one and a half,
Michigan Trump up point six. Yes, this is the twenty
(01:58):
sixteen map, but not the twenty tip. Pennsylvania Trump is
up four and a half. No wonder Biden was there.
Georgia Trump's up three point seven. If you start looking
at like Minnesota, Virginia, New Hampshire, and there are some
Virginias that have Trump up, but by and large, if
you look at Virginia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire, it's Biden.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But by three or less.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This was unthinkable from my vantage point five six months ago.
No wonder they're panicked. Look at his approval rating thirty
eight point six percent. I was playing in shameless plug
for our podcast. If you missed the first hour, you
missed a lot. You missed George Stepanophilis and the mainstream
media holding Biden accountable. They have turned on the president now.
(02:45):
I made the point they've been covering for him. Now
they want to be heroes, but they're not letting him
give a pad answer and just moving on. He relentlessly
pounded the president on cognitive impair and wouldn't budge for
any So many Democrats and the media an all out
(03:05):
push to get Biden out. Why because they believe he
can't win. Why because of the numbers I'm sharing with
you right now. But at one point, stepanophal has even
said to him, mister President, no one with a thirty
eight percent approval rating has ever won a presidential election.
I thought it was a very Stepanophilis revealing moment. The
reason the media is turning on them is because they
(03:25):
believe he can't win. They covered for him and got
them to win. They covered for him as president. Now
they see they can't get away with it any longer.
Here's the most damning thing, right direction. Only twenty three
point four percent of America thinks we're heading in the
right direction. Ladies and gentlemen, there are more Democrats than
(03:47):
there are Republicans. That would suggest a lot of Democrats
think we're heading in the wrong direction. And in total,
sixty six point nine percent think we're heading in the
wrong direction.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
They're panicked, and for good reason. I'll tell you one
even better.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The United States Senate right now forty nine Republican, forty
three Democrat, with eight toss ups, and those toss ups
aren't looking leaning their way. So here are our questions
of the day. Will Joe Biden go He didn't after election?
Will he now? Will he now that all the media's
turned against him? How can this party possibly unite between
(04:22):
now and the convention when they're so divided over.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Even their candidate? Ask not?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Don't bring Jack into this? Finally, how do you lose
the presidency without losing the House and Senate?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Both?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
These are the panicked questions from the left. Aaron Rayl
is gonna have more on that, including well the media's
turned against him? Have donors turned against him. Also, if
you're just waking up, Hurricane Barrel has now made landfall
near Corpus Christie, about ninety miles from Houston. It's a
Category one hurricane, so probably the greatest threats could be flooding,
(05:00):
but more likely tornadoes.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
To spicable me sore to the tops of the box office.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Over the holiday weekend and President Biden hit the campaign
trail trying to court black vote in Pennsylvania. All right,
I wanted to take this segment. We highlighted how stepping
off I mean, remember Biden went on Stepanophalis on ABC
to try to make up for the bad debate. It
had doubled down and got worse because he walked into
(05:29):
a trap and the media turned on him, and it
was nothing but a thirty minute press to get him
to drop out of the race and admit that he's
cognitively impaired. When push came to shove, Stepanoflis came right
out and asked him, would you be willing to take
a cognitive test and a neurological exam?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And the President refused, So no gain from that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Another significant while you were celebrating the birth of America,
you might have missed the dysfunction of our reality. Was
Marco Rubio, who could be tops on the list for
Trump VIEP selection. His one on one State of the
Union visit with Dana Bash. I'm gonna play some of this,
(06:14):
but just as we did with the stepanoflspiden audio, I
want you to listen how she tries to combat him
with narratives and he comes back at her with reality.
Marco Rubio champions.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Trump and Bash is Bash. Here's how the interview sounded.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Now, for four decades, the Republican Parties platform endorsed a
national abortion ban. Donald Trump opposes that, as you well know,
he thinks it should be left to the states. There
are a lot of conservative groups who are not happy
about the potential to change the platform.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Now she's trying to make this a Republican Party crisis.
It's an American reality. This is an irrelevant question. The
Supreme Court has sent it to the states, all states,
including blue states. And by the way, states are in states,
(07:21):
they're voters, they're people in a government upformed by the people.
And finally, I don't say this egotistically, but finally someone
gives the right answer. First, was Donald Trump during the
debate and potentially is VP here. Marco Rubio, listen.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Do you support changing the official party platform to Trump's
position that it should be a state issue.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Well, I think our platform has to reflect our nominee,
and our nominee's position has actually happens to be one
grounded in reality. The reality of it, it is the
Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, And what that basically
means is that.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Now it's not states, it's voters at.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Individual states who will get to decide how and to
what level they want to restrict abortion, if at all.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Some states will have restrictions, some stams will not, And
so I.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Hope that that our platform will reflect our nominee. I
also think it's important to remember the Democrats their last
platform basically endorsed a abortion paid for by taxpayers at
any time without any restrictions.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
So I think really the question.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Here is whether they are going to have a radical,
you know, plank of their platform that basically requires Americans
to pay for abortions at any time for any reason
up until the moment of birth. That was their platform
four years ago. Let's see how how what it looks
like now.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Again, I'm not sure, that's entirely true.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But why don't we pause and let you go research
you're not totally sure, get totally sure, that's how you
handle narratives.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Let's keep going.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Want to focus if I'm on what your party is
doing and something that the head of the Susan B.
Anthony Group told me this past week, She and others
Tony Perkins as well, have said that they are concerned
that removing the Federal band from the platform will depress
enthusiasm for Donald Trump among core anti.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Abortion grassroots voters. Is that where were you?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Not? Really?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Because I don't think there's much of an option here.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It looks like no matter who the Democrats nominate, it
looks like maybe Kamala Harris would be the most liberal
presidential candidate in American history, or a continuation of whoever's
running the White House now with Joe Biden as its figurehead.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Did you catch that? That's Marco Rubio acknowledging two realities.
It's a split screen and Dana Bash is doing everything
she can to hold a straight face, but she knows
she's getting her Bash handed to her. He acknowledges that
Joe Biden is even running for president it's whoever's been
(10:05):
I mean, this is the movie Dave. If you've never
seen the movie Dave with Kevin Klein, you need to
go watch it. The real president is brain dead in
the basement of the White House, and a look alike
is pretending to be the president. Well, I don't suggest
that Joe Biden is under the White House brain dead,
but who's If Joe Biden isn't running this country, who is.
(10:27):
So there's Marco Rubio with a narrativized question answering with reality. Well,
whether it's Kamala Harris, the most liberal candidate in history,
or whoever's been really running this presidency now Joe Biden.
In other words, he throws it back at her. They
really don't have a choice. We Republican would support Kamala
(10:50):
Harris or whoever's really running this country or Joe Biden
cognitively impaired over Donald Trump. There there's a real answer
to your ridiculous, narrativized, nonsensical question. I mean, Marco Rubio,
what a performance. I hope nobody misses.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
The issue is that they are going to be radical.
There's only one pro life candidate in this race, and
it's Donald Trump. I think his position on this has
been that the reality and that is, you can't You
can't pass a federal law now even if we wanted to,
you couldn't pass one.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
But states, not states.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Voters and individual states now have the ability to influence
what abortion laws look like in their state, and they
can have that debate.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
About how restrictive, to what level, what.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Exceptions, and so forth.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You couldn't even have that debate before the Supreme Court
opened that up. All the Supreme Court ruled was that
this was a political issue, that this was an issue
that now voters would be able to decide via the
people they voted for or voted against at the state level.
And that's the reality.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Let me ask you about the Supreme Court and a
huge ruling that they issued on Monday that Donald Trump
has broad immunity for official acts related to January sixth,
the attack.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
On the US capital.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
When you voted to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial
for January sixth, you said, quote, what history and if necessary,
the courts judge the events of the past. Well, this
ruling by the highest court in the land precludes lower
courts from doing what you suggested at least with some
actions like conversations with the Justice Department.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Are you comfortable with that?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Well, first of all, I'm uncomfortable with the fact now
that we have a president who has targets political opponents.
That's what's happened under Joe Biden. Everybody when Donald Trump
was president. I can't think of a single prominent Democrat
who was chased around, persecuted, prosecuted all the It's funny
to me to read these people and hear these people
out there warning about all the horrible things they ridiculously
(12:49):
claim Donald Trump is going to do if he becomes
president again. They're the ones that have been going after
their political opponents. Donald Trump has been the one that's
been very clear that his vengeance is going to be
by winning and making America great again, not going after
his political opponents. He said that in your debate that
you hold Senator, and there's the will evidence after political opponents.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
There's no evidence that Joe Biden has gone after political
appontance opponents his Justice Department.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
The evidence is in the headlines every day. Well, the
apartment is going to jail somewhere.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Democrats, I were out of time.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But he's a job a good fellow love or he's
but never mind how he hands hands it to Dana
Bash throughout that interview and better than I've heard anybody
do in probably twenty years. Let that be just as
the stepanophilis interview. It's a lesson in how all interviews
(13:44):
should be. The media holding elected officials accountable on behalf
of we the people, so that we can be assured
we're getting what we voted for. Let this interview be
a lesson to all in a matrix in an era
of the death of journalism and narrativization and narrative repeating.
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This is how you respond to narratives with reality and facts,
Marco Rubio. And with a performance like that and jd
Vance's interactions over the weekend, is that a signed They're
the top two candidates to be the Beep choice. And
(14:31):
that's what Telsea Gabbard still out there.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
This is your morning show with Michael del Trono. This
is your morning show on Michael del jonal.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Hurricane Barrel has made landfall ninety miles off the coast
of Houston. Roy O'Neal will have more on that in
about twenty five minutes, and National correspondent Aaron Real is
going to take a look at how donors as well
as lawmakers are concerned about President Biden's reelection campaign.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Will do that in about eight minutes. First, your top
five stories of.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The day, starting with no More fourn offer Zeveral House
Democrats have told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries president Biden
needs to bow out of this race. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
During a Sunday call, at least four senior House Democrats
said privately Biden should drop out, joining another five House members.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Who have called on Biden to withdraw.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
A source familiar with the Democratic senator Mark Warner said
that the similar private meeting that he was trying to
organize for Monday with other senators is no longer taking place.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Heavy rains and wins are reaching the Texas coast as
Hurricane Beryl has made landfall a Category one storm, maximum
sustained wins of about eighty miles an hours expected. The
storm brings the risk of flooding and possible tornadoes. A
tornado watches in effect until ten am. Rain could reach
as much as ten inches throughout the day. The Houston
Mayor warned everyone.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Sixteen to seventy miles for our wind Gusto wins.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Serious rain could.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Reach up to levels to twelve or more inches, certainly
beginning with six to twelve inches.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Despicable Me four Tops at the box Office, released on Wednesday,
pulled in one hundred and twenty two point six million
dollars over the fourth of July holiday long weekend. Hotly
anticipated and anticipated picks Our sequel Inside Out two finished
second with thirty million dollars into Quiet Place, Day one
Place quietly in third. We talked about this earlier and
(16:30):
Jeffrey came pretty close. I was off by over thirty cents.
Have you thought about what a forever stamp costs now?
I know who's mailing and who's using stamps. Well, the
Postal Service is raising the price of forever stamps later
this month, and Mark Mayfield's back to fill us.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
In stamps will sell for seventy three cents beginning on
July the fourteenth. That's up a nickel from the current price.
Other postage costs are going up to, including postcard and
metered letter rates. The increases are part of a decade
long financial outline that YOUPS is calling the delivering for
America plan our Mark Meyfield.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
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Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
This is your morning show on Michael del Jona if
you're just waking up.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Thirty five minutes after the hour, Hurricane Barrel has made
landfall about ninety miles from Houston, Texas, off the coast
of Corpus Christy. Expected wins of eighty miles an hour
and a lot of rain and a possibility of tornadoes
with it. We have several Democrats calling for Joe Biden
to step aside. The media is in a full court
(17:53):
press to push him aside. He's not budgeting. He was
on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania. Aaron Rayal was joining us.
I guess one of the things that's obvious. I think
to everyone whether or not the president had a bad
debate or has cognitive impairment, and that is that the
media is done carrying water for him. That was a
full court press by George Stepanophilis. We're seeing that throughout
(18:15):
the media. I guess the question becomes, what about donors
and money and fundraising? Is that becoming a problem.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
It is, And I'm glad that you bring that up
because some people have been like, he performed okay, and
you're like, what, like, was anyone watching this? He performed
like he performs. It's difficult when you're at the age
that he is. If you're lucky enough to get there,
he's not. They make one fit for the presidency. And
(18:44):
Stephanopoulos kept grilling him like have you had a neurological exam?
Have you met with a neurologist? And he wouldn't let
him go, And that was very interesting to talk. But
now with donor support drying up, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What I was going to say is is you know,
because I thought that that was supposed to be the
make good for the bad debate performance, and I guess,
I mean, if I were friends of the administration, I
would say are you serious you want to do this
with George Steppanophilis. This is a Clinton operative. He's probably
not going to carry water for you. But also the
(19:16):
media is done carrying water for you. So what I
heard was normally when they give like a pad answer,
oh I had a cold or oh I was tired,
they just let him have it. He just kept coming back,
pouncing back on and then of course the bottom line
to the interview was would you take a cognitive test
and would you have a neurological exam and share it
(19:36):
with everyone? After all their concern Maybe you're not concerned,
but they're concerned. And the bottom line was he said no.
So the question becomes is Biden being defiant or is
he in denial? And denial is a big part of
this particular dementia aspect that lingers. So he did himself
no favors with George Stepanophalis. Now let's get to the money,
(19:58):
because he bragged in that interview that he raised thirty
eight million dollars, not nearly what Donald Trump has raised
since being convicted of a felony.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What is happening with donor money?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because if the Democrat Party support and the media support
is gone. The money usually follows that, and it's gone too.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Indeed, and listen, if his family can't convince him stuff aside,
if Nancy Pelosi and the other big Democratic big wigs
who are finally coming out and saying like, okay, yeah,
maybe it's legitimate to ask these questions, then perhaps the
money can because when that's gone, it's over. Michael Novograts
Galaxy ceo, crypto billionaire.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
He actually took.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Two x and said, we need to sweep the floor of.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
The team that's been in charge of the past thirty years.
Abigail Disney, the Disney Heiress, one of them. She said
she's going to embargo future donations to the party as
a whole until the president bows out of the race.
This means, you know, like lower on the ballot names
are going to get annoyed by that. That's when you
have the whole party really really fired up. And by
the way, there's five House Democrats who publicly called on
(20:59):
Biden to exit. Read Hastein's founder of Netflix. He's given
tens of millions of Democrats says he's got to go.
Mark Cuban, echoing this, Barry Dillar, billionaire chairman of I
SE married to Diane vn. Furstenberg said no, very simply no,
he's not holding firm with the Bidy in campaign.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Bottom line is the left is in a full panic.
And here's why, Aaron, all right, So first we do approval.
Remember in the interview with George Stepanofflis, at one point,
Stepan Offlice goes in exasperation.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Literally, it was one of those exasperative moments.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
No matter what he asked Biden, Biden would stay in
denial or defiance, and then finally he just looks at
me and he goes. Nobody's ever won with a thirty
eight percent approval rating, mister president. It was just a
really kind of exasperated moment. So the president is a
thirty eight percent approval rating of fifty seven point nine
disapproval rating. That's got to be a lot of Democrats too.
Another matrix, right direction, wrong direction. Only twenty three percent
(21:52):
of America. I think we're headed in the right direction.
So even when he starts going through the laundry list
of all the things he's done, nobody perceives that as
the right direction.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sixty six point nine say the wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
If we did the electoral College map today, and we won't,
but if we did, Trump would win with three hundred
and twelve to his two hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And that's what no toss ups. If you go to.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Swing states Arizona, Nevada, He's up five point four and
four point six Trump is, Wisconsin, Trump's up one and
a half. Michigan, He's up point six. Pennsylvania, where Biden
was this weekend, He's up four point five percent.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Trump is.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
When you start looking at New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Virginia,
some Virginias have Trump up, but those three all of
Biden's leads are down to three percent or less, and
Georgia he now trails by three point seven percent. Oh,
there's a reason to panic. And the question everybody's asking
is is there a way to lose the presidency without
losing the House and the Senate. And I think the
(22:43):
conclusion is, and what I'm hearing from some of these
big donors, is you can't.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And in the case of Disney, and you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Wow, there's reason for panic if you're trying to keep
the lefts agenda going.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Indeed, and listen, this is why you have other lawmakers E.
Gonna Jim Clyburn, the Democrat from South Carolina. He was
one of Biden's closest allies. He's publicly validated the concerns
about Biden's fitness for re election. And I think if
you just watched the Stephanopolis interview, much like the debate,
so much of it is kind of in the non
verbal or at least like the words in between, Like yes,
(23:22):
he can, he can talk about his accomplishments, he can
talk about you know, American people and God and all
these things.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
That voters like.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
But the way his voice sounds like this, this is
not me being trite at all, Like it's just he's
he seems quite frail. And if he does get tired
preparing for a debate, the presidency is desiresome, like it's
a very it's it's the most tiresome job. And I
don't it. I don't understand, Like it seems like if
(23:51):
he was being sincere in the idea that the reason
he ran the first go around is because he the
only way he could be Trump. Okay, sure we're on
board with that, but you can't possibly be holding to
that this go round.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Because it just isn't true he absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Stepanopflis clearly asked him that in those exact words, and
he still thinks he is the only person that can
do it and the only person that can win. Now,
whether that's denial or whether that's defiance. And again, I
think their plan was to hide the hide him in
a basement the first time and then push him aside.
And he wouldn't go then, and he won't go now.
(24:27):
Now The question is can they get him to go?
He denies that he's heard from anybody. In fact, when
push came to shove in the Stepanofhalis interview, he said,
Nancy Pelosi won't tell me to step aside, Clive Burne
won't tell me to step aside. Schumer won't tell me
to step aside. I think they plan to tell him
to step aside. The question is at that point, at
(24:47):
that point, we will know it's defiance and not denial.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But I want to I.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Want to end with with something you just kind of
brought up. Can you play the talkback, Jeffrey, And I
hope Aaron can hear it. This was a talkback that
we got. Now, I have an in law who is
going through dementia and so I see this on a
daily basis. I'm seeing what you're sensing, and I'm seeing
what this talkback caller sees every day.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And that's why we're convinced.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
But play it ab force one here. I'm not a doctor,
but I worked for a long time in a memory
care facility and I was very involved in my mom's
care when she suffered with dementia before her death. Defensive
denial is their survival. They're afraid they're going to be
locked away, put away, stigmatized, laughed at, whatever. And that's
(25:38):
what I see when I'm watching our president.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Let me tell you why. That's such a brilliant comment.
And she uses the talkback a lot, and she gets
on the air a lot. I told her, if anything
ever happens, she can be the fill in or she
can be my closet.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
She's that good.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But there because if the question is is the president
being defiant or is he in denial? Many would vote denial,
some would vote defiance. The answer is actually both, because
the denial is a part of the defiance, because that's
a part of dementia. Both point to dementia. You know,
(26:15):
those of us what you're seeing, we know the look,
we know the words, and that's and a lot of
Americans who have been dealing with dementia parents know the look.
And that's why the President's not going to have this
test or neurological exam, because we all know what it's
going to come back to.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Fascinating time, isn't.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
It It is? And listen, I think like if it's
truly it's hard to fight that one. And frankly, it
would make his behavior more understandable right now. It actually
kind of makes it much clearer.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Aaron Rayel or national correspondent for your morning show. Great reporting.
You have a great day. I can't wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Likewise, have a good one.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, by a forty four minutes after the hour, we're
just waking up. These are your top five stories of today.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, his party's trying to force him out. He was
busy on Air Force one heading to try to salvage
a swing state he's losing and salvage black votes he's lost.
Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Road to the White House.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Twenty twenty four, President Biden hit the campaign trail in
Pennsylvania on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Speaking at a.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Historically black church in Philadelphia, Biden said as president, he's
only trying to walk his.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Faith across the way. In Delaware, attended the morning.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Mass in my church and head to Sunday services at
Black church.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
As I said.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Early on, I've always felt the power of your faith
in good times and in tough times.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
He talked about his administration's record on supporting black and
minority communities and set his goal in running for re
election is to reunite America again by had An also
made a stop at his campaign headquarters in Philadelphia to
rally workers and repeated his pledge not to drop out
of the twenty twenty four presidential race.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm Markneyfield.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I don't believe the president, but we really think he
went to Mass and then left Mass and went to
a Black church if that was a part of his
annual routine, because I was feeling pretty good about my
days when I used to go on Wednesday service twice
on Sunday, but I never and then I never felt
the need to go to like a Jehovah Witness church.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Vice President Kamala Harris's office as the second Gentleman, Doug
Mhoff has tested positive for COVID nineteen. The announcement said
em Hoff had experienced some mild symptoms well that could
be COVID before now being asymptomatic. The office noted he
is fully vaccinated and the Vice president has tested negative,
just like her approval rating. Meanwhile, heavy rains and winds
(28:42):
reaching the Texas coast hurricane barrel has arrived. Houston, Maryor
John Whitmeyer had a strong message for everyone in southeast Texas.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
We have to take Burrow very very serious. Our worst
enemy is our complacency. We can't allow us to allow
this storm.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
To slip up.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Bonus, we've had notice on it. It's still very unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Category one storm, maximum sustained winds of eighty miles an
hour expected. The storm brings the risk of flooding, expecting
about ten inches of rain by the end of the day,
but more significantly tornadoes that can be associated with hurricanes.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And I said tornadoes not tornadoes. No, I did not.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I would like you to play the We don't have
time for this right now, but I would like to.
I'm throwing the red flag. I'm challenging. I don't say tornado. Meanwhile,
the Houston Mayor once again warned everyone please remain panicked.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Sixty to seventy miles for our wind goes. Tropical winds,
serious rain could reach up to levels to twelve or
more inches, certainly beginning with six to twelve inches.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Despicable Me four top the box office over the long
holiday weekend, bringing in one hundred and twenty two point
six a million dollars. I haven't used the stamp in
a long time. My guess would have been it's at
forty five cents. Boy was I shocked to find out
they're uping it to seventy three cents.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Who is still licking stamps?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
John Cen is retiring from Wwwed Davis Thompson earned his
first career tour victory after winning the twenty twenty four
John Dear Classic, a tpceed deer run with twenty eight
under par Major League Baseball scores of cities of interest
to your morning show Guardians one Cardinals, one Rangers, one
Dbacks one Mariner's raising that it's all lost.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
I'm Andrea del Jorno and my husband, and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Thanks for waking up with your morning show. I am
Michael del Jorno. Hurricane Barrel, a Category one hurricane, has
made landfall. Your morning show correspondent Aaron Aaron Real Ory
O'Neal is keeping an eye on that story. What's the
latest down Barrel.
Speaker 10 (30:49):
I came ashore as a Cat one storm wins maxing
out at eighty miles per hour. It's going to weaken
pretty quickly now that it's moving over Texas. We've got
a Hugh having a pretty stormy day today.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
But it shouldn't. This isn't the big one, you know.
It was much more dangerous as a Cat.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Five when it barreled over Jamaica and then into Mexico.
But now there are still some threats in the Texas area,
especially when it comes to driving.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
People just stay home for the day. They should be
all right, you know, normally.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And I grew up in New Orleans, so I know
too much about hurricanes. You being in Florida know a
lot about them. Usually when these hurricanes hit the warm
golf waters, they intensify. What a blessed this one from
a Category five to a Category one in making its
way to the Houston area and the coastline of Corpus Christie.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That's very rare.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Well right, well, passed over Mexico, which really sapped much
of its strength there, So that's why it got knocked
down to a tropical storm, but then built back up
in the hours just before landfall.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, all right, so probably tornadoes would be the greatest
threat I would think at this point.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right Tona watching until.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
Ten o'clock this morning their local time, So that is
one of the concerns.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Five to twelve inches of rain possible.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
And don't forget there were some pretty bad, strong, straight
lined windstorms in the Houston area just last week. So
it's a bit of a one two punch, although this
one's a bit more serious. And keep in mind, Beryl
isn't going to just disappear. It's going to be bringing
some pretty dangerous weather conditions.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Up to the Midwest very soon.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Expected to be over Arkansas tomorrow afternoon, probably passing by
Kentucky and southern Illinois on Wednesday, and then into towards Ohio,
I guess on early Thursday.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So somebody's thinking tomorrow about getting out of Dodge. Is
Tuesday still the best day to book a flight.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
Sort of by like one percent savings We're talking dollars
and cents now, it's not really the big thing that many.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Believed it was sort of a wives tale.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
Maybe back in the day when you used to call
an operator to book a flight, maybe Tuesday was better,
But these days they find it doesn't really make a difference.
Just avoid Friday is pretty much the rule of thumb.
That's when prices for airline tickets tend to be a
bit higher. The folks over at USA Today asked around
to Google, into Hopper, into Expedia. They found that more
(33:14):
important than which day of the week is how far
in advance you book the flight. Obviously, last minute flights
are more expensive, but if you can sign up for
one of those monitoring services, diffree. Like if you go
on Hopper, it'll tell you if you book a flight
from Nashville to Boston, it'll say for Christmas, it'll say, oh,
it's too early, you know, wait a while to book,
(33:34):
or hurry up and book. Flights are running short.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So when you say Tuesday, do we mean flying on
Tuesday or literally booking your flight on a Tuesday, literally
buying the ticket on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
If you want to head to the airport on a Tuesday,
that's going to be cheaper.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
As well.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Compared to a Friday, departments Wednesday, Thursday options are cheaper,
but when it comes to actually booking for the same date,
same time, there's really no difference unless it's a Friday,
Fridays and more expense.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Now, when I was growing up, if my father said
what do you know it all? It was it was derogatory,
it was a negative. But when we talk about Rory
being a know it all, we mean it in a
very positive sense. I want to test it right now, Rory,
do you know what a stamp costs? Now?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I guessed forty five, You guess fifty two. Jeffrey guests
sixty three. It's up to seventy three cents.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I don't know who's I.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Don't know who's still licking stamps seventy three.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
That just blew me good. Now, I've had the same
two books of stamps.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
In my glove compartment, and I got to feel on
the way they've been there since.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, thank you God, I think you're there for from
car to car. We're all in this together. This is
your morning show with Michael Hill Show or Now
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