July 12, 2024 • 35 mins
Project 2025, what it actually is vs the left’s narrative.
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I'm Michael del Jorna. Welcome to Friday, July, the twelfth
year of our Lord twenty twenty four. Well, the bar
was set high for Joe Biden to assure us all
he's ready to be president for four more years? How
did he do?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president,
so I think she's not qualified to be president.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah. Not, Well, let's start there. One of the things
that came up was the boogeyman Donald Trump, the threat
to democracy, the threat to democracy of Project twenty twenty five.
In fact, the left is on a full on narrative
assault of Project twenty twenty five, conflating it with Trump,
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making an anti democracy. I think out of everything since
this show has gone national that I've gotten emails on,
it's Michael explain to us Project twenty twenty five, and
it comes from one of the largest thing tanks in
the world. It is based on four pillars. It is
a one hundred and eighty day policy playbook to get
America on the right track. Now, before we can even
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have that conversation, you got to get beyond personality politics.
As we often remind you, the border isn't in shambles
because Joe Biden is cognitively impaired. It's their policies that
have failed. Same inflation, same for COVID, same for foreign policy.
Policies matter and that's where Project twenty twenty five comes in.
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So rather than have Joe Biden or the leftist media
tell you what Project twenty twenty five is. We thought
we'd go to the architects themselves, the Heritage Foundation and
one of my old friends, Hans von Spakowski, which by
the way, got a reaction from our producer. Everybody's got
to react to your name, Hans when they meet you.
He's one of the most brilliant minds at the Heritage Foundation.
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He is not the Burger Meister, Meister Burger, he does
have a unique name, Hans. Thanks for joining us. Are
you surprised at the amount of conflation and attention Project
twenty twenty five is getting by the left.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, I am, and I'm not. Look, this has been
out for more than a year, so you have to
wonder why all of a sudden has gotten all of
this attention. And I think it's because they're trying to
distract us from the clear physical and mental problems that
the president is experiencing and his party having some serious
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doubts about whether he can continue the nomination. So I
think this is a way of getting people to not
talk about that. So they come up with this boogeyman,
which is a Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well, the boogeyman, of course, is ultimately Donald Trump, the
dictator with the insurrection whistleblower that only the insurrection is here,
and now this has been kind of folded in with
that show you how far we've come with the death
of journalism. We didn't do that with the Contract with
America with Newt Gingrich. In fact, both parties, a Democrat
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president along with the Republican Congress worked hard on that
contract to make America great. This is more in that spirit,
and it's very policy driven, not personality driven, which is conversations.
They don't want to have you think. Think it's because
they've kind of said, we're not a republic or a democracy,
and democracy really means Democrat party platform. So if you
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pose their platform, their policies, or their candidates, your anti democracy.
I guess that's the game that's being played. But other
than that, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, yeah, but they are anti democracy. If you look
Project twenty twenty five. People don't have to take my
word for what's in it. We've been very public about this.
They can go to anybody can go to the website.
It's Project twenty twenty five dot org and they will
see there are nine hundred page book that is a
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policy proposals for every single Executive Department. And what I
challenge people rether than listening to these crazy criticisms you're
hearing of it, go there and pick a department, you know,
whatever you're interested. Department of Defense, Justice, department, Department of Education,
and read the chapter on that. And I'm willing to
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bet you that your listeners will say, oh, that makes
a lot of sense, common sense. And the reason I
say the left and the critics are anti democratic is
the whole purpose of this policy is to take power
away from the technocrats, the bureaucrats, the administrative state and
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return it to the people, state governments, local governments, and
the American people.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Hans von Spakowski is joining us from the Heritage Foundation
on Project twenty five Year. The President criticize it again yesterday.
This is based on the four pillars. Why don't you
break down the four pillars for everybody?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, the other problem is, look, when a president gets elected,
whether it's a Democrat or Republican, they get elected in
November and by January twentieth they're supposed to have about
four thousand people political appointees to fill all the top
spots throughout the gigantic executive branch and that is very problematic.
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Transition teams are set up to do this, but they
always are caught short and are unable to do it.
So our other big idea was, look, why don't we
set up a pre screening process, a database, And we
have done that. We've got thousands of names in it
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of people who would be interested in serving in another administration,
and we're doing the vetting so that if a new
president when he comes in, wants to find the best
people to put into these positions throughout the executive branch,
he's going to have already made database already there with
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people whose background experience is already available and they've already
been vetted, and that will help them fill these top slots.
And what we're looking for, obviously, are people who are
conservatives and understand that their job is to pull these
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agencies back from doing what they're not supposed to be
doing and have them doing what they should be doing.
And can it be a quick example of this, because
matter the President yesterday was condemning this horrible, horrible project.
Twent twenty five, we have a section on the Department
of Homeland Security, and what it says is that a
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successful Department of Homeland Security would secure and control the border,
thoroughly enforce immigration laws, directly and efficiently adjudicate immigration benefit
applications while rejecting fraudulent claims.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Wow, law, that's your radical idea, Law and order, Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Protecting, Yes, that's idea. Or our chapter on the US
Department of Education says that, hey, elementary and secondary education
policy ought to be publicly funded, but education decisions should
be made by families, not the government. That's our radical idea.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, most would look back and say nineteen seventy nine,
when the government took over education, was the radical move.
And I think the yes, the results speak for themselves,
all right, Hans, talk to us a little bit about
I would imagine by and large there's very little that
the far and I don't even know what the Democrat
Party is anymore. Something happened in Daily Plaza beyond the
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killing of JFK, and it's never been the same. So
today JFK would be right of the Republican Party. Today
the Democrat Party is left of the twenty four Socialist Party,
So I don't even know what they are. And I
know there's this battle internally between the far far left
and the squad versus, and they're targeting soft Democrats. I
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doubt there's a lot they would agree with in this.
I can imagine there's most all of it that Donald
Trump would agree with. But in no way is this
did Donald Trump have anything to do with this? And
in no way is this any different than what the
Heritage Foundation has been doing for decades. Who were the
minds that put this together?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, see, that's the thing. Look, we started this in
twenty twenty two. It was long before Donald Trump, an
announcero's running for president. And it's not just the Heritage Foundation.
We decided to get as many conservative think tanks and
organizations involved, over one hundred and twenty more than six
hundred people developed these policies and wrote this book. And
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you know, I saw some article any newsweak or someplace saying, oh,
look at all these former Trump officials who were involved this.
I think they listed about thirty thirty or thirty five people.
So a tiny fraction of the six hundred individuals who
were involved in this had served in the Trump administration. Yeah, well,
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we also had people who served in the Bush administration,
the Reagan administration. What we did there was that's deliberate,
because look, you don't want people writing about what should
be done at the Department of Homeland Security who haven't
worked there.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Or before it existed, Right, yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You want people who have actual experience in the departments
they are writing about what the policy should be. So, yeah,
we've got former Trump officials, but they're just a small percentage,
a small part of the many people we brought in
from all of these other organizations, all of who know
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what they're talking about in their particular area, whether it's
defense or education or the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, we don't have facts, we don't have truth. We
have narratives and narrative repeaters. There used to be an
old expression there's no such thing as bad press. You
certainly have gotten in recent days a lot of attention,
and if that has got people to go to the
website and actually read it chapter by chapter, that could
return America collectively towards policy over personality. But this is
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a conservative consensus of over six hundred minds at a
one hundred day, eighty day policy playbook for writing the
course of America. It's called Heritage's Project twenty twenty five.
You'll find it at Project twenty twenty five dot org.
All right, So for all the false narrativization of what
Project twenty twenty five is, how about, Hans, we step
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aside and give you about sixty seconds to tell us
what it really is.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
What it really is is saying that the fourth branch
of government, the one we didn't learn about, is civics.
The administrative state needs to be pulled back. We don't
need bureaucrats who aren't accountable to voters running our lives.
We don't need bureaucrats putting out regulations that criminalize conducts.
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That's up to Congress to do. And the whole point
of this book is to return us to a situation
where it's Congress that passes the laws. Yes, the executive
branch and forces them. But we don't have this fourth branch.
All these career civil servants who say, you know what,
I'm just going to do whatever I want. I don't
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care who's president, because you know what, you can't fire me.
And that is not the way our government is supposed
to work. People are people work in the government accountable
to voters, and that's not the situation now. So with
each of these government departments, the idea is to streamline
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them and get them back to their core functions so
that they're doing what they were intended to do by
Congress and not going far beyond that. And again I
challenge folks, don't listen to the criticism. A lot of
it is being fabricated as a Biden campaign, Like there
was one I saw Michael that said, oh, this would
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get rid of no fall divorce. The divorce is nowhere
mentioned anywhere in this entire thing. That's a state function,
there's nothing to do with the federal government.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
But that's the kind of lie I heard that you
there's a plan to use big black vans and any
women seeking an abortion will be thrown in that van
and blindfolded and taken away somewhere and never seen again.
Is that one in there? No? No, But this is
the kind of nonsense is that is going on? But
it is a call, a clarion call to return to
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our intent, the proper size and role of government, the
will of the people, and the desire I think for
the self governed to be able to self govern. And
then a kind of a policy by policy blueprint of
writing the course. We encourage everyone to read it for
themselves Project twenty twenty five. Do we know if this
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is being We know it's being rejected and demonized by
the left. Do we know if Donald Trump surprised us
all four years ago? This guy the only between Donald
Trump didn't do anything that wasn't in the Republican Party platform,
but he did do it, which has been a Republican
failure in past administrations. Do we have a feeling that
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if Donald Trump is reelected a lot of these sensible,
great ideas will once again be enacted.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
We hope so. And what we hope will happen is
what Look. The first time Heritage did this was when
Ronald Reagan got elected. People forget that. And at his
first cabinet meeting, you know what Ronald Reagan did. He
handed a copy of our Mandate for LEA, which is
what this is called, to every member of his cabinet,
every secretary, and said you need to read this and
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follow what it says. We're hoping the same thing happens.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And that might have been the very seeds to the
Reagan revolution versus presidency. Hans von Spakowski, thanks for the
truth on Project twenty five. We encourage people to read
it for themselves at Project twenty five dot rg Hans.
Great to hear your voice again. God bless you, my
friend ye for having it. This is your Morning Show
with Michael del Chona Friday, with forty five coming up
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in the third hour Today, we'll talk a little about
the BEEP announcement and the upcoming Republican Convention. We'll also
have a visit next half hour with Rory O'Neil. Inflation
came in cooler than expected. We're expecting now two rate cuts.
Interest rate cuts of about a half a percentage point
may be broken up into two different cuts between now
and the end of the year. We'll get the latest
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from Rory moments from now, and if you're just waking up.
One of the top stories, Donald Trump is asking that judge,
remember the judge you said, we're going to delay the
sentencing un till September eighteenth, if it is still necessary. Well,
Donald Trump's attorneys asked the judge to throw out the
guilty verdict in the New York hush money case. Brian
Shooks here with more.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
His team made the request Thursday, pointing to the Supreme
Court's recent ruling that defines when a former president is
immune from prosecution. His sentencing in the case was initially
set for this week, but has been delayed to allow
for more time to consider the Supreme Court's decision. In May,
the New York jury found Trump guilty of thirty four
counts of falsifying business records and making hush money payments
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to adult film star Stormy Daniels. I'm Brian Shuk.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Did look like it, but old Joe thinks he's still
the most qualified to do the job. Mark Mayfield has
that story.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
During a rare solo press event that lasted nearly an hour,
Biden said there are other people who could beat Trump too,
Biden said, but it's awful hard to start from scratch.
Biden made several mental gaffes, like calling Trump his vice president.
Biden is facing increasing calls from Democrats student rop his
reelection bid over concerns about his mental fitness. Biden said,
I'm just going to keep moving, adding I'm going to
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be going around making the case for the things that
I think we have to finish.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I'm Marknefield. Perhaps Joe said it best when he said,
now I want to hand it over to the President Ukraine,
who has as much courage as he has determination ladies
and gentlemen. President Putinrad didn't go very hoop, of course,
is Russia, Ukraine. Hi, It's Michael. Your morning show airs
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to talk radio ninety eight point three and fifteen ten
WLAC in Nashville. What dropping out of the race.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Have all those states where they had to do the virtual.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Nominations to get him all the ticket in time?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
If he drops out, if they're no Democrat all that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Ticket, Well, first of all, I think Ohio is pretty
secure for Donald Trump. So that's mainly Ohio that changes
the laws. They'll actually have to we'll do more of
this maybe with Rory when he comes on. They have
to virtual reality award their electoral votes prior to the convention.
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But that's not a state. But yes, he would not
be on the ballot there if he were to drop out.
But again, you know, yesterday the biggest takeaway was, you know,
Biden acknowledged that if those electors want to give award
their votes to someone else at the convention, they can,
but they won't. Nobody thinks a they would, or be
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he would allow it. So other than death, only Joe
Biden can drop out of the race and release his
delegates for a free for all at the convention. You
are right, Bobby to point out maybe and nobody talks
about it, depending on when it happens, and I think
it could be more like days rather than weeks, or
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maybe not at all. But I think yesterday was the
failed final test, this push for him to step aside.
He will have to yield to and he may do so,
if not in time without anybody being on the ballot
in Ohio because of the mess they made for themselves.
On a bigger mess they've made for themselves. Let's get
Debbie in here from Arizona.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
This is Debbie in Gilbert, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I listened to your show this.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Morning, and I thought you put it out perfectly about
them coming to the realization that Biden is just a vegetable,
and we've all seen it for the last four years,
even before that. But it just astounds me that John
Stewart does this whole show that it's something new.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Well, the best part about the John Stewart clip is
he starts before the twenty twenty election corn pop his
hairy legs in the pool, all that nonsense, then talking
to a dead congress member, then talking to a dead
president of France. Listen, if if this is the first
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time you've noticed Joe Biden has been cognitively impaired, you
have not been very honest with yourself. And if this
is the first time that Axios, the Associated Press, the
Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC have noticed, well,
then they haven't been very honest with you. And they
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don't care about you. They don't care about our republic.
They only care now because they see they can't win,
and their worldview, their policy view, their control over you
is all that matters, and it's slipping away. And that's
where the sense of urgency comes in. Now, if you're
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just waking up. I'm not going to tell you anything
you don't know. Things didn't go well for Joe Biden,
even while still hosting the NATO Affairs. His big introduction
to the Ukrainian president Zelensky went this way and.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now I want to hand it over to the President Ukraine,
who has as much courage as he has determination ladies
and gentlemen, President.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Putin and funny, I mean Zelensky embarrassing. Then it only
got worse when he thought his vice president was Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president,
so I think she's not qualified to be president.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let's start there. And in between there was just a
lot of sleepy Joe, let me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
See my you know, for the longest time it was
you know, Biden's not prepared to see with those unscripted
Biden's not prepared to in.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Any way anyway, used about fifteen times every time he
lost his way, don't And when it came to his
ten to two pm presidency, he said, we've misconstrued that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What I said was instead of my every day starting
at seven and going to bed at midnight, it'd be
smarter for me to pace myself a little more.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right, So you had the debate disastrous debate, then
you had the make good with Stephanopoulos that didn't go well.
Then you had well the big test is this, you
could be the judge if he failed. And now already
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taped yesterday because he was so on his game. Is
the latest interview with NBC. Let's try to do one
more interview, this time with Lester Holton a vest see
if that can fix things. Meanwhile, the number of Democrats
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and the House and the Senate and the media continue
to mount their offensive to push him out. There's a
lot of people looking at his visit to Austin, Texas.
He's going to of all places. Remember I keep bringing
up this nineteen sixty eight revisit. I've been saying it
for a while and here comes nineteen sixty eight. Will
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it be after visiting lbj's library that he comes to
conclusion LBJ went made. Now when if nineteen sixty eight
is going to relive itself completely? We got some fun
in Chicago at the Democrat convention to come. Don't we,
God forbid we have any assassinations and that would indicate
Kamala Harris. That's LBJ turned to his vice president. Now
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in sixty eight we had RFK running. Now we have
OURFK junior running. Not the coincidence. Convention's going to be
in Chicago again like it was in sixty eight. By
the way, if Joe doesn't leave, the riots maybe among themselves.
But you also had McCarthy who was an anti war candidate.
You had Wallace who was an anti civil rights candidate,
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and a vice president. It was a forth for all.
And while all that nonsense was going on, you had
Richard Nixon talking to the quiet Center of America. So
if this sixty eight continues to play out, Donald Trump
could take some cues from Richard Nixon and them at
the Silent Center. Queue. Don't go on to do any
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break ins or anything like show business, like no business,
I know, but yeah, I think you know. I can't
fath them. Joe Biden isn't gone in days. As Bobby
just pointed out in the talkback, you're already staring at
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a deadline of days before there'll be no putting a
name on the Ohio ballad. But that wasn't a state.
I don't think he any chance of winning anyway. The
rest of it would be a free for all at
the convention, and they could create some good old fashion
open convention drama and a fresh new ticket, and the
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mainstream media that is covered up from four years trying
to pretend they're holding them accountable. Now we get right
behind that. Look, if you're rooting for Donald Trump, you
want old Joe. I don't know the COMMA is doing
much better in the polling, but they could come up
with something fresh and make a run at it. There's
that much real fear and hatred of Donald Trump and
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a republic over a mob rule democrat democracy. But wouldn't
it be nineteen sixty eight? Ironic? Don't you think? Yeah,
I'm whispering like Joe Now who did isn't it ironic?
A lot of more set Yeah, yeah, I'm doing a
lot of more set doing Joe Biden wouldn't be ironic
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If he goes to Austin next week and from the
lbj Library drops out of the race, that's certainly, certainly
the clarion call from the left for him to get
out of the way. Joe was less defiant yesterday, that's
for sure. Denial yes, but less defiant and gaff Field
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and sleep.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
This is Shannon Gregory and my morning show is your
Morning Show with Michael door Jo.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Here's what you need to know. Something day well by
then a shaky solo and it may be the end
of his road to the White House. Here's Brian Shook
ode to the White House. Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
President Biden says he's the best qualified candidate for the
job during a rare solo press event that lasted nearly
an hour. Biden said there are other people who could
beat Trump, too, but it's awful hard to start from scratch.
Biden said he needs to engage more with voters.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Let me see my you know, for the longest time
it was you know, Biden's not prepared to suizos.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'n scripted. Biden's not prepared in any way.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Biden made several mental gaffes, like calling Trump his vice president.
He's facing increasing calls from Democrats to drop his reelection
bid over concerns about his mental fitness. Biden said, I'm
just going to keep moving in Washington. I'm Brian Shook.
Also moving.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
As former President Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, they held
private meetings about the future of Biden's twenty twenty four campaign.
Mark Mayfield's here with that story.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
CNN reports both Obama and the ex House Speaker have
expressed worries about Biden's mental fitness and how difficult it
will be for him to beat Donald Trump. The meeting's
sixteen congressional Democrats have called on Biden to exit the race.
CNN reporters spoke with over a dozen members of Congress
and people in touch with Obama and Pelosi, and many
have allegedly said the end of Biden's candidacy feels clear.
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The news comes the same day that Biden spoke at
an hour long press conference. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Politico reported that George Clooney was talking with Barack Obama
before the actor called the president. That would suggest perhaps
he got at least Barack Obama's approval. Michael Castner has
that story.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
The report cites people familiar with the conversation who say
while Obama didn't encourage Clooney to go public with his concerns,
he didn't object to it either. In a New York
Times op ed, Clooney said he recently hosted a fundraiser
for Biden and noted he was not the Joe Biden
of twenty ten, or even the Joe Biden of twenty twenty.
He wrote, the Democrats stand to lose the White House, Senate,
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and House with Biden on the ticket. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
And finally, have you ever stared at a Red Box
machine and said, Who's bill does that? Perhaps we have
our answer. Tammy Trihilo reports for more than.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Two decades, the company has rented out DVDs a thousands
of kiosks all over the country, but it appears it's
finally given into the digital revolution. Redbox's parent company, Chicken
Soup for the Soul Entertainment, converted its Chapter eleven bankruptcy
case to a Chapter seven liquidation preceding this week. It
means all one thousand workers at Red Box are expected
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to be laid off, but it's not clear what will
happen to the over twenty four thousand red kiosks. As
far back as March or Venu reports that some of
them were found unplugged with their credit card readers taped over.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I'm Tammy Trihillo. Maybe that's where we can put all
the Kevin Costner movies that have been folly. That was
mean inflation came in cooler than expected last month. Is
a interest cut coming? Maybe two. Our national correspondent Roy
O'Neil joins us with what we might expect from the Fed.
Good morning, Rory, Yeah, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I think two was a bit optimistic, but there seems
to be some agreement that we might hear good news
in September from the Fed.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah. We have David Bonson that we visit with money was.
He's always on Fox, a great, great, great mind. He
expects about a half a percentage point this year, and
he thinks it'll be broken up into two. Whether that
comes in September, in November, or whether that comes even
sooner or later, time will tell. And he expects to
lose a couple of percentage points next year as things
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return a little bit more to normal, to use your expression,
and baked into that to some degree is depending on
the election outcome in November. But welcome news, I mean,
some relief in sight anyway, right.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
But it is a sign though, too, of perhaps the
job market is softening a bit, so that may be
more troubling. I suppose you could say, yeah, and that
this growth that we've seen may also be cooling off
as well. So it's an interesting mix that FED is required.
Their mandate is twofold, maximize employment and keep inflation below
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two percent. So that's they feel they're on a better
path now.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, in testimony all week kind of like everything else
in life, just overshadowed by all the presidential drama. In
watching the testimony throughout the week and the overall report
of the economy, What did America miss by not paying attention?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Well, I think this feeling that they've finally broken the
back of inflation, that it's that we're there, We're just
about there. That they feel that no other rate hikes
are in the mix, that's for sure, so that they
feel like, okay, it just is now a matter of
time that we've pulled all the necessary levers.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now we just have to wait for the desired result. Well,
while we got you here, let's not not address the
elephant in the room. If that was the high bar
for Joe Biden yesterday, starting before the solo deuce conference introduced,
I mean the notion that I don't know Churchill would
have introduced FDR as Hitler, I mean, that was a disaster.
(32:10):
And then you know, referring to Donald Trump as his
vice president. I mean we've had in a week alone
him stating that he was the first black female vice president,
that Putin is the president of Ukraine and Trump is
his vice president. I mean, I don't think he met
that standard, but there was a lot of sleepy in between.
Were you shocked? I mean, here are the two things,
the whispering, the anyways and how about the hour late
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that no one even talks about.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, well you don't know what that could be, but
I mean that could be anything. You hope it's presidential related,
is not? You know he overslappt, but yeah, no it
was not. Again it was a okay, so this is
wasn't good as Biden gets at this point.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, and I think, you know, if if, if it's
back Obama, you know, people forget this. You know, I
don't think there's a lot of love between the Obama's
and the Bidens, so to speak. Then you have the
Clinton operatives that there's really no love with the Obama camp.
Is Barack Obama or is Nancy Pelosi or both the
right ones to convince him, because I noticed yesterday the
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denial was still there, but the defiance was down quite
a bit. I actually expect Jo Biden to be gone
in a week or so. I don't. I think he's
gonna stick it out all the way.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I think so just because they're gonna they're just going
to drag it out, you know, don't forget you're going
to have a week of Republicans now pouncing on them.
They've really been on the sidelines at this point, so
it's gonna put I think psychology means if you're under attack,
you sort of support the guy being attacked, whereas a
death by a thousand cuts, you know, may also happen,
but then that's.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Where the clock cuts you.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
So yeah, I think it's a bit more complicated, but
at the end of the day, I think it's going
to be a well.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, Well, you're the one that always brings up
and we had a caller who was very hip to it, Bobby.
Here in Nashville, they don't have that much time in
terms of Ohio for sure, and they don't have that
much time now, you know. Joe Biden kept saying, well,
a lot can change, a lot can change, a lot
can change. Well, you are at the moment where they're
heading into their convention and you're next, and that's all
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about celebrating the nominee, celebrating the ticket, uniting the party
focused on the issues, and creating the momentum for the
general And all they have is division. I mean this
party is divided. Actually they're not divided. In fact, the
one thing I think we've all united is Joe Biden
needs to go. And that's gonna that's gonna be a
tough convention.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Well, and as you pointed out before, this is going
to be a motivation game in November because how many
people are just fed up with both of them, going oh,
I don't you know and decide to stay home. Apathy
is the biggest enemy to both these campaigns, and I
think that's what they're going to have to fight. And
if it's Joe Biden, I think apathy wins in that.
In that context where we change out the ticket. Of course,
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if something motivated there.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You're you're forgetting Bobby Kennedy, who's in this mix, and
he could grow, and that's even more bad news for
the Democrats because that's votes mainly coming away from Joe Biden.
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I'm Michael del Jorna. Welcome to Friday, July, the twelfth
year of our Lord twenty twenty four. Well, the bar
was set high for Joe Biden to assure us all
he's ready to be president for four more years? How
did he do?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president,
so I think she's not qualified to be president.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah. Not, Well, let's start there. One of the things
that came up was the boogeyman Donald Trump, the threat
to democracy, the threat to democracy of Project twenty twenty five.
In fact, the left is on a full on narrative
assault of Project twenty twenty five, conflating it with Trump,
(01:26):
making an anti democracy. I think out of everything since
this show has gone national that I've gotten emails on,
it's Michael explain to us Project twenty twenty five, and
it comes from one of the largest thing tanks in
the world. It is based on four pillars. It is
a one hundred and eighty day policy playbook to get
America on the right track. Now, before we can even
(01:47):
have that conversation, you got to get beyond personality politics.
As we often remind you, the border isn't in shambles
because Joe Biden is cognitively impaired. It's their policies that
have failed. Same inflation, same for COVID, same for foreign policy.
Policies matter and that's where Project twenty twenty five comes in.
(02:08):
So rather than have Joe Biden or the leftist media
tell you what Project twenty twenty five is. We thought
we'd go to the architects themselves, the Heritage Foundation and
one of my old friends, Hans von Spakowski, which by
the way, got a reaction from our producer. Everybody's got
to react to your name, Hans when they meet you.
He's one of the most brilliant minds at the Heritage Foundation.
(02:29):
He is not the Burger Meister, Meister Burger, he does
have a unique name, Hans. Thanks for joining us. Are
you surprised at the amount of conflation and attention Project
twenty twenty five is getting by the left.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, I am, and I'm not. Look, this has been
out for more than a year, so you have to
wonder why all of a sudden has gotten all of
this attention. And I think it's because they're trying to
distract us from the clear physical and mental problems that
the president is experiencing and his party having some serious
(03:09):
doubts about whether he can continue the nomination. So I
think this is a way of getting people to not
talk about that. So they come up with this boogeyman,
which is a Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well, the boogeyman, of course, is ultimately Donald Trump, the
dictator with the insurrection whistleblower that only the insurrection is here,
and now this has been kind of folded in with
that show you how far we've come with the death
of journalism. We didn't do that with the Contract with
America with Newt Gingrich. In fact, both parties, a Democrat
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president along with the Republican Congress worked hard on that
contract to make America great. This is more in that spirit,
and it's very policy driven, not personality driven, which is conversations.
They don't want to have you think. Think it's because
they've kind of said, we're not a republic or a democracy,
and democracy really means Democrat party platform. So if you
(04:06):
pose their platform, their policies, or their candidates, your anti democracy.
I guess that's the game that's being played. But other
than that, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, yeah, but they are anti democracy. If you look
Project twenty twenty five. People don't have to take my
word for what's in it. We've been very public about this.
They can go to anybody can go to the website.
It's Project twenty twenty five dot org and they will
see there are nine hundred page book that is a
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policy proposals for every single Executive Department. And what I
challenge people rether than listening to these crazy criticisms you're
hearing of it, go there and pick a department, you know,
whatever you're interested. Department of Defense, Justice, department, Department of Education,
and read the chapter on that. And I'm willing to
(04:59):
bet you that your listeners will say, oh, that makes
a lot of sense, common sense. And the reason I
say the left and the critics are anti democratic is
the whole purpose of this policy is to take power
away from the technocrats, the bureaucrats, the administrative state and
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return it to the people, state governments, local governments, and
the American people.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Hans von Spakowski is joining us from the Heritage Foundation
on Project twenty five Year. The President criticize it again yesterday.
This is based on the four pillars. Why don't you
break down the four pillars for everybody?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, the other problem is, look, when a president gets elected,
whether it's a Democrat or Republican, they get elected in
November and by January twentieth they're supposed to have about
four thousand people political appointees to fill all the top
spots throughout the gigantic executive branch and that is very problematic.
(06:05):
Transition teams are set up to do this, but they
always are caught short and are unable to do it.
So our other big idea was, look, why don't we
set up a pre screening process, a database, And we
have done that. We've got thousands of names in it
(06:28):
of people who would be interested in serving in another administration,
and we're doing the vetting so that if a new
president when he comes in, wants to find the best
people to put into these positions throughout the executive branch,
he's going to have already made database already there with
(06:48):
people whose background experience is already available and they've already
been vetted, and that will help them fill these top slots.
And what we're looking for, obviously, are people who are
conservatives and understand that their job is to pull these
(07:10):
agencies back from doing what they're not supposed to be
doing and have them doing what they should be doing.
And can it be a quick example of this, because
matter the President yesterday was condemning this horrible, horrible project.
Twent twenty five, we have a section on the Department
of Homeland Security, and what it says is that a
(07:34):
successful Department of Homeland Security would secure and control the border,
thoroughly enforce immigration laws, directly and efficiently adjudicate immigration benefit
applications while rejecting fraudulent claims.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Wow, law, that's your radical idea, Law and order, Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Protecting, Yes, that's idea. Or our chapter on the US
Department of Education says that, hey, elementary and secondary education
policy ought to be publicly funded, but education decisions should
be made by families, not the government. That's our radical idea.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, most would look back and say nineteen seventy nine,
when the government took over education, was the radical move.
And I think the yes, the results speak for themselves,
all right, Hans, talk to us a little bit about
I would imagine by and large there's very little that
the far and I don't even know what the Democrat
Party is anymore. Something happened in Daily Plaza beyond the
(08:43):
killing of JFK, and it's never been the same. So
today JFK would be right of the Republican Party. Today
the Democrat Party is left of the twenty four Socialist Party,
So I don't even know what they are. And I
know there's this battle internally between the far far left
and the squad versus, and they're targeting soft Democrats. I
(09:04):
doubt there's a lot they would agree with in this.
I can imagine there's most all of it that Donald
Trump would agree with. But in no way is this
did Donald Trump have anything to do with this? And
in no way is this any different than what the
Heritage Foundation has been doing for decades. Who were the
minds that put this together?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, see, that's the thing. Look, we started this in
twenty twenty two. It was long before Donald Trump, an
announcero's running for president. And it's not just the Heritage Foundation.
We decided to get as many conservative think tanks and
organizations involved, over one hundred and twenty more than six
hundred people developed these policies and wrote this book. And
(09:52):
you know, I saw some article any newsweak or someplace saying, oh,
look at all these former Trump officials who were involved this.
I think they listed about thirty thirty or thirty five people.
So a tiny fraction of the six hundred individuals who
were involved in this had served in the Trump administration. Yeah, well,
(10:13):
we also had people who served in the Bush administration,
the Reagan administration. What we did there was that's deliberate,
because look, you don't want people writing about what should
be done at the Department of Homeland Security who haven't
worked there.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Or before it existed, Right, yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You want people who have actual experience in the departments
they are writing about what the policy should be. So, yeah,
we've got former Trump officials, but they're just a small percentage,
a small part of the many people we brought in
from all of these other organizations, all of who know
(10:57):
what they're talking about in their particular area, whether it's
defense or education or the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, we don't have facts, we don't have truth. We
have narratives and narrative repeaters. There used to be an
old expression there's no such thing as bad press. You
certainly have gotten in recent days a lot of attention,
and if that has got people to go to the
website and actually read it chapter by chapter, that could
return America collectively towards policy over personality. But this is
(11:26):
a conservative consensus of over six hundred minds at a
one hundred day, eighty day policy playbook for writing the
course of America. It's called Heritage's Project twenty twenty five.
You'll find it at Project twenty twenty five dot org.
All right, So for all the false narrativization of what
Project twenty twenty five is, how about, Hans, we step
(11:47):
aside and give you about sixty seconds to tell us
what it really is.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
What it really is is saying that the fourth branch
of government, the one we didn't learn about, is civics.
The administrative state needs to be pulled back. We don't
need bureaucrats who aren't accountable to voters running our lives.
We don't need bureaucrats putting out regulations that criminalize conducts.
(12:17):
That's up to Congress to do. And the whole point
of this book is to return us to a situation
where it's Congress that passes the laws. Yes, the executive
branch and forces them. But we don't have this fourth branch.
All these career civil servants who say, you know what,
I'm just going to do whatever I want. I don't
(12:39):
care who's president, because you know what, you can't fire me.
And that is not the way our government is supposed
to work. People are people work in the government accountable
to voters, and that's not the situation now. So with
each of these government departments, the idea is to streamline
(13:02):
them and get them back to their core functions so
that they're doing what they were intended to do by
Congress and not going far beyond that. And again I
challenge folks, don't listen to the criticism. A lot of
it is being fabricated as a Biden campaign, Like there
was one I saw Michael that said, oh, this would
(13:23):
get rid of no fall divorce. The divorce is nowhere
mentioned anywhere in this entire thing. That's a state function,
there's nothing to do with the federal government.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
But that's the kind of lie I heard that you
there's a plan to use big black vans and any
women seeking an abortion will be thrown in that van
and blindfolded and taken away somewhere and never seen again.
Is that one in there? No? No, But this is
the kind of nonsense is that is going on? But
it is a call, a clarion call to return to
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our intent, the proper size and role of government, the
will of the people, and the desire I think for
the self governed to be able to self govern. And
then a kind of a policy by policy blueprint of
writing the course. We encourage everyone to read it for
themselves Project twenty twenty five. Do we know if this
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is being We know it's being rejected and demonized by
the left. Do we know if Donald Trump surprised us
all four years ago? This guy the only between Donald
Trump didn't do anything that wasn't in the Republican Party platform,
but he did do it, which has been a Republican
failure in past administrations. Do we have a feeling that
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if Donald Trump is reelected a lot of these sensible,
great ideas will once again be enacted.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
We hope so. And what we hope will happen is
what Look. The first time Heritage did this was when
Ronald Reagan got elected. People forget that. And at his
first cabinet meeting, you know what Ronald Reagan did. He
handed a copy of our Mandate for LEA, which is
what this is called, to every member of his cabinet,
every secretary, and said you need to read this and
(15:07):
follow what it says. We're hoping the same thing happens.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And that might have been the very seeds to the
Reagan revolution versus presidency. Hans von Spakowski, thanks for the
truth on Project twenty five. We encourage people to read
it for themselves at Project twenty five dot rg Hans.
Great to hear your voice again. God bless you, my
friend ye for having it. This is your Morning Show
with Michael del Chona Friday, with forty five coming up
(15:33):
in the third hour Today, we'll talk a little about
the BEEP announcement and the upcoming Republican Convention. We'll also
have a visit next half hour with Rory O'Neil. Inflation
came in cooler than expected. We're expecting now two rate cuts.
Interest rate cuts of about a half a percentage point
may be broken up into two different cuts between now
and the end of the year. We'll get the latest
(15:54):
from Rory moments from now, and if you're just waking up.
One of the top stories, Donald Trump is asking that judge,
remember the judge you said, we're going to delay the
sentencing un till September eighteenth, if it is still necessary. Well,
Donald Trump's attorneys asked the judge to throw out the
guilty verdict in the New York hush money case. Brian
Shooks here with more.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
His team made the request Thursday, pointing to the Supreme
Court's recent ruling that defines when a former president is
immune from prosecution. His sentencing in the case was initially
set for this week, but has been delayed to allow
for more time to consider the Supreme Court's decision. In May,
the New York jury found Trump guilty of thirty four
counts of falsifying business records and making hush money payments
(16:35):
to adult film star Stormy Daniels. I'm Brian Shuk.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Did look like it, but old Joe thinks he's still
the most qualified to do the job. Mark Mayfield has
that story.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
During a rare solo press event that lasted nearly an hour,
Biden said there are other people who could beat Trump too,
Biden said, but it's awful hard to start from scratch.
Biden made several mental gaffes, like calling Trump his vice president.
Biden is facing increasing calls from Democrats student rop his
reelection bid over concerns about his mental fitness. Biden said,
I'm just going to keep moving, adding I'm going to
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be going around making the case for the things that
I think we have to finish.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I'm Marknefield. Perhaps Joe said it best when he said,
now I want to hand it over to the President Ukraine,
who has as much courage as he has determination ladies
and gentlemen. President Putinrad didn't go very hoop, of course,
is Russia, Ukraine. Hi, It's Michael. Your morning show airs
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to talk radio ninety eight point three and fifteen ten
WLAC in Nashville. What dropping out of the race.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Have all those states where they had to do the virtual.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Nominations to get him all the ticket in time?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
If he drops out, if they're no Democrat all that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Ticket, Well, first of all, I think Ohio is pretty
secure for Donald Trump. So that's mainly Ohio that changes
the laws. They'll actually have to we'll do more of
this maybe with Rory when he comes on. They have
to virtual reality award their electoral votes prior to the convention.
(18:32):
But that's not a state. But yes, he would not
be on the ballot there if he were to drop out.
But again, you know, yesterday the biggest takeaway was, you know,
Biden acknowledged that if those electors want to give award
their votes to someone else at the convention, they can,
but they won't. Nobody thinks a they would, or be
(18:56):
he would allow it. So other than death, only Joe
Biden can drop out of the race and release his
delegates for a free for all at the convention. You
are right, Bobby to point out maybe and nobody talks
about it, depending on when it happens, and I think
it could be more like days rather than weeks, or
(19:17):
maybe not at all. But I think yesterday was the
failed final test, this push for him to step aside.
He will have to yield to and he may do so,
if not in time without anybody being on the ballot
in Ohio because of the mess they made for themselves.
On a bigger mess they've made for themselves. Let's get
Debbie in here from Arizona.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
This is Debbie in Gilbert, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I listened to your show this.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Morning, and I thought you put it out perfectly about
them coming to the realization that Biden is just a vegetable,
and we've all seen it for the last four years,
even before that. But it just astounds me that John
Stewart does this whole show that it's something new.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Well, the best part about the John Stewart clip is
he starts before the twenty twenty election corn pop his
hairy legs in the pool, all that nonsense, then talking
to a dead congress member, then talking to a dead
president of France. Listen, if if this is the first
(20:31):
time you've noticed Joe Biden has been cognitively impaired, you
have not been very honest with yourself. And if this
is the first time that Axios, the Associated Press, the
Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC have noticed, well,
then they haven't been very honest with you. And they
(20:52):
don't care about you. They don't care about our republic.
They only care now because they see they can't win,
and their worldview, their policy view, their control over you
is all that matters, and it's slipping away. And that's
where the sense of urgency comes in. Now, if you're
(21:14):
just waking up. I'm not going to tell you anything
you don't know. Things didn't go well for Joe Biden,
even while still hosting the NATO Affairs. His big introduction
to the Ukrainian president Zelensky went this way and.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now I want to hand it over to the President Ukraine,
who has as much courage as he has determination ladies
and gentlemen, President.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Putin and funny, I mean Zelensky embarrassing. Then it only
got worse when he thought his vice president was Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president,
so I think she's not qualified to be president.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let's start there. And in between there was just a
lot of sleepy Joe, let me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
See my you know, for the longest time it was
you know, Biden's not prepared to see with those unscripted
Biden's not prepared to in.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Any way anyway, used about fifteen times every time he
lost his way, don't And when it came to his
ten to two pm presidency, he said, we've misconstrued that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What I said was instead of my every day starting
at seven and going to bed at midnight, it'd be
smarter for me to pace myself a little more.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right, So you had the debate disastrous debate, then
you had the make good with Stephanopoulos that didn't go well.
Then you had well the big test is this, you
could be the judge if he failed. And now already
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taped yesterday because he was so on his game. Is
the latest interview with NBC. Let's try to do one
more interview, this time with Lester Holton a vest see
if that can fix things. Meanwhile, the number of Democrats
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and the House and the Senate and the media continue
to mount their offensive to push him out. There's a
lot of people looking at his visit to Austin, Texas.
He's going to of all places. Remember I keep bringing
up this nineteen sixty eight revisit. I've been saying it
for a while and here comes nineteen sixty eight. Will
(23:38):
it be after visiting lbj's library that he comes to
conclusion LBJ went made. Now when if nineteen sixty eight
is going to relive itself completely? We got some fun
in Chicago at the Democrat convention to come. Don't we,
God forbid we have any assassinations and that would indicate
Kamala Harris. That's LBJ turned to his vice president. Now
(24:02):
in sixty eight we had RFK running. Now we have
OURFK junior running. Not the coincidence. Convention's going to be
in Chicago again like it was in sixty eight. By
the way, if Joe doesn't leave, the riots maybe among themselves.
But you also had McCarthy who was an anti war candidate.
You had Wallace who was an anti civil rights candidate,
(24:22):
and a vice president. It was a forth for all.
And while all that nonsense was going on, you had
Richard Nixon talking to the quiet Center of America. So
if this sixty eight continues to play out, Donald Trump
could take some cues from Richard Nixon and them at
the Silent Center. Queue. Don't go on to do any
(24:45):
break ins or anything like show business, like no business,
I know, but yeah, I think you know. I can't
fath them. Joe Biden isn't gone in days. As Bobby
just pointed out in the talkback, you're already staring at
(25:07):
a deadline of days before there'll be no putting a
name on the Ohio ballad. But that wasn't a state.
I don't think he any chance of winning anyway. The
rest of it would be a free for all at
the convention, and they could create some good old fashion
open convention drama and a fresh new ticket, and the
(25:28):
mainstream media that is covered up from four years trying
to pretend they're holding them accountable. Now we get right
behind that. Look, if you're rooting for Donald Trump, you
want old Joe. I don't know the COMMA is doing
much better in the polling, but they could come up
with something fresh and make a run at it. There's
that much real fear and hatred of Donald Trump and
(25:50):
a republic over a mob rule democrat democracy. But wouldn't
it be nineteen sixty eight? Ironic? Don't you think? Yeah,
I'm whispering like Joe Now who did isn't it ironic?
A lot of more set Yeah, yeah, I'm doing a
lot of more set doing Joe Biden wouldn't be ironic
(26:13):
If he goes to Austin next week and from the
lbj Library drops out of the race, that's certainly, certainly
the clarion call from the left for him to get
out of the way. Joe was less defiant yesterday, that's
for sure. Denial yes, but less defiant and gaff Field
(26:36):
and sleep.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
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Here's what you need to know. Something day well by
then a shaky solo and it may be the end
of his road to the White House. Here's Brian Shook
ode to the White House. Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
President Biden says he's the best qualified candidate for the
job during a rare solo press event that lasted nearly
an hour. Biden said there are other people who could
beat Trump, too, but it's awful hard to start from scratch.
Biden said he needs to engage more with voters.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Let me see my you know, for the longest time
it was you know, Biden's not prepared to suizos.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'n scripted. Biden's not prepared in any way.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Biden made several mental gaffes, like calling Trump his vice president.
He's facing increasing calls from Democrats to drop his reelection
bid over concerns about his mental fitness. Biden said, I'm
just going to keep moving in Washington. I'm Brian Shook.
Also moving.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
As former President Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, they held
private meetings about the future of Biden's twenty twenty four campaign.
Mark Mayfield's here with that story.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
CNN reports both Obama and the ex House Speaker have
expressed worries about Biden's mental fitness and how difficult it
will be for him to beat Donald Trump. The meeting's
sixteen congressional Democrats have called on Biden to exit the race.
CNN reporters spoke with over a dozen members of Congress
and people in touch with Obama and Pelosi, and many
have allegedly said the end of Biden's candidacy feels clear.
(28:13):
The news comes the same day that Biden spoke at
an hour long press conference. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Politico reported that George Clooney was talking with Barack Obama
before the actor called the president. That would suggest perhaps
he got at least Barack Obama's approval. Michael Castner has
that story.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
The report cites people familiar with the conversation who say
while Obama didn't encourage Clooney to go public with his concerns,
he didn't object to it either. In a New York
Times op ed, Clooney said he recently hosted a fundraiser
for Biden and noted he was not the Joe Biden
of twenty ten, or even the Joe Biden of twenty twenty.
He wrote, the Democrats stand to lose the White House, Senate,
(28:52):
and House with Biden on the ticket. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
And finally, have you ever stared at a Red Box
machine and said, Who's bill does that? Perhaps we have
our answer. Tammy Trihilo reports for more than.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Two decades, the company has rented out DVDs a thousands
of kiosks all over the country, but it appears it's
finally given into the digital revolution. Redbox's parent company, Chicken
Soup for the Soul Entertainment, converted its Chapter eleven bankruptcy
case to a Chapter seven liquidation preceding this week. It
means all one thousand workers at Red Box are expected
(29:25):
to be laid off, but it's not clear what will
happen to the over twenty four thousand red kiosks. As
far back as March or Venu reports that some of
them were found unplugged with their credit card readers taped over.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I'm Tammy Trihillo. Maybe that's where we can put all
the Kevin Costner movies that have been folly. That was
mean inflation came in cooler than expected last month. Is
a interest cut coming? Maybe two. Our national correspondent Roy
O'Neil joins us with what we might expect from the Fed.
Good morning, Rory, Yeah, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I think two was a bit optimistic, but there seems
to be some agreement that we might hear good news
in September from the Fed.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah. We have David Bonson that we visit with money was.
He's always on Fox, a great, great, great mind. He
expects about a half a percentage point this year, and
he thinks it'll be broken up into two. Whether that
comes in September, in November, or whether that comes even
sooner or later, time will tell. And he expects to
lose a couple of percentage points next year as things
(30:28):
return a little bit more to normal, to use your expression,
and baked into that to some degree is depending on
the election outcome in November. But welcome news, I mean,
some relief in sight anyway, right.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
But it is a sign though, too, of perhaps the
job market is softening a bit, so that may be
more troubling. I suppose you could say, yeah, and that
this growth that we've seen may also be cooling off
as well. So it's an interesting mix that FED is required.
Their mandate is twofold, maximize employment and keep inflation below
(31:08):
two percent. So that's they feel they're on a better
path now.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, in testimony all week kind of like everything else
in life, just overshadowed by all the presidential drama. In
watching the testimony throughout the week and the overall report
of the economy, What did America miss by not paying attention?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Well, I think this feeling that they've finally broken the
back of inflation, that it's that we're there, We're just
about there. That they feel that no other rate hikes
are in the mix, that's for sure, so that they
feel like, okay, it just is now a matter of
time that we've pulled all the necessary levers.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now we just have to wait for the desired result. Well,
while we got you here, let's not not address the
elephant in the room. If that was the high bar
for Joe Biden yesterday, starting before the solo deuce conference introduced,
I mean the notion that I don't know Churchill would
have introduced FDR as Hitler, I mean, that was a disaster.
(32:10):
And then you know, referring to Donald Trump as his
vice president. I mean we've had in a week alone
him stating that he was the first black female vice president,
that Putin is the president of Ukraine and Trump is
his vice president. I mean, I don't think he met
that standard, but there was a lot of sleepy in between.
Were you shocked? I mean, here are the two things,
the whispering, the anyways and how about the hour late
(32:35):
that no one even talks about.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, well you don't know what that could be, but
I mean that could be anything. You hope it's presidential related,
is not? You know he overslappt, but yeah, no it
was not. Again it was a okay, so this is
wasn't good as Biden gets at this point.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, and I think, you know, if if, if it's
back Obama, you know, people forget this. You know, I
don't think there's a lot of love between the Obama's
and the Bidens, so to speak. Then you have the
Clinton operatives that there's really no love with the Obama camp.
Is Barack Obama or is Nancy Pelosi or both the
right ones to convince him, because I noticed yesterday the
(33:20):
denial was still there, but the defiance was down quite
a bit. I actually expect Jo Biden to be gone
in a week or so. I don't. I think he's
gonna stick it out all the way.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I think so just because they're gonna they're just going
to drag it out, you know, don't forget you're going
to have a week of Republicans now pouncing on them.
They've really been on the sidelines at this point, so
it's gonna put I think psychology means if you're under attack,
you sort of support the guy being attacked, whereas a
death by a thousand cuts, you know, may also happen,
but then that's.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Where the clock cuts you.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
So yeah, I think it's a bit more complicated, but
at the end of the day, I think it's going
to be a well.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, Well, you're the one that always brings up
and we had a caller who was very hip to it, Bobby.
Here in Nashville, they don't have that much time in
terms of Ohio for sure, and they don't have that
much time now, you know. Joe Biden kept saying, well,
a lot can change, a lot can change, a lot
can change. Well, you are at the moment where they're
heading into their convention and you're next, and that's all
(34:16):
about celebrating the nominee, celebrating the ticket, uniting the party
focused on the issues, and creating the momentum for the
general And all they have is division. I mean this
party is divided. Actually they're not divided. In fact, the
one thing I think we've all united is Joe Biden
needs to go. And that's gonna that's gonna be a
tough convention.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Well, and as you pointed out before, this is going
to be a motivation game in November because how many
people are just fed up with both of them, going oh,
I don't you know and decide to stay home. Apathy
is the biggest enemy to both these campaigns, and I
think that's what they're going to have to fight. And
if it's Joe Biden, I think apathy wins in that.
In that context where we change out the ticket. Of course,
(35:00):
if something motivated there.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You're you're forgetting Bobby Kennedy, who's in this mix, and
he could grow, and that's even more bad news for
the Democrats because that's votes mainly coming away from Joe Biden.
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael Hill, Jo or no
Speaker 9 (35:21):
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