January 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Biden be pardoning & list of people at the inauguration
- Tapper flashback: Worried about Trump pardons in 2020
- Ramaswamy is out of D.O.G.E. & Biden pardon's his whole family
- Biden's last move
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
We must hold a hope.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We must stay engaged, just always keep the faith in
a better day to come. I'm not going anywhere. I'm
not kidding.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
What is he talking about? As from his last speech
as president yesterday to a tiny group of man sick
of fans who are going to cheer him, saying, I'm
not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm not kidding. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You're still going to lead the Democratic Party into the
future or what? What you In every single sense of
the phrase, you are going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
There ain't an American or anybody in your party that
has any interest in you being in charge anymore. They
never did. Even the people who voted for you just
didn't like Trump. Nobody ever was into you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Dude. All right, I see eluded human being.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That makes him feel better. We should get to some
of his pardons that he is now the most pardoning
president in US history. A lot of them preemptive pardons,
which is a new thing that apparently has been invented, and.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's it's horrible, it's it's incredible. Well, it's unconstitutional. It
goes against like every concept of English common law going
back hundreds of years right through the Constitution. The idea
that you can just give somebody a force field that
protects them from any prosecution of any law they may
have violated is horrifying. Well, un America, a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
There is no chance anybody who's going to try to
prosecute them anyway. So it's just performative. It's just it's
whatever you call virtue signaling. We are watching live on
a bunch of different cable news channels. The people file
in for the inauguration, which is the actual swearing in
is less than an hour away. All your heavyweights in
the Republican Party and all the richest people in the
(02:14):
world are hanging out and waiting for this thing to start.
Elon looks like he buys his suits off the rack
for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
What are right? He just doesn't care, I guess, and
he always looks cheerful.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
He's just chuckling animatedly with Sundar pitch high of Google.
If I had hundreds of billions of dollars, I'd be
chuckling two, but yes he is. He is not overly fastidious.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Look at that front row, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Elon, and then
on the other side of him you got Marco Rubio
soon to be Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Man, there's some serious heavyweights there.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
If you're trying to picture it, they are indoors because
of the bitter cold. Jack pointing out that tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands of football fans we're out enjoying games
in the snow and nice and seem not to suffer
from it. But all the dignitaries are indoors. I think
they're under the rotunda, under the Dome, I should say,
in the Capitol, in that big hall, there's Pam Bondy looking.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Which is a drag for Trump you to and astute
in terms of legal scholarship.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Because we'll never know what his crowd size would have been.
But I think, you know, decent weather, he was going
to have a really large crowd out there for his inauguration,
which of course he would have absolutely loved.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Why is Marco Rubio sitting two seats down from Mark Zuckerberg?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You bothered? It's odd?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Starting to feel like incoming secretary of state with the
guy who runs Facebook.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
There's a woman with the even more plastic surgery than
Bezos's wife.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What the hell?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh, there's the Trump family coming in Barren, towering over
the proceedings at nine feet tall. So President Elect Trump
in not too long a span of time. Within an
hour or so, I expect we'll be giving his inaugural address,
which as always has been furnished in part to the press.
(04:06):
Few key phrases so they can do what I'm about
to do, which is talk about the message. He'll call
for a revolution of common sense. Love that during his
inaugural address. That's a very common sensical way to call
for a revolution of common sense. Just say it, not
like twenty seven words of soaring rhetoric, just saying, hey,
(04:29):
we got to get back to common sense. And he
will also say quote, I returned to the presidency confident
and optimistic that we are at the start of a
thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change
is sweeping the country. My message to Americans today is
that it is time for us once again to act
with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history's greatest civilization.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's a much brighter speech than he gave the first
time around, which I remember.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
True or not. It was quote that George W.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Bush said to one of the other presidents up there
after Trump's first inaugural death.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
That was some weird ass speaking of plaint and speaking yeah, yeah,
a revolution of common sense. I love that same. To
that end, President Trump is going to address a lot
of the gender bending madness that's no, in an executive order,
(05:35):
an expansive executive order he is said to be signing
today called defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring
biological truth to the federal government. Please don't try to
spell out some clever phrase with that, just to that
would be.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No. I don't think they will.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So the executive order establishes government wide the biological reality
of the who sexes and clearly defines male and female,
and all radical gender ideology guidance, communications, policies, and forms
are removed. Woman means an adult human female period. Agencies
will cease pretending that men can be women and women
(06:16):
can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.
And it goes on in that uh, in that way,
and we can hit you with more details tomorrow when
it actually becomes, you know, not law exactly, but a
functioning executive order.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Is there any pushback to that? I mean, can he
do that? Is there any legal reason that that won't fly?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I don't think so. Well, there may be facets of
it that are vulnerable. That's too much cleavage for an inauguration.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Jeff Bezos's wife at too much cleavage for they hit
you now. It's still a fiancee. The rumors are going
to have a six hundred million dollar wedding. That's just
too that's too too much, too much boobage for being
in the rotunda with all this.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, Katie, when.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
When you're saying that's too much boobage, she's wearing a
corset with a business blazer over it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Like that that is an a piece of lingerie.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, oh my gosh, yeah it is. It's it's she's
wearing a bra under her blazer.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah. I shouldn't be able.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I shouldn't be able to even possibly get turned on
under their rotunda for inauguration.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It shouldn't be a possibility. Well, the rumors.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Martha Washington actually showed a bit of angle ankle to
John Marshall during the first inauguration. Yeah all right, well
now what now we have prayers and the Marine band
is probably going to play or something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, when it gets to the speech, we'll take that live, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah, that's the plan. It should be around uh noon
eastern nine Pacific.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They're introducing the real heavyweights now, as Bill and Hillary
are walking to take their you know, the former presidents
are coming in. So that's a sort of thing you announced,
and everybody takes her seats, and when they get to
the actual swearing in and all that sort of stuff,
we will bring that to you live. We've got plenty
of other commentary around that. I hope you can stick
with us, or if you miss a segment, you can
get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Wow, Jared's wife is stunning. What's her name, Avanka?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yes, yes, just stunning looking woman. She didn't look like
that when she's younger, right, so some of that is
got this fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I'm here to talk about the Constitution, are you Women's good? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Look at her. Sorry, I'm hypnotized. It was eight years
ago today.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I was like ten feet away from her when she
was doing her first dance with Jared at the inaugural
ball that night that I went to.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You shill cut in me, do you mind?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
So?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Joe Biden, on his way out the door, issued a
whole bunch more pardons and commutations. He is now the
partner in chief. He's set the record. We're returning to
normalcy in a lot of things with the Trump administration.
I doubt that we're gonna return to normalcy in terms
of like norm breaking around stuff like this. We're gonna
go further down the road, I would guess, which is unfortunate.
(09:26):
But that's just the direction it's been going for a
long time. Joe Biden pardoning doctor Fauci and General Milly
and all kinds of people that probably weren't going to
be charged with anything anyway.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
But anyway, members of the January sixth Committee, So four.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Years ago, little more than four years ago, Biden had
been elected and won, Trump was still president. Jake Tapper
on CNN was highly worried that Donald Trump, on his
way out the door, might pardon all kinds of people.
Oh my god, what are we gonna do. This is
the conversation Jake Tapper had with Joe Biden four years ago.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of of preemptive
pardons for his adult children and for Rudy Giuliani. He's
also floated the idea in private conversations, according to our reporting,
of possibly pardoning himself, which he insists he has the
power to do, though that has never been litigated. Does
this concern you all, these preemptive pardons, Well.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
It concerns me in terms of what kind of pressing
it sets and how the rest of the world looks
at us as a nation of laws and injustice.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But look, our Justice.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Department is going to operate independently on those issues that
how to respond to any of that. I'm not going
to be telling them what they have to do and
don't have to do. Now, in terms of the pardons,
you're not going to see an our administration that kind
of approach to pardons, or you're going to see in
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our administration approach to making policy by tweets. You know,
it's just gonna be a totally different way in which
we approach the justices.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So one the giant lie that we won't do pardons
like that, now he's doing it. In a way that
Trump those were those didn't happen. By the way, all
those things that Jake Tapper mentioned, those worries didn't occur.
He didn't pardon his children in nerdy Giuliani. Biden is
doing that sort of thing and no policies. By tweet Friday,
Joe Biden tweets out a new amendment to the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And denounced that it had passed. Right.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Ah, that's interesting. These people are all liars. They're all liars.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, in the case of Biden, he is the ultimate puppet.
He has no beliefs, He's never had any beliefs. He
has no moral compass to do what he's done in
the way he's done it, after everything he said, and
then participate in the great delusional lie that he was
fit to say another term. I mean, just let history
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have nothing but contempt for the man. He's a fool
and a jackass man.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
If you missed this story over the weekend, it didn't
get much coverage, which I think is kind of hilarious
because nobody took it seriously. Joe Biden announced that the
er the Equal Rights Amendment Act that started way back
in the seventies and was so controversial. He just declared
it a constitutional amendment on Friday, and nobody has any
(12:27):
idea what he was talking about. By the way, Vice
President Harris put out the same tweet, Joe Biden is
right eight the er is now the twenty eighth amendment.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That guys, what are you people talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And it didn't get much coverage, I think because everybody
thought he's an old man heading out the door.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
He's lost, let's just ignore him.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Breaking rotunda news Jack doctor Jill Biden, the first Lady
of the United States and not a real doctor, has
entered and is taking her seat close to the bandstand
for the inauguration. She is beaming, smiling next to these
the second gentleman dug him off, who is a bit
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feisty after midnight apparently if you're his girlfriend and get
mouthie all settling in to enjoy the peaceful transfer of.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Power, well said, I mentioned this earlier. I don't think
it was for all of our stations that were on.
Jeff Bezos's wife is showing way too much cleavage for
this event, and she's where does she wearing, Katie?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I don't know whomen's course.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
It under a blazer she's wearing lingerie.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
She's she's dressed like if you were out to a
club and you kind of want to, you know, turn
guys on. You're wearing lingerie underneath your suit jacket. Any
is that what you would call it, Katie?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's a Victoria's secret ad.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, Yeah, it's way too much cleavage for this event.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Ye all right, feel free controversial, Jack de Martins. Guys
in boobage.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Huh, you're not getting any more two day shipping, Jack, Yeah,
you're never going to get a package on time. Let
the record show that I Joe Getty was respectful toward
the beautiful woman and her presence on the grandest stage.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm not a misogynist telling women how they should dress.
Some you are inauguration trivia for you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Everybody's been enjoying this all morning long, the whole day long.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes, Michael, what do I got to tip you or some?
There it is? There we go.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
As mentioned earlier, John Quincy Adams was sworn in on
a law book, not a bible. You can use any
book you want, Jack, You suggested the art of the deal.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Donald Jay.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
When President Warren G. Harding died in office, Calvin Coolidge,
the vice president, was at his family's Vermont farm with
no electricity or telephone. He finally received a word of
Harding's death by courier and in the early morning hours
of August third of nineteen twenty three, who was sworn
in by his father, who was a notary public. The
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entire ceremony conducted by Kerosene lamp and the new president
adedly went back to bed afterwards.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah you probably know this, but Trump becomes president and
Noon Eastern oath, no oath, he says, ask herew the oath?
I'm tired. Whatever the oath is A. I mean, it's
fun to do, but uh, you become president, Noon, it's
fun to do, and and you got to take the oath.
It's because it's part of being in office. But that's
not when he becomes president. You become president and Noon.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
How about a little more inaugural Old Trivia Jack, Following
the assassination of President Kennedy LBJ took the oath of office.
Board Air Force One Judge Sarah Hughes administered the oath.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
She became the first.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
And only woman to inaugurate a president by the who
cares who did this?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Swearing it. It's immaterial you get if a man.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
A woman, a faithful golden retriever, it's the other person.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That Well, now, they hustled that together real quick. The
Robert Carrow telling of that in the Lyndon Johnson book
is freaking amazing. Because they were so worried that the
Soviets had just assassinated John F. Kennedy and they wanted
to make it clear to the world we still have
somebody in charge. They needed to hustle together a photo
op real quick. They grabbed one reporter who had a camera,
got him on the plane. Jackie's standing there with a
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horrified look on her face. If we've all seen the picture,
she's got blood all over her. She's wearing the same
outfit as her husband's exploded head fell on or you know,
as he was dying.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And they quick threw together.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They threw together that oh through real quick, so there
would be a picture for the world that hey, yeah,
the Soviet Union just took out our president, but somebody's
still in charge.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Jeez, what a horrifying situation.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well, I've got to assume the old man, the partner
in chief, is going to be next on the bandstand
and then the incoming guy. They're in the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I have a feeling they're going to be gathering in
this same routunda for a lying in state Joe Biden
once he's gone before too long, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
How long?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I sense an over under bed or would that be distasteful?
On this the day of the peaceful transfer of power,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
W we had enough premident.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
So let's hear.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
From the rally yesterday. Hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Of people on their hands are there for the original
people actually on stage.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
You think I'm trying to act impressed or excited, I
can't tell, although if I was there hilarious absurdity.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was like when I was.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
On the floor from Trump Speak the convention and Kid
rocks and take a White and COVID was trying in
vain to tear his T shirt because he's an old man,
and all had this hilarious, fun exciting absurdity to see.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I was just thinking, I'm old enough now, bang bang bing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm old enough down to have lived through quite a
few of these January twentieth in a new incoming administration,
and they all come in with, you know, a whole
bunch of fanfare and promise on their side, whether it's
my side or not, their side is always very, very
excited about it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And it's it's hard to achieve a Directionally.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I'm thrilled about the direction we're going, as opposed to
the direction we've been going the last four years. But
it's really hard to achieve a lot of the things
you set out to achieve. You chip away at it.
Some things we're got some things that some things don't.
For instance, the vague, if you haven't heard it already,
is off of the Doge Committee amid friction with staff.
According to CBS News, Vivek has worn out as welcome
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with the other people. Well, the story is Elon grew
tired of his unwillingness to do the heavy lifting. On
the other hand, other people are denying all of that. Sure,
I have a feeling it's true, but doesn't doesn't mean
it's doomed. But you know, it's just it's it's it's
easier to talk about the things you want to do
than actually do them.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It just is.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That's all kinds of promises you make you have no
intention to do one at all. I remember, in reading
the George Stephanopolis book All Too Human, talking about when
they got Bill Clinton elected and then sitting down and saying, Okay,
so which of these things can we actually do? And
some of them were just like, we're not going to
pay any attention to this whatsoever. Yeah, we're not even
gonna We're not even gonna have a sentence long meeting
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about this promise we made at some campaign rally. There
are only so many things you can do. We're gonna
do these these this, this is you know, this is
Priority A, these are Priority B, and then a whole
bunch of stuff that falls by the wayside. It's just
the reality of it. So, you know, we'll see how
it goes.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Watching the live coverage, Donald J. Trump is now walking
through the Capitol toward the rotunda between an impressive guard
of various service people in their ceremonial garb, with.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Their rifles at the ready, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Milania looks fantastic. Helps be a world class model, really
helps poor Baron. He's one of those guys that's a
little ashamed of how tall is. He stoops a little
bit with that.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Kind of wish I wasn't standing out so much.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
He is clearly the tallest guy in the rotunda, which
to marvel at that is to be childlike.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But he's a very tall young man. I'm sure he's
the tallest guy in practically every room he's ever in.
What is he six ' eight something like? Yeah. Charles c. W.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Cook is watching this and tweeting out about it. He's
watching CBS, he said, CBS is helpfully explaining that Christy
Noman wants killed a goat, And he said, now, CBS
is just explaining that there's an image of Pocahontas in
the rotunda, and that Pocahontas was a woman of color.
Here comes Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the current at
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least for another twenty minutes, President and Vice President of
the United States, walking into the rotunda. Everybody clapping in
Jill Biden.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You answered all the questions, Joe look on her face. Yeah, yeah, great.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
So respect to all who participate in the peaceful transfer
of power.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It is a miracle.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
The history of mankind is ninety nine point nine nine
nine percent, not that it is violence and bloodshed every
time powers transferred. What we do here as a miracle,
and it's worthy of our respect.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And just thoughtfulness.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
On the other hand, Joe Biden was an awful, lawless president,
and I am profoundly grateful that he will no longer
hold that office in roughly twenty one minutes. And I
am profoundly grateful and mildly surprised that our great adversaries
didn't try one last bold move during the waning years
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of his awful administration, speaking specifically of China and Rush.
Of course, Russia has been up to evil now for
several years, but it's about over.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
We will find out in future books, maybe from Bob
Woodward to whoever else, that there is a lot of
warning going on during these last months, probably after the debate,
when the world became aware that holy crafty United States
is president's brain doesn't work. I'll bet we set lots
of warnings around the world. Hey, we're still on it.
We still got a sect deaf, we still got a
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secretary of state. Trump's coming in soon. Don't even think
about it. I guarantee you we were doing that with
various bad guys around the world. To what Joe just
said in the Dispatch today, Sarah isger who is a
very measured person. Though conservative rights, the quiet lawlessness of
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Joe Biden. He was elected to restore norms, but has
done more damage to the rule of law than any
other president in our history. And she goes through point
by point, how that is true. That is something, that
is something My concern is, that's just the direction we're
going with presidencies. More executive orders, more ignoring your oath
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to uphold the Constitution, and seeing if you can slip
by one, slip one by the goalie of the Supreme
Court now and then, or at least keep it in
play for you know, a couple of weeks, couple of
months till the Supreme Court strikes it down. But it
makes your base happy for you. I think we're headed
more that direction. Jd Vance entering the Rotunda. I would
actually love to hear more from Sarah's peace in detail
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when it's appropriate, maybe a little later on. I would
also add that not only was he literally lawless in
his use of executive orders and declaring things that he
knew full well the Supreme Court must overturn, thereby making
himself look like a crusader for his side and the
Supreme Court, the Supreme Court looked like out of control.
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Maga monsters, which undermined respect for the Supreme Court in
a significant way, which is a terrible, terrible sin against
our system. To do that unnecessarily, it is unforgivable to
do that. But to me, that's only half of it.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
The other half is that many of his policies were literally.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Lawless.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
They were policies of lawlessness at the border. Oh boy,
here's the breaking news, breaking news, donkey, this is the
one we've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Here we go, breaking news, donkey. Just minutes left in
his presidency. Biden issues a full and unconditional pardon of
his family, most notably his brother James Biden.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
The Biden crime family will escape federal charges.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
James Biden, Sarah Jones Biden, his sister Valerie Biden. Owen's
I don't know who all these Bidens are, John t
Owens and Francis W.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Biden. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I was about to read Joden Goldberg's tweet from today.
It fits better now than it before I read you
the breaking news. Biden is leaving office, dropping one lawless norm,
defying justly impeachable, undemocratic transgression after another, and he is
the pardoning, the unconditional pardoning of his family who haven't
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even been charged with anything, which to me is an
admission of guilt, even though I know the pardons for
doctor Fauci specifically said this is not an admission of
guilt or that he was going to be charge of anything,
but that that is out freaking rageous. That is outrageous.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
History will judge this with every bit of the harshness
it deserves.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
It's horrible, and he does, and it drops fifteen minutes
before he's done, wow, hoping it will get us, knowing
it will get obliterated mostly by the coverage of the day,
and I'll be interested to watch the CBS evening news tonight,
for instance, Cee, did they mention this?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Fox is going to be all over it. They'll mention
it briefly, as if it's insignificant. This is the ultimate
example of that which is shocking yet unsurprising. I knew
he was going to pardon his brother, especially, but a preemptive,
broad ranging pardon of everything his family might have done illegal,
that is that is czarist. The president, the incoming president
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is entering the uh vally shaking hands with Christine.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So outrageous, I mean, it was incredible when he pardoned
his son, who had been convicted of crimes, in many cases,
the very crimes that Joe Biden has held up his
entire careers, being the worst of the worst, not paying
your taxes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Gun stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Pardons his son, but now pardoning is family ahead of
anything is amazing.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The only benefit to this is that now they cannot
claim Fifth Amendment protection again self incrimination, and that given
the right subpoenas in the right situations, they will have
to come clean or be guilty of perjury unless he's
given them some sort of preemptive pardon for the rest
of their lives for all crimes and sins, from jaywalking
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to rape and murder.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
So let's bring up the audio right now of what's
going on there in the rotunda, Amy Klobacher speaking.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Please welcome the Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on
Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Clovis Shar.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Good morning, everyone, Welcome to the sixtieth presidential inauguration. Today,
President elect Trump and Vice President elect Vance will take
their o's of office, and we will witness the peaceful
transfer of power at the heart of our democracy.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I wanted to mention Biden's pardons of his brother. First
of all, I'd like to mention this working year.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I've chaired the inaugural Ceremony Committee, which includes the leadership
of Congress from both parties. We thank the committee and
Capital staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over
the last year and especially the last three days. You've
done a beautiful job, and you have shown grace under pressure.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Let's get through the ceremony before we announce that.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Our theme this year is our enduring democracy. The presence
of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is
truly a testament to that endurance. We welcome President Biden
and Doctor Biden. We welcome Vice President Harris and Doug Emahoff,
President Obama, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton, President Bush and
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Laura Bush, Vice President Pence, Vice President Quail, and Maryland Quail.
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court are with us,
all nine of them I counted, and of course the
Trump and Vance families. This ceremony marks what will soon
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be two hundred and fifty years of our democracy. It
is the moment when leaders elevated by the will of
the people, promised to be faithful to our Constitution, to
cherish and defend it. It is the moment when they
become as we all should be, the guardians of our
country through war and peace, through adversity and prosperity. We
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hold this inauguration every four years, and today it falls
on Martin Luther King Day, a further reminder that we
must strive to uphold the values enshrined in our Constitution,
the freedoms and as is inscribed on the entrance to
the United States Supreme Court Equal Justice under Law.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I like that she announced the theme.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I didn't know you need to have a theme like
at your senior problem.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And more than a passing sound.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We're gonna have to take a break here in just
a little bit, and then we'll come back and we'll
make sure we catch the oath and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Isn't the theme. We've got a new president coming in
exactly do you need a theme?
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be a lot of news made today.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I don't know if anything's bigger than Joe Biden pardoning
his whole family minutes before he leaves office.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It's disgusting, It.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Is disgusting, and it is going to be judged that
way by history. God dang it, you thought he had
low ratings. Now anyway, more on the way stay here.
They're running behind on the inauguration ceremony right now, so
let's stick with the breaking news, which is shoot page
and historic. I think Joe Biden partning his entire family
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as the ceremony has already begun minutes before he loses
the power to do this, and this is the statement
he put out. My family has been subjected to unrelenting
attacks and threats motivated solely by a desire to hurt me,
the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no
reason to believe these attacks will end. I believe in
the rule of law pause for laughter, and I'm optimistic
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that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail
over politics.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Apparently not that optimistic.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety,
and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Byron
Yorke of The Examiner has been pointing out how hilarious
this is because it's the same thing he said about
Fauci and one of his other pardons. It wreaks havoc
on their lives and their finances. Yeah, you mean all
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those phony cases against Trump and people in the Trump
orbit too, Yeah, retafic on their lives and their finances.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Didn't it didn't have a problem with it. It was your opponents.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Wow, wow, you know I it was absolutely certain he
was going to go with the argument that they'd been
unfairly targeted and the rest of it, just like he
did when Hunter was convicted, and he revealed his hypocrisy
in pardoning him. But Joe Biden has truly finished the
transition from full clown to villain.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
This is villainous.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Even though an individual's have done nothing wrong and will
ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted,
can I reparably damage their reputations and finances? Boy, you
had no problem with that when it was anybody that
was a Republican on up to your opponent. Trump didn't
say a word about it. That's well, it is what
it is. Here's his last paragraph. That is why I'm
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exercising my power under the Constitution to parton James B.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Biden.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's his brother, and a whole bunch of other Biens,
and Biden's and Owens's who I don't know. The issuance
of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment
that they engaged in any wrongdoing they did, nor should
acceptance be misconstrued in as admission of guilt for any offense.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
There you go. He is soon to leave the earth.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
History will be the only significant judge of Joe Biden
and his life and his presidency. He will truly go
down as one of the most corrupt, awful presidents to
ever serve in the office.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
He's he's gotten a pass these last couple of months
for variety of reasons, because you know, he stepped down,
his brain don't work, he lost Kambala Harris was the nominee,
all kinds of different reasons that he just hasn't been
the focus. But while we were on vacation, that video
came out of him and Hunter meeting with high level
Chinese Communist people there in Beijing. Nobody had ever seen
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these videos before I mean proof that he was absolutely
one hundred percent lying about the He had nothing to
do with Hunter, and Hunter had nothing to do with me,
and blah blah blah. Just you got some coverage for
a couple of days over Christmas, But you know, what
are you going to do now? And now he's pardoned
the family, so it's over.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Kind of odd that that video surfaced when it did,
when everybody was on vacation. So next hour we will
be airing live the swearing in in the speech of
Donald Trump as he's inaugurated the forty seven president of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
If you don't get.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
That hour live, certainly grab the podcast later Armstrong and
getting on demand. If you can be here listening through
whatever means, we'll make sure you don't miss anything.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I just saw something up there saying Trump was expecting
to be sworn in at eleven forty seven, but they're
running late for some reason. How did they manage to
run late? What caused that? God, you think there'd be
somebody keeping that going. Of all of all things that
you can't let run late, I would think this would
be one of them.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Well, you got a bunch of octagenarian dignitaries making their
way into the hall that you know it takes as
long as it takes.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You got to start earlier, have him to show up earlier.
What are you lecturing me for. I'm not in charge.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Billy Graham's son is given a prayer right now and
again if you stick around for hour four, if you
have that option, you'll catch the big stuff. Trump's inaugural address,
which we've already given you some of a return.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
To a revolution of common sense, A revolution of common sense.
That's the theme. Love, What a great thing. I can't
wait to hear more.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
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it in a podcast form Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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We must hold a hope.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We must stay engaged, just always keep the faith in
a better day to come. I'm not going anywhere. I'm
not kidding.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
What is he talking about? As from his last speech
as president yesterday to a tiny group of man sick
of fans who are going to cheer him, saying, I'm
not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm not kidding. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You're still going to lead the Democratic Party into the
future or what? What you In every single sense of
the phrase, you are going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
There ain't an American or anybody in your party that
has any interest in you being in charge anymore. They
never did. Even the people who voted for you just
didn't like Trump. Nobody ever was into you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Dude. All right, I see eluded human being.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That makes him feel better. We should get to some
of his pardons that he is now the most pardoning
president in US history. A lot of them preemptive pardons,
which is a new thing that apparently has been invented, and.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's it's horrible, it's it's incredible. Well, it's unconstitutional. It
goes against like every concept of English common law going
back hundreds of years right through the Constitution. The idea
that you can just give somebody a force field that
protects them from any prosecution of any law they may
have violated is horrifying. Well, un America, a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
There is no chance anybody who's going to try to
prosecute them anyway. So it's just performative. It's just it's
whatever you call virtue signaling. We are watching live on
a bunch of different cable news channels. The people file
in for the inauguration, which is the actual swearing in
is less than an hour away. All your heavyweights in
the Republican Party and all the richest people in the
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world are hanging out and waiting for this thing to start.
Elon looks like he buys his suits off the rack
for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
What are right? He just doesn't care, I guess, and
he always looks cheerful.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
He's just chuckling animatedly with Sundar pitch high of Google.
If I had hundreds of billions of dollars, I'd be
chuckling two, but yes he is. He is not overly fastidious.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Look at that front row, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Elon, and then
on the other side of him you got Marco Rubio
soon to be Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Man, there's some serious heavyweights there.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
If you're trying to picture it, they are indoors because
of the bitter cold. Jack pointing out that tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands of football fans we're out enjoying games
in the snow and nice and seem not to suffer
from it. But all the dignitaries are indoors. I think
they're under the rotunda, under the Dome, I should say,
in the Capitol, in that big hall, there's Pam Bondy looking.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Which is a drag for Trump you to and astute
in terms of legal scholarship.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Because we'll never know what his crowd size would have been.
But I think, you know, decent weather, he was going
to have a really large crowd out there for his inauguration,
which of course he would have absolutely loved.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Why is Marco Rubio sitting two seats down from Mark Zuckerberg?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You bothered? It's odd?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Starting to feel like incoming secretary of state with the
guy who runs Facebook.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
There's a woman with the even more plastic surgery than
Bezos's wife.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What the hell?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh, there's the Trump family coming in Barren, towering over
the proceedings at nine feet tall. So President Elect Trump
in not too long a span of time. Within an
hour or so, I expect we'll be giving his inaugural address,
which as always has been furnished in part to the press.
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Few key phrases so they can do what I'm about
to do, which is talk about the message. He'll call
for a revolution of common sense. Love that during his
inaugural address. That's a very common sensical way to call
for a revolution of common sense. Just say it, not
like twenty seven words of soaring rhetoric, just saying, hey,
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we got to get back to common sense. And he
will also say quote, I returned to the presidency confident
and optimistic that we are at the start of a
thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change
is sweeping the country. My message to Americans today is
that it is time for us once again to act
with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history's greatest civilization.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's a much brighter speech than he gave the first
time around, which I remember.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
True or not. It was quote that George W.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Bush said to one of the other presidents up there
after Trump's first inaugural death.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
That was some weird ass speaking of plaint and speaking yeah, yeah,
a revolution of common sense. I love that same. To
that end, President Trump is going to address a lot
of the gender bending madness that's no, in an executive order,
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an expansive executive order he is said to be signing
today called defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring
biological truth to the federal government. Please don't try to
spell out some clever phrase with that, just to that
would be.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No. I don't think they will.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So the executive order establishes government wide the biological reality
of the who sexes and clearly defines male and female,
and all radical gender ideology guidance, communications, policies, and forms
are removed. Woman means an adult human female period. Agencies
will cease pretending that men can be women and women
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can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.
And it goes on in that uh, in that way,
and we can hit you with more details tomorrow when
it actually becomes, you know, not law exactly, but a
functioning executive order.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Is there any pushback to that? I mean, can he
do that? Is there any legal reason that that won't fly?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I don't think so. Well, there may be facets of
it that are vulnerable. That's too much cleavage for an inauguration.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Jeff Bezos's wife at too much cleavage for they hit
you now. It's still a fiancee. The rumors are going
to have a six hundred million dollar wedding. That's just
too that's too too much, too much boobage for being
in the rotunda with all this.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, Katie, when.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
When you're saying that's too much boobage, she's wearing a
corset with a business blazer over it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Like that that is an a piece of lingerie.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, oh my gosh, yeah it is. It's it's she's
wearing a bra under her blazer.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah. I shouldn't be able.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I shouldn't be able to even possibly get turned on
under their rotunda for inauguration.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It shouldn't be a possibility. Well, the rumors.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Martha Washington actually showed a bit of angle ankle to
John Marshall during the first inauguration. Yeah all right, well
now what now we have prayers and the Marine band
is probably going to play or something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, when it gets to the speech, we'll take that live, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah, that's the plan. It should be around uh noon
eastern nine Pacific.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They're introducing the real heavyweights now, as Bill and Hillary
are walking to take their you know, the former presidents
are coming in. So that's a sort of thing you announced,
and everybody takes her seats, and when they get to
the actual swearing in and all that sort of stuff,
we will bring that to you live. We've got plenty
of other commentary around that. I hope you can stick
with us, or if you miss a segment, you can
get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Wow, Jared's wife is stunning. What's her name, Avanka?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yes, yes, just stunning looking woman. She didn't look like
that when she's younger, right, so some of that is
got this fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I'm here to talk about the Constitution, are you Women's good? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Look at her. Sorry, I'm hypnotized. It was eight years
ago today.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I was like ten feet away from her when she
was doing her first dance with Jared at the inaugural
ball that night that I went to.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You shill cut in me, do you mind?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
So?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Joe Biden, on his way out the door, issued a
whole bunch more pardons and commutations. He is now the
partner in chief. He's set the record. We're returning to
normalcy in a lot of things with the Trump administration.
I doubt that we're gonna return to normalcy in terms
of like norm breaking around stuff like this. We're gonna
go further down the road, I would guess, which is unfortunate.
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But that's just the direction it's been going for a
long time. Joe Biden pardoning doctor Fauci and General Milly
and all kinds of people that probably weren't going to
be charged with anything anyway.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
But anyway, members of the January sixth Committee, So four.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Years ago, little more than four years ago, Biden had
been elected and won, Trump was still president. Jake Tapper
on CNN was highly worried that Donald Trump, on his
way out the door, might pardon all kinds of people.
Oh my god, what are we gonna do. This is
the conversation Jake Tapper had with Joe Biden four years ago.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of of preemptive
pardons for his adult children and for Rudy Giuliani. He's
also floated the idea in private conversations, according to our reporting,
of possibly pardoning himself, which he insists he has the
power to do, though that has never been litigated. Does
this concern you all, these preemptive pardons, Well.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
It concerns me in terms of what kind of pressing
it sets and how the rest of the world looks
at us as a nation of laws and injustice.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But look, our Justice.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Department is going to operate independently on those issues that
how to respond to any of that. I'm not going
to be telling them what they have to do and
don't have to do. Now, in terms of the pardons,
you're not going to see an our administration that kind
of approach to pardons, or you're going to see in
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our administration approach to making policy by tweets. You know,
it's just gonna be a totally different way in which
we approach the justices.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So one the giant lie that we won't do pardons
like that, now he's doing it. In a way that
Trump those were those didn't happen. By the way, all
those things that Jake Tapper mentioned, those worries didn't occur.
He didn't pardon his children in nerdy Giuliani. Biden is
doing that sort of thing and no policies. By tweet Friday,
Joe Biden tweets out a new amendment to the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And denounced that it had passed. Right.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Ah, that's interesting. These people are all liars. They're all liars.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, in the case of Biden, he is the ultimate puppet.
He has no beliefs, He's never had any beliefs. He
has no moral compass to do what he's done in
the way he's done it, after everything he said, and
then participate in the great delusional lie that he was
fit to say another term. I mean, just let history
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have nothing but contempt for the man. He's a fool
and a jackass man.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
If you missed this story over the weekend, it didn't
get much coverage, which I think is kind of hilarious
because nobody took it seriously. Joe Biden announced that the
er the Equal Rights Amendment Act that started way back
in the seventies and was so controversial. He just declared
it a constitutional amendment on Friday, and nobody has any
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idea what he was talking about. By the way, Vice
President Harris put out the same tweet, Joe Biden is
right eight the er is now the twenty eighth amendment.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That guys, what are you people talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And it didn't get much coverage, I think because everybody
thought he's an old man heading out the door.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
He's lost, let's just ignore him.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Breaking rotunda news Jack doctor Jill Biden, the first Lady
of the United States and not a real doctor, has
entered and is taking her seat close to the bandstand
for the inauguration. She is beaming, smiling next to these
the second gentleman dug him off, who is a bit
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feisty after midnight apparently if you're his girlfriend and get
mouthie all settling in to enjoy the peaceful transfer of.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Power, well said, I mentioned this earlier. I don't think
it was for all of our stations that were on.
Jeff Bezos's wife is showing way too much cleavage for
this event, and she's where does she wearing, Katie?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I don't know whomen's course.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
It under a blazer she's wearing lingerie.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
She's she's dressed like if you were out to a
club and you kind of want to, you know, turn
guys on. You're wearing lingerie underneath your suit jacket. Any
is that what you would call it, Katie?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's a Victoria's secret ad.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, Yeah, it's way too much cleavage for this event.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Ye all right, feel free controversial, Jack de Martins. Guys
in boobage.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Huh, you're not getting any more two day shipping, Jack, Yeah,
you're never going to get a package on time. Let
the record show that I Joe Getty was respectful toward
the beautiful woman and her presence on the grandest stage.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm not a misogynist telling women how they should dress.
Some you are inauguration trivia for you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Everybody's been enjoying this all morning long, the whole day long.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes, Michael, what do I got to tip you or some?
There it is? There we go.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
As mentioned earlier, John Quincy Adams was sworn in on
a law book, not a bible. You can use any
book you want, Jack, You suggested the art of the deal.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Donald Jay.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
When President Warren G. Harding died in office, Calvin Coolidge,
the vice president, was at his family's Vermont farm with
no electricity or telephone. He finally received a word of
Harding's death by courier and in the early morning hours
of August third of nineteen twenty three, who was sworn
in by his father, who was a notary public. The
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entire ceremony conducted by Kerosene lamp and the new president
adedly went back to bed afterwards.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah you probably know this, but Trump becomes president and
Noon Eastern oath, no oath, he says, ask herew the oath?
I'm tired. Whatever the oath is A. I mean, it's
fun to do, but uh, you become president, Noon, it's
fun to do, and and you got to take the oath.
It's because it's part of being in office. But that's
not when he becomes president. You become president and Noon.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
How about a little more inaugural Old Trivia Jack, Following
the assassination of President Kennedy LBJ took the oath of office.
Board Air Force One Judge Sarah Hughes administered the oath.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
She became the first.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
And only woman to inaugurate a president by the who
cares who did this?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Swearing it. It's immaterial you get if a man.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
A woman, a faithful golden retriever, it's the other person.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That Well, now, they hustled that together real quick. The
Robert Carrow telling of that in the Lyndon Johnson book
is freaking amazing. Because they were so worried that the
Soviets had just assassinated John F. Kennedy and they wanted
to make it clear to the world we still have
somebody in charge. They needed to hustle together a photo
op real quick. They grabbed one reporter who had a camera,
got him on the plane. Jackie's standing there with a
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horrified look on her face. If we've all seen the picture,
she's got blood all over her. She's wearing the same
outfit as her husband's exploded head fell on or you know,
as he was dying.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And they quick threw together.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They threw together that oh through real quick, so there
would be a picture for the world that hey, yeah,
the Soviet Union just took out our president, but somebody's
still in charge.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Jeez, what a horrifying situation.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well, I've got to assume the old man, the partner
in chief, is going to be next on the bandstand
and then the incoming guy. They're in the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I have a feeling they're going to be gathering in
this same routunda for a lying in state Joe Biden
once he's gone before too long, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
How long?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I sense an over under bed or would that be distasteful?
On this the day of the peaceful transfer of power,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
W we had enough premident.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
So let's hear.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
From the rally yesterday. Hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Of people on their hands are there for the original
people actually on stage.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
You think I'm trying to act impressed or excited, I
can't tell, although if I was there hilarious absurdity.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was like when I was.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
On the floor from Trump Speak the convention and Kid
rocks and take a White and COVID was trying in
vain to tear his T shirt because he's an old man,
and all had this hilarious, fun exciting absurdity to see.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I was just thinking, I'm old enough now, bang bang bing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm old enough down to have lived through quite a
few of these January twentieth in a new incoming administration,
and they all come in with, you know, a whole
bunch of fanfare and promise on their side, whether it's
my side or not, their side is always very, very
excited about it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And it's it's hard to achieve a Directionally.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I'm thrilled about the direction we're going, as opposed to
the direction we've been going the last four years. But
it's really hard to achieve a lot of the things
you set out to achieve. You chip away at it.
Some things we're got some things that some things don't.
For instance, the vague, if you haven't heard it already,
is off of the Doge Committee amid friction with staff.
According to CBS News, Vivek has worn out as welcome
(19:05):
with the other people. Well, the story is Elon grew
tired of his unwillingness to do the heavy lifting. On
the other hand, other people are denying all of that. Sure,
I have a feeling it's true, but doesn't doesn't mean
it's doomed. But you know, it's just it's it's it's
easier to talk about the things you want to do
than actually do them.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It just is.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That's all kinds of promises you make you have no
intention to do one at all. I remember, in reading
the George Stephanopolis book All Too Human, talking about when
they got Bill Clinton elected and then sitting down and saying, Okay,
so which of these things can we actually do? And
some of them were just like, we're not going to
pay any attention to this whatsoever. Yeah, we're not even
gonna We're not even gonna have a sentence long meeting
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about this promise we made at some campaign rally. There
are only so many things you can do. We're gonna
do these these this, this is you know, this is
Priority A, these are Priority B, and then a whole
bunch of stuff that falls by the wayside. It's just
the reality of it. So, you know, we'll see how
it goes.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Watching the live coverage, Donald J. Trump is now walking
through the Capitol toward the rotunda between an impressive guard
of various service people in their ceremonial garb, with.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Their rifles at the ready, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Milania looks fantastic. Helps be a world class model, really
helps poor Baron. He's one of those guys that's a
little ashamed of how tall is. He stoops a little
bit with that.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Kind of wish I wasn't standing out so much.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
He is clearly the tallest guy in the rotunda, which
to marvel at that is to be childlike.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But he's a very tall young man. I'm sure he's
the tallest guy in practically every room he's ever in.
What is he six ' eight something like? Yeah. Charles c. W.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Cook is watching this and tweeting out about it. He's
watching CBS, he said, CBS is helpfully explaining that Christy
Noman wants killed a goat, And he said, now, CBS
is just explaining that there's an image of Pocahontas in
the rotunda, and that Pocahontas was a woman of color.
Here comes Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the current at
(21:02):
least for another twenty minutes, President and Vice President of
the United States, walking into the rotunda. Everybody clapping in
Jill Biden.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You answered all the questions, Joe look on her face. Yeah, yeah, great.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
So respect to all who participate in the peaceful transfer
of power.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It is a miracle.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
The history of mankind is ninety nine point nine nine
nine percent, not that it is violence and bloodshed every
time powers transferred. What we do here as a miracle,
and it's worthy of our respect.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And just thoughtfulness.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
On the other hand, Joe Biden was an awful, lawless president,
and I am profoundly grateful that he will no longer
hold that office in roughly twenty one minutes. And I
am profoundly grateful and mildly surprised that our great adversaries
didn't try one last bold move during the waning years
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of his awful administration, speaking specifically of China and Rush.
Of course, Russia has been up to evil now for
several years, but it's about over.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
We will find out in future books, maybe from Bob
Woodward to whoever else, that there is a lot of
warning going on during these last months, probably after the debate,
when the world became aware that holy crafty United States
is president's brain doesn't work. I'll bet we set lots
of warnings around the world. Hey, we're still on it.
We still got a sect deaf, we still got a
(22:29):
secretary of state. Trump's coming in soon. Don't even think
about it. I guarantee you we were doing that with
various bad guys around the world. To what Joe just
said in the Dispatch today, Sarah isger who is a
very measured person. Though conservative rights, the quiet lawlessness of
(22:50):
Joe Biden. He was elected to restore norms, but has
done more damage to the rule of law than any
other president in our history. And she goes through point
by point, how that is true. That is something, that
is something My concern is, that's just the direction we're
going with presidencies. More executive orders, more ignoring your oath
(23:12):
to uphold the Constitution, and seeing if you can slip
by one, slip one by the goalie of the Supreme
Court now and then, or at least keep it in
play for you know, a couple of weeks, couple of
months till the Supreme Court strikes it down. But it
makes your base happy for you. I think we're headed
more that direction. Jd Vance entering the Rotunda. I would
actually love to hear more from Sarah's peace in detail
(23:35):
when it's appropriate, maybe a little later on. I would
also add that not only was he literally lawless in
his use of executive orders and declaring things that he
knew full well the Supreme Court must overturn, thereby making
himself look like a crusader for his side and the
Supreme Court, the Supreme Court looked like out of control.
(23:57):
Maga monsters, which undermined respect for the Supreme Court in
a significant way, which is a terrible, terrible sin against
our system. To do that unnecessarily, it is unforgivable to
do that. But to me, that's only half of it.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
The other half is that many of his policies were literally.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Lawless.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
They were policies of lawlessness at the border. Oh boy,
here's the breaking news, breaking news, donkey, this is the
one we've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Here we go, breaking news, donkey. Just minutes left in
his presidency. Biden issues a full and unconditional pardon of
his family, most notably his brother James Biden.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
The Biden crime family will escape federal charges.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
James Biden, Sarah Jones Biden, his sister Valerie Biden. Owen's
I don't know who all these Bidens are, John t
Owens and Francis W.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Biden. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I was about to read Joden Goldberg's tweet from today.
It fits better now than it before I read you
the breaking news. Biden is leaving office, dropping one lawless norm,
defying justly impeachable, undemocratic transgression after another, and he is
the pardoning, the unconditional pardoning of his family who haven't
(25:17):
even been charged with anything, which to me is an
admission of guilt, even though I know the pardons for
doctor Fauci specifically said this is not an admission of
guilt or that he was going to be charge of anything,
but that that is out freaking rageous. That is outrageous.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
History will judge this with every bit of the harshness
it deserves.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
It's horrible, and he does, and it drops fifteen minutes
before he's done, wow, hoping it will get us, knowing
it will get obliterated mostly by the coverage of the day,
and I'll be interested to watch the CBS evening news tonight,
for instance, Cee, did they mention this?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Fox is going to be all over it. They'll mention
it briefly, as if it's insignificant. This is the ultimate
example of that which is shocking yet unsurprising. I knew
he was going to pardon his brother, especially, but a preemptive,
broad ranging pardon of everything his family might have done illegal,
that is that is czarist. The president, the incoming president
(26:24):
is entering the uh vally shaking hands with Christine.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So outrageous, I mean, it was incredible when he pardoned
his son, who had been convicted of crimes, in many cases,
the very crimes that Joe Biden has held up his
entire careers, being the worst of the worst, not paying
your taxes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Gun stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Pardons his son, but now pardoning is family ahead of
anything is amazing.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The only benefit to this is that now they cannot
claim Fifth Amendment protection again self incrimination, and that given
the right subpoenas in the right situations, they will have
to come clean or be guilty of perjury unless he's
given them some sort of preemptive pardon for the rest
of their lives for all crimes and sins, from jaywalking
(27:15):
to rape and murder.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
So let's bring up the audio right now of what's
going on there in the rotunda, Amy Klobacher speaking.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Please welcome the Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on
Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Clovis Shar.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Good morning, everyone, Welcome to the sixtieth presidential inauguration. Today,
President elect Trump and Vice President elect Vance will take
their o's of office, and we will witness the peaceful
transfer of power at the heart of our democracy.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I wanted to mention Biden's pardons of his brother. First
of all, I'd like to mention this working year.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I've chaired the inaugural Ceremony Committee, which includes the leadership
of Congress from both parties. We thank the committee and
Capital staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over
the last year and especially the last three days. You've
done a beautiful job, and you have shown grace under pressure.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Let's get through the ceremony before we announce that.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Our theme this year is our enduring democracy. The presence
of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is
truly a testament to that endurance. We welcome President Biden
and Doctor Biden. We welcome Vice President Harris and Doug Emahoff,
President Obama, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton, President Bush and
(28:59):
Laura Bush, Vice President Pence, Vice President Quail, and Maryland Quail.
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court are with us,
all nine of them I counted, and of course the
Trump and Vance families. This ceremony marks what will soon
(29:20):
be two hundred and fifty years of our democracy. It
is the moment when leaders elevated by the will of
the people, promised to be faithful to our Constitution, to
cherish and defend it. It is the moment when they
become as we all should be, the guardians of our
country through war and peace, through adversity and prosperity. We
(29:45):
hold this inauguration every four years, and today it falls
on Martin Luther King Day, a further reminder that we
must strive to uphold the values enshrined in our Constitution,
the freedoms and as is inscribed on the entrance to
the United States Supreme Court Equal Justice under Law.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I like that she announced the theme.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I didn't know you need to have a theme like
at your senior problem.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And more than a passing sound.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We're gonna have to take a break here in just
a little bit, and then we'll come back and we'll
make sure we catch the oath and all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Isn't the theme. We've got a new president coming in
exactly do you need a theme?
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be a lot of news made today.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I don't know if anything's bigger than Joe Biden pardoning
his whole family minutes before he leaves office.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It's disgusting, It.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Is disgusting, and it is going to be judged that
way by history. God dang it, you thought he had
low ratings. Now anyway, more on the way stay here.
They're running behind on the inauguration ceremony right now, so
let's stick with the breaking news, which is shoot page
and historic. I think Joe Biden partning his entire family
(32:04):
as the ceremony has already begun minutes before he loses
the power to do this, and this is the statement
he put out. My family has been subjected to unrelenting
attacks and threats motivated solely by a desire to hurt me,
the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no
reason to believe these attacks will end. I believe in
the rule of law pause for laughter, and I'm optimistic
(32:30):
that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail
over politics.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Apparently not that optimistic.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety,
and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Byron
Yorke of The Examiner has been pointing out how hilarious
this is because it's the same thing he said about
Fauci and one of his other pardons. It wreaks havoc
on their lives and their finances. Yeah, you mean all
(32:56):
those phony cases against Trump and people in the Trump
orbit too, Yeah, retafic on their lives and their finances.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Didn't it didn't have a problem with it. It was your opponents.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Wow, wow, you know I it was absolutely certain he
was going to go with the argument that they'd been
unfairly targeted and the rest of it, just like he
did when Hunter was convicted, and he revealed his hypocrisy
in pardoning him. But Joe Biden has truly finished the
transition from full clown to villain.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
This is villainous.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Even though an individual's have done nothing wrong and will
ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted,
can I reparably damage their reputations and finances? Boy, you
had no problem with that when it was anybody that
was a Republican on up to your opponent. Trump didn't
say a word about it. That's well, it is what
it is. Here's his last paragraph. That is why I'm
(33:51):
exercising my power under the Constitution to parton James B.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Biden.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's his brother, and a whole bunch of other Biens,
and Biden's and Owens's who I don't know. The issuance
of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment
that they engaged in any wrongdoing they did, nor should
acceptance be misconstrued in as admission of guilt for any offense.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
There you go. He is soon to leave the earth.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
History will be the only significant judge of Joe Biden
and his life and his presidency. He will truly go
down as one of the most corrupt, awful presidents to
ever serve in the office.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
He's he's gotten a pass these last couple of months
for variety of reasons, because you know, he stepped down,
his brain don't work, he lost Kambala Harris was the nominee,
all kinds of different reasons that he just hasn't been
the focus. But while we were on vacation, that video
came out of him and Hunter meeting with high level
Chinese Communist people there in Beijing. Nobody had ever seen
(34:49):
these videos before I mean proof that he was absolutely
one hundred percent lying about the He had nothing to
do with Hunter, and Hunter had nothing to do with me,
and blah blah blah. Just you got some coverage for
a couple of days over Christmas, But you know, what
are you going to do now? And now he's pardoned
the family, so it's over.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Kind of odd that that video surfaced when it did,
when everybody was on vacation. So next hour we will
be airing live the swearing in in the speech of
Donald Trump as he's inaugurated the forty seven president of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
If you don't get.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
That hour live, certainly grab the podcast later Armstrong and
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Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I just saw something up there saying Trump was expecting
to be sworn in at eleven forty seven, but they're
running late for some reason. How did they manage to
run late? What caused that? God, you think there'd be
somebody keeping that going. Of all of all things that
you can't let run late, I would think this would
be one of them.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Well, you got a bunch of octagenarian dignitaries making their
way into the hall that you know it takes as
long as it takes.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You got to start earlier, have him to show up earlier.
What are you lecturing me for. I'm not in charge.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Billy Graham's son is given a prayer right now and
again if you stick around for hour four, if you
have that option, you'll catch the big stuff. Trump's inaugural address,
which we've already given you some of a return.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
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That's the theme. Love, What a great thing. I can't
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