Hour 2 | @ConwayShow President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 race coverage. Guest Mo Kelly

President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race coverage. Guest Mo Kelly

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It's KMFI AM six forty and you'relistening to the Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six forty. It's Conway Show. Joe Biden has
stepped aside. Kamala Harris has beenendorsed by Joe Biden for the Democrats.
We're following that story, big,huge story here. We're going to talk
to Moe Kelly in a second,and then Andrew Fields is coming on at

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four thirty. He's from ABC News. We've got the Eagle fire burning out
south of Corona off the ninety oneand the fifteen Freeway south of the fifteen
ninety one, three year but offfifteen Freeway, and then the earthquake off
of Pacific Peninsula. That's a bigstory because that land is all ready moving.
Moe Kelly is with us MO.How are you, sir? Doing

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well? It's a great time tobe alive. Let me put it that
way. Yeah, that's what itsays in the song There's no place I'd
rather be something like that. Whatwas your reaction? Were you shocked that
Joe Biden has stepped aside? Itwas shocked something you went through. No,
I wouldn't say shocked because if you'rewatching the negative momentum being generated against
Joe Biden. Yes, there werethe public comments where he said I'm still

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in a race, I still seemyself in November. But the reality was
he had lost the party along theway. He had lost donor support.
He lost the support of the partyleadership, from Hakim Jeffries to Nancy Pelosi
to Chuck Schumer. Those are thethings which make it almost impossible for any
candidate to move forward. If youlose your donor base, then your candidacy
is not going to go forward,regardless of your unwillingness to step aside.

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You know, here's an interesting thought. Let's say he does step aside,
and you know, not only ishe not gonna be the nominee, but
he says, screw it, Iwant to go back to the beach,
and she becomes president of the UnitedStates because she's vice president, she'd be
the president if she becomes president beforeNovember fifth, and then she wins November
fifth, is that her second term? I don't know that would be a

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constitutional question. I know it's beenbandied about as far as whether there's like
if it's within the last three monthsof a press presidency. Was that considered
an actual term? I think youhave to serve at least a year.
Don't quote me on that, butthere has been a question of what constitutes
an actual term. You know,when she was the last time we I

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think it was, you know,literally in twenty twenty when everybody got together
in the Iowa caucus. She bailedout of the Iowa caucus even before there
was the first vote because she wasI think at less than three percent.
Yeah, but that's really neither herenor there. That's just a Democratic caucus,
democratic primary season. It's not determinativeof what happens later on or the

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next administration. You can look atJohn McCain, he didn't get the nomination
the first time he ran. Youcan look at Ronald Reagan, you can
look at Mitt Romney. There areso many examples of people who try to
run for president the first time,they don't do well, with the underperformed,
and they come back and get thenomination the second time around. How
people perceive candidates in a given electioncycle doesn't mean that they will be perceived

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the same way some six years lateror five years later, you know,
doesn't Kamala Harris you know, JoeBiden is very sick now, he's got
COVID, he's got a very hoarsevoice. Evidently he's coughing a lot,
and you feel bad for him.But doesn't she have to wait for him
to speak before she addresses anything.No, not at all, And sorry,

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I gotta correct you, because we'regoing to be saying her name between
now and the end of the election. No, it's kamma low like the
comma as in punctuation, Comma lukamala harris comma lu. Yes, No,
there's no, there's I guess there'sa degree of respect. But I'm
quite sure they've had these conversations behindthe scenes. As far as how it's

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going to go out. President Bidenmade his statement today. He said he
was going to make an of anoral address sometime during the week, and
I'm quite sure he gave his blessingsince he has endorsed her for her to
speak publicly now. Her remarks havebeen very reserved. She has said that
she wants to earn the nominations.It's not a foregone conclusion. We still

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have to wait and see if otherpeople are going to jump into the race.
We still have to wait for theDemocrats to decide on whether there's going
to be a mini primary or whetherit's just going to be something which is
going to be handled at the convention. All of this is very fluid in
terms of what we know in thepublic. I'm quite sure behind the scenes
the Democrats have already made that decision, but they're being very careful. Certain

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people are being very circumspect. Forexample, former President Obama has not made
any public remark. I think HillaryClinton and former President Bill Clinton didn't have
pledged their support to Vice President Harris. But all of this is very fluid,
right, And I think that youknow a lot of people I'm on
the Democrat side saying they they believethat democracy is at stake in this next

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election. If that's true, thenKamala or Kamala Harris is the last person
that stands between democracy and zero democracy. Well, I can't speak to whether
that messaging is going to be effective. That's between the Democrats and their voters.

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They're going to not only are theDemocrats going to have to reset in
part because of the assassination attempt againstformer President Trump, but the Republicans are
going to have to reset their messagingbecause originally they thought they would be campaigning
against President Biden, Joe Biden,as opposed to someone else. It looks
like it'll probably be Kamala Harris.I read a stat online and then I

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looked up to see if it wastrue. So I looked at four or
five other websites and they all arereporting about the same number that thirty three
percent, thirty three percent of peoplesurveyed think that that assassination attempt was fake.
Yeah, that sounds about right.And I mean because we're a conspiratorial

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society, right, we are stilldebating, and I put that air quot
debating whether we landed on the moona few years ago. We're still debating
whether the Earth is spherical or flat. So yeah, we don't we want
to argue facts, We want todismiss science. We want to say that
news media can't be trusted. Soyes, everything is going to be a

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conspiracy, literally everything. Even thoughsomeone died last Saturday, other people were
injured, and never mind the factthat it's just disrespectful for those people who
were impacted. It's ridiculous, Butit's America twenty twenty four. It is
wild, It is wild, andI look up. You know, there's

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a lot of people that went onFacebook and you know, social media and
said I hope the next time,you know, Trump gets shot, they
don't miss. And some people havebeen called out for it. There's a
woman who worked that at home Depotand she'd been called out on it.
Some guy founder at home Depot andvideotaped her and and Home Depot fired her.
And I'm not for people losing theirjobs over what they say. I

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hate that kind of crap, Ireally do. But it is odd the
hatred again on both sides. Whenyou say that I hope an assassin doesn't
miss the next time. I don'tknow how. I don't know where we've
gotten. That would never have happenedwhen I was a child, even not
that not when I was a childeither. We're in a period of incivility.

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We don't see other Americans as fellowAmericans, as any presidential address would
start. We see other Americans whodon't believe, or vote or think as
we do, as the enemy.And that leads us around, It leads
us down and has led us downa very dangerous path. And then you're
seeing the results of that animosity.There was no other way that any of

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these stories could end other than withviolence. If people haven't been paying attention.
We've had violence since Gabby Gifferts,We've had violence since the softball game
shooting. We've had violence with well, Paul Pelosi. We had people making
jokes about Paul Pelosi getting hit inthe head with the hammer, and those
conspiracy theories trying to wrap all thesethings together. We don't believe in the
facts that are in front of us. We don't see fellow Americans as friends,

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or I would say fellow citizens.We're the place where we distrust one
another, we hate one another,we wish death on one another. So
of course violence is the natural result. Yeah, it is odd, and
I think it's ridiculous that Robert KennedyJunior is not afforded Secret Service after that,
or even before that. Well,here's the thing. Classically, you're

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supposed to be pulling at a certainpoint or a presumptive nominee before you get
Secret Service protection. Maybe that willchange in the future because our discourse has
changed and the level of threats anddanger has changed. But I don't begrudge
someone saying, well, you know, we're not going to give Secret Service
protection the RFK when we're going tohear tomorrow from the Secret Service Director,

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and I'm sure she's going to saythat they are already spread thin and unable
to afford protection to the requisite levelof a protection for Donald Trump and also
Joe Biden. She is going tosay that tomorrow, So the idea of
giving even more protection to another candidateis probably not gonna happen. Yeah,
I know. Look, if itwas just a normal candidate, I would

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agree with you. But because ofwhat happened to his uncle and his father,
I think that we run the riskof you know, anything happened to
him is just we have learned anythingfrom history at all. Fair enough,
I'll be listening to tomorrow. I'llbe seeing you in the hallways and nice
to see him, man. Iappreciate you, Bar You're the best,
all right, Moe Kelly, everybodytomorrow at seven pm. You must listen

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to KFI tomorrow all day long.From Amy King in the morning with that
wake up call and then you gotBill Handle. He's gonna have a lot
of things to say about about whathappened with Joe Biden today that you're gonna
hear. Gary and Shannon you heardhim a little bit today, and they're
gonna come come back tomorrow loaded forBear and then I don't think John Colebelt

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is in. Somebody will be fillin for John Colevelt and then we'll start
at four pm tomorrow and then rightafter that Moe Kelly and George Nori.
Don't go anywhere or go nowhere,as Nil Sevadra says, all right,
we're live on k if I AMsix forty. You're listening to Tim Conway
Junior on demand from KFI AM sixforty KFI AM sixty Conway Show. We

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are following some major major stories hereon kf five. Up a heartill six
o'clock. And then Chris Merrill comesin shortly after them, like at six
oh one, that quickly after them. So Joe Biden has stepped aside.
That is going to complicate everything onthe Democratic side. Everything. They're gonna

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have to figure out the convention.They're gonna figure out the delegates, they're
gonna figure out the money, they'regonna figure out how to nominate, who
to nominate? Will it be Harris? I don't know. It's gona be
a lot of news, a lotof news coming between now and November fifth,
and man, you would do yourselfof tremendous disservice if you weren't listening
to KFI, because we're going tocover all of it. There was a

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small earthquake off the Pacific Peninsula thereon the Redondo Beach side, three point
five earthquake, but that area isalready moving, so that's a big deal.
And then there's a fire. There'sactually two fires, well there's three.
There's the Tin Fire, which isalso called the Eagle Fire, and
that's split into two right near LakeMatthews. Part of that is burning right

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off of Lake Matthews, and Ithink that's where the helicopters and the fixed
wing air tankers are filling up therein Lake Matthews and dumping fire on this
Eagle Fire, which is about threehundred and fifty acres just south of Corona,
off the east of the fifteen Freeway, south of ninety one. And

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then you have the Hawarden Hawarden Fire, which is up close to the ninety
one freeway, and a lot ofpeople are calling up and saying that I'm
not telling people where that fire is. It's much further east, and that's
not true. There's three fires inthat area. There's the Eagle Fire right
off fifteen Freeway just east of that. Then about two miles east of that

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is the Eagle Tin fire, andthen the I guess Haward n Howarden fire
that's a little bit north east ofthat. So the three fires burning in
that area, and they've got abunch of fixed wing and a bunch of
helicopters, so they are on itout there in Corona Riverside area. We
are following this huge story coming outof Washington. Maybe you will remember where

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you were, but maybe it's nota big deal to you. Maybe a
Republican and you saw this coming.Maybe you're a Democrat and you were hoping
this would be coming. But JoeBiden's career is over. It ended today
this morning, well this afternoon inWashington, d C. But out here
at around ten forty five this morning, put a letter out saying that I'm

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stepping aside. And he had endorsedKamala Harris Kamala Harris, and I've heard
that name pronounce him three or fourdifferent ways, So I apologize if I'm
not nailing that all right. Butthen we have also the VP debate who
is the going to be the VP? If it is Harris, who's going

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to be the VP of that man? There are more questions today than there
were yesterday. And all of thishappened in a week. I mean,
you had Donald Trump a victim ofan assassination attempt. Donald Trump, this
could have been looked like a muchdifferent nation if he got if he was
killed, that Republican convention would havebeen wildly different, and who knows what

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it would have happened. So DonaldTrump had shot in the head last Saturday,
a week ago yesterday, and theneight days letter later his competitor Joe
Bales. Those are two extremely hugenews stories and they came within almost within
seven days, almost exactly eight daysin between. That's wild. All right,

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let's talk about the VP and debatingTrump. What that's going to look
like Vice President Kamala Harris and DonaldTrump. There are just so many questions
at this point. But she wouldbe a strong debater. She's a former
prosecutor. This is someone who canreally go after and attack people. That
is what she is known for doingvery well on a public fashion. So

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she would be a strong contender,I'm told by multiple people against former President
Donald Trump, she will know exactlywhere to hit him and where his sore
spots are. And when it comesto the vice presidential debate, of course,
now all eyes are on who wouldbe her vice presidential pick, right,
but this is probably going to befull steam ahead. I've still got
to work the sources, work thephones to figure out exactly what their plan

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is on that debate. But VicePresident Harris, I'm told would be very
strong, Okay. And then wealso have I think this is Jonathan Carl
who's with ABC News, And speakingof ABC News, we're going to be
talking to Andrew Fields from ABC Newsas well, so he got you covered
there. But this is Jonathan Carl. All he does is cover politics and

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he has more resources, more connectionsthan almost anybody in Washington, DC.
So when this guy talks, he'stalking because he's in the no he hears
from both sides, and a lotof people trust this guy, Jonathan Carl
from ABC News. Well, theythey're going to make much of the fact
that she was given responsibility for dealingwith the problem of undocumented immigrants coming over

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the border. Now she wasn't.The borders are That's what Republicans labeled her
she was given the job of dealingwith the all the migration that was coming
up from Central America. But theywill portray her as the one that was
in charge of the border, whichof course is issue number one for Republicans.
So that's the first thing. Andthen they are going to make an
issue or try to make an issueof the fact that Harris had been at

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Joe Biden's side throughout all of this, and they'll accuse her of covering up
the decline, they will say inJoe Biden's mental capacity. And finally they
will portray her as somebody who isquite radical and on the far left.
They'll basically portray her as a memberof the so called squad of the far

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left members of Congress. But youknow, it's not that simple. This
will be an interesting campaign on thisbecause if you remember when Kamala Harris ran
for president herself in the Democratic primaryin twenty twenty, she ran as somebody
who had been the Attorney general ofthe state of California, the district attorney

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of the City of San Francisco,somebody who had been tough on crime.
And in fact, she was attackedquite viciously in some cases from the left
as being somebody that took a prolaw enforcement, tough on crime approach which
was not in keeping with the progressivewing necessarily of the Democratic Party. So

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she's not quite the radical that theywill try to make her out to be,
but they will certainly do everything theycan to portray her as part of
what they will call the radical leftof the Democratic Party. What a mess,
What a mess, man, It'sall over the place. We have
some talkbacks here. You can dothat. You can go to the website

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it hit the talkback red button andleave us a message and we play them.
Right, We go through them andwe play the more interesting ones.
Here's one from today. I'm notsure if you thought of this, but
I wondered if you might know ifsomebody else replaces Biden at the top of
the ticket and Kamala remains in thevice presidential role, do they still have

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access to the war chest? Justthinking, I don't know. All right,
here's another one. The talkbacks arealways fun. There is no way
that Kamala Harris could win against Trump. They have to go with someone different.
Even AOC agrees. So just sayinglove you guys, I love you
too. Buddy and love you guys. Ah, yes, we're in love

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me and the talkback guy. Allright, when we come back, we
have Andrew Fields from ABC News.Find out what's going on back in Washington,
d C. What a Day Hereon KFI. You're listening to Tim
Conway Junior on demand from KFI AMsix forty KFI AM six fortys Conway Show.
We are here live on a Sundaycovering Joe Biden. Joe Biden stepping

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aside and no longer running for presidentof the United States in the Democratic Party.
Andy Fields is whther U's from ABCNews. Andy, What a day?
Huh, Yeah it was. Itwas a surprise. Well, you
know, we anticipated something would happen, but we didn't figure going to happen
today, and certainly his own campaignstaff. President Biden's staff was caught by

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surprise because they were on the morningSunday talk shows saying, no, he's
still in it for the long run. The President, I think tweeted or
ext or whatever you call it thesedays, sure saying something pretty similar and
boy, talk about a political earthquake. This whole town is still feeling the

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answer shocks. Why would he allowhis campaign staff to go on those shows
and embarrass themselves like that and thenrelease a very thorough long letter that must
have been hard for him to releasebut also taken some time to write.
I don't know the answer to thatquestion, but there's a whole lot of
things that I'm certain the Trump campaignare going to be bringing up in the

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next couple of weeks, certainly upuntil election day, and then one of
the lines of attacks is certainly goingto be well. Vice President Harris,
you certainly saw this decline. Whydidn't you say something about it? Yeah,
I mean there's something there. Butyou know, Andy, you've been
in and around these people for along long time and have a terrific job

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with a very well respected, youknow, news organization like ABC, so
you probably know this. Who whatdo you think was the tipping point for
him? Do you think it wastalking to Jill or his son Hunter?
I know his circle at the endwas very close. I think there were
a series of phone calls this week, and including one with Vice President Harris,

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who was on the phone with somemajor donors who said, look,
your donations are going to dry upif you keep Joe Biden on the ticket.
I think that was a big partof it. I think another big
part of it was is that therewere leaders of the Democratic Party that just
came to him, very much likeRichard Nixon back when he resigned. I

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think it was very Goldwatered that actuallydrove down Pennsylvania Avenue and had a talk
with Richard Nixon at the time andsaid, look, gig is up.
She's lost the support here, man. And once you lost the support,
you don't have any you don't haveanything to bank on it on Capitol Hill,
right. And I think you realizethat probably sometime this morning, you

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know, just as whenever you getsome bad news, you're kind of in
denial until you accept it. Youknow, there's a rumor going around.
It was sent to me by SharonBellio. She's she's usually pretty good with
stuff like that. But there's athere's a rumor going around the Joe Mansion,
who's independent, is considering re registeringas a Democrat to run for the

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presidential nomination. Have you heard that. I have not heard that. I
don't think it's likely he's up forre election this year, Isn't he?
I think so, yeah, don't. I don't If he is, I
think he's probably more worried about hisown election than than anything else. But
you know, the big talk nowis, first of all, there are

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a lot of people that are jumpingon Harris's bandwagon right now. They realize
that at least they have a youngercandidate, so Donald Trump can't use that
against them. Sure. One ofthe things that I'm sure the campaign is
going to come up with a commercialfor this, there are pictures of campaign
checks that Donald Trump wrote to KamalaHarris when she was running for attorney general.

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That's great, that's great. Youknow, there's there's a couple of
them. You know, it's like, wow, she wasn't that bad that
he didn't have a problem running afive thousand dollars check there. Oh,
that's wild, that's that's that's great. So where do you see that?
I heard? You know, obviouslymany news organizations reporting that Joe Biden is

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still sick. He's coughing line,he's got a very horse voice. Do
you think it's going to be aday or two before he addresses it?
And where do you think it's goingto be? You think it's gonna be
a somber addressed from the Oval office, where you usually get bad news or
the you know, the rose gardenwhere positive news is to livered. You
know, I don't know, thisis interesting. The last time anything remotely
close to this happened was Lyndon Johnsonback in nineteen sixty eight when he realized

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he had lost the support of thecountry because of the Vietnam War, and
he said he wasn't going to runfor reelection. But that was in January
before the convention. That was,you know, seven months before the convention.
This is two weeks. We've workedin uncharted territories here, We've never
had anything like those. Yeah,I mean, look, I had an

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opportunity to go to the Chicago convention. I'm not sure if you're going or
not, but man, is thatgoing to be the center of the world's
attention when that, when that starts, that shakes down. Well, you
can guarantee that it's not going tojust be a whole bunch of canned speeches.
That's right, That's right. ButI mean, Hulk Hogan would be
a good addiction. But look atit. I mean, you know,

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Donald Trump has an assassination attempt twodays before his convention starts, and then
you have this mess before the DemocraticConvention starts. It's wild this year.
It is wild, and you know, I think what's gonna happen, you
know, as they call us overthe next couple of weeks the Democrats,

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and the Democrats are paying this isan existential threat to democracy, and that's
that's their line of attack. TheRepublicans are basically saying that Joe Biden's the
worst president we've ever had. Despitea good economy of rising stock market and
all the other things, it's inflationthat everyone feels here and they're gonna they're
gonna hammer that thing away. Well, you know when they say extension,

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excidential, excidential, threat towards democracy. When they use that term, then
that's the only term you can reallyuse. Like, let's say, Andy,
there was a meteorite coming towards Earth, and we knew it was going
to hit in in you know,in a month from now. I don't
think we'd also care about sports scores, you know what I mean. Well,

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there was a movie on Netflix.It was kind of a satire called
Don't Look Up Meryl Street and acouple of other people in it, and
and basically the scientists were screaming atthem don't you see this thing's gonna kill
us? And everyone goes, thenit's gonna be that's great, man.
How do you how do you differentiateand how do you you know when when

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you report something? Obviously you haveyour sources, but with everything, all
these rumors flying so fast and sofurious, how do you get how do
you put news out there that youthat you trust. Well, we have
we have a pretty terrific staff ofreporters who have first hand sources. You
know, pick up the phone calledNancy Pelosi, pick up the phone called

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Joe Manchin, and they are tellingus this stuff. It is not a
matter of conjecture. It's not amatter of what we've heard through grade fine.
In fact, unlike some places,mostly the Internet, where people just
put stuff out there and they go, well I heard that, you know,
I smelled it. It's possible thatit happened, right, We actually
need several sources before we put anythingout there. And if you look at

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ABC emails when we get stuff thatwe think is happening, there's giant in
all caps letters do not report forguidance. Only A lot of that stuff
turns out not to be true.Right, But you know, the report
coming out of Joe Manchin is youknow he's an independent reconsidering or considering to
reregistering as a Democratic to run onthe Democratic Party. That's coming straight from

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CBS News. Though, well,I don't know what. I don't know
who their sources are. I cantell you, at least in the last
hour, I have not seen thatin our email traffic. Okay, it's
possible, you know, it ispossible. Yeah, but it's gonna be
great. And I really appreciate youcoming on with us, and I love
that that you still have a greatsense of humor about it and still can
laugh about all this. Grab alot of these a lot of people in

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Washington, d C. New York, LA. They're just too serious about
it, you know. Or wellthat's true, then go watch that movie
on that's what Okay, what's thename of it again? MARYL. Street
and what I think it's called.I think it's called Don't Look Up.
Meryl Street plays the President. Ithink Leonardo DiCaprio is in it. It's
a it's a really goofy set tire, Okay, but it was it was
mostly meant to set tire. Howpeople aren't thinking about climate change or aren't

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taking it seriously. They use ameteor and so okay, all right,
man, I appreciate you coming on. Hopefully we can check back with you
as the week goes on. Youtoo, okay? Thanks? Andy Fields
with ABC News. Okay is great. You know, he's got a great
sets of humor. Still and noteverything's said. World's coming to an end.
Don't Look Up is the name ofthe movie, Don't Look Up with

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Meryl Street. All right, Igotta check that out. All right,
we're live on KFI. We're gonnabe here till six p m. You
can leave us a talk back onthe website, just hit that red button.
There was an earthquake as well offof the Pacific Palisades Peninsula or Pacific
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in Corona and Riverside. So wegot everything covered here on KFI. You're

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Joe Biden has stepped aside, andnow he's endorsing Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris,

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and she might be the next presidentthe United States of America. All
right, Well, there's also newsthat Joe manchim Senator Joe Manchin. I
think West Virginia, right, I'mnot mistaken. Yes, that's correct.
Well, he's an independent and he'sconsidering reregistering as a Democrat and throwing his
hat into the ring to run forpresident. That's a big deal. He's

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very popular on both sides with Republicansand Democrats. Maybe he's the ticket,
who knows, but he said earlierSunday, before Joe Biden announced his dropping
out of the twenty twenty four race, that he might reregister as a Democrat.
He said, quote, I'm hopingfor that because I think it'll leave

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him with a tremendous legacy. He'stalking to Jake Tapper on the State of
the Union. He said, Isay this and I came to the decision
with a heavy heart, and Ithink it's time to pass it to a
new generation. He was talking aboutJoe Biden resigning and then the West Virginia
Yeah, West Virginia Independent said hehoped that there would be an open process

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to pick a new nominee if Bidenstepped down, and of course he has
stepped down. So managine he's along time moderate Democrat. I think the
democrat that you know that you probablyyour parents probably voted for, or maybe
you know, if you're a workingunion guy, gal that type of democrat.

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You know, union jobs, schools, safe communities, that type.
So we'll see, we will see. There you go. All right,
let's say get some more information intous. Here there's a statement from Donald
Trump about Joe Biden leaving the race. See what Donald Trump had to say.

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Here a phone call that our ownGarrett Haig had with former President Donald
Trump. He told Garrett, JoeBiden is the worst president in the history
of the United States by far.There has never been a president who has
done such damage to our country,from energy independence, so letting in millions
and millions of illegal immigrants. Again, this is Donald Trump speaking to Garrett
Haig. We'll fix what he hasdone, he said. And when Garrett

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asked him if he was surprised bythe announcement that Joe Biden would be stepping
aside in this campaign, he said, he should have never been there in
the first place. He should havestayed in his basement. This comes on
top of quite bit of reporting.You met you heard of Joe Scarborough a
moment ago talking about the fear thatthe Trump world might have and a disrupted
ticket, but also Tim Malberger's reportingthat the Trump campaign had one opponent in

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mind, had strategized against one opponent, had one campaign against one opponent,
and that opponent was Joe Biden.They weren't preparing for anybody else, and
now they've got someone else. Okay, all right. That was from Donald
Trump, and then a statement fromBarack Obama read by I believe Mary Bruce
with ABC News. This is avery lengthy statement from the office of Barack

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and Michelle Obama. I'm going tobear with me as I read through this
in my time. Here he praiseshis former vice president, saying, Joe
Biden has been one of the mostone of America's most consequential presidents, as
well as a dear friend and partnerto me. Today we've been reminded again
that he's a patriot of the highestorder. That that lines up, of
course, with so much of thepraise that we have heard for Joe Biden
and so much of the pressure thatwas put on him to step aside for

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the good of the country. TheObamas go on to mention that what they
admire most about Joe Biden is hisdeep empathy and hard earn resilience, his
fundamental decency, and belief that everyonecounts. They take through some of his
many accomplishments while Biden has been inoffice during his first term, and they
say more than that President Biden pointedus away from the four years of chaos,

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falsehood, and division that had characterizedDonald Trump's administration. Through his policies
and his example, Joe has remindedus of who we are at our best,
a country committed to old fashioned valueslike trust and honesty, kindness and
hard work, a country that believesin democracy, rule of law, and
accountability. They praise his track recordand everything that he has fought for throughout

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his life. He also says thathe knows Joe Biden has never backed down
from a fight, and for himto look at the political landscape and decide
that he should pass the torch toa new nominee is surely one of the
toughest in his life, the Obamais saying, but I know he wouldn't
make this decision unless he believed itwas right for America. It's a testament
to Joe o'biden's love of country anda historic example of a genuine public servant

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once again putting the interests of theAmerican people ahead of his own that future
generations of leaders will do well tofollow. Looking ahead, the Obama's mentioned
we will be navigating uncharted waters inthe days ahead. But I have extraordinary
confidence that the leaders of our partywill be able to create a process from
which an outstanding nominee emerges. Okay, all right, so they're not in

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the Harris camp yet. The Obamasare not supporting Harris. They still think
and look, he runs the party, Barack Obama does. And if he
says there's going to be an openprocess, then you know, Harris is
not quite the nominee in his mind. That the leaders of our party will

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be able to create a process fromwhich an outstanding nominee emerges. I believe
that Joe Biden's vision of a generous, prosperous in United America that provides opportunity
for everyone will be on full displayat the Democratic Convention in August, and
I expect that every single one ofus are prepared to carry that message of
hope and progress forward into November andbeyond, the former president ending by saying,

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for now, Michelle and I justwant to express our love and gratitude
to Joe and Jill for leading usso ably during these perilous times. What
you will notice most about that statementis what Barack Obama does not mention,
which is Kamala Harris. For now. That was a very lengthy statement all
about Joe Biden and looking ahead tothe uncharted waters as they said, that

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are now in front of this entirecountry. But the Obama not willing just
now to name any names. Okay, all right, not willing to endorse
Kamala Harris. Okay. Now.The White House staff, the White House
staff was shocked, taken by surprise. They've been told over and over and

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over that Joe Biden is their guy. So we come back, we'll play
some audio. They were shocked becausetheir jobs, their livelihoods to be and
done that if the Democrats don't keepthe the you know, the the White
House, every one of them goeshome. Every one of them, well
maybe with the exception of you knowpeople you know, cooking and and you

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know, operating the home, buteverybody in the Democratic Party it's over.
And so there is a lot offear right now and a lot of uncertainty,
and we are covering it all righthere on KFI AM six forty Conway
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