June 28, 2024 • 25 mins
Recap nd takeaways from Trump/Biden presidential debate. California to add financial literacy as a requirement to graduate high school.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. You are
listening to the Bill Handle show,Donald Jump, Jim JFI AM six forty.
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Bill Handle here on a footy Friday, June twenty eighth. I mean,
the big, big story, ofcourse, is what happened last night
of the Bay. But there's otherthings going on too. Passenger traffic is
going to be maybe the highest ofthe year, maybe the highest history today.
And you know how we're gonna knowwhether it is or not because Amy
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is getting on an airplane today andI can't wait for her to tell us
what's going on. She's gone allnext week. She's on vacation, but
I'm playing out at Burbank. So, like we discussed earlier, it's I
know, you still can note everybodyelse, even out of Burbank. We'll
find out and what else? Oh, oh, this was story we just
(01:03):
did. I talked about it duringthe news. All Oklahoma schools are required
now to incorporate the Bible and theTen Commandments in their curriculums, effective immediately.
Hey, we'll be talking a wholebot a lot about that now.
Probably the most anticipated presidential debate sincethe Kennedy Nixon debates in nineteen sixty happened
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last night. It did happen lastnight. And what happened well, the
worst fears of the Democratic Party andJoe Biden were Unfortunately they came to pass.
Joe Biden screwed the pooch, andthe question of even though I don't
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think Trump had a particularly good nightat all, and had Biden done a
even a moderately decent job, Ithink there'd be a whole lot more criticism
on the Trump side. As badas I think Trump did in many instances,
it's far overshadowed by Biden's performance.And I had asked the question yesterday.
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I remember we had talked about it. Who are we going to see
tonight? Which Donald Trump are wegoing to see? Are we going to
see a Donald Trump that is disciplined, Donald Trump that will talk about the
issues, Donald Trump that will lookhalf presidential? And or are we going
to see a petty, vindictive,nasty guy who wants the presidency? Again?
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We saw both. We saw both. Trump started very strongly, by
the way, as Joe Biden,who had the worst performance of his life
the initial part of the debate.I mean even walking out on the stage,
shuffling out looking old, looking disoriented, and his first few questions answered
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were just got awful. His voicewas croaky, you couldn't understand it.
He was mumbling, and it wasjust very difficult coughing. I mean,
clearly he was not physically up tohis best in addition to everything else.
And Donald Trump, I was surprised. I mean, I'm going, oh
my god, this is horrible.This is over with Joe Biden. And
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then Donald Trump comes off as presidentialhits the issues, doesn't come off as
petty, mean nasty. Well,he devolved. He devolved right into the
Donald Trump we know and love,not only being nasty and petty, but
also not only exaggerating his position butoutright lies, I mean, liar,
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liar, pants on fire lies.So what ended up really happening? This
was monumental for Joe Biden. JoeBiden came off as old and dadding and
mixing up his words and not beingable to keep in many cases his facts
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together, and went off on tangents. He can't do that, especially when
the anticipation is that the president isgoing to do that. There are two
issues. First of all, hisstuttering his ability to put together words.
I wish people would make a muchbigger deal about that. I wish the
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campaign would make a bigger deal saying, hey, the guy stutters. Now,
he overcame one of the worst stutteringproblems that he's ever had, that
any child has ever had, andhe's just going to stutter and that's just
too bad, and that I thinkwould do a lot for people's understanding of
who he is. To give hima break on this one. The guy
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had a medical problem that is forsome reason, Glostow, I give him
a break for that. Now therest of it, eh, I don't
know. Eighty one years old.Here's where I'm really pissed off at Joe
Biden. I start with Donald Trumpbeing everybody know who Donald Trump is the
most narcissistic, self aggrandizing, selfefface, a self affusing person we've ever
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had in the White House by along shot. I believe that he believes
that he is greater than the presidency. Donald Trump individually is greater than the
Presidency's the only president I think hasever done that. So we knew what
Donald Trump was. The problem iswe didn't know Joe Biden was this bad
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or at least he was perceived thisbad. And the shame of it is
is Joe Biden is a very decentguy, who is honest, who understands
what a president does or does notdo, understands the reigns of power,
how far he can go, whichis nothing with this congress, how he
prepared for over a week, tendays, he was simply you couldn't see
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him. He had disappeared because hewas a camp David. And didn't it
look like he didn't even begin tounderstand or respond. There were some easy
responses, I mean easy responses,especially in the outright lies that Donald Trump
was saying. I mean Donald Trumpnot only talked about and described himself as
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being the greatest president who ever livedby a long shot, but Joe Biden
being the worst president who ever lived. Did you notice that Donald Trump said,
not only was he the greatest thingsince slice spread, he invented slice
bread. Wow, good for you, Amy. Do we have those satters
yet? Do we know how manypeople actually watched the debate last night?
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Do not have those numbers yet?Okay? Well, and I agree everybody
I know was watching it. Yeah, even people that don't know. And
you know, the shame of itis is that people who who understand politics
understand what happened to Joe Biden lastnight, that it was just a very
bad night. People who were tuningin who don't understand politics, because it
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got such hype, all they sawwas a dartering old man who was shuffling
and couldn't keep his thoughts together,going, this guy is president, he
wants to be president again. That'sthe shame of it. And it is
well, I mean, it couldn'tbe worse for Biden. Even the Democratic
Party. I was watching CNN theanalysis and they were virtually well, actually
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everybody on the panel was getting emailsand getting texts saying the Democratic Party now
has to look for someone else.What is going on? What are they
going to do? I mean,is it's really bad for pro well for
anybody on the Democratic side who wantsJoe Biden to be re elected or doesn't
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want Donald Trump to be re elected. Joe Biden was not able to counter
the outright lies that former President Trumpsaid. I mean, just outright lies.
You know, just for example,you've called these people predators. He
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turns to Joe Biden. No,that was Hillary Clinton who did that.
Not me, and he didn't correctit. Hunter Biden conflated the two.
Joe Biden points out that Trump hasbeen convicted of a felony. Then you
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have Trump coming back and saying,your son Hunter was convicted of a felony.
Now that's an easy one, sayingyes, my son was an I
not your son wasn't and you areThere could have been so many different times
when he could have nailed Trump,and he just left it all on the
table, and so easy to justsay, no, that's not true,
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that's simply untrue. The greatest economyin the history of the United States.
Harry Truman had a better economy.Bill Clinton had a better economy. Barack
Obama had a better economy. Youdon't refute that. I don't know why
he didn't bring that up. AndI mean, I'm looking at Washington Post
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fact checking just the utter lies.Not that Joe Biden didn't exaggerate at some
points, but not to the extentof the lies that were uttered. I've
never seen so much of that inmy life. By the way, fact
checking sheets usually it come out andyou have three or four pages of what
they said, and how oh no, this is untrue. This is an
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exaggeration. Ninety percent of this documentis fact checking the debate, and it's
what Donald Trump said. It istwenty pages. Twenty pages, and I
just come up with I mean,I just look in that crazy fifty one
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intelligence agent said that the laptop wasRussia disinformation. That's Hunter Biden's. It
wasn't that came from his son Hunter. Well, no, it's a lot
more complicated than that. The SecretaryGeneral of NATO said Trump did the most
incredible job I've ever seen. Hemade that up. That's just not true.
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Oh, January sixth, this isthe one that I was waiting for.
January sixth. You knew that themoderators Dana Bash and Jay Tapper were
going to ask Trump about January sixth. How was he going to deflect or
answer that? And he actually dida pretty good job. Didn't talk about
his involvement. He answered with Januarysixth, we had the greatest economy in
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the world, January sixth, weresecure. January six the greatest time in
the history of the United States.I'm exaggerating a little bit on that one.
The other ones I'm not. Andif you're going to blame anyone,
Nancy Pelosi was responsible for January sixbecause there's that documentary made by her daughter
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and when she says I'm responsible,yeah, she's responsible for not having done
enough. She said she could havedone a couple of other things. But
now you take that I'm responsible.January sixth was Nancy Pelosi. I had
nothing to do with it. Matterof fact, I was the one that
was telling people to you have todo this peaceably. You have to if
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you're going to do a protest,you have to do it within the bounds
of the law. I'm the onethat tried to save it. I'm the
good guy here. WHOA what doyou do with that? And it's you
know, I've been thinking over andas he was saying that, and I
wish Joe Biden had the wherewithal andhe doesn't because that's just not the way
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he flies. I was coming upwith, here's the answer, here's the
answer. I'm screaming this out infront of the television. When it's Joe
Biden's turn to respond to what Trumpwas saying, I was screaming, how
about starting the response with Donald?I've always thought you were half crazy.
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Tonight you prove you are completely insane. Out of the box. The guys
in the white coats are waiting inthe wings for this debate to end,
and off you go. It isthat bad. He couldn't do anything like
that, and it was Trump whokept on attacking him, attacking him using
lies. Biden was out of hisleague in this debate. He was out
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of his league. As I said, Trump started, I thought brilliantly to
the point he hit the issues,he wasn't personal, and then he devolved
into Donald Trump and he wasn't caughton it. Unfortunately. It's horrible.
We're gonna come back and I'm notgoing to go through this, but let
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me do this. I do wantto get Amy's take on this, and
I want to get Neil's take onthis, because I am so angry at
Democrats and Joe Biden, angry becausesomeone else should be running instead of Joe
Biden. I think it's fair tosay Joe Biden screwed the pooch on this
one. He just the worst nightmarecame through for the Democrats, and Donald
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Trump did not do a good job. I don't think he did, however,
compared to what Joe Biden did interms of doing a horrible job.
This is why when I am toldthat this show is pretty good, that
we're really good at what we do, I go, no, no,
no, it's that everybody else doesso badly. That's the situation. Everybody
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else sucks more than we do.That's why we look good. Donald Trump
did not have a good night,but compared to the night that Joe Biden
had not even close. Okay,before I get to Amy and to Neil,
what I was thinking is how doesJoe Biden undo this? Because his
presidency, his candidacy is really introuble big time. Even his most ardent
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supporters admit that he is in alot of trouble. I'll tell you how
he does it instead of the crapthat you heard last night from the Democrats,
the spin doctors, and for exampleKamala Harris when she was asked,
is this that Joe Biden you seeevery day? And she responded with that
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Joe Biden I see every day believesin women's rights and choice, you know,
the same talking points. All hehas to do is say, hey,
I had a bad night. Ihad a really bad night, and
I'd like to meet anybody who hasnot had a bad night. It just
so happened. It hit me lastnight. You could see I wasn't feeling
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well. My voice was cranky,my energy was low. I just had
a bad night. Now watch mefrom here until the election. You'll see
what I can do. You'll seehow I can perform. You'll see how
competent I am and why I amthe best choice. I think that's the
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only way out of it. Doesanybody buy it? I have no idea.
But if he is vigorous, andhe is adamant, and he does
that with energy, I think thatthat could bring him back. Short of
that, I think is impossible.Amy your thoughts, I think that he's
been having bad nights, and I'vebeen watching them for months and months and
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months. I think that you lookat what happened at the D Day memorial.
I think you look at how Obamahad to lead him off stage at
fundraiser. At the fundraiser in Layou see him. He is. He's
a very articulate man. He usedto be. I've watched speeches from him
from back in the day, fromyears ago. He's a different person now,
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and I just I don't see howhe recovers her this. I don't
know if they'll pull him from theticket, but he's not getting any better.
He's markedly diminished by the way.That is a world onto itself pulling
him from the ticket. Because nowit has gotten to the point where any
sitting president gets the nomination immediately.And I'll tell you Kamala Harris, who
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is horrible at what she does andeverybody hates her, She's going to get
the nod next time out because she'sinheriting yet, because that's what happens.
It's just insane. Neil, yourthought, I fall in line with Amy.
I think she said it well.I think it was confirmation of what
a lot of people believed and werefearful of. I think it is going
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to be hard for the Democratic Partyto save face during after that, because
you've got people raising, you know, thirty million dollars for him recently here
in Los Angeles. You've got allthese famous people, Hollywood ites, coming
out and doing this, and thenyou turn around with this kind of performance.
I think the fact that it wasso early here being June, is
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going to give them time to lookif there is any other options, because
outside of a defibrillator, he walkedout on that stage, so feeble that
I looked and I said it's done. You you may say that that Donald
Trump didn't do well, and Ithink when it came to facts and figures,
you're right. But as far asoptics looking sixty years old up against
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Biden looking ninety five, that waythat works on people. And you know,
and do me a favor, canyou research and find out if political
contributions can be refunded and people demandfor refunds on those, boy, if
that's allowing today, Hey listen,I canceled that check. Oh it's just
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it's heartbreaking. And you a VanJones who is a stunt supporter, and
you could see how hurt he was. I mean, he loves Joe Biden,
He's worked for Joe Biden. Hefeels personally very attached to Joe Biden.
Uh. He was just heartbroken andyou could just see it on his
face. He went from a politicalanalyst, good job on the super liberal
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side, to a man who sawhis best friend deteriorating and falling apart.
That's when it hit, it hitthe most, and it's just it is,
it is heart wrenching. Joe Bidenand the Democratic Party, I tell
you, there they have to reallylook at this whole concept of automatically you
put up the previous president no matterwhat. And the other issue is someone
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who is going to tell Biden,hey, you really screwed it up,
really And then who's going to tellhim, which I think a huge number
of Democrats. I'm talking about Hanchosand the Democratic Party. I mean the
kingmakers, the people who really haveinfluence, the money people. I wonder
how many of them, And whois going to go to him and say,
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you know what, You've had agreat four years. Maybe it's just
time that we bring someone else in. And there's time now because it was
so early. Well that's the theorynow is that it's never happened though it's
never happened before because presidents who didnot want to run again simply said I'm
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not running again, and that's duringtheir term. This it's real late for
this, because he has a nomination, it's his to give up. No
one can force him to give itup. A gentleman, a gentleman politician
would have seen this early on andwould have raised someone up along this time
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and Sam passing the hat to someoneelse. And this is a guy I
agree, But this is not ahat passer. This is a guy who
considers himself when he is beaten down, he gets right up again. He's
very sucked. Frank Sinatra Enard Justyou just get right up again was the
title of that song. I didit my way? Yeah yeah, I
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think so. Yeah, boy,he did it his way, didn't he?
Okay? Switching gears. God,I could spend hours talking about what
happened last night. Not good newsfor Biden, but good news on the
education front. And I rarely talkabout good news on the education front.
Here in the state of California,or particularly Unified, the second largest school
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district in the country, which iscompletely ungovernable. I mean just it just
doesn't work. But let me tellyou what California has done. And now
we're going back to some real basicsread and write and arithmetic, not the
crazy ass stuff that is pushed sooften. And that is a kid gets
out of high school. Let's sayyou're a high school student, you know,
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or you have a kid that's graduatedin high school. Do they have
any idea how to open a bankaccount? Do they have any idea how
to deal with credit cards? Anyidea how to budget at all, of
course not, and the credit cardcompanies are trying to jam the cards down
everybody's throat. Start college and seewhat the credit card companies do. Hey,
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credit cards, Hey, you havebeen you've been cleared to use our
cards. Hey we're giving you acredit limit. Yeah, we got to
learn how to deal with that.So how do you deal with it?
Well, how about literacy classes inhigh school and make it mandatory so you
actually know how to step out ofhigh school and begin a life in the
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real world. And as I saidearlier, that's what I wanted to do.
When I was teaching law school andI was teaching a third party reproductive
law, kind of a just reallyweird niche field. I went to the
dean and I said, John,I want to teach a class called real
world law, Like, what howabout the address of a courtroom? How
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about how to send a bill?How about going out and really understanding especially
for young practitioners, because most ofus who graduated way to your law school,
the Harvard of West couldn't really getinto a good law firm. I
couldn't get hired, so I hadto go out on my own. Hey,
Bill, you're an entrepreneur. Youstarted your law career and you became
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a lawyer right out of passing thebar. Yeah. Yeah, because I
couldn't get a job in a firm. The school was so great, so
I wanted to teach that class.Nope, not interested. Well, the
good news is is that the stateof California, Governor Newsom and Senate President
pro Tem Mike McGuire and the SpeakerRobert Reavis all understand that graduating high school
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without having some financial wherewithals wherewithal isnot a good idea. I mean,
school is about preparing people for thefuture. That's what it's about. And
one of the most important things Ithink is preparing people for the future.
And I mean preparing people for thefuture. Algebra is great. How many
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people use algebra? Nobody? Geometry? Okay, that's great, you learn
geometry. How many people use geometryin the real world unless you're some kind
of scientist, you don't. Youdon't. How About how many people open
bank accout else use credit cards anddo or should make budgets? How about
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everybody? That is what we aregoing to do. And I love it.
I absolutely love it. And thenI'm going to do a story about
this on Monday. And it's somethingcalled that I didn't even know existed.
It's called col Kids calkids. Andthis is where you know, another tax
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program you probably don't know existed.This aligns with a financial literacy issue.
And what California calkids do. Stateof California has invests or will invest or
does invest one point nine billion dollarsinto accounts for low income school age children
grades one to twelve. They putmoney in every year to basically as a
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five to twenty nine plan. Thestate is foreseeing kids or allowing kids to
start their college fund for the timethey first go to school, paid for
by the taxpayer. And I'll talkmore about that on Monday. Yet another
program in the billions that you don'tknow anything about. And if they're willing
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to do this, you think theywould teach people just how to manage their
money out of high school. Yeah, makes all the sense in the world.
And what and the teachers are goingto teach it. They're looking at
now and knowing LA unified, theyare limiting the teachers the applications to people
who have gone bankrupt. They're theonly ones that we'll be able to teach
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Bill Handle here on a footy Friday, June twenty eighth. I mean,
the big, big story, ofcourse, is what happened last night
of the Bay. But there's otherthings going on too. Passenger traffic is
going to be maybe the highest ofthe year, maybe the highest history today.
And you know how we're gonna knowwhether it is or not because Amy
(00:42):
is getting on an airplane today andI can't wait for her to tell us
what's going on. She's gone allnext week. She's on vacation, but
I'm playing out at Burbank. So, like we discussed earlier, it's I
know, you still can note everybodyelse, even out of Burbank. We'll
find out and what else? Oh, oh, this was story we just
(01:03):
did. I talked about it duringthe news. All Oklahoma schools are required
now to incorporate the Bible and theTen Commandments in their curriculums, effective immediately.
Hey, we'll be talking a wholebot a lot about that now.
Probably the most anticipated presidential debate sincethe Kennedy Nixon debates in nineteen sixty happened
(01:30):
last night. It did happen lastnight. And what happened well, the
worst fears of the Democratic Party andJoe Biden were Unfortunately they came to pass.
Joe Biden screwed the pooch, andthe question of even though I don't
(01:53):
think Trump had a particularly good nightat all, and had Biden done a
even a moderately decent job, Ithink there'd be a whole lot more criticism
on the Trump side. As badas I think Trump did in many instances,
it's far overshadowed by Biden's performance.And I had asked the question yesterday.
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I remember we had talked about it. Who are we going to see
tonight? Which Donald Trump are wegoing to see? Are we going to
see a Donald Trump that is disciplined, Donald Trump that will talk about the
issues, Donald Trump that will lookhalf presidential? And or are we going
to see a petty, vindictive,nasty guy who wants the presidency? Again?
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We saw both. We saw both. Trump started very strongly, by
the way, as Joe Biden,who had the worst performance of his life
the initial part of the debate.I mean even walking out on the stage,
shuffling out looking old, looking disoriented, and his first few questions answered
(03:02):
were just got awful. His voicewas croaky, you couldn't understand it.
He was mumbling, and it wasjust very difficult coughing. I mean,
clearly he was not physically up tohis best in addition to everything else.
And Donald Trump, I was surprised. I mean, I'm going, oh
my god, this is horrible.This is over with Joe Biden. And
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then Donald Trump comes off as presidentialhits the issues, doesn't come off as
petty, mean nasty. Well,he devolved. He devolved right into the
Donald Trump we know and love,not only being nasty and petty, but
also not only exaggerating his position butoutright lies, I mean, liar,
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liar, pants on fire lies.So what ended up really happening? This
was monumental for Joe Biden. JoeBiden came off as old and dadding and
mixing up his words and not beingable to keep in many cases his facts
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together, and went off on tangents. He can't do that, especially when
the anticipation is that the president isgoing to do that. There are two
issues. First of all, hisstuttering his ability to put together words.
I wish people would make a muchbigger deal about that. I wish the
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campaign would make a bigger deal saying, hey, the guy stutters. Now,
he overcame one of the worst stutteringproblems that he's ever had, that
any child has ever had, andhe's just going to stutter and that's just
too bad, and that I thinkwould do a lot for people's understanding of
who he is. To give hima break on this one. The guy
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had a medical problem that is forsome reason, Glostow, I give him
a break for that. Now therest of it, eh, I don't
know. Eighty one years old.Here's where I'm really pissed off at Joe
Biden. I start with Donald Trumpbeing everybody know who Donald Trump is the
most narcissistic, self aggrandizing, selfefface, a self affusing person we've ever
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had in the White House by along shot. I believe that he believes
that he is greater than the presidency. Donald Trump individually is greater than the
Presidency's the only president I think hasever done that. So we knew what
Donald Trump was. The problem iswe didn't know Joe Biden was this bad
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or at least he was perceived thisbad. And the shame of it is
is Joe Biden is a very decentguy, who is honest, who understands
what a president does or does notdo, understands the reigns of power,
how far he can go, whichis nothing with this congress, how he
prepared for over a week, tendays, he was simply you couldn't see
(06:05):
him. He had disappeared because hewas a camp David. And didn't it
look like he didn't even begin tounderstand or respond. There were some easy
responses, I mean easy responses,especially in the outright lies that Donald Trump
was saying. I mean Donald Trumpnot only talked about and described himself as
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being the greatest president who ever livedby a long shot, but Joe Biden
being the worst president who ever lived. Did you notice that Donald Trump said,
not only was he the greatest thingsince slice spread, he invented slice
bread. Wow, good for you, Amy. Do we have those satters
yet? Do we know how manypeople actually watched the debate last night?
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Do not have those numbers yet?Okay? Well, and I agree everybody
I know was watching it. Yeah, even people that don't know. And
you know, the shame of itis is that people who who understand politics
understand what happened to Joe Biden lastnight, that it was just a very
bad night. People who were tuningin who don't understand politics, because it
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got such hype, all they sawwas a dartering old man who was shuffling
and couldn't keep his thoughts together,going, this guy is president, he
wants to be president again. That'sthe shame of it. And it is
well, I mean, it couldn'tbe worse for Biden. Even the Democratic
Party. I was watching CNN theanalysis and they were virtually well, actually
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everybody on the panel was getting emailsand getting texts saying the Democratic Party now
has to look for someone else.What is going on? What are they
going to do? I mean,is it's really bad for pro well for
anybody on the Democratic side who wantsJoe Biden to be re elected or doesn't
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want Donald Trump to be re elected. Joe Biden was not able to counter
the outright lies that former President Trumpsaid. I mean, just outright lies.
You know, just for example,you've called these people predators. He
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turns to Joe Biden. No,that was Hillary Clinton who did that.
Not me, and he didn't correctit. Hunter Biden conflated the two.
Joe Biden points out that Trump hasbeen convicted of a felony. Then you
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have Trump coming back and saying,your son Hunter was convicted of a felony.
Now that's an easy one, sayingyes, my son was an I
not your son wasn't and you areThere could have been so many different times
when he could have nailed Trump,and he just left it all on the
table, and so easy to justsay, no, that's not true,
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that's simply untrue. The greatest economyin the history of the United States.
Harry Truman had a better economy.Bill Clinton had a better economy. Barack
Obama had a better economy. Youdon't refute that. I don't know why
he didn't bring that up. AndI mean, I'm looking at Washington Post
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fact checking just the utter lies.Not that Joe Biden didn't exaggerate at some
points, but not to the extentof the lies that were uttered. I've
never seen so much of that inmy life. By the way, fact
checking sheets usually it come out andyou have three or four pages of what
they said, and how oh no, this is untrue. This is an
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exaggeration. Ninety percent of this documentis fact checking the debate, and it's
what Donald Trump said. It istwenty pages. Twenty pages, and I
just come up with I mean,I just look in that crazy fifty one
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intelligence agent said that the laptop wasRussia disinformation. That's Hunter Biden's. It
wasn't that came from his son Hunter. Well, no, it's a lot
more complicated than that. The SecretaryGeneral of NATO said Trump did the most
incredible job I've ever seen. Hemade that up. That's just not true.
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Oh, January sixth, this isthe one that I was waiting for.
January sixth. You knew that themoderators Dana Bash and Jay Tapper were
going to ask Trump about January sixth. How was he going to deflect or
answer that? And he actually dida pretty good job. Didn't talk about
his involvement. He answered with Januarysixth, we had the greatest economy in
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the world, January sixth, weresecure. January six the greatest time in
the history of the United States.I'm exaggerating a little bit on that one.
The other ones I'm not. Andif you're going to blame anyone,
Nancy Pelosi was responsible for January sixbecause there's that documentary made by her daughter
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and when she says I'm responsible,yeah, she's responsible for not having done
enough. She said she could havedone a couple of other things. But
now you take that I'm responsible.January sixth was Nancy Pelosi. I had
nothing to do with it. Matterof fact, I was the one that
was telling people to you have todo this peaceably. You have to if
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you're going to do a protest,you have to do it within the bounds
of the law. I'm the onethat tried to save it. I'm the
good guy here. WHOA what doyou do with that? And it's you
know, I've been thinking over andas he was saying that, and I
wish Joe Biden had the wherewithal andhe doesn't because that's just not the way
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he flies. I was coming upwith, here's the answer, here's the
answer. I'm screaming this out infront of the television. When it's Joe
Biden's turn to respond to what Trumpwas saying, I was screaming, how
about starting the response with Donald?I've always thought you were half crazy.
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Tonight you prove you are completely insane. Out of the box. The guys
in the white coats are waiting inthe wings for this debate to end,
and off you go. It isthat bad. He couldn't do anything like
that, and it was Trump whokept on attacking him, attacking him using
lies. Biden was out of hisleague in this debate. He was out
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of his league. As I said, Trump started, I thought brilliantly to
the point he hit the issues,he wasn't personal, and then he devolved
into Donald Trump and he wasn't caughton it. Unfortunately. It's horrible.
We're gonna come back and I'm notgoing to go through this, but let
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me do this. I do wantto get Amy's take on this, and
I want to get Neil's take onthis, because I am so angry at
Democrats and Joe Biden, angry becausesomeone else should be running instead of Joe
Biden. I think it's fair tosay Joe Biden screwed the pooch on this
one. He just the worst nightmarecame through for the Democrats, and Donald
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Trump did not do a good job. I don't think he did, however,
compared to what Joe Biden did interms of doing a horrible job.
This is why when I am toldthat this show is pretty good, that
we're really good at what we do, I go, no, no,
no, it's that everybody else doesso badly. That's the situation. Everybody
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else sucks more than we do.That's why we look good. Donald Trump
did not have a good night,but compared to the night that Joe Biden
had not even close. Okay,before I get to Amy and to Neil,
what I was thinking is how doesJoe Biden undo this? Because his
presidency, his candidacy is really introuble big time. Even his most ardent
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supporters admit that he is in alot of trouble. I'll tell you how
he does it instead of the crapthat you heard last night from the Democrats,
the spin doctors, and for exampleKamala Harris when she was asked,
is this that Joe Biden you seeevery day? And she responded with that
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Joe Biden I see every day believesin women's rights and choice, you know,
the same talking points. All hehas to do is say, hey,
I had a bad night. Ihad a really bad night, and
I'd like to meet anybody who hasnot had a bad night. It just
so happened. It hit me lastnight. You could see I wasn't feeling
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well. My voice was cranky,my energy was low. I just had
a bad night. Now watch mefrom here until the election. You'll see
what I can do. You'll seehow I can perform. You'll see how
competent I am and why I amthe best choice. I think that's the
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only way out of it. Doesanybody buy it? I have no idea.
But if he is vigorous, andhe is adamant, and he does
that with energy, I think thatthat could bring him back. Short of
that, I think is impossible.Amy your thoughts, I think that he's
been having bad nights, and I'vebeen watching them for months and months and
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months. I think that you lookat what happened at the D Day memorial.
I think you look at how Obamahad to lead him off stage at
fundraiser. At the fundraiser in Layou see him. He is. He's
a very articulate man. He usedto be. I've watched speeches from him
from back in the day, fromyears ago. He's a different person now,
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and I just I don't see howhe recovers her this. I don't
know if they'll pull him from theticket, but he's not getting any better.
He's markedly diminished by the way.That is a world onto itself pulling
him from the ticket. Because nowit has gotten to the point where any
sitting president gets the nomination immediately.And I'll tell you Kamala Harris, who
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is horrible at what she does andeverybody hates her, She's going to get
the nod next time out because she'sinheriting yet, because that's what happens.
It's just insane. Neil, yourthought, I fall in line with Amy.
I think she said it well.I think it was confirmation of what
a lot of people believed and werefearful of. I think it is going
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to be hard for the Democratic Partyto save face during after that, because
you've got people raising, you know, thirty million dollars for him recently here
in Los Angeles. You've got allthese famous people, Hollywood ites, coming
out and doing this, and thenyou turn around with this kind of performance.
I think the fact that it wasso early here being June, is
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going to give them time to lookif there is any other options, because
outside of a defibrillator, he walkedout on that stage, so feeble that
I looked and I said it's done. You you may say that that Donald
Trump didn't do well, and Ithink when it came to facts and figures,
you're right. But as far asoptics looking sixty years old up against
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Biden looking ninety five, that waythat works on people. And you know,
and do me a favor, canyou research and find out if political
contributions can be refunded and people demandfor refunds on those, boy, if
that's allowing today, Hey listen,I canceled that check. Oh it's just
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it's heartbreaking. And you a VanJones who is a stunt supporter, and
you could see how hurt he was. I mean, he loves Joe Biden,
He's worked for Joe Biden. Hefeels personally very attached to Joe Biden.
Uh. He was just heartbroken andyou could just see it on his
face. He went from a politicalanalyst, good job on the super liberal
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side, to a man who sawhis best friend deteriorating and falling apart.
That's when it hit, it hitthe most, and it's just it is,
it is heart wrenching. Joe Bidenand the Democratic Party, I tell
you, there they have to reallylook at this whole concept of automatically you
put up the previous president no matterwhat. And the other issue is someone
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who is going to tell Biden,hey, you really screwed it up,
really And then who's going to tellhim, which I think a huge number
of Democrats. I'm talking about Hanchosand the Democratic Party. I mean the
kingmakers, the people who really haveinfluence, the money people. I wonder
how many of them, And whois going to go to him and say,
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you know what, You've had agreat four years. Maybe it's just
time that we bring someone else in. And there's time now because it was
so early. Well that's the theorynow is that it's never happened though it's
never happened before because presidents who didnot want to run again simply said I'm
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not running again, and that's duringtheir term. This it's real late for
this, because he has a nomination, it's his to give up. No
one can force him to give itup. A gentleman, a gentleman politician
would have seen this early on andwould have raised someone up along this time
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and Sam passing the hat to someoneelse. And this is a guy I
agree, But this is not ahat passer. This is a guy who
considers himself when he is beaten down, he gets right up again. He's
very sucked. Frank Sinatra Enard Justyou just get right up again was the
title of that song. I didit my way? Yeah yeah, I
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think so. Yeah, boy,he did it his way, didn't he?
Okay? Switching gears. God,I could spend hours talking about what
happened last night. Not good newsfor Biden, but good news on the
education front. And I rarely talkabout good news on the education front.
Here in the state of California,or particularly Unified, the second largest school
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district in the country, which iscompletely ungovernable. I mean just it just
doesn't work. But let me tellyou what California has done. And now
we're going back to some real basicsread and write and arithmetic, not the
crazy ass stuff that is pushed sooften. And that is a kid gets
out of high school. Let's sayyou're a high school student, you know,
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or you have a kid that's graduatedin high school. Do they have
any idea how to open a bankaccount? Do they have any idea how
to deal with credit cards? Anyidea how to budget at all, of
course not, and the credit cardcompanies are trying to jam the cards down
everybody's throat. Start college and seewhat the credit card companies do. Hey,
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credit cards, Hey, you havebeen you've been cleared to use our
cards. Hey we're giving you acredit limit. Yeah, we got to
learn how to deal with that.So how do you deal with it?
Well, how about literacy classes inhigh school and make it mandatory so you
actually know how to step out ofhigh school and begin a life in the
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real world. And as I saidearlier, that's what I wanted to do.
When I was teaching law school andI was teaching a third party reproductive
law, kind of a just reallyweird niche field. I went to the
dean and I said, John,I want to teach a class called real
world law, Like, what howabout the address of a courtroom? How
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about how to send a bill?How about going out and really understanding especially
for young practitioners, because most ofus who graduated way to your law school,
the Harvard of West couldn't really getinto a good law firm. I
couldn't get hired, so I hadto go out on my own. Hey,
Bill, you're an entrepreneur. Youstarted your law career and you became
(22:53):
a lawyer right out of passing thebar. Yeah. Yeah, because I
couldn't get a job in a firm. The school was so great, so
I wanted to teach that class.Nope, not interested. Well, the
good news is is that the stateof California, Governor Newsom and Senate President
pro Tem Mike McGuire and the SpeakerRobert Reavis all understand that graduating high school
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without having some financial wherewithals wherewithal isnot a good idea. I mean,
school is about preparing people for thefuture. That's what it's about. And
one of the most important things Ithink is preparing people for the future.
And I mean preparing people for thefuture. Algebra is great. How many
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people use algebra? Nobody? Geometry? Okay, that's great, you learn
geometry. How many people use geometryin the real world unless you're some kind
of scientist, you don't. Youdon't. How About how many people open
bank accout else use credit cards anddo or should make budgets? How about
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everybody? That is what we aregoing to do. And I love it.
I absolutely love it. And thenI'm going to do a story about
this on Monday. And it's somethingcalled that I didn't even know existed.
It's called col Kids calkids. Andthis is where you know, another tax
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program you probably don't know existed.This aligns with a financial literacy issue.
And what California calkids do. Stateof California has invests or will invest or
does invest one point nine billion dollarsinto accounts for low income school age children
grades one to twelve. They putmoney in every year to basically as a
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five to twenty nine plan. Thestate is foreseeing kids or allowing kids to
start their college fund for the timethey first go to school, paid for
by the taxpayer. And I'll talkmore about that on Monday. Yet another
program in the billions that you don'tknow anything about. And if they're willing
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to do this, you think theywould teach people just how to manage their
money out of high school. Yeah, makes all the sense in the world.
And what and the teachers are goingto teach it. They're looking at
now and knowing LA unified, theyare limiting the teachers the applications to people
who have gone bankrupt. They're theonly ones that we'll be able to teach
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