BHS - 7A – Reaction: Biden Drops Out | USSS Hearing: Trump Assassination Attempt

Inside Biden’s unprecedented exit from the presidential race. Why Nancy Pelosi was key to nudging Biden out: ‘For her its all about winning.’ Mayorkas names bipartisan panel to lead independent review of Trump assassination attempt. USSS Dir. Kimberly Cheatle Capotol Hill hearing. 

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty bill Handle here
on Monday, July twenty two.A little bit of a news cycle the
last few weeks, don't you think, just a touch moment as this is
where Amy just goes berserk. Shecan't believe. This is Amy being very

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religious and thanking God for all ofthis news that she can report on.
Absolutely. I even got to comein and report on it yesterday. I
know. No, and you getno more money for it either, I
know. Isn't it great? Well? Welcome to iHeart the world of iHeart.
Okay, Now, obviously the discussionis going to be in everybody no

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surprise. By the way, wecalled it last week that Joe Biden was
not going to remain on the presidentialticket. He just wasn't going to happen.
After the debacle of that debate afew weeks ago. The response was
immediate and immediately the call for himto resign from the nomination, resign from

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the race for presidency started and itjust built and built and built, and
we had initially there were three Congresspeople and then it just went up and
by the way, thirty Congress peopledon't make it all right. That doesn't
do it. I'll tell you whatdoes it. Nancy Pelosi haking Jeffries,

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Chuck Schumer talking to him and eithernot endorsing him for the nomination as Hakim
Jeffries did, or Nancy Pelosi bringingup hmm. We have to look at
we have to look at this.We have to look at whether his age

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is or is not appropriate. Andthat has been I think Joe Biden's biggest
his biggest problem because among even themost staunch Democrats, even the thought of
maybe he's too old here he looksold. Unfortunately, he is not spry.
If you look at even the twentytwenty campaign, even though he was

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called old, ay I's too oldto be the president, you know,
he was doing just fine. Imean, he stutters because he overcame a
stuttering issue when he was a kid. But the point is he has gotten
very old in the last four yearsand within Democratic parties now among the Republicans,

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he's the worst thing ever. Heis the double incarnate, the worst
thing that could ever happen. Justlisten to former President Trump. This guy
has destroyed the country single handedly,and at the same time, I love
this every time I hear Trump.Day one, I am going to end
the Israeli Gaza war. Day one, I will end the Ukrainian problem and
we will have peace. Day one. I will take care of China day

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one. Didney, doesn't Trump soundlike a finalist? That a Miss America
contest about world peace? I wantto bring world peace here. Yeah,
it's kind of ridiculous. But thebiggest attack is Joe Biden, and that
has disappeared. And actually now Ithink there is a bal contest, I

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truly believe. And why is thatbecause the main attack of a president being
old and decrepit and having no cognitiveabilities disappears so effectively. What's going to
happen with Kamala Harris? She hasall the advantages and none of the disadvantages

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of Joe Biden and still maintaining JoeBiden's legacy, philosophy, political thinking.
They are in lockstep legitimately. Sheis not a vice president who sucks it
up. He goes, well,you know, my boss says this,
and I think the other way.No, No, she really does think
along the lines of Joe Biden policywise. So here's what you have think

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about this. For a moment.What you have is Joe Biden, who
is a woman, who is mixedrace, who is young, who is
articulate, And that's the new JoeBiden. And all of a sudden,

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the race has become a real race, at least I think so. I
mean, she has it. Iwould rather have another candidate. She has
not earned it, she has notearned the position. However, where do
you go the vice president? Thevice president nominee is automatically the presidential nominee

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if number one drops out. Byvery virtue of inherentants, sitting presidents in
the same party get the nomination byinheritance unless something extraordinary happens, and I
mean extraordinary, And that's what happenedhere we go back to nineteen sixty eight.

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That's what happened Lyndon Baine Johnson.Extraordinary. The Vietnam War. That
was it. It was the VietnamWar. For those of you that are
liberal and believe in civil rights,President Johnson was the most pro civil rights
president in the history of the UnitedStates. He blew way past Lincoln in

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terms of what he did for civilrights. And he is not known for
that. He is known for theVietnam War. That's his legacy, and
that's the shame of it. AndI remember, I remember it was March
nineteen sixty eight. There was thePresident was going to speak to the country,

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one of his addresses from the OvalOffice, and there he is reading
on the teleprompter and says, I'mdone. I am going to finish my
term as president. I will Iwill not seek nor will I accept the
nomination of my party for the presidencyof the United States. And by the

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way, we didn't know it washappening. This was out of the blue.
Today we knew what happened. Yesterday. It was inevitable, it was
inexorable, it was going to happen, and it did happen. And I
told you that the major players,Okay, Hackeen, Jeffries, Chuck Schumer,
Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi is avery interesting woman. You can only

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compare her to Margaret Thatcher maybe orother speakers who had tremendous power As speaker.
She ran the house with an ironfist. She knew what she was
doing. You've got Mike Johnson,now, who's the speaker, who's about

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as ineffectual as you can be.I mean, he's a figurehead. Nancy
Pelosi was no figurehead. She didn'tcall for the resignation of Joe Biden.
What she did was, I guess, in a subtle way, but publicly
nudged the door, the open inwhich Joe Biden kept on saying, I'm

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not giving up, and then hisimmediate circle I kept on saying that.
But that circle got smaller and smaller, to the point where it's just his
family and a few aids that werearound him. I mean, he went
into his bunker if you want tocall the basement, well that was a
joke about the basement part. Buthis house in Delaware, his beach house

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because he had COVID, And that'swhat you do. You just disappear,
right you self quarantine, which isa very bad time, self quarantined during
this place, during this period.And just that just added. So here's
Nancy Pelosi who ran the ran thehouse in a way that very very few

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others. First of all, shewas a prodigious, prodigious fundraiser. She
knows the system backwards and forwards,and she had a reputation of being the
Iron Lady, much like Margaret Thatcherwas in Britain. And she's described as
brutal. She is described as cold, calculating, and even she admitted she

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was because what is the number onePREMI for her, what was the most
important thing in her life? Winning? And she's a Democrat and for her,
it's about winning. And as soonas Joe Biden crossed that line from
possibly winning from we've got a chanceto there is no path against Donald Trump

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for Joe Biden to go through,to go to and through the win for
the presidency. There's no way,there's no path. And at that point,
Nancy Pelosi and others, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, you've got Schumer,
Chuck Schumer, who is the minorityleader in the Senate or excuse me,

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the majority leader in the Senate.All. I don't know if they
came together even and talked about it. I'm assuming they did. But you've
got the leadership and probably I wouldsay, the most influential X Speaker of
the House to come in. Andthe credit, if you want to call
it, credit given to really putthis over the line was Nancy Pelosi.

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She made the phone calls. Andthe premise is, if you're a Democrat
up to a presidential run up,to a nomination, a guaranteed absolute already
has a nomination. The only thingthat was left there is the Democratic National
Convention is going to formally a pointor was Joe Biden as the nominee.

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Republicans are over that convention happened,and certainly Donald Trump got the nomination,
but we knew that because he wonthe primaries. And I'm gonna talk a
little bit later on about primaries becausethat's a whole world there too. So
it was just a matter of justwaiting a couple of weeks and Joe Biden
got it. Well, Nancy Pelosicould. She could stop runs for Democrats

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all over the country a phone callfrom her, and there is a big
problem. You don't win without NancyPelosi if you're a Democrat. And I
think that's a general rule. Andshe is cold, she is calculating,
and she just looked at it andsaid, you know what, my friend

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Joe. And they're very close,by the way, Biden and Pelosi have
been close for decades. You can'tmake it, Joe. There's no way.
You've got no path. You stayingin the race is an automatic win.
Now, there was a huge fervor, huge reporting that Even after the

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debate, the major news outlets weresaying, it really didn't change the numbers
nationally. It didn't change the numbersbetween Biden and Trump. I don't know
why anybody pays attention to national polls. National polls mean nothing. It's the
battleground states that decide a presidency.I mean, I don't care who is

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running. Joe Biden could be deadand this could be election at Bernie's and
Joe Biden gets the all of thedelegates from California. Democrats are two to
one in California. So it's thebattleground states. And there Joe Biden was
collapsing. There, he was implodingwhere the numbers started getting wider and wider

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in favor of Trump. And youcan't sustain that. Joe Biden staying in
the race would only make it worse. So, as I said before,
it's now a stronger race. Nowit's more even because we have Joe Biden,
who is going to be the nominee. And now it's a Joe Biden

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who's a woman, whose mixed race, who is young. Everything that the
attack on Joe Biden is even amongDemocrats, disappears. What's Donald Trump going
to say she's old, she doesn'thave cognitive abilities. She stutters. Really,

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okay, maybe you will, boy, there's credibility. By the way,
there is a hearing going on rightnow over what happened at the assassination
attempt? How quickly do you thinkthat happened? And so we've got literally
a matter of weeks, you havea debate in which Joe Biden implodes,

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you have an assassination attempt on formerPresident Trump. You have the Republican National
Committee or the Republican National Convention,and you have Joe Biden yesterday resigning from
the ticket. That's all. That'sall. You know, It's been a
fairly inauspicious several weeks, hasn't it. So one of the things that's coming

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out of this is looking at theassassination attempt. What happened? How did
this guy? How did this guyget on the roof with an AR fifteen,
a long gun four hundred and fiftyfeet away from where Trump was standing
and it's a direct line of sightshot. How did that happen? And
that's the question. And you've gotCongress meeting today. They already started the

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hearings, and you also have MaorcusAlejandro Majorcas, who's Homeland Security Secretary.
He already is in a really deeptrouble as far as Congress is concerned.
There was a move to impeach himand went nowhere. But the Republicans wanted
to impeach him because of what happenedat the southern border, that he is

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the one that's screwed up. Heis the one that caused all the problems,
and reality it was President President Biden. Whatever issues people have with the
southern border, Myorcus acts under theorders of President Biden. So impeach Biden.
Oh you've already tried that, Okay, Uh, in peach everybody.

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Uh yeah, that's not gonna work. So now what's going on. They're
trying to figure this out. Andthere are a lot of moving parts on
this one too, and that is, uh, look at the security.
How did this guy get past allof the security Because if you look at
what happened, he was able toget on the roof an hour before he

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is walking around he had already beenrecognized as a potential threat as a person
of interest by the Secret Service.On top of that, we found out
that a few hours before the assassinationattempt. There was a drone flying around

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the location, and I guess theydidn't pay attention to it or they weren't
looking for one. I mean,there are a lot of parts of this
one. And also the conspiracy theoristsand not the crazy right wing conspiracy theorists
either, You've got the left wingasking huh, let's look at this.

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Because of course Trump got such positivereaction from his followers and others who looked
at the assassination attempt, and hesurvived it, and that is politically very
very powerful and positive. So whyis it that he was only shot in
the ear? Just they missed andnoticed the positive response he got and look

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at the bleeding, and this istoo convenient. This is a red flag.
It looks like Trump's team did itthemselves and set up this assassination attempt.
You go, come on, really, I was talking to and this
morning before we went on air,and she was bringing it up, and

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I pray and hope that you werejust telling me about it versus you think
that that story actually has legs thatthere was Oh she's shaking, she's shrugging,
you're shrugging. Stop it, Stopit right now, Bed girl,

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bed girl, give me a newspaperright now that I can roll up and
smash you on the nose. We'llbe back because I've got more about what's
going on on that one. Iwant to go back to what's going on
this morning, and that is thereis a congressional hearing going on right now
and looking at investigating the assassination attemptagainst former President Trump, and a lot

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of questions are being asked, Imean a lot. How did the shooter
get on the roof without being eithercaught, noticed, stopped? That's one.
Two? How did the Secret Serviceand the authorities let someone on the

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roof that had a clear line ofsight to the president from four hundred and
fifty feet away? Boom easy.Conspiracy theorists on the left are saying,
how is it possible he only gotthis little tiny wound on his ear?
And look at the political benefits hegot from that. Look at that that

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was contrived? Okay, red flag? Sure, sure it was. In
the meantime, you've got the SecretService Director, Kimberly Cheetle, who is
being looked at and asked to begnand ask being asked to resign. For
many, for many, many peopleon the hill, both Republicans and Democrats.

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And here's the other, here isthe other fly in the ointment,
and that is why weren't there enough? Why weren't there enough Secret Service agents
around? And the Secret Service admittedwe didn't have enough people. Now they
said, the reason we don't haveenough people is we don't have the resources.

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When a president travels, and apresident particularly going to a campaign rally,
even though there's the magnometer that yougo through to see if you have
any weapons, that's clearly not enough. And the Secret Services they're looking for
you. Ever noticed they look awayfrom the president and they have sunglasses on

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and for a reason, so peoplecan't look where their eyes are going,
and they're looking for any furtive move. So how is it possible this guy
got on the roof? And whyweren't there Secret Service there? Why weren't
enough sharpshooters? Now, keep inmind, as soon as this guy Crooks

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unloaded the weapon, within seconds,one of the counter snipers on the roof
that was directly behind former President Trumpunloaded and the kid was killed almost instantly.
Twenty years old, they still don'tknow what his motive was. At
this point, they have no idea. They're getting bits and pieces, but
nothing that would indicate the president wasin danger from him. And here's the

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argument, and here is a fact, and that is when a president is
out there in public, it's notonly a Secret Service, but it's also
local law enforcement. And we're talkinglocal law enforcement, not just from one
agent. See cities around and countyand state. I mean, they try

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to bolster it as much as possible. And we're now finding out that,
in fact, the authorities knew thatCrooks was there. One cop saw him
on the roof and went up,crawled up the roof, looked over the
ledge behind him, and Crooks turnedto him with a weapon and the cop

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dropped. Well, why didn't hetake out his weapon? Because he was
hanging onto the building and he droppedsix or eight feet, Why didn't he
yell? Why didn't he scream andsay there's a shooter up there? Because
as he was falling, as hefell down, within eight seconds, the
bullet started flying. And so nowthe question remains is did the FBI did

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the Secret Service screw up? Well? I don't know clearly here, but
they don't have the resources, orso they say, don't know. The
answer to that. While Congress isdoing its thing, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Majorcis has unveiled there's an independent reviewthat he is going to have. This

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was on the order of Joe Biden, by the way. And on top
of all this is Secret Service DirectorKimberlee Cheadle, who is going to resign
even if it's not her fault,even if she was begging for more resources.
And the story comes out that theTrump campaign had asked for more protection

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and the Secret Service kept saying no. When you look at all the protection
that's around the president or the formerpresident, or a president, any major
candidate, they'll ask for. Inthis case, Trump and I think rightly
said that ain't enough because you haveprobably the most controversial candidate we've ever had.

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And so what if Cheatle had asked, and myorcas had asked, we
need more resources and Congress does notgive it. Is it Cheetle's fault?
I don't know the answer, Bythe way. The reason I think she's
gonna resign, it doesn't matter ifshe was at fault or not. The
buck stops here, So she's goingto be held responsible. And they heads

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have to roll on this one.So she is gone. Here's something else
that I noticed. She was atthe convention and Republican senators were following her
screaming at her. There was nodecorum at all. I mean screaming at

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the top of their lungs. Imean, this has gotten completely crazy.
So we're going to see what thewhat the investigation is all about. I'll
tell you right now. The Congressionalinvestigation is going to blame the Biden administration,
saying it's your fault. This goesto show you how incompetent, incompetent
Joe Biden is. Our attempt toimpeach a Homeland secretary, a lejunter on

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my orchist didn't succeed, but he'sthe one that's screwing up. He's the
one that's at fault. And wedon't know yet. I'd like to know
what's happening, but you know,as always, early days an investigation mean
very little. But we need instantheadlines, we need instant gratification. We
want her to resign. We haveto find out what happened with the Secret

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Service, Why do they have locallaw enforcement? Why was the cop up
there? And we're also finding outthat they saw Crooks an hour before,
and he was already pointed out asa person of interest. And we're now
finding out that he ran a drone. He was flying a drone over the
rally area hours before the shooting tookplace. All right, So what happens?

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Then? You've got the convention comingup August twenty two, I think
the nineteenth through the twenty second,the Democratic Convention. Oh man, things
are different. A little bit ofhistory on that too, because the way
presidents have been nominated from day onehas changed traumatically, and we are back
to where it was before primaries wereeven invented. And I'll talk about that

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