A Nation at Risk: How Politics Failed America in 2023 and Beyond!

🔥 In This Episode:

💰 Trump’s Budget Crisis: The GOP’s Internal Fight Begins

• Now that President Trump is back from the Middle East, he’s facing a major challenge: the "Big Beautiful" budget bill is in serious trouble.
• Deficit hawks like Chip Roy are demanding deep spending cuts to reduce the crushing federal debt.
• Meanwhile, Trump allies like Sen. Josh Hawley refuse to cut programs like Medicaid, which are critical to working-class Americans.
• Mark breaks down the tug-of-war inside the new working-class Republican Party and what it will take to bring all factions under one roof.

📉 James Comey’s Dangerous “86” Tweet

• Former FBI Director James Comey made headlines with a reckless and cryptic post on X referencing “86ing” Trump.
• Did he not know what that means—or was it something more sinister?
• Krysty unpacks how irresponsible rhetoric from elites like Comey can have real-world consequences, especially with mentally unstable individuals watching.

🎤 The Biden Interview That Says It All

• The Robert Hur interview with President Biden is both heartbreaking and infuriating.
• Mark explains why Biden’s struggles to communicate are not just a political liability—they’re a national concern.
• Hur’s description of Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” wasn’t a political attack—it was the most compassionate assessment possible under the circumstances.
• We expose how Biden’s inner circle has fought to hide the truth, all in a desperate effort to hold onto power.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
All right, welcome to the no Doubt About it podcast.
A lot going on, a lot of crazystuff.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Including in our family.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's graduation weekend, it is grad weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
And for those parents out there that have had a
graduation weekend, they knowhow absolutely crazy land it is,
because there's all theseevents that happen around a
graduation.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
And we're like well, we got to do a show and so we're
just I'm not going to lie, wejust chucked this sucker
together and I sat there infront of my computer for a solid
three hours just staring intothe abyss, learning about all
sorts of issues.
Some are in this show and someare not.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, about all sorts of issues.
Some are in this show and someare not.
Yeah, I think, you got to getrabbit hole-y though.
So sometimes you're like you'relike, oh, wait a minute.
So there's a wait, there's anew truck out.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I should probably research that track.
Oh wait, wolves.
Wolves are in danger.
We'll have more on that andwe're going to show more of
those videos Not today but man Iam red hot on my wildlife
videos.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
I'm aware.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
The only thing I don't have captured on game
cameras.
Up in angel fire.
We got elk, we've got deer,we've got pine.
What is it A pine.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh yeah, that guy.
That, oh yeah that guy.
Our writers wrote it, Ourviewers wrote it and they
identified what that littlecritter was.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, it was like a pine marmot or something like
that.
It's not a marmot.
Yeah, it's something else.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's a pine, oh gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I can't believe.
You just asked me that rightnow.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I know, sorry about that.
Well, you can think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
We've got a skunk, we've got I don't want a
mountain lion or a um or aBobcat.
I don't have either one ofthose.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
None of the big cats have come through yet.
I'm good with no cats We'll seewhat happens.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I mean, I would like to see the cats, but I got this
thing on a trail where I thinkthey're going to be some, some
Bobcats.
I could see a Bobcat or twothrough there.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Do you want me to go up there?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh, turkeys.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Do you actually want me to go up to the property and
be part of this?
Well, OK, because if you don't,you should keep capturing like
scary animals on film and showit to me and then I'll be like
terrified and I won't be thereanymore.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
They are passing through, they're doing their own
thing.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, so OK.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
So on this show, a couple of quick things.
We're going to hit here on afairly abbreviated version, but
we are going to talk about thebudget deal.
Going through is a majorproblem for Republicans.
There is some serious fightinggoing on on that front.
We're going to talk about that.
Of course, the Comey situationas well.
He goes walking on the beachand then stumbles into a
threatening message aboutPresident Trump and feels the

(02:37):
need to retweet it, basically,and he's gotten himself into a
little bit of a mess with that.
And also we're going to talk alittle bit about some of the
Biden situation.
The big Biden book coming outthis next week.
That thing's going to blow upand it is blowing up right now
and it's turning out to be Imean, we knew this at the time.
We've known this for months andreally years, that this is the

(03:00):
biggest political controversy inour lifetimes.
There's no question that.
Just seeing now everythingthat's happening now, the Robert
her audio has come out.
What did it sound like when herwas questioning him?
And her was not adversariallyquestioning him.
It was not her beating up onBiden by any stretch of the
situation.
So we'll listen to a little bitof that.
It's sad?
Honestly, it's not.

(03:21):
You don't listen to it andthink, uh, you know, know, you
don't really get infuriatedlistening to it, other than to
be infuriated with the peoplearound biden, and not so much
biden himself, because once youlisten to him you just see he's
just, he's just lost, yeah andsome of the question is like did
?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
do we?
Should we be giving all thismore light, you know, given the
fact that now I feel like thisis all a pr push by the media to
be like, hey, listen, we werenot culpable here.
We did not really know what wasgoing on and we were fooled,
just like everybody else, whichis complete bogus.
I mean, everybody that couldsee with their own eyes knew
this is a cover-up.
So now for them to get all thislimelight coming back out and

(03:57):
saying like, oh, we had no idea,now we're just going to sell
books off of it and all this, Ijust feel like I don't know.
I kind of feel like now you'regoing to make a dime off of this
.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well, no, no, make no mistake.
I think that they're equalissues right now, which is one
is is just the the cognitiveissues that were, that were
covered up by the media, byBiden staff, everybody.
That's one issue.
And then the other issue is thegall and the guts of Tapper to
come out and and Alex Thompsonless so, because he was more
aggressive in his reporting.

(04:27):
He was Jake Tapper was not.
Jake Tapper did everything hecould to help cover this up as
well and then him financiallybenefiting.
That's going to be kind of aco-equal story as this thing
goes through.
And so they're going to sell alot of copies of this thing
because they got it out.
But you know, the reality of thesituation is look how quickly

(04:48):
it came out after the Bidenadministration.
I mean like that right.
I mean when you talk aboutmajor books, about scandals in
the white house Woodward andBernstein this stuff takes
months, years to research andget the information, not these
guys.
They got it out in like 20minutes because everybody's like
, oh yeah, by the way, here itis, we all knew it Right and so
they handed out.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
So we'll go through all that stuff, it's okay.
And so then I ask then so youthink it's like a PR spin for
media, Like they got togetherand like, hey, we got to kind of
fix this and talk about likenow we got to be more
transparent to bring our viewersback.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, I don't think there's any of that.
I don't think there's anyreckoning of that kind.
That's happened Wow.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Okay, I don kind of the spin where they're saying
now we need to tell people.
Hey, by the way, we actuallydid know this was going on and
take a little bit ofresponsibility.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
No, no, no, no, absolutely not, absolutely not.
That's not happening.
And and uh, you know, and thenyou have guys like chuck todd
who go out there and just areindignant, and they, they go out
and throw blame everywhere.
Chuck schumer, they're throwingblame at nancy pelosi.
It's like, yeah, okay, butunless you are just not in touch
with reality, you knew, knewall this, you knew it, so stop
it, but anyway.
So we'll go through all that.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
You got a big event coming up here Anybody?
Wants to see you get a littlespicy maybe out there.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Let's not promote it, as I'm going to get spicy.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I think you're going to get spicy.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, I'm not planning to get spicy.
I'm planning to be respectfuland polite and discuss some
issues.
The National Association ofWomen Business Owners has
invited me to be NABO, yes, nabo, look at you.
I was like you know yeah, okay,well, it says NABO at the top
of the thing.
I love that you're like, yeah,hello, that's what I know, the
acronym for yeah, there, it isNABO.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, so that just is , gets their, you know, gets
their clutches on you, you'renot getting away.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're not getting well, okay.
So they're doing a panel onthis Thursday, may 22nd.
It's 11 am.
It's at the North Domingo BacaMultigenerational Center.
Basically, they're going totalk and Nicole DePiason's on
there with me, harold Pope,who's with the Democratic Party,
he's also a New Mexico statesenator Cool, and, I believe,

(06:45):
jen I can't say her last nameshe is, I think, a business
coach, so to speak.
So they've invited us to comedown and talk with people,
mainly small business owners orwomen business owners, about
kind of what's going on as faras crime, as far as the tariffs,
as far as taxes I don't, youknow, they're fans of the show,
they watch the show.
So they've invited us to, kindof because we've talked a lot
about the tariffs.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
And talked a little bit about.
You know what's happening.
We're, you know, obviouslywe're pretty opinionated about
the crime situation that'shappening in Albuquerque, so
it'll be interesting.
I think they're going to ask alot of state legislative
questions that Nicole, I'm sure,and Harold will be able to
respond to those.
So it'll be interesting to seewhat's happening.
But again, that's on Thursday.
You can go to their website ifyou would like to register to go

(07:26):
.
It's a luncheon, I believe.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Visit nalbocom?
I'm just asking.
Do we?
Know, I don't know, I can'tbelieve.
You just said that.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, you said what's their website Is the website on
here.
Okay, now you're going to haveto make a cut.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
No, we're not.
We're not going to make a yeah,you are no a cut because, no,
we're not we're not gonna makeit.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, it's not because it's.
There's just a link and I sentit to you and now it's on me to
find it again.
You're welcome, everybody.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
This is us in real time uh, we're not making a cut,
we're going straight through onthis episode straight through
everybody, so how about we dothis?
There is a register here linkokay, you want me to put it in
the notes I would love if youwould put that in the notes I
will do.
Do that, okay, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
And the organizers.
Ms Tracy, don't yell at meabout this.
This is his fault.
This is this guy's fault overhere, tracy, let's go with
nabocom.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
You got to do it.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
No, it's not, it's a registration thing.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
So I'm going to send you this link.
Okay, we'll have it.
In the state legislators and Iknow Nicole understands this.
She's our representative andshe's a business owner she very
much understands that we makedoing business impossible.
Great example of that is whatwe talked about a few weeks ago,
and it's the heat restrictionthat they're talking about
passing through theenvironmental board which is not

(08:42):
the legislature.
However, it is just a greatexample of a bunch of walls that
continue to be put up, and MrPope I'm sure will be ready and
Senator Pope will surely beready to answer all the
questions on why it is sodifficult to do business in the
state, given that they've beenin charge of the legislature in
the state of New Mexico for thebetter part of 80 years.
And when you look at doingbusiness here versus states
around us, it's not close,senator Pope.

(09:05):
So let's fix this Goodopportunity for some
bipartisanship.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Am I right?
Or am I right, Maybe, Tracy?
Maybe you should have askedMark to show up.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
That's all I'm going to say.
No, that's not what you need meto do, I think it's spicy, but
I'm not planning to be like anoverly.
Well, let's wait and see.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
You always say that poking the bear.
All of a sudden you're justgoing to town.
Oh, please give me a break.
We're there to have discussionswith women business owners,
Mark, so you just keep a lid onit.
All right, buddy?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's why I'm not going, because you're a woman
business owner and I am not.
I'm a male business owner.
So, all right, let's go aheadand show you what's going on.
Let's start with this.
I used to be a huge week forRepublicans to try to pass a
bill, a budget bill, through theHouse and the Senate, and this
is going to be difficult and Iwant to get into the reasons why
.
Because you have a Republicanparty.

(09:50):
We always talk about oh youknow, what have the Democrats
done?
Where are they on all this?
And we talk about here's whereRepublicans are the working
class party.
But that transition comes withproblems, and I think the
Republicans have a big one rightnow and it is two different
sides of the party.
So let's start with this.
This is an article out ofpolitico.
It says house republicans needtheir closer.
Good thing he's back.
That's trump.

(10:11):
Who's come back from the middleeast.
After lighting it up in themiddle east, it seemed he loved
that.
I bet you, I bet you'd extendthat trip another week or so
just go all around the rest ofthe middle east and be like let
me go go to Jordan and see whatI can do.
But he had a pretty good trip.
But listen to this.
It says Friday's budget panel.
So this is something obviouslyTrump's overseas.
And then Chip Roy, who's acongressman from Texas, who's

(10:34):
part of the budget committee,who's very much somebody who's a
realist about the deficit andrealizing and we've talked about
it on this show too that youhave to address it Like we're
$37 dollars in debt.
We cannot continue to do this.
We're killing our future.
Right, and he fully understandsthat.
So Friday's budget panelimplosion was, in some ways,
months in the making.
As I wrote in January, rep ChipRoy and fellow fiscal hawks have

(11:01):
been on a collision course withthe president, who cares more
about notching wins than curbingdeficits.
Now again, this is fromPolitico, so they're taking a
shot at Trump there.
While hardliners view the megabill as a once in a lifetime
opportunity to reduce spending,trump sees it as a vehicle to
deliver on his campaign promises, including tax cuts and money
for the Pentagon and immigrationenforcement ahead of the
midterm cycle.

(11:21):
He's increasingly obsessed withmeaning.
Trump really does care aboutthe midterms.
He does not want to lose theHouse, and he surely doesn't
want to lose the Senate.
I don't think he'll lose theSenate, but he could very well
lose the House, right?
If this doesn't go well, trumpshould be worried that Roy and
company are making demands thatwill be hard to meet and hard to
walk back.
Roy said Friday that the billfalls profoundly short and does

(11:43):
not do what we say it does withrespect to the deficit.
Okay, so I want to play alittle bit of chip Roy.
We're going to cut him off at acertain point because he kind
of turns away and goes to somecharts and things like that.
But the point he's making is afair one, which is and this
happens all the time inWashington DC you talk about the
need for reducing spending, andso what they do is they don't

(12:04):
reduce spending in the firstfour years of the budget plan
right, they leave it or theyexpand.
Or they expand it, actuallyRight.
And then they leave those cutsfor five years down the road,
right.
And when do those?
Do those cuts ever happen?
No, those cuts don't everhappen.
That's how we're $37 trillionin debt.
That's why this is a bipartisanproblem that both parties have

(12:24):
absolutely fed into, andRepublicans shouldn't get off
the hook for that.
Okay, so listen to Chip Roy andsome of the stuff he says here
Again.
We'll probably go on for abouta minute, but he makes some
really interesting points here.

Speaker 11 (12:35):
My colleagues go again telling things that are
not true.
The vast majority of Americanswill get tax benefits under this
bill.
It's just simply false to saythat.
That's not true.
Hardworking Americans who willbenefit from the standard
deduction increase.
Hardworking Americans that willbenefit from child tax credits
and lower tax rates.
Stop saying things that aren'ttrue.
Those things are true.
The fact is, we have money inhere for border to undo the

(12:57):
damage of Joe Biden.
We have more money in here forthe defense to undo the damage
of Joe Biden.
But we also address Medicaid,and Medicaid spending goes up.
Stop lying.
Medicaid spending goes up.
My colleagues on the other sideof the aisle are profoundly
unserious when it comes to beingreal about what's happening
with the numbers.
I applaud Chairman Arrington.
I applaud my colleagues on thisside of the aisle for taking a

(13:17):
step forward in dealing with thespending problem in this town.
But I have to now admonish mycolleagues on this side of the
aisle.
This bill falls profoundlyshort.
It does not do what we say itdoes with respect to deficits.
The fact of the matter is on thespending.
What we're dealing with here,on tax cuts and spending, a
massive front-loaded deficitincrease.

(13:38):
That's the truth.
That's the truth.
Deficits will go up in thefirst half of the 10-year budget
window and we all know it'strue and we shouldn't do that.
We shouldn't say that we'redoing something we're not doing.
The fact of the matter is thisbill has backloaded savings and
has frontloaded spending Nowherenear the Senate budget top line

(14:02):
, by the way, the Senate budgettop line of $6.5 trillion, which
, by the way, the Senate budgettop line of six and a half
trillion dollars, which, by theway, is what we were pre-COVID
inflation, adjusted on interest,on Medicaid, on Medicare and
Social Security.
And if we would reform Medicaid, we could actually get to the
core of the problem.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Ok, OK, so let's just get to what he's saying in a
broader sense.
Reforming Medicaid.
That's a longer discussionwhich does have to happen with
bipartisan support.
There's no way one party isgoing to force a Medicaid
adjustment and to make Medicaidmore efficient and to make it
work OK.
But this is something we'retalking about with Doge, where
it was like well, they got totry to get savings in certain

(14:41):
ways without cutting people'sbenefits is what they're trying
to do.
But what he's really talkingabout here is he's talking about
the fact that early on in thisbill, you're going to spend more
and you're going to run higherdeficits.
So what that does is it giveseverybody.
It basically keeps all Trump'spromises no tax on tips, no tax
on overtime, right.
All that stuff can make theTrump tax cuts permanent, which

(15:02):
benefited everybody, by the way.
Don't kid yourself 82% ofAmericans got a tax cut from
Trump's tax cut bill in 2017.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Right.
So when they say it's only therich, the super rich, it's a
total lie.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
There's never been a tax cut.
I think that was really morebeneficial to the middle and
lower income Americans than theTrump tax cuts were.
They were tremendously helpful.
So anybody who tells you thatthey're not and you know someone
who's not a serious person whenthey tell you that, when they
say, oh, this is just for therich, that that is a reflexive,
weak, a small minded argument ofsomebody who's never looked at

(15:35):
the numbers.
So so anybody who says that,put them away off to the side
and say you're not a seriousperson, move on, okay.
So so that's part of it is iskeeping those tax cuts permanent
.
And again, what the problem is,though and this is what happens
in DC, and Roy is right aboutthis what happens in DC is you
get all the promises up frontand then, on the backside, when

(15:56):
you're going to cut and cut anddo a do a better job of of, you
know, keeping an eye on thebudget, they never do it.
They never do it.
These are two or three yearcycles, and they never do it,
and so, therefore, that's whywe're in the position we're in.
So there you have the ChipRoy's of the world.
Ok, but what you're going tonotice is.
I'm going to have you listen toJosh Hawley next, who's a
senator from Missouri, and Joshis more of a kind of a little
more of a populist.

(16:17):
Ok, and this is showing youkind of some of the fractures in
the Trump movement, because yougot the Chip Roy's of the world
who support Trump and theysupport each other, there's no
doubt.
But Roy is right, we do have toget the budget under control
and we do have to handle thisbetter.
Well, josh Hawley is going tosay something here that shows
you that there's a real fracture, and the reason why is he's

(16:39):
going to talk about Medicaidcuts.
He's going to use the wordMedicaid cuts when Chip Roy's
like we're not cutting Medicaid,we're cutting the rate of
increase, right, but these twoguys are not on the same page.
So just listen to what Hawleysays here.

Speaker 12 (16:53):
It's insane.
Listen, I've got concerns withthe bill that the House has
passed out of committee.
They obviously haven't passedthe full thing yet.
I think there's still a lot ofcuts in there to Medicaid.
That will really hurt peopleand, to be more specific about
it, they will hurt our people.
And listen, I mean in my statewe voted for Trump by 18, 19

(17:13):
points in the state of Missouri,but 21% of Missourians are on
Medicaid, steve, and thatincludes hundreds of thousands
of children.
These are Trump voters.
These are working class people.
These are people who havegotten screwed by globalism, by
free trade, by everything DonaldTrump ran against.
And I'm not going to be aRepublican who goes to them and
says, hey, thank you for votingfor us and trusting us, and now
we're going to take away yourhealth care.
What could be more stupid thanthat?

(17:34):
That's insane.
That's why Trump is out theresaying no benefit cuts.
Republicans in Congress oughtto listen to the president.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
OK, interesting point .
Ok, so they have to get on thesame page.
They have to be able to findsomething in some middle ground
here.
Where, where, where you satisfythe chip boys of the world who
say you can't keep escalatingyou know spending like this and
the Hollies of the world.
Who is who?
I agree with Josh on that pointas well which is this is your
party, now, this is.
These are the people you keepyour promises.

(18:02):
And if you don't keep yourpromises, then you're worthless.
You're just like every othershyster politician who goes to
DC, right?
Nobody wants that.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Right, everybody's burnt out on that.
I think the question, though,is what Trump has said and what
Doge has promised right Is thatthe cuts that they're doing are
for the waste and the fraud, sothe people that were collecting
on Medicaid or Medicare whenthey weren't actually needing it
, right.
So that, to me, is still a cutthat needs to happen.
My question is is you know thatjust maybe is not enough, and

(18:32):
that's what you hear.
Roy is saying hey, thefraudulent cuts won't be enough
to get our budget in place andso, therefore, we have to do
deeper cuts.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean, I think there's some of that, that
they're not going to get all theway to where they need to get
to with waste, fraud and abuseRight, and they're also also on
the other side, they're framingwaste fraud and abuse as a cut
Right, I mean so.
So that's part of it too, thatsome of this is going to be
messaging and then some of it isgoing to be.
Well, even the Republicans yousaw it right there you have two
Republicans right there and youhave messaging that is very much

(19:03):
crossways with each other.
That's a real problem.
And so, and Holly going outthere saying, hey, you can't cut
Medicaid, using that term, heused it.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
But Roy wasn't saying to cut Medicaid.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
He wasn't.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
You're right, you're right so that's kind of the
weird, like okay, so I'm sayingthere's, but there is.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
So in other words, they have to come, you know,
come to some sort of agreementon what they're going to use for
verbiage and how far they'regoing to go.
But for the most part, you'reright.
They're not going to be able tocut Medicaid and you're going
to have to sit down eventually.
A bipartisan group oflegislators who are serious are
going to have to sit down andhash this out and say we have to

(19:42):
fix how how we allocateMedicare, medicaid and social
security, like that's what'sbankrupting us and we all know
that and so that has, and Iworry that we're going to have
to drive off a cliff before ithappens Like this shows me that
more and more that what Chip Roywas saying right there.
And if Roy doesn't budge andthe hardliner Republicans on the
budget don't budge, what do youdo?
Like Trump's going to go?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Do you sign this?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
I don't know that it's enough, Like I don't know
that he has enough to be able todo that, and Trump can go in
and threaten people and say I'mgoing to primary you and
everything else.
I don't think he wants to dothat.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
And so it's good.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm just saying this to me when I saw this issue.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I was like this is a problem.
Well, I just wonder, though,the real question becomes can
you find enough?
And at this point, the answerappears to be no, that they
can't find enough of whatthey're looking for.
So the question is, will theybe a little more modest in their

(20:43):
cuts and then and then you know, keep all the promises that
Trump tried to do?
But this is a great example.
Trump is gone in three years, orthree and a half years, right,
and he's thinking to do but thisis a great example.
Trump is gone in three years,or three and a half years, right
, and he's thinking to himselfwell, I'm not going to go pull
someone's benefits.
I'm not doing that, and I don'tblame him for saying that, but
if I were him, I'd want to sitdown and try to find a long-term
solution.
The problem is, there's stillnot that appetite in DC.

(21:04):
What I'm saying in all this isI'm scared that we are still at
a point where we have more, moreroad to go before we run over
the cliff, so we're going totake it right to the end.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay.
So, no big beautiful billsigning by July 4th.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Well, I don't know, I don't know I they're going to
have to come to some sort of aagreement on to hash this out.
Somebody's going to blink andwe'll tell you who ends up
blinking and I do.
I get Holly's point on all ofit too.
You've got to keep yourpromises to your low-income
families who very much depend onMedicaid.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Right, you can't cut their benefits, especially when
we have a state that's, I think,we're the most reliant in the
country.
Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
We don't want anybody's Medicaid benefits cut
here no-transcript.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
You know, james Comey , I don't know.
I'm sorry.
I don't believe that this manjust stumbled across some
shelves, took a picture and justsaid oh, I'm going to go ahead
and make a post about this.
Shells took a picture and justsaid oh, I'm going to go ahead
and make a post about this andit's a vital.
It's just a blatant threatagainst president Trump.
If you can look at this picture, it says 86 47, which I had

(22:21):
never heard that little verbiagebefore 86.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
No, I've heard of 86 and something.
It means to kill it.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
I mean so like or yeah to end it, cancel it, be
done with it.
Like I worked in the restaurantbusiness when you were out of
something or you needed it to beremoved from the menu, yeah,
use 86 to it.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
So that was very like that.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
So that is something Okay.
So that's one of the cases madein his defense.
So which will begin?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
you still know that it means cancel it, remove it
Like.
I don't care.
And and then in gang languageit means to kill somebody, right
?
So I'm sorry.
There's nothing good about 86,no matter how you slice it.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
There's nothing that Ella, let's go to the thing.
As you're kind of walkingthrough this, here's his go back
one else yeah, let's see whathe says at the bottom of this
post.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
He says cool shell formation on my beach walk.
I'm sorry, you were thedirector of the FBI and you
don't know what 8647 is.
And there's been two attemptsthat we know of on President
Trump's life.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Right, that's what makes this different right.
Is that someone came within aquarter inch of taking out Trump
, no question.
And then another guy had a gunwaiting there for him as well,
and so, but in a way, comey doeswhat Comey does, which is say
something ridiculous followingthis up, Right.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
So then here's his half-hearted apology.
He says I posted earlier apicture of some shells I saw
today on a beach walk, which Iassumed were a political message
.
I didn't realize.
Some folks associate thosenumbers with violence.
It never occurred to me, but Ioppose violence of any kind, so
I took the post down.
I'm sorry, you are not thedirector of the FBI.
If you can't figure that out,I'm sorry.

(23:53):
Anybody that waits tables canfigure that out.
And they're not.
I was never a director of theFBI.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Are you sure?

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I should be the director.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
No no, no, no, I want to be an ambassador.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
You know let's not do that.
I'm going to be an ambassador.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
No, you are.
There's going to start.
Yeah well, you're going to bean ambassador for a country that
we think is an outpost going tobe quiet.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
And then, all of a sudden they're going to send me
to Qatar.
Is what they're going to do?
They're going to make me theambassador to Qatar.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Oh, yeah, yeah, as a woman, I'm definitely going to
stand.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh, there's no whole version of that as well, which
means to offer kill that person,right?
You don't think that Comeyknows some gang talk, being in
the FBI as long as he was?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, and I think he's ignorant, so I think
Comey's weird.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I think he's lying.
I don't think he's ignorant.
To me, ignorance is when youdon't know something, and so you
, I don't want to give.
Yeah, okay, don't give him thatkind of credit.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
No, no, no, I'm not saying I don't mean ignorant in
that way.
I think I think he is.
I think he has poor judgmentwhen it comes to what to talk
about.
His, his emotional regulator isoff.
He doesn't quite get it, andyou saw some of that and how he
did on on how he handled himselfwith Trump and then since then.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
so he can't stand Trump.
Well, there is that.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
But but yeah, I know, but there's other.
For example, when you had thewhole Hillary Clinton thing and
all her emails, like he startedto slosh back and forth on that
he seems to have, and he's apoor leader where you you don't
get the sense that he is sort ofunderstanding the playing field
, sticking to his principles andmaking sure that he makes the

(25:41):
right decisions.
Or if he doesn't make the rightdecisions, he knows then when
to pivot and then hold firm inthe pivot right.
He just is one of these guysthat vacillates and is very kind
of odd to me.
So let's listen to SenatorKennedy who talks.
Who's the funniest politicianon the planet, really?
And so he was asked you knowwhat the deal was on CNN?

(26:04):
What was Comey thinking?

Speaker 13 (26:07):
He was calling for violence against President Trump
as the great master of a pithyphrase.
Most people who use this termseem to come out of the
restaurant industry and insistthat that's not something that
is a statement of violence.
What is your view?

Speaker 8 (26:24):
I have no idea, I don't know what was in the guy's
head or in his heart.
Comey's a little bit neuroticand he loves attention.
I mean, he loves attention andI just don't know.
Maybe he was trying to getattention.
If he was trying to do it, hesucceeded.
He's got the attention of awhole bunch of FBI agents.

(26:46):
So we'll see.
I honestly don't know what theguy was thinking.
He probably actually wasn'tthinking.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Right, Okay, so he goes with this.
Now, somebody who worked withComey a bit is John Brennan.
Who these guys are all?
They all hate Trump, right?
They're all in that samecategory of.
No matter what you say aboutTrump, it's always justified.
He's the worst guy in the world.
So no surprise here JohnBrennan decides he's going to
come out and in defense of Comeyanyway.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
I know Jim Comey and work very closely with him,
didn't always agree with some ofthe decisions he made, but I
think he has unimpeachableintegrity from the standpoint of
his commitment to the rule oflaw.
There's absolutely no way thatJim Comey would have been
advocating any type of violenceagainst a president of the
United States, much less anyone,and it's very unfortunate that
we are in an era right now whereindividuals seize upon

(27:41):
something like this and justfuel the fires.
As you pointed out, the term 86, you know, is used in the
restaurant context and has beenput on everybody's a restaurant
against previous presidents it'soften throughout my career I've
never heard 86 be used for anytype of intent to kill or

(28:01):
assassinate someone.
86 is, you know, you discardsomething.
You, you just, you know, ignoreit or it's not something that
jim comey would have beenadvocating in terms of any type
of violence, and again, you know, he took down the post.
I think was the right thing todo.
But again it's so unfortunatethat individuals, including, you
know, public officials, havejust tried to fan the fires here

(28:23):
and just bring increasing sortof anger against Jim Comey.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
OK, I'm sorry, it wasn't a rapper that saw this on
the beach, took a picture of itand posted it.
It was a former director of theFBI, I just think.
Well, you know, in therestaurant world it still means
to eliminate, to take it off.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's what Comey was thinking.
He's walking down the beachgoing.
You know, in the restaurantworld, when that, when that app
is off the menu, we got to makesure we 86, 86 still means to
cancel or remove or take away.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, okay.
So however you want to look atit, it's not in a positive way.
And if you had not worked inlaw enforcement with the FBI and
had probably as much trainingas he's had, I might've said,
okay, maybe you haven't listenedto a gang song, or maybe you
haven't listened to I mean a rapsong, or you don't know any

(29:13):
about gang activity.
Give me a break.
I mean, I am a middle-agedwhite woman that has no gang
activity or knowledge.
I've never studied it right.
I still know what 86-47 means.
It took me all of 20 seconds tolook at that and know what that
means.
So the question is is, who putit together right?
And then Comey just sit thereand be like justifying his
behavior.
I think I'm sorry.
If you are a political figureand he is, as the director of

(29:35):
FBI, you need to be beyondreproach on this situation.
You shouldn't have touched it.
You should never have had anybusiness posting it.
It was a childish thing.
It was ridiculous and dumb.
So let's listen to what DNIchief Tulsi Gabbard has to say
about this.
I mean, she wants to bring downthe law on Comey.

Speaker 11 (29:54):
Serious is the administration taking this and
what are the next steps going tobe?

Speaker 4 (29:59):
We're taking this very seriously.
As you mentioned, theDepartment of Homeland Security,
and specifically Sean Curran,the current Secret Service
director, a man who has beenwilling to lay down his life as
the lead of President Trump'sSecret Service detail for years
now.
He takes this seriously and isleading the investigation into

(30:19):
this threat.
There has to be accountabilityfor this.
There was a Rutgers study thatjust came out a little over a
month ago, jesse that askedrespondents their view on these
calls to assassinate PresidentTrump, and over 55 percent of
respondents felt that murderingPresident Trump would be

(30:40):
quote-unquote somewhat justified.
This is the effect of peoplelike James Comey doing this kind
of stuff.
This study also pointed outthat there is a quote unquote
assassination culture that isstarting to take over the views
of what they call the extremeleft.
We, the American people, cannottake this lightly.
Whatever your politics, wecannot allow people to get by

(31:03):
without being held accountablefor this kind of public call to
assassinate the president of theUnited States.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, and I think that's the point, which is, I
don't think anybody sits thereand says, oh my God, james Comey
is going to try to kill thepresident of the United States.
Yeah, and I think that's thepoint, which is, I don't think
anybody sits there and says, ohmy God, james Comey is going to
try to kill the president.
That's ridiculous.
What you worry about is thatperson sitting somewhere in an
apartment in Lincoln, nebraska,that decides I'm going to take
my shot, right, there are a lotof people that are deeply,
deeply mentally ill that takesome of these cues, and somebody

(31:31):
like Comey, adding to that withwhat he did, was absolutely
irresponsible and it's clownishbehavior from someone who has
revealed himself to be a bit ofa a bit of a fool.
I mean, I just think he's kindof a fool and some of the stuff
that he does and you see how heacts.
So it's it's something that Ithat I think obviously the FBI
is talking to him.

(31:51):
On Saturday they were talkingto him on Saturday.
We'll see what ends uphappening with that.
I don't think he's going to goto jail or anything like that,
but but I but I do think thereneeds to be a message here and
an understanding that this wholething, this whole underground
86, 47 thing, or this wholething where you, you threatened
Trump, you threatened Trumpvoters, you do all that stuff.
It's ridiculous, and remember,james Comey spent a lot of time

(32:13):
talking about the violent rightwhen he was FBI director.
You know he would talk about itand talk about it.
So, again, I think you havesome of these things where, if
you're going to have thatapproach, you have to have the
approach on the left where, like, enough of this, we, we can't,
we do not need this, and it issomething that if we don't put a
stop to it again, this is thesort of stuff that begets people

(32:33):
that are mentally ill that theytake their shot.
They do, they absolutely do.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I mean, and I'm sorry , we still don't even know all
the details surrounding theassassination attempts of Trump.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh, we don't know anything.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
And I just keep thinking.
About the first one especiallythe first one, and I'm like, I
just feel like why would you, asan FBI director, just try to
make it that much harder on theSecret Service and everybody
else?
You?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
don't.
You're sitting there, you thinkyou're being cool and funny and
you think you're going to get abunch of likes on X.
That's what you think if you'rehim.
Oh, look what I found.
Well, whether he did it orwhether he found it, it's total
clownish behavior.
Yeah, Okay, All right.
So the Robert Herr audio is out.
I do want to play a little bitof it, and this is not fun to

(33:16):
listen to.
This is not funny to listen toand this is not.
I don't even think you're it's.
I didn't even get angrylistening to it, I just kind of
shook my head.
I get angry listening to someof the other people that talk
about Biden, but listening tohim talk here, Robert Herr asked
him how he got information.
You'll hear Robert Herr givehim a question and then you'll

(33:38):
listen to what the answer is,and it is meandering.
It has no connection to thequestion he seems to not quite
have a grip of when Beau, hisson, died, and he doesn't quite
have a grip on when, when Trumptook office.
He doesn't.
Some of those dates don't quitework for him anymore.

(33:59):
So usually and that's the thingin politics these dates are
burned in your memory.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
And do you?
When was this interviewconducted?
Do we know about the time?
Yeah, it was?

Speaker 1 (34:10):
it was October 8th 2023, I believe oh you know the
exact date.
Yeah, I think it was somewherein there, but but but like
election dates, just so you know, in politics they're burned in
your memory.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Right, like they're still burned in ours.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Especially the year like the year you're very like.
You know Trump won in 2016.
You know you left the vicepresidency in 2017.
Right January 20th or whatever.
You know you left the vicepresidency in 2017, right
January 20th or whatever 2017.

Speaker 9 (34:35):
Those are things that he would have known, so this is
a little tough to listen to,but we want you to hear at least
some of it For your book.
Where did you keep papers?

Speaker 10 (34:53):
that related to those things that you were
actively working on.
Well, I don't know.
This is what 2017, 18, thatperiod, yes, sir, remember, in
this time frame, my son haseither been deployed or is dying

(35:16):
.
Okay, he died in 15, two yearsbefore, and so it was.
And, by the way, there werestill a lot of people at the
time when I got out of theSenate Got out of the Senate.

(35:42):
There were still a lot ofpeople at the time when I got
out of the Senate that wereencouraging me to run in this
period, except the president.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'm not mean to say but he just thought that she had
a better shot at winning thepresidency than I did, and so I
hadn't.

Speaker 10 (35:54):
At this point, even though I'm at Penn, I hadn't
walked away from the idea that Imight run for office again If I

(36:15):
ran again I'd be running forpresident, and so what was
happening, though?
One of the boat dying May 30th2015, I'm not sure the month or
and what's happened in themeantime is that, as Trump gets
elected in November of 2017?

(36:40):
2016.
2016.
2016.
2016.
All right, so why in?

Speaker 5 (36:52):
2017?
That's when you left office inJanuary of 2017.

Speaker 10 (36:57):
Okay, but that's when Trump got sworn in.
Right, right, correct, okay.
Yeah.
And in 2017, beau had passedand this is personal, the title

(37:39):
of the book and the titlePromise Me.
Dad was a.
I know you're all close withyour sons and daughters, but Bo
was like my right arm and I wasmy left.
These guys were a year and aday apart and they could finish
each other's sentences Okay.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
So this is what sort of happened.
So as you listen to it, it'skind of heartbreaking.
I just it bums me out because Ithink you see it, you see how
just his recall just couldn't doit, right, right, and I think
what you realize at that pointis the people around him,
especially Jill Biden, beashamed of yourself.

(38:15):
I mean doing this to him,because he just was really
struggling.
And it's on your wife, I think,to have an honest conversation
with you about look, this isn'tquite going to work.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Right, and you should definitely not be running for
reelection Like he should havenever, put his hat in the ring
for that.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah.
And then you pair that with amedia structure who was so
invested in making sure thatDonald Trump could never get
back into office.
The combination of the two theopportunists next to Biden and
the opportunists in the mediacoming together to lie to people
in a way that can only bedescribed as the most

(38:59):
devastating political scandal inthe past 70 years.
It's that simple and it's notdebatable.
I'm sorry, if you're trying todebate that, you're crazy,
especially when you startlooking at some of these
headlines and some of what Bidenwas unable to do and what this
book will point out.
I have a feeling.
But look at some of these.
I mean even a great examplehere in the Atlantic, right

(39:20):
after this very thing, you know,after the her thing comes out
and we hear what Robert Herrsays, which is he basically says
yeah, he's a male, well-meaningguy who just he can't remember
anything.
Yeah, he doesn't.
I mean, he's a well-meaning guywho, just he can't remember
anything.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
I mean, he wasn't vicious in what he said about
him, and so it says how Herrmisled the country on Biden's
memory.
Now, what's interesting aboutthis is, as Robert Herr
testified over all of this.
You know, adam Schiff attackedRobert Herr and said you didn't
have to say that he was awell-meaning man with a poor
memory.
You didn't have to say that hewas a well-meaning man with a

(39:57):
poor memory.
You didn't have to say that.
In fact he did.
The reason he had to say thatis because if Robert Herr went
out and said I'm not chargingBiden and does not explain why
it will look so corrupt, itwould be terrible.
Instead, he goes out and sayslook, he just can't do it.
No one, we're not, and it wasthe compassionate, right thing
to do.
I know the people oh, youshould have thrown Biden.
No, you shouldn't.
Look, biden's got all hisproblems.

(40:18):
I get it, but this was RobertHerr.
I think doing it was a note ofcompassion.
It honestly was.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Once you listen to this if you listen to more of it
, you hear it it just is hecan't answer questions.
He just can't do it and I'msure he had to walk away from
this interview going.
I hope people around him yankhim from from trying to run, and
I mean this is months before weactually all find out.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah, and, and he and you could
have had he gotten out aroundthis time.
Yeah, yeah, and he and youcould have had he gotten out
around this time.
You'd have the time for theDemocrats to do what they needed
to do, right, which which theydidn't do.
So Peter Doocy, who's a Foxcorrespondent, who kind of sat

(41:00):
on the ground and he was Biden'smain antagonist during his time
in office, and this RobertHursthoff was not news to him.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
I mean, he knew exactly what was going on.
Exactly what was going on Bidenabout this Robert, her
recommendation not to prosecutehim for mishandling classified
information, because he thoughtafter sitting for that interview
that any jury would just cometo the conclusion that Joe Biden
would not be convicted.
He was a well-intentioned,elderly man with a poor memory
and even in big moments, bigaddresses throughout his

(41:28):
presidency.
A big part of the reason thathe had to drop out and cede to
Kamala Harris is because itsounded like on camera he was
talking in slow motion.
If you slowed that down 10times, that is what you get with
this audio.
We know that it was on a busyday.
He sat with Robert Herr in themap room at the White House as
the October 7th attacks wereunfolding.

(41:48):
But it really makes everybody.
Once you hear this audio, itmakes everybody that was saying
well, joe Biden is OK in private.
Look really, really bad.
We all saw what we saw oncamera in public, but this is a
recorded and they knew that theywere being recorded, but it it

(42:11):
just sounds like a guy whoreally needed a coffee.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
So let's hold on for one sec.
And so now we go.
We go away from thecompassionate portion of this,
the Biden portion, really, whenyou listen to it, and again,
what I mean by just him as ahuman being, not everything else
, right, right.
But then you get to theinfuriating part of this when
you start listening to what paidliars were saying for him and

(42:39):
enabling him and putting him ina position and, most importantly
, putting the country in a very,very vulnerable position like
we had not been in in decades.

Speaker 12 (42:51):
And have the stamina , physically and mentally, do
you think, to continue on evenafter 2024?
Don, you're asking me thisquestion oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
He's the president of the United States.
You know he I can't even keepup with him, you know he.

Speaker 9 (43:04):
I can't even keep up with him.
The most difficult part about ameeting with President Biden is
preparing for it, because he issharp, intensely probing and
detail oriented and focused.

Speaker 11 (43:17):
I can testify because I've been working very
closely with this president forthe past two years.
I've been knowing it for 30years and I'm telling you, this
guy's tough, he's smart, he's onhis game.

Speaker 7 (43:26):
Joe Biden has vision, he has knowledge, he has a
strategic thinker.

Speaker 9 (43:31):
The president is focused, he's detail oriented,
he's always thinking about thebig picture, he is engaging.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
He is capable.
He has an incredible record aspresident.

Speaker 7 (43:42):
And I'm often with him on foreign trips he's at the
top of his game.
So he has a vision, he hasknowledge, he has judgment, he
has a strategic thinking.

Speaker 11 (43:54):
I met with the president I don't know five or
six weeks ago, but he seemedfine to me.
I have complete confidence inthe president.
I have watched him expertlyguide meetings of staff and
cabinet members.
I could not have moreconfidence in the president.

Speaker 9 (44:09):
I would just tell you that I meet frequently with the
president and every single timeI meet with him he is just fine
.
But he is again knowledgeablewise.
Incredibly sharp, incrediblyprobing, incredible command of
the details.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Okay it just is awful what they did.
Every one of them should beashamed of themselves, because
they know the truth.
We all knew it, but theyabsolutely knew it.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
We should give the best actor awards for these
people.
Yeah, I don't know who we go to.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, boyorkas was pretty good.
I know I may go with Boyorkas,I, I yeah.
Yeah, my orcas was pretty good.
I know I may go with my.
Oh, probing, I mean probing,you got to get ready for these
meetings.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah, the probing questions which are like so what
am I talking about again?
Can somebody?
remind me, I mean it's just, andwe've been around people I mean
, we have people in our familythat there's.
You know, when you see somebodyto start the mental decline to
begin, the last thing that youwant to do is put them in a
stressful situation.
So I don't know how it would becompassionate to keep a man

(45:13):
that was clearly, you know,going downhill mentally right,
why would you?
It's, the most stressful job inthe world is to be the
president of the United States.
I don't understand how anybodyin his family or anybody in the
party that was close to him Idon't know if there was somebody
running the you know the puppetkind of thing Like there's been
that kind of talk that theywanted to keep him in place

(45:34):
because they had an agenda topush and he was.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
And they didn't want to help Trump, right, I mean
that would be.
One thing that people don'ttalk about is the internal
pressure within the media to notbe seen as helping Trump.
That that's what all this comesdown to, and, in fact, what
you're seeing now is the pivotright.
So what happens on the pivot?

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Here's the media pivot from the New York times.
Take a look at the headline onthe right.
Yeah, biden's age is a campaignproblem, not a governing one.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
All right, so that was February 12th 2024.
Same writer Just complete lie,complete lie, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Same writer on May 16th of 2025.
So this week, yep.
How did so many electedDemocrats miss Biden's infirmity
?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
They didn't.
We all know they didn't.
Yeah, they didn't, and neitherdid you, neither did you,
michelle Goldberg.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Right, you knew it too.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Everybody knew it, but I had conversations with
media friends of mine.
Right, we're like oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's fine well
, I read it.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I read it in the new york times that he was he's fine
.
No, I I write.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
I talked to people who who talked to people who met
with him and said oh no, reallygood, really sharp, and it was
just it's such a I mean suchgarbage.
And then I talked to people whowent to some of his fundraisers
who said yeah, gone, gone, liketotally gone yeah, so the
question is what message do dodemocrats take from this?
do they?
They sit down and say you knowwhat?
We really made a terriblemistake Because it cost them.
It cost them significantly, andthey've already paid the price.

(46:50):
They've taken the medicine.
I think for this to besomething that they can get past
, they have to acknowledge it.
But are they acknowledging it?
Here's Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 13 (47:00):
I'm interested to know whether the man that you
saw sitting there on that couchon that day you were in there,
you saw him up close andpersonal Did you really not have
any idea that he was not fit toserve a second term.

Speaker 9 (47:15):
Casey, we're looking forward.
We have the largest Medicaidcut in front of us.

Speaker 13 (47:19):
We have the whole federal government because you
lost a presidential election.
And is that not Joe Biden'sresponsibility for deciding to
run again?

Speaker 1 (47:26):
We're looking forward .
So there's a joke, that's it.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
So I mean she's like that's it, that's what you're
not, so you're not going to beculpable at all.
There's going to be noownership over any of this.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
So there's a joke that there's always this Bill
Belichick joke.
Where or when he doesn't likehow a game is gone, he'll always
stand up there and be likewe're moving on to the Browns or
we're moving on to Cleveland.
He like like you won't talkabout it.
That's Chuck Schumer, rightthere.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
That's a football game and it is not the
protection of the United Statesof America.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
I totally agree with you, and the reason it gets
worse is this week this bookcomes out.
It's original sin from JakeTapper and Alex Thompson that
talks about all these issues.
Jake Tapper is going to go out,and so is Alex Thompson.
They're going to go out on allthe Republican, I think places
like Megyn Kelly and stuff likethat to to go on all the big
Republican outlets, Cause theyknow those people are going to
want to buy the book.

(48:15):
Yeah, I mean yeah, but I alsothink they're going to take a
lot of incoming and then I alsothink it's going to be shots,
especially directed at tapper,saying you had a chance to stand
up on this, and not only didyou not stand up and ask those
questions, you ran interferencefor him, and now you have the I

(48:39):
want to say a different word butyou have the cojones to go and
put out a book and make moneyoff this, when you could have
stood up for, for and done yourjob for the American people.
But you did not do it, youcoward.
And now, even worse, you stepup and you go try to make a
bunch of money off.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Oh, he's into capitalism now.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Mark Jake Tapper's a capitalist?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
I don't know I mean, that's exactly what's happening.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
So yeah, so we'll see .
We'll see what happens, butthat is going to be a big deal
coming up this week.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
So be prepared.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
And the budget pill.
Be prepared for those two.
I know kind of a weird episode.
No, it's good, it's a goodepisode.

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