Very Different Weeks for Trump, Biden

Episode Transcript

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Scott Vordiz. The divergent path thesetwo candidates for the presidency, I say
two candidates. Sorry if you're anRFK junior fan, which there has to
be a few, but these twocandidates for the presidency here quite very,
very different paths here in terms ofhow things look long time from now,

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We've got a long time till Novemberbefore this election. Anything can happen,
and probably will, but as ofright now, it doesn't look good for
President Biden. And that's the assessmentof Democratic lawmakers on Saturday afternoon. This
was before the news cycle spun usin a very different direction with the assassination

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attempt on Saturday night. But onSaturday afternoon, there was a zoom meeting
with dozens of Democratic lawmakers and theywere meeting with the President of the United
States. One of them is aCongressman from Colorado named Jason Crow. Representative
Crow has some very interesting thoughts onnational security, and he was stressing the

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president on the importance of national security. And what does Congressman Jason Crowe of
Colorado know about national security in themilitary, Well, he is a Bronze
Star Award recipient, he's a formerArmy ranger. He served three tours in

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the Middle East, and for thatthe President started lighting him up first,
telling him of this is according tothe Daily Beast. He says, first
of all, you're dead wrong onnational security. You saw what happened recently
in terms of the meeting we hadwith NATO. I put NATO together.
Name me a foreign leader who thinksI'm not the most effective leader in the

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world on foreign policy. Tell me, tell me who the hell that is.
He's yelling at this, and thenhe says, and this is the
quote, says, quote, tellme something you've never done with your bronze
star like my son. Un quotethat's the quote. I don't know what

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he was getting at. I don'tknow what the phrasing means. I don't
know if he was I mean,his son, bo Biden got a Bronze
Star, and that's commendable. ButJason Crowe, but let's just look,
I mean, let's look at whatthey did to receive this Heroic Service honor

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for meritorious service in a combat zone. Bo Biden got it for service in
Iraq in two thousand and two thousandand nine as a member of the Judge
Advocate General Corps aka JAG Corps.That's fantastic. Congressman Crowe received a citation

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in two thousand and three for hisactions as a platoon leader in the eighty
second Airborne Division during the Battle ofSamawah. This was the largest sustained urban
combat that paratroopers of the eighty secondAirborne have been involved in since World War
II, and it was for thatthat Jason Crowe got a Bronze Star as

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well. Both of them highly deservingof this honor. Why in the world
is the President of the United States, who by the way, happens to
be the commander in chief, seeminglymocking him, like your bronze star isn't
as good as my son's bronze star. Now, I don't know how you

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would respond in a situation like this, but Congressman Crowe, according to those
who were on the call, remainedvery calm, just telling him it's not
breaking through, mister President to ourvoters. Biden fires back, You ought
to talk about it national security.Nobody's been a better president than I've been.
Name me one, Name me one. So I don't want to hear

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that crap like it's the members ofCongress's fault that the people that the voters
don't know that Joe Biden has beenthe best president on national security of all
time. How come Jason Crow isn'tout there telling voters, Oh, President

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Biden is the best president in thehistory of the nation on national security.
I have one reason why he's probablynot saying it because he doesn't believe it,
because it's not true. So CBSreaches out to him and said,
I heard emotions ran a little highduring the call yesterday. This was on

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Sunday. Again, no one wasreally paying attention to this because everyone on
Sunday is still talking about the assassinationattempt on Trump. And Crow again gentlemanly
about it and just says, yeah, politics is a tough business. There's
a lot at stake. And hesays, I think the President heard our
message very clearly, and he promisedto come back to us with more information.

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Others on the call, according tothe assessment here of the Daily Beast,
So I'm sure those who are moreliberal and their political persuasion are going
to take this with a grain ofsalt, say that the president was rambling,
dismissive of concerns, and unable orunprepared to present a campaign strategy.

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The unnamed lawmaker law one on HighOne unnamed lawmaker said he lost a ton
of respect. He or she losta ton of respect for the president after
the meeting. Quote he was rambling. He'd start an answer, then lose
his train of thought and he'd justsay whatever. He couldn't complete an answer.

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I lost a ton of respect forhim. And then yesterday we saw
the interview he did with Black EntertainmentTelevision b e T, which was recorded
the other day, edited since then, and then presented to the American people
with what the president's people and campaignwanted them to see. There's one line

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in it that I'm surprised got leftin there. You'll hear it next Scott
godhees where you're going News Radio eleventen kfab if we saw the b ET
interview. This is an interview herecorded the other day with Black Entertainment Television,
and it took a few days forus to be able to see it
because you know, the campaign says, here are the questions you have to

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ask ahead of time, and wealso want the right to be able to
heavily edit it before the people seeit. It's not journalism. It's not
how journalists conduct journalism, but it'syou know, for those media outlets willing
to be cheerleaders and mouthpieces for apolitical party, they are happy to do

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it. And you know there aresome on the right who do this as
well. But anyway, in thisinstance, it was Black Entertainment Television talking
to the President. And I sayall that not to condemn or question the
journalistic ethics of b E T,but to say the White House are probably

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the campaign I'm not sure which onehere, but those surrounding Joe Biden edited
everything and gave us the most polishedversion of the interview that they could possibly
muster. And they left this partin as the President's talking about how great

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he is with the blacks, andso it's all about it's all about treating
people with dignity, and it's aboutmaking sure that we're coming. For example,
look at the heat I'm getting becauseI named a stricturing defense a black
man I named Katanji Brown. Imean, because of the people I've named.

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Let me decipher this for you again. I've had a chance to listen
to this a few times. Hesays, it's about treating people with dignity,
and then he starts to say somethingelse and then interrupts himself and says,
look at the people I've named.I named the Secretary of Defense,

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the black man. I named KatanjiBrown. Now he put Kaitanji Brown by
name. This is a Preme Courtjustice, not her full name. Her
name is Kaitanji Brown Jackson, whohe referred to as Kaitanji Brown, but

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he didn't name the Secretary of Defensecalled him the black man. His name,
by the way, is Lloyd Austin. He's not some underling, you
know, somewhere in some cabinet positionthat the President doesn't associate with. He's
the Secretary of Defense. Lloyd Austin. Couldn't remember his name. But he's

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the black man. You know.We named him, you know, the
black man, and named Kaitanji Brown. He almost did, you'r Supreme Court
justice, which makes you wonder asby the way, there are people,
by the way, that sounds likesomething President Biben say. And by the
way, I tell you another thing. Look, well, you know anyway

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anyway number one anyway, Well,the timeline has been that he said,
I want my running mate to besomeone with certain who checks certain boxes,
and Democrats were absolutely fine with that, and I think a lot of other
people are like, all right,Well, certainly there are people in this

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country who don't feel connection with Washingtonbecause they see the nation largely being ran
by people who don't look like them. I'm not dismissing or discounting any of
that. But President Biden said,I want to have a woman, and
I'd like to have a black woman. So we have Vice President Kamala Harris.
Well, now there are people whorefer to Kamala Harris as a DEI

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hire. Now, there wasn't anythingthat was supposed to be wrong with dei
hires, where people are hired ornamed or promoted due to the fact that
they check off certain demographic boxes,whether that be gender, race, sexual
orientation, or whatever. This waspromoted as being a great thing. He

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said that's what he wanted on histeam, and so presumably that's a big
reason that made Kamala Harris be VicePresident of the United States. Well,
there are some people who are dismissingher as a DEI higher, which he
admitted she was not to say she'dnot qualified, but that made her more

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qualified because of the Dei part ofit. Now, some people pointed out
Dei High and like, how dareyou how dare you call her a Dei
Higher? You called her that.And now as people are saying, you
appear to be putting people in positionsof power, not because necessarily the qualifications,

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but by the fact that it's awoman or a black or black woman,
and you can't even remember their names. You can't remember the name of
your defense secretary. You can't rememberthe full name of a Supreme Court justice.
There's only nine of them. Youonly have one secretary of defense,
it's the black man. And thenhalf of the name of a Supreme Court

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justice. And some people say thehead of the Secret Service is a Dei
hire. We will get to thatShinola show that happened as she was in
Milwaukee last night, after we tellyou a few more details about what President

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Biden is doing, which he's nowdoing with COVID. It's coming up here
after a Fox News update. NextScott Vories NewsRadio eleven ten kfab Lucy,
the President has COVID. COVID thenineteen version what he got the flirt?
He got? The flirt got theflirt subvariant I presume he's got the flirt.

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It's the they call it flirt.It's like f L little I capital
art. I mean, it's somesort of fancy thing they've done with these
sub variant, all sub variants,little baby variants of the omicron variant of
COVID nineteen. And they call thissub of the sub variant flirt. It's

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always something, isn't it. Yeah, And it's by far the number one
type of COVID nineteen that people aregetting right now. And they don't know
this necessarily because people are being testedfor it. They know it because and
stop me if you've heard this one. How do they know that all these

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people in the places like Los Angelessuddenly have a rise in coronavirus cases if
people aren't getting tested, how dothey know? How do they know?
Do you remember how they know COVIDtoes. No, it's not the COVID
toes, it's testing the wastewater.I'm surprised he doesn't have bird flu.

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Well, I don't know that theytested the President's wastewater. But now here
the story says coronavirus levels in California'swastewater have reached a very high level.
For the first time since last winter. According to the CDC, California is
not the only one. There areseven states with very high levels and it's
all being picked up by that whichthey examine in our wastewater. That's someone's

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job by yeah, the others.See you got California, Arkansas, Florida,
Maryland, Nevada, Oregon, andTexas. Los Angeles County is one
of the the pinpoint zones of theelevated levels of the new COVID variant known

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as FLIRT aka KP two, KPthree, and KP one in that order,
your dominant subvariance of COVID nineteen.The latest CDC guideline is if you
have mild symptoms and your fever freewithout help of medication, you can return

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to school or work after how manydays of isolation? Remember remember how many
days it used to be you hadCOVID even if you had no symptoms,
you tested positive. Don't come aroundhere no more for how many days?
Tom Petty, No, Yes,it was your eighties music reference for the
segment of the radio program. Younailed that one weeks, ten days,

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ten days, was two weeks,yeah, well then mostly it was ten
days. Well, the CDC guidelineright now is all right, you got
you tested positive. Sorry to hearyou tested positive for COVID nineteen. Do
you have mild symptoms? Have youbeen fever free without the help of medication.
Well, you can go back toschool or work in how many days
now? Seven? Lower? Threelower, twenty four hours, twenty four

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hours? Huh, one day.So the variant's not that bad. I'll
leave you to your own conclusions onthis. What I imagine is pretty bad
right now is the reaction to peoplethat said, wait a second, I
as recently as a few months ago. This isn't me saying this. This

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would be Joe covid American who saidI tested positive because I had to test
for whatever it is I was doingor whoever I was working for. I
tested positive, felt fine, hadzero symptoms, wasn't taken any medicine.
My vaccination status is my business.And I was told you can't come back

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to work for ten days, whichmeans I lost out on ten days of
salary, on my hourly wage orwhatever. I was like, I can
come work today. Oh no,you'll kill us all. So now it's
it's one day. That's the guideline. The president. We learned yesterday tested

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positive for COVID, so be backnow. He says he's fine. He
says, he said, quote,I feel good. I knew that he
would. But I don't know ifthat means like no symptoms, whether he's
taking medication. You know, heis the president of the United States.
No, it's without medication, Iknow, But if if there's a contributing

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factor to where he would have tostay off the campaign trail or isolate longer
than what the CDC guideline is isif you don't have symptoms or mild symptoms
and you're not taking medication to reducefever. So we'll see how long COVID
knocks him out. He struggled yesterdaywalking up the few to get on to

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Air Force one. So now he'sat the beach house that's in Delaware,
no public events scheduled, and thevice president is out there stepping up for
the campaign, waiting for someone totell her, all right, you're up.
You're on the top of the ticket. You know, if nobody expected

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anything of any substance from me andI had a beach house, I'd have
COVID for the rest of my life. Can't work covid. Well, it
does say he received his first doseto pax loobid yesterday. Oh no,
I don't know that. I don'tknow. I don't think so. I
think it's probably preventative. But right, I don't know how many we could

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probably figure this out, how manyshots and booster shots that the president would
have received, well, maybe hadthree of his annual annual physicals last year?
Right, that's what the White Housesaid. Why has this doctor been
to visit the president three times andnine months part of his annual physical Three

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annual physicals and nine months. Idon't think you understand the word annual.
Right, Well, it's been ayear since his most recent second of three
annual physicals. We mean like inone year's term. This is the second.
It's a trilogy of physicals. Ibet the third one is just terrible.
Most of the three of the threemovies, they're not very good.

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So, but that doesn't mean thepresident's not doing anything. Is he?
He's doing something? They just announcedanother one point two billion dollars in debt
cancelation today. You get a studentloan bailout and you get it. Who
does I don't know. They justsaid, yeah, we're another one point

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two billion dollars in student loan debtcancelation. That's one hundred and sixty nine
billion dollars in taxpayer dollars that won'tbe paid back by people who said,
may I have this money? Theysaid, well, here's the terms.
You got to pay this back.Oh you bet, I will, and
then the taxpayers bailed them out.Many of these people, I'm sure they

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enjoyed the bailout, but they didn'task for it. Some of them have
been paying back their student loans.Some of them haven't for whatever reasons.
But now the taxpayers many people whodidn't take student loans, many people didn't
go to college. All of ourtax dollars have to go to another round

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of bailouts because it is politically popular. So it's not like President is not
doing anything. He's trying to winover young voters by trying to get them
some relief on their student loan payments. This as a survey published yesterday by
the American Council of Trustees and Alumnifound that college students are dumber than at

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any point in history when it comesto knowing about their government. Sixty sixty
percent couldn't identify term lengths for membersof the Senate or House of Representatives twenty
seven percent. Only twenty seven percentnew when asked well, who's the President

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of the US Senate? Which isa little confusing, but if you phrase
it as what member of government inthe event that there's a fifty to fifty
tie in terms of your votes inthe US Senate, who comes in there
as President of the Senate to breakthe tie? It's the vice president.
Twenty seven percent knew that. Thirtyfive percent we're able to identify Mike Johnson

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as being a Speaker of the House. I'm encouraged that it was that high.
Yes, twenty two percent of studentsperformed at a proficient level on a
civics test according to the National Centerfor Education Statistics. Who's to blame for

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this failed education system in grade schoolthrough high school? And a basic apathy
when it comes to any of thisstuff. You don't have to know how
many Supreme Court justices there are.You just have to know whether the leader
of your political persuasion likes the SupremeCourt right now or hates them, and

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we should do something about it.And right now, if you're a Democrat,
you hate the Supreme Court. Wegot to do something about that.
Who cares how many members there areor should be, What can we do
to stop them. That's the levelof concern that many young people and older
people have right now when it comesto government. So President Biden is like,

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Wow, a lot of young peopledon't know how government works, so
they don't know that I not onlydon't have the power, but I've been
told by a judge I don't havethe power to forgive student loan debt.
But we're going to keep announcing it, even though I don't know that anyone's
gonna see any of this relief,but it's politically popular, and so therefore

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I will keep doing it. Now. This has been what's been going on
with the president here in the lastfew days. It's not a great time.
Meanwhile, after a man was nearlyassassinated on Saturday, another couple of
wins yesterday for Trump. I'll tellyou what they were next. Scott boys

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Zonker's custom was in box Scott atkfab dot com. Becky email says Biden
doesn't have COVID. I'm saying hedoesn't have COVID for the third time.
They just don't want him to giveany speeches for a while. That's what
Becky say on the U in theend box there. Thank you, Becky.
As I mentioned, it's been atough week for President Biden, more

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and more members of his party oropenly calling for him to leave the campaign
privately. You hear Schumer and Pelosi, you're out this as Trump's got an
out too. Sold out five thousand, three hundred dollars sneakers, five thousand
sneakers that are each priced at threehundred dollars apiece. This is a company

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selling these with an image of Trumpwith blood on his cheek pumping his fist
in the air on the side ofthe shoe. The Fight Fight Fight high
Tops two hundred and ninety nine dollarssold out immediately after going online yesterday.
That's that's nice win for Trump.Not as nice as this one, though.

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The Georgia case there about the electioninterference now has a court date connected
to this issue there, brought bythe Fulton County DA Fanny Willis. They
said, all right, all right, well hear all these arguments, will
bring this to court and it's goingto be on December fifth. December fifth,

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the month after election day, sothat Georgia court case will have no
bearing on this election cycle, anelection cycle that has the media giving the
Republicans a damned if they do,damned if they don't. Rating Right now,
I'll explain that after your next chance. One of a thousand bucks.
Tonight is something that some will findfantastic to see. Some are going to

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be absolutely horrified. Tonight, asthe networks allow Donald Trump to be on
stage in Milwaukee at the Republican NationalConvention, he'll address the RNC and the
nation in his first public speech sincethe assassination attempt from Pennsylvania on Saturday.

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I don't know how he's going tostart it. If I'm Trump, I'm
wondering, do I say, myfellow Americans, lend me your ear.
That's a good line, or Idon't know. If I just go up
there and once the applause dies down, say all right, now, where

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was I and then refer to thesign behind me. There the screen behind
me that has some of the statisticsof what's going on on our southern border,
and just pick up right where heleft off on Saturday. Now,
that would be an interesting way tostart the speech. We're told it's going
to be a kinder, gentler Trump. We'll see how long that lasts.
And if it does last for awhile, what form is it going to

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take? And how much will ardentTrump supporters who are more apt to heat
his called a fight fight fight notliterally, but how much are they going
to really rally behind someone who hasbeen not kinder and gentler throughout his political
career. And what's really interesting aboutall of this is even before on what

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happened on Saturday, there has beena movement. It's a little difference.
It's not your Grandpa's Republican Party orDad, I don't know how you are.
It's not your great great Grandpapy's RepublicanParty. Now, the media has
never liked the Republican Party. Themost of the mainstream media has found a
different way to demonize the Republican Party. Since Saturday, it's been a little

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bit tougher to discern what they're doing. How do they criticize President Trump without
criticizing President Trump. One this wasan editorial from the New York Times that
said, you know, it's amazingwhat the Democrats are doing and having this

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robust debate over whether Biden is worthyto continue as President of the United States
whether he is fit to continue hiscampaign. But we hear the New York
Times think it's admirable what the DemocratParty is doing and wonder why the Republican
Party doesn't do the same. Sothat, I mean, it's stuff like

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that. But meanwhile, while they'restill criticizing Trump and all things maga,
the Republican Party has been shifting.There are some very big examples of that
during this year's national convention. Andthe same media that's always criticized the Republican
Party for being Republican is now criticizingthe Republican Party for straying away from some

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of their long held conservative ideals.Not so much at the strain away,
but it is a little different.I'll give you some examples. Abortion,
for example. Now, for severaldecades, really since Roe v. Wade,
the Republican Party platform every four years, and one of their national convention
was, you know, we holdthe right to life to be sacred,

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and we're going to work to overturnRoe versus Wade, and we'd love to
see a national referendum on abortion.You know, that kind of language has
been their stance on that issue,and a lot of politicians, be they
Senate, House, president, politiciansall run on that, that that platform,
we're very pro life, we havea one hundred percent a plus rating

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from pro life organization, a prolife organization B. And they get all
those campaign donations and they run onthat, and then they go serve a
couple of years, a couple ofterms, whatever it is, and none
of them offer up any bills orreally do anything on that except just talk
about it. Well, Trump didwhat he said he was going to do

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an opportunity to change the landscape ofthe Supreme Court to overturn Roe versus Wade,
since Congress wasn't going to do it. This is the only way this
issue was going to be decided.It was decided by the courts in Roe
v. Wade. It was redecidedby the courts here with the most recent
decision, the Hobbs decision. Andnow Trump is saying that's the way it

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should be handled. Leave it upto the states. So now at the
Republican Convention, rather than here's ournational party platform on the issue. Instead,
it reiterates Trump's stance that states shoulddecide this, and the media is
blasting the Republican Party for that.The unions are getting an ovation by the

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Republican Party. It used to bequite in the pocket of the Democratic Party
votes that they took for granted,telling the unions, oh, yeah,
we're very pro labor, while lettinga bunch of illegal immigrants into the country
to undercut labor organizations and all Americanworkers. So the unions are being invited

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this year to the convention. Youhad the president of the Teamsters, Sean
O'Brien, I think he's Irish,Shan Shan O'Brien was out there speaking on
Monday night, and it wasn't afull throated endorsement of conservatism, Republican Party
or Trump stuff. He still talkedabout why he feels like labor is a
great thing for this country, andthat's fine, but this was an ovation

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to the American worker. The Americanworker who's like, I'm a labor guy,
I'm a union guy. I voteDemocrat, just like my dad and
my grandfather, both union guys.They all voted Democrat. But boy,
what's happening with the illegal immigration inthis country and our ability to continue the
work that we've taken pride in overthe years under the party that says they

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stand for us. I don't seethem standing for us. The Republican Party
is openly courting them. That's differentthis year. And the party platform that
has always espouched marriage as being betweena man, one man, and one
woman, that's not in there either. It expresses support for a culture that

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values the sanctity of marriage and thefoundational role of families. And so the
media is looking at this. SeePolitico is one source here, Role Call
is another, and they're saying thisis this is not you know, the
Republican Party of the nineteen seventies.Leaders from fifty years ago wouldn't recognize this

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Republican Party. That's an opinion pieceand roll call. And the media is
very happy to tout all of this. Oh, you know, Trump,
you Republicans, you stalwar of theconservative ideals. Trump is abandoning your principles.

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Now the media doesn't care about theprinciples. They're just trying to have
wedge and division. I don't knowif it's going to work. I don't
know. Rather, this comes downto more Democrats sitting out the election,
or more Republicans sitting out the electionbecause of issues they see with their candidate

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or their party or whatever. Buttheir boy, the media is really really
trying. Here's an assessment of theNew York Post. They said, the
Republican platform reads like a collection ofTrump social media posts, sometimes all caps.
They quote Rick Santorum, the formerPennsylvania senator, who says this is

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not a conservative platform. Trump isaiming right down the middle, in other
words, where most Americans are now. I mentioned that the Well, let
me do this story first, thenI'll go back there. Here's an interesting

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and maybe unusual, but in termsof the party politics of it, it's
not unusual. This particular circumstance isinteresting, and it has to do with
a boutique in I don't know,Lenore, Lenoir City in Tennessee, just
southwest of Knoxville. It's a businesscalled the Honey Blossom Boutique. The owner

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of the boutique has been there forI think seven years, she said,
is not political. She doesn't carewho you vote for. She doesn't care
about any of this stuff. She'strying to do business on Broadway Steton Broadway
Street and lenar Linoins City. Tryingto use my French here near Knockville,

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Tennessee. But she's in one ofthese strip areas and the building's owner,
her landlord is a big Biden fan, and so the big Biden fan chose
the best placement for a big JoeBiden campaign sign Biden twenty twenty four,
and he hung that in the mostvisible place on his building, which happens

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to be right above the front doorof the boutique. Now, the boutique
owner says, I'd like to keeppolitics out of shopping. Quote. Shopping
is supposed to be fun and relaxing. It's not supposed to be political.
I don't make a stance one wayor the other. If someone wants to
ask my personal opinion, I'll tellhim, but it's not good business.

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It's interesting to note that this particulararea, this county, seventy three percent
of the vote in twenty twenty wentto Trump, so there might be a
little bit of business here. Butshe says, yeah, people tell me
they don't appreciate my sign. Itold the landlord I don't appreciate the sign,
and the landlord says, tough mysign, she says, He adamantly

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refuses to take it down, eventhough it's killing the business that funds her
ability to pay the rent that goesin his pocket. That's how much the
politics of all of this care amatter to the landlord rather than taking care
of his customers, and city officialssaid, well, there's really nothing we
can do about it. We justfind way after way to let to take

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politics personally and find ways to makeenemies out of people who should be our
friends. Now, I told youthe media is having a hard time trying
to find ways to criticize Trump andhis supporters after what happened on Saturday.

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Well not as hard a time asmembers of Congress are having trying to get
answers out of the head of theSecret Service. Did you see this last
night? I'll tell you next.Scott Voices, News Radio eleven ten kfab
nothing has been normal this week,including members of the United States Senate chasing
down the director of the Secret Servicein Milwaukee at the Republican National Convention.

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Kimberly Chetleh was up there, theSecret Service director, and they've got members
of the Senate here, namely SenatorJohn Barrasso of Wyoming and Marsha Blackburn of
Tennessee with a camera rolling chasing herdown. It was chaotic. Here you
music in the background. I can'treally hear what's being said, but they've

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got her surrounded, and after justa couple of minutes of that, she
says, all right, well,I'm afraid I can't make you guys happy
tonight, or however she phrased it, and starts walking away as they're chasing
her through the convention center. Thisis the head of the Secret Service.

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There is a congressional subpoena for herto appear to answer the questions about why
this, why not that, howdid this happen related to what happened on
Saturday evening in Pennsylvania? The samequestions you have, the same question members
of law enforcement has It's crazy,Marshall Blackburn. You can hear her at

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one point shout, this was anassassination attempt. You owe the people answers,
You owe President Trump answers. Sothen she heads out, won't answer
the questions, and thus far saysshe's not stepping down, while also saying,

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yes, the buck stops here,I'm in charge. Whatever happens is
my responsibility. The buck stops here. Well did you did the Secret Service
really badly screw this up on Saturday? Essentially it kind of looks like that,
Yeah, we we think we potentiallyfailed in some ways. All right,
so this was a failure in thepart of the Secret Service. Ultimately

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means it's your failure. Are yougoing to resign? No, So now
people are calling on the President tofire her. Some people say she's a
DEI hire, noting that she cameover to head up the Secret Service after
being in charge of security for Pepsi. Hey, as Billy Joel said,

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and we didn't start the fire quoterock and roller Colo wars, I can't
take it anymore unquote. This iswhen some rock stars were endorsing coke,
some rock stars were endorsing Pepsi.This is apparently turned into a tough turf
war out there between coke and Pepsi. You have no idea what the head

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of security of Pepsi has to dealwith. Pepsi includes mountain dew, and
you know you got other drinks thatwish they could be mountain do out there.
I mean it gets ugly, YesI'm joking, But before that,
she spent about thirty years with theSecret Service. It's not like she was
working guarding a vending machine for Pepsiand then someone said, hey, you're

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a woman how'd you like to behead of the Secret Service? Secret Service?
What's that? I can't tell you. It's a secret sounds fun,
Let's do it. You know that'snot how this worked. But with this
massive failure and no one getting firedfor it, no one resigning for it,

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no one accepting responsibility for it,and here we are five days later.
I don't think that's how that's supposedto work either. Scott Voice.
The details that keep coming in andcoming in and coming in. Here about
the hour long heads up that securityin Pennsylvania had about this guy. I

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try and put myself in the shoesof all the different people involved in every
single news story. Now I'm notputting myself in the shoes of the guy
on the roof. I'm putting myselfin the shoes of the Secret Service director.
I don't know how I don't dothe honorable thing and step down.

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But she's not. As officials weretipped off for an hour. Hey we
have a suspicious person here. He'slurking around. There's video of him.
He's lurking around there. I'm lookingat the video right now. If everyone's
over here at the Trump rally,and he's just kind of walking around in

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the background, walking around Now atthis point, he's not carrying a bag
or anything. He's just kind oflurking around. Now, while that's not
like shoot him or bring him infor questioning, you certainly keep an eye
on something like this, especially whenhe's kind of looking around this building,

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looking up, trying to get onthe roof, a roof of a building
where the Secret Service and local lawenforcement are using this building as a as
a a home base for them,and he's trying to get up on the
roof and people at the rally aretelling the cops like, hey, I
don't know what that guy's doing.And this went on for seventy minutes.

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The conspiracy theorists are having a fieldweek. It's a whole week of field
days over who allowed this to happen? And why have you seen the video
of Trump speaking not the one thatwe all saw on Saturday night that has

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an I don't know, because thiswould have to be a bit AI generated
in the same way that this isa terrible example. But you know,
you watch like Monday night football andthey do a three sixty view of a
play or something like that. Someof that's kind of filled in by AI
in the same way your car canseemingly say, yeah, this is a

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satellite and geosynchronous orbit over your carwatching you back into a parking space or
back out of your garage, andyou're looking up, going how can that
satellite see through my house? Arethey looking at me in the shower?
You bet they are, but no, it's AI. It kind of fills
in the gaps. It's pretty amazinghow this technology works. Anyway, someone

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did that to provide you what wouldhave been the vantage point of the shooter.
And in the splittest that's not aword, but in the splittest of
seconds before the shot that gray theside of his head and his ear,
it was I mean, his headwas in the bullseye. This wasn't a

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shot that missed if the trigger hadbeen pulled a split second earlier. But
he cocked his head to the sideand that's when it went from basically right
between the eyes to right between thehairline and the ear. Absolutely amazing.

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Now the shooter got off a fewmore shots. As you know, Corey
Comfretour lost his life. Fifty yearold guy. He was an engineer,
army reservist, spent a lot ofyears as a volunteer firefighter, and he
died during the attempt to kill Trumpat this rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He spent the final moments of hislife shielding his wife and daughter from the

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g on fire. So last night, just outside Lernersville Speedway in Sarver,
Pennsylvania, there was a vigil heldfor Corey Compartour. Big sign rest in
peace, Cory, thank you foryour service, with the logo of his
fire company where he was former firechief. This was a rural road to

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the auto racing track, lined withcourt fields, lined with churches, industrial
plants. There was a sign outsidelocal Credit Union that said, our thoughts
and prayers are with the Comparatur family. A lot of people were there last
night. The event was not apolitical rally. The event was truly honoring
his life. The organizer of thisvigil, individual named Kelly McCullough, told

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the crowd that the vigil was notpolitics. There was no room for hate
or personal opinions other than just outpouringof support for the Compartour family. Their
pastor, Jonathan Fell of Cabot MethodistChurch in Cabot, Pennsylvania, said the
family of Corey has been quote humbledby the way this community has rallied around

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them and by the support they receivedfrom people around the world. Unquote.
His name has been chanted Cory coreat the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
It's so sad that this has tobe the case, but this is the

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case, and now people are tryingto get answers from the Secret Service about
how all this worked. The FBItold us a little bit about what they
discovered in the would be assassin's twocell phones, and they said nothing that
points to a mortid a motive.There were some political images and information related

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to Republicans and Democrats. He wassearching FBI directory Attorney General Merrick Garland,
a member of the British royal family. They didn't say which one. House
Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, HouseSpeaker, Mike Johnson, Rudy Giuliani,
Fannie Willis the district attorney in Georgia. He also looked up the dates of

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various Trump appearances and those of theDemocratic National Convention. There was also another
search that was revealed, and thatwas one for major depressive disorder. His
cell phone data on the day ofthe event on Saturday shows. He twice
went to the rally location after itwas announced on some day before the shooting,

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and then on the day of theshooting, and he was there for
over an hour and was a personof interest the entire time. But still,
as you know, no one didanything about it. He was supposed
to be at work on Saturday ata nursing home where he worked, but
he told his boss, I can'twork. Why not? I have something

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to do, And I guess hetold co workers, I'll be back tomorrow.
Maybe at some point in his headhe thought he might I just go
down there shoot Trump. No onewill know it's me. I'll get away
and I'll come back to work onSunday, and all I'm out is a

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day's pay. Who knows what hisadult brain was thinking. There are,
of course, those who are demonizingthe firearm as being responsible. I'll tell
you what that sounds like next,Scott. There's an author here writing a

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piece for Slate blaming the rifle thatwas used, which they described as you
know how this works, right,let me explain to you how this works.
The AR fifteen is a weapon thatin many instances hasn't been used in

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as many of these high profile violentsituations as has been described, you'll see.
I mean, the AR does notstand for assault rifle. There's no
such thing as an assault rifle.It stands for armorite ArmaLite. But they'll
say like an AR style weapon becausepeople have it in their heads when they

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hear AR AR fifteen, they thinkassault rifle, they think military weapon.
That's not what this is. Infact, this weapon wasn't an AR.
It was an M four. Isit similar? Yeah, in the same
way that one brand of SUV issimilar to another brand of SUV. But
this guy writing for Slate says thatthis kid was such a bad aim that

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he didn't make a school's rifle team. I don't know if that's true or
not, but this guy says that, So how did he manage to direct
a bullet an inch a from dramaticallyaltering American political life because he got this
gun that was that can make acrack shot out of even the least proficient
shooters out there. Blaming the weapon, they said, it's it's stable,

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it's popular, and he says it'seasy to operate, extremely forgiving for inexperienced
shooters. So anyone willing to hurtpeople can do so without much expertise at
all, because in his assessment,that's the only reason why anyone would get
a firearm. Scott Voices mornings nineto eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB