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Speaker 1 (00:01):
New bombshell report is out saying this.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
From CNN that cabinet secretaries are apparently asked to submit
questions ahead of pre scripted meetings with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Why would CNN be breaking this news.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm going to make a prediction that there is a
real possibility now that the cabinet, at least some in
the cabinet may actually be looking at invoking the twenty
fifth Amendment. I'm going to play this for you from
CNN as they broke this news, which is rattling the
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White House as we speak.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Get the White House perspective now with sentence MJ.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lee. Who's there for is? MJ? You and your colleagues
have some reporting on the mood behind the scenes. What
are you hearing from your sources?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, boris, there's certainly been a lot of confusion and
anger and sadness inside the White House, across the administration,
the campaign, and across the Democratic Party more broadly since
the President's really halting and shocking debate performance. My colleagues
and I have spoken over the course of the last
two weeks to dozens of Democratic sources, including I should
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note senior Democrats who have spent real time with the president,
and in some cases have known the.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
President for years.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And what has been striking is that none of them
had ever seen this version of President Biden that we
all saw on the debate stage that was so faltering
and dazed, and plenty of officials that we spoke with said, look,
of course we've known that the president has aged. He
is certainly not the same person that we know from say,
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a year ago. But what they had said, and that
was so noteworthy, is that they said they couldn't have
possibly known about the full extent of the president's decline.
And what many of them blame at this point is
this apparatus and daily operation that is built around the
president that is so painfully choreographed and stage vantage, they said,
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that is designed to prevent the president from being oftened
out in these unscripted settings for an extended period of time.
And that really what that meant was that only a
small circle of inner circle of advisors and perhaps family
members could have known about sort of this full picture
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of the president's condition. Just one example that is in
our story is that, according to two sources, before cabinet
meetings that the president attends, cabinet officials will submit their
questions and talking points, key talking points and bullet points
that they plan to present to the president in these
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closed door meetings. This is how one source described it.
They said, the entire display is kind of an act.
They would come and say, hey, the President is going
to call on you about twenty five minutes in and
ask this question, what are the bullet points that you'll
respond with. Now, the White House's defense has been that
that is standard practice for any administration. They said, in
a setting like this, you never want the president to
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be not aware of what is going to be discussed.
They want to also just be mindful of the president's time.
But we also spoke with sources from the Obama years
who said, in the cabinet meetings for former President Barack Obama,
those were never this meticulously scripted. Now, more broadly, in
response to our story and our reporting, the White House
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really defended the breath of the president's travels, his engagements
with the press, and certainly his record over the last
three and a half years, and provided comments from senior
officials defending the president as being a sharp and engage
and White House spokesverson Andrew Bates also said this is
a part of his response, he said, Joe Biden has
always said that it is fair for reporters to ask
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about his age, and has always confidently shown his value,
his agenda, intelligence, and determination to the American people. Well,
in just a few hours, we are of course about
to see that play out, the President taking questions from reporters,
and we certainly expect many of those questions will be
precisely about these issues.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
By the way, this is the big boy press conference
right that they are talking about, which has already been moved.
He also was sitting down with Zelenski, and people thought, hey,
if you're trying to make it look like you're going
to answer questions, wouldn't you answer questions during the Zolensky
press conference. No, he said thank you, and that was
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the end of it. No questions were able to be asked.
Let me go back through just some of the things
that we just learned in this report that I think
are so staggering. Number One, the cabinet secretaries are having
to submit questions and then they're given a timeline when
to be ready. I've got a lot more to say
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the bottom of the screen. During this report on CNN,
it says angry and stun Democrats blame Biden's closest advisors
for shielding the public from full extent of President's decline.
That is the biggest load of crap ever. Everybody could
see this decline, Everyone could understand it. No one was
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shielding It's the president from any of his quote decline.
The only thing that has changed is now it is
in their best interests to admit that there is a
cognitive decline. Because they want to get rid of Joe Biden.
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That is literally the only difference. If you ever watched
the movie The Big Short, it was about the housing
crisis in the subprime lending.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It was in two thousand and eight. There's a moment
in that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Movie where those those that were hedging their bets and
saw this burst coming and were buying the shorting that
the housing market, they couldn't believe that as delinquencies and
defaults were going up, their positions were not being marked accordingly,
and so they had bought these positions and the banks
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were saying, hey, you got to pay us your premiums,
and they're like, how is it possible that my position
hasn't changed right when when clearly there's a massive problem
happening right before our very eyes. Well, what was happening
was is the banks were trying to get ahead of it.
They knew there was a problem, and they were offloading
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their assets that they knew were terrible, that were garbage
to then be able to hedge themselves from their massive losses.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And there's a moment in there with one of.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
The characters, a guy that's a doctor that was brilliant
that saw the bubble really in many ways before anyone else.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He said, the phone rings and it rings.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And it's one of the people that he had bought
these options from right when he was shorting the housing market.
And finally they called him back and they're like, hey,
now we can work with you on your position. He said, no,
I think what you guys are doing is you figured
out how to unload what you need to unload to
save yourself, and now you are going to adequately assess
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my position.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It was fraud.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
If you ever watch that movie, The Big Short, and
if you haven't, go back and watched that moment, that
is no different than what we're seeing for the Democratic
Party in the media right now. They know there's a problem.
They knew there was a problem. They were covering up
the problem because they didn't think it was going to
be a problem to after the election. Now we had
the press car or now we had the debate. Now
the problem is here, and they're having to figure out
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how do we offload the president of the United States
of America because now we are caught with our pants
down and we're afraid we're about to lose. And so
now they're all reacting that no, one is acting. I
want to be very very clear here. No one is
acting here in an honest way. Okay, none of them are.
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And when you have a cabinet secretaries that are forced
us to make questions ahead of prescripted meetings with the
President of the United States of America, that tells you
that they know that there has been a problem for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This has been going on for years.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And Democrat centers meeting with Biden campaign staff as pressure
builds on the president to quote exit the race was
another headline today I saw again this goes back to
you guys just finally got caught being corrupt as hell,
the idea that you're angry and stunned, right, and Democrats
are blaming Biden's close advisors for shielding him from the public,
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from shielding them from the full extent of the president's decline.
You guys all knew this was your guy. You've known
it for years. You knew there was a problem for years.
The only reason why now you're outraged is because you've
got to force him out of the race, because you
are afraid you're going to lose. I keep saying it
over and over again, because I want you to understand.
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None of these people have been acting responsibly. They are
all scumbags. Every person in the media that's now acting
like they're shocked at the decline of Joe Biden's a scumbag.
Every elected official that's a Democrat that's now acting like, oh,
the president's got to you know, get out of this race.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's only because they're going to lose power.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
George Clooney, by the way, scumbag as well.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh I love the President, but he's got to go.
You just had a fundraiser for him. He was in
decline when you did the fundraiser. Why didn't you sound
the alarm then?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Because you're a scumbag that thought you could keep power
through Biden. Now you think you can't, and now you're
pulling the rug out from under his entire administration.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
These people are scumbags.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Now there's a bombshell story that is even bigger than
the one that I just told you about. That's part
two of this insanity happening right now. There is a
new report out that says that the Biden campaign has
commissioned a Trump Versus Harris poll Kamala Harris to see
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if she would be better than Joe Biden. Now, this
is not somebody outside the campaign, right, It's not like
the Democratic Party did this.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It's not like some leftist group did this.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Or No, we're now being told the reporting is that
the Biden Harris campaign has reportedly commissioned an internal poll
to gauge how Vien's president Kamala Harris would perform as
the top nominee versus Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now, who is exposing this move?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And by the way, this was a dumb move by
the campaign, unless there's people in the campaign that are
throwing Joe Biden overboard because they're afraid they're going to
lose their power. And I would expect that to be
the case, because there are also a bunch of scumbags.
And I have no doubt that this was purposely leaked
to the media to yet again put even more pressure
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on Joe Biden to drop out of the race. His
own staff is turning on him, his own campaign is
turning on him.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
This is either the dumbest thing I've ever seen in.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
My life by any campaign to do this, or they
did it on purpose, and that's exactly what I think
they did.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I don't think they're this dumb.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think they did it and wanted to leak it,
and there's why it ended up in the New York Times.
The New York Times reporting at this hour on this development,
citing three anonymous sources who are informed about it, quote unquote,
the report comes as musings on the left about replacing
Joe Biden at the top of the ticket continued to
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grow in the aftermath of his disastrous debate performance. When
sent the shockwaves through the entire Democratic Party. Quote, they
did not specify why the survey was being conducted or
what the campaign planned to do with the results. Well,
we all know exactly, okay, what they're doing with this survey.
They're trying to see if Kamwa Harris can save the
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day and if she's any better than Joe Biden is
right now that according to The New York Times, Maggie Haberman,
as well as Shane Goldmatcher and Read Epstein, all of
these people who note this appears to be the first
Trump versus Harris poll commissioned by the campaign since the debate.
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So again, these people in the campaign, they feel like
they're going to lose their jobs. They don't want to
lose their jobs. They don't want to lose their power.
And so if that means getting rid of Joe Biden
and undermining him while you're supposed to be working and
serving him as a campaign player, they don't care, because
they only care about themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Now. It is unclear what.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Outfit is conducting the survey for the campaign now, they
don't even have the results yet, and they're leaking this.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's how plain this was.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The Times further noted the campaign manager and campaign chair
Dylan worked to reassure staff in an internal memo that
Biden remains the most viable candidate and that he has
a path to victory. Well, clearly they don't believe that,
because if you did believe that, you wouldn't be doing this,
damn pole. In addition to what we believe is a
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clear pathway ahead for us, the memo reads, there is
also no indication that anyone else would outperform the president
versus Trump. Hypothetical pulling of alternative nominees will always be unreliable,
and surveys do not take into account the negative media
environment that any Democratic nominee will encounter. The only Democratic
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candidate with whom this is already baked in is President Biden.
That is what the campaign said in their official cover
your Abs email to the staff, while they're clearly saying,
we got to figure out a way to get rid
of JR. Biden, even if it means we're stuck with
Kamway Harris, if Kamala Harris is better in the polling. Notably,
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a poll from the reputable Emerson College Polling published on
Tuesday showed Trump with an even bigger lead over Harris
than he has over Biden. It found that Trump led
Biden by three and Harris by six nationally and hypothetical
two ray Way races. News of the internal Harris versus
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Trump poll on Thursday coincided with a report from the
Times that some of Biden's closest allies are well figuring
out a strategy to quote convince Joe to end his candidacy. Additionally,
NBC News detailed that several sources in Biden's orbit say
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his bid for the White House is quote a lost cause.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
He needs to drop out.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
One Biden campaign official told NBC News he will never
recover from this. Referring to the debate, I think there's
two takeaways from this. Number One, his own campaign is
turning on him. That's pretty bad. Number two, I think
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the cabinet is now leaking because they don't want to
lose their power. And if you're a cabinet secretary, you
don't want to go out as a loser, and so
you would rather maybe even put out there the real
possibility of enacting the twenty fifth Amendment. Now, the twenty
fifth Amendment is a big deal, but if you're a
Democrat and you don't care about democracy, if you're a
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Democrat and you don't care about the Constitution, because they're
not even Democrats anymore. This goes back to what I've
been saying for a very long time. The Democratic Party
is dead. They're masquerading as Democrats because they think that's
palatable enough for the American people. They are really socialists, Marxists,
and communists.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Okay, that's who they are.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They're socialists, Marxists, and their communists.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Period.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
They would absolutely overthrow Joe Biden if it means they
think they can save themselves and be in power. They
don't care about people. They don't care about who the
people choose an election. We saw that with what they
try to do, getting rid multiple times, trying to get
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rid of Donald Trump, They don't care if the people
make a decision that they wanted Joe Biden. They don't
care if they choose someone that no one has voted for.
They don't care anything about this country when it comes
to freedom, or democracy or the rule of law. They
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have weaponized our government to go after Donald Trump and
try to take his assets and lock him up. Okay,
so we know that. I want to be very very
very clear. These people do not care whose lives they ruin.
That includes Joe Biden. I wouldn't be surprised if we
start seeing some more leaks about the Biden crime family,
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which they've defended forever. I think that's where they're going
to start hitting the Bidens next, if the Bidens don't
act now.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Let me also explain.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That there is a lot of leverage that Katamala Harris
has right now.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I want you to understand this.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
If the Cabinet can get around Harris, if the campaign
can get around Harris, Harris can then go to the President.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And I'm not sure he's the one making the decisions.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So let's just say she goes to Joe Biden and
Hunter Biden and James Biden says, look, guys. You guys,
convent your dad to drop out, and I'll give you,
guys whatever pardons you need. Moving forward, I'll make sure
that all of this, these investigations, to the best of
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my ability, disappear, or will hurry up and speed up
the investigations and get the convictions, and then I'll pardon
all of you. I think that is the leverage that
Kamala Harris has that no other candidate has.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Kamala Harris can keep the same campaign staff. She's the
only one that can keep all the money that's been raised.
She's the easiest person to replace the president because people
did actually vote for her right as the vice president.
Joe Biden could then come out with his family and say,
you know, unfortunately I'm incapacitated, or I'm getting too old,
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or it's just too tough, and I realized for the
good of the country that my vice president, who I
chose four years ago for this exact reason, is going
to step in. I'm going to campaign for her, and
we're going to win the White House. I can write
this speech and make it look perfect. I think all
of those are these options that I just mentioned are
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genuinely on the table, Gretchen Whitmer were coming to the
aid of Joe Biden trying to save his candidacy. Biden
in it to win it, and I'm damn proud to
support him, quote unquote. That is the big support he's
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getting from Witmer. The question is will it be enough
to actually make people stop talking about what's happened in
this campaign. That's the question that I don't believe. Gretchen
Whitmer saying it is gonna have that, mapect, I really don't.
Others may disagree. Stephen Colbert saying this about the President
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last night as he was doing his opening monologue, Take
a listen.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Are conflicted.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
We got a clear message today from our nation's most
powerful Democratic leader, George Clooney. George wrote a New York
Times op ed titled I love Joe Biden, but we
need a new nomine adding we also need a money guy,
a safecracker, an acrobat.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And Brad Pitts.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's the plot of Ocean's twenty four Amle's busy with
human rights stuff and I got bored.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I watched that. I love the audience reaction there.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It does tell you about how unseerious the Democratic party
is and I mean this when George Clooney is like
the new voice of the Democratic Party, you gotta kind
of laugh a little bit and sit there and you're like, really,
this is it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Stephen Colbert also uh.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Asking this question when talking about the to the audience
about the presidency. Listen carefully, what do you mean You're
not on the same page even in the same book.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Wow, that's pretty rough.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well, could I recommend a new book? Oh the Places
for Joe? Is he mentally fit? Can he serve a
whole term? Can he beat RFK with his brain full
of worm?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Just ask him? Just ask him.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The man loves to talk as long as you ask
him before eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
They are all in to get rid of Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You noticed that it was the greasy bucket of chicken guy,
Steve Cohen, who they asked that question of.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Just ask him, Just ask him.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
The man makes The man loves to talk as long
as you ask him before eight o'clock. Can he serve
a whole term? You've got Late Night, you got George Clinting,
You've got others that are just coming out one after
another making it clear they they just aren't gonna stand
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by and expect to lose. On election night, they're gonna
get rid of Joe Biden. By the way, the Daily Show,
half of The Daily Show's focus group of black New
York voters say they will vote for Donald Trump. And
even on that show, The Daily Show, they said they
didn't quote see that coming.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Okay, So who will you be voting for in twenty
twenty four?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
There?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Do I have to see his name?
Speaker 7 (24:37):
I don't want to, but more thunlikely it's gonna be Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Yeah, and then Victor Oh Biden Okay, Trump, Trump's Biden
Biden Trump.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Okay, we're an even split, which I didn't Yeah, I
didn't see that coming. So do you think there's going
to be a big shift, any sword changed.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I think it's going to be a big shift me too, shift, Yes,
really okay? For me, I've always been a Democrat, and
it's like, for the most part, with the Democratic Party,
they always make a bunch of promises that they can't deliver.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
You know, they use the issues of the African American
community as a soapbox to stand on and make promises,
you know, just to get us to come out and vote,
and then once we vote and everyone's in place.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's like with what happened?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That is a panel of all African American voters in
New York City saying this.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
On the Daily Show.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And you could see it on the Daily Show, and
you could see the moment where the host is like,
holy crap, half of you guys are going to vote
for Trump. Gretchen Whitmer, by the way, who on the
Stephen Colbert Show last night and wanted to, you know,
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say how much she loves Joe Biden and supports Joe Biden,
and Joe Biden's the nominee to try to be a
good sarrogate for Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It didn't go well for her either.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Why because well then she said she kind of didn't
watch the debate.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Nice to have you on, first time I've had a
chance to talk to you. Obviously, been following your career
for many years now, and for the people who don't know,
you're a national co chair of the Biden campaign. And
the debate is still what you know, everybody is talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What debate? Did you not get a chance to catch it?
Did you watch the debate? I've seen clips of the debate?
You didn't watch the debate.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
I was actually out on the West coast with a
couple of my colleagues.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And they don't have fun out there.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Got they don't have television in California.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly true. What was what was your reaction?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Did you were you just like, you know what, stay
of the course doesn't matter?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Full speed ahead, Joe? Or did you give you pause
at all?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I like your time?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I did know.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That's how it's gonna be okay. After the debate, forty
Democrats worry about the president's cognitive abilities? Should the Democrats
consider someone else? Which is not a crazy question. I
mean even George Clooney today name checked you in his
editorial in the New York Times that you would be
an excellent option. It's got to be a little flattering,
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right He named checked me and a handful of other folks.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And the good news is they're not here tonight, that's right.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
So who cares about that?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Exactly No? You know, I think that the.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Debate rattled a lot of people, right, it was a
lousy performance.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't think anyone's I mean, did you notice the
Dodgs there? Did you get a chance to watch it?
Did you watch the debate? I've seen the clips of
the debate. You didn't watch the debate, Whitmer. I was
actually out on the West Coast with a couple of
my colleagues, and they don't have TVs out there. Colbert
went on to say, I forgot they don't have television
(28:23):
in California. I have no doubt that Gretchen Whitmore has
seen the damn debate. And for her to sit there
and to say I support Joe Biden while saying and
claiming she didn't see the debate somehow making it seem
like she's smarter is insane.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It is absolutely insane.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Stephen Colbert spent five minutes in seventeen seconds of his
show last night warning the Democrats about Project twenty twenty
five is a radical, far right takeover of everything in
the US government. Now, let me explain to you what
I know about Project twenty twenty five. It was funny
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because two days ago my phone started ringing, and it
was a lot of liberal shows, like Chris Cuomo's show,
for example, and they were like, will you come on
and talk about Project twenty twenty five? And I'm like, yeah,
I'm more than happy to. I can do that because
I don't think it's anything that we should be freaking
out over. I think it's not a big deal at all,
(29:30):
and Project twenty twenty five is not something that I
am concerned over. Let me explain to you the best
way I can explain Project twenty twenty five so you
understand what is fact compared to what is conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I actually worked in that building when I worked for
town Hall. It was amazing, loved loved my time there.
Heritage Foundation is a hardcore conservative organization that for years
has been trying to push for principal conservative values on
Capitol Hill and also hold conservatives accountable and responsible when
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they are elected to stay true and not sell out.
Heritage Foundation has done amazing job also of mentoring and
growing conservatives, finding conservatives that they support that then run
for office that they can stand behind and support. It's
actually pretty simple. Heritage Foundation did one of the coolest
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things ever. This may have been twenty years ago now,
and it was the Heritage Guide to the Constitution, where
they had constitutional scholars go through the Constitution and then
explain the Constitution in layman's terms. It is maybe one
of the most powerful reads I've ever read in my
entire life, excluding the Bible, because it's a way to
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understand the Constitution and understand what our founding father's intent
was when writing the Constitution and what it means.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You can still.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Get copies of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution. It's
on you can grab him, i think on Amazon or online.
You can buy him on eBay, like, there's still very
much out there, all right, So let's.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Start with that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
The Heritage Foundation understood that what hurt Trump's last election
cycle was is that Donald Trump was actually not ready
with a deep enough staff, a deep enough plan to
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make a significant difference in Washington, and he was undermined. Now,
when I say that he was undermined, let me excuse
me expand on that.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Donald Trump came in.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And there's a lot of career positions in DC, and
those career positions in DC are what they refer to
as non political positions, okay, And and the non political
positions that Donald Trump did not replace was something that
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ended up coming back to haunt him because you think
that these people in non political positions are not there
to undermine you and to actually undo what you're doing
and to hurt you, and so Donald Trump was trusting
and left them there like many other administrations, whether it's
a Bush administration, Obama administration, Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But what's changed is we now are very very much
in a political world. Okay, like it's it's incredibly the
government's changed. People that used to serve our country in
these non political roles, that's what they used to actually do,
that's no longer the case.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
They no longer serve.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
There are people that have infiltrated our government that are
in career positions that are supposed to stay the same
in essence, that are quote non political positions, right, that
are actually they've turned into extremely political positions.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So you look at that, and what Heritage Foundation then
decided was, Okay, we got bamboozled, we got screwed last time.
Let's not do that again this time if Donald Trump
is elected. And so what the Heritage Foundation has done
is they've basically gone through and found positions that are
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been politicized within the government, and they're preparing to then
make recommendations the Trump administration if he has elected on
real conservatives that they've already vetted that they've already set
down with, they've already talked to that they believe would
make great replacements for the people that are there that
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are lefties, that are radical. Right now now, I think
it's pretty clear that our government has lost its way
on a level that none of us could have actually
imagined just how bad it is until we've witnessed the
Biden administration. And I'm talking about people that are extremely political.
I also think we know a lot more now about
those in our government that were there solely to undermine
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every single thing that Donald Trump was doing when Donald
Trump was president of the United States of America. And remember,
you're supposed to serve at the pleasure of the president,
meaning you're supposed to support and help and advocate for
the president of the United States of America when you
were in when you're serving the president. There were a
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lot of people in Trump's last term that they were
not serving him. They were not advocating for him, they
were not following through on his wishes as president, which
is what you're supposed to do. They were there undermining
the president. They were there doing his plans. So what
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the Heritage Foundation is now done is they've said Okay,
we now know this, right like we understand it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
We now know it, we get it.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
And so what we're going to do now is we're
going to put together a list, a very extensive, a
very deep bench of conservatives that we've vetted. So we're
not vetting them after election day, but we've got a
plan in place for January twentieth, twenty twenty five, where
the president can come in in a big way, and the.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
President can really have a deep bench.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Of individuals that we can recommend to this administration.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That shouldn't sound scary to anyone.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I understand why it sounds scary to the Democrats, but
it shouldn't sound like anything nefarious to conservatives. We're just
learning to play the same way democrats play. Make sure
you share this podcast with your family and friends, please,
because a lot of what I just played for you're
not going to hear on the news.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And I'll see you back here tomorrow.
New bombshell report is out saying this.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
From CNN that cabinet secretaries are apparently asked to submit
questions ahead of pre scripted meetings with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Why would CNN be breaking this news.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm going to make a prediction that there is a
real possibility now that the cabinet, at least some in
the cabinet may actually be looking at invoking the twenty
fifth Amendment. I'm going to play this for you from
CNN as they broke this news, which is rattling the
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White House as we speak.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Get the White House perspective now with sentence MJ.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lee. Who's there for is? MJ? You and your colleagues
have some reporting on the mood behind the scenes. What
are you hearing from your sources?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, boris, there's certainly been a lot of confusion and
anger and sadness inside the White House, across the administration,
the campaign, and across the Democratic Party more broadly since
the President's really halting and shocking debate performance. My colleagues
and I have spoken over the course of the last
two weeks to dozens of Democratic sources, including I should
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note senior Democrats who have spent real time with the president,
and in some cases have known the.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
President for years.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And what has been striking is that none of them
had ever seen this version of President Biden that we
all saw on the debate stage that was so faltering
and dazed, and plenty of officials that we spoke with said, look,
of course we've known that the president has aged. He
is certainly not the same person that we know from say,
(01:44):
a year ago. But what they had said, and that
was so noteworthy, is that they said they couldn't have
possibly known about the full extent of the president's decline.
And what many of them blame at this point is
this apparatus and daily operation that is built around the
president that is so painfully choreographed and stage vantage, they said,
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that is designed to prevent the president from being oftened
out in these unscripted settings for an extended period of time.
And that really what that meant was that only a
small circle of inner circle of advisors and perhaps family
members could have known about sort of this full picture
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of the president's condition. Just one example that is in
our story is that, according to two sources, before cabinet
meetings that the president attends, cabinet officials will submit their
questions and talking points, key talking points and bullet points
that they plan to present to the president in these
(02:49):
closed door meetings. This is how one source described it.
They said, the entire display is kind of an act.
They would come and say, hey, the President is going
to call on you about twenty five minutes in and
ask this question, what are the bullet points that you'll
respond with. Now, the White House's defense has been that
that is standard practice for any administration. They said, in
a setting like this, you never want the president to
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be not aware of what is going to be discussed.
They want to also just be mindful of the president's time.
But we also spoke with sources from the Obama years
who said, in the cabinet meetings for former President Barack Obama,
those were never this meticulously scripted. Now, more broadly, in
response to our story and our reporting, the White House
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really defended the breath of the president's travels, his engagements
with the press, and certainly his record over the last
three and a half years, and provided comments from senior
officials defending the president as being a sharp and engage
and White House spokesverson Andrew Bates also said this is
a part of his response, he said, Joe Biden has
always said that it is fair for reporters to ask
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about his age, and has always confidently shown his value,
his agenda, intelligence, and determination to the American people. Well,
in just a few hours, we are of course about
to see that play out, the President taking questions from reporters,
and we certainly expect many of those questions will be
precisely about these issues.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
By the way, this is the big boy press conference
right that they are talking about, which has already been moved.
He also was sitting down with Zelenski, and people thought, hey,
if you're trying to make it look like you're going
to answer questions, wouldn't you answer questions during the Zolensky
press conference. No, he said thank you, and that was
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the end of it. No questions were able to be asked.
Let me go back through just some of the things
that we just learned in this report that I think
are so staggering. Number One, the cabinet secretaries are having
to submit questions and then they're given a timeline when
to be ready. I've got a lot more to say
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the bottom of the screen. During this report on CNN,
it says angry and stun Democrats blame Biden's closest advisors
for shielding the public from full extent of President's decline.
That is the biggest load of crap ever. Everybody could
see this decline, Everyone could understand it. No one was
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shielding It's the president from any of his quote decline.
The only thing that has changed is now it is
in their best interests to admit that there is a
cognitive decline. Because they want to get rid of Joe Biden.
(07:42):
That is literally the only difference. If you ever watched
the movie The Big Short, it was about the housing
crisis in the subprime lending.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It was in two thousand and eight. There's a moment
in that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Movie where those those that were hedging their bets and
saw this burst coming and were buying the shorting that
the housing market, they couldn't believe that as delinquencies and
defaults were going up, their positions were not being marked accordingly,
and so they had bought these positions and the banks
(08:20):
were saying, hey, you got to pay us your premiums,
and they're like, how is it possible that my position
hasn't changed right when when clearly there's a massive problem
happening right before our very eyes. Well, what was happening
was is the banks were trying to get ahead of it.
They knew there was a problem, and they were offloading
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their assets that they knew were terrible, that were garbage
to then be able to hedge themselves from their massive losses.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And there's a moment in there with one of.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
The characters, a guy that's a doctor that was brilliant
that saw the bubble really in many ways before anyone else.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He said, the phone rings and it rings.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And it's one of the people that he had bought
these options from right when he was shorting the housing market.
And finally they called him back and they're like, hey,
now we can work with you on your position. He said, no,
I think what you guys are doing is you figured
out how to unload what you need to unload to
save yourself, and now you are going to adequately assess
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my position.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It was fraud.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
If you ever watch that movie, The Big Short, and
if you haven't, go back and watched that moment, that
is no different than what we're seeing for the Democratic
Party in the media right now. They know there's a problem.
They knew there was a problem. They were covering up
the problem because they didn't think it was going to
be a problem to after the election. Now we had
the press car or now we had the debate. Now
the problem is here, and they're having to figure out
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how do we offload the president of the United States
of America because now we are caught with our pants
down and we're afraid we're about to lose. And so
now they're all reacting that no, one is acting. I
want to be very very clear here. No one is
acting here in an honest way. Okay, none of them are.
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And when you have a cabinet secretaries that are forced
us to make questions ahead of prescripted meetings with the
President of the United States of America, that tells you
that they know that there has been a problem for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This has been going on for years.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And Democrat centers meeting with Biden campaign staff as pressure
builds on the president to quote exit the race was
another headline today I saw again this goes back to
you guys just finally got caught being corrupt as hell,
the idea that you're angry and stunned, right, and Democrats
are blaming Biden's close advisors for shielding him from the public,
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from shielding them from the full extent of the president's decline.
You guys all knew this was your guy. You've known
it for years. You knew there was a problem for years.
The only reason why now you're outraged is because you've
got to force him out of the race, because you
are afraid you're going to lose. I keep saying it
over and over again, because I want you to understand.
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None of these people have been acting responsibly. They are
all scumbags. Every person in the media that's now acting
like they're shocked at the decline of Joe Biden's a scumbag.
Every elected official that's a Democrat that's now acting like, oh,
the president's got to you know, get out of this race.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's only because they're going to lose power.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
George Clooney, by the way, scumbag as well.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh I love the President, but he's got to go.
You just had a fundraiser for him. He was in
decline when you did the fundraiser. Why didn't you sound
the alarm then?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Because you're a scumbag that thought you could keep power
through Biden. Now you think you can't, and now you're
pulling the rug out from under his entire administration.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
These people are scumbags.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Now there's a bombshell story that is even bigger than
the one that I just told you about. That's part
two of this insanity happening right now. There is a
new report out that says that the Biden campaign has
commissioned a Trump Versus Harris poll Kamala Harris to see
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if she would be better than Joe Biden. Now, this
is not somebody outside the campaign, right, It's not like
the Democratic Party did this.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It's not like some leftist group did this.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Or No, we're now being told the reporting is that
the Biden Harris campaign has reportedly commissioned an internal poll
to gauge how Vien's president Kamala Harris would perform as
the top nominee versus Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now, who is exposing this move?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And by the way, this was a dumb move by
the campaign, unless there's people in the campaign that are
throwing Joe Biden overboard because they're afraid they're going to
lose their power. And I would expect that to be
the case, because there are also a bunch of scumbags.
And I have no doubt that this was purposely leaked
to the media to yet again put even more pressure
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on Joe Biden to drop out of the race. His
own staff is turning on him, his own campaign is
turning on him.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
This is either the dumbest thing I've ever seen in.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
My life by any campaign to do this, or they
did it on purpose, and that's exactly what I think
they did.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I don't think they're this dumb.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think they did it and wanted to leak it,
and there's why it ended up in the New York Times.
The New York Times reporting at this hour on this development,
citing three anonymous sources who are informed about it, quote unquote,
the report comes as musings on the left about replacing
Joe Biden at the top of the ticket continued to
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grow in the aftermath of his disastrous debate performance. When
sent the shockwaves through the entire Democratic Party. Quote, they
did not specify why the survey was being conducted or
what the campaign planned to do with the results. Well,
we all know exactly, okay, what they're doing with this survey.
They're trying to see if Kamwa Harris can save the
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day and if she's any better than Joe Biden is
right now that according to The New York Times, Maggie Haberman,
as well as Shane Goldmatcher and Read Epstein, all of
these people who note this appears to be the first
Trump versus Harris poll commissioned by the campaign since the debate.
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So again, these people in the campaign, they feel like
they're going to lose their jobs. They don't want to
lose their jobs. They don't want to lose their power.
And so if that means getting rid of Joe Biden
and undermining him while you're supposed to be working and
serving him as a campaign player, they don't care, because
they only care about themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Now. It is unclear what.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Outfit is conducting the survey for the campaign now, they
don't even have the results yet, and they're leaking this.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's how plain this was.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The Times further noted the campaign manager and campaign chair
Dylan worked to reassure staff in an internal memo that
Biden remains the most viable candidate and that he has
a path to victory. Well, clearly they don't believe that,
because if you did believe that, you wouldn't be doing this,
damn pole. In addition to what we believe is a
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clear pathway ahead for us, the memo reads, there is
also no indication that anyone else would outperform the president
versus Trump. Hypothetical pulling of alternative nominees will always be unreliable,
and surveys do not take into account the negative media
environment that any Democratic nominee will encounter. The only Democratic
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candidate with whom this is already baked in is President Biden.
That is what the campaign said in their official cover
your Abs email to the staff, while they're clearly saying,
we got to figure out a way to get rid
of JR. Biden, even if it means we're stuck with
Kamway Harris, if Kamala Harris is better in the polling. Notably,
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a poll from the reputable Emerson College Polling published on
Tuesday showed Trump with an even bigger lead over Harris
than he has over Biden. It found that Trump led
Biden by three and Harris by six nationally and hypothetical
two ray Way races. News of the internal Harris versus
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Trump poll on Thursday coincided with a report from the
Times that some of Biden's closest allies are well figuring
out a strategy to quote convince Joe to end his candidacy. Additionally,
NBC News detailed that several sources in Biden's orbit say
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his bid for the White House is quote a lost cause.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
He needs to drop out.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
One Biden campaign official told NBC News he will never
recover from this. Referring to the debate, I think there's
two takeaways from this. Number One, his own campaign is
turning on him. That's pretty bad. Number two, I think
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the cabinet is now leaking because they don't want to
lose their power. And if you're a cabinet secretary, you
don't want to go out as a loser, and so
you would rather maybe even put out there the real
possibility of enacting the twenty fifth Amendment. Now, the twenty
fifth Amendment is a big deal, but if you're a
Democrat and you don't care about democracy, if you're a
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Democrat and you don't care about the Constitution, because they're
not even Democrats anymore. This goes back to what I've
been saying for a very long time. The Democratic Party
is dead. They're masquerading as Democrats because they think that's
palatable enough for the American people. They are really socialists, Marxists,
and communists.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Okay, that's who they are.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They're socialists, Marxists, and their communists.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Period.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
They would absolutely overthrow Joe Biden if it means they
think they can save themselves and be in power. They
don't care about people. They don't care about who the
people choose an election. We saw that with what they
try to do, getting rid multiple times, trying to get
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rid of Donald Trump, They don't care if the people
make a decision that they wanted Joe Biden. They don't
care if they choose someone that no one has voted for.
They don't care anything about this country when it comes
to freedom, or democracy or the rule of law. They
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have weaponized our government to go after Donald Trump and
try to take his assets and lock him up. Okay,
so we know that. I want to be very very
very clear. These people do not care whose lives they ruin.
That includes Joe Biden. I wouldn't be surprised if we
start seeing some more leaks about the Biden crime family,
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which they've defended forever. I think that's where they're going
to start hitting the Bidens next, if the Bidens don't
act now.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Let me also explain.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That there is a lot of leverage that Katamala Harris
has right now.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I want you to understand this.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
If the Cabinet can get around Harris, if the campaign
can get around Harris, Harris can then go to the President.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And I'm not sure he's the one making the decisions.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So let's just say she goes to Joe Biden and
Hunter Biden and James Biden says, look, guys. You guys,
convent your dad to drop out, and I'll give you,
guys whatever pardons you need. Moving forward, I'll make sure
that all of this, these investigations, to the best of
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my ability, disappear, or will hurry up and speed up
the investigations and get the convictions, and then I'll pardon
all of you. I think that is the leverage that
Kamala Harris has that no other candidate has.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Kamala Harris can keep the same campaign staff. She's the
only one that can keep all the money that's been raised.
She's the easiest person to replace the president because people
did actually vote for her right as the vice president.
Joe Biden could then come out with his family and say,
you know, unfortunately I'm incapacitated, or I'm getting too old,
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or it's just too tough, and I realized for the
good of the country that my vice president, who I
chose four years ago for this exact reason, is going
to step in. I'm going to campaign for her, and
we're going to win the White House. I can write
this speech and make it look perfect. I think all
of those are these options that I just mentioned are
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genuinely on the table, Gretchen Whitmer were coming to the
aid of Joe Biden trying to save his candidacy. Biden
in it to win it, and I'm damn proud to
support him, quote unquote. That is the big support he's
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getting from Witmer. The question is will it be enough
to actually make people stop talking about what's happened in
this campaign. That's the question that I don't believe. Gretchen
Whitmer saying it is gonna have that, mapect, I really don't.
Others may disagree. Stephen Colbert saying this about the President
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last night as he was doing his opening monologue, Take
a listen.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Are conflicted.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
We got a clear message today from our nation's most
powerful Democratic leader, George Clooney. George wrote a New York
Times op ed titled I love Joe Biden, but we
need a new nomine adding we also need a money guy,
a safecracker, an acrobat.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And Brad Pitts.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's the plot of Ocean's twenty four Amle's busy with
human rights stuff and I got bored.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I watched that. I love the audience reaction there.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It does tell you about how unseerious the Democratic party
is and I mean this when George Clooney is like
the new voice of the Democratic Party, you gotta kind
of laugh a little bit and sit there and you're like, really,
this is it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Stephen Colbert also uh.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Asking this question when talking about the to the audience
about the presidency. Listen carefully, what do you mean You're
not on the same page even in the same book.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Wow, that's pretty rough.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well, could I recommend a new book? Oh the Places
for Joe? Is he mentally fit? Can he serve a
whole term? Can he beat RFK with his brain full
of worm?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Just ask him? Just ask him.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The man loves to talk as long as you ask
him before eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
They are all in to get rid of Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You noticed that it was the greasy bucket of chicken guy,
Steve Cohen, who they asked that question of.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Just ask him, Just ask him.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
The man makes The man loves to talk as long
as you ask him before eight o'clock. Can he serve
a whole term? You've got Late Night, you got George Clinting,
You've got others that are just coming out one after
another making it clear they they just aren't gonna stand
(24:10):
by and expect to lose. On election night, they're gonna
get rid of Joe Biden. By the way, the Daily Show,
half of The Daily Show's focus group of black New
York voters say they will vote for Donald Trump. And
even on that show, The Daily Show, they said they
didn't quote see that coming.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Okay, So who will you be voting for in twenty
twenty four?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
There?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Do I have to see his name?
Speaker 7 (24:37):
I don't want to, but more thunlikely it's gonna be Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Yeah, and then Victor Oh Biden Okay, Trump, Trump's Biden
Biden Trump.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Okay, we're an even split, which I didn't Yeah, I
didn't see that coming. So do you think there's going
to be a big shift, any sword changed.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I think it's going to be a big shift me too, shift, Yes,
really okay? For me, I've always been a Democrat, and
it's like, for the most part, with the Democratic Party,
they always make a bunch of promises that they can't deliver.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
You know, they use the issues of the African American
community as a soapbox to stand on and make promises,
you know, just to get us to come out and vote,
and then once we vote and everyone's in place.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's like with what happened?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That is a panel of all African American voters in
New York City saying this.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
On the Daily Show.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And you could see it on the Daily Show, and
you could see the moment where the host is like,
holy crap, half of you guys are going to vote
for Trump. Gretchen Whitmer, by the way, who on the
Stephen Colbert Show last night and wanted to, you know,
(26:06):
say how much she loves Joe Biden and supports Joe Biden,
and Joe Biden's the nominee to try to be a
good sarrogate for Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It didn't go well for her either.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Why because well then she said she kind of didn't
watch the debate.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Nice to have you on, first time I've had a
chance to talk to you. Obviously, been following your career
for many years now, and for the people who don't know,
you're a national co chair of the Biden campaign. And
the debate is still what you know, everybody is talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What debate? Did you not get a chance to catch it?
Did you watch the debate? I've seen clips of the debate?
You didn't watch the debate.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
I was actually out on the West coast with a
couple of my colleagues.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And they don't have fun out there.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Got they don't have television in California.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly true. What was what was your reaction?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Did you were you just like, you know what, stay
of the course doesn't matter?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Full speed ahead, Joe? Or did you give you pause
at all?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I like your time?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I did know.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That's how it's gonna be okay. After the debate, forty
Democrats worry about the president's cognitive abilities? Should the Democrats
consider someone else? Which is not a crazy question. I
mean even George Clooney today name checked you in his
editorial in the New York Times that you would be
an excellent option. It's got to be a little flattering,
(27:47):
right He named checked me and a handful of other folks.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And the good news is they're not here tonight, that's right.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
So who cares about that?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Exactly No? You know, I think that the.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Debate rattled a lot of people, right, it was a
lousy performance.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't think anyone's I mean, did you notice the
Dodgs there? Did you get a chance to watch it?
Did you watch the debate? I've seen the clips of
the debate. You didn't watch the debate, Whitmer. I was
actually out on the West Coast with a couple of
my colleagues, and they don't have TVs out there. Colbert
went on to say, I forgot they don't have television
(28:23):
in California. I have no doubt that Gretchen Whitmore has
seen the damn debate. And for her to sit there
and to say I support Joe Biden while saying and
claiming she didn't see the debate somehow making it seem
like she's smarter is insane.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It is absolutely insane.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Stephen Colbert spent five minutes in seventeen seconds of his
show last night warning the Democrats about Project twenty twenty
five is a radical, far right takeover of everything in
the US government. Now, let me explain to you what
I know about Project twenty twenty five. It was funny
(29:06):
because two days ago my phone started ringing, and it
was a lot of liberal shows, like Chris Cuomo's show,
for example, and they were like, will you come on
and talk about Project twenty twenty five? And I'm like, yeah,
I'm more than happy to. I can do that because
I don't think it's anything that we should be freaking
out over. I think it's not a big deal at all,
(29:30):
and Project twenty twenty five is not something that I
am concerned over. Let me explain to you the best
way I can explain Project twenty twenty five so you
understand what is fact compared to what is conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I actually worked in that building when I worked for
town Hall. It was amazing, loved loved my time there.
Heritage Foundation is a hardcore conservative organization that for years
has been trying to push for principal conservative values on
Capitol Hill and also hold conservatives accountable and responsible when
(30:12):
they are elected to stay true and not sell out.
Heritage Foundation has done amazing job also of mentoring and
growing conservatives, finding conservatives that they support that then run
for office that they can stand behind and support. It's
actually pretty simple. Heritage Foundation did one of the coolest
(30:34):
things ever. This may have been twenty years ago now,
and it was the Heritage Guide to the Constitution, where
they had constitutional scholars go through the Constitution and then
explain the Constitution in layman's terms. It is maybe one
of the most powerful reads I've ever read in my
entire life, excluding the Bible, because it's a way to
(30:58):
understand the Constitution and understand what our founding father's intent
was when writing the Constitution and what it means.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You can still.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Get copies of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution. It's
on you can grab him, i think on Amazon or online.
You can buy him on eBay, like, there's still very
much out there, all right, So let's.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Start with that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
The Heritage Foundation understood that what hurt Trump's last election
cycle was is that Donald Trump was actually not ready
with a deep enough staff, a deep enough plan to
(31:41):
make a significant difference in Washington, and he was undermined. Now,
when I say that he was undermined, let me excuse
me expand on that.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Donald Trump came in.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And there's a lot of career positions in DC, and
those career positions in DC are what they refer to
as non political positions, okay, And and the non political
positions that Donald Trump did not replace was something that
(32:18):
ended up coming back to haunt him because you think
that these people in non political positions are not there
to undermine you and to actually undo what you're doing
and to hurt you, and so Donald Trump was trusting
and left them there like many other administrations, whether it's
a Bush administration, Obama administration, Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But what's changed is we now are very very much
in a political world. Okay, like it's it's incredibly the
government's changed. People that used to serve our country in
these non political roles, that's what they used to actually do,
that's no longer the case.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
They no longer serve.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
There are people that have infiltrated our government that are
in career positions that are supposed to stay the same
in essence, that are quote non political positions, right, that
are actually they've turned into extremely political positions.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So you look at that, and what Heritage Foundation then
decided was, Okay, we got bamboozled, we got screwed last time.
Let's not do that again this time if Donald Trump
is elected. And so what the Heritage Foundation has done
is they've basically gone through and found positions that are
(33:49):
been politicized within the government, and they're preparing to then
make recommendations the Trump administration if he has elected on
real conservatives that they've already vetted that they've already set
down with, they've already talked to that they believe would
make great replacements for the people that are there that
(34:13):
are lefties, that are radical. Right now now, I think
it's pretty clear that our government has lost its way
on a level that none of us could have actually
imagined just how bad it is until we've witnessed the
Biden administration. And I'm talking about people that are extremely political.
I also think we know a lot more now about
those in our government that were there solely to undermine
(34:34):
every single thing that Donald Trump was doing when Donald
Trump was president of the United States of America. And remember,
you're supposed to serve at the pleasure of the president,
meaning you're supposed to support and help and advocate for
the president of the United States of America when you
were in when you're serving the president. There were a
(34:56):
lot of people in Trump's last term that they were
not serving him. They were not advocating for him, they
were not following through on his wishes as president, which
is what you're supposed to do. They were there undermining
the president. They were there doing his plans. So what
(35:20):
the Heritage Foundation is now done is they've said Okay,
we now know this, right like we understand it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
We now know it, we get it.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
And so what we're going to do now is we're
going to put together a list, a very extensive, a
very deep bench of conservatives that we've vetted. So we're
not vetting them after election day, but we've got a
plan in place for January twentieth, twenty twenty five, where
the president can come in in a big way, and the.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
President can really have a deep bench.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Of individuals that we can recommend to this administration.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That shouldn't sound scary to anyone.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I understand why it sounds scary to the Democrats, but
it shouldn't sound like anything nefarious to conservatives. We're just
learning to play the same way democrats play. Make sure
you share this podcast with your family and friends, please,
because a lot of what I just played for you're
not going to hear on the news.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And I'll see you back here tomorrow.
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