12-21-24 The Weekend Hour 2: Hiding Joe Biden: A Crime Against the Republic

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
director of talk show host Michael Brownie. No, Brownie, you're
doing a heck of a job the Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey,
welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Happy uh Holidays,
Merry Christmas, Happy Honkah, Happy New Year's, prosperous New Years.
I don't care if you celebrate kwanza I really don't

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care if you celebrate Festive US, Christmas, Honika, and New Year's.
That's what I care about. So you're aware of this
damning investigation by the Wall Street Journal that finally you
know it was the It was a giant crack in

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the damn this this article on the Wall Street Journal
about Biden's mental decline, because it said it was the cabal.
The Wall Street Journal reporters for the Wall Street Jo
doing an in depth, very well sourced fifty different sources
and outside the White House, members of the media, members

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of the staff, friends and associates of the Bidens, members
of Congress, everybody you can possibly think of, a very
well written story that Biden's middle decline was not only
a known issue from day one of his presidency, but
then that knowledge was systematically covered up by his closest

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advisors and the White House staff for four years. And
just now in the We're now twenty nine days away
from Trump's second inauguration, and this story had just appeared
this past week. It was a lengthy, in depth article.

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The so called leaders of the free world operated as
though the American people were just spectators of some stupid
pup show and the marionette that was Joe Biden. Those
streams were being guided by unelected cliques of aids and
handlers and his family who's been president for the past

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four years. You know, it made me think that, and
I'm sure this was just one of many reasons. But
remember when Barack Obama and Joe Biden walked out back
in two thousand, that had been two thousand, probably fifteen

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or so, and they walked out into the Rose Garden,
and it was it was almost as if the principal
was bringing a troubled student out in front of the
class to announce that he was being suspended and that
he was going to be sent home, and the student

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was Joe Biden. And Joe Biden started a speech about
how great of a president he would make and how
wonderful was to work with Barack Obama. But we all
had been told what the speech was. It was his
announcement that he was not going to run for president.
Yet the speech started out with I can remember distinctly

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listening to this speech, thinking, this is a campaign announcement.
This is his announcement about how he's going to run.
And he droned on about that for several minutes, and
then he finally got to the last paragraph on the
teleprompter that was when he could read a teleprompter, and
announced that so I will not seek the presidency of
the United States. When I think back on that speech today,

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I know that Barack Obama was the puppet master at
the time. He is still a puppet master today. But
at the time, I really did believe that Obama's he
wanted part of his legacy to be the elevation of
Hillary Clinton from first Lady to US senator, to Secretary

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of State to the first female president of the United
States of America. And I thought that was it. I
thought that was the totality of the reasons that Obama
was doing what he was doing. Now, I wonder if,
among other things, like Biden's bad advice, Biden's stupid, you know,

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yuck yuck nature that was never serious, some of the
stupid things that he did while he was vice president,
some of the corruption that was going on with Ukraine
that I think Barack Obama knew about. All of those reasons,
I think that Barack Obama wanted him not to run.
I now believe there was another one, and that Obama

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saw then what we've seen since the beginning of his presidency,
that he was a rapidly declining old man that did
not have the stamina or the mental capacity to be
the president. Now, what's happened over the past four years

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was not only poor management or political spend. It was
outright fraud. It was fraud against our government itself, and
fraud against you and me, the American people. It was
the deliberate concealment of a president's inability to fulfill his
constitutional duties. That's not only immoral, but it's illegal. And

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I think the people that were behind this cover up,
and I do believe that a cover up is exactly
the right word for it, I think they should face
criminal and civil consequences in order to restore integrity to
the republic and ensure that this kind of betrayal doesn't
happen again. I tweeted something out to the effect after

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reading this article that Edith Wilson, the wife of Woodrow Wilson,
who hid from the American public Woodrow Wilson actually had
a stroke, kept him up in the East wing, up
in the residence, and she would fraudulently sign things on
behalf of Woodrow Wilson. That Edith, it was time to

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move over, you could step down from the pedestal, and
that you could give way now to doctor Jill Biden,
who has been running the puppet strings for this marionette
for four years, and that you should now step aside
and let Jill Biden take her place in history as

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the master manipulator. When Biden came into office in January
of twenty twenty one, you could already see his decline.
So you had Bruce Reed, Steve Roschetti, and Mike Donald.
That was the triumph. Bush's was Joe Alball, Karl Rove,

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and I can't remember name off top of my head.
It'll come to me in a minute. They all have
these little triangles of power that are really the closest
advisors because they moved quickly to shield Biden from scrutiny.

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Meet He's got canceled. National security decisions were delayed, public
appearances were orchestrated to avoid gas. Remember us questioning and thinking,
why are you going to this fake Oval office? Why
are you going to this theater to do a speech
or to hold a press conference. Why don't you just
do it from the Oval Office? Why don't you just

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do it from the Roosevelt Room directly across from the
Oval Office. Well, on Biden's bad days, the report says,
Aide scrambled to fill his shoes, assuming roles that actually
belonged to the commander in chief his own cabinet. Though
constitutionally required to lead alongside him, they were kept at

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arm's length. There are reports that Lloyd Austin's secretary of
Defense would go for weeks without a conversation while the
world's blowing up everywhere. So we shouldn't be surprised. Remember
the stories about how Lloyd Austin went to the hospitality
he was having casting enterritis or some illness, and he

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got hospital wise that Walter Reed and Joe Biden didn't
even know it. We didn't even know where the Secretary
of Defense was and he had delegated it to his
deputy secretary who went off out of the country somewhere,
and there was the chief of staff or somebody running
the Pentagon and nobody knew it, knew it, and he
did not. Lloyd Austin did not even inform the White

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House that he was going to the hospital. So disengage
was the Pentagon from the White House. That's not incompetence.
That's not incompetence. That's orchestration. And that's someone like Lloyd
Austin understanding that, EH, dont need to reach out to
the President because I'm not going to get through to

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him anyway, so I'll just go on to the hospital.
That's incompetence on both sides. Staffer's engaged in a ruse
to hide the president's incapacity. It's even been reported that
Congressman Adam Smith, who was in the chair of the
House Armed Services Committee, could not even contact Biden, the
head of the Afghanistan withdrawal back in twenty twenty one.

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Think about that. This guy is insulated, completely totally insulated
and isolated. It's a crime against the republic. It's the
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weekend program and the weekday program, so you get all
the Michael Browns you need. So we're talking about this
story from the Wall Street Journal. It came out this
week about oh, guess what Biden really hasn't been running
the country for the past four years. Yes, and it
started on day one. It started on January January twenty

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twenty twenty one, and now in December twenty twenty four,
we're now learning about it. And the scary part for
me is not just the story itself and not what
has already passed. But the White House had a press
conference yesterday Kream Abdul Jabar came out cream John Pierre

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came out. Not one reporter that she called on ask
anything about this story. It's as if they know that
they were complicit, they know they were part of the
cover up, and they weren't about to say anything about

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it to her or to ask her. There must be
some unwritten rule, dude, don't ask, don't tell, not at all.
Now that's not to say that there wasn't a reporter
in the room, because I would like to believe. I
would like to believe that if they called on one
of the White House reporters from Fox News or one

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American News or Newsmax or even you know, some independent
freelance journalists, that they might have asked a question. But
they knew not to call on anybody before Christmas and
just pretend it wouldn't go away. But the deception they
were engaged in that extended into the most sacred realms

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of governance. So go back. Remember Special Counsel Robert Hurr
his investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents and the
mishandling of those documents. He confirmed that Biden, at age
eighty one, could not repeat lines fed to him by
his own staff. HER's refusal to charge Biden's stem from

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the grim reality that a jury would see him as
a quote sympathetic elderly man with a poor memory. Words
like pitying should never be uttered about the leader of
the free world. Why do you think now? Remember I
asked for many people ask for thank you for releasing

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the transcript. Now release the video. I still do this
day want to see the video of Robert Herr and
his attorneys during that deposition of the President of the
United States of America. Why is the Attorney General hiding it? Well?
We know now why because we're going to see what

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we knew, and that was a dimented old fart that
should not have been there and that the Cabinet should have,
at a minimum invoked the twenty fifth Amendment. Now I
know that brings up something scary, and that would mean,
you know, acting President Kamala Harris, which you know, but
you know, pick your poison. You want a diminded old

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fart where the White House is being run by staffers,
or do you want a diminded old woman that doesn't
have a clue what she's doing and still be run
by staffers. But the deception is criminal in my opinion,
there is no question. I don't think I don't think
there's any question that the White House officials and the
staff engaged in a criminal conspiracy. Title eighteen of the

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US Code, Section three seventy one makes it a crime,
a federal crime, to conspire to defraud the United States
by obstructing lawful government processes. So let's think about that
from it. If you're on the president's immediate staff, the

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press secretary, the chiefs of Staff, the Comms director, the
National Security Advisor, the Homeland Security Advisor, the Vice President,
all of whom are Jill Biden, Hunter Biden. I've got
nine names, nine positions. If they are the closest advisors

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that have unfettered access, to the exclusion of all the
other secondary staffers, they've committed this crime because by Heidened
hiding Biden's decline, those individuals disrupted the constitutional chain of command.
They obstructed the twenty fifth Amendment process, which is the

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legal remedy for presidential incapacity. And I'm starting from the
premise that that we have an incapacitated president and they
did not do what they are constitutionally required to do,
and in fact, they engaged in fraud against the country.

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Against the people, against the institution itself by concealing that incapacity.
Now let's go on. Yeah, I'm playing lawyer here, so
just tag along with me. Also Title eighteen, which is
the Federal Criminal Code in general, section ten zero, one

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thousand and one that makes it a crime to knowingly
conceal or misrepresent material facts to federal officials. That constitutes fraud.
So think about this. The cover up forced officials in Congress,
in the military, and in the National security offices to
operate under false pretenses to pretend that Biden was capable

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of fulfilling his duties when he clearly was clearly not
capable of doing that. I think even worse, this White
House's calculated deception truly endangered national security. When aids have
to repeat cues to a sitting president, when they have

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to provide him instruction on cards on four x six
note cards on where to walk, where to sit, when
they deliberately shield him from any public scrutiny, that leaves
the entire country vulnerable. Because if you and I know it,
you don't think that Vladimir Putin knows it, Jijing Ping

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knows it, the Ayatola knows it. For that matter, the
Prime Minister of the UK, Macrone of France, Trudeau of Canada,
our allies know it. Kim Jong Uns North Korea, he
knows it. The whole world knew it. So the White
House's calculated deception endangered national security and that is a crime.

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That's an obstruction of government under eighteen again Criminal Code
section fifteen oh three. And there ought to be an investigation.
But let's think about the twenty fifth Amendment for a moment,
because that came up a lot during the past year.
That's next. So we came with Michael Brown, Texas word Michael,

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Michael to three to three wins zero three. I'll be
right back tonight. Michael Brown joins me here, the former
FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie,
You're doing a heck of a job the Weekend with
Michael Brown. Hey, welcome back to the Weekend of Michael Brown.
Glad to have you with me. So we're talking about

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this Wall Street Journal article that came out this week
about well, just tells us what we already knew about.
Joe Biden is incapable of performing the duties of president,
and the White House staff has known that since day one,
and they've been covering it up. And it's my opinion
that this is a violation of the Constitution, and it
is the violation of the Federal Criminal Code, Title eighteen.

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And I want to talk for a minute about the
twenty fifth Amendment because I think a lot of people
misunderstand it. So let's go. Let's go to my constitutional
law class for a moment. So why do we have
the twenty fifth Amendment? How did it come about? Well,
it's always been pretty clear that if the president dies
or gets impeached and convicted, so he gets removed from office,

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or like Richard Nixon, you know, resigns from office, it's
really clear what happens, and that is the vice president
moves up and becomes the president. But the question remained
unresolved about what happens if a president is incapacitated or disabled,
or you know, just incapable of fulfilling the duties. What happens.

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And that's happened many times. It's also been the case
where the vice president has either been removed or has
died or has resigned and now you don't have anybody.
So if something happens to the president, what happens if
you'd like a vice president, and we know that generally speaking,

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that means the speaker of the House becomes the president.
But what's the process. We've had seven vice presidents that
have died while in office and al Agnau who resigned,
so that means for about twenty percent of our America
of American history, there's been no vice president to step up.

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But the biggest problem was what about presidential incapacity? What
happens if a president is not able to fulfill their duties.
James A. Garfield he laid in a coma for eighty
days before he finally died from an assassin's bullet. Woodrull Wilson,

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which I mentioned earlier, he was an invalid for the
last eighteen months of his term for a year and
a half because of a stroke. So what happens? What
do we do? So they came up with the twenty
fifth Amendment, and the twenty fifth Amendment has been used
since the nineteen seventies and resulted, for the time in

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our history in the accession to the presidency and the
vice presidency of two men who had not faced the
voters in national elections. Spiro Agnew resigned on October ten,
nineteen seventy three. Nixon nominated Ford to succeed him. Following
the amendment. Let's see what was the second time? Oh,

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I guess Richard Nixon resigned? Thinking about Richard Nixon. In
August nineteen seventy four, Vice President Ford succeeded to the office.
He took the oath at noon of the same day.
And third following the second or paragraph two of the
twenty fifth Amendment, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller to be vice

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president and they started holding hearings and Rockefeller became the
vice president on December nineteenth of nineteen seventy four. So
what does the twenty fifth Amendment say. Here's the key
portion that applies in this situation. Let me pull it up.

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Whenever the vice president and a majority of either the
principal offices of the executive Departments meaning the Cabinet, or
any other body that Congress might provide by law, but
they haven't, so right now, it's the cabinet. Whenever the
Vice President and the principal officers of the Cabinet transmit

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to the President pro Tem of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House their written declaration that the President
is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,
the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties
of the office as acting president. So the minute that

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Kamala Harris, excuse me, and a majority of the cabinet
transmit to the Speaker pro tem of the same are
the President pro Tem of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House. The minute they transmit that letter to
those two individuals, which in this case would be Mike

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Johnson and Chuck Schumer, then Kamala Harris immediately becomes the
acting president. But when the President sends a letter to
those same people and says that hey, I'm not disabled,
no inability exists, then he can resume the powers and
the duties of the office. Unless, because now you've got

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a battle going on. If the vice president and a
majority of those cabinet members then transmit within four days
after the President says oh no, no, they're wrong, I
can do this. If they then say no, no, no,
you can't, then within four days they have to send
a letter back to those same two people, the President

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pro Tem of the Senate Speaker of the House, their
letter that says the President is unable to distant ars
his powers and duties. That then mandates that Congress decides
the issue, and they have to assemble within forty eight
hours to determine whether or not he or she is
capable of being president. And if the Congress within twenty

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one days after receipt of the letter of that latter declaration,
or if Congress is not in session within twenty one
days after, Congress is required to assemble, if they buy
a two thirds vote of both houses determine that the
president is indeed unable to discharge his duties, then the
vice president shall continue as the acting president. If they

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don't get the votes, then the president can resume his duties.
That's required by the constitution. That is an obligation of
the vice president. So this cover up strikes at the
very heart of the Constitution because the twenty fifth Amendment

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is I've just described it to you, is designed precisely
for this kind of situation when the president is unable
to perform his duties. And we know if now that
I don't think this is a big if that I
have to put the word if in if this report
is true, and there's no reason not to believe it,
that decisions are actually being made by staffers, actually being

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made by the National Security Advisor, the Homeland Security Advisor,
the Vice President, or even worse, Jill Biden and Hunter
Biden than those aids and the Vice President. By deliberately
concealing Biden's incapacity, violated not just the trust of you
and me, but they have violated the constitutional framework that

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keeps a commander in chief that's capable of fulfilling the
duties in place. We are not governed by staffers. We're
not governed by kings whose infirmity, whose sickness can be
kind of managed by all of the confidence around the king.
This is a nation of laws where the power flows
from the consent of the governed. And to deny us

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the truth about his condition while permitting a little mini
cabal within the west wing of unelected Biden's staffers to
wield power in his name, that that's Roman empire crap.
Cicero himself warned against such duplicity because it weakens both

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the state and it weakens the consent of the governed.
That's where we are today. The consequence, the consequences of
this fraud are staggering. You know, we almost re elected.
We could have re elected Biden for another second term,
oblivious to his decline. Only that debate where he went

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on that stage and revealed to us with our own
eyes how bad he was. We came really close, could
have re elected that guy. Democrats themselves turned on him,
realizing that the ruse was over. And that's when George
Clooney and Barack Obama put the editorial in the New

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York Times, and then suddenly everything begins to create around us.
But if you think it was just about his health,
it wasn't. I think it was about control. There was
a small group of advisors, including Jill Biden and perhaps
Hunter Biden, who exerted way outside the influence over the

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executive branch, national security issues, the economy, foreign policy, not
Those decisions were not made by an elected president Joe Biden.
Those decisions were made by staffers who had no business
wielding that kind of power. That's not how our system works.
So we actually had a shadow government. Wish actually ought

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to be an affront to your sensibilities about how this
country operates. And the only remedy we have right now
is prosecution to restore faith in the system. Those responsible
for the cover up must be held accountable. But probably
more than that, meat is going to have to happen too.

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And with Republicans having majorities, if for no other reason
than setting the historical record straight, something else needs to
happen too. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. It's the
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at Michael Brown USA. One of the text messages that

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came through during the break was what happened during the
Reagan assassination. It was not invoked, but it was debated
by the cabinet. They were in some were in the
hospital and some were in the situation room and the
Reagan Library. I assume it's still up. They used to
have a great section about that debate the cabinet had,

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and the cabinet ultimately decided not to invoke it because
Reagan later became conscious and was okay, even though for
a six twelve hour period it was questionable and the
cabinet couldn't decide. And that's when al Hague came out
and said, I'm in charge here now in the White House. Well,
he might have been in charge of the White House staff,

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but he really wasn't in charge. And it's a fascinating
The transcript from the White House Situation Room meeting you
to be on the website. I'd encourage you to go
search and find it because it shows how they were
trying to decide should we do this when i'd do this.
But let's go back to where we are today. I
think to restore faith in the system, those responsible for

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this cover up ought to be held criminally accountable. As
I pointed out Title eighteen, Section three seventy one in
ten oh one must be pursued against those who participated
in what is a conspiracy civil actions, including the criminal actions,
civil actions for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, misrepresentation. You

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should prosecute them for that too. But I think this
is important. Congress ought to investigate the failures of the
twenty Fifth Amendment process itself. I want to know how
come Kamala Harriston didn't did not invoke it? Did it
even come up? What do White House emails show? Or

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were there any phone calls Lloyd Austin, did Merrick Garland?
Did Anthony blink In the Secretary of State? Did any
of these leading cabinet members ever call Kamala Harris and
have a discussion? Did they called Joe Biden and have
a discussion? Were there any emails going between any of them?

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So it's not just investigating about why it wasn't in vote,
but it's also about did anybody stand in the way,
did anybody block it? How far did this conspiracy go?
I want to know, and I don't want to wait ten, fifteen,
twenty years for biographers and historians to start telling me

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now what happened, because then there will statue limitations will
pass and nothing will happen, and there'll be a new
Congress and they won't care because they don't want to
get involved in some controversy. But I also think, I
hate to be cynical, but I also think nothing will happen.
Nothing will happen. Now, Congress might investigate, but how far

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will they get Because on January twentieth, twenty twenty four,
twenty nine days from now, at twelve oh one, or
the minute Donald Trump says I do so help me God,
that will be They'll scatter to the winds. They'll have

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already vacated their offices, they'll be out to California, Texas,
they'll be taking a vacation to Europe. They'll disappear immediately,
and it'll be hard. And just because it's hard doesn't
mean we shouldn't try to do it. Historically, this presidency
will be eventually something studied by political scientists and historians

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for decades, a dark betrayal, a sham, not just failure
but deceit. It will be the would Row Wilson. It
will be the James Garfield, the assassination attempt, and the stroke.
This will be the dementia. You know, there's enough old

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farts running around Congress as it is. If we fail
to prosecute those who orchestrated this cover up, that means
there'll be further abuses of power. We allow unelected staffers
to rule in the shadows, unchecked and unaccountable. You want
to talk about the deep state, You want to talk
about it in an administrative state. You cannot endure as

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a republic if you allow Staffords to exercise that kind
of power. As someone who was close to George W. Bush,
do you really want me making decisions? Forget about whether
you like me or dislike me. Do you just want
me or anybody else? Do you want Carl Rowe? Do

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you want Carl Road actually making the decisions? Or do
you want George W. Bush making the decisions? Laura Bush
is one of the nicest people you ever met, you'll
ever meet in your entire life. Do you want her
making those decisions? I think Laura Bush is a wonderful
human being. I don't want her making these decisions because
that's not who I voted for, So who you voted for.

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There needs to be action. We need to see justice.
Someone astutely pointed out, how can people respect things? This
is Gouber number six zero five to one. How can
people respect things as small as traffic court and think
those laws actually mean something when nobody in the White
House is facing any kind of consequences or even stress

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about the crimes that have been happening there. I can't
even get away with driving a very short distance without
a seat belt, without getting ticketed, and find more money
than what I can make in two days or gouber
number seventy eight oh three. Mike, I don't believe anybody
in the Biden crime family, or anyone doing the family's bidding,
will ever be prosecuted. Don't need to remind you of

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the take, Kennedy. I'm afraid you may be right. But
there's also a different tone. There's a different having dinner
with friends last night and talking to someone and talking
to someone else that's not really that involved politically, was

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talking about how just in terms of business, I had
a meeting yesterday with the client and they were talking
about how since the election, even in their own business,
in what they do for a living, there seems to
be and opening up people more willing to spend money

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to you know, to do a home remodeling, to do
whatever their you know, their particular business is, and that
they detect, even among their friends, that people just have
a different attitude, and it's an attitude of kind of
a relief but also an expert that this new Congress

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and this new president will do something different. And I
think they're right, and I think our expectations should be high,
and we should demand because otherwise we continue in going
down this path of the laws don't mean anything except
for us little people, US slubs, US peons, us pleads.

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The duly elected people that make the laws need to
be held accountable, and those who work for those who
make the laws need to be held accountable to If
you haven't read the Wall Street Journal article, I encourage
you to find it and read it. I'll be right
back