July 22, 2024 • 35 mins
In hour 1 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:
- Biden is out... Kamala is in?
- Mailbag!
- Some White House staff found out Biden was stepping down on Twitter?!
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arms Strong
and Jacky enough he arms Strong and long from studio
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studio seats.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's Amication Communications Compound and.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Today, brand New, Brand New week Brand General Manager.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Joseph far Biden Prince on Buttons, Joseph R. Biden shockingly
withdrawing from the presidential race. Shockingly if you haven't been
paying attention since like twenty nineteen, well.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And you know why he withdrew Because he's a patriot,
Because he's one of the great patriots in US history,
right up there with George Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was love of country. I agree.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I gotta tell you my side's hurt. The muscles in
my side's hurt from vomiting the last eighteen hours listening
to claptrap about what a patriot Joe Biden is and
how he's had the most impactful, substantial presidency in the
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last seventy five years.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
There's that too.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So just when I've finished vomiting and I see the
stuff about the important presidency he had, and then I
vomit again. So John Meacham, historian who I love, I
love his books. Everything Like New York Times.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Today, he wrote a special guest essay for The New
York Times, Joe Biden, my friend, an American hero, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Sorry it happened again.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Wow, so much vomiting.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh my, I didn't need another bucket, Michael, And I
know I asked this question a lot on this show.
Do these people actually believe this or do they just
seek it?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The right thing to say now? In John Meachum's case,
because he was in the White House, he is one
of the tiny inner circle that helped convince Joe Biden's
step down. It might have been part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He might have convinced his friend, you know, I've got
this piece I've written. This is the way the world
will look at you, knowing to himself, No they won't.
Maybe that, but in general, because I've seen dozens and
dozens of people, pundit's, politicians, all kinds of people talking
about what a brave, selfless act. We rarely see someone
put country bit.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
No he didn't. Are you kidding? Do you actually believe
that he hung on.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
With his fingernails long beyond it makes any sense?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Rice, Yes, he was forced out at political gunpoint by
his friends.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And what happened was and I'm told Doctor Jill in
particular was very instant, not a real doctor, was insistent
that Joe's dignity be left intact, that this be done
in a way that protected his his legacy, and his ego.
Hence the outpouring of George Washingtonian praise for a mediocre
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politician who rose to the presidency through means and ways
that are going to be difficult to describe to future generations.
And now he's going away in the midst of his
obvious and undeniable sinility.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Is this one of those people can see the world
in different ways. I honestly can't see how you don't
read this as he was forced out when he had
He finally quit when he had no choice whatsoever. Ian Bremer,
who I really like, we have on air all the time.
I responded to him on Twitter. He twitted out, there
are very few acts of selflessness and patriotism found in
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the US political system today.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This is one. And I responded to him, and I
was hoping we get into it. I said, I.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Really don't feel like doing the right thing when you've
run out of options. Counts right, Yeah, you don't get
full credit. Did you say that's Ian Bremer?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah? Yeah, well he owes me. I can't remember, like
ten thousand bucks. I bet.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I bet ten thousand bucks. Aga, it's my thumbs, ladies
and gentlemen. And he said, oh, I want your thumbs.
It was a very funny line. But yes, I bet
him that Joe Biden would not be the candidate in November.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
He said, I was out of my mind if you weren't.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Following the forty eight hours leading up to it, more
congresspeople senators had turned against him, more punditry had turned
against him, the money spiket had been cut off completely.
It is believed that Nancy Pelosi was making it more
and more clear that look, we're all gonna come out
against you, and we're gonna come out publicly.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You can you can.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Go with some dignity and I don't think much, or
you can go with no dignity.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Those are your two options.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
As I saw it written by a in the No Sage.
Nancy said we can do this the easy way and
gave him three weeks and then said, or we're going
to do it the hard way.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And it was right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Before the hard Way was starting, as you put it
so eloquently, that he had had no other choice, that
he made this brilliant, patriotic, selfless, generous, godlike choice to
drop out for the good of his land.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's like, it's like the praise for Ike the day
after D Day. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's like George Washington's second term will he willingly gave
up power and much And the King of England, King George, said,
if he does that, he'll be the greatest man on
earth for giving up power.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Go no, no, oh my.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
God, Okay, I'll shut up about that. I just can't
believe there are people who read it that way. The
you know, that's for the history books, and I'm willing
to talk about that as much as anybody wants. But
the current story, which is plenty damned interesting, is Donald
Trump is now running against Kamala Harris. What what a
what a thing to live through in seven days from
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a Saturday to a Sunday.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We'll start here.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
In twenty twenty, you had more votes cast in a
presidential election than any time in our nation's Four years later,
you're gonna have the same two people running against each other.
One of them was shot and could have been killed.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Seven days later the other one quit, right, I mean
that's quite a little week span there, I would say
it was, and I feel like we've buried the lead.
If you are like sleeping in the Atlanta airport for
the third night in row and have missed the news.
Joe Biden dropped out over the weekend. Man, was that
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a nightmare traveling? Oh my gosh, I was just did
you know Delta canceled seventeen hundred flights yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
No, it was Sunday, Jason Luck.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Okay, so that explains why people were asking me if
I was back yet.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I thought, well, yeah, I'm back.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean it was a really, really, really long day,
frustrating day on Friday, but I didn't get back on
the Sunday time. I didn't realize they continued to cancel flights.
Oh yeah, yeah, what a nightmare. We've got more information
on that too, if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Another great story is the head of the secret service
at cheetahwoman's gonna finally have to testify.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
She's going to be before Congress today.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
A devastating story that I think the Washington Post broke
over the weekend. About all of the help the Trump
campaign had been asking for for a very long time,
saying they needed more security and getting rebuffed. So she's
in trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, So where are we? Where are we with
Kamala Harris's the nominee. I spent some time on one
radio station yesterday. I don't talking about this. I don't know.
I think we're going to find out and in the
next couple of days, certainly this week, what her national
running for office chops are. We've if you're a political junkie,
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we've lived through this several times with Fred Thompson, with
a Rudy Giuliani, with a Rick Perry, with a Scott Walker,
who we talked to last week, with lots of different
people who, for whatever reason, and it's a little bit sterious,
can be amazingly successful at one level, and you put
them at the running for president level and it's clear
like immediately they're not at they're not major league talent.
(09:12):
Right And depending which of those you're talking about, they
ranged from. Nah doesn't quite have it to just complete
flame out, like, how did I ever think?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right? Win?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I have some eloquent writing from back when Kamala dropped
out of the presidential race back in what twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That will remind you of what we're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And I would suggest that her omnipresence as the vice
president might lull certain people into thinking, well, yeah, she's
a big name, she's been vetted Nashally.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I've heard people say that, yeah, she's vetted at everything.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, she may have been like background checked and she's
never killed a hobo or you know, had some sort
of meth fueled orgy in a hotel room off the
interstate or anything like that. But in terms of her
political chops, well, in a way, I would say she
has been vetted and there could absolutely be a train
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wreck ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
In fact, the smart money has to say there is.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I could just say otherwise, I think you're probably right
that she hasn't killed a hobo, but there is going
to be some mop or research come out that's going
to be difficult.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I mean, that's just the way it works for everyone.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So the kind of stuff you don't bother airing for
a vice president of candidate because it doesn't matter, or
people just don't look quite as hard for whatever reason,
until you run for president, like George Bush's DUI.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yes, Michael, I keep thinking who's a better candidate, Hillary
Clinton or Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And Trump beat Clinton, So I just don't know if
this is even be close.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's that's not a bad way to look at it.
I think Hillary's got to definitely be a better candidate
than Kamala Harris, and she couldn't beat Trump at present
or back when she ran, back when she ran, Yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah. Interesting, I mean she has undeniable political chops. Hillary.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
She's tough, smart and way more experience and better team
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Anyway, we got to talk about that a lot. We
got to start the show officially because I understand this
is gonna be entertaining.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The opening clip, I'm Jack Armstrong. Of what we're shooting for,
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
He's Joe Getty on this It is a Monday, July
the twenty second. The pace of news has got to
slow down. Yes, I'm a man with an older heart.
They're twenty twenty four, where life will not be a
born twenty four. We're armstrong and getting We approve of
this program. Here we go, Let's begin the show officially.
According to the FCC rules and rags. Who knows what's
gonna happen today. Let's start at Mark.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm predicting, and I don't want this to be true.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's gonna be dull, and Biden is gonna be fine,
and the race is not gonna change, which is bad
news for Trump. I don't want that to be true,
but that's what I suspect is gonna be true. Then
you got carry us for the record, Joe predicts major moment.
Jack No, oh, my.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Modesty forbids me following up on that clip.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You know, part of all this has been the my
wishes being the father of my thoughts. Is that the
way that Frest phrase goes.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I've never understood at any point people who want a
Republican to win their enthusiasm for trying to get Biden out.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I think it was easier to beat Biden than whatever
else comes.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But I still I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't have any particular enthusiasm either way. I just
calls him as I sees them. We got to run through. Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well, there's a lot of punditry out there about Kamala
Harris and what she's gonna be and who's her running
make gunn and how that all unfolded, and the fact
that Bill Clinton came out right away and said I'm
behind Kamala Harrison. Barack Obama came out right away and said,
I look forward to the process.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
What's that all about? How does mailbag look? It's outstanding cool?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That's next. Our text line is four one five two
nine five k FTC.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Barack Obama did not full throatedly endorse her yesterday, and
I just came across Mark Alprin's reporting on why that is,
so we can pass that along later. And he turned
out to be one hundred percent right on Thursday Friday, Thursday,
I think when he explained how this was all going
to play out, was tremendous pushback, but it turned out
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to be exactly right.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
His reporting was correct.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Not only did Obama not use his full throat to
endorse her, he didn't even use a single nostril.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
There's nothing, no endorsement. I stay with us. Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's from the Great Kamala Harris of California.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time. As every day.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I've heard people that I like respect and like as
pundits say, she has really gotten better in the last
couple of months. I find that impossible. You know, how
do you in your mid fifties all of a sudden
become a better speaker?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Or on that to come. I have comments as well.
Mail bag drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and getty dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Robin from beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Glendora, California wrote a note about our shows from the
RNC yesterday that is so lovely and complimentary and effusive
that the self effacing midwestern boy and me can't even
read it. But Robin and everybody else who dropped us
notes enjoyed the coverage last week. Thank you very much
for saying so. It's very kind of you to take
a minute to write law. It was definitely fun. It
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was grueling, but it was fun, fun and grueling. Russ
And o'hio writes, Guys, these times are too spicy. When
America sat down to this big plate of national hot wings,
we were feeling comfortable and a little adventurous.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We got a few bites.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
In and the sweat began to beat on our feti
national brow, after which we realized we were likely in
for about a serious national indigestion.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Now we're swamped in a wave of national nausea, and.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Not even a large national glass of milk at Romney,
for instance, can stop the burning.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We're now soaking in our own frantic juices and wishes
with a sweet really some national death.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
We don't even want to come to this crummy restaurant.
Our crummy national wife insisted. Time to give up, pops,
some national antestine, leave a decent tip and go home.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Wow from the Make It Spicy.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
From the swing state of Ohio, moving along, Well done, Joe,
you called it months ago. You know, Susan, that could
have gone sad, But thank you. Let's see this Pete
from Port Angelo's Washington. Joe the prognosticator of prognosticators gets
to keep his thumbs easier to order five beers and
strum your six string with thumbs. That's right, my bet
with Ian Bremmer. Keyy Da, keep your digits attached. It's
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Pete and Washington.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Thank you. Pete.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Jeshn writes, how did Kamala know about this so long
ago when she said that this is the most election
of our lifetime?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This is the most election of our lifetime, speaking.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Of she's known it all along, Speaking of Kamalin knowing
it all along, that's going to be one of the
things she's got to figure out a way to deal with,
is the if you worked closely with him, you knew,
so you're part of the cover up.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
What gives?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes, speaking of the young lady from California, Bong hits
for Jesus right. What if a semi frequent correspondent old B.
HFJ watching television yesterday, I heard so many times about
Harris being the first, this, the first, that first, first first.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Could we maybe find a best best best?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, we got a clip of her where she sounds
like such a Marxist.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We gotta play for you.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm ameritist. I'm against people who have
no merit. Let's see. Uh oh, this is from Jeff
Mags are now stuck with the oldest man to run
for president and rapid cognitive decline in Coheron, unable to
complete a sentence on a unaware of what year it is,
or whose opponent is rambling endlessly until his own followers
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leave out of Bordon from his old man deranged story
of electric sharks and Hannibal Lecter.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I think that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I was asked by a fairly liberal person in an
airport how I would characterize the RNC as we were
stuck waiting for a plane.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I said, extremely.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Unified and excited, to the point that they've forgotten what
a flawed candidate they have.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
They it's not raw, Rob, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
He's an old guy issues back on the table when
Biden is not your opponent, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Joe Biden has been one of the most consequential presidents
in American history. He has put people over politics and
patriotism over personal position.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And this is.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Another heroic act in a long running series of heroic
acts by Joe Biden on behalf of the American people
from the moment he was first elected back in nineteen
seventy two to the United States Senate.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I find this hilarious. I don't know who this is
that said this, but this is good. This is going
to be a rule I live by from now the
day I die. If I hear a person say that
Joe Biden chose to step aside, I will know that
person is either a liar or hopelessly naive. Those are
your choices if you think he chose to step aside,
especially if you think he chose to step aside out
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of patriotism right at political gunpoint. Well, it's so clearly
the bargain they struck with the family that look, if
he steps aside, you're gonna lionize him like he's Washington himself.
And they are right, and they are They're land on
nine percent of the time the vote, the decision to
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run or not. Whatever a politician does is what is
in their best interest ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well, and I get it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
We've and others have used the metaphor of asking grandpa
to give up his car keys many many times. And
you know if you decide, look, we're gonna tell grandpa. Grandpa,
you are one of the finest drivers who's ever lived.
Your driving skill was known where you could have won
the Indy five hundred and the Coca Cola six hundred.
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You're the greatest drivers ever wielded.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But now your great career is over and we praise
you as the great That would be easier for Grandpa
to give up his.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Keys, So Joe Biden puts out his pretty lengthy statement
on Twitter yesterday, not through the New York Times, not
on the White House website, does it on Twitter for
whatever reason, and says he's stepping down and doesn't endorse
Kamala Harris, then like fifteen minutes later does for some reason.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Someday, books will be written on why that decision was
made the way it was. Bill Clinton pretty quickly came
out Bill Clinton and said he endorses Kamala Harris as
to be the nominee of the Democratic Party to run
against Trump. Obama's statement, though, was I have extraordinary confidence
that the leaders of our party will be able to
create a process from which an outstanding nominee emergesought. Wow,
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that's some weak tea right there. And Hakim Jeffries, that
was a voice we just heard. By the way, we
should name our voices when we play clips. Probably Hakeem Jeffries,
he is the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives.
He has not come out and endorsed Harris. Mark Alburn's
reporting on that is this. They're trying hard to make
it not look like she it was just handed to her.
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That's the only reason they're doing that they believe she's
the only path forward. There's nobody else, a big name
that wants it. Is also the reporting lots of places
that Wow, Gretchen Whitmer, a Gavin Newsom, They for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Don't think it's a good idea to challenge because it's
not right. So you've got this accidental presidential candidate who
no one has really voted forever to be a president
and the Dei narrative, which is absolutely legitimate. The President
said I'm picking a certain and presumably you wanted to
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check the box of race as well. So again, if
she were utterly qualified, the Dei thing renders her suspect
in a way that's terrible for women and people of color.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
But no, she's clearly a DEI pick.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So yeah, they've got to make it look like it's
some version of a meritocracy that she gets the nod.
So a couple of interesting facts. First of all, Biden's
re elections staff didn't receive communication that he was dropping
out until twenty minutes after the announcement went out on
social media, and when they finally did get an email,
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it directed them to check out Biden's post on X
team shared with you have a letter from President Biden
that was released just now. We'll have more information later
on this afternoon, and look for an invite to an
all staff call.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Great full that you're part of this team. More soon.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That was it, and then you'd say, wow, that's weird. Okay,
I wonder what the post is and then you just
click on the post.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, my life campaign staffer, my life experience is and
this like the private sector. It treats it the same
way the public sector treats to it the same way
as a private sector.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You got to read the tea leaves wherever you work.
If you're if you're the concern that you work for,
the entity you work for is not doing well and
it looks like it might go away, you got to
read those tea leaves because they're not going to tell
you until it's already happened.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
We've been through that in the business world.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Now everything is fine the day before they shut the
doors and everybody's out of work.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean, so it's just it's just the way. That's
just the way of the world.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And you, bellow, I'm staying in the race till the end,
until the moment you withdraw sure whether it's the primaries
or the big contest, which is unprecedented but unfolded in
the same way. Speaking of which, Politico with some really
good coverage of why he dropped out, and it goes
into a lot of detail about the polls and the
aids and what aids and who is saying what uh,
and the they go into the only people with Biden
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and his residence when he rose Sunday were first Lady
Jill Biden and two other trusted aids, and he had
a long meeting and then.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Decided more or less on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
But they write it wasn't that the president had grown
tired of the drips of defections from within his own party,
although he had, and it made him very, very angry.
He rather was that Biden himself was finally convinced of
what so many other Democrats had come to believe since
the poor debate performance last month. He couldn't win. I
need to pause here, and we'll be getting to this
in a second. But the idea that large and influential
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groups of people were only convinced that he was senile
after the debate continues to well, not shock me, but
just befuddle me. Since, as we'll get into it in
a bit, the signs of his rapid decline had been
there for years, years, But.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
If you didn't watch Fox, you didn't really see that stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Absolutely true. Yeah, read the Washington Times or the National
Review or whatever. But so anyway, and they go into
Biden trailing in all critical of the six critical swing states.
With that knowledge and a where that more party elders
would pile on a public pressure campaign, a sudden exit
offered the president the best chance to make it uppear
that the decision came on his own terms. It was
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a face saving move of high importance to Jill Biden, who,
according to people familiar with recent conversations, was adamant that
her husband's dignity be preserved.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah. Yeah, came in a little late on that.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Senior Biden aids were bracing for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
who clearly is the witch behind the scenes with me
that's waving the magic wand I've called her a witch
many times too. She well, first of all, she is
she is she has been the power broker in that
party forever, and she's probably at the end of her
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road here soon. But she is good and the way
she orchestrated this behind the scenes, with very light fingerprints
on it is something books will be written about. But
I hate to call her a witch here because she
did what is the right thing for the country and
the party.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That guy shouldn't be president. Well for best of.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
All, I'd like to apologize to Wickens everywhere for leaning
on the old cliche of calling her a wish but
I meant more in terms of she was wielding the
magic wand she was the puppet master.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, definitely, But anyways, that's right, sir.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
She'd worked behind the scenes to encourage others in the
party toward the kind of collective action that might finally
push the president to end his campaign.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Go public this week. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Here's the senior Democrat who will remain anonymous. Nancy made
it clear that they could do this the easy way
or the hard way. She gave them three weeks of
the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.
So she behind the scenes made it clear that we
are going to humiliate you, probably with the doctor fake doctor.
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Jill right there in the room said you've got a
couple of more days. After that, the whole you'll be
lionized as a patriot and a second cousin of George Washington.
The rest of that crap is over. No, we're going
to humiliate you. We are going to beat you down
in public. We're going to go full on stab and
Caesar and make it clear that you're a wreck of
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a man.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Who can't possibly win. We will bring you to your knees. Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, I think it was Saturday morning, and I'm sure
Hakeem Jeffries was doing what Nancy suggested, told his members
in the Democratic Caucus of the House that you are
allowed to say and do what you need to do,
no more like rally round our leader whatever, say what
you want to say.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Right, And so it was after that gentle urging that
he made the generous and patriotic decision. So here's another
interesting wrinkle that so Biden makes it the announcement fifteen
minutes later, it says Harris, she almost immediately put out
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a list of her running mate options, a short list
of her vice presidential running mate options, which I wasn't
watching cable news at the time. I was at the
barbershop with my kids getting them new haircuts. But I
took into some punditry last night that if you were
watching on CNN, for instance, the conversation went from who
will be the nominee?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Will it be Kamala Harris?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
As soon as she put out her list just a
few minutes after the president designed the whole conversation on
cable news flipped too, which would be the best running mate?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Which is a great tactical move.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Very savvy on her part to make it she's already
the nominee kind of the way it feels, let's discuss
who she's gonna run with.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
That's pretty brilliant.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Try to plant that idea and everybody's heads, Yeah, that
is pretty savvy. I will tell you this, with all
due respect to Kamala Harris's inanity and just lack of
any charisma or talent, she has been sharper lately. I
watched well, we were at the convention, her speech to
it was in North Carolina, his campaign speech, and the
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rumbles were getting loud that by was going to be
getting out at that point, and she came off as
reasonably sharp, not like a talented wow politician like a
Clinton or own Obama or anything like that, but much
more competent yeah. I have more things to say later
that are in the Kamala Harris, the pro Kamala Harris
column that will be helpful to her.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
That I think people are overlooking. But this was pointed
out she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Have because she's not hasn't been a good manager of
her like the Kamala Harris business. Wherever she is, she
doesn't have the lifetime heavyweight people with her that most
other political dynasties have. Joe Biden's got people who have
been with him forever, you know, George Bush had Karl
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rolled through two terms of Texas and all through the
White House, and there was Obama people with ACX on.
You know, they got those people that have been with
them forever. She doesn't have that for a variety of reasons,
with her manager style, poor and personality.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And see how that plays out.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Well, maybe people didn't want to hitch their professional wagon
to a crappy, crappy horse. There's still a chance that
she's just flat out of underpaate. Yes, oh yeah, I
believe that to be the most likely. You know, there's
more to this. I will read you a very short bit.
(29:24):
This is from twenty nineteen when in December months before Iowa,
Kamala Harris dropped out of the presidential race, and the
brilliant Charlie Cook of The National Review wrote this, She's
not that special. On the contrary, she's a would be
tyrant whose primary contribution to American life thus far has
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been to fight, quote tooth and nail to uphold wrongful
convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included
evidence tampering, false testimony, in the suppression of crucial information
by prosecutors. Now that was back to her Kamala the
cop image in California, which is it? Good's rather starkly
with her combo of the woke image. Now, but anyway,
here's my favorite part. A woman who's openly promised to
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act without Congress, who showed us exactly who she is
during the Kavanaugh hearings, at which she implied she knew
something terrible about the nominee for the sole purpose of
sharing the insinuation on her Twitter feed. Harris is a
woman who, if successful, would have overseen the mass confiscation
of millions of firearms, the seizing of patents, the federalization
of abortion law, and, depending on the polling, the elimination
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of her word, the private health insurance plans of one
hundred and eighty million people. Everything that is wrong with
American politics is summed up in Kamala Harris. She's a
weather vane. She's dishonest, she's a coward, she's condescending, and
she's a phony. She's the answer to no useful or
virtuous question. Nothing good has come from her election. She
has nothing of value to offer America. Goodbye, bad luck.
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That's all, folks. And yet, Charles, that's not all.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
That is not even close to all.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
And she's roughly tied in the polls with the Republican
handed it with one hundred and seven days to go
to the election. We got Katy's headlines on the way
and a bunch of other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Back in the studio after a week in Milwaukee. What
is that Chicago.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Convention going to be like?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
If they do find a way to like settle this
and she's definitely the nominee and it's not like a
contested convention or whatever, what is that convention gonna be like? God,
it's gonna be a combination tribute to the wonderful first
term of Joe Biden, which I just don't know if
I can handle most consequential president efforts, right, So it's
gonna be part that and part building up Kamwa.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I don't know if I can do it. Tragic comic,
Oh my god, Bizara hilarious. I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh so much to be said, and we will say it,
but first let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Katie, Hey, you guys. Starting with ABC News Election twenty
twenty four update, Kamala Harris has raised fifty million dollars
since biden endorsement.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, she's raised a lot of money fast. And I
was on a big zoom call with a bunch of
pundits talking about the amount of enthusiasm that has been
injected into the Democratic side of things so quickly. I mean,
they've gone from just despondent, hopeless to.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yes, we've got a shot, we can do this and indeds. Yeah,
it's oddly reminiscent to Biden being not Trump. That was
the enthusiast right for him. At this point, the enthusiasm
is not Biden, will it? Indeed rest comfortably on the
back of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I tend to doubt it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
From Fox News, Secret Service director is set to testify
about Trump assassination attempt. She canna be facing questions from
lawmakers this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, and from what I understand, a fair number of
Democrats are very unhappy with her.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Also, well, she should go, She should absolutely go.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I loves to come up with the audio of her
announce whatever it was a year year and a half
ago that their highest priority was going to be increasing
DEI in the Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, we've got to get.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
To those revelations that came out in the Washington Post
over the weekend of Secret Service dropping the ball.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
From the New York Post, caravan of three thousand migrants
hoped to cross southern border into the United States before
a possible Trump win.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
But that can't be the borders are is going to
be the Democratic nominee. Yeah, you better recheck that headline, Katie.
That sounds misleading. The border is secure from USA today.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Peak global population is approaching thanks to lower fertility rates.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, and that's something We're going to peak out at
like eight billion some people and then start going down.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
From the New York Times, Delta cancels more flights as
it struggles to recover from tech outage, and Pete, but
a gig gig is signaling out the airline saying this
is unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh good, Pete, way to leap to our defense.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I spent Friday with trying to change flights and book
flights and then book another one and cancel it, and
then can I make it to this one in time?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
From Headlines and Global News, Elon Musk posts video of
Trump blowing up Biden just days after the assassination attempt.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Boys got to be pretty happy that the President stepped
down as the nominee. On Twitter, decided that was the
place to announce it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
From the athletic Lebron James to be the United States
flag bearer at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I just saw that, and I think that is cool. Now.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I could see how you'd argue, not it should be
some unknown nobody should blah blah blah. But look, the
Lebron's putting a lot out there to go play for
the Olympic team.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
He didn't need anything, and he's still doing it.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
And finally, the Babylon Bee aids struggling to figure out
how to break the news to Biden that he dropped out.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Of the race, wondered about that.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Is there gonna be a moment where he forgets that
he dropped out and somebody's gonna tongue.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That could happen, couldn't it? It absolutely could. Yeah, Barry
from Thailand wrote that same thing. I did not, I know,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well remember Diane Feinstein did that I dropped out?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
What Armstrong and Geddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arms Strong
and Jacky enough he arms Strong and long from studio
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studio seats.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's Amication Communications Compound and.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Today, brand New, Brand New week Brand General Manager.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Joseph far Biden Prince on Buttons, Joseph R. Biden shockingly
withdrawing from the presidential race. Shockingly if you haven't been
paying attention since like twenty nineteen, well.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And you know why he withdrew Because he's a patriot,
Because he's one of the great patriots in US history,
right up there with George Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was love of country. I agree.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I gotta tell you my side's hurt. The muscles in
my side's hurt from vomiting the last eighteen hours listening
to claptrap about what a patriot Joe Biden is and
how he's had the most impactful, substantial presidency in the
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last seventy five years.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
There's that too.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So just when I've finished vomiting and I see the
stuff about the important presidency he had, and then I
vomit again. So John Meacham, historian who I love, I
love his books. Everything Like New York Times.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Today, he wrote a special guest essay for The New
York Times, Joe Biden, my friend, an American hero, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Sorry it happened again.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Wow, so much vomiting.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh my, I didn't need another bucket, Michael, And I
know I asked this question a lot on this show.
Do these people actually believe this or do they just
seek it?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The right thing to say now? In John Meachum's case,
because he was in the White House, he is one
of the tiny inner circle that helped convince Joe Biden's
step down. It might have been part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He might have convinced his friend, you know, I've got
this piece I've written. This is the way the world
will look at you, knowing to himself, No they won't.
Maybe that, but in general, because I've seen dozens and
dozens of people, pundit's, politicians, all kinds of people talking
about what a brave, selfless act. We rarely see someone
put country bit.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
No he didn't. Are you kidding? Do you actually believe
that he hung on.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
With his fingernails long beyond it makes any sense?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Rice, Yes, he was forced out at political gunpoint by
his friends.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And what happened was and I'm told Doctor Jill in
particular was very instant, not a real doctor, was insistent
that Joe's dignity be left intact, that this be done
in a way that protected his his legacy, and his ego.
Hence the outpouring of George Washingtonian praise for a mediocre
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politician who rose to the presidency through means and ways
that are going to be difficult to describe to future generations.
And now he's going away in the midst of his
obvious and undeniable sinility.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Is this one of those people can see the world
in different ways. I honestly can't see how you don't
read this as he was forced out when he had
He finally quit when he had no choice whatsoever. Ian Bremer,
who I really like, we have on air all the time.
I responded to him on Twitter. He twitted out, there
are very few acts of selflessness and patriotism found in
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the US political system today.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This is one. And I responded to him, and I
was hoping we get into it. I said, I.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Really don't feel like doing the right thing when you've
run out of options. Counts right, Yeah, you don't get
full credit. Did you say that's Ian Bremer?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah? Yeah, well he owes me. I can't remember, like
ten thousand bucks. I bet.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I bet ten thousand bucks. Aga, it's my thumbs, ladies
and gentlemen. And he said, oh, I want your thumbs.
It was a very funny line. But yes, I bet
him that Joe Biden would not be the candidate in November.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
He said, I was out of my mind if you weren't.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Following the forty eight hours leading up to it, more
congresspeople senators had turned against him, more punditry had turned
against him, the money spiket had been cut off completely.
It is believed that Nancy Pelosi was making it more
and more clear that look, we're all gonna come out
against you, and we're gonna come out publicly.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You can you can.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Go with some dignity and I don't think much, or
you can go with no dignity.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Those are your two options.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
As I saw it written by a in the No Sage.
Nancy said we can do this the easy way and
gave him three weeks and then said, or we're going
to do it the hard way.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And it was right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Before the hard Way was starting, as you put it
so eloquently, that he had had no other choice, that
he made this brilliant, patriotic, selfless, generous, godlike choice to
drop out for the good of his land.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's like, it's like the praise for Ike the day
after D Day. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's like George Washington's second term will he willingly gave
up power and much And the King of England, King George, said,
if he does that, he'll be the greatest man on
earth for giving up power.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Go no, no, oh my.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
God, Okay, I'll shut up about that. I just can't
believe there are people who read it that way. The
you know, that's for the history books, and I'm willing
to talk about that as much as anybody wants. But
the current story, which is plenty damned interesting, is Donald
Trump is now running against Kamala Harris. What what a
what a thing to live through in seven days from
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a Saturday to a Sunday.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We'll start here.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
In twenty twenty, you had more votes cast in a
presidential election than any time in our nation's Four years later,
you're gonna have the same two people running against each other.
One of them was shot and could have been killed.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Seven days later the other one quit, right, I mean
that's quite a little week span there, I would say
it was, and I feel like we've buried the lead.
If you are like sleeping in the Atlanta airport for
the third night in row and have missed the news.
Joe Biden dropped out over the weekend. Man, was that
(07:30):
a nightmare traveling? Oh my gosh, I was just did
you know Delta canceled seventeen hundred flights yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
No, it was Sunday, Jason Luck.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Okay, so that explains why people were asking me if
I was back yet.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I thought, well, yeah, I'm back.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean it was a really, really, really long day,
frustrating day on Friday, but I didn't get back on
the Sunday time. I didn't realize they continued to cancel flights.
Oh yeah, yeah, what a nightmare. We've got more information
on that too, if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Another great story is the head of the secret service
at cheetahwoman's gonna finally have to testify.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
She's going to be before Congress today.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
A devastating story that I think the Washington Post broke
over the weekend. About all of the help the Trump
campaign had been asking for for a very long time,
saying they needed more security and getting rebuffed. So she's
in trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, So where are we? Where are we with
Kamala Harris's the nominee. I spent some time on one
radio station yesterday. I don't talking about this. I don't know.
I think we're going to find out and in the
next couple of days, certainly this week, what her national
running for office chops are. We've if you're a political junkie,
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we've lived through this several times with Fred Thompson, with
a Rudy Giuliani, with a Rick Perry, with a Scott Walker,
who we talked to last week, with lots of different
people who, for whatever reason, and it's a little bit sterious,
can be amazingly successful at one level, and you put
them at the running for president level and it's clear
like immediately they're not at they're not major league talent.
(09:12):
Right And depending which of those you're talking about, they
ranged from. Nah doesn't quite have it to just complete
flame out, like, how did I ever think?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right? Win?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I have some eloquent writing from back when Kamala dropped
out of the presidential race back in what twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That will remind you of what we're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And I would suggest that her omnipresence as the vice
president might lull certain people into thinking, well, yeah, she's
a big name, she's been vetted Nashally.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I've heard people say that, yeah, she's vetted at everything.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, she may have been like background checked and she's
never killed a hobo or you know, had some sort
of meth fueled orgy in a hotel room off the
interstate or anything like that. But in terms of her
political chops, well, in a way, I would say she
has been vetted and there could absolutely be a train
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wreck ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
In fact, the smart money has to say there is.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I could just say otherwise, I think you're probably right
that she hasn't killed a hobo, but there is going
to be some mop or research come out that's going
to be difficult.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I mean, that's just the way it works for everyone.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So the kind of stuff you don't bother airing for
a vice president of candidate because it doesn't matter, or
people just don't look quite as hard for whatever reason,
until you run for president, like George Bush's DUI.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yes, Michael, I keep thinking who's a better candidate, Hillary
Clinton or Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And Trump beat Clinton, So I just don't know if
this is even be close.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's that's not a bad way to look at it.
I think Hillary's got to definitely be a better candidate
than Kamala Harris, and she couldn't beat Trump at present
or back when she ran, back when she ran, Yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah. Interesting, I mean she has undeniable political chops. Hillary.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
She's tough, smart and way more experience and better team
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Anyway, we got to talk about that a lot. We
got to start the show officially because I understand this
is gonna be entertaining.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The opening clip, I'm Jack Armstrong. Of what we're shooting for,
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
He's Joe Getty on this It is a Monday, July
the twenty second. The pace of news has got to
slow down. Yes, I'm a man with an older heart.
They're twenty twenty four, where life will not be a
born twenty four. We're armstrong and getting We approve of
this program. Here we go, Let's begin the show officially.
According to the FCC rules and rags. Who knows what's
gonna happen today. Let's start at Mark.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm predicting, and I don't want this to be true.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's gonna be dull, and Biden is gonna be fine,
and the race is not gonna change, which is bad
news for Trump. I don't want that to be true,
but that's what I suspect is gonna be true. Then
you got carry us for the record, Joe predicts major moment.
Jack No, oh, my.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Modesty forbids me following up on that clip.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You know, part of all this has been the my
wishes being the father of my thoughts. Is that the
way that Frest phrase goes.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I've never understood at any point people who want a
Republican to win their enthusiasm for trying to get Biden out.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I think it was easier to beat Biden than whatever
else comes.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But I still I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't have any particular enthusiasm either way. I just
calls him as I sees them. We got to run through. Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well, there's a lot of punditry out there about Kamala
Harris and what she's gonna be and who's her running
make gunn and how that all unfolded, and the fact
that Bill Clinton came out right away and said I'm
behind Kamala Harrison. Barack Obama came out right away and said,
I look forward to the process.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
What's that all about? How does mailbag look? It's outstanding cool?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That's next. Our text line is four one five two
nine five k FTC.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Barack Obama did not full throatedly endorse her yesterday, and
I just came across Mark Alprin's reporting on why that is,
so we can pass that along later. And he turned
out to be one hundred percent right on Thursday Friday, Thursday,
I think when he explained how this was all going
to play out, was tremendous pushback, but it turned out
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to be exactly right.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
His reporting was correct.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Not only did Obama not use his full throat to
endorse her, he didn't even use a single nostril.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
There's nothing, no endorsement. I stay with us. Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's from the Great Kamala Harris of California.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time. As every day.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I've heard people that I like respect and like as
pundits say, she has really gotten better in the last
couple of months. I find that impossible. You know, how
do you in your mid fifties all of a sudden
become a better speaker?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Or on that to come. I have comments as well.
Mail bag drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and getty dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Robin from beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Glendora, California wrote a note about our shows from the
RNC yesterday that is so lovely and complimentary and effusive
that the self effacing midwestern boy and me can't even
read it. But Robin and everybody else who dropped us
notes enjoyed the coverage last week. Thank you very much
for saying so. It's very kind of you to take
a minute to write law. It was definitely fun. It
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was grueling, but it was fun, fun and grueling. Russ
And o'hio writes, Guys, these times are too spicy. When
America sat down to this big plate of national hot wings,
we were feeling comfortable and a little adventurous.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We got a few bites.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
In and the sweat began to beat on our feti
national brow, after which we realized we were likely in
for about a serious national indigestion.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Now we're swamped in a wave of national nausea, and.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Not even a large national glass of milk at Romney,
for instance, can stop the burning.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We're now soaking in our own frantic juices and wishes
with a sweet really some national death.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
We don't even want to come to this crummy restaurant.
Our crummy national wife insisted. Time to give up, pops,
some national antestine, leave a decent tip and go home.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Wow from the Make It Spicy.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
From the swing state of Ohio, moving along, Well done, Joe,
you called it months ago. You know, Susan, that could
have gone sad, But thank you. Let's see this Pete
from Port Angelo's Washington. Joe the prognosticator of prognosticators gets
to keep his thumbs easier to order five beers and
strum your six string with thumbs. That's right, my bet
with Ian Bremmer. Keyy Da, keep your digits attached. It's
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Pete and Washington.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Thank you. Pete.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Jeshn writes, how did Kamala know about this so long
ago when she said that this is the most election
of our lifetime?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This is the most election of our lifetime, speaking.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Of she's known it all along, Speaking of Kamalin knowing
it all along, that's going to be one of the
things she's got to figure out a way to deal with,
is the if you worked closely with him, you knew,
so you're part of the cover up.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
What gives?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes, speaking of the young lady from California, Bong hits
for Jesus right. What if a semi frequent correspondent old B.
HFJ watching television yesterday, I heard so many times about
Harris being the first, this, the first, that first, first first.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Could we maybe find a best best best?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, we got a clip of her where she sounds
like such a Marxist.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We gotta play for you.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm ameritist. I'm against people who have
no merit. Let's see. Uh oh, this is from Jeff
Mags are now stuck with the oldest man to run
for president and rapid cognitive decline in Coheron, unable to
complete a sentence on a unaware of what year it is,
or whose opponent is rambling endlessly until his own followers
(16:55):
leave out of Bordon from his old man deranged story
of electric sharks and Hannibal Lecter.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I think that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I was asked by a fairly liberal person in an
airport how I would characterize the RNC as we were
stuck waiting for a plane.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I said, extremely.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Unified and excited, to the point that they've forgotten what
a flawed candidate they have.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
They it's not raw, Rob, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
He's an old guy issues back on the table when
Biden is not your opponent, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Joe Biden has been one of the most consequential presidents
in American history. He has put people over politics and
patriotism over personal position.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And this is.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Another heroic act in a long running series of heroic
acts by Joe Biden on behalf of the American people
from the moment he was first elected back in nineteen
seventy two to the United States Senate.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I find this hilarious. I don't know who this is
that said this, but this is good. This is going
to be a rule I live by from now the
day I die. If I hear a person say that
Joe Biden chose to step aside, I will know that
person is either a liar or hopelessly naive. Those are
your choices if you think he chose to step aside,
especially if you think he chose to step aside out
(18:15):
of patriotism right at political gunpoint. Well, it's so clearly
the bargain they struck with the family that look, if
he steps aside, you're gonna lionize him like he's Washington himself.
And they are right, and they are They're land on
nine percent of the time the vote, the decision to
(18:37):
run or not. Whatever a politician does is what is
in their best interest ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well, and I get it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
We've and others have used the metaphor of asking grandpa
to give up his car keys many many times. And
you know if you decide, look, we're gonna tell grandpa. Grandpa,
you are one of the finest drivers who's ever lived.
Your driving skill was known where you could have won
the Indy five hundred and the Coca Cola six hundred.
(19:06):
You're the greatest drivers ever wielded.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But now your great career is over and we praise
you as the great That would be easier for Grandpa
to give up his.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Keys, So Joe Biden puts out his pretty lengthy statement
on Twitter yesterday, not through the New York Times, not
on the White House website, does it on Twitter for
whatever reason, and says he's stepping down and doesn't endorse
Kamala Harris, then like fifteen minutes later does for some reason.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Someday, books will be written on why that decision was
made the way it was. Bill Clinton pretty quickly came
out Bill Clinton and said he endorses Kamala Harris as
to be the nominee of the Democratic Party to run
against Trump. Obama's statement, though, was I have extraordinary confidence
that the leaders of our party will be able to
create a process from which an outstanding nominee emergesought. Wow,
(20:00):
that's some weak tea right there. And Hakim Jeffries, that
was a voice we just heard. By the way, we
should name our voices when we play clips. Probably Hakeem Jeffries,
he is the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives.
He has not come out and endorsed Harris. Mark Alburn's
reporting on that is this. They're trying hard to make
it not look like she it was just handed to her.
(20:25):
That's the only reason they're doing that they believe she's
the only path forward. There's nobody else, a big name
that wants it. Is also the reporting lots of places
that Wow, Gretchen Whitmer, a Gavin Newsom, They for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Don't think it's a good idea to challenge because it's
not right. So you've got this accidental presidential candidate who
no one has really voted forever to be a president
and the Dei narrative, which is absolutely legitimate. The President
said I'm picking a certain and presumably you wanted to
(21:03):
check the box of race as well. So again, if
she were utterly qualified, the Dei thing renders her suspect
in a way that's terrible for women and people of color.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
But no, she's clearly a DEI pick.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So yeah, they've got to make it look like it's
some version of a meritocracy that she gets the nod.
So a couple of interesting facts. First of all, Biden's
re elections staff didn't receive communication that he was dropping
out until twenty minutes after the announcement went out on
social media, and when they finally did get an email,
(21:35):
it directed them to check out Biden's post on X
team shared with you have a letter from President Biden
that was released just now. We'll have more information later
on this afternoon, and look for an invite to an
all staff call.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Great full that you're part of this team. More soon.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That was it, and then you'd say, wow, that's weird. Okay,
I wonder what the post is and then you just
click on the post.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, my life campaign staffer, my life experience is and
this like the private sector. It treats it the same
way the public sector treats to it the same way
as a private sector.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You got to read the tea leaves wherever you work.
If you're if you're the concern that you work for,
the entity you work for is not doing well and
it looks like it might go away, you got to
read those tea leaves because they're not going to tell
you until it's already happened.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
We've been through that in the business world.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Now everything is fine the day before they shut the
doors and everybody's out of work.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean, so it's just it's just the way. That's
just the way of the world.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And you, bellow, I'm staying in the race till the end,
until the moment you withdraw sure whether it's the primaries
or the big contest, which is unprecedented but unfolded in
the same way. Speaking of which, Politico with some really
good coverage of why he dropped out, and it goes
into a lot of detail about the polls and the
aids and what aids and who is saying what uh,
and the they go into the only people with Biden
(22:54):
and his residence when he rose Sunday were first Lady
Jill Biden and two other trusted aids, and he had
a long meeting and then.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Decided more or less on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
But they write it wasn't that the president had grown
tired of the drips of defections from within his own party,
although he had, and it made him very, very angry.
He rather was that Biden himself was finally convinced of
what so many other Democrats had come to believe since
the poor debate performance last month. He couldn't win. I
need to pause here, and we'll be getting to this
in a second. But the idea that large and influential
(23:28):
groups of people were only convinced that he was senile
after the debate continues to well, not shock me, but
just befuddle me. Since, as we'll get into it in
a bit, the signs of his rapid decline had been
there for years, years, But.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
If you didn't watch Fox, you didn't really see that stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Absolutely true. Yeah, read the Washington Times or the National
Review or whatever. But so anyway, and they go into
Biden trailing in all critical of the six critical swing states.
With that knowledge and a where that more party elders
would pile on a public pressure campaign, a sudden exit
offered the president the best chance to make it uppear
that the decision came on his own terms. It was
(24:09):
a face saving move of high importance to Jill Biden, who,
according to people familiar with recent conversations, was adamant that
her husband's dignity be preserved.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah. Yeah, came in a little late on that.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Senior Biden aids were bracing for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
who clearly is the witch behind the scenes with me
that's waving the magic wand I've called her a witch
many times too. She well, first of all, she is
she is she has been the power broker in that
party forever, and she's probably at the end of her
(24:43):
road here soon. But she is good and the way
she orchestrated this behind the scenes, with very light fingerprints
on it is something books will be written about. But
I hate to call her a witch here because she
did what is the right thing for the country and
the party.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That guy shouldn't be president. Well for best of.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
All, I'd like to apologize to Wickens everywhere for leaning
on the old cliche of calling her a wish but
I meant more in terms of she was wielding the
magic wand she was the puppet master.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, definitely, But anyways, that's right, sir.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
She'd worked behind the scenes to encourage others in the
party toward the kind of collective action that might finally
push the president to end his campaign.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Go public this week. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Here's the senior Democrat who will remain anonymous. Nancy made
it clear that they could do this the easy way
or the hard way. She gave them three weeks of
the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.
So she behind the scenes made it clear that we
are going to humiliate you, probably with the doctor fake doctor.
(25:45):
Jill right there in the room said you've got a
couple of more days. After that, the whole you'll be
lionized as a patriot and a second cousin of George Washington.
The rest of that crap is over. No, we're going
to humiliate you. We are going to beat you down
in public. We're going to go full on stab and
Caesar and make it clear that you're a wreck of
(26:06):
a man.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Who can't possibly win. We will bring you to your knees. Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, I think it was Saturday morning, and I'm sure
Hakeem Jeffries was doing what Nancy suggested, told his members
in the Democratic Caucus of the House that you are
allowed to say and do what you need to do,
no more like rally round our leader whatever, say what
you want to say.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Right, And so it was after that gentle urging that
he made the generous and patriotic decision. So here's another
interesting wrinkle that so Biden makes it the announcement fifteen
minutes later, it says Harris, she almost immediately put out
(26:53):
a list of her running mate options, a short list
of her vice presidential running mate options, which I wasn't
watching cable news at the time. I was at the
barbershop with my kids getting them new haircuts. But I
took into some punditry last night that if you were
watching on CNN, for instance, the conversation went from who
will be the nominee?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Will it be Kamala Harris?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
As soon as she put out her list just a
few minutes after the president designed the whole conversation on
cable news flipped too, which would be the best running mate?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Which is a great tactical move.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Very savvy on her part to make it she's already
the nominee kind of the way it feels, let's discuss
who she's gonna run with.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
That's pretty brilliant.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Try to plant that idea and everybody's heads, Yeah, that
is pretty savvy. I will tell you this, with all
due respect to Kamala Harris's inanity and just lack of
any charisma or talent, she has been sharper lately. I
watched well, we were at the convention, her speech to
it was in North Carolina, his campaign speech, and the
(27:58):
rumbles were getting loud that by was going to be
getting out at that point, and she came off as
reasonably sharp, not like a talented wow politician like a
Clinton or own Obama or anything like that, but much
more competent yeah. I have more things to say later
that are in the Kamala Harris, the pro Kamala Harris
column that will be helpful to her.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
That I think people are overlooking. But this was pointed
out she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Have because she's not hasn't been a good manager of
her like the Kamala Harris business. Wherever she is, she
doesn't have the lifetime heavyweight people with her that most
other political dynasties have. Joe Biden's got people who have
been with him forever, you know, George Bush had Karl
(28:45):
rolled through two terms of Texas and all through the
White House, and there was Obama people with ACX on.
You know, they got those people that have been with
them forever. She doesn't have that for a variety of reasons,
with her manager style, poor and personality.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And see how that plays out.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Well, maybe people didn't want to hitch their professional wagon
to a crappy, crappy horse. There's still a chance that
she's just flat out of underpaate. Yes, oh yeah, I
believe that to be the most likely. You know, there's
more to this. I will read you a very short bit.
(29:24):
This is from twenty nineteen when in December months before Iowa,
Kamala Harris dropped out of the presidential race, and the
brilliant Charlie Cook of The National Review wrote this, She's
not that special. On the contrary, she's a would be
tyrant whose primary contribution to American life thus far has
(29:44):
been to fight, quote tooth and nail to uphold wrongful
convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included
evidence tampering, false testimony, in the suppression of crucial information
by prosecutors. Now that was back to her Kamala the
cop image in California, which is it? Good's rather starkly
with her combo of the woke image. Now, but anyway,
here's my favorite part. A woman who's openly promised to
(30:07):
act without Congress, who showed us exactly who she is
during the Kavanaugh hearings, at which she implied she knew
something terrible about the nominee for the sole purpose of
sharing the insinuation on her Twitter feed. Harris is a
woman who, if successful, would have overseen the mass confiscation
of millions of firearms, the seizing of patents, the federalization
of abortion law, and, depending on the polling, the elimination
(30:27):
of her word, the private health insurance plans of one
hundred and eighty million people. Everything that is wrong with
American politics is summed up in Kamala Harris. She's a
weather vane. She's dishonest, she's a coward, she's condescending, and
she's a phony. She's the answer to no useful or
virtuous question. Nothing good has come from her election. She
has nothing of value to offer America. Goodbye, bad luck.
(30:49):
That's all, folks. And yet, Charles, that's not all.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
That is not even close to all.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
And she's roughly tied in the polls with the Republican
handed it with one hundred and seven days to go
to the election. We got Katy's headlines on the way
and a bunch of other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Back in the studio after a week in Milwaukee. What
is that Chicago.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Convention going to be like?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
If they do find a way to like settle this
and she's definitely the nominee and it's not like a
contested convention or whatever, what is that convention gonna be like? God,
it's gonna be a combination tribute to the wonderful first
term of Joe Biden, which I just don't know if
I can handle most consequential president efforts, right, So it's
gonna be part that and part building up Kamwa.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I don't know if I can do it. Tragic comic,
Oh my god, Bizara hilarious. I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh so much to be said, and we will say it,
but first let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Katie, Hey, you guys. Starting with ABC News Election twenty
twenty four update, Kamala Harris has raised fifty million dollars
since biden endorsement.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, she's raised a lot of money fast. And I
was on a big zoom call with a bunch of
pundits talking about the amount of enthusiasm that has been
injected into the Democratic side of things so quickly. I mean,
they've gone from just despondent, hopeless to.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yes, we've got a shot, we can do this and indeds. Yeah,
it's oddly reminiscent to Biden being not Trump. That was
the enthusiast right for him. At this point, the enthusiasm
is not Biden, will it? Indeed rest comfortably on the
back of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I tend to doubt it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
From Fox News, Secret Service director is set to testify
about Trump assassination attempt. She canna be facing questions from
lawmakers this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, and from what I understand, a fair number of
Democrats are very unhappy with her.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Also, well, she should go, She should absolutely go.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I loves to come up with the audio of her
announce whatever it was a year year and a half
ago that their highest priority was going to be increasing
DEI in the Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, we've got to get.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
To those revelations that came out in the Washington Post
over the weekend of Secret Service dropping the ball.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
From the New York Post, caravan of three thousand migrants
hoped to cross southern border into the United States before
a possible Trump win.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
But that can't be the borders are is going to
be the Democratic nominee. Yeah, you better recheck that headline, Katie.
That sounds misleading. The border is secure from USA today.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Peak global population is approaching thanks to lower fertility rates.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, and that's something We're going to peak out at
like eight billion some people and then start going down.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
From the New York Times, Delta cancels more flights as
it struggles to recover from tech outage, and Pete, but
a gig gig is signaling out the airline saying this
is unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh good, Pete, way to leap to our defense.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I spent Friday with trying to change flights and book
flights and then book another one and cancel it, and
then can I make it to this one in time?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
From Headlines and Global News, Elon Musk posts video of
Trump blowing up Biden just days after the assassination attempt.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Boys got to be pretty happy that the President stepped
down as the nominee. On Twitter, decided that was the
place to announce it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
From the athletic Lebron James to be the United States
flag bearer at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I just saw that, and I think that is cool. Now.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I could see how you'd argue, not it should be
some unknown nobody should blah blah blah. But look, the
Lebron's putting a lot out there to go play for
the Olympic team.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
He didn't need anything, and he's still doing it.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
And finally, the Babylon Bee aids struggling to figure out
how to break the news to Biden that he dropped out.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Of the race, wondered about that.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Is there gonna be a moment where he forgets that
he dropped out and somebody's gonna tongue.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That could happen, couldn't it? It absolutely could. Yeah, Barry
from Thailand wrote that same thing. I did not, I know,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well remember Diane Feinstein did that I dropped out?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
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