May 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Trump's frustration with Putin over Ukraine...
- More on Jake Tapper's lies...
- A very important lesson about a very popular type of beverage!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But the President's patience does appear to be running thin.
The White House, we know, is actively reviewing sanctions options,
and already the Senate has a veto proof bill ready
to go that would slap five percent tariffs on any
country that buys Russian energy. And you're already hearing from
some congressional Republicans say that they are ready to see
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the Senate act with or without the White House's green light.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Man, there is a lot here, and don't roll your
eyes or sigh about talking about Ukraine and Russia, because
this is reaching a serious inflection point that we're either
gonna be out or we're gonna be way in.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I think.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
So last night Trump, as we were talking about yesterday
over the weekend, you know, he said, I don't know
what happened to Vladimir. He's gone crazy. I mean, all
this killing and what the hell is happening here? And
most people's reaction was, Vladimir Putin has always been like this,
and either you knew that or you didn't, or I
sure what's going on here? But anyway, so the end
of then he truths out last night. What Vladimir Putin
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doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me, lots
of really bad things would have already happened to Russia.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And I mean really bad in all caps.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He's playing with fire, which was a heck of a
post from the leader of the United States. I mean,
we're also used to Trump's bomb bast I mean, if
you try to picture that in the mouth of George
Bush or Barack Obama, it'd be well, it'd be a
stop the presses moment, it'd be holy crap, the response
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from Russia.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We want to say here, do we want one of
our reporters to say it. Let's go ahead. They've got
it in front of them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Fifty b Okay Medvedev writes regarding Trump's words about Putin
playing with fire and really bad things happening to Russia.
I only know of one really bad thing, World War three.
I hope Trump understands this.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So that's either the most serious thing I've ever heard
in my life or it's just an empty threat, right
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Such is the nature of bluffing, right.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I don't think Russia has any interest in getting involved
in World War three, But so far the bluff of
we might use nukes kept Joe Biden on his heels
his entire presidency, As is reported in Bob Woodward's book
and David Sanger's book about the inner workings of the
White House, when Anthony Blincoln wanted to push harder, Joe
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Biden was really really worried about starting World War three.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, Well, Joe Biden woke up on his heels, as
I often say.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
His belt and trump bell rode heels. But Trump is
a very, very different guy.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Obviously.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I'm thinking about Vladimir Putin and his calculations and his goals,
which are to restore the glory of the Tsarist and
Soviet Russian republics or empires. And I could see him
calculating that pushing to the very very brink of World
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War three, including massive casualties, would be worth the effort.
I could see him making that calculation fairly easily.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's not even a stretch. Well, I think we know
what his thinking is. At least.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Richard Engel claims he has sources inside the intelligence agencies
that believe they know what Putin's strategy is. I think
that's interesting, and I'll save that until we hear from
Tammy Bruce, who is currently a State Department spokesman.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
This is what she says, Trump is thinking.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It was very obvious from his truth social posts that
his patience has worn thin. But it's not even really
about patients. It's what every American is feeling when you're
looking at, as the President described, indiscriminate bombing on civilian areas,
killing civilians in increasing bombing runs and drone attacks, especially
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when there's been such a concerted effort by the Trump
administration and others to stop that carnage between Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now, So.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The way I took that of her saying you can
tell from President Trump's truth social is that she's going
off his posts as opposed to personal conversations. I mean,
she's guessing at his thinking the same way we are
by looking at what his posts are.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right well, and the whole humanitarian appeal.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I don't how is anybody still going with that?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Putin doesn't care, well, yeah, let's never cared. He's made
it infinitely clear how literally cares.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah. On that line. Here, there's a little more of
Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's clear into both parties and of the world that
this cannot be solved with violence or or a more
military action. And so the president, who noted in his
post that he's known Putin for quite some time, feels
that something has happened to him and he's unable to
explain it. And clearly he's he's quite frustrated enough to
express that outrage in public.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
See I feel like Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Trump has many times hung various cabinet members spokespeople out
to dry because they go out try to speak for him.
Then he comes out later in the day and says
something completely different. And because they're they're they're often guessing at.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What he thinks.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I don't know if they just don't have conversations with
him or what. She sounds like she's just guessing, and
she is clearly just reinterpreting his tweets. Yeah, yeah, right,
And so Richard Ingele on NBC News says he it
talked to people in the Intelligence Department, and this makes
sense to me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I mentioned yesterday.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I don't know why this took several days to report,
but Trump had told reporters in the Middle East that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I'm paraphrasing because I don't have in front of me
right now.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
But this wasn't my war, this is Zelenski, this is Putin,
this is Biden's war, this isn't mine war. We shouldn't
have got involved, which made me feel like he's gonna
do the whole and jd Vance later in the week
last week said, you know, if we see that nobody cares,
you know, we might have had enough of this. So
I'm worried they're gonna just walk away because I personally
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think we need to support you great. But that's what
Richard Engel's reporting was that people in the intelligent department
to believe Putin's thinking is Putin thinks Trump's close to
getting so frustrated and feeling like he'll just throw up
his hands, you know whatever, you all work it out
and walk away, which is a win for Putin. Bootin
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knows it's a win for him. If the United States
is off the table and out of it, it's absolutely
a would win for Putin. So that's why he launched
the biggest drone attack of the entire war over the weekend.
He's trying to drive home the point in Trump's head
that look, I'm not interested in peace, and you believe
Zelensky hates me too much or something like that. So
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Trump throws up his hands and walks away from the
whole thing. That's Putin's thinking right now, which makes sense
to me.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Right right, I would agree completely, and I don't want
to waste a lot of time on Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But her statement that.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
This cannot be solved through war, Wait a minute, what
Putin's trying to solve is I want more territory.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So yeah, yeah, it can be.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, I'm gonna take you the whole country unless somebody
stops me.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
If it's spin, it's spin, that's fine, spin Away, it's
your job. But if it's just naivete, I don't get
it at all. So there are a couple of developments
that I think are very very significant. If that wraps
up your what you wanted to present. Number one, we
talked earlier about Friedrich Merritz, the leader of Germany these days,
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much more hardass than the previous guy, saying that we
are removing any limits on weapon range, We're letting the
Ukrainians shoot him as far in to Russia as they want,
and the White House did not comment. That was deafening silence.
That was not even a hint of weha, wait a minute.
(08:30):
So I find that interesting. Yeah, I might as well
take a little detour into the Senate here. Senator Chuck
Grassley tweeted, I saw this yesterday that he thought Trump
was sincere in thinking his friendship with Putin wood end
the war now. He added, it was time for sanctions
strong enough that this Russia leader knows game over, and
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watching these guys trying to manage up, trying to not
offend Trump to wait till Trump shows a sign that it's.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay to say what you believe. And now they're saying
what they believe. That's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Everybody has to manage up in their lives and careers.
But so Trump is.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Also considering abandoning peace negotiations altogether. It's unclear what would
happen as you were describing, but allies such as Lindsey
Graham told Trump Putin does not want a deal finally,
and only punishments.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Would make him seriously negotiate. Three key views colored Trump's thinking.
Official said, first is dislike for Zelenski, who Trump felt
encouraged further conflict by pushing for sanctions.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I believe that's ridiculous. On Sundays, he blasted Putin. Trump
also criticized Zelensky. Let's see the second. Trump also thought
additional sanctions on Russia would not curb its ability to
wage war, but would hamper efforts to revive US Russian
economic dies.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You might as well try. I think that ship has sailed.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
But in third, Trump felt he knew that Putin and
the Russian leader, I'm sorry. Trump felt that he knew
Putin and that the Russian leader would end the war
as a personal favor.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No way.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Lindsey Graham said that, Uh, the officials said that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I would agree. Here's the really interesting part.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Graham, a couple of weeks ago, introduced to bill imposing
strict new sanctions on Moscow. I mean real ones, nasty ones,
and it now has more than eighty co sponsors in
the Senate. Practically everybody way beyond veto proof. The Sanctioning
Rush Act of twenty five, which Graham introduced with Senator
Richard Richard Blumenthal de Connecticut, would impose a bunch of
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sanctions blah blahlah. We can get into the particulars if
you want. And one more which Europe is on board
with it, which is important right on. And one more
note from the Senate, this is very trumpy, hard ass
friend of the armstrong Ygetti Show, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
in fifty six m Dog.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
The President has been very patient with Putin. At the
same time he's trying to clean up a mess that
he didn't start right. He's been very clear from day
one he wanted the killing to stop. He's tried to
work with Putin. His patience is running thin. And if
Putin continues to push this envelope the way that he is,
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He's going to give Zelinsky the tools he needs to
fight back and on the full scale and full support
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
But Europe needs to take a lead. Wow. I hope
that's true.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He gives Lensky everything he needs and the usual butt.
Europe needs to take the lead.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I hope that's true. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The ball is in Trump's court on this more than
it ever has been. One guy is going to make
a huge decision, and we're either going to be in
on supporting Ukraine in lots of different ways with the
harsh sanctions, with the military help with the intelligence, help
all of that, or Trump is going to go with
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the what he's hinted at and JD.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Vans have hinted at. Look, we tried to solve it.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You two, you your squabble, your your land, battle over
territory sputed, go ahead and figure it out. Not my business,
or we're gonna do that. And I don't have the
slightest idea which direction it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Three quick thoughts. Number one, JD.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Vance and Lindsey Graham are staging a battle Royale behind
the scenes. I'll bet two two headlines which you don't
have time to flesh out, but we can.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Next hour.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Number one, the US reinforces Europe's Northern Front, fearing war
with Russia. In quest to make NATO more lethal, The
Pentagon turns to the High North and the Baltics. So
behind the scenes, we are beefing up NATO and making
them more lethal, exactly where Russia needs to be contained.
Interesting and secondly, headline from the Wall Street Journal the
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Jack referenced Putin has retooled Russia's a common economy to
focus only on war. Moscow expands military recruitment and boosts
sweats production. And peace could jeopardize economic gains.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Uh, And Richard Ingle on NBC News Today said what
you said yesterday? He was asked by the hosts about
the ceasefire talks. He said, he ceasefire talks. That's what
you said yesterday, which is true.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Richard Engele, known as Joe Getty of Daylight. Who's in
the business.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Who's pretending there are ceasefire talks going on? Yeah? Come on?
What the hell? Okay, we got more on the ways there.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Hey, Igloo is recalling over one hundred thousand coolers because
the handle can cut off people's fingers.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Ah my god.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
It's great if your drunk uncle wants to get an
early start on the fireworks season. On the bright side,
when you cut off your finger, the ice is right there.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Wow, that's what I thought.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah, well, you know what, I'll just put my fingers
there in the ice and go find a gifted surgeon.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
That's not a minor injury. There's a sharp edge that
might cut you. No, cut off your finger.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Nice design, yikes.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Maybe you could put your new Starbucks summer drink in
your cooler. Four new Starbucks Summer drinks. I want to
mention and there's a reason I want to mention them.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
In just a second.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
But first this I'm dropping off my car today, which
I'm going to sell to get the rap taking off
taken off and a little rap info that you might
not No, wraps one of the coolest things to come
to cars. And you know, ever, and and you know,
you see all these cool colors around, whether there's stripes
or just a color that the that maker doesn't offer
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or whatever. I feel like a fifth of the cars
I see have a rap on them.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I know nothing about this.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Really, you probably see cars with wraps all the time.
You just don't know it. Probably, so yeah, yeah, because
I always asked my son, I said, wow, that's cool.
Does that come in that color? He said, that comes
to that color? How about that one? No, that doesn't.
That's a rap because you can't tell. You can't tell
a rap from a paint job. But if you have
a really cool color, that's interesting. I don't even know
if automotive companies they might stop offering lots of different
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colors because they realize people are just going to get
rapped anyway, So what's the point anyhow? Rap costs about
two three thousand dollars to get what and you know,
a paint job. If you get a real paint job
that's going to look that good, it's going to cost
you more like fifteen twenty thousand dollars. So the difference
being a rap does not last that long. It's like
three to five years. It starts to look a little ragged.
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And uh, that's kind of where mine is. I've had
it for four years on my Tesla plaid, which did
not come in the color that it currently is. And
but I'm getting it removed so I can sell it,
get it back to it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It costs a thousand dollars to remove it.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Are you leaving out the fact that it's it's lavender
with rainbows.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
In it.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
And the Queer America the hood is a big giant
my pony, right, Yeah, very very It's it's cute anyway'
gonna cost about a grand to get it taken off,
So it is way cheaper than a paint job. But
if you did it, if you have kept the car
for a long time, you'd be better off getting a
paint job. Can I do like a bondo in dense rap?
So when I park my car in craffy neighborhoods I
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don't have to worry about.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
The four drinks for Starbucks that they're announcing today for
summer Firework Frappuccino, brown sugar Strato frappuccino. God, how many
calories and fat grams in each of these? The salted
caramel maca Strato frappuccino. And then this strawberry Matcha. What's matchia?
(16:38):
Do you know what matcha is? This is where I
wish Katie's macha.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's like a is it rice based drink? All I
know is this?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Any place that has Matcha in the title in San
Francisco or the town I live in has a line
out the door right now. They're like, if you're a
cool person, you drink Matcha. Whatever the hell that is Matchia.
I might stand in the line for nothing, so I
won't taste one until the lines die down.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Summer drinks, they're fancy milkshakes. Oh absolutely.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I was going to talk about a mom and her
hyperactive son getting one of these drinks the other day.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'll have to talk about that later.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's a sad story, but we got more important things
to get to hope you can figure it Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
This is a big theme in the book that they
were lying not just to press and not just to
the country. They were lying to cabinet secretaries, democrats in Congress.
I'm not excusing any of these people, but I'm just saying,
in many ways, I think they were also lying to themselves.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Jake Tapper, if you don't recognize the voice, continuing to
go around and tout his book exposing something everyone already knew.
Although a lot of the details that are actually interesting,
and I continue to read the book, I mean it's
interesting enough to, you know, get me to read several
pages every night.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's just kind of odd. Yeah, it's the aspect of
it where Jake Tapper dropped his gun and said, I'm
a victim. I'm not on the gang, I'm not in
the gang.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I'm a victim here that everybody is so disgusted by
the idea that, oh, those Dan White House officials lied
to us, and then we believed it, we were taking in.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They pulled the will over.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I mean, I've complained about this in several other ways.
Jose Canseco is a good example. The baseball player who
outed everybody else for Royds. What was the dude who
was friends with Lance Armstrong who finally turned.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
On him and then writes a book.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And my complaint has always been, Okay, you were fine
with the scam as long as it benefited you, and
now you're switching and benefiting from outing other people. Okay,
so you do what is in your best interest at
all points. Yet jose Conseco's story about everybody using steroids
was still damned interesting. Finding out how top level Lance
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Armstrong bike riders cheated the system was still in I think,
regardless of the fact that I didn't like the source.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
So a new source or at least a more fleshed
out source coming up in a moment or two. But
a quick couple of notes from some stuff we referenced
yesterday Andrew Styles and the Free Beacon, which is really
a terrific outlet if you're not into it, and he's
a great writer, but and he says about the book
and the publicity towards maddening.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Really go back and watch.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
The tape of Tapper insisting without evidence that Biden was
mentally sharp in September of twenty three. We now know
that in the preceding months, Biden had turned in a
series of awful performances at fundraisers that left some donors
worried that quote he might not make it to election.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Day, and the idea that Jake Tapper isn't in touch
with the kind of heavyweights who were at those big
dollar fundraisers, Come on, he knows these people who he
hangs out with.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
This was around the time the authors revealed a handful
of unnamed by and AIDS had become convinced the president
was too brain dead to serve another term. They started
leaking stories about Biden's limitations to Thompson Alex Thompson. One
of the only mainstream journalists report on the decline was Thompson,
the only reporter these aids ever contacted.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Almost certainly not what happened.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
In June of twenty four, Annie Lynsky and Shabon Hughes
of The Wall Street Journal published a story on Biden's decline.
As promised, they were instantly denounced as right wing fabulousts.
Not just by the White House, AIDS and other Democrats,
many so called journalists joined the pylon, including some CNN guys.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Tapper's response to the Journal story was also in line
with White House talking points.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
He echoed Darcy's concerns about the sourcing, while noting that
the paper was owned by conservative billionaire.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Robert Rubert Murda.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
He threw that in keeping in mind that last week
he called these writers heroes.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
When he had him on this show. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He interviewed one of Biden's most ardent supporters, Chris Coons
of Delaware.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
This is the one that makes me the maddest.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
If you don't, if you haven't watched this, this was
the he presents.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
People are believe Joe Biden's brain doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Then he lets Koons shoot it down, make all kinds
of ridiculous complaint claims, and Tapper pushes back not a
bit and.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Quickly changes the topic to Taiwan. Last week, Megan Kelly
asked Tapper why he didn't invite Lensky and Hughes on
his show The Wall Street Journal Gals to discuss the reporting.
Tapper's defensive response was positively Biden esk quote, I don't
know what the booking situation.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Was, Megan.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
If we're gonna do this, let's just stick to the
facts here, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I can't believe he's getting away with this.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
And then then he's now he's going out of his
way to praise the heroic reporters and denounce the smear
campaign against him.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
How gracious of him, Which.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Leads us to a piece Dean Phillips, the plucky young
congressman who had the gall to run against Biden or
try for the twenty twenty four elections. He's written a
piece in the Free Press that ought to be quoted
in every news outlet around the country. If his subhead
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is if a relatively little known congressman like me knew
that Biden was incapable of leading the country in a
second term, what does that say about the complicity.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Of the real party bosses.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
This week, journalist Talk Thompson Jake Tapper released a bombshell
book Blah blah blah. Also this week, Biden's a spokesperson
decided to announce the former president at stage four prostate cancer.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Coincidence, I think not.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
And he goes into the fact that Biden slipped up
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I mentioned this the other day.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
He said, I had found out I have cancer, but anyway,
and then the White House never followed up on it
he knew he had cancer. Common sense tells us the
most powerful man in the world, with access to the
best healthcare in the world, would have surely, no, I
know that they don't recommend you get tested for a
PSA after a certain age. That doesn't apply to the
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President of the United States, because it's got to do
with all kinds of different insurance things and healthcare of
this and that, And it doesn't apply to the president
of the United States, who has the best healthcare in
the world. Trump got his PSA tested.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Right, And he goes and Dean Phillips goes into the
fact that he's demanded greater transparency and accountability from his
party for ages and his outrage that the important lessons
from the top scandal have not been learned. Constantly lying
in gaslighting the public about Biden's health has cost the
Democratic Party the public's trust rebuilding. It first requires the
courage in honesty to.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Admit what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And here's what happened, he writes, in twenty twenty one,
I had a front row seat on two occasions when
he addressed the House Democratic Caucus.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
This is in twenty one, friends.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I also spent time in close proximity to the president
during two flights on Air Force one in twenty one
and twenty two, where I was alarmed to see the
president's obvious decline in communication skills, gait, and leadership ability.
After the White House Holiday Party in December twenty two,
which the President's decline was too graphic to ignore, I
was left with no doubt in my mind Biden was
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unfit to serve a second term.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
My opinion was not an outlier. My congressional colleagues, like me,
had eyes behind closed doors. We acknowledged the reality, lamented
our parties, party leaders in action, and recognized the impending
disaster awaiting us in twenty twenty four. Well, he was
right about that. If you're a Democrat, it was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
And here's why I wanted to get to this, and
I've been to say this upfront, but I forgot. This
is about Jake Tapper and the book and Joe Biden
and the Democrats' leadership. It's also just a glimpse inside
the machine how it really runs, not the way they
tell you it runs, how it really runs. So he says,
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he and all this.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Congressional colleagues agreed after many of the same hushed conversations.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I tried to impress a sense of urgency.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I made calls to potential presidential candidates like Illinois Governor JB.
Pritzker and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to urge them to run.
They didn't even want their names mentioned, let alone.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
To return my calls. Wow.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Frustrated, I went public calling for an open primary. I
implored prominent Democrats like California Governor Gavin Newsom, Minnesota Senator
Amy Klobucher, and Vice President Kamala Harris to throw their
hats in the ring. But cometh to the moment, Cameth nobody.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
By the fall of twenty three, I realized not only
that Biden was in serious decline, but that the polling
was clearly showing he couldn't win. My party was sleepwalking
into a second Trump term. So with no one else
willing to step forward, I entered the race. And then
he gets into the way he was treated and how
the media all lined up to say he was a
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crank and a climber and a liar.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, it was treated as a joke.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, he was announced proactively. He wasn't kind of right,
he was one hundred percent. Right, he goes into you know,
CNN and MSNBC. Then the DNC announced proactively that there
would be no debates.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh oh talking, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If there had been a debate, the Joe Biden moment,
a primary debate, the Joe Biden moment might have come
many months earlier. Right, we should to give the Democrats
time to get another candidate. And I think it's worth
pointing out, as you did earlier in the show, this
was a terrible miscalculation. This got Trump re elected or elected.
(26:37):
It could be argued.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
That, you know, it would overstate it to say Biden
was the only guy or the stupid moro on Kamala
Harris were the only people who could lose Trump, because
that's not true. He ran a pretty effective campaign, but
they ensured he would win by running Biden than Kamala.
So as usual, the folks who crow constantly about democracy, democracy,
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democracy had zero trust in democracy.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
They wanted to fix the game as usual.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
And by the way, you Trump's win was pretty solid electorally. Uh,
it's only like one hundred and forty thousand votes in
three states.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You flip and he.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Loses, right, So one more note, and then I'll shut
the heck up because the loss of trust that the
media has so richly earned is in.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Full flower around. Nobody trusts the media.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And we made reference to you know, why would people
trust them at we'll earned that?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Well.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yeah, and a couple of our beloved listeners sent along
this list, and I've actually edited it and brought it
down to the core stuff, the most important stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I think how.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Many recent mainstream media hoaxed this? Did you fall for
Russian collusion? And the Steele dossier?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
The Inflation Reduction Act will reduce Trump called neo Nazis,
fine people, The juicy Smollett case, the Bubba Wallace garage
pulled news. Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. The Covington
kids right, the Kavanaugh rape.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID. The Trump peepee tape.
COVID lab league was a conspiracy theory. Border agents whipped migrants. Oh,
another good one.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
The travel plate lie and no and no, uh paid
no priceport? Well, you ultimately paid a price fort and
nobody believes you anymore?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, and your businesses are dying. Eh.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Muslim travel band Andrew Cuomo is showing the best COVID leadership.
Trump built cages for migrant kids. The what's his face?
Was an austere religious scholar. Right is that the ya
ya zin war sin war? No, that was us? The
isis guy? Yeah, I'll be ready. You're right, bagdad, austere
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religious scholar. Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan, build back
bet or pay for itself. Trump tax cuts benefited only
the rich. Cloth max masks prevent COVID. If you get vaccinated,
you won't catch COVID. An SUV killed parade marchers, not
the driver.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Uh where was I?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for a
Bible photo.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Don't say gay was in the bill?
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Right? Putin price hikes. I've met him as a horse dewarmer.
Not for humans, mostly peaceful protests. And Trump overpowered the
Secret Service for the wheel of the beast.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
The list goes on and on.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Right, the list I saw included hands up, don't shoot,
which never ever happened.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Right, that ought to be on here. It's going back
a few years.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
But of course, yeah, you earned your reputation mainstream media.
The problem is I understanding, but it's ultimately bad for
all of us that we don't trust the media because
that is going to reap a whirlwind that's not good
for any of us.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Put on your whirlwind jacket.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
They caught some more of those escaped convicts that had
all the help from the various janitors and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
They caught some more of them, plus the secret Service
cat fight. Have you heard about that?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Barely. I want to hear more of the Stay tuned.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
Two more escaped inmates from a New Orleans jail were
taken back into custody. They're capture in Huntsville, Texas, just
north of Houston. The other inmate caught in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
That makes three inmates in the last twenty four hours
now back behind bars more than a week after they're
shocked and escape. Two of the ten fusionists are still
at large and considered armed and dangerous and street savvy.
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Antoine Massey, with the record of breaking out of jail,
this one his third escape, and de Gros, who was
convicted of killing two people. US marshalls say they probably
aren't acting alone.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
While I can understand why you don't want to be
in prison, the success rate of escaping getting out and
then like staying out for any length of time has
got to be incredibly low.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
And it's a heck of a gamble because it's not
like you, uh, just go back and serve out your sentence.
You got a brand new one rumphed on top for escape.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, a couple.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
First of all, Tinder, the online dating app that has
a certain reputation, is out to change the reputation.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I can explain that in just a little bit. We
got this text.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
By the way, on a different topic, guys, I about
died when I heard.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
How white and old you sounded. Missing Katie.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Before I even launched into the segment they're about to reference,
I said, I wish Katie was here.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
She's our young correspondent.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yes, when you were trying to pronounce pronounce matcha, it's
pronounced macha like gotcha, and it's green tea powder, not
a rice based whatever the hell Joe said.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
At least they got the name right. You'll know some
alternate drink.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
In my defense, I would say even if I were forty,
I probably still wouldn't know what this is because it's
just not my sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, sir or madam, I've known him for many many
years and no, he was like this when he was young.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
And I see, but like I was in San Francisco
for the weekend and there was a line out the door.
Any place that's got matcha in the name of the place, Yeah,
And my son said, his buddy is like, oh yeah,
he talks about match all the time. He's got one
friend who's like super whatever's hot music, clothes, drink that.
You got to be into it BeForever before other people are,
and then you got to get out of it before
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other people get.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Out of it. That's not to denounce it. The minute
you're out of Oh you're still doing that. That's late exactly.
You have to do that.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I got him. Okay, So all that's coming up. Fans
of a high level law enforcement cat fights, boy, do.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We have the video for you to Secret Service.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Babes were outside Obama's residence former President Barrick, who say
Obama in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Last week, and apparently.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
They got into some sort of disagreement and about two
thirty in the morning, one of them called for a
supervisor to come immediately quote before I whooped this girl's ass.
According to an audio recording posted online which we will
effort getting for you.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Wow, what had to be over a dude?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
I mean, what would they possibly actually get in a
fight about.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Well, I don't know. You're there, it's two thirty in
the morning. A little disagreement flares up. Maybe somebody told
somebody to do something they resented.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
The top knows. I guess that could be. I've seen
the videotape though, and it was.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
You know, when a fight is just one half an
inch short of haymakers raining down on heads where they're
shoving and aggressive wrestling and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It got to that point, actually we're shoving. Oh yeah,
it was.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
It was a physical conflict, the two of them in
their bulletproof vests and everything.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Man, I don't want to go DEI, but.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
These You are not Secret Service outside a former president's
house material. If you're going to get in a fight
with a cowork over some sort of beef, you are
not cut out for that job.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
The individuals The Secret Services said the individuals involved were
suspended from duty in this matter is the subject of
an internal investigation. The Secret Service has a very strict
code of conduct for all employees. In any favor that
violates that code is unacceptable.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah, that's well, and I would say it is another
black eye for the Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, they've had a few.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
So the guy who's running Tender now says he wants
to change your reputation from a hookup app. I've never
online dated and I probably never will, so I only
know everything anecdotally from what people have said. But it
being a hookup app, he says, if gen X was
into that, gen Z is not. It's not a hookup generation.
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They don't drink as much, they don't have as much sex.
We need to change our product and it's going to
be more about trying to find better matches, not more matches,
which good luck with that. I think the culture is
not gonna work for that. But one thing I thought
was really interesting. They introduced this in Europe and it's
working well.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Is double dating you and a friend match up with
a couple of people and go out.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I have thoughts on this, but might have to happen
in an hour. Three Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But the President's patience does appear to be running thin.
The White House, we know, is actively reviewing sanctions options,
and already the Senate has a veto proof bill ready
to go that would slap five percent tariffs on any
country that buys Russian energy. And you're already hearing from
some congressional Republicans say that they are ready to see
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the Senate act with or without the White House's green light.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Man, there is a lot here, and don't roll your
eyes or sigh about talking about Ukraine and Russia, because
this is reaching a serious inflection point that we're either
gonna be out or we're gonna be way in.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I think.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
So last night Trump, as we were talking about yesterday
over the weekend, you know, he said, I don't know
what happened to Vladimir. He's gone crazy. I mean, all
this killing and what the hell is happening here? And
most people's reaction was, Vladimir Putin has always been like this,
and either you knew that or you didn't, or I
sure what's going on here? But anyway, so the end
of then he truths out last night. What Vladimir Putin
(01:26):
doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me, lots
of really bad things would have already happened to Russia.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And I mean really bad in all caps.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He's playing with fire, which was a heck of a
post from the leader of the United States. I mean,
we're also used to Trump's bomb bast I mean, if
you try to picture that in the mouth of George
Bush or Barack Obama, it'd be well, it'd be a
stop the presses moment, it'd be holy crap, the response
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from Russia.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We want to say here, do we want one of
our reporters to say it. Let's go ahead. They've got
it in front of them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Fifty b Okay Medvedev writes regarding Trump's words about Putin
playing with fire and really bad things happening to Russia.
I only know of one really bad thing, World War three.
I hope Trump understands this.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So that's either the most serious thing I've ever heard
in my life or it's just an empty threat, right
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Such is the nature of bluffing, right.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I don't think Russia has any interest in getting involved
in World War three, But so far the bluff of
we might use nukes kept Joe Biden on his heels
his entire presidency, As is reported in Bob Woodward's book
and David Sanger's book about the inner workings of the
White House, when Anthony Blincoln wanted to push harder, Joe
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Biden was really really worried about starting World War three.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, Well, Joe Biden woke up on his heels, as
I often say.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
His belt and trump bell rode heels. But Trump is
a very, very different guy.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Obviously.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I'm thinking about Vladimir Putin and his calculations and his goals,
which are to restore the glory of the Tsarist and
Soviet Russian republics or empires. And I could see him
calculating that pushing to the very very brink of World
(03:42):
War three, including massive casualties, would be worth the effort.
I could see him making that calculation fairly easily.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's not even a stretch. Well, I think we know
what his thinking is. At least.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Richard Engel claims he has sources inside the intelligence agencies
that believe they know what Putin's strategy is. I think
that's interesting, and I'll save that until we hear from
Tammy Bruce, who is currently a State Department spokesman.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
This is what she says, Trump is thinking.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It was very obvious from his truth social posts that
his patience has worn thin. But it's not even really
about patients. It's what every American is feeling when you're
looking at, as the President described, indiscriminate bombing on civilian areas,
killing civilians in increasing bombing runs and drone attacks, especially
(04:34):
when there's been such a concerted effort by the Trump
administration and others to stop that carnage between Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now, So.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The way I took that of her saying you can
tell from President Trump's truth social is that she's going
off his posts as opposed to personal conversations. I mean,
she's guessing at his thinking the same way we are
by looking at what his posts are.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right well, and the whole humanitarian appeal.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I don't how is anybody still going with that?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Putin doesn't care, well, yeah, let's never cared. He's made
it infinitely clear how literally cares.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah. On that line. Here, there's a little more of
Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's clear into both parties and of the world that
this cannot be solved with violence or or a more
military action. And so the president, who noted in his
post that he's known Putin for quite some time, feels
that something has happened to him and he's unable to
explain it. And clearly he's he's quite frustrated enough to
express that outrage in public.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
See I feel like Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Trump has many times hung various cabinet members spokespeople out
to dry because they go out try to speak for him.
Then he comes out later in the day and says
something completely different. And because they're they're they're often guessing at.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What he thinks.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I don't know if they just don't have conversations with
him or what. She sounds like she's just guessing, and
she is clearly just reinterpreting his tweets. Yeah, yeah, right,
And so Richard Ingele on NBC News says he it
talked to people in the Intelligence Department, and this makes
sense to me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I mentioned yesterday.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I don't know why this took several days to report,
but Trump had told reporters in the Middle East that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I'm paraphrasing because I don't have in front of me
right now.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
But this wasn't my war, this is Zelenski, this is Putin,
this is Biden's war, this isn't mine war. We shouldn't
have got involved, which made me feel like he's gonna
do the whole and jd Vance later in the week
last week said, you know, if we see that nobody cares,
you know, we might have had enough of this. So
I'm worried they're gonna just walk away because I personally
(06:43):
think we need to support you great. But that's what
Richard Engel's reporting was that people in the intelligent department
to believe Putin's thinking is Putin thinks Trump's close to
getting so frustrated and feeling like he'll just throw up
his hands, you know whatever, you all work it out
and walk away, which is a win for Putin. Bootin
(07:03):
knows it's a win for him. If the United States
is off the table and out of it, it's absolutely
a would win for Putin. So that's why he launched
the biggest drone attack of the entire war over the weekend.
He's trying to drive home the point in Trump's head
that look, I'm not interested in peace, and you believe
Zelensky hates me too much or something like that. So
(07:25):
Trump throws up his hands and walks away from the
whole thing. That's Putin's thinking right now, which makes sense
to me.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Right right, I would agree completely, and I don't want
to waste a lot of time on Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But her statement that.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
This cannot be solved through war, Wait a minute, what
Putin's trying to solve is I want more territory.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So yeah, yeah, it can be.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, I'm gonna take you the whole country unless somebody
stops me.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
If it's spin, it's spin, that's fine, spin Away, it's
your job. But if it's just naivete, I don't get
it at all. So there are a couple of developments
that I think are very very significant. If that wraps
up your what you wanted to present. Number one, we
talked earlier about Friedrich Merritz, the leader of Germany these days,
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much more hardass than the previous guy, saying that we
are removing any limits on weapon range, We're letting the
Ukrainians shoot him as far in to Russia as they want,
and the White House did not comment. That was deafening silence.
That was not even a hint of weha, wait a minute.
(08:30):
So I find that interesting. Yeah, I might as well
take a little detour into the Senate here. Senator Chuck
Grassley tweeted, I saw this yesterday that he thought Trump
was sincere in thinking his friendship with Putin wood end
the war now. He added, it was time for sanctions
strong enough that this Russia leader knows game over, and
(08:53):
watching these guys trying to manage up, trying to not
offend Trump to wait till Trump shows a sign that it's.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay to say what you believe. And now they're saying
what they believe. That's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Everybody has to manage up in their lives and careers.
But so Trump is.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Also considering abandoning peace negotiations altogether. It's unclear what would
happen as you were describing, but allies such as Lindsey
Graham told Trump Putin does not want a deal finally,
and only punishments.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Would make him seriously negotiate. Three key views colored Trump's thinking.
Official said, first is dislike for Zelenski, who Trump felt
encouraged further conflict by pushing for sanctions.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I believe that's ridiculous. On Sundays, he blasted Putin. Trump
also criticized Zelensky. Let's see the second. Trump also thought
additional sanctions on Russia would not curb its ability to
wage war, but would hamper efforts to revive US Russian
economic dies.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You might as well try. I think that ship has sailed.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
But in third, Trump felt he knew that Putin and
the Russian leader, I'm sorry. Trump felt that he knew
Putin and that the Russian leader would end the war
as a personal favor.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No way.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Lindsey Graham said that, Uh, the officials said that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I would agree. Here's the really interesting part.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Graham, a couple of weeks ago, introduced to bill imposing
strict new sanctions on Moscow. I mean real ones, nasty ones,
and it now has more than eighty co sponsors in
the Senate. Practically everybody way beyond veto proof. The Sanctioning
Rush Act of twenty five, which Graham introduced with Senator
Richard Richard Blumenthal de Connecticut, would impose a bunch of
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sanctions blah blahlah. We can get into the particulars if
you want. And one more which Europe is on board
with it, which is important right on. And one more
note from the Senate, this is very trumpy, hard ass
friend of the armstrong Ygetti Show, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
in fifty six m Dog.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
The President has been very patient with Putin. At the
same time he's trying to clean up a mess that
he didn't start right. He's been very clear from day
one he wanted the killing to stop. He's tried to
work with Putin. His patience is running thin. And if
Putin continues to push this envelope the way that he is,
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He's going to give Zelinsky the tools he needs to
fight back and on the full scale and full support
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
But Europe needs to take a lead. Wow. I hope
that's true.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He gives Lensky everything he needs and the usual butt.
Europe needs to take the lead.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I hope that's true. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The ball is in Trump's court on this more than
it ever has been. One guy is going to make
a huge decision, and we're either going to be in
on supporting Ukraine in lots of different ways with the
harsh sanctions, with the military help with the intelligence, help
all of that, or Trump is going to go with
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the what he's hinted at and JD.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Vans have hinted at. Look, we tried to solve it.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You two, you your squabble, your your land, battle over
territory sputed, go ahead and figure it out. Not my business,
or we're gonna do that. And I don't have the
slightest idea which direction it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Three quick thoughts. Number one, JD.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Vance and Lindsey Graham are staging a battle Royale behind
the scenes. I'll bet two two headlines which you don't
have time to flesh out, but we can.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Next hour.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Number one, the US reinforces Europe's Northern Front, fearing war
with Russia. In quest to make NATO more lethal, The
Pentagon turns to the High North and the Baltics. So
behind the scenes, we are beefing up NATO and making
them more lethal, exactly where Russia needs to be contained.
Interesting and secondly, headline from the Wall Street Journal the
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Jack referenced Putin has retooled Russia's a common economy to
focus only on war. Moscow expands military recruitment and boosts
sweats production. And peace could jeopardize economic gains.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Uh, And Richard Ingle on NBC News Today said what
you said yesterday? He was asked by the hosts about
the ceasefire talks. He said, he ceasefire talks. That's what
you said yesterday, which is true.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Richard Engele, known as Joe Getty of Daylight. Who's in
the business.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Who's pretending there are ceasefire talks going on? Yeah? Come on?
What the hell? Okay, we got more on the ways there.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Hey, Igloo is recalling over one hundred thousand coolers because
the handle can cut off people's fingers.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Ah my god.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
It's great if your drunk uncle wants to get an
early start on the fireworks season. On the bright side,
when you cut off your finger, the ice is right there.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Wow, that's what I thought.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah, well, you know what, I'll just put my fingers
there in the ice and go find a gifted surgeon.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
That's not a minor injury. There's a sharp edge that
might cut you. No, cut off your finger.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Nice design, yikes.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Maybe you could put your new Starbucks summer drink in
your cooler. Four new Starbucks Summer drinks. I want to
mention and there's a reason I want to mention them.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
In just a second.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
But first this I'm dropping off my car today, which
I'm going to sell to get the rap taking off
taken off and a little rap info that you might
not No, wraps one of the coolest things to come
to cars. And you know, ever, and and you know,
you see all these cool colors around, whether there's stripes
or just a color that the that maker doesn't offer
(14:43):
or whatever. I feel like a fifth of the cars
I see have a rap on them.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I know nothing about this.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Really, you probably see cars with wraps all the time.
You just don't know it. Probably, so yeah, yeah, because
I always asked my son, I said, wow, that's cool.
Does that come in that color? He said, that comes
to that color? How about that one? No, that doesn't.
That's a rap because you can't tell. You can't tell
a rap from a paint job. But if you have
a really cool color, that's interesting. I don't even know
if automotive companies they might stop offering lots of different
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colors because they realize people are just going to get
rapped anyway, So what's the point anyhow? Rap costs about
two three thousand dollars to get what and you know,
a paint job. If you get a real paint job
that's going to look that good, it's going to cost
you more like fifteen twenty thousand dollars. So the difference
being a rap does not last that long. It's like
three to five years. It starts to look a little ragged.
(15:31):
And uh, that's kind of where mine is. I've had
it for four years on my Tesla plaid, which did
not come in the color that it currently is. And
but I'm getting it removed so I can sell it,
get it back to it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It costs a thousand dollars to remove it.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Are you leaving out the fact that it's it's lavender
with rainbows.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
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And the Queer America the hood is a big giant
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gonna cost about a grand to get it taken off,
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for a long time, you'd be better off getting a
paint job. Can I do like a bondo in dense rap?
So when I park my car in craffy neighborhoods I
(16:14):
don't have to worry about.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
The four drinks for Starbucks that they're announcing today for
summer Firework Frappuccino, brown sugar Strato frappuccino. God, how many
calories and fat grams in each of these? The salted
caramel maca Strato frappuccino. And then this strawberry Matcha. What's matchia?
(16:38):
Do you know what matcha is? This is where I
wish Katie's macha.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's like a is it rice based drink? All I
know is this?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Any place that has Matcha in the title in San
Francisco or the town I live in has a line
out the door right now. They're like, if you're a
cool person, you drink Matcha. Whatever the hell that is Matchia.
I might stand in the line for nothing, so I
won't taste one until the lines die down.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Summer drinks, they're fancy milkshakes. Oh absolutely.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I was going to talk about a mom and her
hyperactive son getting one of these drinks the other day.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'll have to talk about that later.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's a sad story, but we got more important things
to get to hope you can figure it Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
This is a big theme in the book that they
were lying not just to press and not just to
the country. They were lying to cabinet secretaries, democrats in Congress.
I'm not excusing any of these people, but I'm just saying,
in many ways, I think they were also lying to themselves.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Jake Tapper, if you don't recognize the voice, continuing to
go around and tout his book exposing something everyone already knew.
Although a lot of the details that are actually interesting,
and I continue to read the book, I mean it's
interesting enough to, you know, get me to read several
pages every night.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's just kind of odd. Yeah, it's the aspect of
it where Jake Tapper dropped his gun and said, I'm
a victim. I'm not on the gang, I'm not in
the gang.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I'm a victim here that everybody is so disgusted by
the idea that, oh, those Dan White House officials lied
to us, and then we believed it, we were taking in.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They pulled the will over.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I mean, I've complained about this in several other ways.
Jose Canseco is a good example. The baseball player who
outed everybody else for Royds. What was the dude who
was friends with Lance Armstrong who finally turned.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
On him and then writes a book.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And my complaint has always been, Okay, you were fine
with the scam as long as it benefited you, and
now you're switching and benefiting from outing other people. Okay,
so you do what is in your best interest at
all points. Yet jose Conseco's story about everybody using steroids
was still damned interesting. Finding out how top level Lance
(18:57):
Armstrong bike riders cheated the system was still in I think,
regardless of the fact that I didn't like the source.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
So a new source or at least a more fleshed
out source coming up in a moment or two. But
a quick couple of notes from some stuff we referenced
yesterday Andrew Styles and the Free Beacon, which is really
a terrific outlet if you're not into it, and he's
a great writer, but and he says about the book
and the publicity towards maddening.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Really go back and watch.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
The tape of Tapper insisting without evidence that Biden was
mentally sharp in September of twenty three. We now know
that in the preceding months, Biden had turned in a
series of awful performances at fundraisers that left some donors
worried that quote he might not make it to election.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Day, and the idea that Jake Tapper isn't in touch
with the kind of heavyweights who were at those big
dollar fundraisers, Come on, he knows these people who he
hangs out with.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
This was around the time the authors revealed a handful
of unnamed by and AIDS had become convinced the president
was too brain dead to serve another term. They started
leaking stories about Biden's limitations to Thompson Alex Thompson. One
of the only mainstream journalists report on the decline was Thompson,
the only reporter these aids ever contacted.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Almost certainly not what happened.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
In June of twenty four, Annie Lynsky and Shabon Hughes
of The Wall Street Journal published a story on Biden's decline.
As promised, they were instantly denounced as right wing fabulousts.
Not just by the White House, AIDS and other Democrats,
many so called journalists joined the pylon, including some CNN guys.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Tapper's response to the Journal story was also in line
with White House talking points.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
He echoed Darcy's concerns about the sourcing, while noting that
the paper was owned by conservative billionaire.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Robert Rubert Murda.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
He threw that in keeping in mind that last week
he called these writers heroes.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
When he had him on this show. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He interviewed one of Biden's most ardent supporters, Chris Coons
of Delaware.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
This is the one that makes me the maddest.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
If you don't, if you haven't watched this, this was
the he presents.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
People are believe Joe Biden's brain doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Then he lets Koons shoot it down, make all kinds
of ridiculous complaint claims, and Tapper pushes back not a
bit and.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Quickly changes the topic to Taiwan. Last week, Megan Kelly
asked Tapper why he didn't invite Lensky and Hughes on
his show The Wall Street Journal Gals to discuss the reporting.
Tapper's defensive response was positively Biden esk quote, I don't
know what the booking situation.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Was, Megan.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
If we're gonna do this, let's just stick to the
facts here, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I can't believe he's getting away with this.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
And then then he's now he's going out of his
way to praise the heroic reporters and denounce the smear
campaign against him.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
How gracious of him, Which.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Leads us to a piece Dean Phillips, the plucky young
congressman who had the gall to run against Biden or
try for the twenty twenty four elections. He's written a
piece in the Free Press that ought to be quoted
in every news outlet around the country. If his subhead
(22:12):
is if a relatively little known congressman like me knew
that Biden was incapable of leading the country in a
second term, what does that say about the complicity.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Of the real party bosses.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
This week, journalist Talk Thompson Jake Tapper released a bombshell
book Blah blah blah. Also this week, Biden's a spokesperson
decided to announce the former president at stage four prostate cancer.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Coincidence, I think not.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
And he goes into the fact that Biden slipped up
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I mentioned this the other day.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
He said, I had found out I have cancer, but anyway,
and then the White House never followed up on it
he knew he had cancer. Common sense tells us the
most powerful man in the world, with access to the
best healthcare in the world, would have surely, no, I
know that they don't recommend you get tested for a
PSA after a certain age. That doesn't apply to the
(23:02):
President of the United States, because it's got to do
with all kinds of different insurance things and healthcare of
this and that, And it doesn't apply to the president
of the United States, who has the best healthcare in
the world. Trump got his PSA tested.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Right, And he goes and Dean Phillips goes into the
fact that he's demanded greater transparency and accountability from his
party for ages and his outrage that the important lessons
from the top scandal have not been learned. Constantly lying
in gaslighting the public about Biden's health has cost the
Democratic Party the public's trust rebuilding. It first requires the
courage in honesty to.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Admit what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And here's what happened, he writes, in twenty twenty one,
I had a front row seat on two occasions when
he addressed the House Democratic Caucus.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
This is in twenty one, friends.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I also spent time in close proximity to the president
during two flights on Air Force one in twenty one
and twenty two, where I was alarmed to see the
president's obvious decline in communication skills, gait, and leadership ability.
After the White House Holiday Party in December twenty two,
which the President's decline was too graphic to ignore, I
was left with no doubt in my mind Biden was
(24:08):
unfit to serve a second term.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
My opinion was not an outlier. My congressional colleagues, like me,
had eyes behind closed doors. We acknowledged the reality, lamented
our parties, party leaders in action, and recognized the impending
disaster awaiting us in twenty twenty four. Well, he was
right about that. If you're a Democrat, it was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
And here's why I wanted to get to this, and
I've been to say this upfront, but I forgot. This
is about Jake Tapper and the book and Joe Biden
and the Democrats' leadership. It's also just a glimpse inside
the machine how it really runs, not the way they
tell you it runs, how it really runs. So he says,
(24:49):
he and all this.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Congressional colleagues agreed after many of the same hushed conversations.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I tried to impress a sense of urgency.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I made calls to potential presidential candidates like Illinois Governor JB.
Pritzker and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to urge them to run.
They didn't even want their names mentioned, let alone.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
To return my calls. Wow.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Frustrated, I went public calling for an open primary. I
implored prominent Democrats like California Governor Gavin Newsom, Minnesota Senator
Amy Klobucher, and Vice President Kamala Harris to throw their
hats in the ring. But cometh to the moment, Cameth nobody.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
By the fall of twenty three, I realized not only
that Biden was in serious decline, but that the polling
was clearly showing he couldn't win. My party was sleepwalking
into a second Trump term. So with no one else
willing to step forward, I entered the race. And then
he gets into the way he was treated and how
the media all lined up to say he was a
(25:47):
crank and a climber and a liar.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, it was treated as a joke.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, he was announced proactively. He wasn't kind of right,
he was one hundred percent. Right, he goes into you know,
CNN and MSNBC. Then the DNC announced proactively that there
would be no debates.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh oh talking, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If there had been a debate, the Joe Biden moment,
a primary debate, the Joe Biden moment might have come
many months earlier. Right, we should to give the Democrats
time to get another candidate. And I think it's worth
pointing out, as you did earlier in the show, this
was a terrible miscalculation. This got Trump re elected or elected.
(26:37):
It could be argued.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
That, you know, it would overstate it to say Biden
was the only guy or the stupid moro on Kamala
Harris were the only people who could lose Trump, because
that's not true. He ran a pretty effective campaign, but
they ensured he would win by running Biden than Kamala.
So as usual, the folks who crow constantly about democracy, democracy,
(27:02):
democracy had zero trust in democracy.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
They wanted to fix the game as usual.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
And by the way, you Trump's win was pretty solid electorally. Uh,
it's only like one hundred and forty thousand votes in
three states.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You flip and he.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Loses, right, So one more note, and then I'll shut
the heck up because the loss of trust that the
media has so richly earned is in.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Full flower around. Nobody trusts the media.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And we made reference to you know, why would people
trust them at we'll earned that?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Well.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yeah, and a couple of our beloved listeners sent along
this list, and I've actually edited it and brought it
down to the core stuff, the most important stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I think how.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Many recent mainstream media hoaxed this? Did you fall for
Russian collusion? And the Steele dossier?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
The Inflation Reduction Act will reduce Trump called neo Nazis,
fine people, The juicy Smollett case, the Bubba Wallace garage
pulled news. Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. The Covington
kids right, the Kavanaugh rape.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID. The Trump peepee tape.
COVID lab league was a conspiracy theory. Border agents whipped migrants. Oh,
another good one.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
The travel plate lie and no and no, uh paid
no priceport? Well, you ultimately paid a price fort and
nobody believes you anymore?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, and your businesses are dying. Eh.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Muslim travel band Andrew Cuomo is showing the best COVID leadership.
Trump built cages for migrant kids. The what's his face?
Was an austere religious scholar. Right is that the ya
ya zin war sin war? No, that was us? The
isis guy? Yeah, I'll be ready. You're right, bagdad, austere
(29:03):
religious scholar. Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan, build back
bet or pay for itself. Trump tax cuts benefited only
the rich. Cloth max masks prevent COVID. If you get vaccinated,
you won't catch COVID. An SUV killed parade marchers, not
the driver.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Uh where was I?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for a
Bible photo.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Don't say gay was in the bill?
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Right? Putin price hikes. I've met him as a horse dewarmer.
Not for humans, mostly peaceful protests. And Trump overpowered the
Secret Service for the wheel of the beast.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
The list goes on and on.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Right, the list I saw included hands up, don't shoot,
which never ever happened.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Right, that ought to be on here. It's going back
a few years.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
But of course, yeah, you earned your reputation mainstream media.
The problem is I understanding, but it's ultimately bad for
all of us that we don't trust the media because
that is going to reap a whirlwind that's not good
for any of us.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Put on your whirlwind jacket.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
They caught some more of those escaped convicts that had
all the help from the various janitors and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
They caught some more of them, plus the secret Service
cat fight. Have you heard about that?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Barely. I want to hear more of the Stay tuned.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
Two more escaped inmates from a New Orleans jail were
taken back into custody. They're capture in Huntsville, Texas, just
north of Houston. The other inmate caught in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
That makes three inmates in the last twenty four hours
now back behind bars more than a week after they're
shocked and escape. Two of the ten fusionists are still
at large and considered armed and dangerous and street savvy.
(30:54):
Antoine Massey, with the record of breaking out of jail,
this one his third escape, and de Gros, who was
convicted of killing two people. US marshalls say they probably
aren't acting alone.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
While I can understand why you don't want to be
in prison, the success rate of escaping getting out and
then like staying out for any length of time has
got to be incredibly low.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
And it's a heck of a gamble because it's not
like you, uh, just go back and serve out your sentence.
You got a brand new one rumphed on top for escape.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, a couple.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
First of all, Tinder, the online dating app that has
a certain reputation, is out to change the reputation.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I can explain that in just a little bit. We
got this text.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
By the way, on a different topic, guys, I about
died when I heard.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
How white and old you sounded. Missing Katie.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Before I even launched into the segment they're about to reference,
I said, I wish Katie was here.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
She's our young correspondent.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yes, when you were trying to pronounce pronounce matcha, it's
pronounced macha like gotcha, and it's green tea powder, not
a rice based whatever the hell Joe said.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
At least they got the name right. You'll know some
alternate drink.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
In my defense, I would say even if I were forty,
I probably still wouldn't know what this is because it's
just not my sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, sir or madam, I've known him for many many
years and no, he was like this when he was young.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
And I see, but like I was in San Francisco
for the weekend and there was a line out the door.
Any place that's got matcha in the name of the place, Yeah,
And my son said, his buddy is like, oh yeah,
he talks about match all the time. He's got one
friend who's like super whatever's hot music, clothes, drink that.
You got to be into it BeForever before other people are,
and then you got to get out of it before
(32:41):
other people get.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Out of it. That's not to denounce it. The minute
you're out of Oh you're still doing that. That's late exactly.
You have to do that.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I got him. Okay, So all that's coming up. Fans
of a high level law enforcement cat fights, boy, do.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We have the video for you to Secret Service.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Babes were outside Obama's residence former President Barrick, who say
Obama in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Last week, and apparently.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
They got into some sort of disagreement and about two
thirty in the morning, one of them called for a
supervisor to come immediately quote before I whooped this girl's ass.
According to an audio recording posted online which we will
effort getting for you.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Wow, what had to be over a dude?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
I mean, what would they possibly actually get in a
fight about.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Well, I don't know. You're there, it's two thirty in
the morning. A little disagreement flares up. Maybe somebody told
somebody to do something they resented.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
The top knows. I guess that could be. I've seen
the videotape though, and it was.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
You know, when a fight is just one half an
inch short of haymakers raining down on heads where they're
shoving and aggressive wrestling and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It got to that point, actually we're shoving. Oh yeah,
it was.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
It was a physical conflict, the two of them in
their bulletproof vests and everything.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Man, I don't want to go DEI, but.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
These You are not Secret Service outside a former president's
house material. If you're going to get in a fight
with a cowork over some sort of beef, you are
not cut out for that job.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
The individuals The Secret Services said the individuals involved were
suspended from duty in this matter is the subject of
an internal investigation. The Secret Service has a very strict
code of conduct for all employees. In any favor that
violates that code is unacceptable.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah, that's well, and I would say it is another
black eye for the Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, they've had a few.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
So the guy who's running Tender now says he wants
to change your reputation from a hookup app. I've never
online dated and I probably never will, so I only
know everything anecdotally from what people have said. But it
being a hookup app, he says, if gen X was
into that, gen Z is not. It's not a hookup generation.
(35:04):
They don't drink as much, they don't have as much sex.
We need to change our product and it's going to
be more about trying to find better matches, not more matches,
which good luck with that. I think the culture is
not gonna work for that. But one thing I thought
was really interesting. They introduced this in Europe and it's
working well.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Is double dating you and a friend match up with
a couple of people and go out.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I have thoughts on this, but might have to happen
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