BONUS COVERAGE: President Joe Biden's 'big boy press conference' - Part II

Dan and Ryan present the remainder of President Biden's 'big boy press conference' without commercial interruption and with occasional commentary.

Episode Transcript

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at W Denver at six o'clock eachafternoon four to six tonight. We're staying
late because this farce of a socalled big boy press conference continues and we
want to be able to continue tobring it to you this afternoon, and
so we're going to go back toit. At this point, Ryan,
where are we going to pick thisup? Are we picking it up live

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or with earlier questioning? Okay,so we're going to hand this just shows
what a first this thing is.We'll pick it up. This is a
bit delayed, and we'll play itthrough as close to the end as we
can. Fire away a lot ofconcern that Donald Trump may we can NATO

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stop supporting Ukraine or push Ukraine togive up territories to Russia. They're correct,
and you yourself was warning just twominutes ago about it. So my
question is, do you think thatEurope will be left on its own if

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Donald Trump wins the election. What'syour advice to European leaders to prepare for
possible US disengagement? Pullo? Ithink how can I say this about sounding

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too self survey. I'm not havingany of my European allies country say Joe,
don't run. What I hear themsay is you've gotta win. I
can't. I come forward maybe adisaster, a peace and prosperity with that

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before I think he said in oneof his rallies, don't hold me to
this recently where NATO. I justlearned about NATO or something to that.
Facts. No, what he saidis foreign policy has never been his strong
point. Putin didn't go into Ukraine. He seems to have an affinity to
people who are authoritarian that worries asI tell you, from whole, that
worries Europe, that worries Poland.And nobody, including the people of Poland,

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think that if he wins in Ukraine, is going to stop in Ukraine.
So that's going to be the endof it. And so what I
can say is, I think I'mthe best qualified person to do the job,
to make sure that Ukraine is notfall, that Ukraine succeeds, that
the European Alliance stays strong. Youmay recall no one was talking about Finland

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joining NATO. I remember talking toput and when right after we got elected
in Geneva, and he was talkingabout what we should do. We couldn't
be an Eastern europe at center.And I said, you're looking for the
fidelization of Ukraine, because you're goingto get the natoization of Finland. And

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about four weeks later I got acalled, now that's not true, probably
five months later from the President ofFinland. Could he kind of see me
in my office I had. Iinvited him to the Oval office. We
sat down and talked. He saidhe wanted to join NATO. Could I
help? And I did? Wasn'tautomatic. And then I got a call
from the Swede. He's just likefilabuster. And so Finland joined NATO eight

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hundred mile border as a significant andthey're already to allen Lord, but they
weren't part of NAVIS. And youheard, I think you heard. Maybe
I can't recover he said a publicin our clothes meeting. But he wouldn't
mind be repeated. He said,we decided in Finland, the people of
Finland decided they had to be partof NATO with our interest because of the

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joint ability to be together just tosuade any attack on Finland. And the
same thing with Sweden. It tooka lot of selling to some folks,
particularly in Turkey and other places,to agree to the expansion, but they

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expanded and they were held a lotstronger because of it. We're more secure
because of it. And by theway, I was able to get fifty
other nations fifty five zero to supportUkraine fifty. We were able to bring
about a coalition between of Europe andAsia, Japan and South Korea. I

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just met with We talked about Augustand we talked about the relationship between Australia,
New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the United States. We're making
the world safer instrum because we haveto work with a new arrangement that exists
in the world. The Cold Waris over, the post war era is

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over. What is going to replaceit? And I respectfully suggests I have
a pretty good idea what that shouldbe. I've convince a lot of people
to follow it, and we're justgoing to get stronger. David Sanger.
Yeah, Putin didn't go into Ukraineon Trump's watching. Thank you, mister

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President. Be nice David as President. The NATO declaration that was issued yesterday,
that was very notable because it describedChina as a decisive enabler of the
war in Ukraine for its provision ofcritical goods to the Russians. That's part

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of a broader partnership that seems tohave cemented in place in the past two
or three years. I think onethat you were a little bit doubtful of
when we asked you about it sometime ago. So I'd be interested to
know whether you have a strategy nowof trying to interrupt the partnership between China

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and Russia, and whether or notin a second term you would pursue that
if you could describe that strategy tous, and along the way, could
you also tell us whether you think, just to follow up on Felicia's question,
that if you were in a roomwith Vladimir Putin again the way you
were three years ago or with Presidentthat a few years from now you will

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be able to go and negotiate withthem handle them one on one look could
happened after the last one first,and I raised in the NATO summit and
others raise the future of China's involvement, what they're going to do, what
they're doing with Russia in terms ofaccommodating, facilitating them. They're getting access

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to additional they're not supplying, they'renot supplying weapons themselves, They're supplying mechanisms
for them to be able to getweapons. And China's position is basically and
I've spent more time with Ching thana world leader has over ninety hours since
being vice president, all the waythrough for real and by the way I

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handed all my notes, I wouldexplain Hunters deal. But my point is
that she believes that China is alarge enough market that they can entice any
country, including European countries, toinvest there and return for or commitments from

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Europe to do ABC or D ornot to do certain things. What's happened
is we had a long discussion aboutwhat we cannot. We have to make
clear. China has to understand thatif they are supplying Russia with information and
capacity, along with working with NorthKorea and others to help Russia in armament

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that they're not going to benefit economicallyas a consequence of that by getting the
kind of investment they're looking for.And so, for example, we're in
a situation where and we've a veryestablished direct contact with China. After that
member of the balloon quote unquote goingdown and all of a sudden things came

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to an end. Well, weset up a new mechanism. There's a
direct line between she and me andour military has direct access to one another,
contact one another or we have problems. The issue is that we have
to make sure that she understands there'sa price to pay for undercutting both the

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specific basin as well as Europe,and it relates to Russia and dealing with
Ukraine, and so we for example, if you want to invest in China,
as you know, you know thisarea really well, trying to invest

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in China, you have to geta fifty percent Chinese owner. You have
to make sure that you do bytheir rules and you can't you don't have
the authority, and that you haveto provide all access to all the data
and information you have. There wasa while there, as we call the
last administration and other administrations where theaccess to that market was enticely enough to

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get companies to come in because theyhad access to over a billion people in
a market, not a billion,but a lot of people in the market,
and so they were doing it.But that got curtailed when we started
saying we're going to play by thesame rules. For example, the idea

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they don't abide by the international rulesrelated to subsidizing products by the government funding.
So strategy is just to put everybodyable to export their electric vehicles to
the United States without a significant terror. Others are doing the same thing around
the world. But it is aconcern. It is a concern that you

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have both China, North Korea,Russia ran countries that are not necessarily coordinated
in the past, looking to figureout how they can have impact up that
impact here in sixty the kitchen ofyour Denver do. But I'm not prepared

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to talk about the detail of itin public called boy press conference, which
has been a very thin you'll seethat kind of first. In my opinion,
some of our European friends are goingto be curtailing there involve investment in
Russia. I mean, excuse me, in China. As long as China

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continues to have this indirect success helpto Russia in terms of being able to
help their economy as well as aswell as help them in as a consequence
that their ability to fight in inUkraine. The other thing we talked a

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lot about is that and I raisedit and there was I didn't hear any
I can't swear that everyone agreed,because not everyone got to talk about it.
But we haven't. We need anew industrial policy in the West.
For example, we talked if youjust joined us the EU, very very

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NATO stage dements to be able tobegin to build their own munition capacity list
to their own capacity for weapons andthe ability to be came as a surprise
to some of us how we hadfallen behind in the West in terms of

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the ability to construct new material,new weaponry, and new new everything from
from vehicles to weapons systems, andso one of the things that came out
of this was we're going to bemeeting again with a number of my colleagues,
my European colleagues, is what dowe do to increase the capacity of

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the West, particularly in Europe andJapan, to be able to generate kind
of ability to produce their own weaponssystems, not sess for themselves, but
to be able to generate that it'sthe same less of service. But Russia
is trying to figure out that theywent to Sisy kitchen w and this was
supposed to be in Korea Joe Bidenbig boys. Instead it's been a four

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buster, tightly continued to have allthe defense of very few questions or follow
ups about it as well. Isincapacity answered on whether you would be ready
to go deal with Putin and Shetwo or three years from now. I'm
ready to deal with them now andthree years from now. What a tough
question. The like I said,I'm dealing with She right now and direct

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contact with I have no good reasonto talk to Putin right now. There's
not much that he is prepared todo in terms of accommodating any change in
his behavior. But there isn't anyworld leader I'm not prepared to deal with.

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But I understand that the generic pointis Putin ready to talk. I'm
not ready to talk to Putins unlessPutin's ready to change his behavior and the
idea. Look, Putin's got aproblem, first of all, in this

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war that he is supposedly have won. And by the way, I think.
Don't hold me the exact number,but I think that Russia had seventeen
point three percent of Ukraine that they'veconquered now at seventeen point four. I
mean in terms of percentage of territory. They've not been very successful. They've

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called horrible damage and loss of life, but they've also lost over three hundred
and fifty thousand troops military killed orwounded, if over a million people,
particularly young people with technical capability leadingRussia because they see no future there.
They've got a problem. But whatthey do have control of is they are

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very good at controlling and running thepublic outcry. That relates to how they
use mechanisms to communicate with people.They lie like health in the constituencies,
they lie like kill about what's goingon. And so the idea that we're
going to be able to fundamentally changeRussian in their term is not likely.

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But one thing for certain, ifwe allow Russia to succeed in Ukraine,
they're not stopping the Ukraine. Irecommend. I know you know this because
you've We've written about it. Readpoop speech after they moved in. What
it was all about in Kiev.It wasn't about just anyway read what he's

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an objective is didn't go in whenhe was present anyway. But so I
think that I'm prepared to talk toany leader who wants to talk, including
if Putin called me he wanted totalk. Last time I talked to Putin
was trying to get him to workon an arms control agreement related to nuclear
weapons of space. Yeah, andafter that to Ukraine. So my point

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is, I'm prepared to talk toanybody, but I don't see any inclination.
There is an inclination on the partof the Chinese to keep in contact
with me because they're not sure wherethis all goes. And look what's happened
in Asia. We have strengthened theAsian Pacific area more than anyone else has.
We you know, we just puttogether with today we had I brought

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on. I asked my NATO alliesthat we bring on the group from the
South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Japan In Yeah, Australia, I
I already mentioned in Australia and Imet twice. Now I think with the
fourteen leaders of the Pacific island nationsand we've slowed down. What's going on

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there. We've slowed down China's reachbecause there's a lot of work to do.
This is a moving target and Idon't take it lightly. I'm from
MPR here on sixt thirty kidsch It'llbe a Denver. Thank you, mister
President us Mahalid with NPR. Ihave two questions. Earlier, you spoke

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about the ceasefire plan between Israel andHamas we're now looking at ten months of
war, and I'm curious if there'sanything that you feel personally you wish you
would have done differently over the courseof the war. And Then, secondly,
if I may, I want toask you about your presidential campaign.
I remember covering your campaign in twentytwenty and there was a moment where you

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refer to yourself as a quote bridgecandidacy, a transition to a younger generation
of leaders. I want to understandwhat changed two things. So let's go
back to two good questions. Whenyou talked about what I have changed anything
is happening with Israel and the Palestiniansin the Palestine movement. The answers,

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as you recall from the very beginning, I immediately I went to Israel,
but I also got a media contactof Ossisi in Egypt. I met with
the King of Jordan, I metwith I met with most of the Arab
leaders to try to get a consensusgoing as to what had to be done
to deal with getting more aid andfood and medicine into in into the Gaza

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strip. And we pushed it reallyhard, and Israel occasionally was less than
cooperative. Number One, the IsraeliWark Cabinet. I've been I've been in
Israel since gold in my ear.I've some of the reporters around here covering
all the time. I've heard mesay this. The last first time I

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met a Golden Air, I satacross from her at her desk, and
her assistant was rabbi sitting next tome, and so far back I go.
I know Israel well, and Isupport Israel, but this Wour cabinet
is one of the most conservative warcabinets in the history of Israel. And
there's no ultimate answer the two statesolution here. And so what was able

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to be done in terms of theorgan of the plan I put together was
it would be a process for atrue state solution, and we'd get the
Arab nations to particularly from Egypt allthe way to Saudi Arabia to be in
a position where they would cooperate inthe transition so that they could keep the
peace in Gaza without Israeli forced sustainedin Gaza. The question has been from

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the beginning, what's the day afterin Gaza? And the day after in
Gaza has to be the end ofthe day after. It has to be
no occupation by Israel and the Gazastrip, as well as the ability for
us to access get in and outas rapidly as you can, all that's

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needed there. I've been disappointed thatsome of the things that I've put forward
have not succeeded as well, likethe port reattached from papers. I was
hopeful that would be more successful.But that's why when I went to Israel
immediately after the massacres that occurred wasthe hands of Moss that the one thing

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I said to Israel is a memberwith a work cabinet and with BB don't
make the same mistake America made afterBin Laden. There's no need to occupy
anywhere. Go after the people whodid the job you may be calling.
I still get criticized for it,but I was totally opposed to the occupation

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and trying to unite Afghanistan. Oncewe got once, once we got bin
Laden, we should have moved onbecause it was not in our No one's
ever going to united unite that country. I've been over every inch of that
not every inch, the entirety,from the poppy fields all the way to
the north. I said, don'tmake the same mistake we made. Don't

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think that's what you should be doingis doubling down. We'll help you find
the bad guys sin War in company. And all was criticism about I wouldn't
provide when the weapons they needed.I have not provided them two thousand pound
bombs. They cannot be used inGaza or any popular area without causing great
human tragedy and damage. But rememberwhat happened when when you had the attack

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on Israel from with rockets and ballisticmissiles. I was able to unite the
Arab nations as well as as wellas Europe, and nothing happened, nothing
got hurt. Sent an incredible lessonto what was going on from the the
least. So there's a lot ofthings in retrospect. I wish I had

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been able to convince the israelis todo. But the bottom line is we
have a chance. Now. It'stime to end this war. Doesn't mean
walk away from going after Sinemar andHamas. And if you notice, you
know better than most there is agrowing dissatisfaction in on the West Bank from
the Palestidians about Hamas. Hamas isnot popular now, and so there's a

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lot of moving parts. I justhave to keep moving to make sure that
we get as much done as wecan toward a cease fire, a cease
fire and get those And by theway, look at the numbers in Israel.
I mean, my numbers are betterin Israel than our here, but

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then again there are better than alot of other people here too. But
anyway, Boss didn't go in Israeland Trump candidacy in twenty twenty. You
referred to yourself as being a bridgecandidate for a younger, pressure generation of
democratic leaders. And I wanted toknow what changed. What changed was the
good question gravity of the situation Iinherited in terms of the economy, our

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foreign policy, and domestic division.And I think I won't put words in
anybody's mouth. The most presidential storyis give me credit for having accomplished more
than most any president since Johnson thanmaybe before that office. A major piece
of legislation passed. What I realizedwas my long time in the Senate had

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equipped me to have the wi them'tknow how to deal with the Congress to
get things done. I got moremajorsization passions, just as mot would happened.
All these other Democrats are incompetent thatnobody can do the job. If
tomorrow or if if you've had acircumstance for everything, there is a lineup,

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and I did have an inheritor whatI did, and we just moved
things along. Anyway, it's goingto change. Last question, Haley Bull
scripts no, Josh Weinegrove, I'msorry. It isn't actually bad, Haley.
I'll do two more questions, thankyou, mister President. Many of

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your colleagues, Democrats in the Hillare watching tonight as they assess to see
how you're thinking of this right now. It seems like your answer is clear.
But they're watching how things go tonighttomorrow in Michigan, next week in
Texas and Nevada. Are you thinkingthat about whether how the next week or

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two goes would inform you? AmI using that way. Are you thinking
that way about how the next twoweeks ago Will that affect your decision?
Or are you fully determined on runningin November as the party's nominee. I'm
determined on running, but I thinkit's important that I realized I lay fears
I've seen let them see me outthere, let me see them. You

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know, for the longest time itwas Biden's not prepared to sit with us
unscripted. Biden's not prepared to inany way. And so what I'm doing
is I've been doing. I thinkwe won twenty major events from Wisconsin to
North Carolina anyway to demonstrate that I'mgoing out in the areas where you think

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we can win, where we canpersuade people to move our way or people
already there. Look then, iswe have the most extensive campaign organization if
anybody's had a long We have wellover one thousand volunteers knocking on doors,
making phone calls, making tens ofthousands of phone calls. We have headquarters.

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I forget exactly how might I wantto cite a number and then find
out I'm off, But we havescores of headquarters and all the toss up
States. We're organized, we're moving, and that's awful hard to replace in
in their term. And so here'sthe other thing. I was in the

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sending a long time. I'm veryproud of what I've done in the Senate.
I was chairman on the Formulations Committeefor a long time, and I
was chairman of a ranking member andchairman of the Judiciary Committee. I'm going
to be going down to the JohnstonLibrary anyway. I'm going to be going
around making the case of the thingsthat I think we have to finish and

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how we can't afford to lose whatwe've done, or our backslide on civil
rights, of liberties, women's rights, and that little button we have control
guns not girls. The idea we'resitting around this WKAMO is so good as
well. We're sitting around more childrenfrom him are killed at by a bullet

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and any other cause of death.The United States of America? What hell
are we doing? What are wedoing? We got a candidate said I
promise, and don't worry. I'mnot going to do anything. I'm not
going to do anything. You gota Supreme Court vice most conservative court in
American history. Oh, this isridiculous. There's so much we can do.

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Still, I'm determined to get itdone. It's about freedom. And
by the way, I'll end thisright, Well, I'm not going to
do that, Haley. It hasto come up to But the I remember
I made a speech on democracy inPhiladelphia and Independence Hall speech and I'm not

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being critical. Just observe you,the bulk of the press, what else
he talking about that for democrat?And you did. Democracy's not an issue.
Democracy is not an issue except thepulling down. So sixty percent of
the people knew I was right.I thought I was right. I'm not
asking you a question you don't haveto answer, obviously, but do you

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think our democracy is under siege basedon this court? Do you think democracy
see based on Project twenty twenty five? Do you think he means what he
says when he says he's going togo away to the civil service, eliminate
the Department of Education? Makes youI mean, we've never been here before,
and that's the other another generation.I've got to finish this job.

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I've got to finish this job becausethere's so much steak. You have the
discussions of the past few days withyour press secretary about the question of health
exams, and you said you takea cognitive test every day in this job.
Are you open to taking another physicalor test before the election? Governor
Whitmer of Michigan for ins instead,it wouldn't hurt to take a test.

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Well, look two things. One, I've taken three significant and intense neurological
exams neurology in each case was recentlyFebruary. And they say I'm a good

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shape okay, although I do havea little problem with my left foot because
of father's sensitive because I broke myfoot and didn't wear the boot. But
I'm good. I'm tested every singleday by my neurological capaccity the decisions I
make every day. Yeah, Andyou think my staff all of you talk
to my staff sometimes my staff talksa lot. But the fact of the

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matter is, I don't think youhave them telling you that all the major
ideas we've undertaken haven't been in partinitiated by me. I remember with the
staff, I said, I'm goingto go to South Korea. We're going
to get that chip. What areyou're doing? I'm going to get Japan
and Korea back together again after essentiallyhaving hostilities toward one another since the end

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of World War Two. I'm goingto move and see that we can expand
it. You know, the onlything aged does is help you with It
creates a little bit of wisdom ifyou pay attention. And so the point
I'm making is, I think it'simportant that if if mine is, a

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neurologist tells me he thinks I needanother exam. And by the way,
I've laid every bit of the recordout, and the thing wrong, God
asked Trump for this, Okay,I laid it all out. Every single
day I'm surrounded by good docs.If they think there's a problem, I

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promise you. Or if I don'tthink it's a problem, I think I
should have a neurological exam again,I'll do it. No one's suggesting that
to me. Now, no oneto ask you another question. No matter
what I did, no one's goingto be satisfied. Did you have seven
knocks? Did you have two?Would you have? Did you do this?
How many times you? So Iam not opposed. If my doctors

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tell me they should I should haveanother neurological exam, I'll do it.
But that's where I am uh HaleyBull scripts Haley got in. Thank you,
mister president. You're making decisions ona day to day basis when it
comes to support for Ukraine. Doesthat mean you have not closed the door
on further considering lifting restrictions for USmade weapons inside Russia? And if I

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met, your convention is coming upwhere your delegates are pledged to make you
the official nominee. If they havesecond thoughts, are they free to vote
their conscience? Good question. Obviouslythey're free to do another they want.
But I got overwhelming support, overwhelmingsupport I won. How I forget how
many votes I won in the primary. Overwhelming And so tomorrow follow of a

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sudden I show up at the convention, everybody says we want somebody else.
That's democratic process. It's not gonnahappen. That's pretty big, right there.
You vote for someone else. Sure, Look, I'll end this with
us. I serve to to sendit a long time. He said that

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three times or more. I understandthe impetus of candidate running for local office
and whether they think top if theycan help them not. In my state
of Delaware, which was a veryat least a purpose, it was a
red state when I started in termsof ware now talk red and blue.

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I don't recall most of the Democraticpresidents winning my state when I was a
candidate. The truth of the matteris, I understand the self interest in
a candidate. If they think that, you know, run over with Biden
the topic is going to hurt them, then they're going to run away.
I get it. But so far, go and look at the polling data

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in their states. Look at theend, and by the way, I
think you'd all acknowledge. And you'reall experts. I'm not bevious to listening
to about the president. There areyour experts on this stuff. How accurate
does anybody think the polls are thesedays? I can give a serious of
poll where you have likely voters don'tbelieve the meet versus Trump, where I

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win all the time, but theunlikely voters that's all. The bottom line
is all a pulling data right now, which I think is premature because the
campaign really hasn't even started. Imean it hasn't started to earnest yet.
Most of the time it's done starttill after September, after Labor Day?
What year are you living? In? A lot can happen, But I

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think I'm the best call. Iknow, I believe I'm the best qualified
to govern, and I think I'mthe best qualified to win. But there
are other people too. But it'salso starts to start, start from scratch.
And you know we talk about youknow, money raised, we're not
doing bad. Forget if I've twohundred and twenty million dollars in the bank,

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we're doing well. So with that, you haven't even want to follow
up a that you just ask me. Yes, you earlier explained confidence and
your vice president if your team cameback and showed you data that she would
fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay

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in the race. No, let'sthink came back and said there's no way
you can win. Wow, me, don't say that, No bulls.
Wow. This ends tonight's press conference. Wow. Wow, Hey, thanks
for being with us. Normally you'llhave Joe Pegs on now It's six thirty

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Kids at W Denver. This isDan Caplis. We stayed on obviously so
you could hear the end of thatand will deep dive it. Michael Brown
will be on It's six thirty Kitschat W his Great Morning Show tomorrow morning,
and then of course four to sixtomorrow afternoon, will deep dive this.
Ryan Schuling does a great show onsix thirty kitsch W two to four,
so lots of opportunities to deep diveit tomorrow. And thanks to management

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for running this commercial free through thishour. I want to take just two
minutes. I know you have thoughtsas well, Ryan, But in watching
that, first of all, we'reproven right. We kept saying they're calling
it a big boy press conference becauseit won't be. This was just a
staged event and it wasn't a truetest in any way, shape or form.
With that, Biden still had constantflubbs, and I don't think did

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anything to reassure any reasonable person abouthis fitness to serve in office. But
as a guy who wants to seehim stay in the race because it helps
Trump win, helps all Republicans win, I'm heartened. I'm heartened. I'm
hopeful this means that he's going tostay in longer. He won't be the
nominee, but I hope this meansthat he'll drag it out as long as

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humanly possible. Seem to be hisattitude tonight. I think his candidacy will
be over very very soon. Buthopefully we get him a bit longer and
it makes things even tougher on theDemocrats. I think that's starting by referring
to your vice president is Trump notthe best start, especially after just referring

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to Zelensky as Putin yep, anda lot more to break down tomorrow.
I just can't believe he's staying withthis lineup. I don't need a cognitive
test. Nobody's asking for it.Yes they are. Everybody on your own
side is why not just go throughthe test show if you're that confident about
how you stand cognitively, and you'reright the repeat of the mistake calling Zelenski
Putin saying vice President Trump, theyshowed a reaction shot on Twitter of his

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cabinet members like blink and etc.And they just you could see their faces
drop. But what I heard,just to echo your sentiments real quickly,
Dan Tonight, was a guy that'scommitted to staying in the race. I
think he did just well enough toclear the bar of he's not completely out
there out to pasture, and he'sgoing to have to be really talked out

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of this, and I don't thinkthat's going to be easy. So to
your point, he's in it.He's staying in it. I think he
bought himself some time tonight, andthat's good news for Donald Trump. I
think he's right about one thing whenhe says, wait a second, every
day on this job is a cognitivetest. I think that is true.
And I think that watching him inaction the few times they allow us to
do that, because this has beenone massive cover up of his inability.

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Every time we get to see him, it is more valuable to us,
I think than a medical cognitive test. The point is he fails. He
fails those everyday tests. Ryan,I think he's done. I think he's
done very soon. Soon he'll announced, And what I mean by that is
he'll announced that he's no longer goingto seek reelection. But let's hope that
tonight means he's going to drag itout. Even another week or two is

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very helpful to Trump. So thankyou Ryan for staying late. Thank you
to Dave Tepper and management for allowingthis to go into Alet's conclusion. Please
join Michael Brown in the morning andsix thirty KHW Denver Ryan Shuling at two.
I'll beyond Dan Kaplis. I'll beon tomorrow two to four look forward
to taking your calls in texts.Then have a great ev