Biden Press Conference @ConwayShow

Biden to hold his first solo news conference since November // Biden holds his first solo news conference since November 

Episode Transcript

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It's camp. I am six fortyand you're listening to The Conway Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Itis the Conway Show. All right,
Well, we're starting a little late, which is not a good sign.
Wait, what do you mean startinglate? Who's starting late? We're starting
on time? Yeah, well Iwas supposed to start It wasn't originally supposed

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to start a two and then threewere to President Biden. That's oh no,
we're starting on time. No,we're perfect, man, we were
on top of it. You wantto hear what they're playing right now?
Sure that we're waiting, No,it's song just in there we go.
That's what they're playing. That's whatthey've been playing as we're waiting for President
Biden on the news feed that weuse, Oh maybe passed out. Then

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it's like elevator music. You needsomething to pump up the crowd, you
know, get the Rolling Stones inthis. Hey, I've never seen the
Beast of birding. You know,they were in town. The Rolling Stones
were in town last night. They'regonna be in town again on Saturday night.
And I don't know what's going on, but I was not aware.
I'm a big fan. I wasunaware that they were in town. They

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snuck into town. You know,usually you tell the radio stations and they
put out a big deal. Ihad no idea. You said something,
It isn't that crazy. And thenSaturday they're going to be in town at
Sofi Stadium and you can get aseat. Granted it's you know, closer
to uh Dodger Stadium when you actuallysit down, but they're way up there.
But you can get a seat forninety one dollars. I'd do it.

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I would too, ninety one dollars. Come on to go see the
Rolling Stone. I bet you sayingsomething will get a bunch of tickets push
right now. Yeah, bet,that's that's the idea here. But anyway
you can get and the floor seatsyou would think would be like four or
five thousand dollars. I saw afloor seat for eight hundred and forty dollars.
Wow. Floor seat like front row, you know, like in the

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pit. I couldn't believe it.I don't know what's going on. I
think everyone maxed out with Taylor Swift. Well, yeah, I guess.
I mean, if you look atthe parents of the kids that brought sure
that bought the tailor swift tickets.Parents are so great right nowadays or you
know, such pushovers, which arewhere you look at it. But they'll

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spend money on their kids to goto a concert and sacrifice their own concert.
I know parents that do that.I know parents would absolutely do that
that. You know, they willskip a concert for themselves to pay for
a concert for their kids. Idid. My mom and dad never did
that. Never, No, nowI didn't. My parents never did that
for me either. It was backthen concert tickets were like eight fourteen bucks,

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right, but my parents never sacrificed, like, you know, a
night out for them for you forus, pretty rare, pretty rare,
especially my mom. When my dadgot remarried, she got mad at him
because he would always take her onvacations and not do anything with me.
Oh that's great, all right.We're waiting around for President Joe Biden.

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This was originally this press conference whichis supposed to be ninety minutes. Ninety
ninety minutes. Someone straightening out theflag behind her behind the podium, right
now, yeah, look at that. I think that's the key to winning
the audience over straight flags. Soit's gonna be at them at the NATO
conference there fight and should get outand hug one. Yeah yeah, warm

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up to those flags in the back. He's just using it to stay steady
though, Sorry did I say that? Yeah? No, no, no
crociers right down the middle, rightdown the middle. Don't don't email us.
But anyway, so the press countsstart, supposed to started two,
then three, then four, andnow we're waiting any minute and it's about
to begin, and it's supposed tobe ninety minutes without with questions and no

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teleprompter and no pre designed and youknow, pre picked candidates or reporters.
That orchestra is going to get tired. Is that live? Sometimes it's live.
I think that'side recorded. But theyneed more of a you know,
a pump up song. You know, we gotta fight for your righte to

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pulay. You gotta pump up theaudience. What was the when when you
did when you were DJing, Whatwas the one song got everyone rolling?
Oh god? They were numerous atthe time, but consistently over the entire
time that I dj the one consistent, for whatever reason, from beginning the
enemy DJing was old time rock androll. Oh that's a great one,
man. Yeah, it's like anold time rocking roll. Oh that's a

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great song. Yeah, yeah,they should play that. I don't know
if you want to put anything inthe title of old by the time,
you know, you make me willinga shot shouts good? Yeah, shots
great. But anyway, we're sittingaround waiting and waiting and waiting for this
thing to begin, which is nota good sign. I'll give you that.
It does sound like Star Wars,Yeah it does. It sounds like

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when you're waiting in line for StarWars. Yeah, you get into credits,
you think they pump over you.Yeah, right, waiting in the
hall at Disneyland or Universal Theater.It sounds like you're waiting for a ride
at Universal. It sounds like theend of the ride when they finished the
movie and you have to hear themusic. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
You when you say, kind ofclean it up. He noticed that.

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And they all do this too.You know, it's not just Disneyland,
but Universal does it. I don'tknow if Six Flags does it.
I know, I know Knuts doesit. When you finish a ride,
they used to go right outside andgo to another ride. Now they push
you right into their gift shop.After the ride, right exactly exactly.
It's like, hey, look,you can spend nine hundred dollars after this
ride on this, this, this, and this, and they're really checking

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them flags at the back of thewall there. Yeah, they're really prepping
this place. So President Biden issupposed to speak for ninety minutes. He's
going to give give brief remarks thatwill be on a teleprompter, and then
the two teleprompter screens will be loweredand he will call on reporters, and
reporters will ask questions that are unscripted. That's so far what we understand.

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All I think of now is justwalking off for the ride. Now I
hear the music and I'm like,oh yeah, soaring over California is another
one that it sounds like. Andlike you said, you go into the
gift shop right after, we canhave our own walk off music. Yeah
right, you know that's great.Yeah, But I like going into the
gift shop afterwards, you know,and looking at stuff. Yeah. I
don't think that's a negative at all. I enjoy that. You know.

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I don't really buy much because well, I don't know, it seems expensive,
but I do like looking around andyou always go buy something small,
just to make sure you know youbought something like I'll take that key chain
chain, the magnet yep, maybeshot glass. I feel lucky they might

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have something like that shot glass plate. I love that people who have you
know, they're not embarrassed that theyare drinking themselves to death. So they
have shot glasses from everywhere around theworld. Right, there's this whole,
but there's just shining a light onit. You know. I'm I respect
that I drunk everywhere. Yeah,my liver is so crazy. You can

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see, as George Carlon would say, you can see it from across the
street through a sweater. Yeah,that's a tight liver. Channel five is
ready to roll, Channel two isready to roll. Channel seven. I
don't know if Channel nine is gonnado it. I think they usually counter
program because their affiliation with CBS.Channel eleven will roll it for free,

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and then you're gonna see it oncables on the cable networks. You'll see
it on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Yeah, the cablers, and then
you can see it in four orfive different languages if you like, as
well, Spanish, Korean. Whatelse are they going to run Japanese,
Chinese, they're going to run French. They're moving chairs around still, that's

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ah, we're watching the Titanic.Yeah, it reminds me of like a
barbecue when you try to like putthe seats in the right spot. They
keep moving people. They're rearranging thedeck chairs on the Titanic. Do you
want that references stuff? You knowthat reference? You heard it before,
right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like you might you know,
we're going down, you might aswell difference enjoy yourself. Yeah. Well,

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actually, actually that's not that referencethat references people still ignoring the truth?
You know what they just did.I just noticed one of the chairs
that they moved right in the frontin the center on the aisle there is
they moved the seat right there specificallyfor Kareem Jean Pierre, the spokesperson.
Oh is that right? Yeah?Okay, she sticks out a little bit
in that big crowd, and there'sa one next to her with a director's

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chair that says clooney on it Ishe going to be there? Wow?
Man? The whole circus is intown. So it's in Washington, d
C. Where is this closure?Is that the convention center? I heard
it was the read convention center.Is that familiar at the NATO summit or
Walter It wasn't Walter Reid, butit was either Walter or Red. I
remember reading that at a convention centerin Washington, d C. But I

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imagine there's there's so many spaces likethat in Washington to speak, you know,
with people constantly coming in and tryingto get our money, because that's
the only reason people come visit usis to try to get our money.
Yeah. Usually, okay, we'regonna take a quick break. If anything
happens during a break, we willcut our spots off off, We'll eave
it, interrupt traffic, but theangel if it happens. So you're gonna

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hear it live here on KFI JoeBiden's ninety minute presser. As they say
in the business, he's coming upnext and we're gonna carry it live,
live live. You're listening to TimConway Junior on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Hi. We're waiting forPresident Joe Biden. He's getting off the

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Star Wars ride. He's in thegift shop. He's buying a shirt,
he's collected script, buying those ears. Yes, he's enjoying himself. It
was supposed started two, then three, then four, and now it looks
like four thirty. So as itstarts, we will have for you.

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It's most going for ninety minutes.So if it starts at four thirty for
ULA USD studs out there, that'ssix o'clock. And this is the end
of Joe Biden's schedule today. Oh, speaking of Beast of Burden, I
got a text, shouldn't I guessit's pretty mild, so I guess I
could say it. I got atext from the lovely one, Shannon Farren,

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and she said, last time Isaw it the stones at the Rose
Bowl, they didn't even do Beastof Burden. I was devastated. And
then I responded, which is true. I saw them. I saw them
in England before a Beast of Burdenwas even written. Drop the mic,
do, she replies. She justcan't stop that. She's just like,

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wow, you're really young, likeyoung guys. All right, So this
is Biden's busy schedule today. Allright, this is what he's done just
today. Nine am, the Presidentreceives the official Presidential Daily Brief at the
White House. That was at nineam nine the President leaves the White House

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en route to Walter E. WashingtonConvention Center. Ten am, President participates
in working session of NATO summit atthe convention Center. One thirty, the
President holds a bilateral meeting with thePresident of Ukraine Zelenski, which I believe
is where he called him Putin,but I didn't see that. There was

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rumors going around. That's cool.And then at one thirty, oh sorry,
that was one thirty. Then attwo o'clock the President participates in a
working session of NATO again. Thenat four point fifteen, the President hosts
event for the Ukraine Compact. Iguess all right, they are saying it's
supposed to be at twenty seven afterso that'd be a little less than one

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minute for twenty seven. And thenthe President was supposed told to prescottence of
three thirty today East West coast time, which is six thirty, and so
it was supposed to happen at threethirty. Now it's going to be four
thirty. It's gonna be four twentyseven according to uh CRUB. So that's
what's going on. You can seeit on almost every station. We got

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two, four, five, seven, and eleven is still doing TMZ for
some reason. Well priorities. NowI guess, I guess the celebrities are
out there, and then we gotCNN, MSNBC, Fox. We got
them all covered. So we're goingto take all seven stations at once.

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They're off by a couple of seconds, so it should be confusing. Been
informed by the way from our veryown boss here, Chris Little of the
News department, news director for KFI. This song is called Nostalgic Salute.
Is that right? It's part ofthe Chris Little, Wow, All right,
how did you know that though?That Julie has to play when he

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comes home the door. Yeah,hey, he's back, Chrished. I
wonder which mood he's going to bein. Distinguished Guests of the United States,
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Biden, President Joe Biden.
I don't know, ma'am. Thankyou, please you see it. Well,

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good evening. We just concluded thisyear's NATO and the consensus among the
members was of a great success,so especially momentous because it represented the seventy
fifth year the most important military defensealliance in the world history of the world.
We should never forget the native grewout of the wreckage of World War

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two, the most destructive war inhistory. The idea was the creative alliance
of free and democratic nations that wouldcommit themselves to a compact of collective defense.
Standing together, they knew we'd allbe safer. An attack on one
would be treated as an attack onall. And it's worked because a would

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be aggressor knows they attack one ofus, they'll be attacked by all of
us. Sending that message is thebest way to deter aggression and prevent wars
in the first place. For thosewho thought NATO's time had passed, they
got a root awakening. When foodand invaded Ukraine. Some of the oldest

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and deepest fears in Europe roared backto life because once again a murderous madman
was on the march. But thistime no one cowered in appeasement, especially
in the United States. We collectedintelligence the Russia was planning to invade Ukraine
months before the invasion. I directedthe intelligence community to be a significant amount

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and tells me declassified so I couldstart building in the national coalition to oppose
the invasion. Then in February,some of you remembered, I warned the
world that the invasion was imminent.I rallied the coalition of fifty nations from
Europe to Asia to help Ukraine defenditself. My foreign policy many foreign policy

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experts thought as proving the massed Russianforces just one hundred miles north of Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine. But hethought, he Putin thought it was
the mother home of Russia. Thecapital would fall in less than a week,
but Ukrainian people, backed by acoalition to help build, stop them.

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Today Kiev still stands, and NATOstands stronger than it has ever been.
During the week of this summit,several heads of states made to the
point in their statements to thank theUnited States and to thank me personally for
all that NATO has achieved. NATAis not only stronger, NATO was bigger

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because we led the charge to bringin Finland and Sweden in the alliance.
And it makes a gigantic difference.Excuse me. Meanwhile, my predecessor has
made it clear he has no commitmentto NATO. He's made it clear that
he would feel no obligation on anArticle five. He's already told Putin and

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I quote, do whatever the hellyou want in fact, the day after
Prutent in Vadia, Ukraine. Here'swhat he said. It was genius,
it was wonderful. Somebody forgot that, but that's exactly what he said.
But I made it clear a strongNATO is essential to American security, and

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I believe the obligation of Article fiveis sacred. And I remind all Americans
an Article five provoked only once inNATO's long history, and that was to
defend in America. After nine toeleven, I made it clear that I
will not bow down to Putent.I will not walk away from Ukraine.

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I will keep NATO strong. That'sexactly what we did, exactly what we'll
continue to do. Now. Thefuture American policy is up to the American
people. This is much more thanthe political question. It's more than that
it's a national security issue. Don'treduce this to the usual testament that people

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talk about issues, that being thepolitical campaign. It's far too important.
It's about the world we live infor decades to come. Every American must
ask herself for himself, it's theworld safer with NATO. Are you safer?
Is your family safer? I believethe American people know. They answered

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to all those questions is yes,and I believe the American people understand that
America is stronger, stronger because ofour alliances. I believe the American consensus
from Truman to Reagan to me stillholds today. America cannot retreat from the
world. We must lead the worldwhere our indispensall nation. As Medelon Alwright

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wrote, Now let me turn tothree other key issues. Just this morning,
we had a great economic report showinginflation is down. Overall prices fell
last month. Core inflation as thelowest has been in three years. Prices
are falling for cars, appliance asan airfare, airfares, grocery prices have

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fallen since the start of the year. We're going to keep working to take
down corporate greed to bring those pricesdown further. Meanwhile, i'ms calling for
a ten percent tire for everything Americansbuy, including food from overseas, vegetables,
and other necessities. An economists tellus that that would cost the average

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American working family to another two thousand, five hundred dollars a year. It's
a tax of two thousand, fivehundred dollars a year. Second, or
refers to secure the border southern borderis working. After Trump killed the Bipartis
an effort to secure the border Republicanand Democrats had worked on. Because he
thought it would benefit me and makehim a loser. Republicans walked away.

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So I took executive action last month. As a consequence, working with Mexico,
border and counters have gone down overfifty percent. The current level is
lower today than when Trump left office. Third, for months, the United
States has been working curacies Fire andGOSLA to bring the hostages home to create

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a path for peace and stabuilding inthe Middle East. Six weeks ago,
I laid out a detailed plan inwriting was endorsed by the UN Security Council
the G seven. That framework hasnow agreed on by both Israel and Amas.

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So sent my team to the regionto hammer out the details. These
are difficult, complex issues. There'sstill gaps to close. We're making progress.
The trend is positive, and I'mdetermined to get this deal done and
bring an end to this war,which should end. Now. Let me
conclude, Robbie Gand We're the UnitedStates of America. We are the indispensable

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nation. Our leadership matters, ourpartnerships matter. This moment matters. We
must rise the meeting with that.I'll take your questions. I've been given
a list of people to call onhere Reuters, Jeff Mason. You're listening

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to Tim Conway Junior on demand fromKFI AM six forty. Mister President,
your political future has hung over theNATO summit a little bit. This week,
Speaker Pelosi made a point of suggestingthat your decision on whether to stay
in the race was still open.George Clooney and a hand for a handful

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of lawmakers have called on you tostep aside. Reuters is reporting tonight that
UAW leadership is concerned about your abilityto win. Ji w and just endorse
me, but go ahead, thankyou. My question for you is how
are you incorporating these developments into yourdecision to stay And separately, what concerns

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do you have about Vice President Harris'sability to beat Donald Trump if she were
at the top of the ticket.Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President
Trump to be vice president. DoI think she's not qualified to be president?
So let's start there. Number one. The fact is that the consideration

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is that I think I'm the mostqualified person to run for president. I
beat him once and I will beathim again. Secondly, the idea I
certainly sent in a long time,The idea that senators and congressman I'm running

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for office worry about the ticket isnot unusual. And I might add or
at least five presidents running or incumbentpresidents who had lower numbers than I have
now later in the campaign. Sothere's a long way to go in this
campaign. And so I'm just goingto keep moving, keep moving, and

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because look, I got more workto do, We've got more work to
finish. There's so much. We'vemade so much progress. Think about it.
Think about what we are economically relativeto the rest of the world.
Name me a world leader who wouldn'twant to trade places with our economy.
We've created over eight hundred thousand manufacturingjobs, one point five million. I

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mean, so things are moving.We got more to go. Working class
people still have need help. Corporategreed is still at large, there are
prices, the corporate profits have doubledsince the pandemic. We're coming down,
and so I'm optimistic about where thingsare going. Daddy camp AFP and thanks,

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thank you, mister President. Iwanted to ask you about your You
mixed up President's Zelenski and Putin earliertoday, and you now have sort of
your key allies, including the BritishPrime Minister, the President of France and
the German Chancellor having to step inand make excuses for you on that.

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Officials here were saying off the recordthat your decline has become noticeable. Hasn't
this now, frankly become damaging forAmerica's standing in the world? Thank you?
Did you see any damage we arestanding? In my leading in this
conference? Have you seen a moresuccessful conference? What do you think?
And the Putin piece? I wastalking about Putin and I said it now
at the very end, I said, here, I mean Putin. I

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said no, I'm sorry, Celenski, and then I had five other names.
Look, guys, the idea anybodysuggests that that we haven't had an
incredibly successful conference. How many timesdid you hear in that conference? I

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know it sounds too self serving,but other heads of state and thanking me
saying the reason we're together is becauseof Biden, because Biden did the following.
Look, folks, this is well. Anyway, I thought it was
the most successful conference I've attend ina long time and find me a world

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leader who didn't think it was nextone. Sorry, Nancy Cordis, CBS.
Thank you, mister President. Youmentioned other instances in history where presidents
have faced a challenge. But whatmakes this moment in history so unique is
that it is not your enemies whoare calling on you to reconsider your decision

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to stay in the race. It'syour friends, supporters, people who think
you've done a great job over thepast four years. Have you spent time
thinking about what it would mean foryour legacy, which you've worked decades to
build if you stay in the racedespite the concerns that voters say they have,
and you lose to someone who youyourself have argued is unfit to return

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to the Oval office. Look,I'm not doing this for my legacy.
I'm in this to complete the jobI started. As you recall, understandably
many of you and many economists thoughtmy initial initiatives that I put forward can't
do that. It's going to causeinflation. Things are going to skyrocket,

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and that's going to go up.What are you hearing now from mainstream economists?
Sixteen economic Nobel laureates said, I'vedone a hell of a job.
And under my plans so far,and what's going to happen in the future
if I've reelected, the things aregoing to get much better. Our economy

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is growing. I was determined whenI got elected to stop the trickle down
economic theory. As the wealthy didvery well, everybody else would do well.
My dad was a whirlwhere guy Idon't remember much trickling down on his
kitchen table. Middle class people andworking class people need help. And so

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what happened is I decided to implement, was able to implement as president.
But I believe when I was aSenator, and that is that the way
to build this economy is from themiddle out and the bottom up. That
way we grow the economy. Andthe wealthy still do very well. They
do fine. And guess what findme an economy mainstream economist who said we

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haven't done well? What have wenot done that? It isn't working right
now, and so we got moreto do that. We got to finish
the job. And by the way, I come from the corporate stage of
the world. Delaware has more corporationsand you know registering in Delaware than every
other state. And then they shouldcombined I'm not at a corporate but corporate

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profits have double since the pandemic.Double. It's time to get back in
order a little bit. It's time. For example, if I'm re elected,
We're going to make sure that rentsare kept at five percent increase of
co corporate rents for apartments and thelike, and homes are limited to five
percent. We're going to make alot of changes that I've been talking about

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because we're going to continue to growthis economy. And by the way,
I know, remember how I gotso roundly criticized to be and so pro
union not labor union union. Well, guess what, I've been the most
pro union labor president in history,not a joke. And guess what.
We had the Treasury Department to doa study. When unions do better,

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everybody does better, everybody does better. And we talk about how, for
example, when I went remember whenwe talked about getting the computer chip industry
back in the United States used tobe forty percent of industry. We invented
the chip forty percent of industries inthe United States, and former presidents decided

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that the best way to do isfind the cheapest labor in the world,
send the product over there and importwhat the product was, and so would
I do. I was told notto go over to Europe. I'm into
Asia, including Europe, but Asia. I remember going to South Korea convincing
the invest twenty billion dollars in theUnited States to build computer chip factories.

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And I asked why when they finallydecided to do it, and the answer
was because you have the safest economyin the world and you have the best
workers in the world. So thewhole idea here is we've invested. There's
over fifty billion dollars in an investmentin computer ship manufacturer just coming into being.
None of you thought that would happen. None of you thought that would

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happen. But it's happening. It'shappening, and it's going to go economies
all and by the way, redstates and blue states matter of facturers in
red states and blue states. I'vemade no distinctions. So my generic point
is that the idea that we can'tcontinue to build and grow the economy,

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make it fair. Like I said, from my standpoint, when the middle
class does well, that's when thewhole economy goes. The poor of a
shot. The wealthy do well,but they wealthy got to start paying their
taxes. You know this area reallywell, Try invest in China. You
have to have a fifty percent Chineseowner. You have to make sure that

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you do by their rules, andyou can't you don't have the authority,
and you have to provide all accessto all the data and information you have.
There was a while there, aswe call the last administration and other
administrations, where the access to thatmarket was enticive enough to get companies to
come in because they had access toover a billion people market, not a

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billion, but a lot of peoplein the market, and so they were
doing it. But that got curtailedwhen we started saying we're going to play
by the same rules. For example, the idea they don't abide by the
international rules related to subsidizing products bythe government funding. So guess what,

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They're not going to be able toexport their electric vehicles to the United States
without a significant terror. Others aredoing the same thing around the world,
but it is a concern. Itis a concern that you have both China,
North Korea, Russia Iran countries thatare not necessarily coordinated in the past,

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looking to figure out how they canhave impact that impact. Yes,
I do, but I'm not preparedto talk about the detail of it in
public. And I think you'll seethat some of our European friends are going

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to be curtailing there involve investment inRussia. I mean, excuse me,
in UH in China, as longas China continues to have this indirect success
help to Russia in terms of beingable to help their economy as well as
as well as help them in asa consequence that their ability to fight in

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in UH in Ukraine. The otherthing that we talked a lot about is
that and I raised it and therewas I didn't hear any This is kf
I and KO S t HD twoLos Angeles and Orange County. But we
haven't. We need a new industrialpolicy in the West. For example,

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Ample we talked about how both theEU as well as NATO has to be
able to begin to build their ownmunition capacity, has to be able to
generate their own capacity to provide forweapons, and the ability to be came
as a surprise to some of ushow we had fallen behind in the West

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in terms of the ability to constructnew material, new weaponry, new everything
from vehicles to weapon systems, andso one of the things that came out
of this was we're going to bemeeting again with a number of my colleagues,
our 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 weaponsystems for themselves, but to be able
to generate that it's the same.It's what Russia is trying to figure out.
That they went to China and theydidn't get the weapons, but then
then they went to the North Korea. But we're going to be in a

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position where the West is going tobecome the industrial base for it to be
able the ability to have all thedefensive weapons that we need. That was
a discussion as well, and afree lanched on whether you would be ready
to go deal with Putin and Shetwo or three years from them. I'm
ready to deal with them now andthree years from now. Look like I

(34:40):
said, I'm dealing with She rightnow and direct contact with him. I
have no good reason to talk toPutin right now. There's not much that
he is prepared to do in termsof accommodating any change in his behavior.

(35:01):
But there isn't any world leader I'mnot prepared to deal with. But I
understand that the generic point is Putinready to talk. I'm not ready to
talk to Putin unless Putin's ready tochange his behavior and the idea. But
Putin's got a problem, first ofall, in this war that he is

(35:28):
supposed they have won. And bythe way, I think, don't hold
me the exact number, but Ithink they Russia had seventeen point three percent
of Ukraine that they've conquered now atseventeen point four. I mean in terms
of percentage of territory. They've notbeen very successful. They've called horrible damage

(35:50):
a loss of life, but they'vealso lost over three hundred and fifty thousand
troops military killed or wounded. They'vemillion people, particularly young people with technic
technical capability. Leading Russia is theysee no future there. They've got a
problem. But what they do havecontrol of is they are very good at

(36:12):
controlling and running the public outcry.That relates to how they use mechanisms to
communicate with people. They lie likehells in the constituencies, They lie like
kill about what's going on, Andso the idea that we're going to be
able to fundamentally change Russia in theirterm is not likely. But one thing

(36:36):
for certain, if what we allowRussia to succeed in Ukraine, they're not
stopping the Ukraine. I recommend.I know you know this because we've written
about it. Read poot speech afterthey moved in. What it was all
about in Kiev. It wasn't aboutjust anyway. Read what he's an objective

(36:59):
and anyway. But so I thinkthat I'm prepared to talk to any leader
who wants to talk, including ifPutin called me and wanted to talk.
Last time I talked to Putin wastrying to get him to get work on
an arms control agreement related to nuclearweapons of space that didn't go very far.

(37:21):
So my point is I'm prepared totalk to anybody. But I don't
see any inclination. There is aninclination on the part of the Chinese to
keep in contact with me because they'renot sure where this all goes. And
look what's happened in Asia. Wehave strengthened the Asian Pacific area more than
anyone else has. We you know, we just put together with today we

(37:43):
had I brought on I asked myNATO allies that we bring on a group
from the South Pacific, Australia,New Zealand, Japan, Australia. I
already mentioned Australia and I met twicenow I think were the fourteen leaders of

(38:04):
the Pacific Island nations. And we'veslowed down what's going on there. We've
slowed down China's reach, but there'sa lot of work to do. This
is a moving target and I don'ttake it lately. Some from MPR,

(38:25):
thank you, mister President. AsMahalid with NPR, I have two questions.
Earlier, you spoke about the ceasefireplan between Israel and Hamas. We're
now looking at ten months of warand I'm curious if there's anything that you
feel personally you wish you would havedone differently over the course of the war.
And then, secondly, if Imay, I wanted to ask you
about your presidential campaign. I remembercovering your campaign in twenty twenty and there

(38:52):
was a moment where you refer toyourself as a quote bridge candidacy, a
transition to a younger generation of leaders. I want to understand what changed two
things. Let's go back to whenyou talked about what I have changed anything
that's happening with Israel and the Palestiniansin the Palestine movement. The answer is,

(39:15):
as you recall from the very beginning, I immediately I went to Israel,
but I also got a meeting incontact with Ossisi in Egypt. I
met with the King of Jordan,I met with I met with most of
the Arab leaders to try to geta consensus going as to what had to
be done to deal with getting moreaid and food and medicine into in into

(39:40):
the Gaza strip. And we pushedit really hard, and Israel occasionally was
less than cooperative. Number One,the Israeli war cabinet. I've been I've
been tea Danna of Israel since goldin my ear. I've saw some of
the reporters around here covering all thetime, and we say this. The

(40:00):
last first time I met would goto Mayor, I sat across from her
on her desk and her assistant withRabin sitting next to me, and how
far back I go. I knowIsrael well and I support Israel, but
this war cabinet is one of themost conservative war cabinets in the history of

(40:20):
Israel, and there's no ultimate answerof the two state solution here, and
so what was able to be donein terms of the organ The plan I
put together was it would be aprocess for a true state solution, and
we'd get the Arab nations to particularlyfrom Egypt all the way to Saudi Arabia,
to be in a position where theywould cooperate in the transition so that

(40:44):
they could keep the peace in Gazawithout without ISRAELI forced to stay in Gaza.
The question has been from the beginning, what's the day after in Gaza?
And the day after in Gaza hasto be in the end of the
day after, it has to beno occupation by Israel and the Goddens strip

(41:05):
as well as the ability for usto access get in and out as rapidly
as you can, all that's neededthere. I've been disappointed that some of
the things that I've put forward havenot succeeded as well, like the port
we attached from Cyprus. I washopeful that would be more successful. But
that's why when I went to Israelimmediately after the massacres that occurred was the

(41:30):
hands of Moss that the one thingI said to Israel, he is a
member of the war cabinet and withBbe. Don't make the same mistake America
made after Bin Laden. There's noneed to occupy anywhere. Go after the
people who did the job. Youmay recall like I still get criticized for

(41:51):
it, but I was totally opposedto the occupation and trying to unite Afghanistan
once once, once we got beenloaden, we should have moved on because
it was not in no one's evergoing to unite that country. I've been
over every inch of that not everyinch, the entirety, from the poppy

(42:12):
fields all the way to the north. I said, don't make the same
mistake we made. Don't think that'swhat you should be doing is doubling down
will help you find the bad guys. Simmaron Company and all this criticism about
I wouldn't provide when the weapons theyneeded. I've not provided them two thousand
pound bombs. They cannot be usedin Gaza or any popular area without causing

(42:37):
great human tragedy and damage. Butremember what happened when when you had the
attack on Israel from with rockets andballistic missiles. I was able to unite
the Arab nations as well. Asas well as Europe, and nothing happened,

(42:59):
nothing got hurt. It sent anincredible lesson to what was going on
from the Middle least. So there'sa lot things in retrospect. I wish
I had been able to convince theIsraelis to do But the bottom line is
we have a chance. Now,it's time to end this war. Doesn't
mean walk away from going after Sinemarand Hamas. And if you notice,

(43:22):
you know better than most there isa growing dissatisfaction on the West Bank from
the Palestinians about Hamas. Hamas isnot popular now, and so there's a
lot of moving parts. I justhave to keep making moving to make sure
that we get as much done aswe can toward a cease fire, a

(43:45):
cease fire and get those And bythe way, look at the numbers and
in Israel, I mean, mynumbers are better in Israel than our air
but then again there better than alot of other people here too. But
anyway, bridge candidacy in twenty twenty, you refer to yourself as being a

(44:07):
bridge candidate for a younger, freshergeneration of democratic leaders. And I wanted
to know what changed. What changedwas the gravity of the situation I inherited
in terms of the economy, ourforeign policy, and domestic division. And

(44:29):
I think I won't put words inanybody's mind. Most presidential historians give me
credit for having accomplished more than mostany president since Johnson and maybe before that,
to get major piece of legislation passed. And what I realized was my

(44:51):
long time in the Senate had equippedme to have the wisdom of how to
deal with the Congress to get thingsdone. We got more majoralization, passion.
No one thought what happened, andI want to finish it. To
get that finished. If tomorrow,if we had a circumstance forever there is

(45:12):
a lineup, and I did havean inheritor what I did, and we
just moved things along. Anyway,it's going to change. Last question,
Haley Bull scripts or no, JoshWeingrove, I'm sorry, what's the next
one? I'll there two more questions, Thank you, mister President. Many

(45:37):
of your colleagues Democrats in the Hillare watching tonight as they assess what they
want to say about your candidacy.I'm wondering how you're thinking of this right
now. It seems like your answeris clear but they're watching how things go
tonight tomorrow in Michigan, next weekin Texas and Nevada. Are you thinking
that way about whether how the nextweek or two goes would inform you?

(45:59):
Am I using that way? Areyou thinking that way about how the next
two weeks ago will that affect yourdecision? Or are you fully determined on
running in the members of the party'snominee. I'm determined on running, but
I think it's important that I reallyI lay fears by seeing let them see
me out there, let me seethem. You know, for the longest

(46:21):
time it was you know, Biden'snot prepared to sit with us unscripted.
Biden's not prepared in any way.And so what I'm doing is I've been
doing I think we've done over twentymajor events from Wisconsin to North Carolina anyway
to demonstrate that I'm going out inthe areas where we think we can win,

(46:44):
where we can persuade people to moveour way or people already there.
And look, the is we hadthe most extensive campaign organization if anybody's had
in a long long time. Wehave well over one thousand volunteers knocking on
doors, making phone calls, makingtens of thousands of phone calls. We

(47:04):
have headquarters. I forget exactly howmight I want to cite a number and
then find out I'm off. Butwe have scores of headquarters, and all
the toss up states were organized.We're moving and that's awful hard to replace
in the near term. And soand here's the other thing. I was

(47:28):
in the center a long time,very proud of what I've done. In
the Senate. I was chairman ofthe Farm Relations Committee for a long time,
and I was chairman of a rankingmember and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
I'm going to be going down tothe Johnson Library anyway. I'm going
to be going around making the caseof the things that I think we have

(47:49):
to finish, and how we can'tafford to lose what we've done or backslide
on civil rights, of liberties,women's rights, that little button we had
control guns, not girls, andthe idea we're sitting around this's w commos
so good as well. We're sittingaround. More children are killed up by

(48:15):
the bullet than any other cause ofdeath the United States of America. What
hell are we doing? What arewe doing? We got a candidate say
promise, then I don't worry.I'm not going to do anything. I'm
not going to do anything. Yougot a Supreme Court that is what you
might call the most conservative court inAmerican history. This is ridiculous. There's

(48:39):
so much we can do. Still, I'm determined to get it done.
It's about freedom. By the way, I'll end this right, Well,
I'm going not go do that.Haley has to come up to But the
I remember I made a speech undermock in Philadelphia and Independence Hall, and

(49:04):
I'm not being critical. Just observeyou, the bulk of the press.
What ell are you talking about that? For democrat? He did? Democracy's
not an issue. Democracy is notan issue except the polling that I showed
sixty percent of the people knew Iwas right, thought I was right.
I'm not asking you a question youdon't have to answer, obviously, But
do you think our democracy is undersiege based on this court? Do you

(49:30):
think democras under sage based on Projecttwenty twenty five? Do you think he
means what he says when he sayshe's going to do a way of the
civil service, eliminate the Department ofEducation? Makes you I mean, we've
never been here before. And that'sthe other reason why I didn't you say,
hand off to another generation. I'vegot to finish this job. I've

(49:52):
got to finish this job because there'sso much at stake. You have the
discussions of the past few with yourpress secretary about the question of health exams,
and you said you take a cognitivetest every day in this job.
Are you open to taking another physicalor test before the election? Governor Whitmer

(50:12):
of Michigan prints and said it wouldn'thurt to take a test. Well,
look two things. One, I'vetaken three significant and intense neurological exams nurse
a neurologist in each case is recentlyFebruary, and they say I'm in good

(50:35):
shape. Okay, although I dohave a little problem with my left foot
because it's not as sensitive because Ibroke my foot and didn't wear the boot.
But I'm good. I'm tested everysingle day while my neurological capacity to
decisions I make every day. Youtalk to my staff, all of you
talk to my staff. Sometimes mystaff talks a lot. But the fact

(51:00):
of the matter is, I don'tthink you have them telling you that all
the major ideas we've undertaken haven't beenin part initiated by me. I remember
when the staff I said, I'mgoing to go to South Korea. We're
going to get the chip. Whatare you're doing. I'm going to get
Japan and Korea back together again afteressentially having hostilities toward one another since the

(51:23):
end of World War Two. I'mgoing to move and see that we can
expand it. You know, theonly thing age does is helping 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 neurologist

(51:47):
tells me he thinks I need anotherexam. By the way, I've laid
every bit of the record out,this hidden the thing got asked Trump for
his Okay, I laid it allout, and every single day I'm surrounded
by good docks. If they thinkthere's a problem, I promise you,

(52:12):
or either they don't think it's aproblem, they think I should have a
neurological exam again, I'll do it. No one's suggesting that to me now,
and I'll ask you another question.No matter what I did, no
one's going to be satisfied. Didyou have seven knocks? Did you have
two? Who did you have?Did you do this how many times?
So I am not opposed. Ifmy doctors tell me they should I should

(52:37):
have another neurological exam, I'll doit. But that's where I am.
Uh Harley bull scripts. Thank you, mister president. You said you're making
decisions on a day to day basiswhen it comes to support for Ukraine.
Does that mean you have not closedthe door on further considering lifting restrictions for

(52:57):
US made weapons inside Russia? Andif I make your convention is coming up
where your delegates are pledged to makeyou the official nominee. If they have
second thoughts, are they free tovote their conscience. Obviously they're free to
do what they want. But Igot overwhelming support, overwhelming support. I
forget how many votes I won inthe primary. Overwhelming. And so tomorrow

(53:23):
if all of a sudden I showup at the convention, everybody says we
want somebody else, that's democratic process. It's not going to happen, even
if that means they vote with someoneelse. Sure. Look, I'll end
this with this. I serve tosend it A long time. I understand

(53:47):
the impetus of candidates running for localoffice and whether they think the top of
they can help them or not.In my state of Delaware, which was
a very at least a purpose,it was a red state when I started.

(54:07):
In terms of where you now talkred and blue, I don't recall
most of the Democratic presidents winning mystate when I was a candidate. The
truth of the matter is, Iunderstand the self interested every candidate. If
they think that, you know,run over with Biden the top day's going

(54:29):
to hurt them, then they're goingto run away. I get it,
But so far go and look atthe polling data in their states. Look
at THEFF and by the way,I think you'd all acknowledge and you're all
experts. I'm not being solicitous aboutthe president. There are your experts on
this stuff. How accurate does anybodythink the polls are these days? I

(54:53):
can give a series of polls whereyou have likely voters be versus Trump,
where I went on time when theunlikely voters vote, he wins. Sometimes
the bottom line is all appolling dataright now, which I think is premature
because the campaign really hasn't even started. I mean it hadn't started in earnest

(55:13):
yet most of the time it doesn'tstarts till after September, after the labor
Day, so a lot can happen. But I think I'm the best qual
I know, I believe I'm thebest qualified to govern, and I think
I'm the best qualified to win.But there are other people could be Trump

(55:34):
too. But it's all start fromscratch. And you know, we talk
about you know, money raised,We're not doing bad. We get about
two hundred and twenty million dollars inthe bank. We're doing well. So
with that, you haven't even wantto follow up an a that you just
ask me. Yes, you earlierexplained confidence and your vice president if your

(56:01):
team came back and showed you datathat she would fare better against former President
Donald Trump, would you reconsider yourdecision to stay in the race. No,
unless they came back and said there'sno way you could win. Me,
don't say that. No polls sent, this sends Tonight's thanks everybody,

(56:36):
all right? That's it. Thatwas present biding with a ninety almost ninety
minutes. What about not about anhour? About an hour press conference?
It's just shy, but he's stillstanding there and they're shouting at him.
Is he going to take any morequestions? Here? Let's pump up the
volume here. Is he listened tohim this tonight's press conference? Thank you

(56:57):
everybody. Thanks everyone. I knowhe's left, Okay, we'll say something
else. It looks like he's splitand he is off stage. He's off
to the races. All right.Well, that was an interesting hour.
I think a lot of people whodoubted whether he was the guy, now

(57:21):
they're convinced he's the guy. Andhe's not going anywhere. He's not going
to turn this over to anybody.He attacked Donald Trump at the beginning of
it on Ukraine, war, theborder, Gaza, and inflation. He
said he was he was doing prettywell. There weren't that many mistakes.
I only I heard one pretty glaringone where he said he had picked Donald

(57:45):
Trump as his vice president. That'sprobably not true. I'd have to look
that up. Please. Yeah.And then a couple of slip ups that
I think we all make you knowhere every day where he said Europe and
he meant Asia and and he saidhe was listening to his When are you
talking about the war in Ukraine andIsrael? He said he often listens to

(58:07):
his commander in chief, which isnot true because he's the commander in chief.
And then a tiny slip up wherehe said he created two thousand jobs
last week, which is short ofwhat actually happened. It was two hundred
thousand jobs, and it was lastmonth. So other those little tiny ones,

(58:28):
I think he's back. I do, I really do. I don't
see that they can now replace him. I think a lot of people who
had, you know, fears thathe was going to implode today and become
a mess or you know, falloff the stage or pass out, that
didn't happen. And I think it'sgoing to be very very tough now to

(58:52):
replace him, very very tough.I don't think anything's going to be quieted
by this hour of a press conference. I think the expectation, I think
it just seems weird that people areexpecting him to be vibrant and alive and
with it and full of testosterone ashe gets up. At any moment that's

(59:12):
gone, Yeah, that's gone.And I think people's expectations or thoughts that
hey, he's got a chance toshow that, he's never going to show
that. To me, it's likeyou look at the difference between the mental
acuity and the physical slowness that he'sdisplaying and how much those two are linked.
Right, And they didn't ask him. I mean some of the questions.
One of the questions was about NATO, and I don't know if that
person is just another planet. Youknow that That's not why everybody was listening

(59:37):
today, But but that's that Itwas odd that somebody said, hey,
what about NATO and he had toask a you know, answer a question
about Finland and I think Sweden orSwitzerland. But they didn't ask about the
money drying up in his campaign.There are a lot of big donors that
are no longer donating to the Bidencampaign, but maybe they come back.

(01:00:00):
He did say they had two hundredand twenty million dollars in the bank.
I don't know with relation to othercampaigns where that sits with the you know,
four or five months ago, right, they But I'm talking about you
know, people like more donations.Abigail I believe Disney is her name,
and said she's not given a dime. She said she's given money to me
instead of Biden. Is that weird? You can run? Oh yeah,

(01:00:21):
no, I'm not gonn run I'mjust gonna gamble. But the and they
also didn't ask about she thinks she'sgot a better shot than he does.
I probably do. But also didn'task about the political leaders and the Congress
and the Senate that they're asking himto to move. And they also,

(01:00:43):
you know, they sort of talkedabout the neurologists, but they didn't ask
about the eight visits to the WhiteHouse over the last year of the neurologists.
And he said he was open forthe first time. I think I
heard that he was opening and takea neurological neurological test. I think the
doctor thing has been blown up upa little bit because that same doctor has
been in that White House so manytimes. The eight times is not unusual

(01:01:06):
in the fact that I was probablya little bit low. And I think
they said that half of those timesthat he was there, Biden wasn't even
there, right, And he haslike a weird business deal or something going
on there too. I think helike wrote a book or had some kind
of business with him going on.Yes, anyway, so that was another
question. Also they didn't ask Nobodyasked about the rumor going around that his
family is the only people he listensto his family's in on every meeting.

(01:01:29):
His son or his wife is inon every meeting, and they didn't ask
about that as well. But healso said the delegates do have the freedom
to vote wherever they want to,So I think, you know people who
are wondering legally and how they they'regoing to do it logistically if somebody else
was going to be picked. Hesaid that they have the right to vote
for somebody else. I don't knowif that's true or not, but then

(01:01:52):
he got it a couple of times. I think two or three times he
got into that weird whisper where it'slike, God's not gonna happen. It's
not gonna happen, and that's whoeveris advising him should have him stop doing
that. Yes, it just becomesoff weird. It is weird. It's
great, But I honestly, God, look, I thought he I thought
that press conference was one hundred percentbetter than I thought it was going to

(01:02:16):
be. I thought it was justgoing to be one question after another,
people hammering him and him stammering,and him finally just leaving. But it
wasn't. He stood there and answeredevery single question, every single question that
came in. I noticed he didn'ttake a lot of He took mostly friendly

(01:02:37):
questions from friendly sources, you know, PBS, MSNBC I believe was one
of them. But he seemed toanswer all of them and had all the
information there. He said he tooka shot at his staff though. He
said his staff adds stuff all thetime, and he seemed to be angry
at his staff about that stuff.And that's been one of those things that's

(01:02:57):
been put out there too, isthat the family and his staff at odds
and yes, how the campaign's goingright, and somebody there's a river going
around that there's gonna be a whistleblowerto come out and say, hey,
you know, the guy sleeps througheverything. You know, he's not doing
his job or anything. But Idon't even think the whistleblower will be effective.
I think just more of stuff likethat that he did today is the
most effective. He also talked about, you know, a lot about about

(01:03:22):
Ukraine and what will happen if Trumpbecame president. I remember him saying to
one of the reporters, be niceto me, and the guy was that's
the guy that talked about the China, Russia alliance. And then he talked
about Chinese electric cars without this hugetariff. He had that knowledge. He
said, Putin has a problem.Lost three hundred and fifty thousand people in

(01:03:45):
this war with Ukraine and the bridgecandidacy. He was supposed to, you
know, be in a president fora year or so and then give it
to the younger people. And hesaid that's not gonna happen because he has
all the experience. He did seemto throw Israel under the bus and say
that you know that they're not beingcooperative with the with the That was fairly

(01:04:08):
bold. Yeah, I was.And he said, you know, Israel
is the most competitive, I mean, most conservative, uh you know leadership
in their military in the history ofthat country. And and he warned him
not to do the month to makethe same mistake that we made in Afghanistan.
Once we went out and you know, and and got the guys from

(01:04:29):
Isis al Qaeda, and you know, got all the guys we needed.
I've been laden that we should havepulled out. That was interesting. And
and then so I don't know wherethis goes, but I imagine it's it's
a lot of a big relief toa lot of the people who thought that
this was going to be it,that he was going to implode here.
I think it makes it a littlemore complicated for people that want him out

(01:04:50):
because now they're going to have tobacktrack a lot of that. And people
have been doing that every single day. Yeah, you know, if you
read Twitter, people are like,Oh, he's got to go, he's
the worst. The next day,oh, no, great, press conference,
he's back, he's great. Andthen next day, what the effort
we're doing. We got to gethim out of there. It's driving people
crazy. I find it interesting thatthat that all the energy towards this,

(01:05:11):
this story or this narrative is isabout his mental acuity, obviously, and
and to me it just seems morehis his physical uh, motor skills and
stuff or would have declined more thananything else. And it's sort of hard
to differentiate between which one is whichone. You're watching him like, he'll
have his gas, but he's hadgaps his entire career. He's known for
reels of gaps his entire political career. Sure, but how do you disseminate

(01:05:34):
between what's a gas and what's justas brain's going in this direction? I
don't know, I don't know.It is the biggest mystery right now in
this country. Yeah, but healso he yelled out, he got very
angry at one point and said controlguns, not girls, which is you
know, pro you know, progun control, but anti women control.

(01:05:57):
Yeah, women control with the abortionand Roe v Wade. But then he
said something weird too towards the end, and maybe he just doesn't understand.
But you did you hear when hesaid the campaign hasn't started yet. No,
it didn't catch that. Yeah,he said that, well, the
campaign hasn't started yet. No,we've started. This is the word the

(01:06:18):
final stretch. You know, we'vecome around the final turn. We're in
the you know, the last quartermile or so. It has started.
The campaign has definitely started. Butanyway, we'll see, we'll see what
all the you know, the falloutof this is, will will the George
Cloonies of this world come back?And did he did he win over the

(01:06:40):
George Cloonies in this thing or theRob Reiners. I don't know. We'll
find out, though, we'll readsome texts or Twitter or tweets or exes.
I should say, I don't theycall him tweets anymore. Well,
we'll go over some of them foryou and read some of those for you.
The cluoning thing is interesting because hedid, as has been reported,
he had that big fundraiser for forBiden just what was it a month ago

(01:07:01):
or something along that line, Andfrom what I was kind of reading,
he's been a clooney has He's beentalking to people behind the scenes since that.
So I don't know if something,if he was noticing kind of what
everybody else is seeing at that fundraiserthat made that prompted him to start questioning
and talking to people behind the scenesto take the stance that he ended up
taking yesterday. Yeah. I alsoI'm on Biden's side when it comes to

(01:07:29):
loyalty. I don't think you lookto Hollywood for your loyal friends. You
think, you know, if youhave a let's say, you write a
movie that has you know, threeor four big celebrities in it, and
it's supposed to be huge, it'ssupposed to be a franchise, and you
know, they're already talked about thesecond and third and fourth one, and
then the first one comes out andit bombs. Nobody calls you back,

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everybody leaves you. They are done. With you, fairweather, and you
got to scratch and cloil your wayback to the you know, to the
top. And that is and thatis that is happening. Hollywood is not
supportive of this guy, and theyshould. He's the guy that went in
there and beat Donald Trump. Itkind of makes sense because Hollywood is nothing,

(01:08:12):
if not everything, about optics,and that's kind of what all of
this boils down to. How doeshe look? And he doesn't look good.
Yeah, no, he doesn't lookgood. He doesn't sound good on
some occasions. And the press isalso you know, if you're gonna point
fingers at anybody. It was ChuckTodd that said this today. Chuck Todd

(01:08:33):
said that he knew that Biden wasin this shape two years ago. Two
years ago. Okay, if that'strue, and I believe him, why
didn't he say anything? Yeah,where you been, Chuck? Why don't
you say anything? I know?If Trump was in this shape two years
ago, there would have been ninehundred books written about it. There'd been
people falling over each other to getinto Barnes and Noble on their book on

(01:08:54):
the Shelf. Well, then therehas been a lot of stories about him,
and you know, his his physicaland mental acuity himself, you know,
but it hasn't been the story likethis, Yeah, yeah, this
is he and Trump just simply doesn'tshow it the same way that Biden does.
Right, And it may be happeningbehind closed doors, but if it
is, you know, there's gonnabe nine hundred books written about it.
You know, everyone said, youknow, got a book. But the

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press corps they all knew about this, you know, for years. How
could they not. They're in theWhite House every single day, every single
day they're in the White House.They knew about it. I think that's
the thing that that that when allof this really start to come to a
head, since the debate that mostangered me is like this didn't come out
of nowhere, you know, right, everybody has seen this. That's that's

(01:09:38):
close to him, like you say, and isn't a circle. Yeah,
I think one of the mistakes thatthat people do. And it happens on
both sides. If you remember backto Ruth Bader Ginsburg, they made her
a celebrity. You know, shewas just a Supreme Court judge. She
should have been just a judge,but they made her a celebrity and she
got high on being a celebrity anddidn't workout video right, and she didn't

(01:09:59):
want to give it up. Yeah, and so she stayed too long,
too long, too long, anddied and had and Donald Trump had an
opportunity to replace her. I thinkDonald Trump mentioned her replacement while she was
still in the hospital. I mean, it was it was weird. But
I think that the nation and Hollywoodand the press has got to stop making

(01:10:21):
heroes and superheroes and celebrities out ofthese guys, because then they get addicted
to it and they stay too long. They stay too long, And I
don't think anyone can argue that RuthBader Ginsburg and Biden have stayed too long,
too long. All right, we'relive on KFI AM six forty.

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That was the press conference. We'llcontinue with the real part of the show
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Well, we listened to Joe Biden'spress conference and I thought it went
pretty well. Everyone thought he wasgoing to be the end, the end

(01:11:23):
of the end, that he wouldscrew up fall off the stage and that
would be a rap. Well itdidn't happen, So now we just wait
to see. We wait what's thenext step. I don't know. I
don't know. I gotta address somethinghere because something happened on the show and
I feel bad, and I've notbeen asked to address this, but I

(01:11:45):
feel bad. It was weighing onme last night and I don't I don't
know how this started, but itwas picked up by ESPN, not on
their main page, but by ablog or at ESPN, and they called
me for for a comment, andI'm like, what I said, I

(01:12:09):
didn't even know this was happening.But you know, Christian mc McCaffrey right
with the forty nine ers run back, Yeah, that's right. Well,
my wife and his fiance are friendsand we were invited to the wedding.
You know, she's not that closeshe used to do, you know,
beauty pageant work with her, andand they weren't they weren't. They were

(01:12:30):
close, but they weren't like sisters. They spoke a lot. But and
I got to meet Christian mc McCaffrey. We've had dinner a couple of times
and going out, and he's areally nice guy and his wife is beautiful.
At Shannon knows this. I'm assumingShannon Farren knows. I don't know.
I don't know if I told maybe, I don't know. Oh,
that's right, she's a forty nineer fan. Maybe, but so so.

(01:12:54):
I was reading ESPN's website after this, this reporter called me, and
I'm just going to read it toyou. Christ Christian mcc McCaffrey's addresses the
Conway's missing the wedding invite. Ifeel horrible that he had that. They
called him to address this. Thiswas nothing. It says here, when

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you hear a friend is tying theknot with a significant other, you expect
an invitation. However, that didn'thappen. For KFI talk show host in
Los Angeles, Tim Conway Junior andhis wife Jennifer Conway on June twenty ninth,
San Francisco, forty nine ers KristaMcCaffrey and former Miss Universe Olivia Colpo

(01:13:34):
got married in Rhode Island. OnThe Conway Show That's This Show, Conway
said he didn't receive an invite tothe wedding. I was kidding. Conway's
wife, Jennifer McCaffrey's fiance were inbeauty pageants years back. And then it
goes on to say that was itbecause Bill Carroll wasn't invited and there was

(01:13:59):
so kind of beef there and I'mlike, what, who even brought that
up? McCaffrey took a took andthen made a mock conversation with one of
my other friends, Greg Olsen.I think their teammates. I think Greg's
stile on the team who was inattendance at the wedding on Instagram and they
were talking about why the Conways weren'tthere. I feel horrible. I feel

(01:14:21):
horrible that these that this beautiful,these two beautiful people had had a really
great, great wedding plan and thensomebody called him and said, hey,
what's going on without the invite forthe Conways. And then so McCaffrey says,
it was a great night, butyou would have made it better the
running back commented, if the Conwayswere here and I haven't got a text

(01:14:45):
back from Tim or Jennifer in fouryears, it just goes green when I
text them. Okay, Well,I don't know if that's true or not.
Maybe it is. Maybe I accidentallyblocked him. I don't know if
I you can accidentally block somebody.I haven't changed my number, though I've
had my same number for fifteen eighteenyears. Somewhere in that area eighteen years.

(01:15:10):
I think I've had the same phonenumber. But maybe my wife had
a I don't know, but itwas odd. And then it said Conway
said that he found out about thewedding through his wife, Jennifer Conway,
and finished the radio show on Mondayby congratulating the newly weds. That's true.
That's true. On Monday, ifyou remember, I said, Hey,
congratulations to the newlyweds, and Iwasn't bummed at all. Look,

(01:15:34):
I don't like going to weddings.I'm not a big fan. But for
him to have to address this onhis wedding day, I felt horrible.
I felt just terrible. So Ihope that puts into bed that they didn't
do anything wrong. I think peopleare just nosy and wanted to create something
here. I could care less ifI'm ever invited to another wedding in my

(01:15:59):
life except my daughters. Right ifshe ever gets married, I like to
know I pop in and visit thatone. But I'm not a big fan
of weddings. I remember I gota call from Michelle Cube on her wedding
day. Her wedding was at BillHandle's house. Did you go to that
crouch? Yes? And she calledme during her wedding, called me on

(01:16:19):
the phone and said, I madea horrible mistake. I didn't invite you.
I don't know what happened with theinvite. Can you please drive up
here? We'd love to see you. She called me from the wedding and
I said, I said Michelle,I said, look, I didn't know
you were getting married either, butyou've done me a solid by not inviting
me. And she goes, no, no, no, please, We're
at Bill Handle's house. Whatever you'rewearing, don't worry about it. People

(01:16:41):
are just dressed casually. Just comeup and we'll have a drink. And
I'd love to see him get youin a few photos. And I said,
Michelle, I said, I'm goingto tell you again, you did
me a solid by not inviting mebecause I don't really like to go to
weddings. And she goes, please, wherever you are. She goes,
where are you? I said,I'm in Burbank. She goes, you
just get in the car and driveup. You'll be here in like a
half hour. I said, sweetheart, I'm going to give you another lifeboat

(01:17:04):
here. I've given you two.You have not gotten need to either one
of them. Listen to me,I'm going to give you another lifeboat to
get into. I'm not coming.I'm not a big fan. Was this
you You weren't working a cafi yetthough, Yeah, I just started a
cafe you had. It was justat that time. Yeah, I don't
remember. I don't remember what yearsshe got married. I think it was
twenty ten or twenty eleven. Ijust started here. I think it was

(01:17:29):
twenty ten. And she felt horrible. But I felt horrible that she felt
horrible on the most important day ofher life, and I felt bad,
and the same things. Now it'shappening with the with with this group here,
Christian McCaffrey and his lovely wife.I mean, I'm like a jinx
what's wrong with these people are gettingmarried and thinking about me? So either
they got to stop inviting you,or you got to start showing up,

(01:17:51):
or they got to start inviting me. Maybe well, you know, because
I didn't get invited either one ofthem. Sort of, you know,
that's not quite the invite. Whenyou get a hall at three thirty.
There you go from a wedding thatstarted at noon. You Hey, we're
wrapping things up. Why don't youswing back. We need help, Cake,
We need help putting the tables backon the United Rental truck. Could

(01:18:13):
you swing by? But I don'tblame Christian or his lovely wife Olivia,
the great people. And I'm I'msorry that the ESPN and a couple of
these other you know blogs got involvedwith that. I apologize it was not
my doing. All right, We'relive on k IF. I am six forty