Sen. Joe Biden is running for president in 2020, and there are a lot of reasons to be excited about it. But what will he do if he doesn t win the election? What will it mean for democracy? And what will it look like if he does win?
00:00:00.000And so I come back to you, Michael Beschloss, because I can't find an analog for it. Right. I mean, we've had presidents who were venal. We've had presidents who were super bright. We've had all kinds of types of presidents. We haven't had this type. And this type is is a Victor Orban who wants to literally do what Victor Orban did.
00:00:17.860Come back into office after having lost reelection and then rewrite the Constitution with the help of his Project 2025 friends. They've already got the playbook down. They want to follow Victor Orban's model, change things about our laws and our Constitution, our judiciary so that he'll never lose again.
00:00:35.140And he wants to do that because he's afraid of going to prison and because he's a child and because he's a narcissist and because he can't admit he lost an election.
00:00:44.280But people are willing to let him do it. And I wonder if there's an analog for that anywhere in our history.
00:00:49.960The sad thing is, there really isn't joy. And Tom, you know, can we think of a major party nominee who's ever talked this way about being a dictator for a day or pitting the police and the U.S. armed forces against this guy's political enemies or suspending the Constitution?
00:01:09.480This is way off of anything we've seen in American history. And Tom, you were talking about the TV show he was on for over a decade, which a lot of people saw for a lot of time.
00:01:22.420That was a popular show. It had a romanticized view of Donald Trump, tough, effective businessman with a heart of gold.
00:01:31.220None of those things were true. But for people who are watching that week after week for over a decade, they were brainwashed to some extent.
00:01:40.060Some of them were in a way that we are still suffering from. So all I'm saying is that it's the job of the three of us and people who feel as we do to make sure that the real issues this year are discussed.
00:01:52.860And that is, do you Americans want a dictatorship and give away your rights? No, Americans don't.
00:01:59.420Do you want to agree with these crazy policy positions that we were just alluding to?
00:02:04.400The polls say that that isn't the case either. So if Donald Trump loses this or wins this year, it's going to be because our system did not work. Let's all make it work.
00:02:15.360Well, Joe Biden and the Democrats do really want to lean into democracy because of January 6th, because Donald Trump tried to subvert the Constitution.
00:02:23.200He tried to stage an actual coup, you know, didn't engage in the peaceful transfer of power.
00:02:28.320But the fact is, voters, the word democracy doesn't land clearly with them.
00:02:34.900What does, though, is extremism. What does is freedom. And it's interesting, you know, in 2022, when Democrats overperformed, there were a lot of questions about why did Democrats overperform?
00:02:46.320Because expectations were really low for them. And it wasn't democracy and it wasn't just Dobbs.
00:02:53.780It was actually the question of extremism. So take Blake Masters.
00:02:58.160The way voters would talk about him is they would say, you know, he he says the election was stolen.
00:03:03.400He has really extreme views on on abortion.
00:03:06.840And he's friends with the Unabomber or he thinks the Unabomber is good. He wasn't friends with him.
00:03:10.720He thought he was good. And that's the way voters would sort of wrap up this idea of these candidates are just too extreme.
00:03:18.340And that's sort of how they feel about Donald Trump. They don't think he's going to be a dictator.
00:03:22.900Exactly. They don't think he's going to overturn the Constitution. Exactly.
00:03:26.040But they do think that he is a jerk. They do think that he sows chaos.
00:03:31.240They do think he is irrational and can't be trusted.
00:03:35.160And so I think that I think that Democrats just need to understand.
00:03:40.240And Eugene just said this. And this is really true.
00:03:42.800Democracy doesn't mean the same thing to everyone.
00:03:44.800In fact, democracy is starting to get a little bit polarized as a word.
00:03:48.500Right. Republicans say say that Democrats cheated in 2020.
00:03:54.060And that's why they're a threat to democracy.
00:03:56.160The same way Democrats say Republicans are a threat to democracy because they lied about the election being stolen and then attack the Capitol.
00:04:02.760And so it's getting a little bit polarized.
00:04:04.720And so it really is. It's OK to have democracy as your North Star and to say this is the thing I'm protecting.
00:04:11.340That's good for Joe Biden to hold at his core.
00:04:13.960But he needs to talk about it in ways that sort of connect with voters in terms of freedom and understanding how the Dobbs decision and democracy maybe relate to one another.
00:04:22.120And I think he's doing that. I think that they I think they do understand this.
00:04:27.720And and I think they're they just have to make sure that they connect with voters in a way that doesn't sound like it was sort of teased out in the faculty lounge of a university.
00:04:38.920And does does does connect with sort of people's lives.
00:04:46.200This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:04:51.060Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on these people.
00:04:56.220I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people.
00:05:00.520The people have had a belly full of it.
00:07:38.760And that's why, what, two-thirds of the voters in South Carolina are Republican voters.
00:07:42.020And now you had that chart up on MSNBC the other day.
00:07:45.060You know, 60 percent of Republican voters in California, I think 40 percent of independents, and that's really the proxy for the American people.
00:07:53.500And that's a massive number, 4-0 massive number.
00:07:56.480Because even Lincoln, I mean, we went to Civil War because it's not that they didn't think Lincoln was legitimate.
00:08:04.320They knew he had, although a minority president, only won, like, I think 40 percent of the vote, had won the Electoral College, was going to have a term.
00:09:59.020There's a lot going on in this regard.
00:10:02.300I want to get, is Cash Patel, Cash, join us.
00:10:05.260Before I go back and play the clip of you on our show talking about this, tee up what has happened over the last 24, 48 hours, a major development here.
00:10:14.340I just want to make sure we reset for the audience and I'll play your clip.
00:10:16.880Yeah, look, Steve, the genesis of the mainstream media's get Trump narrative has been insurrection in court and insurrection in the public media view to kneecap Donald Trump.
00:10:29.300What just happened is Molly Hemingway's great reporting broke a critical piece of evidence that destroys the insurrection narrative.
00:10:37.600The January 6th committee withheld and suppressed a transcript from a senior Secret Service officer that completely corroborates what we have said on your show and what we have been saying for years.
00:10:51.200Me, the secretary of defense, the chairman, joint chiefs of staff and so many other officials that days before January 6th, Donald Trump authorized 10,000 National Guards men and women.
00:11:01.520Multiple people testified to that, including me in front of committees and grand juries under oath.
00:11:06.320But the mainstream media hit it and the committee suppressed Tony Ornato's transcript.
00:11:12.360And it just came out thanks to Molly Hemingway corroborating everything we've been saying.
00:11:17.700Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff buried this exculpatory evidence of Donald Trump.
00:11:24.360OK, hang over a second. Tell us who this guy is. Why is this exculpatory evidence?
00:11:29.100I'll get into the burying in a second. I want to set it for exactly what went on.
00:11:33.340I want to go back to Chris Miller yourself. You were chief of staff, interim chief of staff over at the Pentagon.
00:11:39.400Miller was the interim secretary of defense.
00:11:42.380I want to go back and reset exactly what happened, the facts, and then we'll talk about how they how they buried what they said first is a lie and then how they buried the truth.
00:11:51.460So tell me exactly what happened here. So Tony Ornato, a career Secret Service officer, a political figure, was employed at the White House as a senior security official, as we say, seconded from the Secret Service.
00:12:05.620He was in charge of presidential protection.
00:12:07.580He was there in the White House on January 6th, on January 5th, on January 4th.
00:12:14.360And in this interview, which he gave to the January 6th committee two years ago, Steve, two years ago, he stated, and everybody should read this interview for themselves repeatedly, that himself and chief of staff Mark Meadows had multiple conversations that day talking about when President Trump days before had authorized the National Guard up to 10 and 20,000.
00:12:37.640He stated that to the test, to the committee under oath, and they buried his transcript from public release because it would corroborate.
00:12:46.180Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down. I don't want to talk about the burying yet. I want to get the facts.
00:12:51.340When you say he verified, when he said he verified, you know, I should be the lawyer and you should play the investment banker here.
00:12:57.500When he said he verified the 10,000, how does he know, what position was he in to verify what you and Miller and President Trump said?
00:13:09.040So me and Miller and all the DOD officials were at the Pentagon on January 6th.
00:13:14.320Tony Renato and chief of staff Meadows were in the White House.
00:13:17.420But two days before that, all of us were at the White House in the Oval Office, and we were talking about a national security project.
00:13:28.580And that's when President Trump said, I'm authorizing up to 10 to 20,000 National Guards men and women with chief of staff Meadows in the room.
00:13:36.220Chief of staff Meadows, number one guy for presidential security, Tony Renato, sits outside the Oval Office in a real office, not a Cassidy Hutchinson office.
00:13:46.800And Arnauto communicated with Meadows immediately about President Trump's statement authorizing 10 to 20,000 National Guards men and women.
00:13:57.240This is an apolitical career Secret Service senior officer.
00:14:01.060This guy has nothing to do with politics.
00:14:03.080He provided this testimony, critical testimony, to the January 6th committee two years ago.
00:14:13.120And the January 4th, that would be Sunday for January.
00:14:34.100Me, the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
00:14:39.460the Chief of Staff to the President of the United States, and probably one other person, were all in the Oval Office when the President said it.
00:14:46.060And the reason this is critical is because Chief of Staff Meadows goes out of the Oval and has an immediate conversation with Tony Renato about the authorization of the National Guard.
00:25:17.800But it's, it's, it's kind of grundoonish.
00:25:19.840We need to get serious about this because correct me, correct me if I'm wrong.
00:25:24.560Did not the evidence show three significant people in this drama?
00:25:31.520Milley as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House,
00:25:35.960and Mayor Bowser as the Mayor of Washington, D.C., all actively through their actions thwarted Donald J. Trump from actually providing the necessary security you need on January 6th, sir?
00:26:19.280And Mark Milley and the SECDF were all there to witness it and testify that Donald Trump authorized it.
00:26:25.580If Donald Trump did, in fact, authorize it, which he did, it is constitutionally impossible for him to commit insurrection in any way, shape or form.
00:26:33.820The only insurrectionists are the Nancy Pelosi's and Mayor Bowser's of the world and this January unselect committee.
00:26:58.300Remember, even when they talked about allowing something to happen, they said they had to station them at Andrews Air Force Base.
00:27:05.480They had to put – if they were going to put anybody, they had to put them at Andrews Air Force Base, which would, you know, make it meaningless to have.
00:27:13.560Cash, you get the closing word here for you.
00:27:17.640Tell me – give me some closing thoughts.
00:27:20.860This is just like Russiagate, where they buried evidence of innocence.
00:27:25.600The FBI buried Donald Trump's exoneration here in January 6th in the insurrection narrative that the radical left has been trotting out with the deep state government gangsters.
00:27:34.540They themselves, the committee, buried evidence of innocence, which directly corroborates from a senior Secret Service official that Donald Trump authorized 10,000 to 20,000 National Guard men and women days before January 6th.
00:27:49.140And that destroys, destroys, destroys their insurrection narrative, exonerates Donald Trump.
00:28:02.360And that is why they don't want to talk about the truth of January 6th, which is Donald Trump would have enacted to secure every measure in D.C. and around the country.
00:28:12.100And the only people that thwarted it were Nancy Pelosi, mayor about the Capitol Police.
00:28:17.880Molly Hemingway's great reporting in the last 72 hours has been amazing.
00:28:21.260She's also all over the Fannie Willis situation.
00:28:23.500I think she has something that could be a deal breaker on Fannie Willis there.
00:28:27.220We'll hopefully get to that later in the show, if not on Monday.
00:28:29.540But she is – she's lighting up the boards.
00:30:39.700We're going to talk about economics, maybe the jobs report, some capital markets.
00:30:43.640But he's also got some very big picture thoughts and observations is the only day Brad can give us.
00:30:53.700Part of that, well, that part's going to deal with culturally and civilizationally where we are.
00:31:00.220One thing I can tell you, they passed, and Senator Hagelin, we know he had Tuberville here.
00:31:03.880They're going to pass this first step of this massive $7 trillion spending bill with a $2.5 trillion deficit with a trillion dollars being added every day.
00:31:13.980More than ever, you need to go to birchgold.com slash Bannon.
00:32:53.780He's very visible about going to Mass.
00:32:55.980He's very visible about talking about church, about talking about his faith.
00:32:59.740He takes the media every time he goes.
00:33:02.340So why do you want to throw out only the second Catholic president?
00:33:05.480Why do you want to excommunicate him from the church?
00:33:08.640So, Steve, thank you for having me on.
00:33:10.500And Joe Biden is the not only the worst example of a Catholic, but it's the worst exemplar.
00:33:17.200He he actually epitomizes the false church.
00:33:20.620If you are going to have an anti-Christian stance, it would be Joe Biden, because while on the surface, it's all wonderful, you know, oh, reach out to the poor and this and that.
00:34:01.420It is the casting out of someone just for a time so that they can come back, because Catholics don't want anyone in hell.
00:34:08.700Joe is headed to hell right now because he is doing the opposite of what you're supposed to be doing as a Catholic.
00:34:14.740So excommunication is a it's an actual help because it shows the person how serious what it is they're doing so that they can turn their lives around and come back to Christ.
00:34:25.240Look, I'm sorry to say it, but Joe Biden, as everyone can see, is very old.
00:34:29.620His last day is coming not too long from now, and he's going to meet his maker.
00:34:34.240And when he does that, Catholics don't want to see him going to hell for all eternity.
00:34:39.440So it's an act of charity on behalf of the bishops is their responsibility to excommunicate Joe Biden, to show him the seriousness of what he's doing.
00:34:48.820And if the Catholic bishops aren't doing that, you've got to wonder why, because that's their spiritual responsibility.
00:35:03.000Do you have any official position in the Catholic Church?
00:35:11.000As a baptized Catholic and as a brother of Christ to all Catholics in the world, including all the bishops and all the Catholics, in terms of Christ, there is no separation of Jew and Greek, as they say, or of those in high positions or low positions.
00:35:25.740So we're all equals, and in that, we're brothers and sisters in the Lord, and therefore we call upon our brothers in the Episcopate and the bishop.