Joe Biden is on the floor of the Oval Office waiting for a reporter to ask him a question. Is it a make or break moment for him? Is it possible he won t make it to the press conference? Or will he go? Today's episode is all about what's going on with Joe Biden, and why he might not be able to make it. Plus, I discuss my trip to Capitol Hill to testify at a congressional hearing and why I think the legacy media has lost Americans' trust in them. And I talk about how the government is full of idiots, and how you can save money on your phone bill by switching to PureTalk. Tweet me if you have any tips, tricks, or suggestions for saving money on phone bills. Timestamps: 1:00:00 - President Joe Biden is still waiting to be moved from the White House 4:30 - What will Joe Biden do? 6:20 - Is this a make-or-break moment for Joe Biden? 7:30 8:15 - Will Joe Biden go or won t Joe Biden make it? 9:40 - Why I think this press conference is a doosey? 11:15 12:00 13:20 14:40 15:00 | Joe Biden s mental collapse 16:30 | What s going to happen? 17:15 | Why I don t trust the media? 18: What s the real problem here? 19:40 | What is the problem? 21:20 | Why the media s role in the world? 22:00 // 22: What's the problem with the media ? 23: Is the media losing Americans trust in the media 25:30 // Is there a trust crisis? 26:40 // Why do they have a terrible record? 27:10 | Why are they so much more liberal than the media not more liberal? 29:10 35:00 + 32:00 & 33:00 Is it time to regulate the internet? 36: What are they listening to the truth? 31: What do they care about the truth 33:30 + 35: Is it better than the truth, or are they just not enough? 34:00 Do they like the truth in the truth or the truth we need to be more transparent? 45:00 And so on?
00:00:04.000Today he has a big press conference at 5 30 p.m eastern time which is after his bedtime.
00:00:10.000We are told that he's been trying to restrict his activities to between like 11 a.m and 4 p.m so he's really stretching himself by going all the way till 5 30 for this presser tonight.
00:00:19.000A lot of people talking about whether it is a make-or-break moment for him.
00:00:22.000The problem of course is that Dr. Joe Biden has superglued his ass to the floor in the Oval Office, and there is no way to physically move him unless he wishes to be moved.
00:01:23.000They tried to cudgel all of these social media sites or shows or conservative outlets into compliance with their idea of things that ought to be said.
00:01:30.000So I was on the Hill testifying about all of that.
00:01:37.000We're in the midst of a trust crisis in the world of media, which is because so many in the legacy media have lied in order to preserve left-leaning narratives.
00:01:43.000To take just the most recent example, we were told by the legacy media that President Biden was just fine.
00:01:48.000For years, anyone who questioned his health and mental fitness was trafficking in cheap fakes.
00:01:53.000And then President Biden went out and engaged in a full-scale mental collapse on stage in front of hundreds of millions of people.
00:01:58.000So we can see why Americans, at least Americans who are not Democrats, do not trust the media.
00:02:02.000The question isn't really why the legacy media have lost Americans' trust.
00:02:14.000There is, in fact, an informal pressure system created by Democratic legislators, this White House, legacy media, advertisers, and pseudo-objective brand safety organizations.
00:02:23.000That system guarantees that advertising dollars flow only to left-wing media brands.
00:02:37.000There were some Democrats who decided that they were not going to talk about the issue at hand, namely the collusive attempt by advertising agencies, social media bros, and government.
00:02:49.000Because again, Democrats have been pushing for intervention in these markets for years.
00:02:55.000And so what happens is that advertisers and social media bros,
00:02:58.000in an attempt to avoid the scrutiny of people like Dianne Feinstein,
00:03:01.000who has been consistently threatening until her death, obviously,
00:03:04.000she was consistently threatening social media for years with regulation.
00:03:07.000If they would not quote unquote regulate themselves, she's not the only one.
00:03:10.000There are members of the committee before whom I was speaking.
00:03:13.000People like ranking member, Jerry Nadler, people like head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
00:03:18.000Kamala Jayapal, who have openly called for regulation of social media
00:03:21.000if social media allows messages they don't like.
00:03:24.000They call it misinformation or hate speech, but it really is just messages they don't like.
00:03:27.000So instead of talking about all that, some of the Congress people decided that it would be fun to talk about other things.
00:03:32.000One of the things they kept saying over and over and over was Project 2025.
00:03:35.000Well, Democrats are trying to distract from the fact that they have a terrible record, but their record is, in fact, terrible, including, of course, a 40-year inflationary spiral.
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00:04:43.000So for those who don't know, the Democrats have been trying for the last week or so to try to misdirect away from the fact that their president is no longer sentient.
00:04:52.000So, for example, Joe Biden just the other day tweeted out, Google Project 2025.
00:04:56.000Naturally, a lot of people then did Google Project 2025.
00:04:59.000So, yesterday at the hearing, I'd say half the Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee decided to rail about Project 2025, which has literally nothing to do with the subject of this particular committee hearing.
00:05:12.000One of the people who was doing that was Representative Eric Swalwell, who I think just kind of wanted to have a Twitter battle, but in real life.
00:05:21.000So we had a bit of a colorful exchange, the representative and I. Here is what that sounded like.
00:05:27.000Mr. Shapiro, thank you for joining us today.
00:05:30.000I think it is important that you're here as one of the leading conservative voices in the country, and the country has In the last couple weeks, talked a lot about and googled project 2025.
00:05:45.000It's one of the most googled search terms right now.
00:05:49.000And you're not going to get any censorship from me.
00:05:51.000So I just wanted to know, from your perspective, I think it would help us understand on just like a scale of zero to 100%, how much do you support project 2025?
00:06:04.000I think like President Trump, I haven't looked all that deeply at Project 2025, but it seems that Democrats on this committee, sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.
00:06:18.000So, obviously, everybody in the room knew what I was saying was true, including Swalwell, who, to his credit, laughs, because the reality, of course, is that you had Representative Hank Johnson.
00:06:25.000He came and he just said Project 2025 over and over and over and over.
00:06:32.000You had Mary Gay Scanlon from the state of Pennsylvania.
00:06:34.000She also was just referencing Project 2025 over and over and over.
00:06:38.000So, they all know that what I'm saying is true, that this is an attempt to breathe life back into a failing candidacy.
00:06:45.000And, you know, even Swalwell had to laugh at it, because, again, true.
00:06:49.000But then Swalwell decided that he was just going to make his entire five-minute questioning time about Project 2025, which, I'll be honest with you, I haven't read.
00:06:56.000And the reason I haven't read it is because it's 922 pages.
00:06:59.000I promise you, Eric Swalwell has also not read Project 2025.
00:07:03.000Probably no one who's criticizing Project 2025 has read Project 2025.
00:07:07.000Certainly President Trump has not read Project 2025.
00:07:09.000So, yeah, Swalwell is questioning me about this, and what he's really questioning me about, I assume, is just being a conservative.
00:07:15.000And the idea is that being a conservative is just evil.
00:07:18.000I don't think it went particularly well for Representative Swalwell here.
00:07:24.000You probably want less bureaucracy, right?
00:07:43.000I support the deportation of any illegal immigrant who is in the United States who is not of benefit to the generalized American public.
00:07:49.000So if they're picking agriculture that puts food on the tables of everyday Americans, they've never committed a crime inside the United States, they didn't come across with documents, should they be deported?
00:08:03.000If they have not paid taxes and if their draw on the taxpayer benefits are larger than the contribution they are making to the economy, or if they're involved in criminal activity, they should be deported.
00:08:13.000The same way that the IRS measures my income every year.
00:08:15.000It seems like if the IRS can track down every aspect of every receipt that I've ever submitted, and they can do that with hundreds of millions of other Americans, they can do that for illegal immigrants as well, except for the fact that no one knows how many are in the country thanks to this administration.
00:08:26.000So you would be cool with creating a system where they could pay those taxes if they wanted to, and then stay and work and put food on our table?
00:08:33.000It depends on how long it would take for them to pay the taxes, and they would also have to go presumably to the back of the line, although I'm not sure why I'm testifying about immigration policy at this point.
00:09:01.000I am in favor of traditional marriage between a man and a woman, and I'm perfectly fine with anyone having any sort of voluntary sexual arrangement they seek.
00:09:08.000That's a different thing from whether the government should attach benefits to that personal relationship.
00:09:12.000But you think it's a sin to have same-sex marriage?
00:09:26.000I mean, if the basic idea is that sexual orientation is up for government regulation, I'm not in favor of the government regulating the private consenting sexual activity of adults.
00:09:35.000That is a different thing, once again, from whether the government ought to engage in actual benefits for particular sexual arrangements that adults make.
00:09:44.000But again, just you to me, is it a sin or not?
00:09:46.000From a religious Jewish perspective, orientation is not a sin, but activity is.
00:09:50.000That's also the same perspective of most major religions, so far as I'm aware.
00:10:01.000I'm not sure what Project 2025's position on social security is.
00:10:05.000I'm in favor of the restructuring of social security along the lines of privatization and lowering and increasing the retirement age because you as well as every other congressperson knows social security is going to go bankrupt and yet everyone seems to have an interest in lying about it for the next decade and a half until we have to take austerity measures or radically increase inflation or taxes.
00:10:21.000And bans against books about slavery, do you support that part about?
00:10:25.000Why would I possibly be in favor of bans about books about slavery?
00:10:29.000What I am in favor of is the idea that school libraries should be able to make decisions along the lines of what exactly is appropriate for, say, a seventh grader, and whether they ought to be treated to cartoons and genderqueer.
00:11:16.000And then he starts randomly talking about Alvin Bragg and the hearings.
00:11:21.000I would have jumped in at this point and said that Eric Swalwell is probably the last person in America who should talk about the difficulty of struggling with, for example, men as a genetic matter wanting to sleep with many women.
00:11:34.000Eric Swalwell's personal history is quite checkered.
00:11:36.000I decided not to bring that up in the congressional hearing.
00:11:38.000But again, it just shows you what Democrats are trying to do.
00:11:40.000Do they actually want to talk about the issues that are on the table?
00:11:43.000What they actually want to do is misdirect to a bunch of issues they don't fully understand.
00:11:48.000And how many questions can you be asked by a congressperson where the premise is just completely wrong?
00:11:53.000Except, didn't go amazing for Representative Swalwell, and we hope he gets well soon.
00:11:58.000In any case, back to the topic of the actual hearing.
00:12:01.000One of the things that became clear from the House Judiciary Committee report is that the Global Alliance on Responsible Media didn't just target The Daily Wire, which they suggested was well out of bounds for advertisers, or Joe Rogan.
00:12:12.000They also targeted Twitter slash X, The report said that Garm tried to direct all of its
00:12:18.000members, corporate giants who together account
00:12:19.000for 90% of global advertising dollars to quote, stop all paid advertisement on the platform
00:12:28.000Rob Rakowitz, who is the head of Garm, he was emailed by one of the advertisers
00:12:34.000or one of the advertising agencies says, says, hi, Rob, I'm reaching out to ask you
00:12:38.000if it's possible to arrange a meeting and hear more about your perspectives
00:12:40.000about the Twitter situation and a possible boycott from many companies.
00:12:44.000And Rakowitz then responded, quote, hi both, this is good.
00:12:49.000I did some tweaking on the edges to help contextualize who we are and what we are doing.
00:12:52.000I'd like to point out that nowhere in this email is the, you may recognize my name from being the idiot who challenged Musk on brand safety issues.
00:12:58.000Since then, they are 80% below revenue forecasts.
00:13:03.000This prompted Elon Musk to announce today that X has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators in the advertising boycott racket.
00:13:11.000Hopefully some states will consider criminal prosecution.
00:13:15.000So, some actual positive effects from a congressional hearing other than some viral moments.
00:13:19.000Okay, now, on to the problems with the presidential candidate.
00:13:23.000Again, the Democrats are going to keep saying Project 2025, but the reality is that most Americans don't know what that is, don't care what it is, and most Americans, that includes Donald Trump.
00:13:29.000If you think that Donald Trump has been browsing Project 2025 while he sits on the toilet and tweets, you're wrong.
00:13:34.000That's not a thing that Donald Trump has ever done, or will ever do.
00:13:38.000The real issue for most Americans at this point is, will the current President of the United States survive to even make the election?
00:13:44.000Well, Democrats, Americans, everybody is concerned that President Biden may not survive to make it to the elections, that he might be dead meat.
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00:14:33.000All you have to do to claim this offer is go to GoodRanchers.com, subscribe to any of their custom curated boxes filled with 100% American beef, So the media tried to portray Joe Biden yesterday at NATO as doing like an amazing job.
00:15:03.000Here are just a couple of his flubs from a speech over at NATO.
00:15:06.000The fact is that so many of my, let me put it this way.
00:15:14.000I'm very pleased that today all NATO members are making the pledge to expand our industrial base.
00:15:20.000President Truman said, quote, we hope to create a shield against aggression, the fear of aggression, and permit us to get on with the real business of creating a government and society.
00:15:35.000I mean, he's literally just reading off a piece of paper right there.
00:15:37.000He's literally reading off a piece of paper and he's having some trouble.
00:15:40.000If you want to know what it sounds like when someone reads off a piece of paper
00:15:43.000and doesn't have trouble, go back to my original testimony yesterday,
00:15:46.000which you have to submit into the congressional record.
00:16:27.000George Clooney is a little mad at Joe Biden because George Clooney's wife, Amal Clooney, wrote a horrifically anti-semitic report for the International Criminal Court suggesting the prosecution of the Prime Minister of Israel as well as the Defense Minister of Israel.
00:16:42.000And the response of the Biden administration was not warm toward that.
00:16:47.000He had called up the president to yell at him, to which Joe Biden answered, Then, after they made up, made a little kissy face, then George Clooney held a big fundraiser for Joe Biden.
00:16:59.000And you'll recall that fundraiser because that fundraiser culminated in Barack Obama having to guide Joe Biden from the stage like a visiting angel.
00:17:07.000Like he holds his hand, he puts his hand on Joe Biden's back, he tries to remind him where he is, and then he guides the shuffling old man off the stage.
00:17:13.000Well, now George Clooney puts out a piece in the New York Times I love Joe Biden, but we need a new nominee.
00:17:25.000According to Politico, before Hollywood icon and Democratic donor George Clooney published his buzzy and brutal New York Times op-ed yesterday calling on Biden to step aside as the nominee, we're told he reached out to former President Barack Obama to give him a heads up.
00:17:37.000The two men, who are friendly, both attended the LA fundraiser Clooney referenced in his piece, where the actor said he'd beheld a diminished Biden and that the leader he interacted with was, quote, the same man we witnessed at the debate.
00:17:47.000While Obama did not encourage or advise Clooney to say what he said, he also didn't object to it, we're told from people familiar with their exchange.
00:17:52.000The lack of pushback is an eye-popping revelation, given that the former president was one of the first big voices defending Biden following his abysmal debate performance.
00:18:02.000So, from behind the scenes, Barack Obama's like, you wanna- would you like to write a piece, George, that talks about how the president should step aside?
00:18:11.000And George Clooney was like, sure, Mr. President.
00:18:15.000For all those who pretend that Barack Obama is no longer invested in Democratic Party politics and is just off gallivanting around doing Netflix deals, false.
00:18:22.000But as always, Barack Obama is not a leader, and so he is leading from behind.
00:18:26.000I will say that the Biden team is pushing back against George Clooney in the stupidest possible way, like truly idiotic.
00:18:32.000Apparently, according to CNN White House correspondent Kayla Tausch, a Biden campaign aide is now pushing back on George Clooney's New York Times piece.
00:18:39.000Apparently, Tausch said a campaign official at the same fundraiser told her, quote, Clooney left three hours before the president.
00:18:46.000Asked to clarify what that was supposed to mean, Taush then said, quote, The point of this is to suggest that Biden's
00:18:52.000stamina is better than Clooney's and Clooney didn't have eyes on
00:20:21.000But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn't see what we just saw.
00:20:25.000We're also terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we've opted to ignore every warning sign.
00:20:30.000The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw the week before.
00:20:33.000As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president whom we respect walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.
00:20:42.000Is it fair to point these things out, says George Clooney?
00:20:44.000This is about age, nothing more, but also nothing that can be reversed.
00:21:04.000So this is George Clooney just ripping the cover off of the conspiracy of silence inside the Democratic Party.
00:21:11.000He says we love to talk about how the Republican Party has ceded all power and all the traits that made it so formidable with Ronald Reagan and George H.W.
00:21:17.000Bush to a single person who seeks to hold on to the presidency, and yet most of our members of Congress are opting to wait and see if the dam breaks.
00:21:54.000That's why he's dumping all of these names into this piece.
00:21:57.000Because Democrats, the real story here is that as we demonstrated in our documentary series that you should go check out right now over at Daily Wire Plus, Scamala, the Kamala Harris, unmasking.
00:22:40.000This time, presumably, by stepping down.
00:22:43.000George Clooney trying to turn Joe Biden into a hero.
00:22:45.000The problem is Joe Biden is asleep somewhere.
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00:24:17.000Clooney, who just hosted a fundraiser, a major fundraiser for the president a few weeks ago in California, said you can't win the battle against time.
00:24:47.000And every single person I talked to at the fundraiser thought the same thing, except for the people working for Joe Biden, or at least they didn't say that.
00:25:26.000I mean, you just, first of all, they should have just told, told the president, stand up, put a little makeup on him, you know, for the debate.
00:25:35.000And call the other guy a convicted felon.
00:25:37.000And call the other guy, and just don't deal with all your facts, just deal with his lies.
00:25:44.000By the way, Michael Douglas is 79 years old and looks significantly better than Joe Biden.
00:25:49.000Stephen Colbert, who does not have the courage of his convictions, he's basically also implying, he's doing the Obama thing, he's implying that Biden should go, but he's not going to call for him to go, but he's implying he should go, but he's not going to call for it because he has no courage.
00:26:37.000While Congressional Democrats are conflicted, we got a clear message today from our nation's most powerful Democratic leader, George Clooney.
00:26:48.000George wrote a New York Times op-ed titled, I love Joe Biden, but we need a new nominee.
00:26:54.000Adding, we also need a money guy, a safe cracker, an acrobat, and Brad Pitts.
00:26:59.000It's the plot of Oceans 24, Amal's busy with human rights stuff, and I got bored.
00:27:11.000Okay, so Colbert is not calling for him to step out, but everyone knows that he's gotta go.
00:27:15.000Even members of the media, who are very much trying not to undercut Joe Biden at this point, they're getting caught on camera saying things they shouldn't be saying.
00:27:21.000So George Stephanopoulos was outside, walking the streets over in New York, and somebody asked him, so George, do you think that the president can do another four years?
00:29:02.000Again, all of this is bubbling inside the media.
00:29:05.000But for Biden's part, he keeps saying he's not going anywhere.
00:29:08.000Well, yeah, I mean, we all knew that he was senile two years ago, and then all of you covered it up.
00:29:13.000I'm old enough to remember when we were saying that.
00:29:14.000I'm also old enough to remember when COVID basically shut down health care, where hospitals were overflowing, urgent care centers had eight-hour wait times.
00:29:21.000Well, CDC is now issuing a bird flu health alert.
00:29:24.000Is this going to be the next round of this?
00:30:16.000So John Kirby, national security spokesperson and actual White House press secretary, because Corrine Jean-Pierre, of course, is awful at her job.
00:30:23.000He keeps saying over and over, I don't know how many times I have to say this.
00:30:30.000He did make his decision, and he made it crystal clear to everybody that he's running for re-election.
00:30:35.000The president has made it clear to the entire team, certainly at the National Security Council, what his intentions are and what his goals are.
00:30:43.000And we exist to support him and to give him the advice and counsel and the resources he needs to get that job done, and that's what his focus is on.
00:31:12.000And apparently he's gonna have what they are now calling a big boy press conference, which again, they are so incompetent at their branding.
00:31:17.000They tried Bidenomics, and everyone hates Bidenomics, and they're like, he's gonna have a big boy press conference.
00:31:25.000Here we go, MSNBC excitedly reporting.
00:31:29.000You know when you're driving somewhere and you see a gas station or a liquor store right before a bridge and it says last chance for gas or last chance for liquor?
00:31:37.000I feel like this press conference Thursday, Alex, is like the last chance Democrats have, right?
00:31:42.000Like, they're going over the bridge and this is it.
00:31:45.000If you want to pull over and fill up your tank or buy a bottle of bourbon before you go to a dry county or a dry state, boy, this is the moment.
00:31:53.000This press conference on Thursday, I think, If he hits the ball out of the park, obviously the pressure will will ebb.
00:32:00.000But if it doesn't go well, I think you will see one final round of Democrats trying to get him out of the race.
00:32:07.000And you'll see, I think, some of these senators, especially, who have been quiet or been talking on background, go public and call for him to step out.
00:32:15.000I think that this is a high stakes moment on Thursday.
00:32:20.000That's Jonathan Martin from MSNBC talking about what happens this afternoon.
00:32:24.000But Biden has already scheduled more interviews.
00:32:27.000So apparently NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt is going to sit down with Joe Biden.
00:32:33.000They have an exclusive one-on-one interview.
00:32:35.000It's supposed to come out next Monday, 9 p.m.
00:32:44.000The original interview is going to be aired, presumably this weekend, and it'll be all chopped up in some way.
00:32:49.000And then you'll get the full interview on Monday.
00:32:52.000Meanwhile, Team Biden is scheduled today to meet with Senate Democratic leadership at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during lunch.
00:33:04.000The question is whether Joe Biden is in fact capable, whether he can handle himself.
00:33:09.000So the Democrats behind the scenes are super uneasy.
00:33:11.000Obviously, what Clooney says is correct.
00:33:13.000It's being reported by everyone from Politico to Punchbowl News.
00:33:16.000Everyone recognizes that behind the scenes, Democrats think he is going to lose.
00:33:20.000Axios Today says Schumer is now open to dumping Biden in 2024.
00:33:25.000In public, says Axios, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, has been insistent that he is for Joe.
00:33:30.000In private, he's singing a different tune.
00:33:32.000Over the last 12 days, Schumer has been listening to donor ideas and suggestions about the best way forward for the party, according to three people familiar with the matter.
00:33:39.000The majority leader is one of several Democrats, including former President Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has the political and personal standing to convince Biden to step aside.
00:33:47.000Even so, Biden can still dig in and delegates are pledged to him.
00:33:50.000Schumer said in a statement, quote, As I have made clear repeatedly, publicly and privately, I support President Biden and remain committed to ensuring Donald Trump is defeated in November.
00:33:57.000But, but, apparently Schumer's flip phone has been burning up for weeks and Schumer has been listening.
00:34:05.000Following Tuesday's caucus lunch, Schumer invited senior Biden campaign officials to brief members and directly address any concerns they might have.
00:34:13.000So Schumer is now open to the possibility of pushing Joe Biden off the cliff.
00:34:20.000Pelosi has been pretty clearly trying to mobilize against Biden.
00:34:25.000She's been signaling to Biden, in fact.
00:34:47.000They go, but he made his decision, ma'am.
00:34:51.000I'm sorry, you're wishcasting that Joe Biden is going to reverse himself because you keep heavily implying he should drop out is not going to work.
00:34:57.000Here she was on MSNBC this morning, Joe, trying to leave the door open to Joe Biden leaving.
00:35:03.000Does he have your support to be the head of the Democratic Senate?
00:35:08.000It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run.
00:35:12.000We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short.
00:35:20.000I think overwhelming support of the caucus.
00:35:53.000According to Politico, those comments were meant to serve as a subtle green light, one person close with Pelosi said, meant to encourage members to speak up about their desire to see change atop the ticket and to warn Biden to reconsider staying in the race.
00:36:04.000So what you have right now is sort of a classic prisoner's dilemma for Democratic leadership.
00:36:10.000They have a collective action problem.
00:36:12.000They are not sure whether or not, together, they can get everybody to push Biden off the ticket.
00:36:18.000And so everyone has an interest in staying silent.
00:36:21.000They're suddenly encouraging everybody else to go out and like be the person who gets shot, but they don't want to be the first person over the edge of the World War I trench.
00:36:28.000They don't want to charge directly into Biden's line of sight here.
00:36:33.000And so what you have here is all of them whispering behind the scenes that they want Biden to go, and nobody willing to actually say it except for George Clooney, who of course is not answerable to anybody because he's busy directing another bad movie or something.
00:36:44.000Pelosi has apparently Not try to hide her disdain for the situation in which the party now finds itself.
00:36:50.000She's suggested to people, according to Politico, that Biden won't win this November and should step aside.
00:36:54.000In fact, she's advised some Democrats in swing districts to do whatever they have to do to secure their own re-elect, even if it means asking Biden to relinquish his place atop the ticket.
00:37:03.000Pelosi's advising those members to wait until the end of the NATO summit.
00:37:06.000Some members have already started drafting statements of what they want to say ready to drop once the foreign leaders leave town.
00:37:12.000For members who are not in swing districts, Pelosi is encouraging them to take their pleas for Biden to step aside directly to the White House or the campaign in order to minimize public fighting.
00:37:22.000So again, Pelosi, behind the scenes, is pushing very hard for his ouster.
00:37:25.000You're starting to see the wall break a little bit.
00:37:27.000Senator Peter Welch is the first Democratic senator to openly call for the president to step aside.
00:37:32.000He said Biden should withdraw, quote, for the good of the country.
00:37:36.000He said his constituents are, quote, worried that Biden can't win this time and they're terrified of another Trump presidency.
00:37:42.000Meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries, who is the House Minority Leader, he has told lawmakers, according to Politico, in private meetings he will relay concerns regarding the president's electability to Biden, according to two people familiar with the situation, as more Democrats call for him to step aside.
00:37:56.000It's still not clear when Jeffries will speak with the president.
00:37:59.000Asked Wednesday about his plans to talk with Biden, Jeffries sidestepped and said, quote, The fact that this is an open question in July is a disaster area for Democrats.
00:38:04.000And you can see why precisely all of this panic is breaking out.
00:38:54.000Again, I'm not going to go into the details of this, but I'll just say that it's a very,
00:38:56.000According to Politico, Biden aides have not focused on New York, but the warning signs are impossible to ignore and have been building over the past year.
00:39:03.000Two private polls conducted in a swing New York House district and reviewed by Politico found former President Trump leading Biden there by one point a virtual tie.
00:39:11.000Public polls over the last four months found Biden's lead had winnowed to just eight points across New York.
00:39:49.000So again, this is why Democrats are freaking out.
00:39:51.000We'll get to more of their freak out in just one moment.
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00:40:45.000Again, right now, looking at the polling data, Nate Silver, who updates his presidential forecast pretty much every day, he says that Donald Trump currently has a 70% chance to beat Joe Biden.
00:40:54.000And the polls usually undersample Trump voters, historically speaking.
00:40:57.000Right now, in Pennsylvania, He is leading, on average, in the 538 polling average by 3.4 points.
00:41:19.000They're going to try and creep around Joe Biden.
00:41:21.000They don't want to be the first person to plunge the knife into Julius Caesar, but they'll be the second person to plunge the knife into Julius Caesar.
00:41:28.000Here's Representative Steve Cohen from Tennessee.
00:41:30.000The language they're going with for now is, if he wants it, he'll be the nominee.
00:41:34.000Well, he does want it, but you're not declaring him the nominee.
00:41:36.000What you're doing is you just keep saying over and over and over that maybe, maybe he'll reconsider.
00:42:58.000Tim Kaine, you'll remember him from being the anonymous former vice presidential candidate to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
00:43:04.000He says, don't worry, Joe Biden will do the patriotic thing.
00:43:07.000Again, this is my wife just asking me whether I really, really want to make the right decision and watch Die Hard again.
00:43:14.000I have complete confidence that Joe Biden will do the patriotic thing for the country, and he's going to make that decision.
00:44:16.000He's communicated that decision, and it is time to get going.
00:44:19.000We've got a high-stakes election, and all this continued talk and fretting and hand-wringing that people are doing only sets us up for a disadvantage going into this important election against Donald Trump.
00:44:33.000Okay, so they're just going to keep trying to wish him out of office.
00:44:45.000He says, you keep trying to pretend that if you go blind on this, it'll work.
00:44:48.000He says, in determining how to proceed as a party, there must be a serious reckoning with the down-ballot effect of whomever we nominate.
00:44:53.000What matters is not how we feel, but what the numbers tell us.
00:44:55.000An unsentimental analysis of the cold, hard numbers, which have no personal feelings or political loyalties, should inform what we decide and whom we nominate.
00:45:01.000If we're going to choose a particular path, we should be clear-eyed about its consequences.
00:45:05.000Blindness is not bliss, and the terrifying threat of a Trump presidency is coming.
00:46:18.000I feel like, given her personal history, I mean, Willie Brown and all.
00:46:26.000That's probably not what people are thinking about Kamala Harris when they are thinking about that type of activity, but sure, go with that.
00:46:32.000The reason that she's unpopular is because of sexism and men being afraid of funny women in the sack.
00:46:43.000Meanwhile, President Trump is doing the smart thing and he's just staying outside the spotlight.
00:46:47.000He's been doing rallies, but nobody covers them because, you know, of the crisis on the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:46:52.000He also did the smart thing, he was asked about Project 2025, which again is the buzzword the Democrats keep using over and over and over, as I said yesterday.
00:47:00.0002025 so much. It's like the Democrats are gonna say it three times in the mirror and then Donald
00:47:00.000I don't care if it's him or somebody else.
00:47:05.000Trump is gonna appear and want to play golf or something.
00:47:07.000It's like Beetlejuice. But in any case, Donald Trump points out the reality, which is that it's not
00:47:12.000just about Joe Biden inside the Democratic Party. Everyone that they are running is a nut.
00:47:15.000Here is the former president of the United States correctly noting this fact. I don't care if
00:48:44.000All the attempts to turn Donald Trump into Hitler have completely failed.
00:48:47.000But a huge percentage of this is about the fact that Barack Obama levels of support among black voters in the Democratic Party are non-transferable.
00:48:55.000Certainly, the enthusiasm that black voters felt for Barack Obama is non-transferable to the dead old white man that Democrats are trying to run as he goes around telling Morehouse College graduates they're never going to succeed in life because of the color of their skin.
00:49:07.000It turns out that's not a particularly popular message.
00:50:04.000So picking a vice president who is likely to generate controversy, I think, would be a mistake for him, considering, again, he's running toward the middle.
00:50:10.000So the question is, which candidate for VP is likely to bolster the image of him as a moderate candidate of stability?
00:50:18.000That is where we are in the election cycle right now.
00:50:22.000So picking the least controversial VP candidate would probably be the best move.
00:50:33.000So yesterday, the House Republicans and like five Democrats passed a bill titled the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
00:50:41.000All that bill did was seek to expand proof of citizenship requirements to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states.
00:50:52.000Should there not be an obligation to demonstrate you are a citizen of the United States by photo ID, for example, before you get an application for voter registration?
00:51:04.000Why should the voter rolls have illegal immigrants on them?
00:51:17.000If you're Biden and you want to ensure that people don't feel like you're trying to stack the deck electorally, why wouldn't you sign that?
00:51:24.000Opponents of the bill, according to The Hill, say its core idea, establishing non-citizen voting as illegal, is redundant, and argue its provisions will more likely lead to U.S.
00:51:31.000citizens being denied their right to vote than to preventing votes by foreign nationals.
00:51:34.000But again, this is like the dumbest thing in the world, because polling data shows that the vast majority of Americans believe in voter ID.
00:51:40.000And whenever people say, well, black people can't get ID, yes, they absolutely can.
00:51:53.000Again, it is quite amazing that Democrats almost universally voted against this thing.
00:52:01.000So, Chip Roy, excellent member of Congress from Texas, In an op-ed in May, he wrote, And he pointed out Joe Biden saying, back in May, that Hispanic immigrants were quote-unquote voters.
00:52:11.000leverage open borders and tens of millions of illegal aliens in the United States to
00:52:15.000fundamentally remake America by cementing one-party rule.
00:52:17.000He pointed out Joe Biden saying back in May that Hispanic immigrants were quote-unquote
00:52:23.000He was talking there about illegal immigrants too.
00:52:26.000Again, somebody please explain to me the logic the Democrats are presenting here.
00:52:30.000That it is a danger to the voting public if you have to show some sort of identification demonstrating you're a citizen of the United States.
00:52:37.000It's like basic election security kind of stuff, and Democrats are kicking back against it anyway.
00:52:42.000That's the reason Donald Trump is doing really well.
00:52:44.000If he puts some duct tape over his mouth and just goes down to the basement for the next four months, that dude's gonna be president again.
00:52:49.000Meanwhile, in just another example of how the left has basically turned everything into a partisan political issue.
00:52:56.000Letitia Wright is the star of Black Panther and an executive producer on the faith-based movie Sound of Hope.
00:53:00.000The story of Possum Trot has now issued an Instagram statement ripping into us here at The Daily Wire for helping to distribute the film, which is an amazing thing.
00:53:31.000She's mad that we're even associated with the movie, apparently.
00:53:34.000She posted on Instagram, quote, Producing this film alongside Peacetree Productions to tell the incredible story of Bishop W.C.
00:53:40.000Martin, First Lady Donna Martin, and all the incredible families of Possum Trot has been nothing less than inspiring.
00:53:44.000We've created a beautiful film that gives a voice to vulnerable children with the hope that families across the country and world, no matter their faith, race, or diversity, would join together to help kids to be moved to make a difference in any way they can.
00:53:54.000Which is why it's a shame to see small pockets of discourse online take a divisive political turn.
00:53:59.000This story isn't about politics, it's about children.
00:54:01.000It's about sacrificial love for children who have experienced unthinkable horrors, and how communities at a grassroots level, like the community of Possum Trot, can help provide these safe, loving homes they so desperately need.
00:54:09.000Any conversation that detracts from that is unnecessary and harmful.
00:54:12.000The potential for this film to positively change lives is far too important.
00:54:15.000To be clear, after we completed production of this film, Angel Studios were brought on board to handle its distribution, and they later partnered with The Daily Wire.
00:54:21.000That was not my decision, and I was not given an update or made aware of this decision.
00:54:24.000I am in no way aligned or affiliated with The Daily Wire.
00:54:27.000I am thankful for all who want to positively champion this film and campaign to serve children.
00:54:30.000However, I do not condone using this beautiful film for divisive political purposes.
00:54:43.000We have not talked about this as a Democrat-Republican issue in any way.
00:54:46.000This is a human rights issue for children.
00:54:49.000What is the blowback that she has received?
00:54:51.000Again, this is the demonstration, full scale, of the left's radical intolerance in the cultural arena.
00:54:56.000Even the minutest association with anybody who's perceived to be conservative over things that are utterly uncontroversial and just good for humanity like fixing the foster care system and getting kids adopted by loving families.
00:55:10.000The left is even willing to turn that into a partisan political fight in order to shred any level of association between left and right over issues we all should agree upon.
00:55:21.000So DailyWare co-CEO Jeremy Boring put out a statement, quote, on its opening day, July 4th, Sound of Hope was one of the highest grossing films nationwide, second only to Disney's biggest release of the year.
00:55:30.000This movie is tracking to be huge and has the potential to launch a movement to end America's foster crisis.
00:55:34.000The Daily Wire is truly honored to partner with Angel Studios on such an important project.
00:55:38.000But such is the intolerance of the modern left that instead of celebrating this accomplishment and all it might mean, one of the film's producers, Letitia Wright of Black Panther fame, used the occasion to condemn The Daily Wire's involvement in sharing this message across the country.
00:55:49.000Letitia and I probably don't share the same politics, but I believe we share Christian faith, and more importantly, the same goal of shining a light on something we can all agree on, a community banding together to help kids in need.
00:55:57.000We hope people don't allow this distraction to steal from the message, from the film, and the impact it can have.
00:56:03.000Everyone should see this movie and join the fight for kids.
00:56:07.000And that's the sad part, is when Hollywood is so wildly intolerant that even when we agree on something, left and the right, they would proceed to shred that level of agreement just to make a political point?
00:56:20.000You wonder why the country is falling apart culturally.
00:56:23.000If we can't agree on the foster system needs help and loving families should adopt kids, what the hell can we agree on?
00:56:30.000And if the idea is that we can't even hold hands over that one, what can we hold hands over?
00:56:36.000You want to talk about all of this phony talk about a civil war inside the United States and the country falling apart, but it's this kind of stuff that leads to that.
00:56:46.000Making these issues into partisan issues is a tragedy for the country.
00:56:49.000It's an excellent film with an important message, and I don't care who distributes the film.