The Ben Shapiro Show - July 03, 2024


MOMENTUM: Enraged Democrats Prepare To THROW BIDEN OUT

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Joe Biden lapses in public appearances Black Rifle Coffee Joe Biden's race for re-election
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Joshua Weigel
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Joe Biden Hunter Biden Donald Trump George Stephanopoulos Team Biden Barack Obama Karine Jean-Pierre Michelle Obama Nancy Pelosi Jill Biden Lyndon Johnson Jill Abramson Sheldon Whitehouse Corrine Jean-Pierre Gretchen Whitmer Hubert Humphrey Chuck Schumer Lorraine Volz Joe Manchin Tim Ryan and 47 more
SCOTUS Makes A Decision & The Left Goes INSANE Is TONIGHT The Night Biden Drops Out?

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Joe Biden is facing a growing number of calls from within his own party to step aside from the 2020 Democratic primary race, and it's not hard to see how this could have catastrophic consequences for the Biden campaign. Joe Biden has been a presidential candidate for almost a decade, and he's been a member of the vice presidential ticket every election since he was first elected in 1972. But now that he's out of the running, the pressure is on him to make a decision about whether or not he should continue to run for re-election, and there's no question that he needs to go. But what will he do if he does decide to leave the race? And what will that mean for the rest of his campaign and the Democratic Party's chances of defeating Donald Trump in 2020? And what s going to happen if Joe Biden doesn't decide to quit the race and declare his intention to run again in 2020, and what will the party do in response to the growing pressure from within their own party and the media to have him abandon the race. Joe Biden's 2020 chances of winning the Democratic nomination are now in the hands of his challenger, Kamala Harris, but what will it take to win the primary and become the next president of the Democrats in 2020 is a question that no amount of money can buy him back from the voters? If he doesn t decide to run, what will they do next, will it be enough? What will they get from the Biden family to get Joe Biden back in the 2020 election, and how will they reward him for his service? and what s the best way they can get him back into the 2020 race and get him to run in 2020 and what they ve been waiting for him to do in 2020 to be the next President of the next election? And how much money they re going to get in the next time they re running again? How will they make him to the 2020 primary, and who will he get to the next one, and if he s ready to run next time, what they ll get in 2020 What s the chance of winning in 2020 of running for the next presidential election, will he be able to get a shot at that s the next person they veered off the front runner in 2020 at all of his name in 2020 in the Democratic primary, at the next place in the primary, in the first place, and which party he s actually running for a chance to win a primary in 2016?

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00:00:00.000 If you had asked me a little less than half a week ago whether Joe Biden was going to be ousted by his own party, forced out the door, maybe bribed to go away by his own party, I would have said that seemed very, very unlikely.
00:00:11.000 But the momentum is building.
00:00:12.000 And here is the problem for the Democrats.
00:00:14.000 They are all now starting to come out of the woodwork and say that Joe Biden needs to go.
00:00:18.000 How do you put that genie back in the bottle if he doesn't?
00:00:21.000 This is the biggest problem with which Democrats have now presented themselves.
00:00:25.000 They have now said the quiet part out loud that the old man is senile, that he is not capable of carrying out his duties as President of the United States.
00:00:33.000 But let's say that Joe Biden doesn't want to go.
00:00:35.000 How do they then twist everything they have been saying for the last week into a narrative where that man has to be President of the United States?
00:00:43.000 Which is why they're banking on Joe Biden leaving.
00:00:46.000 Now, whether he does or not is going to be up to Joe Biden, and really more importantly, up to the greatest doctor of all time, Dr. Lady Macbeth, Jill Biden, and the rest of the Biden family, as we'll get to in a little while.
00:00:56.000 But if Joe Biden sticks around, the entire Democratic Party apparatus at this point is beginning to turn on Joe Biden and do so publicly.
00:01:04.000 They're doing so through leaks.
00:01:05.000 They're doing so through public statements.
00:01:07.000 They're acknowledging the obvious at long last.
00:01:09.000 Now, the reality is that they sort of have to do this, and the reason they have to do this is because if they did not, their entire credibility would be blown.
00:01:17.000 What Joe Biden did last Thursday night in that debate was not just a bad debate.
00:01:21.000 It was a historically bad decision.
00:01:23.000 See, the entire Democratic Party apparatus and the entire legacy media, they were banking on Team Biden, at least providing them plausible deniability
00:01:32.000 so they can continue to lie that Joe Biden was basically OK behind closed doors.
00:01:36.000 He's fine.
00:01:37.000 So what that meant was only let Joe Biden out for extremely short stints of time.
00:01:41.000 Do not put him in a position where he looks like he did last Thursday night.
00:01:45.000 And then they could plausibly claim that he's probably fine.
00:01:47.000 He's probably okay.
00:01:48.000 Everybody's exaggerating.
00:01:49.000 And then, Team Biden pantsed everyone.
00:01:52.000 And Joe Biden personally pantsed everyone on his own side.
00:01:55.000 He embarrassed all of them. 1.00
00:01:57.000 He made them look like fools. 0.99
00:01:58.000 Because we all can tell that they've been lying now for a year. 1.00
00:02:02.000 Or two.
00:02:03.000 Or three.
00:02:04.000 That makes the entire Democratic Party look terrible.
00:02:06.000 Their credibility is shot.
00:02:08.000 The entire legacy media, they look terrible.
00:02:10.000 Their credibility is shot all because Joe Biden insisted to his aides that he was ready and raring to go and that he wanted to debate Donald Trump and that he would take Donald Trump down in one fell swoop.
00:02:22.000 And it turns out that listening to the demands of a delusional, senile old man is a really, really bad idea in the middle of a presidential election.
00:02:28.000 So, the bottom is starting to fall out of the Joe Biden campaign at this point.
00:02:32.000 So, if last Friday I would have said that the chances of Joe Biden dropping out of the race Are 1%, 2%.
00:02:40.000 At this point, because donors, Democratic Party honchos, the legacy media, are now openly turning on Joe Biden, I would say that that percentage chance is now rising to 30, 40%.
00:02:52.000 Can Joe Biden withstand the rising tsunami of rage inside his own party?
00:02:59.000 Now, maybe they figure out a way to get Joe Biden out.
00:03:01.000 Maybe they go to Joe and they say to him, listen, if you step out, if you declare you're not going to run again, and you hand this thing over to Kamala Harris, Then we'll find some way to get you a hundred million dollar check.
00:03:11.000 We'll find some way to make you exorbitantly wealthy and your family for the rest of time, which is really what the Biden family wants.
00:03:17.000 We'll find some way to bribe you to get out.
00:03:20.000 We'll build you a beautiful presidential library.
00:03:21.000 We'll start for you a 501c3.
00:03:23.000 We'll get all of our mega donors to donate tens of millions of dollars to that thing. 0.98
00:03:26.000 We'll make the entire Democratic National Convention about the historic achievement of getting rid of Donald Trump and about the magic that you have done as president And then you can give an amazing valedictory speech and walk off into the sunset as a hero of the republic who recognized that he couldn't stop Trump, but he had to step out of the way for someone who could.
00:03:41.000 Maybe they're able to convince Joe Biden of that over the course of the next week.
00:03:45.000 That obviously is the pitch that they are making behind closed doors to Joe Biden at this point.
00:03:49.000 But it's an inside-outside game.
00:03:50.000 They are making that friendly pitch inside.
00:03:52.000 On the outside, the Democratic Party has turned like a snarling dog against the guy who is leading their party.
00:04:00.000 It's something I've never seen before in American politics.
00:04:02.000 I'm not sure anyone has seen it before in American politics.
00:04:04.000 The closest comp might be the Democratic rebellion against Hubert Humphrey as the nominee, the vice president to Lyndon Johnson in 1968 after Johnson stepped out.
00:04:14.000 But the reality is that even that is not comparable because Hubert Humphrey was not the sitting president of the United States at the time.
00:04:21.000 The sitting president had already declared he wasn't running for re-election.
00:04:24.000 Not only that, Joe Biden isn't just the sitting president.
00:04:28.000 This race is still somewhat tight.
00:04:31.000 Now, make no mistake, Donald Trump is starting to pull away in the aftermath of this debate.
00:04:37.000 According to a new CNN poll, Donald Trump is now leading Joe Biden nationally by six points.
00:04:42.000 Now, that is the same as the results CNN had back in April.
00:04:45.000 But here's the thing, even if Joe Biden would argue that the debate hasn't changed the race, if it doesn't change the race, he loses.
00:04:51.000 If Joe Biden were to lose the popular vote by six points, this is a historic whooping, the likes of which we probably have not seen in the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
00:04:59.000 It's really a disastrous showing for the Democratic Party if he loses 49-43, because there are a lot of states that are within that six-point margin of error.
00:05:10.000 That same poll, by the way, shows Trump beating Kamala Harris 47-45.
00:05:14.000 And what we're looking at right now is probably the high watermark for Kamala Harris.
00:05:19.000 There'll be an attempt, as we'll talk about again in a little bit, to ninth look at Kamala Harris, this thing, to pretend that Kamala Harris actually is wonderful, that she isn't the most annoying person in American politics, that she's not.
00:05:30.000 A liar who has failed up every step of her career and backs radical policies and is dishonest and inauthentic.
00:05:36.000 There'll be an attempt to sort of massage her into credibility. 0.97
00:05:39.000 It's not going to work.
00:05:39.000 The American people don't like her.
00:05:41.000 So Kamala, obviously, she's terrible. 1.00
00:05:43.000 They're going to try to massage her into looking good because what else are they going to do? 0.98
00:05:46.000 I mean, Joe Biden is falling apart.
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00:06:48.000 So, there's new polling that's come out from CNN.
00:06:51.000 There's also some insider polling, Democratic internal polling.
00:06:54.000 So again, when I say the Democratic Party has turned on Biden, this is why you're getting all these leaks now.
00:06:59.000 The Biden administration was not particularly leaky.
00:07:02.000 All of a sudden, this thing has sprung leaks like the Titanic.
00:07:04.000 It hit the iceberg of that debate, and the water is pouring into the hall.
00:07:09.000 Team Biden is shifting deck chairs up top, but the rest of the Democratic Party is loading into those lifeboats.
00:07:15.000 So, the leaks are coming, and they are coming fast.
00:07:18.000 Puck News.
00:07:20.000 Which was a good job of covering this stuff.
00:07:21.000 They got a hold of a Biden internal polling memo from Open Labs.
00:07:24.000 And here is what it shows.
00:07:26.000 What it shows is that in virtually every state, Joe Biden has dropped at least two points in the polling.
00:07:35.000 So for example, he went from a 3.7 point lead in Colorado to 1.9.
00:07:39.000 That's a almost two point drop.
00:07:41.000 He dropped two points in Minnesota.
00:07:43.000 He had a 2.4 percentage point lead.
00:07:45.000 Now that lead is 0.4 percentage points.
00:07:46.000 Well within margin of error.
00:07:49.000 The outstanding Maine electoral vote. So Maine is a weird state. It has a couple of electoral votes
00:07:53.000 and they split depending on the district. The margin for Joe Biden has dropped by two points.
00:07:59.000 The new polling shows Joe Biden behind in, get ready for this, New Mexico, New Mexico, Virginia,
00:08:08.000 New Hampshire, where he is down now, according to this polling, by almost three points.
00:08:12.000 Wisconsin, Nebraska's second district.
00:08:14.000 Michigan, by seven points.
00:08:16.000 Pennsylvania, by seven points.
00:08:18.000 Nevada, by nine points.
00:08:22.000 Those are full-scale disaster Roland Emmerich numbers.
00:08:28.000 That is the Earth freezes numbers for Joe Biden.
00:08:31.000 And those leaks of polling numbers are being accompanied by new leaks to the New York Times and other friendly publications about just how non-composementist Joe Biden is.
00:08:40.000 Now, remember, all of this, these leaks actually undermine the case that the legacy media and Team Biden and the Democratic Party are making, which is that we are shocked, shocked to find that Joe Biden is senile.
00:08:51.000 But AIDS are now coming out of the woodwork, and they're trying to protect themselves by saying, listen, we're told to lie, right? 0.96
00:08:56.000 We're just being good soldiers.
00:08:57.000 We've known for a long time that Joe Biden is out of it, but we are the people who want to stop Donald Trump.
00:09:02.000 The party told us that we had to stop Donald Trump by propping up the old man, and so we did it.
00:09:06.000 So you do have this internal battle inside the Democratic Party.
00:09:10.000 On one, along a couple of axes.
00:09:12.000 You have an internal battle between people who want to keep Biden, which is basically just the Biden family at this point, and then everybody else.
00:09:18.000 And then you have an internal battle between the Biden aides who are trying to defend their own record here.
00:09:22.000 And the Democratic Party and the legacy media, who are trying to claim implausibly that they had no idea that Joe Biden was this bad.
00:09:28.000 And the aides who are saying, listen, everybody knew that Joe Biden was this bad.
00:09:31.000 We've known this for a while.
00:09:32.000 You knew it.
00:09:33.000 We knew it.
00:09:34.000 We're just doing our best to cover it up.
00:09:35.000 That's our job.
00:09:36.000 That's what the aides are now saying by leaking to the New York Times.
00:09:39.000 So, entire piece at the New York Times, Biden's lapses are said to be increasingly common and worrisome.
00:09:45.000 According to the New York Times, in the weeks and months before President Biden's politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed he increasingly appeared confused or listless and would lose the thread of conversations.
00:09:59.000 Now, wouldn't that have been nice to know, you know, months ago?
00:10:02.000 Maybe like before the Democratic primaries.
00:10:03.000 That might have been a good thing.
00:10:05.000 But instead, they covered it up.
00:10:06.000 Because again, they were relying on the Democratic Party, on Team Biden, to cover it up.
00:10:11.000 They were relying on Team Biden to lie to you and provide them cover for their lies.
00:10:16.000 That's why they're really mad.
00:10:17.000 And they're really pissed because they feel betrayed by Team Biden, not because Biden is senile.
00:10:23.000 They knew the whole time, but they knew also that they would not be exposed because Team Biden for sure would not put that old man in a debate to just basically die on stage.
00:10:32.000 But that's what they did.
00:10:33.000 Now the New York Times, which is lashing out with the rage of a woman scorned, has this piece.
00:10:38.000 Quote, like many people his age, Mr. Biden, 81, has long experienced instances in which he's mangled a sentence, forgot a name, or mixed up a few facts, even though he could be sharp and engaged most of the time.
00:10:46.000 But in interviews, people in the room with him more recently said the lapses seem to be growing more frequent, more pronounced, more worrisome.
00:10:53.000 The uncomfortable occurrences were not predictable, but seemed more likely when he was in a large crowd or tired after a particularly bruising schedule.
00:10:59.000 In the 23 days leading up to the debate against former President Donald Trump, Mr. Biden jetted across the Atlantic twice for meetings with foreign leaders and then flew from Italy to California for a splashy fundraiser, maintaining a grueling pace that exhausted even much younger aides.
00:11:10.000 So their excuse now is that Joe Biden got very tired from having been in Europe.
00:11:14.000 There's only one problem.
00:11:15.000 He arrived back in the United States 12 days before the debate.
00:11:19.000 He then proceeded to go to Camp David for a full week and do nothing before the debate.
00:11:24.000 So don't give me the he-was-tired routine just like a normal man would be.
00:11:28.000 It's nonsense.
00:11:30.000 Biden was drained enough from back-to-back trips to Europe, his team cut his plans-made preparation by two days so he could rest at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
00:11:37.000 They made him comfortable before deciding what to do with him, before joining advisors at Camp David for rehearsals.
00:11:42.000 The preparations, this is the part that's amazing.
00:11:44.000 You ready for this?
00:11:45.000 The preparations, which took place over six days, never started before 11 a.m.
00:11:52.000 11 a.m.
00:11:54.000 So I have a small baby.
00:11:55.000 He's very cute.
00:11:56.000 He's 13 months old.
00:11:58.000 He wakes up like, 7.30, 8 o'clock in the morning?
00:12:04.000 I don't know anyone who is not senile who starts their day at 11 a.m.
00:12:10.000 That's insane.
00:12:12.000 11 a.m.
00:12:13.000 And Mr. Biden was given time for an afternoon nap every day according to a person familiar with the process.
00:12:19.000 I'm not sure there's been a more devastating leak against Joe Biden than this.
00:12:23.000 That he woke up sufficient to be prepared at 11 a.m.
00:12:27.000 and then by 1 he was taking a nap.
00:12:31.000 Woo! 0.99
00:12:32.000 Andrew Bates, White House spokesman, said on Tuesday the president was working well before the 11 a.m.
00:12:36.000 start time each day after exercising.
00:12:38.000 By exercising, they mean doing pool calisthenics.
00:12:41.000 Still, at a fundraiser on Tuesday evening, Mr. Biden blamed fatigue for his debate performance.
00:12:45.000 He said, I wasn't very smart.
00:12:46.000 I decided to travel around the world a couple times.
00:12:48.000 I don't know how many time zones.
00:12:49.000 He added, I didn't listen to my staff.
00:12:50.000 I came back.
00:12:51.000 I fell asleep on the stage.
00:12:53.000 Nope!
00:12:54.000 So, Joe Biden, he sleeps till 11 a.m.
00:12:57.000 He has his, like, aquatics.
00:12:59.000 He takes full days off to go to Rehoboth Beach and he's still sleeping.
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00:14:06.000 Now, what's really funny about this New York Times piece is then they use as proof that Joe Biden has seen out all the things they denied.
00:14:12.000 We're happening.
00:14:14.000 So we're all passing around video.
00:14:15.000 We played it on the show of Joe Biden freezing up in the middle of a dancing fest at the White House.
00:14:20.000 Or Joe Biden randomly wandering off into the woods at the G7.
00:14:23.000 And we were told these were cheap fakes.
00:14:25.000 The New York Times ran an entire piece about how this was all out of context nonsense.
00:14:29.000 On June 10th, he appeared to freeze up at an early celebration of the Juneteenth holiday.
00:14:34.000 On June 18th, his soft-spoken tone and brief struggle to summon the name of his Homeland Security Secretary at an immigration event unnerved some of his allies at the event, who traded alarmed looks and later described themselves as shaken up.
00:14:44.000 He's certainly not that way all the time.
00:14:46.000 In the days since the debate debacle, aides and others who encountered him, including foreign officials, described him as being in good shape, alert, coherent, capable, engaged in complicated and important discussions, and managing volatile crises.
00:14:56.000 They cited example after example in cases where critical national security issues were on the line.
00:15:03.000 By the way, their proof that Joe Biden is sane and sentient is him doing the worst thing I have heard him do during his presidency.
00:15:11.000 Ready for this?
00:15:12.000 Aides present in the Situation Room the night Iran hurled a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel portrayed a president in commanding form lecturing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone to avoid a retaliatory escalation that would have inflamed the Middle East.
00:15:23.000 Quote, let me be crystal clear, Biden said, if you launch a big attack on Iran, you're on your own.
00:15:30.000 Biden pushed back hard.
00:15:31.000 You do this, Biden said forcefully, and I'm out.
00:15:35.000 So the proof that Joe Biden is very with it is him standing for Iran.
00:15:41.000 This, by the way, is the untold story of the Biden saga, is that he's a terrible president. 0.98
00:15:45.000 He's awful. 0.99
00:15:46.000 When he's sentient, he's worse than when he's a vegetable. 0.98
00:15:49.000 That's the part that's astonishing.
00:15:50.000 In any case, the freakout is in full scale.
00:15:54.000 It is happening right now.
00:15:56.000 And it is somewhat hilarious, if alarming, to watch it happen in real time.
00:16:03.000 So there's a piece in Axios talking about the disarray.
00:16:07.000 Alex Thompson, who is a reporter for Politico, he tweeted, for real this time, Dems are in disarray.
00:16:13.000 Someone questioned back at him on Twitter, Source, and he wrote back, all of them.
00:16:18.000 All of them, that's correct.
00:16:20.000 So Axios has a piece called Freaking the F out, turmoil in the White House over Biden.
00:16:25.000 Officials on President Biden's White House and campaign staff say they're feeling rage, sadness, frustration, and resolve over his debate performance and his team's response to it.
00:16:33.000 More than a dozen White House and campaign aides told Axios, again, the leaks are coming fast and furious.
00:16:38.000 It's the first topic of every conversation, one White House official said.
00:16:41.000 Senior leadership has given us nothing.
00:16:42.000 To act like it's business as usual is delusional.
00:16:45.000 Another official put it more bluntly.
00:16:46.000 Everyone is freaking the F out.
00:16:48.000 A third White House official told Axios, quote, the uncertainty after Thursday is palpable and anxiety is only increasing.
00:16:54.000 People are looking for leadership and direction that they were told to trust and hoped was there, but aren't feeling yet in what is now clearly a defining moment for this presidency.
00:17:02.000 Many officials feel they are being given talking points with no explanation of why Biden appeared unable to string sentences together or articulate a case for himself over Trump.
00:17:10.000 The lack of answers from senior aides has continued this week, leading to growing anger and resentment among many inside the Biden camp.
00:17:18.000 Part of Biden's team sees the debate as just one bad night.
00:17:20.000 One long time Biden aide is basically going with the, they're all bedwetters line.
00:17:25.000 He says, Davos Dems love to hedge their bets against us and get hysterical like they did in 2019.
00:17:29.000 And just like in 2020, they'll come back with their DNC convention lanyards in their hands, begging for Christmas party invites and then for a plus one.
00:17:37.000 But that's obviously not true.
00:17:39.000 A huge number of Democrats are now starting to break ranks and say that this is a disaster area.
00:17:46.000 So, Punchbowl News, Jake Sherman's publication.
00:17:49.000 Good publication, worth the read.
00:17:51.000 He has a piece titled, How Biden is Losing Hill Dems.
00:17:55.000 Hill Democrats are growing increasingly wary of sticking with Biden following his disastrous performance in the Atlanta face-off versus former President Trump.
00:18:02.000 The underwhelming response since then from Biden, his campaign operation in the White House, has angered scores of rank-and-file Democrats.
00:18:08.000 They've been pressuring their own leadership for more insight into what's happening with the party's standard-bearer just four months out from an election, according to more than a dozen lawmakers and aides.
00:18:15.000 This can't just be the Bidens talking among themselves as veteran House Democrat complained Tuesday night.
00:18:19.000 This is the presidency we're talking about.
00:18:22.000 The crisis is much more immediate for Hill Democrats.
00:18:24.000 Every House Democrat has Biden at the top of the ticket in November.
00:18:26.000 Senate Democrats running in red states, where Trump will romp to victory, face an even tougher challenge.
00:18:31.000 Biden apparently called House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday night.
00:18:35.000 There have also been calls by senior White House officials, including the White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and Steve Ricchetti, a top aide.
00:18:41.000 Another senior House Democrat said, quote, he needs to start showing and stop telling.
00:18:45.000 Otherwise, he'll lose more House Dems.
00:18:46.000 It's that acute.
00:18:47.000 The lawmaker said the next wave of Democrats coming out against Biden will be senior members and veteran senators whose opposition could prove fatal to the president's reelect bid.
00:18:54.000 They've been shielding him from these types of settings for months, even after it became undeniable they're still lying to us, one Democratic senator said.
00:19:02.000 There's a lot of frustration right now in the caucus.
00:19:04.000 So, several Democrats have now come out and openly dissociated from Biden, said that he's going to lose.
00:19:14.000 The House Democrats apparently had a vent session, according to Axios.
00:19:20.000 Axios says a pre-planned meeting of House Democrats focused on the party's political messaging devolved into a grievance fest about President Biden.
00:19:26.000 The virtual meeting Tuesday afternoon was a listening session for the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee to go over messaging ahead of the 2024 election.
00:19:34.000 Much of the meeting was taken up by members expressing irritation and misgivings toward Biden and his team.
00:19:38.000 Again, the number of lawmakers who are freaking out is very, very real.
00:19:48.000 The angst is real.
00:19:50.000 Another Axios piece, behind the curtain, Democratic rage at Biden rises, as Jim Vanderhay and Mike Allen reporting.
00:19:55.000 They're the two top reporters and founders of Axios.
00:19:59.000 Top Democratic lawmakers tell us their matter and more deeply concerned about Biden's denial and deflection than about his bad debate performance itself.
00:20:08.000 Some lawmakers want Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to privately push Biden to step down.
00:20:12.000 I don't know he's making decisions, said one House Democrat.
00:20:15.000 Why the hell isn't Biden on the phone with congressional leadership?
00:20:17.000 Everyone now thinks he could cost us the majority.
00:20:22.000 In private, lawmakers are sharing stories of Biden's mental and physical decline.
00:20:27.000 Again, what you're starting to see is a collapse inside the Democratic Party.
00:20:33.000 Like, this is a full-scale collapse.
00:20:37.000 Harry Enten at CNN, he reports the same thing.
00:20:40.000 He says, with the new polling data, the calls for Biden to leave are growing very, very loud indeed.
00:20:46.000 I mean, these numbers are atrocious for Joe Biden.
00:20:49.000 That's the only way you can put it.
00:20:50.000 I guess the good news when you match him up against Donald Trump is that he hasn't lost any ground from where he was back in April, but he was trailing in April by six points.
00:20:59.000 And he's trailing by six points now.
00:21:01.000 And I think there's, of course, the big question is, could another Democrat do better than Joe Biden against Donald Trump?
00:21:07.000 And this new poll says, or at least suggests that Perhaps they could.
00:21:11.000 So when I look at polls like this and you see the first call for Joe Biden to get out of the race from a member of Congress on the Democratic side, I don't think polling like this will stop those calls.
00:21:20.000 I would only expect them to get louder if polling like this holds in other surveys.
00:21:26.000 This is exactly right.
00:21:28.000 It is growing louder.
00:21:29.000 Politico reports the dam is now breaking on Joe Biden among Democrats.
00:21:34.000 Representative Lloyd Doggett was the first representative to call on Biden to step aside.
00:21:38.000 He said, I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson.
00:21:42.000 Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw.
00:21:45.000 President Biden should do the same.
00:21:47.000 Representative Jim Clyburn, who's the guy who made Biden president, told Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC that he will support Kamala Harris if Biden were to step aside, which is a crazy statement.
00:21:57.000 What he should be saying is there's no chance that Joe Biden will step aside.
00:22:00.000 That's an irrelevant question.
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00:23:08.000 Former house speaker Nancy Pelosi is now speaking out about this sort of stuff.
00:23:13.000 So here is Nancy Pelosi saying donors are now split on Biden and concerned.
00:23:17.000 This is Nancy Pelosi.
00:23:18.000 She was the Speaker of the House until quite recently.
00:23:22.000 I hear mixed.
00:23:25.000 Some people are saying, because Donald Trump is such an authoritarian and autocrat, we have to win this election.
00:23:35.000 So therefore, people are very concerned.
00:23:38.000 So it's split.
00:23:39.000 Some are like, well, how can we subject the process to what might be possible?
00:23:46.000 And others are, Joe's our guy.
00:23:48.000 We love him.
00:23:49.000 We trust him.
00:23:49.000 He has vision, knowledge, judgment.
00:23:52.000 Uh, integrity.
00:23:56.000 Okay, but that ain't gonna carry it.
00:23:57.000 I mean, when Nancy Pelosi is even letting the cat out of the bag that this thing is falling apart, you got a problem.
00:24:03.000 Jake Tapper over at CNN reports Democratic governors convened a call to discuss Biden's debate performance, and they want a meeting with the White House to assuage concerns.
00:24:10.000 Apparently, on the call, governors expressed surprise none of them had heard from Biden himself.
00:24:14.000 Again, there is no way for Joe Biden to assuage these concerns because he is senile.
00:24:18.000 That's the end of the story.
00:24:20.000 There's no more there.
00:24:21.000 Tim Ryan, former representative from Ohio.
00:24:24.000 He says if Biden remains, it's going to be brutal.
00:24:27.000 It is impossible for him to recover in this race. 1.00
00:24:28.000 Tim Ryan, again, is a moderate Democrat from Ohio.
00:24:33.000 What do you think the effects will be down ballot if he stays on top of the ticket?
00:24:38.000 I think it would be brutal.
00:24:39.000 I don't think we can be polite right now and sugarcoat things.
00:24:44.000 It will be brutal.
00:24:45.000 I think it's impossible, honestly, that he would somehow recover.
00:24:50.000 I mean, the images from that debate Will continue to be reinforced throughout the next four months.
00:24:55.000 Low information voters.
00:24:57.000 This is going to be exactly what they're going to remember.
00:25:00.000 And you're seeing it in the polling that's coming out, dripping out here in the last, you know, 12 hours or so.
00:25:07.000 There's there's no recovering from something like this.
00:25:11.000 Representative Marie Glusenkamp Perez from the Washington 3rd District.
00:25:16.000 She's a Democrat.
00:25:17.000 She's Biden's going to lose.
00:25:19.000 About 50 million Americans tuned in and watched that debate.
00:25:23.000 I was one of them for about five very painful minutes.
00:25:26.000 And we all saw what we saw.
00:25:29.000 You can't undo that.
00:25:31.000 And you know the truth I think is that Biden is going to lose to Trump.
00:25:39.000 I know that's difficult but I think the damage has been done by that debate.
00:25:44.000 Moderate Democrats are starting to jump off the train and signal that, you know, they might be OK with Trump winning.
00:25:49.000 Representative Jared Golden of Maine.
00:25:51.000 Again, Maine is a state that that may, in fact, kind of half go for Trump.
00:25:55.000 He's one of the most centrist Democrats in Congress.
00:25:57.000 He told Politico, I don't plan to vote for him, but Donald Trump is going to win.
00:26:01.000 Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea Trump will end our democratic system.
00:26:06.000 You might start to see Democrats Some in Purple District starting to kind of conciliate themselves to the possibility that Joe Biden ain't their man because there is just too much of a disaster area at stake for them personally if Joe Biden remains on the ticket.
00:26:22.000 Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
00:26:23.000 He said he was horrified by the debate.
00:26:25.000 Again, once you have your entire party basically saying you need to go.
00:26:29.000 And this is not, by the way, like when many Republicans in 2016, after Trump had won all the primaries, were like, maybe we can still stop him.
00:26:36.000 Maybe we can stop him.
00:26:37.000 Like, it wasn't angst about the nominee.
00:26:39.000 This is the sitting president of the United States to whom they have all basically pledged fealty, for whom they have all covered up for years.
00:26:47.000 And now the dam is breaking and that water is coming through.
00:26:50.000 And man, this is, This is looking like... This is looking like the dam at the end of Superman 1.
00:26:58.000 Where it starts to collapse and it's about to flood entire villages.
00:27:01.000 Here's Sheldon Whitehouse.
00:27:03.000 I think, like a lot of people, I was pretty horrified.
00:27:06.000 I think people want to make sure that this is a campaign that's ready to go and win, that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition, that this was a real anomaly, and not just the way he is these days.
00:27:20.000 I've never seen that happen before.
00:27:22.000 So this was not how you guys all knew behind the scenes he's like this?
00:27:26.000 No, no, no.
00:27:28.000 This was a surprise.
00:27:31.000 This is a lie.
00:27:32.000 Lie, lie, lie.
00:27:33.000 They have to say that because otherwise they're complicit in the lie.
00:27:36.000 But they're lying.
00:27:37.000 Clearly.
00:27:38.000 Every reporter who's been in a room with Joe Biden for two years knows that that dude falls asleep at meetings, that he is reading from notecards.
00:27:44.000 I mean, we've seen the pictures.
00:27:45.000 The gaslighting here is extraordinary.
00:27:47.000 I don't think the American people are going to buy it in any way, shape or form.
00:27:49.000 I think this does historic damage to both the Democratic Party and the legacy media because we can all see the thing with our eyes.
00:27:55.000 It is not like many of the other stories the media have covered where they can pretend that they didn't know the thing in the moment.
00:28:01.000 With Hunter Biden, we didn't know whether the laptop was disinformation or not.
00:28:05.000 We just covered the information as it sort of emerged.
00:28:07.000 We didn't know on COVID the whole story, so we just kind of covered the information as it evolved.
00:28:11.000 We didn't know on Russia.
00:28:14.000 Everyone in the entire world knew Joe Biden was senile two and a half, three, maybe even four years ago.
00:28:22.000 And y'all lied.
00:28:24.000 And then he pants y'all on national television.
00:28:27.000 I'm sorry, reality happened to you.
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00:29:38.000 Joe Manchin is apparently threatening to break with Biden.
00:29:41.000 Senior Democrats had to intervene.
00:29:43.000 Quote is the Washington Post.
00:29:44.000 As panic and confusion over President Biden's faltering debate performance swept the ranks of Democratic lawmakers late last week, Senator Manchin informed a few key allies he would soon break from Biden in an interview on a Sunday news show, a high-profile defection that would underscore the president's weakness.
00:29:57.000 Democrats feared that Manchin would call for Biden to step aside.
00:30:00.000 If he did, the senator would then become the first prominent elected official allied with the party to call for Biden to exit the race.
00:30:06.000 But he didn't.
00:30:07.000 Senior Democrats heard of Manchin's plans and started making calls to the independent-minded senator who once used a Sunday show appearance to announce his opposition to Biden's top agenda item and effectively kill it.
00:30:16.000 A full court press was quickly assembled to help dissuade Manchin from appearing on the show.
00:30:20.000 That effort included a weekend phone call from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
00:30:26.000 No one wants to be the first one to knife Julius Caesar, one Democratic Party official said.
00:30:31.000 Here's the thing.
00:30:31.000 That matter who doesn't want to be the first one?
00:30:34.000 Julius Caesar gets knifed. 0.97
00:30:36.000 Julius Caesar gets knifed. 0.95
00:30:38.000 That's the end of it. 0.85
00:30:40.000 That's all you got.
00:30:41.000 Barack Obama is now coming out of the woodwork to start leaking to the press about how maybe Joe doesn't have it.
00:30:46.000 By the way, no one would be happier in the world than Barack Obama to see Joe Biden go down in absolute flames.
00:30:52.000 He would love it.
00:30:53.000 Understand, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, they don't get along.
00:30:55.000 Barack Obama does not like Joe Biden. 1.00
00:30:57.000 He thinks he's a fool. 0.98
00:30:58.000 He nominated him in an attempt to look somewhat moderate in 2008, and he's been living with that bad decision ever since. 0.97
00:31:05.000 According to the Washington Post, former President Barack Obama has privately told allies who have reached out to him that President Biden's already tough path to re-election grew more challenging after his shaky debate performance on Thursday, a harsher assessment of the presidential race than his public comments, according to several people familiar with his remarks.
00:31:20.000 Obama separately spoke directly with Biden by phone after last Thursday's debate to offer support as a sounding board and private counselor for the embattled former VP.
00:31:30.000 But Obama has long harbored worries about his party defeating Donald Trump in November, repeatedly warning Biden in recent months about how challenging it will be to win re-election.
00:31:37.000 Just before the debate, Obama conveyed to allies his concerns about the state of the race.
00:31:43.000 By the way, there are people who are no longer appearing at fundraisers with the Biden.
00:31:46.000 So Joe Biden was supposed to travel to Michigan for a fundraiser.
00:31:49.000 Gretchen Whitmer, the governor, not appearing at that fundraiser. 0.94
00:31:52.000 The rats are fleeing the ship at this point.
00:31:57.000 So the only question is how you get rid of the guy.
00:31:59.000 How do you do it?
00:32:01.000 Presumably could bribe him, as I mentioned before.
00:32:03.000 The Biden family loves money.
00:32:04.000 So you could see the big donors go to Joe Biden, promise to build him a giant library, give his family a bunch of money, give Hunter some money for his finger paintings and all the rest if he'll just step away and then treat him at the hero at the convention.
00:32:15.000 That's one path.
00:32:17.000 Democratic National Committee member John Zogby, who is on the extreme radical side of the party when it comes to foreign policy particularly, he is now out front about his plan to replace Joe Biden.
00:32:31.000 I wonder, though, looking at all of this and where we are, what has transpired over the last several days, do you think this situation could have been avoided?
00:32:38.000 Sure, it could have been avoided.
00:32:40.000 People have been talking about this as an issue a few years ago.
00:32:43.000 It's gotten worse over the last several months.
00:32:45.000 Look, Joe Biden deserves better than this.
00:32:47.000 This is not the way he should go out.
00:32:49.000 He should go out as the person who defeated Donald Trump, who passed significant legislation in his first couple of years before we had a dysfunctional Republican leadership in Congress, and Uh, it would be an opportunity, I think, for him to give a farewell address where he becomes the person who sacrificed ambition for the sake of the country.
00:33:11.000 It would be his moment in history where he'd go out, I think, elevated in stature rather than reduced.
00:33:17.000 He's going to try and flatter him into doing good luck with this.
00:33:19.000 Seriously, good luck.
00:33:21.000 And so, the real, the other, there are two big problems here.
00:33:25.000 One is for the Democratic Party.
00:33:26.000 They got a problem.
00:33:26.000 They got a nominee who's no longer sentient.
00:33:27.000 Their entire base doesn't like him.
00:33:30.000 The Democratic higher-ups recognize he's going to lose and they can't get rid of him.
00:33:33.000 They can't get rid of him.
00:33:34.000 The cork is still in the bottle.
00:33:35.000 And then there is the problem.
00:33:37.000 The existential level threat presented by Biden's collapse to the legacy media which stapled themselves to Barack Obama's ass cheeks in 2008 and have not been able to separate themselves off from the Democratic Party ever since.
00:33:50.000 And now they can ride this bomb all the way down to the ground like Rip Torn and Dr. Strangelove.
00:33:56.000 That is their choice, or they can separate off.
00:33:58.000 And it's pretty clear they would like to, you know, preserve themselves at this point after having lied for years on behalf of Joe Biden.
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00:34:38.000 Okay, meanwhile... So, remember, this isn't just a humiliating story for the Democrats right now, it is a complete, utter humiliation for the media.
00:34:46.000 Because, basically, the media now have to pretend to be just as surprised as the small child When he sees the naked emperor except that the media have been in the back rooms with the naked emperor for like several years at this point. 0.98
00:34:59.000 They knew he was naked from the get-go and then they only got pants when it turns out that he decided to walk full out in public with his balls dangling. 0.97
00:35:07.000 Like that's that's really what happened here. 0.98
00:35:08.000 This is the emperor's new clothes except the media were like the the people who were the tailors.
00:35:12.000 They were the tailors who didn't give him clothes and helped cover up for the fact that he had no clothes and lied to him that he did have clothes and then when he walks out stark naked And the entire American public is now the child going, that dude's naked.
00:35:24.000 The media are like, he is?
00:35:27.000 No!
00:35:27.000 I'm shot?
00:35:28.000 No!
00:35:28.000 How?
00:35:29.000 What?
00:35:30.000 Us?
00:35:31.000 No!
00:35:32.000 Except it's not credible at all.
00:35:33.000 Jill Abramson, who used to be, at one point, an editor for the New York Times.
00:35:38.000 She was executive editor of the New York Times from 2011 to 2014.
00:35:41.000 She's speaking with Semaphore's Ben Smith, quote, it's clear the best news reporters in Washington have failed in the first duty of journalism, to hold power accountable.
00:35:49.000 It is our duty to poke through White House smoke screens and find out the truth.
00:35:52.000 The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover-up Obviously, the president's decline was a super hard story to report, even by those who wanted to get it, like the Wall Street Journal.
00:36:09.000 Their story did not deliver, using mostly unnamed GOP sources.
00:36:13.000 But I do think if enough reporters had pushed, the story was reportable.
00:36:16.000 I worry too many journalists didn't try to get the story, because they did not want to be accused of helping elect Donald Trump.
00:36:20.000 I get that.
00:36:21.000 I get that!
00:36:22.000 It's unbelievable.
00:36:23.000 It's unbelievable.
00:36:24.000 She's saying all the quiet parts out loud right here.
00:36:26.000 So first off, I love that she says that the president's decline was a super hard story to report.
00:36:31.000 Was it?
00:36:33.000 Was it though?
00:36:34.000 I feel like it wasn't the hardest story to report.
00:36:36.000 In fact, we've been doing it on the show for years.
00:36:38.000 We just play clips of him in public.
00:36:40.000 It's really super easy.
00:36:41.000 He falls up the stairs once every two days.
00:36:44.000 He's wearing moon shoes.
00:36:46.000 The dude can't speak words in English.
00:36:48.000 This has been true Four years.
00:36:50.000 But no, it's a very hard story to report.
00:36:51.000 You understand?
00:36:52.000 Super hard.
00:36:52.000 I mean, you can't.
00:36:53.000 How do you even chase that down?
00:36:54.000 I mean, aside from the reams of live video of the President of the United States being befuddled and walking into walls.
00:37:01.000 Other than that, it's super hard story.
00:37:04.000 Other hard stories include the sun rose this morning. 0.74
00:37:07.000 As well as, Rosie O'Donnell is a lesbian. 0.99
00:37:10.000 These are stories that no- How could anyone break that story?
00:37:14.000 Brutal stories to report.
00:37:16.000 How could you get anyone on record to say that the senile old man who's clearly senile is senile when everyone can see he's senile?
00:37:21.000 I mean, how could you do that, says Jill Abramson.
00:37:23.000 And then, she admits the quiet part out loud.
00:37:26.000 I worry too many journalists didn't try to get the story because they did not want to be accused of helping elect Donald Trump.
00:37:30.000 I get that.
00:37:31.000 The superfluous, I get that, is amazing there.
00:37:34.000 She could just end right there at, yeah, reporters didn't report it because they're biased and that's not good.
00:37:39.000 But she says, I get that.
00:37:41.000 Why do you get that?
00:37:42.000 That's not your job.
00:37:43.000 Your job isn't to worry about whether the story helps Trump or hurts Trump.
00:37:47.000 You've run stories throughout Donald Trump's political career trying to hurt him with false information.
00:37:52.000 Now the most obvious true information in human history is before you.
00:37:55.000 And you're like, well, we can't report that.
00:37:57.000 It might help Trump.
00:37:58.000 I get that, says Jill Abramson.
00:38:00.000 Man, these people, if you have one ounce of trust in the legacy media at this point, and very few people do, the polling numbers show about 30% of Americans say they trust the legacy media. 0.98
00:38:09.000 If you are one of those 30%, pull your head out of your rectum, man, because this is wild.
00:38:14.000 She says, this is no excuse for abandoning our first duty, which is to report the truth and 0.99
00:38:18.000 hold power accountable. President Biden should be held accountable for his obvious lapses of
00:38:22.000 mental acuity, even if there are periods of lucidity. I mean, even if there are periods
00:38:26.000 of lucidity. I mean, you mean as long like why would that even be questionable?
00:38:32.000 Periods of lucidity.
00:38:33.000 At this point Joe Biden's periods of lucidity look like the moment of lucidity that people have when they are dying.
00:38:38.000 They're on their deathbed and they've been senile for years and suddenly they recognize their wife in the 10 seconds before they pass.
00:38:43.000 That's what Joe Biden looks like right now.
00:38:45.000 It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden's debate performance.
00:38:52.000 And it is laughable and immoral for Democrats to blame the press now for overreacting to that reality.
00:38:56.000 The reports of how bad Biden was are certainly not exaggerated, nor are reports of Democrats in panic.
00:39:01.000 Again, that was the executive editor of the New York Times from 2011 to 2014 saying all the things.
00:39:06.000 Everyone knew he was senile.
00:39:08.000 We didn't pursue the story.
00:39:10.000 That's just amazing, amazing stuff.
00:39:11.000 So again, the press, it is very important to them right now that they separate off from this dying whale, right?
00:39:17.000 They are barnacles on the carcass of a dying whale.
00:39:20.000 They now have to separate off.
00:39:21.000 So that means that every press conference from here on in, this is why it's gonna be so rough for Biden.
00:39:25.000 Democrats are already coming out of the woodwork and saying he shouldn't be the nominee.
00:39:29.000 Meanwhile, the press, who have been his praetorian guard for his entire modern career, covering up for every one of his flubs, every one of his excesses, his family's corruption, his senility, now, in order to preserve themselves, they have to separate off the dying carcass of the whale.
00:39:44.000 They have to.
00:39:45.000 So yesterday, Corine Jean-Pierre held her most brutal press conference, which is saying a lot since she's the worst press secretary in modern history. 0.98
00:39:53.000 The real point of this press conference yesterday is not Karine Jean-Pierre's answer.
00:39:58.000 Because, again, she has no answers.
00:40:00.000 She's never had answers.
00:40:01.000 She's terrible at her job. 1.00
00:40:02.000 I mean, truly awful at her job.
00:40:05.000 Karine Jean-Pierre is, to the Press Secretary's position, what Kamala Harris is to the Vice Presidency, namely a DEI pick who is terrible at her job. 1.00
00:40:11.000 In any case, Karine Jean-Pierre, this press conference is not about KJP.
00:40:15.000 This press conference is about the reporters.
00:40:19.000 So listen to the reporters pretending their ire at having been shocked, shocked by the Emperor's nudity.
00:40:25.000 Here she was.
00:40:26.000 She was lying about how many pressers Biden has done.
00:40:29.000 It's the questions that really matter in these things.
00:40:32.000 We've seen some real anger expressed by donors and Democratic officials, sort of how you guys have handled the President, shielding him away from impromptu settings, whether it's press conferences or interviews or, you know, just being out in public.
00:40:48.000 This year, the President has done more than 40 interviews.
00:40:53.000 And unscripted, right?
00:40:54.000 Those interviews are unscripted.
00:40:56.000 He has done more than 500 gaggles, right?
00:41:00.000 Of course, unscripted.
00:41:02.000 Talking directly to many of you.
00:41:04.000 Let me just finish.
00:41:07.000 And so, he enjoys doing that.
00:41:09.000 He enjoys engaging with all of you.
00:41:12.000 And we're going to continue making sure that happens.
00:41:16.000 Um, he has not done that many press conferences.
00:41:18.000 He does not engage with anyone in the press.
00:41:20.000 They all know it.
00:41:21.000 So she's lying.
00:41:22.000 But notice the tenor of the questions.
00:41:23.000 The tenor of the questions is like, we're so mad.
00:41:26.000 Everyone's mad.
00:41:27.000 We're so mad.
00:41:27.000 They have to pretend to be angry.
00:41:29.000 They have to pretend to be angry in order to achieve their goal, which is to convince you that they didn't know about this all along.
00:41:34.000 So here is Corinne Jean-Pierre explaining that they've not been hiding information on his health.
00:41:38.000 They've not been.
00:41:39.000 Which is weird since, um, he has not released results of things like cognitive tests.
00:41:45.000 Is anyone in the White House hiding information about the President's health or his ability to do the job day-to-day?
00:41:52.000 Absolutely not.
00:41:56.000 He's not hiding anything.
00:41:57.000 But again, notice the question.
00:41:58.000 The question is, is he hiding things?
00:41:59.000 Like, suddenly, this press is as aggressive with Team Biden as they were with Team Trump.
00:42:03.000 Weird how they flipped like that.
00:42:05.000 Weird.
00:42:05.000 Almost as though there's a self-interested aspect to all of this.
00:42:08.000 Karine Jean-Pierre tried to assure the press that behind closed doors, once again, he's doing back handsprings and solving for the Big Bang.
00:42:15.000 Here we go.
00:42:16.000 Again, notice the questions.
00:42:16.000 The questions are the key.
00:42:19.000 How do you reconcile those two versions of a president?
00:42:25.000 One who appeared the way they did to millions of people and the other who appears always to be, you know, sort of very forceful and not have any of those I mean, look, the president spoke to this.
00:42:38.000 You heard me speak to this.
00:42:40.000 It was a 90-minute debate.
00:42:43.000 It was a bad night.
00:42:44.000 There has been also many instances where the president has really showed his strength and resolute that all of you have seen and commented about it.
00:42:55.000 No, no, no, no, no. 0.94
00:42:56.000 Again, her answers are ridiculous and the press isn't buying it anymore. 0.89
00:42:59.000 Because again, if they were to buy it, then they would be complicit in the cover up. 0.99
00:43:02.000 She tried to blame his debate performance on having a cold again, which is just pathetic stuff. 0.94
00:43:06.000 She had to insist he wasn't disabled. 0.92
00:43:07.000 I kind of liked this one.
00:43:10.000 Is he disabled?
00:43:11.000 No, no.
00:43:12.000 And let me let me finish with your colleague, please.
00:43:14.000 And I know, but shouting out.
00:43:17.000 Come on.
00:43:17.000 You know better.
00:43:18.000 You know better.
00:43:20.000 You know better than to shout out.
00:43:21.000 The question again was, is he disabled?
00:43:25.000 Never a good look for a president.
00:43:26.000 Is he disabled?
00:43:28.000 Meanwhile, one reporter asked Corine Jean-Pierre about the fact that Joe Biden looks like, you know, you're visiting your elderly grandparents.
00:43:36.000 I just think the question, you know, it's about the way we look at our elderly parents and grandparents.
00:43:43.000 It's, you know, you maybe visit them once a year and you see troubling signs because you don't live in the same city, perhaps.
00:43:52.000 And the first question that you go to is, hmm, I wonder if this is like a one-time thing or if it's something that has been happening for a longer time that we need to deal with.
00:44:03.000 And the second question is, You're going multiple times.
00:44:08.000 Where are they going to be in a year?
00:44:10.000 Where are they going to be in two years?
00:44:11.000 Do we need to put them in a whole?
00:44:12.000 Like, you know, all the questions that go through that, and this is sort of the American people's version of that.
00:44:18.000 And I hear you, and that's what I'm saying.
00:44:20.000 Look, this is why the president goes through, you know, medical examinations, right?
00:44:25.000 And we release those medical examinations, right?
00:44:28.000 We've done that the past couple of years.
00:44:30.000 We're going to continue to do that.
00:44:33.000 Okay, they've lost the Democratic Party, they've lost the media.
00:44:36.000 So what in the world do they do now?
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00:46:06.000 So here is the problem for Team Biden.
00:46:09.000 They've lost the media because the media are humiliated.
00:46:11.000 They've lost many top members of the Democratic Party because they too are humiliated with their own constituents and they're looking at the polling numbers and they are freaking the F out.
00:46:20.000 So who's left?
00:46:21.000 The Biden family.
00:46:22.000 The charming, wonderful Biden.
00:46:24.000 Joe Biden is such a family man.
00:46:26.000 Joe Biden is a man who loves his family.
00:46:27.000 I mean, not that one granddaughter who he's never talked to, but everyone else.
00:46:31.000 He really loves them.
00:46:32.000 In fact, he went into politics for all the right reasons.
00:46:33.000 He's such a good man. 1.00
00:46:35.000 Which is why he enabled his crackhead son to run around the world picking up sacks of cash while schtupping prostitutes and doing blow-off hooker's asses. 1.00
00:46:40.000 That's how much Joe Biden loves his family. 1.00
00:46:42.000 Joe Biden loves his family so much that Ashley Biden has some pretty creepy passages in her diary.
00:46:48.000 He loves his family so much That he basically has enabled them for 50 years to make a buck on his name.
00:46:56.000 Well, every so often stopping by a business meeting and dropping a wink and an odd.
00:47:00.000 That's how much Joe Biden loves his family.
00:47:01.000 So why wouldn't the Biden family want him to stay?
00:47:03.000 The minute Joe Biden steps out of this race, they are irrelevant.
00:47:07.000 They have to go get real jobs.
00:47:08.000 Dr. Jill Biden would not be president of the United States anymore. 0.99
00:47:12.000 And that'd be sad for her, considering she's never been elected to any public office, nor would anyone in their right mind ever vote for her for any public office.
00:47:20.000 But you should understand right now, the two top voices in America, forget about in the White House, in America, the two most important voices are Dr. Jill Biden, she, of the all-powerful Ed degree, and Hunter Biden, a man whose judgment was so poor that he left a computer filled with pornography, drug use, and criminal activity at a computer repair shop because he was so high.
00:47:44.000 And that was about the time that he was stooping his dead brother's wife.
00:47:49.000 Those are the top advisors to Joe Biden.
00:47:52.000 Remember that time that Hunter was like super far away from Joe?
00:47:54.000 I remember the media reported that too.
00:47:55.000 They said that, you know, Hunter's kind of on the outskirts.
00:47:57.000 Sure, he loves Joe and Joe loves him, but it's not like he has any impact on policy.
00:48:01.000 Well, now Joe Biden's meetings are featuring Hunter.
00:48:05.000 Hunter is going to White House meetings.
00:48:08.000 According to Mediaite and NBC News, this is NBC News, quote, one of the people familiar with the matter said Hunter Biden has been closely advising his father since the family gathered this past weekend at Camp David.
00:48:18.000 This person said Hunter has popped into a couple of meetings and phone calls the president has had with some of his advisors.
00:48:23.000 Another person familiar with the matter said the reaction from some senior White House staff has been, what the hell is happening?
00:48:29.000 Which is a very good question.
00:48:31.000 What the hell is happening? 0.96
00:48:32.000 When Hunter Biden, a man who is so nuts that he was thrown out of like Hollywood's most famous See me, hotel? 0.99
00:48:42.000 That's who Hunter Biden is. 0.92
00:48:44.000 Convicted felon, Hunter Biden.
00:48:45.000 We should remember.
00:48:46.000 That guy is like the chief advisor to the President of the United States.
00:48:50.000 Does he have a dog in this fight, by the way, Hunter Biden?
00:48:52.000 Well, considering that he's selling his finger paintings for 500 grand a pop, I'm gonna go with yes on that.
00:48:57.000 Considering that he needs his daddy to stay in office to pardon him, Probably.
00:49:02.000 Probably.
00:49:03.000 Here's Karine Jean-Pierre confirming that Hunter Biden is stopping by meetings.
00:49:06.000 This is crazy.
00:49:07.000 This may be the craziest part of the story.
00:49:10.000 Guys, don't worry.
00:49:10.000 Don't worry.
00:49:11.000 Joe Biden is not senile. 0.67
00:49:12.000 He's so not senile that he's relying deeply on the advice of the former crack addict, absolutely insane son who knocks up strippers and gets convicted for federal gun charges.
00:49:26.000 Don't worry.
00:49:27.000 That's his chief advisor.
00:49:28.000 Everything's fine.
00:49:30.000 It's going great.
00:49:31.000 Here's Green Jean-Pierre confirming this.
00:49:34.000 We're reporting that Hunter Biden has been in some meetings with senior advisors.
00:49:39.000 Why is the president's son involved?
00:49:41.000 Look, the president, as you know, is very close to his family.
00:49:44.000 This is a holiday week.
00:49:45.000 Fourth of July.
00:49:46.000 He spent time with his family, as you all know, and reported at Camp David.
00:49:51.000 Hunter came back with him and walked with him into into He walked him into the speech prep?
00:49:57.000 That's kind of a line, isn't it?
00:49:58.000 He walked him into the spe- Oh, you mean like I would walk my grandmother? 0.97
00:50:01.000 What I can say is that he came back with his dad from Camp David.
00:50:06.000 He walked him into the speech prep and he was in the room.
00:50:10.000 That I can tell you he was in the room.
00:50:13.000 He walked him into the speech prep.
00:50:15.000 That's kind of a line, isn't it?
00:50:16.000 He walked him into the speech prep.
00:50:17.000 Oh, you mean like I would walk my grandmother into the line at the cafeteria at the old age home?
00:50:25.000 That's how he walked him in?
00:50:27.000 The crack addict?
00:50:28.000 That guy?
00:50:29.000 That one?
00:50:30.000 The Wall Street Journal has a long piece about the family.
00:50:32.000 Quote.
00:50:34.000 The first lady is the most influential figure in Biden's orbit right now. 1.00
00:50:37.000 If she had urged the president not to seek re-election, that advice would have carried enormous weight.
00:50:40.000 Instead, she's been Biden's biggest advocate as he seeks a second term.
00:50:44.000 When Biden walked off the debate stage, he told his wife of 47 years, you know, Joe, I don't know what happened.
00:50:48.000 I didn't feel that great.
00:50:49.000 According to an account, the first lady shared at a New York City fundraiser last week.
00:50:52.000 And I said, look, Joe, we're not going to let 90 minutes to find the four years you've been president.
00:50:56.000 Unlike some first ladies who have chafed at the role, she has embraced the platform.
00:50:59.000 In a bit of awkward timing, Jill Biden appeared on the cover of Vogue this week, declaring, That's a real thing that happened. 0.98
00:51:11.000 Well, actually, it comes from the fact that she likes being the president of the United States. 0.82
00:51:15.000 She loves it.
00:51:17.000 She loves it.
00:51:17.000 It's her favorite.
00:51:19.000 Other members of the family, super into Joe Biden reigning president.
00:51:22.000 Also, Val Biden, who made her bones by campaign managing Joe Biden's multiple failures. 0.70
00:51:28.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, until the president sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, his sister had managed his political campaigns dating back to 1970.
00:51:36.000 When Biden pursued the presidency in 2020, she had some misgivings.
00:51:39.000 She worried Trump would target their family, including Hunter.
00:51:43.000 But she said she wants her brother to seek re-election.
00:51:44.000 quote, I think my brother is the right person at the right time for all the right reasons.
00:51:48.000 Meanwhile, Hunter is very pro him staying in the race, of course. I mean, it's just, it's pathetic. 0.97
00:51:56.000 It's pathetic. 1.00
00:51:57.000 The Biden family is a mess. 1.00
00:51:58.000 They've always been a mess. 1.00
00:51:59.000 They're a corrupt, mafioso political family. 0.99
00:52:02.000 They have been for decades. 0.95
00:52:04.000 The attempt by the press to spin the Biden family into the Waltons is, again, one of the great con jobs in the history of American media coverage.
00:52:13.000 So what is the way that Joe Biden is going to try and right this ship?
00:52:17.000 So he's going to first speak with Democratic governors for the first time since the disastrous debate, apparently.
00:52:22.000 CBS News reports a meeting is now planned for today, with some planning to attend in person and some virtually.
00:52:29.000 Can we just say it's probably not going to go all that well?
00:52:32.000 Meanwhile, they have now planned a big interview with, wait for it, a really unfriendly face, George Stephanopoulos.
00:52:41.000 So, suffice it to say that George Stephanopoulos has in the past been a very, very solid massage artist with regards to President Joe Biden.
00:52:50.000 This interview will not air live, which is not going to quiet any complaints.
00:52:56.000 They'll just have like a bunch of quick cuts and some answers that make him appear semi-lucid.
00:53:01.000 They can always cut the cameras if he starts to fall asleep.
00:53:03.000 Now, you could see a world where George Stephanopoulos picking up on the momentum in the media and the Democratic Party really shivs Biden.
00:53:09.000 You could see that too.
00:53:10.000 So I'm kind of curious as to what's going to happen.
00:53:12.000 That interview is going to be taped later this week.
00:53:14.000 It's going to air on Sunday.
00:53:15.000 You could see a world where George Stephanopoulos puts the final arrow into Joe Biden.
00:53:21.000 Where he allows the camera to linger just a little too long as Joe Biden drools all over himself.
00:53:26.000 That could certainly happen.
00:53:28.000 With that said, the other could also happen, which is George Stephanopoulos continues to do tricks for Joe Biden.
00:53:36.000 You'll remember back in summer 2021 when Joe Biden was collapsing on Afghanistan.
00:53:40.000 There was an interview between Stephanopoulos and Biden in which Stephanopoulos was quite friendly with Joe Biden.
00:53:44.000 So of course he picks George Stephanopoulos to go back to here.
00:53:48.000 Your military advisors did not tell you, no, we should just keep 2,500 troops.
00:53:52.000 It's been a stable situation for the last several years.
00:53:54.000 We can do that.
00:53:55.000 We can continue to do that.
00:53:56.000 No, no one said that to me that I can recall.
00:53:59.000 Still a lot of pandemonium outside the airport.
00:54:01.000 Well, there is, but look, but no one's being killed right now.
00:54:04.000 God forgive me if I'm wrong about that, but no one's being killed right now.
00:54:08.000 But we've all seen the pictures.
00:54:10.000 We've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17.
00:54:13.000 We've seen Afghans falling. 0.51
00:54:15.000 That was four days ago, five days ago.
00:54:17.000 You don't think this could have been handled, this actually could have been handled better in any way?
00:54:22.000 No mistakes?
00:54:23.000 No.
00:54:24.000 The idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens.
00:54:33.000 Okay, so even Stephanopoulos trying to massage Biden at that point was bad.
00:54:36.000 So we'll see what kind of work he, I mean, this is, this is the Biden campaign going to Bona Sera and saying, you did a, once I did a favor for you and now make my boy look presentable for his mother.
00:54:50.000 That's where, that's where we are right now in the, in the Biden campaign.
00:54:54.000 Biden campaign spokesperson was asked yesterday.
00:54:57.000 About when Joe Biden would do, you know, live interviews.
00:55:00.000 She's like, well, he is doing a prescripted speech on climate if that'll do.
00:55:06.000 When will you do a live interview?
00:55:07.000 Well, I will be reading from this piece of paper for four and a half minutes.
00:55:10.000 Will that satisfy you?
00:55:12.000 Can I offer you this used car?
00:55:14.000 Here we go.
00:55:16.000 I know the campaign, according to our reporting, is considering more unscripted events for the president, potentially a big sit-down interview, potentially a press conference.
00:55:25.000 There is a difference with those events.
00:55:27.000 Where does that planning stand?
00:55:28.000 When will we see the president do that?
00:55:30.000 Well, first of all, the president is speaking from the White House today about climate, a very important issue that he has been historic on when it comes to passing historic climate change legislation.
00:55:39.000 You're going to see him out on the campaign trail, of course, in the coming days, in the coming weeks.
00:55:44.000 We're going to continue to get him out there to go to battleground states to really make it clear what's at stake in this election.
00:55:50.000 He's going to continue to go to these states, talk to voters, have these conversations.
00:55:56.000 Good luck with this.
00:55:57.000 That is Adrienne Elrod, the senior spokesperson for the Biden campaign.
00:56:00.000 I love that.
00:56:01.000 She's asked, when will he do live interviews?
00:56:02.000 And she's like, well, he will read from a from a piece of paper and then he will wave vaguely at the crowd.
00:56:09.000 All of this is creating such heartburn that now it's time for the media to try once again Is it time for Kamala Harris? 0.99
00:56:15.000 Is that Kamala Harris's music?
00:56:17.000 Is it coming?
00:56:18.000 So it's time for ninth look at Kamala Harris.
00:56:20.000 And this is one of my favorite games in American politics over the course of the last five years is ninth look at Kamala Harris. 0.96
00:56:24.000 It's really fun.
00:56:25.000 So you had first look at Kamala Harris, and that was back in 2020 when she was running for the presidency. 0.99
00:56:30.000 She had a hot moment on the debate stage where she called Joe Biden a racist and maybe a And then she quickly fell off because it turns out she's an incompetent campaigner, totally inauthentic, utterly charmless, and super annoying. 0.93
00:56:42.000 And so she didn't even make it to her California primary.
00:56:45.000 And she dropped out super early.
00:56:47.000 And everyone's like, oh man, she can't run a campaign. 1.00
00:56:48.000 She's terrible at this.
00:56:49.000 My goodness.
00:56:50.000 She's really, really bad.
00:56:51.000 Ugh.
00:56:52.000 And then Joe Biden selected her and was like, second look at Kamala Harris. 0.55
00:56:56.000 It's time to take a look at maybe she's brilliant.
00:56:58.000 Maybe she's great. 0.96
00:56:59.000 She is, after all, a black woman.
00:57:01.000 And they took a second look at Kamala Harris.
00:57:04.000 They're like, maybe she's awesome.
00:57:06.000 And then it turns out terrible campaigner, bad at her job. 1.00
00:57:08.000 Like, oh man, she's really, ugh, just bad.
00:57:12.000 Terrible at this. 0.99
00:57:13.000 Like trying to bail out BLM rioters and making dumb statements on the campaign trail and getting clocked by Mike Pence in debate. 0.99
00:57:21.000 Just being awful. 0.99
00:57:22.000 Oh my God.
00:57:23.000 And then Biden won.
00:57:24.000 And it was like, third look at Kamala Harris.
00:57:27.000 Maybe, maybe we missed it the first two times.
00:57:29.000 Third look at Kamala Harris. 1.00
00:57:31.000 There are a bunch of stories about how this is Kamala Harris' moment.
00:57:34.000 And then, she was put in charge of like, the border.
00:57:36.000 Fail.
00:57:37.000 Middle East.
00:57:37.000 Fail.
00:57:38.000 Like, everything she touched, fail.
00:57:40.000 Like, oh my god, she's terrible at this.
00:57:42.000 Like, she's in her office playing solitaire, she doesn't do anything for a living. 0.87
00:57:45.000 She's, she can't, she just repeats stock weird phrases.
00:57:49.000 She has a bizarre laugh.
00:57:51.000 She has the weird hand motions. 0.95
00:57:52.000 She's always giving the simpering smile like, oh god, she's just awful. 0.98
00:57:57.000 She can't, her office, like people are leaving her office by the drove. 0.83
00:57:59.000 She's terrible.
00:58:01.000 And then, like, a year later, they're like, you know what?
00:58:05.000 Fourth look at Kamala Harris. 1.00
00:58:06.000 Time for a fourth look at Kamala Harris. 0.93
00:58:07.000 Because, you know, maybe she's just been— maybe it's the Biden White House that's depriving her of the opportunities.
00:58:12.000 Maybe she just needs to be more out front. 1.00
00:58:14.000 Maybe she needs to fly free, little bird. 0.73
00:58:16.000 And then they did.
00:58:16.000 They let her be out front.
00:58:18.000 And they let her make speeches.
00:58:19.000 And she was terrible.
00:58:19.000 And everyone hated her.
00:58:20.000 And her poll numbers went down.
00:58:21.000 And she's the most unpopular vice president in modern American history. 1.00
00:58:25.000 She's the worst vice president since Spiro Agnew, who had to resign. 0.66
00:58:28.000 And everybody was like, oh man, she's just awful. 0.97
00:58:30.000 Just terrible, terrible.
00:58:32.000 And now, because Joe Biden may have to step down, because he might be forced out, because they might bribe him to get out, now, they're like, maybe it's time for 112th look at Kamala Harris.
00:58:43.000 You know, maybe we missed it the first 111 times.
00:58:46.000 This time, things will be different.
00:58:49.000 This time, everything will change.
00:58:51.000 So Playbook has a piece today titled, The Kamala Harris Vibe Shift.
00:58:57.000 The Vibe Shift.
00:58:58.000 Mm-hmm.
00:59:00.000 When VP Kamala Harris's staff held their usual Monday staff meeting this week, Chief of Staff Lorraine Volz kicked it off with a clear message.
00:59:06.000 Harris is supporting Joe Biden, Volz told them, emphasizing there would be no tolerance for engaging in Plan B parlor games that had dominated Democratic politics in the days since Biden's disastrous debate.
00:59:18.000 And yet, for the first time in years, Harris seems to be having a genuine moment, fueled by speculation that she, not Biden, would be the more competitive nominee.
00:59:25.000 Now, that has nothing to do with Kamala Harris.
00:59:27.000 That has to do with the fact that Joe Biden is a corpse, and you can't run a corpse.
00:59:31.000 So basically, the math is, do we run this unbelievably unpopular vice president or the corpse?
00:59:37.000 Those are the choices.
00:59:38.000 And people are like, man, this is the worst game of political Russian roulette ever.
00:59:42.000 It's just terrible.
00:59:45.000 What's clear is the strange new respect developed without any nudge from Harris herself, who at every turn since Thursday's debate has defended Biden and batted away questions about a bailout.
00:59:52.000 Look, Joe Biden's our nominee.
00:59:53.000 She said yesterday, we beat Trump once, we're going to beat him, period.
00:59:57.000 Okay, it's not true.
00:59:59.000 Okay, can I just say it's not true?
01:00:02.000 You think all the leaks coming out of the White House have nothing to do with Kamala Harris?
01:00:05.000 Kamala Harris in the conservatory with the lead pipe.
01:00:09.000 Kamala Harris, the leaks that are flowing out of Kamala Harris, they flow like wine from Bacchus.
01:00:16.000 You think that she's sitting there doing nothing?
01:00:19.000 Kamala Harris has two jobs, be inauthentic and leak. 1.00
01:00:23.000 And she's all out of inauthentic, gang. 1.00
01:00:26.000 She's leaking like crazy because if that knife finds its way between Joe Biden's shoulder blades, then she gets to be president without ever having been good at anything. 0.96
01:00:35.000 At literally anything. 0.82
01:00:36.000 Terrible attorney general of the state of California.
01:00:38.000 Got her job, of course, by sleeping with Willie Brown originally, who appointed her to a bunch of government boards while he was married.
01:00:44.000 We should point out he was the mayor of San Francisco at the time in the mid-90s.
01:00:47.000 And that is just a fact.
01:00:48.000 That is how she originally got her start in politics in California. 0.99
01:00:52.000 So Democrats are trying to rely on polling surrounding Harris.
01:01:05.000 Harris beats Trump by 29 points with people of color versus 21 points for Joe Biden.
01:01:10.000 Now, I should point out here that even a 29 point gap on quote-unquote people of color means that Biden probably loses or Harris probably loses if she's the nominee.
01:01:18.000 Biden loses independent voters by 10 points, per CNN.
01:01:20.000 Harris wins the group by 3 points.
01:01:22.000 Not for long, she doesn't.
01:01:24.000 The only reason that she's winning independent voters is because people haven't seen her in a while. 0.99
01:01:28.000 And what is amazing about our political class is that the more we see them, the more we hate them.
01:01:32.000 It's truly amazing.
01:01:34.000 Now, the advantage for Harris, over any other candidate in the Democratic Party, of course, is that all the money in the Biden-Harris campaign is transferable to Harris if Biden steps out.
01:01:41.000 If it were to be somebody else, like Whitmer, or Newsom, or even Michelle Obama, they'd have to raise the money afresh.
01:01:49.000 She'd talk a lot about abortion, I'm sure.
01:01:53.000 I love this.
01:01:54.000 From Politico.
01:01:55.000 She has sharpened her game, many Democrats acknowledge.
01:01:57.000 Even her worst days on the trail at this point are likely to be less problematic than Biden's best.
01:02:02.000 Yeah, good luck with all that.
01:02:05.000 I'm sure.
01:02:06.000 Talk your way through this one.
01:02:08.000 I'm sure it's gonna be fine.
01:02:09.000 Meanwhile, Democratic advisors are like, nah, she's really, really awful. 0.99
01:02:14.000 Like, really awful.
01:02:17.000 Top Democratic consultants debated Wednesday, according to Semaphore, before an audience of large Democratic donors, whether they could push Joe Biden out, and whether Vice President Kamala Harris would be worse than a comatose or dead Biden.
01:02:30.000 The fact that that's even a debate, you know how insulting that is?
01:02:33.000 Imagine that you're up for a raise at your job, and they're like, well, you know, over here's old Bob.
01:02:37.000 Old Bob's 81.
01:02:38.000 Old Bob, he hadn't functioned in years.
01:02:41.000 He's up for a raise.
01:02:43.000 Or you.
01:02:45.000 Or you.
01:02:46.000 And frankly, it's kind of a toss-up.
01:02:48.000 Would that make you feel good on your insides?
01:02:50.000 I'm sure Kamala Harris is feeling real good these days. 0.94
01:02:53.000 One advisor to the Biden team, Dmitry Melhorn, who's linked with major Democratic donor Reid Hoffman, he says, quote, Kamala Harris is more threatening to swing voters than a dead Joe Biden or a comatose Joe Biden.
01:03:10.000 So if Joe has to go, it's going to be Kamala.
01:03:12.000 And if it's Kamala, it's going to be even harder.
01:03:15.000 Yeah, man.
01:03:16.000 I mean, again, Joe Biden by selecting Kamala Harris.
01:03:21.000 Once again, equity, the worst job hiring strategy of literally all time, of literally all time.
01:03:28.000 Alrighty, coming up, we are going to be joined by Joshua Weigel.
01:03:31.000 He's writer and director of Sound of Hope, The Story of Possum Trot.
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