The Ben Shapiro Show - July 02, 2024


SCOTUS Makes A Decision & The Left Goes INSANE

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Supreme Court rules that the President has immunity from criminal prosecution as long as he is not involved in certain activities that a normal person would be. But what does this mean for the rest of the country? And why is Joe Biden lying about this decision and why the media and the left are lying about it? In this episode, I explain why the left is lying and why they are trying to delegitimize the decision by trying to smear President Trump as being a crook and a criminal, and why Trump should not have immunity from prosecution at all. (Note: This episode was recorded before the Supreme Court's decision was released, so some parts of the discussion may not make sense unless you ve read the decision. I am not a lawyer, I am a layperson, and I have no idea how to read a law book. I just know that the law is not black and white, and the law does not say that a person can be a criminal even if they are involved in a crime. ) in this episode of the podcast, I discuss why the Left is lying about the decision, why they don t understand the law, and how they are just not smart enough to understand it, and what they should do about it and how to get it right so they can try to make sense of the decision and not get it wrong including the dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who does not seem to be an intelligent person or do they know what they re talking about it, at least not even about the law . but they re not even enough to read the law? the problem is that they are not even trying to understand the decision they re just not getting it right? and they re lying about what they are talking about it s just not understanding the law or they re trying to do not even reading the law and not even getting it properly that they re making any of it right, they re wrong about it ? this is not even doing it right at all, is just not doing it? or are they trying to be smart about it at all are they even listening to the law at all they re doing it correctly really not even listening is it really trying to get the law right, are they ? or not trying to make it right or not understanding it or correct at all?

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00:00:00.000 So yesterday, pretty much all hell broke loose.
00:00:03.000 It didn't break loose because of a Supreme Court decision.
00:00:05.000 It broke loose because the left has decided, along with the media and the Democrats, but I repeat myself, to lie about the Supreme Court decision in order to revive the flagging hopes and dead body of Joe Biden.
00:00:16.000 Let me begin at the beginning.
00:00:17.000 Yesterday, the Supreme Court released a decision about presidential immunity.
00:00:21.000 Now this decision, of course, is rooted in Donald Trump filing a lawsuit to stop the various Jack Smith lawsuits against him.
00:00:27.000 His claim was that as President of the United States, no matter what he did while he was President of the United States, he has full immunity from criminal prosecution.
00:00:37.000 That, of course, is not true.
00:00:38.000 That is a step too far. 0.92
00:00:40.000 The idea that the President of the United States is never, for any activity, able to be criminally prosecuted is really silly.
00:00:45.000 If the President of the United States decided that in his home, in the White House, he was just going to murder a maid, for example, could he be criminally prosecuted?
00:00:52.000 The answer, of course, is yes.
00:00:54.000 However, there is the idea that the President is, in fact, criminally immune from certain activities that a normal person would not be.
00:01:01.000 So, for example, if I authorized somebody to go kill somebody abroad, I'd be criminally liable for that.
00:01:07.000 If I'm President of the United States and, as Commander-in-Chief, I authorized SEAL Team 6 to take out Osama bin Laden, I'm not going to be criminally liable for that.
00:01:15.000 So there's plenty of stuff that the President of the United States has to be able to do in order to ensure the functioning of the executive authority of the United States.
00:01:22.000 The President does have outsized powers under our Constitution.
00:01:26.000 Those powers are not endless.
00:01:27.000 Immunity is not eternal and endless.
00:01:29.000 That is not the way that immunity works.
00:01:31.000 And that's basically what the Supreme Court found.
00:01:34.000 So in order to understand why the left is lying about this decision and why Joe Biden is lying about this decision and the political games that are now being played, you have to understand the decision itself from the Supreme Court.
00:01:43.000 So I'm going to go through that decision in a little bit of detail because the sort of final effect of this as far as President Trump Is that there are a couple of charges that Jack Smith has been pursuing that are basically DOA.
00:01:54.000 And then there are several charges that are not DOA and that will likely be upheld when this thing is reverted back to the D.C.
00:02:01.000 Circuit Court of Appeals because that's effectively what the Supreme Court did.
00:02:05.000 They took a couple of charges.
00:02:06.000 They said the president has immunity for this sort of activity.
00:02:09.000 And then they said about many of the other charges, we're not going to rule whether the president has immunity on this sort of activity.
00:02:16.000 We instead We're going to send it back to the D.C.
00:02:19.000 Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the president has immunity.
00:02:23.000 Judge Chutkan is the judge in that particular case.
00:02:25.000 Presumably, she's going to rule that President Trump does not have immunity on those particular charges.
00:02:29.000 So, in essence, this is a very in-between decision.
00:02:31.000 Now, you could have known that by the fact that the writer of the decision was Chief Justice Roberts.
00:02:35.000 Chief Justice Roberts is, in fact, a fairly moderate justice.
00:02:39.000 He is not Justice Samuel Alito.
00:02:41.000 He is not Justice Thomas.
00:02:42.000 He is not one of the more right-wing Members of the federal judiciary.
00:02:45.000 Remember, it was Justice Roberts who saved Obamacare way back when.
00:02:49.000 Justice Roberts has a view of the court that it should be minimalist in how it approaches decisions.
00:02:54.000 It should draw decisions as narrowly as possible.
00:02:56.000 So in this particular case, he said, OK, we're going to try to create some sort of system, some sort of framework for thinking about when the president is immune from criminal liability and when he is not.
00:03:05.000 But we are going to restrict our judgment to very specific aspects of the charges being brought against Trump.
00:03:11.000 We're going to say only a couple of these.
00:03:13.000 He has absolute immunity on.
00:03:14.000 And the rest of this stuff, we're going to push back to the courts.
00:03:16.000 That does not sound like President Trump or any other president has endless immunity.
00:03:21.000 The kind of immunity that the dissent in this case suggests.
00:03:24.000 The dissent is written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who writes all of her opinions in CRAN because she is not an intelligent person and apparently does not know how to read the law. 0.97
00:03:35.000 As it turns out on Twitter, pretty much nobody knows how to read the law or they're just lying about it.
00:03:40.000 By my count, about 80% of legal analysts on Twitter fail basic reading comprehension.
00:03:45.000 Another 17 or so percent succeed in understanding the decision, but then lie about it.
00:03:50.000 So what does the decision say?
00:03:52.000 So the Supreme Court starts its decision by defining the crimes for which Trump is being charged.
00:03:56.000 And they essentially break them down into five categories.
00:03:59.000 One, he tried to get state electors to change their votes.
00:04:02.000 Two, he organized fraudulent state electors.
00:04:05.000 Three, he tried to use the DOJ to conduct what Jack Smith called sham investigations, meaning investigations into electoral fraud that were really poorly based and resulted in nothing.
00:04:17.000 Four, he tried to persuade Mike Pence to alter the results.
00:04:20.000 And five, he tried to convince members of Congress to delay certification.
00:04:25.000 Now, all those things, in my opinion, are morally wrong.
00:04:29.000 That does not mean that they are legally criminal.
00:04:32.000 And that's particularly true if you're President of the United States.
00:04:35.000 Because as the court points out, you're the head of the DOJ.
00:04:38.000 There are only three branches of government, not four.
00:04:40.000 The DOJ is not an independent branch of government.
00:04:42.000 The Department of Justice works for the President of the United States.
00:04:45.000 If the President orders the DOJ to go ahead and investigate a thing, It is the job of the DOJ to go ahead and investigate the thing.
00:04:52.000 So that falls within his purview of authority.
00:04:54.000 Okay, so we'll get to how the actual ruling affects these various cases against Donald Trump.
00:05:00.000 Well, this Supreme Court decision is really important.
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00:06:11.000 So here's what the Supreme Court writes.
00:06:13.000 The parties before us do not dispute that a former president can be subject to criminal
00:06:16.000 prosecution for unofficial acts committed while in office.
00:06:19.000 They also agree that some of the conduct described in the indictment includes actions taken by Trump
00:06:23.000 in his unofficial capacity.
00:06:24.000 We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature
00:06:28.000 of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal
00:06:32.000 prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office.
00:06:36.000 At least with respect to the president's exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute.
00:06:41.000 As for his remaining official actions, he is also entitled to immunity.
00:06:44.000 At the current stage of proceedings in this case, however, we need not and do not decide whether that immunity must be absolute or instead whether a presumptive immunity is sufficient.
00:06:55.000 So, let's start from the beginning.
00:06:56.000 Why does the president need immunity at all?
00:07:00.000 Why does he need immunity at all?
00:07:01.000 The answer is, again, the executive has to be able to function in the constitutional order.
00:07:07.000 So as the Supreme Court writes under Justice Roberts, a president inclined to take one course of action based on the public interest may instead opt for another, apprehensive that criminal penalties may befall him upon his departure from office.
00:07:17.000 And if a former president's official acts are routinely subjected to scrutiny and criminal prosecutions, the independence of the executive branch might be significantly undermined.
00:07:25.000 The framers' design of the presidency did not envision such counterproductive or burdens on the vigor and energy of the executive.
00:07:31.000 The court also said there are in fact countervailing interests at stake when it comes to say criminal
00:07:35.000 liability. Quote, we must however recognize the countervailing interest at stake. Federal criminal
00:07:39.000 laws seek to address a wrong to the public as a whole, not just a wrong to the individual. There
00:07:43.000 is therefore a compelling public interest in fair and effective law enforcement. The president
00:07:47.000 charged with enforcing federal criminal laws is not above them.
00:07:49.000 So in other words, the president is not above the law, but there are core constitutional functions where the president is immune.
00:07:53.000 So for example, you could not bring a criminal prosecution against Barack Obama for droning Anwar al-Awlaki despite the fact that he's an American citizen overseas because he was a terrorist.
00:08:04.000 Okay, so for all the Democrats who are freaking out today, and as we will see, claiming that Donald Trump now has the capacity to activate SEAL Team 6 to kill his political opponents.
00:08:13.000 By the way, if Donald Trump had that authority, the current president is Joe Biden, so he could do that to Trump today.
00:08:17.000 I noticed that Joe Biden isn't doing that because he doesn't believe this, because no one believes the claims the left are making about this particular case.
00:08:24.000 But the actual person being protected here on this score would actually be Barack Obama for droning people like Anwar al-Awlaki.
00:08:31.000 So here is how this actual decision breaks down.
00:08:35.000 There's an excellent flow chart that was put out by a group called Just Security, run by Ryan Goodman.
00:08:44.000 And here is sort of how this decision breaks down.
00:08:48.000 So there are effectively two types of conduct that the president can participate in.
00:08:53.000 One is official conduct and one is unofficial conduct.
00:08:55.000 So unofficial conduct, we have the president stopping an intern, right?
00:08:58.000 That's unofficial conduct.
00:09:00.000 Or lying about tripping an intern, right?
00:09:02.000 That has nothing to do with the presidency of the United States.
00:09:04.000 That's just the president in his private capacity basically doing private things that are criminal.
00:09:09.000 So, can that person be prosecuted?
00:09:10.000 The answer for unofficial conduct is yes.
00:09:14.000 So, how does that break down in terms of the Trump cases?
00:09:16.000 We'll get to in a moment.
00:09:17.000 Then there is the second type of activity, official conduct.
00:09:20.000 Official conduct under the Supreme Court decision breaks down into two categories.
00:09:25.000 is core absolute immunity categories, core official acts.
00:09:30.000 So what would that be?
00:09:30.000 That'd be like pardon power or firing people who work in the executive branch or controlling recognition on the determination of foreign countries, right?
00:09:39.000 That stuff that is like core presidential power.
00:09:41.000 So if the president decided tomorrow to recognize an independent state of Kurdistan, he couldn't be criminally prosecuted for that.
00:09:46.000 For example, he would have absolute immunity.
00:09:49.000 And then there's a second type of official conduct.
00:09:53.000 And that would be official actions with presumptive immunity.
00:09:56.000 So this would be kind of like the confusing gray area.
00:10:00.000 So let's say that the president, for example, is pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to change the electoral scheme.
00:10:06.000 So the president very often has conversations with the vice president about a wide variety of topics.
00:10:10.000 That in and of itself is in fact official conduct, but he's pushing the vice president to do a thing that is plainly not inside the constitutional structure.
00:10:20.000 And not only that, If you prosecute the president for that, is that going to impede the functioning of the president on a go-forward basis, right?
00:10:27.000 That is the question.
00:10:28.000 When it comes to presumptive immunity, the idea is that there is a burden that the prosecution has to overcome.
00:10:33.000 That we presume immunity for the president, but that can be overcome.
00:10:36.000 Absolute immunity means done, right?
00:10:38.000 There is no case you cannot prosecute the president.
00:10:40.000 Presumptive immunity means that we can presume the president has a certain level of immunity, but that can be overcome by a showing.
00:10:46.000 That prosecuting the president on a particular charge does not in fact threaten the functioning of the constitutional structure.
00:10:54.000 So here's what the Supreme Court writes.
00:10:56.000 When it comes to absolute immunity, quote, the president is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for conduct within his exclusive sphere of constitutional authority.
00:11:03.000 Again, that would be like the president telling the DOJ to investigate a thing, right?
00:11:08.000 That's a core constitutional function.
00:11:10.000 You may not like what he does, that's a core constitutional function.
00:11:12.000 That's not prosecutable.
00:11:13.000 That's how it shakes down in terms of the Trump case.
00:11:16.000 Then you have those remaining official actions with presumptive immunity.
00:11:19.000 And here's what the Supreme Court writes about that.
00:11:21.000 Of course, not all of the president's official acts fall within his conclusive and preclusive authority.
00:11:26.000 As Justice Robert Jackson recognized in a case called Youngstown,
00:11:29.000 the president sometimes acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress
00:11:33.000 or in a zone of twilight where he and Congress may have concurrent authority.
00:11:37.000 Taking into account these competing considerations, we conclude the separation of powers principles
00:11:42.000 explicated in our precedent necessitate at least presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution
00:11:46.000 for a president's acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility.
00:11:50.000 Such an immunity is required to safeguard the independence and effective functioning of the executive branch and to enable the president to carry out his constitutional duties without undue caution.
00:11:59.000 Indeed, if presumptive protection for the President is necessary to enable the, quote, effective discharge of his powers when a prosecutor merely seeks evidence of his official papers and communications, it's certainly necessary when a prosecutor seeks to charge, try, and imprison the President himself for his official actions.
00:12:13.000 Okay, so, again, this category, which is presumptive immunity, can in fact be overcome by a showing That the president's functioning will not be impeded by the prosecution of the president.
00:12:27.000 So in this category, for Trump, would probably fall his pressure on former Vice President Mike Pence.
00:12:32.000 So I would assume that the appeals court in D.C., Chupkin, is going to find that that charge is totally fine.
00:12:37.000 That you can charge Trump with pressuring Pence to overrule the electors.
00:12:41.000 Because that's not within his sort of official capacity to the extent necessary to provide him absolute immunity.
00:12:48.000 So they remand this to lower courts for explication.
00:12:52.000 Saying, as we explain below, the current stage of the proceedings in this case does not require us to decide whether this immunity is presumptive or absolute.
00:12:59.000 Certain allegations, such as those involving Trump's discussion with the acting Attorney General, are readily categorized in light of the nature of the President's official relationship to the office held by that individual.
00:13:07.000 Other allegations, such as those involving Trump's interactions with the Vice President, state officials, and certain private parties, and his comments to the general public, present more difficult questions.
00:13:16.000 Although we identify several considerations pertinent to classifying those allegations and determining whether they're subject to immunity, that analysis is ultimately best left to the lower courts to perform in the first instances.
00:13:27.000 So again...
00:13:28.000 What does this mean?
00:13:29.000 It means that certain of these charges are going to get thrown out, like the DOJ charge, but a bunch of other charges not.
00:13:34.000 A bunch of other charges are likely to be preserved against Donald Trump criminally.
00:13:38.000 Now, in terms of timeline, because this is now going to get remanded back to the lower court, that means that the timeline here is stretched.
00:13:44.000 That means Trump is not going to get charged on any of these criminal activities.
00:13:47.000 He's not going to go to court on any of these criminal activities, alleged criminal activities, until after the election, which is why the left is so all fired mad.
00:13:53.000 So the timeline on Trump's trials has now been moved out, which is good for Trump's election, but listen, the amount of uncertainty in the world right now is insane.
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00:14:57.000 And now, as we'll see, the dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, she of the double-digit IQ, her dissent is just lies.
00:15:04.000 I mean, it's just absolutely untrue lies, as we'll get to in a second.
00:15:09.000 And the Supreme Court majority opinion rejects her read of the case.
00:15:14.000 Okay, the Supreme Court majority says, quote, as for the dissents, they strike a tone of chilling doom
00:15:20.000 that is wholly disproportionate to what the court actually does today.
00:15:23.000 Conclude that immunity extends to official discussions between the president and his attorney general,
00:15:27.000 and then remand to the lower courts to determine in the first instance,
00:15:30.000 whether and to what extent Trump's remaining alleged conduct
00:15:32.000 is entitled to immunity.
00:15:33.000 Unable to muster any meaningful textual or historical support,
00:15:37.000 the principal dissent suggests there is an established understanding
00:15:39.000 that former presidents are answerable to the criminal law for their official acts.
00:15:43.000 Conspicuously absent is mention of the fact that since the founding, no president has ever faced criminal charges, let alone for his conduct in office.
00:15:51.000 Accordingly, no court has ever been faced with the question of a president's immunity from prosecution.
00:15:56.000 All our nation's practice establishes on this subject is silence.
00:16:00.000 And now, why exactly The Supreme Court has to write all of that?
00:16:06.000 Is pretty obvious, okay?
00:16:08.000 And the answer is because Sonia Sotomayor, in her true political fashion, has decided to just lie about what the majority opinion does. 1.00
00:16:17.000 So she writes an absurd dissent.
00:16:19.000 And this dissent becomes the basis for every Democratic talking point.
00:16:22.000 Here is where things become perverse.
00:16:23.000 So I've spelled out to you how this decision works.
00:16:25.000 The decision is actually quite mild.
00:16:27.000 It suggests that core official authorities of the President of the United States are immune from criminal indictment.
00:16:34.000 Non-core official activities are subjected to presumptive immunity that can be overcome by showing that you're not harming the constitutional order by criminally indicting the president.
00:16:44.000 And then there are unofficial acts in which the president can be indicted willy-nilly.
00:16:48.000 That seems like a fairly rote and along the basic lines of logic decision.
00:16:54.000 That's not how Sonia Sotomayor takes it.
00:16:56.000 She decides to go absolutely hog-wild nuts over this thing. 1.00
00:17:00.000 Why?
00:17:00.000 Well, because she's a militant left-winger.
00:17:02.000 And so her goal is to suggest that the Supreme Court has now given the president, presumably Donald Trump, even though he's not the president right now, absolute criminal immunity for literally everything, which is clearly not what the Supreme Court is doing.
00:17:17.000 So here's what she writes in her unhinged dissent, and it is totally unhinged.
00:17:21.000 I mean, this lady needs some Thorazine. 1.00
00:17:23.000 This is a wild dissent.
00:17:25.000 She says, Today's decision to grant former presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the presidency.
00:17:30.000 It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our constitution and system of government, that no man is above the law.
00:17:35.000 Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for bold and unhesitating action by the president, the court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more.
00:17:44.000 Now that's not even true.
00:17:45.000 Trump asked for immunity for everything.
00:17:47.000 If that were true, they would not have remanded multiple of these charges back to Chutkin, who is presumably going to uphold the charges.
00:17:55.000 So that's just a lie, right off the bat.
00:17:57.000 Okay, she continues.
00:17:59.000 The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.
00:18:06.000 Really?
00:18:06.000 How many criminal prosecutions of the president have we had since the founding?
00:18:10.000 Zero is the answer.
00:18:12.000 That's not even true!
00:18:12.000 official act immunity now lies like a loaded weapon for any president that wishes to place his own interests,
00:18:17.000 his own political survival, or his own financial gain above the interests of the nation.
00:18:21.000 The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the country
00:18:24.000 and possibly the world, says Sonia Sotomayor, when he uses his official powers in any way,
00:18:28.000 under the majority's reasoning, he will now be insulated from criminal prosecution.
00:18:32.000 That's not even true.
00:18:34.000 If he uses his powers in improper ways that are outside of his core official position,
00:18:40.000 then a presumptive immunity can be overcome, I've now explained about four times on the show.
00:18:44.000 But since she apparently cannot read, here is what she comes up with, Sonia Sotomayor.
00:18:47.000 And this is nuts. 0.99
00:18:48.000 Okay, this is just nutso, bizarro world, straight from the asylum crap. 1.00
00:18:52.000 Here she goes. 0.99
00:18:53.000 Orders the Navy's SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?
00:18:56.000 Immune.
00:19:00.000 Organizes a military coup to hold on to power?
00:19:02.000 Immune.
00:19:02.000 Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon?
00:19:04.000 Immune.
00:19:05.000 Immune, immune, immune.
00:19:06.000 Let the president violate the law.
00:19:07.000 Let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain.
00:19:09.000 Let him use his official power for evil ends.
00:19:12.000 Because if he knew that he might one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be.
00:19:17.000 That is the majority's message today.
00:19:19.000 That is, like, every element of that is false.
00:19:22.000 Every element of that is false.
00:19:23.000 Orders Navy SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?
00:19:26.000 Okay, so the President has a conver- Let's take this to its logical conclusion using the model that we have set up under the Supreme Court majority.
00:19:32.000 The President does speak to the military.
00:19:34.000 The military does control SEAL Team 6.
00:19:36.000 So, that, in and of itself, is inside the official act.
00:19:39.000 However, The president ordering them to do something blatantly illegal like murder his political opponent?
00:19:46.000 Prosecution of that crime would certainly overcome any presumptive immunity the president has in ordering his political rival to be killed.
00:19:53.000 In fact, if the president were not, in fact, criminally indicted for ordering his political rival to be killed, then that would threaten the constitutional order.
00:20:01.000 Obviously and clearly.
00:20:04.000 Again, Joe Biden doesn't even believe this.
00:20:05.000 Nobody believes this.
00:20:06.000 If they believed this, Joe Biden would have put out the hit on Donald Trump yesterday.
00:20:08.000 He already authorized his DOJ to try and jail his political opponent.
00:20:13.000 Notice the reversal that's taking place.
00:20:15.000 Joe Biden's DOJ is trying to jail his political opponent in an election he is losing.
00:20:19.000 And now, his suggestion is that if his opponent wins office, then somehow Joe Biden's gonna be driving down the street, and Donald Trump's gonna hit him with a drone. 0.99
00:20:26.000 It's so ridiculous! 1.00
00:20:27.000 I'm sorry, this is ridiculous garbage. 0.98
00:20:30.000 Sonia Sotomayor concludes her bizarre and nonsensical dissent, quote, never in the history of our republic has a president had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate criminal law. 0.92
00:20:42.000 Moving forward, however, all former presidents will be cloaked in such immunity.
00:20:45.000 If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop with fear for our democracy.
00:20:54.000 I noticed something about the Our Democracy crowd.
00:20:59.000 The Our Democracy crowd is perfectly willing to destroy the Supreme Court wholesale, as we'll talk about in a moment.
00:21:04.000 They are perfectly willing to jail their own political opponents.
00:21:07.000 They are perfectly willing to get rid of the Electoral College, stack the Senate, Use the administrative state in order to cram down a bunch of unconstitutional trash and avoid the actual edicts of the Supreme Court, the Our Democracy crowd. 0.96
00:21:18.000 I noticed they don't seem to give a crap about democracy or the workings of the government. 0.95
00:21:22.000 But now they're saying that the Supreme Court has given the president ultimate authority to murder his opponents or something. 0.98
00:21:27.000 It's just a lie.
00:21:28.000 It's just a lie. 0.79
00:21:29.000 Democrats keep pretending that they give a damn about democracy.
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00:22:37.000 Sonia Sotomayor put out the talking points and the rest of the Democrats picked it up. 0.69
00:22:41.000 So Representative Jasmine Crockett, most famous for insulting Marjorie Taylor Greene as a bad, butch, body, blonde, blangy blue. 1.00
00:22:50.000 She was very upset. 0.95
00:22:52.000 She says, this decision means that the president can literally kill someone.
00:22:55.000 No, it doesn't. 1.00
00:22:56.000 It clearly does not, you dullards. 0.98
00:23:00.000 I am actually very shook. 0.98
00:23:02.000 And I hate the fear mongering that the Republicans consistently do all the time.
00:23:08.000 But I am going to be honest.
00:23:10.000 The fear mongering is about to begin, at least from my perspective, and not because it's a matter of Um, making people scared for no reason, like trying to scare them about the diversity that exists within who I am.
00:23:25.000 But scaring them because they literally are allowing him the ability to kill someone.
00:23:35.000 No, they are not. 0.97
00:23:37.000 And by the way, if Democrats really believed that, then they would be pushing Joe Biden to murder Donald Trump today because they really hate that guy. 1.00
00:23:42.000 AOC, the irrepressibly stupid bartender, she put out a tweet saying, 1.00
00:23:46.000 The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control. 1.00
00:23:50.000 Today's ruling represents an assault on American democracy.
00:23:52.000 It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.
00:23:55.000 I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.
00:23:58.000 Yeah, good luck with that, AOC.
00:24:00.000 Again, these people pretending they give two good goddarns about democracy is really, really amazing.
00:24:07.000 Adam Schiff, who himself attempted to undermine our democracy by lying for literally years that the Russians had captured our democracy, he put out a very long statement, deliberately misinterpreting the Supreme Court decision.
00:24:17.000 Quote, effectively giving a president's immunity for any crimes
00:24:23.000 committed while in office, as long as that president can plausibly claim the action
00:24:26.000 was taken in some form of official capacity. It must now be presumed the president as king is
00:24:31.000 immune from accountability. The rule of law applies to everyone except the most powerful person
00:24:37.000 on earth. Okay, yeah, I am.
00:24:42.000 Okay, so what is this really about?
00:24:43.000 What is this really about?
00:24:44.000 It's not about the law.
00:24:45.000 Okay, when Neal Katyal goes on, the legal analyst on MSNBC, when he declares that this ends the rule of law, it is not true.
00:24:53.000 It is clearly not true.
00:24:54.000 Here he was yesterday, MSNBC, legal analyst, well, again, lying about the decision.
00:24:59.000 Here's what practically this means.
00:25:02.000 A president like Donald Trump next year, or whoever the president is, can take a blatantly illegal act, slap the label, hey, this is an official act, and write that in the preface to whatever the heck he's doing.
00:25:14.000 And now we're going to have to have hearings and so on.
00:25:16.000 before district judges and then appeals to determine whether it's truly an official act or not.
00:25:22.000 If you're a Democrat who's running for the president, your path right now is clear.
00:25:27.000 You have to run against the Supreme Court. You have to run against this decision.
00:25:32.000 This is not America. If you want to make America great again, you got to return to the rule of law.
00:25:37.000 This decision today, unfortunately, is a blueprint on how to end the rule.
00:25:42.000 Are you are a blueprint on how to end the rule?
00:25:46.000 Now again, the reason they're doing this, this has nothing to do with the law.
00:25:49.000 This has nothing to do with the decision.
00:25:51.000 I read you large chunks of the decision.
00:25:53.000 That's clearly not what the decision says.
00:25:54.000 So why are they doing this?
00:25:55.000 The answer is because Joe Biden is a failed candidate.
00:25:58.000 That's all. 0.93
00:25:59.000 Joe Biden is a failed candidate.
00:26:00.000 Donald Trump is still going to be prosecuted for multiple of these charges.
00:26:03.000 That doesn't matter.
00:26:04.000 They have to proclaim that the end of the Republic is nigh.
00:26:07.000 They are just going to rev into high gear the entire Biden argument that January 6th represents an existential threat to the Republic and therefore the only person who can stop Donald Trump right now is Joe Biden and you have to vote for him even though he's addled with dementia.
00:26:21.000 That is literally what this is all about.
00:26:23.000 This whole thing is just about Joe Biden being a failed presidential candidate.
00:26:26.000 If Joe Biden were leading in the polls, everybody would be like, okay, well, this seems like kind of another decision.
00:26:30.000 If Joe Biden were up 10, nobody would care because this is a very rote, non-particular, non-controversial decision, frankly.
00:26:38.000 Of course, the president has some level of criminal immunity for core official act.
00:26:42.000 Of course, that immunity is not unending.
00:26:45.000 There could be official acts in which the presumption of immunity is overcome.
00:26:50.000 And of course there's unofficial action by the president.
00:26:52.000 Again, why this distinction is somehow controversial is beyond me.
00:26:56.000 It makes no sense to me.
00:26:59.000 It's not honest.
00:27:00.000 It's just not honest.
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00:27:41.000 So what Democrats are doing right now?
00:27:43.000 Because they're trying to claim that if Donald Trump, thanks to the Supreme Court decision, right?
00:27:47.000 Here's the thing.
00:27:48.000 They have to pretend that there was an inflection point yesterday.
00:27:50.000 They have to.
00:27:52.000 If there was no inflection point, Joe Biden's going to lose the election.
00:27:54.000 So what they have to do is they have to say, the threat now really revved into high gear.
00:28:00.000 The reason they have to do that, of course, is because Joe Biden died physically during a debate.
00:28:03.000 So because Joe Biden died physically during a debate, you can't claim that Donald Trump is such a threat to the Republic that Joe Biden has to be elected because the polls are out post-debate and they are very, very bad for Joe Biden.
00:28:14.000 According to the current polling data, Donald Trump is now up 4 in Pennsylvania.
00:28:18.000 He is now up in New Hampshire, a state the Republican has not won in 20 years.
00:28:23.000 He is now up 4 in Michigan.
00:28:26.000 Nationally, according to Harvard-Harris, he is now up six points.
00:28:30.000 Okay, so that means that Joe Biden is losing.
00:28:32.000 So there has to be a new inflection point, right?
00:28:34.000 The debate was an inflection point.
00:28:36.000 So now Democrats are trying to manufacture out of whole cloth a new inflection point to try and seize the momentum in the race back.
00:28:41.000 The only way to do that is to claim that Trump has been handed brand new, magical, earth-shattering powers.
00:28:48.000 He's now a genie, and if you rub the magic lamp, he will come out.
00:28:52.000 And you'll have the magical powers of Jafar! 0.52
00:28:54.000 Ooooh! 0.92
00:28:55.000 Phenomenal cosmic power!
00:28:57.000 Like, this is what they now have to claim the Supreme Court just did.
00:28:59.000 They rubbed the magic lamp of the presidency and out came Big Bad Trump. 0.68
00:29:03.000 Orange Hitler. 0.86
00:29:04.000 The problem is, the decision doesn't say that.
00:29:06.000 But they somehow have to convince you that there is now a real danger that Orange Hitler will come forth from the magical electoral lamp. 0.63
00:29:13.000 That is the thing that they have to say. 0.96
00:29:16.000 So, Joe Biden decided to seize on this last night and give one of the most demagogic, pathetic speeches I've ever seen from a president. 0.90
00:29:21.000 There are a couple reasons here that he's doing this. 0.93
00:29:23.000 One is the political and the other is the imagistic.
00:29:26.000 The last image anyone has in their mind of Joe Biden is him like this.
00:29:33.000 Staring, slack-jawed, glassy-eyed into the abyss from that debate last Thursday night.
00:29:39.000 That is the last image anyone has.
00:29:40.000 So, the Democrats were trying to find some excuse for putting Biden back on the public stage to speak in a way that people would hear him.
00:29:48.000 So they decided that because they have to play up this new inflection point, this false inflection point, they're gonna trot out Joe Biden.
00:29:54.000 Now, they apparently also decided to go with Donald Trump's makeup artist, so they spray-painted this dude orange.
00:29:59.000 And then they put him out there to read from a teleprompter for four minutes.
00:30:04.000 And let me just explain to Democrats, you are not going to answer questions about the president's obvious dementia by putting him out there to read from a teleprompter somewhat credibly for four minutes and four seconds and then having him totter out the back while his aides close these giant wooden doors behind him without taking any questions.
00:30:23.000 If the question about Joe Biden is, does he have the stamina and mental capacity to be president of the United States, a four minute demagogic speech in which he barely appears to be being held up by strings like a marionette.
00:30:36.000 Jill Biden apparently is above him with the actual marionette strings. 0.93
00:30:39.000 Sorry, Dr. Jill Biden.
00:30:40.000 She's a doctor.
00:30:42.000 Dr. Lady Macbeth Jill Biden.
00:30:44.000 That's not going to answer any questions, but Joe Biden comes out and again, dual goals.
00:30:48.000 One is to show that he's still alive.
00:30:51.000 And two is to say, this is such a threat to democracy.
00:30:54.000 You must elect the corpse.
00:30:55.000 You must elect.
00:30:58.000 You must elect the character from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade after he drank from the wrong chalice.
00:31:03.000 You have to elect that guy, President of the United States.
00:31:05.000 The Crypt Keeper.
00:31:06.000 He must be President.
00:31:07.000 If you don't make the Crypt Keeper President, then Donald Hitler Trump is gonna be President of the United States. 0.82
00:31:12.000 And you know the Supreme Court?
00:31:13.000 They just gave him HITLERIAN POWER! 0.98
00:31:16.000 Okay, this is the shtick that Joe Biden was trying last night. 1.00
00:31:18.000 And it's pathetic, and it's gross, and it's stupid. 1.00
00:31:20.000 We're gonna break it down piece by piece here. 1.00
00:31:23.000 Okay, so, here was Joe.
00:31:24.000 He toddles out.
00:31:26.000 The presidency is the most powerful office in the world.
00:31:28.000 for 10 minutes. He did not. He went for four minutes and four seconds, which is what normal
00:31:33.000 healthy presidents do, by the way. And then he took no questions. By the way, the first
00:31:36.000 question yelled to him as he exited the podium was, are you going to drop out of the race?
00:31:40.000 So it didn't work. So here was Joe Biden trying to demagogue his way to the White House.
00:31:45.000 The presidency is the most powerful office in the world. It's an office that not only
00:31:50.000 tests your judgment, perhaps even more importantly, it's an office that can test your character.
00:31:57.000 Because you not only face moments where you need the courage to exercise the full power of the presidency, you also face moments where you need the wisdom to respect the limits of the power of the office of the presidency.
00:32:10.000 This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America.
00:32:15.000 Each, each of us is equal before the law.
00:32:19.000 No one, no one is above the law.
00:32:22.000 Not even the President of the United States.
00:32:25.000 With today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed.
00:32:32.000 For all, for all practical purposes.
00:32:36.000 Okay, that is not true.
00:32:37.000 That is not true.
00:32:38.000 As we've explained, the Supreme Court did not appoint a magical king.
00:32:42.000 It did not.
00:32:42.000 And by the way, if there's anyone who's ever been in love with executive authority, it's this guy who has signed more executive orders than any president in modern history.
00:32:49.000 It's this guy who tried to use OSHA to cram down a VAX mandate on 80 million Americans, who spent the last several years trying to end around the Supreme Court, declaring that even though they have said he is not allowed to magically get rid of student loan debt, he can just do it.
00:33:02.000 This guy?
00:33:03.000 Like this guy is going to lecture us about the excesses of executive power?
00:33:06.000 This one?
00:33:07.000 Seriously?
00:33:08.000 Him?
00:33:08.000 Hey, but here we go again.
00:33:10.000 He has no other choice.
00:33:11.000 This is the hand of cards that he has.
00:33:13.000 He's got this pair of deuces and he's got to try to play it.
00:33:16.000 Practical purposes.
00:33:18.000 Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.
00:33:24.000 This is a fundamentally new principle.
00:33:27.000 And it's a dangerous precedent.
00:33:29.000 Because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:33:37.000 The only limit should be self-imposed by the President alone.
00:33:41.000 This decision today.
00:33:42.000 Again, the point he's making is you have to elect me because the Supreme Court won't stop President Trump from droning people, but I won't drone people because I'm so good.
00:33:51.000 I'm so nice.
00:33:53.000 There are no mechanisms for hemming in the president of the United States.
00:33:55.000 Thus, you have to elect me.
00:33:57.000 Now, here's the thing.
00:33:58.000 All of this is a lie.
00:33:59.000 All of this, every element of this is a lie.
00:34:01.000 Donald Trump's bizarre machinations between November 6th of 2020 and January 6th of 2021 Came to nothing because all of the institutions were arrayed against him.
00:34:13.000 All of the institutions.
00:34:14.000 Held.
00:34:15.000 All of them.
00:34:17.000 Okay, the institutions didn't just magically disappear.
00:34:19.000 Again, now he's having to make the case that the Supreme Court is... Here's the thing that's amazing.
00:34:23.000 He is making the case that he ought to be granted power because if he is not granted power, there are no limits on the presidency and Donald Trump will abuse his power.
00:34:30.000 In order to make this case, he is fundamentally undermining the legitimacy of the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:34:35.000 He's making the case the Supreme Court ought to be destroyed wholesale.
00:34:38.000 So Captain Institutions and Democracy over here is saying the Supreme Court is fundamentally illegitimate because it just appointed a king.
00:34:45.000 And that his political opposition is anti-democratic and anyone who supports his political opposition hates the country is what he actually said in the last debate.
00:34:54.000 And he is such an extraordinary demagogue all for the pursuit of corrupt political power.
00:34:59.000 The Biden family is repulsive in their pursuit of political power. 0.99
00:35:02.000 And this lifelong corrupt politician claiming to be a man of principle standing in the breach to stop Hitler and Mussolini is a liar. 1.00
00:35:10.000 He is a demented liar. 1.00
00:35:12.000 And what he is doing here is dementia riddled lying. 1.00
00:35:15.000 That's what this is.
00:35:16.000 It's continued the court's attack in recent years on a wide range of long established legal principles in our nation.
00:35:25.000 From gutting voting rights and civil rights, to taking away a woman's right to choose, to today's decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation. 0.97
00:35:36.000 Nearly four years ago, my predecessor sent a violent mob to the U.S.
00:35:41.000 Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power. 0.97
00:35:45.000 We all saw it with our own eyes.
00:35:47.000 We sat there and watched it happen that day.
00:35:51.000 Attack on the police.
00:35:53.000 The ransacking of the Capitol.
00:35:55.000 A mob literally hunting down the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
00:36:00.000 Gallows erected to hang the Vice President, Mike Pence.
00:36:05.000 I think it's fair to say it's one of the darkest days in the history of America.
00:36:09.000 Now the man who sent that mob to the US Capitol is facing potential criminal conviction for
00:36:15.000 what happened that day.
00:36:18.000 Let's, let's point out that what Joe Biden is calling for right here is the jailing of his political opponent, right?
00:36:22.000 This is supposed to be, he's, he's, I believe in the system of law.
00:36:26.000 I believe he's the president of the United States.
00:36:28.000 He's calling for the jailing of his political opponent.
00:36:30.000 That's what he is doing right here.
00:36:32.000 Hey, the mask is now off.
00:36:33.000 Remember he said, no, I have nothing to do with this.
00:36:35.000 The DOJ is just doing it on its own.
00:36:38.000 I'm not the one who directed anybody with regard to the January 6th indictment.
00:36:41.000 Now he's saying, if Donald Trump is now criminally prosecuted and put in jail, then the Supreme Court has sinned, and the only way to stop Donald Trump is to elect me.
00:36:50.000 He clearly wants him jailed, does he not?
00:36:53.000 Continue.
00:36:55.000 The American people deserve to have an answer in the courts before the upcoming election.
00:37:01.000 The public has a right to know.
00:37:03.000 The answer about what happened on January 6th, before they asked to vote again this year.
00:37:09.000 Now, because of today's decision, that is highly, highly unlikely.
00:37:14.000 It's a terrible disservice to the people of this nation.
00:37:18.000 So now, now the American people have to do what the court should have been willing to do, but will not.
00:37:24.000 The American people have to render a judgment about Donald Trump's behavior.
00:37:29.000 The American people must decide whether Donald Trump's assault on our democracy on January 6th makes him unfit for public office.
00:37:37.000 We've been here.
00:37:37.000 We've been down this road.
00:37:38.000 The American people must decide if Trump's embrace of violence to preserve his power is acceptable.
00:37:46.000 Perhaps most importantly, the American people must decide if they want to entrust the president once again, the presidency to Donald Trump.
00:37:56.000 Now, knowing he'll be more emboldened to do whatever he pleases whenever he wants to do it. 0.96
00:38:02.000 Ridiculous. 0.59
00:38:03.000 You know, at the outset of our nation, it was the character of George Washington, our first president, to define the presidency. 0.92
00:38:10.000 I can't believe this guy's citing George Washington.
00:38:11.000 He believed power was limited, not absolute.
00:38:14.000 He remembers him personally.
00:38:15.000 And that power always resides with the people.
00:38:18.000 Always.
00:38:19.000 Now, over 200 years later, with today's Supreme Court decision, Once again, it will depend on the character of the men and women who hold that presidency that are going to define the limits of the power of the presidency.
00:38:32.000 Because the law will no longer do it.
00:38:37.000 I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers I have for three and a half years.
00:38:42.000 But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law.
00:38:48.000 I concur with Kirsten Sotomayor's dissent today.
00:38:52.000 She hears what she said.
00:38:53.000 She said, in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.
00:39:00.000 With fear for our democracy, I dissent.
00:39:03.000 End of quote.
00:39:05.000 Associate the American people dissent.
00:39:09.000 I dissent.
00:39:11.000 May God bless you all.
00:39:13.000 And may God help preserve our democracy.
00:39:15.000 Thank you.
00:39:15.000 And may God protect our troops.
00:39:19.000 Okay, and then he looks around bizarrely and toddles off to the background where he will answer no questions. 1.00
00:39:23.000 Again, he's a liar! 0.97
00:39:24.000 Understand what's happening here. 0.98
00:39:25.000 He is lying about the Supreme Court decision in order so he can lie about the election. 0.99
00:39:29.000 Meanwhile, calling for the jailing of his political opponent, but don't worry, Donald Trump is the fascist. 0.91
00:39:34.000 He's attacking the Supreme Court and saying it's illegitimate, fundamentally, that they've undermined the constitutional order, that they reappointed a king. 0.97
00:39:39.000 Don't worry, my opponent is the fascist, which is why you need to elect me.
00:39:43.000 Good luck with this particular argument.
00:39:44.000 Again, a lot of this has to do with him attempting to put out an image that he's still in charge, that he's still president, that it's not Jill, that it's not his team inside the White House that is manipulating his lukewarm body.
00:39:57.000 It's not true.
00:39:58.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:40:33.000 Now again, what Joe Biden was attempting to do last night was to reset the conversation in the aftermath of a disastrous debate that has destroyed his credibility, his White House's credibility, and the media's credibility.
00:40:42.000 All of his allies have been laid waste by his debate performance last Thursday night.
00:40:45.000 That's what this is all about.
00:40:46.000 So they'll lie about the Supreme Court.
00:40:47.000 They'll trot him out to speak for four minutes and four seconds before he wobbles back into the back room to be infused with the blood of a small child or something to keep him alive.
00:40:57.000 But the reality is that what it was really about was an attempt to recapitulate his image in the public eye.
00:41:03.000 It's not going to work.
00:41:04.000 They're going to try anyway.
00:41:05.000 Here was Mitch Landrieu, a member of his campaign crew, trying to claim that Biden is going to save democracy.
00:41:11.000 Again, this is the shtick.
00:41:15.000 First of all, let me say this.
00:41:16.000 I thought the President's statement tonight was very strong.
00:41:19.000 It was the right statement, as has been the case with Joe Biden.
00:41:22.000 And he reiterated why he ran for office, which was to save democracy.
00:41:27.000 He reminded us that President Trump tried to upend the peaceful transition of power, and that he was standing between anarchy and democracy, and he was going to continue to do that.
00:41:37.000 I've heard David make that argument a number of different times.
00:41:40.000 Of course, how well you do in a debate doesn't really relate to how well you run a presidency. 0.99
00:41:48.000 Again, this is pathetic. 1.00
00:41:49.000 It's a pathetic spin. 0.99
00:41:50.000 He has a strong statement. 0.98
00:41:52.000 He's going to save democracy.
00:41:53.000 He ain't going to save his blood pressure, man.
00:41:56.000 That dude can't even save his bowel movement.
00:42:02.000 The supply of depends to the White House these days must be getting awfully expensive.
00:42:06.000 And this is obviously coming out now, right?
00:42:08.000 All the leaks are breaking.
00:42:09.000 And the reason all the leaks are breaking is because you have essentially four categories inside the Democratic Party.
00:42:13.000 You got the Biden family. 0.64
00:42:15.000 Deeply corrupt. 0.98
00:42:16.000 Desperate for power.
00:42:17.000 Dr. Jill wants to remain president despite never having been elected to anything.
00:42:20.000 It's the only way she can retain power. 1.00
00:42:21.000 Hunter wants Joe to stay in office because hell, who else is going to pardon him?
00:42:25.000 Plus, that dude needs to sell some finger paintings. 0.96
00:42:27.000 Frank and Jim need him to be in the presidency because otherwise, how can they pass around the Biden name and make cash off of it?
00:42:32.000 So they want him in.
00:42:33.000 That's category number one is the Macbeth family over there.
00:42:36.000 Then you have category number two, the Democratic Party insiders.
00:42:38.000 They know they can't get rid of him.
00:42:39.000 There is no possible way to get rid of him.
00:42:42.000 It's not possible.
00:42:43.000 You have to force him out or you have to convince him to step down.
00:42:46.000 Neither of those two things likely to happen.
00:42:48.000 So they are just going to continue talking as though everything is fine.
00:42:50.000 Then you have the aides to Biden.
00:42:52.000 They are sick of being blamed.
00:42:53.000 They don't like the idea that it's their fault that the senile old man decided to debate and then humiliated himself by falling on a banana peel on stage.
00:43:01.000 And so all those leaks are coming out.
00:43:03.000 Peace in Politico today.
00:43:05.000 We've all enabled the situation.
00:43:06.000 Dems turn on Biden's inner sanctum post-debate.
00:43:10.000 Inside the White House, Biden's growing limitations were becoming apparent long before his meltdown in last week's debate, with the senior team's management of the president growing strictly controlled as his term has gone on.
00:43:19.000 During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings that they'll deliver to Biden, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being presented in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction.
00:43:29.000 It's like, you can't include that or that will set him off.
00:43:31.000 Put that in.
00:43:32.000 He likes that, said one senior administration official.
00:43:34.000 It's a Rorschach test, not a briefing.
00:43:36.000 He is not a pleasant person to be around when he's being briefed.
00:43:38.000 It's very difficult and people are scared of him.
00:43:41.000 The official said, quote, he doesn't take advice from anyone other than those few top aides.
00:43:44.000 It's become a perfect storm.
00:43:46.000 He just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.
00:43:49.000 The debate, however, was so dismal for Biden that nobody could ignore it.
00:43:53.000 So all of his aides are now coming out and saying, this dude is senile.
00:43:57.000 He's out. 0.98
00:43:59.000 So that is category number three is the aides who are like, yeah, man, we've been trying to deal with this crap for like years at this point.
00:44:08.000 And I mean, not possible. 0.71
00:44:11.000 And then there's category number four, the media.
00:44:12.000 The media are the ones who are the most abjectly humiliated because they have a responsibility to the public.
00:44:17.000 So if you're a Biden aide, your responsibility is to Biden.
00:44:19.000 If you're Biden's family, your responsibility is to Biden, even if you're throwing it off.
00:44:22.000 If you're the Democratic Party, your responsibility is to the Democratic Party chances of victory.
00:44:27.000 Which is why they really should have stepped in before he ran, but it's too late now.
00:44:30.000 Then there's a fourth category, people who don't actually work for Biden or the Democrats, purportedly.
00:44:35.000 That's the media.
00:44:36.000 And the media do work for Democrats and they do work for Biden, so they've been lying for years.
00:44:40.000 This is it.
00:44:41.000 That's why, again, the extraordinary shock of members of the media.
00:44:45.000 Oh my God, you're saying he's senile?
00:44:49.000 Suddenly turning into Captain Ray Noel from Casablanca, walking into the casino and being like, wait, there's gambling?
00:44:54.000 I'm shocked!
00:44:55.000 Shocked!
00:44:55.000 There's gambling!
00:44:55.000 I'm shocked!
00:44:56.000 Shocked!
00:44:56.000 There's drooling going on here!
00:44:58.000 We've all known it for years.
00:44:59.000 They have to act shocked because if they don't act shocked, it demonstrates they were in cahoots with the Biden team for literally years and lying to you, the people they actually owe responsibility to, the American public.
00:45:11.000 So now you're starting to see members of the media being like, Oh yeah, that was crazy.
00:45:16.000 Carl Bernstein was out there yesterday reporting that Joe Biden has been mentally unfit for a year.
00:45:20.000 I have a question.
00:45:21.000 Where was Carl Bernstein before the debate?
00:45:23.000 Where?
00:45:24.000 Because I checked the calendar.
00:45:25.000 A year is like a period of time.
00:45:29.000 And presumably, he had heard this before the debate.
00:45:32.000 But he didn't say anything.
00:45:33.000 Why?
00:45:33.000 Because all these people work for Joe Biden and his team.
00:45:36.000 And now, their own careers are in danger.
00:45:40.000 Because they told a lie, and that lie got exposed, and it exposed them as what they are.
00:45:43.000 Actual Democratic apparatchiks.
00:45:45.000 Here's Carl Bernstein.
00:45:47.000 Well, these are people, several of them, who are very close to President Biden, who love him, have supported him, have been among them, or some people who have raised a lot of money for him.
00:45:58.000 And they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off, that there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half When the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed.
00:46:18.000 And what's so significant is the people that this is coming from, and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters, incidentally, who have witnessed some of them.
00:46:32.000 But here we see tonight, as these people say, President Biden at his absolute best, and yet, These people who have supported him, loved him, campaigned for him, see him often, say that in the last six months particularly, there has been a marked incidence of cognitive decline.
00:46:55.000 Now members of the media are coming out and saying the true thing.
00:46:57.000 Now there are some members of the Democratic Party who are like, okay, guys, like, I can't.
00:47:01.000 James Carville, most prominently among them, Clinton advisor, he's like, somebody else needs to run.
00:47:06.000 There's just no other way to put this.
00:47:09.000 We have a country that 72% want something different.
00:47:13.000 If the Democratic Party can't produce something different that 72% of people want, then why do we exist?
00:47:20.000 What are we here for?
00:47:21.000 I mean, the country is clamoring for change.
00:47:26.000 And what are we going to offer them?
00:47:28.000 The same stuff?
00:47:29.000 It doesn't make any sense, Jake.
00:47:33.000 Give the people what they want.
00:47:34.000 Vox Populi.
00:47:36.000 They want something different.
00:47:38.000 Let's give it to them.
00:47:40.000 James Carville is right.
00:47:41.000 It's time to fire Joe Biden and his team.
00:47:45.000 Let's be real.
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00:48:46.000 NBC's Kristen Welker, she says, listen, top Democrats would be relieved if Joe Biden dropped out of the race at this point, which is true, of course.
00:48:54.000 I have spoken to some top Democrats who say that there would actually be relief if he were to step down.
00:49:00.000 And one person said to me, look, everyone's counting out Kamala Harris because right now her poll numbers are below President Biden's.
00:49:07.000 But if she were to Be the one to carry this torch into November.
00:49:13.000 There could be a method of reintroducing her to the country that could be effective with independents, with moderates, with those critical suburban women that are necessary for winning the White House. 1.00
00:49:23.000 We'll have to see how it plays out, though, because publicly speaking, the president, his family, his top aides defiant that he's not going anywhere.
00:49:30.000 Well, I mean, there is one problem with that particular theory, which is that we all know Kamala Harris.
00:49:34.000 She's been in the public eye for years, and she's awful at her job. 1.00
00:49:36.000 For example, Kamala Harris appeared at the BET Awards.
00:49:39.000 It used to be Black Entertainment Television.
00:49:41.000 I don't know if they still call themselves that.
00:49:43.000 So, here she was at the BET Awards being her absolutely insincere, unpalatable self.
00:49:48.000 She is the Michael Scott of politics.
00:49:51.000 I mean, it's just that, like, whenever she tries to be authentic, it is the most fake thing I have ever seen in my life.
00:49:57.000 Here was Kamala Harris doing a little skit with Taraji Henson.
00:50:01.000 It was not good.
00:50:04.000 Madam VP Harris, I'm worried about the election.
00:50:07.000 Women's reproductive rights are on the line. 0.96
00:50:10.000 Our Supreme Court is on the line.
00:50:11.000 Our basic freedoms are being tested.
00:50:14.000 Madam VP, I know you've been traveling across the country.
00:50:17.000 What are you hearing?
00:50:19.000 Yeah, girl, I'm out here in these streets.
00:50:20.000 And let me tell you, you're right, Taraji.
00:50:22.000 There is so much at stake in this moment.
00:50:25.000 The majority of us believe in freedom and equality.
00:50:29.000 But these extremists, as they say, they not like us.
00:50:33.000 No, they not.
00:50:34.000 There's a full-on attack on our fundamental freedoms.
00:50:36.000 They not like us.
00:50:37.000 I'm out here in these streets.
00:50:38.000 They not like us.
00:50:40.000 My God, the pandering. 0.99
00:50:41.000 The pathetic pandering. 1.00
00:50:42.000 Like, she's so insincere. 1.00
00:50:43.000 Honest to God.
00:50:45.000 They not like us.
00:50:47.000 They not li- They are not li- They not like us.
00:50:49.000 I'm out here in these streets.
00:50:51.000 Who believes that Kamala Harris is out there in these streets? 0.79
00:50:54.000 And then Tarashi Henson goes on the awards.
00:50:56.000 It doesn't go amazing.
00:50:58.000 It's time for us to play chess, not checkers.
00:51:00.000 It's about making decisions that will affect us as human beings, our careers, our next generations to come.
00:51:11.000 Did you know that it is now a crime to be homeless?
00:51:15.000 Pay attention.
00:51:17.000 It's not a secret.
00:51:18.000 Look it up.
00:51:19.000 They are attacking our most vulnerable citizens.
00:51:23.000 Look at the crowd.
00:51:23.000 They're laughing in the background.
00:51:25.000 They're like, I can't believe I have to listen to this crazy lady. 1.00
00:51:28.000 And good luck with pitching the old man and his absolutely incompetent VP. 0.92
00:51:33.000 Team Biden, nonetheless, is trying to prop up the old man because, again, that I'm out here in these streets lady is his backup.
00:51:41.000 And that was the best decision that Biden ever made if he wanted to ensure his own presidency.
00:51:44.000 I mean, that is assassination protection right there because everyone is like, oh God, not her.
00:51:49.000 I legitimately would rather have a dead body than Kamala Harris as President of the United States. 1.00
00:51:53.000 So top Biden officials have decided that their best move is to sneer at their own donors.
00:51:59.000 And this is like genius level stuff here.
00:52:00.000 This is a headline from the New York Times today.
00:52:02.000 Top Biden officials seek to calm donors.
00:52:04.000 Quote, breathe through the nose.
00:52:08.000 Because I know that when I'm fundraising for a thing, the first thing I do is I say, guys, you need to calm down.
00:52:12.000 Just calm down and give me money. 0.97
00:52:15.000 That's gonna work out amazing.
00:52:17.000 Everyone just needs to breathe through the nose for a minute, said Chris Korge, finance chair for the DNC.
00:52:22.000 The senior Biden officials downplayed the political fallout of the debate, but provided precious little new information to the members of the National Finance Committee.
00:52:29.000 Those financiers have been locked in a ceaseless, rolling conversation with their own networks on conference calls and signal threads since Thursday night about whether their investment in the Biden campaign has been the right decision.
00:52:38.000 Their remarks Monday did little to stem the anxiety of the campaign's well-heeled patrons, according to people on the call, who described it while it was still ongoing.
00:52:45.000 They were texting in the New York Times being like, my God, this is a bleep show.
00:52:50.000 The Biden campaign took no live questions from donors.
00:52:53.000 Shocker.
00:52:54.000 Some of those in attendance described it as almost facile and rudimentary.
00:52:57.000 One donor asked the campaign how it would respond to a significant erosion of polling.
00:53:00.000 The campaign largely dismissed the concern.
00:53:04.000 Mr. Foulkes, deputy campaign manager, said, quote, I want to reiterate, without sounding Pollyannish or sounding defensive, at the end of the day, the one thing we are not going to do is win this race by continuing to talk about Joe Biden's age.
00:53:13.000 We are here talking to you all because we know we have to address it.
00:53:17.000 Yeah, good luck to y'all on this.
00:53:18.000 You ready?
00:53:18.000 campaign chair conceded the debate did not go exactly as we had hoped and
00:53:21.000 exactly as the president had hoped. Yeah, good luck to y'all on this. General
00:53:27.000 Malley-Dillon, who's one of the campaign managers, held that virtual meeting with
00:53:30.000 about 500 donors in which he tried to say this, you ready?
00:53:33.000 This is a direct quote from the campaign chair for Joe Biden, quote, he's probably
00:53:36.000 in better health than most of us. Some of the donors told this to CNN.
00:53:42.000 One of the donors said the comments were offensive and dismissive of the real concerns about Biden in the wake of his debate performance.
00:53:49.000 He's in better health than most of us?
00:53:51.000 I don't know.
00:53:51.000 How close are you to death?
00:53:54.000 Meanwhile, James Clyburn, the man who probably made him president, South Carolina congressperson, he said, don't worry about that debate.
00:54:01.000 It was just preparation overload.
00:54:04.000 I felt from the very beginning that Joe Biden was going to have a tough night because I thought it was preparation overload.
00:54:16.000 I just saw it.
00:54:17.000 I've been around these debates for a long time.
00:54:20.000 I have been a part of the debate prep in a couple of instances.
00:54:27.000 As I could see that Joe Biden was trying not to stray from the preparation.
00:54:36.000 Yeah, it was probably he was overprepared.
00:54:38.000 That was it.
00:54:39.000 They said there were a lot of rumors yesterday about the Democrats dumping him for somebody else.
00:54:43.000 And now you have to have every one of those candidates because, again, the Democratic Party apparatus knows you can't actually get rid of him.
00:54:48.000 There's no real mechanism for getting rid of Joe Biden.
00:54:51.000 So many of these candidates, after having leaked to the press that they're into it, Now they're having to quickly backpedal.
00:54:57.000 So Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, her team apparently told the Biden campaign that donors were telling them that he's already lost Michigan.
00:55:03.000 So yesterday she put out an ad saying, no, no, no, I am so loyal to Joe Biden.
00:55:07.000 I'm the most loyal to Joe Biden, which again, that's smart politics because unless Joe Biden steps out, she ain't got a chance of getting in.
00:55:14.000 So here she was yesterday.
00:55:15.000 She put out a tweet cursing in an attempt to prove her loyalty. 0.76
00:55:19.000 It is not convincing.
00:55:21.000 So what are Democrats actually going to do?
00:55:22.000 They're going to cram Joe Biden down their party's throat.
00:55:26.000 Apparently, the DNC is now considering formally nominating Biden as early as mid-July to ensure the president is on November ballots, while helping to stamp out intraparty chatter of replacing him after last week's poor debate performance.
00:55:37.000 They're like, OK, we're going to ram this through.
00:55:38.000 We're going to end all questions today.
00:55:40.000 All questions end today.
00:55:41.000 We're going to ram the old man through. 0.99
00:55:43.000 This is a party in a state of panic.
00:55:45.000 So understand that all of these supposed heartburn over a Supreme Court decision, it's a lie.
00:55:50.000 It's all a lie.
00:55:51.000 It's an attempt to spin away the fact that they ran a terrible candidate who's done a terrible job and is senile.
00:55:56.000 End of story.
00:55:57.000 That's the whole thing.
00:55:58.000 That is this election in a nutshell.
00:55:59.000 Bad president, senile, has actually exceeded his constitutional authority, should not be president anymore, and everything else is a footnote.
00:56:08.000 Everything.
00:56:09.000 Alrighty folks, coming up, We're going to get to another high court decision.
00:56:13.000 They avoided a decision on social media, which is kind of interesting.
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