Biden's mental decline, the Robert Hur tapes, and more! Recorded in London, England. Charlie gives an update of why he's thankful to be an American, and then we cover the Biden tapes, the Prostate Cancer diagnosis, and much more.
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00:02:45.000Robert Herr was investigating Joe Biden for his mishandling of classified documents.
00:02:54.000Joe Biden mishandled classified documents allegedly by putting the documents in the garage, and none of us were really that overly animated about it if it meant that Donald Trump simultaneously was also not going to be indicted for similar charges for the January 6th-related The more interesting part of this,
00:03:22.000though, and remember they recommended no charges for Joe Biden.
00:03:25.000Remember when Robert Herr wrote this report, this scathing report, saying that Joe Biden does not have the mental acuity to be president.
00:03:32.000Now, we've known this, and what I'm about to tell you is without a doubt one of the most egregious, one of the most outrageous examples of not just media bias, but intentional, And repeated media malpractice in American history.
00:03:51.000We get asked all the time by members of the media, why do you guys not trust us?
00:03:58.000This right here is why the American people, why the media far too often has become the enemy of the people.
00:04:06.000Remember, her said that Biden would just seem like a forgetful old grandfather.
00:04:11.000So that's why he wasn't worth indicting.
00:04:13.000He was essentially too old and too feeble to prosecute.
00:04:17.000This guy's barely living, is basically what Robert Hurst said.
00:04:21.000And the media told those of us that noticed Joe Biden's mental decline for years that you are wrong, that you are spreading myths and disinformation.
00:04:32.000People were smeared and canceled and silenced because we saw it in right-wing circles because we actually saw the videos.
00:04:41.000Publicly, where Joe Biden was unable to mutter sentences.
00:04:46.000And the media, I would say they should be ashamed of themselves, but I don't even know if they're capable of feeling shame that requires some form of self-awareness, that requires the media to have some sort of understanding that they should be in the pursuit of truth, but not in the pursuit of power.
00:05:02.000What I'm about to play for you here should take your breath away.
00:05:07.000This guy was President of the United States.
00:05:11.000There are so many questions here, the first of which is, who is running the country?
00:05:16.000The second which is, why were we not able to get these tapes last year?
00:05:23.000The New York Times in June of 2024 said Biden was being smeared by misleading videos.
00:07:08.000And by the way, there were still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were encouraging me to run in this period, except the president.
00:07:22.000Now, it was beyond struggling to say the basic timelines.
00:07:26.000This guy was president of the United States?
00:07:29.000And also, some of the media is like, well, we never knew because of these tapes.
00:07:47.000But the media hated Donald Trump so much.
00:07:50.000The media hated our conservative movement so much that they were adamant that Joe Biden should continue as president of the United States, regardless of the fact that he could not be president.
00:08:04.000And then, breaking yesterday, play cut 179.
00:08:08.000Breaking news out of the White House about former President Joe Biden.
00:08:11.000His office just revealed that the 46th president is diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
00:08:18.000So they announced that Joe Biden has prostate cancer two days after the Hur reports.
00:08:24.000Everybody, they were running this man for re-election less than 10 months ago.
00:08:33.000They're saying that the prostate cancer has metastasized straight to the bone.
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00:12:12.000The only downside, and when I do these three-hour campus debates, of which I want to come to the University of Missouri and do that, when I overly hydrate, I've got to sit there for three hours.
00:13:06.000And we ought to, honestly, we ought to have hearings about this because I was the first senator to call for that constitutional process to go into play to remove him because he was clearly not competent.
00:13:19.000Anybody with a half a brain could see that.
00:13:22.000And when the Hurt tapes came, they never released actually the audio of the tapes, but you got to remember, you go back when they interviewed him, it was about the documents that were, of course, stored in his garage.
00:13:32.000We're Hunter Biden, who, you know, had all sorts of dealings with other countries and potentially a drug addict was living in that house at the same time those documents were in the garage.
00:13:45.000The only reason they didn't charge him was because they didn't think he was competent to stand trial.
00:13:51.000So, I mean, all these things were happening at once.
00:13:57.000Wouldn't have been as bad as it was, and I was in the spin room with Rubio and Vance and others, and you could see it playing in real time like everybody else.
00:14:03.000If it wouldn't have been so bad, they would have literally continued to keep him propped up just so they could have another four years.
00:14:09.000It was all about power and control, and this sort of come-to-Jesus moment that they're all having now is so phony, because they knew it.
00:14:27.000Yeah, and it's also just this question of what form and structure of government did we have and do we have, which is, if you can have a president who does not know what year he took office, who does not know what year he left office as vice president, does not know what year President Trump actually got elected,
00:14:42.000and the country can still quote-unquote run, then is the president nothing more than a kind of ceremonial figurehead?
00:14:52.000Well, listen, this is what we're fighting against, Charlie.
00:14:55.000I'm glad you sort of framed it like that.
00:14:58.000We're fighting against this managerial and administrative state that was created really about 100 years ago with Woodrow Wilson, who...
00:15:05.000Prior to Joe Biden, I think, was the worst president we've ever had in this country.
00:15:09.000Their dream, the progressives' dream, was to have a government run by experts.
00:15:13.000And so when COVID happened, kind of the veil went down, and you could see what they really wanted.
00:15:20.000It was about Lord Fauci and these other quote-unquote experts who knew better than everybody else.
00:15:26.000So this idea of we the people, they would love to get rid of that, and they would love to get rid of that accountability and have this sort of permanent Washington.
00:15:39.000And why, you know, people were attacked so viciously if you, quote unquote, question the science or you ask questions about who was running the country at the time because they got exactly what they wanted.
00:15:50.000But that's why it's so important for President Trump to have won and for him to have gotten his cabinet appointees approved who are reformers who want to disrupt what we've seen over the last...
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00:17:50.000Senator Eric Schmidt continues with us here.
00:17:53.000So I want to now shift gears for a second and talk about the reconciliation bill and kind of where that is standing and the one big beautiful bill.
00:18:03.000Senator, admittedly, there are so many people talking past each other right now.
00:18:08.000The White House has a certain opinion and stance, and there's so much good in this bill.
00:18:12.000I spent about 40 minutes reading this bill.
00:18:15.000It takes you longer than 40 minutes, but...
00:18:17.000You could basically get the main components of it on Friday.
00:18:21.000For example, there's an amazing thing in the bill of taxing of remittances, which will basically financially and economically make illegal immigration untenable, which is the money that people send back.
00:18:59.000Where the rubber's really going to meet the road.
00:19:01.000It's also got some great school choice provisions in it, which are, you know, at the end of the day, we can tout.
00:19:07.000But I do think, here's how I look at it, and I think we've talked about it before.
00:19:11.000Normally, when you do an appropriations bill, or even a continuing resolution, or even these ridiculous omnibuses, it takes 60 votes in the United States Senate, right?
00:19:20.000So the Republicans that want to spend more money...
00:19:23.000We are hunting for working with Democrats who want to spend more money.
00:19:27.000And that's how you get to the 60 votes.
00:19:29.000And that's why spending typically continues to go up and up.
00:19:32.000This is different in the sense that you only need 51 votes in the United States Senate.
00:19:38.000So we do have a real chance to reset the amount of money that we're spending every year.
00:19:45.000It's historic to deliver on President Trump's promises.
00:19:48.000And by the way, he's talked about having a balanced budget himself.
00:19:52.000I really believe if we're serious about spending reform here, we can get there by the end of his term, because if you just get to pre-pandemic spending levels, plus population growth, plus inflation, and you hold that line for a couple of years, revenues will catch up and you'll have a balanced budget.
00:20:57.000I'm not torn, but why I'm against the...
00:21:00.000The SALT thing, which is it's an indirect subsidy of the failed pension system of New York, the failed public sector teacher unions of Chicago.
00:21:10.000It's an indirect federal subsidy that do not make these states get their house in order.
00:21:15.000Senator, unfortunately though, what we've seen since the SALT deduction Is these states, when we got rid of it with Trump, these states did not get their act together.
00:21:24.000But you could make an argument, and I know that the New Yorkers don't want to hear it.
00:21:28.000I know the Californians don't want to hear it.
00:21:29.000But once we got rid of salt, I think a lot of Republicans or smart people that want to pay lower taxes left the blue states.
00:21:48.000What are some of the other interesting nuggets of good stuff in this bill that you want to make sure remains?
00:21:56.000Well, you've got even on the defense side, right?
00:24:05.000But if I have to pay 3% more in taxes, and you guys are able to cut a trillion dollar in spending to make the math work, I don't think we should be overly ideological about it.
00:24:17.000And because the math is so compelling that if we raise taxes by 2% on high-income earners, that could actually offset some of the tax cuts for no tax on tips.
00:24:31.000The one thing we should be ideological about is not having America go bankrupt above and beyond all.
00:24:38.000Again, I'm not asking Congress to raise my taxes, but I can say as someone who would see my taxes go up, I would be okay with it if we get serious spending cuts and if it gets us on a path towards a balanced budget.
00:24:56.000Yeah, I think, look, the truth of the matter is, and let's just take Medicaid, for example.
00:25:01.000If you do work requirements, if you have regular audits to make sure the people who are actually receiving the benefits, and there are people, we've made a decision, and I agree with it, the people who cannot help themselves in particular, people with, you know...
00:25:14.000Individuals with disabilities, poor kids.
00:25:17.000Absolutely, that should be a safety net that we need to strengthen in many ways.
00:25:20.000And I think there's efforts to do that.
00:25:22.000But people who are able-bodied ought to be working.
00:25:25.000And I don't think that's controversial.
00:26:01.000If you could just go back and say, you know what?
00:26:05.000The COVID spending, or I should say the IRA, the ARCA money, all that ARPA money, that blew the lid off of.
00:26:13.000Let's go back, and if you look at what Doge is doing, Charlie, a lot of what they're doing when they talk about reducing the number of employees in departments like at Veterans Affairs, they're just talking about getting back to where we were four years ago, right, to make it more manageable and deliver great service.
00:26:27.000So I think if you were a little bit more...
00:26:31.000There's a lot of savings that can be found.
00:26:33.000But I talked to President Trump on Saturday.
00:26:36.000I never divulge private conversations, but he's talked about this publicly.
00:26:40.000You know, what we're seeing with some of the revenue...
00:26:43.000That he's instituted with the tariffs.
00:26:45.000That is sort of a part of this calculation, too.
00:26:49.000And ultimately, the vision is to get to a place where we have external revenue to the point where you can eliminate the income tax for people making it for $200,000 a year.
00:29:09.000I want to just give you a little update here.
00:29:11.000There's some really exciting things happening.
00:29:14.000And simultaneously, there are incredible troubling things that makes me, every time I come to the UK, I'm just so thankful to be an American.
00:31:51.000There is an opportunity here, but to be perfectly honest, if you do not have a culture that embraces freedom of speech, that embraces dialogue, Then you're not able to solve your other political problems.
00:32:08.000If you are not able to complain, call out, challenge, power, if you're not able to persuade people, if you're not able to ridicule your leaders, then how are you actually ever going to fix all of the other problems?
00:32:23.000In fact, I was just driving in a car and I said to my driver, I said, you guys got, you've imported way too many Muslims into this country.
00:32:29.000And they're like, did you just say that?
00:33:30.000In the beginning was the word, as it says in John 1, which is the logos.
00:33:33.000It is the spoken word, not the thought, not just the internalized truth.
00:33:40.000You must speak it and it becomes material reality.
00:33:44.000I will say, though, that if the stars align, based on my conversation with the grassroots here and the drivers and the cabbies, And the working folk, there is a political revolution waiting to happen in the UK.
00:34:00.000You need someone with courage, and I think Farage is that person.