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00:00:00.000 Hey, for Tuesday, a great show. Stu and I bring you lots of things. The interview with London

00:00:06.740 Roberts. You know who she is? She's the mom of the child who is the granddaughter of President

00:00:16.000 Biden. It's a really compelling interview. I don't know how you'll feel about it. I didn't

00:00:21.040 know how I felt about all of it. But you really come out with real compassion for the granddaughter

00:00:28.800 named Navy. That also we talk about how weird the media is getting on the word weird. Also

00:00:37.420 Bridget Phetasy joins us. It's a great show. You're going to have a lot of fun because it's

00:00:41.740 frankly, it's weird and we're weird. You know what I mean? Like J.D. Vance weird. Hey, keep

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00:03:02.640 It's weird. Isn't this a weird day? What a weird day. It is so weird. These Republicans,

00:03:10.200 have you noticed their policies? They're so weird. I have. They're weird. They're weird. You know,

00:03:17.060 in fact, I have a, you know, what's really weird is this montage, uh, put together that shows all of

00:03:25.420 everybody in the media and, uh, everybody on the left suddenly calling JD Vance weird. Here it is.

00:03:32.880 Some of what he and his running mate are saying, well, it's just plain weird.

00:03:40.460 These guys are just weird. That's where they are. As weird and creepy, uh, as JD Vance.

00:03:45.920 Super weird idea from JD Vance. Yeah, it's not. I mean, it's quite weird. They're just plain weird.

00:03:51.620 Just plain weird. Just plain weird. That stuff is weird. They come across weird and then they start

00:03:57.460 being weird. Yeah, they're weird. Being a really weird. He's such a weirdo. Donald Trump and his weirdo

00:04:02.080 running mate. They're weird. Deeply and profoundly weird. They are weird. These Republicans just 1.00

00:04:07.000 being weird. It's just weird. It's really weird. Republican weirdness goes even deeper. He said a

00:04:13.080 lot of things that are weird, a weird style that he brings, weird policies. Let's start with the weird

00:04:18.820 thing because it is a thing. Just plain weird. What was weird was talking about Diet Mountain Dew.

00:04:24.520 Who drinks Diet Mountain Dew? Whoever seen the guy laugh, that seems very weird to me that an adult can go

00:04:30.860 through six and a half years of being in the public eye. If he has laughed, it's at someone,

00:04:34.840 not with someone. That, that is weird behavior. Wow. Wow. Who, uh, who's writing the memos? This is

00:04:45.300 unbelievable coordination. I mean, I stand in awe at the, the system the left has built to where they can

00:04:55.700 get everyone to walk in lockstep overnight. Kamala Harris is horrible. She's the worst vice president. 1.00

00:05:05.320 She is hated by everybody. She can't keep anybody on her staff. Um, uh, she is unlikable, 1.00

00:05:12.580 unworkable. She's not the replacement overnight. She's a genius. She's a genius. You don't know how 1.00

00:05:20.980 great she is. Did you know that? I mean, far from being very, very, very busy helping the president

00:05:27.900 run the country every day. She's also a marvelous cook. There's a story out in the, I think it's in

00:05:33.960 the New York times today about what a health addict she is and her, I mean, you have to see her exercise 1.00

00:05:40.740 routine. It is unbelievable. They're all in lockstep. And I, you know, I know that this is true. We know

00:05:51.560 this is, is the way it works, but it is awesome in its weirdness, creepiness, and quite honestly, uh,

00:06:02.620 Orwellian way to watch this happen in real time. Now, let me tell you what I think they're doing.

00:06:14.920 I think that they are very wisely changing the tone of the conversation and they're going with

00:06:26.200 Kamala's weird laugh. Isn't that great? He's just weird. And they're trying to change the tone

00:06:36.120 from, uh, a grumpy old man. You're a danger to the, uh, democracy to, it's just weird, isn't it?

00:06:46.380 They're just weird. They are trying to soften themselves from the possibility of being a fascist

00:06:54.320 dictator to just somebody like you that just looks at things and goes, that's weird, isn't it? Now you

00:07:00.680 may not do that, but they're also trying to make it, uh, a campaign for the, the younger set,

00:07:08.040 you know, those people that are, well, weirdly younger.

00:07:16.820 I wouldn't, uh, I would not dismiss what they're doing right now.

00:07:24.320 I think this is a, this coupled with, uh, uh, black women or white women for Kamala, black men

00:07:37.220 for Kamala, uh, you know, one-legged Asians for Kamala. I just, I, I don't get it until you start 1.00

00:07:47.780 to think perhaps, perhaps they are softening things by almost mocking themselves. That's the way they're

00:07:59.000 not. But I think they are trying to appear as though it's all tongue in cheek.

00:08:05.760 I think it's a good strategy if that's what they're doing. Uh, but it is, it's, uh, awesome

00:08:15.580 in its evilness to watch.

00:08:17.760 It does seem like something like the white dudes for Kamala is a little bit tongue in cheek.

00:08:22.200 They do seem to be playing that up a little bit, but I, I think it'd be the party of fun.

00:08:27.280 Yeah. They're going to be party fun. Remember she said, and we're going to have a lot of fun with

00:08:30.900 this. Aren't we Barack? We're going to have a lot of fun with this. It's, it's interesting that you

00:08:35.540 bring this up because I had the same sort of thought yesterday as I was watching all this,

00:08:41.720 you know, the weird coverage. And, um, I, I think we're probably in the minority. And I think that

00:08:48.520 most people just look at this on the, on the right and just like, okay, they're just trying this crazy

00:08:52.140 stuff. The only reason I would say it's notable is that they've tried the same tactic on Donald

00:08:57.920 Trump for so long that he, it's like global warming, increasing levels of doom, right? 0.99

00:09:03.720 Every time you talk about Donald Trump, it's, he's a fascist. He's a, he's a dictator. He's 0.99

00:09:08.440 Hitler. He's going to stop democracy. And they just keep escalating. Oh, it's Handmaid's Tale. 0.71

00:09:12.600 And they've tried that so many times, this one note strategy against him that I think trying

00:09:18.780 anything different is probably wise for them. What they do now and they doesn't work and Trump knows

00:09:25.400 how to respond to it. This is a little bit different. And so far, like it's been basically

00:09:30.560 JD Vance on his heels saying, I'm not weird. I swear. I like children. Uh, I like, I like my kids

00:09:36.080 and it's like, Oh, well that's crazy. It's weird. I mean, that's nonsense, especially with the stuff

00:09:41.240 that they promote. Obviously it's crazy, but at least maybe is a little bit of a changeup from what

00:09:47.520 they've done every other day for the past five years. Yeah. Because what you are, what you're

00:09:54.380 doing is you're forcing the right into a school marm position. Oh, is that weird that we like

00:10:02.080 children that we, that we think families are good? Well, you know, what's weird is the Paris

00:10:07.220 Olympics with testicles popping out everywhere, right? And it is weird sound, even though you're 0.99

00:10:14.040 accurate, you sound like the school marm. The, the, the happy warrior wins.

00:10:23.360 I think that's their strategy, right? I think it could pay off. And it's a little bit of,

00:10:28.380 again, I don't know that it works. Remember, this is a, this is a party that's losing, right? So

00:10:33.740 trying something different is what you do in these moments. And so I'm just trying, I don't want to

00:10:38.380 oversell it. Like this is some brilliant strategy. I'm just saying that changing here is probably wise,

00:10:43.820 not to mention, it's one of those things you've talked about a million times, Glenn,

00:10:47.300 of making your weakness, your strength. They are weird. What they want is weird. It's a very good

00:10:54.120 descriptor of what they're trying to do to this country. It is very weird. It is very strange,

00:10:59.240 but there's, they're saying it in a way to disarm the attack against them. Everyone knows the fact

00:11:05.780 that we just had a presidential campaign launch on RuPaul's drag race is weird. That's weird.

00:11:13.820 Having, pulling, taking the candidate who won the nomination and replacing him three months before

00:11:21.140 an election is weird. All that stuff is weird, but they're almost using this in a way to, is that

00:11:27.520 how you see it? Do you think they're trying to disarm the attack that's obviously more applicable to

00:11:32.820 them? Yes. This isn't normal. This is weird. You know, this is weird. This has not happened before.

00:11:40.280 It's none of this is, is, is normal. And so they immediately turn and go, you know, he's weird.

00:11:50.040 He's really weird. Have you heard what they're saying? They're weird. And they're, they are

00:11:55.680 bringing the temperature down. They are seeming like the fun people that they are. Cause she didn't

00:12:04.380 really talk about anything. She didn't know what she'd say. I mean, I did, you know, the Venn diagrams.

00:12:11.100 We're just having fun with this. That's all we're doing. We're just like you. That's what's happening.

00:12:17.800 And it's incredible.

00:12:18.540 And it is, if that's what they're doing, I think it's brilliant and, and dangerous for the Republic

00:12:25.980 because she is weird. She is not normal. She is not a traditional candidate. There is no way 1.00

00:12:38.300 that Kamala Harris could ever become president unless you took her as the most unpopular candidate 0.97

00:12:47.080 in the race. And you put her as the vice president. And then you had some guy who was

00:12:53.940 so wildly incompetent and, uh, and so dangerous for the country that you put her in and you put 0.91

00:13:03.020 her in at the last minute before anybody can really talk to her again and refresh everybody's mind, 0.66

00:13:09.920 who she is, give her very little rope. She's got a very little time to offend everybody and to, uh, 1.00

00:13:18.700 do anything but a soft shoe dance. That's the only way you get her in as president. No, 1.00

00:13:27.720 no one, no Democrat would elect her. If it started back last year and she had debates,

00:13:35.780 it would never work. And now you're going to be able to have the most, she is more progressive 0.88

00:13:43.960 than Barack Obama. I don't think she's more progressive than big Mike, but she's much more

00:13:50.500 progressive than Barack Obama. She believes it to the core of her being. And she is, she was raised

00:13:58.180 by Berkeley professors. You know, what's weird. That's weird. The only way you can get her in 0.59

00:14:06.900 is in a very short time period, have her come in when it's an emergency and everybody has to agree

00:14:14.220 with her. Make sure that you got the press in lockstep and, and just, we're just having fun with

00:14:21.380 this. We're not taking, you don't take that seriously. Like, Oh, I got to do that.

00:14:29.100 Dangerous, very dangerous for our side. And I'm not saying she's going to win. I'm saying,

00:14:35.980 don't take this lightly. It's a real threat to not only the candidacy, but also the country.

00:14:42.680 What happened with the GOP convention? Why did everybody feel so good after that? Because it was

00:14:54.660 happy and joyful. And that's something we haven't felt in a long time. We're used to people saying the

00:15:03.320 worst things about one another. When they come out with something like weird, that's just weird.

00:15:09.880 That's not offensive at all. And you can kind of laugh about that. It is kind of weird, isn't it?

00:15:17.960 You know, I don't think I can vote for them because that is weird, but you're just, you're just so much

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00:16:42.100 program and we really want to thank you for listening. I want to play a couple of things here. Just a couple

00:16:48.380 of pieces of audio that I don't know I'm a little uncomfortable with. Here's white women for Kamala 1.00

00:16:56.480 cut one about women's privilege. White women. I mean here we are. I have to admit when I was writing 0.82

00:17:03.520 stuff down I was like Karen's for Kamala. I don't know. You know why is it so difficult as Glennon was

00:17:09.100 saying to acknowledge and address ourselves as white women. But here we are and I am so proud for all of

00:17:18.320 us to be together as women as white women. We are the ones that have the privilege of course and we

00:17:25.920 too have had to fight and continue to fight for our equality, our selfhood, our freedom. But we have

00:17:34.120 whatever privileges our male white male counterparts have had the mercy and good sense to bestow on us

00:17:39.400 and then whatever else of it we have managed to take for ourselves. Often being led by as many have said

00:17:45.900 earlier tonight the leadership of our sisters of color who have fought and fought and continue to

00:17:53.640 fight for their righteous place on God's green earth. Yeah yeah so white women have the privilege 1.00

00:18:02.400 they're now apparently the the ruling class I think I think that's what she was saying uh and she they 0.90

00:18:10.200 wanted to make it very clear when they when they started this zoom call one of the influencers uh

00:18:16.660 really wanted to make sure that nobody makes any mistakes on this phone call cut for I'm going to

00:18:22.880 share some do's and don'ts for getting involved in politics online don't make it about yourself

00:18:27.760 as white women we need to use our privilege to make positive changes if you find yourself talking 1.00

00:18:34.700 over or speaking for BIPOC individuals or god forbid correcting them just take a beat and instead we 0.74

00:18:41.980 can put our listening ears on so do learn from and amplify the voices of those who have been historically

00:18:49.000 marginalized and use the privilege you have in order to push for systemic change as white people we

00:18:57.000 have a lot to learn and unlearn so do check your blind spots okay all right well let's let's bring

00:19:07.420 on Bridget Phetasy um and please please check your blind spot Bridget if you will please please

00:19:15.940 acknowledge that I'm the most powerful person on this call right now yeah you are you have all the

00:19:23.480 white women privilege and you're you really are going to be the one that turns this whole thing 1.00

00:19:29.480 around you white women Glenn do you understand that it is up to me and my people to save the world 0.98

00:19:35.640 literally save the world it is up to us if we don't get it together the world will end

00:19:43.460 yeah they said that you I know you're you know that they said that yesterday that it is up to the

00:19:51.900 white women oh my gosh do women I mean are there a lot of women that think this way that are like 1.00

00:20:04.120 fine with you know what I just have to I have so much to learn and so little uh to say and so much

00:20:11.600 to unlearn uh but I'm the most powerful person here what are you talking about oh my gosh it's such a

00:20:19.900 weird humble brag in a strange way it's like at the same time you're saying you are you know I was

00:20:28.100 saying this yesterday to you actually and talking to my friends about this you have to have the world

00:20:32.680 view you have to start with the premise that it's it is actually white supremacy you have to believe

00:20:39.320 you are better than everyone else and that it is up to you to lift up all of these people

00:20:46.020 these poor people who can't help themselves and speak to everybody like their toddlers 0.59

00:20:52.480 we need to put our listening ears on and talk oh my gosh like it's it's insanity but I do think it's a

00:21:02.280 way for people I mean what is more important than saving the world while also somehow humbling 0.92

00:21:10.600 yourself and recognizing your privilege it's it is it's still all ego it's so gross it's so gross

00:21:20.260 is is this about this popular is is this gonna work Bridget I mean I don't know it's weird it's like I

00:21:31.480 went offline for a couple days just to take a break from mainlining x and I came back on and it was like

00:21:39.060 2016 with flavors of 2020 all over again and this didn't it didn't work in 2016 you know all of this

00:21:49.220 like they I feel like oh we're just gonna run a very unlikable politician that people have openly said

00:21:57.040 they don't like we're gonna astroturf the entire media with oh look at how cool this person is with

00:22:04.240 celebrities and white dudes for harris and white women for kamala weird weird zoom calls we're gonna

00:22:12.840 make it seem like this is all very popular except it's not and then they're gonna be out marching in

00:22:20.380 their in their knitted pink hats you know the day after the election I mean I don't think this feels

00:22:28.020 like it feels like um I I don't I don't know it feels manufactured to me all of it

00:22:36.780 okay so let me ask you this you heard that everybody's now calling Trump and JD Vance weird and I think

00:22:46.360 it's weird that everybody started saying it at the same time um and I think Bridget that this is

00:22:53.220 this is a the new strategy where he was a danger to the republic people are so sick and tired of

00:23:01.200 hearing all of this and they just want somebody just to be normal with them and so I think it's a way

00:23:07.560 to have you know Donald Trump or whoever say the woman is a socialist and then they go you know

00:23:16.260 they're just weird they're just weird I mean I'm more like you we're just laughing it off

00:23:21.280 that seems to me to be a dangerous strategy for the right I'm I'm I'm obsessed with this weird

00:23:31.580 thing this morning I was going down all these rabbit holes for numerous reasons one it's clearly like

00:23:36.540 the memo went out and this is you know blatant astroturfing then there's the strange weaponization

00:23:43.500 of the word weird by a party that has generally that has been cool coded it's been Lady Gaga was

00:23:53.020 weird and her little monsters and this was something that was always very left-wing dominated we're gonna

00:23:59.760 make weird cool so they were the ones who said no you can't use weird but then there was all this

00:24:07.060 language of ableism that came out and you couldn't say crazy and you couldn't say insane and you couldn't

00:24:11.840 and I was looking at all the lists this morning and weird is either it's been retroactively removed

00:24:17.920 which I wouldn't be surprised but it might have been the one word that they were like hey what can

00:24:23.320 we call him that we're not going to get yelled at for and weird isn't on any of these lists strangely

00:24:29.240 and as I was talking to my editor at the spectator about we were texting and he was saying you know

00:24:35.260 to win the general you have to seem normal and it's whoever is normal and now they've made weird

00:24:43.240 this you know step to creepy like one step away from creepy but I don't know if you should be doing

00:24:50.900 that if you have guys like Sam Britton and Rachel Levine on your side I mean this you you can't that

00:24:59.100 seems like a bad idea for the left to make weird one step away from creepy because they have way more

00:25:06.780 weird people that represent them than I would say the mainstream right wing if I may however um you know

00:25:19.340 it's always the happy warrior that American what America wants to be with and so if they are if they

00:25:26.220 are seen as almost mocking themselves you know Karen's for for Kamala um and they're not taking

00:25:34.580 themselves so seriously even though on the call they took themselves like godlike seriously um and uh

00:25:42.920 and they're calling them weird and then you say uh really that's weird how about the dude that's

00:25:50.960 stealing women's suitcases that you had watching over our nukes and then they their response is see

00:25:58.240 I mean you're just bigoted in hatred full of hatred I mean you're weird um but you're also bigoted and

00:26:05.380 we're just having I keep coming back to what she said at the very end of that phone call with uh

00:26:12.400 Barack and Michelle or Big Mike uh she said and we're gonna have a lot of fun with this aren't we

00:26:19.040 and it was so fake but I think that's what they're going for I think they're just gonna just laugh their

00:26:24.400 way through this it's just gonna be fun we're just gonna have fun yeah I think they realized a couple

00:26:32.300 of things uh which is it's smart of them to course correct they seem to have leaned back into okay

00:26:41.400 America isn't horrible like we've been saying and preaching and academia and we're gonna re-embrace

00:26:48.760 the American flag they seem to have been saying like they realized you know the BRNC for whatever

00:26:59.960 you know idiocracy it might have seemed like it was fun it was like people having fun and I was

00:27:06.680 saying this on Twitter they're like oh look what they're projecting I'm like they're projecting fun

00:27:11.180 this thing that Americans like to have and generally have and I think they're realizing they're not

00:27:17.300 seen as the fun party they're seen as the the scolds now and the pearl clutchers and and the 0.99

00:27:25.040 authoritarians who are checking everyone's language and and so I don't know it's they're not going to

00:27:30.980 be able that's not you can't be you can't say this is the this is a weird paradox you can't say this is

00:27:38.460 the end of democracy and oh look how weird J.D. Vance is that doesn't it doesn't carry this they're

00:27:46.360 trying to like walk this tightrope and I don't think they're going to be able to do it you can't

00:27:51.260 be calling everybody bigoted and racist and that this is a fascist takeover of America and then be

00:27:59.020 like look at how weird he is yucka yucka yucka it's it's not it's like weird it's that's weird 0.85

00:28:07.740 yes it it is it is awfully strange um however it might work for a limited time uh you know that

00:28:17.980 that was the thing that I think the GOP had going for it this year was it was full of joy and it was

00:28:23.840 fun and uh you know it was like a respite from the end of the world and it was still serious

00:28:32.120 had its serious moments when it needed to be but it was fun and I think that's what gave the wind in

00:28:38.280 the sails of uh the Republicans and Donald Trump and I think that's what they're going for I could be

00:28:45.800 wrong this is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast to hear more of this interview check out the full

00:28:51.340 episode anywhere podcasts are found welcome to the program London Roberts the author of out of the

00:28:58.480 shadows a new book uh about her relationship uh with the president's son and uh having the

00:29:07.460 granddaughter that the president's family doesn't seem to uh want to recognize I just want to give

00:29:13.980 you her bio here because I've never heard anything like this from the media London Roberts is a

00:29:21.320 mother an author and a financial officer and a financial officer from Batesville Arkansas her all-star

00:29:28.800 basketball career uh culminated at Arkansas State University where she was a McDonald's all-American

00:29:35.100 nominee shooting guard she also studied criminal justice and psychology she went on to Washington DC

00:29:41.940 for the most prestigious CSI training in the country that's where she met and began a relationship

00:29:49.040 with Hunter Biden she served as Biden's executive assistant at Rosemont Seneca and other business

00:29:55.520 entities now serves as the financial controller for a family-owned business uh Rob Roberts custom gunworks

00:30:02.600 she is the mother of Navy President Biden's seventh grandchild she is in the process of launching a new

00:30:08.440 fashion line serves as an advocate for women in unplanned pregnancies welcome London Roberts how are you

00:30:16.900 hi I'm good Glenn how are you very good um why is it the press has made you into just a stripper

00:30:25.600 you know I'm not I'm not so sure I've sat back and um you know allowed whatever narrative to be thrown my

00:30:34.380 way and you know it seemed that you know everyone had um a different narrative than than what the the truth

00:30:42.500 was and um so were you ever a stripper well you know in in my book out of this in the book out of the shadows I um I talk

00:30:54.500 about living in DC and um I talk about you know uh there's a chapter called on the pole and you know what that

00:31:02.700 consists of I would love people to buy it and read that part for themselves um because the media has put so much of a

00:31:10.400 narrative around that part and that part plays such a little role in the actual truth and the story of

00:31:16.980 everything that actually happened and you know I didn't know how did you

00:31:21.240 you did not meet him at the club I did not meet him at a strip club um I met Hunter through a mutual

00:31:29.600 friend that had invited me to go to like I say an after party but it really wasn't a party it was just

00:31:35.980 um some people hanging out having drinks and and just talking and um it wasn't like your college

00:31:43.140 after party but it was actually held at Rosemont Seneca which was Hunter's firm and at the house

00:31:49.400 of Sweden and I actually met him that night and got to know him how did you become his executive

00:31:56.340 assistant so I got to know him after after that night um I stayed up I talk about you know that

00:32:03.320 encounter and finding out who he was and seeing this demon that he was battling and having this

00:32:07.900 empathy for him and you know a relationship developed and I began to care for him and I

00:32:13.580 began to fall in love with him and you know it developed for over a year there would be times

00:32:17.960 where you know I talk about throughout the book even Hallie his his sister-in-law confided in me and

00:32:24.240 said you know Hunter trusts you and that's something that you know is is hard to come by like he doesn't

00:32:29.260 trust a whole lot of people and you know we we developed this friendship you know and then

00:32:34.000 it led on into you know a relationship and and then you know I start working for him and I talk

00:32:42.380 about how you know I start doing like little ins and outs like executive assistant type work where

00:32:46.540 I'm doing um like running errands for him and things to that nature and then um then I'm like

00:32:53.720 meeting Katie Dodge his other assistant at the office to go over and you know help like she's showing 0.73

00:32:58.920 me how you know to pay the bills to do all this other stuff moving his stuff you know he had he

00:33:03.960 had just gone through a divorce moving furniture to storage units into the house and stuff like

00:33:09.200 that so you know I was I was it developed over time I didn't immediately become his assistant but you

00:33:15.420 know over time when our relationship developed and um this friendship developed and and we begin

00:33:20.760 to get closer is what I thought then you know he he wanted me to be his assistant and so I hopped on

00:33:27.400 board and thought that was you know such a great idea and I ended up in the situation I'm in today

00:33:33.980 so did you know the side of Hunter Biden that we now know because of the laptop

00:33:42.320 um I would say yes and no because you know Hunter of course as as he's been candid about and as we see

00:33:51.540 from the laptop was in a really dark place and he was battling addiction and I um the first few

00:33:59.000 chapters of the book you know I explain meeting him and caring for him and loving him and and you

00:34:04.660 know I think anybody that has loved or cared for someone that's suffering from addiction

00:34:08.560 can resonate with that with that part of the book because it's hard you feel like you know you're

00:34:14.200 enabling and you're not you know doing your part like you should have to you know help him get that

00:34:21.500 that that change you know there was even one chapter that you know I talk about I thought Hunter's

00:34:27.340 life was going to end that night he had consumed so many drugs and he was a he was at the worst day

00:34:32.280 I'd ever seen him and you know he found his way to me because he knew that I'd take care of him

00:34:36.300 and I did I sat there with the phone in my hand that entire night wondering you know listening to

00:34:42.100 his breathing and crying and praying and wondering you know my should I call 9-1-1 but if I do and I

00:34:47.080 call the ambulance and get them here yes I save his life but I knew I knew Hunter well enough to know

00:34:52.440 that he hated being the black sheep of his family and that's what he felt like he felt like he was

00:34:56.180 constantly a disappointment and his scandal-plagued son you know and so I knew that if I did that then

00:35:03.840 he would hate me forever and never speak to me again so I sit there and I monitored his breathing

00:35:07.800 the entire night I got him water I tried to you know make him drink it and um you know there there

00:35:14.060 are some dark times and there are some dark chapters that that bring out that place that he was in

00:35:18.840 during that time but you know there's also some chapters that that show the good that was in him

00:35:25.160 too the good that I saw the good that I fell in love with you know I may have been young and dumb

00:35:29.440 naive but um there was a good side to him that I seen and that I fell in love with do you still love

00:35:38.320 him no I'll always care about Hunter because you know he he blessed me with the greatest blessing I

00:35:45.500 could have ever asked for and that was my daughter but you know uh I talk about the last time I I felt

00:35:53.160 like I was in love with him is is around pregnancy time you know I was that's when our relationship

00:35:59.300 ended and he said that he was going to be there for me and um I scheduled a um a sonogram to hear

00:36:06.860 the baby's heartbeat for the first time and I scheduled it in Annapolis because that's where his

00:36:11.240 house was at the time that he was staying in so I wanted to make it easier for him and he actually

00:36:16.640 didn't show up and I listened to our baby's heartbeat alone and every sonogram after that I went to alone

00:36:21.880 and you know that you'll fall out of love when you go through um something like that and you know

00:36:30.100 you drove yourself to the hospital to give birth alone an hour and a half if I'm not mistaken 0.51

00:36:35.080 in labor I drove I drove to the hospital after um the water my water broke um I drove to all my

00:36:42.960 appointments I went in to you know I went in the back I did all the sonogram I did the I did the whole

00:36:48.060 pregnancy thing alone and um it I blamed him for a long time because I felt like he put me in such

00:36:56.160 a dark place where I contemplated taking my own life but you know it I talk about how you know I

00:37:03.220 have to be I'm accountable for my own feelings and getting myself in that dark place even though he

00:37:08.840 didn't show up and he didn't do his part it's still you know mental health is still on me and that

00:37:13.680 was you know a hole that I had to dig myself out of and you know I talk about the faith of a mustard

00:37:18.780 seed and the maternal instinct and mother's love that I have for my daughter is what got me out of

00:37:24.660 that dark place and you know allowed me to stand here today and and tell my story

00:37:29.080 so why won't they recognize Navy you know that's something I just I don't know I've I've never been

00:37:41.580 able to answer that question because I can't I can't imagine how embracing a child would

00:37:47.300 hurt anyone's image I think it would be a feather in their cap to you know acknowledge a child and

00:37:53.160 and and love one I don't understand you you talk in the book about this time when you guys you and

00:38:01.940 Navy you're the nail salon and she sees grandpa up on TV and she says that's my grandpa and you say

00:38:09.780 keep your voice down but yes it is and you have a conversation with her that he's very busy right

00:38:16.800 now but when he's done he's going to come and see her do you believe that um she's actually the one

00:38:25.500 that says you know um when I have oh she says that yes when I have the conversation with her you know

00:38:31.940 she wants to know she's getting to that age or she had gotten to that age where she's like you know

00:38:37.200 so and so has a mom and dad and I only have a mom and so another person has a mom and dad and I only

00:38:42.420 have a mom like do I not have a dad and so I tell her you know I I talk about I want her to be

00:38:47.440 resilient I want her to be open-minded I want her to have grace I want her to have forgiveness in her

00:38:51.440 heart even to people who might not deserve it or ask for it and you know I talk about being open with

00:38:57.660 her and just telling her yes you know you you do have a dad and um well what's his name you know

00:39:05.000 and she wants to see him and I show her a picture and I talk about how I just tell her I don't know

00:39:11.940 what to tell her you know because she's she's too young to comprehend just everything and so I tell

00:39:17.020 her you know that her dad's a really busy man he lives far away because she wants to know why doesn't

00:39:22.180 my dad come visit me and so I make excuses and I tell her that you know he he's a busy man he lives

00:39:28.180 far away and then you know I tell her what her grandfather does and she says oh so that's why

00:39:34.840 they don't come to visit me because he's out helping other people because I tell her the role that he

00:39:39.720 plays with you know being the leader of the free world yeah and she says oh so that's why he don't

00:39:46.780 come to see me because he's out visiting or he's out helping other people but when he's done helping

00:39:50.840 them then he'll come see me right and I'm like I can only hope so sis you know I don't have an answer

00:39:56.560 for that and and I don't and I've said from the beginning you know I'll be open with maybe as open

00:40:03.700 as I possibly can um and someday if if she hates that side of the family it will be because of their 0.96

00:40:13.120 actions and what they did and didn't do it won't be because of me I won't instill that hatred in her

00:40:18.680 heart I don't want her to carry that hatred in her heart but someday she's gonna feel that hatred

00:40:25.340 and you know that's that's a burden that I hope that will be her for her to find and discover you're

00:40:32.980 doing the right thing I think don't don't ever don't ever do anything but say um the truth and

00:40:40.900 the good things that you remember let her find everything else herself she'll find the truth

00:40:45.540 eventually it's uh it's it's good to talk to you and uh our our sympathy is is with navy um I think

00:40:54.880 most americans democrats and republicans think this is insanity the way this whole thing has been

00:41:01.380 handled uh and uh I worry about her future as I think many americans do

00:41:07.540 London thank you uh I worry um out of the shadows is the name of the book out of the shadows by

00:41:17.420 London Roberts the uh author and the mother of navy the seventh grandchild of the president of the

00:41:25.700 United States

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