The Megyn Kelly Show - July 03, 2024


Is This the End for President Biden? More Democrats and the Press Call for Biden to Resign, with Charles C.W. Cooke and MBD | Ep. 829


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 36 minutes

Words per Minute

162.79669

Word Count

15,782

Sentence Count

297

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

The dam is starting to break against President Joe Biden, as more Democrats and media raise questions about his ability to continue to lead. For the first time, we are seeing indications that President Biden himself is seriously considering whether he can recover from that devastating debate performance.


Transcript

00:00:00.500 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:00:12.040 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:00:16.120 Oh my lord.
00:00:18.420 We are drinking from the fire hose of news today, all about President Biden.
00:00:22.680 And we are nearing, I believe, the end for him.
00:00:26.900 It is one day before our nation celebrates our independence.
00:00:30.000 And in our 248 years, we have never experienced anything quite like what we are witnessing right now.
00:00:37.220 The dam is starting to break against President Joe Biden.
00:00:40.700 As more Democrats and media raise questions about his ability to continue to lead.
00:00:46.120 For the first time, we are seeing indications, at least in the media,
00:00:50.800 that President Biden himself is seriously considering whether he can recover from that devastating debate performance.
00:00:58.420 The New York Times, moments ago, out with this headline, quote,
00:01:03.060 Biden told Ally that he is weighing whether to continue in the race.
00:01:08.840 After the article published, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said it was absolutely false,
00:01:14.860 adding that if the New York Times had provided us with more than seven minutes to comment,
00:01:18.340 we would have told them so.
00:01:19.700 A denial does not make it false.
00:01:22.320 It is the Biden White House saying it's false.
00:01:24.540 But the New York Times claiming to have a source whom they describe as a Biden ally saying it's so.
00:01:31.320 This is just the latest in the drip, drip, drip coming from publications like the Times and the Washington Post.
00:01:36.700 And I could go on.
00:01:37.500 In a significant development late last night, the Washington Post reporting that former President Obama
00:01:43.520 has privately told allies that Mr. Biden's, quote,
00:01:47.160 already tough path to reelection grew more challenging after his shaky debate performance, end quote,
00:01:54.860 and that he's spoken directly to Mr. Biden to, quote, offer his support.
00:01:58.520 Remember what we discussed yesterday.
00:02:00.720 James Carville saying Obama and Bill Clinton that their role here is more ceremonial.
00:02:05.960 They will not lead this effort, at least not publicly.
00:02:10.180 Puck News is reporting on leaked.
00:02:13.880 This may be the most important thing you hear today.
00:02:16.160 Internal polling from Democrats that confirms some of their worst fears that Joe Biden is hemorrhaging support,
00:02:25.480 especially in the battleground states in the wake of this debate.
00:02:29.680 And what's more, previously non-competitive states are now in play.
00:02:34.900 New Mexico, New Hampshire, Virginia, which could hand the White House back to former President Trump
00:02:42.580 in a landslide victory for him.
00:02:47.400 We will go over this polling in detail.
00:02:49.200 And as we mentioned at the top, there has been a special kind of betrayal of President Biden.
00:02:55.960 I'm sure that's how he would see it from The New York Times, which has in the past been among the worst offenders in falsely propping up President Biden
00:03:06.180 in response to any attack on his age or apparent infirmity.
00:03:10.740 Less than two weeks ago, the Times published a piece on all the, quote, misleading videos from conservatives that, quote,
00:03:19.660 twisted mundane moments to paint him in an unflattering light when it comes to his age issues.
00:03:26.960 Get ready for some political whiplash because the great lady is now bashing the elderly president
00:03:32.640 and using those very same videos to do it.
00:03:36.980 Apparently now they see them differently.
00:03:39.900 Reporting that he is increasingly confused or listless, forgetting names, mixing up facts, freezing,
00:03:48.920 that he's shown a sharp decline just within the past few months,
00:03:53.700 that he was given and required nap time during his debate prep, which only began each day at Camp David at 11 a.m.
00:04:06.700 The White House says, well, he worked out and did other work prior to showing up at 11.
00:04:12.580 Special afternoon nap time for the leader of the free world.
00:04:16.960 And then there's this frightening assessment from a former U.S. official
00:04:20.060 who helped prepare the president ahead of his recent G7 trip.
00:04:26.460 This official was asked by The New York Times.
00:04:28.580 They went back to him.
00:04:29.840 If one could imagine putting Mr. Biden into the same room with President Putin of Russia,
00:04:36.780 the official responded, I just don't know.
00:04:40.400 And the Times pointing out that a European official involved in all of this responded more clearly and flatly.
00:04:47.040 No, we would be remiss if we did not mention this.
00:04:51.800 Just two days ago, the Supreme Court issued its opinion on presidential immunity,
00:04:56.560 noting that, quote, unlike anyone else, the president is a branch of government
00:05:02.040 and the Constitution vests in him sweeping powers and duties.
00:05:08.980 Apparently, Barack Obama's Homeland Security secretary, who is also a lawyer, may need a refresher on this.
00:05:16.240 Listen to what Jay Johnson said on MSNBC.
00:05:21.140 This isn't trying to reassure us about a second Biden term, about President Biden and the presidency.
00:05:28.200 A presidency is more than just one man, one woman.
00:05:31.980 It's an administration.
00:05:32.840 I would take Joe Biden's worst day at age 86, so long as he has people around him like Avril Haynes,
00:05:42.360 Samantha Power, Gina Raimondo, supporting him over Donald Trump any day.
00:05:48.020 No, sir, the president is not more than one man.
00:05:53.320 Most Americans don't even know the names of the people you just mentioned.
00:05:56.640 They did not vote for them, and they would not be voting for them this November.
00:06:01.400 The presidency is just one person, and the current person holding the office is in serious political trouble.
00:06:10.540 Joining me now, two of our favorites for NR Day here at the MK Show, Charles C.W. Cook is a senior writer for National Review
00:06:19.980 and host of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast, and Michael Brendan Doherty is also a senior writer for National Review.
00:06:25.760 You can find all of their work by becoming an NR Plus subscriber.
00:06:28.580 Highly recommend.
00:06:29.660 And you should do it today.
00:06:30.860 Charles MBD, welcome back to the show on what's turning out to be really a momentous day.
00:06:36.880 The White House had done a decent job of battening down the hatches and trying to stop the crisis.
00:06:46.140 It's failing, and the polling, I think, is at the heart of why it's failing.
00:06:52.340 Charles, your take on the outline that I just presented to the news today?
00:06:55.820 Well, I think that what you're seeing is one of the biggest media and party scandals in American history.
00:07:07.280 It seems abundantly clear to me what has happened here.
00:07:11.720 For months and years even, many people have said that Joe Biden was not up to the job,
00:07:20.140 and certainly that he wouldn't be up to the job for another four years, until 2029, when he'd be 86.
00:07:28.580 And those people were shouted at.
00:07:30.580 They were told they were wrong.
00:07:32.500 They were told that they were informed by cheap fakes,
00:07:36.280 that they were driven by partisan animus, and so on and so forth.
00:07:41.080 And that wasn't true, and most of the people who said that knew it wasn't true.
00:07:48.400 Now, the media has pressed the other button on the switchboard,
00:07:54.740 has gone completely in the opposite direction, and is now trying to force him out of the race.
00:07:59.780 Why?
00:08:00.280 Because it thinks he might lose.
00:08:02.080 It really is that simple.
00:08:03.180 This is not being driven by love of country or a fear that the executive branch is being run by somebody who is not up to it.
00:08:13.960 It is being driven by a preference for the survival and thriving of the Democratic Party.
00:08:21.460 And so the same press and Democratic establishment that has been telling American voters,
00:08:28.260 who never bought this, by the way, 86% of American voters think he's too old,
00:08:32.640 that they should not trust their own eyes for years,
00:08:36.720 is now insistent that they should trust their own eyes and that Biden has to go.
00:08:42.760 So I think it's worth our looking at this very real problem,
00:08:48.280 which is not just a problem of the media or of perception,
00:08:52.220 in its correct context, which is a scandal.
00:08:56.160 I mean, these people have been playing with the presidency.
00:08:59.840 They've been playing with the federal government.
00:09:02.180 They've been playing with the health and safety of the United States.
00:09:07.980 And they got caught.
00:09:10.140 And what we're now seeing unfold is the product of that.
00:09:13.920 Had they done their jobs when they knew?
00:09:16.200 And they knew.
00:09:17.040 There's a New York Post piece today about how Carl Bernstein,
00:09:20.780 that name ring a bell?
00:09:22.000 The guy who followed the lead to bring down Richard Nixon?
00:09:24.620 The guy who doesn't seem too worried about where stories lead,
00:09:28.360 even if they destroy a presidency,
00:09:31.040 knew for years what was going on.
00:09:33.340 I'd heard 15 to 20 times that the president was not up to it.
00:09:38.880 You know, this is a scandal that has been caused by a long-term cover-up,
00:09:44.700 by a press that is interested in one thing and one thing only,
00:09:47.960 which is the health of the Democratic Party
00:09:49.580 and its ability to beat Republicans.
00:09:52.640 MBD, Justice Charles was speaking.
00:09:55.300 This broke from Bloomberg News.
00:09:57.480 Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are considering signing a letter
00:10:02.200 demanding that President Joe Biden withdraw from this race,
00:10:05.900 according to a senior party official,
00:10:07.740 as panic mounts that he will cost them not only the presidency,
00:10:11.660 but control of Congress.
00:10:13.720 The dam broke yesterday on Democratic officials speaking out
00:10:16.700 about him running again.
00:10:18.180 We'll get to who spoke out and how.
00:10:20.700 But you've even had Nancy Pelosi
00:10:23.140 admitting that it's a fair question
00:10:25.440 whether this was an episode or an actual condition
00:10:28.240 the president suffered and showed evidence of.
00:10:31.380 You had James Clyburn,
00:10:32.900 the man who got him the nomination in 2020,
00:10:35.740 saying he backs Biden,
00:10:37.560 but he would back VP Harris if Biden steps aside.
00:10:41.420 You've had more Democrats on the record saying
00:10:43.780 Biden needs to step down.
00:10:46.280 We're going to lose with him.
00:10:48.620 And now this from Bloomberg.
00:10:50.480 Dozens, that's the number,
00:10:52.540 dozens of Democratic lawmakers
00:10:54.120 considering signing a letter demanding
00:10:55.740 that he withdraw from this race.
00:10:58.020 I don't think he has more than a week left.
00:10:59.720 Your thoughts?
00:11:01.380 I totally agree with you.
00:11:03.440 The signs were evident in the first minutes
00:11:05.480 after the debate when CNN just gave up.
00:11:08.920 I mean, CNN's entire panel
00:11:11.460 started openly mourning the Biden presidency
00:11:15.940 as if he had died on stage.
00:11:18.220 And you saw this proceeded in steps afterward.
00:11:23.020 Over the weekend,
00:11:24.380 the media came to its conclusion.
00:11:26.900 You saw the New York Times editorial board
00:11:28.960 say that Joe Biden,
00:11:30.600 for the good of the country,
00:11:31.760 has to step aside.
00:11:33.500 You saw editorial boards all over the country
00:11:35.460 for newspapers saying the same thing.
00:11:38.180 And then all the reporting
00:11:39.520 was about isolating the Biden family.
00:11:43.480 It was, oh, they're going to have a meeting on Sunday
00:11:47.060 and Jill Biden is going to be heavily influential.
00:11:51.200 The meeting happens.
00:11:52.460 The New York Times immediately reports.
00:11:54.360 Hunter Biden was the strongest advocate
00:11:56.580 for staying in and fighting it out.
00:12:01.320 Now, when the New York Times reports that,
00:12:03.020 they know what they're doing.
00:12:04.300 They're signaling to the public
00:12:07.140 that the president is now taking advice
00:12:10.040 from his ne'er-do-well son.
00:12:13.480 And that's who's giving him the advice to stay in.
00:12:16.760 So the pressure was on.
00:12:19.640 Now, there were other people
00:12:20.820 still taking the Biden side
00:12:22.360 in the most disgraceful performance of a lifetime,
00:12:27.080 something out of Tsarist Russia.
00:12:29.200 Mika Brzezinski went on warning Joe first thing
00:12:32.060 and gave a soliloquy about Joe Biden's character,
00:12:35.940 as if she were addressing this directly
00:12:37.760 to Jill and Hunter,
00:12:38.680 saying, hold on, stay in, we're with you.
00:12:42.220 But that consensus is falling apart.
00:12:44.420 Too much has been said.
00:12:45.960 Too much has been seen.
00:12:46.940 And the polls are disastrous.
00:12:50.080 So now they're scrambling to save the ship,
00:12:52.760 the party ship, as Charles says.
00:12:55.580 And the real point is,
00:12:58.940 I mean, what we saw last week
00:13:00.700 was the media
00:13:03.600 and lots of senior Democrats
00:13:06.240 have engaged in a fraud
00:13:08.480 and in a fraudulent use
00:13:10.260 of the chief executive power
00:13:12.120 of the United States.
00:13:13.780 Joe Biden is not in custody
00:13:15.240 of his faculties.
00:13:18.000 He is being held in custody
00:13:22.040 by his wife, his son,
00:13:24.540 and aides that no one's ever heard of,
00:13:26.300 like Annie Tomasini,
00:13:27.580 his deputy chief of staff,
00:13:29.300 or Jill Biden's senior aide,
00:13:31.140 Anthony Bernal.
00:13:31.960 These people are,
00:13:34.540 as Joe Biden becomes weaker
00:13:35.880 and more infirm,
00:13:37.720 their power increases.
00:13:39.980 So this is a fraud
00:13:41.360 and it has to end.
00:13:43.020 I mean, this shouldn't just end
00:13:44.420 with an announcement
00:13:45.760 that Joe Biden is going to
00:13:47.580 leave the race,
00:13:49.300 the 2020 race,
00:13:50.140 and let Democrats decide.
00:13:51.400 This should end very promptly
00:13:53.300 with Joe Biden's resignation
00:13:55.240 or his removal from office
00:13:56.900 and Kamala Harris becoming
00:13:58.760 president of the United States.
00:13:59.820 That's why we elect vice presidents.
00:14:01.360 It's for situations like this.
00:14:05.680 I never thought I'd advocate
00:14:06.900 for the elevation of Kamala Harris
00:14:08.720 to anything,
00:14:09.440 but he's not fit for the job.
00:14:12.100 Neither did I.
00:14:13.200 And I don't welcome this situation,
00:14:15.320 but this is what we do.
00:14:16.340 And Jill Biden went out and said,
00:14:18.640 you know, in the initial defense,
00:14:21.420 you know, he's not just
00:14:22.400 the man for the job.
00:14:23.560 He's the only man for the job.
00:14:25.780 It doesn't work like that.
00:14:27.040 We elect a successor
00:14:28.320 along with our president
00:14:30.360 when we elect a president
00:14:31.460 and we elect a successor
00:14:33.000 for just these circumstances.
00:14:35.540 And now after Thursday,
00:14:37.460 you know, for years,
00:14:38.120 I've believed he's unfit for office.
00:14:40.060 For years, I believed he's had
00:14:41.420 bad days and worse days
00:14:42.900 and that he was unreliable.
00:14:44.400 But after Thursday,
00:14:45.580 it became plain to everyone
00:14:48.280 that Joe Biden's presidency
00:14:50.340 has ended at some point
00:14:52.420 in the past.
00:14:53.120 And if it's ended,
00:14:55.660 it has to be succeeded
00:14:56.580 by Kamala Harris,
00:14:57.700 not by his aides,
00:14:59.220 not by the people around him,
00:15:01.360 according to MSNBC.
00:15:03.120 It has to be Harris
00:15:04.200 and they have to move on.
00:15:05.520 If they don't want her
00:15:05.980 to be the nominee,
00:15:07.000 let them decide that
00:15:07.780 at the convention.
00:15:09.180 If the American people
00:15:10.000 don't want her
00:15:10.500 to remain president,
00:15:11.640 we'll decide that in November.
00:15:13.500 You know, and that's,
00:15:14.500 that's it.
00:15:15.180 This is, that's what
00:15:16.000 the times call for now.
00:15:18.140 So this is what
00:15:19.040 our constitution provides.
00:15:20.400 Wait, this just in CNN
00:15:22.720 now reporting,
00:15:24.620 Joe Biden has privately
00:15:25.700 acknowledged that
00:15:26.960 the next stretch of days
00:15:28.160 will be critical
00:15:29.520 to whether he can save
00:15:30.680 his reelection bid
00:15:31.720 for president,
00:15:32.580 making clear to an ally Tuesday
00:15:34.180 that he understands
00:15:35.440 what would prompt him
00:15:37.100 to accept that he can't make it.
00:15:41.180 Quote, it's just not working.
00:15:42.840 It would be a scenario
00:15:43.900 in which, quote,
00:15:44.740 the polls are plummeting,
00:15:46.020 the fundraising is drying up
00:15:48.100 and the interviews
00:15:49.240 are going badly,
00:15:50.360 said that person.
00:15:51.600 Quote, he's not oblivious.
00:15:53.280 This is the same reporting.
00:15:54.780 And again,
00:15:55.320 they're quoting an ally.
00:15:56.340 That's who the New York Times
00:15:57.620 quoted as well,
00:15:58.420 an unnamed Biden ally.
00:16:00.020 The White House denied it.
00:16:01.300 Presumably they deny
00:16:02.300 this report as well.
00:16:03.380 But I mean,
00:16:04.520 when you see the same language
00:16:06.200 appearing in multiple publications,
00:16:07.520 that's somebody getting
00:16:08.440 out there,
00:16:09.900 arguably to soften the ground.
00:16:11.620 And what we,
00:16:12.980 you know,
00:16:13.120 at least two out of three of us
00:16:14.100 believe is about to come,
00:16:15.040 which is at some point soon
00:16:17.260 an announcement,
00:16:18.260 another update just hitting.
00:16:21.280 Democratic,
00:16:21.580 Democratic Representative Summer Lee,
00:16:23.780 Democrat from Pennsylvania,
00:16:24.820 just said in a radio interview,
00:16:26.700 this is per Scott McFarland
00:16:28.000 at CBS News,
00:16:29.160 time is not on our side.
00:16:30.840 We have a few months
00:16:31.480 to do a monumental task.
00:16:32.700 If our president decides
00:16:33.600 this is not a pathway forward for him,
00:16:36.180 that there is not one,
00:16:37.320 we have to move very quickly.
00:16:38.740 There's not going to be time
00:16:39.820 for a primary.
00:16:40.940 That time has passed.
00:16:42.420 The vice president
00:16:43.060 is the obvious choice.
00:16:44.320 She's sitting right there.
00:16:45.280 She's already been
00:16:46.060 in the White House
00:16:46.880 and has the name recognition
00:16:48.400 and has been on the trail
00:16:49.520 and the optics of pushing aside
00:16:51.240 a black woman
00:16:51.880 and Summer Lee
00:16:52.660 is one herself.
00:16:54.980 It's not good.
00:16:58.280 The,
00:16:58.780 the,
00:16:59.280 she's just the latest.
00:17:00.120 We,
00:17:00.280 we raised,
00:17:00.780 raised that because
00:17:01.440 she's just the latest
00:17:02.220 Charles Democrat
00:17:03.960 to break
00:17:05.740 with the party line.
00:17:07.200 There's a report out today
00:17:08.080 that Senator Joe Manchin
00:17:09.160 who's now an independent
00:17:10.080 but still caucuses
00:17:10.860 with the Dems
00:17:11.480 was ready to come out
00:17:12.760 on a Sunday show this week
00:17:14.000 and say Joe Biden
00:17:14.880 must not run.
00:17:16.720 Cannot be the party nominee.
00:17:18.200 He was pressured
00:17:18.900 by Chuck Schumer directly
00:17:20.340 and other top Dems
00:17:22.180 in leadership
00:17:22.760 not to do that.
00:17:24.460 That would be a,
00:17:25.180 a sitting U.S. senator
00:17:26.260 with some power,
00:17:27.260 some serious power
00:17:28.020 amongst independents
00:17:28.980 anyway and respect.
00:17:30.440 They stopped him.
00:17:31.980 They did not stop
00:17:33.180 Senator,
00:17:33.920 uh,
00:17:34.520 White House
00:17:35.020 from Rhode Island
00:17:36.600 from coming out
00:17:37.860 and saying
00:17:38.240 that the debate
00:17:39.020 was horrifying
00:17:40.160 and that Joe Biden
00:17:41.660 seriously needs to reflect
00:17:42.700 on whether he can continue.
00:17:44.460 And then
00:17:44.860 here's another top name,
00:17:46.960 uh,
00:17:47.180 Jamie Raskin,
00:17:48.320 uh,
00:17:48.940 speaking out
00:17:49.620 in a pretty telling way
00:17:52.060 on Chris Hayes' show
00:17:52.940 on MSNBC
00:17:53.580 last night,
00:17:54.880 Sop 15.
00:17:56.300 And I know
00:17:57.000 this is a moving target.
00:17:58.120 It's gotta happen quickly,
00:17:59.520 but I can guarantee you,
00:18:01.540 Chris Hayes,
00:18:02.100 there will be
00:18:02.860 massive unity
00:18:04.400 and focus
00:18:05.220 on that task
00:18:06.500 when we get to the end
00:18:07.500 of this process.
00:18:08.300 And it's happening
00:18:09.180 very quickly,
00:18:09.740 I think.
00:18:11.040 Okay.
00:18:11.840 It's happening
00:18:12.360 very quickly
00:18:13.100 and that there will be
00:18:14.740 massive support
00:18:15.480 for whomever emerges.
00:18:17.540 Charles,
00:18:18.020 what do you make of that?
00:18:18.640 I mean,
00:18:18.720 this is,
00:18:19.040 this is all breaking right now.
00:18:20.840 Well,
00:18:21.340 I think that there is
00:18:22.420 an enormous amount
00:18:23.300 of pressure
00:18:23.960 and it is indeed
00:18:26.400 moving fast,
00:18:27.460 but I also think
00:18:28.780 that the way
00:18:29.360 our system works
00:18:30.320 in practice
00:18:30.900 is that Joe Biden
00:18:32.800 has to acquiesce
00:18:34.980 and he is probably
00:18:37.160 the least likely person
00:18:38.640 to do so
00:18:40.000 that I can think of.
00:18:41.380 Now,
00:18:41.520 by that,
00:18:41.920 I don't mean
00:18:42.600 that he won't be forced
00:18:44.240 to eventually.
00:18:45.960 But Joe Biden
00:18:46.820 is not the man
00:18:47.840 that all of the entreaties
00:18:50.140 to him
00:18:51.480 pretend that he is.
00:18:52.860 If you read
00:18:53.680 the New York Times' editorial
00:18:55.620 asking him
00:18:56.280 to step aside
00:18:57.100 or any
00:18:58.500 of the press's
00:19:01.140 injunctions,
00:19:03.060 they say
00:19:03.740 he's a wonderful president
00:19:05.240 and a man
00:19:06.220 of great honor.
00:19:07.220 Well,
00:19:07.340 he's not.
00:19:08.300 He's a terrible president
00:19:09.580 and he is
00:19:11.180 a habitual liar.
00:19:13.380 Joe Biden,
00:19:14.120 until he was reinvented
00:19:15.360 in 2019,
00:19:16.720 because he had to be,
00:19:17.800 because he was running
00:19:18.500 against Donald Trump,
00:19:20.100 was a mediocre blowhard
00:19:22.600 whose fame
00:19:24.280 came from his saying
00:19:26.240 odd things to people,
00:19:28.200 his losing his temper
00:19:29.520 with members
00:19:30.260 of the public,
00:19:31.400 journalists,
00:19:32.160 voters alike,
00:19:33.340 and his having been
00:19:34.800 removed
00:19:35.960 from the presidential
00:19:37.660 primary
00:19:38.500 in the late 1980s,
00:19:40.800 87, 88,
00:19:41.800 because he had plagiarized
00:19:43.360 in Neil Kinnock's speech.
00:19:45.240 This is not a good man.
00:19:46.920 It's also not a man
00:19:48.340 who knows his limitations.
00:19:50.340 One of the reasons
00:19:51.140 that his presidency
00:19:52.180 has been such a disaster
00:19:53.720 is that he came in
00:19:55.560 in 2021
00:19:56.360 and was talked out
00:19:58.000 of evaluating
00:19:59.500 the situation properly
00:20:00.860 by people like
00:20:02.240 John Meacham.
00:20:03.560 Joe Biden should have
00:20:04.660 looked around
00:20:05.240 in 2021
00:20:06.060 and thought,
00:20:07.280 all of the money
00:20:07.840 has been spent
00:20:08.640 on COVID.
00:20:09.620 We are at risk
00:20:10.380 of inflation.
00:20:11.540 We have a divided nation
00:20:12.840 that is coming out
00:20:13.720 of a crisis.
00:20:14.680 I will be a caretaker.
00:20:16.360 Had he done that,
00:20:17.620 he would have been
00:20:18.380 relatively popular.
00:20:19.800 He would have managed
00:20:20.820 to live up
00:20:21.440 to the lie about him
00:20:22.580 that had been created
00:20:23.560 of a vuncular
00:20:24.360 Joe Biden,
00:20:25.940 good old granddad,
00:20:27.520 Joe Biden.
00:20:28.380 But instead,
00:20:29.240 he was told,
00:20:29.920 you are Lyndon Johnson.
00:20:31.220 You are Franklin Roosevelt.
00:20:32.680 You are a great man
00:20:33.660 who will preside
00:20:34.360 over great change.
00:20:35.700 And he believed it
00:20:36.540 and he still believes it.
00:20:37.760 And that's going to make
00:20:38.560 it very difficult
00:20:39.500 for him
00:20:40.060 to be talked
00:20:41.140 out of running again
00:20:43.100 and certainly
00:20:44.180 talked out
00:20:45.600 of staying president.
00:20:46.840 He does not want
00:20:47.440 to be,
00:20:47.900 understandably,
00:20:48.540 the second president
00:20:49.460 in American history
00:20:50.400 to resign the office.
00:20:51.400 He doesn't want
00:20:51.860 his name
00:20:52.420 to be next
00:20:52.940 to Richard Nixon
00:20:53.660 in the history books.
00:20:55.800 Look at how Joe Biden
00:20:56.960 has responded
00:20:57.660 every time anyone
00:20:58.460 has even asked him
00:20:59.520 about his age.
00:21:00.760 He shouts at them.
00:21:01.580 He says,
00:21:01.840 I'm better than you.
00:21:02.780 He says,
00:21:02.980 I could do more push-ups
00:21:04.000 than you.
00:21:04.340 I could take you.
00:21:05.080 Do you want
00:21:05.500 to have a fight?
00:21:07.040 This is not somebody
00:21:08.360 who is going
00:21:09.520 to sit down
00:21:10.400 and calmly
00:21:11.440 think about
00:21:12.960 his country
00:21:14.780 and the situation
00:21:15.740 in which he's
00:21:16.280 put his party.
00:21:17.020 He may be kicked
00:21:17.980 out of office anyway
00:21:19.040 by the sheer amount
00:21:20.060 of pressure.
00:21:20.600 This may become
00:21:21.260 untenable.
00:21:21.840 I suspect it
00:21:22.560 probably will now,
00:21:24.000 but the Democrats
00:21:24.940 have their work
00:21:25.820 cut out
00:21:26.380 because of who
00:21:27.520 they are dealing
00:21:28.060 with.
00:21:28.460 And the last thing
00:21:29.120 I would say
00:21:29.520 is not just
00:21:30.060 who they are
00:21:30.460 dealing with,
00:21:31.180 but who they
00:21:32.000 are dealing
00:21:32.420 with's relatives.
00:21:34.120 Jill Biden
00:21:34.680 seems pathologically
00:21:35.960 incapable of seeing
00:21:37.180 Joe Biden
00:21:37.720 as anything other
00:21:38.460 than the indispensable
00:21:39.300 man.
00:21:40.080 And Hunter Biden,
00:21:41.000 we learned from
00:21:41.520 the New York Times,
00:21:42.600 needs him to stay
00:21:43.480 in, doesn't just
00:21:43.960 want him to stay
00:21:44.680 in, needs him
00:21:45.600 to stay in
00:21:46.160 because he wants
00:21:46.860 a pardon
00:21:47.300 and he
00:21:48.720 recognizes
00:21:50.300 that his fortunes
00:21:51.400 and his father's
00:21:52.080 are inextricable.
00:21:53.040 So this is actually
00:21:53.660 still going to be
00:21:54.580 a heavy lift
00:21:55.220 and I suspect
00:21:55.940 that the New York
00:21:56.620 Times and CNN
00:21:57.380 stories that you
00:21:58.560 related in the
00:22:00.040 introduction to
00:22:00.680 this question
00:22:01.300 are connected
00:22:02.880 to that in that
00:22:03.860 there are many
00:22:04.400 in the press
00:22:05.040 who are now
00:22:05.600 frustrated that
00:22:06.540 they haven't got
00:22:07.100 rid of him yet
00:22:07.740 and they're trying
00:22:08.240 to force the issue.
00:22:10.140 The press has
00:22:11.080 turned on him
00:22:11.760 entirely.
00:22:13.040 There are only
00:22:13.620 a few MSNBCers
00:22:15.100 hanging on.
00:22:16.160 But CNN
00:22:16.720 has turned on him.
00:22:17.980 Many at MSNBC
00:22:18.860 have turned on him.
00:22:19.660 The Times has
00:22:20.220 turned on him.
00:22:20.720 The Atlanta
00:22:21.040 Journal,
00:22:21.460 Constitution,
00:22:22.460 even the Washington
00:22:23.180 Post now
00:22:23.860 as we laid out
00:22:24.680 and many other
00:22:25.820 publications.
00:22:26.580 He can't withstand
00:22:27.520 this.
00:22:28.080 Now with the Democrats
00:22:28.720 starting to turn
00:22:29.540 and leak
00:22:30.540 and the press
00:22:31.500 digging deeper
00:22:32.080 with these reports
00:22:32.760 about how many
00:22:33.560 cognitive issues
00:22:34.380 he's been having,
00:22:35.100 how it's gotten
00:22:35.600 worse in the past
00:22:36.440 three to six months,
00:22:38.480 it's just going
00:22:39.320 to get worse.
00:22:40.000 These things
00:22:40.460 don't get better.
00:22:41.440 I mean, I've been
00:22:41.920 in the press
00:22:42.240 long enough to know
00:22:42.920 that.
00:22:43.680 To your point,
00:22:44.360 Charles,
00:22:44.840 about how he
00:22:46.060 responds when
00:22:47.340 someone challenges
00:22:48.200 him on age
00:22:49.620 or infirmity.
00:22:51.220 James Rosen,
00:22:52.320 formerly a colleague
00:22:53.040 at Fox News,
00:22:54.180 now at Newsmax,
00:22:55.180 who covers the
00:22:55.660 White House for them,
00:22:56.980 asked Joe Biden
00:22:57.980 directly at a presser
00:22:59.120 months ago
00:23:00.320 about this issue,
00:23:02.780 about, well,
00:23:03.440 actually we have,
00:23:04.160 we have the soundbite.
00:23:04.960 Okay, let me play you
00:23:05.780 what he asked.
00:23:07.640 I'd like to,
00:23:08.360 I'd like to raise
00:23:09.460 a delicate subject,
00:23:11.220 but with utmost respect
00:23:13.020 for your life
00:23:13.560 accomplishments
00:23:14.100 and the high office
00:23:15.040 you hold.
00:23:16.620 A poll released
00:23:18.260 this morning
00:23:18.820 by Politico
00:23:20.200 Morning Consult
00:23:21.020 found 49%
00:23:24.760 of registered voters
00:23:26.380 disagreeing
00:23:28.220 with the statement,
00:23:29.660 Joe Biden
00:23:30.240 is mentally fit.
00:23:31.520 not even
00:23:33.940 a majority
00:23:34.540 of Democrats
00:23:35.500 who responded
00:23:36.500 strongly affirmed
00:23:39.080 that statement.
00:23:40.720 I'll let you all
00:23:41.640 make the judgment
00:23:42.260 whether they're correct.
00:23:43.300 Well, so the question
00:23:44.080 I have for you, sir,
00:23:44.980 if you'd let me finish,
00:23:46.600 is why do you suppose
00:23:48.260 such large segments
00:23:50.000 of the American electorate
00:23:51.160 have come to harbor
00:23:53.360 such profound concerns
00:23:55.680 about your cognitive fitness?
00:23:58.860 Thank you.
00:23:59.300 I have no idea.
00:24:02.560 And that was the entirety
00:24:03.900 of the president's answer
00:24:04.920 and James Rosen
00:24:06.160 revealing this week
00:24:07.740 he was banned
00:24:08.900 from White House
00:24:09.760 press conferences
00:24:10.500 for the next
00:24:11.620 eight months
00:24:12.780 for asking that question.
00:24:15.040 I give you
00:24:15.840 CBS News
00:24:17.020 and this exchange
00:24:19.580 from 2020.
00:24:20.740 It's hot 10.
00:24:22.060 No, I haven't
00:24:22.780 taken a test.
00:24:24.000 Why the hell
00:24:24.460 would I take a test?
00:24:26.980 Come on, man.
00:24:28.380 That's like saying you
00:24:29.400 before you got
00:24:30.260 in this program
00:24:30.780 you take a test
00:24:31.580 where you're taking
00:24:32.200 cocaine or not.
00:24:33.060 What do you think, huh?
00:24:34.720 Are you a junkie?
00:24:36.700 Are you a junkie?
00:24:38.180 It was a
00:24:38.880 happened to be
00:24:39.740 an African-American reporter
00:24:40.760 asking him whether
00:24:41.400 he had taken
00:24:41.860 a cognitive test.
00:24:43.620 Defensive?
00:24:44.780 Wouldn't?
00:24:45.560 Yeah, no, I haven't.
00:24:46.520 That'd be like you
00:24:47.440 taking being asked
00:24:49.320 to take a test
00:24:50.280 for cocaine.
00:24:51.540 Whoa, wait, what?
00:24:53.140 And then I'll give you
00:24:53.920 one one other
00:24:55.280 example of what's
00:24:57.000 happening here.
00:24:58.760 Kareem Jean-Pierre
00:24:59.760 was asked yesterday
00:25:02.880 whether he has
00:25:05.220 taken a cognitive
00:25:06.460 test.
00:25:06.960 Do we have this
00:25:07.420 as a SOT, Deb?
00:25:08.800 And here's what
00:25:10.920 she did.
00:25:11.540 Watch.
00:25:11.800 After the debate
00:25:14.480 did the president
00:25:15.840 get examined
00:25:17.240 by a doctor
00:25:18.240 or did he get
00:25:19.040 a neurological scan?
00:25:21.020 A neurological scan?
00:25:23.180 Look,
00:25:23.900 what I can say
00:25:26.840 is that
00:25:27.520 just to take a step
00:25:28.460 back
00:25:28.740 it was a bad night
00:25:31.140 we understand
00:25:31.700 that it was a bad night
00:25:32.680 and the president
00:25:35.420 has spoken to this.
00:25:36.440 So I cannot speak
00:25:38.480 to anything
00:25:39.480 beyond what
00:25:40.180 I just shared.
00:25:41.020 The president
00:25:41.400 has regular
00:25:42.760 annual physicals
00:25:44.560 that we release
00:25:45.460 in a thorough report.
00:25:47.840 We're going to
00:25:48.560 continue to do that.
00:25:50.060 I don't have
00:25:50.640 anything else
00:25:51.120 beyond that.
00:25:52.060 So was the last time
00:25:53.000 he was seen
00:25:53.460 by a doctor
00:25:54.160 then in February?
00:25:55.440 I just don't have
00:25:56.180 anything beyond
00:25:56.760 the question
00:25:57.680 of a neurological
00:25:58.540 exam.
00:26:01.200 She didn't answer
00:26:02.380 behavior
00:26:03.020 and Phil Houston
00:26:04.720 who ran
00:26:05.460 the CIA
00:26:05.960 deception
00:26:06.540 detection
00:26:07.180 program
00:26:08.360 for 25 years
00:26:09.240 he invented it
00:26:09.900 it's used
00:26:10.260 by the Secret Service
00:26:10.980 the CIA
00:26:11.500 the FBI
00:26:12.100 and law enforcement
00:26:12.720 across the country
00:26:13.440 and a good friend
00:26:14.040 of mine
00:26:14.380 will tell you
00:26:15.740 that one of the
00:26:16.180 leading indicators
00:26:16.860 of lying
00:26:18.140 is convincing
00:26:20.320 behavior
00:26:21.180 and attacking
00:26:22.380 the questioner
00:26:23.140 and that is
00:26:24.440 what you're seeing
00:26:25.120 unfold before
00:26:26.260 your very eyes
00:26:26.860 there.
00:26:27.200 We don't know
00:26:27.800 and she references
00:26:28.620 his physical exams
00:26:29.600 they did not
00:26:30.840 MBD include
00:26:31.900 a cognitive
00:26:32.620 exam
00:26:33.360 this was a big
00:26:34.740 issue
00:26:35.140 when the president
00:26:35.800 was physically
00:26:36.440 examined by the doctor
00:26:37.520 and if he were
00:26:38.760 fit
00:26:39.160 and they were
00:26:39.740 confident of it
00:26:40.620 they would have
00:26:41.760 that exam
00:26:42.480 done again
00:26:43.680 and put out
00:26:44.600 immediately
00:26:45.680 his presidency
00:26:47.020 hangs in the balance
00:26:48.360 there's a reason
00:26:49.720 they're so defensive
00:26:51.020 about it
00:26:51.620 they won't answer
00:26:52.660 it
00:26:52.880 and they won't
00:26:53.620 do it.
00:26:55.900 Right
00:26:56.460 I mean
00:26:57.120 they won't do it
00:26:58.120 because he won't
00:26:58.680 pass
00:26:59.140 we had
00:26:59.780 Robert Hurd's
00:27:00.540 report
00:27:00.920 earlier
00:27:01.540 in the year
00:27:02.200 saying that
00:27:02.900 Joe Biden
00:27:03.620 presents
00:27:04.100 as a
00:27:04.760 kindly
00:27:06.200 old man
00:27:06.860 who forgets
00:27:07.540 things
00:27:07.860 who forgets
00:27:08.660 major life
00:27:09.620 events
00:27:10.080 who forgets
00:27:11.120 the years
00:27:11.600 he was
00:27:11.860 vice president
00:27:12.520 and
00:27:14.800 the problem
00:27:16.260 is
00:27:16.580 everyone
00:27:17.300 who
00:27:18.180 continues
00:27:18.980 to deny
00:27:19.560 this
00:27:20.020 is in a
00:27:21.420 sense
00:27:21.660 knowingly
00:27:22.480 participating
00:27:23.060 in this
00:27:24.260 what is now
00:27:25.260 a fraud
00:27:26.000 a fraud
00:27:27.120 of the
00:27:28.160 executive office
00:27:29.280 of a federal
00:27:30.200 government
00:27:30.660 he is not
00:27:32.140 in charge
00:27:32.940 anymore
00:27:33.400 he is
00:27:34.600 under the
00:27:35.300 care
00:27:35.640 of a handful
00:27:36.740 of other
00:27:37.140 people
00:27:37.560 who are
00:27:38.420 making
00:27:38.660 decisions
00:27:39.120 around him
00:27:39.860 puppeteering
00:27:40.740 him
00:27:41.140 giving him
00:27:42.280 god knows
00:27:42.740 what
00:27:43.040 he did
00:27:43.780 improve
00:27:44.420 during that
00:27:44.840 debate
00:27:45.220 and then
00:27:45.900 improved
00:27:46.400 as the
00:27:47.100 evening
00:27:47.300 went on
00:27:47.700 and he
00:27:47.900 went to
00:27:48.160 a democratic
00:27:48.600 watch
00:27:48.940 party
00:27:49.340 so
00:27:50.480 they're
00:27:50.800 obviously
00:27:51.160 even
00:27:51.720 mistiming
00:27:52.400 his medicines
00:27:53.200 now
00:27:53.720 he needs
00:27:56.180 to not
00:27:56.940 be
00:27:57.560 governing
00:27:58.860 us
00:27:59.340 he's
00:27:59.780 being
00:28:00.000 governed
00:28:00.320 by
00:28:00.580 others
00:28:01.060 and
00:28:02.180 you know
00:28:03.620 the
00:28:04.220 real
00:28:04.740 question
00:28:05.100 I have
00:28:05.800 is
00:28:06.820 whether
00:28:07.120 this
00:28:07.380 continues
00:28:07.840 to be
00:28:08.160 a scandal
00:28:08.540 if they
00:28:08.960 replace
00:28:09.460 him
00:28:09.780 does
00:28:10.880 the
00:28:10.980 democratic
00:28:11.340 party
00:28:11.740 keep
00:28:12.200 facing
00:28:13.080 tough
00:28:13.660 questions
00:28:14.220 who
00:28:14.980 knew
00:28:15.240 what
00:28:15.600 and
00:28:15.860 when
00:28:16.300 and
00:28:17.240 what
00:28:18.100 did
00:28:18.600 you
00:28:18.920 describe
00:28:19.580 to
00:28:19.760 others
00:28:20.000 who
00:28:20.260 did
00:28:20.460 you
00:28:21.180 talk
00:28:21.400 to
00:28:21.520 what
00:28:21.660 did
00:28:21.800 you
00:28:21.920 do
00:28:22.340 to
00:28:23.300 alert
00:28:23.580 people
00:28:23.880 that
00:28:24.040 the
00:28:24.180 president
00:28:24.500 was
00:28:25.080 you
00:28:25.700 know
00:28:25.860 non-competent
00:28:27.060 and
00:28:27.520 so I
00:28:28.820 think
00:28:28.940 that's
00:28:29.360 that's
00:28:29.700 the
00:28:29.820 question
00:28:30.080 going
00:28:30.400 forward
00:28:30.900 that
00:28:31.240 I'm
00:28:32.160 certain
00:28:32.500 it's
00:28:33.040 like
00:28:33.160 Charles
00:28:33.440 just
00:28:33.660 said
00:28:33.820 about
00:28:34.040 Bernstein
00:28:34.500 his
00:28:34.840 report
00:28:35.260 on
00:28:35.640 CNN
00:28:35.940 the
00:28:36.120 other
00:28:36.240 night
00:28:36.440 was
00:28:36.680 stunning
00:28:37.040 it
00:28:37.200 was
00:28:37.300 jaw
00:28:37.540 dropping
00:28:37.920 he
00:28:38.760 actually
00:28:39.140 said
00:28:39.540 as
00:28:40.160 he
00:28:40.280 points
00:28:40.480 out
00:28:40.740 15
00:28:41.100 to
00:28:41.240 20
00:28:41.440 times
00:28:41.940 in
00:28:42.360 the
00:28:42.460 past
00:28:42.700 six
00:28:42.920 months
00:28:43.240 it's
00:28:43.520 gotten
00:28:43.700 worse
00:28:44.100 that
00:28:44.600 Joe
00:28:44.800 Biden
00:28:45.040 has
00:28:45.280 frozen
00:28:45.620 up
00:28:45.960 that
00:28:46.180 he's
00:28:46.340 had
00:28:52.340 rigor
00:28:52.560 mortis
00:28:53.120 which
00:28:53.700 is
00:28:53.800 what
00:28:53.920 happens
00:28:54.160 to
00:28:54.300 a
00:28:54.420 dead
00:28:54.580 body
00:28:54.980 after
00:28:55.360 it
00:28:55.520 dies
00:28:55.940 and
00:28:56.620 that
00:28:56.800 it
00:28:56.940 does
00:28:57.160 beg
00:28:57.380 the
00:28:57.540 question
00:28:57.940 does
00:28:58.220 it
00:28:58.340 not
00:28:58.560 Mike
00:28:58.840 what
00:28:59.520 where
00:29:00.820 was
00:29:01.040 Carl
00:29:01.340 Bernstein
00:29:01.800 when
00:29:02.140 he
00:29:02.280 was
00:29:02.460 learning
00:29:02.740 all
00:29:03.000 of
00:29:03.120 this
00:29:03.420 is
00:29:03.880 he
00:29:03.980 writing
00:29:04.180 a
00:29:04.340 book
00:29:04.620 was
00:29:04.860 he
00:29:04.980 saving
00:29:05.280 it
00:29:05.440 for
00:29:05.620 a
00:29:05.800 publication
00:29:06.420 why
00:29:07.180 are
00:29:07.720 we
00:29:07.880 only
00:29:08.180 learning
00:29:08.600 of
00:29:08.840 this
00:29:09.040 now
00:29:09.260 that
00:29:09.400 there's
00:29:09.600 been
00:29:09.740 a
00:29:09.880 public
00:29:10.200 meltdown
00:29:10.800 beyond
00:29:11.520 what
00:29:11.860 we've
00:29:12.060 already
00:29:12.640 seen
00:29:12.980 with
00:29:13.120 our
00:29:13.260 eyes
00:29:13.460 and
00:29:13.580 ears
00:29:13.800 right
00:29:15.060 we
00:29:15.220 saw
00:29:15.500 Alex
00:29:15.860 Thompson
00:29:16.540 a
00:29:16.700 reporter
00:29:17.000 at
00:29:17.180 Axios
00:29:17.680 just
00:29:17.960 unloading
00:29:18.820 his
00:29:19.140 notebook
00:29:19.560 apparently
00:29:20.120 saying
00:29:20.960 that
00:29:21.180 this
00:29:21.800 kind
00:29:22.040 of
00:29:22.160 behavior
00:29:22.580 of
00:29:23.260 senior
00:29:23.520 White
00:29:23.720 House
00:29:24.020 staff
00:29:25.180 particularly
00:29:25.780 those
00:29:26.020 connected
00:29:26.300 to
00:29:26.500 Jill
00:29:26.680 Biden
00:29:27.100 hiding
00:29:28.160 Joe
00:29:28.560 Biden
00:29:28.920 from
00:29:29.960 other
00:29:30.560 senior
00:29:30.860 White
00:29:31.100 House
00:29:31.280 staff
00:29:31.660 and
00:29:31.800 even
00:29:31.960 his
00:29:32.160 cabinet
00:29:32.480 members
00:29:32.920 goes
00:29:33.660 back
00:29:33.980 to
00:29:34.200 the
00:29:34.360 first
00:29:34.600 year
00:29:34.780 of
00:29:34.880 his
00:29:35.020 presidency
00:29:35.520 and
00:29:36.480 the
00:29:36.940 excuse
00:29:37.300 then
00:29:37.540 was
00:29:37.680 to
00:29:37.800 protect
00:29:38.160 him
00:29:38.380 from
00:29:38.620 COVID-19
00:29:39.400 but
00:29:40.640 it
00:29:40.820 just
00:29:41.000 continued
00:29:41.500 on
00:29:41.880 as a
00:29:42.220 habit
00:29:42.520 and
00:29:43.100 so
00:29:43.700 there
00:29:44.420 have
00:29:44.500 been
00:29:44.580 very
00:29:44.780 few
00:29:44.960 people
00:29:45.260 even
00:29:45.840 seeing
00:29:46.440 him
00:29:46.840 even
00:29:48.280 able
00:29:48.640 to
00:29:48.800 assess
00:29:49.060 his
00:29:49.240 condition
00:29:49.660 and
00:29:50.680 I
00:29:50.920 think
00:29:51.100 even
00:29:51.520 many
00:29:51.760 senior
00:29:52.120 people
00:29:52.440 in
00:29:52.560 the
00:29:52.600 administration
00:29:53.120 have
00:29:53.760 probably
00:29:54.200 been
00:29:54.460 only
00:29:54.760 getting
00:29:55.040 him
00:29:55.320 in
00:29:55.500 the
00:29:55.620 way
00:29:55.960 that
00:29:56.600 MSNBC
00:29:57.840 and CNN
00:29:58.440 present
00:29:58.980 him
00:29:59.300 or that
00:29:59.880 he was
00:30:00.100 able
00:30:00.280 to do
00:30:00.620 with
00:30:00.900 various
00:30:01.820 performances
00:30:03.720 like the
00:30:04.160 State of
00:30:04.400 the Union
00:30:04.700 address
00:30:05.100 where he
00:30:05.500 seemed
00:30:05.720 to rise
00:30:06.820 up to
00:30:07.220 the
00:30:07.340 occasion
00:30:07.800 temporarily
00:30:09.040 and so
00:30:09.580 I think
00:30:10.200 a lot
00:30:10.460 of
00:30:10.560 people
00:30:10.840 genuinely
00:30:11.900 were
00:30:12.240 shocked
00:30:12.700 and
00:30:13.260 horrified
00:30:14.560 by what
00:30:14.920 they saw
00:30:15.280 last week
00:30:15.880 which
00:30:16.380 accounts
00:30:16.820 for
00:30:17.360 this
00:30:18.720 hysterical
00:30:20.080 reaction
00:30:20.620 I mean
00:30:21.040 one of
00:30:21.360 the
00:30:21.620 craziest
00:30:22.420 reports
00:30:22.820 I read
00:30:23.100 was that
00:30:23.480 Kamala Harris's
00:30:24.420 husband
00:30:24.900 was at
00:30:25.420 a Hollywood
00:30:26.360 fundraising
00:30:26.980 party
00:30:27.380 for a
00:30:28.500 debate watch
00:30:28.980 party
00:30:29.400 and three
00:30:30.460 minutes in
00:30:31.040 Rob Reiner
00:30:31.840 is shouting
00:30:32.500 and screaming
00:30:33.060 the Democrats
00:30:33.600 are going to
00:30:33.940 lose
00:30:34.180 and Jane
00:30:34.660 Fonda
00:30:34.940 was crying
00:30:35.720 I mean
00:30:36.700 this
00:30:36.940 is
00:30:37.240 you know
00:30:38.340 they
00:30:38.660 immediately
00:30:39.620 locked
00:30:40.120 into
00:30:40.580 save
00:30:41.660 the
00:30:41.800 Democratic
00:30:42.180 Party
00:30:42.640 but
00:30:43.420 you know
00:30:43.880 first
00:30:44.360 I think
00:30:45.780 before they
00:30:46.280 can save
00:30:46.720 the Democratic
00:30:47.120 Party
00:30:47.420 they have
00:30:47.800 to show
00:30:48.320 minimal
00:30:49.420 responsibility
00:30:50.300 for taking
00:30:51.860 care of the
00:30:52.300 presidency
00:30:52.800 itself
00:30:53.460 and that
00:30:54.000 means
00:30:54.320 removing
00:30:54.860 Joe
00:30:55.100 Biden
00:30:55.460 or
00:30:56.160 pressuring
00:30:56.560 him to
00:30:56.940 resign
00:30:57.340 immediately
00:30:58.060 until
00:30:59.700 they do
00:30:59.980 that
00:31:00.240 we don't
00:31:00.660 know
00:31:00.820 whether
00:31:00.980 the
00:31:01.140 public
00:31:01.380 is going
00:31:01.680 to be
00:31:01.880 thankful
00:31:02.300 to them
00:31:04.120 and relieved
00:31:05.120 I mean
00:31:05.580 listen
00:31:05.900 there are
00:31:06.240 millions
00:31:06.540 of people
00:31:07.020 who have
00:31:07.940 said
00:31:08.200 millions
00:31:08.600 of
00:31:08.780 Democrats
00:31:09.120 the majority
00:31:09.580 of Democrats
00:31:10.000 said
00:31:10.280 Joe
00:31:10.640 Biden
00:31:10.840 is too
00:31:11.200 old
00:31:11.640 you know
00:31:12.540 and there
00:31:12.820 may be
00:31:13.380 a huge
00:31:14.120 constituency
00:31:14.660 of independent
00:31:15.140 voters
00:31:15.540 who don't
00:31:16.940 want a
00:31:17.660 baby boomer
00:31:18.320 in Donald
00:31:18.780 Trump
00:31:19.160 who don't
00:31:19.840 want a
00:31:20.420 member
00:31:20.660 of the
00:31:21.120 Jurassic
00:31:21.540 era
00:31:22.000 in Joe
00:31:23.500 Biden
00:31:23.880 and
00:31:25.140 you know
00:31:26.000 that they'll
00:31:26.740 be relieved
00:31:27.360 that there's
00:31:28.040 someone as
00:31:28.520 young
00:31:28.880 as Kamala
00:31:30.380 Harris
00:31:30.700 coming onto
00:31:31.260 the scene
00:31:31.680 or
00:31:32.040 Gretchen
00:31:32.460 Whitmer
00:31:32.780 or
00:31:33.200 Gavin
00:31:33.980 Newsom
00:31:34.440 and they
00:31:35.100 may
00:31:35.220 transfer
00:31:35.460 the
00:31:35.620 vote
00:31:35.820 but
00:31:36.220 there
00:31:36.420 are
00:31:36.520 going
00:31:36.540 to be
00:31:36.660 others
00:31:37.060 I think
00:31:37.560 conservatives
00:31:38.180 should
00:31:38.500 continue
00:31:38.860 to press
00:31:39.340 Democrats
00:31:39.940 what did
00:31:40.960 you know
00:31:41.320 when did
00:31:41.940 you know
00:31:42.280 it
00:31:42.480 and not
00:31:42.980 just
00:31:43.160 Democrats
00:31:43.480 but of
00:31:43.860 course
00:31:44.080 their
00:31:44.280 auxiliaries
00:31:45.120 in the
00:31:45.840 media
00:31:46.220 I mean
00:31:46.840 listen
00:31:47.240 we got
00:31:48.180 these
00:31:48.380 thumb
00:31:49.680 sucking
00:31:49.980 pieces
00:31:50.340 from
00:31:50.640 Jill
00:31:50.860 Abramson
00:31:51.340 saying
00:31:51.640 that
00:31:51.880 the media
00:31:52.420 wasn't
00:31:52.700 able to
00:31:53.120 penetrate
00:31:53.620 the
00:31:54.540 Biden
00:31:54.780 White
00:31:55.060 House
00:31:55.440 are you
00:31:56.160 kidding
00:31:56.360 me
00:31:56.660 the media
00:31:57.640 gave
00:31:58.240 itself
00:31:58.540 Pulitzer
00:31:59.080 prizes
00:31:59.600 for
00:32:02.040 and yet
00:32:02.680 missed
00:32:03.080 this story
00:32:03.840 which was
00:32:04.240 obvious to
00:32:04.880 anyone with
00:32:05.520 eyes
00:32:06.220 like
00:32:07.020 and an
00:32:07.780 internet
00:32:08.000 connection
00:32:08.500 give me
00:32:09.620 a break
00:32:10.240 I mean
00:32:10.840 what did
00:32:11.580 you know
00:32:11.920 and when
00:32:12.280 did you
00:32:12.540 know it
00:32:12.980 and why
00:32:13.820 did you
00:32:14.120 say for
00:32:14.560 months
00:32:14.860 that he
00:32:15.180 was the
00:32:15.500 sharpest
00:32:15.860 he's
00:32:16.040 ever
00:32:16.200 been
00:32:16.540 who
00:32:17.800 knew
00:32:18.120 here's
00:32:18.640 um
00:32:18.960 there's
00:32:19.800 there's
00:32:20.100 more breaking
00:32:20.580 news
00:32:20.800 coming in
00:32:21.240 and it
00:32:21.440 ties
00:32:21.660 together
00:32:22.000 with what
00:32:22.520 I'm
00:32:22.680 about
00:32:22.900 to
00:32:23.160 present
00:32:23.760 to
00:32:23.960 you
00:32:24.080 all
00:32:24.280 right
00:32:24.360 so
00:32:24.480 stand
00:32:24.720 by
00:32:24.960 I
00:32:25.940 talked
00:32:26.180 about
00:32:26.380 the
00:32:26.520 dam
00:32:26.720 breaking
00:32:27.080 on
00:32:27.320 the
00:32:27.440 on
00:32:27.660 the
00:32:28.600 congressional
00:32:29.060 leaders
00:32:29.460 starting
00:32:30.240 to call
00:32:30.540 for him
00:32:30.800 to step
00:32:31.100 down
00:32:31.460 or to
00:32:32.240 stop
00:32:32.860 his
00:32:33.040 campaign
00:32:33.500 more
00:32:33.840 accurately
00:32:34.260 representative
00:32:35.660 Lloyd
00:32:35.980 Doggett
00:32:36.980 is a
00:32:37.620 Republican
00:32:38.000 from
00:32:38.280 Texas
00:32:38.660 he's
00:32:39.000 77
00:32:39.380 years
00:32:39.740 years
00:32:40.320 old
00:32:40.520 he was
00:32:40.880 the
00:32:41.020 first
00:32:41.240 yesterday
00:32:41.700 I
00:32:42.340 represent
00:32:42.720 the heart
00:32:43.060 of a
00:32:43.240 congressional
00:32:43.580 district
00:32:43.960 once
00:32:44.240 represented
00:32:44.680 by
00:32:44.880 Lyndon
00:32:45.240 Johnson
00:32:45.600 under
00:32:46.000 very
00:32:46.240 different
00:32:46.500 circumstances
00:32:47.060 he
00:32:47.320 made
00:32:47.540 the
00:32:47.680 painful
00:32:47.960 decision
00:32:48.380 to
00:32:48.560 withdraw
00:32:49.000 President
00:32:49.840 Biden
00:32:50.260 should
00:32:50.840 do
00:32:50.980 the
00:32:51.160 same
00:32:51.480 he
00:32:52.100 says
00:32:52.260 my
00:32:52.420 decision
00:32:52.800 to
00:32:53.320 make
00:32:53.500 these
00:32:53.660 strong
00:32:53.960 reservations
00:32:54.420 public
00:32:54.820 is
00:32:55.000 not
00:32:55.180 done
00:32:55.420 lightly
00:32:59.060 and then
00:33:00.140 he goes
00:33:00.320 on to
00:33:00.600 say
00:33:00.720 but
00:33:00.880 I
00:33:01.060 am
00:33:01.260 hopeful
00:33:01.960 that
00:33:02.740 Joe
00:33:02.900 Biden
00:33:03.140 will
00:33:03.300 make
00:33:03.480 the
00:33:03.640 painful
00:33:03.980 and
00:33:04.280 difficult
00:33:04.700 decision
00:33:05.260 to
00:33:05.980 withdraw
00:33:06.500 then
00:33:07.260 there's
00:33:07.560 Jared
00:33:07.920 Golden
00:33:08.340 who
00:33:09.100 represents
00:33:09.620 Maine's
00:33:10.240 second
00:33:10.580 congressional
00:33:11.020 district
00:33:11.420 a
00:33:11.680 Democrat
00:33:12.020 this
00:33:12.740 is a
00:33:12.960 veteran
00:33:13.220 who
00:33:13.420 was
00:33:13.520 deployed
00:33:13.780 in
00:33:13.920 Iraq
00:33:14.160 and
00:33:14.260 Afghanistan
00:33:14.680 as a
00:33:15.160 U.S.
00:33:15.480 Marine
00:33:15.780 he
00:33:16.440 began
00:33:16.660 serving
00:33:16.920 in the
00:33:17.160 house
00:33:17.360 in
00:33:17.540 January
00:33:17.860 of
00:33:18.060 2019
00:33:18.600 he
00:33:19.760 came
00:33:20.060 out
00:33:20.320 wrote
00:33:20.640 an
00:33:20.860 op-ed
00:33:21.320 in
00:33:21.460 the
00:33:21.580 banger
00:33:21.800 daily
00:33:22.220 news
00:33:22.640 saying
00:33:23.020 Donald
00:33:23.340 Trump
00:33:23.600 is
00:33:23.720 going
00:33:23.840 to
00:33:23.940 win
00:33:24.100 the
00:33:24.260 election
00:33:24.580 and
00:33:25.360 democracy
00:33:25.740 will
00:33:26.060 be
00:33:26.320 just
00:33:26.760 fine
00:33:27.120 but
00:33:27.680 not
00:33:27.920 pulling
00:33:28.180 any
00:33:28.440 punches
00:33:28.740 on
00:33:29.580 this
00:33:29.780 question
00:33:30.120 of
00:33:30.380 whether
00:33:30.880 Biden
00:33:31.780 can
00:33:32.520 win
00:33:32.760 then
00:33:34.520 I
00:33:35.400 mentioned
00:33:35.720 Senator
00:33:36.080 Whitehouse
00:33:36.500 of Rhode
00:33:36.820 Island
00:33:37.040 saying
00:33:37.340 he
00:33:37.480 was
00:33:37.620 horrified
00:33:38.100 and
00:33:38.860 that
00:33:39.080 we
00:33:39.240 need
00:33:39.400 to
00:33:39.520 be
00:33:39.960 assured
00:33:40.220 the
00:33:40.400 president
00:33:40.700 and
00:33:40.860 his
00:33:41.000 team
00:33:41.200 are
00:33:41.300 being
00:33:41.500 candid
00:33:41.860 with
00:33:42.060 us
00:33:42.260 about
00:33:42.520 his
00:33:42.780 condition
00:33:43.520 Senator
00:33:44.480 Peter
00:33:44.740 Welsh
00:33:45.020 of
00:33:45.140 Vermont
00:33:45.500 told
00:33:45.800 Semaphore
00:33:46.320 I
00:33:46.540 really
00:33:46.760 do
00:33:46.920 criticize
00:33:47.240 the
00:33:47.460 campaign
00:33:47.840 for
00:33:48.060 a
00:33:48.220 dismissive
00:33:48.840 attitude
00:33:53.720 that
00:33:54.140 is
00:33:54.520 just
00:33:54.700 facing
00:33:55.060 the
00:33:55.540 reality
00:33:55.940 we're
00:33:56.200 in
00:33:56.540 representative
00:33:57.760 Mike
00:33:58.020 Quigley
00:33:58.320 of
00:33:58.460 Illinois
00:33:58.760 told
00:33:59.100 CNN
00:33:59.420 it's
00:33:59.700 his
00:33:59.840 decision
00:34:00.280 but
00:34:00.880 I
00:34:00.980 want
00:34:01.100 him
00:34:01.220 to
00:34:01.320 appreciate
00:34:01.760 at
00:34:01.940 this
00:34:02.080 time
00:34:02.400 just
00:34:02.800 how
00:34:02.960 much
00:34:03.140 it
00:34:03.260 impacts
00:34:03.600 not
00:34:03.820 just
00:34:04.000 his
00:34:04.200 race
00:34:04.500 but
00:34:04.980 all
00:34:05.160 of
00:34:05.280 the
00:34:05.380 other
00:34:05.580 races
00:34:05.940 coming
00:34:06.500 in
00:34:06.860 November
00:34:07.220 it
00:34:07.960 wasn't
00:34:08.440 just
00:34:08.820 a
00:34:09.000 horrible
00:34:09.300 night
00:34:09.720 but
00:34:10.280 I
00:34:10.400 won't
00:34:10.580 go
00:34:10.760 beyond
00:34:11.080 that
00:34:11.460 out
00:34:12.100 of
00:34:12.320 respect
00:34:12.860 for
00:34:13.140 him
00:34:13.400 I
00:34:13.960 played
00:34:14.240 you
00:34:14.380 representative
00:34:14.860 Jamie
00:34:15.220 Raskin
00:34:15.740 of
00:34:16.180 Maryland
00:34:17.040 an
00:34:17.700 unnamed
00:34:18.260 house
00:34:18.580 dem
00:34:18.880 to
00:34:19.340 Axios
00:34:20.000 says
00:34:21.440 to
00:34:21.660 them
00:34:21.840 quote
00:34:22.080 indignantly
00:34:22.740 consider
00:34:23.680 me
00:34:23.960 a
00:34:24.140 bedwetter
00:34:24.580 because
00:34:25.100 that
00:34:25.400 is
00:34:25.560 what
00:34:25.760 the
00:34:25.960 chief
00:34:26.240 financial
00:34:26.680 I
00:34:26.900 think
00:34:27.020 it
00:34:27.140 is
00:34:27.420 chief
00:34:27.720 digital
00:34:28.280 officer
00:34:28.580 for
00:34:28.740 the
00:34:28.840 Biden
00:34:29.040 campaign
00:34:29.440 called
00:34:29.740 Democrats
00:34:30.620 expressing
00:34:31.520 concern
00:34:32.060 consider
00:34:32.780 me
00:34:33.040 a
00:34:33.180 bedwetter
00:34:33.560 this
00:34:34.180 is
00:34:34.320 not
00:34:34.660 getting
00:34:35.380 better
00:34:35.700 another
00:34:36.980 house
00:34:37.300 Democrat
00:34:37.640 says
00:34:38.300 this
00:34:38.780 is
00:34:38.960 real
00:34:39.320 to
00:34:39.860 ignore
00:34:40.120 what
00:34:40.300 the
00:34:40.400 public
00:34:40.660 obviously
00:34:41.120 feels
00:34:41.460 is
00:34:41.640 ridiculous
00:34:42.160 what's
00:34:43.200 hard
00:34:43.540 to
00:34:43.980 burn
00:34:44.260 away
00:34:44.620 is
00:34:44.880 the
00:34:45.040 president
00:34:45.360 being
00:34:45.660 walked
00:34:47.700 down
00:34:48.280 the
00:34:48.500 stairs
00:34:48.840 after
00:34:49.340 that
00:34:49.680 debate
00:34:50.220 and
00:34:51.240 now
00:34:51.560 we
00:34:51.800 get
00:34:52.140 this
00:34:52.620 actually
00:34:54.560 I
00:34:54.680 should
00:34:54.800 play
00:34:54.940 one
00:34:55.160 more
00:34:55.420 Democratic
00:34:56.180 Representative
00:34:56.840 Marie
00:34:57.780 Glucenkamp
00:34:59.040 Perez
00:34:59.420 she's
00:34:59.780 from
00:34:59.920 the
00:35:00.060 state
00:35:00.200 of
00:35:00.360 Washington
00:35:00.780 said
00:35:01.820 this
00:35:02.480 to
00:35:02.860 KATU
00:35:03.540 News
00:35:04.000 and
00:35:04.400 ABC
00:35:04.680 affiliate
00:35:05.100 yesterday
00:35:05.800 about
00:35:06.420 50 million
00:35:08.380 Americans
00:35:09.200 tuned in
00:35:09.760 and watched
00:35:10.160 that
00:35:10.360 debate
00:35:10.700 I was
00:35:11.680 one of
00:35:11.940 them
00:35:12.060 for
00:35:12.240 about
00:35:12.480 five
00:35:12.840 very
00:35:13.100 painful
00:35:13.460 minutes
00:35:13.940 and
00:35:15.180 we all
00:35:16.000 saw
00:35:16.220 what
00:35:16.400 we
00:35:16.560 saw
00:35:16.900 you
00:35:17.640 can't
00:35:18.140 undo
00:35:18.420 that
00:35:18.840 and
00:35:20.080 you
00:35:21.360 know
00:35:21.540 the
00:35:21.880 truth
00:35:24.120 I think
00:35:24.540 is that
00:35:24.980 Biden
00:35:25.820 is going
00:35:26.160 to lose
00:35:26.420 to
00:35:26.560 Trump
00:35:26.820 I
00:35:27.940 know
00:35:28.100 that's
00:35:28.360 difficult
00:35:28.660 but I
00:35:29.060 think
00:35:29.200 the damage
00:35:29.600 has been
00:35:29.900 done
00:35:30.080 by that
00:35:30.400 debate
00:35:30.760 should
00:35:31.760 he
00:35:31.920 step
00:35:32.180 down
00:35:32.460 then
00:35:32.620 now
00:35:32.840 do
00:35:33.000 you
00:35:33.100 believe
00:35:33.480 or
00:35:33.660 stay
00:35:33.880 in
00:35:34.040 that
00:35:34.200 race
00:35:34.500 well
00:35:35.080 a
00:35:36.900 core
00:35:37.200 tenet
00:35:37.580 of
00:35:37.760 democracy
00:35:38.220 is
00:35:38.460 that
00:35:38.600 you
00:35:38.740 accept
00:35:39.200 the
00:35:39.740 results
00:35:40.180 of
00:35:40.680 an
00:35:40.780 election
00:35:41.060 and
00:35:42.740 the
00:35:44.160 reality
00:35:44.460 is
00:35:44.880 primary
00:35:46.520 voting
00:35:46.880 has
00:35:47.320 already
00:35:48.560 happened
00:35:48.960 to a
00:35:49.300 degree
00:35:49.580 that
00:35:49.900 Biden
00:35:51.260 is the
00:35:52.200 nominee
00:35:52.540 and you
00:35:54.620 can hear
00:35:55.020 her regret
00:35:55.520 over that
00:35:55.940 and here's
00:35:56.320 the latest
00:35:56.680 Charles
00:35:57.100 New York
00:35:57.800 Times
00:35:58.120 Democratic
00:35:58.520 leaders
00:35:58.900 in the
00:35:59.160 House
00:35:59.420 and the
00:35:59.880 Senate
00:36:00.120 this is
00:36:00.740 leadership
00:36:01.200 refrained
00:36:02.660 on Wednesday
00:36:03.500 from urging
00:36:04.660 their members
00:36:05.220 to rally
00:36:05.840 around
00:36:06.580 Mr.
00:36:06.940 Biden
00:36:07.200 the private
00:36:08.360 message from
00:36:08.960 congressional
00:36:09.400 leaders
00:36:09.760 was that
00:36:10.220 members
00:36:10.600 should feel
00:36:11.160 free to
00:36:11.660 take whatever
00:36:12.200 position about
00:36:13.040 Mr.
00:36:13.460 Biden's
00:36:13.800 candidacy
00:36:14.300 was best
00:36:15.320 for their
00:36:16.180 districts
00:36:16.780 based on
00:36:17.400 anonymous
00:36:17.720 sources
00:36:18.140 more
00:36:18.560 several
00:36:19.480 Democrats
00:36:19.940 from swing
00:36:20.460 districts
00:36:20.900 were awaiting
00:36:21.440 the results
00:36:21.880 of polls
00:36:22.260 in their
00:36:22.500 districts
00:36:22.880 to decide
00:36:23.780 whether
00:36:24.080 they would
00:36:24.460 join the
00:36:24.880 calls
00:36:25.260 for Mr.
00:36:26.160 Biden
00:36:26.420 to step
00:36:26.960 aside
00:36:27.420 now telling
00:36:28.180 them
00:36:28.580 that
00:36:29.580 they can
00:36:30.580 make up
00:36:30.900 their own
00:36:31.320 minds
00:36:31.760 on whether
00:36:32.840 to rally
00:36:33.380 around
00:36:33.840 the president
00:36:34.540 is a
00:36:35.120 green light
00:36:35.740 for them
00:36:36.760 not to
00:36:37.320 and we'll
00:36:38.500 get to the
00:36:38.980 polls in a
00:36:39.480 minute but
00:36:39.940 if what
00:36:40.220 we've seen
00:36:40.760 leaked
00:36:41.420 from this
00:36:42.640 internal
00:36:43.040 Democratic
00:36:43.480 polling
00:36:43.800 firm
00:36:44.120 is any
00:36:44.640 indication
00:36:45.060 of what
00:36:45.560 is happening
00:36:46.580 in their
00:36:46.920 districts
00:36:47.380 it's going
00:36:48.680 to be a
00:36:49.000 bloodbath
00:36:49.500 these
00:36:50.120 Democratic
00:36:50.880 members are
00:36:51.420 likely to
00:36:51.860 run to
00:36:52.280 the microphones
00:36:52.860 to say
00:36:53.440 we need
00:36:54.280 someone new
00:36:54.860 well yes
00:36:55.980 and no
00:36:56.440 I
00:36:56.920 at the
00:36:58.520 moment at
00:36:59.020 least have
00:36:59.460 a slightly
00:36:59.840 different
00:37:00.300 view of
00:37:00.940 what's
00:37:01.300 happened
00:37:01.560 which is
00:37:01.940 that we
00:37:02.180 just haven't
00:37:02.820 got to
00:37:03.280 the point
00:37:03.780 at which
00:37:04.400 anyone
00:37:05.280 has put
00:37:06.580 enough
00:37:06.920 pressure
00:37:07.400 on
00:37:08.120 Biden
00:37:08.920 to make
00:37:10.140 a dent
00:37:10.540 now that
00:37:10.860 doesn't mean
00:37:11.180 we won't
00:37:11.500 get there
00:37:11.920 and of
00:37:12.180 course
00:37:12.400 you have
00:37:13.740 to get
00:37:14.300 there
00:37:14.560 and fits
00:37:15.000 and starts
00:37:15.620 and these
00:37:16.840 are some
00:37:17.260 of the
00:37:17.520 fits
00:37:17.800 and some
00:37:18.180 of the
00:37:18.700 starts
00:37:19.120 but the
00:37:19.520 people that
00:37:20.060 you mentioned
00:37:20.640 with the
00:37:20.900 exception of
00:37:21.400 Sheldon Whitehouse
00:37:22.360 who really did
00:37:23.180 surprise me
00:37:24.040 that awful
00:37:25.300 hack
00:37:25.740 saying what
00:37:27.080 he said
00:37:27.480 was shocking
00:37:28.120 but the
00:37:29.580 the others
00:37:30.240 won't pay
00:37:31.720 a particular
00:37:32.500 price
00:37:33.000 for saying
00:37:33.420 what they
00:37:33.720 said
00:37:34.000 I mean
00:37:34.260 Jared
00:37:34.600 Golden
00:37:35.040 is not
00:37:36.940 going to
00:37:37.800 lose
00:37:38.600 support
00:37:39.380 I think
00:37:39.860 where he
00:37:40.840 is running
00:37:41.540 for what
00:37:42.860 he wrote
00:37:43.860 he might
00:37:44.620 gain some
00:37:45.420 support
00:37:45.960 it makes
00:37:46.360 him look
00:37:47.540 like a
00:37:47.860 crossover
00:37:48.180 candidate
00:37:48.620 makes him
00:37:49.080 look
00:37:49.300 bipartisan
00:37:49.940 the lady
00:37:52.180 from
00:37:52.480 Washington
00:37:53.080 State
00:37:53.660 I think
00:37:54.460 is not
00:37:54.880 in a
00:37:55.120 particularly
00:37:55.540 safe
00:37:56.060 seat
00:37:56.460 the
00:37:57.400 gentleman
00:37:57.780 from
00:37:58.100 Texas
00:37:58.500 is not
00:37:59.380 in the
00:37:59.900 safest
00:38:00.220 seat
00:38:00.760 some
00:38:01.780 people
00:38:02.100 have
00:38:02.260 said
00:38:02.400 wow
00:38:02.740 isn't
00:38:03.000 it
00:38:03.140 amazing
00:38:03.520 that
00:38:03.760 they've
00:38:04.000 said
00:38:04.220 this
00:38:04.560 given
00:38:04.860 that
00:38:05.160 they
00:38:05.380 are
00:38:05.740 under
00:38:06.600 threat
00:38:07.080 because
00:38:07.900 their
00:38:08.520 constituencies
00:38:10.100 are
00:38:11.000 winnable
00:38:11.780 for either
00:38:12.540 party
00:38:12.960 I just
00:38:13.420 think
00:38:13.520 the opposite
00:38:13.880 I think
00:38:15.000 when you're
00:38:15.400 in that
00:38:15.760 situation
00:38:16.480 you often
00:38:17.920 prevail
00:38:18.660 with a
00:38:19.420 poor
00:38:19.880 candidate
00:38:20.680 at the
00:38:21.000 top of
00:38:21.260 the ticket
00:38:21.600 by
00:38:21.940 triangulating
00:38:22.800 so I
00:38:23.940 think
00:38:24.160 at the
00:38:24.480 moment
00:38:24.800 we just
00:38:25.180 haven't
00:38:25.580 seen
00:38:25.980 what
00:38:26.740 we're
00:38:27.000 going
00:38:27.180 to
00:38:27.340 have
00:38:27.560 to
00:38:27.740 see
00:38:28.040 and
00:38:28.720 I
00:38:28.860 think
00:38:29.060 the
00:38:29.320 Democratic
00:38:29.760 Party
00:38:30.200 is
00:38:30.380 saying
00:38:30.580 say
00:38:30.840 what
00:38:31.060 you
00:38:31.220 want
00:38:31.480 tailor
00:38:31.820 it
00:38:32.060 to
00:38:32.180 your
00:38:32.500 constituency
00:38:33.300 is
00:38:33.880 still
00:38:34.140 part
00:38:34.560 of
00:38:34.720 that
00:38:34.900 when
00:38:35.540 you
00:38:35.760 see
00:38:36.060 somebody
00:38:36.540 come
00:38:36.960 out
00:38:37.400 who
00:38:38.140 does
00:38:38.440 not
00:38:38.860 benefit
00:38:39.360 from
00:38:40.620 taking
00:38:41.600 that
00:38:41.940 line
00:38:42.360 and
00:38:42.920 say
00:38:43.260 look
00:38:43.640 he's
00:38:44.060 got
00:38:44.280 to
00:38:44.480 go
00:38:44.720 at
00:38:45.080 that
00:38:45.420 point
00:38:45.800 the
00:38:46.160 pressure
00:38:46.460 is
00:38:46.760 going
00:38:46.980 to
00:38:47.140 be
00:38:47.360 extraordinary
00:38:47.940 but
00:38:48.660 it
00:38:48.760 just
00:38:48.940 hasn't
00:38:49.280 happened
00:38:49.660 yet
00:38:50.000 and
00:38:50.280 I
00:38:50.440 think
00:38:50.620 the
00:38:50.800 jury
00:38:51.060 is
00:38:51.260 still
00:38:51.500 out
00:38:51.780 on
00:38:52.180 whether
00:38:52.880 it
00:38:53.100 will
00:38:53.300 if
00:38:53.720 it
00:38:53.880 does
00:38:54.320 it's
00:38:54.600 going
00:38:54.740 to
00:38:54.880 happen
00:38:55.120 extremely
00:38:55.660 quickly
00:38:56.160 there
00:38:57.300 is
00:38:57.500 an
00:38:57.880 observation
00:38:58.660 made
00:38:59.020 by
00:38:59.220 Yuval
00:38:59.640 Levin
00:39:00.080 who
00:39:01.120 is
00:39:01.300 at
00:39:01.500 AI
00:39:01.880 and
00:39:02.260 often
00:39:02.540 writes
00:39:02.820 for
00:39:02.960 National
00:39:03.280 Review
00:39:03.640 who
00:39:04.240 says
00:39:04.460 that
00:39:04.600 if
00:39:04.680 you
00:39:04.780 look
00:39:04.960 at
00:39:05.060 the
00:39:05.140 way
00:39:05.260 legislation
00:39:06.160 looks
00:39:07.480 when
00:39:07.840 its
00:39:08.280 fate
00:39:08.620 is
00:39:08.840 uncertain
00:39:09.440 failure
00:39:10.480 and
00:39:10.840 success
00:39:11.320 look
00:39:11.600 exactly
00:39:12.080 the
00:39:12.320 same
00:39:12.640 build
00:39:13.640 back
00:39:13.960 better
00:39:14.500 looked
00:39:15.340 exactly
00:39:15.940 the
00:39:16.200 same
00:39:16.520 when
00:39:16.780 it
00:39:16.880 was
00:39:17.140 going
00:39:17.620 to
00:39:17.820 pass
00:39:18.180 when
00:39:20.620 there
00:39:20.740 looked
00:39:21.080 exactly
00:39:21.600 the
00:39:21.860 same
00:39:22.220 at
00:39:22.940 all
00:39:23.160 stages
00:39:23.660 you
00:39:24.100 just
00:39:24.300 don't
00:39:24.760 know
00:39:25.100 failure
00:39:25.680 and
00:39:25.880 success
00:39:26.220 they
00:39:26.460 look
00:39:26.680 the
00:39:26.840 same
00:39:27.060 while
00:39:27.260 they're
00:39:27.460 happening
00:39:27.780 and
00:39:27.940 that's
00:39:28.180 the
00:39:28.300 same
00:39:28.520 here
00:39:28.820 I
00:39:29.000 think
00:39:29.240 is
00:39:29.500 Biden
00:39:30.440 dropping
00:39:30.920 out
00:39:31.280 and
00:39:31.460 Biden
00:39:31.760 staying
00:39:32.160 in
00:39:32.340 are
00:39:32.440 going
00:39:32.600 to
00:39:32.780 look
00:39:33.000 the
00:39:33.200 same
00:39:33.540 and
00:39:34.060 it's
00:39:34.940 very
00:39:35.140 difficult
00:39:35.500 to tell
00:39:36.080 I don't
00:39:37.080 agree
00:39:37.540 in this
00:39:37.860 particular
00:39:38.140 case
00:39:38.520 I
00:39:38.720 take
00:39:39.300 the
00:39:39.480 point
00:39:39.720 entirely
00:39:40.260 but
00:39:41.220 even
00:39:43.000 if
00:39:43.580 he
00:39:45.460 refuses
00:39:46.020 to
00:39:46.280 go
00:39:46.540 he's
00:39:47.080 being
00:39:47.420 mortally
00:39:48.040 wounded
00:39:48.520 by
00:39:49.420 the
00:39:50.900 New
00:39:51.300 York
00:39:51.460 Times
00:39:51.900 by
00:39:52.220 morning
00:39:52.620 Joe
00:39:53.020 by
00:39:53.580 the
00:39:53.740 Washington
00:39:54.100 Post
00:39:54.520 by
00:39:54.960 Maureen
00:39:55.840 Dowd
00:39:56.260 I
00:39:56.580 mean
00:39:56.720 by
00:39:57.440 the
00:39:57.640 day
00:39:57.960 they're
00:39:58.760 they're
00:39:59.540 dinging
00:39:59.960 him up
00:40:00.440 so badly
00:40:01.220 in the
00:40:01.620 press
00:40:02.060 that it's
00:40:03.040 not
00:40:03.380 recoverable
00:40:04.100 somebody
00:40:04.940 who was
00:40:05.280 already
00:40:05.620 not that
00:40:06.100 strong
00:40:06.440 going
00:40:06.860 into
00:40:07.280 the
00:40:07.480 debate
00:40:07.820 and
00:40:08.520 so
00:40:08.840 I
00:40:09.120 just
00:40:09.340 and
00:40:10.020 not
00:40:10.240 only
00:40:10.400 that
00:40:10.800 if
00:40:11.180 what
00:40:11.400 we
00:40:11.560 heard
00:40:11.840 in
00:40:11.960 that
00:40:12.180 assessment
00:40:13.220 was
00:40:13.520 correct
00:40:13.980 that
00:40:14.460 what
00:40:14.640 he's
00:40:14.780 going
00:40:14.940 to
00:40:15.080 look
00:40:15.640 at
00:40:15.840 are
00:40:16.020 the
00:40:16.200 polls
00:40:16.720 the
00:40:17.960 money
00:40:18.380 and
00:40:19.500 how
00:40:19.700 he
00:40:19.840 does
00:40:20.040 in
00:40:20.160 his
00:40:20.300 upcoming
00:40:20.620 interviews
00:40:21.480 and
00:40:21.640 I
00:40:21.740 totally
00:40:22.100 disagree
00:40:22.500 with
00:40:22.760 point
00:40:23.000 three
00:40:23.340 he's
00:40:24.240 sitting
00:40:24.420 with
00:40:24.580 Stephanopoulos
00:40:25.220 for an
00:40:25.620 interview
00:40:25.820 that's
00:40:26.040 going to
00:40:26.200 come
00:40:26.340 out
00:40:26.620 a bit
00:40:27.380 on
00:40:27.680 Friday
00:40:27.960 night's
00:40:28.380 ABC
00:40:28.660 newscast
00:40:29.280 and
00:40:29.440 then
00:40:29.620 more
00:40:29.980 over
00:40:30.560 the
00:40:30.680 weekend
00:40:30.940 with
00:40:31.120 Stephanopoulos
00:40:31.720 and
00:40:31.860 then
00:40:32.020 ultimately
00:40:32.460 some
00:40:32.720 more
00:40:32.880 on
00:40:33.040 Monday
00:40:33.320 with
00:40:33.540 Good
00:40:33.700 Morning
00:40:33.880 America
00:40:34.300 it
00:40:35.160 doesn't
00:40:35.400 it's
00:40:35.660 irrelevant
00:40:36.040 no one
00:40:36.620 cares
00:40:36.880 everybody
00:40:37.280 understands
00:40:37.740 he could
00:40:38.020 probably
00:40:38.260 sit
00:40:38.540 with
00:40:38.720 a
00:40:38.840 very
00:40:39.120 friendly
00:40:39.420 interview
00:40:39.840 who's
00:40:40.100 a
00:40:48.380 this
00:40:49.100 isn't
00:40:49.400 going
00:40:49.600 to
00:40:49.820 work
00:40:50.160 that's
00:40:50.620 not
00:40:50.840 going
00:40:51.040 to
00:40:51.180 do
00:40:51.340 it
00:40:51.520 we
00:40:52.060 need
00:40:52.240 a
00:40:52.360 cognitive
00:40:52.720 test
00:40:53.060 released
00:40:53.520 we
00:40:53.900 need
00:40:54.020 a
00:40:54.160 doctor
00:40:54.460 made
00:40:54.680 available
00:40:55.000 to
00:40:55.180 the
00:40:55.300 press
00:40:55.580 we
00:40:55.800 need
00:40:55.980 Joe
00:40:56.200 Biden
00:40:56.500 at
00:40:57.220 that
00:40:57.460 White
00:40:58.260 House
00:40:58.440 briefing
00:40:58.760 room
00:40:59.100 on his
00:41:00.100 feet
00:41:00.340 taking
00:41:00.700 questions
00:41:01.200 every
00:41:01.580 day
00:41:01.880 from
00:41:02.540 a
00:41:02.720 vicious
00:41:02.980 press
00:41:03.280 corps
00:41:03.520 that's
00:41:04.060 now
00:41:04.200 motivated
00:41:04.620 to
00:41:04.840 press
00:41:05.120 him
00:41:05.360 and
00:41:05.900 to
00:41:06.020 see
00:41:06.200 him
00:41:06.460 sore
00:41:06.940 and
00:41:07.080 even
00:41:07.220 that
00:41:07.540 I've
00:41:08.160 got
00:41:08.260 my
00:41:08.400 doubts
00:41:08.620 about
00:41:08.820 yes
00:41:09.940 but
00:41:10.320 that
00:41:10.620 press
00:41:10.960 corps
00:41:11.240 is
00:41:11.420 also
00:41:11.720 motivated
00:41:12.420 to
00:41:12.720 turn
00:41:13.020 on
00:41:13.160 a
00:41:13.320 dime
00:41:13.680 if
00:41:14.180 it
00:41:14.460 has
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00:41:15.220 think
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00:41:15.880 point
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00:41:16.240 absolutely
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00:41:17.480 one
00:41:17.720 of
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00:41:18.140 things
00:41:19.160 that
00:41:19.400 progressives
00:41:20.020 are
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00:41:21.680 the
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00:41:24.000 to
00:41:24.200 win
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00:41:26.120 the
00:41:26.220 way
00:41:26.380 that
00:41:26.540 they've
00:41:26.780 treated
00:41:27.020 say
00:41:27.300 Clarence
00:41:27.700 Thomas
00:41:27.980 and
00:41:28.380 Samuel
00:41:29.320 Alito
00:41:29.680 they
00:41:31.100 lie
00:41:31.800 and lie
00:41:32.120 and lie
00:41:32.440 they create
00:41:32.920 all of
00:41:33.200 these
00:41:33.360 absurd
00:41:33.760 conspiracy
00:41:34.320 theories
00:41:34.800 and
00:41:35.020 fake
00:41:35.260 stories
00:41:41.420 I'm
00:41:41.640 not
00:41:41.780 going
00:41:41.960 to
00:41:42.120 recuse
00:41:42.420 thank
00:41:42.600 you
00:41:42.680 very
00:41:42.820 much
00:41:43.080 but
00:41:43.500 the
00:41:43.620 thing
00:41:43.800 is
00:41:43.940 even
00:41:44.220 though
00:41:44.380 they
00:41:44.500 didn't
00:41:44.700 get
00:41:44.880 them
00:41:45.040 to
00:41:45.200 recuse
00:41:45.640 themselves
00:41:46.120 they
00:41:46.960 still
00:41:47.240 win
00:41:47.560 because
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00:41:48.060 smear
00:41:48.480 them
00:41:48.760 and
00:41:49.360 so
00:41:49.620 in
00:41:49.820 the
00:41:49.980 process
00:41:50.400 of
00:41:50.600 trying
00:41:50.760 to
00:41:50.900 get
00:41:51.020 what
00:41:51.180 they
00:41:51.320 wanted
00:41:51.740 they've
00:41:52.360 done
00:41:52.560 damage
00:41:53.000 to
00:41:53.160 people
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00:41:53.600 they
00:41:53.720 dislike
00:41:54.000 that
00:41:54.360 of
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00:41:55.000 work
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00:41:55.560 if
00:41:56.040 they
00:41:56.240 try
00:41:56.540 and
00:41:56.660 get
00:41:56.800 Biden
00:41:57.100 to
00:41:57.300 go
00:41:57.480 as
00:41:57.660 you
00:41:57.800 observe
00:41:58.220 then
00:41:58.860 in
00:41:59.000 the
00:41:59.120 process
00:41:59.440 of
00:41:59.640 doing
00:41:59.820 so
00:42:00.000 they
00:42:00.180 do
00:42:00.340 damage
00:42:00.680 him
00:42:00.840 but
00:42:01.440 the
00:42:02.520 press
00:42:02.840 core
00:42:03.080 and
00:42:03.200 the
00:42:03.300 democratic
00:42:03.740 party
00:42:04.160 and
00:42:04.320 we've
00:42:04.480 just
00:42:04.660 seen
00:42:04.940 this
00:42:05.160 because
00:42:05.400 they've
00:42:05.580 been
00:42:05.780 trying
00:42:06.560 to
00:42:06.800 recreate
00:42:07.400 reality
00:42:07.960 for a
00:42:08.480 year
00:42:08.660 to
00:42:08.840 some
00:42:09.000 extent
00:42:09.240 successfully
00:42:09.760 the
00:42:10.900 democratic
00:42:11.920 party
00:42:12.320 and the
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00:42:12.740 court
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00:42:13.680 believe
00:42:14.000 in
00:42:14.160 their
00:42:14.340 capacity
00:42:14.740 to
00:42:15.000 completely
00:42:15.560 control
00:42:16.280 how
00:42:17.120 people
00:42:17.500 see
00:42:17.980 politics
00:42:18.700 they
00:42:19.620 are
00:42:19.960 shocked
00:42:20.700 that it
00:42:21.220 didn't
00:42:21.440 work
00:42:21.800 they're
00:42:22.600 pretending
00:42:22.940 of course
00:42:23.300 that they're
00:42:23.580 shocked
00:42:23.800 by what
00:42:24.100 they saw
00:42:24.420 on the
00:42:24.660 stage
00:42:24.860 what
00:42:25.040 they're
00:42:25.180 actually
00:42:25.420 shocked
00:42:25.780 by
00:42:26.080 is
00:42:26.420 that
00:42:26.580 they
00:42:26.740 got
00:42:27.040 found
00:42:27.400 out
00:42:27.700 I
00:42:28.300 don't
00:42:28.640 know
00:42:28.940 Megan
00:42:29.220 if
00:42:29.500 they
00:42:29.720 are
00:42:29.960 aware
00:42:30.380 yet
00:42:30.860 that
00:42:31.120 you
00:42:31.320 are
00:42:31.480 right
00:42:31.800 I
00:42:32.400 think
00:42:32.700 there
00:42:33.000 are
00:42:33.280 people
00:42:33.540 in
00:42:33.740 the
00:42:33.840 white
00:42:34.040 house
00:42:34.280 and
00:42:34.460 people
00:42:34.720 in
00:42:34.860 the
00:42:34.960 democratic
00:42:35.400 party
00:42:35.820 and
00:42:36.040 people
00:42:36.320 in
00:42:36.480 the
00:42:36.600 press
00:42:36.900 who
00:42:37.280 think
00:42:37.720 that
00:42:38.180 if
00:42:38.420 this
00:42:38.660 doesn't
00:42:39.040 work
00:42:39.380 they
00:42:39.840 will
00:42:40.040 be
00:42:40.220 able
00:42:40.460 to
00:42:40.640 just
00:42:40.840 focus
00:42:41.320 on
00:42:41.560 Trump
00:42:41.880 and
00:42:42.560 turn
00:42:42.880 on
00:42:43.020 a
00:42:43.140 dime
00:42:43.400 and
00:42:44.020 put
00:42:44.820 all
00:42:45.040 this
00:42:45.280 pressure
00:42:45.660 in
00:42:45.880 the
00:42:46.000 other
00:42:46.260 direction
00:42:47.060 now
00:42:47.440 I'm
00:42:55.420 just
00:42:55.560 not
00:42:55.760 completely
00:42:56.300 sure
00:42:56.700 that
00:42:56.920 it's
00:42:57.080 going
00:42:57.260 to
00:42:57.460 work
00:42:57.760 even
00:42:58.100 if
00:42:58.300 this
00:42:58.480 does
00:42:58.720 end
00:42:58.920 up
00:42:59.080 mortally
00:42:59.480 wounding
00:42:59.900 him
00:43:00.120 and
00:43:01.220 the
00:43:01.360 problem
00:43:01.740 they
00:43:01.900 have
00:43:02.220 too
00:43:02.460 among
00:43:02.680 others
00:43:02.980 is
00:43:03.180 that
00:43:03.340 Joe
00:43:03.520 Biden
00:43:03.800 every
00:43:04.560 day
00:43:04.700 gets
00:43:04.900 older
00:43:05.200 and
00:43:06.280 unlike
00:43:07.120 COVID
00:43:07.500 cannot
00:43:08.340 stay
00:43:08.640 in
00:43:08.760 the
00:43:08.880 basement
00:43:09.120 now
00:43:09.440 I
00:43:09.640 mean
00:43:09.780 now
00:43:10.080 more
00:43:10.260 than
00:43:10.420 ever
00:43:10.620 they
00:43:11.040 can't
00:43:11.280 use
00:43:11.420 that
00:43:11.580 as
00:43:11.780 a
00:43:12.080 strategy
00:43:12.420 now
00:43:12.720 more
00:43:12.900 than
00:43:13.040 ever
00:43:13.240 every
00:43:13.460 time
00:43:13.640 we
00:43:13.760 see
00:43:13.880 the
00:43:14.040 teleprompter
00:43:14.620 people
00:43:15.280 will
00:43:15.480 have
00:43:15.620 questions
00:43:16.100 here's
00:43:16.760 a bit
00:43:16.960 of
00:43:17.060 the
00:43:17.160 reporting
00:43:17.540 late
00:43:17.900 last
00:43:18.140 night
00:43:18.320 from
00:43:18.500 CNN's
00:43:19.100 Jamie
00:43:19.300 Gangell
00:43:19.820 on
00:43:20.020 what
00:43:20.220 she's
00:43:20.480 hearing
00:43:20.780 from
00:43:21.380 Democrats
00:43:21.900 MBD
00:43:22.300 take a
00:43:22.600 listen
00:43:22.780 Sadi
00:43:23.080 the
00:43:23.720 dam
00:43:24.040 is
00:43:24.320 breaking
00:43:24.740 Jake
00:43:25.180 top
00:43:25.920 Democratic
00:43:26.520 leaders
00:43:27.080 former
00:43:27.520 administration
00:43:28.260 officials
00:43:28.920 current
00:43:29.860 administration
00:43:30.680 officials
00:43:31.160 major
00:43:31.760 donors
00:43:32.240 are all
00:43:33.080 telling us
00:43:33.720 privately
00:43:34.180 and now
00:43:34.680 we're
00:43:34.820 hearing
00:43:35.140 it
00:43:35.400 publicly
00:43:36.080 that
00:43:36.960 they
00:43:37.460 think
00:43:38.000 that
00:43:38.600 President
00:43:39.040 Biden
00:43:39.540 needs
00:43:40.280 to
00:43:40.560 step
00:43:40.860 aside
00:43:41.440 for the
00:43:41.920 good
00:43:42.060 of the
00:43:42.340 party
00:43:42.660 for the
00:43:43.140 good
00:43:43.300 of the
00:43:43.600 country
00:43:43.980 they
00:43:44.520 do
00:43:44.760 not
00:43:45.080 think
00:43:45.440 the
00:43:45.860 debate
00:43:46.440 was just
00:43:47.260 a
00:43:47.540 one-off
00:43:48.040 event
00:43:48.700 they
00:43:49.700 think
00:43:50.020 that
00:43:50.240 there
00:43:50.600 is
00:43:51.300 a
00:43:51.740 health
00:43:52.000 problem
00:43:52.560 the
00:43:53.200 New York
00:43:53.460 Times
00:43:53.740 also
00:43:54.100 reporting
00:43:54.660 Michael
00:43:55.500 that
00:43:55.820 some
00:43:56.560 donors
00:43:56.980 have
00:43:57.320 begun
00:43:57.580 discussing
00:43:58.080 shifting
00:43:59.000 funding
00:43:59.440 from
00:43:59.700 the
00:43:59.860 presidential
00:44:00.240 race
00:44:00.700 to
00:44:01.240 congressional
00:44:01.820 contests
00:44:03.160 so
00:44:03.800 concerned
00:44:04.220 are they
00:44:04.620 that
00:44:04.960 not only
00:44:06.040 is this
00:44:06.380 looking
00:44:06.640 like a
00:44:06.920 loss
00:44:07.120 of the
00:44:07.340 presidency
00:44:07.760 but
00:44:08.280 it's
00:44:08.520 looking
00:44:08.760 more
00:44:09.020 and
00:44:09.140 more
00:44:09.380 if
00:44:09.640 Biden
00:44:09.880 is
00:44:10.000 the
00:44:10.080 nominee
00:44:10.400 like
00:44:11.120 a
00:44:11.240 potential
00:44:11.560 clean
00:44:11.920 sweep
00:44:12.380 of
00:44:13.220 all
00:44:13.700 the
00:44:13.840 races
00:44:14.140 I
00:44:14.520 mean
00:44:14.640 the
00:44:14.800 contested
00:44:15.400 ones
00:44:15.860 in-house
00:44:16.460 senate
00:44:17.260 and
00:44:18.220 in
00:44:18.960 the
00:44:19.080 White
00:44:19.200 House
00:44:19.320 race
00:44:19.580 that's
00:44:20.300 right
00:44:20.460 I
00:44:20.600 mean
00:44:20.700 if
00:44:21.020 if
00:44:21.700 the
00:44:21.900 media
00:44:22.280 and
00:44:22.920 intelligentsia
00:44:23.740 around
00:44:24.040 it
00:44:24.180 are
00:44:24.360 not
00:44:24.800 able
00:44:25.300 to
00:44:26.280 hit
00:44:26.480 the
00:44:26.620 eject
00:44:26.960 button
00:44:27.360 on
00:44:28.160 Joe
00:44:28.660 Biden
00:44:29.020 the
00:44:30.280 plane
00:44:30.540 is
00:44:30.680 going
00:44:30.780 to
00:44:30.880 crash
00:44:31.260 hard
00:44:31.840 I
00:44:32.280 mean
00:44:32.560 because
00:44:32.960 they
00:44:33.220 will
00:44:33.360 have
00:44:33.540 demoralized
00:44:34.520 millions
00:44:35.680 of
00:44:35.880 Democratic
00:44:36.240 voters
00:44:36.880 millions
00:44:38.280 of
00:44:38.680 swing
00:44:39.520 voters
00:44:39.860 are
00:44:41.340 looking
00:44:41.580 at
00:44:41.720 Joe
00:44:41.860 Biden
00:44:42.100 after
00:44:42.340 Thursday
00:44:42.740 and
00:44:43.620 they're
00:44:43.780 seeing
00:44:44.360 in
00:44:44.860 him
00:44:45.300 memories
00:44:46.580 of
00:44:46.940 their
00:44:47.100 own
00:44:47.480 great
00:44:47.940 grandparents
00:44:48.500 or their
00:44:48.940 own
00:44:49.140 grandparents
00:44:49.700 and
00:44:51.540 the
00:44:52.320 painful
00:44:52.880 memory
00:44:53.280 of what
00:44:53.600 it was
00:44:53.820 like
00:44:54.000 watching
00:44:54.320 them
00:44:54.580 in
00:44:54.800 decline
00:44:55.280 and
00:44:55.980 then
00:44:56.120 the
00:44:56.280 media
00:44:56.740 is
00:44:56.940 confirming
00:44:57.380 it
00:44:57.600 the
00:44:58.040 media
00:44:58.420 confirmed
00:44:59.020 over
00:45:00.120 the
00:45:00.240 weekend
00:45:00.560 that
00:45:00.980 senior
00:45:02.120 staffers
00:45:02.520 in
00:45:02.580 the
00:45:02.680 White
00:45:02.860 House
00:45:03.140 tailor
00:45:03.700 their
00:45:04.000 briefing
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00:45:05.160 to
00:45:05.340 the
00:45:05.480 president
00:45:05.840 in
00:45:06.560 order
00:45:06.720 not
00:45:07.040 to
00:45:07.400 trigger
00:45:08.040 his
00:45:09.340 intemperate
00:45:10.100 anger
00:45:10.560 and
00:45:10.820 outbursts
00:45:11.740 and it's
00:45:11.940 like
00:45:12.080 well
00:45:12.620 I
00:45:13.480 remember
00:45:13.840 when
00:45:14.920 you know
00:45:15.340 a senior
00:45:15.800 member
00:45:16.080 of my
00:45:16.360 family
00:45:16.620 was in
00:45:17.160 that
00:45:17.360 stage
00:45:17.660 of
00:45:17.800 life
00:45:18.140 and
00:45:18.540 they
00:45:18.660 would
00:45:18.780 have
00:45:18.960 those
00:45:19.140 kind
00:45:19.340 of
00:45:19.420 outbursts
00:45:19.880 and it
00:45:20.600 never
00:45:20.880 it
00:45:21.180 doesn't
00:45:21.420 get
00:45:21.600 better
00:45:21.920 for
00:45:22.480 them
00:45:22.760 ever
00:45:23.480 it's
00:45:24.020 a
00:45:24.480 compounding
00:45:26.040 condition
00:45:27.040 and there's
00:45:27.780 no
00:45:28.200 you know
00:45:29.880 there are
00:45:30.740 some
00:45:31.140 treatments
00:45:31.580 to
00:45:31.920 slow
00:45:32.480 down
00:45:33.000 perhaps
00:45:33.580 that
00:45:33.800 process
00:45:34.300 but
00:45:34.820 nothing
00:45:35.300 to
00:45:35.540 reverse
00:45:35.960 it
00:45:36.440 and
00:45:36.860 so
00:45:37.720 you know
00:45:39.140 they
00:45:39.540 are
00:45:39.920 demoralizing
00:45:40.880 the Democratic
00:45:41.780 Party
00:45:42.100 if
00:45:42.420 Joe
00:45:42.960 Biden
00:45:43.180 is
00:45:43.340 not
00:45:43.500 replaced
00:45:43.860 like
00:45:44.120 I
00:45:44.220 said
00:45:44.380 there
00:45:44.860 may
00:45:45.060 be
00:45:45.160 a
00:45:45.320 huge
00:45:45.620 surge
00:45:45.940 of
00:45:46.080 enthusiasm
00:45:46.520 if
00:45:47.040 he
00:45:47.160 is
00:45:47.340 replaced
00:45:47.880 there'll
00:45:48.620 be
00:45:48.720 a
00:45:48.860 rally
00:45:49.100 around
00:45:49.420 the
00:45:49.600 flag
00:45:49.880 effect
00:45:50.360 there'll
00:45:51.320 be
00:45:51.680 relief
00:45:52.480 that
00:45:52.840 you know
00:45:53.160 they're
00:45:53.560 nominating
00:45:54.040 someone
00:45:54.360 younger
00:45:54.820 and
00:45:55.240 then
00:45:55.380 they
00:45:55.740 can
00:45:55.900 turn
00:45:56.080 around
00:45:56.480 to
00:45:57.120 the
00:45:57.240 Republicans
00:45:57.600 and
00:45:57.900 say
00:45:58.060 you're
00:45:58.300 nominating
00:45:58.820 a
00:46:00.240 fossil
00:46:00.620 now
00:46:01.640 you
00:46:01.920 should
00:46:02.100 have
00:46:02.300 to
00:46:02.420 answer
00:46:02.840 you know
00:46:03.300 that
00:46:03.480 that
00:46:03.840 all
00:46:04.260 that
00:46:04.420 excitement
00:46:04.720 could
00:46:05.080 happen
00:46:05.480 but
00:46:06.200 again
00:46:06.420 they
00:46:06.580 have
00:46:06.760 to
00:46:06.860 get
00:46:07.020 Biden
00:46:07.400 out
00:46:08.140 first
00:46:08.680 and
00:46:09.320 if
00:46:09.500 if
00:46:09.800 they
00:46:09.960 don't
00:46:10.640 I
00:46:10.860 mean
00:46:11.040 if
00:46:11.360 the
00:46:11.500 New York
00:46:11.760 Times
00:46:12.260 turns
00:46:13.420 out
00:46:13.600 to
00:46:13.760 have
00:46:14.200 you
00:46:14.820 know
00:46:15.060 a
00:46:15.980 less
00:46:16.320 influence
00:46:16.800 over
00:46:16.980 the
00:46:17.100 Democratic
00:46:17.460 Party
00:46:17.940 you
00:46:19.020 know
00:46:19.180 than
00:46:19.480 never
00:46:21.100 Trump
00:46:21.400 conservatives
00:46:21.960 did
00:46:22.360 over
00:46:22.560 the
00:46:22.680 Republican
00:46:22.980 Party
00:46:23.380 well
00:46:23.900 that
00:46:24.080 that's
00:46:24.520 something
00:46:24.740 new
00:46:25.060 I'll
00:46:25.840 have
00:46:26.000 learned
00:46:26.420 I don't
00:46:27.020 I don't
00:46:27.320 think
00:46:27.500 that's
00:46:27.700 the
00:46:27.800 case
00:46:28.160 but
00:46:28.860 it
00:46:29.020 would
00:46:29.140 be
00:46:29.360 an
00:46:29.540 astonishing
00:46:30.220 discovery
00:46:31.580 you know
00:46:32.360 eight
00:46:32.840 years
00:46:33.100 after
00:46:33.580 you know
00:46:34.480 many
00:46:34.660 establishment
00:46:35.080 conservatives
00:46:35.560 tried to
00:46:35.960 stop
00:46:36.120 Donald
00:46:36.320 Trump
00:46:36.520 and
00:46:36.680 found
00:46:36.920 out
00:46:37.080 they
00:46:37.260 were
00:46:37.380 powerless
00:46:37.700 to
00:46:37.940 do
00:46:38.100 so
00:46:38.460 if
00:46:39.360 they
00:46:39.560 can't
00:46:39.820 eject
00:46:40.060 Joe
00:46:40.280 Biden
00:46:40.620 if
00:46:41.100 they're
00:46:41.300 powerless
00:46:41.800 to do
00:46:42.100 that
00:46:42.360 that
00:46:43.020 is
00:46:43.300 that
00:46:43.560 will
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00:46:43.840 shocking
00:46:44.220 too
00:46:44.640 and
00:46:45.120 that
00:46:45.320 will
00:46:45.420 be
00:46:45.780 a
00:46:46.560 huge
00:46:46.820 blow
00:46:47.180 to
00:46:47.460 their
00:46:47.680 egos
00:46:48.280 I
00:46:49.860 gotta
00:46:51.120 confess
00:46:51.560 I
00:46:52.040 did
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00:46:52.300 expect
00:46:52.600 this
00:46:52.820 week
00:46:53.000 to
00:46:53.120 be
00:46:53.320 as
00:46:53.620 exciting
00:46:54.040 as
00:46:55.640 it's
00:46:56.360 been
00:46:56.660 honestly
00:46:58.120 we were
00:46:58.560 just
00:46:58.700 talking
00:46:58.920 to
00:46:59.020 the
00:46:59.120 staff
00:46:59.340 this
00:46:59.680 morning
00:46:59.920 and
00:47:00.080 said
00:47:00.180 we
00:47:00.320 were
00:47:00.460 going
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00:47:00.700 off
00:47:00.900 for
00:47:01.020 4th
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00:47:01.320 July
00:47:01.560 I
00:47:01.760 don't
00:47:02.020 think
00:47:02.140 we're
00:47:02.280 going
00:47:02.360 to
00:47:02.380 be
00:47:02.500 off
00:47:02.660 for
00:47:02.780 4th
00:47:02.980 of
00:47:03.060 July
00:47:03.360 I'll
00:47:03.700 be
00:47:06.920 doing
00:47:07.080 the
00:47:07.240 show
00:47:07.380 as
00:47:07.600 you
00:47:07.740 know
00:47:08.120 in
00:47:08.860 my
00:47:09.060 colonial
00:47:09.460 wig
00:47:09.840 my
00:47:10.520 colonial
00:47:10.880 dress
00:47:12.080 Michael
00:47:12.980 was
00:47:13.240 there
00:47:13.420 last
00:47:13.740 year
00:47:14.000 this
00:47:15.360 I'll
00:47:15.620 leave
00:47:15.760 you
00:47:15.840 with
00:47:15.960 this
00:47:16.080 before
00:47:16.280 I
00:47:16.420 read
00:47:17.020 the
00:47:17.200 ads
00:47:17.780 and
00:47:17.920 then
00:47:18.020 we'll
00:47:18.120 come
00:47:18.260 back
00:47:18.540 and
00:47:18.680 talk
00:47:18.860 about
00:47:19.080 those
00:47:19.340 polls
00:47:19.740 this
00:47:21.080 is
00:47:21.200 in
00:47:21.300 the
00:47:21.360 financial
00:47:21.640 times
00:47:22.020 and
00:47:22.120 I
00:47:22.220 thought
00:47:22.360 it
00:47:22.460 kind
00:47:22.580 of
00:47:22.680 summed
00:47:22.940 up
00:47:23.080 the
00:47:23.200 position
00:47:23.540 many
00:47:24.160 of
00:47:24.260 these
00:47:24.380 staffers
00:47:24.800 you
00:47:24.900 talked
00:47:25.120 about
00:47:25.300 who
00:47:25.400 are
00:47:25.500 so
00:47:25.640 afraid
00:47:26.080 are
00:47:26.840 in
00:47:27.140 one
00:47:27.760 Democratic
00:47:28.240 operative
00:47:28.660 described
00:47:29.040 the
00:47:29.200 situation
00:47:29.640 as
00:47:29.880 quote
00:47:30.200 the
00:47:30.840 hardest
00:47:31.220 case
00:47:31.720 of
00:47:32.020 taking
00:47:32.440 the
00:47:32.700 keys
00:47:33.060 away
00:47:33.400 from
00:47:33.660 dad
00:47:34.180 ever
00:47:35.040 sounds
00:47:36.220 exactly
00:47:36.700 right
00:47:37.060 who's
00:47:37.820 who
00:47:38.340 other
00:47:38.660 than
00:47:38.880 Jill
00:47:39.080 Biden
00:47:39.400 is
00:47:39.580 able
00:47:39.800 to
00:47:40.000 tell
00:47:40.240 him
00:47:40.560 it's
00:47:41.400 time
00:47:41.800 and
00:47:42.220 so
00:47:42.500 far
00:47:42.840 she's
00:47:43.380 clinging
00:47:43.940 to
00:47:44.580 his
00:47:44.900 power
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00:47:46.380 those
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00:47:46.940 must
00:47:47.420 be
00:47:47.560 discussed
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00:47:48.020 they
00:47:48.140 will
00:47:48.300 be
00:47:48.440 and
00:47:48.600 there's
00:47:48.760 more
00:47:48.940 news
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00:47:49.400 in
00:48:13.380 ramsay
00:48:14.100 and
00:48:14.420 yours
00:48:14.880 truly
00:48:15.440 megan
00:48:16.060 kelly
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00:48:16.840 can
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00:48:17.660 kelly
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00:49:02.260 then
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00:49:03.800 the
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00:49:04.600 going
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00:49:05.080 and
00:49:05.240 it's
00:49:05.360 going
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00:49:05.520 happen
00:49:05.680 today
00:49:05.960 he's
00:49:06.300 going
00:49:06.400 to
00:49:06.460 try
00:49:06.580 to
00:49:06.720 reassure
00:49:07.140 the
00:49:07.680 dem
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00:49:08.180 that
00:49:08.600 he's
00:49:09.300 fine
00:49:09.600 he
00:49:10.420 hasn't
00:49:10.760 yet
00:49:10.940 had
00:49:11.340 any
00:49:11.700 meaningful
00:49:12.100 meeting
00:49:12.840 with
00:49:13.340 congressional
00:49:13.800 leaders
00:49:14.220 as of
00:49:14.900 tuesday
00:49:15.120 morning
00:49:15.420 hadn't
00:49:15.720 spoken
00:49:16.020 to
00:49:16.380 hakeem
00:49:16.800 jeffries
00:49:17.240 hadn't
00:49:17.520 spoken
00:49:17.780 to
00:49:17.960 chuck
00:49:18.140 schumer
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00:49:19.200 wake
00:49:19.340 of
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00:49:19.600 news
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00:49:20.140 he
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00:49:20.940 called
00:49:21.280 hakeem
00:49:21.640 jeffries
00:49:22.460 his
00:49:23.120 staff
00:49:23.600 is
00:49:23.860 freaking
00:49:24.340 out
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00:49:25.840 pub
00:49:26.060 i can't
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00:49:27.300 put it
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00:49:29.180 was how
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00:49:32.360 don't
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00:49:32.860 what to
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00:49:38.680 chief
00:49:38.900 of
00:49:39.060 staff
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00:49:39.640 white
00:49:39.820 house
00:49:40.120 just
00:49:40.720 had
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00:49:42.480 conference
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00:49:47.480 thompson
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00:49:49.320 that
00:49:49.880 jeff
00:49:50.440 zions
00:49:50.820 began
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00:49:52.140 all
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00:49:52.560 call
00:49:52.920 as
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00:49:54.620 4th
00:49:54.960 is one
00:49:55.160 of my
00:49:55.340 favorite
00:49:55.580 holidays
00:49:56.100 it's
00:49:56.680 a key
00:49:56.940 milestone
00:49:57.320 in
00:49:57.540 an
00:49:57.680 election
00:49:57.920 year
00:49:58.340 biden
00:49:59.240 didn't
00:49:59.540 have
00:49:59.680 a
00:49:59.780 great
00:49:59.960 night
00:50:00.360 but
00:50:01.080 it
00:50:01.180 was
00:50:01.280 one
00:50:01.620 night
00:50:02.080 and
00:50:02.960 what
00:50:03.160 we
00:50:03.300 all
00:50:03.560 know
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00:50:03.920 he's
00:50:04.080 a
00:50:04.160 great
00:50:04.380 president
00:50:04.820 he
00:50:05.620 has
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00:50:06.480 make
00:50:13.920 there's
00:50:14.580 so
00:50:14.720 much
00:50:14.860 the
00:50:15.000 president
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00:50:16.080 american
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00:50:17.500 almost
00:50:17.680 everybody
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00:50:20.000 to stay
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00:50:20.820 team
00:50:21.200 have
00:50:21.720 each
00:50:21.860 other's
00:50:22.120 back
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00:50:26.500 president
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00:50:31.080 intense
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00:50:54.880 the
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00:50:55.420 oh
00:50:56.460 it's
00:50:56.660 a
00:50:56.780 bunch
00:50:57.000 of
00:50:57.200 bed
00:50:57.520 wetters
00:50:58.040 oh
00:50:58.560 it
00:50:58.800 was
00:50:59.060 just
00:50:59.420 one
00:50:59.880 bad
00:51:00.320 night
00:51:00.680 calm
00:51:01.080 down
00:51:01.580 bring
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00:51:02.800 that
00:51:03.080 old
00:51:03.340 favorite
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00:51:05.100 you
00:51:05.240 know
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00:51:05.480 clip
00:51:05.700 I'll
00:51:05.880 just
00:51:06.040 play
00:51:06.260 it
00:51:06.480 one
00:51:20.160 of
00:51:20.300 the
00:51:20.380 greatest
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00:51:21.460 all
00:51:21.660 time
00:51:22.080 animal
00:51:22.560 house
00:51:22.960 mbd
00:51:23.680 quick
00:51:23.920 aside
00:51:24.260 my
00:51:25.080 brother
00:51:25.500 was
00:51:25.920 a
00:51:26.660 kid
00:51:26.980 when
00:51:27.280 we
00:51:27.580 all
00:51:27.800 were
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00:51:28.360 house
00:51:28.540 came
00:51:28.740 out
00:51:28.980 and
00:51:29.500 he
00:51:29.640 needed
00:51:29.860 my
00:51:30.060 mom
00:51:30.260 to
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00:51:33.080 lindy
00:51:33.400 kelly
00:51:33.640 took
00:51:33.900 pete
00:51:34.140 kelly
00:51:34.400 to
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00:51:34.660 see
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00:51:35.080 house
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00:51:35.600 in
00:51:35.740 whatever
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00:51:36.300 was
00:51:36.540 and
00:51:37.340 my
00:51:37.740 mother
00:51:38.280 laughed
00:51:39.060 so
00:51:39.560 hard
00:51:40.100 and
00:51:40.580 so
00:51:41.060 unstoppably
00:51:42.060 throughout
00:51:42.360 this film
00:51:42.900 my
00:51:43.380 brother
00:51:43.740 got up
00:51:44.240 and
00:51:44.380 moved
00:51:44.620 his
00:51:44.860 seat
00:51:45.200 but
00:51:48.220 no
00:51:48.480 one's
00:51:48.780 laughing
00:51:49.120 right
00:51:49.480 now
00:51:49.820 at the
00:51:50.520 White
00:51:50.680 House
00:51:50.880 no
00:51:52.480 no
00:51:52.820 one's
00:51:53.060 laughing
00:51:53.280 I mean
00:51:53.480 they just
00:51:53.760 got
00:51:53.960 told
00:51:54.480 you know
00:51:55.200 get back
00:51:57.480 to the
00:51:57.720 grindstone
00:51:58.320 and shut
00:51:59.060 up
00:51:59.400 like
00:51:59.920 don't
00:52:00.340 email
00:52:00.540 your
00:52:00.760 friends
00:52:01.140 in the
00:52:01.360 media
00:52:01.720 don't
00:52:02.580 don't
00:52:02.600 email
00:52:03.040 anyone
00:52:04.080 except
00:52:04.420 me
00:52:04.840 and
00:52:06.120 we're
00:52:06.480 just
00:52:06.660 going
00:52:06.800 to
00:52:06.940 brazen
00:52:07.320 this
00:52:07.540 out
00:52:07.900 and
00:52:08.720 you know
00:52:09.420 someone
00:52:09.960 someone else
00:52:10.780 some higher
00:52:11.920 authority
00:52:12.440 maybe the
00:52:12.900 New York
00:52:13.120 Times
00:52:13.640 maybe
00:52:14.740 you know
00:52:15.620 Barack Obama
00:52:17.060 through a
00:52:18.020 surrogate
00:52:18.520 will
00:52:18.840 will call
00:52:19.520 time on us
00:52:20.120 or they
00:52:20.380 won't
00:52:20.740 you know
00:52:21.240 it's just
00:52:21.840 what else
00:52:22.720 can you
00:52:22.980 do
00:52:23.240 I mean
00:52:23.820 they are
00:52:24.240 they are
00:52:24.580 on this
00:52:25.000 right now
00:52:25.680 a sinking
00:52:26.100 ship
00:52:26.480 so they
00:52:27.620 do need
00:52:28.120 all hands
00:52:28.560 on deck
00:52:29.120 and
00:52:29.760 they do
00:52:30.440 need
00:52:30.720 to try
00:52:31.400 as best
00:52:31.880 as they
00:52:32.220 can
00:52:32.400 to plug
00:52:32.820 every hole
00:52:33.580 inside
00:52:34.620 I just
00:52:35.760 don't think
00:52:36.120 it's going
00:52:36.420 to work
00:52:36.840 because
00:52:37.520 again
00:52:38.600 the media
00:52:39.900 is in
00:52:40.520 a frenzy
00:52:41.640 right now
00:52:42.260 and they're
00:52:43.380 they're
00:52:43.860 emptying
00:52:44.300 their notebooks
00:52:44.900 and they're
00:52:46.120 finally getting
00:52:46.820 all the details
00:52:47.880 out that they've
00:52:48.400 been holding
00:52:48.900 or that
00:52:49.780 they didn't
00:52:50.580 dare ask
00:52:51.140 about
00:52:51.480 or that
00:52:51.840 they didn't
00:52:52.160 report
00:52:52.600 and
00:52:53.500 you know
00:52:54.480 I think
00:52:54.840 everyone is
00:52:55.520 you know
00:52:56.460 I think
00:52:56.860 there are
00:52:57.140 lots of
00:52:57.980 in the
00:52:59.200 media hive
00:52:59.780 mind
00:53:00.240 there is
00:53:01.800 now this
00:53:02.300 this sense
00:53:03.080 of
00:53:03.520 well the
00:53:04.360 drip drip
00:53:04.700 of reporting
00:53:05.280 will eventually
00:53:06.060 push Biden
00:53:07.740 to
00:53:08.720 call it
00:53:10.080 quits
00:53:10.300 for the
00:53:10.560 campaign
00:53:11.060 and I
00:53:12.060 think
00:53:12.200 lots of
00:53:12.480 reporters
00:53:12.820 are now
00:53:13.120 in
00:53:13.320 competitive
00:53:13.980 mode
00:53:14.580 of they
00:53:15.460 want to
00:53:15.740 file the
00:53:16.100 story
00:53:16.360 that does
00:53:16.820 it
00:53:17.460 or they
00:53:18.820 want to
00:53:19.100 file the
00:53:19.460 story
00:53:19.780 of the
00:53:20.940 leading
00:53:21.320 democratic
00:53:21.900 voice
00:53:22.380 you know
00:53:22.680 once the
00:53:23.220 you know
00:53:23.700 these people
00:53:24.140 in congress
00:53:24.700 the
00:53:25.080 representative
00:53:26.040 from Maine
00:53:26.740 that's
00:53:27.500 you know
00:53:27.720 small beer
00:53:28.420 but once
00:53:29.000 you get up
00:53:29.480 to you
00:53:30.840 know getting
00:53:31.280 Gretchen
00:53:31.700 Whitmer
00:53:32.000 on record
00:53:33.140 or Gavin
00:53:34.040 Newsom
00:53:34.520 or you
00:53:35.660 know Jared
00:53:36.040 Paulus
00:53:36.660 or none
00:53:37.460 of them
00:53:37.740 is going
00:53:38.020 to do it
00:53:38.440 their
00:53:39.580 their whole
00:53:40.600 their way
00:53:41.360 to the
00:53:41.680 White House
00:53:42.220 is to
00:53:43.020 remain loyal
00:53:43.600 to Biden
00:53:44.160 to stand
00:53:45.180 behind him
00:53:46.000 and then to
00:53:46.900 be reluctantly
00:53:47.800 drafted into
00:53:48.680 this race
00:53:49.200 after the
00:53:49.760 press kills
00:53:50.360 him they
00:53:51.100 eliminate
00:53:51.660 themselves by
00:53:52.700 coming out
00:53:53.200 and saying
00:53:53.580 he needs
00:53:53.980 to go
00:53:54.360 it has
00:53:55.000 to be
00:53:55.260 other
00:53:55.520 Dems
00:53:55.880 not in
00:53:56.220 contention
00:53:56.660 that's
00:53:58.020 true but
00:53:58.420 I mean
00:53:58.740 Whitmer is
00:53:59.240 not particularly
00:54:01.060 disguising her
00:54:02.080 ambitions
00:54:02.560 lately
00:54:03.460 she is
00:54:05.160 fundraising
00:54:06.100 she is
00:54:06.760 reporting
00:54:07.380 you know
00:54:07.700 there are
00:54:08.180 some reports
00:54:08.700 that she's
00:54:09.680 told the
00:54:10.060 Biden campaign
00:54:10.880 you are
00:54:12.040 dead in
00:54:12.480 my state
00:54:13.060 at this
00:54:13.520 point
00:54:13.860 don't even
00:54:14.460 bother
00:54:14.840 she's
00:54:16.940 fundraising
00:54:17.460 as if
00:54:18.580 you know
00:54:18.940 donating to
00:54:20.220 her is
00:54:20.660 helping
00:54:20.940 Biden
00:54:21.360 in some
00:54:22.900 way
00:54:23.220 so
00:54:24.040 you know
00:54:24.840 none of
00:54:25.880 them will
00:54:26.160 come out
00:54:26.840 but you
00:54:27.440 know
00:54:27.660 if there's
00:54:30.040 going to be
00:54:30.280 a successful
00:54:30.960 pressure
00:54:31.480 campaign
00:54:32.040 it can't
00:54:32.880 just be
00:54:33.200 the representative
00:54:33.780 for Maine
00:54:34.480 and a few
00:54:35.140 other
00:54:35.500 you know
00:54:36.400 non-household
00:54:37.140 beings
00:54:37.460 this is
00:54:38.360 I know
00:54:38.700 I agree
00:54:39.000 with that
00:54:39.320 and Charles
00:54:39.680 said something
00:54:40.980 similar a
00:54:41.660 minute ago
00:54:42.000 but this
00:54:42.980 is the
00:54:43.280 beginning
00:54:43.640 this is
00:54:44.040 how it
00:54:44.320 starts
00:54:44.720 you know
00:54:45.460 you get
00:54:45.880 drip
00:54:46.440 drip
00:54:46.800 drip
00:54:47.200 and also
00:54:48.680 the other
00:54:49.140 thing that
00:54:49.900 we're seeing
00:54:50.420 is as I
00:54:51.400 reported
00:54:51.740 possible
00:54:52.220 donors
00:54:52.720 rethinking
00:54:53.380 where they're
00:54:53.780 going to
00:54:53.920 put their
00:54:54.200 money
00:54:54.460 and also
00:54:55.840 obviously
00:54:57.020 staffers
00:54:57.920 inside the
00:54:58.920 White House
00:54:59.400 turning on
00:55:00.440 each other
00:55:00.880 they're turning
00:55:01.780 on each other
00:55:02.460 at the lower
00:55:03.120 levels the
00:55:03.660 lower folks
00:55:04.160 are turning
00:55:04.480 on the
00:55:04.740 higher folks
00:55:05.300 that's what
00:55:05.700 the report
00:55:06.660 in Politico
00:55:07.240 is about
00:55:07.660 this morning
00:55:08.180 that you
00:55:08.540 referenced
00:55:08.860 earlier
00:55:09.160 MBD
00:55:09.660 about how
00:55:11.020 there's
00:55:11.260 fury now
00:55:12.060 reportedly
00:55:13.160 by other
00:55:14.700 staffers
00:55:15.220 at Biden's
00:55:15.980 tight circle
00:55:16.680 for keeping
00:55:18.220 them out
00:55:19.100 to where
00:55:19.900 they you
00:55:20.460 know
00:55:20.600 they had
00:55:20.960 no idea
00:55:21.400 okay sure
00:55:22.000 I have
00:55:22.760 nothing to
00:55:23.500 do with
00:55:23.840 the Biden
00:55:24.200 circle
00:55:24.640 inner or
00:55:25.300 outer
00:55:25.640 and I
00:55:26.080 knew
00:55:26.340 you guys
00:55:27.260 knew
00:55:27.580 so I
00:55:28.300 you know
00:55:28.840 spare me
00:55:29.400 their
00:55:29.580 protestations
00:55:30.440 but I'm
00:55:31.820 sure it is
00:55:32.460 true that
00:55:33.080 just how
00:55:33.880 bad it
00:55:34.380 was like
00:55:35.060 what we
00:55:35.340 saw at
00:55:35.640 the debate
00:55:36.040 has been
00:55:37.140 kept a
00:55:37.620 secret
00:55:37.900 this is
00:55:38.440 actually
00:55:38.760 this was
00:55:39.160 the lead
00:55:39.580 this morning
00:55:40.180 on morning
00:55:41.280 Joe
00:55:41.760 where Joe
00:55:42.680 Scarborough
00:55:43.180 after coming
00:55:44.020 out after
00:55:44.540 that Thursday
00:55:45.040 night debate
00:55:45.520 on Friday
00:55:45.860 morning and
00:55:46.740 calling for
00:55:47.560 President Biden
00:55:48.160 to give
00:55:48.540 it up
00:55:49.100 saying I
00:55:49.720 don't think
00:55:50.180 he can do
00:55:50.580 it he was
00:55:51.220 the number
00:55:51.620 one cheerleader
00:55:52.260 has been
00:55:53.420 absent all
00:55:54.560 week it's
00:55:55.820 like a single
00:55:56.580 vacation his
00:55:57.760 wife is sitting
00:55:58.580 there and there I
00:55:59.040 don't know about
00:55:59.400 you I don't I
00:56:00.260 don't go on
00:56:00.660 week-long
00:56:01.020 vacations without
00:56:01.800 my husband
00:56:02.320 that's not a
00:56:03.180 thing for us
00:56:03.900 but he's gone
00:56:05.260 for right now
00:56:06.160 she's been out
00:56:06.980 there she's a
00:56:07.600 big Biden
00:56:08.000 supporter but
00:56:09.020 nonetheless this is
00:56:09.780 how morning Joe
00:56:10.360 opened this
00:56:11.380 morning in part
00:56:11.900 watch
00:56:12.220 a lot of
00:56:14.240 calls for the
00:56:15.000 president to
00:56:16.580 make calls and
00:56:18.040 my sources are
00:56:18.820 telling me he's
00:56:19.680 gonna make them
00:56:20.400 simmer but here
00:56:23.040 we go so
00:56:23.840 Eli you're part
00:56:24.500 of a reporting
00:56:25.040 team for
00:56:26.060 Politico that
00:56:26.800 includes our
00:56:27.320 buddy Jonathan
00:56:27.960 Lemire out with
00:56:28.680 a new piece
00:56:29.220 titled we've all
00:56:30.500 enabled the
00:56:31.160 situation Dems
00:56:32.340 turn on Biden's
00:56:33.360 inner sanctum
00:56:34.140 post debate
00:56:35.200 so they came up
00:56:36.140 with this rationale
00:56:36.800 for him to run
00:56:38.620 anyway that he's
00:56:39.660 the only person
00:56:40.440 who's ever beaten
00:56:41.180 Donald Trump and
00:56:41.840 thus he has to be
00:56:42.660 the candidate again
00:56:43.580 and I think now
00:56:45.000 the view across
00:56:45.700 the party at least
00:56:47.020 among a lot of
00:56:47.480 the people that
00:56:47.880 we talk to is
00:56:48.900 that that seems
00:56:49.540 to be a pretty
00:56:50.040 self-serving and
00:56:51.520 maybe delusional
00:56:52.420 case for another
00:56:53.780 four years
00:56:54.380 Jim Vande Hei
00:56:55.200 your piece with
00:56:55.900 Mike Allen for
00:56:56.680 Axios this morning
00:56:57.780 for your behind
00:56:59.260 the curtain column
00:57:00.180 is entitled
00:57:00.840 Democrats rage
00:57:02.280 at Biden rises
00:57:03.320 explain what
00:57:04.660 you're hearing
00:57:05.340 yeah I would say
00:57:07.700 we've talked to
00:57:08.340 literally dozens
00:57:09.120 of house members
00:57:10.240 most of them
00:57:11.200 aren't going to
00:57:11.700 go on the record
00:57:12.360 yet the ones
00:57:12.920 who are going
00:57:13.400 to go on the
00:57:13.740 record already
00:57:14.680 have they're
00:57:15.740 furious like
00:57:16.940 they're just not
00:57:17.560 buying it
00:57:18.080 and his piece
00:57:20.420 went on to say
00:57:21.440 as a Democratic
00:57:22.340 strategist in a
00:57:23.100 battleground state
00:57:23.640 put it the number
00:57:24.280 of people who have
00:57:24.920 access to the
00:57:25.520 president has
00:57:25.980 gotten smaller
00:57:26.540 and smaller
00:57:27.000 and smaller
00:57:27.500 they've been
00:57:28.360 digging deeper
00:57:29.080 into the bunker
00:57:29.700 for months now
00:57:30.540 and said the
00:57:31.540 strategist the
00:57:32.140 more you get
00:57:32.660 into the bunker
00:57:33.380 the less you
00:57:34.500 listen to
00:57:35.520 anyone
00:57:36.300 this is
00:57:39.240 this is part
00:57:40.540 of the
00:57:40.800 this is what
00:57:41.280 happens when
00:57:41.820 you're losing
00:57:42.400 everybody turns
00:57:43.840 on everybody
00:57:44.740 Charles
00:57:45.240 like that's
00:57:45.900 losing
00:57:46.980 begets more
00:57:47.600 losing
00:57:48.100 begets anger
00:57:49.060 and blame
00:57:49.840 usually that
00:57:50.760 happens after
00:57:52.060 the November
00:57:52.700 election
00:57:53.160 it's happening
00:57:54.320 now because
00:57:56.020 the presidency
00:57:56.600 the campaign
00:57:57.320 itself is
00:57:58.680 imploding
00:57:59.060 yeah this is
00:58:00.960 what happens
00:58:01.400 when you're
00:58:01.780 losing but
00:58:02.260 it's also
00:58:02.720 what happens
00:58:03.360 when you're
00:58:03.780 lazy and
00:58:04.640 you have
00:58:05.080 around you
00:58:05.740 this carapace
00:58:07.040 of support
00:58:07.740 from the
00:58:09.700 press that
00:58:11.040 lets you get
00:58:11.700 away with
00:58:12.240 making what
00:58:13.280 was described
00:58:13.960 in that
00:58:14.700 segment as
00:58:16.220 self-serving
00:58:17.320 arguments
00:58:18.700 the argument
00:58:19.780 before the
00:58:20.740 debate was
00:58:22.140 that Joe
00:58:22.780 Biden is
00:58:24.120 the only
00:58:24.740 choice that
00:58:25.940 Americans can
00:58:26.820 make if they
00:58:27.600 want to preserve
00:58:28.340 their democracy
00:58:29.120 which doesn't
00:58:30.200 really make
00:58:30.640 sense on its
00:58:31.240 own terms
00:58:31.820 now that
00:58:32.660 argument has
00:58:33.300 been extended
00:58:33.980 that argument
00:58:35.160 is that Joe
00:58:35.900 Biden is the
00:58:37.400 only choice
00:58:38.040 his party
00:58:38.780 can make
00:58:39.360 if they
00:58:40.960 want to
00:58:41.280 save democracy
00:58:42.080 we've moved
00:58:43.340 the locus
00:58:44.720 of saving
00:58:45.640 democracy to
00:58:46.340 the primary
00:58:47.060 such that
00:58:47.660 Jill Biden
00:58:48.380 is quoted
00:58:49.040 as saying
00:58:50.100 that he's
00:58:50.420 the only
00:58:50.920 person who
00:58:51.660 can do
00:58:51.980 the job
00:58:52.500 I think
00:58:52.960 MBT
00:58:53.580 mentioned
00:58:54.740 that
00:58:55.120 that's
00:58:55.980 ludicrous
00:58:56.800 but it is
00:58:57.580 also the
00:58:58.440 sort of
00:58:58.940 case that
00:58:59.480 you make
00:58:59.920 to people
00:59:00.540 when you're
00:59:01.400 just not
00:59:02.020 used to
00:59:02.700 having to
00:59:03.220 argue
00:59:03.720 I've seen
00:59:04.480 so many
00:59:05.160 Republican
00:59:05.860 comms people
00:59:06.900 on Twitter
00:59:07.420 in the last
00:59:07.980 couple of
00:59:08.460 days saying
00:59:09.120 guys you've
00:59:10.260 been playing
00:59:10.640 on easy
00:59:11.160 mode for
00:59:11.660 years
00:59:12.120 finally
00:59:12.760 you know
00:59:13.780 what it's
00:59:14.180 like to
00:59:14.980 be us
00:59:15.420 and there
00:59:15.780 is something
00:59:16.400 to that
00:59:17.700 so I think
00:59:18.400 one of the
00:59:18.880 things you're
00:59:19.300 seeing here
00:59:19.880 is the
00:59:20.200 people who
00:59:20.640 have a
00:59:20.980 real interest
00:59:21.760 in the
00:59:22.260 Democratic
00:59:22.880 Party
00:59:23.320 doing well
00:59:24.060 that is
00:59:24.880 elected
00:59:25.540 officials
00:59:26.060 and aspiring
00:59:26.900 elected
00:59:27.300 officials
00:59:27.760 within the
00:59:28.240 Democratic
00:59:28.720 Party
00:59:29.200 are suddenly
00:59:30.320 hearing
00:59:31.120 the arguments
00:59:32.320 that have
00:59:32.880 been made
00:59:33.340 on their
00:59:33.920 behalf for
00:59:34.480 years
00:59:34.800 thrown at
00:59:35.440 them
00:59:35.860 instead of
00:59:37.100 Republicans
00:59:37.680 being told
00:59:38.480 it
00:59:38.700 guys you're
00:59:39.600 the threat
00:59:39.960 to democracy
00:59:40.600 and Joe
00:59:41.320 Biden is
00:59:41.880 the savior
00:59:42.360 people who've
00:59:43.580 been sheltered
00:59:44.400 by that
00:59:44.900 argument
00:59:45.320 are now
00:59:45.980 hearing it
00:59:46.580 and they
00:59:46.880 realize how
00:59:47.520 completely
00:59:48.040 ridiculous
00:59:48.600 it sounds
00:59:49.420 and they're
00:59:49.900 getting really
00:59:50.520 frustrated with
00:59:51.440 him so it's
00:59:52.120 partly yes
00:59:52.820 that this is
00:59:53.580 what happens
00:59:54.000 when you're
00:59:54.380 losing
00:59:54.660 and the people
00:59:55.360 turn on one
00:59:56.020 another but
00:59:56.900 it's also
00:59:57.400 that when
00:59:58.140 the table
00:59:58.780 is flipped
00:59:59.300 over and
01:00:00.160 you see
01:00:00.440 what's on
01:00:00.880 the other
01:00:01.180 side it
01:00:01.700 looks very
01:00:02.260 different than
01:00:02.920 when you're
01:00:03.320 hiding under
01:00:03.960 it oh I've
01:00:05.560 got to play
01:00:06.180 this sound
01:00:06.640 by Charles
01:00:07.200 from Keisha
01:00:08.480 Lance Bottoms
01:00:09.540 okay this
01:00:11.580 talk about
01:00:13.140 chutzpah this
01:00:15.700 person who's a
01:00:16.760 former Atlanta
01:00:17.420 mayor now is a
01:00:19.180 senior campaign
01:00:19.860 advisor to Joe
01:00:20.940 Biden and
01:00:22.440 Keisha is
01:00:23.480 very very
01:00:24.920 upset about
01:00:26.880 the media
01:00:27.640 coverage of
01:00:29.200 Joe Biden
01:00:29.860 and his
01:00:30.880 debate performance
01:00:31.820 and people
01:00:32.980 suggesting he
01:00:34.260 needs to drop
01:00:34.900 out in the
01:00:35.860 media listen
01:00:36.880 to what she
01:00:38.180 says top
01:00:39.380 14 editorial
01:00:41.180 boards are
01:00:42.600 supposed to
01:00:43.980 honor their
01:00:45.940 elections and
01:00:47.300 I don't think
01:00:47.920 it's fair when
01:00:48.740 an editorial
01:00:49.460 board with
01:00:50.440 10 people
01:00:51.240 sitting in a
01:00:52.040 room are
01:00:52.860 trying to
01:00:53.360 influence an
01:00:54.160 election that
01:00:54.860 especially in
01:00:55.700 a state like
01:00:56.620 Georgia
01:00:57.120 she called
01:01:00.180 it election
01:01:01.760 interference for
01:01:04.160 publications like
01:01:05.740 the New York
01:01:06.360 Times to say
01:01:08.120 he needs to
01:01:09.120 drop out he
01:01:10.060 can't it's
01:01:10.840 election
01:01:11.340 interference to
01:01:12.100 negatively
01:01:12.580 criticize the
01:01:14.360 sitting president
01:01:15.120 I really
01:01:16.540 struggle to
01:01:17.280 remember her
01:01:19.120 saying anything
01:01:20.360 about what
01:01:21.520 President Trump
01:01:22.120 has been through
01:01:22.720 with the
01:01:23.300 media
01:01:23.560 no it's
01:01:25.240 it's been
01:01:25.740 astonishing
01:01:26.080 and one of
01:01:26.620 the this
01:01:27.520 kind of the
01:01:28.020 secondary story
01:01:28.780 right the
01:01:29.120 first story is
01:01:30.160 Joe Biden
01:01:31.120 his unfitness
01:01:32.280 for the
01:01:32.560 presidency
01:01:33.020 what are
01:01:33.840 Democrats going
01:01:34.420 to do about
01:01:34.920 it but the
01:01:35.760 secondary story
01:01:36.640 is the is
01:01:37.540 the media
01:01:38.100 scandal that
01:01:39.620 you know the
01:01:40.720 media has been
01:01:41.440 covering up for
01:01:42.060 him and
01:01:42.660 they've been
01:01:42.940 covering up
01:01:43.580 for him with
01:01:45.560 tools and
01:01:46.960 words and
01:01:48.620 techniques that
01:01:49.720 they developed
01:01:50.280 to control
01:01:51.460 the narrative
01:01:52.000 during the
01:01:52.880 COVID-19
01:01:53.880 pandemic right
01:01:55.280 you know the
01:01:56.520 New York
01:01:56.720 Times you
01:01:58.420 know several
01:01:58.780 weeks ago
01:01:59.360 said that the
01:02:00.520 the video
01:02:01.480 showing Biden's
01:02:02.940 you know evident
01:02:03.860 age and
01:02:04.660 infirmity were
01:02:05.840 were fakes and
01:02:07.160 were misinformation
01:02:08.220 or disinformation
01:02:09.860 campaign now the
01:02:11.360 New York Times
01:02:11.980 and I think a
01:02:12.960 very costly way to
01:02:14.200 their reputation
01:02:14.840 is citing those
01:02:16.320 exact same
01:02:17.280 moments as
01:02:18.780 like you
01:02:19.720 evidence of
01:02:20.440 Biden's evident
01:02:21.280 decline so
01:02:22.460 they've switched
01:02:23.260 from this
01:02:24.480 story is
01:02:25.160 right-wing
01:02:25.620 disinformation
01:02:26.440 maybe maybe
01:02:27.480 it's coming
01:02:27.880 from abroad
01:02:28.560 maybe it's
01:02:29.080 some kind
01:02:29.480 of election
01:02:30.420 interference
01:02:31.200 to say nope
01:02:32.120 this is a
01:02:32.640 fact and we
01:02:33.240 have to deal
01:02:33.660 with it
01:02:34.100 so this is
01:02:35.300 the the
01:02:36.260 costliest
01:02:37.260 media retreat
01:02:38.920 I've ever
01:02:40.080 seen and
01:02:41.420 in a way it's
01:02:41.880 the it's the
01:02:42.300 culmination of
01:02:43.460 four years
01:02:44.580 of lying with
01:02:46.040 impunity and
01:02:46.920 it's all
01:02:47.380 falling in on
01:02:48.520 Joe Biden
01:02:49.080 right now
01:02:50.460 as everyone
01:02:51.120 in the media
01:02:51.600 class tries to
01:02:52.740 save their own
01:02:53.320 skin by finally
01:02:54.860 filing a report
01:02:55.880 that does him
01:02:57.260 in it's it is a
01:02:58.940 really astonishing
01:02:59.840 scramble and you
01:03:02.080 know I would I
01:03:02.740 would feel bad for
01:03:03.520 for Joe Biden
01:03:04.600 you know if he
01:03:06.000 were still here
01:03:06.640 oh my lord you
01:03:08.700 guys this is just
01:03:09.420 I mean I'm telling
01:03:10.220 you I started the
01:03:10.820 show by saying the
01:03:11.420 dam is breaking
01:03:12.300 and it in the last
01:03:13.760 two minutes both
01:03:15.460 both the Boston
01:03:15.940 Globe and the
01:03:17.340 Atlantic have
01:03:18.220 called for
01:03:18.640 President Biden
01:03:19.180 to step out
01:03:20.420 of this race
01:03:21.260 there's going to
01:03:22.480 be many many
01:03:23.100 more here's
01:03:24.040 here's the
01:03:24.580 Atlantic in a
01:03:25.900 piece authored
01:03:27.320 by hold on a
01:03:29.340 second Adam
01:03:31.340 sewer server
01:03:32.840 Biden must
01:03:33.880 resign if the
01:03:34.480 president wants to
01:03:35.040 protect American
01:03:35.600 democracy he should
01:03:36.460 hand over his
01:03:37.100 office to Kamala
01:03:38.560 Harris his opening
01:03:40.000 line Joe Biden
01:03:40.760 must resign the
01:03:41.760 presidency so he's
01:03:42.840 before he's where
01:03:43.900 you and I are
01:03:44.460 MBD and maybe I
01:03:45.840 don't know about
01:03:46.260 Charles we didn't
01:03:46.760 ask Charles that
01:03:47.280 question but I
01:03:47.840 know he's the
01:03:48.300 number one
01:03:48.680 disliker of Kamala
01:03:50.140 Harris in the
01:03:50.680 nation so I can't
01:03:52.620 imagine he's in
01:03:53.380 favor I let me ask
01:03:54.540 you quickly Charles
01:03:55.160 are you in favor of
01:03:56.200 Joe Biden stepping
01:03:57.240 down from the
01:03:57.760 presidency well I
01:04:00.100 think he should
01:04:01.040 step down from the
01:04:01.960 presidency even
01:04:02.820 though it will
01:04:04.360 put her in the
01:04:06.920 White House and
01:04:07.720 as you say I am
01:04:08.700 the number one
01:04:09.500 Kamala Harris hater
01:04:10.800 in the nation
01:04:11.360 have been since
01:04:11.900 2019 I just don't
01:04:13.060 think he's going
01:04:13.640 to Megan because I
01:04:14.720 don't think that he
01:04:15.980 will get that far
01:04:17.320 to voluntarily resign
01:04:18.960 the office is just
01:04:20.380 a bridge too far for
01:04:21.260 that man I agree
01:04:21.960 he won't do it he
01:04:23.640 should and in fact I
01:04:24.480 think it could be part
01:04:25.100 of the deal that they
01:04:25.700 make with him that
01:04:26.760 there are calls for
01:04:27.360 the 25th amendment to
01:04:28.320 be invoked many are
01:04:29.500 now calling you for
01:04:30.140 to step down from the
01:04:31.000 presidency we'll let
01:04:32.340 you leave with your
01:04:32.960 head held high we'll
01:04:34.240 celebrate you at the
01:04:35.020 Democratic convention
01:04:35.840 as a savior your
01:04:37.220 legacy will be intact
01:04:38.360 you won't be Joe
01:04:39.600 Bader Ginsburg
01:04:41.180 and you know you
01:04:43.400 can go out
01:04:43.820 peacefully as opposed
01:04:44.620 to ending your
01:04:45.480 presidency early that
01:04:46.460 could be one of the
01:04:47.140 bargaining chips brought
01:04:48.180 to him sir or goes on
01:04:49.360 to say he must resign
01:04:50.180 the presidency the
01:04:51.420 last person to do so
01:04:52.440 was Richard Nixon who
01:04:53.320 left in disgrace after
01:04:54.360 abusing the powers of
01:04:55.260 his office Nixon had to
01:04:56.820 resign because he led
01:04:57.660 an assault on American
01:04:58.420 democracy Biden must
01:05:00.060 resign for the opposite
01:05:01.080 reason to give
01:05:02.100 American democracy its
01:05:03.280 best chance of
01:05:04.400 surviving he doesn't
01:05:06.120 sound like a Trump
01:05:06.660 fan sir where
01:05:07.620 focuses on politics and
01:05:08.940 race for the Atlantic
01:05:09.860 he worked in the past
01:05:11.160 for Mother Jones
01:05:12.040 BuzzFeed and then
01:05:13.880 this from the Boston
01:05:14.640 Globe editorial board
01:05:15.920 it's not a columnist
01:05:16.940 it's the editorial board
01:05:18.040 saying current and
01:05:19.800 former party leaders
01:05:20.660 should be doing their
01:05:21.880 best to persuade the
01:05:25.500 president that the end
01:05:27.820 of his long and grand
01:05:29.120 political career is near
01:05:31.300 it's pretty remarkable to
01:05:34.360 see this pouring in I
01:05:36.340 mean I I don't want to
01:05:37.240 brush past this this is a
01:05:38.680 this is a very big deal
01:05:39.840 when you've got the New
01:05:40.460 York Times editorial
01:05:41.160 board saying it the
01:05:42.420 Atlanta Journal
01:05:42.900 Constitution now the
01:05:44.320 Atlantic now the
01:05:45.580 Boston Globe more and
01:05:46.980 more MBD of I mean
01:05:48.380 it's soon it's going to
01:05:49.280 be all of our major
01:05:51.100 publications or 99% of
01:05:53.120 them saying he must step
01:05:56.480 down or at least give up
01:05:58.280 his candidacy well from
01:06:00.520 from the opposite end of
01:06:02.100 things I in a weird way
01:06:04.000 agree with Adam Serwer and
01:06:05.600 I'm surprised to say
01:06:06.660 this but he's right
01:06:08.780 that you the logical
01:06:09.880 consequences calling for
01:06:11.020 him to resign the
01:06:11.860 presidency because you
01:06:13.960 know what the New York
01:06:14.520 Times did over the
01:06:15.260 weekend which is say
01:06:16.240 you know editorialize
01:06:17.620 that he's unfit for the
01:06:18.680 presidency and should
01:06:20.560 you know abandon his
01:06:21.780 position as the candidate
01:06:23.320 but that they would
01:06:24.620 still vote they would
01:06:25.760 still endorse him anyway
01:06:27.000 over Trump I mean
01:06:28.520 effectively what they're
01:06:29.340 saying is you know I
01:06:31.540 will vote for um a
01:06:34.980 conspiracy an unnamed
01:06:36.740 conspiracy of people to
01:06:38.820 run the executive branch
01:06:40.400 of the federal
01:06:40.780 government for four years
01:06:43.360 and they'll do so in
01:06:44.460 Joe Biden's name you
01:06:46.620 cannot argue that and
01:06:48.500 then say you are
01:06:49.220 defending democracy right
01:06:50.880 democracy is we have
01:06:52.700 public elections we
01:06:53.700 elect public figures we
01:06:55.060 judge them on what
01:06:55.780 they do and the
01:06:57.100 decisions they make and
01:06:58.240 then we have elections
01:07:00.140 afterward to decide
01:07:01.620 whether to keep them or
01:07:02.840 not and so you can't
01:07:05.300 they're sacrifice anyone
01:07:06.620 who continues supporting
01:07:08.580 Joe Biden when he's this
01:07:09.900 evidently non-competent is
01:07:13.540 it cannot claim to be
01:07:15.220 defending democracy uh
01:07:17.480 that's truly important and
01:07:19.700 there's another aspect to
01:07:21.100 this that's just that
01:07:22.280 really struck me today
01:07:23.200 which was I decided to
01:07:25.540 listen to foreign coverage
01:07:27.080 of the American debate
01:07:29.980 from last week and I
01:07:32.180 was listening to um the
01:07:34.440 Irish Times podcast
01:07:35.640 normally they're a
01:07:37.160 megaphone for you know
01:07:38.380 what the New York Times
01:07:39.080 says and what all the
01:07:43.120 reporters on the on their
01:07:44.460 podcast said this was
01:07:46.660 difficult to watch and
01:07:49.900 why was it difficult to
01:07:51.560 watch because what you're
01:07:54.000 looking at and we have we
01:07:55.640 have to just say it for
01:07:56.700 what it is what you saw was
01:07:58.420 a form of elder abuse
01:07:59.720 okay Joe Biden the
01:08:03.080 condition he is in
01:08:04.040 naturally excites in a
01:08:06.420 normal human person
01:08:07.660 sympathy and the uh the
01:08:11.720 the reaction that you want
01:08:12.800 to care for this person
01:08:13.960 you want to sit them in
01:08:15.820 front of Matlock reruns and
01:08:18.060 give them vanilla pudding
01:08:19.180 like that's what you want
01:08:21.380 to do that is what Joe
01:08:22.620 Biden deserves at the end
01:08:23.720 of his long life not to be
01:08:25.560 puppeted around by Hunter
01:08:27.580 Biden for Hunter Biden's
01:08:29.960 ends or for Jill Biden to
01:08:32.500 be on the cover of Vogue
01:08:33.620 right like Joe Biden
01:08:35.840 deserves right now right
01:08:39.200 now he deserves care from
01:08:42.740 people who take his
01:08:43.580 condition seriously and
01:08:45.960 like I just can't emphasize
01:08:47.660 that enough other people
01:08:49.180 can see it when they don't
01:08:50.780 have as much at stake and
01:08:53.560 and that's the reaction
01:08:54.500 they have and by the way
01:08:55.560 that is the thing that
01:08:56.640 could kill any pretense of
01:08:59.280 him staying on his report
01:09:01.360 if there are reporters who
01:09:02.960 have access to foreign
01:09:04.740 leaders who have seen Joe
01:09:07.020 Biden at his worst and you
01:09:09.560 know where it's not a
01:09:10.260 hypothetical oh how do you
01:09:12.040 feel about Joe Biden on a
01:09:13.260 phone call with Vladimir Putin
01:09:14.520 to discuss Ukraine right now
01:09:16.620 but if you find out that oh
01:09:18.560 at the G7 last year he
01:09:20.420 totally blanked out or he
01:09:21.880 started referring to Helmut
01:09:23.220 Cole instead of you know
01:09:26.060 the current chancellor in
01:09:27.420 Germany you know those
01:09:30.060 reports will immediately
01:09:32.920 emphasize the gravity of the
01:09:35.340 situation we're facing right
01:09:36.580 and they're starting first of
01:09:37.780 all that was so well said I
01:09:38.920 completely agree with all
01:09:39.960 that and having had elderly
01:09:41.380 relatives suffer with some of
01:09:42.660 these issues I did some
01:09:44.520 research to figure out what
01:09:46.000 are you supposed to do when
01:09:47.060 you have someone in your
01:09:48.520 family suffering from this and
01:09:49.800 you know there there's a
01:09:50.700 whole list of protocols I'm
01:09:52.300 sure he is getting angry like
01:09:54.140 that you know and snappy
01:09:55.840 behind closed doors that
01:09:57.200 actually is one of the
01:09:58.400 symptoms of dementia and
01:10:00.120 they teach you when you have
01:10:01.180 a relative who's suffering
01:10:02.240 from it to not respond in
01:10:04.400 kind to understand that that
01:10:06.360 that's the dementia talking
01:10:07.780 that's not the person you
01:10:09.140 know and love talking to you
01:10:10.240 certainly don't get mad in
01:10:11.100 response you try to handle
01:10:12.800 it when the person suffering
01:10:15.000 from dementia keeps telling you
01:10:16.700 the same story over and over
01:10:18.600 you don't say you already
01:10:19.920 told me that it's just going
01:10:21.760 to be upsetting to them they
01:10:22.900 don't realize that they've
01:10:23.860 already told you that like
01:10:24.700 there are all sorts of ways
01:10:25.720 of handling somebody
01:10:26.500 suffering from this and
01:10:27.940 they're stripping this man of
01:10:29.060 his dignity and making him
01:10:31.120 stand there in front of us
01:10:32.320 while it all plays out it
01:10:34.460 publicly it's it's not okay
01:10:36.220 to the solution is not to
01:10:37.500 hide him from the American
01:10:39.100 public the solution is to
01:10:40.640 protect him and his dignity
01:10:42.380 and the country at the same
01:10:43.500 time by admitting he can no
01:10:45.960 longer do this particular job
01:10:47.420 he served the country well
01:10:48.960 for Democrats in particular
01:10:51.120 for a long long time but he's
01:10:53.280 he's been of service to the
01:10:54.340 country and it's time for him
01:10:55.920 to leave in a respectable
01:10:57.940 dignified manner not like this
01:11:01.000 I do want to say what you said
01:11:03.600 you wondered about and I know
01:11:05.500 you read it is already
01:11:07.040 starting to happen the New York
01:11:08.100 Times piece not the editorial
01:11:10.180 board current calling for him
01:11:11.280 to step down but the lengthy
01:11:12.420 piece they dropped last night on
01:11:14.160 his cognitive infirmity went into
01:11:16.680 what's happening with foreign
01:11:17.640 leaders and of course it was
01:11:19.500 ironic because they were not
01:11:21.100 ironic but I mean it was just
01:11:22.060 galling because they defended
01:11:23.240 him at this G7 meeting in an
01:11:25.780 earlier piece trying to defend
01:11:27.100 these so-called cheap fakes but
01:11:28.960 I'll read you a bit from from
01:11:30.740 what the what they say happened
01:11:32.780 when he went over to Europe
01:11:34.580 okay Mr. Biden appeared to wander
01:11:39.120 off from the group of leaders who
01:11:41.100 were there to talk to paratroopers
01:11:43.420 and the Italian prime minister
01:11:44.940 Georgia Maloney she came up
01:11:47.160 behind him and gently brought
01:11:48.400 him back a clip of the event that
01:11:49.880 went viral had been edited to make
01:11:51.860 it appear that Mr. Biden has just
01:11:53.060 walked away in fact he was greeted
01:11:54.360 greeting a paratrooper trooper and
01:11:56.740 now they say but the image
01:11:59.120 suggested he needed guidance from
01:12:00.720 his host now before when they
01:12:01.920 fact-checked this for us to saying
01:12:03.260 how dishonest everybody was they
01:12:05.080 just called it a cheap fake and
01:12:06.760 they didn't add that yet you know
01:12:08.820 what it does suggest he needed
01:12:10.460 there's the Georgia prime
01:12:11.400 minister I mean Italian prime
01:12:13.080 minister Georgia Maloney trying to
01:12:14.640 get him back so now they're
01:12:16.400 getting deeper into it now that
01:12:17.980 he's twisting but the image did
01:12:20.280 suggest he needed guidance from his
01:12:21.960 host it goes on Ms. Maloney and
01:12:24.780 the other leaders were acutely
01:12:26.620 sensitive to Mr. Biden's physical
01:12:28.500 condition discussing it privately
01:12:30.620 amongst themselves and they tried
01:12:32.660 to avoid embarrassing him by slowing
01:12:34.560 their own pace while walking with
01:12:36.240 the president when they worried that
01:12:38.200 he did not seem poised and cameras
01:12:40.420 were around they closed ranks around
01:12:43.020 him physically to shield him while he
01:12:45.420 collected himself the official said
01:12:48.400 so it's already being noticed by
01:12:51.200 international officials who have felt
01:12:53.640 the need to cover up for our
01:12:55.240 president this is embarrassing Charles
01:12:57.980 this is it's humiliating to him and
01:13:02.200 to our country yeah you know Megan
01:13:05.620 it's interesting I don't think I wrote
01:13:07.060 this or said this on a podcast but I
01:13:08.960 certainly said this at National
01:13:09.900 Review maybe maybe to Michael
01:13:11.080 certainly to Rich that clip was
01:13:13.540 interesting I thought when it
01:13:15.200 happened because as you know I and
01:13:17.640 others have thought that Joe Biden
01:13:19.120 was senile for quite a long time and
01:13:22.080 I thought it was interesting that it
01:13:24.400 was Georgian Maloney the Italian
01:13:25.820 prime minister who went over to him
01:13:28.240 I'm married to an Italian American from
01:13:30.280 a big family Italians in particular
01:13:33.000 are family based and live in multi
01:13:37.100 generational spaces you know Americans
01:13:39.480 don't in quite the same way we have
01:13:41.060 more nursing homes the British are the
01:13:42.900 same as the Americans and other
01:13:44.620 countries are somewhere in the middle
01:13:45.760 but the Italians in particular Greeks
01:13:47.720 they live in a way where they young
01:13:50.780 children are around even if you eat
01:13:52.520 dinner at nine o'clock at night and
01:13:54.520 grandparents are there at all family
01:13:56.320 events maybe they live in the house and I
01:13:58.420 just I said this at the time it's very
01:14:00.940 interesting she went over because she's
01:14:02.800 probably seen this before she's
01:14:05.060 probably more acutely aware of Joe
01:14:08.440 Biden's condition and the signs of it
01:14:10.860 than many other people and it's just
01:14:13.600 very funny watching that I mean funny
01:14:15.560 haha it's very interesting curious
01:14:17.420 peculiar watching that clip that you
01:14:19.740 just put up now now that we've had
01:14:22.680 confirmation of it why did the Italian
01:14:25.020 go over there and do that well because
01:14:27.740 she's probably more tuned in clued in to
01:14:30.560 this than most mm-hmm oh I'll make a I'll
01:14:33.760 make a case for my fellow woman on that
01:14:35.260 one too we tend to be more yeah
01:14:36.900 empathetic that's true and loving and
01:14:39.100 caretakers just by nature so I'm sure
01:14:41.340 that's in her just I would be remiss if I
01:14:44.640 did not bring out some of the words used
01:14:47.440 by this bombshell of a Tom of a times
01:14:50.020 piece that I that we're talking about
01:14:52.220 right now it's entitled Biden's lapses are
01:14:54.920 said to be increasingly common and
01:14:56.920 worrisome they claim I mean I really I
01:15:00.000 have trouble believing this but they
01:15:01.260 claim it's over the last few months that
01:15:04.400 these lapses have grown more frequent
01:15:06.940 more pronounced and after Thursday's
01:15:09.640 debate more worrisome the headliner on
01:15:12.600 the piece is Peter Baker though there are
01:15:13.980 others citing interviews with current
01:15:16.960 current and former White House aides
01:15:19.960 political advisors administration officials
01:15:23.080 foreign diplomats domestic allies and
01:15:26.760 financial donors who saw mr. Biden in
01:15:29.960 the last few weeks most of whom I think
01:15:33.120 all of whom in this piece are anonymous
01:15:35.040 given the delicacy of the matter and this
01:15:37.480 these are some of the things that the
01:15:39.180 piece reports in the weeks and months
01:15:41.180 before the debate these they say several
01:15:45.940 current and former officials and others
01:15:47.360 who encountered him behind closed doors
01:15:48.960 noticed that he increasingly appeared
01:15:50.940 confused or listless or would lose the
01:15:54.340 thread of conversations that the lapses
01:15:56.800 seem to be growing more frequent more
01:15:58.920 pronounced more worrisome that they
01:16:01.600 seemed more likely when he was in a
01:16:03.020 large crowd or tired after a
01:16:05.020 particularly bruising schedule then they
01:16:07.660 give the Mika Brzezinski defense which I
01:16:09.300 said the other day was spoon-fed to
01:16:10.620 her directly from the White House and now
01:16:12.120 clearly it's been spoon-fed to the
01:16:13.420 Times he jetted across the Atlantic Ocean
01:16:15.960 twice for meetings with foreign leaders
01:16:17.460 hello he was on Air Force One which has a
01:16:19.340 bed but okay he flew from Italy to
01:16:22.200 California for a splashy fundraiser
01:16:23.980 maintaining a grueling pace that
01:16:25.420 exhausted even much younger aides
01:16:26.860 sure Jan he he was drained enough that
01:16:30.280 his team cut his planned debate prep by
01:16:32.220 two days so he could rest at Rehoboth
01:16:34.440 Beach but then he went to Camp David I
01:16:37.320 mean he he was back in the States for
01:16:38.800 10 days before that debate let's not
01:16:40.680 pretend that jet lag takes 10 months to
01:16:42.780 recover from the preparations which took
01:16:45.140 place intensely over six days never
01:16:47.160 started before 11 a.m. he was given time
01:16:49.400 for an afternoon nap each day as I said
01:16:51.900 in our intro then the White House
01:16:54.780 countered while he was working before
01:16:56.420 11 and exercised they would not the
01:17:00.580 White House make a doctor available to
01:17:03.440 the Times for an interview very telling
01:17:06.280 the White House has declined to make his
01:17:08.480 doctor Dr. O'Connor available for
01:17:10.380 questions and the Times ads did not
01:17:12.660 respond to detailed health questions from
01:17:15.360 the New York Times earlier this year
01:17:18.320 Dr. O'Connor
01:17:19.800 on Tuesday let's say it says responding
01:17:24.100 to questions from the Times Mr. Bates
01:17:26.080 the White House spokesman said on
01:17:28.100 Tuesday that the doctor had found no
01:17:31.140 reason to reevaluate Mr. Biden for
01:17:33.240 Parkinson's since the debate and said he
01:17:36.560 had showed no signs of Parkinson's this is
01:17:38.460 one of the theories about what he might
01:17:39.800 have by the way here was Corrine
01:17:41.600 Jean-Pierre on the question of whether he
01:17:45.000 has Alzheimer's yesterday
01:17:47.340 SOT 29
01:17:47.980 I'm gonna ask something delicate and you
01:17:52.080 may not like it the president may not
01:17:53.840 like to hear it if he's watching but I
01:17:55.720 think the American people need to get a
01:17:57.560 yes or no answer on this
01:17:58.900 does President Biden at 81 years old
01:18:02.380 have Alzheimer's any form of dementia
01:18:05.900 dementia or degenerative illness that
01:18:09.200 cause these sorts of lapses and it's a
01:18:12.820 yes or no question and if you don't
01:18:15.680 know why don't you as one of his senior
01:18:18.760 staff members know that I have an answer
01:18:21.000 for you are you ready for it it's a no
01:18:22.820 and I hope you're asking the other guy
01:18:24.160 the same exact question
01:18:25.180 so I have to admit I believe she's lying
01:18:29.620 just don't believe that at all I don't
01:18:32.160 know what the condition is but I mean
01:18:34.360 you tell me Charles some something's
01:18:37.280 wrong with the president the only
01:18:38.820 question is what
01:18:39.500 yeah so something is wrong with the
01:18:41.940 president I'm not a doctor and I can't
01:18:43.980 diagnose it you know I find the most
01:18:45.660 annoying thing about that it's actually
01:18:47.560 not the no it's the ask the other guy
01:18:50.480 this has been a refrain of Democrats and
01:18:56.100 many of their enablers in the press since
01:18:58.220 this happened what about Trump I write
01:19:00.540 about Trump a lot I'm pretty open about
01:19:02.360 my views on Trump I share that with you
01:19:04.520 Megan every time I come on the show do
01:19:06.300 you know why I'm not talking about Trump
01:19:07.760 now because nothing has changed with
01:19:10.080 Trump Trump is the same person he was a
01:19:12.500 week ago a year ago four years ago it is
01:19:15.360 the same Donald Trump the stories about
01:19:17.220 Joe Biden this is such a crazy deflection
01:19:20.320 so not only did she refuse to answer the
01:19:22.880 question and then act as if it was
01:19:25.120 offensive or it shouldn't have been asked
01:19:26.800 and she said what about what about what
01:19:28.440 what about come on this is this is to
01:19:31.980 Michael's point this is an abdication of
01:19:34.720 responsibility and care we're not talking
01:19:37.660 about someone random here that reporter I
01:19:41.060 don't know who that was did not walk up to
01:19:43.340 some old feeble looking guy on the street
01:19:45.540 and say hey you you got dementia the
01:19:48.060 president of the United States is the
01:19:50.960 topic has she read has Karine Jean-Pierre
01:19:53.720 read article two of the constitution does
01:19:56.180 she know what the first line of it is it
01:19:58.820 says all powers are vested in the
01:20:02.080 president of the United States not some
01:20:04.440 not to a committee all powers and those
01:20:07.800 powers are pretty considerable they are
01:20:10.180 too considerable I think we really need to
01:20:12.540 scale back the executive branch but we
01:20:14.360 haven't we've built it up and built it up
01:20:16.400 and built it up over foreign policy it is
01:20:18.240 almost absolute in domestic politics it is
01:20:20.800 considerable and she she has that as her
01:20:23.200 answer no stop asking the question ask
01:20:26.800 about the other guy Donald Trump's not the
01:20:28.760 problem there are many problems with
01:20:29.940 Donald Trump it's a separate topic I'm
01:20:31.440 happy to talk about it but Donald Trump
01:20:33.420 although he is old and I wouldn't choose
01:20:35.760 someone that old to be president although
01:20:38.020 he is old looked totally cogent at that
01:20:41.040 debate it's not just about age it's about
01:20:43.260 cogency he was alive alert he was funny he
01:20:47.500 lied of course he lied he's a politician but he
01:20:49.820 also knew what he was saying and he made
01:20:52.140 jokes and observations at Joe Biden's
01:20:55.300 expense Joe Biden wasn't that's why we're
01:20:58.700 talking about him and if they think that
01:21:00.580 they're going to get away with that over
01:21:02.160 the next three or four months and they have
01:21:03.640 another thing coming let me tell you
01:21:05.520 something I'll bring up Phil Houston
01:21:07.080 again this is not some you know soothsayer as
01:21:09.480 I gave you his credentials this guy is a
01:21:11.920 human lie detector and has been relied upon
01:21:14.080 as such by virtually every government agency
01:21:17.280 we have that investigates crime and what he
01:21:20.340 says is for a truth teller the truth is
01:21:23.920 your ally you run to it you love talking
01:21:27.100 about it you don't do a quick no and move
01:21:30.480 on and deflect yeah if it were true the
01:21:34.140 answer would have sounded as follows no he
01:21:37.560 doesn't and Dr. O'Connor ran these tests 10
01:21:41.000 months ago for all of them no medication for
01:21:44.180 such conditions has been prescribed he passed
01:21:46.760 the cognitive test the physical test the
01:21:49.440 brain scans we've of course because he's the
01:21:51.960 sitting president done it all and we'll
01:21:54.080 release those results to you or we'll at
01:21:56.000 least give you Dr. O'Connor's report it no
01:21:58.800 and I hope you're gonna ask the other guy is
01:22:00.520 a lie it's a lie absolutely that's just I
01:22:04.480 mean that's just obvious MBD but we're we're
01:22:07.020 not gonna get more from the White House on
01:22:08.400 that there's is very clear and I we have to
01:22:11.360 spend one minute on the fact that Hunter is
01:22:15.020 now going to the White House meetings Hunter
01:22:17.480 Biden you mentioned in passing Hunter Biden's
01:22:19.980 there now Hunter Biden convicted felon this is
01:22:23.480 what the Democrats like to do convicted felon
01:22:25.980 Hunter Biden drug addled Hunter Biden though he said
01:22:30.140 to be clean at the moment is going with the president to all
01:22:34.300 of his meetings right now apparently as like a backup
01:22:38.760 Biden and this is being defended by people like Mika Brzezinski is like no
01:22:45.420 big deal but it is a big deal and there's a real question about
01:22:49.620 whether this is appropriate and why he's there they're saying
01:22:52.460 the White House is saying oh it's just because it's a holiday week
01:22:56.260 what does that mean what is that it's like bring your kid to is it bring your
01:22:59.900 son to work day at because it's almost July 4th but why is Hunter Biden
01:23:04.040 here it is take a listen
01:23:06.360 Biden has been in some meetings with senior advisors
01:23:10.800 why is the president's son involved
01:23:13.460 so a couple of things I do I saw that reporting as I was coming out so a
01:23:19.000 couple of things there look the president as you know is very close to
01:23:21.720 his family this is a holiday week 4th of July he spent time with his family as
01:23:26.700 you all know and reported at Camp David Hunter came back with him and walked
01:23:31.960 with him into into into that meeting that prep that speech prep and you know
01:23:38.920 and he ended up spending time with his dad and his family that night that is
01:23:43.840 basically what happened it is a week where there's going to be more family
01:23:47.380 members who are going to come to the to the White House I'm sure you'll see some
01:23:50.940 of them on 4th of July many more are expected to be here
01:23:54.080 the question though would be is he participating in meetings with senior
01:23:59.200 advisors what I can say is that he came back with his dad from Camp David he
01:24:05.020 walked him into the speech prep and he was in the room that I can tell you he
01:24:09.520 was in the room I don't know about you MBD but if we're looking for shadow
01:24:12.680 presidents Hunter Biden's not on my list
01:24:14.780 yeah one thing Hunter has over his father is that he's a little bit more liberal
01:24:18.780 about gun ownership than uh most Democrats and drugs libertarians may like
01:24:23.500 him I I will say this um you know um the press has moved on you know the Hunter
01:24:32.000 Biden story as this kind of saga was in 2019 it was uh you know Hunter Biden is a
01:24:39.600 troubled person but you know he has none of his business dealings have anything to
01:24:43.880 do with the president you know the potential president of the United States
01:24:47.380 Joe Biden there's no real connection here at all um the only the only connection is
01:24:52.880 that Joe Joe Biden loves his son so much and now it's well Hunter Biden of course is
01:25:00.860 just you know waltzing into meetings with cabinet officials or other high-level
01:25:06.060 senior staff well why I mean the the obvious question is why is it because the
01:25:11.500 circle has tightened so much the Biden family doesn't feel that they can trust
01:25:16.220 the White House staff to be on their uh on Joe Biden's side in this anymore because
01:25:23.300 of the leaks that have been happening I mean over the weekend right I mean the
01:25:27.700 White House itself was putting out stories that looked like defenses but were
01:25:32.940 really knifes in the back right they they put out a story oh well Joe Biden is you
01:25:37.620 know reliably engaged between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and it's like okay on the surface that
01:25:43.420 sounds like a defense but actually that's that's a knife in his back so someone in the
01:25:47.360 White House said that to Alex Thompson of Axios and that hurt the president and then
01:25:51.980 they put out more stories like that that's almost certainly why Hunter Biden is there
01:25:56.740 is because he wants his his father to remain president uh and to have enough be elected to
01:26:03.780 another term he probably wants a pardon he may want future pardons I have no idea um he may want
01:26:11.820 you know business opportunities again and he feels that no one else is reliable to protect his father
01:26:19.360 um so he's showing up and that itself is a scandal and the reporting on it again is a reflection of
01:26:27.300 the media's pylon uh to get rid of Joe Biden right it does not make Joe Biden look good that he is
01:26:34.340 relying on his son all right listen let's get to these polls because you know the real question is
01:26:40.660 as we pointed out in as as even the White House reportedly said if he starts to if the polls start
01:26:47.420 to go down even the president will see the truth um he understands that you know if they start
01:26:52.960 hemorrhaging polling both at the White House level well at the White House level it's going to
01:26:57.320 trickle down and they could lose the house they could lose the Senate and the White House to
01:27:01.800 President Trump which is literally their worst nightmare well um reporter over at Puck News got a
01:27:08.220 hold of some internal Democratic polls Peter Hamby did it's a confidential polling memo put together by
01:27:13.680 Democratic data firm Open Labs uh their memos are very trusted in Democratic circles and typically
01:27:19.720 passed around to a small group of clients and strategists so reports Hamby uh the memo circulating
01:27:24.500 among anxious Democrats is confirming quote some of their worst fears Biden's diminished standing is now
01:27:30.520 putting previously non-competitive states like New Hampshire Virginia and New Mexico in play for
01:27:37.940 Donald Trump the electoral map based on Open Labs reporting would land as follows Biden with 205
01:27:45.960 electoral votes Trump 333 333 that would be a landslide um showing that Biden has lost at least two points
01:27:59.700 in every single battleground state um new CBS polling puts it at four points that Biden has lost to Trump
01:28:10.140 in the wake of this debate four points in every single battleground state um
01:28:15.380 Pennsylvania and Michigan Biden is now polling behind this is according to this poll Pennsylvania
01:28:20.780 Michigan Biden behind by seven points he's losing Georgia by 10 losing Nevada by nine he's behind
01:28:28.640 Trump in Virginia not by much 0.6 percent but behind Trump in Virginia he's behind Trump in New Mexico
01:28:36.560 not by much but behind him in this reliably blue state by 0.5 in New Hampshire a state that Joe Biden
01:28:45.020 won won in 2020 by seven and in which he had had a 10 point lead just a few months ago just in December
01:28:54.780 Biden's now down by two New Hampshire a 12 point swing according to a St. Anselm College poll actually
01:29:02.600 um he's down there 12 points now now Trump leading in New Hampshire in New Mexico which Biden won by 11
01:29:10.700 points uh Joe Biden's now up only two points over Trump just in June before the debate he was up
01:29:20.360 seven points as for the possible replacements on the Democratic ticket Kamala Harris Gretchen Whitmer
01:29:26.820 Gavin Newsom Pete Buttigieg all of them pulled ahead of Joe Biden in every single battleground state
01:29:34.000 Governor Whitmer of Michigan blows away Trump in her home state back in September uh Open Labs ran a
01:29:44.200 similar survey and found that all of those Democrats were in the same position as Biden now they're ahead
01:29:51.180 of him this this is what's going to do it this is it this is the thing the internal polling that says
01:29:58.220 he can't do it he's hemorrhaging an MBD he's going to take others down with him yeah I mean all those
01:30:06.040 so all those poll numbers right if you have to start rededicating resources out of Nevada and into New
01:30:12.740 Mexico I mean you are robbing other Democrats down the ballot of resources they need to compete they need
01:30:20.280 to get their name recognition out there their new new candidate for Congress in Virginia they need money
01:30:26.280 from the the party in the state and if that state party is spending all of its efforts or donors are
01:30:31.500 spending more efforts propping up Joe Biden trying to make you forget what you saw trying to make you
01:30:37.800 forget what you think trying to make you forget what you fear at night about Joe Biden's condition
01:30:44.040 that can that can be a rolling disaster for the whole party now listen the whole party doesn't mean
01:30:51.500 you know Joe Joe Biden's condition is not transferable right to other candidates obviously
01:30:57.580 right like so this isn't uh you know the scandal isn't necessarily going to implicate other Democrats
01:31:06.840 who are just running their race in New Mexico Nevada or or Michigan but again it can take away resources
01:31:13.100 from them and and they are desperate for them because this is you know 50 50 country this is a hotly
01:31:20.520 divided election and if you demoralize one party the other party will turn out and beat it and that's
01:31:27.200 what they're afraid is happening now and right now Donald Trump is playing this like you know like a
01:31:34.980 Christian with three aces I mean he is not he can't lose he's just sitting there quietly and collecting
01:31:42.160 everything that Democrats are throwing into the pot at him uh he doesn't have to do anything
01:31:47.900 and in fact if he does uh interrupt it would probably weaken the effect um you know he handled
01:31:56.340 it just right at the debate calling attention to it maybe twice gently uh but he didn't do anything
01:32:03.000 to make himself look cruel insensitive no Trump's doing a remarkable job of holding his fire and just
01:32:10.460 letting this be a scandal that of its own making not involving him um we're almost done here but I want
01:32:16.220 to give you this Charles just posted New York Times Trump widens lead after Biden's debate debacle
01:32:22.100 New York Times Siena poll finding Mr. Trump now leads Mr. Biden this is likely voters so we do pay
01:32:27.260 attention 49 to 43 a six percentage point lead nationally Hillary Clinton had a 5.9 percentage
01:32:34.780 point lead over Trump at this point in the race in 2016 so things could still happen but it's a swing
01:32:40.580 it's a three point swing toward Trump from just a week earlier and it is the largest lead Trump has
01:32:46.760 recorded in a Times Siena poll since 2015 he leads by even more when you expand it to registered voters
01:32:53.400 49 to 41 and they pin it to doubts about Mr. Biden's age and acuity being widespread and now
01:33:03.700 growing I'll give you the final word well that shows that the debate really hurt Joe Biden to
01:33:11.400 state the obvious I think that Trump was winning the election anyway I'm less sure that was going
01:33:18.720 to hold I actually will shock you so I think there is a fairly high chance Megan this all ends with the
01:33:25.220 Democrats winning the White House but it's not going to be Joe Biden certainly if they replace him yeah
01:33:29.200 exactly if they replace him I mean Republicans I think should be rooting for Joe Biden to stick it out
01:33:33.060 but I don't think he can no question they should but if the polls that you just read both the national
01:33:38.680 one and Siena and that leaked internal democratic document are correct then in a sense it's quite
01:33:45.500 bad for Donald Trump because they're going to replace it I mean if there is any indication that
01:33:50.440 what you've just read out is true they're going to replace it but then I will jump on that train
01:33:55.380 wholeheartedly and say if that if that is the case in a week he has to go because he will lose and
01:34:00.640 lose badly and Michael explain the resources issue I just think after that Republicans are a little
01:34:05.680 overconfident about this it doesn't translate to other candidates and it could give the Democrats a
01:34:10.020 shot in the arm no that's exactly right and so I guess I'll do exit polling Rich Lowry style
01:34:16.160 brings on the editors and I won't ask his actual question percentage chances of Joe Biden being the
01:34:22.680 nominee but what do you think will happen MBD this time in 30 days will Joe Biden still be the
01:34:29.980 Republican or the Democratic nominee no he will not the question is whether it's where the Harris gets
01:34:40.480 the coronation or whether they decide to have as Ezra Klein speculated in New York Times a kind of
01:34:49.060 dramatic convention fight that could be a spectacle and could in fact energize the party by showing it
01:34:56.500 has life and is willing to select someone that is more popular um yeah I I think they would I think
01:35:05.980 they would come out of that hugely relieved remember more than 80 percent of Democrats think Joe Biden is
01:35:11.900 too old the the feeling the the exhale feeling if they get a Gen X or onto the ticket is going to be
01:35:21.520 massive and it's enormous and the media will do its part they can rely on the media they'll be so
01:35:28.540 excited they'll be so excited it normally does all right last last comment from you Charles what do you
01:35:35.100 think well you said don't do percentages but I have to because I'm just completely torn on it I I'm 50 50 on
01:35:41.480 the question of whether he sticks it out I think that some of this is happening not all of it that
01:35:46.540 the consequences of that debate are real but the pressure that we're discussing is still a little
01:35:51.960 bit online it's still a little bit the preserve of people who talk about politics all day as we do
01:35:59.880 it hasn't bled out yet and I'm still open-minded as to whether Biden can make it go away so I'm I'm 50 50
01:36:09.560 guys thank you both so much what a day look forward to listening and reading more over at
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