CNN Has Uncovered a Scandal...that CNN Covered up Biden's Mental Decline!
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Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have a new book, Original Sin: A Book About President Joe Biden s Decline, His Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. It's full of crap.
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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And Senator, it is a very big week for putting out books that are full of crap.
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So Jake Tapper from CNN has a book along with Alex Thompson from Axios.
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The book is entitled Original Sin, President Biden's Decline,
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Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
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And when you talk about full of crap, I really don't think you're being fair to crap.
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Like this is like a book, Arsonist Discovers a Fire He Started.
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This is like a book, Tony Montana, the drug dealer, says cocaine is bad for you.
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You, Jake Tapper, and CNN were 24-7 engaged in the cover-up.
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You knew about his mental decline, and you refused to tell anybody.
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And by the way, we have the receipts just to remind people.
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No, no, you're going to hear the proof momentarily.
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Yeah, and we're going to get to that because I want everyone, and this is why we do this show.
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You're going to want to share this on social media because it's so big.
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All right, so let's go back to this lie that I think the part that blows my mind the most
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is the fact that Taft River is actually probably going to get a bestseller out of this.
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Everyone in the media is praising him for this incredible reporting.
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And this is the guy that literally helped cover up the cognitive decline
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and dismissed anyone who had brought it up on his show.
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So look, the book, as I understand it, was originally written by Alex Thompson.
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Alex Thompson is not nearly as well-known as Jake Tapper.
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And he had a contract with a book publishing company.
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He wrote the book, and then the book publishing company decided to cancel it and said,
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no, we're not going to publish this book after all.
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In other words, the book publishing company engaged in yet another cover-up
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And so Thompson sought out Tapper and convinced Tapper, hey, join with me.
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Look, and particularly a chance to make some good money.
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I mean, hey, what's journalism all about if not monetizing your own hypocrisy and your own cover-up?
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Look, Tapper, some of the facts that are coming out in this book.
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In 2023 and 2024, Tapper and Thompson report, Biden's physical deterioration was so severe
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that his advisors discussed the possibility he would need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election.
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And yet, every time anyone tried to bring up those facts,
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Jake Tapper and the rest of the corporate media covered it up.
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The very beginning is him talking to one of the Trump family members,
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Laura Trump, and he actually, like, ends the interview.
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So this montage starts in 2020, then goes to 21, 22, 23, and then 24.
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Listen, Tapper, for five years, covered this up aggressively.
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How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that?
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President Biden embraces his stutter, talking about it, while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it, belittles it.
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And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three or four years younger than him.
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I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness, ability to lead of those supporting Biden.
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You said, quote, shame on all of you, pretending everything is okay.
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I don't doubt that you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today.
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And maybe even publicly, some of them, because they like you personally.
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But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from your Democratic colleagues.
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I mean, false claims to the Wall Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity.
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And his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great.
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It's not horrible, but I don't understand the outrage.
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Quote, behind closed doors, Biden shows signs of slipping, unquote.
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The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp, which is run by the Murdochs.
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Beyond the headline, there is some critical nuance here.
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The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans, with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only one going on the record.
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They do note in the article that most of the criticism comes from Republicans.
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Have you heard any concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeming a little slower?
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The Russians are trying to do to make us and the public not trust our election integrity.
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Let's just stop there and give the title of the book again, Senator, so people understand what they just heard and now what he's writing.
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Because if you just look at the title of the book, you understand the debauchery of journalistic scumbaggery.
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President Biden's decline, its cover up and his disastrous choice to run again.
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And understand, Jake Tapper, when he was saying that, he was lying.
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Everyone on ABC, NBC, CBS knew they were lying.
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Everyone at the New York Times knew they were lying.
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Everyone at the Washington Post knew they were lying.
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Look, one of the facts in his book, he says that at a fundraiser in June of 2024,
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Joe Biden didn't recognize George Clooney, who he's known for decades.
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This is the same fundraiser, you remember, where Barack Obama had to lead Biden off the stage
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because he was just confused and staring out in space.
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And Tapper and the rest of them just lied to us and said, A-OK, no problems here.
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You go back, Senator, to what you just said a moment ago.
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And it's one about the fact that they were at this fundraiser and the president didn't know, like, who George Clooney was.
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You have Barack Obama having to walk him off stage.
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Like, that was when everyone in his realm that they were even trying to, I think, insulate, protect him from.
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And yet they still went full speed ahead with it.
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You know, the Babylon Bee had a great headline that summed up this book.
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So the Babylon Bee's headline was, quote, Jake Tapper uncovers startling evidence that Biden's decline was covered up by Jake Tapper.
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And listen, listen to this week, Chuck Schumer, because it wasn't just Jake Tapper that was lying.
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Every Democrat senator, every Democrat governor, every Democrat House member.
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They all knew Biden was seriously declining mentally.
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Schumer was one of the most shameless because he gave his own personal guarantee about how quick Biden was.
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And listen this week when finally the media confronts him about his lies.
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You said in June of last year, in my meeting with President Biden, I found him being command and impressive and wielding influence to make progress on key priorities.
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But in that same month, Biden apparently did not even recognize George's will be a fundraiser.
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Were you being straight with the American public?
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I mean, it's the best answer I've ever heard from a politician, Senator.
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We're just looking forward and I'm walking off stage like we're just looking forward.
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So, Governor, tell me about the dead body that we found in your house.
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Governor, tell me about the cocaine in the White House.
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It is Schumer, not the tiniest bit of accountability.
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You know, it reminded me back, if you remember when Mitt Romney ran for president against Barack Obama.
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And Harry Reid went and lied and claimed that Mitt Romney hadn't paid income taxes.
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But there's another reason he did it on the Senate floor, because the Constitution has a provision called the Speech and Debate Clause that immunizes members of Congress for speech and debate on the Senate floor.
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So Mitt Romney couldn't sue him for defamation because he was lying.
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And after the election, they asked Harry Reid about, wait, you were lying.
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And Harry Reid, who was then the Democrat Senate Majority Leader, he said, well, Romney didn't win, did he?
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Listen to now Biden's National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, who worked with Biden every day in the White House and so knew to an absolute certainty that Biden was severely mentally ill.
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What happened in that debate was a shock to me.
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Just finally, do you think, in retrospect, given everything that's happened, everything we've talked about today, it was a mistake for President Biden to try to run again?
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One of the things about being National Security Advisor is that you're mercifully insulated from politics and political decision making.
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I was insulated from it to the point where, while I was National Security Advisor, my spouse was running for Congress, and I had strict rules about what I could even do to support my spouse, let alone be involved in political decision making, political calls in the White House.
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So I have not weighed in on those issues and would not weigh in on those issues.
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That is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard.
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I'm just going to point out something really funny.
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There's something about Democrat men that makes them weenies.
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So he says, my spouse was running for Congress.
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Ben, can you imagine any circumstance in which you refer to your wife as my spouse?
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I mean, isn't, like, I don't know a man who refers to his wife as my spouse.
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The way, like, normal human beings would communicate, but not Democrat apparatchiks.
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Yours would be my smoking hot wife who's running for Congress.
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My smoking hot wife is exactly the way to put it.
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If there's anything you should clip from this pod and send to your wife, be like,
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Actually, look, as you know, Heidi listens to the podcast.
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One day I said something about my wife in my show, and I wanted to see if she heard
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And like her friends text her, like, Ben said something about you.
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I was like, well, if you listen to the show, you would have known.
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You look at the hypocrisy, but the most disturbing thing for me coming out of this book and out
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of the Axios reporting is that the cabinet members worried about his capacity specifically
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Now, there's been interesting reporting, and I just want to put it in perspective.
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There was real conversations, we were told, and there's reporting on this about the possibility
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I go back to the, you know, worried about the capacity in a crisis.
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They were perfectly fine having someone with dementia who was not capable of decision-making
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So this Jake Tapper comedy book includes the revelation that multiple cabinet members were
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worried that he could not be relied on at a time of crisis because his mental diminution
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One cabinet secretary said Biden's top aides, quote, shielded him in every meeting.
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From October 2023 on, quote, the cabinet was kept at bay.
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Another, quote, for months, we didn't have access to him.
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There was clearly a deliberate strategy by the White House to have him meet with as few
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Another cabinet secretary says at one rare meeting during the time, that cabinet secretary
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was, quote, shocked by how the president was acting.
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He seemed disoriented, and out of it, his mouth agape.
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If our enemies attacked us, this was the commander-in-chief that the Democrats and CNN
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and the lying corporate media was telling us could protect us.
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And look, I don't know that I'd trust him to operate the remote control on the television
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By the way, are they going to put this under fiction or nonfiction?
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That's what I want to know when you go to the store, right?
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Well, sadly, I think they'll put it under nonfiction, which they should, because it
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is true that Joe Biden has had a massive mental deterioration.
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What they should put under fiction is what Jake says on TV every day.
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The irony is, this may be the one true thing Jake Tapper has written or said in the last
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It was someone else who wrote it, and Tapper put his name on it.
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But by accident, he told the truth, except for the fact that he didn't admit that he's
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been lying to the country the entire time Biden was in the White House.
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So let's go back to the cabinet members, because this is the big question.
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Kayleigh McEnany was filling in for the White House Press Secretary, and she was talking about
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But I said, the real question that I think we should all be asking, and I want your take
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on this, is if all this is true, and I have no reason to believe it's not, who the hell
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was the President of the United States of America?
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I think there's a very good chance that the FBI was the President of the FBI, and the DOD
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I've been asked that question probably a thousand times.
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And I'm going to give you the most terrifying answer you can imagine.
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...is the only President in modern times who at the end of his presidency stayed in D.C.,
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bought a big house in Calorama, every night their car's in the driveway, and all of his
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little apparatchik minions are in the White House.
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And I think it was a combination of the children who were staffers.
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When Joe Biden's White House was filled with staffers, I want people to understand this.
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This is well reported, but this is really important right now for this story.
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It was well reported on that Biden and his team were the one that placed everyone in
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Obama and his team placed everyone basically in position of powers in the Biden administration.
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So look, in four years of the Biden presidency, I'm in the Senate the whole time.
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How many times do you think I spoke with Joe Biden while he was president?
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And I was saying one to three because I thought they were protecting him.
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So you're saying as a senator, that's not normal.
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I mean, I spoke with Obama regularly with Trump.
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I speak with him often every week, sometimes multiple times a week.
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It is part of the job of being a senator to work with the president, to talk with the
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president, even the president of the opposing party.
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Were there ever big lulls with Obama, for example?
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I'm trying to really paint a picture here of how insane it is you didn't talk to him for
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And the thing to understand is we all know Joe Biden.
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When I was first elected to the Senate in 2012, Joe Biden swore me in.
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No, when he was vice president, 13 years ago, he did not have cognitive decline.
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So my girls, you know my daughters, they're 14 and 17.
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And my two-year-old, Catherine, Biden leaned over to pick her up.
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And you know how Time Magazine does little quotes of, like, the quotes of the week?
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That next week, the quote of the week was, it's okay.
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Vice President Joe Biden to Catherine Cruz, age two.
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And I've said, you know, when Catherine is married, hopefully a long, long time from now,
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I intend to read that quote at her wedding and say, even at age two, Catherine knew if a Democrat tries to pick you up, scream loudly.
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And by the way, when I say I didn't speak with him for four years, that was true of virtually every Republican senator.
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Were there that many Democrat senators that were talking to him?
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Early on, because they were insulating him from what the book's saying from, like, everyone.
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When the Senate's in session, Republican senators have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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We would sit at lunch and talk about how weird it was that none of us had spoken to Biden, had been to the White House to see him.
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I actually remember one of my colleagues, John Kennedy, a good friend, senator from Louisiana.
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He was one of the few who had seen Biden one time.
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He said it was a fairly minor bill, but it was a bipartisan bill that had passed.
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Yeah, they brought him over because they wanted to say, look how bipartisan we were.
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So Kennedy was in the Oval and Biden was there.
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And Kennedy started striking up a conversation with Biden.
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And and Biden asked, so, John, you ever seen the cabinet room and John Kennedy being John Kennedy?
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And so he takes him in there and he said, Biden begins telling stories from like 40 or 50 years ago.
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And and Kennedy said the White House staff comes in freaking out.
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And he said he went on for like 30, 40 minutes.
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And that was and he was literally at my lunch table.
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I remember he was the only one of us who had seen Biden since he's been president.
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Will there be anything now that the music, except this is fact, they're reporting on his fact.
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Cabinet members were worried about his capacity in a crisis.
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Is there going to be any oversight slash investigation?
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And I know that's a weird question because there's somebody like, look, we won.
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But like I do actually, as an American citizen, want to know who is running the United States of America that was elected by no one.
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It was elected by no one, because whether I win or lose an election, my vote should not be canceled.
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By by some sort of dictator or tyrant within an administration that no one knows who's running a government.
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And by the way, there's a related question to that, Ben, which is we've seen the stories that apparently a substantial number of official things that Biden signed were signed by the auto pen.
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So was he even making the decision to sign that?
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And he didn't even seem to know, like some of the pardons.
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And I actually think you'll have this litigated.
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I don't I don't not aware of any court that's ever decided is is a pardon.
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Does a pardon have to actually be signed by the president?
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So, look, every elected official has an auto pen.
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And so for things like constituent correspondence, if you write in to your senator, you'll get a response back.
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And we try to respond substantively in the auto pen will sign it.
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All I'm thinking about right now is how where that auto pen is and how much fun I can have.
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But look, it's fine for if something like correspondence.
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But the question is for something that has legal force of law.
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And I actually want to know, did they use the auto pen to sign any legislation?
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Because it's not clear to me legislation that the president didn't sign has legal force.
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The auto pen is not the commander in chief and the chief executive.
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If he did an auto pen, which means he I'm truly convinced that he didn't know what was going on.
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Like a pardon under the Constitution, all you have to have is a document from the president
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And suddenly, actually, only if it's a federal offense.
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But it literally, there's no pomp and circumstance.
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It doesn't have to have gold leaf on the paper.
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Listen, I've been in the Oval dozens of times, probably more, when President Trump is signing
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I've got one of the big Sharpies with a signature on the Sharpie.
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Like, most presidents use, like, a Sharpie to have a signing pen.
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It's a marker that's probably, what, 10 inches long?
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But he signs one after the other, after the other, after the other, because that's what
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Well, if you have a president that's mentally incompetent, and you have staffers running
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And if it's the auto pen, which I'm sure they can figure that out.
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You know, I'll say a few more of these quotes from the cabinet members.
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Um, the cabinet members in this book, uh, described, said, one, said, quote, the staff
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If you were with him every day and you knew this was going to be a problem, why didn't
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Another said, quote, access dropped off considerably in 2024, and I didn't interact with him as much.
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Uh, a third said, quote, yes, the president is making the decisions, but if the inner circle
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is shaping them in such a way, is it really a decision?
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I don't think he has dementia, but the thing is, he's an old man.
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The president can give you four to six good hours a day when he got tired.
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Sloppy isn't the right word, but his guard was down.
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That would be the commander in chief of the United States.
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I want to go back to the last quote, Senator, that you just said about the people around the
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Now that it's over, now that everybody knows the cognitive decline, now that the books are
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being written, they're telling you they may have only gotten four hours a day out of
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That is maybe one of the most shocking statements I've ever heard about any president.
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Yeah, look, it's, he was not mentally capable to do the job.
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And by the way, Jake Tapper's whole premise that, gosh, little old me, Jake was deceived.
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Well, Jake, if you listened to verdict, we were telling you the facts and we were telling
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I want you to listen to a segment of Ben and me in the podcast back in January of 24,
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You and I and kind of anyone with eyes and common sense have been observing for a long
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time that Joe Biden's cognitive decline is massive, but it's easy for some observers to
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dismiss that and say, you know, these, these guys are biased.
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Now, in this instance, the people speaking are the Biden Department of Justice and not
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This is a Department of Justice that has proven itself the most politicized and partisan Department
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So, for example, I'm going to read you a paragraph from the report in his interview with our office.
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He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview
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when his term ended, quote, if it was 2013, when did I stop being vice president and forgetting
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on the second day of the interview when his term began, quote, in 2009, am I still vice president?
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He did not remember even within several years when his son, Beau, died and his memory appeared
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hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.
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Among other things, he mistakenly said he, quote, had a real difference of opinion with General
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Carl Eitkenberry when, in fact, Eitkenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in
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All of that was authored by the Biden Department of Justice.
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And when they are describing the sitting president as a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,
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the natural question for anyone to say is, holy crap, if he's not competent to stand trial,
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why is he the commander in chief with the authority to send our sons and daughters into harm's way?
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Understand, the description here, they say you couldn't charge him with a crime because
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he's not aware of enough to have the requisite mental intent.
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And yet, Joe Biden tonight, if he so desired, could literally exterminate humanity from the
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As commander in chief, if he gave the order, launch the nuclear weapons now, unless the military
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refused to obey the commander in chief, Joe Biden could exterminate every life on this
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And if he's not mentally competent to stand trial, that is terrifying.
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Yeah, a year and a half ago on this podcast and understand the entire basis of Tapper's
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book is he couldn't possibly know about known about this mental decline.
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The Department of Justice, and this would be the Biden Department of Justice, went into court.
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So the Robert Herr report, remember, they did not prosecute Biden.
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I wonder, do you remember the time frame on that?
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So in 23, when they were interviewing Joe Biden, they then in 24 told America, he's so
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bad off, we can't even charge him with anything.
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So they concluded if they charged him, he would be found not competent to be convicted.
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There are people that are not competent to be tried.
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If you have dementia, if you're like mentally ill, that you're not able, that the legal standard
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is you have to form what's called mens rea, which is intent.
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And they said, well, he's so old and senile, we can't charge him.
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So that's why they said, oh, yeah, he clearly violated the law.
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Remember, he kept classified materials everywhere, including his garage next to his antique car.
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And they said he was guilty of that, but they couldn't charge him because he was incompetent
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I want you to listen in 2023 to me laying out that his mental decline and MSNBC, Morning
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When Republicans in the House stood strong on the debt ceiling, again, because Democrats
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had had majority of the Congress for two years, had passed trillions in irresponsible spending,
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and Republicans stood strong and said, we will not raise the debt ceiling without serious
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Then Vice President Joe Biden came and negotiated a deal, a deal called the Budget Control Act.
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Vice President Biden sat down with House Republicans and reached a meaningful compromise.
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President Joe Biden needs to do the same thing.
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And I'll say, sadly, the reason he hasn't so far, I believe, is because his mental faculties
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You know, you know, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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That he passed more bipartisan, signed more bipartisan legislation.
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My God, if he were as cogent as he had been in 2011, he could have gone back to FDR.
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What else he did without apparently realizing what he was doing?
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He, like, held NATO together to fight Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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And my God, I know he only increased the 800-mile border, NATO, with Russia.
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You know, it reminds me of Ronald Reagan when he was speaking at Harvard, a Eureka College
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And he's making fun of his education at the end.
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He goes, you know, sometimes I just sit here with a presidential seal in front of him.
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And I wonder what I could have been with a good education.
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And by the way, we do know who was doing it now.
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It was either A, an auto pin or a bunch of old staffers.
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I may have missed this, but has Joe Scarborough apologized for lying to America?
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He's probably writing a book about the decline of Joe Biden.
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Has Mika apologized, has MSNBC, has NBC, have any of them apologized?
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They knew he was mentally diminished and they covered it up because they were partisans and
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they supported his agenda to heck with whether we had a competent commander in chief or not.
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