00:00:28.360Well, I think the odds that Joe Biden is not the Democrats' nominee in 2024 have risen significantly, maybe by as much as 20 or 30 percent.
00:00:38.340And I think there are all sorts of indicia that suggest that.
00:01:07.360They are the left wing of the Democrat Party.
00:01:09.160And when the media turns on the presumed Democrat nominee, I think that is the cutting edge of the Democrat intelligentsia saying, we may have to cut bait and find someone new.
00:01:35.580And basically he was saying it's time to get rid of Joe Biden or maybe Kamala Harris or maybe both.
00:01:40.740And one of the things he talked about in there, he said he was concerned about Harris that even with Biden, because he says that, well, one way that Biden could help himself is by encouraging, quote, a more open vice presidential selection process that can produce a stronger running mate.
00:01:57.220So he's even saying, hey, Joe Biden, you're in deep trouble.
00:02:00.840Democrats need to pay attention to this.
00:02:02.700But if you're not going to stop, if you're not going to say I'm not going to run, you might want to look at replacing your vice presidential candidate because maybe that will at least make you go, all right, well, we like you a little bit more because we know we're going to replace you with someone that we like because her poll numbers are worse than Joe Biden's.
00:02:19.460And the fact that the Washington Post is throwing that marker out there, and let's come back to that because I want to talk about the likelihood of Joe not being the nominee.
00:02:26.720I want to talk about the likelihood of Kamala not being the vice presidential nominee.
00:02:30.780But first, the fact that the Washington Post puts that out there in a very prominent column, it's like the starter's pistol.
00:02:38.320And the media, they all listen to the same things.
00:02:41.380And so when you have the Washington Post start saying that, when you have the New York Times start saying that, you start having others.
00:02:48.760So, for example, here's CNN this past week.
00:02:52.180He has done, I don't know if it's similar things, but he's sort of told some stories that don't line up quite like this before.
00:03:00.400He had, this president has a pattern at this point of either inventing or embellishing stories about his own past, his biography.
00:03:08.360He did it three times in one speech last month alone.
00:03:12.340He claimed he had witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh when he actually showed up about six hours later.
00:03:17.360He claimed that his grandfather had died just days before he was born himself at the same hospital.
00:03:22.940In fact, his grandpa died more than a year before in a different state, not the same hospital.
00:03:28.120And he also repeated a favorite false story that I and others have debunked over and over again about a supposed conversation with an Amtrak train conductor he was friends with,
00:03:36.360who was actually deceased at the time the conversation would have had to take place.
00:03:40.860There are some more serious ones, in my view.
00:03:43.040Previously in his presidency, he claimed at one point he'd been arrested during a civil rights protest when, in other versions of the story, he just said an officer had taken him home from a protest.
00:03:52.240He said he had visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshippers were killed in a 2018 match shooting.
00:03:57.680In fact, he had actually spoken to the rabbi, but never went.
00:04:01.940And he's made a whole bunch of others, too.
00:04:04.480He said at one point, Republicans like to bring this up, he said that he used to drive a tractor trailer, used to drive an 18-wheeler.
00:04:11.440The White House later clarified he used to drive a school bus at one point as a job, briefly.
00:04:16.380School bus, of course, not an 18-wheeler.
00:04:18.720So whatever his intentions, whether it's foggy memory about stuff that's going on decades ago or deliberate embellishment,
00:04:24.060this is an unfortunate pattern that keeps coming up again and again with Joe Biden.
00:04:28.000You go back to the starter gun analogy that you used a moment ago, Senator.
00:04:31.180It's like everyone was holding back, then all of a sudden the op-ed comes out in the Washington Post and it's like, oh, we can now say this.
00:05:03.940It's just CNN didn't used to talk about it.
00:05:07.120They didn't used to be willing to say it because, hey, their job is to protect the Democrat president, not actually to report on what he says and does, even though it's a lie.
00:05:16.640Point number two, the examples they use are deliberately minor examples.
00:05:23.980They're deliberately not that consequential.
00:05:26.680They didn't include the lie that Joe Biden just did last week where he said he was at ground zero the day after 9-11 and he saw it right there.
00:05:45.040But they didn't include that one because that is—
00:05:47.340Well, and I laugh because they put it at the bottom of the screen on the ticker, but they didn't mention it in their comments.
00:05:51.240They're like—well, it was like the pretext.
00:05:53.020It was like, let's not mention that one because I think that makes too many Americans angry that you would place yourself at ground zero the day after 9-11.
00:06:00.480So we'll just put it at the bottom of the screen, but we won't even talk about it with our words.
00:06:04.580And most significantly, they do not include his repeated lies about his corruption with his son, Hunter Biden.
00:06:12.660They don't include the lie, I've never spoken with my son about his overseas business dealings.
00:06:18.360Even the White House has backed away from it, but far be it from CNN, to admit that that's a lie because that actually—that goes to their conceit.
00:06:27.160No evidence, no evidence, no evidence.
00:06:28.740There's no evidence, no direct evidence.
00:06:30.460We obviously had an entire podcast explaining what they mean when they say no direct evidence and why they're lying.
00:06:38.000So they don't include the most consequential and significant ones.
00:06:41.240And I've got to say, for those of you that are watching this on YouTube, this is one of our three pods a week that is both on YouTube and on audio.
00:06:50.100You can see the images they put up, and they have a whole series of clips of Joe Biden.
00:14:34.860Do we see the media change the way they're covering the Biden crime family over the next 60 days as part of the final push to get him to realize he can't run?
00:14:45.080I think Washington Post and CNN are sort of the opening shots.
00:14:49.460And if we see in the next couple of weeks, if we see the media actually covering all of Biden's enormous problems, that's the pressure mounting.
00:15:00.620And this scenario, I think, is more likely and a heck of a lot more dangerous, which is fast forward to next year.
00:15:11.540Fast forward to the Democrat National Convention.
00:15:15.880It's going to be in Chicago, Illinois, and it is August 19th through 22nd.
00:15:20.740If we get to August of next year and, number one, Biden's mental diminishment has gotten even worse and it becomes obvious to anyone that he can't find his shoes.
00:15:34.640And Democrats decide, okay, all of this downside is really worrying us.
00:15:40.900Then the convention is the opportunity to parachute someone in.
00:15:44.480You parachute someone in by having some story that, for health reasons, Biden's not able to continue.
00:15:54.500How the Democrats execute that exactly, I don't know.
00:15:57.220But the Democrats are very big on smoke-filled rooms and forcing through the outcome they want, and they obey orders.
00:16:03.500Now, if you're a Democrat poobah, and by the way, the Democrats also have what are called superdelegates.
00:16:11.360Republicans don't have superdelegates.
00:16:13.280Superdelegates are typically elected officials that have disproportionate power at their convention.
00:16:18.660They have the ability to really move the votes.
00:16:21.780If you get to the August convention for Democrats and they've collectively lost their nerve on Biden, said it's time to put Joe out to pasture, what do they do then?
00:16:31.840Well, the natural thing to say would be, okay, it'll be one of those top four.
00:18:49.320I'm smiling right now because it terrifies me, and I also could totally see this happening.
00:18:53.280So Michelle Obama, number one, you don't infuriate African-American women, which is a critical part of the constituency that Democrats are relying on to win.
00:19:02.760But number two, you avoid the problem.
00:19:05.360If you pick from any of the four, the other three are pissed because they're all, to some extent, peers.
00:19:12.900They're all jabbing knives at each other.
00:19:14.560Michelle Obama, because she was first lady, has the ability to kind of parachute in above all four and say, hey, we're not picking among any of you.
00:19:25.620You guys can all fight it out next time.
00:19:27.780You're all going to be on the same level.
00:20:05.840I do think Barack Obama is already running the Biden administration.
00:20:11.180I think he is already the puppet master behind this Biden White House.
00:20:15.320I don't think Joe Biden is the decision maker.
00:20:18.120And so when I see the media turning on Joe Biden right now, I think the odds of Michelle Obama parachuting in in August of 2024 have risen dramatically.
00:20:31.500And that ought to scare the hell out of anyone who is unhappy about the direction this country is going and doesn't want us to go even crazier in an even worse direction.
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00:23:38.180But I do think the Democrats' appeal to is vanity that you will be legendary and immortal if you do this.
00:23:46.020And that may be an element of making it happen.
00:23:48.200And I don't think it is more likely than not.
00:23:51.260I don't think it's greater than 50 percent that Biden is not the nominee, but I think it's probably 25 or 30 percent right now.
00:23:59.540It's interesting that you said that about Michelle because I was doing my podcast the night after Michelle Obama was talking to Billie Jean King about equal pay,
00:24:06.880and she did this speech at the U.S. Open in prime time.
00:24:09.660And I said the next day, not thinking about the connection you're talking about here,
00:24:12.860I said it was like – it was almost like a coming-out political speech.
00:24:16.400It was the first time I saw Michelle Obama in a political way.
00:25:33.360I think she is further left than Barack.
00:25:36.820I think she is further left than Joe Biden.
00:25:39.640I think as a president she would be disastrous.
00:25:42.740But the American people think fondly of her because she's first lady.
00:25:46.760The role of first lady insulates someone.
00:25:50.640And if she parachutes in in August with big positives and relatively low negatives, and she can also say, hey, all the things Joe Biden screwed up on, that wasn't me.
00:26:48.620But you were upset about this, I think, as you should be, because why have they still not decided to protect RFK and what's taking them so long, especially when you see things like this happen?
00:27:00.860Yeah, this was a really disturbing security incident.
00:27:03.500You had someone show up at an event for RFK Jr.
00:27:06.420He had two firearms and two shoulder holsters that he was wearing.
00:27:10.300He was dressed as law enforcement, and it was fraudulent.
00:27:13.700He was dressed with a lanyard that indicated he was a U.S. marshal.
00:27:45.520I'm very grateful that alert and fast-acting protectors from Gavin DeBecker and Associates, his private security firm, spotted and detained an armed man who attempted to approach me at my Hispanic heritage speech at the Wilshire Ebel Theater in Los Angeles tonight.
00:28:00.780The man wearing two shoulder holsters with loaded pistols and spare ammunition magazines was carrying a U.S. marshal badge on a lanyard and a belt clip federal ID.
00:28:12.000He identified himself as a member of my security detail.
00:28:15.420Armed GDBA team members moved quickly to isolate and detain the man until LAPD arrived to make the arrest.
00:28:23.280I'm also grateful to LAPD for its rapid response.
00:28:26.740And then this is in bold in his tweet.
00:28:29.060I'm still entertaining a hope that President Biden will allow me Secret Service protection.
00:28:34.940I'm the first presidential candidate in history to whom the White House has denied a request for protection.
00:29:01.500The Biden administration should give Robert Kennedy Jr. a security detail now.
00:29:08.040Given his tragic family history, both his father and uncle were horrifically assassinated.
00:29:18.420And this latest serious security incident, Biden shouldn't mess around.
00:29:26.300Under law, quote, major candidates are entitled to Secret Service protection.
00:29:32.600Is Mayorkas' decision not to grant protection political?
00:29:40.060Surely, this administration wouldn't put a man's life at risk rather than concede that RFK Jr. is a major candidate.
00:29:50.340The Trump DHS gave Biden protection in March of 2020 after a security incident.
00:29:58.800Mayorkas should follow that precedent and expeditiously approve protection for RFK Jr.
00:30:06.760Now, the way it works under law is that a candidate for president is entitled to Secret Service protection if they are a, quote, major candidate.
00:30:16.940And being a major candidate, there are a series of criteria that are used to ascertain major candidate, including poll numbers.
00:30:24.560It is the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security that makes that determination.
00:30:29.620They do so in consultation with a bipartisan advisory committee that includes both Republicans and Democrats.
00:30:37.160At the easy level, the major party nominees, both are entitled to coverage and they both get it.
00:30:42.560But historically, they get it earlier than becoming the nominees.
00:30:46.280If you look at 2016, so I've got some real and personal experience with dealing with this.
00:30:53.060In 2016, in the Republican presidential primary, Donald Trump was given Secret Service protection relatively early on.
00:31:02.080And Ben Carson was given Secret Service protection relatively early on.
00:31:06.800Now, Ben Carson did not win a single state.
00:31:09.880Ben Carson was given Secret Service protection because the level of death threats that were directed at him was deemed sufficient that it merited Secret Service protection.
00:31:22.200I don't know exactly how many death threats we're talking about, but the Department of Homeland Security made the determination, given this threat level,
00:31:29.820given the risk that some lunatic would try to kill an African-American Republican running for president, we're going to provide Secret Service protection.
00:31:41.320Now, as the primary went on, I won 12 states.
00:31:46.660For months, the race was essentially a two-man race between me and Donald Trump.
00:31:53.560No other Republican other than Trump and I won more than a single state.
00:32:55.340Once you bring Secret Service in, typically a candidate will do maybe two or three events a day because it just slows the entire operation down.
00:33:04.600In 2016, we were running fast and hard.
00:33:08.420I was doing, in days, six, seven, eight, nine events a day.
00:33:39.380They'd put the barrier up and you stay on the other side.
00:33:42.320And so we made the decision that we wanted to be faster and more nimble and that bringing Secret Service in would slow that down.
00:33:50.800And we also made the decision that we had a pretty significant investment in security and that we thought we could use private security to ensure safety while at the same time maintaining speed.
00:34:35.760Look, I think it is a no-brainer that if RFK Jr. wants Secret Service protection, given his circumstances, he deserves it.
00:34:43.580And the reason I believe the Biden administration hasn't granted it is because if they did, under statutes, they would have to say he's a major candidate.
00:34:55.840And the approach of the Biden White House is RFK who?
00:35:09.240And I ask everyone listening to this, imagine your reaction if you turned on the TV tomorrow and saw that RFK Jr., like his father, was murdered while being a candidate for the Democrat nomination for president.
00:36:05.840Then do the right thing and ensure that he's got Secret Service protection so we don't have a national tragedy on our hands.
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00:39:19.780And they're willing to corrupt the legal process to turn the Department of Justice into a political weapon.
00:39:25.700They're willing to do everything they can to stop the voters from daring to make a decision to vote in the way these angry partisan Democrats don't want the voters to vote.
00:39:35.860We've gone over 200 years of our nation's history.
00:39:39.340We've never indicted a president or a former president or a major candidate for president.
00:39:43.200In the last six months, Democrats have done so four separate times.
00:39:47.320The U.S. Department of Justice under Biden is the most partisan and political we've ever seen.
00:39:51.640And Jack Smith, the special prosecutor, we've talked at length.
00:39:56.040He has a history of abusing power, including this is not the first presidential candidate or potential presidential candidate he's gone after.
00:40:58.080We also have a district judge who has demonstrated and earned a reputation as being one of the furthest left Democrat district judges on the federal bench in D.C.
00:41:09.040This trial is designed to directly interfere with the election.
00:41:13.080But Jack Smith said this is not enough.
00:41:15.380And so he filed a motion, a motion for a gag order.
00:41:19.860So he's gone to this left-wing district judge, and he's asked for a gag order.
00:41:25.040He says defendant has repeatedly and widely disseminated public statements attacking the citizens of the District of Columbia.
00:41:31.420That's by daring to point out that 94 percent of D.C. voters vote Democrat, and that's going to be the jury pool.
00:41:37.700The court, that's by pointing out that the judge has a record of being one of the most left-wing Democrats on the entire federal bench.
00:41:47.020Prosecutors, that's by pointing out that Jack Smith is a hardcore partisan Democrat who's already abused his power repeatedly.
00:41:53.040And prospective witnesses, the government, therefore, requests that the court, quote, enter a narrowly tailored order pursuant to local criminal rule 57C
00:42:05.780that restricts certain prejudicial extrajudicial statements.
00:42:11.900And in particular, what they ask for, the government seeks, this is a quote,
00:42:21.080a narrow, well-defined restriction that is targeted at extrajudicial statements that present a serious and substantial danger of materially prejudicing the case.
00:42:30.760The government's proposed order specifies that such statements would include A, statements regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses,
00:42:42.900and B, statements about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory or intimidating.
00:43:45.920Despite the fact that you're facing a political persecution designed to interfere with the election, you're not allowed to say it.
00:43:53.200And if you do, by the way, look, a gag order is typically enforced by contempt and by jail.
00:43:58.160So what the Biden DOJ is proposing is if Donald Trump says a negative word about Mike Pence, that the U.S. Department of Justice will show up and arrest him and put him in jail for saying a negative word about one of his opponents running for president.
00:44:15.140And by the way, they would do that, let's be clear.
00:44:25.740It is a direct violation of the First Amendment.
00:44:29.200It is also a direct violation of the right to vote, of our democratic process in this country.
00:44:34.480Now, the Democrat talking heads will say, look, sometimes you have gag or gag orders.
00:44:40.560If you're going against the mafia boss, you're going up against Al Capone, courts will enter orders saying, OK, you can't you can't intimidate witnesses.
00:44:49.800You can't you can't say things that will prejudice the jury.
00:44:53.340In an ordinary criminal trial, those things can happen.
00:44:56.020In an ordinary criminal trial, the defendant is not a leading candidate for president of the United States, actively running for president of the United States.
00:45:05.920And my guess, I don't think the district court will grant this.
00:45:24.500Because the order would be appealed and it would be overturned on appeal.
00:45:27.680I do not believe there's any way the Supreme Court of the United States would allow a leading candidate for president to be enjoined, to be ordered from a court.
00:45:37.740You are not allowed to criticize your political opponents.
00:45:41.020I mean, if you could envision imagine a debate.
00:45:43.080Let's we have a subsequent Republican debate.
00:45:45.120Trump shows up and Mike Pence blasts him and Trump turns and says, I'm sorry, I'm prevented by court order from responding.
00:46:45.260I would be every bit as opposed to an order preventing Joe Biden from criticizing his opponents, from criticizing RFK Jr., from criticizing Donald Trump.
00:46:56.080Now, to be clear, Joe Biden couldn't get up in the morning and speak without criticizing Donald Trump.
00:46:59.840He says, good morning, Trump is the devil.
00:47:04.240And he also demonizes every other Republican because he's in his mental enfeeblement.
00:47:09.940He's also become an even more vicious partisan.
00:47:13.060But I would be equally and adamantly opposed to any court trying to prevent Joe Biden from attacking me or Trump or anybody else because that's what free speech and elections are all about.
00:47:24.120But today's Democrats, they don't believe in democracy, which is why these indictments are happening.
00:47:29.540They want to stop the voters from voting in a way they don't like.
00:47:32.700And they don't believe in free speech, which is why they want to muzzle their leading opponent for president.
00:47:39.920It is – it's a brave new world we're living in.
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