Speaker 1: Late General Man, welcome the late base.
Speaker 2: Well, good evening and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and filling in for
Speaker 3: Caleb Bond Joe Hildebrand on this historic day as US
Speaker 3: President Joe Biden announces he's dropping out of the presidential campaign.
Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that in a moment.
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Speaker 3: US presidential news. Now, we've got Annalie Nielson, our Sky
Speaker 3: News correspondent waiting for us in Washington, d C. We'll
Speaker 3: go to her in just a moment to get the
Speaker 3: very latest. But just before we do, Liz and Joe,
Speaker 3: just give me your first reactions when you heard the
Speaker 3: news today that Biden had said, that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to stand for reelection.
Speaker 1: I just want to know if he knows that he's resigned,
Speaker 1: because very few people are talking about how utterly insane
Speaker 1: it is that the president of the United States of
Speaker 1: America has resigned.
Speaker 4: Via a tweet. A tweet.
Speaker 1: Nobody's seen or heard from him today. The last we
Speaker 1: saw of him was im boarding or rather I'm getting
Speaker 1: off air Force one. After announcing that he had COVID,
Speaker 1: many people were like, does he even have COVID. He's
Speaker 1: not wearing a mask. This just doesn't seem believable. And
Speaker 1: the next we hear from him is this tweet from
Speaker 1: a Twitter account. We know that he doesn't tweet to himself,
Speaker 1: it's always one of his staffers, So I want.
Speaker 4: To see the man himself.
Speaker 1: To me, this just seems it's so unprecedented that one
Speaker 1: would simply resign the highest office in the.
Speaker 4: World by tweeting. That is nuts. That is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 5: Luzzie Joe, what about you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's an old saying, how did you go bankrupt?
Speaker 6: At first very slowly and then very quickly? And that
Speaker 6: seems to me how Joe Biden lost the presidency, Like
Speaker 6: he wouldn't go, wouldn't go, dug In, didn't go when
Speaker 6: he should have, and it could have been of some
Speaker 6: benefit to the actual party and the nation then and
Speaker 6: then suddenly he just it's just like bang, that's it.
Speaker 6: And apparently those around him, and there's been reports. I
Speaker 6: haven't confirmed them, obviously, I'm not in Delaware or the
Speaker 6: White House, but there are reports that even those closest
Speaker 6: to him, and we had his own co chair of
Speaker 6: the campaign hours early. No, he's definitely the nice. So
Speaker 6: he's made fools of those around him, and he's suddenly
Speaker 6: spontaneously going, that's it.
Speaker 5: I'm out, not even planning.
Speaker 6: It or executing it, giving it the dignity of a
Speaker 6: farewell speech or standing up in front of the it's
Speaker 6: embarrassing to be all right.
Speaker 2: Well, let's go live to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Where our Sky News correspondent and Aalise Nielsen is waiting for us.
Speaker 2: At least thanks for joining US Legal.
Speaker 3: Liz Store has already preempted my first question, but I'm
Speaker 3: going to ask it anyway.
Speaker 2: And I can't believe we have to ask this.
Speaker 3: But bearing in mind, no one's seen Joe Biden for days.
Speaker 3: He's hiding away with COVID, and he made the announcement
Speaker 3: via a Twitter account he does not control. Are we
Speaker 3: absolutely sure the US president knows that he's not running
Speaker 3: for reelection.
Speaker 7: Look, it is bizarre that they've chosen to do it
Speaker 7: this way. And when they announced it via Twitter yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 7: there had already been a lid called on the White
Speaker 7: House press course, so that's essentially the White House says,
Speaker 7: there's nothing happening today, so you can stand down. You
Speaker 7: don't need to be on standby for any potential changes.
Speaker 7: And the assumption was that that was going to change,
Speaker 7: that there'd be some kind of announcement in the hours after,
Speaker 7: there'd be some kind of address, like we saw with
Speaker 7: Lyndon Johnson when he resigned from the campaign. When Richard
Speaker 7: Nixon stepped down, we saw an address, and then as
Speaker 7: it became clear that we weren't going to see him,
Speaker 7: it really did raise questions about why, especially considering that
Speaker 7: the Press Office hasn't been forthright about his clear decline
Speaker 7: that we've been witnessing in public. They have called it
Speaker 7: cheap fakes when we all saw the same plane videos
Speaker 7: showing that he was having issues.
Speaker 8: So it is a real question.
Speaker 7: It is on the minds of many, and they've said
Speaker 7: that he'll address the nation later this week. They're circulating
Speaker 7: now potentially Tuesday, night.
Speaker 8: But it is utterly bizarre.
Speaker 1: Annally's given that in the twenty twenty primaries Kamala had
Speaker 1: to drop out because she got less than two percent
Speaker 1: of the vote, we know that she's not exactly popular
Speaker 1: with the lay party of the Democrats. They've of course
Speaker 1: got to make their own decision at the DNC. Roughly
Speaker 1: four thousand delegates four thousand votes.
Speaker 4: Are involved there.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the likelihood that given so
Speaker 1: many of the people that we have been considered as
Speaker 1: maybes who would put their hands up, whether it's Newsome,
Speaker 1: whether it's to Jedge, the list wears long, so many
Speaker 1: of them have now pledged their.
Speaker 4: Commitment to backing Camala.
Speaker 1: What do you think we might see at the DNC
Speaker 1: next month.
Speaker 7: Well, it would have to be a revolt from the
Speaker 7: ground level up, because you have to look at it
Speaker 7: from the perspective of all the maybes.
Speaker 8: Why would you want to get into this mess?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 7: The reason that Joe Biden apparently really decided to tip
Speaker 7: this to the direction of pulling out was that he
Speaker 7: was shown polling that showed not only was he going
Speaker 7: to lose every swing state, he was going to start
Speaker 7: losing safe blue states. He was going to be looking
Speaker 7: at risking New Mexico and Virginia's been on the line
Speaker 7: for a while and they were saying, look, you're going
Speaker 7: to lose that too, So it was going to be
Speaker 7: quite a humiliating defeat if the trends continued. You can
Speaker 7: imagine all these young up and comers who have time,
Speaker 7: who have states that they're already the governor's self, why
Speaker 7: would you jump into this now? And especially running alongside
Speaker 7: Kamala Harris. She needs someone who really wants to put
Speaker 7: forward her agenda, who wants to work with her personally,
Speaker 7: and she hasn't come up through that traditional party route.
Speaker 7: You're right, she dropped out of Iowa before she ever
Speaker 7: had to face a voter. She basically made that one
Speaker 7: appearance on stage where she insinuated that Joe Biden was
Speaker 7: racist because he perpetuated racist policies from his time in
Speaker 7: the Senate and then dropped out and ended up on
Speaker 7: the same ticket as him.
Speaker 8: That's all completely true.
Speaker 7: So when you're looking at who's going to jump into this,
Speaker 7: it could be that the delegates themselves decide, and this
Speaker 7: is what's going to be happening over the next few days,
Speaker 7: that these delegations were seeing from Connecticut. They're going to
Speaker 7: hold a special meeting and they'll decide are we going
Speaker 7: to support collectively Kamala Harris. I mean, there's nothing to
Speaker 7: stop these delegates saying no, actually we like someone else
Speaker 7: and picking whoever they like, and then it might force
Speaker 7: the hand of someone else to throw their hat in
Speaker 7: the ring.
Speaker 6: Annelise, I wanted to ask what your response was, and
Speaker 6: that of the press pack generally in Washington, and indeed
Speaker 6: the community in Washington. There seems to be from a
Speaker 6: distance a sense that that you know, Rome is burning
Speaker 6: while the Democrats fiddle. It must seem pretty sort of
Speaker 6: crazy and chaotic there at the moment.
Speaker 8: Look, I can.
Speaker 7: Tell you I was copying it a bit from people
Speaker 7: here that I was going too far in my reporting
Speaker 7: of Joe Biden's clear cognitive decline, and I just thought
Speaker 7: it was this kind of ridiculous scenario where I was
Speaker 7: just trying to tell people something different than what they
Speaker 7: could see with their own eyes. It was just absurd,
Speaker 7: and I think it was just such a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 7: The panic really set in after the debate, and then
Speaker 7: for the last few weeks it's just been kind of
Speaker 7: a day by day prospect. But I will tell you
Speaker 7: the one thing we did all expect, and we were
Speaker 7: all as we were among tons of journalists at the
Speaker 7: R and C. We were discussing how Biden was going
Speaker 7: to pull out, and the collective just assumption was, of course,
Speaker 7: it will be an oval office address. So none of
Speaker 7: us thought it would happen over the weekend because we
Speaker 7: thought he's still got COVID, he'll have to come back
Speaker 7: for it. But also there's similarly a lot of of
Speaker 7: Kamala Harris and Washington DC. So I think a lot
Speaker 7: of them think this is kind of the thing that's
Speaker 7: saved the more and but need to spend a little
Speaker 7: more time outside the Beltway and alise.
Speaker 3: This decision by Biden not to recontest certainly throws the
Speaker 3: election on its head. Do you think Trump might be
Speaker 3: regretting doing so well in that debate that he essentially
Speaker 3: ended Biden's presidency.
Speaker 7: I think they knew exactly what was coming. And I've
Speaker 7: said this a few times and I do truly believe
Speaker 7: it that we're looking at a very different iteration of
Speaker 7: Donald Trump and that he was so restrained in that
Speaker 7: debate that he let Joe Biden kind of do it
Speaker 7: to himself on the stage. She didn't steamroll him, he
Speaker 7: wasn't bullying him. He really just let it happen. And
Speaker 7: so I think he's also got quite a strategy laid
Speaker 7: out for dealing with Krmla Harris as well, because I
Speaker 7: don't think she'll do as well on the debate stage
Speaker 7: as she did against Mike Pence, who's definitely more of
Speaker 7: a kind of reserved womanly type. But I think from
Speaker 7: their perspective it was just a win win. But to
Speaker 7: say that as well, I mean, anything can change in
Speaker 7: the next few months. I don't think this is just
Speaker 7: a foregone conclusion that we have a Trump presidency coming
Speaker 7: back in. I mean, we've already seen so many twists
Speaker 7: and turns in this there's always the October surprise and
Speaker 7: US elections. I wouldn't be putting my cash down on
Speaker 7: it a bet just yet if you're so inclined, because
Speaker 7: anything can still change, an Alie.
Speaker 1: There's been an ipsource poil Reuter's pole just earlier out
Speaker 1: this month that put up Michelle Obama as the only
Speaker 1: Democrat in hypothetical matches who could beat Donald Trump. We
Speaker 1: know that the Obamas are one of the big names
Speaker 1: that have not yet come out and endorse Kamala as
Speaker 1: so many have.
Speaker 4: What are you hearing there on the ground in Washington.
Speaker 1: Do you think there is any chance of an Obama
Speaker 1: Trump face off.
Speaker 7: I think it's kind of funny because it turned out
Speaker 7: it started out to such a right wing talking point
Speaker 7: that oh, yeah, they're secretly trying to parachute Michelle Obama
Speaker 7: in And they've spoken about it long enough that I
Speaker 7: think people on the other side have said.
Speaker 8: Hey, actually, that's not the worst idea.
Speaker 7: It's kind of one of these things that they've brought
Speaker 7: into reality themselves. I mean, you just can't rule anything
Speaker 7: out at this point. I just don't think she seems
Speaker 7: particularly interested in it. It would also be very hard
Speaker 7: to take to the voter's her track record, because she
Speaker 7: doesn't really Being a first lady is a tough task,
Speaker 7: of course, but to try to spin that into being
Speaker 7: qualified to be president. It didn't work very well for Hillary,
Speaker 7: and she had much more experience in governance. She was
Speaker 7: former Secretary of State, and so.
Speaker 8: To try and spin that would be hard.
Speaker 7: But they are banking on people just hating Donald Trump
Speaker 7: that much, and the problem is that they've found that
Speaker 7: people have kind of moved on forgotten about it. I've
Speaker 7: met a lot of people who are saying voting for
Speaker 7: Donald Trump for the first time this election. I've started
Speaker 7: calling them Trump rounds because they come around to Trump
Speaker 7: and it is this kind of phenomena where they're just
Speaker 7: so frustrated with what's happening now that they'll take anything
Speaker 7: different and they don't hate Donald Trump as much as
Speaker 7: the Democrats were banking well.
Speaker 3: And Ales, thanks so much for your time tonight. We
Speaker 3: really appreciate you filling us in on the latest there
Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. Let's talk about how all of
Speaker 3: this unfolded, because it was quite hysterical.
Speaker 2: We've already alluded to how unusual this.
Speaker 3: Announcement from Biden was, but it was made all the
Speaker 3: more unusual by the fact that the co chair of
Speaker 3: Biden's election campaign, Cedric Richmond, just a few hours before
Speaker 3: Biden dropped out, assured TV viewers Biden was well and
Speaker 3: truly staying in the race.
Speaker 1: Has Joe Biden lost control of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 9: No, he's not, and he's heard those concerns, and I
Speaker 9: want to be crystal clear, he's made a decision and
Speaker 9: that decision is to accept the name domination and run
Speaker 9: for reelection when reelection. And I think that there are
Speaker 9: those out there that need to hear it again.
Speaker 3: I want to be crystal clear, LI is and there's
Speaker 3: those that need to hear it again.
Speaker 2: A couple of hours later, whole story had changed. What
Speaker 2: on earth are they doing?
Speaker 3: Do you think this was the plan all along and
Speaker 3: there's just a few Obama and so on knew exactly
Speaker 3: what was happening, or they literally making this up as
Speaker 3: they go the.
Speaker 1: Whole world's stage like after what we have seen over
Speaker 1: the past few where it's hard to believe that most
Speaker 1: of this isn't perfectly orchestrated. Certainly someone knew what was
Speaker 1: going on, but many of Biden's team, enough of them
Speaker 1: have come out and said.
Speaker 4: We didn't know.
Speaker 1: Minutes before his tweet dropped, we didn't know either, So
Speaker 1: they were very much on the back foot. So perhaps
Speaker 1: his campaign co chair Cedric Richmond there was completely blindsighted.
Speaker 4: And who knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, Biden has received a lot of flak saying,
Speaker 1: you know, it was selfish to leave it this long
Speaker 1: and he should have done this sooner. Now the Dems
Speaker 1: are on the back foot, and they've.
Speaker 4: Got to have a big flurry because.
Speaker 1: The election is breathing down our necks, et cetera, and
Speaker 1: so on. But given this guy's mental capabilities right now,
Speaker 1: you can understand why this would have been a very
Speaker 1: hard decision for him to reach. His IQ isn't exactly peaking,
Speaker 1: neither is his EQ. It was only until I guess
Speaker 1: enough of his nearest and dearest said to him, mate,
Speaker 1: you have to get out.
Speaker 4: We're just going to lose in a landslide.
Speaker 1: At least if we put somebody else in, we can
Speaker 1: put up a better fight.
Speaker 2: You know, today is National ice cream Day. In the
Speaker 2: art of that's cruel.
Speaker 3: There is a cruel line that maybe they just offered him.
Speaker 6: Look it's true ice. Yeah, I have no doubt that
Speaker 6: it's true.
Speaker 5: I think that the incredible.
Speaker 6: I mean, you talk about the criticism that Biden's had
Speaker 6: heaped upon him. He deserves absolutely every last leak. See
Speaker 6: very good. I thought i'd do that for it is
Speaker 6: nationalized friend Day after all, But it wouldn't be the
Speaker 6: first coin that Hunter had.
Speaker 5: I can promise you that has.
Speaker 4: He wasn't capable.
Speaker 5: But that's right. So the ve becomes those around him.
Speaker 6: Well, I think he has periods of lucidity, and you know,
Speaker 6: according to some reports, he was seething as he realized
Speaker 6: he was going to have to do.
Speaker 2: This between ten am and four pm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not convinced that the window would be
Speaker 6: that long. But clearly, you know, even people until like
Speaker 6: people with dementia and you know, still have moments of
Speaker 6: lucidity for a very long time. Clearly, Biden, even from
Speaker 6: what we've seen publicly, it has you know, it is
Speaker 6: usually more more lucid than not. But but the fact
Speaker 6: that he couldn't or didn't come to this decision himself
Speaker 6: when it would have been a benefit to the party
Speaker 6: and to the nation is disgraceful. The fact that he
Speaker 6: couldn't or didn't or wouldn't, that those around him would
Speaker 6: refuse to do the same, presumably for their own personal
Speaker 6: interest whatever they may be, whether they be future political
Speaker 6: ambitions or whether it just be because they like the
Speaker 6: cushy life of the White House, is absolutely disgraceful. Now
Speaker 6: people talk about Joe Biden making a sacrifice or serving
Speaker 6: the nation, bullshit, that is not his house, that he
Speaker 6: lives in the White House, is not his house. It
Speaker 6: is a house that belongs to the American people. It
Speaker 6: is a house that he got to because of the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party machine that rally behind him. It's just like,
Speaker 6: you know, it's just like Senator Senator Payman, or it's
Speaker 6: just like Senator Thorpe, who think I suddenly now that
Speaker 6: I'm on top, now that I'm here, then it's all
Speaker 6: about me. That is the opposite of what is supposed
Speaker 6: to be collectivist or progressive politics. You only get there
Speaker 6: because of the machine, because of the people that put
Speaker 6: you there. And then you say, oh no, but I'm
Speaker 6: the president. It's all mine now and I'm not giving
Speaker 6: it up, even though day after day after day after
Speaker 6: day it is clear to absolutely everybody that you are
Speaker 6: just handing over state after state after state to Donald Trump,
Speaker 6: who you yourself say, is some crazy dictator who's going
Speaker 6: to destroy the country. So, even by your own reckoning
Speaker 6: of what this person is and what their threat is
Speaker 6: to democracy and to the country that you prepare to love,
Speaker 6: you still value your own cushy lifestyle in the White House,
Speaker 6: even after all the evidence coming through that is showing
Speaker 6: that you are going to burn that house down, and
Speaker 6: it is a disgrace. I feel nothing but absolute fury
Speaker 6: and anger at him, and he's in a circle. They
Speaker 6: do not deserve a jot of sympathy from me or
Speaker 6: anyone else who believes in progressive politics or America or democracy.
Speaker 3: Well, just on that point of people loving the trappings
Speaker 3: of the White House, Jill Biden, of course, we know,
Speaker 3: really did love her husband being president.
Speaker 1: I mean, in their defense though they both spend most
Speaker 1: of his presidency and Delaware.
Speaker 3: But I mean, you've got to feel for Jill Biden
Speaker 3: because she's on the cover of Vogue magazine next month.
Speaker 3: In just a couple of weeks this was due to
Speaker 3: be released. I don't know if they'll still print it,
Speaker 3: and I'm not sure if you can see the subheading
Speaker 3: on the magazine cover, it says, we will decide our future.
Speaker 3: If they that magazine cover, maybe they go with the photo.
Speaker 3: They still call her the first Lady, but instead of
Speaker 3: saying we will decide our future, maybe they just change
Speaker 3: that to read George Clooney has decided.
Speaker 4: Our future has been decided.
Speaker 1: But speaking of people that I just utterly despise, I
Speaker 1: think Jill has to be held responsibly.
Speaker 4: What kind of vile.
Speaker 1: Human being, knowing her husband has ailing mental faculties props
Speaker 1: him up for years. At least that guy's sick. Okay,
Speaker 1: that guy has clear issues. Everyone can see it if
Speaker 1: you listen to him speak for thirty seconds. We've had
Speaker 1: people who are professionals in Parkinson saying I could have
Speaker 1: diagnosed this guy.
Speaker 4: Just watching him walk through a car park.
Speaker 1: It is that obvious. Mentally and physically, he is ailing.
Speaker 1: It has been that way for years. What kind of
Speaker 1: wife forces their husband just keeps propping us up. She
Speaker 1: should have been the first one to say years ago, honey,
Speaker 1: it's time to tap out.
Speaker 4: Instead, she's been the one that he's been.
Speaker 1: Like blindly groping for a thousand times on stage. Is
Speaker 1: he's sitting down in chairs that don't exist, He's staggering
Speaker 1: off to the wrong side of the stage. He's referring
Speaker 1: to her as somebody else. The eyes of the world
Speaker 1: have been on this for a very long time, and
Speaker 1: that woman has done nothing but prop him up, pretend
Speaker 1: like nothing's going on. If anything, I despise her more
Speaker 1: than him, because at least he has dementia. At least
Speaker 1: he's living in an alternate universe in his own head,
Speaker 1: whereby he probably thought he was doing what was best
Speaker 1: for the nation by staying in the race and hanging
Speaker 1: on to.
Speaker 4: It with everything.
Speaker 1: People his nearest and dearest surrounding him knew the truth,
Speaker 1: and they just kept him in the race. And is
Speaker 1: there any wonder that it then took him so long
Speaker 1: to come to the same conclusion because they had been
Speaker 1: dis on for so long. They propped up his delusions.
Speaker 1: I'm up to it. I can take Trump on again.
Speaker 3: When you said his nearest and dearest, I wasn't sure
Speaker 3: whether you meant Jill and Hunter or MSNBC and CNN.
Speaker 4: All of them.
Speaker 3: An Alie Snelson was talking about the fact that, having
Speaker 3: announced he was dropping out of the race via Twitter.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden is expected to address the nation at some point,
Speaker 3: I suppose. But Joe, maybe the reason he hasn't addressed
Speaker 3: the nation immediately is because he should get quit. I
Speaker 3: say should, because you can't trust the media to ask
Speaker 3: if he's not fit to run for reelection, why is
Speaker 3: he fit to remain in the oval office for the
Speaker 3: next six or seven months. And the other question is,
Speaker 3: just sixteen days ago, he made a public address at
Speaker 3: which he said, let me be as clear as I can.
Speaker 3: I'm staying in the race. What's changed in sixteen days?
Speaker 3: Those are questions I can't imagine, And.
Speaker 5: That is why answer.
Speaker 6: That is why taking so long to make this decision
Speaker 6: is such a despicable move. And that's just one of
Speaker 6: many reasons. But yes, he's invited all this criticism, Mary.
Speaker 6: He could have easily said I beat Donald Trump. I
Speaker 6: got the highest ever vote in US political history. Clearly,
Speaker 6: I'm now over eighty years old. This is it's time
Speaker 6: for me to pass the torch onto the next generation
Speaker 6: and bow out a hero.
Speaker 5: He didn't do that.
Speaker 6: He had that opportunity, whether it was Laidy Macbeth in
Speaker 6: the wings who was egging him on, or whether or
Speaker 6: not it was his own pretty healthy ego. It has
Speaker 6: to be said, this is a bloker's wanted to be
Speaker 6: present for a.
Speaker 5: Long, long, long, long long time and has.
Speaker 6: A very very you know, as you do anyone in Washington,
Speaker 6: a very very healthy self regard and elephant tye hide.
Speaker 6: And so you know, I don't think he was just
Speaker 6: the innocent one. It's a trope throughout Roman history that
Speaker 6: it's always the evil wife or the evil stepmother that
Speaker 6: does it. All, but I reckon. He's got to own this.
Speaker 6: And again, the fact that he was so adamant was
Speaker 6: digging his heels in even after it was clear at
Speaker 6: all and Sundry that was untenable. It now makes his
Speaker 6: announcement via Twitter so absolutely absurd, and it does raise
Speaker 6: questions about what is left the five months that has
Speaker 6: left of his legacy as president, which just underscores their
Speaker 6: own own goal. And furthermore, it actually f's up the
Speaker 6: next candidate, who everyone knows was always probably going to
Speaker 6: be Karmla. But again, if he's just sided you know what,
Speaker 6: screw you all, I'm tweeting that I'm gone.
Speaker 5: You just sort it out, which is what it looks like.
Speaker 6: It looks like an active spite that blindsided those closest
Speaker 6: to him, even those who were still doing it. He's
Speaker 6: made them look stupid, he's made them look like lies.
Speaker 6: He's undermined their credibility so they won't necessarily be trusted
Speaker 6: when they're out on the campaign trail for the next person.
Speaker 5: So he sabotaged them too.
Speaker 6: And of course he's sabotaged whoever the next candidate is
Speaker 6: because by not telling anyone that, all right, I'm going
Speaker 6: to do this. I'm going to go out, How are
Speaker 6: we going to do this? How are we going to
Speaker 6: orchestrate it? Who are we going to endure?
Speaker 5: So are Karma Barrack? Are you going to do that?
Speaker 5: Are you going to do that?
Speaker 6: Clearly he's just decided no, it's all too toxic, and
Speaker 6: he's just cracked a hissy fit and got no, screw you.
Speaker 6: I'm putting out a twist.
Speaker 1: People have said, oh, well, he has COVID, so he
Speaker 1: couldn't have like faced up to the nation and done
Speaker 1: a proper address. But why wouldn't you just wait a
Speaker 1: couple more days so you can do it properly? If
Speaker 1: it is true that COVID is the reason why.
Speaker 4: You've had to just tweet this.
Speaker 1: From your basement or rather get a staff at two.
Speaker 1: Let's remember the last time a president of the United
Speaker 1: States actually resigned pulled out of the race, it was
Speaker 1: Lyndon Johnson back in nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 4: At least the guy did a proper job of it.
Speaker 5: I do not believe.
Speaker 10: That I should devote an hour day of my time
Speaker 10: to any personal partisan causes, or to any duties other
Speaker 10: than the awesome duties of this office. The presidency of
Speaker 10: your country. Accordingly, I shall not see and I will
Speaker 10: not accept the nomination of my party for another term as.
Speaker 5: You're a president.
Speaker 4: I've course similar reasons.
Speaker 1: The polling was so bad they knew he was going
Speaker 1: to lose, and Nixon went on.
Speaker 4: To become the most popular.
Speaker 1: US elected president of his day at the time in
Speaker 1: American history.
Speaker 6: Well, this is the thing, and this is what happens.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure exactly, to be honest, how much Lyndon
Speaker 6: Johnson would have lost compared to the person who ended
Speaker 6: up replacing him. This is at a time when the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party was under a huge amount of pressure from
Speaker 6: dirty little hippie activists who were out there in Chicago.
Speaker 6: Mayor Daily of course cracked a few of their skulls
Speaker 6: with the local constabulary. Good to see the Democrats cracking
Speaker 6: down on left wing tritz, which the Labor Party would
Speaker 6: do the.
Speaker 5: Same thing here.
Speaker 6: But the point being this, this anti Vietnam sentiment, the protest,
Speaker 6: the activism spook the party, so the party weren't going
Speaker 6: to endorse endorse Lyndon Johnson, despite the fact he was
Speaker 6: the one who you know, put the pieces back together
Speaker 6: after Kennedy. In one in sixty four. First time time,
Speaker 6: This is the first time now and more than half
Speaker 6: a century later, that anyone has actually any party is
Speaker 6: actually not endorsed a sitting president.
Speaker 5: They even backed Carter for a second go. So there
Speaker 5: you go. So the party, I'll give it.
Speaker 6: The party decided, nah, we're not going to go with LBJ,
Speaker 6: We're going to go with mars ba For anyone.
Speaker 5: Who can name the candidate.
Speaker 6: I keep forgetting it myself, but have a look at
Speaker 6: how the nineteen sixty eight election ended up playing out.
Speaker 6: I think we've got a nice little graphic there. So
Speaker 6: what happened was Richard Nixon got three hundred and one
Speaker 6: of the electoral votes right, the electoral college votes right,
Speaker 6: That is an absolute landslide, that is more than fifty
Speaker 6: percent higher and more than times and a half what
Speaker 6: Hubert Humphrey, the Democrats candidate, got one hundred and ninety one.
Speaker 6: So an absolute landslide. And oh, they say, oh, but
Speaker 6: it's not fair because it's the electoral college vote. You know,
Speaker 6: that doesn't reflect the will of the people. Nixon also
Speaker 6: won the popular vote by about half.
Speaker 5: A million I think it was. Now and again, just remember,
Speaker 5: how do you remember.
Speaker 6: The sixties peace love protests against the Vietnam War, the
Speaker 6: left right, flower children, you know at Berkeley's, you know,
Speaker 6: Berkeley hate Ashbury, all this stuff, right, and that produced
Speaker 6: the biggest conservative landslide in US political history. Because it
Speaker 6: wasn't just Nixon that got up, because this was also
Speaker 6: the time of the Civil rights movement as well. So
Speaker 6: all these activists going down the South and doing voter registration,
Speaker 6: which is fantastic, that is one thing, absolutely one hundred
Speaker 6: percent support. But if we show that graphic again, there
Speaker 6: was another third candidate that ran.
Speaker 5: In this election.
Speaker 6: He was a bloke called George Wallace, who was a
Speaker 6: former Democrat himself a Southern Democrat, the mean and nasty,
Speaker 6: racist kind. He was an ardent segregationist, and he picked
Speaker 6: up almost fifty I think it's forty six electoral college vote,
Speaker 6: So he picked up those a few of those Southern states,
Speaker 6: and of course that tore away support from Hubert Humphrey,
Speaker 6: who will go down as history's smallest ever footnote.
Speaker 5: The interesting thing though, of course.
Speaker 6: Is he's JFK even if you put even if you're
Speaker 6: well the RFK that's right, even if you put all those.
Speaker 5: Votes together, but still don't come close to Nixon.
Speaker 6: So point being, Nixon gets in an absolute landslide kills it.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Even with this other Democrat, even if you combine them both,
Speaker 6: they still don't get close to him.
Speaker 5: Now you've got Trump.
Speaker 6: Where people would walk through boiling hot lava to vote
Speaker 6: for Donald Trump, and he's no matter what happens with
Speaker 6: the Democrat number, Trump's number is not coming down. In fact,
Speaker 6: it's slightly kicked upwards, right, And so you've got Trump
Speaker 6: up here, comel up, maybe a bit down here. Maybe
Speaker 6: she gets in some of the swing states within five,
Speaker 6: it's not going to get it. But anyway, but RFK,
Speaker 6: who's he going to take votes from? There's no way
Speaker 6: any Trump voter is going to go at the last minute.
Speaker 6: Oh maybe I'm not a Trump guy.
Speaker 3: After I guess the difference, Joe, between nine sixty eight
Speaker 3: and now is that, as opposed to Hubert Humphrey, Biden
Speaker 3: has a brilliant successor and plan for succession in Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3: Biden tweeted today, I want to offer my full support
Speaker 3: and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our
Speaker 3: party this year. Democrats it's time to come together and
Speaker 3: beat Trump. I'm not so sure they're going to come
Speaker 3: together around Kamala Harris, but who knows. And of course
Speaker 3: she will be unburdened or is that unbidened by what
Speaker 3: has gone before?
Speaker 11: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 11: what has been. You know, what can be unburdened by
Speaker 11: what has been? What can be unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 11: What can be unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I know you're thinking that's ridiculous, no one would ever
Speaker 3: vote for that, but trust me, there are some people
Speaker 3: who think she's quite brilliant and she's going to absolutely
Speaker 3: kill Donald Trump.
Speaker 11: It's going to get his ass eaten up by Kamala
Speaker 11: in the next to beat.
Speaker 8: That's their strategy.
Speaker 1: She's got light his ass up in front of the
Speaker 1: world and they're going to see it boom.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: She's got a wider floor with him, and that lady
Speaker 1: can't wait to see it. I mean, you've got to laugh,
Speaker 1: right because Biden's out due to his lack of cognitive abilities,
Speaker 1: so he's endorsed the woman with the IQ of a
Speaker 1: human lump of ham. I mean, it's not much different, really,
Speaker 1: And let's keep in mind, because we can all laugh
Speaker 1: about Kamala, her words salads, the fact that she never
Speaker 1: makes any sense. She kind of talks in rhyme. Nobody
Speaker 1: ever really knows what she's saying. One wonders if she
Speaker 1: knows what she's saying half the time.
Speaker 4: But this woman has a terrible track record.
Speaker 1: Take a listen to the debate back in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: where Tulsi Gubbard wiped the floor with Kamala Harris, and
Speaker 1: every word that you're about to hear come out of
Speaker 1: Tulsi's mouth gospel truth.
Speaker 12: She put over fifteen hundred people in jail for marijuana
Speaker 12: violations and then laughed about it when she was asked
Speaker 12: if she ever smoked marijuana.
Speaker 13: She blocked evidence, She blocked evidence that would have freed
Speaker 13: an innocent man from death row until the courts forced
Speaker 13: her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond
Speaker 13: their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the
Speaker 13: state of California. And she fought to keep cash bail.
Speaker 12: System in place that impacts poor people in the worst
Speaker 12: kind of way.
Speaker 1: And that's to say nothing of the fact that this
Speaker 1: woman Kamala Harris created a bail fund for.
Speaker 4: Black Lives Matter rioters who.
Speaker 1: Were literally burning cities to the ground. She was also
Speaker 1: tasked with solving the border crisis, what in abject failure.
Speaker 1: She supported two propositions in California that made it much
Speaker 1: harder for law.
Speaker 4: Enforces to you know, enforce the law.
Speaker 1: And that includes what Tulsey just brought up there, the
Speaker 1: no cash bail against the will of Californians. Californians were like,
Speaker 1: we do not endorse this. She went ahead with it anyway.
Speaker 1: This woman is nothing but a DEEI Higher. We know
Speaker 1: that she became VP despite being incredibly unpopular, less than
Speaker 1: two percent of the vote at the DNC back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. She became VP because Biden said out in
Speaker 1: the open everyone knew it. Everyone knows it to this
Speaker 1: day he needed a woman and a woman who wasn't white.
Speaker 1: And now this DEI Higher is looking like the first
Speaker 1: pick for president of the United States of America just
Speaker 1: because the guy at the top of the ballot has dementia.
Speaker 3: I don't think that the Trump campaign, though, can attack
Speaker 3: her as a DEI Higher, because you run the risk
Speaker 3: of offending women who Trump already has a problem with.
Speaker 3: You also run the risk of offending the black community,
Speaker 3: who the Republicans are sometimes having trouble with. So exactly
Speaker 3: I agree with you is but Trump's Trump can't afford
Speaker 3: to go there.
Speaker 6: That doesn't matter because he doesn't like these are not
Speaker 6: his votes. He doesn't need these, so he's you know, again,
Speaker 6: he doesn't have the women anyway. So Karmala is not
Speaker 6: going to get this huge block of women voters who
Speaker 6: have gone to Trump, and they're going to somehow come
Speaker 6: back to the Democrats because it's Karmala. And again she's
Speaker 6: not going to get the black vote. The African American
Speaker 6: viots just all there.
Speaker 3: Somala's only really got one policy right, and that is
Speaker 3: abortion that that will be the major issue in this election.
Speaker 3: She did famously did a tour of abortion clips a
Speaker 3: few months ago. I can't think of another thing that
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris aside from Marxism, that she really stands for
Speaker 3: other than and abortion rights. Roe versus Wade reinstigating that
Speaker 3: will be a major issue.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I don't think the female vote
Speaker 2: can be discounted as a major issue here.
Speaker 6: But I suppose they've already what I'm saying is it
Speaker 6: is a major issue, but they've already made that decision.
Speaker 6: So sixty percent of women have done Yes, we are
Speaker 6: worried about reproductive rights, we are worried about abortion. We're
Speaker 6: voting Democrats, even when it's the demented guy who can't
Speaker 6: remember where he is or who the president.
Speaker 5: Of Russia is.
Speaker 6: So they're already there. So this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: They're already And there are plenty of female conservatives.
Speaker 5: Obviously as well, who was still voting for Trump. And
Speaker 5: just think about that.
Speaker 6: Forty percent of women vote for Trump, even after all
Speaker 6: his history, even after everything everything he's ever said about women,
Speaker 6: done to women, whatever, has all been laid back, they're
Speaker 6: still with him. They are not going anywhere, and they're
Speaker 6: not going anywhere.
Speaker 5: Just that.
Speaker 6: So this is what makes and again, she doesn't speak
Speaker 6: to Middle America. You know, she's she's an elite, she's
Speaker 6: obsessed with identity politics, she's from the co You know,
Speaker 6: these are all things that working class rust belt American
Speaker 6: voters hype about what the Democratic Party has become. In fact,
Speaker 6: we've got a couple of grabs here. This is Kamala
Speaker 6: Harris's policy on equality versus equity, and she explains it.
Speaker 5: Just pretend you're four years old. Have a listen.
Speaker 11: Equality suggest often everybody.
Speaker 8: Should get the same thing.
Speaker 11: Well, that often assumes everybody started out in the same place,
Speaker 11: as opposed to equity, which is everyone should end up
Speaker 11: in the same place. And if you then understand not
Speaker 11: everybody started out in the same place, you understand some
Speaker 11: people need more.
Speaker 4: So we all end up in the same place.
Speaker 5: So imagine your day day.
Speaker 6: Vance's people living in a trial of park thinking why
Speaker 6: am I working? You know, three jobs, no minimum wage?
Speaker 6: You know, I can't afford to put food on the table.
Speaker 6: What are they going to think?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 6: Again, she sounds like Megan Markel. Yeah, it's this sort
Speaker 6: of but it's also this kind of like like it's horrible,
Speaker 6: kind of like Instagram, Marxism. Yeah, like all these kind
Speaker 6: of cool little buzzwords, and I'm going to explain it
Speaker 6: to you like you're a moron.
Speaker 2: Well, it gets even worse.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, can you imagine her on the world stage,
Speaker 3: meeting with say Jijingping or Kim Jong is how she
Speaker 3: would introduce herself.
Speaker 11: I am Kamala Harris my punouns a.
Speaker 1: She of her.
Speaker 11: I'm a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.
Speaker 3: I mean, can you imagine no one on the world
Speaker 3: stage will take her seriously? Jijingping and friends must be
Speaker 3: sitting back absolutely.
Speaker 1: So you can't blame Obama not backing this woman. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you would have seen him on the few
Speaker 1: occasions where he's attended different events with President Biden. He
Speaker 1: seems to be pretty reluctant about it even then. So
Speaker 1: it comes with no surprise to anyone except for the
Speaker 1: person who wrote this headline. Barack Obama's surprise response to
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's bombshell. He says, we will be navigating this,
Speaker 1: is Obama. We will be navigating uncharted waters in the
Speaker 1: days ahead. But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders
Speaker 1: of our party will be able to create a process
Speaker 1: from which an outstanding nominee emerges.
Speaker 10: I e.
Speaker 1: That outstanding nominee is no way in heck, Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: in Obama's estimation. I just think this is smart. Everybody
Speaker 1: else has come out. The Clinton's, all the people that
Speaker 1: you would say, oh, well, you know that's the that's
Speaker 1: the golden kiss.
Speaker 4: You've got it. Now, this poison Chalice that nobody else
Speaker 4: even wants.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why she'll end up with it, because nobody
Speaker 1: else is stupid enough to go up against the Trump train.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to burn their political collateral. They're all holding
Speaker 1: on till twenty twenty eight, when Trump obviously won't be
Speaker 1: able to run again, and the Dems are like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: whoever gets the gold this time as the presidential nominee
Speaker 1: actually as a chance.
Speaker 3: Except why has Obama clearly left it open? Pelosi has
Speaker 3: not endorsed Kamala Harris yet that I'm aware of, and
Speaker 3: neither is Chuck Schumer. So it does raise the question,
Speaker 3: I think, is there that October surprise or earlier as
Speaker 3: the I think the fact August that alast mentioned.
Speaker 6: The endorsement that matters the most is the endorsement of
Speaker 6: all of Karmela's would be rivals at the convention. So
Speaker 6: Gavin News, the Michigan they're just they're all just saying,
Speaker 6: They're all just.
Speaker 5: Saying, no, you have it, you take it, you take it.
Speaker 6: And because it's a poison Chalice, and they know she
Speaker 6: is going to crash and burn and Barack Obama, there's
Speaker 6: a certain other black woman that he wants to make
Speaker 6: president and it's Shaw's heck, ain't Kamala Harris exactly?
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to go to a break.
Speaker 3: When we come back, look at how the newspapers are
Speaker 3: covering all of this tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You'll hear it from us first, and mister Mumoth, welcome back.
Speaker 3: Let's take a look at how the papers are reporting
Speaker 3: this tomorrow. Obviously most of the national papers around the
Speaker 3: nation are going with the Biden story. We'll start with
Speaker 3: the Herald's Son. The headline reads, by Biden, Hello, Harris ailing,
Speaker 3: Joe finally quit selection race back's vice president to take
Speaker 3: on Trump. What I like about this front page Liz
Speaker 3: and Joe is the photographs. They've got a very clueless
Speaker 3: looking Joe Biden on the front page and a picture
Speaker 3: of Kamala Harris mid cackle.
Speaker 2: Which of course she's famous for.
Speaker 6: So I just thought it was one of the better
Speaker 6: shots of both of them. So there's a nice bit
Speaker 6: of a literation.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: I always love seeing how you know, when everyone just
Speaker 6: has to cover the same story, You're going, right, how
Speaker 6: do we make it.
Speaker 1: Different to the front page of the Courier Mail. Now,
Speaker 1: who did it better? Their headline Biden won't stand for
Speaker 1: second term.
Speaker 4: Time for a rest. Joe there, he is looking at
Speaker 4: his watch.
Speaker 1: Endorses VEEP to beat Trump, despite the fact that the
Speaker 1: polling shows that, as.
Speaker 4: It stands well, she can't beat Trump.
Speaker 6: I liked I like that, you know, time for arrest.
Speaker 6: They've got the point of difference. You know, he's looking
Speaker 6: at the watches, though the watch is going to explain
Speaker 6: to him and this is like what And also the
Speaker 6: whole thing is.
Speaker 1: Because they've given him a straight tend so he's he's
Speaker 1: looking very orange in this shot looking at his watch.
Speaker 5: Looks like Sylvia Bela Sconi.
Speaker 1: I bet that watch is one of the digital ones,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's harder to tell the.
Speaker 6: Time every one of those giant ones that sort of
Speaker 6: old people have where it's got just nothing but the time,
Speaker 6: like in giants.
Speaker 5: And digital letters.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one of those emergency buttons where the paramedics.
Speaker 4: And he's still not sure.
Speaker 3: I think the point clearly is his watch has stopped
Speaker 3: pretty much as.
Speaker 2: He has time has run.
Speaker 5: That's right exactly. This one.
Speaker 6: I like, this is the TiSER, which is out with
Speaker 6: the old And look at that look in Joe Biden's
Speaker 6: eye that is someone who is a card carrying member
Speaker 6: of Alzheimer's America. He is just absolutely like it's the
Speaker 6: glassy eye. You know, love Alzheimer's causes and got plenty
Speaker 6: of it in my family. But they have really just
Speaker 6: out with the old you don't even need to say
Speaker 6: the rest.
Speaker 3: They've also gone with the subheading there lame duck Biden
Speaker 3: quits race, alluding to the fact that and this will
Speaker 3: be a story over the next number of weeks that
Speaker 3: we now have a lame duck president or is he
Speaker 3: a lame duck? I mean he could literally do anything
Speaker 3: he wants in the next few months because he looks
Speaker 3: beholden to nobody.
Speaker 6: If anyone wants to be pardoned, now is your time?
Speaker 3: You've done somewhere, alluding to someone particular, Joe.
Speaker 1: I read some hilarious commentary today where they were talking
Speaker 1: about the reason why he didn't just be like, Kamala is.
Speaker 4: President, now I'm out, She's it.
Speaker 1: Tag team was because he needs the next few months
Speaker 1: to pardon, namely his family members for certain things that
Speaker 1: have I.
Speaker 3: Mean, just on that, I mean he said that he
Speaker 3: would not pardon Hunter Biden, but surely all bets are
Speaker 3: off now. I mean, he's clearly been pushed out of
Speaker 3: the presidency, so he'd be pretty ticked off. And the
Speaker 3: only thing that would matter now is ensuring the future
Speaker 3: of his himself and his immediate family.
Speaker 2: So it would not surprise to see him. Pardon.
Speaker 1: I just hope this does not mean the end of
Speaker 1: the investigative. There's several inquiries into the corruption of the
Speaker 1: Biden family. I hope that all still goes full steam
Speaker 1: ahead because there is so much.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure it will under the new guy.
Speaker 5: Sorry I said, I'm pretty sure it will under the
Speaker 5: new guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I.
Speaker 1: Hope so rather than them just being like, well, he's
Speaker 1: out of power now, so we can, you know, spend
Speaker 1: our time on other things.
Speaker 3: Well, let's see how the Canberra Times is reporting the story.
Speaker 3: They've gone a bit more traditional drama in race for
Speaker 3: White House. Joe goes but ken kamala win is the question?
Speaker 5: Can I say? This is another?
Speaker 6: So there used to be a golden rule in newspapers
Speaker 6: where you would never ever put a question mark in
Speaker 6: the headline. They've started creeping back in a little bit now,
Speaker 6: but even so, the old rule used to be if
Speaker 6: a headline has a question mark, the answer is no.
Speaker 3: So when you say, what's the psychology in terms of
Speaker 3: selling newspapers though, is it bad for sales?
Speaker 2: People don't want to buy a.
Speaker 6: Head because you're meant to be You're meant to be
Speaker 6: the authority. People have questions. A newspaper's job is to
Speaker 6: provide the answer, so it's considered lazy. But also, as
Speaker 6: the saying goes, if the headline has a question mark,
Speaker 6: the answer is no. So it's like a lazy way
Speaker 6: of sort of stuff trying.
Speaker 5: To create drama or create you know, you.
Speaker 6: Don't quite you can't quite stack up the facts of
Speaker 6: the story to say this is it, This is the facts,
Speaker 6: this is what it is.
Speaker 5: So you sort of raise the question. So it's a
Speaker 5: bit sort of half baked.
Speaker 6: So again saying Joe goes, but can come all in
Speaker 6: and question mark The answer is no, So.
Speaker 3: Put on your editor's hat, just quickly rewrite the headline
Speaker 3: for us, Joe goes.
Speaker 6: Joe goes, but the Democrats are still tased.
Speaker 1: I love the work included by Kamala, which is already
Speaker 1: a lie. I will do everything within my power to
Speaker 1: unite the Democratic Party and unite our nation to defeat
Speaker 1: Donald Trump at his extreme Project twenty twenty five agenda.
Speaker 1: He himself has repeatedly poopooed Project twenty twenty five. Okay,
Speaker 1: so maybe start with getting you fats right VP to
Speaker 1: the front page of the Australia Now, switch for the Ages,
Speaker 1: Pudus pushed out DEM's back Harris as Trump card or
Speaker 1: like we did their cool play on words. Is it
Speaker 1: really a switch for the ages though, it's like twittled
Speaker 1: and tweedled dumb.
Speaker 4: It's like.
Speaker 2: Nine year olds the top that is.
Speaker 5: For the ages.
Speaker 4: But switch, Yeah, I was thinking numbers in terms of IQ.
Speaker 4: I wasn't thinking it's literally okay.
Speaker 6: That's good, very high brow of the oars. That's why
Speaker 6: I couldn't get it. That's why I got it that
Speaker 6: The Cans Post is also all in on the switcheroo
Speaker 6: the new presidential candidate.
Speaker 5: Time for a new route.
Speaker 6: Actually no, that's about a Corunda Range road that's not
Speaker 6: fit for purpose in the tablelands. So nothing to do
Speaker 6: with the presence in or.
Speaker 3: All right now in Tasmania, not quite as big a
Speaker 3: story in the Apple Aisle. The Mercury has gone with
Speaker 3: other news, but they have, to their credit put what
Speaker 3: do you call that at the top of the strap,
Speaker 3: a strap at the top of the paper. Harris steps
Speaker 3: up as Joe goes, and you'll find a story buried
Speaker 3: on page eight and page spread.
Speaker 2: Not quite so interested in life of a story.
Speaker 1: The crumb of Australia literally doesn't care. But you know
Speaker 1: who cares even less back on the main and the
Speaker 1: Northern Territory their front page, you wouldn't know anything was
Speaker 1: happening in the States. Nope, they've just got absolutely no
Speaker 1: interest here what soever.
Speaker 4: Doesn't even get to mention absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: Although this is really sad down the bottom here a
Speaker 1: cops plea for change as nine lives lost in twelve
Speaker 1: days enough is enough. The Northern territories drink drive laws
Speaker 1: could be reviewed in the wake of a horrible road toll.
Speaker 4: With thirty nine lives lost so far this.
Speaker 1: Year, police have revealed a concerning trend among drivers they
Speaker 1: want to end.
Speaker 4: Nine lives lost in twelve days.
Speaker 5: That was a bit of a downer, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Mean I thought we were just I just love it
Speaker 6: the fact that the nten years doesn't like it's just
Speaker 6: like it just doesn't happen in the territory, just didn't happen.
Speaker 5: We don't care.
Speaker 2: There is a new band, Joe.
Speaker 5: He's right.
Speaker 2: That's page three.
Speaker 3: But just before we finish with the papers, there is
Speaker 3: one interesting story that is a non Trump slash. Biden's
Speaker 3: story lives on the front page of the in relating
Speaker 3: to the Greens and their plans for housing prices. If
Speaker 3: you're a homeowner, you will want to hear about this
Speaker 3: philis Inla's.
Speaker 4: Says Greens housing spokesman. I'm surprised to hear they have one.
Speaker 14: Max Chandler Mather has made clear the part minor parties
Speaker 14: policies are aimed at achieving a real decline in housing
Speaker 14: values over time to ensure the next generation has a
Speaker 14: better chance of buying a home.
Speaker 1: The headline reads, your home will be worthless with us,
Speaker 1: I mean way to sell yourselves.
Speaker 4: That's that's just great.
Speaker 2: He actually says, this is a direct quote.
Speaker 3: I think our goal, our stated goal is to stop
Speaker 3: house price growth to zero, so we'll get zero growth percent.
Speaker 3: So they're coming out and saying we want you. That's right,
Speaker 3: and value that's most people's only asset.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so this guy is obviously off the reservation. But
Speaker 6: this is the guy who stole what should have been
Speaker 6: an unwinnable seat for the Greens, and he he has gone,
Speaker 6: has made housing his whole thing. Housing is the biggest
Speaker 6: week spot for Labor. It is the biggest strength for Greens.
Speaker 6: They know it, Labor knows it, and that they don't
Speaker 6: stand to lose any voters as a result of this, because,
Speaker 6: of course, all their voters are young renters, not homeowners.
Speaker 3: Percent of Greens voters or their renters. Apparently we're going
Speaker 3: to go to a.
Speaker 2: Break when we come back.
Speaker 3: An AI fashion show featuring world leaders shows just how
Speaker 3: advanced AI really is.
Speaker 2: You want to see it. It's coming up in a moment.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, Joe, I've got admit I'm not really into
Speaker 3: fashion shows, which you can probably tell by the word
Speaker 3: address most of the time. Sure, but what about you,
Speaker 3: you a fashion officionado.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been to a fashion show?
Speaker 4: No, not what they call fashion nowadays.
Speaker 1: I'm very old fashion, So I like the vintage stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, the stuff that actually looks good on people
Speaker 1: and that you could wear in everyday life walking down
Speaker 1: the street without looking like an absolute freak. But someone
Speaker 1: has found a marvelous use for AI and has put
Speaker 1: together a world Leader's fashion show.
Speaker 15: What do you think, yure.
Speaker 5: Hillary actually looks better takes the cake?
Speaker 4: Surely?
Speaker 6: I found that quite quite sort of unsettled, felt very
Speaker 6: gender fluid.
Speaker 2: Elon must put that online now.
Speaker 3: Admittedly he's got a lot of followers on ex but
Speaker 3: it had had forty million viewers in less than twenty
Speaker 3: four hours, and it's pretty Why would you ever have
Speaker 3: a real fashion show ever again when you can get
Speaker 3: AI like that?
Speaker 6: But why would Elon Musk, who has all the AI,
Speaker 6: make himself look like newman from Seinfeld?
Speaker 1: Well he didn't put it together, he just shared it,
Speaker 1: so clearly he was happy with his appearance where he
Speaker 1: starts out in underpants. But I mean, when you're saying,
Speaker 1: just before the show jo that the vast majority of
Speaker 1: models won't be actual models?
Speaker 5: Reads up.
Speaker 6: I just read a post that must've mean. I haven't
Speaker 6: read the whole story because I'm part of the problem.
Speaker 6: But the Daily Telegraph said that a model agent said
Speaker 6: by twenty twenty five, Maybe it was a type of
Speaker 6: twenty thirty five, but it did say twenty twenty five,
Speaker 6: ninety percent of modeling shoots.
Speaker 5: Will be AI.
Speaker 4: That makes sense.
Speaker 5: You're watching one right now.
Speaker 6: I'm just very muchemaker talking about the White House and
Speaker 6: the leader of the free world. The real power is
Speaker 6: in the Vancouver Park Board, which has decided once and
Speaker 6: for all which attire is suitable for the local swimming pool. Finally,
Speaker 6: apparently you are not allowed to wear lingerie in the
Speaker 6: swimming pool amen anymore.
Speaker 5: So that's it.
Speaker 4: There goes going on degeneracy. There's a difference.
Speaker 6: There isn't where the g banger down the deep end anymore.
Speaker 6: Why go swimming in the first place.
Speaker 3: Well, that's it from us. Enjoy the rest of your evening,
Speaker 3: don't go anywhere. Coming up right now is the Rita
Speaker 3: Penney show.
Speaker 2: That's up now.