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Speaker 1: So inside Richard Ardel morning to you, good morn. He

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Speaker 1: make so this weekend he's going to pull the pinal up.

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Speaker 2: If he's going to do it, time is running short.

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Speaker 2: Doors are closing in on President Biden right now, with

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Speaker 2: pressures really intensifying in the last several hours, and with

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Speaker 2: some speculation that yes, it could be this weekend. To

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Speaker 2: be clear, Biden himself is not giving any direct sign

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Speaker 2: that he is considering quitting the race. However, recent developments

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Speaker 2: are brutal, and those around him say Biden is more

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Speaker 2: receptive to hearing arguments about why he should drop his

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Speaker 2: reelection bid. Democratic leaders are making these arguments, and they

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Speaker 2: are not being shy in revealing that they have been

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Speaker 2: in conversation with the President about those concerns. To giving

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Speaker 2: Biden some wiggle room by not issuing public calls, but

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Speaker 2: here is what we know. Party bosses have delayed a

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Speaker 2: virtual role call on Biden's nomination, which was supposed to

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Speaker 2: be happening soon. They're holding it back to first week

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Speaker 2: of August. Meantime, Congressman Adam Schiff has become the highest

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Speaker 2: profile Democrat lawmaker to openly call for Biden to end

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Speaker 2: his run. Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co chair of the Biden

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Speaker 2: campaign and former boss of Disney, says the Flower campaign

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Speaker 2: cash has stopped basically, so that's critical. Former President Obama

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Speaker 2: has let it be known that he is telling associates

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Speaker 2: that Biden needs to seriously consider his viability and protect

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Speaker 2: his legacy and the party. Former Speaker Nancy Pelasius warned

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Speaker 2: that Biden's polls are slipping ominously, and when Biden challenged

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Speaker 2: this and their talks apparently lace, he told him that

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Speaker 2: he should put his own top polster onto the core

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Speaker 2: between the two. The current Democratic leaders in the House

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Speaker 2: and Senator told Biden their party is headed for electoral

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Speaker 2: disaster and two thirds of Democrats in a new poll

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Speaker 2: say Biden should withdraw. So that's not just two thirds

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Speaker 2: of all voters, that's two thirds of the Democrats as well.

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Speaker 2: Biden announced last night that he has another bout of COVID.

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Speaker 2: He looks terrible in that video of him getting off

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Speaker 2: a plane last night and has canceled his latest campaign events,

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Speaker 2: and in an interview with Black Entertainment Television just before that,

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Speaker 2: he forgot the name of his own Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin,

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Speaker 2: When he said this.

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Speaker 3: It's all about tuning people with dignity, and it's about

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Speaker 3: making sure that we're coming. For example, look at the

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Speaker 3: heat on Gannet. Because I named the secretary of defense

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Speaker 3: for Blackmare. I named Katanji Brown.

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Speaker 2: Well, Katanji Brown is not a man and is not

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Speaker 2: defense secretary. She is a Supreme Court justice in Biden

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Speaker 2: named to the court.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and then we go back to Milwaukee, which this

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Speaker 1: week has been quite the same.

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Speaker 2: In various ways. Yeah, Former President Trump will speak of

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Speaker 2: tonight's closing session of the Republican Convention. Last night we

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Speaker 2: heard from his newly chosen vice presidential pick JD. Vance

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Speaker 2: in what was would say a lackluster speech delivered in

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Speaker 2: a pretty flat tone. The content, though unique. Vance has

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Speaker 2: only been in the US Senate since last year, but

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Speaker 2: because he was known for writing his memoir called Hillbilly Elegy,

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Speaker 2: that's given him a lot of general attention, turned into

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Speaker 2: a Netflix film, which tells of him getting over his

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Speaker 2: pretty miserable childhood in Appalachia. His then heroin addicted mother

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Speaker 2: tried to kill them both while out driving one day

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Speaker 2: when he was a young kid, and he jumped out

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Speaker 2: of the car, fled, and ran into a stranger's house

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Speaker 2: and they called the cops. He went to live with

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Speaker 2: his grandmother, whom he called me more, who set fire

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Speaker 2: to his grandfather one time after pouring gasoline over the granddad.

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Speaker 2: Then another family member put out that fire on par poor,

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Speaker 2: he said, last night of his grandmother.

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Speaker 4: My mama died shortly before I left for Iraq in

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Speaker 4: two thousand and five. And when we went through things,

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Speaker 4: we found nineteen loaded handguns.

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Speaker 2: There were.

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Speaker 4: Now. The thing is they were stashed all over her house,

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Speaker 4: under her bed, in her closet, in the silverware drawer,

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Speaker 4: and we wondered what was going on. And it occurred

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Speaker 4: to us that towards the end of her life, ma'ama

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Speaker 4: couldn't get around so well. And so this frail old

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Speaker 4: woman made sure that no matter where she was, she

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Speaker 4: was within arm's length of whatever she needed to protect

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Speaker 4: her family. That's who we fight for. That's American spirit,

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Speaker 4: family values.

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Speaker 2: What a lovely story. He has suggested elsewhere that marriages,

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Speaker 2: even violent marriages, should maybe not end in divorce, but

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Speaker 2: you know, continue to provide ongoing associations for the kid.

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Speaker 2: He suggested elsewhere that abortion should be illegal, even in

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Speaker 2: cases of rape or incest. Two wrongs don't make a right,

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Speaker 2: says Vance.

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Speaker 1: I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.

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Speaker 2: Abortion illegal nationally. He says also he would have challenged

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Speaker 2: the Biden election results and repudiated the Biden Electoral College

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Speaker 2: votes and says what is needed is a leader who

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Speaker 2: quote is not in the pocket of big business. However,

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Speaker 2: Van's got his first job in Silicon Valley when Trump

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Speaker 2: backing billionaire Peter Tiel asked a mate to give job,

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Speaker 2: and he got another job as a venture capitalist staff

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Speaker 2: to that with one time AOL founder Steve Case, again

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Speaker 2: at the behest of Peter Thiel, with Case saying events

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Speaker 2: at the time quite he wasn't really working very much,

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Speaker 2: so nice have billionaire friends, and as he spoke, even

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Speaker 2: though he is married to an Indian immigrant. Many in

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Speaker 2: the Republican convention crowd were waiving printed signs saying of

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Speaker 2: immigrants quote mass deportations.

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Speaker 1: Now, I think we'll be talking about it again on Monday, mate,

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Speaker 1: Now I have a good weekend. Richard Arnold sightside Peter

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Speaker 1: Teeal of course has a very strong New Zealand connection.

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