Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Jetty shows the net effect of went
Speaker 1: and tweeted this morning and what we're talking about now
Speaker 1: to cast doubt on the results of the It's had
Speaker 1: an interesting impact. I didn't know it was going to
Speaker 1: be the impact it had. What people are now looking
Speaker 1: at is am I right but not me? Are all
Speaker 1: these stories right about the fact that these elections will
Speaker 1: be fraudulent, they'll be fixed, they'll be rigged. And everyone's
Speaker 1: looking at it, and a lot of people are saying,
Speaker 1: you know, that probably will happen. That's hilarious. Um So
Speaker 1: Trump tweeted yesterday that you know, maybe we should delay
Speaker 1: the election, and everybody went crazy, and he said, I
Speaker 1: didn't think it would have that sort of a lot
Speaker 1: of reaction. I it surprises me. I love him jerking
Speaker 1: people around. I mean, I get a kick out of
Speaker 1: that on on many different levels, but pretend outrage and
Speaker 1: the rest of it. I often wonder what he's hoping
Speaker 1: to accomplish. We're joined by Lani Chen David and Nyanne
Speaker 1: Stephie fellow in American Public Policy Studies of the Hoover Institution,
Speaker 1: and Lani, much as I deal with my backyard, let's
Speaker 1: clean up the dong first, and then we'll get onto
Speaker 1: the more edifying stuff. That's the worst transition I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: thank you so. Uh. The idea that Trump would delay
Speaker 1: the election, how likely? Oh god? Uh looks zero likely,
Speaker 1: zero likelihood that he can do it. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: zero likelihood that he would ever uh you know, he'd
Speaker 1: ever be able to get away with it. You know,
Speaker 1: on this one, the constitution and US law are pretty clear.
Speaker 1: Now one more and it's even more ridiculous, And I
Speaker 1: think it's zero likely he would try so and he knew,
Speaker 1: how so even more ridiculous if Trump were to declare
Speaker 1: after the election, which in this scenario he lost, I
Speaker 1: am not leaving, as has been suggested in the New
Speaker 1: York Times, the Washington Morning. Joe talks about it all
Speaker 1: the time, all the alphabet that in serious tones. As
Speaker 1: a man of great experience and knowledge. If a president
Speaker 1: were to declare that, what would happen on inauguration day? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he would find himself locked out
Speaker 1: of the White House. I mean, that's just not it's
Speaker 1: it's again. The Constitution here is very clear. US law
Speaker 1: is very clear, the president's term ends on a certain date,
Speaker 1: and if he has not been re elected, he is
Speaker 1: no longer the president by noon on January. You're a
Speaker 1: private citizen. You don't live here anymore. A trespasser need
Speaker 1: be removed, right, I mean it would be like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's like the guy who finds himself kicked out
Speaker 1: of his house. I mean, it's this is this is
Speaker 1: kind of what would happen. So, you know, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of conversation about stuff Trump says, and
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of things I really wish he
Speaker 1: wouldn't say, and I don't I don't think are particularly helpful.
Speaker 1: But you know, he is sort of, as you guys
Speaker 1: alluded to, he's sort of the ultimate troll in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, right, I mean, he sort of gets
Speaker 1: people to respond to things, uh, and then it gets
Speaker 1: people spun up. And and that's exactly what he's hoping
Speaker 1: to do. He's hoping to take you know, people take
Speaker 1: their eyes off the ball and take their eyes off
Speaker 1: of what really matters. Would it be a good idea
Speaker 1: for uh, you know, Barack Obama bringing it up yesterday
Speaker 1: John Lewis's funeral, I thought was shocking the idea he
Speaker 1: actually suggested Democrats need to do away with the filibuster
Speaker 1: in the Senate. That is that an issue you could
Speaker 1: get people worked up about, or is that too complicated
Speaker 1: for most voters. I think it's an issue that activist
Speaker 1: bases get really worked up about, so on the right
Speaker 1: and on the left. This is actually one area where
Speaker 1: the activists based on the right agrees with the activists
Speaker 1: based on the left, the idea that the filibuster is antiquated,
Speaker 1: and if only we didn't have the filibuster, we'd be
Speaker 1: able to get so much done. The problem with that,
Speaker 1: of course, is that the way American politics works is
Speaker 1: that you don't have one part in control for long
Speaker 1: periods of time. Usually party you know, party control goes
Speaker 1: back and forth, which means, you know, if you want
Speaker 1: the filibuster gone for Republicans, uh, then you ought to
Speaker 1: be able to accept the fact that filibuster will be
Speaker 1: gone for Democrats as well. And that's precisely why the
Speaker 1: filibuster I think, remains in place, because people realize how
Speaker 1: damaging it would be if it were to be to
Speaker 1: be eliminated. Well, just to put in plain terms, what
Speaker 1: we'd see, among other things, is wild, jarring instant changes
Speaker 1: in the way the country is governed every four year,
Speaker 1: every two years, conceivably, I mean, just wild swings in policy,
Speaker 1: foreign policy, domestic policy. Oh yeah, I mean, look, you'd see,
Speaker 1: you know, you'd have Obamacare one year, you'd have no
Speaker 1: Obamacare the next year, and then you'd have Medicare for
Speaker 1: all the fifth year. I mean, that's the that's the
Speaker 1: kind of gyrating that you would see, and it would
Speaker 1: be tremendously damaging and difficult for us to really uh
Speaker 1: be able to operate as a country in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways because you would have massive portions of the
Speaker 1: economy affected by big time policy and it would change
Speaker 1: all the time. Because what would happen is you would
Speaker 1: only need a simple majority to make these huge policy
Speaker 1: changes in the Senate. And that's really the only thing
Speaker 1: that keeps this I think that keeps the train from
Speaker 1: going off the tracks completely. Oh yeah, we could go
Speaker 1: back and forth between open borders and zero immigration in
Speaker 1: one administration, and before you know it, cannibalism. Lani chen
Speaker 1: is on the line from the Hoover Institution. Do you
Speaker 1: even care? Do you pay attention to Joe Biden's VP
Speaker 1: choice or or is that just an overrated question, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's something that the political class gets really
Speaker 1: excited about and interested in, you know, particularly because maybe
Speaker 1: there's there's there's not a whole lot of other uh,
Speaker 1: you know, other other stories to follow closely. Uh. Look,
Speaker 1: I think it matters in so far as Joe biden
Speaker 1: situation is that he's really old, and you know, you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that there is somebody there who
Speaker 1: credibly could be president, you know, at any given time.
Speaker 1: So I think in this situation with Biden, the VP
Speaker 1: pick matters a little bit more. But historically what we
Speaker 1: know is that the VP pick doesn't actually impact the
Speaker 1: course of the election that much. It's a new story
Speaker 1: for a few days. But with Biden's case, maybe it
Speaker 1: matters a little bit more. Um. Former White House Press
Speaker 1: Secretary Joe Lockhart argued the other day, I think it
Speaker 1: was in Time magazine that Biden shouldn't debate at all.
Speaker 1: So Biden might do no press conferences and no debates
Speaker 1: until the election. You think you can pull that off? No,
Speaker 1: I don't. And I think that's a stupid idea, uh to,
Speaker 1: to to have Biden avoid debates. I mean, that plays
Speaker 1: right into the narrative that I think Trump is building
Speaker 1: around Biden, you know, the Biden and the Bunker narrative,
Speaker 1: and and I you know, look, I think Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has showed that there are times when he can be
Speaker 1: fine lucid. Uh. During the Democratic primary debates, he went
Speaker 1: out there and he had a couple of debates that
Speaker 1: were really bad and a few that were quite good.
Speaker 1: I think that in this situation, if you're on the
Speaker 1: Biden team, you have to accept the possibility that Biden
Speaker 1: could do okay, and that there might be more harm
Speaker 1: than good in keeping him the question in the bunker
Speaker 1: and not wanting to debate. That is absolutely the wrong
Speaker 1: look I think for him. Yeah, I just wonder if
Speaker 1: it'll actually move votes. Yeah, I'm not saying you're wrong
Speaker 1: one he I just which will he got to balance
Speaker 1: it against him coming out in a ninety minute debate
Speaker 1: and you know, really showing his age, you know, the
Speaker 1: the risk risk versus reward, which I think is why
Speaker 1: they're hanging a lantern on some of his faults. As
Speaker 1: they say said, yeah, he's gaff prone the rest of it,
Speaker 1: but he's a nice fella. Now they're saying, look, he's
Speaker 1: a transitional figure. He's only going to do one term.
Speaker 1: Then it's onto the new thing. It's no big deal
Speaker 1: if he gets elected. I did hear somebody make the
Speaker 1: argument that Trump had the reverse situation for debates last
Speaker 1: time around. Hillary was the expert, she knew everything, was
Speaker 1: a political expert. I don't know anything about debating. Well,
Speaker 1: Trump has set the bar so low for Biden now
Speaker 1: by saying, you know, he can barely talk. I think
Speaker 1: if Biden comes out and he's competent at all, yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: hecor out of time. Sorry about that line. Yeah, that's terrible.
Speaker 1: It's a waste of your valuable time, your expertise, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Alan he Chen, that was interesting. Uh, fellow in American
Speaker 1: Public policy studies, Hoover Institution. Always enlightening. Thanks a million.
Speaker 1: All right, um, yeah, I I don't know with the
Speaker 1: Biden thing. I could see it going either way. There's
Speaker 1: so much more than it's going to happen between now
Speaker 1: and then and Getty