1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:01,680 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz and the Week in 3 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 2: Review Ben Ferguson with you. And these are the major 4 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: stories that we chatted about this week that you may 5 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 2: have missed. First up, I can't believe I'm saying this, 6 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: but there was an actual article in a major newspaper 7 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 2: that said that Joe Biden was an amazing leader, that 8 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 2: he did incredible things. Why on earth would you be 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 2: writing that article when the majority of Americans say that 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 2: his presidency was a disaster. Will break down the Biden 11 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: failures for you in a moment. Also, there was a 12 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 2: big prediction that Joe Biden was going to pardon or 13 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: give clemency to people that were hardcore criminals, including those 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: on death row. Well, that is exactly what he did, 15 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 2: and could it be because he's about to pardon many 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: others around the Biden crime family. And finally, there's another 17 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 2: big question that Democrats are dealing with right now, and 18 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: that is should they have kicked Joe Biden to the 19 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 2: curb sooner than they did and would that have changed 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: the outcome of the election, meaning Donald Trump wouldn't have 21 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: been elected president. Will break that down as now they're 22 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: trying to figure out what they're going to do next. 23 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: It's the Weekend Review and it starts right now. 24 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 3: So let's move to the Washington Post. And I'm going 25 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 3: to do something unusual on this podcast. So I read 26 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 3: this article and my head exploded, and I texted you 27 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 3: and said, this is the most absurd, self satirizing article 28 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 3: I've ever seen. So I just want to go through 29 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 3: it literally, line by line. This is a major story 30 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: in the Washington Post banner headline on Drudge and it 31 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 3: is entitled We're just going to go through sentence by sentence. 32 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 3: It's entitled how Biden leads Joe Biden's lonely battle to 33 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 3: sell his vision of American democracy. In his presidency's final chapter, 34 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 3: Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some 35 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: decisions differently. And the guy who wrote this is a 36 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 3: guy named Tyler Pager. We're going to come back to 37 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 3: him later. So let's start earlier this year, Representative James E. 38 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 3: Cliburn met President Joe Biden at the White House to 39 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 3: deliver a stern message Biden had to find a way 40 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 3: to revitalize his flagging campaign. Clyburn, who had been pivotal 41 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 3: to Biden's twenty twenty, Victory also made a confession about 42 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 3: his own long standing belief that substance is more important 43 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 3: than style and politics. 44 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 4: Quote. 45 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: I've come to the conclusion in recent days that I'm 46 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 3: wrong about that, The South Carolina Democrat eighty four remembers, 47 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 3: telling Biden the new environment that we currently live in, 48 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 3: style seems to carry the day more than substance. Your style, 49 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 3: he told the President, does not lend itself well to 50 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: the environment we're currently in. Clyburne's conclusion, which was shared 51 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 3: by anxious Democrats in the months before the president ended 52 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 3: his reelection bid, undermined brought Biden's theory of presidential leadership. 53 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 3: After Donald Trump's assent, Biden believed that he just needed 54 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 3: to show Americans that traditional democracy still worked by listening, 55 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 3: but two experts working with Republicans passing popular policies, and 56 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: voters would rally around him. Right, Let's stop there. Okay, 57 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 3: so so far every word of this article. If this 58 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: was written by the Biden press office, it would not 59 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 3: be any different. And this entire article is hagiography. This 60 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 3: entire article is not journalism. It is not only trying 61 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 3: to praise breathlessly as we're going to go through Joe 62 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 3: Biden and cast him as a mighty titan. But it 63 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 3: is profoundly dishonest. So it starts with the frame that 64 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 3: Biden's great success is on substance, not style. And the 65 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 3: obvious implication of which we're going to get more is 66 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 3: that all Trump has his style. There's no substance. That's 67 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 3: the obvious implication. Let's take this last sentence. After Donald 68 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: Trump's assent, Biden believed he just needed to show Americans 69 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 3: that traditional democracy still worked. We're going to get more 70 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 3: into democracy a second by listening to experts, working with 71 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 3: Republicans and passing popular policies. Alright, what experts did he 72 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 3: listen to? He did not work with Republicans. Every damned 73 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 3: thing he passed he rammed through on a vicious party 74 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 3: line vote. He used budget reconciliation over and over again 75 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 3: with no Republicans and passing popular policies. Nobody helped Donald 76 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 3: Trump get elected more than Joseph Robinette Biden Junior because 77 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 3: his policies were so incredibly unpopular. 78 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 4: All right, let's keep going back to the article quote. 79 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 3: He succeeded in phase one of his plan. Did he 80 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 3: now enacting legislation, much of it bipartisan, to reshape the 81 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 3: nation's infrastructure, revive the semiconductor industry, and fight climate change. 82 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 3: Let's be clear, the climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act 83 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 3: was a straight party line vote rammed through on reconciliation, 84 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: but Phase two never happened. The truth of Biden's presidency 85 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: is that he has failed in what, by his own count, 86 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 3: his most important mission, making Trump's presidency seem like an aberration. 87 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 4: Quote. 88 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 3: He governed through traditional processes and institutions, said Julians E. Zellezer, 89 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 3: a moron presidential historian at Princeton University. It doesn't say moron, 90 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 3: but you're going to see that everything this guy says. 91 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: I know he's sadly a professor at Miyama Mater. He's 92 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 3: a complete moron. Let's start with the traditional processes and institutions. 93 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 3: There's nothing traditional about weaponizing the federal government to go 94 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 3: after your opponents. There's nothing traditional about prosecuting and indicting 95 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 3: the former president over and over and over again. There's 96 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 3: nothing traditional and using the institutions about opening the border 97 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 3: and having an invasion of our country. But here the 98 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 3: good Princeton professor quote. It didn't change the picture where 99 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 3: he started. This anger in the electorate towards institution, This 100 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 3: support for a pretty radical conservative vision that Trump embodied, 101 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 3: it didn't do anything to end the very intense polarization 102 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 3: that exists in this country now. The idea that Trump 103 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 3: is a radical conservative is a bizarre idea. Trump ran 104 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 3: on securing the border, bringing down inflation, standing with our friends, 105 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 3: and defeating our enemies. That is very hard to characterize 106 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 3: as a quote radical conservative vision. But hey, the Princeton 107 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 3: professor says it, and the Washington Post breathlessly reports it. 108 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 3: We're gonna go on here, but give me your thoughts 109 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: so far, then we'll go back to the article. 110 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: I'm not surprised that this is how they want to 111 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 2: just rewrite history part of this and just be be 112 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 2: so delusional. 113 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: I am a little bit. 114 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 4: It gets worse. 115 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: I'm a little bit shocked though. 116 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 2: If they, like, you know how you're supposed to like 117 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: proofread before you print, If you're reading what you just 118 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 2: wrote that you just read, I would think there would 119 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 2: be a moment where you might be like, yeah, I 120 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 2: don't know if this needs to see the light of day. 121 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: Yet here it is. They put it out there, all. 122 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 3: Right, let's keep going because it gets much much worse. 123 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 3: Previous articles in this series examined the pillars, Oh they're 124 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: so strong. The pillars the pillars of Biden's leadership, how 125 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 3: he absorbs information, how he makes decisions, how he communicates 126 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,119 Speaker 3: with Americans. They showed that Biden, even at the peak 127 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 3: of his glorious magnificent power, doesn't say glorious magnificent, but 128 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 3: it's just implied, struggled mightily to communicate his decisions and vision. 129 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 3: This article, based on interviews with more than two thousand 130 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 3: people close to Biden, reveals the ways in which his 131 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: theory of how to succeed in an era of American 132 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 3: politics dominated by Trump fell apart in the final phase 133 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 3: of his presidency, and how he's been publicly and privately 134 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 3: rethinking whether he should have handled some decisions differently, even 135 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 3: some of his closest advisers without faulting. Biden conceded recently 136 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 3: that his style of governing did not always mesh with 137 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 3: today's politics. 138 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 4: Quote. 139 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 3: The president has been operating on time horizon measured in decades, 140 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: while the political cycle is measured in four years. Jake Sullivan, 141 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 3: Biden's national security advisor said, with his lips planted firmly 142 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 3: on Biden's rear end that last piece was my come Like, 143 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,119 Speaker 3: I want to go back and listen to that sentence again. 144 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 3: The president has been operating on a time horizon measured 145 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 3: in decades, while the political cycle is measured in four years. Now, 146 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 3: look kudos to the Biden White House for just having 147 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 3: the kutzpah to say, oh, Biden's presidency would be hysteric, 148 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 3: and you know, you really have to measure decades. Twelve 149 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 3: million people invading this country. Four years is too short 150 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 3: to measure it. We're going to screw up this country 151 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: for decades, you know, undermining our allies, causing two wars, 152 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 3: a war in Ukraine and a war in Gaza. Like, 153 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 3: you're right, the harm from Biden will last decades. But 154 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 3: that's their entire spend. Well, yes, everything Biden did was 155 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 3: profoundly unpopular because all of his policies failed. But he's 156 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 3: really playing the long game. You foolish people don't understand this. 157 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 3: This misery is good for you. All right, Let's let's 158 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 3: keep going. Sullivan added that Biden's accomplishments, by their nature, 159 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 3: will take a long time to bear fruit quote. How 160 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 3: to govern at this moment to set the US up 161 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 3: for long term success has one answer, and how to 162 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 3: deal with midterm and presidential elections in the very short 163 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 3: term might have a different answer. He said, the President 164 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 3: went with doing things that really put America in a 165 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 3: strong position. Ben, what the hell have they done to 166 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 3: put America in a strong position in every part of 167 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 3: the world. America is weaker today than when Joe Biden 168 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 3: entered the White House. Like, this is absurd. And I 169 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 3: got to say the absurd thing We're going go back 170 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: to this in a minute, is the Washington Post just 171 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 3: publishes this drivel like its news that there's not a 172 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: moment of reflection, there's not a moment of facts that 173 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 3: there's not a moment of reality, And it's I mean, 174 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 3: how do you react to that that, oh, he's playing 175 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 3: the long game. 176 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there's two things here. 177 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 2: One there's a part of me that's like I can't 178 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 2: believe it, and then there's another part of me it's 179 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 2: like good because if you don't learn from your losses, 180 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: then you're going to repeat the same mistakes that you 181 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 2: just made. And I think the Democratic Party learned nothing 182 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 2: from November nothing from losing the popular vote, nothing from 183 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 2: the resurrection of Donald Trump from two thy to twenty 184 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 2: twenty four, nothing from weaponizing the government, nothing from overspending 185 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 2: and no accountability, and honestly nothing they've learned nothing from 186 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 2: having a president that quickly was inated. So part of 187 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 2: me is like, good, yeah, keep writing these types of 188 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 2: articles because it's gonna help conservatives like you and I 189 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 2: be able to be way more successful in getting this 190 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: country back on track. 191 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 3: Well, the Ben the Post just reported that he absorbed 192 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 3: information like you know, some some sort of nobel you know, scientists, 193 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 3: Like like, just all right, let's let's go back. As 194 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: his presidency and his fifty year political career wind down 195 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 3: far faster than he wanted, Biden has taken to acknowledging 196 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 3: some strategic mistakes, both big and small. Many of those 197 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 3: missteps resulted from his determination to restore the age old 198 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 3: rules of the American presidency after Trump's term, a determination 199 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 3: that many of his supporters in retrospect consider a politically 200 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 3: fatal error. All right, so what are the age old 201 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 3: rules of the American presidency that he returned to earlier 202 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 3: this month and a speech on his economic legacy, Biden 203 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 3: admitted he was stupid for not putting his own aim 204 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 3: on the pandemic relief checks his administration sent out in 205 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. Yeah, that really was the problem. He 206 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 3: just didn't sign the checks. Clearly Kamala would have won 207 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 3: if Biden had just signed those checks. That that was 208 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 3: the pivotal issue. 209 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 4: Damn it. 210 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 3: I didn't see Joe Biden's name on those checks, so 211 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 3: forget it. But hey, Trump, by contrast, made a point 212 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 3: of signing his own relief checks in twenty twenty, and 213 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 3: Biden suggested that Trump got more credit for the economic 214 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 3: recovery because of it. 215 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 4: Balderdash. 216 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 3: Biden acknowledged that he had quote screwed up. It is 217 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 3: June twenty seventh debate against Trump. You think as he 218 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 3: struggled to put together sentences and defend his policies as 219 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 3: his rivals held forth with a series of falsehoods. Evil 220 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 3: liar who I hate named Donald Trump that is not there, 221 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 3: it's just implied and called him a criminal. He does 222 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 3: not regret participating in the debate. Justice performance that night. 223 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 3: Now at this point, there's a breakout quote, and you 224 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 3: know what the breakout quote is. It's Jake Sullivan saying 225 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 3: the president is operating on a time horizon measured in decades, 226 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 3: while the political cycle is measured in four years. So 227 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 3: if you missed the central political spin from the White House, 228 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 3: then well that's your problem. 229 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 4: Let's keep going. 230 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 3: He is also amused on changes in the media, arguing 231 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 3: that he did not get enough credit for his accomplishments, 232 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 3: especially on the economy, but inciting examples like Richard M. 233 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 3: Nixon's nineteen sixty debate against John F. Kennedy, Biden has 234 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 3: suggested that, like Nixon, he has struggled to adjust to 235 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 3: a new media landscape. We pick what news we want 236 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 3: to hear. It's a totally different deal, Biden said in 237 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 3: a podcast interview this month. We've got to figure out 238 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 3: how we deal with this significant technological change. If Nixon 239 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 3: was more accustomed to television, he wouldn't have perspired so much, 240 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 3: and he would be president when he beat Kennedy. I 241 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 3: know that sounds silly, but think of the changes taking place. 242 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 3: Where do you go what is true? We have no 243 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 3: evidence anymore. I'm not sure how that gets resolved. The 244 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 3: president and his aides have acknowledged that they struggled to communicate. 245 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 3: See that's the whole problem. The record was phenomenal. They 246 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 3: just failed to commune, struggle to communicate about the administration's 247 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 3: efforts to lift the country out of the pandemic. Frustrated 248 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 3: that even as the United States fared better than other countries, 249 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 3: Americans did not feel the impact psychologically, You idiots, you're 250 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 3: doing great. Why are you so dumb that you don't 251 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 3: realize it? And now here's all right? 252 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 4: Now? Remember so so far, there's. 253 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: Two main themes that the post is laid out. Number one, 254 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 3: genius Biden is playing. 255 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 4: For the history books for the decades rather. 256 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 3: Than the short term political cycles, so don't blame him 257 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 3: for the disasters of his policies. But number two, that 258 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 3: he wanted to restore the norms of the presidency and 259 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 3: the norms of democracy. 260 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 4: So this next paragraph is going to blow your mind. 261 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 3: In private, Biden has also said he should have picked 262 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 3: someone other than Merrick Garland as Attorney General. 263 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 4: Well, no kidding. 264 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 3: He was the most partisan and political attorney general in 265 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 3: history and a discret the Department of Justice. But no, no, no, no, no, 266 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 3: that's not Biden's complaint. Biden quote complaining about the Justice 267 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 3: Department's slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump and its aggressiveness 268 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 3: in prosecuting Biden's son Hunter, according to people familiar with 269 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 3: his comments, so understand this great titan restoring the norms 270 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 3: of the White House. His DOJ is the first Department 271 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 3: of Justice to indict and prosecute a former president and 272 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 3: a leading candidate for president who later got elected president 273 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 3: in the history of our country. It's never been done. 274 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 3: Under Biden, they did it twice. They absolutely weaponized the 275 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 3: DOJ to go after his opponents over and over and 276 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 3: over again. They weaponized the FBI. And his complaint is, 277 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 3: damn it, they didn't do enough. They should have been 278 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 3: more vigorous. They should have indicted him more. They should 279 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 3: have indicted him faster. We should have we should have 280 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 3: attacked him from day one. I mean, and it is. 281 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 3: And by the way, everything I'm saying, there's not a 282 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 3: word of that in this article that they don't acknowledge. 283 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 3: No other DJ has indicted a president. They just report 284 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 3: like a blinking, doe eyed four year old. Well, his 285 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 3: complaint was Biden didn't move fast. On the other thing, 286 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 3: he was too aggressive and prosecuting Biden's son. Now, mind you, 287 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 3: the Biden DOJ went to a court and tried to 288 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 3: enter a sweetheart deal that Biden got a slap on 289 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 3: the wrist in no jail time, and it was so 290 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 3: egregious that the judge threw it out only after public scrutiny, 291 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 3: including this podcast, which shined a great deal of light 292 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 3: on it. But he still says that's too much to 293 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 3: hold Hunter accountable. And by the way, the DOJ also 294 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 3: bent over backwards to protect Joe Biden. It that paragraph 295 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 3: may be the most astonishing paragraph of this entire article. 296 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: You look at this article and I think there's three 297 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 2: different points that I want to dive into with you. One, 298 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 2: what was the real purpose of writing it? I'm still trying. 299 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 2: I mean, I get the whole rewriting of history, but 300 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 2: it's so extreme that I don't even think many on 301 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: the left could take this seriously. 302 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: Or am I wrong? So let's start with that. 303 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 3: Well, I think they have the audacity to believe that 304 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 3: that that they can, that they are that the newspaper, 305 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 3: the Washington Post, is the first draft of history. And 306 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 3: as said that this is not journalism, that this is hagiography. 307 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 3: The article continues, We've only done about the first third 308 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 3: of it, I'm not going to continue reading the rest 309 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 3: of it. It goes on to say how Biden modeled 310 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 3: himself after FDR and and and I am just going 311 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 3: to skip skip to the end because the end is 312 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: every bit as absurd as the earlier parts we read. 313 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 3: So here's the end of the article. To show that 314 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 3: he respects the peaceful transfer of power, Biden is welcoming Trump, 315 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 3: who openly challenged that transition. Biden has repeatedly directed his 316 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 3: aides to do all they can to help Trump assume 317 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 3: the presidency after years of calling Trump unfit for high office. Now, 318 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 3: mind you, every day in the White House, Biden is 319 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 3: doing everything he can to frustrate Trump coming in. 320 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 4: So what is he doing? Number One? He pardoned Hunter. 321 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 3: Biden, which we predicted on this podcast, because he does 322 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 3: not want any accountability for the rampant lawlessness of his 323 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,959 Speaker 3: son and the corruption of selling access to himself Joe Biden. 324 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 3: Number two, he pardoned every single federal death row inmate 325 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 3: except for the three most notorious, So of the forty, 326 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 3: he parted thirty seven of them. Again, we predicted that 327 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 3: it was absolutely brazen. Why because he knew Trump was 328 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 3: going to actually carry out the law, and so he's 329 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 3: trying to frustrate that. Number three, he's selling off the 330 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 3: border wall for five five dollars a parcel because he 331 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 3: doesn't want Trump to build the wall. Number four, he's 332 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,719 Speaker 3: granting considering granting wholesale pardons. He is actively trying to 333 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 3: do by the way. Number five, Trump is that he 334 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 3: wants federal workers to go back to work. So Biden 335 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 3: is signing contracts, collective bargaining contracts to make sure that 336 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 3: federal workers can stay home because he wants to tie 337 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 3: up the next administration on litigation. So but here, here's 338 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 3: what the Post said. Biden has repeatedly directed his aides 339 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 3: to do all they can to help Trump assume the presidency. 340 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 3: Like what utter and complete garbage. And let me say something, 341 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos should be 342 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 3: ashamed of this garbage. If Jeff Bezos cared at all 343 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 3: about the integrity of the Washington Post, this guy, Tyler Patron, 344 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 3: I have no idea who this numbskull is. He should 345 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 3: be fired. He is not a journalist. Anyone who writes 346 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 3: this garbage that contains no facts, it contains no counterbalancing 347 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 3: countervailing side. It is simply if Madison Avenue were hired 348 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 3: to come in and let's rewrite the Biden presidency to 349 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 3: be exactly what we wanted it, they couldn't write it 350 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 3: more ridiculous than this. And by the way, the editor 351 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 3: who signed off on this should be fired as well. 352 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 3: This is you want to know why nobody trusts the media, 353 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 3: it's because they publish garbage like this without even a 354 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 3: tiny nod to facts or the simple reality that we 355 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 3: just saw a overwhelming election where Trump won the popular 356 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 3: vote of the seven battleground states, who won all seven, 357 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 3: Like someone at the Post should say, gosh, maybe these 358 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 3: incredibly popular policies that were so good for America, Maybe 359 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 3: people really didn't like it. Maybe waging a war on 360 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 3: oil and gas and driving up energy prices was a 361 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 3: really bad idea and hurt a lot of Americans. Maybe 362 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 3: undermining our allies. Maybe giving Vladimir Putin a gift of 363 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 3: waiving sanctions on Nordstring too and causing the biggest war 364 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 3: in Europe since World War Two, Maybe that wasn't a 365 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,719 Speaker 3: great idea. Maybe sending one hundred billion dollars to I Ran, 366 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 3: who sends it to Hamas and Hansbla, who uses it 367 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 3: to fund a war on Israel, the worst war in 368 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 3: the Middle East in fifty years. Maybe that wasn't a 369 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 3: good idea. Maybe turning a blind eye and refusing to 370 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 3: prosecute antisemitic terrorists all across their protesters terrorists is too strong. 371 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 3: But antisemitic protesters who threatened violence, maybe that is a 372 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 3: profoundly bad idea. Maybe watching the integrity half of America 373 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 3: believes the FBI and the Department of Justice are completely unprincipled, 374 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 3: because well, they've been completely unprincipled. None of that that 375 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 3: there isn't even the time niest acknowledgment of facts. This 376 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 3: is the Washington Post behaving in a way that I 377 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 3: think everyone connected with this article ought to be thoroughly, 378 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:16,479 Speaker 3: thoroughly embarrassed. When your principal points are we're aiming for 379 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 3: fifty years, not four. So as bad as our policies 380 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 3: are in fifty years, will claim they were great. And 381 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 3: Merrick Garland's problem was he wasn't political enough, and he 382 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 3: should have indicted Trump even more, and he should have 383 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 3: covered up Biden's wrongdoings even more. And you don't acknowledge 384 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 3: any like this is a load of crap that ain't journalism. 385 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 386 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 387 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 2: from earlier this week. 388 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: Now onto story number two. 389 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: Number five is another big one here, and that is 390 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 2: the prediction that Joe Biden would harden death row inmates. 391 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 2: You said that it was gonna happen, and it did. 392 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 2: Plus the even more i would say disgusting deal that 393 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:15,239 Speaker 2: was given out to Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the mastermind of 394 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 2: nine to eleven, to spare his life, the mastermind of 395 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 2: nine to eleven, and a man that was also before 396 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 2: even nine to eleven involved in many other terrorist attack 397 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 2: that killed women and children and the elderly innocent bystanders 398 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 2: that he did around the world. 399 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 3: Well, and this is a prediction that we made on 400 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 3: August eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Give a listen to what 401 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 3: we said back in August of twenty three. The way, 402 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 3: I'm going to make a prediction as well, which is 403 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 3: that these are not the only mass murderers that I 404 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 3: think this administration is going to refuse to follow federal 405 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 3: law and impose the death bet. I'm gonna make a 406 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 3: prediction right now, which is Joe Biden before he leaves 407 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 3: the White House will commute the sentence of every federal 408 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 3: prisoner on death row. 409 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 4: That he will do it for every one of them. 410 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 3: And that includes It includes the white supremacist and Nazi 411 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 3: who murdered nine African Americans at the Mother Emmanuel Ame 412 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 3: Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in a horrific hate crime. 413 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 4: He's on federal death row. 414 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 3: It includes the Boston bomber who murdered innocent people by 415 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 3: exploding a bomb at the Boston Marathon. One of the 416 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 3: two brothers is still alive. He's on death row. And 417 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 3: my prediction right now is Joe Biden intends to spare 418 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 3: every one of these mass murderers, every one of them. 419 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 3: Many of them are racist, bigoted, homicidal lunatics, and I 420 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 3: think we're going to see him commute all of their 421 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 3: sentences before he leaves the White House. 422 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 2: Well, if you won't, if you won't take out the 423 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 2: mastermind of nine to eleven and you won't give him 424 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,719 Speaker 2: the death penalty, is there anyone that you'll give it to? 425 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't get any worse than this. 426 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't. And yet that's exactly what he's done. 427 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 4: Well. 428 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 3: So my prediction again in August of twenty three, is 429 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 3: that he would he would remove the death penalty, that 430 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 3: he would commute the death penalty for the federal death 431 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 3: row prisoners that has come to pass. Now, to be clear, 432 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 3: this prediction proves slightly off. I predicted that he would 433 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 3: commute the sentence of every single federal death row prisoner. 434 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 3: He instead commuted the sentence of thirty seven out of 435 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 3: the forty federal death row inmates. And so there were 436 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 3: three he did not. And interestingly enough, the three he 437 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 3: did not are the three that I identified in October, 438 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 3: or rather in August of twenty twenty three. So the 439 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 3: three he did not were the murderer at the Tree 440 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,360 Speaker 3: of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the murderer at the Mother 441 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 3: Emmanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Boston marathon bomber. 442 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 3: And those three are the only three he did not. 443 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 3: Now I identified those three because they're the most horribly egregious, 444 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 3: they're the most famous and infamous. 445 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 4: That they are. 446 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:16,640 Speaker 3: Two of the three at least are vicious, unrepentant racists. 447 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 3: And so I have to say my prediction. It was 448 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 3: not one hundred percent right. It was ninety two point 449 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 3: five percent right, because instead of commuting forty death sentences, 450 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 3: Biden commuted thirty seven out of forty, and he left 451 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 3: the three most egregious and famous ones off the table. 452 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 3: Why because they knew that the press was so utterly 453 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 3: corrupt that without those three that they would get almost 454 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: no criticism for it. That would you would just go 455 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 3: under the carpet, not really be seen. And I have 456 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 3: to say I underestimated the incredible cynicism. 457 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 4: And I got to say nonetheless. 458 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 3: That that is a profound disrespect for the rule of law. 459 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 3: Among those that that Biden did commute the sentences was 460 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 3: was a Nazi and an Aryan Brotherhood racist. You know, 461 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 3: Joe Biden stepped forward and said, hey, we're the Democrat Party. 462 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 1: We're here. 463 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 4: We're here for Nazis and klansmen. I mean it. 464 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 3: But ninety two point five percent prediction correct. And sadly, 465 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 3: another element of this prediction just just became confirmed moments ago. 466 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 3: So so this episode, we were talking about the plans 467 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 3: to spare the life of khaleade Shake Mohammad, the mastermind 468 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 3: of nine to eleven, and this podcast put enormous public 469 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 3: pressure on the White House. The White House Koreem John 470 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 3: Pierre was asked about it, and the heat became so 471 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 3: much that they backed off of it. Well sadly, the 472 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 3: news just broke that they're going back to trying to 473 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 3: spare Khalead shak Muhammad. They're trying to do it literally 474 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 3: on the way out the door. And the content that 475 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 3: Joe Biden, this entire White House has for the voters. 476 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 3: They are trying to break everything on the way out 477 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 3: the door. They're trying to frustrate Donald Trump every way 478 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,479 Speaker 3: they can. They are such vicious partisans that there is 479 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 3: no respect for the Constitution, for the rule of law, 480 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 3: no respect for the voters. They don't care what the 481 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 3: voters said in November. They are trying to literally break 482 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 3: everything on the way out the door, and I got 483 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 3: to say it is grotesque. 484 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 2: As before, If you want to hear the rest of 485 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 2: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and 486 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,959 Speaker 2: dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the 487 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 2: entire thing. I want to get back to the big 488 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 2: story number three of the week you may have missed. 489 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 2: Let's move on to another prediction. This may be one 490 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 2: of my favorite predictions that we've ever made here on 491 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: this show, because when we said it, we got a 492 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 2: lot of pushback, and there are a lot of people 493 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 2: that said what you were saying was chill step. 494 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: Third, we had our ten foil hats on again. 495 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 2: I mean, there were people that were angry over this, 496 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 2: and that was the big prediction that you made, that 497 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 2: Joe Biden would not be the twenty twenty four Democratic nominee. 498 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and I made two related predictions. Number one, 499 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 3: early on, I said, I believe Joe Biden would not 500 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 3: be the Democrat nominee. He would not be on the 501 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 3: ballot in twenty twenty four. I also predicted, I said, 502 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 3: the only people that were when people were later talking 503 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 3: about replacing him with Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer some 504 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 3: other people, I said, no, that will never happen. The 505 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 3: Democrat Party is a bean counting party. Next in line 506 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 3: is Kamala Harris, and the Democrat Party cannot cannot push 507 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 3: her aside, cannot push an African American woman aside for 508 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 3: a white guy like Gavin Newsom. Their their party would 509 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 3: spontaneously combust if they tried to do that, so I said, 510 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 3: the only people who could replace Joe Biden are Kamala 511 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 3: Harris or Michelle Obama. And I did lay out that 512 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 3: I thought Michelle Obama. If I were a Democrat, I 513 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 3: would much prefer Michelle Obama to Kamala Harris becau. Kamala Harris, 514 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 3: as the whole world is seen, is a lousy candidate. 515 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 3: So if you're a Democrat who wants to win and 516 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 3: you're stuck with Kamala Harris, there's only one human being 517 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 3: who can push Kamala Harris aside. That is Michelle Obama. 518 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 3: Now what I think happened. I think they tried with Michelle. 519 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 3: I think Michelle said no. And so prediction number one 520 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 3: that Joe Biden would not be the nominee that came 521 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 3: one hundred percent correct. Prediction number two that he would 522 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 3: be replaced either by Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama that 523 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 3: came true as well, although I did think Michelle Obama 524 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 3: had a very real possibility. So let's listen. This first 525 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 3: excerpt is from September eighteenth, twenty twenty three, so more 526 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 3: than a year a year and three months ago where 527 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 3: I laid out laid out this possibility and give a listen. 528 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 3: So here's the scenario that I think is perhaps most 529 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 3: likely and most dangerous. In August of twenty twenty four, 530 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 3: the Democrat kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama, 531 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 3: and I want you to pause and reflect on it. 532 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 2: So I'm pausing, and I'm reflecting, as we said, and 533 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 2: so is everybody else listening right now. 534 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 3: I view this as a very serious danger. 535 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: I'm smiling right now because it terrifies me. And I 536 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: also could totally see this happening. 537 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 3: So, Michelle Obama, number one, you don't infuriate African American women, 538 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 3: which is a critical part of the constituency that Democrats 539 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 3: are relying on to win. But number two, you avoid 540 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 3: the problem if you pick from any of the four. 541 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 3: The other three are pissed because they're all to some 542 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 3: extent peers, they're rivals, they're all jabbin knives at each other. 543 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 3: Michelle Obama, because she was first, has the ability to 544 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 3: kind of parachute in above all four and say, hey, 545 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 3: we're not picking among any of you. You guys can 546 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 3: all fight it out next time. You're all going to 547 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 3: be on the same level. We're coming. This is the 548 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 3: Obamas saving the day, and I think in terms of 549 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 3: a solution that unifies Democrats, there ain't nothing like that. 550 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 3: I also think Michelle is not all that eager to 551 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 3: run for president. But to parachute in in August of 552 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 3: twenty four, a couple of months before the presidency and 553 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 3: suddenly wake up and be president not a bad gig. 554 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 3: It's not a bad gig at all. Now, would she 555 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 3: do it? I don't know. I've met Michelle, but I 556 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 3: don't know her personally in any meaningful way. 557 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 4: I don't know if she would do it. 558 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 3: I do think Barack Obama is already running the Biden administration. 559 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 3: I think he is already the puppet master behind this 560 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 3: Biden White House. I don't think Joe Biden is the 561 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 3: decision maker. And so when I see the media turning 562 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 3: on Joe Biden right now, I think the odds of 563 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 3: Michelle Obama parachuting in in August of twenty twenty four 564 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 3: have risen dramatically, and that ought to scare the hell 565 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 3: out of anyone who is unhappy about the direction this 566 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 3: country is going and doesn't want us to go even 567 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 3: crazier in an even worse direct. 568 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: In an even worse direction. 569 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 3: Well, and there you heard in September of twenty twenty 570 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 3: three making the prediction that Joe Biden would be jettisoned. 571 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 3: And by the way, at the time that happened, very 572 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 3: few people were making that prediction. When we put that 573 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 3: podcast out, it drove a lot of news. There were headlines. 574 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 3: There were people that were shocked when I laid out 575 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 3: that Biden was not capable, that his mental capacity had diminished, 576 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 3: that he was not going to be the nominee, that 577 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 3: the Democrats realized it, that they were going to jettison him, 578 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 3: that the media ridiculed it. But you go forward to 579 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 3: February of twenty twenty four, I went on Maria Bartiromo. 580 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 3: I said, I think Obama's driving the train, which is 581 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 3: which is also what I said back in September twenty 582 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:13,280 Speaker 3: twenty three. John Harwood, who you know, was the former 583 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 3: journalist for the Wall Street Journal and for NBC, and 584 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 3: who's a hard leftist, a vicious leftist. He retweeted my 585 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 3: comments on Maria Barbaramo and his entire commentary was quote 586 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 3: impossibly stupid conversation. So that was his learned journalistic view 587 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 3: is that it was impossibly stupid to say that. I 588 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 3: will tell you just in November of this year, I 589 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,440 Speaker 3: retweeted Harwood shot at me and I just said, I 590 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,399 Speaker 3: want to know why nobody trusts the media. Just nine 591 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 3: months ago, a fake quote journalist claimed it was quote 592 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,280 Speaker 3: impossibly stupid to observe that Joe Biden was not mentally 593 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 3: competent to be president. Now everybody admits it. What say you, 594 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:11,919 Speaker 3: John Jay Harwood? Of course Harwood didn't respond at all. 595 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 3: He ignored it. All right, Let's go forward though. Not 596 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,280 Speaker 3: only did we lay it out in September of twenty 597 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 3: twenty three, but then fast forward to the debate, the 598 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 3: debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that was on 599 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 3: June twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. You and I recorded 600 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,280 Speaker 3: a Verdict podcast immediately after the debate. We went live 601 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 3: recorded it that night, and give a listen to what 602 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 3: the Verdict podcast said the night of the debate. 603 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 2: Tender Cruz, I didn't think it could actually be this bad. 604 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 2: It was worse than even I think either of us 605 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 2: could have imagined. And now the Democratic Party is screaming 606 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 2: replaced the president. 607 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 3: Well, you and I are sitting here at is ten 608 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 3: seventeen pm Texas time. At is eleven seventeen pm East 609 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:01,720 Speaker 3: Coast time. 610 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 4: The night of the debate. 611 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 3: The debate just ended, and I have to say, we 612 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 3: have just witnessed what I believe is the most consequential 613 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:12,800 Speaker 3: presidential debate in US history. Sometimes debate change debates change things. 614 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 3: Sometimes they don't. I believe to bite tonight's debate change 615 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 3: things fundamentally. And I believe the odds have now skyrocketed. 616 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 3: I believe the odds are north of eighty percent that 617 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 3: the Democrat Party will remove Joe Biden from the ticket 618 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 3: and replace him. And I believe they are likely to 619 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 3: replace Joe Biden with Michelle Obama because Biden did so 620 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 3: disastrously badly tonight that Democrats across the country are in 621 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,319 Speaker 3: utter freefall and complete panic. We're going to break all 622 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 3: that down tonight. 623 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. 624 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 2: And by the way, this was a prediction that you 625 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 2: made on this show back in September of twenty twenty 626 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 2: three that the Democratic king makers could bring in Michelle 627 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 2: Obama will break all that down center yet another prediction 628 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,400 Speaker 2: there again, go back and look at the night you 629 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 2: made it right at that debate, and you said there's 630 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,799 Speaker 2: no way he's going to be on the ticket, and 631 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,240 Speaker 2: it was absolutely correct. 632 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,720 Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, what I said was the odds 633 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 3: were north of eighty percent that he would be. 634 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 4: Pulled off the ticket. 635 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 3: That prediction that Joe Biden would be removed from the ticket, 636 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 3: which by the way, is unprecedented and was almost universally 637 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,479 Speaker 3: ridiculed in the media, that prediction came one hundred percent true. 638 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,879 Speaker 3: I also articulated there were only two people who could 639 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,880 Speaker 3: replace him, Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama. I believe Michelle 640 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,319 Speaker 3: Obama was more likely. The Michelle Obama thing did not 641 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 3: come to pass, but the Kamala Harris thing did. And 642 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 3: in fact I predicted that the Democrat Kingmakers with jettison 643 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,960 Speaker 3: Biden in August of twenty twenty four. They in fact 644 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 3: did so on July twenty first of twenty twenty four, 645 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,719 Speaker 3: so I was ten days off in terms of predicting it. 646 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 3: And by the way, to be clear, I predicted that 647 00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 3: way back in September of twenty twenty three, so so 648 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 3: over a year earlier. I predicted within ten days when 649 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 3: they would throw Biden off the ballot. And I'm going 650 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 3: to make actually a brand new prediction here, I'm going 651 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,920 Speaker 3: to predict that in the next year or two we 652 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:18,440 Speaker 3: are going to get confirmation that there was serious outreach 653 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,080 Speaker 3: to Michelle Obama to see if she was willing to 654 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 3: replace Joe Biden on the ballot, and that Michelle Obama 655 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 3: said no. I don't know that, but my instinct, my 656 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 3: judgment tells me that happened, and we'll see in the 657 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 3: next year or two if that gets confirmed. We'll have 658 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 3: a subsequent podcast. If that gets confirmed publicly, we'll go 659 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 3: back and revisit it. 660 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,680 Speaker 2: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center 661 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 2: Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal 662 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 2: with my podcast, and you can listen to my podcast 663 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 2: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each 664 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 2: day when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to 665 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 2: have you as a listener to again, Ben Ferguson Podcasts, 666 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 2: and we will see you back here on Monday morning.