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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms.

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Speaker 2: Strong and Jetty and he arms Strong and Ytty.

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Speaker 3: Look, there's so many young women who have been including

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Speaker 3: a young woman who just was murdered and he went

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Speaker 3: to the funeral and the idea that she was murdered

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Speaker 3: by by by an immigrant coming in.

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Speaker 2: They talk about that. But here's the deal.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of young women to be raped by

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Speaker 3: their by their in laws, by their by by their spouses,

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Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, by or just it's that's ridiculous, and

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Speaker 3: they can do nothing about it, and they try to

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Speaker 3: rest them by the cross state line. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: The number of illegals women, illegal women being raped by

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Speaker 1: their sisters is why he's in support of Roe versus Wade.

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Speaker 1: That's from the debate back in June or whatever it

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Speaker 1: was that drove him out of the race.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, how about one more Michael one oh five.

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Speaker 3: Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary

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Speaker 3: person are eligible for what I've been able to do

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Speaker 3: with the uh, the COVID, I just could be with

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Speaker 3: dealing with everything we have to do with. Look, if

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Speaker 3: we finally beat medicare, thank.

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Speaker 2: You President by Biden. President Trump, Well, he's right.

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Speaker 3: He did beat medicare, beat it to death, and he's

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Speaker 3: destroying Medicare.

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Speaker 1: Remember, up until six pm Eastern that day, you were

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Speaker 1: some sort of right wing nut if you claimed the

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Speaker 1: president's brain didn't work and he shouldn't be president.

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Speaker 2: Again, it was a.

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Speaker 4: Cheap fake right Wall Street Journal out finally with the

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Speaker 4: big story everyone is talking about in DC and beyond,

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Speaker 4: And as Jack pointed out, a number of reporters for

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Speaker 4: other publications are retweeting it like fiends for reasons that

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Speaker 4: we will talk about in a moment. But it's entitled

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Speaker 4: how the White House Functioned with a diminished Biden in charge?

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Speaker 2: And they mentioned in.

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Speaker 4: The subhead the administration denied Biden has declined.

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Speaker 2: They're still saying, no, he hasn't.

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Speaker 4: And I've got to believe, and they quote this guy

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Speaker 4: Andrew Bates, white House spokesman, who denies there's been any decline.

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Speaker 4: I've got to believe he's just auditioning for future jobs.

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Speaker 4: Where people will say, how about baits, can we count

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Speaker 4: on him?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 4: He stood there with a straight face as Biden was

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Speaker 4: wandering around the south lawn soiling himself, saying, Joe Biden's

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Speaker 4: as sharp as he's ever been. This guy, he's shameless.

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Speaker 4: Let's hire him anyway. The Wall Street General begins with

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Speaker 4: a campaign anecdote, which is not terribly interesting, But then

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Speaker 4: they continue to adapt the White House around the needs

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Speaker 4: of a diminished leader. They told visitors to keep meetings focused.

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Speaker 4: Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members, including

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Speaker 4: powerful secretaries like Defenses Lloyd Austin and Treasury's Janet Yellen,

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Speaker 4: were infrequent and grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had

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Speaker 4: a hard time getting the president's here at key moments,

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Speaker 4: including ahead of the US's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Senior

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Speaker 4: advisors were often put into roles that some administration officials

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Speaker 4: and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as

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Speaker 4: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Senior councilor Steve Verchetti, and

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Speaker 4: National Economic Council had Layel Brainerd and her predecessor frequently

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Speaker 4: in the position of go betweens for the president. In

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Speaker 4: other words, you would not see the Wizard of Oz

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Speaker 4: even though you know all throughout history, including you know

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Speaker 4: Biden earlier on, very early on, you'd see the president

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Speaker 4: and it quickly became you know what, what don't we

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Speaker 4: get together and I'll pass it on to the president.

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Speaker 2: And this is early in his term.

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Speaker 4: Let's see, presidents have always had oh I'm sorry. Press

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Speaker 4: aides who compiled packages of newsclips for Biden were told

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Speaker 4: by senior staffers to exclude negative stories about the president.

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Speaker 2: Now that is interesting to me.

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Speaker 4: That speaks not to a cognizance problem as much as

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Speaker 4: a personality change.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Well, which is a cognizance problem, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean your brain changes. When we've heard that about getting older,

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Speaker 1: you get angrier. And I don't know that much about

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Speaker 1: dimension that sort of stuff. But so you can't handle

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Speaker 4: Interesting, as the nation's leading politician, you can't handle what

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Speaker 4: the other side is saying about you. I mean year,

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Speaker 4: in an election year, that's disturbing. The president was not

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Speaker 2: You remember that when he said we're ahead.

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Speaker 1: That that would explain a number of things he said

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Speaker 1: what poll all of them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but presidents have always had gatekeepers, but in Biden's case,

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Speaker 4: the walls around him were higher and the controls greater.

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Speaker 4: According to Democratic lawmakers, donors, and aids who worked for

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Speaker 4: Biden other administrations, there were limits over who Biden spoke with,

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Speaker 4: limits on what they said to him, and limits around

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting on so many levels and dangerous on

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Speaker 1: so many different levels, because you got people guessing as

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Speaker 1: how to handle him and his condition. And I mean

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Speaker 1: trial and error. And somebody said, ah, we better not

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Speaker 1: tell him stuff like that anymore. That's a pretty dangerous

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Speaker 4: And they touched on the fact that presidents always have

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Speaker 4: But they said the handholding was unlike anything other recent

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Speaker 4: presidents have had. The White House operated this.

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Speaker 1: Way even as the president and his aides pressed forward

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Speaker 1: with his re election bid, which unraveled spectacularly of the

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Speaker 4: Kamala jumped in uh. This account of how the White

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Speaker 4: House functioned with an aging leader at the top of

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Speaker 4: its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly fifty people,

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Speaker 4: the operations. Many of those who criticized Biden's in celerity

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Speaker 4: said his system nonetheless kept his agenda on track. Aforementioned

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Speaker 4: shameless White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden quote earned

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Speaker 4: the most accomplished record of any modern commander in chief

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Speaker 2: Millions of lives. Oh that's good. That's good.

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Speaker 4: Bates, who rejected the notion that Biden has declined, added

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Speaker 4: that the President has often solicited opinions from outside experts,

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Speaker 2: Informed his policymaking.

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Speaker 4: Then they get into the President's slide has been hard

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Speaker 4: to overlook. Well, not to Andrew Bates. While preparing last year,

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Speaker 1: Hurr.

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Speaker 4: The Special Counsel investigated Biden's handling the classified documents. The

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Speaker 4: obvious to the average person. Biden's team tapped campaign CoA

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Speaker 4: chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul, to find a voice

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Speaker 4: coach to improve the president's fading warble.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, cause you can get a voice coach.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's I don't know.

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Speaker 4: But the staff took great care to prevent him from

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Speaker 4: catching COVID by limiting his in person's interaction, But the

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Speaker 4: shell constructed for the pandemic was never fully taken down

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Speaker 4: in his advanced age hardened it. The structure was also

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Speaker 4: designed to prevent Biden, an undisciplined public speaker throughout his

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Speaker 4: could damage his image, create.

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Speaker 2: Political headaches, or upset the world order.

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Speaker 4: Then they get into how his meetings with his cabinet

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Speaker 4: just talk to a top aide who would say, I'll

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Speaker 4: the president, right, and did not get a chance to

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Speaker 2: There's one congressman. Where is that?

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Speaker 4: Oh Adam Smith of Washington. He's the head of the

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Speaker 4: powerful Armed Services Committee. He was desperate to talk to

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Speaker 4: he was alarmed by what he viewed as overly optimistic

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Speaker 4: I was begging them to set expectations low. He sought

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Speaker 4: to talk to Biden directly to share his insights about

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Speaker 4: And they go into some of the details. Oh, this

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Speaker 4: It was among comments that triggered an angry phone call

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Speaker 4: in office, and Smith said, that's weird because I spoke

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Speaker 1: Then, which the Wall Street Journal is insinuating, stating that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they talk about lack of stamina, relying heavily on

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Speaker 4: shockingly low full cabinet meetings over four years. Biden held

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Speaker 4: nine full cabinet meetings, three in twenty twenty one, two

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Speaker 4: Early in his vice presidency, during the Obama administration, Biden

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Speaker 1: So I mentioned the James Holman, who's a Washington Post

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Speaker 1: journalist retweeting portions of this and talking about this being

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Speaker 1: extraordinary journalism and an important piece and everything like that.

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Speaker 1: The part that he was most excited about was White

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Speaker 1: House meetings would be frequently canceled. A national security official

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Speaker 1: be rescheduled. He has good days and bad days. This

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Speaker 1: is a quote. They put this in quites in the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. He has good days and bad days,

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Speaker 2: Was a bad day. So we're going to address this tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: That happening once should be blockbuster news coverage. If it

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Speaker 1: meeting because the president's not doing well today should make

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Speaker 1: the news. The fact that it was happening regularly and

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Speaker 1: covered up by a small group of people is a scandal.

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Speaker 1: That's not a news story. That's a scandal, A quick

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Speaker 1: I want to squeeze in a little bit from the

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Speaker 1: So we got more from this blockbuster Wall Street Journal article,

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Speaker 2: I don't think he knows what he said.

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Speaker 2: We've been reading through the Wall.

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Speaker 2: True.

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Speaker 1: Tim Carney, who we like of the Washington Examiner, wrote,

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Speaker 2: What are they lying to us about? Today?

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Speaker 1: Just why you assume they stopped lying? You ruined your

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Speaker 2: Democracy needs more darkness. That's a good question. That's a

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Speaker 4: So plunging back into the Wall Street Journal article, we

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Speaker 4: They go into her report that said a jury was

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Speaker 4: Even with all these steps, Biden made flubs, which confounded

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Speaker 1: God, there is such a thing as Trump derangement syndrome.

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Speaker 1: That's the only way you can explain all of those

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Speaker 2: It's all Trump derangement syndrome.

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Speaker 1: You were so certain that Trump was a worst alternative

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Speaker 2: You convinced yourself this wasn't a story.

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Speaker 2: It's astounding.

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Speaker 4: Hey, back to the campaign, the president's team of pollsters

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Speaker 2: They talked frequently. I'm sorry during twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: By the twenty twenty four campaign, the pollsters were not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Man explains why it was so hard to push

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Speaker 2: Of course he wasn't gonna step down.

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Speaker 4: The last two sentences of the article next, well, we're

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Speaker 4: staying too and forth, and we've got a lot more

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty Main.

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Speaker 3: New Hampshire America have gone on the mend. They're not

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we're talking about this Wall Street Journal article today,

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Speaker 1: deeply sourced that really details how much they were covering

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Speaker 1: for Biden during his entire administration, how his brain doesn't

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Speaker 1: his cabinet.

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Speaker 2: Secretaries and to hold of them and everything like that.

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Speaker 1: The fact that it's not the lead story on Good

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Speaker 1: Morning America Today shows you that it continues. And God

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Speaker 1: dang it, how are they not more concerned, these big

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Speaker 1: dominant media outlets that they've lost so much trust, But

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Speaker 2: I find it very frustrating.

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Speaker 4: I think if they'd had the capacity to write the ship,

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Speaker 4: they would have done it already.

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Speaker 2: They don't have that.

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Speaker 4: They are so insulated and full of their own bs

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Speaker 4: they can't recognize reality. I mean, I think my case

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Speaker 4: is ironclad. They've proved it again this morning. It's really

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Speaker 4: quite amazing. Final note on this article, they talk about

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Speaker 4: here's the book I want to read, or long well

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Speaker 4: sourced article, what was the plan for if he won?

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Speaker 4: I mean, because he's plainly senile and everybody knew it,

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Speaker 4: they were coming up with all sorts of ways to

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Speaker 4: to lie. But all of your Mike Donalan's and all

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Speaker 4: your inner circle, what was your plan, Jake Sullivan, what

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Speaker 4: did you think was going to happen?

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Speaker 1: I think they were going to deny reality and think

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Speaker 1: they could keep pulling it off.

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Speaker 2: This is the perfect time for this.

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Speaker 1: Somebody linked to the Wall Street Journal article this New

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Speaker 1: York Times piece that was late in the game. President

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Speaker 1: Biden is turning eighty. Experts say age is more than

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Speaker 1: a number, and this is from the New York Times.

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Speaker 1: The New York Times spoke to ten experts in aging

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Speaker 1: They determined he is a superager, one of those people

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Speaker 1: Times coverage. When he turned eighty, which by the way,

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Speaker 4: Wow. Six he so thoroughly beclowned themselves. They were really

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Speaker 4: discussing another six years. He didn't make it six months.

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Speaker 4: So we were discussing how Biden after in twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: Those fears intensified on July eleventh, when Biden's top advisors

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Speaker 4: the advisors was so disconnected from public polling, which showed

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Speaker 2: It's third Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, to.

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Speaker 4: Speak to Biden directly, according to people familiar with the matter,

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Speaker 4: hoping to pierce what the senator saw as a wall

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Speaker 4: On June thirteenth, Biden held an uncomfortable call with a

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Speaker 4: The president told participants that polling showed he was doing fine.

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Speaker 4: He became angry when challenged on that fact, According to

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Speaker 4: Some lawmakers on the call believed someone behind the camera

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Speaker 4: shut it down. Biden dropped out of the race eight

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Speaker 4: days later. Mister President, you're behind and all the poll No,

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Speaker 4: I'm not stop saying that. Now I have to go

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Speaker 4: to church. Everybody's looking around like, wait, what are you

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Speaker 2: What? And then the men's over a click.

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Speaker 1: And nobody associated with any of this had the freaking

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Speaker 1: how do you know? How do you I realize he

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Speaker 2: Say this. I love Joe.

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Speaker 1: I've worked for a Democratic Party my entire life, but

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is not capable of being president anymore or

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Speaker 1: for another four years.

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Speaker 2: Nobody felt enough patriotism to do that.

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Speaker 4: Here's a possible explanation. And I'm not saying I believe

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Speaker 4: this necessarily, but I'm thinking it through. They would reply,

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Speaker 4: I look at Mike Donaldan, who's act I don't really know.

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Speaker 4: But I look at Jake Sullivan. I look at Anthony Blinken, Uh,

447
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Speaker 4: what's his face? Is run the Pentagon White, Austin Jenice

448
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Speaker 4: yelling at Treasury. It's a good, solid team doing a

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Speaker 4: pretty good job running the country. If I blow the

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Speaker 4: whistle on Biden, Kamala Harris becomes the president, O god

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Speaker 4: knows what's gonna happen, then I'm gonna take the senile

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Speaker 4: guy with his known tight group of advisors over, putting

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Speaker 4: that moron in the big chair.

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Speaker 1: You're right, you need both pieces of this puzzle for

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Speaker 1: it to end up the way it ended up up.

456
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Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome where they think Trump is Hitler, so

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Speaker 1: that we can't possibly diminish our curwent president and the

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Speaker 1: backup was Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 4: Wow, one more reason not to make DEI hires for

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Speaker 4: important offices.

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Speaker 1: You have an Al Gore Dick Cheney style, very very

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Speaker 1: competent vice president, and people might have turned on their boss.

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Speaker 1: Sure wow, yeah, and you know it's missing from the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal piece.

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Speaker 2: There's going to be a lot written. I hope I

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Speaker 2: live long.

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Speaker 1: Enough to read it all, because it's a Woodward's next

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Speaker 1: book now that the election's over. Woodward touched on Biden's

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Speaker 1: mental problems and the George Clooney stuff and how people

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Speaker 1: were going to fundraisers and shocked and all that. But

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Speaker 1: he didn't do a lot, and maybe people wouldn't talk

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Speaker 1: to him. But I don't think he was digging because

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Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't want to because the book came

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Speaker 1: out before the election. Bob Woodward didn't want to blow

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Speaker 1: up Joe Biden's chances of winning because he has the

476
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Speaker 1: ethics Trump is hitler. But someday that that's Bob Woodward

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Speaker 1: book could be about all this stuff, and I got

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Speaker 1: to believe people would love to unburden themselves with all

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Speaker 1: this at some point. Why the key human that isn't

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Speaker 1: mentioned in the Wall Street Journal piece is not quoted

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Speaker 1: doctor Jill. What is the deal with the wife who

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Speaker 1: knew more than anyone in second place? She almost got

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Speaker 1: elected president Kamala Harris? Yeah, where's yeah?

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Speaker 2: No kidding. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: By the way, the Daily Mail has a headline today.

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Speaker 4: I have no idea well a source it is, but

487
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Speaker 4: saying doctor Jill is angry and is telling a depressed

488
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Speaker 4: Joe Biden blow it all up. And on the top

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Speaker 4: of her naughty list Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, and

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Speaker 4: this is the third person. I can't blow it all

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Speaker 4: up in what sense?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Go scort strength, in what way You're

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Speaker 1: headed to the dustbin of history and embarrassment scorers.

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Speaker 2: That's the way.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying this for a long time. I didn't

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Speaker 1: come up with this on my own. But Jill Biden's.

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Speaker 2: Gamala is at the top of the naughty list.

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Speaker 1: Jill Biden's gonna come out as the real villain in

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Speaker 1: this whole thing eventually, when all the history is written,

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Speaker 1: the real nut job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, d say, one way, you did a great job, Joe.

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Speaker 1: This is after the debate. We've played the clips already today.

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Speaker 2: You did a great job Joe, you answered all the questions.

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Speaker 2: You're crazy, lady, you are crazy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the bulls of you gotta be in the looney

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Speaker 4: bin quite right. Wow, he's president for another month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he still president today. Don't tell the Chinese. Okay,

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Speaker 2: this is what we're.

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Speaker 1: Gonna do as a transition to something else. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: play a joke from Jimmy Fallon.

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Speaker 2: I love Christmas j but I notice.

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Speaker 5: That they've updated a lot of classic songs this year

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Speaker 5: to make them feel a little more modern. Like, for instance,

514
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Speaker 5: instead of Grandma got run over by reindeer, there's Grandma

515
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Speaker 5: got carried away by a drone. I don't think like,

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Speaker 5: instead of run Rudolph run, there's Rudolf tries with GOVI

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Speaker 5: instead and you go no.

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Speaker 2: And finally, instead of Hallelujah, they change it to hot.

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Speaker 4: To understand, I don't all three of those good jokes

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Speaker 4: instead of hollow.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, uh got this text. Here's why we

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Speaker 1: don't have Christmas parties anymore. My friend got called into

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Speaker 1: HR for fist bumping someone and calling him bro. What

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Speaker 1: doesn't explain anything more about that? But wow, there's some

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Speaker 1: truth in it.

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Speaker 4: So Musk and Donald Trump stepped into the budgetary discussions

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Speaker 4: in the halls of Congress and vetoed a bi partisan agreement, saying,

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Speaker 4: at crap has come to an end, has it?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy?

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Speaker 1: Elon tweeted one hundred plus times yesterday, don't vote for

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Speaker 1: this thing. Here's why. Mediaite put out their list of

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Speaker 1: the most powerful people in media and had Elon far

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Speaker 1: away number one, the most powerful person in media.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you'd argue with that. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: far right away. Wow, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I read a couple of pieces yesterday about this is

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Speaker 1: how al oligarchy start. We have a co president who's

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Speaker 1: the richest man on earth, unelected, blah blah blah. I

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Speaker 1: have no First of all, you Democrats are hilarious with

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Speaker 1: the You have no concerns about billionaires when they run

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post and Amazon where George Soros or Mark

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Speaker 1: to Zuckerberg and Facebook when Facebook was clearly the most

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Speaker 1: dominant social media plactifly censoring any sort of free speech. Yes, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that didn't concern you whatsoever. Now Elon is the source

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Speaker 1: of all evil, But I don't know. I'm not concerned.

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Speaker 1: Are you concerned about the power Elon has?

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Speaker 2: No not at all.

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Speaker 1: First of all, he's a private citizen. He's seeing his

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Speaker 1: right to free speech. He's got the Year of the President.

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Speaker 4: We just went through a long article that mentioned half

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Speaker 4: a dozen important presidential aids who nobody voted for.

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Speaker 2: That's what an aid is.

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Speaker 1: I also think nobody tells Trump what to do. He

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Speaker 1: does whatever he wants. Trump saying let's do away with

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Speaker 1: the debt ceiling, I think is really interesting, very trump

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Speaker 1: like go against you know, the green completely.

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Speaker 2: It is accomplished nothing, it's man made. We've been saying

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Speaker 2: that for years.

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Speaker 4: So there are stores where you could drop in and

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Speaker 4: get a great, really cool, last minute gift for your

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Speaker 4: loved one, except you need top secret clearance to.

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Speaker 2: Get in them.

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Speaker 1: The secret stores of some of Washington's agencies.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I need the I need any I a

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Speaker 2: barbecue sauce, for instance. What.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's one other thing I wanted to tease that

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about that.

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Speaker 2: I don't think about it later. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: As I started the show saying, I'm barely going through

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Speaker 1: the motions today.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't have to pay for this one today. I

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Speaker 2: just don't see you strike me as a kindly old

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Speaker 2: man with a failing memory.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow's clips of the year, and today is the last

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Speaker 1: real show, and I barely I just know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't come to play. We have more on the way,

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Speaker 2: stay tuned, Barb Straw.

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Speaker 6: And yet there will be fewer interest rate cuts next

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Speaker 6: year that anticipated. That means borrowing costs everything from a

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Speaker 6: new mortgage to a car loan tier credit cards will

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Speaker 6: stay higher for longer. And that is what drove stocks

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Speaker 6: plunging eleven hundred points for the Dow, the longest losing

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Speaker 6: street since nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting, the longest losing streak in the Dow since

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Also, I hadn't heard the news that

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Speaker 1: they're anticipating fewer rate cuts than we thought might happen.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, that was the cause of the effect. Definitely.

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Speaker 4: I was not very cognizant of the stock market in

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Speaker 4: nineteen seventy four. I wonder if it was because it

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Speaker 4: was crazy, stupid, overheated like the market is now. It's

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Speaker 4: not shocked at all that it would decline significantly. Not

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Speaker 4: shocking at all anyway, So enough on.

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Speaker 2: That most in.

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Speaker 1: Fifty years is a lot, though half a second, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, agreed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, looking for a holiday gift that screams belt Way insider. No, no,

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Speaker 4: I'm not, but I found this very amusing. Skip to

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Speaker 4: Chinsey t shirt vendors on the National Mall and head

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Speaker 4: straight to the CIA. Just be ready to provide your

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Speaker 4: Social Security number and leave enough time to clear multiple

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Speaker 4: layers of security and bring cash. The agency advises against

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Speaker 4: using traceable forms of payment like credit cards, particul kularly

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Speaker 4: for customers who do undercover work.

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Speaker 2: Inside the gift shop.

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Speaker 4: At the George Bush Center for Intelligence, customers can pick

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Speaker 4: from an assortment of intelligence seemed the merchandise like top

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Speaker 4: secret barbecue sauce, which appears to come in three different flavors. Also,

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Speaker 4: don't spill the beans coffee.

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Speaker 2: Like CIA pillows.

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Speaker 1: I like the Deep State plays on words, it gets

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Speaker 1: even more troubling and annoying. I'll read on CIA pillows

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Speaker 1: a two hundred dollars humidor etched with the agency's iconic seal.

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Speaker 1: There's something for every taste, said the shops the guy

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Speaker 1: runs it. Where As he strolled through the store where

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Speaker 1: a shot of shot I'm sorry, a set of shot

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Speaker 1: glasses emblazoned with admit nothing, deny everything sells for thirty

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Speaker 1: three ninety nine. It isn't impossible to visit, but it

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Speaker 1: is difficult. You either need to be a CIA employee

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Speaker 1: or no. Let's see they also yeah, the whole admit nothing,

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Speaker 1: deny everything, shot glasses is a little troubling.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And then the federal buildings hide what may be the

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Speaker 4: world's most exclusive gift shops. Looking for a personalized most

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Speaker 4: Wanted placard, The FBI store has that lose your pen,

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Speaker 4: replace it with one shaped like rifle rounds sold at

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Speaker 4: the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and now explosives. You

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Speaker 4: can buy china at the Transportation Department, bathrobes at the

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Speaker 4: State Department, and playing cards at.

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Speaker 2: The Justice Department. Why do they have swag for government agencies?

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Speaker 2: One more example than I'll explain it.

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Speaker 4: The Agricultural Department gift shop had sold just sold out

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Speaker 4: of its popular stress relief toys shaped like pigs, cows,

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Speaker 4: and tractors.

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Speaker 2: During their twenty percent off Christmas sale last week.

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Speaker 4: A lot of the profits go to a lot of

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Speaker 4: like employee support programs of various sorts, so it's mostly

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Speaker 4: people within the agency who give gifts fun gifts to

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Speaker 4: their friends and relatives who know they work at CIA,

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Speaker 4: for instance.

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Speaker 1: I'm against this, but I can't figure out exactly why.

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Speaker 1: I don't think government agencies should have swag.

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Speaker 4: It's it's self supporting and then some if that helps you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the money. It's just something weird

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Speaker 1: about it. Something not fitting in with the government that

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Speaker 1: governs best governs least small government. Something so something with

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Speaker 1: the like permanence of giant government as a jobs program issue,

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Speaker 1: I think I feel where you're headed with this.

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Speaker 2: I get it, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I agree, But it's a a worship.

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Speaker 2: Of the status quo, the permanence of it. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: something about that.

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Speaker 1: I remember a time when the people of the left

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Speaker 1: would have been horrified by the CIA selling shot glasses

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Speaker 1: about what lying and covering up or whatever.

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, yeah, Well the left used to be anti government.

656
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Speaker 4: Now it is savagely pro power. All it wants is power.

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Speaker 4: The left suddenly used.

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Speaker 1: To be like anti FBI, CIA, anything, but because Trump

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Speaker 1: has been on the other side of it so much,

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Speaker 1: now they're the heroes.

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Speaker 4: The DEA's online store sells a bumper sticker that says

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Speaker 4: get off the pot with a marijuana leaf.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I wish I could go in with those stories.

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Speaker 1: I gotta admit i'd buy some stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I have a Dea T shirt that to one of

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Speaker 4: our beloved listeners sent and I wear it all the time.

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Speaker 1: We do need to check in on the her own story.

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Speaker 1: There are a couple of interesting tidbits there. None of

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Speaker 1: it's highly important, but kind of interesting.

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Speaker 2: Among other things, Armstrong and Getty