Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms.
Speaker 2: Strong and Jetty and he arms Strong and Ytty.
Speaker 3: Look, there's so many young women who have been including
Speaker 3: a young woman who just was murdered and he went
Speaker 3: to the funeral and the idea that she was murdered
Speaker 3: by by by an immigrant coming in.
Speaker 2: They talk about that. But here's the deal.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of young women to be raped by
Speaker 3: their by their in laws, by their by by their spouses,
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, by or just it's that's ridiculous, and
Speaker 3: they can do nothing about it, and they try to
Speaker 3: rest them by the cross state line. Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: The number of illegals women, illegal women being raped by
Speaker 1: their sisters is why he's in support of Roe versus Wade.
Speaker 1: That's from the debate back in June or whatever it
Speaker 1: was that drove him out of the race.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, how about one more Michael one oh five.
Speaker 3: Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary
Speaker 3: person are eligible for what I've been able to do
Speaker 3: with the uh, the COVID, I just could be with
Speaker 3: dealing with everything we have to do with. Look, if
Speaker 3: we finally beat medicare, thank.
Speaker 2: You President by Biden. President Trump, Well, he's right.
Speaker 3: He did beat medicare, beat it to death, and he's
Speaker 3: destroying Medicare.
Speaker 1: Remember, up until six pm Eastern that day, you were
Speaker 1: some sort of right wing nut if you claimed the
Speaker 1: president's brain didn't work and he shouldn't be president.
Speaker 2: Again, it was a.
Speaker 4: Cheap fake right Wall Street Journal out finally with the
Speaker 4: big story everyone is talking about in DC and beyond,
Speaker 4: And as Jack pointed out, a number of reporters for
Speaker 4: other publications are retweeting it like fiends for reasons that
Speaker 4: we will talk about in a moment. But it's entitled
Speaker 4: how the White House Functioned with a diminished Biden in charge?
Speaker 2: And they mentioned in.
Speaker 4: The subhead the administration denied Biden has declined.
Speaker 2: They're still saying, no, he hasn't.
Speaker 4: And I've got to believe, and they quote this guy
Speaker 4: Andrew Bates, white House spokesman, who denies there's been any decline.
Speaker 4: I've got to believe he's just auditioning for future jobs.
Speaker 4: Where people will say, how about baits, can we count
Speaker 4: on him?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
Speaker 4: He stood there with a straight face as Biden was
Speaker 4: wandering around the south lawn soiling himself, saying, Joe Biden's
Speaker 4: as sharp as he's ever been. This guy, he's shameless.
Speaker 4: Let's hire him anyway. The Wall Street General begins with
Speaker 4: a campaign anecdote, which is not terribly interesting, But then
Speaker 4: they continue to adapt the White House around the needs
Speaker 4: of a diminished leader. They told visitors to keep meetings focused.
Speaker 4: Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members, including
Speaker 4: powerful secretaries like Defenses Lloyd Austin and Treasury's Janet Yellen,
Speaker 4: were infrequent and grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had
Speaker 4: a hard time getting the president's here at key moments,
Speaker 4: including ahead of the US's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Senior
Speaker 4: advisors were often put into roles that some administration officials
Speaker 4: and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as
Speaker 4: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Senior councilor Steve Verchetti, and
Speaker 4: National Economic Council had Layel Brainerd and her predecessor frequently
Speaker 4: in the position of go betweens for the president. In
Speaker 4: other words, you would not see the Wizard of Oz
Speaker 4: even though you know all throughout history, including you know
Speaker 4: Biden earlier on, very early on, you'd see the president
Speaker 4: and it quickly became you know what, what don't we
Speaker 4: get together and I'll pass it on to the president.
Speaker 2: And this is early in his term.
Speaker 4: Let's see, presidents have always had oh I'm sorry. Press
Speaker 4: aides who compiled packages of newsclips for Biden were told
Speaker 4: by senior staffers to exclude negative stories about the president.
Speaker 2: Now that is interesting to me.
Speaker 4: That speaks not to a cognizance problem as much as
Speaker 4: a personality change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Well, which is a cognizance problem, right, I
Speaker 1: mean your brain changes. When we've heard that about getting older,
Speaker 1: you get angrier. And I don't know that much about
Speaker 1: dimension that sort of stuff. But so you can't handle
Speaker 1: disappointing or bad news very well.
Speaker 4: Interesting, as the nation's leading politician, you can't handle what
Speaker 4: the other side is saying about you. I mean year,
Speaker 4: in an election year, that's disturbing. The president was not
Speaker 4: talking to his own polsters as surveys showed him trailing
Speaker 4: in the twenty twenty four race.
Speaker 2: You remember that when he said we're ahead.
Speaker 1: That that would explain a number of things he said
Speaker 1: what poll all of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but presidents have always had gatekeepers, but in Biden's case,
Speaker 4: the walls around him were higher and the controls greater.
Speaker 4: According to Democratic lawmakers, donors, and aids who worked for
Speaker 4: Biden other administrations, there were limits over who Biden spoke with,
Speaker 4: limits on what they said to him, and limits around
Speaker 4: the source of information he consumed.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting on so many levels and dangerous on
Speaker 1: so many different levels, because you got people guessing as
Speaker 1: how to handle him and his condition. And I mean
Speaker 1: because they're guessing, they don't know, They're just going by
Speaker 1: the reactions they got at various times, probably from him
Speaker 1: trial and error. And somebody said, ah, we better not
Speaker 1: tell him stuff like that anymore. That's a pretty dangerous
Speaker 1: place to be.
Speaker 4: And they touched on the fact that presidents always have
Speaker 4: assistance who say all right, we're going to go to
Speaker 4: the greeting line and then we'll do blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: But they said the handholding was unlike anything other recent
Speaker 4: presidents have had. The White House operated this.
Speaker 1: Way even as the president and his aides pressed forward
Speaker 1: with his re election bid, which unraveled spectacularly of the
Speaker 1: June debate, etc.
Speaker 4: Kamala jumped in uh. This account of how the White
Speaker 4: House functioned with an aging leader at the top of
Speaker 4: its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly fifty people,
Speaker 4: including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of
Speaker 4: the operations. Many of those who criticized Biden's in celerity
Speaker 4: said his system nonetheless kept his agenda on track. Aforementioned
Speaker 4: shameless White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden quote earned
Speaker 4: the most accomplished record of any modern commander in chief
Speaker 4: and rebuilt the middle class because of his attention to
Speaker 4: policy details that impact.
Speaker 2: Millions of lives. Oh that's good. That's good.
Speaker 4: Bates, who rejected the notion that Biden has declined, added
Speaker 4: that the President has often solicited opinions from outside experts,
Speaker 4: which has.
Speaker 2: Informed his policymaking.
Speaker 4: Then they get into the President's slide has been hard
Speaker 4: to overlook. Well, not to Andrew Bates. While preparing last year,
Speaker 4: hear for his interview with Robert K.
Speaker 1: Hurr.
Speaker 4: The Special Counsel investigated Biden's handling the classified documents. The
Speaker 4: president could not recall lines as team discussed with him
Speaker 4: at events. Aids often repeated instructions to him as such
Speaker 4: as where to enter exit the stage that would be
Speaker 4: obvious to the average person. Biden's team tapped campaign CoA
Speaker 4: chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul, to find a voice
Speaker 4: coach to improve the president's fading warble.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, cause you can get a voice coach.
Speaker 2: I mean that's I don't know.
Speaker 4: But the staff took great care to prevent him from
Speaker 4: catching COVID by limiting his in person's interaction, But the
Speaker 4: shell constructed for the pandemic was never fully taken down
Speaker 4: in his advanced age hardened it. The structure was also
Speaker 4: designed to prevent Biden, an undisciplined public speaker throughout his
Speaker 4: half century political career, for making gaffes or missteps that
Speaker 4: could damage his image, create.
Speaker 2: Political headaches, or upset the world order.
Speaker 4: Then they get into how his meetings with his cabinet
Speaker 4: officials became rarer and rarer, to the point that they
Speaker 4: couldn't even get him on the phone again. They would
Speaker 4: just talk to a top aide who would say, I'll
Speaker 4: pass it on to the wizard of Oz, I mean
Speaker 4: the president, right, and did not get a chance to
Speaker 4: address him personally.
Speaker 2: There's one congressman. Where is that?
Speaker 4: Oh Adam Smith of Washington. He's the head of the
Speaker 4: powerful Armed Services Committee. He was desperate to talk to
Speaker 4: Biden before the Afghan withdrawal in twenty twenty one. Boy,
Speaker 4: he was alarmed by what he viewed as overly optimistic
Speaker 4: comments from Biden as the administration assembled plans for the operation. Quote,
Speaker 4: I was begging them to set expectations low. He sought
Speaker 4: to talk to Biden directly to share his insights about
Speaker 4: the region, but he could not get him on the phone.
Speaker 4: And they go into some of the details. Oh, this
Speaker 4: is actually pretty illustrative. Then we'll discuss. But after the
Speaker 4: disastrous withdrawal, which left thirteen US service members and hundreds
Speaker 4: of Afghans dead, Smith, the congressman, made a critical comment
Speaker 4: to The Washington Post about the administration lacking a clear
Speaker 4: eyed view of the US back to ash Afghani government's durability.
Speaker 4: It was among comments that triggered an angry phone call
Speaker 4: from Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln, who ended up getting
Speaker 4: an earfull back from the frustrated chairman shortly after, Smith
Speaker 4: got an apologetic call from Biden. It was the only
Speaker 4: phone call Biden made to Smith in his four years
Speaker 4: in office, and Smith said, that's weird because I spoke
Speaker 4: with Barack Obama a number of times when he was president,
Speaker 4: and I wasn't even chairman of the committee.
Speaker 1: Then, which the Wall Street Journal is insinuating, stating that
Speaker 1: is because he wasn't very often in a position where
Speaker 1: he could be on the.
Speaker 2: Phone with people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they talk about lack of stamina, relying heavily on
Speaker 4: the staff, Biden not following up on meetings, and then
Speaker 4: they get into the interactions with cabinet members, infrequent and
Speaker 4: often tightly scripted. At least one cabinet member stopped requesting
Speaker 4: calls with the president because it was clear that such
Speaker 4: requests would not be welcome. They get into some of
Speaker 4: the numbers of meetings compared to previous administrations, and they're
Speaker 4: shockingly low full cabinet meetings over four years. Biden held
Speaker 4: nine full cabinet meetings, three in twenty twenty one, two
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two, three in twenty twenty three, and
Speaker 4: just won this whole year. In their first terms, Obama
Speaker 4: held nineteen and Trump held twenty five.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Early in his vice presidency, during the Obama administration, Biden
Speaker 4: sought to gather cabinet leaders once a week, saying in
Speaker 4: a speech that the synergy brought about by the regular
Speaker 4: meetings made the government more competent, and by the end
Speaker 4: he met with the cabinet once in a year.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned the James Holman, who's a Washington Post
Speaker 1: journalist retweeting portions of this and talking about this being
Speaker 1: extraordinary journalism and an important piece and everything like that.
Speaker 1: The part that he was most excited about was White
Speaker 1: House meetings would be frequently canceled. A national security official
Speaker 1: explain to another aid why a potis meeting needed to
Speaker 1: be rescheduled. He has good days and bad days. This
Speaker 1: is a quote. They put this in quites in the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. He has good days and bad days,
Speaker 1: and today.
Speaker 2: Was a bad day. So we're going to address this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That happening once should be blockbuster news coverage. If it
Speaker 1: happened once that you said we have to cancel a
Speaker 1: meeting because the president's not doing well today should make
Speaker 1: the news. The fact that it was happening regularly and
Speaker 1: covered up by a small group of people is a scandal.
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Speaker 1: So we got more from this blockbuster Wall Street Journal article,
Speaker 1: which is getting lots of attention. It should get lots
Speaker 1: of attention. Like I said, this isn't a news scoop.
Speaker 1: This is a scandal, a giant scandal, and it should
Speaker 1: be treated that way.
Speaker 2: But more on the way stay here.
Speaker 3: But I've done since I've changed the law, what's happened.
Speaker 3: I've changed it in the way that now you're in
Speaker 3: a situation where there are forty percent fewer people coming
Speaker 3: across the border illegally. That's better when he left office,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to continue to move until we get
Speaker 3: the total band on, the total initiative relative to what
Speaker 3: we're gonna do with more border patrol and more asynum officers.
Speaker 3: President Trump, I really don't know what he said at
Speaker 3: the end of this.
Speaker 2: I don't think he knows what he said.
Speaker 1: Either, playing clips from the debate, because that's what drove
Speaker 1: him out of the race, and no longer could the
Speaker 1: mainstream media pretend that he was okay, and they were
Speaker 1: pretending and lying.
Speaker 2: We've been reading through the Wall.
Speaker 1: Street Journal piece that has fifty different people on and
Speaker 1: off the record describing how they were covering up for
Speaker 1: his brain problems. Here's some of the reaction to the
Speaker 1: article that I think was funny. I was told it
Speaker 1: was a stutter. That's pretty funny. Kind of sounds like
Speaker 1: they were defrauding the nation and putting national security in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: They should be made an example of otherwise it will
Speaker 1: keep happening.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: Tim Carney, who we like of the Washington Examiner, wrote,
Speaker 1: what are they lying about to us?
Speaker 2: What are they lying to us about? Today?
Speaker 1: Just why you assume they stopped lying? You ruined your
Speaker 1: own industry by lying. Now Here we are to the
Speaker 1: Washington Post.
Speaker 2: Why did the wallpo.
Speaker 1: Take everything the White House said at face value and
Speaker 1: refused to do any digging while he was still president.
Speaker 2: Democracy needs more darkness. That's a good question. That's a
Speaker 2: good shot.
Speaker 4: So plunging back into the Wall Street Journal article, we
Speaker 4: went through a great deal of it in the previous segment.
Speaker 4: If you didn't get it as always, you can get
Speaker 4: it via a podcast Armstrong and get you on demand.
Speaker 2: You probably ought to subscribe anyway.
Speaker 4: They go into her report that said a jury was
Speaker 4: likely to view Biden as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly
Speaker 4: man with a poor memory. Then they talk about how
Speaker 4: Biden's team insulated him on the campaign trail. One prominent
Speaker 4: donor put together a small event for the reelection bid.
Speaker 4: The donor was shocked when a campaign official told him
Speaker 4: that attendees should not expect to have a free ranging
Speaker 4: question and answer with the president. Instead, the organizer was
Speaker 4: told to send in two or three questions at most
Speaker 4: ahead of time that Biden would answer. At some events,
Speaker 4: biden campaign printed the pre approved questions on note cards
Speaker 4: and then gave donor the cards to read the questions.
Speaker 4: Even with all these steps, Biden made flubs, which confounded
Speaker 4: the donors, who knew that Biden had the questions I
Speaker 4: had of time. Then they mentioned how donors noticed how
Speaker 4: the staff stepped in to mask the other signs of decline.
Speaker 4: They were constantly at his elbow, directing him in a
Speaker 4: way that they'd never seen any candidate or any president
Speaker 4: handled in the past.
Speaker 1: God, there is such a thing as Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1: That's the only way you can explain all of those
Speaker 1: people around him that didn't immediately go to the New
Speaker 1: York Times and say the guy shouldn't be president, or
Speaker 1: all the media outlets that were following it and pretending
Speaker 1: that this wasn't a problem.
Speaker 2: It's all Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1: You were so certain that Trump was a worst alternative
Speaker 1: that you just lied to yourself.
Speaker 2: You convinced yourself this wasn't a story.
Speaker 4: It was a you would win like some sort of
Speaker 4: lifetime solid gold Pulitzer for breaking this story or reporting
Speaker 4: thoroughly upon it, and stills the entire Washington press corps
Speaker 4: passed on the opportunity out of partisanship and Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2: It's astounding.
Speaker 4: Hey, back to the campaign, the president's team of pollsters
Speaker 4: had very limited access to Biden, even though they'd had
Speaker 4: his ear constantly during twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: They talked frequently. I'm sorry during twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: By the twenty twenty four campaign, the pollsters were not
Speaker 4: talking to the president about their findings, and instead they
Speaker 4: had to talk to the staff. By the summer, Democratic
Speaker 4: insiders became alarmed by the way Biden described his own
Speaker 4: polling publicly characterizing the race as a toss up when
Speaker 4: poles released in the weeks after the disastrous June debate
Speaker 4: consistently showed Trump ahead. Then when he started talking publicly
Speaker 4: about how good the polls were, Chuck Schumer panicked and
Speaker 4: went to speak to him directly, trying to figure out
Speaker 4: what the hell was going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Man explains why it was so hard to push
Speaker 1: him out if he was under the impression that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a toss up and or I'm winning.
Speaker 2: Of course he wasn't gonna step down.
Speaker 4: The last two sentences of the article next, well, we're
Speaker 4: staying too and forth, and we've got a lot more
Speaker 4: to talk about.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty Main.
Speaker 3: New Hampshire America have gone on the mend. They're not
Speaker 3: on the mend any longer. They're on the move, and
Speaker 3: we're coming at our challenges from position to stand.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're talking about this Wall Street Journal article today,
Speaker 1: deeply sourced that really details how much they were covering
Speaker 1: for Biden during his entire administration, how his brain doesn't
Speaker 1: work and he has canceling meetings left and right, and
Speaker 1: his cabinet.
Speaker 2: Secretaries and to hold of them and everything like that.
Speaker 1: The fact that it's not the lead story on Good
Speaker 1: Morning America Today shows you that it continues. And God
Speaker 1: dang it, how are they not more concerned, these big
Speaker 1: dominant media outlets that they've lost so much trust, But
Speaker 1: they're going to continue down that path.
Speaker 2: I find it very frustrating.
Speaker 4: I think if they'd had the capacity to write the ship,
Speaker 4: they would have done it already.
Speaker 2: They don't have that.
Speaker 4: They are so insulated and full of their own bs
Speaker 4: they can't recognize reality. I mean, I think my case
Speaker 4: is ironclad. They've proved it again this morning. It's really
Speaker 4: quite amazing. Final note on this article, they talk about
Speaker 4: how insulated Biden was during the campaign, and at some point,
Speaker 4: here's the book I want to read, or long well
Speaker 4: sourced article, what was the plan for if he won?
Speaker 4: I mean, because he's plainly senile and everybody knew it,
Speaker 4: they were coming up with all sorts of ways to
Speaker 4: cover for him. So they knew even as KJP continues
Speaker 4: to lie. But all of your Mike Donalan's and all
Speaker 4: your inner circle, what was your plan, Jake Sullivan, what
Speaker 4: did you think was going to happen?
Speaker 1: I think they were going to deny reality and think
Speaker 1: they could keep pulling it off.
Speaker 2: This is the perfect time for this.
Speaker 1: Somebody linked to the Wall Street Journal article this New
Speaker 1: York Times piece that was late in the game. President
Speaker 1: Biden is turning eighty. Experts say age is more than
Speaker 1: a number, and this is from the New York Times.
Speaker 1: The New York Times spoke to ten experts in aging
Speaker 1: to paint a picture of what the next six years
Speaker 1: might look like for a person of the president's age.
Speaker 1: They determined he is a superager, one of those people
Speaker 1: to have the unique ability to go on well passed
Speaker 1: normal life expectancy and do well. That's the New York
Speaker 1: Times coverage. When he turned eighty, which by the way,
Speaker 1: is two years ago.
Speaker 4: Wow. Six he so thoroughly beclowned themselves. They were really
Speaker 4: discussing another six years. He didn't make it six months.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So we were discussing how Biden after in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: he met with his polsters a lot and looked at
Speaker 4: progress and what was going on campaign strategy that in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four he didn't at all. They just had
Speaker 4: to go through Mike Donaldan, one of his closest advisors,
Speaker 4: and that Democratic insiders became alarmed during the summer, the
Speaker 4: early summer, obviously because the debate was in what June,
Speaker 4: with the way Biden described his own polling, He kept
Speaker 4: saying it was a toss up when everybody knew it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Those fears intensified on July eleventh, when Biden's top advisors
Speaker 4: met behind closed doors with Democratic senators, where the advisors
Speaker 4: laid out a roadmap for Biden's victory. The message from
Speaker 4: the advisors was so disconnected from public polling, which showed
Speaker 4: Trump leading Biden nationally, that it left Democratic senators incredulous.
Speaker 2: It's third Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, to.
Speaker 4: Speak to Biden directly, according to people familiar with the matter,
Speaker 4: hoping to pierce what the senator saw as a wall
Speaker 4: erected by Donalin to shield Biden from bad information. Donalan
Speaker 4: would not respond to a request comment for the article.
Speaker 4: On June thirteenth, Biden held an uncomfortable call with a
Speaker 4: group of Democratic lawmakers called the New Democratic Coalition, aimed
Speaker 4: at reassuring them about his ability to stay in the race.
Speaker 4: The president told participants that polling showed he was doing fine.
Speaker 4: He became angry when challenged on that fact, According to
Speaker 4: lawmakers on the call. At one point, Biden looked up
Speaker 4: and abruptly told the group he had to go to church.
Speaker 4: Some lawmakers on the call believed someone behind the camera
Speaker 4: shut it down. Biden dropped out of the race eight
Speaker 4: days later. Mister President, you're behind and all the poll No,
Speaker 4: I'm not stop saying that. Now I have to go
Speaker 4: to church. Everybody's looking around like, wait, what are you
Speaker 4: going to?
Speaker 2: What? And then the men's over a click.
Speaker 1: And nobody associated with any of this had the freaking
Speaker 1: guts or patriotism to go to a mainstream media outlet. Nobody,
Speaker 1: how do you know? How do you I realize he
Speaker 1: kept it a very closed circle. But the closed circle
Speaker 1: had to include half dozen people, didn't it. There wouldn't
Speaker 1: anybody that was willing to come forward and call the
Speaker 1: New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, everybody, all the Babby
Speaker 1: weights and say, I need to.
Speaker 2: Say this. I love Joe.
Speaker 1: I've worked for a Democratic Party my entire life, but
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is not capable of being president anymore or
Speaker 1: for another four years.
Speaker 2: Nobody felt enough patriotism to do that.
Speaker 4: Here's a possible explanation. And I'm not saying I believe
Speaker 4: this necessarily, but I'm thinking it through. They would reply,
Speaker 4: I look at Mike Donaldan, who's act I don't really know.
Speaker 4: But I look at Jake Sullivan. I look at Anthony Blinken, Uh,
Speaker 4: what's his face? Is run the Pentagon White, Austin Jenice
Speaker 4: yelling at Treasury. It's a good, solid team doing a
Speaker 4: pretty good job running the country. If I blow the
Speaker 4: whistle on Biden, Kamala Harris becomes the president, O god
Speaker 4: knows what's gonna happen, then I'm gonna take the senile
Speaker 4: guy with his known tight group of advisors over, putting
Speaker 4: that moron in the big chair.
Speaker 1: You're right, you need both pieces of this puzzle for
Speaker 1: it to end up the way it ended up up.
Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome where they think Trump is Hitler, so
Speaker 1: that we can't possibly diminish our curwent president and the
Speaker 1: backup was Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4: Wow, one more reason not to make DEI hires for
Speaker 4: important offices.
Speaker 1: You have an Al Gore Dick Cheney style, very very
Speaker 1: competent vice president, and people might have turned on their boss.
Speaker 1: Sure wow, yeah, and you know it's missing from the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal piece.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a lot written. I hope I
Speaker 2: live long.
Speaker 1: Enough to read it all, because it's a Woodward's next
Speaker 1: book now that the election's over. Woodward touched on Biden's
Speaker 1: mental problems and the George Clooney stuff and how people
Speaker 1: were going to fundraisers and shocked and all that. But
Speaker 1: he didn't do a lot, and maybe people wouldn't talk
Speaker 1: to him. But I don't think he was digging because
Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't want to because the book came
Speaker 1: out before the election. Bob Woodward didn't want to blow
Speaker 1: up Joe Biden's chances of winning because he has the
Speaker 1: ethics Trump is hitler. But someday that that's Bob Woodward
Speaker 1: book could be about all this stuff, and I got
Speaker 1: to believe people would love to unburden themselves with all
Speaker 1: this at some point. Why the key human that isn't
Speaker 1: mentioned in the Wall Street Journal piece is not quoted
Speaker 1: doctor Jill. What is the deal with the wife who
Speaker 1: knew more than anyone in second place? She almost got
Speaker 1: elected president Kamala Harris? Yeah, where's yeah?
Speaker 2: No kidding. Yeah.
Speaker 4: By the way, the Daily Mail has a headline today.
Speaker 4: I have no idea well a source it is, but
Speaker 4: saying doctor Jill is angry and is telling a depressed
Speaker 4: Joe Biden blow it all up. And on the top
Speaker 4: of her naughty list Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, and
Speaker 4: this is the third person. I can't blow it all
Speaker 4: up in what sense?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Go scort strength, in what way You're
Speaker 1: headed to the dustbin of history and embarrassment scorers.
Speaker 2: That's the way.
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for a long time. I didn't
Speaker 1: come up with this on my own. But Jill Biden's.
Speaker 2: Gamala is at the top of the naughty list.
Speaker 1: Jill Biden's gonna come out as the real villain in
Speaker 1: this whole thing eventually, when all the history is written,
Speaker 1: the real nut job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, d say, one way, you did a great job, Joe.
Speaker 1: This is after the debate. We've played the clips already today.
Speaker 2: You did a great job Joe, you answered all the questions.
Speaker 2: You're crazy, lady, you are crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the bulls of you gotta be in the looney
Speaker 4: bin quite right. Wow, he's president for another month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he still president today. Don't tell the Chinese. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna do as a transition to something else. We're gonna
Speaker 1: play a joke from Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 2: I love Christmas j but I notice.
Speaker 5: That they've updated a lot of classic songs this year
Speaker 5: to make them feel a little more modern. Like, for instance,
Speaker 5: instead of Grandma got run over by reindeer, there's Grandma
Speaker 5: got carried away by a drone. I don't think like,
Speaker 5: instead of run Rudolph run, there's Rudolf tries with GOVI
Speaker 5: instead and you go no.
Speaker 2: And finally, instead of Hallelujah, they change it to hot.
Speaker 4: To understand, I don't all three of those good jokes
Speaker 4: instead of hollow.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, uh got this text. Here's why we
Speaker 1: don't have Christmas parties anymore. My friend got called into
Speaker 1: HR for fist bumping someone and calling him bro. What
Speaker 1: doesn't explain anything more about that? But wow, there's some
Speaker 1: truth in it.
Speaker 4: So Musk and Donald Trump stepped into the budgetary discussions
Speaker 4: in the halls of Congress and vetoed a bi partisan agreement, saying,
Speaker 4: at crap has come to an end, has it?
Speaker 2: Oh boy?
Speaker 1: Elon tweeted one hundred plus times yesterday, don't vote for
Speaker 1: this thing. Here's why. Mediaite put out their list of
Speaker 1: the most powerful people in media and had Elon far
Speaker 1: away number one, the most powerful person in media.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you'd argue with that. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: far right away. Wow, I don't.
Speaker 1: I read a couple of pieces yesterday about this is
Speaker 1: how al oligarchy start. We have a co president who's
Speaker 1: the richest man on earth, unelected, blah blah blah. I
Speaker 1: have no First of all, you Democrats are hilarious with
Speaker 1: the You have no concerns about billionaires when they run
Speaker 1: the Washington Post and Amazon where George Soros or Mark
Speaker 1: to Zuckerberg and Facebook when Facebook was clearly the most
Speaker 1: dominant social media plactifly censoring any sort of free speech. Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that didn't concern you whatsoever. Now Elon is the source
Speaker 1: of all evil, But I don't know. I'm not concerned.
Speaker 1: Are you concerned about the power Elon has?
Speaker 2: No not at all.
Speaker 1: First of all, he's a private citizen. He's seeing his
Speaker 1: right to free speech. He's got the Year of the President.
Speaker 4: We just went through a long article that mentioned half
Speaker 4: a dozen important presidential aids who nobody voted for.
Speaker 2: That's what an aid is.
Speaker 1: I also think nobody tells Trump what to do. He
Speaker 1: does whatever he wants. Trump saying let's do away with
Speaker 1: the debt ceiling, I think is really interesting, very trump
Speaker 1: like go against you know, the green completely.
Speaker 2: It is accomplished nothing, it's man made. We've been saying
Speaker 2: that for years.
Speaker 4: So there are stores where you could drop in and
Speaker 4: get a great, really cool, last minute gift for your
Speaker 4: loved one, except you need top secret clearance to.
Speaker 2: Get in them.
Speaker 1: The secret stores of some of Washington's agencies.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I need the I need any I a
Speaker 2: barbecue sauce, for instance. What.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's one other thing I wanted to tease that
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 2: I don't think about it later. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: As I started the show saying, I'm barely going through
Speaker 1: the motions today.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't have to pay for this one today. I
Speaker 2: just don't see you strike me as a kindly old
Speaker 2: man with a failing memory.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's clips of the year, and today is the last
Speaker 1: real show, and I barely I just know.
Speaker 2: I didn't come to play. We have more on the way,
Speaker 2: stay tuned, Barb Straw.
Speaker 6: And yet there will be fewer interest rate cuts next
Speaker 6: year that anticipated. That means borrowing costs everything from a
Speaker 6: new mortgage to a car loan tier credit cards will
Speaker 6: stay higher for longer. And that is what drove stocks
Speaker 6: plunging eleven hundred points for the Dow, the longest losing
Speaker 6: street since nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, the longest losing streak in the Dow since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Also, I hadn't heard the news that
Speaker 1: they're anticipating fewer rate cuts than we thought might happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, that was the cause of the effect. Definitely.
Speaker 4: I was not very cognizant of the stock market in
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy four. I wonder if it was because it
Speaker 4: was crazy, stupid, overheated like the market is now. It's
Speaker 4: not shocked at all that it would decline significantly. Not
Speaker 4: shocking at all anyway, So enough on.
Speaker 2: That most in.
Speaker 1: Fifty years is a lot, though half a second, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, agreed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, looking for a holiday gift that screams belt Way insider. No, no,
Speaker 4: I'm not, but I found this very amusing. Skip to
Speaker 4: Chinsey t shirt vendors on the National Mall and head
Speaker 4: straight to the CIA. Just be ready to provide your
Speaker 4: Social Security number and leave enough time to clear multiple
Speaker 4: layers of security and bring cash. The agency advises against
Speaker 4: using traceable forms of payment like credit cards, particul kularly
Speaker 4: for customers who do undercover work.
Speaker 2: Inside the gift shop.
Speaker 4: At the George Bush Center for Intelligence, customers can pick
Speaker 4: from an assortment of intelligence seemed the merchandise like top
Speaker 4: secret barbecue sauce, which appears to come in three different flavors. Also,
Speaker 4: don't spill the beans coffee.
Speaker 2: Like CIA pillows.
Speaker 1: I like the Deep State plays on words, it gets
Speaker 1: even more troubling and annoying. I'll read on CIA pillows
Speaker 1: a two hundred dollars humidor etched with the agency's iconic seal.
Speaker 1: There's something for every taste, said the shops the guy
Speaker 1: runs it. Where As he strolled through the store where
Speaker 1: a shot of shot I'm sorry, a set of shot
Speaker 1: glasses emblazoned with admit nothing, deny everything sells for thirty
Speaker 1: three ninety nine. It isn't impossible to visit, but it
Speaker 1: is difficult. You either need to be a CIA employee
Speaker 1: or no. Let's see they also yeah, the whole admit nothing,
Speaker 1: deny everything, shot glasses is a little troubling.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And then the federal buildings hide what may be the
Speaker 4: world's most exclusive gift shops. Looking for a personalized most
Speaker 4: Wanted placard, The FBI store has that lose your pen,
Speaker 4: replace it with one shaped like rifle rounds sold at
Speaker 4: the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and now explosives. You
Speaker 4: can buy china at the Transportation Department, bathrobes at the
Speaker 4: State Department, and playing cards at.
Speaker 2: The Justice Department. Why do they have swag for government agencies?
Speaker 2: One more example than I'll explain it.
Speaker 4: The Agricultural Department gift shop had sold just sold out
Speaker 4: of its popular stress relief toys shaped like pigs, cows,
Speaker 4: and tractors.
Speaker 2: During their twenty percent off Christmas sale last week.
Speaker 4: A lot of the profits go to a lot of
Speaker 4: like employee support programs of various sorts, so it's mostly
Speaker 4: people within the agency who give gifts fun gifts to
Speaker 4: their friends and relatives who know they work at CIA,
Speaker 4: for instance.
Speaker 1: I'm against this, but I can't figure out exactly why.
Speaker 1: I don't think government agencies should have swag.
Speaker 4: It's it's self supporting and then some if that helps you.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the money. It's just something weird
Speaker 1: about it. Something not fitting in with the government that
Speaker 1: governs best governs least small government. Something so something with
Speaker 1: the like permanence of giant government as a jobs program issue,
Speaker 1: I think I feel where you're headed with this.
Speaker 2: I get it, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think I agree, But it's a a worship.
Speaker 2: Of the status quo, the permanence of it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: something about that.
Speaker 1: I remember a time when the people of the left
Speaker 1: would have been horrified by the CIA selling shot glasses
Speaker 1: about what lying and covering up or whatever.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, yeah, Well the left used to be anti government.
Speaker 4: Now it is savagely pro power. All it wants is power.
Speaker 4: The left suddenly used.
Speaker 1: To be like anti FBI, CIA, anything, but because Trump
Speaker 1: has been on the other side of it so much,
Speaker 1: now they're the heroes.
Speaker 4: The DEA's online store sells a bumper sticker that says
Speaker 4: get off the pot with a marijuana leaf.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I wish I could go in with those stories.
Speaker 1: I gotta admit i'd buy some stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have a Dea T shirt that to one of
Speaker 4: our beloved listeners sent and I wear it all the time.
Speaker 1: We do need to check in on the her own story.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of interesting tidbits there. None of
Speaker 1: it's highly important, but kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Among other things, Armstrong and Getty