WEBVTT - You Democrats Are Hilarious 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.680 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:17.280 Strong and Jetty and he arms Strong and Ytty. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.840 Look, there's so many young women who have been including 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.320 a young woman who just was murdered and he went 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.159 to the funeral and the idea that she was murdered 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.680 by by by an immigrant coming in. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.160 They talk about that. But here's the deal. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.879 There's a lot of young women to be raped by 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.040 their by their in laws, by their by by their spouses, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.960 brothers and sisters, by or just it's that's ridiculous, and 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:52.920 they can do nothing about it, and they try to 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.720 rest them by the cross state line. Thank you. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:55.400 That's right. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.920 The number of illegals women, illegal women being raped by 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.560 their sisters is why he's in support of Roe versus Wade. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.000 That's from the debate back in June or whatever it 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:08.520 was that drove him out of the race. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:14.640 Wow. Wow, how about one more Michael one oh five. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.640 Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.280 person are eligible for what I've been able to do 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.720 with the uh, the COVID, I just could be with 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:32.119 dealing with everything we have to do with. Look, if 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.520 we finally beat medicare, thank. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.600 You President by Biden. President Trump, Well, he's right. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.840 He did beat medicare, beat it to death, and he's 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:40.880 destroying Medicare. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.119 Remember, up until six pm Eastern that day, you were 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.440 some sort of right wing nut if you claimed the 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.160 president's brain didn't work and he shouldn't be president. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.480 Again, it was a. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.720 Cheap fake right Wall Street Journal out finally with the 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.280 big story everyone is talking about in DC and beyond, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.680 And as Jack pointed out, a number of reporters for 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:07.000 other publications are retweeting it like fiends for reasons that 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.800 we will talk about in a moment. But it's entitled 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.200 how the White House Functioned with a diminished Biden in charge? 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:15.240 And they mentioned in. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.680 The subhead the administration denied Biden has declined. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.680 They're still saying, no, he hasn't. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.000 And I've got to believe, and they quote this guy 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:31.680 Andrew Bates, white House spokesman, who denies there's been any decline. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.239 I've got to believe he's just auditioning for future jobs. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.200 Where people will say, how about baits, can we count 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:37.520 on him? 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:38.280 Are you kidding? 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.959 He stood there with a straight face as Biden was 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.560 wandering around the south lawn soiling himself, saying, Joe Biden's 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.079 as sharp as he's ever been. This guy, he's shameless. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.200 Let's hire him anyway. The Wall Street General begins with 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.840 a campaign anecdote, which is not terribly interesting, But then 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.360 they continue to adapt the White House around the needs 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.880 of a diminished leader. They told visitors to keep meetings focused. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.359 Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members, including 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.040 powerful secretaries like Defenses Lloyd Austin and Treasury's Janet Yellen, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:14.320 were infrequent and grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.519 a hard time getting the president's here at key moments, 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.840 including ahead of the US's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Senior 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.880 advisors were often put into roles that some administration officials 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.600 and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.240 National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Senior councilor Steve Verchetti, and 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.280 National Economic Council had Layel Brainerd and her predecessor frequently 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.360 in the position of go betweens for the president. In 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.520 other words, you would not see the Wizard of Oz 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.440 even though you know all throughout history, including you know 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.640 Biden earlier on, very early on, you'd see the president 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.040 and it quickly became you know what, what don't we 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.320 get together and I'll pass it on to the president. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.760 And this is early in his term. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.800 Let's see, presidents have always had oh I'm sorry. Press 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.760 aides who compiled packages of newsclips for Biden were told 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.840 by senior staffers to exclude negative stories about the president. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.760 Now that is interesting to me. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.880 That speaks not to a cognizance problem as much as 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.360 a personality change. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.760 Yeah, exactly, Well, which is a cognizance problem, right, I 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:28.160 mean your brain changes. When we've heard that about getting older, 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.279 you get angrier. And I don't know that much about 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.680 dimension that sort of stuff. But so you can't handle 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:34.960 disappointing or bad news very well. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.839 Interesting, as the nation's leading politician, you can't handle what 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.159 the other side is saying about you. I mean year, 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:48.360 in an election year, that's disturbing. The president was not 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.159 talking to his own polsters as surveys showed him trailing 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.400 in the twenty twenty four race. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.280 You remember that when he said we're ahead. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.039 That that would explain a number of things he said 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.160 what poll all of them. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:07.560 Yeah, but presidents have always had gatekeepers, but in Biden's case, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.920 the walls around him were higher and the controls greater. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.279 According to Democratic lawmakers, donors, and aids who worked for 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.000 Biden other administrations, there were limits over who Biden spoke with, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.200 limits on what they said to him, and limits around 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.320 the source of information he consumed. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.599 Wow, that's interesting on so many levels and dangerous on 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.240 so many different levels, because you got people guessing as 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.160 how to handle him and his condition. And I mean 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.440 because they're guessing, they don't know, They're just going by 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.120 the reactions they got at various times, probably from him 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.240 trial and error. And somebody said, ah, we better not 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.039 tell him stuff like that anymore. That's a pretty dangerous 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:43.520 place to be. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.080 And they touched on the fact that presidents always have 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.200 assistance who say all right, we're going to go to 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.440 the greeting line and then we'll do blah blah blah. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:55.159 But they said the handholding was unlike anything other recent 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.920 presidents have had. The White House operated this. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.480 Way even as the president and his aides pressed forward 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.040 with his re election bid, which unraveled spectacularly of the 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.000 June debate, etc. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:13.440 Kamala jumped in uh. This account of how the White 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.479 House functioned with an aging leader at the top of 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.080 its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly fifty people, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.839 including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.560 the operations. Many of those who criticized Biden's in celerity 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.440 said his system nonetheless kept his agenda on track. Aforementioned 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.800 shameless White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden quote earned 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.080 the most accomplished record of any modern commander in chief 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.320 and rebuilt the middle class because of his attention to 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.520 policy details that impact. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:47.480 Millions of lives. Oh that's good. That's good. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.960 Bates, who rejected the notion that Biden has declined, added 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.279 that the President has often solicited opinions from outside experts, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:56.760 which has. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.520 Informed his policymaking. 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.240 Then they get into the President's slide has been hard 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.960 to overlook. Well, not to Andrew Bates. While preparing last year, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.280 hear for his interview with Robert K. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:08.680 Hurr. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:13.480 The Special Counsel investigated Biden's handling the classified documents. The 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.960 president could not recall lines as team discussed with him 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.360 at events. Aids often repeated instructions to him as such 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.640 as where to enter exit the stage that would be 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:28.280 obvious to the average person. Biden's team tapped campaign CoA 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.040 chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul, to find a voice 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.560 coach to improve the president's fading warble. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.600 Well, I don't know, cause you can get a voice coach. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:38.600 I mean that's I don't know. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:43.800 But the staff took great care to prevent him from 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.800 catching COVID by limiting his in person's interaction, But the 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.760 shell constructed for the pandemic was never fully taken down 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.600 in his advanced age hardened it. The structure was also 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.920 designed to prevent Biden, an undisciplined public speaker throughout his 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.120 half century political career, for making gaffes or missteps that 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:03.480 could damage his image, create. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.280 Political headaches, or upset the world order. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:10.920 Then they get into how his meetings with his cabinet 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.640 officials became rarer and rarer, to the point that they 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.160 couldn't even get him on the phone again. They would 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.720 just talk to a top aide who would say, I'll 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.600 pass it on to the wizard of Oz, I mean 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.240 the president, right, and did not get a chance to 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:28.360 address him personally. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.440 There's one congressman. Where is that? 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:36.040 Oh Adam Smith of Washington. He's the head of the 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.920 powerful Armed Services Committee. He was desperate to talk to 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:44.240 Biden before the Afghan withdrawal in twenty twenty one. Boy, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.840 he was alarmed by what he viewed as overly optimistic 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.720 comments from Biden as the administration assembled plans for the operation. Quote, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.920 I was begging them to set expectations low. He sought 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.480 to talk to Biden directly to share his insights about 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.280 the region, but he could not get him on the phone. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.880 And they go into some of the details. Oh, this 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.880 is actually pretty illustrative. Then we'll discuss. But after the 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.600 disastrous withdrawal, which left thirteen US service members and hundreds 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.080 of Afghans dead, Smith, the congressman, made a critical comment 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.000 to The Washington Post about the administration lacking a clear 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.760 eyed view of the US back to ash Afghani government's durability. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.400 It was among comments that triggered an angry phone call 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.280 from Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln, who ended up getting 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.199 an earfull back from the frustrated chairman shortly after, Smith 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.520 got an apologetic call from Biden. It was the only 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.840 phone call Biden made to Smith in his four years 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.400 in office, and Smith said, that's weird because I spoke 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.880 with Barack Obama a number of times when he was president, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.400 and I wasn't even chairman of the committee. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:55.400 Then, which the Wall Street Journal is insinuating, stating that 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.920 is because he wasn't very often in a position where 0:09:58.920 --> 0:09:59.440 he could be on the. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:00.000 Phone with people. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.600 Yeah, they talk about lack of stamina, relying heavily on 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:13.320 the staff, Biden not following up on meetings, and then 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.280 they get into the interactions with cabinet members, infrequent and 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:21.000 often tightly scripted. At least one cabinet member stopped requesting 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.280 calls with the president because it was clear that such 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.200 requests would not be welcome. They get into some of 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:33.560 the numbers of meetings compared to previous administrations, and they're 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:38.600 shockingly low full cabinet meetings over four years. Biden held 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.640 nine full cabinet meetings, three in twenty twenty one, two 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.560 in twenty twenty two, three in twenty twenty three, and 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.160 just won this whole year. In their first terms, Obama 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.000 held nineteen and Trump held twenty five. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:53.959 Wow. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.640 Early in his vice presidency, during the Obama administration, Biden 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.720 sought to gather cabinet leaders once a week, saying in 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.960 a speech that the synergy brought about by the regular 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.960 meetings made the government more competent, and by the end 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.440 he met with the cabinet once in a year. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:17.680 So I mentioned the James Holman, who's a Washington Post 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:22.520 journalist retweeting portions of this and talking about this being 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.800 extraordinary journalism and an important piece and everything like that. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.880 The part that he was most excited about was White 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.360 House meetings would be frequently canceled. A national security official 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.480 explain to another aid why a potis meeting needed to 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.720 be rescheduled. He has good days and bad days. This 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.320 is a quote. They put this in quites in the 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.560 Wall Street Journal. He has good days and bad days, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:43.280 and today. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.600 Was a bad day. So we're going to address this tomorrow. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:51.920 That happening once should be blockbuster news coverage. If it 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.320 happened once that you said we have to cancel a 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.520 meeting because the president's not doing well today should make 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.880 the news. The fact that it was happening regularly and 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.040 covered up by a small group of people is a scandal. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.160 That's not a news story. 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Here's some of the reaction to the 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.280 article that I think was funny. I was told it 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.760 was a stutter. That's pretty funny. Kind of sounds like 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.800 they were defrauding the nation and putting national security in jeopardy. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.160 They should be made an example of otherwise it will 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:46.760 keep happening. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:47.120 True. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.920 Tim Carney, who we like of the Washington Examiner, wrote, 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.280 what are they lying about to us? 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:54.960 What are they lying to us about? Today? 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.680 Just why you assume they stopped lying? You ruined your 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.560 own industry by lying. Now Here we are to the 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:02.520 Washington Post. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.160 Why did the wallpo. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.800 Take everything the White House said at face value and 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.120 refused to do any digging while he was still president. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.960 Democracy needs more darkness. That's a good question. That's a 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:12.560 good shot. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.320 So plunging back into the Wall Street Journal article, we 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.240 went through a great deal of it in the previous segment. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.800 If you didn't get it as always, you can get 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.640 it via a podcast Armstrong and get you on demand. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.040 You probably ought to subscribe anyway. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.720 They go into her report that said a jury was 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.960 likely to view Biden as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.760 man with a poor memory. Then they talk about how 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:37.840 Biden's team insulated him on the campaign trail. One prominent 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.120 donor put together a small event for the reelection bid. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.880 The donor was shocked when a campaign official told him 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.400 that attendees should not expect to have a free ranging 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.520 question and answer with the president. Instead, the organizer was 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.080 told to send in two or three questions at most 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.240 ahead of time that Biden would answer. At some events, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.120 biden campaign printed the pre approved questions on note cards 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.560 and then gave donor the cards to read the questions. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.680 Even with all these steps, Biden made flubs, which confounded 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.080 the donors, who knew that Biden had the questions I 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.680 had of time. Then they mentioned how donors noticed how 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.480 the staff stepped in to mask the other signs of decline. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.440 They were constantly at his elbow, directing him in a 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.520 way that they'd never seen any candidate or any president 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:22.800 handled in the past. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:28.080 God, there is such a thing as Trump derangement syndrome. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.760 That's the only way you can explain all of those 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.880 people around him that didn't immediately go to the New 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.800 York Times and say the guy shouldn't be president, or 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.280 all the media outlets that were following it and pretending 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:41.560 that this wasn't a problem. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.600 It's all Trump derangement syndrome. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.600 You were so certain that Trump was a worst alternative 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.000 that you just lied to yourself. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.120 You convinced yourself this wasn't a story. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.800 It was a you would win like some sort of 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.920 lifetime solid gold Pulitzer for breaking this story or reporting 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.520 thoroughly upon it, and stills the entire Washington press corps 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.639 passed on the opportunity out of partisanship and Trump derangement syndrome. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:06.360 It's astounding. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.119 Hey, back to the campaign, the president's team of pollsters 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.440 had very limited access to Biden, even though they'd had 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.120 his ear constantly during twenty twenty four. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.960 They talked frequently. I'm sorry during twenty twenty. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.280 By the twenty twenty four campaign, the pollsters were not 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.959 talking to the president about their findings, and instead they 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.919 had to talk to the staff. By the summer, Democratic 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.760 insiders became alarmed by the way Biden described his own 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.560 polling publicly characterizing the race as a toss up when 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.320 poles released in the weeks after the disastrous June debate 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.960 consistently showed Trump ahead. Then when he started talking publicly 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.359 about how good the polls were, Chuck Schumer panicked and 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.080 went to speak to him directly, trying to figure out 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:52.159 what the hell was going on. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.359 Yeah, Man explains why it was so hard to push 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.439 him out if he was under the impression that, you know, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.640 it's a toss up and or I'm winning. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.560 Of course he wasn't gonna step down. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.480 The last two sentences of the article next, well, we're 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.600 staying too and forth, and we've got a lot more 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.639 to talk about. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.000 Armstrong and Getty Main. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:17.119 New Hampshire America have gone on the mend. They're not 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.720 on the mend any longer. They're on the move, and 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.840 we're coming at our challenges from position to stand. 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.520 Okay, So we're talking about this Wall Street Journal article today, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:32.000 deeply sourced that really details how much they were covering 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.520 for Biden during his entire administration, how his brain doesn't 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.680 work and he has canceling meetings left and right, and 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:39.680 his cabinet. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.439 Secretaries and to hold of them and everything like that. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.080 The fact that it's not the lead story on Good 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:49.160 Morning America Today shows you that it continues. And God 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.720 dang it, how are they not more concerned, these big 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.240 dominant media outlets that they've lost so much trust, But 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.119 they're going to continue down that path. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:18:59.800 I find it very frustrating. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.240 I think if they'd had the capacity to write the ship, 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:04.320 they would have done it already. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:05.600 They don't have that. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.600 They are so insulated and full of their own bs 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:13.000 they can't recognize reality. I mean, I think my case 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.680 is ironclad. They've proved it again this morning. It's really 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.400 quite amazing. Final note on this article, they talk about 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:26.399 how insulated Biden was during the campaign, and at some point, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.680 here's the book I want to read, or long well 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.920 sourced article, what was the plan for if he won? 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.080 I mean, because he's plainly senile and everybody knew it, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:39.879 they were coming up with all sorts of ways to 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.560 cover for him. So they knew even as KJP continues 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.560 to lie. But all of your Mike Donalan's and all 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.439 your inner circle, what was your plan, Jake Sullivan, what 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:50.520 did you think was going to happen? 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.359 I think they were going to deny reality and think 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:53.480 they could keep pulling it off. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:54.879 This is the perfect time for this. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.639 Somebody linked to the Wall Street Journal article this New 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:02.000 York Times piece that was late in the game. President 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.040 Biden is turning eighty. Experts say age is more than 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.760 a number, and this is from the New York Times. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.159 The New York Times spoke to ten experts in aging 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.399 to paint a picture of what the next six years 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.080 might look like for a person of the president's age. 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.200 They determined he is a superager, one of those people 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.840 to have the unique ability to go on well passed 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.080 normal life expectancy and do well. That's the New York 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.840 Times coverage. When he turned eighty, which by the way, 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:27.920 is two years ago. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.280 Wow. Six he so thoroughly beclowned themselves. They were really 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:40.000 discussing another six years. He didn't make it six months. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:40.840 Wow. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.040 So we were discussing how Biden after in twenty twenty 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.760 he met with his polsters a lot and looked at 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.720 progress and what was going on campaign strategy that in 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.320 twenty twenty four he didn't at all. They just had 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.000