Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3: But the President's patience does appear to be running thin.
Speaker 3: The White House, we know, is actively reviewing sanctions options,
Speaker 3: and already the Senate has a veto proof bill ready
Speaker 3: to go that would slap five percent tariffs on any
Speaker 3: country that buys Russian energy. And you're already hearing from
Speaker 3: some congressional Republicans say that they are ready to see
Speaker 3: the Senate act with or without the White House's green light.
Speaker 4: Man, there is a lot here, and don't roll your
Speaker 4: eyes or sigh about talking about Ukraine and Russia, because
Speaker 4: this is reaching a serious inflection point that we're either
Speaker 4: gonna be out or we're gonna be way in.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: So last night Trump, as we were talking about yesterday
Speaker 4: over the weekend, you know, he said, I don't know
Speaker 4: what happened to Vladimir. He's gone crazy. I mean, all
Speaker 4: this killing and what the hell is happening here? And
Speaker 4: most people's reaction was, Vladimir Putin has always been like this,
Speaker 4: and either you knew that or you didn't, or I
Speaker 4: sure what's going on here? But anyway, so the end
Speaker 4: of then he truths out last night. What Vladimir Putin
Speaker 4: doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me, lots
Speaker 4: of really bad things would have already happened to Russia.
Speaker 2: And I mean really bad in all caps.
Speaker 4: He's playing with fire, which was a heck of a
Speaker 4: post from the leader of the United States. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're also used to Trump's bomb bast I mean, if
Speaker 4: you try to picture that in the mouth of George
Speaker 4: Bush or Barack Obama, it'd be well, it'd be a
Speaker 4: stop the presses moment, it'd be holy crap, the response
Speaker 4: from Russia.
Speaker 2: We want to say here, do we want one of
Speaker 2: our reporters to say it. Let's go ahead. They've got
Speaker 2: it in front of them.
Speaker 3: Fifty b Okay Medvedev writes regarding Trump's words about Putin
Speaker 3: playing with fire and really bad things happening to Russia.
Speaker 3: I only know of one really bad thing, World War three.
Speaker 3: I hope Trump understands this.
Speaker 4: So that's either the most serious thing I've ever heard
Speaker 4: in my life or it's just an empty threat, right
Speaker 4: and everybody.
Speaker 2: Such is the nature of bluffing, right.
Speaker 4: I don't think Russia has any interest in getting involved
Speaker 4: in World War three, But so far the bluff of
Speaker 4: we might use nukes kept Joe Biden on his heels
Speaker 4: his entire presidency, As is reported in Bob Woodward's book
Speaker 4: and David Sanger's book about the inner workings of the
Speaker 4: White House, when Anthony Blincoln wanted to push harder, Joe
Speaker 4: Biden was really really worried about starting World War three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, Joe Biden woke up on his heels, as
Speaker 5: I often say.
Speaker 4: His belt and trump bell rode heels. But Trump is
Speaker 4: a very, very different guy.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking about Vladimir Putin and his calculations and his goals,
Speaker 5: which are to restore the glory of the Tsarist and
Speaker 5: Soviet Russian republics or empires. And I could see him
Speaker 5: calculating that pushing to the very very brink of World
Speaker 5: War three, including massive casualties, would be worth the effort.
Speaker 5: I could see him making that calculation fairly easily.
Speaker 2: It's not even a stretch. Well, I think we know
Speaker 2: what his thinking is. At least.
Speaker 4: Richard Engel claims he has sources inside the intelligence agencies
Speaker 4: that believe they know what Putin's strategy is. I think
Speaker 4: that's interesting, and I'll save that until we hear from
Speaker 4: Tammy Bruce, who is currently a State Department spokesman.
Speaker 2: This is what she says, Trump is thinking.
Speaker 1: It was very obvious from his truth social posts that
Speaker 1: his patience has worn thin. But it's not even really
Speaker 1: about patients. It's what every American is feeling when you're
Speaker 1: looking at, as the President described, indiscriminate bombing on civilian areas,
Speaker 1: killing civilians in increasing bombing runs and drone attacks, especially
Speaker 1: when there's been such a concerted effort by the Trump
Speaker 1: administration and others to stop that carnage between Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 2: Now, So.
Speaker 4: The way I took that of her saying you can
Speaker 4: tell from President Trump's truth social is that she's going
Speaker 4: off his posts as opposed to personal conversations. I mean,
Speaker 4: she's guessing at his thinking the same way we are
Speaker 4: by looking at what his posts are.
Speaker 2: Right well, and the whole humanitarian appeal.
Speaker 5: I don't how is anybody still going with that?
Speaker 4: Putin doesn't care, well, yeah, let's never cared. He's made
Speaker 4: it infinitely clear how literally cares.
Speaker 2: Yeah. On that line. Here, there's a little more of
Speaker 2: Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 1: It's clear into both parties and of the world that
Speaker 1: this cannot be solved with violence or or a more
Speaker 1: military action. And so the president, who noted in his
Speaker 1: post that he's known Putin for quite some time, feels
Speaker 1: that something has happened to him and he's unable to
Speaker 1: explain it. And clearly he's he's quite frustrated enough to
Speaker 1: express that outrage in public.
Speaker 2: See I feel like Trump.
Speaker 4: Trump has many times hung various cabinet members spokespeople out
Speaker 4: to dry because they go out try to speak for him.
Speaker 4: Then he comes out later in the day and says
Speaker 4: something completely different. And because they're they're they're often guessing at.
Speaker 2: What he thinks.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they just don't have conversations with
Speaker 4: him or what. She sounds like she's just guessing, and
Speaker 4: she is clearly just reinterpreting his tweets. Yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 4: And so Richard Ingele on NBC News says he it
Speaker 4: talked to people in the Intelligence Department, and this makes
Speaker 4: sense to me.
Speaker 2: I mentioned yesterday.
Speaker 4: I don't know why this took several days to report,
Speaker 4: but Trump had told reporters in the Middle East that.
Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing because I don't have in front of me
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 4: But this wasn't my war, this is Zelenski, this is Putin,
Speaker 4: this is Biden's war, this isn't mine war. We shouldn't
Speaker 4: have got involved, which made me feel like he's gonna
Speaker 4: do the whole and jd Vance later in the week
Speaker 4: last week said, you know, if we see that nobody cares,
Speaker 4: you know, we might have had enough of this. So
Speaker 4: I'm worried they're gonna just walk away because I personally
Speaker 4: think we need to support you great. But that's what
Speaker 4: Richard Engel's reporting was that people in the intelligent department
Speaker 4: to believe Putin's thinking is Putin thinks Trump's close to
Speaker 4: getting so frustrated and feeling like he'll just throw up
Speaker 4: his hands, you know whatever, you all work it out
Speaker 4: and walk away, which is a win for Putin. Bootin
Speaker 4: knows it's a win for him. If the United States
Speaker 4: is off the table and out of it, it's absolutely
Speaker 4: a would win for Putin. So that's why he launched
Speaker 4: the biggest drone attack of the entire war over the weekend.
Speaker 4: He's trying to drive home the point in Trump's head
Speaker 4: that look, I'm not interested in peace, and you believe
Speaker 4: Zelensky hates me too much or something like that. So
Speaker 4: Trump throws up his hands and walks away from the
Speaker 4: whole thing. That's Putin's thinking right now, which makes sense
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 5: Right right, I would agree completely, and I don't want
Speaker 5: to waste a lot of time on Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 2: But her statement that.
Speaker 5: This cannot be solved through war, Wait a minute, what
Speaker 5: Putin's trying to solve is I want more territory.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it can be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna take you the whole country unless somebody
Speaker 4: stops me.
Speaker 5: If it's spin, it's spin, that's fine, spin Away, it's
Speaker 5: your job. But if it's just naivete, I don't get
Speaker 5: it at all. So there are a couple of developments
Speaker 5: that I think are very very significant. If that wraps
Speaker 5: up your what you wanted to present. Number one, we
Speaker 5: talked earlier about Friedrich Merritz, the leader of Germany these days,
Speaker 5: much more hardass than the previous guy, saying that we
Speaker 5: are removing any limits on weapon range, We're letting the
Speaker 5: Ukrainians shoot him as far in to Russia as they want,
Speaker 5: and the White House did not comment. That was deafening silence.
Speaker 5: That was not even a hint of weha, wait a minute.
Speaker 5: So I find that interesting. Yeah, I might as well
Speaker 5: take a little detour into the Senate here. Senator Chuck
Speaker 5: Grassley tweeted, I saw this yesterday that he thought Trump
Speaker 5: was sincere in thinking his friendship with Putin wood end
Speaker 5: the war now. He added, it was time for sanctions
Speaker 5: strong enough that this Russia leader knows game over, and
Speaker 5: watching these guys trying to manage up, trying to not
Speaker 5: offend Trump to wait till Trump shows a sign that it's.
Speaker 2: Okay to say what you believe. And now they're saying
Speaker 2: what they believe. That's fine.
Speaker 4: Everybody has to manage up in their lives and careers.
Speaker 4: But so Trump is.
Speaker 5: Also considering abandoning peace negotiations altogether. It's unclear what would
Speaker 5: happen as you were describing, but allies such as Lindsey
Speaker 5: Graham told Trump Putin does not want a deal finally,
Speaker 5: and only punishments.
Speaker 4: Would make him seriously negotiate. Three key views colored Trump's thinking.
Speaker 4: Official said, first is dislike for Zelenski, who Trump felt
Speaker 4: encouraged further conflict by pushing for sanctions.
Speaker 5: I believe that's ridiculous. On Sundays, he blasted Putin. Trump
Speaker 5: also criticized Zelensky. Let's see the second. Trump also thought
Speaker 5: additional sanctions on Russia would not curb its ability to
Speaker 5: wage war, but would hamper efforts to revive US Russian
Speaker 5: economic dies.
Speaker 2: You might as well try. I think that ship has sailed.
Speaker 5: But in third, Trump felt he knew that Putin and
Speaker 5: the Russian leader, I'm sorry. Trump felt that he knew
Speaker 5: Putin and that the Russian leader would end the war
Speaker 5: as a personal favor.
Speaker 2: No way.
Speaker 4: Lindsey Graham said that, Uh, the officials said that's nuts.
Speaker 2: I would agree. Here's the really interesting part.
Speaker 4: Graham, a couple of weeks ago, introduced to bill imposing
Speaker 4: strict new sanctions on Moscow. I mean real ones, nasty ones,
Speaker 4: and it now has more than eighty co sponsors in
Speaker 4: the Senate. Practically everybody way beyond veto proof. The Sanctioning
Speaker 4: Rush Act of twenty five, which Graham introduced with Senator
Speaker 4: Richard Richard Blumenthal de Connecticut, would impose a bunch of
Speaker 4: sanctions blah blahlah. We can get into the particulars if
Speaker 4: you want. And one more which Europe is on board
Speaker 4: with it, which is important right on. And one more
Speaker 4: note from the Senate, this is very trumpy, hard ass
Speaker 4: friend of the armstrong Ygetti Show, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Speaker 4: in fifty six m Dog.
Speaker 6: The President has been very patient with Putin. At the
Speaker 6: same time he's trying to clean up a mess that
Speaker 6: he didn't start right. He's been very clear from day
Speaker 6: one he wanted the killing to stop. He's tried to
Speaker 6: work with Putin. His patience is running thin. And if
Speaker 6: Putin continues to push this envelope the way that he is,
Speaker 6: He's going to give Zelinsky the tools he needs to
Speaker 6: fight back and on the full scale and full support
Speaker 6: of the United States.
Speaker 2: But Europe needs to take a lead. Wow. I hope
Speaker 2: that's true.
Speaker 5: He gives Lensky everything he needs and the usual butt.
Speaker 5: Europe needs to take the lead.
Speaker 2: I hope that's true. I don't know.
Speaker 4: The ball is in Trump's court on this more than
Speaker 4: it ever has been. One guy is going to make
Speaker 4: a huge decision, and we're either going to be in
Speaker 4: on supporting Ukraine in lots of different ways with the
Speaker 4: harsh sanctions, with the military help with the intelligence, help
Speaker 4: all of that, or Trump is going to go with
Speaker 4: the what he's hinted at and JD.
Speaker 2: Vans have hinted at. Look, we tried to solve it.
Speaker 4: You two, you your squabble, your your land, battle over
Speaker 4: territory sputed, go ahead and figure it out. Not my business,
Speaker 4: or we're gonna do that. And I don't have the
Speaker 4: slightest idea which direction it's going to be.
Speaker 2: Three quick thoughts. Number one, JD.
Speaker 5: Vance and Lindsey Graham are staging a battle Royale behind
Speaker 5: the scenes. I'll bet two two headlines which you don't
Speaker 5: have time to flesh out, but we can.
Speaker 2: Next hour.
Speaker 5: Number one, the US reinforces Europe's Northern Front, fearing war
Speaker 5: with Russia. In quest to make NATO more lethal, The
Speaker 5: Pentagon turns to the High North and the Baltics. So
Speaker 5: behind the scenes, we are beefing up NATO and making
Speaker 5: them more lethal, exactly where Russia needs to be contained.
Speaker 5: Interesting and secondly, headline from the Wall Street Journal the
Speaker 5: Jack referenced Putin has retooled Russia's a common economy to
Speaker 5: focus only on war. Moscow expands military recruitment and boosts
Speaker 5: sweats production. And peace could jeopardize economic gains.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Uh, And Richard Ingle on NBC News Today said what
Speaker 4: you said yesterday? He was asked by the hosts about
Speaker 4: the ceasefire talks. He said, he ceasefire talks. That's what
Speaker 4: you said yesterday, which is true.
Speaker 5: Richard Engele, known as Joe Getty of Daylight. Who's in
Speaker 5: the business.
Speaker 2: Who's pretending there are ceasefire talks going on? Yeah? Come on?
Speaker 2: What the hell? Okay, we got more on the ways there.
Speaker 7: Hey, Igloo is recalling over one hundred thousand coolers because
Speaker 7: the handle can cut off people's fingers.
Speaker 2: Ah my god.
Speaker 7: It's great if your drunk uncle wants to get an
Speaker 7: early start on the fireworks season. On the bright side,
Speaker 7: when you cut off your finger, the ice is right there.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's what I thought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know what, I'll just put my fingers
Speaker 5: there in the ice and go find a gifted surgeon.
Speaker 4: That's not a minor injury. There's a sharp edge that
Speaker 4: might cut you. No, cut off your finger.
Speaker 2: Nice design, yikes.
Speaker 4: Maybe you could put your new Starbucks summer drink in
Speaker 4: your cooler. Four new Starbucks Summer drinks. I want to
Speaker 4: mention and there's a reason I want to mention them.
Speaker 2: In just a second.
Speaker 4: But first this I'm dropping off my car today, which
Speaker 4: I'm going to sell to get the rap taking off
Speaker 4: taken off and a little rap info that you might
Speaker 4: not No, wraps one of the coolest things to come
Speaker 4: to cars. And you know, ever, and and you know,
Speaker 4: you see all these cool colors around, whether there's stripes
Speaker 4: or just a color that the that maker doesn't offer
Speaker 4: or whatever. I feel like a fifth of the cars
Speaker 4: I see have a rap on them.
Speaker 2: I know nothing about this.
Speaker 4: Really, you probably see cars with wraps all the time.
Speaker 4: You just don't know it. Probably, so yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 4: I always asked my son, I said, wow, that's cool.
Speaker 4: Does that come in that color? He said, that comes
Speaker 4: to that color? How about that one? No, that doesn't.
Speaker 4: That's a rap because you can't tell. You can't tell
Speaker 4: a rap from a paint job. But if you have
Speaker 4: a really cool color, that's interesting. I don't even know
Speaker 4: if automotive companies they might stop offering lots of different
Speaker 4: colors because they realize people are just going to get
Speaker 4: rapped anyway, So what's the point anyhow? Rap costs about
Speaker 4: two three thousand dollars to get what and you know,
Speaker 4: a paint job. If you get a real paint job
Speaker 4: that's going to look that good, it's going to cost
Speaker 4: you more like fifteen twenty thousand dollars. So the difference
Speaker 4: being a rap does not last that long. It's like
Speaker 4: three to five years. It starts to look a little ragged.
Speaker 4: And uh, that's kind of where mine is. I've had
Speaker 4: it for four years on my Tesla plaid, which did
Speaker 4: not come in the color that it currently is. And
Speaker 4: but I'm getting it removed so I can sell it,
Speaker 4: get it back to it.
Speaker 2: It costs a thousand dollars to remove it.
Speaker 5: Are you leaving out the fact that it's it's lavender
Speaker 5: with rainbows.
Speaker 1: In it.
Speaker 4: And the Queer America the hood is a big giant
Speaker 4: my pony, right, Yeah, very very It's it's cute anyway'
Speaker 4: gonna cost about a grand to get it taken off,
Speaker 4: So it is way cheaper than a paint job. But
Speaker 4: if you did it, if you have kept the car
Speaker 4: for a long time, you'd be better off getting a
Speaker 4: paint job. Can I do like a bondo in dense rap?
Speaker 4: So when I park my car in craffy neighborhoods I
Speaker 4: don't have to worry about.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea.
Speaker 4: The four drinks for Starbucks that they're announcing today for
Speaker 4: summer Firework Frappuccino, brown sugar Strato frappuccino. God, how many
Speaker 4: calories and fat grams in each of these? The salted
Speaker 4: caramel maca Strato frappuccino. And then this strawberry Matcha. What's matchia?
Speaker 4: Do you know what matcha is? This is where I
Speaker 4: wish Katie's macha.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It's like a is it rice based drink? All I
Speaker 2: know is this?
Speaker 4: Any place that has Matcha in the title in San
Speaker 4: Francisco or the town I live in has a line
Speaker 4: out the door right now. They're like, if you're a
Speaker 4: cool person, you drink Matcha. Whatever the hell that is Matchia.
Speaker 4: I might stand in the line for nothing, so I
Speaker 4: won't taste one until the lines die down.
Speaker 2: Summer drinks, they're fancy milkshakes. Oh absolutely.
Speaker 4: I was going to talk about a mom and her
Speaker 4: hyperactive son getting one of these drinks the other day.
Speaker 2: I'll have to talk about that later.
Speaker 4: It's a sad story, but we got more important things
Speaker 4: to get to hope you can figure it Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: This is a big theme in the book that they
Speaker 8: were lying not just to press and not just to
Speaker 8: the country. They were lying to cabinet secretaries, democrats in Congress.
Speaker 8: I'm not excusing any of these people, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 8: in many ways, I think they were also lying to themselves.
Speaker 4: Jake Tapper, if you don't recognize the voice, continuing to
Speaker 4: go around and tout his book exposing something everyone already knew.
Speaker 4: Although a lot of the details that are actually interesting,
Speaker 4: and I continue to read the book, I mean it's
Speaker 4: interesting enough to, you know, get me to read several
Speaker 4: pages every night.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of odd. Yeah, it's the aspect of
Speaker 2: it where Jake Tapper dropped his gun and said, I'm
Speaker 2: a victim. I'm not on the gang, I'm not in
Speaker 2: the gang.
Speaker 5: I'm a victim here that everybody is so disgusted by
Speaker 5: the idea that, oh, those Dan White House officials lied
Speaker 5: to us, and then we believed it, we were taking in.
Speaker 2: They pulled the will over.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've complained about this in several other ways.
Speaker 4: Jose Canseco is a good example. The baseball player who
Speaker 4: outed everybody else for Royds. What was the dude who
Speaker 4: was friends with Lance Armstrong who finally turned.
Speaker 2: On him and then writes a book.
Speaker 4: And my complaint has always been, Okay, you were fine
Speaker 4: with the scam as long as it benefited you, and
Speaker 4: now you're switching and benefiting from outing other people. Okay,
Speaker 4: so you do what is in your best interest at
Speaker 4: all points. Yet jose Conseco's story about everybody using steroids
Speaker 4: was still damned interesting. Finding out how top level Lance
Speaker 4: Armstrong bike riders cheated the system was still in I think,
Speaker 4: regardless of the fact that I didn't like the source.
Speaker 5: So a new source or at least a more fleshed
Speaker 5: out source coming up in a moment or two. But
Speaker 5: a quick couple of notes from some stuff we referenced
Speaker 5: yesterday Andrew Styles and the Free Beacon, which is really
Speaker 5: a terrific outlet if you're not into it, and he's
Speaker 5: a great writer, but and he says about the book
Speaker 5: and the publicity towards maddening.
Speaker 2: Really go back and watch.
Speaker 5: The tape of Tapper insisting without evidence that Biden was
Speaker 5: mentally sharp in September of twenty three. We now know
Speaker 5: that in the preceding months, Biden had turned in a
Speaker 5: series of awful performances at fundraisers that left some donors
Speaker 5: worried that quote he might not make it to election.
Speaker 4: Day, and the idea that Jake Tapper isn't in touch
Speaker 4: with the kind of heavyweights who were at those big
Speaker 4: dollar fundraisers, Come on, he knows these people who he
Speaker 4: hangs out with.
Speaker 5: This was around the time the authors revealed a handful
Speaker 5: of unnamed by and AIDS had become convinced the president
Speaker 5: was too brain dead to serve another term. They started
Speaker 5: leaking stories about Biden's limitations to Thompson Alex Thompson. One
Speaker 5: of the only mainstream journalists report on the decline was Thompson,
Speaker 5: the only reporter these aids ever contacted.
Speaker 2: Almost certainly not what happened.
Speaker 5: In June of twenty four, Annie Lynsky and Shabon Hughes
Speaker 5: of The Wall Street Journal published a story on Biden's decline.
Speaker 5: As promised, they were instantly denounced as right wing fabulousts.
Speaker 5: Not just by the White House, AIDS and other Democrats,
Speaker 5: many so called journalists joined the pylon, including some CNN guys.
Speaker 4: Tapper's response to the Journal story was also in line
Speaker 4: with White House talking points.
Speaker 5: He echoed Darcy's concerns about the sourcing, while noting that
Speaker 5: the paper was owned by conservative billionaire.
Speaker 2: Robert Rubert Murda.
Speaker 4: He threw that in keeping in mind that last week
Speaker 4: he called these writers heroes.
Speaker 2: When he had him on this show. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: He interviewed one of Biden's most ardent supporters, Chris Coons
Speaker 4: of Delaware.
Speaker 2: This is the one that makes me the maddest.
Speaker 4: If you don't, if you haven't watched this, this was
Speaker 4: the he presents.
Speaker 2: People are believe Joe Biden's brain doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Then he lets Koons shoot it down, make all kinds
Speaker 4: of ridiculous complaint claims, and Tapper pushes back not a
Speaker 4: bit and.
Speaker 5: Quickly changes the topic to Taiwan. Last week, Megan Kelly
Speaker 5: asked Tapper why he didn't invite Lensky and Hughes on
Speaker 5: his show The Wall Street Journal Gals to discuss the reporting.
Speaker 5: Tapper's defensive response was positively Biden esk quote, I don't
Speaker 5: know what the booking situation.
Speaker 2: Was, Megan.
Speaker 5: If we're gonna do this, let's just stick to the
Speaker 5: facts here, Okay.
Speaker 2: I can't believe he's getting away with this.
Speaker 5: And then then he's now he's going out of his
Speaker 5: way to praise the heroic reporters and denounce the smear
Speaker 5: campaign against him.
Speaker 2: How gracious of him, Which.
Speaker 5: Leads us to a piece Dean Phillips, the plucky young
Speaker 5: congressman who had the gall to run against Biden or
Speaker 5: try for the twenty twenty four elections. He's written a
Speaker 5: piece in the Free Press that ought to be quoted
Speaker 5: in every news outlet around the country. If his subhead
Speaker 5: is if a relatively little known congressman like me knew
Speaker 5: that Biden was incapable of leading the country in a
Speaker 5: second term, what does that say about the complicity.
Speaker 2: Of the real party bosses.
Speaker 4: This week, journalist Talk Thompson Jake Tapper released a bombshell
Speaker 4: book Blah blah blah. Also this week, Biden's a spokesperson
Speaker 4: decided to announce the former president at stage four prostate cancer.
Speaker 2: Coincidence, I think not.
Speaker 5: And he goes into the fact that Biden slipped up
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this the other day.
Speaker 4: He said, I had found out I have cancer, but anyway,
Speaker 4: and then the White House never followed up on it
Speaker 4: he knew he had cancer. Common sense tells us the
Speaker 4: most powerful man in the world, with access to the
Speaker 4: best healthcare in the world, would have surely, no, I
Speaker 4: know that they don't recommend you get tested for a
Speaker 4: PSA after a certain age. That doesn't apply to the
Speaker 4: President of the United States, because it's got to do
Speaker 4: with all kinds of different insurance things and healthcare of
Speaker 4: this and that, And it doesn't apply to the president
Speaker 4: of the United States, who has the best healthcare in
Speaker 4: the world. Trump got his PSA tested.
Speaker 5: Right, And he goes and Dean Phillips goes into the
Speaker 5: fact that he's demanded greater transparency and accountability from his
Speaker 5: party for ages and his outrage that the important lessons
Speaker 5: from the top scandal have not been learned. Constantly lying
Speaker 5: in gaslighting the public about Biden's health has cost the
Speaker 5: Democratic Party the public's trust rebuilding. It first requires the
Speaker 5: courage in honesty to.
Speaker 2: Admit what happened.
Speaker 4: And here's what happened, he writes, in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 4: I had a front row seat on two occasions when
Speaker 4: he addressed the House Democratic Caucus.
Speaker 2: This is in twenty one, friends.
Speaker 5: I also spent time in close proximity to the president
Speaker 5: during two flights on Air Force one in twenty one
Speaker 5: and twenty two, where I was alarmed to see the
Speaker 5: president's obvious decline in communication skills, gait, and leadership ability.
Speaker 5: After the White House Holiday Party in December twenty two,
Speaker 5: which the President's decline was too graphic to ignore, I
Speaker 5: was left with no doubt in my mind Biden was
Speaker 5: unfit to serve a second term.
Speaker 4: My opinion was not an outlier. My congressional colleagues, like me,
Speaker 4: had eyes behind closed doors. We acknowledged the reality, lamented
Speaker 4: our parties, party leaders in action, and recognized the impending
Speaker 4: disaster awaiting us in twenty twenty four. Well, he was
Speaker 4: right about that. If you're a Democrat, it was a disaster.
Speaker 5: And here's why I wanted to get to this, and
Speaker 5: I've been to say this upfront, but I forgot. This
Speaker 5: is about Jake Tapper and the book and Joe Biden
Speaker 5: and the Democrats' leadership. It's also just a glimpse inside
Speaker 5: the machine how it really runs, not the way they
Speaker 5: tell you it runs, how it really runs. So he says,
Speaker 5: he and all this.
Speaker 4: Congressional colleagues agreed after many of the same hushed conversations.
Speaker 2: I tried to impress a sense of urgency.
Speaker 5: I made calls to potential presidential candidates like Illinois Governor JB.
Speaker 5: Pritzker and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to urge them to run.
Speaker 5: They didn't even want their names mentioned, let alone.
Speaker 2: To return my calls. Wow.
Speaker 5: Frustrated, I went public calling for an open primary. I
Speaker 5: implored prominent Democrats like California Governor Gavin Newsom, Minnesota Senator
Speaker 5: Amy Klobucher, and Vice President Kamala Harris to throw their
Speaker 5: hats in the ring. But cometh to the moment, Cameth nobody.
Speaker 4: By the fall of twenty three, I realized not only
Speaker 4: that Biden was in serious decline, but that the polling
Speaker 4: was clearly showing he couldn't win. My party was sleepwalking
Speaker 4: into a second Trump term. So with no one else
Speaker 4: willing to step forward, I entered the race. And then
Speaker 4: he gets into the way he was treated and how
Speaker 4: the media all lined up to say he was a
Speaker 4: crank and a climber and a liar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was treated as a joke.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was announced proactively. He wasn't kind of right,
Speaker 5: he was one hundred percent. Right, he goes into you know,
Speaker 5: CNN and MSNBC. Then the DNC announced proactively that there
Speaker 5: would be no debates.
Speaker 2: Oh oh talking, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: If there had been a debate, the Joe Biden moment,
Speaker 4: a primary debate, the Joe Biden moment might have come
Speaker 4: many months earlier. Right, we should to give the Democrats
Speaker 4: time to get another candidate. And I think it's worth
Speaker 4: pointing out, as you did earlier in the show, this
Speaker 4: was a terrible miscalculation. This got Trump re elected or elected.
Speaker 4: It could be argued.
Speaker 5: That, you know, it would overstate it to say Biden
Speaker 5: was the only guy or the stupid moro on Kamala
Speaker 5: Harris were the only people who could lose Trump, because
Speaker 5: that's not true. He ran a pretty effective campaign, but
Speaker 5: they ensured he would win by running Biden than Kamala.
Speaker 5: So as usual, the folks who crow constantly about democracy, democracy,
Speaker 5: democracy had zero trust in democracy.
Speaker 2: They wanted to fix the game as usual.
Speaker 4: And by the way, you Trump's win was pretty solid electorally. Uh,
Speaker 4: it's only like one hundred and forty thousand votes in
Speaker 4: three states.
Speaker 2: You flip and he.
Speaker 5: Loses, right, So one more note, and then I'll shut
Speaker 5: the heck up because the loss of trust that the
Speaker 5: media has so richly earned is in.
Speaker 2: Full flower around. Nobody trusts the media.
Speaker 5: And we made reference to you know, why would people
Speaker 5: trust them at we'll earned that?
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and a couple of our beloved listeners sent along
Speaker 5: this list, and I've actually edited it and brought it
Speaker 5: down to the core stuff, the most important stuff.
Speaker 2: I think how.
Speaker 5: Many recent mainstream media hoaxed this? Did you fall for
Speaker 5: Russian collusion? And the Steele dossier?
Speaker 4: The Inflation Reduction Act will reduce Trump called neo Nazis,
Speaker 4: fine people, The juicy Smollett case, the Bubba Wallace garage
Speaker 4: pulled news. Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. The Covington
Speaker 4: kids right, the Kavanaugh rape.
Speaker 5: Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID. The Trump peepee tape.
Speaker 5: COVID lab league was a conspiracy theory. Border agents whipped migrants. Oh,
Speaker 5: another good one.
Speaker 4: The travel plate lie and no and no, uh paid
Speaker 4: no priceport? Well, you ultimately paid a price fort and
Speaker 4: nobody believes you anymore?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your businesses are dying. Eh.
Speaker 4: Muslim travel band Andrew Cuomo is showing the best COVID leadership.
Speaker 4: Trump built cages for migrant kids. The what's his face?
Speaker 4: Was an austere religious scholar. Right is that the ya
Speaker 4: ya zin war sin war? No, that was us? The
Speaker 4: isis guy? Yeah, I'll be ready. You're right, bagdad, austere
Speaker 4: religious scholar. Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan, build back
Speaker 4: bet or pay for itself. Trump tax cuts benefited only
Speaker 4: the rich. Cloth max masks prevent COVID. If you get vaccinated,
Speaker 4: you won't catch COVID. An SUV killed parade marchers, not
Speaker 4: the driver.
Speaker 2: Uh where was I?
Speaker 4: Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for a
Speaker 4: Bible photo.
Speaker 2: Don't say gay was in the bill?
Speaker 5: Right? Putin price hikes. I've met him as a horse dewarmer.
Speaker 5: Not for humans, mostly peaceful protests. And Trump overpowered the
Speaker 5: Secret Service for the wheel of the beast.
Speaker 2: The list goes on and on.
Speaker 4: Right, the list I saw included hands up, don't shoot,
Speaker 4: which never ever happened.
Speaker 2: Right, that ought to be on here. It's going back
Speaker 2: a few years.
Speaker 4: But of course, yeah, you earned your reputation mainstream media.
Speaker 4: The problem is I understanding, but it's ultimately bad for
Speaker 4: all of us that we don't trust the media because
Speaker 4: that is going to reap a whirlwind that's not good
Speaker 4: for any of us.
Speaker 2: Put on your whirlwind jacket.
Speaker 4: They caught some more of those escaped convicts that had
Speaker 4: all the help from the various janitors and whatnot.
Speaker 2: They caught some more of them, plus the secret Service
Speaker 2: cat fight. Have you heard about that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Barely. I want to hear more of the Stay tuned.
Speaker 9: Two more escaped inmates from a New Orleans jail were
Speaker 9: taken back into custody. They're capture in Huntsville, Texas, just
Speaker 9: north of Houston. The other inmate caught in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Speaker 9: That makes three inmates in the last twenty four hours
Speaker 9: now back behind bars more than a week after they're
Speaker 9: shocked and escape. Two of the ten fusionists are still
Speaker 9: at large and considered armed and dangerous and street savvy.
Speaker 9: Antoine Massey, with the record of breaking out of jail,
Speaker 9: this one his third escape, and de Gros, who was
Speaker 9: convicted of killing two people. US marshalls say they probably
Speaker 9: aren't acting alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: While I can understand why you don't want to be
Speaker 4: in prison, the success rate of escaping getting out and
Speaker 4: then like staying out for any length of time has
Speaker 4: got to be incredibly low.
Speaker 5: And it's a heck of a gamble because it's not
Speaker 5: like you, uh, just go back and serve out your sentence.
Speaker 5: You got a brand new one rumphed on top for escape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple.
Speaker 4: First of all, Tinder, the online dating app that has
Speaker 4: a certain reputation, is out to change the reputation.
Speaker 2: I can explain that in just a little bit. We
Speaker 2: got this text.
Speaker 4: By the way, on a different topic, guys, I about
Speaker 4: died when I heard.
Speaker 2: How white and old you sounded. Missing Katie.
Speaker 4: Before I even launched into the segment they're about to reference,
Speaker 4: I said, I wish Katie was here.
Speaker 2: She's our young correspondent.
Speaker 4: Yes, when you were trying to pronounce pronounce matcha, it's
Speaker 4: pronounced macha like gotcha, and it's green tea powder, not
Speaker 4: a rice based whatever the hell Joe said.
Speaker 2: At least they got the name right. You'll know some
Speaker 2: alternate drink.
Speaker 4: In my defense, I would say even if I were forty,
Speaker 4: I probably still wouldn't know what this is because it's
Speaker 4: just not my sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sir or madam, I've known him for many many
Speaker 5: years and no, he was like this when he was young.
Speaker 4: And I see, but like I was in San Francisco
Speaker 4: for the weekend and there was a line out the door.
Speaker 4: Any place that's got matcha in the name of the place, Yeah,
Speaker 4: And my son said, his buddy is like, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: he talks about match all the time. He's got one
Speaker 4: friend who's like super whatever's hot music, clothes, drink that.
Speaker 4: You got to be into it BeForever before other people are,
Speaker 4: and then you got to get out of it before
Speaker 4: other people get.
Speaker 2: Out of it. That's not to denounce it. The minute
Speaker 2: you're out of Oh you're still doing that. That's late exactly.
Speaker 2: You have to do that.
Speaker 5: I got him. Okay, So all that's coming up. Fans
Speaker 5: of a high level law enforcement cat fights, boy, do.
Speaker 2: We have the video for you to Secret Service.
Speaker 4: Babes were outside Obama's residence former President Barrick, who say
Speaker 4: Obama in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Last week, and apparently.
Speaker 4: They got into some sort of disagreement and about two
Speaker 4: thirty in the morning, one of them called for a
Speaker 4: supervisor to come immediately quote before I whooped this girl's ass.
Speaker 4: According to an audio recording posted online which we will
Speaker 4: effort getting for you.
Speaker 2: Wow, what had to be over a dude?
Speaker 4: I mean, what would they possibly actually get in a
Speaker 4: fight about.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. You're there, it's two thirty in
Speaker 5: the morning. A little disagreement flares up. Maybe somebody told
Speaker 5: somebody to do something they resented.
Speaker 2: The top knows. I guess that could be. I've seen
Speaker 2: the videotape though, and it was.
Speaker 4: You know, when a fight is just one half an
Speaker 4: inch short of haymakers raining down on heads where they're
Speaker 4: shoving and aggressive wrestling and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: It got to that point, actually we're shoving. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 5: It was a physical conflict, the two of them in
Speaker 5: their bulletproof vests and everything.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't want to go DEI, but.
Speaker 4: These You are not Secret Service outside a former president's
Speaker 4: house material. If you're going to get in a fight
Speaker 4: with a cowork over some sort of beef, you are
Speaker 4: not cut out for that job.
Speaker 5: The individuals The Secret Services said the individuals involved were
Speaker 5: suspended from duty in this matter is the subject of
Speaker 5: an internal investigation. The Secret Service has a very strict
Speaker 5: code of conduct for all employees. In any favor that
Speaker 5: violates that code is unacceptable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's well, and I would say it is another
Speaker 4: black eye for the Secret Service.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had a few.
Speaker 4: So the guy who's running Tender now says he wants
Speaker 4: to change your reputation from a hookup app. I've never
Speaker 4: online dated and I probably never will, so I only
Speaker 4: know everything anecdotally from what people have said. But it
Speaker 4: being a hookup app, he says, if gen X was
Speaker 4: into that, gen Z is not. It's not a hookup generation.
Speaker 4: They don't drink as much, they don't have as much sex.
Speaker 4: We need to change our product and it's going to
Speaker 4: be more about trying to find better matches, not more matches,
Speaker 4: which good luck with that. I think the culture is
Speaker 4: not gonna work for that. But one thing I thought
Speaker 4: was really interesting. They introduced this in Europe and it's
Speaker 4: working well.
Speaker 5: Is double dating you and a friend match up with
Speaker 5: a couple of people and go out.
Speaker 2: I have thoughts on this, but might have to happen
Speaker 2: in an hour. Three Armstrong and Getty