Speaker 1: All right, everybody, we have some absolutely massive breaking news
Speaker 1: which is that much anticipated or speculated about. President Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is stepping back from being the Democratic nominee withdrawing
Speaker 1: from the twenty twenty four race. He will remain as president.
Speaker 1: He is not resigning that position. I'm going to pull
Speaker 1: up for you the letter that he posted, which I'm
Speaker 1: going to be one hundred with you.
Speaker 2: I actually haven't.
Speaker 1: Read yet, so we're going to read it together right
Speaker 1: now in real time, because I wanted to jump on
Speaker 1: and bring you the news as much as possible, and also,
Speaker 1: obviously Ryan Grimm here with us to help us pass
Speaker 1: through what all of this means. So he says, my
Speaker 1: fellow Americans, over the past three and a half years,
Speaker 1: we have made great progress as a nation. Today, America
Speaker 1: has the strongest economy in the world. We've made historic
Speaker 1: investments in rebuilding our nation, in luring prescription drug costs
Speaker 1: for seniors, and expanding affordable healthcare to a record number
Speaker 1: of Americans. We've provided critically needed care to a million
Speaker 1: veterans exposed to toxic subs sinces past. The first gun
Speaker 1: safety law on thirty years pointed the first African American
Speaker 1: woman to the Supreme Court and passed the most significant
Speaker 1: climate legislation in the history of the world. America has
Speaker 1: never been better positioned to lead than we are today.
Speaker 1: I know none of this could have been done without you,
Speaker 1: the American people. Together, we overcame a once in a
Speaker 1: century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Speaker 1: We have protected and preserved our democracy, and we've revitalized
Speaker 1: and strengthened our alliances around the world. It has been
Speaker 1: the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president.
Speaker 1: And while it has been my intention to seek reelection,
Speaker 1: I believe it is in the best interest of my
Speaker 1: party and the country for me to stand down and
Speaker 1: to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for
Speaker 1: the remainder of my term. I will speak to the
Speaker 1: nation later this week in more detail about my decision.
Speaker 1: For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all
Speaker 1: those who have worked so hard to see me reelected.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being
Speaker 1: an extraordinary partner in all this work. Let me express
Speaker 1: my heart felt appreciation to the American people for the
Speaker 1: faith and trust you have placed in me. I believe
Speaker 1: today what I always have, that there is nothing America
Speaker 1: can't do when we do it together. We just have
Speaker 1: to remember we are the United States of America, signed
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. So, Ryan, a few things that jump out
Speaker 1: at me right off the jump. First of all, the
Speaker 1: timing is wild. The RNC just concluded obviously we are
Speaker 1: weeks away from the DNC, so just an extraordinary moment
Speaker 1: in history. Second of all, he is withdrawing from the
Speaker 1: race but remaining as president, not resigning from that position.
Speaker 1: That was a new push that Republicans in particular were
Speaker 1: starting to make, but others as well are saying, listen,
Speaker 1: if you're not fit to run for office, how are
Speaker 1: you fit to continue to serve in the presidency? Number Three,
Speaker 1: While he expresses his gratitude to Kamala Harris, his of course,
Speaker 1: vice president, he does not endorse her or any specific
Speaker 1: process to succeed him as Democratic nominee, here, leaving an
Speaker 1: open question whether he will do any of that or
Speaker 1: just leave it open to what comes next.
Speaker 2: So what is your initial reaction here?
Speaker 3: Yes, all of that, thanking Kamala Harris for being a
Speaker 3: partner in the process, but not endorsing her is huge.
Speaker 3: It opens up the next several days to be a
Speaker 3: period of intense jocking Biden, as has been reported basically everywhere.
Speaker 3: Was that King lear levels of resentment and anger over
Speaker 3: the last several days as he's been being pushed to leave.
Speaker 4: And Griffin did you say something.
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, Griffin says he just endorsed Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4: So breaking news from Griffin.
Speaker 3: That he did not endorse her in the letter but
Speaker 3: waited until afterwards to endorse her might be a way
Speaker 3: to you know, sanctify the dignity of the Oval office
Speaker 3: and not sully it with.
Speaker 2: The political machinations of political machinims.
Speaker 4: That's how democrats think. That is very Democrat brain.
Speaker 3: So now you're going to see the entire Now you're
Speaker 3: going to see a contest between those who are advocating
Speaker 3: for an open convention, such as Nancy Pelosi, such as myself,
Speaker 3: I rarely agree with Nancy Pelosi, and those who say, look,
Speaker 3: it's too chaotic, it's too toxic, it's too late.
Speaker 4: What we need to do.
Speaker 3: Now is just rally behind Kamala Harris and just right,
Speaker 3: you know, ride to the elect ride to the general election.
Speaker 1: So here's the Joe Biden tweet in which he endorses
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. He says, my fellow Democrats, I've decided not
Speaker 1: to accept the nomination to focus all my energies on
Speaker 1: my duties as president for the remainder of my term.
Speaker 1: My very first decision as the party nominee in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty was to pick Kamala Harris as my vice president,
Speaker 1: and it's been the best decision I've made. Today, I
Speaker 1: want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala
Speaker 1: to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats,
Speaker 1: it's time to come together and beat Trump. Let's do this.
Speaker 1: So we'll see whether the strength of Joe Biden's endorsement
Speaker 1: of Kamala is enough to completely quiet those like Pelosi
Speaker 1: who reportedly, behind the scenes, had been pushing for an
Speaker 1: open convention process. I suspect that many of the donors
Speaker 1: also are interested in that open convention process. The reason
Speaker 1: being that, I mean, if you look at the polling,
Speaker 1: one of the weakest candidates to run against Trump not
Speaker 1: named Joe Biden is Kamala Harris, at least according to
Speaker 1: the polling today. Now listen, none of that is set
Speaker 1: in stone. She may be sort of I think underappreciated
Speaker 1: at the moment, given the fact that she just hasn't
Speaker 1: been in the public spotlight that much. You could see
Speaker 1: a bump just based on the fact, oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's not a thousand years old and she can string
Speaker 1: three sentences together.
Speaker 2: This, this is incredible.
Speaker 1: But if you're just going by the data at this point,
Speaker 1: you would look at her compared to a Gretchen Whitmer,
Speaker 1: a Pete Bootage, a Gavin Newsom, Andy Basher, a Josh Shapiro,
Speaker 1: a Roy Coo. The list goes on and on and on,
Speaker 1: and say, if you're just concerned with defeating Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: any one of these other candidates is likely to be
Speaker 1: in a stronger position. The other thing with regards to
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, I mean, there are a few things to
Speaker 1: mention here. Obviously, it goes without saying that her defenders
Speaker 1: will say that it is outrageous to shove aside the
Speaker 1: first female woman vice president, black woman vice president. They
Speaker 1: will also say voters in the primary, which you know,
Speaker 1: let's put aside the fact there really wasn't a primary,
Speaker 1: but they voted for Biden Harris, so she has more
Speaker 1: democratic legitimacy. This is the case that they would make
Speaker 1: for why she should be the presumptive nominee.
Speaker 2: So there's that.
Speaker 1: There's also the fact that she's been in the public eye,
Speaker 1: so perhaps she's better vetted than other potential candidates who
Speaker 1: could be a wildcard. On the flip side of all
Speaker 1: of that, Ryan, you know she also we know her weaknesses,
Speaker 1: we know the negatives, and we also know based on
Speaker 1: polling that the people who are most closely associated with
Speaker 1: the Biden administration really have a weight around their neck
Speaker 1: at this point, especially because of the sense of betrayal
Speaker 1: of this administration and the level of cover up that
Speaker 1: they perpetrated on the American public visa via his health concerns.
Speaker 3: Yea, and I think the argument that she's been vetted
Speaker 3: is one of the flimsiest, and that she's been a
Speaker 3: national figure. It's true that she was vetted during the
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen twenty twenty campaign and she absolutely withered under
Speaker 3: the heat of it. So it's not like she was
Speaker 3: vetted and then succeeded in even making it to Iowa,
Speaker 3: like she dropped out before Iowa, because once national tension
Speaker 3: was on her, she crumbled. She was then picked by Biden,
Speaker 3: not as he says, because he thinks she'd be a
Speaker 3: great president, but because that's what he wanted to add to.
Speaker 4: The ticket for electoral purposes.
Speaker 3: There hasn't been a whole lot of focus on her,
Speaker 3: you know, during the Biden Harris administration, to the extent
Speaker 3: it was was about her comment do not come about immigration,
Speaker 3: or you know, her effort to do voting rights she got.
Speaker 3: She kept getting handed these really impossible tasks, which is
Speaker 3: often what presidents do. That's what Obama did to Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: The most scrutiny she got was over her massive staff turmoil. Now, journalistically,
Speaker 3: if Kamal Harris does win, it could be delightful for
Speaker 3: reporters because you know, the vice president's office has been
Speaker 3: toxic and chaotic and filled with leaks. Less so in
Speaker 3: the last you know, six months or so, but for
Speaker 3: most of the Biden administration.
Speaker 4: Her office was just a disaster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just with people rotating in and out constantly and
Speaker 3: leaving and trashing the culture there, which is exactly what
Speaker 3: happened during the campaign. Remember New York Times and Political
Speaker 3: and others did the tiktoks about her campaign talking about
Speaker 3: how what a train wreck the entire thing was. Now,
Speaker 3: the reason I think that you're not going to end
Speaker 3: up with an open convention is because people like Pelosi
Speaker 3: can manifest the possibility of it, because they have enough
Speaker 3: power to do that, but they can't force anybody to run,
Speaker 3: and that these centrist Democratic candidates are so cowardly and
Speaker 3: cynical and calculating that I don't think, I hope I'm
Speaker 3: proven wrong here. I don't think any of them will
Speaker 3: even challenge Kamala Harris. My understanding is that they believe
Speaker 3: that because she has establishment endorsements and she's the vice president,
Speaker 3: that she's very difficult to beat, that they will likely
Speaker 3: lose to her, that they would be seen as disloyal,
Speaker 3: and that Harris will lose in the general that they
Speaker 3: would be blamed for her loss or the fact that
Speaker 3: they challenge her, and loss would be considered their.
Speaker 4: Shot, like hey, hey, you had your shot.
Speaker 3: You pulled your ticket, you got your order, get in
Speaker 3: the back of line, and so everybody else. So everybody's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: let's let her lose and then we will run in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight, which of course flies in the face
Speaker 3: of all the Democratic arguments that they make that there
Speaker 3: won't be a twenty twenty eight elections, Like, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: which one is it here?
Speaker 1: So I want to come back to this, but I
Speaker 1: do want to back up for a second and just
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Joe Biden's decision making process
Speaker 1: and these extraordinary past several weeks. Obviously, this all began
Speaker 1: with that utterly disastrous debate performance, which Ryan, I want
Speaker 1: to give you an eye will pat on the back
Speaker 1: because in our pre debate coverage, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember this, I think we both were saying that
Speaker 1: there is a possibility that he's so bad tonight that
Speaker 1: it is not recoverable.
Speaker 3: And I haven't said a bunch of Democrats were like
Speaker 3: secretly hoping for well.
Speaker 1: Thing, that it would be such a disaster. That's right,
Speaker 1: and that is what unfolds now. I didn't actually expect
Speaker 1: it to be that bad. I thought it would be bad,
Speaker 1: but in the way that.
Speaker 2: It did.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be bad in the way that
Speaker 1: he's normally bad. But it was, you know, an extra
Speaker 1: special level of bad, and that has just sent the
Speaker 1: whole party into a total tail spin. So first you had,
Speaker 1: you know, you had some some early comments that even
Speaker 1: people like David Axerod, you had some immediate jumping on
Speaker 1: saying this can't this isn't going to work.
Speaker 2: We got to do something else.
Speaker 1: Then you had some lower level members of Congress predominantly
Speaker 1: come out and say, all right, it's time for him
Speaker 1: to move on. Just a handful, right, few who came out,
Speaker 1: sort of these you know, little known moderate types. Then
Speaker 1: you started to have the you had the George Clooney
Speaker 1: op ed, and you start to get leaks behind the
Speaker 1: scenes about pressure from donors, about some higher level Democratic
Speaker 1: officials who believed that he needed to step aside. Very
Speaker 1: early on, we had reporting that Schumer was actually glad
Speaker 1: that the debate was so early because he thought that
Speaker 1: this was actually a possibility and wanted to have enough
Speaker 1: time to be able to get another candidate in there.
Speaker 1: So this is happening behind the scenes. But Biden and
Speaker 1: his close in circle were talking Jill Hunter, his sister,
Speaker 1: Steve Ruschetti, Mike Donald, and just a few others outside
Speaker 1: of that are seemingly totally dug in and impervious to
Speaker 1: all of it and just saying absolutely not, I'm in
Speaker 1: on the nominee I'm doing these rallies. I'm going to
Speaker 1: prove it to you. I'm going to do my big
Speaker 1: boy press conference, et cetera. But and then Trump's attempted
Speaker 1: assassination occurs. It sort of quiets the talk for a while.
Speaker 1: At that point, I thought, oh, this is over. This
Speaker 1: is the conversation is over. It's not coming back. That's it.
Speaker 1: But while the conversation was quiet, there was a lot
Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes. And when the fallout from
Speaker 1: Trump's assassination attempt quiets, then you get these more public
Speaker 1: reports and Nancy Pelosi Obama seems to be a primary
Speaker 1: mover and this as well, who decided to go more
Speaker 1: public with their views which had been largely behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: We also had reports about the way the donor cash
Speaker 1: had just fallen off a cliff. We're talking he was
Speaker 1: bringing in twenty five percent of what he had been previously.
Speaker 1: There's donor efforts going on, and so the sense is,
Speaker 1: and then he gets his COVID diagnosis, The sense is,
Speaker 1: and you tell me your view of how this all unfolded,
Speaker 1: that while he very much wanted to stay in, his
Speaker 1: family very much wanted him to stay in, he came
Speaker 1: to a point where you just.
Speaker 2: Realized, there is no way that I can win.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be out here on an island with
Speaker 1: every major leader and powerbroker in the party against me.
Speaker 1: Every Democratic member of Congress and swing state Democrat is
Speaker 1: going to be running against me. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: have money to run ads, and those ads have been
Speaker 1: significantly keeping him afloat to the extent that he's even
Speaker 1: competitive at this point. There is just no way I
Speaker 1: can persist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think he could have held on with
Speaker 3: some cojin appearances after the debate, like it was on
Speaker 3: a razor's edge, Like if he would have come out
Speaker 3: and done nightly press conferences and handled them well. If
Speaker 3: he had done if he'd have done better in the
Speaker 3: Lesser Whole interview, if he'd done better in the George
Speaker 3: step Monopolis interview, if he'd have done better even at
Speaker 3: the NATO press conference where people praised them because you
Speaker 3: remember the names of the countries correctly half the time,
Speaker 3: then he could have survived. But it's not that he
Speaker 3: was nervous, or it was in poor form or whatever.
Speaker 4: He just couldn't.
Speaker 3: He wasn't physically and mentally capable of delivering the kind
Speaker 3: of performance that people needed to say, Okay, you know what,
Speaker 3: you had a bad night, rather than you know, you
Speaker 3: have a degenerative neurological condition. And also the neurologists have
Speaker 3: been saying that one of the symptoms of all of these.
Speaker 4: Different degenerative conditions, regardless of which one he.
Speaker 3: Has, is a rapidly increased amount of stubbornness and a
Speaker 3: col apse of in executive functioning. And anybody who's dealt
Speaker 3: with family members at that stage of their life recognize
Speaker 3: that that increased stubbornness. And for some people who are
Speaker 3: already stubborn, like at Joe Biden, people might think, oh,
Speaker 3: that's just Joe Biden being Joe, but it's actually it's
Speaker 3: beyond Joe. It's stubborness beyond him. So the amount of
Speaker 3: force that was must have been required to get him
Speaker 3: to this place is almost you know, unimaginable.
Speaker 2: That there is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was also so much behind the scenes. I'm
Speaker 1: just sort of scanning Twitter now to see what, you know,
Speaker 1: other reactions were getting in. But there was also so
Speaker 1: much behind the scenes about First of all, you had
Speaker 1: a lot of people coming forward and saying, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: with that, how he was at that debate. This was
Speaker 1: what Clooney said in his op ed, and then others
Speaker 1: came out to verify it. What he was at that debate.
Speaker 1: That's who he is now, so you know, and then
Speaker 1: all those pieces, why didn't you do the super Bowl interview?
Speaker 1: Why was he wondering away at the G seven? Why
Speaker 1: did he forget this former Congress, this congress when Jackie
Speaker 1: who had just died weeks ago, Why did he forget
Speaker 1: that she was dead? All of these pieces come together
Speaker 1: and it's really as unseeable. The other thing that came
Speaker 1: out is just the lingering, utter bitterness that he has
Speaker 1: towards Barack Obama, and he was really incensed that. So
Speaker 1: it's Davild Axelrod who sort of leads the charge early
Speaker 1: on the Podsave Bros who are Obama world guys through
Speaker 1: and through, are aggressively leading the charge. Then you have
Speaker 1: the Clooney op ed. Clooney also seen as being like
Speaker 1: a cipher for Barack Obama, the Obama Yeah that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Reporting comes out that he's in touch with Obama. And
Speaker 1: then you get reports specifically about Obama now talking to
Speaker 1: people essentially saying yeah, he needs to step aside, and
Speaker 1: Joe and Obama have always had this sort of fraught
Speaker 1: relationship because I think while it was true that they
Speaker 1: had a good working relationship while he was vice president,
Speaker 1: there was also always this sense that Joe felt he
Speaker 1: was looked down upon because you got Obama, this Ivy
Speaker 1: League guy with the super smart brainiac crew, and Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: who's this more old school backslapping, like personal relationship type
Speaker 1: of politician. And those two styles were like oil and water,
Speaker 1: and Biden went to a state school and all of
Speaker 1: those sort of like class driven dynamics as well. So
Speaker 1: you know, the irony here, Ryan that cannot be lost
Speaker 1: is that it was Barack Obama that brings him to
Speaker 1: the dance in the first place by being his vice
Speaker 1: like picking him his vice president. Then he really brings
Speaker 1: him to the dance in the second place by helping
Speaker 1: to clear the field for him when the whole Democratic
Speaker 1: Party establishment unites in order to defeat Bernie Sanders, and
Speaker 1: he ends up being the guy. And so for all
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden's talk recently about all the elites are
Speaker 1: trying to take me ont et cetera, et cetera, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: your entire presidency was based on the strength of the
Speaker 1: elites in this party. So if he had some sort
Speaker 1: of a ground swell of grassroots support, if he had
Speaker 1: run through a real democratic primary process where he'd had
Speaker 1: to be on a debate stage, and where the field
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, cleared for any of the other establishment
Speaker 1: contenders who are chomping at the bit. If he had
Speaker 1: done those things and had actual democratic support and a
Speaker 1: grassroots fundraising base, then he wouldn't have ended up in
Speaker 1: this place where he cannot go forward without the very
Speaker 1: elites who are the ones who brought him here and
Speaker 1: propped him up and hid his condition, by the way
Speaker 1: in the first place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nineteen eighty eight he ran, and it was a
Speaker 3: humiliating defeat. Two thousand and eight he ran slow, single
Speaker 3: digits and exactly right. Was then rescued by Obama and
Speaker 3: put on the ticket. Twenty twenty, he ran, finished fourth
Speaker 3: in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire, absolutely clabberd in Nevada,
Speaker 3: and then brought back to life by Obama and Jim Clyburn,
Speaker 3: right ahead of South Carolina and Super Tuesday. So as
Speaker 3: as Congress and Adam Smith said, it is extraordinarily rich
Speaker 3: for Biden to complain that elites, you know, we're orchestrating
Speaker 3: his ouster when, like you said, elites are the only
Speaker 3: reason he became either vice president or president. Right, there
Speaker 3: was there was no The American people had the opportunity
Speaker 3: to name him president multiple times before and decide not
Speaker 3: to only when he was. You know, the alternative being
Speaker 3: Bernie is what is what got the elites.
Speaker 2: To say they got him to focus.
Speaker 1: All right, I guess they've got no choice. I've got
Speaker 1: a John Fetterman reaction for you, Ryan, if you'd like it,
Speaker 1: He says. This is This is from Dave Weigel's Twitter account.
Speaker 1: He says, people push down an honorable man, loving father
Speaker 1: and a great president before an absolute sleeze ball like Menendez. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: So Fetterman, Yeah, fair enough, he shouldn't be in the Senate.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 1: Although it's funny because it's actually the Republicans who seemingly
Speaker 1: want to rescue Menendez because they don't like, you know,
Speaker 1: going after people for their corruption. They're afraid it looks
Speaker 1: bad on their guys. So I saw a shoot. I
Speaker 1: was just looking for. I do see a Schumer statement,
Speaker 1: But I'm not coming across it right now, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure that we'll get, you know, statements from all of
Speaker 1: the high ranking politicians. I see Jamal Bowman here, he says,
Speaker 1: now that President Biden has suspended his campaign, vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is the most qualified and best choice to
Speaker 1: lead us forward. So that is definitely where the debate
Speaker 1: is going to head next. And you know, to go
Speaker 1: back to that. Oh, I see doctor Jill Biden tweeted
Speaker 1: out Joe's letter with just a heart emoji, so that
Speaker 1: was her reaction to his decision. Here Jon Favreau, one
Speaker 1: of the Pod Save guys, he says, a courageous and
Speaker 1: selfless decision. The president did what he's done for the
Speaker 1: last four years. He listened to the American people, but
Speaker 1: the country's interests ahead of his own. The exact opposite
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Not surprised by that framing, obviously, I
Speaker 1: strenuously disagree because all of this like, oh, he's such
Speaker 1: a great man, he's so selfless, blah blah blah. Tell
Speaker 1: that to the babies who don't have limbs or their
Speaker 1: lives or food to eat in Gaza. So spare me
Speaker 1: that one. And I do want to ask you about that,
Speaker 1: because not that I have great hopes that Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: or any one of these Democrats is going to be like,
Speaker 1: you know, shown up with a watermelon T shirt anytime soon,
Speaker 1: or affirmatively like truly pro Palestine. But I am I
Speaker 1: am somewhat hopeful that they may be less terrible than
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has been, simply because first of all, I
Speaker 1: do think there's an age issue, you know, I think
Speaker 1: anyone younger has, at least like Barack Obama did, has
Speaker 1: at least somewhat of a different view of this conflict.
Speaker 2: That's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two Bibi Netanya, who has turned himself into a
Speaker 1: partisan figure, and this started in the Obama administration when
Speaker 1: he shows up speaks to Congress in order to try
Speaker 1: to block the Iranian nuclear deal, which in my opinion,
Speaker 1: was one of the greatest accomplishments of the Obama Biden administration.
Speaker 1: It's no secret that bib would rather have Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in office. So I am somewhat hopeful that just an
Speaker 1: out of the box, normy Democrat of the sort that
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris basically is, would view this through more of
Speaker 1: a partisan lens in a way that happens to be
Speaker 1: somewhat more pro Palestine or less just like fervently pro Israel.
Speaker 1: They can do whatever they want, whenever they want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then Joe Biden has been who is clearly ideologically dug
Speaker 1: in on this issue.
Speaker 3: I think this is the end of an era of
Speaker 3: democratic ideological fealty that leads to one on apologetic support
Speaker 3: for Israel. I think, obviously, the the I think obviously
Speaker 3: like the Democrats, will lean heavily towards Israel. But it
Speaker 3: won't be It won't be in the Biden like Biden,
Speaker 3: It'll be Palestinians at least.
Speaker 4: Will have a shot. Hey, our buddy Dmitri Melhorn just
Speaker 4: sent me his statement.
Speaker 1: Remind people who's demetrious misch Melhorn was.
Speaker 3: He was Reid Hoffman's right hand man up until they
Speaker 3: parted ways just a couple of days ago, and now
Speaker 3: he joined the Lincoln project. Read Hoffman the Lincoln billionaire.
Speaker 3: Melhorne says, Kamala Harris is the American dream personified, daughter
Speaker 3: of immigrants who met at cal She has also toughness personified,
Speaker 3: rising from my hometown of Oakland, California, to become the
Speaker 3: top prosecutor of the state was grant and Joe stepping back.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to help elect president Harris. That's your
Speaker 3: kind of Lincoln Project centrist community.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 1: I've got a ron Klain tweet for you here. Now
Speaker 1: that the donors and electeds have pushed out the only
Speaker 1: candidate who has ever beaten Trump run claim of course,
Speaker 1: being Biden's initial chief of staff, it's time to end
Speaker 1: the political fantasy games and unite behind the only veteran
Speaker 1: of a national campaign, our outstanding VP Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Let's get real and win in November.
Speaker 1: You also, you don't have a number of the coconut
Speaker 1: pilled lefty crew who are excited about the gabblers endorsement.
Speaker 1: I like you, Ryan, agree that it would be better
Speaker 1: listen the time to have an actually democratic process. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: they passed by Well they've got five weeks, right, but
Speaker 1: we could have had like actual primaries and a normal
Speaker 1: process if they hadn't been so committed to hiding Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's true health condition from the American people with.
Speaker 4: His whole I'm going to be a bridge candidate one
Speaker 4: term they primary. That is going to get my.
Speaker 1: Uber great point as well. All right, why don't you
Speaker 1: drop off and I'll wrap this up. Ryan's going to
Speaker 1: be in a studio with me tomorrow. By Ryan then,
Speaker 1: So in any cases we were saying, you know, if
Speaker 1: they had had a true primary process, then there was
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do this in actual democratic fashion. They
Speaker 1: decided to not have any debates, They decided to not
Speaker 1: even house a primary in many states. They decided to
Speaker 1: really circle the wagon is to make sure that no
Speaker 1: establishment candidate, you know, national competitor could emerge from that process.
Speaker 1: And so now you're left with this very short time frame,
Speaker 1: just a number of weeks before the DNC convention, and
Speaker 1: so I think it is very likely at this point
Speaker 1: that you know, the wagons basically get circled around Kamala.
Speaker 1: Ryan is probably correct that just as they decided to
Speaker 1: take a pass in the fall after the midterms, any
Speaker 1: of the larger named national establishment Democrat figures will probably
Speaker 1: also take a pass and decide it is in their
Speaker 1: personal political self interest just to get behind Kamala. That's
Speaker 1: probably what we're going to see. So in terms of
Speaker 1: her odds for the fall, you know, I think probably
Speaker 1: tomorrow Ryan and I are gonna have to totally reschedule
Speaker 1: our show, like figure out what we're having in the
Speaker 1: show tomorrow, because we had a run down locked in
Speaker 1: that looked very nice. But now obviously that's totally different
Speaker 1: world that we're living in today. But I suspect we'll
Speaker 1: go through the polling about how she matches up Visa v. Trump,
Speaker 1: and look, she's got an uphill climb. You know, she's
Speaker 1: starting the campaign late. Now they've sort of got the
Speaker 1: campaign in the box. They know how they want to
Speaker 1: run against Donald Trump. The public Larrety very much has
Speaker 1: feelings about Donald Trump, and those feelings are largely negative. However,
Speaker 1: she has been she has had her own weaknesses as
Speaker 1: a national candidate. She is tied to the Biden Harris administration,
Speaker 1: which is unpopular, not you know, solely because partly because
Speaker 1: of the lies and the cover up in the betrayal
Speaker 1: of American people Visavi his health condition. So she has
Speaker 1: a lot to overcome. But you know, looking today, unless
Speaker 1: there is a major organized like Dodor revolt Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: at all coming out to not only push the president aside,
Speaker 1: but also push aside his vice president and the woman
Speaker 1: that he just endorsed, I think it's very likely that
Speaker 1: we are going to have Vice President Kamala Harris sliding
Speaker 1: into the top spot as the Democratic nominee, and then
Speaker 1: that raises questions about who she will pick as her
Speaker 1: vice president contender. There has been a lot of speculation
Speaker 1: about this already. Roy Cooper, the governor of North Carolina,
Speaker 1: has been mentioned quite a bit. Andy Basher, the governor
Speaker 1: of Kentucky, who is quite popular in Kentucky even as
Speaker 1: a Democrat, one of actually the most popular governors in
Speaker 1: the country, even as a Democrat in a red state,
Speaker 1: He has been mentioned quite a bit. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: will will be other names that are added to that
Speaker 1: potential list. I did see a report as well that
Speaker 1: donors were funding an effort to go ahead and vet
Speaker 1: some of these possible vice presidential picks. So some other
Speaker 1: things for us to take a deeper look at tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I'll just wrap it here from now. I got
Speaker 1: a million thoughts. I could go on all day, but
Speaker 1: I want to get this video posted so I can
Speaker 1: get it out to you all too. Bottom line, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden withdrawing from the presidential race, endorsing his vice president
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, and we are in unprecedented Times,