Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, some major breaking news tonight. President Biden has
Speaker 1: now sat for his very first television interview since his
Speaker 1: disastrous debate performance and since calls from Democrats from behind
Speaker 1: closed doors some in front have called for him to
Speaker 1: drop out of the race. First, and foremost, ABC News
Speaker 1: George Stephanopolos asked him, so, what the hell happened? What
Speaker 1: went wrong in that debate? Biden is sticking with the
Speaker 1: excuse that he had a bad cold and blaming international travel,
Speaker 1: even though he had return to the United States some
Speaker 1: eleven to twelve days prior to the debate.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to that answer.
Speaker 3: Let's start with the debate.
Speaker 4: You and your team have said you had a bad night,
Speaker 4: but your friend Nancy Pelosi actually framed the question, and
Speaker 4: I think is on the minds of millions of Americans.
Speaker 4: Was this a bad episode with a sign of a
Speaker 4: more serious condition.
Speaker 5: It's a bad episode, not in a case in any
Speaker 5: serious condition. I was exhausted. I did listen to my
Speaker 5: INDs thinks in terms of prepared.
Speaker 3: You say you were exhausted, and I know you've said
Speaker 3: that before as well, but you came and you did
Speaker 3: have a tough mind. But you came home from Europe
Speaker 3: about eleven or twelve days before the debate, spent six
Speaker 3: days in camp, David, Why wasn't that enough rest time,
Speaker 3: enough recovery time?
Speaker 5: Because I was sick. I was feeling terrible. Matter of fact,
Speaker 5: the docs with me. I asked if they did a
Speaker 5: COVID test, But you were trying to figure out what's wrong.
Speaker 5: You did a test to see whether or not I
Speaker 5: had some infection and know lirus. I didn't just sound
Speaker 5: a really.
Speaker 2: Bad cold, all right.
Speaker 1: So, as you can see, he's sticking to that excuse
Speaker 1: about the quote unquote bad cold. The second moment that
Speaker 1: really caught everybody's eye. Keep in mind, this is only
Speaker 1: the first two minutes and it was released by ABC's.
Speaker 1: When he's asked, so, did you even watch the debate?
Speaker 1: He cannot remember whether he watched the debate. He spaces out,
Speaker 1: looks off into the distance for almost a full five seconds,
Speaker 1: can barely answer, and then basically musters up. It was
Speaker 1: a bad episode, that's what it was. Let's just stick
Speaker 1: with that, and I am moving forward. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3: Did you ever watch the debate? Afterwards?
Speaker 5: I don't think I did?
Speaker 2: Know, well, what I'm trying.
Speaker 3: What I want to get at is what were you
Speaker 3: experiencing as you were going through the debate? Did you
Speaker 3: know how badly it was going?
Speaker 5: Yeah, look the whole way I prepared nobody's fault mind,
Speaker 5: nobody's fault of mind. I prepared what I usually would do,
Speaker 5: sitting down as I did, come back foreign leaders or
Speaker 5: the National Security Council for explicit details. And I realized
Speaker 5: part way through that, you know, although I did get
Speaker 5: quoted The New York Times had me down at ten
Speaker 5: points before the debate nine now or whatever the hell
Speaker 5: it is, the fact of the matter is that what
Speaker 5: I looked at is that he also lied twenty eight times.
Speaker 5: I couldn't. I mean, the way the debate ran not
Speaker 5: my fault, nobody else, is all no one else's.
Speaker 4: But it seemed like you were having trouble from the
Speaker 4: first question in even before he spoke, well, I just had.
Speaker 2: A bad night, Okay.
Speaker 1: So that those were the two flagship moments from the
Speaker 1: debate that occurred just in the first two minutes. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and break down the rest of it
Speaker 1: for you, and I have some of my notes in
Speaker 1: front of me. As I was watching it live. It's
Speaker 1: approbably me about eight thirty five pm here on the
Speaker 1: East Coast. So what happened is is that President Biden
Speaker 1: was asked a full three times by ABC News whether
Speaker 1: he would be whether he would commit to a cognitive test.
Speaker 1: He refused multiple times to say yes. He just kept saying, quote,
Speaker 1: I've already done it, pointing to his job performance as
Speaker 1: evidence that he was cognitively good enough to do the job.
Speaker 1: He was similarly asked whether he would commit to a
Speaker 1: neurological exam. Even though he referenced his check up, he
Speaker 1: has not had a full neurological makeup looking for dementior
Speaker 1: any other signs of aging Alzheimer related diseases. He said
Speaker 1: again that the full neurological test he takes is his
Speaker 1: work every day as president. There was one moment that
Speaker 1: really caught my eye. ABC News quote, are you more frail?
Speaker 1: President Biden? No, come keep my schedule. Keep in mind
Speaker 1: this is from the person who we have now learned
Speaker 1: had to take multiple afternoon naps during his debate, perform
Speaker 1: a debate preparation, had to take two full days off
Speaker 1: go to his beach house, and frankly had an entire
Speaker 1: week to prepare with advisors at Camp David doing absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing even ahead of his debate. There was also a
Speaker 1: few other moments which really caught my eye here as
Speaker 1: they got very deep into Biden's psychology. I'm going to
Speaker 1: read again directly, Are you being honest about your ability
Speaker 1: to defeat Donald Trump?
Speaker 2: Biden?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes. He said that the polls were not
Speaker 1: accurate showing him losing to Donald Trump. ABC News challenged him, saying,
Speaker 1: mister President, I have never seen a president with a
Speaker 1: thirty six percent approval rating. Get reelected that his own
Speaker 1: internal polls showed something different. He says he is going
Speaker 1: to challenge Donald Trump in a way that he's never
Speaker 1: been challenged before, and he hasn't done it yet because
Speaker 1: he's been too busy with foreign affairs. He also claimed
Speaker 1: that every polster that he talks to says that he
Speaker 1: is in a toss up. So I mean Biden is
Speaker 1: full on delusional. I mean, every single major, high quality,
Speaker 1: even frankly low quality poll at this point shows him
Speaker 1: losing significantly to Donald Trump. Every single poll that has
Speaker 1: come out after the debate has only showed Trump expanding
Speaker 1: his lead over Joe Biden. George Stephanoppolos at ABC actually,
Speaker 1: to his credit, pressed him on that and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, how exactly is this going to get done?
Speaker 1: And he just continued to point to enthusiasm in a
Speaker 1: very Trumpian move. Actually, he said, have you ever seen
Speaker 1: anybody draw as big of a crowd as me? Keep
Speaker 1: in mind, at a frankly small gymnasium that he was
Speaker 1: just at at a campaign event in Wisconsin. ABC was like,
Speaker 1: I don't think you want to play that game, because
Speaker 1: Donald Trump also draws very large crowds. Continuing this is
Speaker 1: perhaps the most significant, Biden claimed that democratic discontent over
Speaker 1: his candidacy is just something that he's seen from the press. Now,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, there's only been a few public officials.
Speaker 1: Now I think it's one or two members of the
Speaker 1: House of Representatives that have come out and said that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden should drop out of the race. Senator Mark
Speaker 1: Warner allegedly behind the scenes, is trying to organize a
Speaker 1: group of senators to try and tell Biden to drop out.
Speaker 1: Biden was asked to respond to that, and he just said,
Speaker 1: Mark is a good man.
Speaker 2: Keep this in mind.
Speaker 1: I'm taking that with a grain of salt, because Mark
Speaker 1: Warner has not come out and said that publicly. That
Speaker 1: is something that has simply just been leaked to the
Speaker 1: Washington Post. Continuing on President Biden just said that the
Speaker 1: vast majority of Democrats want him to run again. He says,
Speaker 1: had his internal polls show a different approval rating. I mean,
Speaker 1: much of the answers here just show a man who
Speaker 1: is completely shrouded in delusion, who has convinced himself with
Speaker 1: visions of grandeur. I mean, he was asked why he
Speaker 1: wouldn't step aside for a stronger candidate, and he claimed
Speaker 1: that he was the strongest candidate. I mean, one of
Speaker 1: the most poignant moments actually came near the end of
Speaker 1: the interview. I'm going to go ahead and play it
Speaker 1: for you, guys. George Defanopplis asked him, if you stay
Speaker 1: in and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about
Speaker 1: comes to pass, how you will feel in January? Here
Speaker 1: is what Joe Biden had to say.
Speaker 3: And if you stay in and Trump is elected and
Speaker 3: everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you
Speaker 3: feel in January?
Speaker 5: I feel as long as I gave it my all
Speaker 5: and I did the goodest jobs I know I can do,
Speaker 5: That's what this is about, looks George, think it to
Speaker 5: this way. You've heard me say this before. I think
Speaker 5: the United States and the world is as an inflection point. Well,
Speaker 5: the things that happened the next seven years are going
Speaker 5: to turn out the next six to seven decades in quiet.
Speaker 5: And who's going to be able to hold natter together
Speaker 5: like me? Who's going to be able to be in
Speaker 5: a position where I'm able to keep a Pacific basin
Speaker 5: in a position where we're at least check Benny China.
Speaker 2: Now, who's going to do Who's going to do that?
Speaker 5: Who has that reach?
Speaker 2: Who has who.
Speaker 5: Knows all these we're going to have? I guess a
Speaker 5: good way to judge me is you're going to have
Speaker 5: now the NATO conference here in the United States next week.
Speaker 5: Come listen, it's gonna what they.
Speaker 2: Said, all right.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's putting it all out on the line.
Speaker 1: He basically thinks everybody is being a bedwetter. He thinks
Speaker 1: that all of these people are freaking out for no reason,
Speaker 1: that he's got plenty of tricks left up his sleeve.
Speaker 1: He was asked again twice of not only about his
Speaker 1: cognitive ability, but can you really keep doing this job?
Speaker 1: For four more years after this, and he would point
Speaker 1: to his accomplishments and I will say this like, this
Speaker 1: is my own personal, you know thing. He The number
Speaker 1: one thing he always brags about throughout this entire interview
Speaker 1: is expanding NATO, as if that's something that we're supposed
Speaker 1: to brag about. Bright expanding the US nuclear security umbrella
Speaker 1: and increasing the likelihood of war was part of our
Speaker 1: disastrous policy in Ukraine. He also at one point bragged
Speaker 1: about a peace plan in the Middle East. Anyone want
Speaker 1: check in over on the Middle East, tell me exactly
Speaker 1: what's going on there. I mean, some of the answers
Speaker 1: here are just they're insane. I guess ABC. To their
Speaker 1: credit they say, look, we released the full interview. There
Speaker 1: was no edits. But I mean, this is where I
Speaker 1: have to hit them a little bit. Twenty two minutes, guys,
Speaker 1: twenty two minutes, just to give people some, you know,
Speaker 1: some behind the scenes. I interviewed Donald Trump four separate
Speaker 1: times in the Oval Office over the span of two years.
Speaker 1: Not one of those interviews was less than thirty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Not one was less than thirty five minutes. I believe
Speaker 1: the longest one was an hour and six minutes. Now, sure,
Speaker 1: that's certainly a little bit atypical just because it was Trump,
Speaker 1: and you know, I guess there's some difference between camera
Speaker 1: as well, But I mean he sat for hour long interviews.
Speaker 1: He more recently did podcasts, and more so, twenty two
Speaker 1: minutes in this business is a joke. It is especially
Speaker 1: a joke coming from the man who just basically melted
Speaker 1: down on stage over a ninety minute debate and then
Speaker 1: waited eight nine days to do a twenty two measly interview.
Speaker 1: I can also report to you, guys, we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking a lot about this on Monday, that he
Speaker 1: will be doing a full press conference, solo press conference
Speaker 1: to allay everybody's concerns. Yeah, I guess when it is
Speaker 1: on Thursday. So he needed a week to prepare for
Speaker 1: the debate. Then he needed a week to prepare, you know,
Speaker 1: outside of his ten major events, which we're all just
Speaker 1: campaign events, reading off of a teleprompter, where he keeps
Speaker 1: just saying there's no way I'm going to drop out.
Speaker 1: There's no way I'm going to drop out, even as
Speaker 1: a groundswell of opinion, you know, starts to mount against him.
Speaker 1: What comes through to me everywhere I've gone this week,
Speaker 1: at literally everywhere, barbershop, jim where, you know, wherever I am,
Speaker 1: and public people are asking me. They're like, hey, so
Speaker 1: do you think that Biden is going to drop out?
Speaker 1: I'll repeat you know what I put out there already
Speaker 1: is that I will never bet against Joe Biden's arrogance.
Speaker 1: And his arrogance came through so much throughout this very
Speaker 1: very short interview. My personal favorite moment is George Deefhanoppolis
Speaker 1: asked him, so, who.
Speaker 2: Could get you to drop out?
Speaker 1: And he just said, the Lord Almighty, And he's not
Speaker 1: coming down so absent the Lord Almighty, he's not going anywhere. Maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, there could be a democratic revolt and other
Speaker 1: things that happened behind the scenes, but guys, I can
Speaker 1: tell you he is clinging to this, honestly, even harder
Speaker 1: than he probably he was before. He brought up that
Speaker 1: the press and everybody had counted him out beforehand in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and in twenty twenty two. He's basically sticking
Speaker 1: to a theory that all of the polls are wrong,
Speaker 1: that he's been an incredible, amazing president, that the policies
Speaker 1: that he has done is setting the United States up
Speaker 1: for victory over the next six to seven decades. He
Speaker 1: believes in his head he is FDR. He thinks he
Speaker 1: is a world transformational president. He believes that he is
Speaker 1: the best man for the job. He claimed that he
Speaker 1: was the best candidate, the one most qualified to defeat
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So as of right now, he's not going anywhere, guys.
Speaker 1: Even though in this interview he had several moments just
Speaker 1: kind of trailed off, lost his train of thought, coughed, stumbled,
Speaker 1: unable to get a sentence out with any semblance of clarity.
Speaker 1: So it was a revealing interview in several ways. Both
Speaker 1: his condition is exactly the same as it was during
Speaker 1: the debate. I guess the only good thing is he
Speaker 1: has committed to another debate, so we'll all get to
Speaker 1: see it a second time around sometime in September. It
Speaker 1: will be on ABC News, the same channel that broadcasted
Speaker 1: this interview.
Speaker 2: But wanted to make sure I went ahead and brought this.
Speaker 1: This is a major moment, and this is literally the
Speaker 1: first explanation that we've gotten from the President, and even
Speaker 1: a semi hostile question setting, and he has given us
Speaker 1: all of the answers to the questions of if he's
Speaker 1: going to drop out, No, are you worried about Democrats?
Speaker 2: What do you say to democrats? Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: I'm actually winning in my secret polls, and there is
Speaker 1: nobody who can get me to drop out of this
Speaker 1: race except for the Lord Almighty, and he claims it.
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Jim Klyburn, they all told
Speaker 1: him to keep running.
Speaker 2: So that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: We'll have a great show for everybody on Monday, and
Speaker 1: if anything breaks, I'll be back here over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I'll see you guys later