1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, good evening. We just watched President Biden's big 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: boy press conference, as his own staffers called it, clocked 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: in around fifty nine minutes, Crystal. He took about seven 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: questions from the White House Press Corps. One of them 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: doesn't count because, as I predicted, he fed one to 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: a foreign reporter who asked perhaps one of the dumbest 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: questions at a high stakes press conference that. 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 2: We have seen. 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: And yet a couple of interesting moments emerged, the first 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: and probably most noteworthy, ironically, before the press conference even began. 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, so this was a bit of an unmitigated disaster 12 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 3: for President Biden. Before the presser, he had the not 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 3: very challenging job of introducing President Zelenski of Ukraine and 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 3: accidentally calls him President Putin before reversing course. Let me 15 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 3: go ahead and share my screen because we have this 16 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 3: very uncomfortable moment that I can show to you. 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 4: Here we go, take a listen, and now. 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 5: I want to hand over to the President of Ukraine, 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 5: who has as much courage as he has determination, ladies 20 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 5: and gentlemen, President Putin present, He's got big presidents. President Lynsky, 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 5: I'm sure focused on being Putin we gotta worry about 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 5: it anyway. It's president, you are a. 23 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: Hell hawk. 24 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 4: And uh tiger. 25 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 3: I don't know if you watched any of the zooman's 26 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 3: of the world leaders that were there, but their faces 27 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 3: not sure what to do. There was a reporter in 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 3: the room who said people started calling out Zelinsky's name 29 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 3: to help Biden catch the mistake. Now the liberal cope 30 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: on this, of course, Well he fixed it right away. 31 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 3: But listen, as we've said before, if this quote unquote 32 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 3: gaff had just fallen out of the coconut tree and 33 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 3: didn't exist in the context of all of the other 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 3: decline that we have seen manifested just over the past 35 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 3: few weeks, let alone the past number of months, that 36 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 3: would be one thing. But he consistently mixes up names, 37 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 3: cannot complete his thoughts, seems lost, seems out of it, 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 3: and this just fits very clearly into this pattern. Not 39 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 3: to mention, you know, for liberals, Putin is the ultimate battie. 40 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 3: So for him to call the ultimate hero by the 41 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 3: ultimate Batty's name, that's a tough one. 42 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: It would be one thing if it just happened once, 43 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: let's say, once a quarter, it's a whole other coming 44 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 1: fourteen days off of that press conference, and it's a 45 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: whole other whenever he did it exactly three hours later, 46 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: in the very first answer to the very first question, 47 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: confusing the vice president, Kamala Harris calling her vice President 48 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: Trump Cristle and I believe that we have that clip 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: as well, which was I mean, I honestly gasped the 50 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: same way that I think that we both did during 51 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: we beat Medicare. 52 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 2: I could not. 53 00:02:54,760 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 3: Believe to be Oh sorry, go ahead, play again. Then 54 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: this is as you said. This was in response to 55 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 3: the very first question, he gets all jumbled up and 56 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 3: calls his own vice president. He was asked if she 57 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 3: was fit to take over, basically asking all right, well, 58 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 3: if you picked her, why can't she serve in your stead? 59 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 3: And in the course of answering that you'll hear him 60 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 3: call her vice President Trump. 61 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 5: I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president. 62 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 5: I think she's not qualified to be president. So let's 63 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 5: start there. Number one. I wouldn't have picked vice President Trump. 64 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 4: So there you go. 65 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 2: And by the way, didn't correct it, and didn't. 66 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 4: Notice didn't correct it at the very end. 67 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 3: A reporter from NBC News at the end when he's 68 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 3: walking out and everybody shouting at him. 69 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: Whatever. 70 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 3: What the one person who was able to get through 71 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 3: says to him, You said in the very first answer 72 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 3: Vice President Trump, Trump himself is now using that to 73 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 3: say you're too old, you're etc. What's your response? And 74 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: Biden said something confusing. I'll just use it to him 75 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 3: or something like him. 76 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: What I mean, Look, we don't want to cherry put 77 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: too much. It was a fifty nine minute press conference. 78 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: I stand corrected by the way. It was eleven questions, 79 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: not seven. A couple of them were follow ups. That's 80 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: why I was a little bit confused on the overall number. 81 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:22,799 Speaker 1: But in the fifty nine minutes, two of the reporters 82 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: asked foreign policy questions. And I mean, look, I don't 83 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: want to go too far in extending this man credit 84 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: when I say command of the facts. He seemed generally 85 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: aware of what the hell was going on, which is 86 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: definitely different than prior. 87 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 5: Now. 88 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: A lot of what he did say when his brain 89 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: was firing was bragging about his Israel and Ukraine policy, 90 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: which is crazy. I mean, at one point he seemed 91 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: to imply that the twenty twenty four election should be 92 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: a referendum on NATO, in on Ukraine, and by the way, 93 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: I will take that deal every single day of the 94 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: week if he wants to continue down that role. The 95 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: thing is, and this is where I'm curious, and we 96 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: were talking a little bit before. Overall, he has delivered 97 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: enough tonight for his most partisans who had departed a 98 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: little bit away from him, to feel very comfortable. So 99 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: let me give examples, people like Jennifer Rubin over at 100 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, one of his chief propagandas Kate Bettingfield 101 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: will remember her, she's a former communications director who has 102 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: not been very bullish on President Biden the last two weeks, 103 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: or at the very least being like, hey, it's a 104 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: legitimate question, she says. Tonight, she's tweeting out saying that, 105 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: you know, President Biden did a good job, like reassured 106 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: the American people. I see enough people out there, mostly liberals, 107 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: you know, who were uncomfortable, but saying he did okay. 108 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: And I gotta say, I think he did okay enough 109 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: to stop the worst case scenario from falling out. And 110 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: just because he also displayed his sheer arrogance, Crystal, what 111 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: really struck out to me was that question where he 112 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: was asked what it would take for him to drop 113 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 1: out of the race, and he said that he was 114 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: the judge of his own fitness and of whether he 115 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: was doing a good job. He's like, as long as 116 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: I believe I am still doing being a good job, 117 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: I'm going to stay in. So his egotism, the same 118 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: that we saw on George Stephanopolos where he said only 119 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: God Almighty can force me to drop out, was very 120 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: much on display tonight too. 121 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 3: So here's what I would say, this is about what 122 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 3: I would have expected Joe Biden's performance to be at 123 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 3: the debate. I told this is what I thought it 124 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 3: would be. Yes, it was rambling, it was at times incoherent. 125 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 3: The foreign policy answers were long winded. I know people 126 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 3: liberals were spending that as like a great command of 127 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 3: the facts, But it was just him sort of like 128 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 3: verbal diary ing everything that he knows about an issue 129 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 3: and not really being responsive to the question at hand. 130 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 3: There was lots of coughing, There was lots of starting 131 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 3: a sentence and then cutting himself off because he forgot 132 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 3: the train of thought and going well anyway, there was 133 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 3: him mixing up, you know, Vice President Harris, his own 134 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 3: vice president WIT's trumpat So that is on par with 135 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 3: what I expected his debate performance to be. And if 136 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 3: that had been his debate performance, we would not be 137 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 3: having this conversation right now. So it was not at 138 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 3: the level of total catastrophe that the debate performance was. However, 139 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 3: we live in a different world now than we did 140 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 3: prior to the debate, and my sense is that a 141 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 3: lot and there's reporting to this effect too, from is 142 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: that I don't remember if it was CBS or ABC 143 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 3: that had the report that literally, sorry, the dog dog 144 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 3: keeps knocking the table. Literally dozens of Democrats are prepared 145 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 3: to open the floodgates and come out in a coordinated 146 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 3: way and call for his resignation. And this was not 147 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 3: dependent on what happened in this press conference. They've already 148 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 3: made their minds up and so now rather than looking 149 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 3: for something to be reassuring, it's not enough for it 150 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: to have met a very very low bar of It 151 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 3: wasn't as much of a catastrophe as the debate. I 152 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 3: don't know that there was a perfect performance even that 153 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: he could have turned in tonight that would have turned 154 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: the tides for him, because I think some of this 155 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 3: is already set. But the other thing I would say is, 156 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 3: if you're in that camp where think of this Soger, 157 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 3: You've drafted your statement, you've coordinated with dozens of other 158 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 3: House Democrats, perhaps some Senate Democrats as well. You're locked 159 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 3: and loaded. Do you look at that press conference and go, gee, 160 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 3: I was totally wrong? No, no, no, you don't. You 161 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 3: go yeah, this isn't great, this isn't great, and this 162 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 3: is him like at his very best. 163 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 164 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 3: So that's why I think in a lot of ways, 165 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 3: you know, the press conference was built up is like 166 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 3: this is it, this is do or die. We even 167 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 3: said that in our own show today. But as I 168 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 3: came to think about it more and as the reporting 169 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 3: came out, I think in a sense that die is 170 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 3: probably already cast. And Nancy Pelosi is the one who said, 171 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 3: you know, let's wait for the NATO leaders to go, 172 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 3: Let's wait for them to get out of town and 173 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,319 Speaker 3: then do what needs to be done. I think they 174 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 3: took that as, you know, a real signal that once 175 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 3: the thing was over, Okay, it's game on, and already 176 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 3: you've had enough come out, you've had enough move in 177 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 3: that direction, that that seems to me that you know, 178 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 3: we're we're still headed headed that way. 179 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 2: I'm in two to minds. I just don't know. 180 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: I mean, on the one hand, I could see it's 181 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: staving off the landslide, which is what I think it 182 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: really would take to force him out of the race 183 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: at this point. But to your point, I want to 184 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: read here from a Congressman. Jim Hines, Democratic congressman put 185 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: out a statement immediately after Biden's press conference, Joe Biden's 186 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: record of public services unrivaled. His accomplishments are immense. His 187 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: legacy as great president is secure. He must not risk 188 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: that legacy, those accomplishments and an American democracy to soldier 189 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: on in the face of horrors promised by Donald Trump. 190 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: And so he is saying, I hope that President Biden 191 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: will step away from the presidential campaign. I also saw 192 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: an insightful report ABC News is congressional reporter saying this 193 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: my takeaway from conversations with skeptical congressional Democrats tonight. Biden 194 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: has proved to them, quote he can be president, but 195 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,719 Speaker 1: not necessarily that he can win two separate things. And 196 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: I think now again, you know, for I think for 197 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: us at least for me, he can be president is 198 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: still out of the question. 199 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 2: But I can see. 200 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: In their you know, in their warped worldview, they're like, yeah, 201 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: you know, he can handle the facts of right now, 202 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: but not necessarily that he could win. And I also 203 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 1: think there's a bad case of Washington brain here where 204 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: people will say, oh, look, how amazingly he was able 205 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: to talk about gold in my air in Israel and 206 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: his foreign policy accomplishments, when as you and I know, 207 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: because I think we're more connected with with voters just 208 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,439 Speaker 1: through our show, we can see what resonates with people 209 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: and what doesn't. Everyone's going to be talking about those 210 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,719 Speaker 1: for two clips. So we played at the beginning a 211 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: lot of that natal stuff that no one's gonna care, sorry, 212 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: like this, yeah, on the heels of that debate vice 213 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: President Trump, that is going to be everywhere everywhere. 214 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 2: Trump should start selling, you know, merchandise with that on it. 215 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 3: So in the same way that in the Stephanopolis interview 216 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 3: as Time war On, the most problematic part for Biden 217 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 3: ended up being really his sort of poll denialism and 218 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 3: sense of just complete and utter disconnect from what a 219 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 3: dire political situation this is. There were two moments here 220 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 3: that I think are the two that sort of linger 221 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 3: for Democrats. One is he gets asked, what about your limitations? Right, 222 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 3: You're trying to serve for another four years and you're 223 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 3: already talking about how there are limitations, and he tries 224 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 3: to say, I don't know what limitations. There are no limitations, 225 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 3: and then he goes on to discuss the limitations he has. 226 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 3: So I have a little bit of that one I 227 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 3: could pull up. The other one is very much in 228 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 3: line with this pole denialism. He says, if you could 229 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 3: show me polls that show that Kamla could win and 230 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 3: that I have zero chance of winning, then I'll get out. 231 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 3: But there are no polls that say that. Now we 232 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 3: both know that's preposterous. And so I think, if you're 233 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 3: a Democratic leader looking at this, you're still seeing that 234 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 3: level of utter and complete denial that there's even a 235 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 3: problem here. And I think that's an issue for him. 236 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 3: So let me go ahead and pull up this first one, 237 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 3: which is him responding to questions about his bedtime, which listen, 238 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 3: frankly right now eight fifty pm. I relate to him 239 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 3: a little bit on this one right here, but I'm 240 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 3: also not trying to be president of the United States, 241 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 3: and I'm not eighty fourteen years old with potentially undiagnosed Parkinson's. 242 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a listen to what he 243 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 3: had to say. 244 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 6: Thank you, mister president. Presidency is the most straining job 245 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 6: in the world, and it's twenty four to seven. How 246 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 6: can you say you'll be up for that next year 247 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 6: in two years and four years given the limits you've 248 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 6: acknowledged that you have today. 249 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 5: The limits I've acknowledged I have. 250 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 6: It has been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need 251 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 6: to go to bed earlier and your evening around eight. 252 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 5: That's not true. Look what I said was instead of 253 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 5: my every day starting at seven and going to bed 254 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 5: at midnight, it'd be smarter for me to pace myself 255 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 5: a little more. And I said, for example, the eight 256 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 5: seven six steps. Instead of starting a fundraiser at nine o'clock, 257 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 5: start at eight o'clock. People get to go home by 258 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 5: ten o'clock. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about. 259 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 5: And if you look at my schedule since I've since 260 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 5: I made that stupid mistake in the campaign and the debate, 261 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 5: I mean, my schedule has been full bore I've done. 262 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 5: When where's trump at riding around his golf cart, fieling 263 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 5: out a scorecard before he hits the ball. I mean, look, 264 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 5: he's done virtually nothing, and I have I don't know 265 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 5: how many. I don't holding to We roughly twenty major events, 266 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 5: some of them with thousands of people showing up. And 267 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:14,479 Speaker 5: so I just think it's better. I always have an inclination, 268 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 5: whether I was playing sports or doing politics. Just to 269 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 5: keep going that style, I just got to just pace 270 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 5: myself a little bit. 271 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 3: Pace myself a little bit more. He also made this 272 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 3: comment about like, I love my staff, but they just 273 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 3: keep adding things and my wife. 274 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 2: Is mad at me. I had me and you're like, wait, 275 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 2: what what was that? 276 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 5: Yeah. 277 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 3: Also, maybe your staff keeps adding things because you're president 278 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 3: of the United States. You have a lot of responsibilities. 279 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 3: I don't know, just spitballing. But so he acknowledged it's 280 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 3: funny because, like I said, he gets asked about the bedtime. 281 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 3: He's like, no, no, no, that's not real. And he's like, 282 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 3: but it is kind of real. I am moving things up. 283 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 3: I'm making it so it's later. I'm trying to quote 284 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 3: unquote pace myself which again is you are talking about 285 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 3: serving for another five years, So how can we have 286 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 3: any confidence that you can do the job today, let 287 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 3: alone the job five years from now. It feels preposterous 288 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 3: when even you are acknowledging that you're having to rein 289 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 3: in your staff from scheduling events. There was also you 290 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 3: probably saw as well, there's a lot of reporting about 291 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 3: just how much downtime his staff schedules. So in a 292 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 3: five day foreign trip, two of those days are going 293 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 3: to be rest days for him. That's already where he's 294 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 3: at today, let alone four years from now. 295 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine when I'm flying economy class, not whenever 296 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: you fly in an airplane with a freaking bed dude 297 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,119 Speaker 1: and you get to stay in the world's most luxurious hotels. 298 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: And that's the problem here, is that we're watching somebody. 299 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, do you ever want to 300 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: be president and say that you have any limitations on 301 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: the way that you do your job. If the answer 302 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: is yes, you shouldn't be in the job period. In 303 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: my opinion, that's first of all. But second is just 304 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: the poll denihalism that we have to come back to 305 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: really is crazy. Because he also made another comment do 306 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: you remember this where he says, guys, the campaign hasn't 307 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: even started yet, and it's like, dude, you're like one 308 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: who agreed to a presidential debate in July. Nobody asked 309 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: you to do that. In June, no one ever asked 310 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: you to do that. We all said, yeah, it's the 311 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:22,359 Speaker 1: earliest modern presidential debate, and you know, it's kind of interesting. 312 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: There's a lot of different reasons why both had agreed 313 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: to that, but you can't say that that reason why. 314 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: If anything, By the way, I think he officially really 315 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: began the twenty twenty four you know, general election season 316 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: by agreeing to do that debate and becoming the biggest 317 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: story in the entire world. Yeah, I mean, this is 318 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: my other thing. I can't let the press corps off 319 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: the hook too much here. There were no follow up questions. 320 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: Obviously some of these were pre screened by the White House. 321 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: He avoided Peter Alexander of NBC News, who shouted that 322 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: question there at the end. He avoided Peter Doocey at 323 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: Fox News. A strong and confident president takes questions in 324 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: a moment like that from the so called opposition, and 325 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: he's going to go for much longer. I said this 326 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: morning on the show, President Eisenhower used to go two hours. 327 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,239 Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and give a man 328 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: credit for going fifty nine minutes. I'm just not. This 329 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: is amasic shit for being president, and. 330 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 3: Lissa, it's ridiculous that we cover this in this way. 331 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 3: Just the fact of this situation tells you everything you 332 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 3: need to know. Right the president giving some run of 333 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: the mill press conference after a NATO conference should be like, 334 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 3: no one should even really care, you know, I. 335 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 4: Mean, we should care about the policy, but it should. 336 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 3: Be like, oh my god, can he possibly talk for 337 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 3: fifty minutes and not call his vice president the wrong 338 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 3: name and not introduced Zelenski? 339 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 4: Is pooon? 340 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 3: Like, is this even possible? The answer obviously is apparently no. 341 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 3: So the fact that it's even being parsed and analyzed 342 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 3: to this degree tells you a lot. 343 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 4: But you know, there was. 344 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 3: It really was in certain respects a very Trumpian performance 345 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 3: in terms of the content. Yes, so the poll denihilism, right, 346 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 3: Trump famously, you know, cat turd takes a poll on 347 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,199 Speaker 3: Twitter that he likes. He's going to cite that as 348 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 3: proof that he's the greatest president of all time. 349 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 4: Or whatever. 350 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 3: He's always up in the polls, he never loses, et cetera, 351 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 3: et cetera. Biden has taken that on. That's where he is, 352 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,199 Speaker 3: and I think he truly believes it in the similar 353 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 3: way that I think Trump probably really believes it as well. 354 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 3: But there also he gets asked a question about, Okay, 355 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 3: you said last time you were going to be abridged 356 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 3: to the future. What changed, and his answer was basically, well, 357 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 3: I realize that I am the only one who can 358 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 3: do like with my experience in the Senate. He didn't 359 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 3: exactly say I alone can do it, but that was 360 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 3: the vibe my experience in the Senate and with the 361 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 3: world in such chaos, I just I have to stay. 362 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 3: I have to finish the job. This sense that he 363 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 3: is the only one alone who can beat Trump, the 364 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 3: only one alone who could pass the Infrastructure Act or 365 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 3: whatever it is. We don't even know what he's planning 366 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 3: on doing the second term because he never really talks 367 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 3: about it, but that Trumpian aspect of him and his 368 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 3: ego really comes through. But let me go ahead and 369 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 3: pull up this poll denialism moment that we have because, 370 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 3: as I said, you know, for Democrats who already locked 371 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 3: and loaded with statements saying we want you to resign. 372 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 3: This is exactly the sort of thing that they hate 373 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 3: to hear. 374 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 7: You earlier explained confidence in your vice president. If your 375 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 7: team came back and showed you data that she would 376 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 7: fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider 377 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 7: your decision to stay in the race. 378 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 5: No, unless they came back and said there's no way 379 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 5: you can win. 380 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:40,439 Speaker 2: Me. 381 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 4: Of course. Yeah, lots of Poles say that. 382 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we do a segment on our show today how 383 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: New York is in play. 384 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 4: Many people are, in fact saying that you. 385 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 2: Will enjoy this, Crystal. So. 386 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: Steve Cone of the a Democratic congressman from Tennessee, was 387 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: just asked on CNN about his colleague Jim Hines calling 388 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: for Biden to drop out, and he says, well, Jim 389 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: Hines from Connecticut, it's a lot more white, a lot 390 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: more liberal, and a lot more elitist. So now a 391 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: white guy from Memphis is playing the race card. A 392 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: white congressman from Memphis is playing the race card against 393 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: a white congressman. We also have and this is problem. 394 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 3: I listened to Bakari sellers do the same thing on 395 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 3: CNN beforehand, and it is the most It's disingenuous, shameful. 396 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 3: And I also Owen Van Jones saying the same thing 397 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 3: on CNN. 398 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 4: You know, I don't know why I. 399 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 3: Watch these people at all, but I like to get 400 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 3: a sense of what the mainstream is saying about it. 401 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 3: It just makes me sick when these people appoint themselves 402 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 3: representatives of an entire community and pretends to speak for them. 403 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 3: Just speak for them, You don't speak for them, and 404 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 3: anymore than I speak for all white women. Right well, 405 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 3: the white women of the country feel that it's time 406 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 3: we have a women president. How about that? Van Jones 407 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 3: of Acari Sellers, It's Steve Cohen and whoever else. But 408 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 3: the notion that pushing Bidenn of the race to get 409 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 3: the first black female president is like racist, Okay, all right, 410 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 3: like what are we doing here? And also the idea 411 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 3: that he has this just monolithic black support is insane. 412 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 3: This president is on track to get the lowest percent 413 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 3: of the black vote of any Democratic president since I 414 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 3: don't know when. So your conception of this black monolith 415 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 3: that is so pro Biden that you can't possibly touch 416 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 3: him is just completely invented. And I know that they 417 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 3: know this, right. I know that they know that this 418 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 3: is fake and completely invented by them for holy disingenuous reasons. 419 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 2: One last thing, do we want to play? 420 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: I haven't watched the full thing, but I am seeing 421 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: on my feed it was sent to me Rachel Maddow 422 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: apparently saying I'm worried Biden is being given information about 423 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: his political standing that may not be based in reality. 424 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 2: That seems interesting. Do you think let's. 425 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 3: Think, well, you know what, and I saw to that point. 426 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 3: I saw David axe a rod because he also picked 427 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: up on the pole Denihalism that I think continues to 428 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,360 Speaker 3: be a real problem for Democrats. At least people don't 429 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 3: care about him or even really debating tribe. 430 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 4: They care about their. 431 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 3: Own asses on the line this fall, and so if 432 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 3: they feel like, oh my god, he doesn't even acknowledge 433 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 3: he's down in the polls. He doesn't even know he's 434 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 3: down in the polls. David alts Arod tweeted, if what 435 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 3: he being Biden said at the end of the press 436 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 3: is true, it sounds like Biden's team has not been 437 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 3: very candid with him about what the data is showing. 438 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 3: The age issue is a huge and potentially insurmountable concern, 439 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 3: and his odds of victory are very very slim. This 440 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 3: is also very Trumpian, the like, Oh, the aids. It's 441 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 3: the aid's fault. 442 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 4: Right there. 443 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 3: Anything that Biden does wrong, it's not him. It's not 444 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 3: his fault. It's the fault of the AIDS around him. Now, 445 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 3: these AIDS deserve a lot of blame. Don't get me wrong. 446 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 3: I think they are villains of history. I think they've 447 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 3: lied to the American people. I think they've lied to 448 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 3: their own staff. I think they've lied to their own party. 449 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 3: The more and more reporting comes out about the way 450 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 3: every single aspect of Biden and what he does is 451 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 3: stage managed, down to the word, so that he can't 452 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 3: possibly be caught in an unscripted moment and show their hands, 453 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 3: even to close in AIDS and allies of how adult 454 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 3: he is at this point. But please, this man, there's 455 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 3: some real responsibility, this politician of fifty years, he can't 456 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 3: read an independent poll for himself. 457 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 4: Give me a break, Give. 458 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 2: Me a break, I thank you. I agree. That's the 459 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 2: other thing. 460 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,919 Speaker 1: Oh, they need to be more candidate or even with 461 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 1: Matdow that's also Trumpion in terms of infantilizing him. He's 462 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: a grown ass man, not grown ass. He's near death. 463 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: Like he's on the other side of the Bell curve 464 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: here in terms of the age distribution. He spent the 465 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: vast majority of his life as a professional politician. He 466 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: knows he can read the New York Times if he 467 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: wants to. He can read every liberal news outlet in 468 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: the country, and every single one has a pole saying 469 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: you're going down. 470 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 3: So yeah, look, but I think I think he has 471 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 3: convinced himself that those poles are all fake. 472 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 2: I agree that. 473 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 3: Anything that shows him and a negative light is just 474 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 3: not true. It's the fake news, it's the biased media whatever. 475 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 4: I mean. 476 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 3: It is very trumpy, and he's constructing his own reality, 477 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 3: and he himself is drinking the kool aid. 478 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: Quite literally, he has constructed his own reality distortion field. 479 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you for joining us everybody tonight. It 480 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: was certainly something, you know, for American history. He's not 481 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: going anywhere, at least for today. That's all we can say. 482 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 2: Right now. 483 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 4: It's caught as far as it goes, confidently. 484 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: We can call it, you know, for today. It's nine 485 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 1: oh five pm here on the East Coast, so there 486 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: we can. 487 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 4: He's headed to beds as am I by the way. 488 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 3: Me too, Yeah, but I do want to Just the 489 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 3: last thing I'll say is, you know, the next thing 490 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 3: to watch is number one, was that report even true 491 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 3: about the dozens of Democrats? Because the media gets things wrong? 492 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 3: Lord knows. But but now what happens Friday, right? Do 493 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 3: you see is Jim him's the only one who comes 494 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 3: out or do you see a significant movement against him? 495 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 3: You've got reporting pelosis moving behind the scenes. We talked 496 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 3: about Obama moving behind the scenes during the day, so 497 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 3: there's there's a lot at work. And in my opinion, 498 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 3: I don't think this performance will forestall anything that was 499 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 3: already planned, and it appears that there were things that 500 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 3: were already planned. So that's what we'll be watching for. 501 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 3: And I'll be around maybe some tomorrow. 502 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 4: I don't know. I gotta take the kids, sticking some 503 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 4: minion of that and whatever. 504 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 2: But tell people where you're going. Big mistake, We'll let 505 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 2: that out. 506 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 3: But anyway, we'll be checking in and if anything major breaks, 507 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 3: we'll make sure to bring it to you guys. 508 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 2: We'll be around all right, see you guys.