Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, good evening. We just watched President Biden's big
Speaker 1: boy press conference, as his own staffers called it, clocked
Speaker 1: in around fifty nine minutes, Crystal. He took about seven
Speaker 1: questions from the White House Press Corps. One of them
Speaker 1: doesn't count because, as I predicted, he fed one to
Speaker 1: a foreign reporter who asked perhaps one of the dumbest
Speaker 1: questions at a high stakes press conference that.
Speaker 2: We have seen.
Speaker 1: And yet a couple of interesting moments emerged, the first
Speaker 1: and probably most noteworthy, ironically, before the press conference even began.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this was a bit of an unmitigated disaster
Speaker 3: for President Biden. Before the presser, he had the not
Speaker 3: very challenging job of introducing President Zelenski of Ukraine and
Speaker 3: accidentally calls him President Putin before reversing course. Let me
Speaker 3: go ahead and share my screen because we have this
Speaker 3: very uncomfortable moment that I can show to you.
Speaker 4: Here we go, take a listen, and now.
Speaker 5: I want to hand over to the President of Ukraine,
Speaker 5: who has as much courage as he has determination, ladies
Speaker 5: and gentlemen, President Putin present, He's got big presidents. President Lynsky,
Speaker 5: I'm sure focused on being Putin we gotta worry about
Speaker 5: it anyway. It's president, you are a.
Speaker 1: Hell hawk.
Speaker 4: And uh tiger.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you watched any of the zooman's
Speaker 3: of the world leaders that were there, but their faces
Speaker 3: not sure what to do. There was a reporter in
Speaker 3: the room who said people started calling out Zelinsky's name
Speaker 3: to help Biden catch the mistake. Now the liberal cope
Speaker 3: on this, of course, Well he fixed it right away.
Speaker 3: But listen, as we've said before, if this quote unquote
Speaker 3: gaff had just fallen out of the coconut tree and
Speaker 3: didn't exist in the context of all of the other
Speaker 3: decline that we have seen manifested just over the past
Speaker 3: few weeks, let alone the past number of months, that
Speaker 3: would be one thing. But he consistently mixes up names,
Speaker 3: cannot complete his thoughts, seems lost, seems out of it,
Speaker 3: and this just fits very clearly into this pattern. Not
Speaker 3: to mention, you know, for liberals, Putin is the ultimate battie.
Speaker 3: So for him to call the ultimate hero by the
Speaker 3: ultimate Batty's name, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: It would be one thing if it just happened once,
Speaker 1: let's say, once a quarter, it's a whole other coming
Speaker 1: fourteen days off of that press conference, and it's a
Speaker 1: whole other whenever he did it exactly three hours later,
Speaker 1: in the very first answer to the very first question,
Speaker 1: confusing the vice president, Kamala Harris calling her vice President
Speaker 1: Trump Cristle and I believe that we have that clip
Speaker 1: as well, which was I mean, I honestly gasped the
Speaker 1: same way that I think that we both did during
Speaker 1: we beat Medicare.
Speaker 2: I could not.
Speaker 3: Believe to be Oh sorry, go ahead, play again. Then
Speaker 3: this is as you said. This was in response to
Speaker 3: the very first question, he gets all jumbled up and
Speaker 3: calls his own vice president. He was asked if she
Speaker 3: was fit to take over, basically asking all right, well,
Speaker 3: if you picked her, why can't she serve in your stead?
Speaker 3: And in the course of answering that you'll hear him
Speaker 3: call her vice President Trump.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president.
Speaker 5: I think she's not qualified to be president. So let's
Speaker 5: start there. Number one. I wouldn't have picked vice President Trump.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 2: And by the way, didn't correct it, and didn't.
Speaker 4: Notice didn't correct it at the very end.
Speaker 3: A reporter from NBC News at the end when he's
Speaker 3: walking out and everybody shouting at him.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 3: What the one person who was able to get through
Speaker 3: says to him, You said in the very first answer
Speaker 3: Vice President Trump, Trump himself is now using that to
Speaker 3: say you're too old, you're etc. What's your response? And
Speaker 3: Biden said something confusing. I'll just use it to him
Speaker 3: or something like him.
Speaker 1: What I mean, Look, we don't want to cherry put
Speaker 1: too much. It was a fifty nine minute press conference.
Speaker 1: I stand corrected by the way. It was eleven questions,
Speaker 1: not seven. A couple of them were follow ups. That's
Speaker 1: why I was a little bit confused on the overall number.
Speaker 1: But in the fifty nine minutes, two of the reporters
Speaker 1: asked foreign policy questions. And I mean, look, I don't
Speaker 1: want to go too far in extending this man credit
Speaker 1: when I say command of the facts. He seemed generally
Speaker 1: aware of what the hell was going on, which is
Speaker 1: definitely different than prior.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of what he did say when his brain
Speaker 1: was firing was bragging about his Israel and Ukraine policy,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. I mean, at one point he seemed
Speaker 1: to imply that the twenty twenty four election should be
Speaker 1: a referendum on NATO, in on Ukraine, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I will take that deal every single day of the
Speaker 1: week if he wants to continue down that role. The
Speaker 1: thing is, and this is where I'm curious, and we
Speaker 1: were talking a little bit before. Overall, he has delivered
Speaker 1: enough tonight for his most partisans who had departed a
Speaker 1: little bit away from him, to feel very comfortable. So
Speaker 1: let me give examples, people like Jennifer Rubin over at
Speaker 1: the Washington Post, one of his chief propagandas Kate Bettingfield
Speaker 1: will remember her, she's a former communications director who has
Speaker 1: not been very bullish on President Biden the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: or at the very least being like, hey, it's a
Speaker 1: legitimate question, she says. Tonight, she's tweeting out saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, President Biden did a good job, like reassured
Speaker 1: the American people. I see enough people out there, mostly liberals,
Speaker 1: you know, who were uncomfortable, but saying he did okay.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, I think he did okay enough
Speaker 1: to stop the worst case scenario from falling out. And
Speaker 1: just because he also displayed his sheer arrogance, Crystal, what
Speaker 1: really struck out to me was that question where he
Speaker 1: was asked what it would take for him to drop
Speaker 1: out of the race, and he said that he was
Speaker 1: the judge of his own fitness and of whether he
Speaker 1: was doing a good job. He's like, as long as
Speaker 1: I believe I am still doing being a good job,
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay in. So his egotism, the same
Speaker 1: that we saw on George Stephanopolos where he said only
Speaker 1: God Almighty can force me to drop out, was very
Speaker 1: much on display tonight too.
Speaker 3: So here's what I would say, this is about what
Speaker 3: I would have expected Joe Biden's performance to be at
Speaker 3: the debate. I told this is what I thought it
Speaker 3: would be. Yes, it was rambling, it was at times incoherent.
Speaker 3: The foreign policy answers were long winded. I know people
Speaker 3: liberals were spending that as like a great command of
Speaker 3: the facts, But it was just him sort of like
Speaker 3: verbal diary ing everything that he knows about an issue
Speaker 3: and not really being responsive to the question at hand.
Speaker 3: There was lots of coughing, There was lots of starting
Speaker 3: a sentence and then cutting himself off because he forgot
Speaker 3: the train of thought and going well anyway, there was
Speaker 3: him mixing up, you know, Vice President Harris, his own
Speaker 3: vice president WIT's trumpat So that is on par with
Speaker 3: what I expected his debate performance to be. And if
Speaker 3: that had been his debate performance, we would not be
Speaker 3: having this conversation right now. So it was not at
Speaker 3: the level of total catastrophe that the debate performance was. However,
Speaker 3: we live in a different world now than we did
Speaker 3: prior to the debate, and my sense is that a
Speaker 3: lot and there's reporting to this effect too, from is
Speaker 3: that I don't remember if it was CBS or ABC
Speaker 3: that had the report that literally, sorry, the dog dog
Speaker 3: keeps knocking the table. Literally dozens of Democrats are prepared
Speaker 3: to open the floodgates and come out in a coordinated
Speaker 3: way and call for his resignation. And this was not
Speaker 3: dependent on what happened in this press conference. They've already
Speaker 3: made their minds up and so now rather than looking
Speaker 3: for something to be reassuring, it's not enough for it
Speaker 3: to have met a very very low bar of It
Speaker 3: wasn't as much of a catastrophe as the debate. I
Speaker 3: don't know that there was a perfect performance even that
Speaker 3: he could have turned in tonight that would have turned
Speaker 3: the tides for him, because I think some of this
Speaker 3: is already set. But the other thing I would say is,
Speaker 3: if you're in that camp where think of this Soger,
Speaker 3: You've drafted your statement, you've coordinated with dozens of other
Speaker 3: House Democrats, perhaps some Senate Democrats as well. You're locked
Speaker 3: and loaded. Do you look at that press conference and go, gee,
Speaker 3: I was totally wrong? No, no, no, you don't. You
Speaker 3: go yeah, this isn't great, this isn't great, and this
Speaker 3: is him like at his very best.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's why I think in a lot of ways,
Speaker 3: you know, the press conference was built up is like
Speaker 3: this is it, this is do or die. We even
Speaker 3: said that in our own show today. But as I
Speaker 3: came to think about it more and as the reporting
Speaker 3: came out, I think in a sense that die is
Speaker 3: probably already cast. And Nancy Pelosi is the one who said,
Speaker 3: you know, let's wait for the NATO leaders to go,
Speaker 3: Let's wait for them to get out of town and
Speaker 3: then do what needs to be done. I think they
Speaker 3: took that as, you know, a real signal that once
Speaker 3: the thing was over, Okay, it's game on, and already
Speaker 3: you've had enough come out, you've had enough move in
Speaker 3: that direction, that that seems to me that you know,
Speaker 3: we're we're still headed headed that way.
Speaker 2: I'm in two to minds. I just don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, on the one hand, I could see it's
Speaker 1: staving off the landslide, which is what I think it
Speaker 1: really would take to force him out of the race
Speaker 1: at this point. But to your point, I want to
Speaker 1: read here from a Congressman. Jim Hines, Democratic congressman put
Speaker 1: out a statement immediately after Biden's press conference, Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: record of public services unrivaled. His accomplishments are immense. His
Speaker 1: legacy as great president is secure. He must not risk
Speaker 1: that legacy, those accomplishments and an American democracy to soldier
Speaker 1: on in the face of horrors promised by Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And so he is saying, I hope that President Biden
Speaker 1: will step away from the presidential campaign. I also saw
Speaker 1: an insightful report ABC News is congressional reporter saying this
Speaker 1: my takeaway from conversations with skeptical congressional Democrats tonight. Biden
Speaker 1: has proved to them, quote he can be president, but
Speaker 1: not necessarily that he can win two separate things. And
Speaker 1: I think now again, you know, for I think for
Speaker 1: us at least for me, he can be president is
Speaker 1: still out of the question.
Speaker 2: But I can see.
Speaker 1: In their you know, in their warped worldview, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he can handle the facts of right now,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily that he could win. And I also
Speaker 1: think there's a bad case of Washington brain here where
Speaker 1: people will say, oh, look, how amazingly he was able
Speaker 1: to talk about gold in my air in Israel and
Speaker 1: his foreign policy accomplishments, when as you and I know,
Speaker 1: because I think we're more connected with with voters just
Speaker 1: through our show, we can see what resonates with people
Speaker 1: and what doesn't. Everyone's going to be talking about those
Speaker 1: for two clips. So we played at the beginning a
Speaker 1: lot of that natal stuff that no one's gonna care, sorry,
Speaker 1: like this, yeah, on the heels of that debate vice
Speaker 1: President Trump, that is going to be everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 2: Trump should start selling, you know, merchandise with that on it.
Speaker 3: So in the same way that in the Stephanopolis interview
Speaker 3: as Time war On, the most problematic part for Biden
Speaker 3: ended up being really his sort of poll denialism and
Speaker 3: sense of just complete and utter disconnect from what a
Speaker 3: dire political situation this is. There were two moments here
Speaker 3: that I think are the two that sort of linger
Speaker 3: for Democrats. One is he gets asked, what about your limitations? Right,
Speaker 3: You're trying to serve for another four years and you're
Speaker 3: already talking about how there are limitations, and he tries
Speaker 3: to say, I don't know what limitations. There are no limitations,
Speaker 3: and then he goes on to discuss the limitations he has.
Speaker 3: So I have a little bit of that one I
Speaker 3: could pull up. The other one is very much in
Speaker 3: line with this pole denialism. He says, if you could
Speaker 3: show me polls that show that Kamla could win and
Speaker 3: that I have zero chance of winning, then I'll get out.
Speaker 3: But there are no polls that say that. Now we
Speaker 3: both know that's preposterous. And so I think, if you're
Speaker 3: a Democratic leader looking at this, you're still seeing that
Speaker 3: level of utter and complete denial that there's even a
Speaker 3: problem here. And I think that's an issue for him.
Speaker 3: So let me go ahead and pull up this first one,
Speaker 3: which is him responding to questions about his bedtime, which listen,
Speaker 3: frankly right now eight fifty pm. I relate to him
Speaker 3: a little bit on this one right here, but I'm
Speaker 3: also not trying to be president of the United States,
Speaker 3: and I'm not eighty fourteen years old with potentially undiagnosed Parkinson's.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a listen to what he
Speaker 3: had to say.
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister president. Presidency is the most straining job
Speaker 6: in the world, and it's twenty four to seven. How
Speaker 6: can you say you'll be up for that next year
Speaker 6: in two years and four years given the limits you've
Speaker 6: acknowledged that you have today.
Speaker 5: The limits I've acknowledged I have.
Speaker 6: It has been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need
Speaker 6: to go to bed earlier and your evening around eight.
Speaker 5: That's not true. Look what I said was instead of
Speaker 5: my every day starting at seven and going to bed
Speaker 5: at midnight, it'd be smarter for me to pace myself
Speaker 5: a little more. And I said, for example, the eight
Speaker 5: seven six steps. Instead of starting a fundraiser at nine o'clock,
Speaker 5: start at eight o'clock. People get to go home by
Speaker 5: ten o'clock. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about.
Speaker 5: And if you look at my schedule since I've since
Speaker 5: I made that stupid mistake in the campaign and the debate,
Speaker 5: I mean, my schedule has been full bore I've done.
Speaker 5: When where's trump at riding around his golf cart, fieling
Speaker 5: out a scorecard before he hits the ball. I mean, look,
Speaker 5: he's done virtually nothing, and I have I don't know
Speaker 5: how many. I don't holding to We roughly twenty major events,
Speaker 5: some of them with thousands of people showing up. And
Speaker 5: so I just think it's better. I always have an inclination,
Speaker 5: whether I was playing sports or doing politics. Just to
Speaker 5: keep going that style, I just got to just pace
Speaker 5: myself a little bit.
Speaker 3: Pace myself a little bit more. He also made this
Speaker 3: comment about like, I love my staff, but they just
Speaker 3: keep adding things and my wife.
Speaker 2: Is mad at me. I had me and you're like, wait,
Speaker 2: what what was that?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also, maybe your staff keeps adding things because you're president
Speaker 3: of the United States. You have a lot of responsibilities.
Speaker 3: I don't know, just spitballing. But so he acknowledged it's
Speaker 3: funny because, like I said, he gets asked about the bedtime.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, no, no, that's not real. And he's like,
Speaker 3: but it is kind of real. I am moving things up.
Speaker 3: I'm making it so it's later. I'm trying to quote
Speaker 3: unquote pace myself which again is you are talking about
Speaker 3: serving for another five years, So how can we have
Speaker 3: any confidence that you can do the job today, let
Speaker 3: alone the job five years from now. It feels preposterous
Speaker 3: when even you are acknowledging that you're having to rein
Speaker 3: in your staff from scheduling events. There was also you
Speaker 3: probably saw as well, there's a lot of reporting about
Speaker 3: just how much downtime his staff schedules. So in a
Speaker 3: five day foreign trip, two of those days are going
Speaker 3: to be rest days for him. That's already where he's
Speaker 3: at today, let alone four years from now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine when I'm flying economy class, not whenever
Speaker 1: you fly in an airplane with a freaking bed dude
Speaker 1: and you get to stay in the world's most luxurious hotels.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem here, is that we're watching somebody.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, do you ever want to
Speaker 1: be president and say that you have any limitations on
Speaker 1: the way that you do your job. If the answer
Speaker 1: is yes, you shouldn't be in the job period. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, that's first of all. But second is just
Speaker 1: the poll denihalism that we have to come back to
Speaker 1: really is crazy. Because he also made another comment do
Speaker 1: you remember this where he says, guys, the campaign hasn't
Speaker 1: even started yet, and it's like, dude, you're like one
Speaker 1: who agreed to a presidential debate in July. Nobody asked
Speaker 1: you to do that. In June, no one ever asked
Speaker 1: you to do that. We all said, yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: earliest modern presidential debate, and you know, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different reasons why both had agreed
Speaker 1: to that, but you can't say that that reason why.
Speaker 1: If anything, By the way, I think he officially really
Speaker 1: began the twenty twenty four you know, general election season
Speaker 1: by agreeing to do that debate and becoming the biggest
Speaker 1: story in the entire world. Yeah, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: my other thing. I can't let the press corps off
Speaker 1: the hook too much here. There were no follow up questions.
Speaker 1: Obviously some of these were pre screened by the White House.
Speaker 1: He avoided Peter Alexander of NBC News, who shouted that
Speaker 1: question there at the end. He avoided Peter Doocey at
Speaker 1: Fox News. A strong and confident president takes questions in
Speaker 1: a moment like that from the so called opposition, and
Speaker 1: he's going to go for much longer. I said this
Speaker 1: morning on the show, President Eisenhower used to go two hours.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and give a man
Speaker 1: credit for going fifty nine minutes. I'm just not. This
Speaker 1: is amasic shit for being president, and.
Speaker 3: Lissa, it's ridiculous that we cover this in this way.
Speaker 3: Just the fact of this situation tells you everything you
Speaker 3: need to know. Right the president giving some run of
Speaker 3: the mill press conference after a NATO conference should be like,
Speaker 3: no one should even really care, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, we should care about the policy, but it should.
Speaker 3: Be like, oh my god, can he possibly talk for
Speaker 3: fifty minutes and not call his vice president the wrong
Speaker 3: name and not introduced Zelenski?
Speaker 4: Is pooon?
Speaker 3: Like, is this even possible? The answer obviously is apparently no.
Speaker 3: So the fact that it's even being parsed and analyzed
Speaker 3: to this degree tells you a lot.
Speaker 4: But you know, there was.
Speaker 3: It really was in certain respects a very Trumpian performance
Speaker 3: in terms of the content. Yes, so the poll denihilism, right,
Speaker 3: Trump famously, you know, cat turd takes a poll on
Speaker 3: Twitter that he likes. He's going to cite that as
Speaker 3: proof that he's the greatest president of all time.
Speaker 4: Or whatever.
Speaker 3: He's always up in the polls, he never loses, et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera. Biden has taken that on. That's where he is,
Speaker 3: and I think he truly believes it in the similar
Speaker 3: way that I think Trump probably really believes it as well.
Speaker 3: But there also he gets asked a question about, Okay,
Speaker 3: you said last time you were going to be abridged
Speaker 3: to the future. What changed, and his answer was basically, well,
Speaker 3: I realize that I am the only one who can
Speaker 3: do like with my experience in the Senate. He didn't
Speaker 3: exactly say I alone can do it, but that was
Speaker 3: the vibe my experience in the Senate and with the
Speaker 3: world in such chaos, I just I have to stay.
Speaker 3: I have to finish the job. This sense that he
Speaker 3: is the only one alone who can beat Trump, the
Speaker 3: only one alone who could pass the Infrastructure Act or
Speaker 3: whatever it is. We don't even know what he's planning
Speaker 3: on doing the second term because he never really talks
Speaker 3: about it, but that Trumpian aspect of him and his
Speaker 3: ego really comes through. But let me go ahead and
Speaker 3: pull up this poll denialism moment that we have because,
Speaker 3: as I said, you know, for Democrats who already locked
Speaker 3: and loaded with statements saying we want you to resign.
Speaker 3: This is exactly the sort of thing that they hate
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 7: You earlier explained confidence in your vice president. If your
Speaker 7: team came back and showed you data that she would
Speaker 7: fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider
Speaker 7: your decision to stay in the race.
Speaker 5: No, unless they came back and said there's no way
Speaker 5: you can win.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 4: Of course. Yeah, lots of Poles say that.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we do a segment on our show today how
Speaker 1: New York is in play.
Speaker 4: Many people are, in fact saying that you.
Speaker 2: Will enjoy this, Crystal. So.
Speaker 1: Steve Cone of the a Democratic congressman from Tennessee, was
Speaker 1: just asked on CNN about his colleague Jim Hines calling
Speaker 1: for Biden to drop out, and he says, well, Jim
Speaker 1: Hines from Connecticut, it's a lot more white, a lot
Speaker 1: more liberal, and a lot more elitist. So now a
Speaker 1: white guy from Memphis is playing the race card. A
Speaker 1: white congressman from Memphis is playing the race card against
Speaker 1: a white congressman. We also have and this is problem.
Speaker 3: I listened to Bakari sellers do the same thing on
Speaker 3: CNN beforehand, and it is the most It's disingenuous, shameful.
Speaker 3: And I also Owen Van Jones saying the same thing
Speaker 3: on CNN.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know why I.
Speaker 3: Watch these people at all, but I like to get
Speaker 3: a sense of what the mainstream is saying about it.
Speaker 3: It just makes me sick when these people appoint themselves
Speaker 3: representatives of an entire community and pretends to speak for them.
Speaker 3: Just speak for them, You don't speak for them, and
Speaker 3: anymore than I speak for all white women. Right well,
Speaker 3: the white women of the country feel that it's time
Speaker 3: we have a women president. How about that? Van Jones
Speaker 3: of Acari Sellers, It's Steve Cohen and whoever else. But
Speaker 3: the notion that pushing Bidenn of the race to get
Speaker 3: the first black female president is like racist, Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: like what are we doing here? And also the idea
Speaker 3: that he has this just monolithic black support is insane.
Speaker 3: This president is on track to get the lowest percent
Speaker 3: of the black vote of any Democratic president since I
Speaker 3: don't know when. So your conception of this black monolith
Speaker 3: that is so pro Biden that you can't possibly touch
Speaker 3: him is just completely invented. And I know that they
Speaker 3: know this, right. I know that they know that this
Speaker 3: is fake and completely invented by them for holy disingenuous reasons.
Speaker 2: One last thing, do we want to play?
Speaker 1: I haven't watched the full thing, but I am seeing
Speaker 1: on my feed it was sent to me Rachel Maddow
Speaker 1: apparently saying I'm worried Biden is being given information about
Speaker 1: his political standing that may not be based in reality.
Speaker 2: That seems interesting. Do you think let's.
Speaker 3: Think, well, you know what, and I saw to that point.
Speaker 3: I saw David axe a rod because he also picked
Speaker 3: up on the pole Denihalism that I think continues to
Speaker 3: be a real problem for Democrats. At least people don't
Speaker 3: care about him or even really debating tribe.
Speaker 4: They care about their.
Speaker 3: Own asses on the line this fall, and so if
Speaker 3: they feel like, oh my god, he doesn't even acknowledge
Speaker 3: he's down in the polls. He doesn't even know he's
Speaker 3: down in the polls. David alts Arod tweeted, if what
Speaker 3: he being Biden said at the end of the press
Speaker 3: is true, it sounds like Biden's team has not been
Speaker 3: very candid with him about what the data is showing.
Speaker 3: The age issue is a huge and potentially insurmountable concern,
Speaker 3: and his odds of victory are very very slim. This
Speaker 3: is also very Trumpian, the like, Oh, the aids. It's
Speaker 3: the aid's fault.
Speaker 4: Right there.
Speaker 3: Anything that Biden does wrong, it's not him. It's not
Speaker 3: his fault. It's the fault of the AIDS around him. Now,
Speaker 3: these AIDS deserve a lot of blame. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3: I think they are villains of history. I think they've
Speaker 3: lied to the American people. I think they've lied to
Speaker 3: their own staff. I think they've lied to their own party.
Speaker 3: The more and more reporting comes out about the way
Speaker 3: every single aspect of Biden and what he does is
Speaker 3: stage managed, down to the word, so that he can't
Speaker 3: possibly be caught in an unscripted moment and show their hands,
Speaker 3: even to close in AIDS and allies of how adult
Speaker 3: he is at this point. But please, this man, there's
Speaker 3: some real responsibility, this politician of fifty years, he can't
Speaker 3: read an independent poll for himself.
Speaker 4: Give me a break, Give.
Speaker 2: Me a break, I thank you. I agree. That's the
Speaker 2: other thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, they need to be more candidate or even with
Speaker 1: Matdow that's also Trumpion in terms of infantilizing him. He's
Speaker 1: a grown ass man, not grown ass. He's near death.
Speaker 1: Like he's on the other side of the Bell curve
Speaker 1: here in terms of the age distribution. He spent the
Speaker 1: vast majority of his life as a professional politician. He
Speaker 1: knows he can read the New York Times if he
Speaker 1: wants to. He can read every liberal news outlet in
Speaker 1: the country, and every single one has a pole saying
Speaker 1: you're going down.
Speaker 3: So yeah, look, but I think I think he has
Speaker 3: convinced himself that those poles are all fake.
Speaker 2: I agree that.
Speaker 3: Anything that shows him and a negative light is just
Speaker 3: not true. It's the fake news, it's the biased media whatever.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: It is very trumpy, and he's constructing his own reality,
Speaker 3: and he himself is drinking the kool aid.
Speaker 1: Quite literally, he has constructed his own reality distortion field.
Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you for joining us everybody tonight. It
Speaker 1: was certainly something, you know, for American history. He's not
Speaker 1: going anywhere, at least for today. That's all we can say.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 4: It's caught as far as it goes, confidently.
Speaker 1: We can call it, you know, for today. It's nine
Speaker 1: oh five pm here on the East Coast, so there
Speaker 1: we can.
Speaker 4: He's headed to beds as am I by the way.
Speaker 3: Me too, Yeah, but I do want to Just the
Speaker 3: last thing I'll say is, you know, the next thing
Speaker 3: to watch is number one, was that report even true
Speaker 3: about the dozens of Democrats? Because the media gets things wrong?
Speaker 3: Lord knows. But but now what happens Friday, right? Do
Speaker 3: you see is Jim him's the only one who comes
Speaker 3: out or do you see a significant movement against him?
Speaker 3: You've got reporting pelosis moving behind the scenes. We talked
Speaker 3: about Obama moving behind the scenes during the day, so
Speaker 3: there's there's a lot at work. And in my opinion,
Speaker 3: I don't think this performance will forestall anything that was
Speaker 3: already planned, and it appears that there were things that
Speaker 3: were already planned. So that's what we'll be watching for.
Speaker 3: And I'll be around maybe some tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I gotta take the kids, sticking some
Speaker 4: minion of that and whatever.
Speaker 2: But tell people where you're going. Big mistake, We'll let
Speaker 2: that out.
Speaker 3: But anyway, we'll be checking in and if anything major breaks,
Speaker 3: we'll make sure to bring it to you guys.
Speaker 2: We'll be around all right, see you guys.