Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: We must hold a hope.
Speaker 3: We must stay engaged, just always keep the faith in
Speaker 3: a better day to come. I'm not going anywhere. I'm
Speaker 3: not kidding.
Speaker 1: What is he talking about? As from his last speech
Speaker 1: as president yesterday to a tiny group of man sick
Speaker 1: of fans who are going to cheer him, saying, I'm
Speaker 1: not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You're still going to lead the Democratic Party into the
Speaker 4: future or what? What you In every single sense of
Speaker 4: the phrase, you are going somewhere.
Speaker 1: There ain't an American or anybody in your party that
Speaker 1: has any interest in you being in charge anymore. They
Speaker 1: never did. Even the people who voted for you just
Speaker 1: didn't like Trump. Nobody ever was into you.
Speaker 2: Dude. All right, I see eluded human being.
Speaker 1: That makes him feel better. We should get to some
Speaker 1: of his pardons that he is now the most pardoning
Speaker 1: president in US history. A lot of them preemptive pardons,
Speaker 1: which is a new thing that apparently has been invented, and.
Speaker 4: It's it's horrible, it's it's incredible. Well, it's unconstitutional. It
Speaker 4: goes against like every concept of English common law going
Speaker 4: back hundreds of years right through the Constitution. The idea
Speaker 4: that you can just give somebody a force field that
Speaker 4: protects them from any prosecution of any law they may
Speaker 4: have violated is horrifying. Well, un America, a lot of them.
Speaker 1: There is no chance anybody who's going to try to
Speaker 1: prosecute them anyway. So it's just performative. It's just it's
Speaker 1: whatever you call virtue signaling. We are watching live on
Speaker 1: a bunch of different cable news channels. The people file
Speaker 1: in for the inauguration, which is the actual swearing in
Speaker 1: is less than an hour away. All your heavyweights in
Speaker 1: the Republican Party and all the richest people in the
Speaker 1: world are hanging out and waiting for this thing to start.
Speaker 1: Elon looks like he buys his suits off the rack
Speaker 1: for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: What are right? He just doesn't care, I guess, and
Speaker 2: he always looks cheerful.
Speaker 4: He's just chuckling animatedly with Sundar pitch high of Google.
Speaker 4: If I had hundreds of billions of dollars, I'd be
Speaker 4: chuckling two, but yes he is. He is not overly fastidious.
Speaker 1: Look at that front row, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Elon, and then
Speaker 1: on the other side of him you got Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: soon to be Secretary of State.
Speaker 2: Man, there's some serious heavyweights there.
Speaker 4: If you're trying to picture it, they are indoors because
Speaker 4: of the bitter cold. Jack pointing out that tens of thousands,
Speaker 4: hundreds of thousands of football fans we're out enjoying games
Speaker 4: in the snow and nice and seem not to suffer
Speaker 4: from it. But all the dignitaries are indoors. I think
Speaker 4: they're under the rotunda, under the Dome, I should say,
Speaker 4: in the Capitol, in that big hall, there's Pam Bondy looking.
Speaker 2: Which is a drag for Trump you to and astute
Speaker 2: in terms of legal scholarship.
Speaker 1: Because we'll never know what his crowd size would have been.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, decent weather, he was going
Speaker 1: to have a really large crowd out there for his inauguration,
Speaker 1: which of course he would have absolutely loved.
Speaker 4: Why is Marco Rubio sitting two seats down from Mark Zuckerberg?
Speaker 2: You bothered? It's odd?
Speaker 4: Starting to feel like incoming secretary of state with the
Speaker 4: guy who runs Facebook.
Speaker 1: There's a woman with the even more plastic surgery than
Speaker 1: Bezos's wife.
Speaker 2: What the hell?
Speaker 4: Oh, there's the Trump family coming in Barren, towering over
Speaker 4: the proceedings at nine feet tall. So President Elect Trump
Speaker 4: in not too long a span of time. Within an
Speaker 4: hour or so, I expect we'll be giving his inaugural address,
Speaker 4: which as always has been furnished in part to the press.
Speaker 4: Few key phrases so they can do what I'm about
Speaker 4: to do, which is talk about the message. He'll call
Speaker 4: for a revolution of common sense. Love that during his
Speaker 4: inaugural address. That's a very common sensical way to call
Speaker 4: for a revolution of common sense. Just say it, not
Speaker 4: like twenty seven words of soaring rhetoric, just saying, hey,
Speaker 4: we got to get back to common sense. And he
Speaker 4: will also say quote, I returned to the presidency confident
Speaker 4: and optimistic that we are at the start of a
Speaker 4: thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change
Speaker 4: is sweeping the country. My message to Americans today is
Speaker 4: that it is time for us once again to act
Speaker 4: with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history's greatest civilization.
Speaker 1: That's a much brighter speech than he gave the first
Speaker 1: time around, which I remember.
Speaker 2: True or not. It was quote that George W.
Speaker 1: Bush said to one of the other presidents up there
Speaker 1: after Trump's first inaugural death.
Speaker 4: That was some weird ass speaking of plaint and speaking yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: a revolution of common sense. I love that same. To
Speaker 4: that end, President Trump is going to address a lot
Speaker 4: of the gender bending madness that's no, in an executive order,
Speaker 4: an expansive executive order he is said to be signing
Speaker 4: today called defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring
Speaker 4: biological truth to the federal government. Please don't try to
Speaker 4: spell out some clever phrase with that, just to that
Speaker 4: would be.
Speaker 2: No. I don't think they will.
Speaker 4: So the executive order establishes government wide the biological reality
Speaker 4: of the who sexes and clearly defines male and female,
Speaker 4: and all radical gender ideology guidance, communications, policies, and forms
Speaker 4: are removed. Woman means an adult human female period. Agencies
Speaker 4: will cease pretending that men can be women and women
Speaker 4: can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.
Speaker 4: And it goes on in that uh, in that way,
Speaker 4: and we can hit you with more details tomorrow when
Speaker 4: it actually becomes, you know, not law exactly, but a
Speaker 4: functioning executive order.
Speaker 1: Is there any pushback to that? I mean, can he
Speaker 1: do that? Is there any legal reason that that won't fly?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. Well, there may be facets of
Speaker 4: it that are vulnerable. That's too much cleavage for an inauguration.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos's wife at too much cleavage for they hit
Speaker 1: you now. It's still a fiancee. The rumors are going
Speaker 1: to have a six hundred million dollar wedding. That's just
Speaker 1: too that's too too much, too much boobage for being
Speaker 1: in the rotunda with all this.
Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, when.
Speaker 1: When you're saying that's too much boobage, she's wearing a
Speaker 1: corset with a business blazer over it.
Speaker 2: Like that that is an a piece of lingerie.
Speaker 4: Well, oh my gosh, yeah it is. It's it's she's
Speaker 4: wearing a bra under her blazer.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I shouldn't be able.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be able to even possibly get turned on
Speaker 1: under their rotunda for inauguration.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be a possibility. Well, the rumors.
Speaker 4: Martha Washington actually showed a bit of angle ankle to
Speaker 4: John Marshall during the first inauguration. Yeah all right, well
Speaker 4: now what now we have prayers and the Marine band
Speaker 4: is probably going to play or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when it gets to the speech, we'll take that live, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the plan. It should be around uh noon
Speaker 4: eastern nine Pacific.
Speaker 1: They're introducing the real heavyweights now, as Bill and Hillary
Speaker 1: are walking to take their you know, the former presidents
Speaker 1: are coming in. So that's a sort of thing you announced,
Speaker 1: and everybody takes her seats, and when they get to
Speaker 1: the actual swearing in and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: we will bring that to you live. We've got plenty
Speaker 1: of other commentary around that. I hope you can stick
Speaker 1: with us, or if you miss a segment, you can
Speaker 1: get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2: Wow, Jared's wife is stunning. What's her name, Avanka?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, just stunning looking woman. She didn't look like
Speaker 1: that when she's younger, right, so some of that is
Speaker 1: got this fixed.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm here to talk about the Constitution, are you Women's good? Oh?
Speaker 2: Look at her. Sorry, I'm hypnotized. It was eight years
Speaker 2: ago today.
Speaker 1: I was like ten feet away from her when she
Speaker 1: was doing her first dance with Jared at the inaugural
Speaker 1: ball that night that I went to.
Speaker 2: You shill cut in me, do you mind?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, on his way out the door, issued a
Speaker 1: whole bunch more pardons and commutations. He is now the
Speaker 1: partner in chief. He's set the record. We're returning to
Speaker 1: normalcy in a lot of things with the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: I doubt that we're gonna return to normalcy in terms
Speaker 1: of like norm breaking around stuff like this. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go further down the road, I would guess, which is unfortunate.
Speaker 1: But that's just the direction it's been going for a
Speaker 1: long time. Joe Biden pardoning doctor Fauci and General Milly
Speaker 1: and all kinds of people that probably weren't going to
Speaker 1: be charged with anything anyway.
Speaker 4: But anyway, members of the January sixth Committee, So four.
Speaker 1: Years ago, little more than four years ago, Biden had
Speaker 1: been elected and won, Trump was still president. Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: on CNN was highly worried that Donald Trump, on his
Speaker 1: way out the door, might pardon all kinds of people.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what are we gonna do. This is
Speaker 1: the conversation Jake Tapper had with Joe Biden four years ago.
Speaker 5: President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of of preemptive
Speaker 5: pardons for his adult children and for Rudy Giuliani. He's
Speaker 5: also floated the idea in private conversations, according to our reporting,
Speaker 5: of possibly pardoning himself, which he insists he has the
Speaker 5: power to do, though that has never been litigated. Does
Speaker 5: this concern you all, these preemptive pardons, Well.
Speaker 6: It concerns me in terms of what kind of pressing
Speaker 6: it sets and how the rest of the world looks
Speaker 6: at us as a nation of laws and injustice.
Speaker 2: But look, our Justice.
Speaker 6: Department is going to operate independently on those issues that
Speaker 6: how to respond to any of that. I'm not going
Speaker 6: to be telling them what they have to do and
Speaker 6: don't have to do. Now, in terms of the pardons,
Speaker 6: you're not going to see an our administration that kind
Speaker 6: of approach to pardons, or you're going to see in
Speaker 6: our administration approach to making policy by tweets. You know,
Speaker 6: it's just gonna be a totally different way in which
Speaker 6: we approach the justices.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's good.
Speaker 1: So one the giant lie that we won't do pardons
Speaker 1: like that, now he's doing it. In a way that
Speaker 1: Trump those were those didn't happen. By the way, all
Speaker 1: those things that Jake Tapper mentioned, those worries didn't occur.
Speaker 1: He didn't pardon his children in nerdy Giuliani. Biden is
Speaker 1: doing that sort of thing and no policies. By tweet Friday,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden tweets out a new amendment to the Constitution.
Speaker 2: And denounced that it had passed. Right.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's interesting. These people are all liars. They're all liars.
Speaker 4: Well, in the case of Biden, he is the ultimate puppet.
Speaker 4: He has no beliefs, He's never had any beliefs. He
Speaker 4: has no moral compass to do what he's done in
Speaker 4: the way he's done it, after everything he said, and
Speaker 4: then participate in the great delusional lie that he was
Speaker 4: fit to say another term. I mean, just let history
Speaker 4: have nothing but contempt for the man. He's a fool
Speaker 4: and a jackass man.
Speaker 1: If you missed this story over the weekend, it didn't
Speaker 1: get much coverage, which I think is kind of hilarious
Speaker 1: because nobody took it seriously. Joe Biden announced that the
Speaker 1: er the Equal Rights Amendment Act that started way back
Speaker 1: in the seventies and was so controversial. He just declared
Speaker 1: it a constitutional amendment on Friday, and nobody has any
Speaker 1: idea what he was talking about. By the way, Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris put out the same tweet, Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: right eight the er is now the twenty eighth amendment.
Speaker 2: That guys, what are you people talking about?
Speaker 1: And it didn't get much coverage, I think because everybody
Speaker 1: thought he's an old man heading out the door.
Speaker 2: He's lost, let's just ignore him.
Speaker 4: Breaking rotunda news Jack doctor Jill Biden, the first Lady
Speaker 4: of the United States and not a real doctor, has
Speaker 4: entered and is taking her seat close to the bandstand
Speaker 4: for the inauguration. She is beaming, smiling next to these
Speaker 4: the second gentleman dug him off, who is a bit
Speaker 4: feisty after midnight apparently if you're his girlfriend and get
Speaker 4: mouthie all settling in to enjoy the peaceful transfer of.
Speaker 1: Power, well said, I mentioned this earlier. I don't think
Speaker 1: it was for all of our stations that were on.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos's wife is showing way too much cleavage for
Speaker 1: this event, and she's where does she wearing, Katie?
Speaker 2: I don't know whomen's course.
Speaker 4: It under a blazer she's wearing lingerie.
Speaker 1: She's she's dressed like if you were out to a
Speaker 1: club and you kind of want to, you know, turn
Speaker 1: guys on. You're wearing lingerie underneath your suit jacket. Any
Speaker 1: is that what you would call it, Katie?
Speaker 2: It's a Victoria's secret ad.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's way too much cleavage for this event.
Speaker 2: Ye all right, feel free controversial, Jack de Martins. Guys
Speaker 2: in boobage.
Speaker 4: Huh, you're not getting any more two day shipping, Jack, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're never going to get a package on time. Let
Speaker 4: the record show that I Joe Getty was respectful toward
Speaker 4: the beautiful woman and her presence on the grandest stage.
Speaker 2: I'm not a misogynist telling women how they should dress.
Speaker 2: Some you are inauguration trivia for you.
Speaker 4: Everybody's been enjoying this all morning long, the whole day long.
Speaker 2: Yes, Michael, what do I got to tip you or some?
Speaker 2: There it is? There we go.
Speaker 4: As mentioned earlier, John Quincy Adams was sworn in on
Speaker 4: a law book, not a bible. You can use any
Speaker 4: book you want, Jack, You suggested the art of the deal.
Speaker 2: Donald Jay.
Speaker 4: When President Warren G. Harding died in office, Calvin Coolidge,
Speaker 4: the vice president, was at his family's Vermont farm with
Speaker 4: no electricity or telephone. He finally received a word of
Speaker 4: Harding's death by courier and in the early morning hours
Speaker 4: of August third of nineteen twenty three, who was sworn
Speaker 4: in by his father, who was a notary public. The
Speaker 4: entire ceremony conducted by Kerosene lamp and the new president
Speaker 4: adedly went back to bed afterwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah you probably know this, but Trump becomes president and
Speaker 1: Noon Eastern oath, no oath, he says, ask herew the oath?
Speaker 1: I'm tired. Whatever the oath is A. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: fun to do, but uh, you become president, Noon, it's
Speaker 1: fun to do, and and you got to take the oath.
Speaker 1: It's because it's part of being in office. But that's
Speaker 1: not when he becomes president. You become president and Noon.
Speaker 4: How about a little more inaugural Old Trivia Jack, Following
Speaker 4: the assassination of President Kennedy LBJ took the oath of office.
Speaker 4: Board Air Force One Judge Sarah Hughes administered the oath.
Speaker 2: She became the first.
Speaker 4: And only woman to inaugurate a president by the who
Speaker 4: cares who did this?
Speaker 2: Swearing it. It's immaterial you get if a man.
Speaker 4: A woman, a faithful golden retriever, it's the other person.
Speaker 1: That Well, now, they hustled that together real quick. The
Speaker 1: Robert Carrow telling of that in the Lyndon Johnson book
Speaker 1: is freaking amazing. Because they were so worried that the
Speaker 1: Soviets had just assassinated John F. Kennedy and they wanted
Speaker 1: to make it clear to the world we still have
Speaker 1: somebody in charge. They needed to hustle together a photo
Speaker 1: op real quick. They grabbed one reporter who had a camera,
Speaker 1: got him on the plane. Jackie's standing there with a
Speaker 1: horrified look on her face. If we've all seen the picture,
Speaker 1: she's got blood all over her. She's wearing the same
Speaker 1: outfit as her husband's exploded head fell on or you know,
Speaker 1: as he was dying.
Speaker 2: And they quick threw together.
Speaker 1: They threw together that oh through real quick, so there
Speaker 1: would be a picture for the world that hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union just took out our president, but somebody's
Speaker 1: still in charge.
Speaker 2: Jeez, what a horrifying situation.
Speaker 4: Well, I've got to assume the old man, the partner
Speaker 4: in chief, is going to be next on the bandstand
Speaker 4: and then the incoming guy. They're in the Capitol.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling they're going to be gathering in
Speaker 1: this same routunda for a lying in state Joe Biden
Speaker 1: once he's gone before too long, don't you think?
Speaker 2: How long?
Speaker 4: I sense an over under bed or would that be distasteful?
Speaker 4: On this the day of the peaceful transfer of power,
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: W we had enough premident.
Speaker 7: So let's hear.
Speaker 2: From the rally yesterday. Hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 1: Of people on their hands are there for the original
Speaker 1: people actually on stage.
Speaker 8: You think I'm trying to act impressed or excited, I
Speaker 8: can't tell, although if I was there hilarious absurdity.
Speaker 2: It was like when I was.
Speaker 7: On the floor from Trump Speak the convention and Kid
Speaker 7: rocks and take a White and COVID was trying in
Speaker 7: vain to tear his T shirt because he's an old man,
Speaker 7: and all had this hilarious, fun exciting absurdity to see.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking, I'm old enough now, bang bang bing.
Speaker 1: I'm old enough down to have lived through quite a
Speaker 1: few of these January twentieth in a new incoming administration,
Speaker 1: and they all come in with, you know, a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of fanfare and promise on their side, whether it's
Speaker 1: my side or not, their side is always very, very
Speaker 1: excited about it.
Speaker 2: And it's it's hard to achieve a Directionally.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled about the direction we're going, as opposed to
Speaker 1: the direction we've been going the last four years. But
Speaker 1: it's really hard to achieve a lot of the things
Speaker 1: you set out to achieve. You chip away at it.
Speaker 1: Some things we're got some things that some things don't.
Speaker 1: For instance, the vague, if you haven't heard it already,
Speaker 1: is off of the Doge Committee amid friction with staff.
Speaker 1: According to CBS News, Vivek has worn out as welcome
Speaker 1: with the other people. Well, the story is Elon grew
Speaker 1: tired of his unwillingness to do the heavy lifting. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, other people are denying all of that. Sure,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling it's true, but doesn't doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's doomed. But you know, it's just it's it's it's
Speaker 1: easier to talk about the things you want to do
Speaker 1: than actually do them.
Speaker 2: It just is.
Speaker 1: That's all kinds of promises you make you have no
Speaker 1: intention to do one at all. I remember, in reading
Speaker 1: the George Stephanopolis book All Too Human, talking about when
Speaker 1: they got Bill Clinton elected and then sitting down and saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: so which of these things can we actually do? And
Speaker 1: some of them were just like, we're not going to
Speaker 1: pay any attention to this whatsoever. Yeah, we're not even
Speaker 1: gonna We're not even gonna have a sentence long meeting
Speaker 1: about this promise we made at some campaign rally. There
Speaker 1: are only so many things you can do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do these these this, this is you know, this is
Speaker 1: Priority A, these are Priority B, and then a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff that falls by the wayside. It's just
Speaker 1: the reality of it. So, you know, we'll see how
Speaker 1: it goes.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: Watching the live coverage, Donald J. Trump is now walking
Speaker 4: through the Capitol toward the rotunda between an impressive guard
Speaker 4: of various service people in their ceremonial garb, with.
Speaker 2: Their rifles at the ready, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Milania looks fantastic. Helps be a world class model, really
Speaker 1: helps poor Baron. He's one of those guys that's a
Speaker 1: little ashamed of how tall is. He stoops a little
Speaker 1: bit with that.
Speaker 2: Kind of wish I wasn't standing out so much.
Speaker 4: He is clearly the tallest guy in the rotunda, which
Speaker 4: to marvel at that is to be childlike.
Speaker 2: But he's a very tall young man. I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: the tallest guy in practically every room he's ever in.
Speaker 2: What is he six ' eight something like? Yeah. Charles c. W.
Speaker 1: Cook is watching this and tweeting out about it. He's
Speaker 1: watching CBS, he said, CBS is helpfully explaining that Christy
Speaker 1: Noman wants killed a goat, And he said, now, CBS
Speaker 1: is just explaining that there's an image of Pocahontas in
Speaker 1: the rotunda, and that Pocahontas was a woman of color.
Speaker 1: Here comes Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the current at
Speaker 1: least for another twenty minutes, President and Vice President of
Speaker 1: the United States, walking into the rotunda. Everybody clapping in
Speaker 1: Jill Biden.
Speaker 2: You answered all the questions, Joe look on her face. Yeah, yeah, great.
Speaker 4: So respect to all who participate in the peaceful transfer
Speaker 4: of power.
Speaker 2: It is a miracle.
Speaker 4: The history of mankind is ninety nine point nine nine
Speaker 4: nine percent, not that it is violence and bloodshed every
Speaker 4: time powers transferred. What we do here as a miracle,
Speaker 4: and it's worthy of our respect.
Speaker 2: And just thoughtfulness.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, Joe Biden was an awful, lawless president,
Speaker 4: and I am profoundly grateful that he will no longer
Speaker 4: hold that office in roughly twenty one minutes. And I
Speaker 4: am profoundly grateful and mildly surprised that our great adversaries
Speaker 4: didn't try one last bold move during the waning years
Speaker 4: of his awful administration, speaking specifically of China and Rush.
Speaker 4: Of course, Russia has been up to evil now for
Speaker 4: several years, but it's about over.
Speaker 1: We will find out in future books, maybe from Bob
Speaker 1: Woodward to whoever else, that there is a lot of
Speaker 1: warning going on during these last months, probably after the debate,
Speaker 1: when the world became aware that holy crafty United States
Speaker 1: is president's brain doesn't work. I'll bet we set lots
Speaker 1: of warnings around the world. Hey, we're still on it.
Speaker 1: We still got a sect deaf, we still got a
Speaker 1: secretary of state. Trump's coming in soon. Don't even think
Speaker 1: about it. I guarantee you we were doing that with
Speaker 1: various bad guys around the world. To what Joe just
Speaker 1: said in the Dispatch today, Sarah isger who is a
Speaker 1: very measured person. Though conservative rights, the quiet lawlessness of
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. He was elected to restore norms, but has
Speaker 1: done more damage to the rule of law than any
Speaker 1: other president in our history. And she goes through point
Speaker 1: by point, how that is true. That is something, that
Speaker 1: is something My concern is, that's just the direction we're
Speaker 1: going with presidencies. More executive orders, more ignoring your oath
Speaker 1: to uphold the Constitution, and seeing if you can slip
Speaker 1: by one, slip one by the goalie of the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court now and then, or at least keep it in
Speaker 1: play for you know, a couple of weeks, couple of
Speaker 1: months till the Supreme Court strikes it down. But it
Speaker 1: makes your base happy for you. I think we're headed
Speaker 1: more that direction. Jd Vance entering the Rotunda. I would
Speaker 1: actually love to hear more from Sarah's peace in detail
Speaker 1: when it's appropriate, maybe a little later on. I would
Speaker 1: also add that not only was he literally lawless in
Speaker 1: his use of executive orders and declaring things that he
Speaker 1: knew full well the Supreme Court must overturn, thereby making
Speaker 1: himself look like a crusader for his side and the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, the Supreme Court looked like out of control.
Speaker 1: Maga monsters, which undermined respect for the Supreme Court in
Speaker 1: a significant way, which is a terrible, terrible sin against
Speaker 1: our system. To do that unnecessarily, it is unforgivable to
Speaker 1: do that. But to me, that's only half of it.
Speaker 4: The other half is that many of his policies were literally.
Speaker 2: Lawless.
Speaker 4: They were policies of lawlessness at the border. Oh boy,
Speaker 4: here's the breaking news, breaking news, donkey, this is the
Speaker 4: one we've been waiting for.
Speaker 1: Here we go, breaking news, donkey. Just minutes left in
Speaker 1: his presidency. Biden issues a full and unconditional pardon of
Speaker 1: his family, most notably his brother James Biden.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: The Biden crime family will escape federal charges.
Speaker 1: James Biden, Sarah Jones Biden, his sister Valerie Biden. Owen's
Speaker 1: I don't know who all these Bidens are, John t
Speaker 1: Owens and Francis W.
Speaker 2: Biden. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: I was about to read Joden Goldberg's tweet from today.
Speaker 1: It fits better now than it before I read you
Speaker 1: the breaking news. Biden is leaving office, dropping one lawless norm,
Speaker 1: defying justly impeachable, undemocratic transgression after another, and he is
Speaker 1: the pardoning, the unconditional pardoning of his family who haven't
Speaker 1: even been charged with anything, which to me is an
Speaker 1: admission of guilt, even though I know the pardons for
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci specifically said this is not an admission of
Speaker 1: guilt or that he was going to be charge of anything,
Speaker 1: but that that is out freaking rageous. That is outrageous.
Speaker 4: History will judge this with every bit of the harshness
Speaker 4: it deserves.
Speaker 1: It's horrible, and he does, and it drops fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: before he's done, wow, hoping it will get us, knowing
Speaker 1: it will get obliterated mostly by the coverage of the day,
Speaker 1: and I'll be interested to watch the CBS evening news tonight,
Speaker 1: for instance, Cee, did they mention this?
Speaker 4: Fox is going to be all over it. They'll mention
Speaker 4: it briefly, as if it's insignificant. This is the ultimate
Speaker 4: example of that which is shocking yet unsurprising. I knew
Speaker 4: he was going to pardon his brother, especially, but a preemptive,
Speaker 4: broad ranging pardon of everything his family might have done illegal,
Speaker 4: that is that is czarist. The president, the incoming president
Speaker 4: is entering the uh vally shaking hands with Christine.
Speaker 1: So outrageous, I mean, it was incredible when he pardoned
Speaker 1: his son, who had been convicted of crimes, in many cases,
Speaker 1: the very crimes that Joe Biden has held up his
Speaker 1: entire careers, being the worst of the worst, not paying
Speaker 1: your taxes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Gun stuff.
Speaker 1: Pardons his son, but now pardoning is family ahead of
Speaker 1: anything is amazing.
Speaker 4: The only benefit to this is that now they cannot
Speaker 4: claim Fifth Amendment protection again self incrimination, and that given
Speaker 4: the right subpoenas in the right situations, they will have
Speaker 4: to come clean or be guilty of perjury unless he's
Speaker 4: given them some sort of preemptive pardon for the rest
Speaker 4: of their lives for all crimes and sins, from jaywalking
Speaker 4: to rape and murder.
Speaker 1: So let's bring up the audio right now of what's
Speaker 1: going on there in the rotunda, Amy Klobacher speaking.
Speaker 4: Please welcome the Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on
Speaker 4: Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Clovis Shar.
Speaker 9: Good morning, everyone, Welcome to the sixtieth presidential inauguration. Today,
Speaker 9: President elect Trump and Vice President elect Vance will take
Speaker 9: their o's of office, and we will witness the peaceful
Speaker 9: transfer of power at the heart of our democracy.
Speaker 2: I wanted to mention Biden's pardons of his brother. First
Speaker 2: of all, I'd like to mention this working year.
Speaker 9: I've chaired the inaugural Ceremony Committee, which includes the leadership
Speaker 9: of Congress from both parties. We thank the committee and
Speaker 9: Capital staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over
Speaker 9: the last year and especially the last three days. You've
Speaker 9: done a beautiful job, and you have shown grace under pressure.
Speaker 2: Let's get through the ceremony before we announce that.
Speaker 9: Our theme this year is our enduring democracy. The presence
Speaker 9: of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is
Speaker 9: truly a testament to that endurance. We welcome President Biden
Speaker 9: and Doctor Biden. We welcome Vice President Harris and Doug Emahoff,
Speaker 9: President Obama, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton, President Bush and
Speaker 9: Laura Bush, Vice President Pence, Vice President Quail, and Maryland Quail.
Speaker 9: The Justices of the United States Supreme Court are with us,
Speaker 9: all nine of them I counted, and of course the
Speaker 9: Trump and Vance families. This ceremony marks what will soon
Speaker 9: be two hundred and fifty years of our democracy. It
Speaker 9: is the moment when leaders elevated by the will of
Speaker 9: the people, promised to be faithful to our Constitution, to
Speaker 9: cherish and defend it. It is the moment when they
Speaker 9: become as we all should be, the guardians of our
Speaker 9: country through war and peace, through adversity and prosperity. We
Speaker 9: hold this inauguration every four years, and today it falls
Speaker 9: on Martin Luther King Day, a further reminder that we
Speaker 9: must strive to uphold the values enshrined in our Constitution,
Speaker 9: the freedoms and as is inscribed on the entrance to
Speaker 9: the United States Supreme Court Equal Justice under Law.
Speaker 2: I like that she announced the theme.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you need to have a theme like
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to take a break here in just
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then we'll come back and we'll
Speaker 1: make sure we catch the oath and all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 2: Isn't the theme. We've got a new president coming in
Speaker 2: exactly do you need a theme?
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Speaker 1: I don't know if anything's bigger than Joe Biden pardoning
Speaker 1: his whole family minutes before he leaves office.
Speaker 2: It's disgusting, It.
Speaker 1: Is disgusting, and it is going to be judged that
Speaker 1: way by history. God dang it, you thought he had
Speaker 1: low ratings. Now anyway, more on the way stay here.
Speaker 1: They're running behind on the inauguration ceremony right now, so
Speaker 1: let's stick with the breaking news, which is shoot page
Speaker 1: and historic. I think Joe Biden partning his entire family
Speaker 1: as the ceremony has already begun minutes before he loses
Speaker 1: the power to do this, and this is the statement
Speaker 1: he put out. My family has been subjected to unrelenting
Speaker 1: attacks and threats motivated solely by a desire to hurt me,
Speaker 1: the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no
Speaker 1: reason to believe these attacks will end. I believe in
Speaker 1: the rule of law pause for laughter, and I'm optimistic
Speaker 1: that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail
Speaker 1: over politics.
Speaker 2: Apparently not that optimistic.
Speaker 1: But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety,
Speaker 1: and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Byron
Speaker 1: Yorke of The Examiner has been pointing out how hilarious
Speaker 1: this is because it's the same thing he said about
Speaker 1: Fauci and one of his other pardons. It wreaks havoc
Speaker 1: on their lives and their finances. Yeah, you mean all
Speaker 1: those phony cases against Trump and people in the Trump
Speaker 1: orbit too, Yeah, retafic on their lives and their finances.
Speaker 2: Didn't it didn't have a problem with it. It was your opponents.
Speaker 4: Wow, wow, you know I it was absolutely certain he
Speaker 4: was going to go with the argument that they'd been
Speaker 4: unfairly targeted and the rest of it, just like he
Speaker 4: did when Hunter was convicted, and he revealed his hypocrisy
Speaker 4: in pardoning him. But Joe Biden has truly finished the
Speaker 4: transition from full clown to villain.
Speaker 2: This is villainous.
Speaker 1: Even though an individual's have done nothing wrong and will
Speaker 1: ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted,
Speaker 1: can I reparably damage their reputations and finances? Boy, you
Speaker 1: had no problem with that when it was anybody that
Speaker 1: was a Republican on up to your opponent. Trump didn't
Speaker 1: say a word about it. That's well, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Here's his last paragraph. That is why I'm
Speaker 1: exercising my power under the Constitution to parton James B.
Speaker 2: Biden.
Speaker 1: That's his brother, and a whole bunch of other Biens,
Speaker 1: and Biden's and Owens's who I don't know. The issuance
Speaker 1: of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment
Speaker 1: that they engaged in any wrongdoing they did, nor should
Speaker 1: acceptance be misconstrued in as admission of guilt for any offense.
Speaker 2: There you go. He is soon to leave the earth.
Speaker 4: History will be the only significant judge of Joe Biden
Speaker 4: and his life and his presidency. He will truly go
Speaker 4: down as one of the most corrupt, awful presidents to
Speaker 4: ever serve in the office.
Speaker 1: He's he's gotten a pass these last couple of months
Speaker 1: for variety of reasons, because you know, he stepped down,
Speaker 1: his brain don't work, he lost Kambala Harris was the nominee,
Speaker 1: all kinds of different reasons that he just hasn't been
Speaker 1: the focus. But while we were on vacation, that video
Speaker 1: came out of him and Hunter meeting with high level
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist people there in Beijing. Nobody had ever seen
Speaker 1: these videos before I mean proof that he was absolutely
Speaker 1: one hundred percent lying about the He had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with Hunter, and Hunter had nothing to do with me,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Just you got some coverage for
Speaker 1: a couple of days over Christmas, But you know, what
Speaker 1: are you going to do now? And now he's pardoned
Speaker 1: the family, so it's over.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Kind of odd that that video surfaced when it did,
Speaker 4: when everybody was on vacation. So next hour we will
Speaker 4: be airing live the swearing in in the speech of
Speaker 4: Donald Trump as he's inaugurated the forty seven president of
Speaker 4: the United States.
Speaker 2: If you don't get.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just saw something up there saying Trump was expecting
Speaker 1: to be sworn in at eleven forty seven, but they're
Speaker 1: running late for some reason. How did they manage to
Speaker 1: run late? What caused that? God, you think there'd be
Speaker 1: somebody keeping that going. Of all of all things that
Speaker 1: you can't let run late, I would think this would
Speaker 1: be one of them.
Speaker 4: Well, you got a bunch of octagenarian dignitaries making their
Speaker 4: way into the hall that you know it takes as
Speaker 4: long as it takes.
Speaker 2: You got to start earlier, have him to show up earlier.
Speaker 2: What are you lecturing me for. I'm not in charge.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Billy Graham's son is given a prayer right now and
Speaker 1: again if you stick around for hour four, if you
Speaker 1: have that option, you'll catch the big stuff. Trump's inaugural address,
Speaker 1: which we've already given you some of a return.
Speaker 2: To a revolution of common sense, A revolution of common sense.
Speaker 2: That's the theme. Love, What a great thing. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to hear more.
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