WEBVTT - It's A 6 Pound Show In A 5 Pound Bag 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Arm Strong and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:30.200 I really am concerned about how fragile democracy is. I 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.920 guess what I'm worried about is that the thing that 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:41.720 keeps it on track are the guardrails. That there's a 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:47.960 Supreme Court that's independent but not but accountable. There's a 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.280 Congress that you speak your mind, but you're held accountable 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.520 to basic standards. There's a presidency that says you have 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.200 very limited powers. I mean, you're the top dog. When 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.640 you're not, you can dictate everything. And I don't know, 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.400 they seem to just we just seem to be chipping away. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:08.839 At all those elements. 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:14.720 Why is the least popular president outside of Nixon in 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.640 sixty years, doing so many exit interviews? 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.319 People hate you. Why don't you just quietly go away? 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:28.880 Desperate need to take one last shot at burnishing his legacy. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.839 I guess quick note before we get into the meat 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.679 of this topic, and Michael in Washington State writes, evidently, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.679 yesterday I made reference to Biden and his advisors in 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.480 his farewell speech and Michael suggests the new nickname dead 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.440 in company, I mean his advisors. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:52.040 That's disrespectful, Michael. It's a bad idea, disrespectful to John Mayer, maybe. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.960 Bob Ware. So I'm going to just read here. This 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.320 is going to be a segment where I just read. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.920 This article is super long, and and I just came 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.360 across it fifteen minutes ago, and it's out the New 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.680 York Times today, and I have had chance to highlight it. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.520 I'm gonna read. Joe's gonna comment as we go. The 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:15.320 New York Times has interviewed over a dozen people with 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.640 knowledge of This article is based on interviews with a 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.160 dozen people who participated in the private push of getting 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:23.359 Biden out of office. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.840 This is one of the first big articles. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.440 On this to come out yet, you know, three days 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.720 before he leaves office. The headline in today in the NYT. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.520 I'm urging you not to run how Schumer pushed Biden 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:40.120 to drop out. And I've just started reading it. I'm 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.680 finding it fascinating. So I hope you will take Senator 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.880 Chuck Schumer of New York sat in the foyer of 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.320 President Biden's beach house, tired and tense. He had not 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.240 slept at all the night before, and on the four 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.200 hour drive from Brooklyn to Delaware, he had rehearsed out 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.960 loud what he planned to say, reviewing note cards as 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.359 he prepared for what he thought might be the most 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.840 high stakes speech he would ever give to an audience 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:02.239 of one. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.079 I'm already wrapped. Wow. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.360 It was the afternoon of July thirteenth, a humid summer afternoon, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.639 just before four o'clock, and Schumer, the Democratic leader of 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.440 the Senate, was about to make a blunt case to 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.960 Joe Biden that he needed to drop his bid for 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.320 a second term. If there were a secret ballot among 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.600 Democratic senators, mister Schumer would tell the president no more 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.360 than five would say he should continue running ooh five 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.440 out of fifty. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.000 Two or whatever it was. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.799 At the time, mister Biden's own polsters assessed that he 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.960 had about a five percent chance of prevailing against the 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.240 Donald Trump. Mister Schumer would tell him information that was 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.160 apparently news to the president. The pulsters were saying, you 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.680 have a five percent chance of winning. They weren't telling 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.800 Joe that. They were telling all the other Democrats that 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.520 what the hell. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:51.680 You pointed this out? 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.000 Yesterday that well, Number one, it's just mind blowing that 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.560 the president's advisers were keeping the polls from him and 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.600 fully curating which headlines he saw. I mean, that's just 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.040 it's scary and how clear it is that they're like, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.840 if he sees this, he's not going to run again, 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.119 then I'll have to go find a job. Hey, there's 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.200 a chance he gets reelected and I keep my gigs, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.479 So let's just keep the news from him. I mean, 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.240 that is some serious puppetry. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:19.680 God, I'd say. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.000 If the President refused to step aside, the Senator would argue, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.880 the consequences for Democrats in Biden's own legacy after a 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.960 half century would be catastrophic. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:30.000 Correct. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.400 If you run and you lose to Trump and we 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.440 lose the Senate and we don't get back the House, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.520 you will go down in America as one of the 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:37.560 darkest figures. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:43.359 Whoa happened anyway, But it would have been certain if 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:43.800 he'd run. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.440 That's a heck of a thing to say. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.560 Schumer would end with the directive, if I were you, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.719 I wouldn't run. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.520 I'm urging you not to run. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.040 The roughly forty five minute conversation, which took place on 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.000 a screen, didn't porch overlooking a pond. Was more pointed 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.920 and emotional than previously known and helps to explain how 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.240 mister Biden came to the decision just over a week. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:04.400 Later to end his campaign. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.640 They lay out the all the people that they talked 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.320 to the knowledge they had. These are all people close to. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:13.160 The whole deal. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.640 Uh. When Schumer arrived at mister Biden's beach house that 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.680 summer day, he could hear the President shouting. Mister Biden 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.320 was finishing up a contentious zoom call with a small 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.279 group of lawmakers who were expressing their concerns about his 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:28.920 viability as a candidate, and. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:29.760 His back was up. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.640 This was exactly the kind of scenario Schumer had been 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.200 hoping to avoid for the past three weeks. As he 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.760 stalled for time and dragged his feet about having this 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.000 awkward conversation at all, he worried that the famously stubborn 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.919 president would feel cornered and dig in more. For months, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.040 Schumer had been concerned that Biden was going to lose 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.640 to Trump and cost Democrats Congress. Now listen to this part, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.960 and you tell me what's going on here. It wasn't 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.520 that he thought Biden was not capable of doing the job. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.560 During their weekly conversations, the President often rambled, but he 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.240 had always rambled. Once in a while Biden would forget 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.680 why he had called, but Schumer thought little of it. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.839 He was convinced that Biden could handle the job. How 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.360 is that freaking possible? 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.560 How are those sentences part of the same paragraph. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.920 Is he only saying that to the New York Times 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.320 or whoever he's talking to, because he'd be like a 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.320 bad American if he admitted well, And because he. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.679 Was swearing up and down to anybody who had listened 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.240 that the President was more than capable of handling. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.400 The job at the time. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.840 So he's now because obviously he and his people are 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.240 leaking all this stuff. He is trying somehow to thread 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.040 the needle of this stuff being true. And yet he's 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.960 not a big fat, stinkin' liar. Good luck thread in 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.080 that needle, Chucky boy. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.440 Umm. He was uncomfortable with giving unsolicited advice to the 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.440 commander and cheap about his future. Schumer, like every other 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.720 Democrat in a position of power at the time, had 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:58.120 chosen to do nothing. So when Biden bombed during his 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.120 June twenty seventh debate with Trump, Schumer regarded it as 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.960 something of a gift, a forcing mechanism to start an 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.719 overdue discussion about the president's political viability. I remember talking 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.760 the next day about how we thought there's a whole 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:11.960 bunch of Democrats are like. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.679 Yes, finally, finally it's out in the open. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.600 We don't have to pretend anymore, as opposed to well, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.840 I don't let me read this for you. That night, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.440 the night of the debate, about two dozen House Democrats, 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.760 including Jakeem Jeffries who is now or is the minority leader, 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.520 gathered for a watch party in the community room of 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.240 the Washington and Lunxury apartment blah blah blah. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.160 Where they all left. That was a gas can you imagine? 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:43.280 But the festive atmosphere dissipated immediately after mister Biden, pale 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.960 and horse shuffled onto the stage in Atlanta and began 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.800 stumbling through his answers. By the end of the ninety 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.800 minute debate, I got to believe by the end of 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.120 the first five minutes, like all of the rest of America, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.760 oh yeah, those who had been able to bear sticking 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.040 around were in a panic. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.960 While lots of people left. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.280 I got to someplace I gotta go. Nothing mattered after 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.760 that first five minutes. Mister Jefferys had a motto he 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.040 often shared with this caucus. I've never heard this before. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.400 Calm is an intentional decision. He tried to channel it 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.840 that night, even as his internal alarm bears, bells were 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.440 ringing and colleagues were telling him they could not possibly 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.600 win their seats with mister Biden at the top of 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.080 the ticket. We gotta process at all. See where we 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.520 are tomorrow morning, and we'll come up. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.440 With a game plan. Calm is an intentional decision. I 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:32.920 like that. Hey, I'd like that too. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.600 And he was absolutely right to tell everybody, hey, hey, hey, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:36.080 calm down. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.760 We'll talk tomorrow. We're not gonna solve it right now. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.400 Schumer, who was at a fundraiser in California during the debate, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.720 had a similar message for the donors he saw that night. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.120 Uh we'll have. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:53.440 To see, he said, vaguely, I'll have to see what 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.080 what what do we gonna do? 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.959 Uh, well, we'll have to see. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.640 You know what we could have, you know what would 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.760 have been theater if we'd thought of it. Of course, 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.560 we just came across this as sprinkle in various clips 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.200 from the debate about and then we killed Medicare, just 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.959 to remind you of how astounding it was, how awful 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.120 embarrassing many powerful people had seen enough, says The New 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:16.720 York Times. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.520 That night, mister Schumer's flip phone started ringing and it 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.160 wouldn't stop for days. Donors, members of Congress, union bosses, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.240 even strangers who fished his number out of a Harvard 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.280 reunion book were calling, pleading with him to tell Biden 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.680 to get the race. Hey, Chuck, I know you don't 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.080 remember me. We played the high school football together, but 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:40.440 come on, dude. Schumer had one simple message for everyone 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.040 who called him. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.000 Do not be public. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.400 He said, that will get his back up, and you 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.480 have got to let the dust settle. But if you 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.920 can call whoever you know in the campaign, call the 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.559 White House, that's interesting. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.080 Protect the president's dignity or we're not going to be 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.440 able to get him out. That's why all of those, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.040 I mean, just crazy over the top. The most impactful 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.960 one term president in American history. He should be on 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:10.280 Mount Rushmore. It's been more transformative than blah blah blah. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.520 All that stuff is absolutely laughable, but it served that strategy. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.679 Some lawmakers thought waiting was the wrong strategy. Representative Jamie 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.280 Raskin Democratic Maryland chose at first to go the private route, 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.800 sending a letter to Biden on July sixth encouraging him 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.199 to leave the race. One of Biden's top adviser, Stevershetti, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.600 assured mister Raskin that the President the First Lady had 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.040 both read the letter. Biden planned to call him, but 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.880 the President never did so. Then he released a later 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.840 publicly if you remember that, saying I think the President 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.160 he was the first person to break Remember. Then it 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.960 started adding up, and then he does on work. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.600 He wakes up next to a German shepherd's head in 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:47.080 his bed. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:53.040 It's a message. Forget about it. It's a message he's 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:53.960 in the doghouse. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.760 The message is the Secret Service is tired of getting 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.040 bit by your damn dog. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.720 Umm again, I'm reading this up more or less on 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.840 the fly. I'm sure there's more good stuff in here 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.040 I can look over and bring to you. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.680 Uh, I'm loving. I know, it's amazing. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.920 You know what, though, speaking of the Godfather, the sequel 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.880 is going to be better than the original in that 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.920 the next chapter has got to be the wrangling over 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.600 the course of was it a week ten days where 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.240 we as a country and the Democratic Party went from well, 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.600 the vice president is a damn moron, so the one 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.600 thing we're not gonna do is just trot her out automatically. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.439 And a week and a half later it was. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.440 Like, the great visionary leader Kamala will take us into 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:39.959 our future and we don't. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:40.520 Need a primary. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.560 She's such a wizard, she must be the nominee. How 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.200 did that happen? What did those discussions sound like? 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:49.439 Killing? He said, what. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.120 I got one more nugget for you before we take 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:58.079 a break. But NFL action this weekend fantastic, especially that 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.920 Bills Baltimore game that is going to be something. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.079 Can't wait to watch that it be. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:04.960 So you're counting out those teams that are one shut, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.240 one touchdown underdogs, jack I said, don't do it. There 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:14.840 could be some major surprises. But can you yes, can 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:19.760 you predict whether a couple of players or more will 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:24.760 exceed the statistical projection for them or do less than that? 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.600 That's all you have to do for prize picks, super 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:27.200 easy and fun. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.480 I'm going less than Lamar Jackson. 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It's a six 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:39.880 pound show and a five pound bag. I got a 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:40.640 lot of criticisms. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:47.400 Understandably, we've invested more in Red stage than bluestags. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.679 That's in this book, that's in this report. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:54.600 For two reasons. One, Red States really screwed up. Turns 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.319 of the way they handle their economyn and the way 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:01.360 they handle manufacturing and way they handle access to supply chains. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.600 Yeah, Red States are just screwed up. They have no 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.920 idea how to manage their business. Thanks Uncle Joe. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.920 So we've been reading through this New York Times article. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.960 It's like the rough draft of history where people are 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.320 starting to speak about how the whole thing went down 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.480 a pushing Joe Biden out and it's pretty damned interesting. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.440 And I was reading more of it during the break 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.920 and got a roll on. So we did it last segment. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.760 If you missed it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.640 on demand. The debate had just happened. All the Democrats 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:35.360 are in a panic. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader at 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.880 the time of the Senate saved his frank conversations for 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.440 King Jeffreys and former President Barack Obama. On June twenty ninth, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.400 to the night after the debate, Jeffries was scheduled to 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.880 participate in a fundraiser in New York where he was 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.760 to interview Obama in front of an audience in a 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.800 fireside chat sort of setting. At a brief dinner mineting 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.720 before the event, mister Obama suggested addressing the elephant in 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.960 the room right off the top, because you got Obama's 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.000 smart enough to understand that we can't go out there 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.080 and pretend this didn't happen last night. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.600 Had great instincts love him or hate him. 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.800 On stage, the former president told the crowd that bad 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.720 debates happened, and while this one had greatly complicated the situation, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.760 Democrats had to find a way to power through it. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.680 Then they took no questions about it. Well, he was 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.000 trying to defend the indefensible. I guess that's as good 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:19.600 as you can do. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:25.600 Privately, Jakim Jeffries began working to persuade people, the White 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.840 House Chief of Staff and others that Vice President Kamala 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.800 Harris would be a superior candidate to Biden. So that's 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.400 ground zero, patient zero for how that whole thing started. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.120 He's hearst Bengali. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.160 I see, yeah, Hakim Jeffrey said, we don't have data 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.280 at this moment. The most but the most powerful narrative 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.240 in American politics is change. Vice President Harris would represent change. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.000 Others rejected that sentiment, and so it just kind of, 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.520 you know, nothing happened there for a little while. We 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.040 can get through it. We think our allies in the 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.840 Hill are wrong, said the chief of Staff. Schumer spoke 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.840 with Biden. I pressed him to do more to I 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.160 love this part to counter the narrative that he. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:05.840 Was not up to continuing in the race. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.800 He didn't tell him to drop out, mister President, Schumer said, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.800 the only way you're going to save this is to 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.880 show up day in, day out with unscripted town halls, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.120 and people will be able to smell if it's spontaneous, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.200 and it will show that the debate was a one off. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.480 I think Schumer knew he couldn't do it. That's what 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:21.760 I think. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.160 Yes, yeah, I think he said, you're terrible, but not 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.040 so terrible. Everybody's agreeing with me, So go out and 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:28.640 be terrible. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:29.000 Some more. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.120 The chief of staff told mister Schumer that the president 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.360 would put doubters at ease when he participated in a 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.640 news conference after the NATO summit in DC next week. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:42.600 Schumer screamed, that's not even close to good enough. Still, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.000 Schumer held back Democratic senators who wanted to publicly call 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.880 on Biden's step aside, even though he agreed with their 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.560 assessment that they should. It'll only make things worse and 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.040 we're not ready. He had half of the Democratic senators 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.560 wanted to come forward and say he's got to go, 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.400 and Schumer held him back. There's much more to this. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.440 I suggest going to the New York Times site and 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.360 reading it. There's a lot more screaming behind closed doors 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.160 and all that sort of stuff. Pretty damn interesting. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.119 And exactly what we suspected it was going on behind 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:19.439 the scenes. Says they, you know, tried to portray calmness, and. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.240 You know it's fine. It was a bad nice I didn't. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.920 Get to the Obama saying I can't call him because 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.040 we have such a bad relationship. So they had such 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.080 a bad relationship from when Obama going way back to 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.280 when Obama endorsed Hillary before Joe Biden had a chance 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.240 to even run, and so they have a really bad relationship, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.600 which has been you know, hinted that and everything like that, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.639 but never stated that as clearly as it is in 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:41.679 the New York Times today. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.160 Well, and picture yourself as Hakeem Jefferies, who wanted Biden 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.800 out in the pride bar you're using is the genius 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.680 Kamala Harris, I mean that's rough. How about Obama saying 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:59.240 I can't call him he hates me, confirming yet another rumor, Well, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.680 leadership it matters, comparing in contrasting California and Florida will 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.160 do that in an unbelievable nine to one one call, 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:13.480 all coming up Armstrong and Getty, is she strong enough 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:14.080 to do this? 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.400 Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire. 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.680 In which my response is he got himself in the 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.320 wrong place. If I have to carry him out of 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.600 a fire. That's I think. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.960 That's the lf LA fd's chief diversity officer explaining that 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.000 if you're complaining that a woman firefighter isn't strong enough, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.280 well you shouldn't be in a fire, which is DEI 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:37.240 for you. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:38.680 That's a weird response. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.000 Yeah, I'd say, did you want to put a little 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.440 exclamation point on our discussion of Joe Biden and senility 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:46.680 and trying to get rid of him and the rest 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:46.960 of them. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.200 Maybe a tease ahead in hour four, I'll get back 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.439 into that New York Times article that just hit today. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.560 I also think I've figured out who the main source is. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.320 It's got to be Nancy Pelosi. She doesn't like that 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.480 narrative that she's the one who pushed him out. It 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.920 looks way more like Chuck Schumer is the guy who 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.280 pushed Joe Biden out. And she's saying, why is everybody 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.720 talking about me pushing him out? And me it was Chuck. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:08.480 Oh, but she's the source for. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.679 All this information because Chuck was telling her everything that 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.480 was going on. Anyway, this New York Times article is 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.320 pretty interesting. We'll get back into it an hour for 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.720 The main takeaway to me is Joe Biden was very 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.720 poorly served by the people close to him. 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:23.760 They were keeping him completely in the dark. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.320 Not only has he got dementia, they weren't telling him 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:27.760 the truth at all. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.520 Yeah, which is scary, I would admit. Well, well, we'll. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.240 Discuss the next hour fair enough sounds good getting to 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.040 that fabulous nine to one one call really interesting. Next 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.440 segment one to just hit you with this. I'll summarize 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.960 it the best I can. It's an unbelievable and really 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.920 useful comparing contrast of California and Florida by the Wall 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.120 Street Journal's editorial board in terms of their insurance markets. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:20:00.160 And it's obviously a decent comparison. You've got giant states, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:05.360