WEBVTT - Debate Fallout: Michelle Obama WILL Replace Joe Biden on the Ballot 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:01.680 Welcome. 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.080 It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.080 This is also going to be the Ben Ferguson podcast, 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:08.520 and many of you are going to hear this on 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:13.840 radio stations as well. This is moments after the presidential debate, 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:18.880 Center Cruz. I didn't think it could actually be this bad. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.040 It was worse than even I think either of us 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.000 could have imagined. And now the Democratic Party is screaming 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:27.480 replaced the president. 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:29.680 Well, you and I are sitting here at is ten 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.840 seventeen pm Texas time, at is eleven seventeen pm East 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.240 Coast time, the night of the debate. The debate just ended, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.920 and I have to say we have just witnessed what 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.720 I believe is the most consequential presidential debate in US history. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.760 Sometimes debate change, debates change things. Sometimes they don't. I 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:51.440 believe to bite tonight's debate change things fundamentally. And I 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.880 believe the odds have now skyrocketed. I believe the odds 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.440 are north of eighty percent that the Democrat Party will 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.560 remove Joe Biden from the ticket and replace him. And 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.440 I believe they are likely to replace Joe Biden with 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:09.760 Michelle Obama because Biden did so disastrously badly tonight that 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.400 Democrats across the country are in utter freefall and complete panic. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:15.800 We're going to break all that down tonight. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:16.720 Yeah. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.039 And by the way, this was a prediction that you 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.600 made on this show back in September of twenty twenty 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.640 three that the Democratic king makers could bring in Michelle 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.080 Obama will break all that down. I want to tell 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.960 you real quick about our friends at the International Fellowship 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.559 of Christians and Jews, and as Israel's ground campaign against 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.520 the Hamas terrace is continuing, the IDF announced that it 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.240 expects to have complete control of the southern Gava city 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.520 of Rafa, a Hamas stronghold, within two weeks. Tensions continue 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.160 to rise in Israel's north as there are constant rocket 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.120 attacks from Hesblah that have been fired at Israel. Troops 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.000 have been injured. Sirens have been sounded in neighborhoods along 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.000 the eleven on Israel border as well. And that is 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.240 where your help comes in. You look at what is 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.360 happening right now, and they need your help. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:08.240 In Israel. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.079 Since the tear attack on October the seventh, anti Semitism 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.960 has been on the rise, not just in Israel, but 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.000 here at home, in the US and around the world. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.160 And that is why I partnered with the International Fellowship 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.960 of Christians and Jews. And today I am coming to 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:28.040 you to ask that you stand with us and IFCJ. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.720 This pledge is simple. We are asking Christians to stand 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.680 with their Jewish brothers and sisters, to never be silent, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.920 to show the Jewish people they are not alone, that 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.200 they have God and Christians on their side. 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I want to get to 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.960 some of the highlights, but even before we get to 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.240 the debate, I think the most shocking part is what 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.440 happened directly after the debate. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:30.920 This was the. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.280 First thing that America heard on CNN, the host of 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:34.840 the debate. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.840 That's into the debate, and it continues right now. It 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:42.279 involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.880 and they're having conversations about the president's performance, which they 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.360 think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.080 down the party in the ticket, and they're having conversations 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.000 about what they should do about it. Some of those 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.160 conversations include, should we go to the White House and 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.920 ask the president's step aside? Or other of the conversations 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.320 are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.160 because they feel this debate was so terrible. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.800 They do say in moments in the debate. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.160 Later the president got better and got his footing, but 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:11.960 then at the end, even his closing statement was a 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.720 little halting the contrast between the two candidates. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.320 Let me be clear, none of them and. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.599 A lot of Republicans don't think Donald Trump had a 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.920 great night. Donald Trump broke the fact check machine more 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:22.960 than I can count tonight. That will be on the 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.440 record as we go forward. He refused to answer some 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.839 very specific and direct questions about his conduct about January sixth. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:29.200 And what all. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:30.880 So that will be dealt. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.719 With out there. And sometimes there's a parallel universe between 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.960 the political elites and the American people. Be nice to 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.040 see what the voters say. But I can tell you 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.359 it started minutes in. It started with the first couple 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.640 of answers, and it has continued throughout the night from 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.840 oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:46.760 To what do we do about this? 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.760 And it involves very senior people in the Democratic Party, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.920 including elected officials, saying we have a problem, and just we. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:54.760 Have a problem. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.599 They're moving actively right now to replace Joe Biden, saying 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.080 we've got time before the convention, which is exactly what 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.400 you predicted on this show nine months ago. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.240 Well, let me say what you played just there. I 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:09.960 agree with half of it, and I disagree with half 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.840 of it. What I do agree with is that Joe 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:18.360 Biden did unbelievably badly, that the degree of dementia he 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.480 is facing right now, it is escalated to a point 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.960 that it is unrecognizable. And I think there are a 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.919 great many Democrats who are looking at this saying we 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.279 cannot nominate this man. He is not capable. He doesn't 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.600 know what's going on. In a second, we're going to 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.040 play a couple of clips that show that. But it 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.160 was I will say, as badly as I thought Joe 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.240 Biden was going to do, he did worse. It was stunning. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.600 I've never seen a debate performance this bad. But the 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.279 part I disagree of what you just played is I 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.280 think Donald Trump had hands down his best debate performance 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:51.440 he has ever had in his life. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:51.640 Look. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.520 I've stood on that stage with Donald Trump about a 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.760 dozen times, and I've seen him and sometimes he said 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.760 good debates. Sometimes he's had less than good debates. Tonight 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.400 he did exactly what earlier this morning, you and I 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.000 did a special podcast preparing for this debate, and what 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.400 you and I talked about that Trump needed to do 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:15.280 is be calm, be measured, be under control, not interrupt 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.520 Joe Biden, let him hang himself, give him the airtime 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:25.520 to talk. And Trump did that spectacularly. He was restrained, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.000 even as Biden was saying ridiculous things. He was restrained, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.359 he was calmed, he was matter of fact. He prosecuted 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.000 the case and Biden couldn't handle it. Biden repeatedly, what 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.080 was screaming, You're a liar, you're lying, you could I 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.279 mean he was. There were moments. Look, it's clear we 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.800 talked before about the meds. They had him on meds. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.040 They put him on different meds from the State of 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.840 the Union. He was not nearly as amped up as 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.720 he was at the State of the Union. But when 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:59.159 Trump poked him and he got angry, Biden couldn't respond 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.960 other than just screaming, liar, liar, liar. And he returned 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.360 to the State of the Union, old man on his 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.720 front porch, screaming, get off my front port. She had 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.120 moments like that, But that's not even the dominant takeaway. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.640 The dominant takeaway is this is a man who doesn't 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:15.560 know what's going on here. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:16.800 I want to play the. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:21.560 Clip early in the debate where he just completely loses 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.560 his train of thought, and this is the answer at 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.800 which I think people all over the country said, uh, oh, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.000 this guy's just not there. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:29.600 Give a listen. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.800 I sculd me with dealing with everything we have to 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:41.600 do with. Look, if we finally beat medicare. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:48.080 We finally beat medicare, I mean Donald Trump's response was quote, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.000 I don't I really don't know what he said at 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.000 the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.560 what he said either. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.440 And Biden gets lost and and Trump counters with what 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.680 he counters to. That is and by the way, the 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.800 question had nothing to do with medicare, Like the word 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.640 medicare comes completely out of left field. It's the only 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.120 thing he mentioned. He's just like, we finally beat medicare. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.520 And then Trump cames and said, well, he said at 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.880 the end, he beat medicare. He beat it to death. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.840 Give a listen to Trump's response. Play the next clip. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.920 All those things we need to do, childcare, eldercare, making 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.920 sure that we continue to suppend strength in our healthcare system, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.000 making sure that we're able to make every single solitary 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.959 person eligible for what I've been able to do with 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.880 the h with the COVID I exculd me with dealing 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:44.920 with every day we have to do with Look, if 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.120 we finally beat medicare. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.240 Thank you, President Biden. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.800 President Trump, Well, he's right, he did beat medicare, beat 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.240 it to death. And he's destroying medicare because all of 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.000 these people are coming in, they're putting them on Medicare, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:08:59.800 They're putting them on. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.720 I mean you hear that he just stopped, didn't know 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.520 what he was doing. And if you look at the 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.720 look on his face, Senator Joe Biden actually looked lost 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.720 and was looking around like what am I doing? 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:12.360 Where am I? 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.800 His brain was frozen, it short circuited throughout the time. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.440 I'll tell you Joe Biden did badly when he wasn't talking. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.600 When he wasn't talking, the look on his face was 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.840 a look of confusion. Listen, anyone who's ever dealt with 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.480 with an elderly parent, an elderly grandparent who's dealing with 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.880 the loss of their faculties knows that look. My grandmother Miabuela, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.959 whom I love, she had Alzheimer's. I've seen, I've seen 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.840 what happens. It was clear he didn't know what was 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:47.480 going on. He was just confused. And even his most 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:53.080 passionate defenders, they can't defend them all, right, Maria Shriver. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:54.760 I just saw this. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.400 Kennel Kennedy, Yeah, I just saw this. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.320 Democrat 're Democrat Royalty. Let me read you what she 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:04.680 just tweeted moments ago. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:05.720 Quote. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.480 I love Joe Biden. I know he's a good man. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.280 I know his heart is good. I know he's dedicated 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.200 to our country and is surrounded by good people. Tonight 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.560 was heartbreaking in many ways. This is a big political moment. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.760 There's panic in the Democratic Party. It's going to be 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:27.120 a long night. The Democrats have lost Maria Shriver. That's 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:27.880 a problem. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.480 Well, and listen to Abby Phillips. Abby Phillips saying this 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.560 on CNN as well in the moments afterwards. This is 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.840 how she described how bad it was for Joe Biden. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.040 And just to co sign what John is saying. I mean, 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.920 the panic that I am hearing from Democrats is not 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.000 like anything that I have heard in this campaign so far, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:48.800 and a lot of it has to do with First 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.760 of all, there was a deep frustration about Trump's lies. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.280 I mean, he lied a lot tonight. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.800 But the problem for Biden was that Trump was able 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:01.800 to take sometimes incredible falsehoods and turn them into some 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.480 kind of argument, whereas Biden's answers were in a lot 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.679 of cases not coherent, deeply problematic. That he was not 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:14.920 able to take pretty straightforward answers and answer them to. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.080 The that's CNN. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.079 That is CNN who's saying the Democrats are panicking and 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.439 Biden's answers where in a lot of cases not go here, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.360 all right, play Van Jones, Van Jones, this is the 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.280 hard left here, he's on CNN. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.800 Listen. Here's what Van Jones had to say. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.559 I was painful. I love Joe Biden. I worked for 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:42.120 Joe Biden. He didn't do well at all. He did 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.000 not do well at all. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.960 It's like a funeral. It's like you're watching a funeral 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.280 in real time on CNN. And this is their instant reaction. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.400 These are the first voices that America heard after the debate. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.080 Drudge Report, for example, which used to be pretty conservative center, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.480 now they really hate Donald Trump. Their headline right now 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.800 is Operation Replace Biden, dim scramble with one hundred and 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:10.680 thirty days to go debate catastrophe, Which brings me back 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.320 to let's go back to nine months ago. Nine months ago, 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.560 September the eighteenth, You and I had this conversation. And 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.120 by the way, there were a lot in the media, 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.480 and there were a lot of other people in Washington 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.000 that said you and I were crazy for having this conversation. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.320 So let's play the clip. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.480 So here's the scenario that I think is perhaps most 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:37.000 likely and most dangerous. In August of twenty twenty four, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:46.120 the Democrat Kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama, and. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:47.719 I want you to pause and reflect on it. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.080 So I'm pausing, and I'm reflecting, as we said, and 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.160 so is everybody else listening. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:56.160 Right now, I view this as a very serious danger. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.760 I'm smiling right now because it terrifies me. And I 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.200 also could totally see this happen. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:05.559 So Michelle Obama, number one, you don't infuriate African American women, 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.000 which is a critical part of the constituency that Democrats 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.080 are relying on to win. But number two, you avoid 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.960 the problem if you pick from any of the four. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.160 The other three are pissed because they're all, to some 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.800 extent peers, they're rivals, they're all jabbin knives at each other. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.640 Michelle Obama, because she was first Lady, has the ability 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.880 to kind of parachute in above all four and say, hey, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.600 we're not picking among any of you. You guys can 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.480 all fight it out. Next time. You're all going to 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.640 be on the same level. We're coming. This is the 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.080 Obamas saving the day. And I think in terms of 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.280 a solution, that unifies Democrats. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.000 There ain't nothing like that. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.679 I also think Michelle is not all that eager to 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.440 run for president. But to parachute in in August of 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.080 twenty four, a couple of months before the presidency and 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.640 suddenly wake up and to be president not a bad gig. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.480 It's not a bad gig at all. Now would she 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:05.800 do it? I don't know. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.120 I've met Michelle, but I don't know her personally in 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.040 any meaningful way. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.040 I don't know if she would do it. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:18.599 I do think Barack Obama is already running the Biden administration. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.480 I think he is already the puppet master behind this 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.920 Biden white House. I don't think Joe Biden is the 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.880 decision maker. And so when I see the media turning 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.640 on Joe Biden right now, I think the odds of 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:36.360 Michelle Obama parachuting in in August of twenty twenty four 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.640 have risen dramatically, and that ought to scare the hell 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:45.760 out anyone who is unhappy about the direction this country 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.760 is going and doesn't want us to go even crazier 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.080 in an even worse direct. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.560 September eighteenth, center of twenty twenty three, we had this 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:58.600 discussion and even right now on MSN dot com. The 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:04.120 headline is we beat Medicare Biden Freeze's mid answer before 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.520 being bailed out by moderator, and then they go on 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.760 to talk about that was a total disaster by the 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.280 sitting president and Democrats are running to replace Joe Biden, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.040 so they're not even having the conversation behind closed doors. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.640 They're having it out on national TV right now and 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:20.440 in the news. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.320 Well, and Ben, what you've just played is I think 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.480 as good a promo for this podcast as you possibly 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:28.880 could have. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.240 What we are facing right now. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.320 We predicted on this podcast nine months ago, in September 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.360 of twenty twenty three. We were among the very first 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.000 voices to do that. At the time, it made a 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.560 bunch of headlines. And you're right, people thought we were 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.520 batcrap crazy. Let's be clear, they thought I was bat 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.840 crap crazy. I shouldn't say we had stick you into that. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.160 You were there while I was making that prediction, and 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.680 they were like, Cruise has lost his mind. And by 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.080 the way, in terms of predictions, we also at the 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.280 outset of COVID laid out all of the evidence that 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:03.400 COVID originated in the Chinese lab in when CNN and ABC, CBS, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.360 NBC were suppressing that news, when Facebook and Twitter were 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.600 suppressing that news. We were laying out the evidence then 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.720 and this morning, before the debate, our analysis of the debate, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.320 I predicted, unequivocally, Donald Trump is going to kick Joe 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.280 Biden's ass. That was my prediction. That is exactly what happened. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.880 It was the title of the show. And there were 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.560 not a lot of people predicting that, but I number one, 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.600 thought Biden would do terribly. But number two, if Trump 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.280 could remain controlled, and he did that, he did that 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.600 in an excellent way. I'm going to call President Trump 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.920 tomorrow and tell him it's the best debate he's ever done, 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.080 and I've been there for a lot of them. He 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.880 was measured, he was controlled, he was fact based, He 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.160 laid out the case. Even his response on medicare, Let's 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.040 take the one we just played. It would be easy 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.000 to be starky and say, okay, this guy is like 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.320 that answer is incoherent. What Trump did was even better. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.760 There said I mean, look, he said he actually did 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.640 beat medicare, which was obviously a weird brain short circuit. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.480 And he said the reason he beat Medicare is because 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.240 he's let millions and millions of legal immigrants into this country. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.760 He's putting them all in Medicare, which is going to 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.160 bankrupt Medicare. And that was a major message that Trump 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.840 is hitting, is that the invasion on our southern border 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.760 is also bankrupting Medicare and social Security. I think that 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.360 was a smart decision to lean in on that. Joe 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.680 Biden had no answer. He had no response all night long. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.000 As Trump laid out the case you caused the inflation, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.880 Joe Biden had no response to that. As Trump laid 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.520 out the people who are being murdered all across this 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.320 country from criminals and insane asylums. When Trump would say, look, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.520 Venezuela is emptying their jails and sending US murderers and 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.159 rapists and child molesters and lunatics, you saw Joe Biden 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.159 just looking confused. He had no response, He didn't dispute it. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.720 He had nothing to say in response on foreign policy, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.920 and we talked about this again in this morning's podcast 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.200 and just said, well, if Trump's president Putin will invade 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.280 all of Ukraine and all of Europe, and Trump is like, 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.320 what utter crap? When I was president Russia didn't invade 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.280 one square inch of territory anywhere on planet Earth. And 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.560 by the way, he did under Barack Obama, and he 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.000 did under Joe Biden. You're so weak that that's why 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:23.760 Putin invaded and it. Trump did an excellent job of 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:29.719 prosecuting the case, and Biden was utterly incapable of responding. 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:34.800 And I think you are seeing seeing Democrats freaking out now. 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.280 I believe there are two things. Well, let me say 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.120 a couple of things. Number one, let me tell you why. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.119 I believe it'll be Michelle Obama because you're going to 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.680 see today and tomorrow all sorts of discussion. You're gonna 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.280 hear Gavin Newsome, You're gonna hear all sorts of other names. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:49.520 Let me ask you this. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.800 I think if they do it, what's the pitch Because 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.240 it's gonna start with Barack Obama, who was just leading 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.480 Joe Biden off stage, remember, and everybody saw it like 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.359 he was an elderly old man in opa home. And 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.040 I'm not saying that to be mean, I'm just being 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.879 honest about it. And clearly he witnessed how bad it was. 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.680 Then is he the guy that has to look at 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.359 Michelle and I going I'd do it, but I can. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.480 I've already been president for eight years. It has to 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:13.240 be you, honey. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.520 Well, let me break it to two pieces. Let me 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.240 tell you why it has to be Michelle. It has 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.840 to be Michelle because of Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.680 the VP. If you push Joe Biden aside, Kamala's next 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.840 in line. The people who say we want Gavin Newsom, 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.919 you know what if the Democrat Party pushes an African 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.680 American woman aside and replaces her with a white guy, 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.280 their party implodes. They cannot do it. They are being 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:44.879 counters and they are faced. It's actually what forced Joe 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:46.760 Biden to pick Kamala in the first place. He backed 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.040 himself into it. He doesn't like Kamala. And the problem 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.600 Democrats are having that now is they're looking at Joe Biden. 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.080 They're saying, oh my goodness, this guy cannot be our nominee. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.720 And they look at Kamala and they recognize she's a 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.679 terrible nominee. And if she's the nominee, they know they'll lose. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.919 And so their problem is the only person on planet 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.360 Earth who can push Kamala Harris aside is Michelle Obama 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:16.000 another African American woman who stands on a different footing 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:20.040 as a former first lady. Now, what are the impediments 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.040 that stop it? The impediments are twofold number one, Michelle 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.760 says no, number two. Joe Biden says no. On the 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.399 Michelle says no. I think you're going to have Barrock 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.480 coming to her. I think you're going to have a 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.840 lot of Democrat kingmakers coming to her. And the pitch 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.960 is going to be, Michelle, you need to save America. Michelle, 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.679 we need you, Michelle. If you do not step forward, 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.040 Donald Trump is going to be president. Michelle, you are 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.800 the only person on planet Earth that can save the 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:48.600 world from a Donald Trump presidency. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:49.440 And listen. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:54.080 People perceive Michelle Obama as somewhat nonpartisan because she was 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.399 a first late in first ladies kind of stay out 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.879 of politics. I think she is more radical than Barack. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.119 I think she is an ideologue. I think she is 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.240