WEBVTT - Biden's Speech 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.520 Hey there, folks. We have just heard from President Biden 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.880 about why he now thinks the best way for him 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:12.680 to serve the country is to not serve a second term. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.120 And with that, welcome to this very special episode of 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:21.560 Amy and TJ. Robes. We have now seen and heard 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.600 from President Biden for the first time since his decision 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.480 to get out of the race. And what were you 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.280 expecting versus what we got? 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.680 Well, okay, so a lot of things actually, So I 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.360 knew it would be probably short, but it was much 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.600 shorter than I expected. Eleven twelve minutes depending on who 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:44.880 was doing the timing. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.519 Started on time eight o'clock Eastern. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.519 Start, run on time, and I clocked it as a 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.960 twelve when he was done. So that was a little 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.440 shocking at just how short it was. I was surprised 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.880 that he never explained why he was getting out of 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:04.479 the race ever addressed the issues about the accusations about 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.679 his mental acuity. He never even touched on that, and 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.960 he barely spoke. I think it was one line about 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.640 the woman he endorsed, Kamala Harris. So those things all 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:16.360 surprised me. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.320 Let's go back here, we folks. The set up here 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.160 was that This was the speech, and with this was 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.480 the legacy speech. This is when he was supposed to 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.560 talk about what he has done as president and why 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.000 he's getting out of the race and for it to 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.640 be for the better event of the country. Now he 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.959 did do this from the Oval Office. This was a 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:41.280 prime time speech. He was in a navy suit. That's 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:47.280 a royal blue tie. He looked, he looked sharp, He 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.360 looked pretty good. He's gotten a little rest, I suppose 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:55.200 because he has been in isolation with COVID. But some 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.840 of the details and things we couldn't see and couldn't 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.480 know while the speech was going on if you were 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.760 watching it on televisions, that his family was in the room. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.880 He had a number of members of his family robes 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.840 that were lining the wall. So they were sitting around 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.040 the wall of the old office. And who was it 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.520 that was sitting actually closest to him along that while 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.520 wall is one of the family members that a lot 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.120 of people say he should have been trying to distance 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:20.840 himself from. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.760 Yeah, and someone who I have spent quite a bit 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.200 of time with, Hunter Biden. He was right next to him, 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:30.400 and his daughter Ashley was next to Hunter, and notably 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.000 doctor Jill Biden, his wife was at the far end. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.160 So but yeah, that look, this was a historic moment. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:42.200 This was a painful moment for him personally, for the family. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.440 He absolutely did not want to get out of the race. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.760 This was not something that he personally wanted to do. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.760 There was clearly political pressure, and some people have suggested 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.040 this was even a political intervention of sorts. So this 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.440 resignation wasn't necessarily something he chose. A lot of people 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.880 have said he was forced out. So this had to 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:10.080 be an incredibly painful evening for President Biden and for 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.240 every member of his family who supported him. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.960 Painful. It adds to the political theater we have seen, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.680 but it's been historical theater, it seems in this particular cycle. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.320 But here we are watching and I guess not something 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.400 I would ever think I would see necessarily in my lifetime. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:33.120 This wasn't a resignation, But this was a sitting president 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.240 deciding not to voluntarily deciding. Okay, we can yes, some 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.840 people will debate that word yea if this was voluntary, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.040 but he's making the choice to step aside. So you've 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.560 got in our history. Lyndon Johnson, I guess was the 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.720 most famous and what was the line, I will not 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.080 accept what's the line he had the very famous line 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.200 about not accepting the nomination? Correct, you know what I'm 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:55.520 talking nineteen sixty eight. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.600 That's how far you have to go back. So many 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.080 people presentaries included this is the first time in our 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.360 lifetimes we have seen a sitting president stand back and 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.280 say I will not I will not run for president again, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.560 despite the fact that he had been elected through the 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.000 primary process to be the nominee. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.000 And it's so rare. We up to forty six, right, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.000 we have forty six presidents, so we're talking what we 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:29.520 got Coolidge, Truman, Hayes, you can polk. I believe we 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.120 had several that this actually happened in our history, but 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.760 it's just such a rare thing to take place. So, 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.520 you know, this was a tough and was emotional night 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.440 and something still he did not want to do so. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.520 But the content, I guess ropes of what he was 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.000 trying to get across tonight, and he uses line you'll 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.520 see it everywhere is that we are we don't kings 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.120 don't rule here, and that was really a theme of 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:55.279 what his speech was. He started off pretty much that way, saying, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.760 this is not who we are. We have presidents. Our 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:02.599 presidents are not kings. And he never mentioned Donald Trump 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.040 a single time during the speech. He never even said 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.640 anything like the other candidate. He didn't say the other side. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.320 But he tried to Roways make that point that he 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.120 was doing this as a matter of showing who we 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:20.240 are the republic. That is an idea that we haven't 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.200 quite made it there, but we are still trying. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.440 So he talked about how he revered the office of 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.240 the presidency, but that he loved his country more and 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.160 that was one of the reasons why he said he 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.160 was stepping down. But as you point out, he never 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.800 mentioned the other party. He never mentioned Donald Trump, and 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:49.040 yet he did make this about protecting democracy directly implying 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:54.839 that voting for Donald Trump would be a vote against democracy. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.320 And I think so a lot of folks who are 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.040 undecided or who are on the side of Trump look 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:08.880 at this as something that didn't feel genuine. So here 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.839 we have President Biden saying that he is trying to 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.440 unite the country. He said, we have a choice between 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.640 hope and hate, unity versus division. He asked whether or 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.159 not character in public life still mattered, and so he 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:28.320 was clearly drawing a line in the sand and basically 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.520 saying that a vote for Trump would be a vote 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:35.159 against democracy. So this wasn't necessarily a speech to the 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.480 American public. It absolutely was a political speech. And so 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.719 he had the opportunity perhaps not to do that, and 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:48.360 yet I understand we're in a political season that is 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.000 as tough as it's ever been, and so he took 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.520 the opportunity to to the party line, but did it 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:59.080 in the veil or acting as though he were doing 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.120 this for the American people. And so I think a 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.320 lot of people who and this is a divided country, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.000 you look at this and say, you know, he could 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.599 have been a little bit more unifying. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.400 I mean, I absolutely think that he believes he was 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.960 being unifying in what he was saying. I know politics 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.400 always plays into this, but I think he genuinely believes 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.880 that the country needs to come together. I think a 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.800 lot of people believe the country needs to come together, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.680 and he thought this was. Yeah, he talked about the 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.960 uniting the country, but he also talked about uniting the party. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:31.800 He spoke specifically about the onus being on you, the voter, 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:37.800 the American public, to save the democracy is the line. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.800 He you saved the democracy and the onus is on 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:45.000 you to do so, and his role in doing that 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.640 is to step aside. It's a step aside, he sa 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.160 it is now. The best way forward is for him 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.200 to pass the torch to another generation. So there's a 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.000 time and place or experience that time in place is 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.440 not now. The time in plays is now for a 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:03.840 younger generation and youngunger voices. We understand. I mean, this 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.400 guy's been in public office for fifty years and maybe 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.640 some are arguing that the biggest service he has done 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.920 to the country is to stop serving the country. That's 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.000 got to be tough to stomach tonight. It's a tough 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.080 night with the Biden family. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.960 Absolutely, it is a difficult thing to do. And I 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.800 was I think anybody could put themselves in that position 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.080 and think, Wow, this thing. You love this thing, You've 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.600 worked your whole life for this thing. You truly and 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.680 I do believe in his genuine care and concern for 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.920 our country in the direction it's headed and where he 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.880 wants to see it go. So his heart is in 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.280 the right place. But it's just it is a tough 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.960 thing to watch, and it had to have required so 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.680 much strength to be able to deliver that speech with 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.880 not just the world watching, but his family even more 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.360 so watching him just from a few feet away. So 0:08:54.760 --> 0:09:02.160 the humbling, humbling experience. And you know, we all age, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.920 We all, I think, fear what happens with age and 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.720 where we're all headed. And so it's tough to watch 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.480 because we're all headed in that direction and we won't 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.040 be our sharpest the older we get. And just watching him, 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.160 unfortunately have to acknowledge that in a very public way 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.880 is difficult to witness. It certainly is. But he did 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.240 not go into any of those details about where he 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.640 is mentally. And you know, maybe this is silly of me, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.440 maybe this is the woman in me, but I actually 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.520 kind of wanted to hear how he felt emotionally about it. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.560 Maybe that doesn't matter, but I kind of wanted to 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.520 see the human side of what he's been through over 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.920 the last few days and what led him to this decision. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.360 I was hoping that maybe we would hear some of that, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.760 because that just would have felt, i don't know, honest 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.560 and real and human, and I think I'm desperate for 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.600 that in politics. And maybe that's just a silly thing 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.200 for me to even want to reach too, because no 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.360 one would dare do that. But I actually think it's 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.960 so powerful when people are human, and I just I 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.160 wanted a little bit more of that. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.360 But you know, it was a very human We all 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.280 see people in our families grow older. He did not 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.400 address this in that way we can all kind of relate. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.240 But watching him on TV tonight, if you've got a 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.600 chance to, or you'll see clips at some point, there's 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.280 one thing I think the most powerful images of the 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.439 night are the still images of his family lined up 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:38.360 along the walls of that oval to watch this guy 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.040 they love have to do something that we know he 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.640 did not want to do, so he will no matter what. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.319 He's going to remain president. He says he's still got 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.560 some work to do over the next several months, things 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.640 he wants to get accomplished. He mentioned some of them, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.560 including Supreme Court reform. Tonight, Again, like I said, he 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.679 did not mention Donald Trump by name, but he did 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.679 mention Kamala Harris like you were saying ropes. Yes, it 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.000 makes sense now that I sit here, But at the 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.720 time I thought he thought there'd be two sentences. There 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.559 was essentially one she's experienced, she's tough, she's capable, and 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.320 that was kind of it. But maybe that's okay. This 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.800 is not supposed to be her night. She'll have plenty 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.280 of attention and eyeballs on her. But that was the 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.040 nod he still gave tonight. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.800 Yeah, I guess I just look. I wish I could 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.800 have heard more from him, from his heart, more from 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.120 him about what this decision was like for him, more 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.439 from him about where he is in his life, and 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.559 I just wanted more. I think twelve minutes wasn't enough. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.400 I wish I could have heard more from him, and 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:40.960 then there would have been maybe, yeah, a little bit 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.280 more time to give Kamala a little bit more of 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.200 a nod. I do, And I don't want to harp 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.120 too much on what he didn't say. Something he did 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.000 say struck me. And we were watching the analysis before 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.560 and we watched some of the analysis afterwards. We had 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:01.120 all the networks up, we had two computers up and 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:06.200 the actual television sets. We watched the MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.720 so we're getting it from all the different vantage points. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:15.080 But I didn't hear anybody point this out yet. But 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.920 there was a point in his speech where he said, 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:23.080 I he said, I promise to level with you. I 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.960 promised to tell you the truth. And then he didn't 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.800 see anything beyond that, And I was kind of holding 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.560 my breath because I was hoping he was going to 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.280 then maybe go into some of those details I was 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.360 talking about, because, as you know, if you've been watching 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.360 and I'm sure if you will watch any of the 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.000 political commentary following this and leading up to the election, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.440 one of the big allegations the Republicans in the right 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.000 are going to point to, not just Joe Biden, that 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.199 Joe Biden administration, but Kamala as well and anyone associated 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.800 with them, is that they were covering up Joe Biden's 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.520 cognitive decline. And so that's going to be a huge, 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.280 huge part of this campaign going forward. So anyway, I 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.000 just wondered if that part of his speech will come 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.679 back to bite him, because he made a point to 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.880 say that he was leveling with the American people and 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.679 telling us the truth, and that's what's in question from 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:14.480 the other side. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.559 That is what I think a lot of people were 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.200 holding their breadth for tonight. If there's going to be 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.679 a look from the other side, there'll be a criticism. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:29.920 But to that exact point, he didn't. If he thinks 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.400 that he's getting out, if he's getting out of the 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.760 race now because he thinks it's the best for the 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.360 country and the party, there is a why do you 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.560 think that's the best for the country and the party? 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.760 The why was not answered. He only said it's time 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.280 for younger voices. When did he come to that conclusion 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.439 about when it's time for younger voices? And why didn't 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.200 you come to this conclusion several months ago or before 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.440 the primaries actually started? That the why? So a lot 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.640 of the why has to do with, for those on 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:05.040 the outside, his cognitive ability, how he performed in that debate. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.000 He's old now and he's not up for the task. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.480 He never addressed age or anything about his cognitive ability, 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.640 and so his reasons for getting out of the race, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.360 at least listening to this twelve minute speech, had nothing 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.360 to do with that. And I don't think a lot 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.400 of people are going to buy that for a second. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.760 So robes that we both sat on the edge of 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.600 our seat truth being transparent with you. I promised I 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.600 would do that, and then it trailed off. We were 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.520 sitting out waiting this is going to be lined up, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.080 and there was nothing after that. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.960 Really, yeah, yeah, I mean, I do appreciate the sentiment 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:46.320 he made about the fact that nothing can come in 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.520 the way of the greater good, and he pointed out 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.200 not even personal ambition. And I do know that watching 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.760 him tonight, he has clearly set aside personal ambition. It's 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.920 something that has motivated it, I'm sure, and driven him, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.520 driven many of us in our careers to get to 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.560 where he is, and to have to set that aside 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.000 is a big deal. And we saw him do that tonight, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.520 and for that, I do think, you know, you never 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.280 know how the history books will look on a president, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.120 but I do think for this moment, for his choice, 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.400 how he got to it, it can be up for debate, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.280 But the fact that he did come to this evening 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.160 and make this speech, I think people will look back 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.560 and say this was an act of generosity, This was 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.840 an act for the greater good, and certainly a selfless 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.880 one and a difficult one and a humbling one to 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:36.880 do and then to witness, you. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.840 Say, a humbling one. But how history will will never know, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.480 but we just need to I guess there how are 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.640 people going to receive this over just the next few months, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.960 because this, I mean the idea, that's how it's going 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.160 to be spun. On one side, he is putting he 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:57.680 is so committed to making sure the democracy is preserved, 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.560 and that Donald Trump isn't in the Why he is 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.040 so committed to that that he's willing to get out 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.040 of the race. Compare that, folks to the other side 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.080 and Donald Trump, who was willing to do whatever it 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.680 took to stay in power. Now, that is an argument 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.960 that one side is going to trying to make and 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.240 juxtapose those two images. The side or the argument the 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.240 other side is going to make is he's out of 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.760 the race because he got pushed out by his own people. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.800 They don't They saw their chances and they didn't like it, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.520 so they just decided to switch horses. And by the way, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.920 they've been covering up for the longest his ability to 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.920 do the job. That is the other side and the 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.720 other argument, And what he didn't do tonight was answer 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.360 any critic that might have a question about how he's 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:51.920 doing as an eighty one year old man. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.240 Yeah, because there are genuine concerns about what the next 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.360 six months look like, is he the president? Is he 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.600 co leading with Kamala? And has that been happening? We 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.879 don't know, and a lot of people are asking that question. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.840 I don't think he made people feel better about that 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.520 with this speech, and he had the opportunity to do that, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:13.000 and I. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.680 No, not once, no, not anything about it in the 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.360 room wasn't acknowledged. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.520 And that is part of the problem with politics in general, 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.119 because don't we see that all the time from so 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.360 many people. So I'm curious, are we going to see 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.480 Joe out in the campaign trail with Kamala? Is Kamala 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.679 going to distance herself from him? Is he going to laylaw? 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.280 I mean, there's a lot of questions about what the 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.800 next few weeks and months are going to be like. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.719 But I fear that the tone is, you know, we 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.400 talked about how we were hopeful. Maybe just gosh, think 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.280 about the last four weeks. You go from that debate 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.520 that set this whole entire night in motion and to 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.239 a to an assassination attempt to today. I mean, I 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.560 can't even recall four weeks like this in political history 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.200 that I've witnessed in my life like I've seen in 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.080 the last four weeks and I can't even imagine what 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.520 the next few months are going to be. I mean, 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.160 it's like I can't even imagine. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.719 So there's a sprint to the finish a line I 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:21.240 guess for Vice President Harris now, and everybody's up giving 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.359 all the scenarios for how she her path weighs to 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.880 victory and the electoral College. So you'll see a lot 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.960 of that. The thing, however, look, you will see of 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.760 a lot about favorables and unfavorables. Joe Biden's approval rating 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:40.200 was somewhere in the mid thirties. Kamala Harris's was somewhere 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.000 in the high thirties. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:43.520 Yeah. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.240 Right, so maybe a little bump and whatnot. But what 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.240 the Democrats just gave Americans who weren't excited at all 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.560 about this election, which might be the thing that tips 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.520 them tips the scale. They just gave them something that 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:05.520 people desperate for, an alternative to two old guys who 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.520 were in the last matchup. Yeah, like, we don't give 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.159 us anything other than this, and Democrats just gave it 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.399 to them. Here's an alternative here. You didn't want these 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.520 two A lot of people didn't want that matchup. So 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.919 could that be one of the things, and of course 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.520 the black vote specifically. We have seen today all over 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:30.480 television black women, black women, black women rallying with black women, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.200 black women. It's going to be a very big focal 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.719 point of this of the Harris campaign to try to 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.720 drive a vote, because it's going to be necessary now. 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.280 But to see some of that come through in the 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.119 speech tonight, we've turned another page in this election. But 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.040 that's huge. They've given people what they desperately. Black people 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.040 weren't excited about either one of these candidates. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.960 We know this it's a rematch, so it's like, really, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.440 we can't we can't get someone other than these two 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.720 Caucasian old men. Yes, that's been a big, big complaint, 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.760 and now there is an alternative and we'll see what happens. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.080 But we've already started to see the coverage switch and 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.639 it's on. The politics at its worst, perhaps is on. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.359 I mean, I wish it wouldn't be that way, but 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:29.360 I think we're in for a difficult, difficult next few months. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.640 We always say, look, the country's been through worse, right, 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.960 and we'll make it through this like we've made it 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:45.120 through everything else. But what a night for the guy 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:49.960 has fifty years of service, and his biggest act, and 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.080 some are arguing now, is that he is deciding not 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.119 to serve. And you're going to hear a line a 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.439 lot out there about a kid with us stutter, and 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.560 that's how he described himself tonight, as a kid with 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:05.920 a stutter who ascended to the presidency, and that same 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.280 kid with a stutter was in the Oval Office tonight 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.640 having to do what was would argue maybe the most 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.240 difficult thing he's had to do in his professional career, 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.000 and we know it was something he did not want 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:23.560 to do. And for his family and look for people 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:25.360 who love him and support him, you can see them 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.040 all over sometimes the way they speak about him on television, 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.400 people who have worked for him. Look, it's a tough day. 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.639 And that image, right, it looked the image outside of 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.359 the Whitehouse of all the staffers we've been seeing the 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.160 video going to a watch party and the White House 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.560 is kind of sad, like a slow procession. 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:45.560 Yeah, they said there was going to be pizza and 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.879 beer and wine. So it was this bizarre you know, 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.000 obviously it wasn't celebratory, and yet they were still perhaps 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:57.879 applauding his decision to do the right thing by the party, 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.720 and he would say for the country. I heard one 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:04.439 commentator say this, so I couldn't. I wouldn't ever claim this, 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:06.639 but I thought it was so well said. Before the 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:10.520 speech began, she said, this is the most important speech 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.439 he never wanted to give, and it may be the 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.120 thing he's most remembered for. We heard him tonight talk 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.119 about all of his accomplishments as president, and I'm sure 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.800 he will remember those, but this perhaps will be the 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:29.160