1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: This is one of those days. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to talk twice as fast to get 5 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 2: twice as much information in. 6 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: There's a lot of. 7 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: Good stuff today, the Luigi Mangi O in case we'll 8 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 2: get to a little later. 9 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: He's getting well. 10 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 2: He got indicted by the grand jury, and they finally 11 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 2: dragged his sorry ass into New York City today via helicopter. 12 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: And even bigger news is there's going to be federal 13 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: charges against him because he crossed interstate lines to plan 14 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: and commit the murder, and that means he could get 15 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 2: the death penalty. And Trump is bringing back executions. If 16 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: you may remember, during the first round, if Trump he 17 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: started executing people very quickly. 18 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: Biden put a halt to that. 19 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: But now the death chambers back in business, and if 20 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: they can get man jon quickly convicted, maybe they can 21 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: get him quickly executed while Trump is still president, which 22 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: is exactly what he deserves and exactly the message that 23 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 2: should be sent to nearly half of the idiots under 24 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: the age of thirty who think Manngion is some kind 25 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: of superhero. We'll talk all about that later on in 26 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: the show. But first thing, in fact, in fact, Eric, Eric, 27 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: can you get the Bidenville intro and we'll get that ready, 28 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 2: because this may be the last trip to Bidenville. 29 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: And for the. 30 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 2: First time, we're not just going to play clips of 31 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 2: old Joe fumbling and thumfering and stumbling. We're gonna tell 32 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 2: you exactly what's going on inside Bidenville. The Wall Street 33 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: Journal had this terrific story. They had four reporters on 34 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: the case. This is a long story. It's fifteen pages. 35 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: Fifteen pages. My job is to distill this entire, lengthy, 36 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: detailed report and give you a clear idea as to 37 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: what was going on. It's exactly what we all thought. 38 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: It's exactly what we thought was going on behind closed doors. Anyway, 39 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 2: Do we have biden Hille ready? All right, let's go. 40 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 3: We'd like to formally welcome you to the rest home 41 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: of Old Joe. Welcome to Bidenville everyone, Oh man, when. 42 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: We're created by go you know the you know the thing. 43 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 4: Choose my words. 44 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 3: Happy birthday, Happy birthday to you. 45 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 4: I ware since the day he died, every single day, 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 4: the rosary he got from our lady. Every time I 47 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 4: hear hell of the chief, wonder where the hell is he? 48 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: Turn around on. 49 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: Where where's the where's the present? 50 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 4: But there's some attention paid to some language and the 51 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 4: report about my recollection of events. I was the foot him, 52 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 4: excuse me, the foothills of the Himalais with Shiji Pan. 53 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 4: For Secretary of Health and Educations over, I nominated hobbyer Bakaria. 54 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 4: As you know, initially the president of Mexico CEC did 55 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 4: not want to open up the gate. I got the 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 4: one point nine trillion dollars relief so far. Yeah, cryptocracy, 57 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 4: the guys who were the kleptocracy representative Jackie you here? 58 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 4: Where's Jackie? I think she was going to be here. 59 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 4: There's not a response from the opposition, but yes, I'm sorry. 60 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 4: We're from Amas else. Want to mention commerce Deba Ross. 61 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 4: Where's Deborah this year? I just had to picture take 62 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 4: with her. Oh, she couldn't be here actually. 63 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: And now to give you a tour of Bidenville before 64 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 3: your extended stay, here's John Coe Belt. 65 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: Yes. 66 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal provided an exclusive behind the scenes treadlog today. 67 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 2: What it was like if you toured Bidenville over the 68 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 2: last four years. And here it opens with the truth 69 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 2: going back to twenty twenty when he was running for president. 70 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: He was already in the bag. His brain had already deteriorated, 71 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 2: and everybody knew it. Now, we all knew it from 72 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 2: day one. In fact, Eric, you said that Bidenville, the 73 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: first version of it was very early twenty twenty one, right, 74 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 2: just to ye. 75 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: Hold on, I'll get the exact day. 76 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 2: A short time after the inauguration, and you know, we 77 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 2: jumped because it was obvious we had elected somebody suffering 78 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 2: dementia Alzheimer's. 79 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: It was pretty clear. 80 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: You know, he'd hidden in the basement and had COVID 81 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: as an excuse during the campaign against Trump, and now 82 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 2: they were doing everything they can to cover up his 83 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: declining mental abilities, and every time they let him out, 84 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: he was a colossal embarrassment. Now here's what how the 85 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 2: story opens up, and it's four reporters, Annie Lynskey, Rebecca Bauhause, 86 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 2: Emily Glazer, and Sean Hughes. During the twenty twenty presidential primary, 87 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 2: Jill Biden campaigned so extensively across Iowa that she held 88 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: events in more counties than her husband, a fact that 89 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 2: her press secretary at the time, Michael Lo Rosa, touted 90 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 2: to a local reporter, Hey, hey, Jill's actually held more 91 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 2: events than Joe has here in Iowa. And then another 92 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 2: deputy campaign manager, Anthony Bernald, went up to Lorosa and said, 93 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 2: you better call that reporter again, and you ought to. 94 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 2: You better change your story. We don't want any comparisons 95 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 2: between how active Jill Biden is and how inactive Joe is. 96 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: You see, it makes Joe look bad. In fact, Lorosa 97 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 2: was told that highlighting her energetics schedule only highlighted Joe's 98 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 2: slow pace. 99 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: So let's stop that right now. 100 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: At the time, Iowa is the first primary in January 101 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 2: twenty twenty. This may go back to twenty nineteen, even 102 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 2: Joe was seventy seven years old and already reporters and 103 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: this is what they do. When somebody on a campaign 104 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: tells the truth inadvertently, somebody else on the campaign then 105 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 2: either calls the reporter or tells the staff member, Hey, 106 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: you go back and do that again, and they put 107 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 2: pressure on the staff member and the reporter. It's like, no, no, 108 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,679 Speaker 2: this is the story we want to tell. And often 109 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 2: the reporters do it. Of course they do so he 110 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 2: gets elected, and the Wall Street Journal says to adapt. 111 00:06:53,640 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: The White House told visitors to keep meetings focused was diminished. 112 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 2: Interactions with senior Democrats and cabinet members were infrequent or 113 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time 114 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 2: seeing Biden at key moments, such as right before that 115 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: disastrous pull out in Afghanistan. Get this Press aides who 116 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: compiled packages of newsclips for Biden were told by senior staff, 117 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: exclude the negative stories about the president. No bad news 118 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: in front of Joe, because you know what happens when 119 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 2: you have dementia, you're easily angered. We saw that happen 120 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: at some of the news conferences. You blow up, you 121 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: get angry, you start throwing things. By twenty twenty four, 122 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 2: the president was not talking to his own polsters because 123 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 2: he was always behind, and the staff didn't want him 124 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 2: to know he was always behind, so they lied to 125 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 2: him and told him he was ahead. Oh, don't worry, 126 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 2: grant by Joe. You're doing great, You're doing fine. You're 127 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: number one. Yeah, best out there. Oh yeah, beating the 128 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 2: pants out of Trump. 129 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 130 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 3: Uh. 131 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,559 Speaker 2: Throughout his presidency, a small group of ades stuck close 132 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 2: to Biden. I mean physically stuck close with their bodies 133 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 2: to keep him from falling over and hurting himself. They 134 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 2: they use a term here, they body him to such 135 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 2: a high degree is beyond handholding. They literally had to 136 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 2: put their bodies next to Biden at all times and 137 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 2: pay attention. Normally, the staff members, they'll stand a bit 138 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 2: away from the president and they're talking to somebody and 139 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 2: they're looking at their phones. Now, these people were told 140 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 2: you watch him at all times. And even then, every 141 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 2: once in a while he'd get loose and he'd walk 142 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 2: in the wrong direction or stumble over some was There 143 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 2: was like some kind of bag on one of the stages, right, 144 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: it was like a sand bag, a sand bag, Yeah, 145 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 2: gotta hit his. 146 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: Head there, or going up the Air Force one steps, yeah, 147 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: that's right. 148 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 2: They eventually they let him go up the shorter set 149 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: of stairs that led you into the bottom of the plane. 150 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: By the way, in case you're scoffing, This is based 151 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: on interviews with nearly fifty people, including those who participated 152 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 2: in or had direct knowledge of the operation. All right, 153 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 2: so these are the people who worked and saw Biden 154 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 2: every day. And his body's not even cold yet. I mean, 155 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 2: it's only December. He's got a month to serve and 156 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 2: they've already rought fifty of them, have already run to 157 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal to say, you wouldn't believe what 158 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 2: was what's been going on here? Now, the big event 159 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 2: in this story is the interview with the special Counsel 160 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 2: Robert Hurr. Remember that story. He's the one who had 161 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 2: to investigate Biden's handling of classified documents. He had to 162 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 2: do this long interview with her and and her eventually 163 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 2: decided not to press charges, not because Biden was innocent, 164 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 2: but because basically he thought Biden had gone senile. We're 165 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 2: going to tell you about that event, the interview with 166 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 2: Robert Hurr, because he did a lot of preparation and 167 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 2: the thing was a disaster anyway. Oh and we're gonna 168 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 2: play a clip of Kamala Harris telling us exactly the 169 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 2: opposite of what was going on, exactly the opposite of 170 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 2: the truth. This is all great stuff here. 171 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 172 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 5: six forty. 173 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 2: We're talking about the decline of Joe Biden. Finally, and 174 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 2: how many times did I say this? I wish there 175 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 2: was way to track. How many times I said, you wait, 176 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: when he's out of office, we're going to find out 177 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 2: the truth. Wait till all the books come out. And 178 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: I figured it would start coming out well, first of all, 179 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 2: after he left, and then the books would come, you know, 180 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 2: maybe six months later. But here with one month ago, 181 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 2: fifty people, fifty people in the White House spoke to 182 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal to talk about how absurd it 183 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 2: was working inside the White House, dealing with Joe losing 184 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 2: his mind and then trying to cover it up. 185 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: Not a joke. 186 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 2: Now we're going to talk further after one point thirty 187 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 2: with John Decker. He is cafi's White House correspondent, and 188 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 2: he saw Biden slowly lose it over the years, and 189 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 2: he's covered Biden for a long time. So we'll talk 190 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 2: with John Decker, the Cafe White House correspondent. Coming up now. 191 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 2: When we last left off, Biden was preparing for his 192 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 2: interview with Robert Hrr. He was a special counsel who 193 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 2: is assigned to investigate whether Biden had mishandled classified documents. Remember, 194 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 2: they found documents in his garage, documents in various homes 195 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 2: that he had, some of them he'd stolen years ago 196 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 2: when he was senator. And here's what the Wall Street 197 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 2: Journal says, while preparing for last year's interview with her, 198 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 2: the President couldn't recall lines that his team discussed with 199 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 2: him at events. Aids often repeated instructions to him, such 200 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 2: as where to enter or exit a stage that would 201 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 2: be obvious to the average person. Joe, go through that door. No, 202 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: George the door, Joe the door. They even talked to 203 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 2: that Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood producer, to find a voice 204 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 2: coach to improve Joe's voice. Except when you're eighty two 205 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 2: and you're falling apart, there's nothing a voice coach can do. Now, 206 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 2: here's what happened with Robert hurr Old don got it. 207 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: It's to the story. It was the fall twenty twenty three, 208 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 2: twenty three. Her wanted to interview him, and Biden wanted 209 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 2: to do it, and as top aide said, oh, this 210 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 2: will be a good thing. He's willing to sit down 211 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 2: with her. Trump, of course, was stonewalling his investigation into 212 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 2: handling of documents. 213 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: They prepared him three hours. 214 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 2: A day for a week ahead of the interview, three 215 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 2: hours a day, and during these sessions, it says Biden's 216 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 2: energy levels were up and down, he couldn't recall the 217 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 2: line lines that his team had previously discussed. The actual 218 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 2: interview didn't go well. Transcripts show multiple blunders, including Biden 219 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 2: initially didn't recall that in the prep sessions he'd been 220 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: shown his own handwritten memo arguing against a surge of 221 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 2: troops in Afghanistan, and eventually her decided Biden should not 222 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 2: be prosecuted because a jury was like to view him, 223 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 2: likely to view him as a sympathetic, well meeting elderly 224 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 2: man with a poor memory, in other words, hesnile. They 225 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 2: wouldn't meet with anybody. They told some powerful lawmakers and 226 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 2: allies who are seeking one on one time. If you're 227 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 2: gonna do this, it's gonna be short, it's gonna be 228 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 2: very focused, in and out. And the meetings would start 229 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 2: later in the day, since Biden has never been at 230 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: his best first thing in the morning. So you couldn't 231 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 2: meet with Biden in the morning. But you couldn't meet Remember, 232 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 2: his workday was ten to four, so after four o'clock 233 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 2: was off limits. Before ten am was off limits. In 234 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 2: the spring of twenty twenty one, a national security official 235 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: explained to another aid why a meeting had to be rescheduled. 236 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 2: He has good days and bad days. Today was a 237 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 2: bad day, so we'll do it tomorrow. This is the 238 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 2: spring of twenty twenty one. He took office in January 239 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 2: of twenty twenty one, so almost And by the way 240 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 2: we had this, we checked our records and ken have 241 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 2: originally had asked Eric to put together a Bidenville on 242 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 2: November twentieth of twenty twenty all right, that's about two 243 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 2: weeks after Biden was elected. In fact, I don't even 244 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 2: know if they'd had finished counting the votes, remember, because 245 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,359 Speaker 2: the vote counting went out for a while afterwards. 246 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: And we debuted Bidenville. 247 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 2: What day again, Oh, I sent the first draft January fifteenth. 248 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 2: January fifteenth, how about that? 249 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: So five days before inauguration Day. 250 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 2: And I guarantee you we're the only ones in the 251 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 2: country in the media who were all pre produced and 252 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: ready to go because it was so clear he was 253 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: senile in twenty twenty and then everybody played along and 254 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 2: lied about it and covered it up. He by time 255 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 2: we got to twenty twenty four, the Polsters weren't talking 256 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: to the president anymore because he was behind they didn't 257 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 2: meet with him in person, and they thought he wasn't 258 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 2: getting the data that he should know that he was losing. 259 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 2: And when Biden's top advisors met behind closed doors with 260 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: Democratic senators, the senators got the idea that Biden and 261 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 2: his people thought he was winning. And so Chuck Schumer, 262 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: the Senate majority leader, had to go and speak to 263 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 2: Biden directly to tell him he was losing, and shortly 264 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: after that he dropped out of the race. 265 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: Then we have Kamala Harris. Listen to this. 266 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 2: This is Kamala Harris on February ninth, early this year, 267 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 2: after the Special Council report came out that Biden was 268 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 2: an old man with a failing memory, and Kamala Harris 269 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 2: got so upset with the special counsel, Robert her that 270 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 2: she went to the microphones to say that that's not true. 271 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: Listen to her. 272 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 6: I'm glad you asked. 273 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 5: Listen. 274 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 6: I have been privileged and proud to serve as Vice 275 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 6: President of the United States with Joe Biden as President 276 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 6: of the United States. And what I saw of that 277 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 6: report last night, I believe is as a former prosecutor. 278 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 2: To it. 279 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 6: The comments that were made by that prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate, 280 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 6: and inappropriate. October seventh, Israel experienced a horrific attack. And 281 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 6: I will tell you, we got the calls. 282 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 2: You can hear her trying to make something up, but 283 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 2: she doesn't know what to make up. Or maybe somebody said, hey, 284 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 2: blame it on the Israeli Hamas war. Okay, what day 285 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 2: was that? October October seventh? Yeah, right, okay, October seventh, 286 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: because that's what they did originally, that Biden was distracted 287 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: because of the war. 288 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 1: It was just one after another after another. This thing. 289 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 6: We got the calls, the President and myself in the 290 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 6: hours after that occurred. 291 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: We got the calls. 292 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 6: It was an intense moment for the commander in chief 293 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 6: of the United States of America. And I was in 294 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 6: almost every meeting with the President in the hours and 295 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 6: days that followed. 296 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: It's all about her. 297 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 6: Countless hours with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, 298 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 6: has of our intelligence community, and the President was in 299 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 6: front of and on top of it all asking questions 300 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 6: and requiring that America's military and intelligence community and diplomatic 301 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 6: community would figure out and know how many people were dead, 302 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 6: how many are Americans, how many hostages. Is the situation stable, 303 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 6: He was in of it all, coordinating correcting leaders who 304 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 6: are in charge of America's national security not to mention 305 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 6: our allies around the globe for days and up until 306 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:24,719 Speaker 6: now months. So the way that the president's demeanor in 307 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 6: that report was characterized could not be more wrong on 308 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 6: the facts and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous. And so I 309 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 6: will say that when it comes to the role and 310 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 6: responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we 311 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 6: should expect that there would be a higher level of 312 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 6: integrity than what we saw. 313 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 7: Thank you. 314 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 2: What a load of crap, A steaming wagonful of crap. 315 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 2: She's lying and she knows she's lying. 316 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 8: John, wouldn't you want me to defend you? You know, 317 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 8: if you're losing it and somebody interviews me and asks 318 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 8: about John Coe Belt, I'm going to say what I 319 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 8: need to say to make you look good. 320 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: No, no, no, tell them you want me to tell them 321 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: that's funnier. Yeah, well, in fact, in fact, if you. 322 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 2: See me going downhill live on the air, you just 323 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 2: stop the show every time and say you're going senile. Okay, 324 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 2: all right, you missed your medication. You're not having one 325 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 2: of those good days. 326 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 3: Right. 327 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 2: We are going to be transparent. That's that's the political 328 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 2: word of the year. We're going to be transparent about 329 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 2: any mental decline I may be suffering from. 330 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you don't have to go camel on me. 331 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: I won't. 332 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 8: All right, Oh, I won't, now that you gave me permission. 333 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 2: We always tell the truth here, although I don't think 334 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 2: you're gonna be able to tell the difference when I 335 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 2: actually go into senility. 336 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: No, I will. 337 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to talk with John Decker. 338 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 2: He's the White House correspondent and he's covered by for 339 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 2: years and he's cafi's White House correspondent, John Decker. 340 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 5: Next, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 341 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 2: A six forty run every day from one until four, 342 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 2: and if you miss anything after four o'clock, it's the 343 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 2: podcast version John Cobelt's show on demand here on the 344 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 2: iHeart app. And we just went through some of the 345 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal story on Joe Biden's mental decline over 346 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 2: the years, as told by almost fifty White House employees. 347 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal interviewed nearly fifty people, including those who 348 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 2: participated or direct had direct knowledge of the operations there. 349 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 2: And we have a KFI White House correspondent, John Decker, 350 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 2: and he's been covering Biden for years in Washington, d C. 351 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 2: And we're going to talk to him about what he 352 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 2: has seen. 353 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: John. Welcome, How are. 354 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 7: You hey, I'm doing great. How are you doing today, John? 355 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. 356 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 2: Was this story a big shock to people who've been 357 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: covering Biden in the White House all these years? 358 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 7: No? I mean one word answer no. To be quite 359 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 7: honest with you, I think the Wall Street Journal should 360 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 7: have done this story twenty months ago, because they had 361 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 7: enough material twenty months ago. I could have given that Materially, 362 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,719 Speaker 7: they don't need to interview fifty different administration officials. They 363 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 7: can just interview people who cover the White House. And 364 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 7: I cover the White House. I've covered the White House 365 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 7: since nineteen ninety five, and I certainly have noticed that 366 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 7: decline that they write about in today's piece. 367 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: What did you say, Pumilarly? 368 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 7: I saw just that, and I asked the White House 369 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 7: about that back in April of twenty twenty three. So 370 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 7: we're talking about twenty months ago, and I tell people 371 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 7: this story that wasn't reported, certainly not by the journal 372 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 7: of an incident that happened on the South lawn that 373 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 7: was viewed by everybody was take your child to work 374 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 7: Day and it was a pretty care free day for 375 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 7: the White House. A lot of q kids there on 376 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 7: the south lawn of the White House and they had 377 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 7: a mini press conference. But the people asking questions of 378 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,719 Speaker 7: President Biden were not the Press corps, they were these 379 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 7: que kids. And one child asked the president the question 380 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 7: where was the last country you visited? And he couldn't 381 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 7: think of it. He couldn't come up with an answer 382 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 7: in terms of the last country that he visited. Well, 383 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 7: the child helped him out and he said, wasn't it Ireland? 384 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 7: And he goes, oh, yeah, that's right, Ireland. Well, he 385 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 7: had just visited Ireland on a three day family vacation 386 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 7: for three days, two weeks prior to this event on 387 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 7: the south lawn of the White House. And that to 388 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 7: me is pretty indicative to someone who doesn't have it 389 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 7: all there if they can't recall a family trip that 390 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 7: was taken out of the country just two weeks prior 391 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 7: to the event that I'm describing. 392 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 2: Did White House employees, you know, officials in the administration, 393 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 2: did they talk about this off the record, just casually 394 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 2: in private conversations. 395 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 7: No, you know, think about that event itself. John, it's 396 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 7: take your child to work day. They thought it's a 397 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 7: bunch of softballs, you know, thrown to the president by 398 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 7: you know, six year olds and eight year olds. What 399 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 7: could go wrong? That was just one example. Another child 400 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 7: asked the president during that same event, how many grandchildren 401 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 7: do you have? Again, pretty basic question to a proud grandfather, 402 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 7: and he couldn't come up with the number of how 403 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 7: many grandchildren he had. That was another example. It was 404 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 7: just a fiasco that to me, I reported it. I 405 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 7: reported it that the day that had happened. But the 406 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 7: Wall Street Journal you can look it up, they didn't 407 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 7: report that incident. And that's why I say they could 408 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,479 Speaker 7: have done a story like the one that came out today, 409 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 7: almost a year and a half ago. 410 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 2: I guess on most days he wasn't available to talk 411 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 2: to anybody, was he? I mean, could you visually see 412 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 2: how out tightly that they kept him, you know, under wraps, 413 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 2: away from reporters, away from anybody who would blurt out 414 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 2: a question like that. 415 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 4: Oh? 416 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 7: Absolutely, you know. There were few and far between, and 417 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 7: I'm a number of events that he had on a 418 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 7: weekly basis. That's number one and number two. Even when 419 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 7: he would do an event meeting with the world leader, 420 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 7: we typically would have joint press conferences. That's what we 421 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 7: had in covering President Trump and covering President Obama, going 422 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 7: all the way back to when I started covering the 423 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 7: White House. President Clinton, you would have these joint press conferences. 424 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 7: You know about them, John, You know, the American Press 425 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 7: Corps would get two questions, the Farm Press Corps will 426 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 7: get two questions. Well, I can't think at the last 427 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 7: time we had an event in which we had one 428 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 7: of those formal joint press conferences at the White House. 429 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 7: And the reason, you know is quite frankly, they wanted 430 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 7: to avoid those opportunities for us to ask tough questions 431 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 7: for the president. 432 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: Did you see he also a physical decline in the 433 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 2: way he walked, in the way he interacted. 434 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 7: Absolutely, you know, I think about when Joe Biden was 435 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 7: sworn into office on January the twentieth of twenty twenty one, 436 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 7: and looking at him like I viewed him walking to 437 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 7: Marine one on Tuesday night, and noticeable decline in his 438 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 7: physical abilities, his ability to walk just from point a 439 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 7: to point b a shuffle that you notice, a visible 440 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 7: shuffle that you notice in his walk, And that's similar 441 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 7: to what I see with a lot of people. Keep 442 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 7: in mind, Joe Biden's eighty two years old. I see 443 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 7: that with other eighty two year olds. But you know 444 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 7: they're not the commander in chief, they're not the President 445 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 7: of the United States. 446 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 2: No, it's normal. And really no, I mean during the 447 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 2: last year and a half, since you could really pinpoint 448 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,719 Speaker 2: visible decline and decline in his mental faculties too, Nobody 449 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 2: in the administration ever said, boy, you know he shouldn't 450 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 2: be running. You know this isn't going to turn out. Well, 451 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 2: no way, he's going to make it to eighty six. 452 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: Just well, I. 453 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 7: Can't speak I can't speak for everybody that works in 454 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 7: the Executive Office of the White House. And you know, 455 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 7: you would certainly think that the person who literally is 456 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 7: closest to President Biden, that's the First Lady Joe Biden 457 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 7: notices all of the things that you and I are 458 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,640 Speaker 7: talking about right now because she spends so much time 459 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 7: with him. But you know, never heard anything from the 460 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 7: First Lady as it relates to either a mental capacity 461 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 7: decline or a physical decline. They were full speed ahead 462 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 7: up until June the twenty seventh of this year, and 463 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 7: that's the date of that CNN debate between Donald Trump 464 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 7: and Joe Biden, and that, of course was the beginning 465 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 7: of the end of Joe Biden continuing to serve as 466 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 7: president and the possibility of him running for another term. 467 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: I just that's the aspect of the story. 468 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 2: I find remarkable that everybody was so buttoned up about 469 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 2: shutting down in the story, almost universe in the White 470 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 2: House and with a lot of the press too. Like 471 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: you said, you reported on some of this stuff, but 472 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 2: much of the press. 473 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: Obviously did not. And that's that's fascinating. 474 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 7: Well, it's fascinating, you know. I mean, I can tell 475 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 7: you that on April twelfth of twenty twenty three, just 476 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 7: a few weeks prior to this, I asked Queen John 477 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 7: Pierre a question that created a very defensive answer, and 478 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 7: the question had to do with are you protecting the president? 479 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 7: So I was the first person in that briefing room 480 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 7: that was asking questions that maybe felt the other reporters 481 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 7: felt uncomfortable asking, fearful that they'd be shut out by 482 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 7: the administration or shut out at a press briefing by 483 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 7: Koreean John Pierre. But these are the questions that I 484 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 7: think are necessary to ask, regardless of whether it's a 485 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 7: democrat or a publican an office, you have to ask 486 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 7: the questions on behalf of the public that doesn't ask 487 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 7: get an opportunity to ask questions like that. 488 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, because it's frightening because if we had an 489 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: extreme emergency, who would be making the decisions? If he 490 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 2: wasn't capable that day? What was the chain of command here? 491 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 7: Well, I wouldn't go that far. I can't. I'm not 492 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 7: a doctor, so I don't know. I know what I see. 493 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 7: I can tell you about various episodes, various incidents. You know, 494 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 7: he's got a strong national security team that he surrounded 495 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 7: himself with, Lloyd Austin at the Defense Department, Anthony Blincoln 496 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 7: at the State Department, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. 497 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 7: I can't, you know, answer what would happen, because I 498 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 7: don't know if it's as bad as you're describing it. 499 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 7: I'm just telling you there were episodes, there were incidents 500 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 7: that made me want to ask questions, and I did 501 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 7: ask those questions going back twenty months ago. 502 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 2: Well, John Decker, Thank you so much for sharing your experiences. 503 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 2: Really appreciate thanks for taking the time. 504 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, John, anytime. Thanks so much. Had a great day. 505 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: By by bye. 506 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 2: White House correspondent John Decker, who's covered the White House 507 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 2: all the way back to the nineteen nineties. 508 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: When we come. 509 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 2: Back, Joe is depressed and Jill Biden is trying to 510 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 2: get him to well, he's She's trying to fire Joe 511 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: up for the final month. We'll tell you about it 512 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 2: we come back. 513 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 514 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 515 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: Carl Demyo as a new member of the State Assembly 516 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 2: Republican down in the San Diego area, and he wrote 517 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:29,239 Speaker 2: a piece in the newspaper about the training session that 518 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 2: new Assembly people get how the legislature actually works. It's 519 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 2: quite startling, or maybe not. Maybe it's exactly what you'd expect. 520 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 2: We will tell you about it with Carl Demyo coming 521 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 2: up after two o'clock. Now, we spent this whole hour 522 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 2: on Joe Biden. Wall Street Journal did a piece which 523 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 2: I told you was coming. Four writers. They talked to 524 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 2: almost fifty White House personnel, and Biden was in the bag. 525 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 2: Going all the way back to what he ran in 526 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 2: twenty twenty for president. Like everybody knew he was on 527 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 2: the mental decline, and that mental decline accelerated. And we 528 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 2: just had John decer On, who's our White House correspondent 529 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 2: for KFI and iHeartRadio, and he said he could see 530 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 2: it for sure. In the spring of twenty twenty three, 531 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 2: when Biden talked talking to some little kids, I guess 532 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 2: it was the Easter event, and he could not remember 533 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 2: how many grand children he had, and he couldn't remember 534 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 2: the last foreign country he'd been to, which was Ireland 535 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 2: two weeks earlier. The little kid knew he'd gone to Ireland. 536 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 2: The little kid's paying attention to the news. Biden had 537 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 2: no idea he was in Ireland two weeks earlier with 538 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 2: his family. And there's a story now on the Daily 539 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 2: Mail that Joe and Joe Biden very angry with a 540 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 2: lot of people who they think helped push Joe out. 541 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: That's what's amazing. 542 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 2: As feeble as Joe obviously was, and Jill his primary caretaker, 543 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 2: they didn't want to give up the power. And according 544 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 2: to one insider, Jill looks at the Democrats in Washington, 545 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 2: the wider party as a whole, the Obama's, the staff 546 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 2: in the White House, outside the White House, the media, 547 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 2: all of Washington, d C with resentment. And this insider 548 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 2: thinks that she's encouraging Joe just to burn the whole 549 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 2: thing down on the way out. 550 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: I don't know what that means exactly. 551 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 2: They're very angry with Nancy Pelosi because they think she 552 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,959 Speaker 2: manipulated Biden's withdrawal. 553 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 8: What do you think they said when Trump won? 554 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 4: Right? 555 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 8: Because the whole reason that Joe Biden was pushed aside 556 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 8: was everybody thought that Kamala Haarad Kamala Harris had a 557 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 8: better chance of defeating Trump, right, But of course she 558 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 8: did not. So I'm wondering what happened after election night. 559 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 2: I think human nature, they were probably happy. They were 560 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 2: happy that Trump won. 561 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 8: But do you think they called up Nancy Pelosi and 562 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 8: they called up some of the Obamas and all these 563 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 8: other people and said, look. 564 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 6: What you did. 565 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: I could see them gloating. 566 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 2: I could see, yeah, at least Jill, because Joe would 567 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: forget a day later. I don't think he could hold 568 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 2: on to the resentment, Jill. 569 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 8: Some phone calls make. 570 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 1: Some phone calls. Yeah, good idea. 571 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 2: Guys, it's really worked out well. At the Kennedy Center honors, 572 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 2: you know, they honor celebrities for their long career. H 573 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul normally sat in the 574 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 2: presidential box. Uh, they were relegated to the orchestra section 575 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 2: on the floor, so they were kicked out of the box. 576 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: And when the. 577 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 2: Biden showed up in the box, well, they had to 578 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 2: sit next to Kamala and her husband, Doug m Hoff. 579 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 2: But they did not even look at them. 580 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 8: I thought they were best friends. 581 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 2: There was no handshake, no hug, not even a nod 582 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 2: of recognition. The Bidens never turned to look at Kamala 583 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 2: and Doug. And they're one of the big donors in 584 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 2: the Democratic Party is a guy named John Morgan, and 585 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 2: he is wondering whether Biden. They remember when Biden withdrew, 586 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 2: he immediately endorsed Kamala and what he did is he 587 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 2: blocked the Democrats from nominating anybody else. And he thinks 588 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 2: that Biden did that out of spite to Pelosi and 589 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 2: Barack Obama, because he knew that Nancy and Barack did 590 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 2: not think Harris was all that capable. He thought Pelosi 591 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 2: and Obama worked behind the scenes not only to push 592 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 2: Biden out, but they did not look at Cabalat as 593 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 2: a serious replacement. So this Morgan said, this was f u. 594 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 2: I think Biden got pissed off and said few and 595 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 2: gave us Harris It's like, ha, now you're stuck with her. 596 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:13,720 Speaker 2: Good luck because I saw, you know, you read body 597 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 2: language and people's facial expressions. When he met with Trump, 598 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 2: he was smiling. He was calling, you know, Trump, this 599 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 2: dangerous fascist, right, and suddenly they get together and they're smiling, 600 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 2: acting like old buddies. And did you see Jill sitting 601 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 2: next to Trump and they're both leaning in at the 602 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:38,759 Speaker 2: ceremony at the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral and 603 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 2: they're leaning towards each other, smiling. In fact, Trump put 604 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 2: out a perfume commission perfume commercial online about it. You 605 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 2: know there's a Trump perfume. I didn't know that there 606 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 2: is a Trump perfume or Trump cologne maybe for men, 607 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 2: And they have a picture of Jill and Trump leaning 608 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 2: towards each other and the catch line was something like, 609 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 2: so good, even your enemies will love it. He turned 610 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 2: that shot into a commercial for his perfume. But I 611 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 2: don't think the Bidens are upset with Trump being president 612 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,359 Speaker 2: because all the nasty things they said, that's all performance, aren't. 613 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 2: You know, all the rubs and the boobs in the 614 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 2: general public actually believe all these people hate each other. 615 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: They don't. 616 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 2: They just play a role every four years on stage, 617 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 2: and then you know, when doors are closed, they're like 618 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 2: anybody else. They sit back, they have a drink, and 619 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 2: they joke around. So I didn't detect animosity by the 620 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:40,399 Speaker 2: Bidens towards Trump, but clearly animosity towards Kamala Harris more. 621 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 2: Coming up, we're gonna talk with Carl de Myo. Carl 622 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 2: de Bayo is going to Sacramento as a state assemblyman 623 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 2: from the San Diego area Republican and he has to 624 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,280 Speaker 2: sit through a training program and those things are brutal 625 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:58,400 Speaker 2: to begin with, but what they train new legislators on 626 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 2: in Sacramento, he is going to give us an earful 627 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 2: when we come back. Deborah Mark Live in the KFI 628 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,520 Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. 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