Speaker 1: Sixty nine days to go, and we are in the
Speaker 1: dog days of some earth. The conventions are passed, Labor
Speaker 1: Day is ahead. The debate will be upon us soon.
Speaker 1: Who knows if Donald Trump will show up. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. More than two hundred and thirty Republican staffers
Speaker 1: aids who worked for President Bush, Senator McCain, and Senator
Speaker 1: Romney have endorsed the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris. Why would
Speaker 1: so many Republicans do such a thing? And the answer
Speaker 1: is two parts. The first is these people have all
Speaker 1: worked in government, in the executive branch and around the
Speaker 1: political campaigns that sought to elect the Republican candidate to
Speaker 1: the presidency. They have some comprehension about what is entailed
Speaker 1: in the job the duties. They are offended by Trump's obscenities.
Speaker 1: They are deeply worried about the country's future. There has
Speaker 1: never been hundreds of people from the opposing party who
Speaker 1: worked in politics at the highest level of the campaigns
Speaker 1: on behalf of their party who have crossed over end
Speaker 1: mass to endorse the other party's nominee. Ever, except for
Speaker 1: four years ago, Donald Trump is the most unfit man
Speaker 1: to ever be president of the United States, and he
Speaker 1: is the most unfit candidate in twenty twenty four. Now
Speaker 1: that Robert Kennedy has dropped out and joined the cause.
Speaker 1: What a strange and very bizarre man. And one of
Speaker 1: the most overlooked stories about the entire Kennedy endorsement is
Speaker 1: Kennedy's claim that Trump called him asking to form a
Speaker 1: unity government unity with what what create cause? Does Robert
Speaker 1: Kennedy suppose the represent What great banner is he carrying
Speaker 1: and who exactly is following him? Nobody? It's all insanity,
Speaker 1: But the pile on continues. What Trump is adding is
Speaker 1: a circus of unfitness. He carries with him, this menagerie,
Speaker 1: the Star Wars creature cantina of American weirdos and political figures,
Speaker 1: right down to his pick Jay d Vance. He is
Speaker 1: somebody who is genuinely worried about a conspiracy of childless
Speaker 1: cat ladies.
Speaker 2: We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via
Speaker 2: our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies
Speaker 2: who are miserable at their own lives and the choices
Speaker 2: that they've made.
Speaker 1: He looks around the world. He doesn't see Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: as a threat. He doesn't necessarily see the Chinese as
Speaker 1: a threat. It's childless cat ladies that are the great
Speaker 1: threat to our civilization. You're calling it a sarcastic comment, sure,
Speaker 1: and yet some women and you got the feedback in
Speaker 1: real time, felt like it was a gut punch to
Speaker 1: them personally.
Speaker 3: Do you regret making that comment?
Speaker 2: Look, I regret certainly that a lot of people took
Speaker 2: it the wrong way, and I certainly regret that the
Speaker 2: DNC and Kamala Harris lied about it.
Speaker 3: Do you regret what you said, Senator Christen.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say things from time to time that
Speaker 2: people disagree with.
Speaker 3: I'm a real person.
Speaker 2: I'm going to make jokes, I'm going to say things sarcastically,
Speaker 2: and I think that what's important is that we focus
Speaker 2: on the policy.
Speaker 3: There are certainly going to be things that I say.
Speaker 2: If I'm elected vice president, people are going to say, well,
Speaker 2: I wish you had said that differently. I think it's
Speaker 2: most important to actually be the person I actually am,
Speaker 2: and to say those sarcastic comments.
Speaker 3: Were made in the service of a real substantive point.
Speaker 2: This country has become too anti family, it's too expensive
Speaker 2: to afford a house.
Speaker 3: It's too expensive to afford groceries.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and I want to change that, and unless
Speaker 2: we get better readership, we're not gonna But again.
Speaker 4: Just very quickly, given that people have told you directly,
Speaker 4: have spoken out, have said that they were offended, they
Speaker 4: were hurt by those comments.
Speaker 3: Do you wish you never made those childless cat lady comments.
Speaker 2: I think that it's much more important for me to
Speaker 2: just be a normal human being who sometimes says things.
Speaker 3: I disagree with.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of regrets, Kristen, but making a
Speaker 2: joke three years ago is not on the top ten
Speaker 2: a list.
Speaker 1: It's not sarcastic. It's revelatory. And so is this quote
Speaker 1: by JD Fans.
Speaker 2: He calls me weird, but then he lies about who
Speaker 2: is how his kids were conceived?
Speaker 3: Who does that?
Speaker 2: That's just the weirdest thing I've ever seen. And this
Speaker 2: one she is, I will say, the best grandmother that
Speaker 2: my kids could ask for. They are seven, four and two.
Speaker 2: Spoils them a little bit too much, Mom, No more
Speaker 2: Pokemon cards in front of a thousand people. No more
Speaker 2: Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3: The kids have got enough.
Speaker 1: By the way, what is it that Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: trying to say, as he garbled his words at his
Speaker 1: rally the other day.
Speaker 4: We had so many missiles. We didn't we could fire
Speaker 4: him all. We had to hire teams of people. Even
Speaker 4: the concept these people are just so destructive. So you know,
Speaker 4: I always look for good words, highly sophisticated, I'm highly educated.
Speaker 1: The national media is failing to report on the incoherence
Speaker 1: that we're seeing on a daily basis from a man
Speaker 1: who is obese, orange, and turning eighty years old soon.
Speaker 1: His mental fitness seems to be spiraling like his poll numbers.
Speaker 1: His cognition seems to be damaged. His illiteracy is something
Speaker 1: we've all watched for many, many years. His pension for
Speaker 1: making up words isn't new, but he's spouting nonsense. It's
Speaker 1: time to end the Trump Show. Time to turn the page. Now,
Speaker 1: there's other interesting news out there. Our Trump's rallies backfiring
Speaker 1: on him is the spectacle of insanity, turning off even
Speaker 1: some of his own supporters. The show is stale. It's
Speaker 1: not funny anymore, if it ever was. Trump rarely can
Speaker 1: make anybody left. He used to be able to crack
Speaker 1: people up. Donald Trump is a decomposing in spiraling presidential
Speaker 1: candidate seeking to get the keys to the nuclear weapons codes.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like a very good idea, does it.
Speaker 1: There is something important that should be said regarding his
Speaker 1: use of Arlington National Cemetery as a political prop Today,
Speaker 1: he vulgarized wreathlaying at the tombs of our soldiers who
Speaker 1: gave the last full measure of devotion to score cheap
Speaker 1: shots at President Biden and the Vice President over the
Speaker 1: disastrous and bungolds afghan withdrawal. But it's a good thing
Speaker 1: that Hr McMaster, retired Army Lieutenant general and Trump National
Speaker 1: Security is around to set the record straight. Do you
Speaker 1: know who he blames for the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal? The
Speaker 1: man who unilaterally surrendered to the Taliban? That would be Trump.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: One of the most highly decorated general officers of the
Speaker 1: last twenty years said about Trump's decision making.
Speaker 3: Does Trump bear part of the responsibility for what happened?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, I mean so the whole premise of talking
Speaker 4: to the Taliban before you leave Afghanistan?
Speaker 3: Why the heck were we even doing that?
Speaker 1: Summer is drifting to a close fall will start blow
Speaker 1: and pick up speed. Very very fast. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a slug fast, and it's going to be close.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's numbers now will start to come down a
Speaker 1: bit as her post convention bounce settles out. What will
Speaker 1: happen is that bounce will be cut by half over
Speaker 1: the next fifteen days, and structurally we'll be looking at
Speaker 1: a three point where consequences for the American people, for
Speaker 1: our children, the whole world are immense in this election. Vote,
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