Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: John Stewart was hilarious last night on the Daily Show
Speaker 3: about the whole Biden media Jake Tapper book, thaning, we'll
Speaker 3: get to that later this hour, and then I'm reading
Speaker 3: the damn books. You don't have to and got an
Speaker 3: example of Biden frightening the hell out of high level
Speaker 3: Democrats when he was gonna run in twenty It should
Speaker 3: have ended there, right, but it didn't.
Speaker 2: More on that later.
Speaker 4: Your headline was this book is unintentionally hilarious release. So
Speaker 4: a handful of important headline on the immigration front. First
Speaker 4: of all, you may have heard the Supreme Court has
Speaker 4: allowed Trump to strip the legal status from Venezuelan migrants.
Speaker 4: They'd been granted temporary what's its status by Biden, and
Speaker 4: now Trump has just undone that.
Speaker 2: So their right to.
Speaker 4: Live and work in the US just by the presidential
Speaker 4: fiat has ended. A previous lower court has said no,
Speaker 4: you can't do that. Supreme Court said, yes you can.
Speaker 4: Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, who has no idea what it
Speaker 4: means to be a Supreme Court justice was the only
Speaker 4: noted descent. A couple more headlines very quickly a couple
Speaker 4: of examples. The government of Arlington County, Virginia, which is
Speaker 4: just across from DC, just across the river, is putting
Speaker 4: even more restrictions on police from working with federal immigration authorities.
Speaker 4: Democrat county board members moving to prevent police from working
Speaker 4: with ICE during local rests by eliminating a section of
Speaker 4: the county's trust policy. They are trying to make it
Speaker 4: impossible for the federal authorities to safely take into custody
Speaker 4: illegal immigrants who are felons and.
Speaker 3: Eighty twenty issue nationally, and they're on the twenty side
Speaker 3: of it. It is absolutely insane. Keep doing it, Democrats,
Speaker 3: see if you win any elections.
Speaker 2: And then there's this story out there.
Speaker 4: It is Nashville's Democrat mayor orders police to report ICE
Speaker 4: operations to his Office of New Americans, So if the
Speaker 4: cops see ICE doing anything, they are required to report
Speaker 4: it to the local government so that he and the
Speaker 4: government can again thwart the federal authorities from taking into
Speaker 4: custody illegal aliens who are criminals. It is obscene, It
Speaker 4: is bizarre. Speaking of bizarre and surprising, who is standing
Speaker 4: up against this but the new guy in town in LA.
Speaker 4: Bill Malugin of Fox News. It's gonna tell us about
Speaker 4: Operation Guardian Angel. Michael will start with sixty and roll
Speaker 4: from there.
Speaker 2: Hit it.
Speaker 5: With this operation, we're going to be neutralizing California sanctuary
Speaker 5: state policies.
Speaker 2: Bill A.
Speaker 6: Salee is the US attorney in LA and the architect
Speaker 6: of Operation Guardian Angel.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, thanks for shir going up.
Speaker 6: The sale has created a federal task force made up
Speaker 6: of ICE, HSI, FBI, DEA, and ATF agents.
Speaker 2: How does CRIMINALI street pat the domestic finance?
Speaker 6: They scan these criminal databases daily to find illegal aliens
Speaker 6: in local jails who have been previously deported from the
Speaker 6: United States. If they've returned to the US, they've committed
Speaker 6: a federal felony known as illegal re entry, and A
Speaker 6: Sale's office will immediately seek a criminal arrest warrant against them, which,
Speaker 6: unlike an ICE detainer, jails and sanctuary jurisdictions can't ignore.
Speaker 5: We're going to flood the system with warrants for criminal
Speaker 5: illegal immigrants that are in county jails. They can ignore
Speaker 5: a detainer, but they cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant.
Speaker 4: Now, this is a half measure. It's brilliant and effective.
Speaker 4: The fact that we can only go this far to
Speaker 4: you know, convicts who've re entered illegally and they're therefore
Speaker 4: guilty of a felony. So an arrest weren't not a
Speaker 4: nice detainer. I mean, it's really frustrating that they have
Speaker 4: to take that tack, but I'm glad they're doing it.
Speaker 2: It's a good strategy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm on one hand, can't believe it's happening.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, I can't believe it didn't happen earlier. Again,
Speaker 3: it's like an eighty twenty issue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And it's very odd and frustrating that
Speaker 4: we're having to even argue the point against the Arlington
Speaker 4: County folks or the Nashville mayor.
Speaker 6: Next clip, Michael, the Federal Task Force brought us with
Speaker 6: them as they went to Twin Towers Jail in downtown
Speaker 6: LA to take custody of a previously deported alien they
Speaker 6: found in their database and file the warrant on He
Speaker 6: was facing local charges for robbery, but the jail immediately
Speaker 6: handed him over to Ice. With California's sanctuary policies unable
Speaker 6: to protect him from the criminal warrant.
Speaker 2: They have no choice.
Speaker 5: They will comply, and if they don't comply, if they
Speaker 5: interfere in our ability to arrest a federal felon, they
Speaker 5: can expect to face consequences for that.
Speaker 4: Good Again, that same cooperation ought to be absolutely required.
Speaker 4: This guy has a notice of deportation, you have him
Speaker 4: give him to us.
Speaker 2: Obviously. Obviously last clip.
Speaker 6: Task force officials tell us once they're up and running
Speaker 6: at full steam, they project they're going to be arresting
Speaker 6: anywhere between forty and fifty aliens from local jails in
Speaker 6: southern California every single week. They say, if they're successful
Speaker 6: in doing this here in Los Angeles, what they're doing
Speaker 6: could be used as a model elsewhere in the country
Speaker 6: to neutralize other sanctuary jurisdictions at.
Speaker 4: Least passingly familiar on the need for confidentiality and some
Speaker 4: of the stuff. But I think it's interesting that it's
Speaker 4: a task force of the ATF and the FBI and
Speaker 4: all those agencies they're talking about.
Speaker 2: The DEA.
Speaker 4: You know, I would volunteer ten hours a week or
Speaker 4: certainly four if all you have to do is go
Speaker 4: through databases and cross match. Okay, who's in jail, has
Speaker 4: been previously deported and is back in town.
Speaker 2: And is subject to this?
Speaker 4: I mean, you have these vigilante folks who want to
Speaker 4: patrol the border. It's not a great idea. I understand
Speaker 4: why they did it, but man, you could have volunteers
Speaker 4: doing this sort of computer work to help out the FEDS.
Speaker 2: Man, I'd do that, Yeah, voluntier in a minute. What's that?
Speaker 3: It's not dangerous? Oh no, what the border is? Well,
Speaker 3: and it's it's a silly data entry thing. You shouldn't
Speaker 3: have some big set of a bit. Youes trained in
Speaker 3: every aspect of policing, including firearms and the rest of it,
Speaker 3: and combat and blah blah.
Speaker 2: He's wearing body are or and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: Sitting there tapping into a keyboard to try to figure out,
Speaker 4: you know, who satisfies these two or three criterion. But anyway,
Speaker 4: I love the program, Bill mallusion of Fox News.
Speaker 3: So Friday, I left the show early. I don't if
Speaker 3: you remember that. I had to get to the I
Speaker 3: had a doctor's appointment and the DMV. They both went
Speaker 3: very quickly, which was fine, but the DMV I got
Speaker 3: my I'm getting my real ID. I got all the
Speaker 3: paperwork in I had. I found a bill that had
Speaker 3: my middle name on it, which was important because without that,
Speaker 3: who do we know.
Speaker 2: Who you are? So I had to dig my mill
Speaker 2: with your middle name on it.
Speaker 3: So I had my original I had my original birth
Speaker 3: certificate from from here in South Dakota. And then I
Speaker 3: had a bill with my uh my middle name on
Speaker 3: it and something else with my middle name on or whatever.
Speaker 2: And I handed over the paperwork or whatever.
Speaker 3: Thank God, now they know and I know I'm not
Speaker 3: there to hijack a plane and fly it into the
Speaker 3: World Trade Center. And I did all that, and then
Speaker 3: I got my picture taken. And also sin Celestia, before.
Speaker 4: You get to that, I'm sorry, before you get to that,
Speaker 4: but can I have a word with uncle Sam very
Speaker 4: very briefly, Samuel, let me point this out. If I
Speaker 4: had signed up for, say, my electrical bill, electrical service,
Speaker 4: and then told them my name my middle name was dog.
Speaker 2: Face, they wouldn't know or care.
Speaker 4: They would say, all right, Joe, dog Face getty, here's
Speaker 4: where you send you your money every month?
Speaker 2: Right, Just make sure he doesn't constitute proof of anything.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I had I had to have
Speaker 3: an original copy of the bill, which I did. I
Speaker 3: get it. You know, it's all online like most people are.
Speaker 3: So I went to downtown to the city Hall and
Speaker 3: had him print out an actual with their logo.
Speaker 2: On it, copy of the bill. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: just ridiculous hoops.
Speaker 3: But one thing that they ancientce The last time I
Speaker 3: re up my driver's license was an option for bald.
Speaker 3: It's always been hair color, which have always me and
Speaker 3: other bald people have always found hilarious.
Speaker 2: I could put.
Speaker 3: Down brown or black or future or whatever you want.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make a difference. I ain't got no hair, right,
Speaker 3: and now you can put bald. Yeah, finally, yeah, I
Speaker 3: haven't gotten it in the rail neck for your people.
Speaker 3: I don't know why they don't let you look at
Speaker 3: your picture. They didn't and then and then retake it,
Speaker 3: I guess, sir in a hurry. But I have no
Speaker 3: idea how the picture turned out. It's coming in the mail,
Speaker 3: and this week I'll look at it and I think, oh,
Speaker 3: that looks pretty good. I'll think, well, I got one
Speaker 3: eye squinted shut, and I got something in my teeth
Speaker 3: that's no good, and that's the picture they'll use if
Speaker 3: something bad ever happens. You know, that's the one that'll
Speaker 3: be on the evening news. They'll grab your picture from
Speaker 3: the government database. I'll be this man was unless there's
Speaker 3: a mugshot.
Speaker 2: True. Yeah, I know. If I committed a crime, that's different.
Speaker 2: But yeah, oh right, I go missing or something like that,
Speaker 2: they're gonna use that picture.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I fall down a ravine
Speaker 3: and get stuck or something. That's what the evening news
Speaker 3: will use for my picture. And I don't like that.
Speaker 4: If you see this squinty eyed freak call the authorities,
Speaker 4: probably still has something in his teeth. So a couple
Speaker 4: of more very brief immigration related stories. Number one great
Speaker 4: feature in a bright part about how trucking companies are
Speaker 4: illegally using migrant truckers instead.
Speaker 3: Of domestic truckers. Everybody knows that. Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: People bring a truck driving jobs and it's tough because
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 4: I thought we had a big well we do have
Speaker 4: a big shortage, but you can't get it as an
Speaker 4: American because you want to working a reasonable wage. Correct,
Speaker 4: So there's not a shortage of truckers. There's a shortage
Speaker 4: of companies that are willing to pay anything above I'm
Speaker 4: a Mexican illegal immigrant wages.
Speaker 2: Correct, which is true with a lot of industries. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So they cross over into our country with the load,
Speaker 4: they drop off the load. They're supposed to go right back.
Speaker 4: They can carry a load if they want, but no,
Speaker 4: they stay for two three weeks and work illegally and
Speaker 4: nobody checks and nobody cares. And then finally I thought
Speaker 4: this was interesting Wall Street Journal report that the big
Speaker 4: mass deportation push that we've heard so much about it
Speaker 4: has not affected the migrant labor force participation in Iota.
Speaker 4: In fact, it seems to be up the general sentiment being, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm a little concerned about like getting rounded up and deported,
Speaker 4: but I got to go to work.
Speaker 2: I got bills. Well, they're also smart enough to figure
Speaker 2: out they're looking for criminals. No, not a criminal, so yeah,
Speaker 2: and the vast majority cases. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Interesting essay in the New York Times today about porn
Speaker 3: that I want to mention one my hot topics internet porn.
Speaker 3: We'll get to the Biden book and other stuff this hour,
Speaker 3: so stay tuned.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and yetti.
Speaker 1: The take it Down at criminalizes the creation and distribution
Speaker 1: of any non consensual explicit images, and if someone reports
Speaker 1: imagery like that, the new law now requires websites to
Speaker 1: take it down within forty eight hours. This act was
Speaker 1: championed by First Lady Malania Trump. It had broad bipartisans support.
Speaker 2: I'm for it.
Speaker 3: Good luck with policing the internet, unfortunately, but I'm for it.
Speaker 2: Yes, somebody's got to enforce this stuff. That's the real challenge.
Speaker 2: A couple of things that tie together a little bit
Speaker 2: with that. In this world, there is a piece in
Speaker 2: I don't know what was this in. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it was in.
Speaker 3: That I've been meaning to read temptation as a public
Speaker 3: policy problem. Pot porn and burritos are part of an
Speaker 3: ever growing temptation economy.
Speaker 2: What do we do about it?
Speaker 3: They don't mean brios specifically, they just mean unhealthy food.
Speaker 3: Pot porn and unhealthy food part of an ever growing
Speaker 3: temptation economy. What do we do about it? And it's
Speaker 3: pretty interesting. It's sort of thing we've talked about before.
Speaker 3: I'm I lean libertarian on this stuff, but at some
Speaker 3: point on some things you wonder, like if it like,
Speaker 3: would you just take it clear to the end, Like
Speaker 3: if it destroyed society completely, would you stick to But
Speaker 3: the government shouldn't tell us not to gamble. If everybody
Speaker 3: went broken, to decide it to destroyed society would be
Speaker 3: willing to change.
Speaker 2: Your mind on that or not.
Speaker 4: It's the slippery slope of socialism. If you're ruining your
Speaker 4: life doesn't affect me, that's up to you. But if
Speaker 4: I'm expected to bail you out or pay for your
Speaker 4: life because.
Speaker 2: You've ruined it, then I get to talk. I get
Speaker 2: a say.
Speaker 3: But hard drugs wise in some areas, even like Oregon,
Speaker 3: as we've seen, they've decided AD is letting people do
Speaker 3: what they want, is doing more harmed in society than
Speaker 3: I'm willing to put up with. So it's kind of
Speaker 3: interesting a little bit to that point. An essay that's
Speaker 3: in the New York Times to Day about porn. This
Speaker 3: woman Christine Emba, who wrote a book a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago called Rethinking Sex. She's now a Times columnist
Speaker 3: and wrote her first essay for the Times. She explores
Speaker 3: the gap between sexual ethics and sexual liberation, sort of
Speaker 3: thing that we've talked about before. It's been a it's
Speaker 3: a very slow process we're apparently going through, and I'm
Speaker 3: hoping we're getting to the point somewhere along the line
Speaker 3: where women decide this whole sexual liberation thing is not
Speaker 3: working out the way I thought it was going to.
Speaker 3: I hope we get there eventually anyway, She writes, Basically,
Speaker 3: pornography is so clearly bad for women in society, why
Speaker 3: is it so hard to find its critics? As a society,
Speaker 3: We're allowing our desires to continue to be molded in
Speaker 3: experimental ways for profit by an industry that does not
Speaker 3: have our best interests at heart. We want to prove
Speaker 3: that we're chill and modern and skip the inevitable haggling
Speaker 3: over boundaries and regulation and avoid potentially placing limits on
Speaker 3: our behavior. But we aren't paying attention to how we're
Speaker 3: making things worse for ourselves, which I've been saying for
Speaker 3: some time. I don't know why we can't get there
Speaker 3: already at the danger's Internet porn in particularly seems to
Speaker 3: be doing the society and decide that it doesn't make.
Speaker 2: It meprude or uncool or.
Speaker 3: A right winger or anything like that to think maybe
Speaker 3: this is doing so society more harm than good.
Speaker 2: Right. I don't know if there's anything I.
Speaker 3: Legally you could do it, but let's just start culturally
Speaker 3: and make you know, looking at Internet porn all the
Speaker 3: time as cool as drunk driving or smoking culturally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you should bring that up.
Speaker 4: I was going to interject a minute ago that Mad
Speaker 4: Mothers Against Drunk Driving was an entirely private organization, at
Speaker 4: least at first. Then I think they got some help
Speaker 4: from various governmental agencies. But yeah, I think the answer
Speaker 4: to a lot of these problems is societal social as
Speaker 4: opposed to governmental. But on that thought too, you know,
Speaker 4: like the Internet porn and how bad it is for
Speaker 4: young people in particular whose brains are just forming. Guys
Speaker 4: like me sometimes hesitate to talk about it a lot
Speaker 4: because we're afraid the conversation will go to First Amendment
Speaker 4: violating places.
Speaker 2: But I think you can't do that.
Speaker 4: You've got to have more trust in our system and society.
Speaker 4: You got to call a spade of spade. You've got
Speaker 4: to be a realist and say, now, I'm not calling
Speaker 4: for banning this, that or the other, but let's be honest,
Speaker 4: this is horrible for young men and women.
Speaker 2: It's horrible.
Speaker 4: Let's talk openly about it.
Speaker 3: Came up again the other day, someone talking about the
Speaker 3: how difficult it is dating out in the world with
Speaker 3: a number of men who can't get erections because of
Speaker 3: foreign which is just shocking to me. I would think
Speaker 3: that would be once that happened, I would think you'd decide,
Speaker 3: I will do whatever. I've got a change in my
Speaker 3: lifestyle to fix this problem.
Speaker 4: The rewiring of the human brain. And again, if it's adolescents,
Speaker 4: their brains weren't wired in the first.
Speaker 2: Place, right, which is highly troubling.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So just on a social basis, shouldn't everybody know this,
Speaker 4: shouldn't we be talking about it? Is that they're embarrassed
Speaker 4: to talk about pornography, I don't know. I don't know either,
Speaker 4: or that it's so new really societally, I don't know.
Speaker 3: So the new Jake Tapper book about Joe Biden unintentionally hilaria.
Speaker 3: It's also got some interesting nuggets in there. John Stewart
Speaker 3: took the whole story apart on The Daily Show last night.
Speaker 2: We've got a clip of that.
Speaker 3: Some really interesting entertaining stuff on the way, which I
Speaker 3: guess is what we should do every.
Speaker 2: Single Armstrong and Geddy another bomb show.
Speaker 7: Former President Biden apparently forgot the name of his longtime
Speaker 7: nade Jake Sullivan, and called him Steve O my god,
Speaker 7: to be fair.
Speaker 2: When you forget a white guy's name, to be fair.
Speaker 2: And I say this with respect for the Barnshell Steve,
Speaker 2: it's not a bad guess.
Speaker 1: I think even Jake Sullivan at some point was like,
Speaker 1: is my name Steve?
Speaker 8: Because when I'm look in the mirror.
Speaker 2: I could be So that's funny.
Speaker 3: But as Mark Halpern, who is like the only journalist
Speaker 3: in America who's not on Fox who's doing this, keep saying,
Speaker 3: the media is still miles away from covering this story appropriately.
Speaker 2: The question and John Start's a comedian, but the question
Speaker 2: is out of that book.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jake Sullivan, how many other people do you know
Speaker 3: in your life who call you by the wrong name repeatedly?
Speaker 2: Right, who you've worked with for years? What the hell?
Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody is being held to account on this, right?
Speaker 3: This is just amazing. Anyway, So I started reading the
Speaker 3: Jake Tapper book last night. As I mentioned earlier, it's
Speaker 3: unintentionally hilarious. How seriously they take it and seriously, act
Speaker 3: like we're about to lay a truth bomb on you.
Speaker 2: Sit down.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be hard to take, but it happened,
Speaker 3: and we're the people to tell. Like John Stewart said.
Speaker 2: Are you having kidding? We all knew this? What are
Speaker 2: you doing? What right? This is so weird? Yeah, and
Speaker 2: he all read this. I thought it was kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: And this goes back to twenty twenty, showing that he
Speaker 3: shouldn't have run in twenty twenty, let alone twenty four.
Speaker 4: As we quoted, was it Bartin Swain on the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal the other day who was trying desperately to
Speaker 4: report on this and nobody was listening.
Speaker 2: Tapper and Thompson's that's the other guy's name.
Speaker 3: Make the point that everything broke for Joe Biden for
Speaker 3: this to ever happen at all. Anyway, The COVID is
Speaker 3: the only way he got elected president where he was
Speaker 3: able to and we all knew this or no this now,
Speaker 3: but where he was able to not be on the
Speaker 3: campaign trail. If he'd had to be out on the
Speaker 3: campaign trail like a normal presidential election, he would have
Speaker 3: been exposed earlier and wouldn't even have meen it in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, but COVID happened, So they're trying to figure
Speaker 3: out how to get take advantage of his folk. See
Speaker 3: political style in COVID. Leading up to the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 3: If you remember the conventions those that year were like
Speaker 3: all virtual with nobody there and all that sort of
Speaker 3: stuff was very, very weird. So a creative team worked
Speaker 3: up a plan. Biden would sit in a room with
Speaker 3: several monitors beaming the faces of real Americans in front
Speaker 3: of them so they could discuss issues of importance. It
Speaker 3: was a way to do a town hall and take
Speaker 3: advantage of Joe Biden's gift for that sort of thing
Speaker 3: without you know, being an actual room with people. The
Speaker 3: videos came back, hours of footage. Some on the team
Speaker 3: couldn't believe their eyes. The videos were horrible. One top
Speaker 3: Democrat said he couldn't follow the conversation at all. I
Speaker 3: couldn't believe it, said a second Democrat, who hadn't seen
Speaker 3: Biden in a few years. It was like a different person.
Speaker 3: It was incredible. This was like watching Grandpa who shouldn't
Speaker 3: be driving again. This was and this was probably in
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. A special team was brought in and told
Speaker 3: to edit the videos down to make them arable, if
Speaker 3: only a few minutes worth, they had to get creative.
Speaker 3: The Racial Justice Conversation aired the first night of the
Speaker 3: convention for less than five minutes, the Healthcare Exchange on
Speaker 3: the second night under four minutes. Edited, the videos likely
Speaker 3: appeared fine to viewers, Biden no worse than any other
Speaker 3: senior on zoom, but two of the Democrats who were
Speaker 3: involved in the film's production together were dumbfounded. I didn't
Speaker 3: think he could be president?
Speaker 2: Is this in twenty twenty?
Speaker 3: The second Democrat said, after what they'd seen, they couldn't
Speaker 3: understand how Biden could be capable of doing the job.
Speaker 3: This was when some top Democrats entered an angry phase.
Speaker 3: I became disillusioned with the entire apparatus because what I
Speaker 3: was seeing on this video in twenty twenty, that means
Speaker 3: people were working for him every day see this and
Speaker 3: were keeping it a secret.
Speaker 2: Wow from a distance of four years.
Speaker 3: A second Democrat reached a harsh conclusion about the team
Speaker 3: around Biden.
Speaker 2: They've been gaslighting us in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: There's so much to say about this. I mean the
Speaker 4: fact that Bernie and Elizabeth Sanders were ascendant. The mainstream
Speaker 4: Democrats were desperate to find a solution, but the idea
Speaker 4: that the best solution they could find was a senile
Speaker 4: Joe Biden, And that's just embarrassing. Or maybe he was
Speaker 4: the only name big enough I suppose to get the
Speaker 4: Bernie's in lizes to sit down and shut up.
Speaker 3: But the damage this is done is immeasurable in that
Speaker 3: on already cynical country about politicians, both parties and the
Speaker 3: media has turned it to eleven.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it'll never go back in my lifetime.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the damage can be undone at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's actually kind of pathetic and sad to
Speaker 4: see Jake Tapper, specially because again, Alex Thompson did some
Speaker 4: pretty good reporting about Biden's sinility at the time, but
Speaker 4: he's just not as big a name as Tapper. But
Speaker 4: to have Jake Tapper essentially being pleading, can I have
Speaker 4: my credibility back?
Speaker 2: Can I have my credibility back?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: They lied to me, they misled me. I didn't notice.
Speaker 4: No, it's gone, Jake. Haven't you heard all those sayings
Speaker 4: throughout your life? How you know it takes a lifetime
Speaker 4: to build a reputation in a moment to lose it,
Speaker 4: you lost.
Speaker 3: It, As John Stewart said of the book, forgetting about
Speaker 3: the fact of how effing weird it is that the
Speaker 3: News is selling you a book about news they should
Speaker 3: have told you.
Speaker 2: Was news a year ago, for free. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think this is actually underappreciated as a story. Way
Speaker 3: too many people are turning it into a like a
Speaker 3: partisan thing. How does this hurt that party or help
Speaker 3: that party or whatever? Just the overall cynicism. I'm I'm man.
Speaker 3: If you listen to the show, I talk about being
Speaker 3: cynical all the time, I'm pretty damn cynical. I'm now
Speaker 3: willing to believe practically anything that that. I mean, conspiracy
Speaker 3: theories are ripe for the pick and now, because you
Speaker 3: had people who.
Speaker 2: Are willing to go this far in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Hiding a guy that had no business being president of
Speaker 3: the United States.
Speaker 2: How many people had to know, how many hundreds.
Speaker 3: Of people had to know that and keep it a
Speaker 3: secrete along with the media. Why would I believe anything
Speaker 3: at this point? Yeah, you've got the importance of the lie. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the guy's running for Potos. You've got the enormity of
Speaker 3: the lie because he is just so clearly gone. And
Speaker 3: then you've got the duration of the lie, and that's
Speaker 3: an all three matter. But that's astounding. That's the part
Speaker 3: that makes me really cynical. I mean, because we all
Speaker 3: had all this information, the polls said what they said,
Speaker 3: but the inner circle just lied and lied and lied,
Speaker 3: and those who would tend to want to believe those lies,
Speaker 3: Jake Tapper went along with it for years and years.
Speaker 3: That is enough to make you cynical. We do have
Speaker 3: a fresh new clip of Tapper and well this is
Speaker 3: from the deceat themselves CBS News today as Jake Tapper. So,
Speaker 3: the book officially came out today. I started reading it
Speaker 3: last night. Asking presidential candidates about their health is difficult.
Speaker 3: They say, okay, well, let's hear from Jake Tapper and
Speaker 3: Alex Thompson trying to defend their book.
Speaker 9: One of the things that this news does, I think,
Speaker 9: is highlight how difficult health issues are for reporters to cover,
Speaker 9: because these are the most sensitive, personal, intrusive questions that
Speaker 9: you can ask, so separately on what we uncovered in
Speaker 9: our book, these are difficult questions to ask people in
Speaker 9: the White House about and we were repeatedly Alex was
Speaker 9: very aggressive covering this as a White House reporter, we
Speaker 9: were repeatedly lied to by people in the White House
Speaker 9: who were always saying, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine.
Speaker 9: After the election, Alex and I said we need to
Speaker 9: find out what really happened because that was just crazy.
Speaker 9: What did the American people just go through? And we
Speaker 9: talked to more than two hundred Democratic insiders, all of
Speaker 9: these interviews, almost all of them after the election, and
Speaker 9: what we found out was shocking, just the degree to
Speaker 9: which he was addled. Increasingly, they were almost like two Bidens,
Speaker 9: a fine Biden, the one you saw on the rag
Speaker 9: in twenty twenty in a non functioning Biden.
Speaker 1: So but did you guys think the age were being
Speaker 1: deceitful or did you think that they really believed that
Speaker 1: he was going to be okay elese then he would
Speaker 1: be able to do the job.
Speaker 10: I think some of the early steps were done with
Speaker 10: innocent enough reasons you want your principle to look good.
Speaker 10: But as his diminishment increased, some of those actions became
Speaker 10: increasingly deceitful. Because the fact is that the Biden that
Speaker 10: we saw on the debate stage last June.
Speaker 2: He had other.
Speaker 10: Moments like that behind the scenes, and increasingly so, and
Speaker 10: they started structuring his schedule, his public schedule to make
Speaker 10: sure that the public didn't see it, and even some
Speaker 10: people inside their own administration, their own white House, their
Speaker 10: own cannet.
Speaker 3: Now, so the question that Gail King, astronaut Gail King
Speaker 3: should have asked as an astronaut, is and nobody's asked
Speaker 3: this yet to my knowledge, how do.
Speaker 2: You square this?
Speaker 11: Jake?
Speaker 3: Two thirds of more Americans knew it and you didn't
Speaker 3: go right.
Speaker 2: What is your answer for that? Jim? What is it about.
Speaker 4: You, your job, your attitudes that blinded you to what
Speaker 4: was so plainly true to the vast majority of Americans?
Speaker 2: Jake?
Speaker 4: Seriously, literally two hundred million people knew it and you didn't.
Speaker 3: Now talk, Jim and Cheyenne in a little house in
Speaker 3: a cul de sac knew it, got no sources. And
Speaker 3: Linda in Florida, who lives in an apartment, she knew
Speaker 3: it with no sources.
Speaker 2: Explain that.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, well, Jake would say, people we
Speaker 4: knew and trusted lied to us constantly.
Speaker 2: We were a misled.
Speaker 4: I would argue, well, they told you to ignore the
Speaker 4: evidence of your eyes and ears.
Speaker 2: That's always a bad idea.
Speaker 4: And you don't bs a BS or Jake his opening
Speaker 4: stuff about health concerns are always very, very sensitive. Now
Speaker 4: we're not talking about whether he has IBS or a
Speaker 4: rectile difficulties. We're talking about whether he has dementia, which
Speaker 4: is undeniably obviously fundamental to his ability.
Speaker 2: To carry out the duties of the president of the
Speaker 2: United States.
Speaker 3: Really, and you can't get around the fact that you
Speaker 3: didn't ask the hard questions of guests on your show,
Speaker 3: as we pointed out last week, when you hear the
Speaker 3: long versions.
Speaker 2: Of those you didn't push back. He was the opposite.
Speaker 2: He was an activist in shooting them down.
Speaker 3: It's so frustrating because it doesn't matter what happens to
Speaker 3: Jake Tapper's career, but it does matter that now everybody
Speaker 3: is willing to believe any crazy conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2: And it got added to in the last four days.
Speaker 3: The Biden people put out their new prostate cancer information
Speaker 3: the day the her tape drops. I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: nobody's gonna buy that. Every doctor I saw on every
Speaker 3: show yesterday said they knew it years ago. They had
Speaker 3: to have.
Speaker 4: It's just it doesn't make it well right in the
Speaker 4: her tapes are pretty devastating to have you actually listened.
Speaker 3: I don't think most people have heard clips like we played.
Speaker 3: Has anybody sat down and listened to his full eleven
Speaker 3: minute answer? If you listen to the whole thing in
Speaker 3: its entirety, it is jaw dropping. There's something about hearing
Speaker 3: the whole thing that makes you go, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And what was he asked? What was the question?
Speaker 3: It was fairly straight, so some simple question like you
Speaker 3: know what your did bode or something? Anyway, goes on
Speaker 3: this eleven minute tells his entire placeolitical story from when
Speaker 3: he was a kid, rambling old man's story, whispering it
Speaker 3: with all kinds of wrong details. It's it's and to
Speaker 3: think that that guy was in meetings with Steve Sullivan
Speaker 3: regularly discussing whether or not we should bomb a ran
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 8: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Speaking of dementia. I don't remember. Did we play the
Speaker 2: Van Jones clip this segment? No, we have not.
Speaker 3: We get we got we ought to play that and
Speaker 3: Joe Scarborough went on Halprin's show to defend his this
Speaker 3: was the best Biden and f you if you don't
Speaker 3: believe me, and I haven't heard that defense yet.
Speaker 4: Another guy saying, can I have a credibility back?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, No, that's not how it works. More in the way,
Speaker 2: stay hear.
Speaker 12: This is the Emperor's new clothes playing itself out in
Speaker 12: real time. There are people who knew and said nothing,
Speaker 12: and that is a crime against this republic. And I
Speaker 12: think the Democrats's going to pay for a long time
Speaker 12: for being a part of what is now being revealed
Speaker 12: to be a massive cover up.
Speaker 2: Van Jones and CNN yesterday.
Speaker 3: I hope there's a price to pay, and not just
Speaker 3: because it hurts Democrats and helps Republicans. There should be
Speaker 3: a price to pay for this sort of thing. And
Speaker 3: He's right, is a crime against the republic, and it's
Speaker 3: not being treated like that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: It's not just an interesting anecdote that the Secretary of
Speaker 3: State was okay being regularly called the wrong name and
Speaker 3: never went to the press.
Speaker 4: With it, or that it's a partisan question one that
Speaker 4: Republicans pounce as da dada. Yeah, that's terrible speaking of that.
Speaker 2: Sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Amy Bublack is a hero and she may well bring
Speaker 4: down Gavin Newsom. We will tell you about Amy and
Speaker 4: her efforts in the scandal. That's the opposite scandal that
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Speaker 2: The other day, Mark ca Alprin said, this is making
Speaker 2: me mental.
Speaker 3: I feel that way too. I feel like, okay, this
Speaker 3: is like if the Emperor's new clothes. That old story.
Speaker 3: You get to the park where the little kid says
Speaker 3: he's naked, yeah, and like half of the people in
Speaker 3: the crowd say, no, he's not. What well, yeah, So
Speaker 3: you're still hanging on to the fact that he's not naked.
Speaker 4: If we had time, we'd play this montage for you,
Speaker 4: and if a year later several of the most powerful
Speaker 4: people in the kingdom were continuing to say, oh, no,
Speaker 4: he had beautiful clothes on, or look, we shouldn't look
Speaker 4: back till last year.
Speaker 2: We need to look.
Speaker 3: Forward, okay to that, And I just I want to
Speaker 3: hear this because I haven't heard it yet. So Joe
Speaker 3: Scarborough pretty famously this was after The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 3: put out their piece about Biden's mental decline. Joe Scarborough
Speaker 3: wanted to push back against it hard and said in
Speaker 3: his screen this start.
Speaker 8: Your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you
Speaker 8: the truth and f you if.
Speaker 2: You can't handle the truth.
Speaker 8: This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever.
Speaker 3: So Joe Joe Scarborough saying, fu if you think Joe
Speaker 3: Biden's slipping mentally, this is late in the game. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is what everybody knew. Crazy anyway, So he was
Speaker 3: on with Mark Alperton. They're actually friends on Mark Alperton's
Speaker 3: very got like nine different TV shows right now.
Speaker 2: He was on one of them and helper and ask
Speaker 2: him about it.
Speaker 3: But looking back at that, do you say, well, it
Speaker 3: was misleading to say best Biden never without a caveating
Speaker 3: it and say except on the days when he's not
Speaker 3: the best Biden.
Speaker 2: I mean, put in the proper context.
Speaker 11: I'm just not going to freak out and meltdown on
Speaker 11: one or two clips here or there. And again he
Speaker 11: bumbled around, and he stumbled around, but he has for
Speaker 11: quite some time. That didn't seem to me to get
Speaker 11: in the way of Joe Bining being able to analyze
Speaker 11: the most important issues. And I certainly think he has
Speaker 11: a better grasp on it than probably the overwhelming majority
Speaker 11: of his critics there certainly did.
Speaker 2: When I spoke with him and Scarborough, we cut that down.
Speaker 3: But Scarborough says he spent three hours with him and
Speaker 3: a dinner or something like that, and Biden was sharp
Speaker 3: that day, and so he was going off of that. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I guess that's another the ability to I mean,
Speaker 3: because the hatred Scarborough and his wife have for Trump,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's beyond Trump derangement syndrome. They deeply hate
Speaker 3: him and have pretty good reason for it. But he's
Speaker 3: got all kinds of reasons to turn his mind into.
Speaker 3: Not that doesn't say anything that could possibly help Trump
Speaker 3: get elected, right emotion, But that's just this crazy say
Speaker 3: sad series irrationals. Everybody would say he always had gaffs. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: not like this. What are you talking about. Let's all
Speaker 3: just take the lesson that apparently we can delude ourselves
Speaker 3: about important things at a high level and remember that
Speaker 3: and be afraid, be very afraid.
Speaker 2: Well, they can delude themselves.
Speaker 4: I think everybody has that capacity in different levels, and
Speaker 4: apparently it runs high among journalists.
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