Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: And finally, Authorities of California, you're looking for a thief
Speaker 3: who allegedly drove a stolen car through the doors of
Speaker 3: a JC Petty department store and stole jewelry. Police described
Speaker 3: the suspect as six feet tall, with brown hair and
Speaker 3: a very disappointed wife.
Speaker 2: You can drive through a different door.
Speaker 1: Another elitist shot in America's shopping institutions, Jack James Cash Penny,
Speaker 1: perfectly good place to shop. What's the one that we've
Speaker 1: played the other day? Oh oh oh, the Seth Myers joke.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and play one, Michael.
Speaker 3: Starbucks announced this week it's doubled it's paid parent leave
Speaker 3: policy for baristas. Well, Duncan employees are still insisting they're
Speaker 3: not the father.
Speaker 2: What what the hell was that?
Speaker 1: It's a beloved coffee and donut emporium and more across
Speaker 1: the fruited plain Duncan Man Dunkin Donuts were the treat
Speaker 1: when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Oh really, we didn't have to.
Speaker 1: Everybody was good like once every few months after church,
Speaker 1: we would go get dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2: Once every few months. Yeah, it's a post every day.
Speaker 2: Oh no, which would be more of a year, which
Speaker 2: would be more like today's lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so. Coming up of America's OBEs, the epidemic, No,
Speaker 1: it can figure out where it came from. So a
Speaker 1: couple of barely related thoughts. We're talking about this Bizarro
Speaker 1: ruling in California where this male rapist, he's a brutal
Speaker 1: forcible rapist, he's done it more than once, is now
Speaker 1: identifying as a woman, which is meaningless and stupid, and
Speaker 1: so the judges insisted the prosecutor refer to him as
Speaker 1: she and her through the trial. And then this person's
Speaker 1: in a woman's prison as obscene. And I was talking
Speaker 1: about the how you can't underestimate what it does to
Speaker 1: you when anybody really but the government forces you to
Speaker 1: say something you know not to be true. You have
Speaker 1: to submit to them. It breaks your spirit, which is
Speaker 1: why I won't do it. And then it's funny. We
Speaker 1: I was in a Troe did a trivia night with
Speaker 1: Judy and some friends, and I was so bummed because
Speaker 1: one of the questions, was what is the last line
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty four or Well's classic, And I couldn't remember.
Speaker 1: And I'm so bummed because I just read it and
Speaker 1: I'm so into it. The last line happens to be
Speaker 1: he loved big Brother. It's Winston Smith. When his spirit
Speaker 1: was so completely broken, he actually internalized that he loved
Speaker 1: big brother. You know, he was full cognizant of the
Speaker 1: evil of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just driving home the message that if you're
Speaker 2: told something enough, you will come to believe it, which
Speaker 2: is right, highly troubling, but it seems to be the
Speaker 2: way our minds work.
Speaker 1: And my militants about this topic and some others it.
Speaker 1: You know, if I run into a transgender person, whatever
Speaker 1: that means, again, that's a it's a mental problem, and
Speaker 1: I hope you find healing and happiness. I truly do.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to hurt anybody's feelings or humiliate them
Speaker 1: or try to discriminate against them in any meaningful way.
Speaker 1: I think that would be terrible and cruel. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I understand from Orwell and others what
Speaker 1: it does to you when you submit to that sort
Speaker 1: of ideological oppression. It breaks your spirit and I won't
Speaker 1: do it. Having said that, I just came across this
Speaker 1: big brother isn't just watching. He's changing how your brain works.
Speaker 1: And this is so interesting. It was a studied done
Speaker 1: by an Australian research group at a couple of different
Speaker 1: colleges in Australia, and it's the methodology is a little
Speaker 1: long and difficult to explain, but what they found was
Speaker 1: if these people, the subjects of the experiment, were aware
Speaker 1: that they were being watched, and they showed them these
Speaker 1: are the closed circuit cameras. We're making sure that everything's
Speaker 1: on the up and up, and we want to observe
Speaker 1: so we can look at it later. And in fact,
Speaker 1: here's the control room, here the TV monitors that we'll
Speaker 1: be using, and blah blah blah. Then they did tests
Speaker 1: on awareness of and sensitivity to various stimuli, including faces.
Speaker 1: Cutting to the end. I know this is utterly unclear,
Speaker 1: cutting to the end. What they found was when people
Speaker 1: were aware of being watched, they were hyper sensitive to
Speaker 1: images of faces. They became cautious and on edge, and
Speaker 1: I would describe it as borderline afraid. They became hyper
Speaker 1: aware of, oh my god, who's watching me? And why.
Speaker 1: In other words, it changes your psyche to know you're
Speaker 1: being surveiled in ways that we're just beginning to understand.
Speaker 2: I can feel that. I feel that if I become
Speaker 2: aware there's a camera in you know, you're a lobby
Speaker 2: of something. Just look around you see a camera, it
Speaker 2: makes it. You can feel that something changes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And again it's not known exactly how much
Speaker 1: and in what way, which worries me. I've heard it
Speaker 1: said that a surveiled society is a an obedient society,
Speaker 1: a polite society.
Speaker 2: Well, we might as well figure out how it affects us,
Speaker 2: because it's here, a lot of places, in coming other places.
Speaker 2: We will all be surveiled all the time, soon everywhere,
Speaker 2: and it's getting closer every day.
Speaker 1: If our purpose is to make ourselves insane as a society,
Speaker 1: we're doing very very well. Sure, I congratulate us home,
Speaker 1: completely different topic. I thought this was great. Alan Dershowitz
Speaker 1: and Andrew Stein wrote this piece what Trump can do
Speaker 1: about sanctuary cities, because Trump has vowed to do plenty
Speaker 1: about it. Also, bring sanity back to colleges, in elementary schools,
Speaker 1: to the Department of Education, and stuff like that. And
Speaker 1: I love the ideas, but sometimes the mechanics are a
Speaker 1: little mysterious. What levers does he have exactly? And Dershwitz
Speaker 1: and what did I say? The guy's name is? Stein
Speaker 1: wrote that a constitutional showdown is looming over the border policies.
Speaker 1: We've all heard Tom Holman saying, we're going to deport
Speaker 1: these people. We're gonna round them up. You can either
Speaker 1: help or not. I liked what Holman said too. He said,
Speaker 1: all right, if you're not gonna support us, you're not
Speaker 1: going to cooperate with us, We're gonna put two three
Speaker 1: times as many ICE agents in your city. That's fine,
Speaker 1: we'll get it done. Denver Mike Johnston has said he'd
Speaker 1: be willing to go to jail to prevent deportations. All right,
Speaker 1: put him there.
Speaker 2: What a hell to die on again? I just say,
Speaker 2: you're gonna go to jail to protect criminals who've committed crimes,
Speaker 2: because that's where we're starting with. People are committing crimes
Speaker 2: in the United States and are here illegally. You're gonna
Speaker 2: go to jail to make sure that they don't get deported.
Speaker 2: You're nuts, you know.
Speaker 1: I wish you could somehow get to what is going
Speaker 1: on in a guy like that's head. I mean, my
Speaker 1: guess is that he has a desire to be accepted
Speaker 1: and to be seen as enlightened and progressive and merciful,
Speaker 1: and that desire is so strong in him it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, being a horny seventeen year old male or
Speaker 1: being starving, starving, hungary. It just so perverts his sense
Speaker 1: of priorities. I don't get that at all. Newpole out
Speaker 1: today similar numbers to what we've had before. Two thirds
Speaker 1: of Americans want all illegals deported. That's never gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But the ones that have committed crimes in the United
Speaker 2: States are gonna get deported. So then that's got to
Speaker 2: be like ninety percent, and you're going to be You're
Speaker 2: going to die on that hill, you nutjobs.
Speaker 1: I really think they are. I'm too again, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's very strange. I mean, even if we just deported
Speaker 1: the twenty percent who are the most derelict, lazy, useless,
Speaker 1: and or criminal, that'd be an enormous victory, just a.
Speaker 2: Fabulous Well, there are six hundred thousand criminals here illegally
Speaker 2: right now at least sure.
Speaker 1: Anyway, how will this hall be resolved by the courts.
Speaker 1: They write, Article six of the Constitution mandates that federal
Speaker 1: law quote shall be the supreme law of land, notwithstanding
Speaker 1: the laws of any state. The Tenth Amendment reserves to
Speaker 1: the States all powers quote not delegated to the United
Speaker 1: States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it by it
Speaker 1: to the States. Oh right, that is work correct. The
Speaker 1: constitutional question is whether the authority to regulate immigration, including
Speaker 1: the power to deport illegal aliens, is a power delegated
Speaker 1: to the federal government, and they write, of course it is.
Speaker 1: Border Crossers can travel from state to state unhindered, so
Speaker 1: entry anywhere in the US is entry everywhere. Thus, the
Speaker 1: federal government alone has the authority to control the right
Speaker 1: to enter and remain, as it does the power to exclude, deport,
Speaker 1: and prosecute those who violate immigration laws.
Speaker 2: Now, to me, the only question I'm not an expert
Speaker 2: in all this law stuff, but to me, the only
Speaker 2: question has been how did it go this long? Where
Speaker 2: a county, a city, estate can declare themselves sanctuary. That's nuts.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the rub, They write, The Constitution does not
Speaker 1: prohibit states from providing food, healthcare, housing, driving privileges, and
Speaker 1: other necessities to everyone within its borders, nor does it
Speaker 1: compel the states to employ resources to aid the federal government.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court has articulated an anti commendeering doctrine that
Speaker 1: prohibits the Feds from quote, conscripting the state's officers directly
Speaker 1: to enforce federal law. And they write about how the
Speaker 1: doctrine's been revised over the years, and there's no real
Speaker 1: clear guidance on how it would precisely applied to sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1: Much would depend on these specific state action at issue.
Speaker 1: Bob about the President's established when some Southern state officials
Speaker 1: try to prevent the enforcement of federal court's desegregation orders,
Speaker 1: strongly suggest that states and cities may not actively block
Speaker 1: legitimate enforcement of federal law.
Speaker 2: But they don't have to help, right is that to
Speaker 2: make them help?
Speaker 1: In between these extremes are a variety of state actions
Speaker 1: and refusal to act. Give some examples.
Speaker 2: I can see legally how that's the thing. And I
Speaker 2: guess if you live in a nut job place like
Speaker 2: San Diego County just voided by the other day, where
Speaker 2: your constituents, a majority of your constituents say, yeah, don't
Speaker 2: help the federal government deport people are committing crimes in
Speaker 2: our county, and you're legally if a majority agrees with that, okay.
Speaker 2: I can't believe there are very many places where that's
Speaker 2: the case, including like you saw the city council meeting
Speaker 2: in Chicago. People are horrified. They're spending so much money legals.
Speaker 2: I find it hard to believe that the majority of
Speaker 2: people would be okay with keeping criminals there who are
Speaker 2: there illegally.
Speaker 1: I know, it's a bizarre notion. I can't believe anybody
Speaker 1: believes it. But so these guys who are pretty solid
Speaker 1: legal scholars just think, all right, we're not doing nothing
Speaker 1: they can get away with. But even a whiff of
Speaker 1: opposition or impediment would be actionable, and the federal government could,
Speaker 1: you know, take measures. What measures I might be, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's still it's obscene to me that you would.
Speaker 1: And look, I am fully acquainted with the argument that
Speaker 1: if the immigrant community fears any interaction with the government
Speaker 1: will lead them to be deported, they won't report a rape.
Speaker 1: They won't report when these Venezuelan monsters kidnap them and
Speaker 1: torture them and take over their apartment. They'll be afraid
Speaker 1: to talk to any authorities. We can't have that. I
Speaker 1: get that, and I actually respect it on one level.
Speaker 1: But the idea that you have a violent criminal that
Speaker 1: you're going to put out on the streets and you're
Speaker 1: fully aware they've got a detainer, a detainment order from
Speaker 1: the Ice, and you, well, we're not going to help them.
Speaker 1: We're going to release that rapist or that to arm
Speaker 1: dropper or whatever onto the streets because we don't believe
Speaker 1: there's such thing as an illegal human. You are just
Speaker 1: you're incapable of operating in the adult world. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: You shouldn't even be like you should have a caretaker.
Speaker 1: You certainly shouldn't be running anything.
Speaker 2: So coming up what should be the story of the
Speaker 2: day on every news outlet in America. The Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal talk to They have fifty different sources talking about
Speaker 2: the inside job of covering up Joe Biden's mental problems
Speaker 2: over the last over the last term. And it is
Speaker 2: fairly explosive, not surprising, really, but fairly explosive. Not getting
Speaker 2: near as much coverage as it should, but some of
Speaker 2: the highlights are amazing. I hope you can sigure on
Speaker 2: flat and other things stay here elun jumping was so nuts.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance can't buy no nuts.
Speaker 2: Look like for shallow may Boeing door just flew away,
Speaker 2: Bluey Beatle.
Speaker 4: Juice, brat Summer, Pardon Turkey, Pardon Hunter, penguin bear and
Speaker 4: baby reindeer, Jacob.
Speaker 2: Lord he has a beard, and hot Frosty.
Speaker 5: It did premiere, but yellow Stone has disappeared.
Speaker 2: I only got about half those references.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2: But the half I did get I really enjoyed. Reminds
Speaker 2: me I never watched Yellowstone, but I was reading some
Speaker 2: of the clap back on Twitter that the final episode
Speaker 2: of the series, the series ending episode woke at the end.
Speaker 2: Oh no, like with a message at the end, and
Speaker 2: that's why we've all got to deal with climate change
Speaker 2: or something. I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there has never been a less politically correct
Speaker 1: show in history. Oh really, please come for the beatings
Speaker 1: and shootings and and and the buryings of bodies and
Speaker 1: rapeine and and did Indian killings. And it was like
Speaker 1: the most over the top soap opera paired with goodfellas.
Speaker 2: Really that sounds good. I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: are score by it just absolutely loved it. Serious. Note,
Speaker 2: I'm only bringing this up because I found it darn interesting.
Speaker 2: So that girl that shot up that tiny little high
Speaker 2: school the other day and just horrible, horrible story. Uh,
Speaker 2: they've detained a twenty year old man in California who
Speaker 2: was plotting a coordinated attack with her.
Speaker 1: Oh so just fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was in she was in contact with this
Speaker 2: dude in California and they were coordinating something. You probably
Speaker 2: saw the other day a picture of her shooting guns
Speaker 2: at the gun range, and she was wearing a T
Speaker 2: shirt of a band I'd never heard of that was
Speaker 2: popular by one of the Columbine shooter shooters. He was
Speaker 2: into that band. So there's something going on there. And
Speaker 2: then also this nugget that came out yesterday, which is
Speaker 2: not an excuse, but her parents divorced and remarried three times.
Speaker 2: Oh imagine that's a lovely household to grow up in.
Speaker 1: Oh I wondered what was going on there. She's well
Speaker 1: if some of her rambling, you know, pronouncements were indeed hers,
Speaker 1: she had like this vicious hatred of all males. Yeah, sick.
Speaker 2: So we're going to get to this coming out and
Speaker 2: can can I set the table here. This is a
Speaker 2: tweet from a columnist for the Washington Post who's retweeting
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal article, Well, how the White House
Speaker 2: functioned with a diminished Biden in charge. I get the
Speaker 2: sense that at least this Washington Post reporter is not
Speaker 2: happy with being lied to. The White House went to
Speaker 2: great lengths to conceal Biden's decline, not just from the
Speaker 2: American people, from members of its own cabinet and key
Speaker 2: Democrats on the Hill. They limited interaction and used go
Speaker 2: betweens to reduce visibility about how frail he'd become. Nate Silver,
Speaker 2: the polster they got so much attention during the election, said,
Speaker 2: if you had said any of this stuff that the
Speaker 2: Washington or that the Wall Street Journal is reporting today,
Speaker 2: if you had said any of this stuff before June
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, you'd have been accused of peddling misinformation.
Speaker 2: Like there was literally an entirely new category of misinformation
Speaker 2: they called cheap fakes concerning videos of Biden's decline. Now
Speaker 2: it's out in the open and known to be that
Speaker 2: was all true. That was absolutely true. Wow. Joe will
Speaker 2: run through the highlights from the Wall Street Journal piece
Speaker 2: coming up I'm.
Speaker 1: Flipping through the Washington Post right now. I don't see
Speaker 1: any coverage of it.
Speaker 2: It should be the lead story in America. It should
Speaker 2: lead the evening news tonight. It's not going to because
Speaker 2: I guess they'd have to admit they were complicit at
Speaker 2: some level or really bad journalists, either one or the other.
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Look, there's so many young women who have been including
Speaker 6: a young woman who just was murdered, and he went
Speaker 6: to the funeral, and the idea that she was murdered
Speaker 6: by by by an immigrant coming in.
Speaker 2: They talk about that.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of young women to be raped by
Speaker 6: their by their in laws, by their by by their spouses,
Speaker 6: my brothers and sisters, by or just it's just ridiculous,
Speaker 6: and they can do nothing about it, and they try to
Speaker 6: rest them by the cross state line.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That was one of the highlights from the
Speaker 1: utterly disturbing Biden Trump debate that ultimately forced jo Biden
Speaker 1: out of the race, when what was plainly evident to
Speaker 1: the vast majority of Americans became utterly undeniable even to
Speaker 1: the political class. Although there are some who are still
Speaker 1: denying to this day that Joe Biden is diminished in
Speaker 1: any way, which I think has got to be some
Speaker 1: sort of DC insider beltway. Look, how steadfast I am.
Speaker 1: Hire me for your next opening, and I'll pretend that
Speaker 1: you're not whatever brand of monster you are. Anyway, Let's
Speaker 1: let's hear another clip from the debate. Michael, let's go with.
Speaker 6: One oh five, making sure that we're able to make
Speaker 6: every single solitary person are eligible for what I've been
Speaker 6: able to do with the uh, the COVID I s
Speaker 6: could be with dealing with everything we have to do with. Look,
Speaker 6: if we finally beat medicare.
Speaker 1: Thank you, President Biden, President Trump.
Speaker 6: Well, he's right, he did beat medicare, beat it to death,
Speaker 6: and he's destroying Medicare.
Speaker 2: And that was the end. A Joe, you answered all
Speaker 2: of the questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Doctor Jill's role in all of this needs to
Speaker 1: be discussed at length at some point, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: historians will. But the Wall Street Journal out with a
Speaker 1: blockbuster piece today how the White House functioned with a
Speaker 1: diminished Biden in charge. Talk to fifty different sources on
Speaker 1: and off the record. As Jack mentioned, other journalists are
Speaker 1: retweeting this article, and I wonder whether some of them
Speaker 1: were told with a heavy, heavy hand. This is not
Speaker 1: a topic we're going to be writing about. I'd prefer
Speaker 1: you do the story on the Secretary of Transportation's new drapes.
Speaker 1: Because why are other journalists from other publications so enthusiastically
Speaker 1: retweeting this and tweeting links around.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but they're doing it, like, you know,
Speaker 2: on Twitter, not officially. I haven't seen it in the
Speaker 2: New York Times or the Washington Post. As you mentioned,
Speaker 2: I had all the TVs on the whole show, and
Speaker 2: I haven't seen him mention it of it on any
Speaker 2: of the shows. They should have quotes from this article
Speaker 2: on Good Morning America Today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, if you are tweeting it around
Speaker 1: because you're amazed that this is the case, You're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Joe Biden's mental capacity is diminished. You
Speaker 1: should not be a journalist. You would go to Big
Speaker 1: sur California and not notice the giant trees, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Another example. I don't know. You'd go
Speaker 1: to Miami and not notice the ocean. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: something wrong with you.
Speaker 2: Well, my favorite retweet was somebody complaining about PolitiFact named
Speaker 2: as their lie of the year, Donald Trump saying they're
Speaker 2: eating the cats and the dogs. And this person compared
Speaker 2: that to the Wall Street Journal headline today that the
Speaker 2: live the year. Maybe that dozens of people were hiding
Speaker 2: the fact that the president couldn't do his job because
Speaker 2: his brain was broken. That sounds like the lie of
Speaker 2: the year to me.
Speaker 1: So the Wall Street Journal goes into a great deal
Speaker 1: of detail, again speaking to dozens of people about how
Speaker 1: early on in the administration, visitors were told to keep
Speaker 1: meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet
Speaker 1: members grew less and less frequent. Some legislative leaders had
Speaker 1: a hard time getting the presidents here at key moments,
Speaker 1: including ahead of the ahead of the US's disastrous pull
Speaker 1: out from Afghanistan. Senior advisors, you know, I'm going to summarize,
Speaker 1: the senior advisors were absolutely clearly running the show, and
Speaker 1: they would clue Biden in at times. But any information
Speaker 1: that went to the president, especially in the last two years,
Speaker 1: went through your Jake Sullivan and your National's Economic Council
Speaker 1: had Lel Brainerd and senior councilor Steve Verschetti. They were
Speaker 1: running the show. They were the resputant, if you will,
Speaker 1: who had the King's ear and nobody else had it.
Speaker 1: Let's see how into detail do we want to get.
Speaker 1: Throughout his presidency, a small group of theades stuck close
Speaker 1: to Biden to a system, especially when traveling or speaking
Speaker 1: to the public. Now, all presidents have assistants who tell
Speaker 1: him all right, mister president, we're going to work the
Speaker 1: rope line and then we'll go to the plane blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. But Biden would have to have people like
Speaker 1: at his arm ushering him around because he couldn't remember
Speaker 1: what they told him five minutes ago. And people were
Speaker 1: fairly shocked who got close enough to observe this.
Speaker 2: The constantly canceling meetings, to me is where it really
Speaker 2: gets dicey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole good days and bad days thing.
Speaker 2: If you're constantly canceling meetings, you by definition can't do
Speaker 2: your job.
Speaker 1: Well, you certainly probably can't deal with I just said
Speaker 1: certainly probably. I guess I'm thinking of exceptions. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could be very sick. But then focus if mister president,
Speaker 1: the Chinese launched the attack, but he obviously was in
Speaker 1: a state where they just could not do business for
Speaker 1: days at a time to.
Speaker 2: Thank God that Chinese didn't launch the attack in one
Speaker 2: of those days where he wasn't capable of hearing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So they adjusted the presidential schedule in the first
Speaker 1: few months of his term because it became clear he
Speaker 1: became tired if meetings went long, he would make mistakes
Speaker 1: and people, anybody who saw the president was told exchanges
Speaker 1: should be short and focused and do not bring him
Speaker 1: any bad news, which is more disturbing than it sounds.
Speaker 2: Don't bring the president of the United States bad news, right,
Speaker 2: that's right, Hm, it's kind of what your job is,
Speaker 2: dealing with bad news.
Speaker 1: Well, right, And evidently he couldn't handle it emotionally, he
Speaker 1: would fly off the handles. As we discussed during our
Speaker 1: two of the program at greater length, he wasn't even
Speaker 1: talking to his pollsters during the campaign back before he
Speaker 1: dropped out. That is, as we wondered, although at the
Speaker 1: time it just seemed too crazy when he kept saying
Speaker 1: it's tell you what, it's a toss up, when every
Speaker 1: poll in America was saying no, you're behind Trump, like
Speaker 1: in every state. We wondered aloud, is he just not
Speaker 1: talking to his posters? That can't be but no, they
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to talk to him. They would just tell
Speaker 1: his close advisors who would pass on the news they
Speaker 1: chose to the first.
Speaker 2: One of the major interviews was Stephanopolis, but one of
Speaker 2: the major interviews there toward the end where he said,
Speaker 2: I'm ahead of.
Speaker 1: The polls.
Speaker 2: And everybody's like, what are you talking about? I know
Speaker 2: the Woodward Book and there's been a fair amount of
Speaker 2: reporting around this. The Woodward Book talked a lot about
Speaker 2: how he was so obsessed with the Hunter thing. I
Speaker 2: mean that was like the main topic in his life
Speaker 2: for many periods of time, during you know, trials or
Speaker 2: things that were about to happen. Just the only thing
Speaker 2: on his mind, The only thing that he seemed to
Speaker 2: be interested in was the Hunter thing. That's also not good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They tell a story of Representative Adam Smith Washington,
Speaker 1: who was the head of the House Armed Services Committee,
Speaker 1: powerful committee. He was alarmed by what he viewed in
Speaker 1: the lead up to the Afghanistan withdrawal as overly optimistic,
Speaker 1: unrealistic expectations, and they just he didn't know what they
Speaker 1: were looking at, what they were thinking, And he was
Speaker 1: trying desperately to get on the phone with the president,
Speaker 1: and they never let him through, even though as a
Speaker 1: lower ranking member of the committee he had regularly talked
Speaker 1: to past presidents. Uh, and they mentioned that he he
Speaker 1: said something about it got blasted by Anthony Blink and
Speaker 1: he blasted back, and he finally got a short apology
Speaker 1: on the phone from Biden. Was the first time he'd
Speaker 1: talked to Smith, the head of the House Armed Services Committee,
Speaker 1: in his four years in office. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: if there are other particularly telling details, Oh, his cabinet meetings.
Speaker 1: He just never met with his cabinet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go fraction if you have those the numbers, like
Speaker 2: Obama meeting with the cabinet versus Biden, because that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And they talk about how traditionally presidents meet a
Speaker 1: lot with Treasury, Defense in state, but that it got
Speaker 1: the meetings became fewer and fewer and fewer, to the
Speaker 1: point that cabinet secretaries wouldn't even call the White House
Speaker 1: because they knew they couldn't get an appointment with the president.
Speaker 1: So over four years, Biden held nine full cabinet meetings,
Speaker 1: nine three in twenty one, two in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and three and twenty twenty three just won this year.
Speaker 1: One well, there's not much going on in the world
Speaker 1: of the country this year, so a total of in
Speaker 1: their first terms. Obama held nineteen, Trump twenty five.
Speaker 2: Wow, he had one minute Biden.
Speaker 1: Biden in the past was as when he was vice president,
Speaker 1: he gathered the cabinet leaders once a week, saying in
Speaker 1: a speech, it's important to get together regularly because of
Speaker 1: the synergy it brings. It makes the government more competent,
Speaker 1: it makes our policy more coherent and successful. This is
Speaker 1: an important thing. And as president he just never met
Speaker 1: with them. They talked about how difficult it was to
Speaker 1: prep him for the meeting with Robert Hurr, the special counsel,
Speaker 1: who ended up saying he was a sympathetic, well meaning
Speaker 1: elderly man with a poor memory, which of course.
Speaker 7: Was blasted as blasphemy and ridiculous and untrue by Democrats
Speaker 7: at the time, but that he would just constantly forget
Speaker 7: no when he asked you this, say that, and then
Speaker 7: ten minutes later he would have forgotten.
Speaker 1: And sure enough when he met with her, he forgot
Speaker 1: everything he was supposed to say and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Including as you recall, he didn't know he couldn't tell
Speaker 2: you when he was vice president.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was not an aberration. They talk about
Speaker 1: prominent donors organizing events with the president and were shocked
Speaker 1: to be told there's going to be no Q and A. Really,
Speaker 1: you can have two or three questions, submit them ahead
Speaker 1: of time, you will read them from a card, and
Speaker 1: the president will answer them. But at some events the
Speaker 1: Biden campaign printed the pref questions on note cards. People
Speaker 1: read them, and even with all these steps, Biden made
Speaker 1: flubs which confounded the donors who knew Biden had the
Speaker 1: question ahead of time. Right.
Speaker 2: I remember that's the one of the instances where Mark
Speaker 2: Alpern wrote, I have never heard of a candidate using
Speaker 2: note cards in a fundraiser. That is completely new.
Speaker 1: Right. And then as they make clear of these donors
Speaker 1: who are speaking, you know, off the record, are saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: even when they did that, he couldn't answer the questions,
Speaker 1: but he was fine to run for another term, and
Speaker 1: nobody said anything, by the way, publicly, until George Clooney did, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a link I've got here that somebody
Speaker 2: included from the New York Times where Biden declared a
Speaker 2: super ager. He's just one of those people that just
Speaker 2: ages better than the rest of us, lucky.
Speaker 1: Us, unbelievable this year that came out. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: getting back to the he didn't talk to his polsters,
Speaker 1: and he kept saying stuff that was just patently absurd
Speaker 1: about the state of the race. Those fears intensified on
Speaker 1: July eleventh, when Biden's top advisors met beyond closed doors
Speaker 1: with Democratic senators, where the advisors laid out how they're
Speaker 1: going to win with Biden. The message from the advisors
Speaker 1: was so disconnected from public polling, which showed Trump leading
Speaker 1: Biden nationally, it left Democratic senators incredulous. It spurred Senate
Speaker 1: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to speak to Biden directly. According
Speaker 1: to people familiar to Pierce, what the senators saw as
Speaker 1: a wall erected by Donald and Mike Donald and his
Speaker 1: advisor to shield Biden from bad information. Donald wouldn't comment
Speaker 1: for the story. On July thirteenth, Biden held an uncomfortable
Speaker 1: call with a group of Democratic lawmakers called the New
Speaker 1: Democratic Coalition. I remember. This aimed at reassuring them about
Speaker 1: his ability to stay in the race. The president told
Speaker 1: participants that polling showed he was doing fine, and when
Speaker 1: challenged on that, became angry. At one point, Biden looked
Speaker 1: up and abruptly told the group he had to go
Speaker 1: to church. Some lawmakers on the call believed then someone
Speaker 1: behind the camera was shutting it down. Biden dropped out
Speaker 1: of the race eight days later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that also explains why it was so hard to
Speaker 2: push him out. Not only did Nancy Pelosi have to
Speaker 2: go say we'll ruin you, she had to explain the
Speaker 2: actual polls to him because he was unaware. Wow, why
Speaker 2: did he want to step down? If all he was
Speaker 2: seeing was on my head or tied? Why would I
Speaker 2: get out?
Speaker 1: And what the hell was the role of his crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy wife?
Speaker 2: No kidding? And how much did Kamala know about all this?
Speaker 2: You're either in the room for all the major decisions
Speaker 2: or you weren't. And if you were in the room,
Speaker 2: you knew exactly how diminished he.
Speaker 1: Was well, and when he was claiming we're neck and
Speaker 1: neck and he clearly wasn't, Kamala, were you in the
Speaker 1: room for that? Everybody was lying, So a lot of
Speaker 1: them they're still lying. In this article they call current
Speaker 1: White House staff is saying no, he's not diminished, He's fine.
Speaker 1: He's perfectly fine.
Speaker 2: Can't wait till the books are actually written. There'll be something.
Speaker 2: And again keen on his crazy, crazy wife say one way,
Speaker 2: you answered all the questions, Joe, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: We'll finish strong next arm Strong.
Speaker 1: He yetie.
Speaker 8: House after house after house in Otwood, Illinois, about fifty
Speaker 8: giant inflatable Santas moving in after teacher Samantha Binyon got
Speaker 8: her whole neighborhood on board.
Speaker 5: Actually, Jess sent the message out to all of my
Speaker 5: neighbors probably three weeks ago, and from there it's just grown,
Speaker 5: and now there are so many Saints in town.
Speaker 9: Bingyon was inspired by videos of total Santa takeovers in Canada.
Speaker 9: The holiday trend now ballooning across the US, from Illinois
Speaker 9: to New Jersey and even out west.
Speaker 2: Part of it is giant inflatables have just gotten cheap
Speaker 2: enough that the every man can have them. That's part
Speaker 2: of it, right.
Speaker 1: It's a great time to be alive.
Speaker 2: It just wasn't possible to have a twenty five foot
Speaker 2: anything that many years ago, and now many people can, yes.
Speaker 1: Thanks to communist slave labor. I can't. I'm sure some
Speaker 1: of it's manufactured in America.
Speaker 2: No not if it's not.
Speaker 1: What is aim? Jack? What is Aim? Joe? And they've
Speaker 1: gotten some final thoughts Armstrong and close show.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad we were able to slip that in
Speaker 2: before the end of the holiday season.
Speaker 1: Brilliant.
Speaker 2: That's really good. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody to wrap up
Speaker 1: the show for the day. There is Michael Angelo pressing
Speaker 1: the buttons in the control room. Michael, I'm on the
Speaker 1: hunt for one of my presents that I got my
Speaker 1: wife and it still hasn't arrived. I'm getting a little nervous,
Speaker 1: so they have to get a backup.
Speaker 2: Get I know what that's like. I had one I
Speaker 2: was watching Is it gonna make it or not? It
Speaker 2: showed up yesterday?
Speaker 1: Whoao? Oh boy. Katie green Or steemed to use women
Speaker 1: as a final thought.
Speaker 2: Katie, the least favorite part of gift giving is in
Speaker 2: my horizon, and that's having to wrap everything. I suck
Speaker 2: at it. It's interesting. Most women are really good and
Speaker 2: fast and wrapping. Not most women, Jack, not this one.
Speaker 1: Not you? No, okay? Jack? A final thought for us?
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I wrap it looks like I had a
Speaker 2: fight with it, like we got into it, like we're
Speaker 2: trying to kill each other. And the wrapping job and
Speaker 2: then the remains of the paper and the scissors and
Speaker 2: the tape, and then.
Speaker 1: The sounds that come out of the room. My wife
Speaker 1: used to mock me for my gift wrapping, but she
Speaker 1: could tell it hurt my feelings, so she stopped thinking.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, my final thought is happy birthday to
Speaker 1: my beautiful bride, Judy. You'd better than ever have a
Speaker 1: great birthday. We're going out for fancy dinner tomorrow, which'll
Speaker 1: be nice.
Speaker 2: There will be gifts, cool fancy like Applebee's on a
Speaker 2: date night with the Bourbon Street steak and an Oreo
Speaker 2: shirts and no sticky forks.
Speaker 1: I know nothing but clean forks for my girl.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getdy wrapping up an They're grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: So many people, thanks so a little time. Go to
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Giddy dot com. A lot of great hot
Speaker 1: links there.
Speaker 2: Drop us line if you want to see tomorrow. God
Speaker 2: bless America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 1: This is a message for the people of America. Is
Speaker 1: anyone else humping them? Meltdown? I got nothing for you
Speaker 1: On that when it comes on for you to go,
Speaker 1: you'll have to go. So let's go with it.
Speaker 4: So this is where I'm the most maga, just freaking
Speaker 4: burn of the let Washington d C. You shut down
Speaker 4: for a month where people are crying in the streets
Speaker 4: to get enough attention, we have public weepings
Speaker 1: Yes, and that high Armstrong and Getty