1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Well, look, I guess I should be flattered. People are 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: coming because I'm the nice guy. That's the reason why 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: it's happening. That I'm a decent man. Whoever's phrased that, 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 1: you know, that's why they're coming, because no, Biden's a 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: good guy. The truth of the matter is nothing has changed. 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: Let me say one other thing on this. If you 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: take a look at the number of people are coming, 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 1: the vast majority, the overwhelming majority of people coming to 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: the border and crossing are being sent back. Are being 10 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: sent back. Thousands, tens of thousands of people who aren't 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: who are over the eighteen years of age, and single 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: people one of the time coming have been sent back, 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: sent home. We're sending back the vast majority of the 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: families that are coming. What about dealing with families? Why 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: are not some not going back because Mexico is refusing 16 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: to take them back. They're saying they won't take them back, 17 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: not all of them. An on accompany child ends up 18 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: at the border. We're just gonna let them starve to 19 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: death and staying the other side. No previous administrations dead 20 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: either except Trump. Okay, where am I here? Let me 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: see on this episode of news World, President Biden held 22 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: his first press conference since becoming president on Thursday, March 23 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: twenty fifth, had approximately one third in the FNET. He 24 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: discussed his administration's progress on battling COVID nineteen, the fourteen 25 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: hundred dollars stimulus checks from his one point nine trillion 26 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: dollars American Rescue Plan, ending his introduction to the press 27 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: conference with the quote help is here, hope is on 28 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: the way. Then he took questions from the White House 29 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: press pool and attendance. I'm still not quite sure how 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: I would summarize it. My first reaction was, well, at 31 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: least he didn't blow up. I think we've been caught 32 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: up in such low expectations that as long as they 33 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: didn't fall off the stage or you know, forget his 34 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: own name, we all were kind of happy, because recently 35 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: he had had some difficult times remembering the name of 36 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Defense, or remembering that the building that 37 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: the secretary works in is called the Pentagon, or climbing 38 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: up Air Force one. And no American should want to 39 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: have a president who is so demonstrably weak and disorganized 40 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: that he is an invitation to foreign dictators to take 41 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: advantage of US so in that sense, I think my 42 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: first reaction to the press conference and was just relief. 43 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: I knew that all of my CONCERTI friends would nitpick 44 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: it and find things to ask questions about. Only as 45 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: I began to back off and spent the weekend thinking 46 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: about it and reflecting on it, that I realized what 47 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: a disastrous, almost frightening performance this was. And so I 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: was fascinated. But we'd seen enough of his inability to 49 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: think clearly, and we'd seen enough of his floundering that 50 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: I really thought it was possible that he would melt down. 51 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: But he didn't. Let's be fair here. He did well 52 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: enough that as long as you didn't think about it, 53 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 1: it was okay. And it's only when he started thinking 54 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: about it that it really begins to be kind of weird. 55 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: I was first struck when Chris Wallace at Fox News 56 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: said that Biden needed to read talking points on every 57 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: foreign policy question. Now I saw him do it, but 58 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: I didn't kind of put the logic of that together. 59 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: Really raises a question which I'm going to be writing 60 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: about it about who was the real president, Because if 61 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: you think about it, the number of times that Biden 62 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: was involved with talking points would mean that somebody had 63 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: to have written the approved talking points. Now it clearly 64 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: wasn't Joe Biden. I mean, I think no rational person 65 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: believes that Biden was in the middle of his own 66 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: talking points. And they have pictures of the Q cards 67 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: he was using. I mean, you could say that this 68 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: is mister president Q card and that the dominant fact 69 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: of this administration is that he can only function in 70 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: a world in which somebody has written out answers. Having 71 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: said that and I think made some of the characteristics 72 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: even worse. Biden has a perennial tendency, which is not 73 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: that uncommon for politicians to say things that just aren't 74 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: true but are to his advantage. For example, he claimed 75 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: in the press conference that the US is sending back 76 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: the vast majority of the families that are coming illegally 77 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: and that they are not getting across the That's just 78 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: plain not true. In fact, even CNN, which had spent 79 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: four years slavishly hating Trump and doing everything they could 80 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: do like Biden, even CNN came out and said quote 81 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: that was not true. In February, which is the last 82 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: month for which we have a full month's data. So 83 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: here you have the President the United States, defending himself 84 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: by cheerfully saying that it wasn't true. And you can 85 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: deal with some of that, and frankly, if you're a liberal, 86 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: you can come right back and say, yeah, Donald Trump 87 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: said things the word true either. But some of the 88 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: things he said were worse than not being true. They 89 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: were directly harmful and they were directly misleading. For example, 90 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: after he had said that a majority would be allowed 91 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: to stay here, somebody wanted fact checked and had said 92 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: fifty nine percent of the migrant families were allowed to 93 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: remain in the US in February. Fifty nine percent. So 94 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: there's a pretty big gap between a majority home and oh, 95 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: a majority actually stayed. Now. The other big characteristic here, 96 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: which I think is fascinating, is, for some reason, the 97 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: Biden team decided that you could not say there was 98 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: a crisis on the border. Michael Goodwin, who was a 99 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: great columnist at the New York Post, he said the 100 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: following he said, quote, three big things stood out in 101 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: President Biden's first press conference. One, the leader of the 102 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: free world is often lost at sea and says many 103 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: things that are blatantly false. Two, the media is in 104 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: the tank and cannot be trusted to hold him accountable. 105 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: Three because of numbers one and two, Americas headed for 106 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: serious trouble. Goodwin goes on to say, for this sickening spectacle, 107 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: we had to wait sixty four days. Now, let me 108 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: give you an example of what really got me riled 109 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: up and why I decided to do This podcast focused 110 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: on the press conference when Biden accuses Trump of letting 111 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: immigrant children starve to death on the other side of 112 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: the Mexican border. There are two things wrong with it. 113 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: The first is that it's just plain not true. There 114 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: is no evidence that the United States government in any 115 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: way failed to try to help people or sat by 116 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: passively while children were dying. It's just plain not true. 117 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: But there's a second thing, which I think the woke 118 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: Democrats just don't understand or they don't care, and that 119 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: is for a president of the United States to accuse 120 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: another president of deliberately allowing children to starve to death 121 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: gives every anti American element across the planet a club 122 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: to beat us up with. They can now say, hey, 123 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: you don't have to believe me. Look what the current 124 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: American president said, and that was such a destructive and 125 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: anti American statement that I'm a little surprised that it 126 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: wasn't edited out. I don't know if it was in 127 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: his talking points or if he just went winging it, 128 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: but it struck me that it is really dangerous. One 129 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: of the great dangers you have with a President Biden 130 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: is you never quite know what he's going to say, 131 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: which is why, for example, recently, when Stephanopoulos asked him 132 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: if he thought Putin was a killer, and Biden says said, well, 133 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: I guess you could say that. I think it didn't 134 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: occur to him that that would piss off Putin. So 135 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: and Putin then pulled the Russian ambassador of the United States, 136 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: which is a very strong thing to do, and as 137 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: a signal of deep unhappiness. I think Biden was kind 138 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: of surprised. Now, it is true, by the way, the 139 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: Putin is a killer. He was trained by the KGB. 140 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: He is surrounded by people who are quite cheerful about 141 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,719 Speaker 1: killing people. And in that sense, I think that it 142 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: wasn't inappropriate for a college professor or a think tank expert, 143 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: but it was really destruct for an American president. Remember 144 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: this was an American president who had been chairman of 145 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: the International Relations Committee supposedly he knows this stuff, but 146 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 1: the fact is that it's not true. The other place 147 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: where I thought he just went overboard was his attack 148 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: on the Republicans who are trying to get to an 149 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: honest election process. HR one, the Corrupt Politicians Act, is 150 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: really a dagger at the heart of the American system. 151 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: It is designed to put into law the worst possible 152 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: rules to enable people to steal the election. And it's 153 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: based on the fact that the Democrats, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, 154 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: they all know the history of recent Democratic presidents. Bill 155 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 1: Clinton wins in ninety two, and in ninety four we 156 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: get fifty four seats in the House and win control 157 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: for the first time in forty years. And for the 158 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: next six years of the in presidency, he's constantly compromising 159 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: with us. So instead of doing radical things, he's balancing 160 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: the budget for four years the only time by the 161 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: way that's been done in your lifetime. He is cutting 162 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: the capital gains tax, he is reforming welfare with a 163 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: bias towards getting people to go to work. I mean, 164 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: if you were a left wing Democrat, as Biden sort 165 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: of laid out in his book, the argument this was 166 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: a disaster. Then along comes Barack Obama, and he goes 167 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: too far to the left, too fast, really irritates the country. 168 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: And two years later, in twenty ten, the Democrats lose 169 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 1: sixty three seats, nine more than we won in nineteen 170 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: ninety four, and the Republicans took over and from that 171 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: point on they were not able to do any more 172 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: radical things. Now, given that, I think what has happened 173 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: is that the Speaker of the House Pelosi, the Senate 174 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: Majority Leader Schumer, and the President and Vice President Biden 175 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: and Harris have concluded that they have to try to 176 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: do two things. One they have to ram through using 177 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 1: their members as a machine, as many radical things as 178 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 1: they can in the first two years. And two they 179 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 1: have to change the rules of the game so they 180 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: can basically run over the American people. The Corrupt Politicians 181 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: Act is not designed to get to honest elections. The 182 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: Corrupt Politicians Act is designed to enable politicians to win 183 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: even if the American people want to defeat them. And 184 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: I think that's really an important part. Well, they are 185 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: so deeply into this that you get defense of honest 186 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: elections becomes racism. You get an effort to make sure 187 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: that everything is counted accurately becomes, in President Biden's words, pernicious. 188 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: Biden says that the Republican effort to secure elections is 189 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: a Jim Crow racist activity, and he really, I thought 190 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:19,599 Speaker 1: was amazingly over the top in his response to the Republicans, 191 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: And it turns out that it was just playing wrong. 192 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 1: And I think that's the key thing to remember. The 193 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: fact is, let me give you an example and a 194 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,559 Speaker 1: survey that the Republican Senatorial Committee and Senator Rick Scott 195 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: just sent out. Ninety percent of the country believes that 196 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: only American citizens should be allowed to vote. Ninety as 197 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: nine as zero, which means an overwhelming majority of African 198 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: Americans believe that we should have an honest election with 199 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: only American citizens voting. And in fact, some people should 200 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: go out and help organize a movement called African Americans 201 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: for Honest Elections because this whole effort to shut us 202 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: down by screaming racism needs to be met head on. 203 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 1: And I think that's a key part of what was 204 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: going on. And so when you look at that, you 205 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: have to say to yourself, why are they so hysterical? 206 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: The reason is so hysterical, simple, they believe if they 207 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: cannot pass HR one that they in fact will lose control, 208 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: and they may lose control for a long time. And 209 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: so in their mind this is really life or death, 210 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 1: and they see the Republicans as on the verge of 211 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: getting control of this issue. And it's interesting. Even the 212 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: Washington Post Glenn Kessler, who does their honesty thing with pinocchios, 213 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: from one of the minor contributions to modern American political culture, 214 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: he looks at what Biden said about the Georgia law, 215 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: which has just been signed into law, and he gives 216 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: him four pinocchios because he was just factually wrong. President 217 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: Biden said, quote among the outrageous parts of this new 218 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: state law, it ends voting hours early, so working people 219 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: can't cast their vote after their shift is over. In fact, 220 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: during the press conference itself, he said, what I'm worried 221 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: about is how unamerican this whole initiative is. It's sick. 222 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: It's sick deciding that you're going to end voting at 223 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: five o'clock when working people are just getting off work. 224 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: Now that's the President of the United States describing for 225 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: the American people a bill which was signed into law 226 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: last week and what Kessler at The Washington Post rites 227 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: is quote, there was one line in both his news 228 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: conference and his statement that has kept us puzzling until 229 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: our puzzler was sore. It also puzzled experts who studied 230 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: the new law. The Post notes that in polling places 231 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: are open from seven am to seven pm in Georgia 232 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: on election day, and if you were in line by 233 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: seven p you're allowed to cast your ballot. To say 234 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: otherwise is just factually false, But then again, that's part 235 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: of the current Democratic Party operation. The fact is actually 236 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: expands early voting access for most counties. According to Georgia 237 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: Public Broadcasting Analysis, and this is from Stephen Fallert to 238 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: Georgia Public Broadcasting, counties can have early voting open as 239 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: long as seven am to seven pm or nine am 240 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: to five pm at a minimum. What this says is 241 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: that you're going to have extra time to go vote, 242 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: extra opportunities to go vote. And what Biden said was 243 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: simply plain not true. So I think again it's important 244 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: to say to yourself what's going on when you have 245 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: a president who in a press conference where he actually 246 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: used notes and were presumably his staff had actually developed 247 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: the notes. He consistently certain things wrong again to go 248 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: back to the border, and I think this is a 249 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: real crisis in the Biden administration's relationship with both the 250 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: news media and the American people. At the press conference, 251 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: President Biden said the illegal migrant friend alts and families 252 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: are being turned away the southern border, and on March sixteenth, 253 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: the Homeland Security Secretary said the border is quote closed. 254 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: That's just playing a lie. It's totally untrue. According to 255 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: the mayor of Del Rio, Texas, Mayor Bruno Lozano, who's 256 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: a Democrat, he first realized his town would be taking 257 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: in illegal immigrants during the record breaking winners storm in February. 258 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: He then sent his first plea to the president, asking 259 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: Biden to slow down the flow of illegal immigrants. After that, 260 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: he asked that no more illegal immigrants be sent to 261 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: Del Rio to await court dates. He then posted the 262 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: following this is from a local Democratic mayor on the 263 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: border in Del Rio, Texas. Quote. We do not have 264 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: the resources available to house and accommodate these migrants within 265 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: our community. I will have no choice but to use 266 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: the extreme measure under the emergency declaration. As the mayor 267 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: of the city of Del Rio, Texas to refuse the 268 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: entry of migrants awaiting court dates into the city of 269 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: Del Rio. If you do send these individuals into our community, 270 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: we will be forced to make a decision to leave 271 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: them without resources under these dire circumstances. Now that's the 272 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: democratic mayor of Del Rio. It sure sounds like a 273 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: crisis to me. But of course it can't be a 274 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: crisis because Biden has said it's not a crisis. But 275 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: when you think about it, Lazano said. It was given 276 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: an estimate in February by the chief officer for his 277 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: border sector, the Del Rio will receive thirty five thousand 278 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants in the next three to four weeks. The 279 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: city has thirty six thousand residents in a county of 280 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: fifty six thousand, so in a three four week period 281 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: they get as many illegal immigrants as the total population 282 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 1: of their town. These are not unaccompanied miners, and the 283 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: border crossers get transported to a processing center in Del Rio. 284 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: They're not evading the border patrol. They're finding their way 285 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: to Del Rio. Additional illegal immigrants are getting dropped off 286 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: in Eagle Pass, Texas and surrounding towns. The last seven 287 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: day average for detention was seven hundred per day. Now, 288 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: you may not be noticing this if you're in New 289 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: York or New Hampshire or North Dakota. But if you're 290 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: along the border right now, you not only have a crisis, 291 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: you have an emergency, and you have a situation where 292 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 1: your government is absolutely failing to protect you. To quote 293 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: one more time, we are a small, safe, sleepy town. 294 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: We know each other, We say hi to each other 295 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: at the grocery store and things like that. Now I 296 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: have concerns. I have small business owners, like a photographer. 297 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: She's trying to conduct business at there in our city park, 298 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: and she's afraid that she's going to be robbed because 299 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: she has migrants coming up to her and asking her 300 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 1: for money and for food. How secure is that. I 301 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: have a duty to protect my community, and I have 302 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 1: the transient population coming through our initial areas and parks. 303 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: It's not safe. So if that's the Democratic mayor of 304 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: Del Rio, Texas, I think that the president's entire press 305 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: conference section on immigration was a lie. It's a deliberate, 306 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: knowing lie. It's the Democratic party line that you're not 307 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: allowed to see all these people, you're not allowed to 308 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: see the human traffickers. You're not allowed to see the 309 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: drug dealers, You're not allowed to see the common criminals, because, 310 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: after all, that's not what Uncle Joe wants. Uncle Joe 311 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: wants you to be happy in this world so he 312 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: can go back to sleep in the basement and pretend 313 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: that nothing's going on. Now. The Biden administration is so 314 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: determined on this that for the first time since World 315 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: War Two, we have genuine censorship. I don't remember any 316 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 1: occasion when you're outside a military security area where the 317 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: news meeting has been blocked the way they've been blocked 318 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: in Texas by the Biden administration. It's astonishing how bad 319 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: it is. And I think it's important to recognize that. 320 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: A National Review editorial published March twenty fifth entitled Biden's 321 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,959 Speaker 1: Woeful Press Conference, and they said the President brazenly lied 322 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: about the border crisis. They go on to say reporters 323 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: aren't in the practice, obviously, of being particularly tough on 324 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: President Biden, but at his first press conference as president 325 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: of this evenoon Cecilia Vega of ABC News politely nailed 326 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: him to the wall on a key failure of his 327 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: border policy. She told an affecting story of meeting a 328 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: nine year old boy at the border who had walked 329 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: to the US from Honduras, and said that when she 330 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: called the boy's mother, the woman explained that she said 331 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,959 Speaker 1: into the US because she believed that Biden would let 332 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 1: him into the country. This, of course, is exact why 333 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: there's been a surge at the border. Biden created an 334 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: exemption entitled forty two the Public Health Authority that President 335 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: Trump had used to turn back migrants during the pandemic, 336 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: specifically for miners, and predictably, there has been a surge 337 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: of miners. In evading this reality, throughout the press conference, 338 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: Biden resorted to a haze of misrepresentations and inadvertently exposed 339 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: the senselessness of his own policy. The editorial goes on 340 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: to say, quote in response to Vega, he echoed a 341 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 1: distortion off and made by his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro 342 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: Mayorchas and said that Trump had dumped children too the 343 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: Mexican desert, except Biden made the charge even more lurid 344 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: while alleging that Trump had left children starve to death. 345 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: This is a disgraceful and stupid charge. The Trump administration 346 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: either flew back migrants to their home countries directly or 347 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: handed them over to Mexican authorities to do the same. 348 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: No one was pushed into the desert at a try, 349 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 1: goes on to say, also in response to Vega, he 350 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: said that the nine year old boys should be returned 351 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: to his mother and Honduras. But that was precisely the 352 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: Trump policy that Biden overturned and now falsely portrays is inhumane. 353 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: Under Biden's policy, that nine year old is likely in 354 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: an HHS detention facility and will not be returned home, 355 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: instead placed with the nearest relative that can be found 356 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: in the United States. If Biden wants to be in 357 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 1: returning miners to their families back home a laudable goal, 358 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: he could do it immediately. All it takes is reversing himself. 359 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: On Title forty two, the rest of Biden's statements about 360 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: the border weren't any more accurate or sensible. He said 361 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: that family and its are all being turned back at 362 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 1: the border. First, we know this is not true. Reports 363 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: suggest that most family units are now getting into the 364 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: United States. Second, it's not clear why the state of 365 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: policy of returning family units wouldn't, on Biden's terms, be 366 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: just as immoral as returning miners. He said that the 367 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: reason even more family and its returned is that Mexico 368 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: can't take more of them again. If it's okay, said 369 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: migrants back into Mexico, It makes no sense that Biden 370 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: ended Trump's Remain in Mexico program, which had asylum seekers 371 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: waiting in Mexico while their asylum claims were adjudicated the 372 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: United States. Biden said that Trump's policies had no effect 373 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: at the border. This is demonstrably false. Trump had gotten 374 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: control of a border prior to the onset of the pandemic. 375 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: He blamed Trump for reducing shelters for migrants, a truly 376 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: absurd charge. Trump only closed the search facilities set up 377 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: during the crisis of twenty eighteen and nineteen because they 378 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 1: were no longer needed, and besides, Democrats agitated to shut 379 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: down these facilities. Finally, the editorial says, overall, Biden gave 380 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: no indication that he understands how he has stoked the 381 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: current crisis or that he knows how to address it. 382 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: His emphasis was an improved processing of the migrants that 383 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: are coming, rather than persuading him to stay home. This 384 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: invitably mean more families in Central America deciding to send 385 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: their children on the harrowing journey north. Whether Biden wants 386 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: to acknowledge it or not, close by the fact is 387 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: that you had systematic dishonesty about the border. You had 388 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: charges which are harmful to the United States by giving 389 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: our enemies things that they can say about us. You 390 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: had confusion that was captured by the way by Craig Shirley, 391 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: a very famous conservative author, probably the leading biographer of 392 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan, who wrote a column which was entitled Joe 393 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: Biden America's dumbest newest President. Craig Shirley said, quote, Joe 394 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,479 Speaker 1: Biden just might be the dumbest president in recent memory. 395 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: Just look at his sad press conference where he drooled 396 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: and stumbled his way through. Well, I accident seemed drool, 397 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: but he certainly stumbled a lot. And I think that's 398 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: an important thing to be clear about. The fact is, 399 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 1: when you come down to it, you have a president 400 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: United States who clearly is only functional if he has 401 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: note cards, Which makes you wonder when he's not in 402 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 1: front of the public, does he go into the meetings 403 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: with note cards? Does he remember what the point of 404 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: the meeting was? I think that there was a lot, 405 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: ultimately to be very worried about in the Biden press conference, 406 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: because it raised questions about his capacity as president, and 407 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: it raised the question who is actually the person who 408 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: is making decisions about the United States if it's clearly 409 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: not the president. And I think that the historians are 410 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: going to look back on this, and I would not 411 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: be at all surprised if they didn't end up comparing 412 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: what happened with Woodrow Wilson after he had a stroke 413 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: and his wife Edith actually ran the country for a year, 414 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: and what's happening now with Biden, who clearly is not 415 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: prepared or not capable of dealing with these things. Ronald 416 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 1: Reagan used to say, it isn't what our opponents don't 417 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: know that scares me, it's what they know that isn't true. Well, 418 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: let me give you this example, Biden said, explaining how 419 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: successful he's being talking about Republicans. Over fifty percent of 420 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: them must be over that edge as well because they 421 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: support what I did. This is in the press contis 422 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: so he's claiming that he has over fifty percent support 423 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 1: among Republicans. Well, if you actually look at Gallop, he 424 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: has eight percent support When I was first thinking about 425 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: this and trying to figure out how to explain what's 426 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: going on. I thought a little bit about Alice in Wonderland, 427 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: Carol's Great Childhood Story, which is really a very sophisticated 428 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: adult satire. Because you sort of have Biden who gets 429 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 1: up in the morning, it goes, they must all love me. 430 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: After all, I'm above fifty percent. And if he had said, 431 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: you know, I may not be doing a very good 432 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: job reaching out to Republicans because I'm only an eight 433 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: percent approval, you'd have a whole different approach here. But 434 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 1: my hunch is that his staff says, you know, you're 435 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: doing so great. They love your dogs, they love you. 436 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: He's then going to get feedback that is I think harmful. 437 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: From the American News Meeting. In Time magazine, Philip Elliott wrote, 438 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: gone with a pettiness and self victimhood, the attempts to 439 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: divide Americans and nurse grievances. You know, I think somehow 440 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: it's pretty much nursing a grievance to suggest that his 441 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: predecessor was killing nine year olds in the desert. It's 442 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 1: pretty much nursing grievances to say that the Republicans were 443 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: trying to pass segregationist legislation in the Jim Crow tradition, 444 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: but the news meeting wouldn't see anyone. They wouldn't get 445 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: One of my favorite totally destructive columnists is Jennifer Rubin 446 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 1: at the Washington Post, who I always go to if 447 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 1: I want to know what the nutcake wing of vokeism 448 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: is doing. So she wrote an opinion quote, Biden excels 449 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: at his first news conference. I thought Biden survived, but 450 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: I didn't think he excelled. Maybe he excelled for Biden. 451 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: She goes on to say, Biden spoke in great detail 452 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: and length to show not only his mastery of the issues, 453 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,360 Speaker 1: but also to suck tension and conflict out of the room. 454 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: Now you have to ask yourself whether Jennifer had just 455 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: visited a state that had legalized marijuana. What exactly was 456 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: she doing that? She thought he spoke in great detail 457 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: and length. He was reading his script. You could see 458 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: that he was reading his script. He would actually say, oh, 459 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: North Korea, and you would see him flip through and 460 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: find North Korea. Jennifer, did you actually see the press 461 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: conference or did you just write a glowing cheer leader column? 462 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: She is tough on the news media. However, she says 463 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: their failure to ask about the pandemic, the recession, anti 464 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: Asian violence, climate change, or even infrastructure Biden had to 465 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: bring it up himself was nothing short of irresponsible. They 466 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: pleaded for a news conference and then showed themselves to 467 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,719 Speaker 1: be un serious. They never laid a glove on Biden. 468 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: They did, however, make the case for why these events 469 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: are utter waste of the president's time. Well, let me 470 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: just say that anybody who's willing to say the news 471 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: media is irresponsible and on serious, I may have to 472 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: read jenneral for more often, because not that she wasn't 473 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: right about that, but it was as kind of strange 474 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: to have her say. In The New York Times, Annie 475 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: Carney and Katie Rogers wrote that mister Biden was the 476 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: sober political veteran comfortable with thinking out loud, talking personally 477 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: and conversationally. Now again, I wonder if some of these 478 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: people were listening on the radio, because sober political veterans 479 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: that I've known a few in my career don't carry 480 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: around cheat sheets that they read from in public. I mean, 481 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: it's one thing to have a cheat sheet, just that 482 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: you have there at a crisis, or to have a 483 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: cheat sheet that you read just before you go out 484 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: on stage. But what Biden was doing was reminding all 485 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: of us that he doesn't know now in an age 486 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: of nuclear weapons, I worry if we discussed North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, China, 487 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: Russia with a president who doesn't get in and it's 488 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: not quite sure what his policy is. Many years ago, 489 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: we had a Democratic senator running for re election in 490 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: New Mexico and he was getting a little bit beyond 491 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: his best performances. And one of the things which defeated 492 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: him for re election was a huge invention that he 493 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: spoke at in Albuquerque. And he's reading a speech and 494 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: he reads pause for applause and doesn't know he's read it, 495 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: and the whole speech was kind of like that, and 496 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: people began to realize, maybe he doesn't quite know what's 497 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: going on in the Senate anymore. Well, as I backed 498 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: out and thought about it, it it occurred to me that 499 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: while Biden didn't embarrass us, the fact is this press 500 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: conference had statements that were false, provably false. This press 501 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: conference gave aid and comfort to our enemies by giving 502 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: them things that they could use to attack America. This 503 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: press conference deliberately misinformed the American people, and at key points, 504 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: this press conference was ruthlessly partisan and condemned Republicans and 505 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: language which we simply shouldn't tolerate. So we'll see how 506 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: the next one goes, which I predict will be sometime 507 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. But I think they can now 508 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: say we've already done one and what I would have 509 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: to do another one. For a long time, I wanted 510 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: to share the totality of my reaction because I thought 511 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: it was much more in that press conference that revealed 512 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: the nature of Joe Biden and the nature of the 513 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: bud administration, and I wanted to really spend the time 514 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: to share those ideas with it. You can read more 515 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: about my reaction to Biden's first press conference on our 516 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 1: show page at newtsworld dot com. I will also be 517 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: writing about it this week in my free weekly newsletter. 518 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: Newtsworld is produced by Ginwis three sixty and iHeartMedia. 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