Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is Vernict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
Speaker 2: We are days away from a GOP convention. I love
Speaker 2: saying this where we're very united behind our candidate and center.
Speaker 2: There is still a major civil war that is not
Speaker 2: stopping within the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: Utter chaos continues to reign on the Democratic side. But
Speaker 3: we're also going to talk about the fact that Texas
Speaker 3: is recovering from Hurricane Beryl. The state of Texas was
Speaker 3: hit by Beryl two days ago. Nearly three million Texans
Speaker 3: lost power. There was wind damage, rain damage. You and
Speaker 3: I lived through it, So we're we're gonna walk through
Speaker 3: exactly what that entailed. But then we're going to turn
Speaker 3: to what's happening nationally. We're gonna turn to the question
Speaker 3: that's on everybody's lips, which is who is the Democrat
Speaker 3: nominee for president going to be. I continue to believe
Speaker 3: it's not Joe Biden. But the White House is erecting
Speaker 3: the barriers and fighting tooth and nail, and they are
Speaker 3: discovering that their worst enemy is the corporate media, who
Speaker 3: is utterly and completely turned on them. We're going to
Speaker 3: break that down.
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Speaker 1: You and I have lift through it. We both lost power.
Speaker 2: Doing this show is a little bit complicated when you
Speaker 2: don't have power or internet, and yet we're still doing it.
Speaker 2: We just lost our internet moments before we started recording tonight.
Speaker 2: You were out today helping people in Texas. What all
Speaker 2: did you see from the damage. I helped a lot
Speaker 2: of name get trees out of their yards and trees
Speaker 2: that went through even parts of their roof.
Speaker 1: You saw a ton of that as well.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right. I've spent the last two days traveling
Speaker 3: through the affected areas. Look, this hurricane hit late Sunday night,
Speaker 3: early Monday morning, and actually you and I recorded Monday's
Speaker 3: podcast as we were waiting for the hurricane hit, and
Speaker 3: we were both at our homes. We knew it was coming,
Speaker 3: and you know, let's actually walk people through what it's
Speaker 3: like Now now you're a Memphis boy, so this is
Speaker 3: your first hurricane.
Speaker 1: This was the real deal for me.
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, it's somewhat exciting and nerve wracking,
Speaker 2: and then there's like, hey, how much water do I need?
Speaker 2: Like I was asking the basic New Greeny questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, as a lifelong Hestonian, we just have hurricanes. That's
Speaker 3: part of the Gulf Coast. We will have more in
Speaker 3: the future. We've had a lot in the past. But
Speaker 3: you know the way this one played out. Sunday night,
Speaker 3: I went to bed, and when I went to bed,
Speaker 3: it was actually it was a clear night, it wasn't
Speaker 3: even raining. And then it started coming in late at night.
Speaker 3: It started coming in at two and three in the morning,
Speaker 3: and it was a night where you would hear the
Speaker 3: rain pouring down and then you'd hear cracks, loud cracks,
Speaker 3: And in the morning you discovered what those loud cracks were,
Speaker 3: which were trees that were falling down. And on my
Speaker 3: street there are a whole bunch of trees that have
Speaker 3: fallen down. There are branches that have fallen down. They're
Speaker 3: huge oak trees and pine trees that were uprooted and
Speaker 3: thrown thrown across the street in some cases thrown into houses. Thankfully,
Speaker 3: my home didn't did not have any trees hit hit
Speaker 3: the home, but we did have a big branch in
Speaker 3: the backyard fall and rip some of the lighting down,
Speaker 3: but it did not hit the house or the damage
Speaker 3: the roof, so we're grateful for that. And then Monday,
Speaker 3: as as the rain cleared, I began and going and
Speaker 3: meeting with local officials and first responders. So one of
Speaker 3: the first things I did is I head down headed
Speaker 3: down to the Emergency Operations Center in Houston, and Houston
Speaker 3: was hit very hard, and so there I sat down
Speaker 3: with with fire firefighters, and the police department and and
Speaker 3: all of the city officials. So the Emergency Operations Unit,
Speaker 3: whenever you have a disaster, that's where everyone goes and
Speaker 3: and coordinates out of. It's where the mayor coordinates out of.
Speaker 3: It's in it's in northwest Houston. It's actually the same
Speaker 3: location as the central nine one one call center, and
Speaker 3: so in the room next to it, there's a massive
Speaker 3: room filled with operators that are dealing with with thousands
Speaker 3: of nine one one calls and tasking whoever the relevant
Speaker 3: people are and and listen in the immediate aftermath of
Speaker 3: a hurricane. There are a series of phases that occur
Speaker 3: in a disaster. The first phase is just saving people's lives.
Speaker 3: Lives and people are in harm's way, they need emergency responders.
Speaker 3: This hurricane Hurricane Beryl. The number of confirmed fatalities now
Speaker 3: is seven. There were multiple who were killed in Houston.
Speaker 3: There was one who was a police department civilian employee.
Speaker 3: He was driving in because for most most people they
Speaker 3: were told shelter in place, stay at home, don't go
Speaker 3: out on the roads, it's too dangerous to drive. But
Speaker 3: for first responders and emergency personnel, they were asked to
Speaker 3: come in to be there. And this police department employee
Speaker 3: was driving in and he drove into an underpass that
Speaker 3: was flooded and unfortunately was deeper than he expected, and
Speaker 3: it flooded his into his car and he drowned. And
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you that afternoon, I met with the
Speaker 3: mayor who had spent the last two hours at that
Speaker 3: underpass with the Houston Police Department searching for that body,
Speaker 3: and they found the body of their coworker. And so
Speaker 3: it was the mayor was shaken up. I mean, and
Speaker 3: any time you have a fatality. It's difficult, but it's
Speaker 3: particularly difficult when it's first responders who were searching for
Speaker 3: one of their own in Houston. Then we went through
Speaker 3: we went through all of the plans for how to
Speaker 3: ensure that people have the resources they need. The big
Speaker 3: biggest challenge statewide is power. Two point seven million Texans
Speaker 3: lost power. You lost power, I lost power. Much of
Speaker 3: the city of Houston was dark and that was through
Speaker 3: true throughout much of the Gulf Coast that the power
Speaker 3: lines went down. And so when I was sitting at
Speaker 3: the Emergency Operations Command Center, two of the people who
Speaker 3: were there were from Centerpoint, the power company, and they
Speaker 3: described that they were bringing in over ten thousand linemen
Speaker 3: linemen from around tech from other states, bringing them in
Speaker 3: to start restringing the power lines. And before they turn
Speaker 3: a power line back on, that that they have to
Speaker 3: walk the length of the power line to make sure
Speaker 3: that it's not torn down and that putting the power
Speaker 3: on doesn't start a fire, doesn't electrocute someone. And so
Speaker 3: it is a it can be a prolonged process. But
Speaker 3: part of the challenge of that is is in Houston
Speaker 3: and much of the affected areas, the traffic lights were
Speaker 3: out and not out as in flashing, but just jar off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just dark. Well, I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 2: Like you said, this is my first hurricane where I've been,
Speaker 2: you know, in it. And one of the things that
Speaker 2: was the most shocking, I think is just the number
Speaker 2: of people without power. I've never seen so much darkness
Speaker 2: as I saw at last night, and seeing like you said,
Speaker 2: not even flashing lights, just everything off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything was out and and I believe it is
Speaker 3: the record for the most people who've lost power in
Speaker 3: in Texas. It is more people lost power from Beryl
Speaker 3: than did during Hurricane Harvey. Now, Hurricane Harvey was a
Speaker 3: much more massive disaster. It still remains the second most
Speaker 3: costly natural disaster in US history because you had enormous flooding.
Speaker 3: But in this instance, we just had a lot a
Speaker 3: lot of power lines go down from trees, from trees
Speaker 3: falling and knocking the power lines down. We also had.
Speaker 1: A command center, and I wanted to ask you this.
Speaker 2: So the winds and obviously, like we mentioned, there was
Speaker 2: a lot of trees down, but this wasn't a Cat
Speaker 2: five no that came through. So did they say to
Speaker 2: you or explain why so many trees came down, was
Speaker 2: it the total time and it wasn't actually moving that fast,
Speaker 2: so it was more time to weaken the trees. Because
Speaker 2: when you look at the storm itself, it didn't seem
Speaker 2: like it was going to be something that was going
Speaker 2: to be this bad.
Speaker 3: No, they didn't. When Beryl first made landfall, it was
Speaker 3: initially a Category one and then a Category two hurricane.
Speaker 3: It had been in the Caribbean, it had been hired,
Speaker 3: had been as high as a Category four hurricane, but
Speaker 3: then it had lost his strength, and then it gained
Speaker 3: strength again as it came back and made landfall into Texas.
Speaker 3: Category one hurricane is seventy four to ninety five miles
Speaker 3: an hour of wind, and it's a dangerous hurricane. Category
Speaker 3: two is ninety six to one hundred and ten mile
Speaker 3: per hour wind. So Beryl had winds of about one
Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour a little bit more than that.
Speaker 3: That's a lot, but you know, a Category five hurricane
Speaker 3: is one hundred and fifty seven miles an hour faster,
Speaker 3: So it's it was not in the order of hurricanes
Speaker 3: among the strongest in wind. But what happened, you know,
Speaker 3: it was interesting. I think back to something like Hurricane Harvey,
Speaker 3: where we saw a lot of trees that had snapped,
Speaker 3: a lot of telephone poles that had snapped. You know,
Speaker 3: what happened with this is a lot of trees were uprooted,
Speaker 3: and part of it is there was so much rain
Speaker 3: that the soil got very moist, and then the wind
Speaker 3: would literally blow the tree over and so the roots
Speaker 3: would come straight out and the entire tree would topple.
Speaker 3: And so I saw as I was driving around, and
Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time touring around and seeing
Speaker 3: the damage, I saw a lot of trees that had
Speaker 3: been toppled altogether. And that may be it may be
Speaker 3: the combination of rain and wind, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: But for whatever reason, the number of power lines that
Speaker 3: went out exceeded certainly any hurricane in recent history.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that are probably going to
Speaker 2: be listening that don't have power. Maybe they've charged their
Speaker 2: phones in their car and they're looking for something to
Speaker 2: take their mind off that.
Speaker 1: What is it looking like for power restoration? What did
Speaker 1: they brief you on.
Speaker 3: Well, that they're systematically making improvements on power restoration. As
Speaker 3: I said, they had brought in over ten thousand Linemen. Now,
Speaker 3: I will say there was a story that broke today
Speaker 3: that was actually get really going after Center Point for
Speaker 3: not having staged out of state Linemen to be prepared
Speaker 3: early on. And there was some real frustration that was
Speaker 3: expressed in terms of Center Point the electric company not
Speaker 3: taking the threat of the of this storm coming to
Speaker 3: Houston seriously enough. Now, today I was down in Galveston,
Speaker 3: I was down at Jamaica Beach. I was down in
Speaker 3: Angleton and Freeport, and and and when I was in Galveston,
Speaker 3: we did a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. He
Speaker 3: is the acting governor right now because Greg Abbott is
Speaker 3: actually over in Korea on a long planned trip that
Speaker 3: he had he had been on, and so so the
Speaker 3: lieutenant governs the acting governor. And it was interesting, and
Speaker 3: we did a press conference afterwards where reporters were really
Speaker 3: grilling the Lieutenant governor about are you angry at Centerpoint?
Speaker 3: And I'll say, actually, Dan Patrick's a good friend of mine.
Speaker 3: But to his credit, he gave the right answer, which is, look,
Speaker 3: we need to concentrate right now and getting people's power restored.
Speaker 1: There will be.
Speaker 3: Plenty of time to go back and assess what mistakes,
Speaker 3: if any were made, but the time to do it
Speaker 3: is not at a time of emergency. And one of
Speaker 3: the things for folks that listen listen to verdict who
Speaker 3: are not not in Texas, you may not necessarily understand
Speaker 3: why power being down for an extended period of time
Speaker 3: is a health risk. But particularly in a place like
Speaker 3: Houston where it is incredibly hot, you run a real
Speaker 3: risk of heat stroke of people without air conditioning their
Speaker 3: health being at risk. There was down in Galveston. There
Speaker 3: was a gentleman who died because the power went out
Speaker 3: and he was on oxygen and the machine giving him
Speaker 3: oxygen lost power and he didn't have any more batteries
Speaker 3: and that cost his life. There also are people who
Speaker 3: died from carbon monoxide poisoning. So a second thing that
Speaker 3: happens is people set up generators when their power goes down,
Speaker 3: but they don't realize that a generator that has say
Speaker 3: a gasoline or diesel engine, is emitting carbon dioxide, which
Speaker 3: is odorless and and invisible. But if you breathe it
Speaker 3: in So if it's in your house, which is a
Speaker 3: terrible idea, if it's even near the house and near
Speaker 3: a window, you can die from.
Speaker 1: That finally center on this.
Speaker 2: There are some people that listen, and they may be
Speaker 2: out of Texas that are listening and they say, hey,
Speaker 2: we'd love to help. What are the needs and how
Speaker 2: can you help people?
Speaker 3: Well, let me say the number one thing people can
Speaker 3: do is here in Texas. You mentioned that you were
Speaker 3: helping your neighbors clean up trees, clean up, clean up
Speaker 3: all of the debris that's happening all over Texas. And
Speaker 3: I have to say, you know, it's been twelve years
Speaker 3: I've been in the Senate. I've seen dozens, if not
Speaker 3: hundreds of disasters over that time period. Texas is a
Speaker 3: big place. And whether it's hurricanes or tornadoes up in
Speaker 3: the Panhandler Dallas, or the wildfires that were in the Panhandles,
Speaker 3: every time we have a crisis, we see the same thing,
Speaker 3: which is we see Texans helping Texans. We see people
Speaker 3: helping each other out. We see people rescuing people from
Speaker 3: harm's way. Yesterday, as I was going through Houston, I
Speaker 3: help one gentleman lift up his fence and pull it
Speaker 3: out of the way. We stopped at another place and
Speaker 3: helped a family who was trying to trying to cut
Speaker 3: up a tree and dispose of the pieces of the tree.
Speaker 3: That's happening every day. And I'll tell you the churches
Speaker 3: in particular are incredibly active. And I'll give an example.
Speaker 3: Yesterday I went and visited someone you and I both
Speaker 3: know well, Mattress Mack. Mattress Mack is a Houston legend.
Speaker 3: He is a man named Jim mcinvale. He owns Gallery Furniture.
Speaker 3: I grew up as a kid. He would be late
Speaker 3: night on TV and he'd run these ads. He'd be
Speaker 3: yelling on TV, going gallery Furniture, really well, save you money,
Speaker 3: and he'd pull out a lot of money and look.
Speaker 3: It would be on Channel twenty six or thirty nine,
Speaker 3: which were the UHF channels, but he ran him constantly.
Speaker 3: He's an amazing marketer. But he also has an incredible
Speaker 3: heart for Houston. And so what he did during Hurricane
Speaker 3: Harvey and what did during Hurricane Beryl. He opened up
Speaker 3: Gallery Furniture and he said, number one, if you need
Speaker 3: a place to stay, if your home is destroyed, come
Speaker 3: stay here. We have beds, we have couches, we have chairs.
Speaker 3: And he also said, if you need food, come we
Speaker 3: have food. And so I went and visited Mattress back
Speaker 3: at Gallery Furniture yesterday. There were number of Houstonians who
Speaker 3: were taking shelter there yesterday. Mac tested me last night.
Speaker 3: He fed over three thousand Houstonians yesterday. Because all the
Speaker 3: restaurants were closed. You couldn't get food. And by the way,
Speaker 3: if your power is out, your refrigerator or the food
Speaker 3: in there is spoiling. And so he just did. They
Speaker 3: were making brisket and they were just feeding people. If
Speaker 3: you want to help, you can help through your church.
Speaker 3: You can help through the Red Cross, you can help
Speaker 3: through the Salvation Army.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one other story, which is today, I
Speaker 3: was down in Jamaica Beach, which is a smaller beach
Speaker 3: that's part of Galveston, and it was hit pretty hard.
Speaker 3: And I'm visited with a woman whose house was hit
Speaker 3: by a tornado that's spawned within the hurricane, and the
Speaker 3: tornado pulled the roof off her house. I saw the house,
Speaker 3: I saw the roof that had been flung across the road,
Speaker 3: and she described how she called nine to one one
Speaker 3: and the chief of police was there, she said, within
Speaker 3: sixty seconds, and the chief of police. Jamaica Beach is
Speaker 3: a small town, but he came in and he rescued her.
Speaker 3: He brought her out, brought her to the police station,
Speaker 3: which was very close to where her house was. Now,
Speaker 3: what was interesting is the police officers. I was touring
Speaker 3: around the destruction and visiting with the mayor and the
Speaker 3: chief of police and the fire chief and the local officials.
Speaker 3: They showed me another house just a few houses down
Speaker 3: that a big chunk of the roof had come off,
Speaker 3: and an officer had come up and come up the
Speaker 3: stairs and said, you know, sir, do you need to
Speaker 3: be rescued? And the guy said, you know, no, I'm
Speaker 3: just fine. I'm in my bathroom. Leave me alone, which
Speaker 3: I have to admit is a very texted thing to do.
Speaker 1: Also, there's always some people that just sort of.
Speaker 3: Brave it out. But that pattern of people helping people
Speaker 3: helping each other, it is consistent and is inspiring. And
Speaker 3: what's cool about it, Ben is when that happens, there
Speaker 3: are no Republicans and Democrats. There is no race, there
Speaker 3: is no ethnicity, there is no religion. You just have
Speaker 3: Texans helping Texans. You have brothers and sisters helping each other,
Speaker 3: and it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. I am never prouder
Speaker 3: to be a Texan than seeing how people respond in
Speaker 3: times of crisis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, aim into that and watching other people help people,
Speaker 2: like you said, is really I think one of the
Speaker 2: great goods that comes out of these type of events
Speaker 2: is that neighbors meet neighbors, and neighbors become friends and
Speaker 2: people help one another. And it's incredible to see that
Speaker 2: Texas spirit as you describe it, that no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Well, and the church and the church does what the
Speaker 3: church should do, which is the church should be helping people.
Speaker 3: The Church should be feeding people, the Church should be
Speaker 3: clothing people. And particularly in times of christ is we
Speaker 3: see the church stepping up and that's really important in
Speaker 3: terms of making a difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: saying he must step aside.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right. It's it's been a virtual avalanche of
Speaker 3: number one Democrats trying to push him out, but number
Speaker 3: two the media really freaking out, and the corporate media
Speaker 3: has been in many ways the most important ally of
Speaker 3: the Democrats. They've been radicalized, they've abandoned their role of
Speaker 3: journalism because they are the left wing of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3: It is striking to suddenly see the corporate media actually
Speaker 3: reporting on the the very significant health challenges uh that
Speaker 3: that that Biden is presenting. And by the way, those
Speaker 3: health challenges were there before the debate. They're just freaking
Speaker 3: out now because they don't think he can win. But
Speaker 3: but for example, I want folks to listen to this
Speaker 3: is a story that that that that NBC News ran today.
Speaker 3: Now this is not Fox News, this is not a
Speaker 3: right wing source. This is Nbcity.
Speaker 2: Say, can you just take a moment and let's just
Speaker 2: savor the not only hypocrisy, but the fact that you
Speaker 2: just said, this is NBC News that's doing.
Speaker 1: What we're about to play. You just give a listen
Speaker 1: to talk more about.
Speaker 4: Those eight White House visits by the Parkinson's expert. I'm
Speaker 4: joined tonight by doctor Tom Pitts. He's a quadruple board
Speaker 4: certified neurologist. He sees patients with Parkinson's all the time,
Speaker 4: he diagnoses it. I want to be completely transparent here.
Speaker 4: You've never exist and President Biden, from my knowledge, you
Speaker 4: never even spoke.
Speaker 1: Have you spoken yet? That's a President.
Speaker 5: Biden in the Yeah, and we're just going to use
Speaker 5: what we have so far, which is what we've seen
Speaker 5: the president's interviews and the information coming out of the
Speaker 5: White House. So my first question to you is, as
Speaker 5: somebody who's a neurologist, what you've seen from the president
Speaker 5: over the last two years, what you saw at the debate,
Speaker 5: the last few interviews, the way he speaks, the way
Speaker 5: maybe he walks.
Speaker 4: Have you noticed anything that gives you a red flag?
Speaker 1: As a doctor?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I see him twenty times a day in clinic.
Speaker 6: I mean it's ironic because he has just classic features
Speaker 6: of nerd degeneration. I mean word finding difficulties. And that's
Speaker 6: not oh I couldn't find the word. That's from degeneration
Speaker 6: of the word retrieval area.
Speaker 4: He's also overcome stuttering though, could that be part of
Speaker 4: that too.
Speaker 6: No, this is not a palattle issue or a speech discrepancy,
Speaker 6: which is very different from a lemon nod dysfunction actual
Speaker 6: word retrieval where you pick a similar question or talk
Speaker 6: around the issue. Plus the rigidity monotone voice.
Speaker 1: Wait, go back to that.
Speaker 6: The rigidity, rigid loss of arms, swinging, standing up, lordly.
Speaker 6: You notice when he turns, it's kind of n block turning.
Speaker 6: It's not a quick turn. So that's one of the
Speaker 6: hallmarks of Parkinson's is rigidity and brady Kinesia's slow movement,
Speaker 6: and he has that hallmark, especially with the low voices.
Speaker 6: That was a cold hypophonia. A small monotone voice like
Speaker 6: this over time is a hallmark of parkinsonism. I could
Speaker 6: have diagnosed him from across the mall.
Speaker 2: Let's just stop there and we'll play more of this,
Speaker 2: But I have to get your this reaction. If you
Speaker 2: had a conservative news outlet, let's just use Fox News
Speaker 2: Channel for example, that would have done this same exact
Speaker 2: segment three and a half weeks ago.
Speaker 1: They would have.
Speaker 2: Been calling for this, for this doctor to be to
Speaker 2: lose his medical license. They would have the White House
Speaker 2: would have fought back vigorously and said that this is
Speaker 2: just evil and sick and perverted, and that this is irresponsible.
Speaker 2: But NBC News is doing it now, trying to take
Speaker 2: out Joe Biden because they think he's gonna lose, and
Speaker 2: they give a doctor six minutes. We've only played a
Speaker 2: minute and a half of this to tell you why
Speaker 2: he believes the president has Parkinson's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it's stunning, and you're right. The corporate media
Speaker 3: would have lost their mind a month ago. If any
Speaker 3: right of center center outlet aired this identical piece, The
Speaker 3: New York Times would be clutching their pearls. They would say,
Speaker 3: this is this is voodoo medicine, this is that, this
Speaker 3: is an utter lie, this is unprincipled fiction. That's what
Speaker 3: they would have said. And now you see NBC, you
Speaker 3: see the corporate media desperately, desperately trying to do everything
Speaker 3: they can. My favorite line of this doctor was I
Speaker 3: would have diagnosed him from across the mall, which, by
Speaker 3: the way, you and I argued right before we tape
Speaker 3: this pod. You thought he meant the National Mall. I
Speaker 3: don't think so. I think he means like Joe's Shopping Center.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you may be right. And by the way, NBC,
Speaker 2: was it done. Listen to the second part of this.
Speaker 6: I'm up there on the screen if you can put
Speaker 6: him back.
Speaker 1: What about the movement?
Speaker 4: Some people have pointed out the way he walks sometimes
Speaker 4: it's not very fast, small steps. Is that something that
Speaker 4: that is common in people were battling a.
Speaker 6: Disease like Parkinson it's a hallmark shuffling gait. We call
Speaker 6: that so little steps, loss of arms, swing from the
Speaker 6: rigidity when we walk, we have a nice cadence. He
Speaker 6: you knows he doesn't really swing his arms and ND
Speaker 6: block turning, meaning he kind of pivots around his foot.
Speaker 6: If you said, hey, President Biden, he wouldn't go like this.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, But I also.
Speaker 1: Know I also don't tell me if I'm wrong here.
Speaker 1: It's very hard to diagnose Parkinson's, isn't it. It's not
Speaker 1: It's not simple. I mean I've heard that it can be.
Speaker 6: I heard the one of the easier movement disorders to diagnose. Actually, right,
Speaker 6: but it's so clinic. There's there's very little others. And
Speaker 6: I'm you know, I'm a Democrat. I always say, yeah,
Speaker 6: at this right, It's just like this guy is not
Speaker 6: a hard case.
Speaker 4: But I've had I've had relatives who have gone through issues,
Speaker 4: neurological issues, and I've heard that sometimes Parkinson's is not
Speaker 4: very easy to nail.
Speaker 1: You have to take a lot of there's I mean.
Speaker 6: It's early on if you're just present with like hallucinations
Speaker 6: that could be a variety of things or just the
Speaker 6: cognitive problems that could be Alzheimer's versus parkinsonism, and that
Speaker 6: becomes a little nebulous. But once you start manifesting the
Speaker 6: hallmark motor symptoms, right, slow movement, rigidity, mass faces, hypophonia.
Speaker 6: I mean, if a med student did not pick Parkinson's
Speaker 6: on the test, they.
Speaker 4: Just mediated, let me ask you if you had. If
Speaker 4: you had, you know, and I know you can't. You
Speaker 4: have no idea what happened in the White House. But
Speaker 4: a neurologist coming eight times in eight months, does that
Speaker 4: tell you anything?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that?
Speaker 4: I mean, I know you're just you're just sort of
Speaker 4: speculating here, but does that tell you anything?
Speaker 7: Or no?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean I don't know if they're like the
Speaker 6: best of friends or something. But that's a very specific
Speaker 6: you know, he's a movement disorder. That's a subspecialist and
Speaker 6: exactly what he has. And there's very few young people,
Speaker 6: like a marine guard, most people would be med boarded
Speaker 6: out for any type of movement disorder at a young age,
Speaker 6: Like if you had Huntington's Korea early on set Parkinson's dystonia,
Speaker 6: bad essential tremor, you're usually med boarded out.
Speaker 1: So I highly doubt there's does that mean med boarder.
Speaker 1: I mean the.
Speaker 6: Military would not let you if you have seizures, for example,
Speaker 6: you cannot usually be in the military.
Speaker 1: That is, you are medical saying.
Speaker 4: You're seeing you don't necessarily believe. And they're not saying this,
Speaker 4: but they said, there's thousands of military members that go
Speaker 4: to the White House that treated there.
Speaker 1: For health reasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not buying that that's a random military person.
Speaker 6: No, that would be very odd to just see a
Speaker 6: random movement disorder case at the White House, you know,
Speaker 6: especially a young guard. There are many young people that
Speaker 6: have movement disorders that could be in the military.
Speaker 1: And then let's just stop there.
Speaker 2: Not only did they bring the Parkinson's doctor on, they
Speaker 2: then set them up to say the White House are
Speaker 2: lying to you and they're liars. They're not treating thousands
Speaker 2: of people on the White House grounds for medical disorders
Speaker 2: as he described it. And the doctor's like, you wouldn't
Speaker 2: do those tests there by the way, I believe this doctor.
Speaker 2: I think it's absurd to tell the American people, as
Speaker 2: the White House did this week, that oh, this guy's
Speaker 2: coming once a month for eight months in a row
Speaker 2: to treat Thou's a military personnel that happened to work
Speaker 2: at the White House. This guy's saying, there's no way
Speaker 2: that happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look the symptoms that he's describing. Everyone who had eyes,
Speaker 3: everyone who's watched Joe Biden for the last three and
Speaker 3: a half years has seen those symptoms. They've been obvious.
Speaker 3: Is just now that the press is allowing them to
Speaker 3: be spoken of. And I got to say, just the contrast.
Speaker 3: So let me read a headline from NBC News which was,
Speaker 3: quote Biden hasn't seen neurologists outside annual physicals, white House
Speaker 3: doctor says in letter addressing Parkinson's expert visits. President Joe
Speaker 3: Biden had a physical in February and showed no signs
Speaker 3: of neurological disorder, including Parkinson's disease. White House physician Kevin
Speaker 3: O'Connor wrote, So that was just a few days ago.
Speaker 3: Now let me read you what the AP just reported.
Speaker 3: Quote President Joe Biden saw a neurologist at the White
Speaker 3: House on January seventeenth for a neurological exam, the results
Speaker 3: of which were later reported as part of his annual physical.
Speaker 3: More than a month later, or the White House said
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. The confirmation came after White House Press Secretary
Speaker 3: Kaarin John Pierre inaccurately said during the Daily briefing with
Speaker 3: reporters that the January seventeen meeting was not related to
Speaker 3: care for the President in response to a question from
Speaker 3: the Associated Press. So now the White House is just
Speaker 3: getting caught flat out lying that no, he's not seeing
Speaker 3: a neurologist. Well, yes he is, actually, and it happens
Speaker 3: to be the neurologist who's an expert in Parkinson's.
Speaker 2: So this brings me to the big question the president
Speaker 2: sending the notes. You have the squad that's backed in
Speaker 2: the Congressional Black Caucus is saying, hey, we need to
Speaker 2: put this all to bed. Joe's our guide. Joe's made
Speaker 2: it clear, Hey, I'm not going anywhere. He did that
Speaker 2: on morning Joe. We mentioned that my last pot, I think.
Speaker 2: And then you've got this going on with the media.
Speaker 2: They're still putting the four court press here saying not
Speaker 2: only is a White House lying to you, but we're
Speaker 2: going to prove it in essence. That's why they did
Speaker 2: this long interview. Now you gotta look at the calendar.
Speaker 2: Joe Biden is supposed to be on the debate stage
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump September tenth on ABC News. ABC News,
Speaker 2: by the way, has been attacking the president as well.
Speaker 2: Stepanopoulos said after doing the interview with the President that
Speaker 2: was supposed to quote save him the other day, that
Speaker 2: he said, there's no way he believes the president could
Speaker 2: serve for another four years.
Speaker 1: Does he show up with this debate? Does he cancel it?
Speaker 2: Does he have to show up to have a chance
Speaker 2: in helln in November if he's still the nominee.
Speaker 3: So I don't believe there will be a debate between
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and Joe Biden in September. I don't think
Speaker 3: it'll happen now. Look, I don't think Joe Biden will
Speaker 3: be the nominee in September. I continue to believe there's
Speaker 3: an eighty percent chance that he's not the nominee. He's
Speaker 3: digging in, he's holding on with all of his might.
Speaker 3: But all right, here's another story that shows the press
Speaker 3: turning on him. This is from the Wall Street Journal quote.
Speaker 3: German officials, aware of Biden's fatigue at night, sought to
Speaker 3: accommodate the president by planning a June twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: event with German Chancellor Olaf Schultz in the early evening.
Speaker 3: The informal event, a soiree at the alpine resort Schlas
Speaker 3: el Maou during the Group of Seven summit, was arranged
Speaker 3: as a confidential meeting on Ukraine in a relaxed setting.
Speaker 3: Biden didn't show, surprising the Chancellor and his aides, officials said. Instead,
Speaker 3: Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived and announced that Biden
Speaker 3: had to go to bed. According to two people who
Speaker 3: were there, so he is now no longer able to
Speaker 3: stay up to meet with heads of state to discuss
Speaker 3: matters of war and peace. That's dangerous and the press
Speaker 3: is reporting on it.
Speaker 2: And to make that point, Peter Doucy asked the question
Speaker 2: at the White House from Fox Today. Hey, if the
Speaker 2: president's only the president until I don't know, eight o'clock
Speaker 2: at night, what happens if someone shoots at nuke?
Speaker 1: Listen to this well.
Speaker 6: He also said he's sharpest before eight pm. So say
Speaker 6: that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke,
Speaker 6: it's eleven pm.
Speaker 1: Who do you call the first lady?
Speaker 8: He has a team that lets him know of any
Speaker 8: of any news that is pertinent and important to the
Speaker 8: American people. He has someone or that is decided obviously
Speaker 8: with his National Security Council, and who gets to tell
Speaker 8: him that news.
Speaker 2: I mean, even her response was so timid because like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you got us there. That was just weird. She's like,
Speaker 2: he's got a team. So is the team running the
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Speaker 2: response is he has a team, so calm down.
Speaker 1: The president's sleeping.
Speaker 2: I don't think that sits well with the American people anymore.
Speaker 3: No, it doesn't that's actually it terrifying response that if
Speaker 3: something happens at eleven PM, well, Joe Biden's not capable
Speaker 3: to deal with it, but he has a team. There's
Speaker 3: some underlaying appointed to the National Security Council, and the
Speaker 3: Underlincoln deal with it. And you know, in response to that,
Speaker 3: I want to play a political ad. Just listen to
Speaker 3: this ad and then we're going to talk about what
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 7: It's three am and your children are safe into sleep,
Speaker 7: but there's a phone in the White House, and it's
Speaker 7: really something's happening in the world. Your vote will decide
Speaker 7: who answers that call, whether it's someone who already knows
Speaker 7: the world's leaders, knows the military, someone tested and ready
Speaker 7: to lead in a dangerous world. It's three am and
Speaker 7: your children are safe into sleep. Who do you want
Speaker 7: answering the phone?
Speaker 6: I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message.
Speaker 2: No, I mean they made this the issue, mister senator,
Speaker 2: right like they're like, you want to be mister president,
Speaker 2: then you better answer that call at three am.
Speaker 3: Well, and let me say to folks listening to this podcast,
Speaker 3: to who are relatively young, you may not have heard
Speaker 3: that ad before. You might have been thinking as you're
Speaker 3: listening to this ad, Wow, this is a new Trump ad.
Speaker 3: This is a really powerful Trump ad. But then at
Speaker 3: the very end you get I'm Hillary Clinton and I
Speaker 3: approved this message. So Hillary Clinton ran that ad in
Speaker 3: the year two thousand and eight, and she was running
Speaker 3: it against Barack Obama. She was saying Barack Obama was
Speaker 3: young and inexperienced, and she was much better able to
Speaker 3: answer the phone than he was. Now, regardless of who
Speaker 3: was right in that argument, Today's Biden Whitehouse. It's not
Speaker 3: a three am phone call. They're saying at eleven pm, sorry,
Speaker 3: there is no commander in chief, but you know the
Speaker 3: deputy special assistant is here and ready to solve the problem.
Speaker 2: Well, it also says the world leaders, and it is
Speaker 2: terrifying to think about this, Hey, here are the best
Speaker 2: hours to do something, whether it's attack this country, whether
Speaker 2: you're a terrorists, or whether it's to do something around
Speaker 2: the world, because this will be a long period of
Speaker 2: time before you get a awake president that would even
Speaker 2: respond or say anything.
Speaker 3: You know it is. It's why I do not believe
Speaker 3: Biden is going to be the nominee, because the facts
Speaker 3: are piling up and it's becoming indefensible. It may be
Speaker 3: Michelle Obama, it may be Kamala Harris, but I think
Speaker 3: the d's that they are going to pull the plug.
Speaker 3: They are terrified, they are panicking, and every day as
Speaker 3: the press continues to turn. Look, you mentioned George Stephanopolis.
Speaker 3: George Stephanopolis was asked if he could serve any four
Speaker 3: more years, and he says no, he doesn't think he can.
Speaker 3: And then Stephanopolis backed away and said, quote earlier today,
Speaker 3: I responded to a question from a passer by, I
Speaker 3: shouldn't have. So he's backing away from telling the truth exactly. Well,
Speaker 3: you know that they try not to do that, the press.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's again. I go back to what I said
Speaker 2: on this show. I don't know a week ago. I
Speaker 2: think they've got another what eight ten days here to
Speaker 2: go all in to try to get them out, and
Speaker 2: after that they may be stuck with this guy. But now,
Speaker 2: look your prediction, you've been right for quite a few times.
Speaker 2: It still could be somebody at the convention, and that
Speaker 2: somebody could still be Michelle Obama. Do you still think
Speaker 2: there's a decent chance of that.
Speaker 3: I stayed by the same odds I had on Monday's podcast.
Speaker 3: I think there is a twenty percent chance the Democrat
Speaker 3: nominee is Joe Biden. I think there's a forty percent
Speaker 3: chance the Democrat nominee is Michelle Obama. And I think
Speaker 3: there's a forty percent chance the Democratic nominee is Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: There you have it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna keep you updated on this obviously. Say prayers
Speaker 2: for all those in that are suffering in Texas right now,
Speaker 2: and help your neighbors out if you can. The Center
Speaker 2: and I will be back with you on Friday morning.