Jan. 19, 2022 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| Tomorrow will mark one year since I took office. | ||
| It's been a year of challenges, but it's also been a year of enormous progress. | ||
| We went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment I was sworn in to 210 million Americans being fully vaccinated. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are live responding to President Brandon. | ||
| Good afternoon, everyone. | ||
| Tomorrow will mark one year since I took office. | ||
| It's been a year of challenges, but it's also been a year of enormous progress. | ||
| We went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment I was sworn in to 210 million Americans being fully vaccinated today. | ||
| We created 6 million new jobs. | ||
| President Brandon is on, and we're going to be live responding to President Brandon. | ||
| He's giving us an opening remarks here. | ||
| President Brandon does not often give a child poverty drop by nearly 40 percent. | ||
| The biggest child's ever in American history. | ||
| President Brandon often runs away. | ||
| You know, though I'm 30 percent, the biggest increase of – And for the first time in a long time, this country's working people actually got a raise. | ||
| Actually got a raise. | ||
| The bottom 40 percent. | ||
| Their income go up. | ||
| Thanks to the American Rescue Plan and other actions we've taken. | ||
| We cut health insurance premiums from millions of American families, and we just made a prize medal in this country. | ||
| We're about to make a record investment that you don't expect for $2,000 to $5,000 to $1,000 from the best infrastructure in the world. | ||
| What you thought you were going to have to owe because the consultation you weren't told was going to cost that much. | ||
| We'll be creating better jobs for millions of people, modernizing our roads, our bridges, our highways, our ports, our airports. | ||
| Thanks to the American Rescue Plan and other actions we've taken, we've seen record job creation, record economic growth in the past year. | ||
| Now, thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, we're about to make a record investment in rebuilding America. | ||
| It's going to make affordable high-speed internet available for every American in urban, rural, and suburban areas. | ||
| We'll be creating better jobs for millions of people, modernizing our roads, our bridges, our highways, our ports, our airports. | ||
| Everything from making clean water. | ||
| And we know why. | ||
| COVID-19. | ||
| Omicron has now been challenging us in a way that it's the new enemy. | ||
| Exciting times, ladies and gentlemen, for being live. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| We've been doing everything we can. | ||
| Had a small audio glitch here, and we are trying something very new where we listen to Brandon and we respond live. | ||
| As he's giving his press conference. | ||
| So, after a small audio glitch, and ladies and gentlemen, we're just starting here in our new and exciting ways to go live. | ||
| We're just starting here. | ||
| We have the tools. | ||
| Vaccines. | ||
| Brandon live. | ||
| Now, without duplicate audio. | ||
| To save lives and keep businesses and schools open. | ||
| 75% of adults are fully vaccinated. | ||
| We've gone from 90 million adults with no shots in arms last summer and down to 35 million with no shots as of today. | ||
| And we're adding about 9 million more vaccinations each week. | ||
| We're going to stick with our vaccination efforts because vaccinations work. | ||
| Yeah, they're unconstitutional. | ||
| And get your booster. | ||
| Your approach is unconstitutional to vaccines. | ||
| Should we have done more testing earlier? | ||
| You were destroyed in the Supreme Court. | ||
| But we're doing more now. | ||
| We've gone from zero at-home tests a year ago to 375 million tests on the market in just this month. | ||
| If you buy a test at a store, your insurance will reimburse you. | ||
| On top of that, we're making 1 billion, 1 billion at-home tests available for you to order and be delivered to your home for free. | ||
| Just visit covidtest.gov. | ||
| To know how to get that free test kit to your home. | ||
| In addition, there are 20,000 sites where you can get tested in person for free now. | ||
| And now, we have more treatments for people to keep people out of the hospital than any other point in the pandemic, including life-saving antiviral pills. | ||
| We purchased 20 million of these new Pfizer pills, more than any country in the world. | ||
| The bottom line on COVID-19... | ||
| There's the first cough. | ||
| ...is that we're in a better place... | ||
| This is Joe Biden's opening remarks here before the press. | ||
| ...clearly better than a year ago. | ||
| We're not going to back... | ||
| We're not going back to lockdowns. | ||
| We're not going back to... | ||
| Yeah, nothing is clearly better than a year ago. | ||
| Schools should stay open because the American Rescue Plan... | ||
| Death toll up. | ||
| ...we provided to states $130 billion. | ||
| Lack of testing. | ||
| $130 billion to keep our students and educators safe and schools open. | ||
| Death toll is larger for COVID under Brandon than it was under Trump. | ||
| Hygiene for classrooms and the school buses. | ||
| In addition, we've added another $10 billion for COVID-19 tests to be able to be administered at schools. | ||
| Many states and school districts have spent this money very well. | ||
| Unfortunately, some haven't. | ||
| I encourage the states and school districts that use the funding to protect our children and keep their schools open. | ||
| Use it. | ||
| The COVID-19 is not going to give up and accept things. | ||
| You know, it's just not going to go away immediately. | ||
| But I'm not going to give up and accept things as they are now. | ||
| Some people may call what's happening now the new normal. | ||
| I call it a job not yet finished. | ||
| It will get better. | ||
| We're moving toward a time when COVID-19 won't disrupt our daily lives. | ||
| A job not yet finished. | ||
| COVID-19 won't be a crisis. | ||
| But something to protect against and a threat. | ||
| Look, we're not there yet, but we will get there. | ||
| Now, the second challenge we're facing are prices. | ||
| COVID-19 has created a lot of economic complications, including rapid price increases across the world economy. | ||
| You have created economic complications. | ||
| People see it at the gas pumps, grocery stores, and elsewhere. | ||
| So, here's what we're going to do. | ||
| A critical job in making sure that the elevated prices don't become entrenched rests with the Federal Reserve, which has a dual mandate, full employment, and stable prices. | ||
| The Federal Reserve provided extraordinary support during the crisis for the previous year and a half. | ||
| Given the strength of our economy and the pace of recent price increases, it's appropriate, as the Federal Chairman Powell, the Fed Chairman Powell, has indicated. | ||
| To recalibrate the support that is now necessary. | ||
| I respect the Fed's independence, and I've nominated five superb individuals to serve on the Federal Board of Governors, men and women, from a variety of ideological perspectives. | ||
| They're eminently qualified, historically diverse, and have earned bipartisan praise. | ||
| And I call on the United States Senate to confirm them without any further delay. | ||
| And here at the White House, Dude, you broke the economy. | ||
| First, fix the supply chain. | ||
| COVID-19 has had a global impact on the economy. | ||
| Pete Buttigieg took like 200 months off for paternity care. | ||
| He's a transportation secretary. | ||
| Trains are getting robbed in L.A. Fair shelves Biden right here. | ||
| So we acted. | ||
| We brought together business and labor. | ||
| And that much-predicted crisis did not occur. | ||
| 99% of the packages were delivered on time, and shelves were stocked. | ||
| And notwithstanding the recent storms that have impacted many parts of our country, the share of goods in stock at stores is 89% now, which has barely changed from the 91% before the pandemic. | ||
| I often see empty shelves being shown on television. | ||
| 89% are full, which is only a few points below what it was before the pandemic. | ||
| Oh, this is weak. | ||
| The argument is 89% of the stuff that should be there is there. | ||
| So don't worry, guys. | ||
| No other plan will do more to lower the cost for American families. | ||
| I deleted over 10% of what should be in your stores. | ||
| Many families, including the people sitting in this room. | ||
| Why do you think bear shells Biden trends? | ||
| Many families pay up to $14,000 a year for childcare in big cities. | ||
| Less than that in smaller ones. | ||
| My plan cuts that in half. | ||
| That will not only be a game changer for so many families' budgets, but it will mean so much for nearly 2 million women who... | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| Big shout-out to the 500 people watching on Rumble. | ||
| Really appreciate all of you. | ||
| Our first Rumble live. | ||
| Our first Rumble live. | ||
| God bless all of you. | ||
| We're responding to Brandon live. | ||
| This is live right now. | ||
| This is Brandon live and this is me live right now listening to him with you. | ||
| And it will do all this without raising a single penny in taxes on people making under $400,000 a year. | ||
| Or raising the deficit. | ||
| In fact, my plan cuts the deficit and boosts the economy by getting more people into the workforce. | ||
| That's why 17 Nobel Prize winners for economics say it will ease long-term inflationary pressure. | ||
| Bottom line, if price increases are what you're worried about, the best answer is my Build Back Better plan. | ||
| Third thing we're going to do, promote competition. | ||
| Look, in too many industries, a handful of giant companies dominate the market in sectors like meat processing Oh, got it. | ||
| It's not been the reason we've had inflation today. | ||
| It's not the only reason. | ||
| It's been happening for a decade. | ||
| But over time, it has reduced competition, squeezed out small businesses and farmers, ranchers, and increased the price for consumers. | ||
| We end up with an industry like the meat processing industry where four big companies dominate the markets. | ||
| Pay ranchers less for their cattle they grow. | ||
| Charge consumers more for beef, hamburger meat, whatever they're buying. | ||
| Prices are up. | ||
| Look, I'm a capitalist. | ||
| But capitalism without competition is not capitalism. | ||
| It's exploitation. | ||
| So I signed an executive order to tackle unfair competition in our economy. | ||
| We're going to continue to enforce it, along with working with Congress, where we can. | ||
| A close of this. | ||
| I'm a capitalist. | ||
| We have faced some of the biggest challenges that we've ever faced in this country. | ||
| Says the guy. | ||
| These past few years. | ||
| Challenges to our public health. | ||
| Who just had his communist. | ||
| Challenges to our economy. | ||
| Dictates. | ||
| But we're getting through it. | ||
| To all private businesses. | ||
| And not only are we getting through it. | ||
| Struck down. | ||
| Struck down. | ||
| 6-3 in the Supreme Court. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Where America wins the 21st century. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| He's a capitalist, though. | ||
| By creating jobs at a record pace. | ||
| He's never created a job. | ||
| Now we need to get inflation under control. | ||
| Never created a job. | ||
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Joe Biden has never once created a job. | |
| Never created a job. | ||
| Never created a job. | ||
| Maybe the guy who cleans Hunter Biden's crack pipe. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
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Maybe that is a single job. | |
| We've seen the grit and determination in the American people this past year. | ||
| But the best days of this country are still ahead of us, not behind us. | ||
| I'm happy to take questions. | ||
| Yeah, capital communism. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Okay, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here are the questions. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| I know some of my colleagues will get into some specific issues. | ||
| This is Zeke Miller. | ||
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He's with the AP. | |
| Inflation is up. | ||
| Look at him smile. | ||
| Ouch! | ||
| Did you overpromise? | ||
| Why are you such an optimist? | ||
| Look. | ||
| Why are you such an optimist? | ||
| He has dementia! | ||
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Shout out to the 2,000 people watching on Rumble. | |
| We have made enormous progress. | ||
| You mentioned the number of deaths from COVID. | ||
| Well, it was three times that. | ||
| God bless all you. | ||
| It's coming down. | ||
| Everything's changing. | ||
| It's getting better. | ||
| Look, um... | ||
| I didn't overpromise, but I think if you take a look at what we've been able to do, you'd have to acknowledge we made enormous progress. | ||
| But one of the things that I think is something that, one thing I haven't been able to do so much. | ||
| He's made enormous progress. | ||
| Is get my Republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this country. | ||
| For example, I was reading the other day, and I wrote the quote down, so I don't misquote him. | ||
| A quote from Senator Sununu. | ||
| When he decided that he wasn't going, excuse me, Governor Sununu, when he decided he wasn't going to run for the Senate in New Hampshire, here's what he said. | ||
| They were all, for the most quote, they were all, for the most part, content with the speed at which they weren't doing anything. | ||
| It was very clear that we just had to hold the line for two years. | ||
| He's reading from a note card. | ||
| So I'm just going to be a roadblock for the next two years? | ||
| That's not what I do, Sununu said. | ||
| He went on to say, it bothered me. | ||
| Story time with dementia grandpa. | ||
| Then he was on to say, I said, okay. | ||
| Story time! | ||
| So we're going to get stuff done if we win the White House back, if we win the White House back. | ||
| Why didn't we do anything in 2017 and 2018? | ||
| And then he said, how the Republicans Sununu spoke to answer the challenge? | ||
| He said, crickets, yeah, crickets. | ||
| They had no answer. | ||
| I did not anticipate that there'd be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn't get anything done. | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| What the hell? | ||
| What are they for? | ||
| Name me one thing they're for. | ||
| We're for a border wall. | ||
| We're for deportation of criminal migrants. | ||
| We're for a strong dollar. | ||
| We're for your impeachment. | ||
| We're for fighting communist China. | ||
| We're for standing against totalitarians in Iran. | ||
| We're for bringing back our women and children when they serve abroad, not in body bags. | ||
| It really was getting pummeled and beaten. | ||
| And it wasn't until after we're out of office and that next campaign, that off-year campaign, and I went into a whole... | ||
| I wasn't in office anymore. | ||
| We went into a whole bunch of districts campaigning for Democrats and Republican districts who said they wanted to do away with healthcare, with Obamacare. | ||
| And I started pointing out that if you did that, Now he's talking about Obama? | ||
| We didn't know that. | ||
| We didn't know that. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| We won. | ||
| Over 38 seats. | ||
| Because we had explained to the people exactly what, in fact, had passed. | ||
| One of the things that I remember saying, and I'll end this, I remember saying to President Obama when he passed the Affordable Care Act, I said, you ought to take a victory lap. | ||
| And he said, there's so many things going on, we don't have time to take a victory lap. | ||
| As a consequence, no one knew what the detail of the legislation was. | ||
| They don't know a lot of the detail of what we pass. | ||
| So the difference is... | ||
| I'm going to be out on the road a lot, making the case around the country, with my colleagues who are up for re-election and others, making the case of what we did do and what we want to do, what we need to do. | ||
| And so I don't think I've overpromised at all, and I'm going to stay on this track. | ||
| You know, one of the things that I remember, and I'll end this with, I was talking with, you know, Jim Clyburn, who was a great help to me in the campaign in South Carolina. | ||
| And Jim said, and when he endorsed me, and there was a, We want to make things accessible and affordable for all Americans. | ||
| That's health care. | ||
| That's education. | ||
| That's prescription drugs. | ||
| That's making sure you have access. | ||
| Access. | ||
| All the things that everybody else has. | ||
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We can afford to do that. | |
| We can't afford to not do it. | ||
| Tell my Republican fans, here I come. | ||
| This is going to be about what are you for? | ||
| What are you for? | ||
| And I'd lay out what we're for. | ||
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That was such weak sauce! | |
| What weak beer. | ||
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unidentified
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You mentioned your Republican college, but right now your top two legislative priorities, your social spending package and voting rights legislation, are stalled, blocked by your own party after months of negotiations. | |
| That was a great first question, Zeke. | ||
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You are only guaranteed control of Washington for one more year before the midterms. | |
| Do you need to be more realistic and scale down these priorities in order to get something passed? | ||
| No. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| When you say more realistic, I think it's extremely realistic to say to people... | ||
| Biden said he outperformed what anybody thought would happen. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| You all really know the politics of this country and your networks and others. | ||
| You spend a lot of time, which I'm glad you do, pulling this data, determining what the American people's attitudes are, etc. | ||
| American people overwhelmingly agree with me on prescription drugs. | ||
| They overwhelmingly agree with me on the cost of education. | ||
| They overwhelmingly agree with me on early education. | ||
| They overwhelmingly go on the list on child care. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What else do Americans agree with you on? | ||
| We just have to make the case of what we're for. | ||
| On you leaving office, actually. | ||
| Look, we knew all along that a lot of this... | ||
| A plurality of Americans want you to leave office or resign. | ||
| And one of the ways to do this is to make sure we make the contrast as clear as we can. | ||
| And one of the things that I think we're going to have to do is just make the case. | ||
| I don't think there's anything unrealistic about what we're asking. | ||
| I'm not asking for castles in the sky. | ||
| I'm asking for practical things the American people have been asking for for a long time. | ||
| A long time. | ||
| Practical things. | ||
| And I think we can get it done. | ||
| Like the federal takeover of elections? | ||
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You're not going to scale down any of these priorities. | |
| But so far that strategy isn't working. | ||
| You haven't been able to get some of these big legislative ticket items done. | ||
| Well, I got two real big ones done. | ||
| Bigger than any president has ever gotten in the first year. | ||
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But currently, Mr. President, your spending package, voting rights legislation, they're not going anywhere. | |
| That's true. | ||
| So is there anything that you are confident you can get signed into law before the midterm election? | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Yes, I'm confident we can get pieces, big chunks of the Build Back Better law signed in law. | ||
| And I'm confident that we can take the case to the American people that the people they should be voting for who are going to oversee whether the elections, in fact, are legit or not, should not be those who are being put up by the Republicans to determine that they're going to be able to change the outcome of the election. | ||
| And by the way... | ||
| I haven't given up. | ||
| We haven't finished the vote yet on what's going on on voting rights. | ||
| You just said you're giving up. | ||
| You just said you're giving up. | ||
| You said, I agree. | ||
| When she said you're not going to get this done. | ||
| I've been engaged in a long time in public policy. | ||
| And I don't know many things that have been done in one fell swoop. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| And so I think the most important thing to do... | ||
| Is try to inform, not educate, inform the public of what's at stake. | ||
| Listen to him try to remember the talking points. | ||
| In stark terms. | ||
| And let them make judgments and let them know who's for them and who's to get them. | ||
| Who's there and who's not there. | ||
| And make that the case. | ||
| And that's what I'm going to be spending my time doing in this off-year election. | ||
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You mentioned Republicans and reaching out to them. | |
| Some Republicans who may be open to major changes on voting rights, for instance, like Mitt Romney, he says he never even received a phone call from this White House. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Look, Mitt Romney's a straight guy. | ||
| He's a straight guy? | ||
| I was trying to make sure we got everybody on the same page in my party on this score. | ||
| And I didn't call many Republicans at all. | ||
| The fact is that... | ||
| I do think that Mitt is a serious guy. | ||
| I think we can get things done. | ||
| I predict to you that we'll get something done on the electoral reform side of this. | ||
| But rather than judge what's going to get done and not get done, all I can say is I'm going to continue to make the case why it's so important to not turn the electoral process over to political persons who are set up deliberately to change the outcome of elections. | ||
| Allison Harris. | ||
| Look, he's calling from the reporters in the book. | ||
| He has a book. | ||
| He calls from the reporters. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted? | ||
| What's up to the 3,000 people watching on Rumble? | ||
| It all depends on whether or not we're able to make Unbelievable. | ||
| This man has done more damage to the integrity of our election. | ||
| Remember how we thought not that many people were going to show up to vote in the middle of a pandemic? | ||
| We had the highest voter turnout in the history of the United States of America. | ||
| Well, I think if, in fact... | ||
| No matter how hard they make it for minorities to vote, I think you're going to see them willing to stand in line and defy the attempt to keep them from being able to vote. | ||
| I think you're going to see the people we're trying to keep from being able to show up, showing up and making the sacrifice it needs to be made in order to change the law back to what it should be. | ||
| But it's going to be difficult. | ||
| I make no bones about that. | ||
| It's going to be difficult. | ||
| But we're not there yet. | ||
| We've not run out of options yet, and we'll see how this moves. | ||
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And on Omicron and education, teachers are in revolt in so many places. | |
| Parents are at odds over closing schools and remote learning. | ||
| You say we're not going to go back to closing schools. | ||
| You said that just moments ago. | ||
| Joe Biden said Mitt Romney wants to put people back in chains, minorities back in chains. | ||
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What do you say to those teachers and principals and parents about school closings? | |
| And what can your administration do? | ||
| Just a reminder. | ||
| Because he was just asked about Mitt Romney. | ||
| And said, oh, Mitt Romney probably moved. | ||
| No. | ||
| He said... | ||
| When Mitt Romney was running for president, they wanted... | ||
| Oh, he's whispering again. | ||
| 95% are still open. | ||
| So you all phrase the questions when people... | ||
| I don't think it's deliberate on your part, but you phrase the question when anybody watches this on television. | ||
| My God, there must be... | ||
| All those schools must be closing. | ||
| What are we going to do? | ||
| 95% are still open. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Number two. | ||
| The idea that parents don't think it's important for their children to be in school, and teachers know it as well, that's why we made sure that we had the ability to provide the funding through the recovery act, through the first act we passed. | ||
| to be able to make sure schools were able to be safe. | ||
| Biden is the most arrogant, out-of-touch politician in American history. | ||
| We have the way they handle, they scrub down laboratories and I mean, the laboratories kids go to to go to the bathroom, cafeterias. | ||
| Don't talk about kids going to the bathroom, you creepy old cretin. | ||
| Billions of dollars made available. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| You old, diseased cryptkeeper. | ||
| Not every school district has used it as well as it should be used. | ||
| Disgusting. | ||
| But it's there. | ||
| And so, in addition to that, there is now another $10 billion for testing of students. | ||
| Why the whisper? | ||
| So I think, as time goes on... | ||
| It's much more likely you're going to see that number go back up to 95%, back up to 98%, 99%. | ||
| But the outfit of the individuals in the district that says we're not going to be open is always going to get, and I'm not being critical of any of you, it's always going to get front page. | ||
| It's always going to be the top of the news. | ||
| But let's put it in perspective. | ||
| 95, as high as 98% of the schools in America are open, functioning, and capable. | ||
| This guy just got his ass handed to him in the Supreme Court trying to lock you out of your job. | ||
| And now he's bragging about schools being open? | ||
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No one can understand you in your mask. | |
| If the U.S. and NATO aren't willing to put troops on the line to defend... | ||
| I merely adopt... | ||
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You merely adopted the dock. | |
| I was born in it! | ||
| Hasn't the U.S. in the West lost nearly all of its leverage over Vladimir Putin? | ||
| And given how ineffective sanctions have been in deterring Putin in the past, why should the threat of new sanctions give him pause? | ||
| Well, because he's never seen sanctions like the ones I promised... | ||
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Here comes the Putin answer. | |
| Oh, yeah, here comes Top Biden. | ||
| Number two, we're in a situation where Vladimir Putin is about to... | ||
| We've had very frank discussions, Vladimir Putin and I. And the idea that NATO is not going to be united, I don't buy. | ||
| I've spoken to every major NATO leader. | ||
| We've had the NATO-Russian summit. | ||
| The Russians have an actual PP dossier on Hunter Biden. | ||
| That's why I'm going to bend over and give Vladimir Putin every single thing that he wants. | ||
| It depends on what it does. | ||
| It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etc. | ||
| But if they actually do what they're capable of doing with the force amassed on the border. | ||
| It is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine, and that our allies and partners are ready to impose severe cost and significant harm on Russia and the Russian economy. | ||
| And, you know, we're going to fortify our NATO allies, I told them, on the eastern flank. | ||
| Watch him read. | ||
| He's reading. | ||
| I've already shipped over $600 million worth of... | ||
| The real tough guy going into Ukraine in terms of physical loss. | ||
| He has to read what is going to do to Putin. | ||
| Clown world. | ||
| Clown world. | ||
| It's a clown world. | ||
| But it's going to be heavy. | ||
| It's going to be real. | ||
| In addition to that, Putin has a smart choice. | ||
| Clown world. | ||
| Either de-escalation or diplomacy. | ||
| Confrontation of the consequences. | ||
| Look, I think you're going to see, for example, everybody talks about how Russia has control over the energy supply that Europe absorbs. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| That money that they earn from that makes about 45% of the economy. | ||
| I don't see that as a one-way street. | ||
| They go ahead and cut it off. | ||
| It's like my mother used to say, you're biting your nose off to spite your face. | ||
| Bite your nose off to spite your face. | ||
| I spoke with the Prime Minister of Finland. | ||
| We're talking about concern on the part of Finland and Sweden about what Russia is doing. | ||
| The last thing that Russia needs... | ||
| Bite your nose off to spite your face. | ||
| Did I hear that correctly? | ||
| They say they're going to do that. | ||
| But they're talking about... | ||
| What, in fact, is going on and how outrageous Russia is being. | ||
| We're finding ourselves in a position where I believe you'll see that there'll be severe economic consequences. | ||
| For example, anything that involves dollar denominations, if they invade, they're going to pay. | ||
| Their banks will not be able to deal in dollars. | ||
| So there's a lot that's going to happen. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| Biden is minimizing Russia's invasion into Ukraine. | ||
| He's reading pre-selected answers to pre-selected questions. | ||
| This man is a farce. | ||
| It's an illegitimate joke. | ||
| There he whispers again. | ||
| That great loss and economic loss when it occupied Ukraine. | ||
| But how many years? | ||
| One, three, five, ten? | ||
| What is that going to take? | ||
| What toll does that take? | ||
| It's real. | ||
| It's consequential. | ||
| So this is not all just a cakewalk for Russia. | ||
| Militarily, they have overwhelming superiority as it relates to Ukraine. | ||
| But they'll pay a stiff price immediately, near-term, medium-term, and long-term if they do it. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Scripted pablum. | ||
| Scripted pablum, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Watch him fumble with his note cards. | ||
| Look at him fumble, trying to figure out who he's going to call on next. | ||
| Pre-selected questions, pre-selected answers. | ||
| When you were in Geneva in June... | ||
| You said to us about President Putin, I think the last thing he wants now is a Cold War. | ||
| Now, since then, of course, you've seen him gather these troops, 100,000 troops around Ukraine. | ||
| Your Secretary of State said today he thought he could invade at any moment. | ||
| You've seen the cyber attacks. | ||
| Remember, 81 million votes. | ||
| And you've seen the demand that he have a sphere of influence in which you would withdraw all American troops and nuclear weapons from what used to be the Soviet bloc. | ||
| I'm wondering if you still think that the last thing he wants is a Cold War. | ||
| And has your view of him changed in the past few months? | ||
| And if it has, and he does invade, would your posture be to really move back to the kind of containment policy that you saw so often when you were still in the Senate? | ||
| The answer is that Joe Biden said there'd be a minor incursion. | ||
| A minor incursion. | ||
| Number one. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| West, test the United States and NATO as significantly as you can. | ||
| Yes, I think he will. | ||
| But I think he'll pay a serious and dear price. | ||
| Welcome to our studio. | ||
| Tune in for our OnlyFans later. | ||
| And I think he'll regret having done it. | ||
| Now, whether or not I think that... | ||
| How can I say this? | ||
| He's broken. | ||
| His brain broke. | ||
| Look. | ||
| He's broken. | ||
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His brain broke. | |
| Look. | ||
| Mother Russia? | ||
| Did he just call it Mother Russia? | ||
| Union has been. | ||
| This asshat. | ||
| But think about what he has. | ||
| He has eight time zones. | ||
| Burning tundra that will not freeze again naturally. | ||
| A situation where he has a lot of oil and gas. | ||
| He's simping for Putin! | ||
| Because Putin has an actual PP dossier on his kid. | ||
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Listen to this. | |
| Diseased, beleaguered old man. | ||
| Oh, are you broken again, Joe? | ||
| He's broken again. | ||
| My guess is he will move in. | ||
| He has to do something. | ||
| And by the way, I've indicated to him, the two things he said to me that he wants, guarantees him. | ||
| One is, Ukraine will never be part of NATO. | ||
| And two, that NATO, there will not be strategic weapons stationed in Ukraine. | ||
| We can work out something on the second piece, pretending what he does along the Russian- Oh, my God. | ||
| The issues internationally and in Europe suggest that you get to choose who you want to be with. | ||
| But the likelihood that Ukraine is going to join NATO in the near term is not very likely based on much more work they have to do in terms of democracy and a few other things going on. | ||
| This is fine. | ||
| And whether or not major allies in the West would vote to bring Ukraine in right now. | ||
| So there's room to work if he wants to do that. | ||
| But I think, as usual, he's going to... | ||
| I probably shouldn't go any further. | ||
| He's broken again! | ||
| It sounds like you're offering some way out here, some off-ramp, and it sounds like what it is is... | ||
| It's the spinning thing that happens on your Mac. | ||
| Right inside of Brandon's head. | ||
| Did you hear that pathetic answer? | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| He also wants us to move all of our nuclear weapons out of Europe and not have troops rotating through the old Soviet plaza. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, there's not space for that. | ||
| We won't permanently station, but the idea we're not going to, we're going to actually increase troop presence in Poland or Romania, etc., if in fact he moves. | ||
| Because we have a sacred obligation in Article 5 to defend those countries. | ||
| They are part of NATO. | ||
| We don't have that obligation relative to Ukraine, although we have great concern about what happens in Ukraine. | ||
| Can we ask about our border, please? | ||
| We've had three questions so far about Ukraine's border. | ||
| Who the hell cares? | ||
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Let's talk about our border. | |
| Can we talk about our border? | ||
| Corporate media is trash. | ||
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Corporate media is the problem. | |
| This is trash. | ||
| And then on the pandemic, now that the Supreme Court has blocked the vaccination or test rule for larger businesses, are you reconsidering vaccines for domestic flights as a way to boost vaccination rates? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| First of all, on the last part of the question, the Supreme Court decision, I think, was a mistake, but you still see thousands and thousands of people who work for major corporations having to be tested. | ||
| As a consequence of the decision made by the corporation, not by the standard ISET that is there. | ||
| I think you'll see that increase, not decrease, number one. | ||
| What was the first part of your question? | ||
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On your comment that you made that you're confident that major chunks of Build Better can pass, are you breaking it up? | |
| Yes. | ||
| Well, it's clear to me that we're going to have to probably break it up. | ||
| I think that we can get... | ||
| What was your first question, he says? | ||
| ...to a number of my colleagues on the Hill. | ||
| I think it's clear that we would be able to get support for the $500-plus billion for energy and the environment issues that are there. | ||
| These people disgust me. | ||
| The two people who've opposed, on the Democratic side at least, support a number of the things that are in there. | ||
| For example, Joe Manchin strongly supports early education, three and four years of age, strongly supports that. | ||
| Sam, talk me in the chat. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| I think a number of the way in which to pay for this proposal. | ||
| So I think there is, and I'm not going to... | ||
| I'm not going to negotiate it myself as to what should and shouldn't be in it, but I think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, and come back and fight for the rest later. | ||
| Ken, Wall Street Journal. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| I wanted to ask you about the economy. | ||
| As you said earlier, Americans are feeling the squeeze of inflation. | ||
| Oil prices have been at about a seven-year high recently. | ||
| how long should Americans expect to face higher prices when they're at the grocery store, when they're at the gas pump? | ||
| Is this something that they're going to see into the summer, into next fall? | ||
| And separately, you talk about the importance of the Fed, but isn't that an acknowledgement that you're limited in what you can do? | ||
| If you're relying on the Fed to make decisions and you're unable to get a Build Back Better proposal through, aren't you simply limited in what you can do Well, look, as you know, Ken... | ||
| That was bad mask etiquette, sir. | ||
| You need to pull your mask up over your nose. | ||
| Inflation is what? | ||
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Dude, this guy is such a piece of work. | |
| ...progress on speeding up the access to materials. | ||
| For example, one-third of the increase in cost of living is the cost of automobiles. | ||
| The reason automobiles have skyrocketed in price is because of the lack of computer chips. | ||
| So we have the capacity, and we're going to do everything in our power to do it, to become self-reliant on the computer chips that we need in order to be able to produce more automobiles. | ||
| That's underway. | ||
| We've already passed, within the context of another bill, money for that in the House of Representatives, before the House of Representatives now. | ||
| But I think there's a way we can move to... | ||
| If we can move to get, for example, that one thing done, it can make a big difference in terms of the total cost of living. | ||
| Now, with regard to the whole issue of energy prices, that gets a little more complicated. | ||
| But you saw what happened when I was able to convince everyone, including China, India. | ||
| A number of other countries to agree with us to go into their version of their petroleum reserve to release more into the market so that that brought down the price about 12, 15 cents a gallon, some places, some places more. | ||
| There's going to be a reckoning along the line here as to whether or not we're going to continue to see oil prices continue to go up. | ||
| In ways that are going up now relative to what impact that's going to have on the producers. | ||
| And so it's going to be hard. | ||
| I think that's the place where most middle-class people, work-class people get hit the most. | ||
| They pull up to a pump and all of a sudden instead of paying $2.40 a gallon, they're paying $5 a gallon. | ||
| That's going to be really difficult. | ||
| But so we're going to continue to work on trying to increase oil supplies. | ||
| We have to deal with, For example, like I said, you have a circumstance where people are paying more for a pound of hamburger meat than they ever paid. | ||
| Well, one of the reasons for that is you don't have that many folks out there that are the ones that are got the big four controlling the law. | ||
| And so you're going to see more and more. | ||
| We're going to move. | ||
| What the hell did you just say about hamburger? | ||
| We don't have that many people out there that know how to make hamburger? | ||
| That's why prices are going up. | ||
| That's why hamburger prices are going up, ladies and gentlemen, because we don't have that many vaccinated farmers out there that know what a hamburger is. | ||
| 17 Nobel laureate economists said that if, in fact, we could pass it, it would actually lower the impact. | ||
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Fair way to look at it. | |
| And if so, how do you think that report card looks right now? | ||
| I think report cards can look pretty good if that's where we're at. | ||
| But look, the idea that Mitch has been very clear. | ||
| He can do anything. | ||
| To prevent Biden from being a success. | ||
| And I get on with Mitch. | ||
| I actually like Mitch McConnell. | ||
| We like one another. | ||
| But he has one straightforward objective. | ||
| Make sure that there's nothing I do that makes me look good in the mind, in his mind, with the public at large. | ||
| And that's okay. | ||
| I'm a big boy. | ||
| I've been here before. | ||
| But the fact is that I think that I'm happy to debate. | ||
| And have a referendum on how I handle the economy. | ||
| Whether or not I've made progress on... | ||
| Look, again, I'm taking too long answering your questions. | ||
| I apologize. | ||
| I think that the fundamental question is, what's Mitch for? | ||
| What's he for on immigration? | ||
| What's he for? | ||
| What's he proposing? | ||
| It's making him better. | ||
| What's he for dealing with Russia? | ||
| It's different than I'm proposing. | ||
| Many of his Republican friends or his colleagues are supporting as well. | ||
| What's he for on these things? | ||
| What are they for? | ||
| So everything's a choice. | ||
| A choice. | ||
| I think, look, I've laid out a proposal on immigration that if we passed it, We'd be in a totally different place right now. | ||
| But we're not there because we don't have a single Republican vote. | ||
| My buddy John McCain's gone. | ||
| So, I mean, it's just going to take time. | ||
| And again, I go back to Governor Sununu's quote. | ||
| How long? | ||
| I mean, a rhetorical question. | ||
| I know this is not fair to ask the press a question. | ||
| I'm not asking you. | ||
| But think about it. | ||
| Did you ever think that one man out of office could intimidate an entire party where they're unwilling to take any vote contrary to what he thinks should be taken for fear of being defeated in the primary? | ||
| I've had five Republican senators talk to me, bump into me, quote-unquote, or sit with me. | ||
| We've told me that they agree with whatever I'm talking about for them to do. | ||
| But Joe, if I do it, I'm going to defeat it in the primary. | ||
| We've got to break that. | ||
| It's got to change. | ||
| And I doubt you're all, it sounds like I'm being solicitous, you're all bright as hell, well informed, more informed than any group of people in America. | ||
| But did any of you think? | ||
| Did you get to a point where not a single Republican would diverge on a major issue? | ||
| Not one. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
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That was the answer? | |
| No, are you kidding me? | ||
| I maintain confidentiality. | ||
| But I'm sure you've spoken to some. | ||
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On voting rights, sir, at your first press conference ten months ago, I asked you if there was anything you could do beyond legislation to protect voting rights. | |
| And at that time you said yes, but I'm not going to lay out a strategy before you and the world now. | ||
| You haven't asked a single question. | ||
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Now that legislation appears to be hopelessly stalled, can you now lay out your strategy to protect voting rights? | |
| Well, I'm not prepared to do that in detail in terms of the executive orders I may be able to engage in and other things I can do. | ||
| But one of the things we have done. | ||
| Oh! | ||
| Now our corporate communist press is pushing for Joe Biden to, through executive fiat, take over unconstitutionally electoral mechanisms inside of the state. | ||
| ...unconstitutional efforts, in our view, unconstitutional efforts on the part of the Republicans to stack the election and subvert the outcomes. | ||
| We have begun to organize in ways that we didn't before the communities beyond the civil rights community to make the case to the rest of the American people what's about to happen, what will happen if, in fact, these things move forward. | ||
| If I had talked to you, not you, I'm using you in an atrocity, if I had talked to the public about the whole idea of subversion of elections by deciding who the electors are after the fact, I think people would have looked at me like, whoa, I mean, I taught constitutional law for 20 years, a three-credit course on separation of powers, and on Saturday mornings when I was a senator. | ||
| And I never thought we'd get into a place where we were talking about being able actually, what they tried to do this last time out, send different electors to the state legislative bodies to represent who won the election, saying that I didn't win, but Republican candidate won. | ||
| I doubt anybody thought that would ever happen in America in the 21st century, but it's happening. | ||
| And so I think, I guess what I'm saying is, Nancy, is that I think that there are a number of things we can do. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| But I also think we will be able to get significant pieces of the legislation, if we don't get it all now, to build to get it so that we get... | ||
| A big chunk of the John Lewis legislation as well as the fair elections. | ||
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Sir, on COVID, if you don't mind, you touted the number of Americans who are now fully vaccinated with two shots, but even some of your own medical advisors say that people aren't fully protected unless they have that third shot, a booster. | |
| Why hasn't this White House changed the definition of fully vaccinated to include that third booster shot? | ||
| Is it because the numbers of fully vaccinated Americans would suddenly look a lot less impressive? | ||
| And every time I speak of it, I say, if you've been vaccinated, get your booster shot. | ||
| Everybody get the booster shot. | ||
| It's the optimum protection you can have. | ||
| You're protected very well with two shots. | ||
| If it's the Pfizer, anyway, you're protected. | ||
| But you are better protected with the booster shot. | ||
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The definition right now. | |
| I'm following what the, the answer is yes. | ||
| Get the booster shot. | ||
| It's all part of the same thing. | ||
| You're better protected. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| So Joe Biden just said that to be fully vaccinated, you need your booster. | ||
| Got it. | ||
|
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| I wanted to follow up briefly on a question asked by Bloomberg. | ||
| You said that Russia would be held accountable if it invades, and it depends on what it does. | ||
| It's one thing if it's a minor incursion, and we end up having to fight about what to do and what not to do. | ||
| Are you saying that a minor incursion by Russia into Ukrainian territory would not lead to the sanctions that you have threatened, or are you effectively giving Putin permission to make a small incursion into the country? | ||
| Good question. | ||
| Look at them giggling. | ||
| She's giggling? | ||
| The most important thing to do. | ||
| Joe Biden said it's okay. | ||
| Big nations can't bluff, number one. | ||
| If there's a small incursion, just the tip, into Ukraine from Russia. | ||
| We would do anything to split NATO, which would have a profound impact on one of, I think, profound impact on one of Putin's objectives to weaken NATO, would be a big mistake. | ||
| So the question is, if it's something significantly short of... | ||
| A significant invasion or not even significant, just major military forces coming across. | ||
| For example, it's one thing to determine that if they continue to use cyber efforts, well, we can respond the same way with cyber. | ||
| They have FSB people in Ukraine now trying to undermine the solidarity within Ukraine about Russia. | ||
| And to try to promote Russian interest. | ||
| But it's very important that we keep everyone in NATO on the same page. | ||
| And that's what I'm spending a lot of time doing. | ||
| And there are differences. | ||
| There are differences in NATO as to what countries are willing to do depending on what happens, the degree to which they're able to go. | ||
| And I want to be clear with you. | ||
| The serious imposition of sanctions relative to dollar transactions and other things are things that are going to have a negative impact on the United States as well as a negative impact on the economies of Europe as well. | ||
| A devastating impact on Russia. | ||
| And so I've got to make sure everybody's on the same page as we move along. | ||
| I think we will if there's something that is where there's Russian forces crossing the border, killing. | ||
| Ukrainian fighters, etc. | ||
| I think that changes everything. | ||
| But it depends on what he does to see actually what extent we're going to be able to get total unity on the NATO front. | ||
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If I may ask a quick one on Iran. | |
| I just wanted to get your sense of whether the Vienna talks are making any progress. | ||
| If you still think it's possible to reach a deal for both sides to resume compliance with the Iran nuclear deal, or if it's time to give up on that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Do it in reverse. | ||
| It's not time to give up. | ||
| There is some progress being made. | ||
| The P5 plus one is on the same page, but it remains to be seen. | ||
| So Joe Biden just gave carte blanche for Putin to invade Ukraine. | ||
| Got it. | ||
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Very quickly on Russia. | |
| Ukraine answers are an absolute cluster F. But on Russia, very quickly, it seemed like you said that you have assessed, you feel as though he will move in. | ||
| Has this administration, have you determined whether President Putin plans to invade or move into Ukraine, as you said? | ||
| Look, the only thing I'm confident of is that decision is totally, solely, completely a Putin decision. | ||
| Nobody else is going to make that decision. | ||
| No one else is going to impact that. | ||
| I suspect it matters which side of the bed he gets up on in the morning as to exactly what he's going to do. | ||
| And I think it is not irrational, if he wanted to, to talk about Dealing with strategic doctrine and dealing with force structures in Europe and in the European parts of Russia. | ||
| But I don't know whether he's decided he wants to do that or not. | ||
| The European parts of Russia? | ||
| So far, the three meetings we've had, OSCE, anyway, have not produced anything because the impression I get from my Secretary of State, my National Security Advisor, and my other senior officials that are doing these meetings... | ||
| Is that there's a question of whether the people they're talking to know what he's going to do. | ||
| So the answer is, but based on a number of criteria as to what he could do, for example, for him to move in and occupy the whole country, particularly from the north, from Belarus, he's going to have to wait a little bit until the ground's frozen so he can cough. | ||
| To move in a direction where he wants to talk about what's going on. | ||
| We're continuing to provide for defense capacities to the Ukrainians. | ||
| We're talking about what's going on in both the Baltic and the Black Sea, etc. | ||
| There's a whole range of things that I'm sure he's trying to calculate how quickly he can do what he wants to do and what does he want to do. | ||
| But he's not... | ||
| He's an informed individual. | ||
| And I'm sure, I'm not sure, I believe he's calculating what the immediate, short-term, and the near-term and the long-term consequences of Russia will be. | ||
| And I don't think he's made up his mind yet. | ||
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I want to ask you about your domestic agenda. | |
| You've gotten a lot of questions about voting rights. | ||
| Biden's giving a green light. | ||
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A green light for Putin to invade Ukraine. | |
| One of your most loyal constituencies. | ||
| I was in... | ||
| A green light. | ||
| Carolina. | ||
| You opened this news conference talking about him. | ||
| A minor incursion would be okay. | ||
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I spoke to a number of black voters who fought to get you elected, and now they feel as though you are not fighting hard enough for them. | |
| Gone are the days. | ||
| legitimate effort to get legislation passed. | ||
| So what do you say to these black voters who say that You do not have their backs, as you promised on the campaign trail. | ||
| I've had their back. | ||
| I've had their back my entire career. | ||
| I've never not had their back. | ||
| And I started on the voting rights issues long, long ago. | ||
| This got me involved in politics in the first place. | ||
| And I think part of the problem is, look, there's significant disagreement in every community on whether or not... | ||
| The timing of assertions made by people has been in the most timely way. | ||
| So I'm sure that there are those who are saying that why didn't Biden push John Lewis' bill as hard as he pushed it the last month? | ||
| Why didn't he push it six months ago as hard as he did now? | ||
| The fact is that there is... | ||
| His brain's broken again. | ||
| There he goes. | ||
| Brain broken. | ||
| Listen to this. | ||
| There's a timing that is not of one's own choice. | ||
| It's somewhat dictated by events that are happening in country and around the world as to what... | ||
| In country? | ||
| But part of the problem is, as well, I have not been out in the community nearly enough. | ||
| I've been here an awful lot. | ||
| I find myself in a situation where I don't get a chance to look people in the eye. | ||
| He spent 28 days in Delaware at his beach house. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| He spent 28% of his first year in Delaware at his beach house. | ||
| And he's complaining that he spent too much time in Washington, D.C. That's what I've been doing my whole career. | ||
| And so the idea that I didn't anticipate or because I didn't speak to it as fervently as they want me to earlier. | ||
| In the meantime, I was spending a lot of time, spent hours and hours and hours talking with my colleagues on the Democratic side. | ||
| I'm trying to get them to agree that if, in fact, this occurred, if this push continued, that they would be there for John Lewis. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| What? | ||
| I think that's a problem. | ||
| This is a disaster. | ||
| That is my own making by not communicating as much as I should. | ||
| 31 trips to Delaware. | ||
| You find that when you deal with members of the Black Caucus and others in the United States Congress. | ||
| I still have very close working relationships. | ||
| So it's like every community. | ||
| I'm sure that there are those in the community. | ||
| What about with your vice president, huh? | ||
| I'm sure there's people in labor saying, why haven't I been able to do A, B, C, or D? | ||
| You have a close working relationship? | ||
| Is Peter Doocy going to get a question? | ||
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You put Vice President Harris in charge of voting rights. | |
| Are you satisfied with her work? | ||
| On this issue. | ||
| And can you guarantee, do you commit that she will be your running mate in 2024, provided that you run again? | ||
| Yes and yes. | ||
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Pardon me? | |
| Do you care to expand? | ||
| No, there's no need to. | ||
| I mean, I asked the question. | ||
| She's going to be my running mate, number one. | ||
| And number two, I did put her in charge. | ||
| I think she's doing a good job. | ||
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Let me ask you, big picture, particularly when you think about voting rights and the struggles you've had to unify your own party around voting rights, unity was one of your key campaign promises. | |
| In fact, in your inaugural... | ||
| Senile geriatric patients make really bad presidents, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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People heard the speech that you gave on voting rights in Georgia recently, in which you described... | |
| If you are an animated mannequin corpse for communism... | ||
| And some people took exception to that. | ||
| What do you say to those who are offended by your speech? | ||
| And you spend all day in a bathrobe with a warm bowl of applesauce on your lap drooling. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Not a great president. | ||
| Anybody who listened to the speech, I did not say that there were going to be a George Wallace or a Bull Connor. | ||
| I said, we're going to have a decision in history that is going to be marked just like it was then. | ||
| You either voted on the side. | ||
| That didn't make you George Wallace or didn't make you Bull Connor. | ||
| But if you did not vote for the Voting Rights Act back then, you were voting with those who agreed with Connor. | ||
| Those who agreed with... | ||
| Painful. | ||
| Weak, weak, weak, rambling answers, rambling nonsense. | ||
| Broken brain. | ||
| Dementia garbage. | ||
| Any senator. | ||
| Any congressman. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Weak, rambling, staggering, stuttering, feeble, weak. | ||
| What a disaster. | ||
| What a disconnect from reality. | ||
| My desire still is. | ||
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Look. | |
| I underestimated one very important thing. | ||
| I never thought. | ||
| That Republicans, like for example, I said they got very upset. | ||
| I said there are 16 members of the present United States Senate who voted to extend the Voting Rights Act. | ||
| Now, they got very offended by that. | ||
| That wasn't an accusation, it was stating a fact. | ||
| What has changed? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| More whispering. | ||
| Why is there not a single Republican? | ||
| Hey, Joe. | ||
| Not one. | ||
| Hey, Joe. | ||
| That's not the Republican Party. | ||
| So that's not an attack. | ||
| Whose party was Bull Connor a part of? | ||
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Is the country more unified than when you first took office? | |
| Whose party is Jefferson Davis a part of? | ||
| Which party passed Jim Crow? | ||
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Which party was the party of the KKK? | |
| Look. | ||
| Your party. | ||
| I'm still content. | ||
| And I know you'll have a right to... | ||
| Which party was the party of the Confederacy? | ||
| The Democrat Party? | ||
| I'm still content that... | ||
| Unless you can reach consensus in a democracy, you cannot sustain the democracy. | ||
| And so this is a real test. | ||
| Whether or not my counterpart in China is right or not. | ||
| When he says autocracies are the only thing that are going to prevail because democracies take too long to make decisions and countries are too divided. | ||
| I believe we're going through one of those inflection points in history that occurs every several generations or even more than that, even more time than that, where things are changing almost regardless of any particular policy. | ||
| The world's changing in big ways. | ||
| We're going to see, if you've heard me say this before, we're going to see more change in the next 10 years than we've seen in the last 50 years. | ||
| Because of technology, because of fundamental alterations and alliances that are occurring, not because of any one individual, just because of the nature of things. | ||
| And so I think you're going to see an awful lot of transition. | ||
| And the question is, can we keep up with it? | ||
| Can we maintain the democratic institutions that we have, not just here, but around the world, to be able to generate democratic consensus on how to proceed? | ||
| It's going to be hard. | ||
| It's going to be hard, but it requires. | ||
| It requires leadership to do it, and I'm not giving up on the prospect of being able to do that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Here we go. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| There are no deep questions among Americans about the competence of government. | ||
| From the messy rollout of 5G this week to the Afghanistan campaign. | ||
| Peter Ducey is right there in the front row. | ||
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What have you done to restore Americans' faith in the competence of government? | |
| And are you satisfied by the view of the competence of your government? | ||
| What are these, like, waxing philosophical questions? | ||
| Shut up! | ||
| Not a single question on the border? | ||
| Which is legitimate. | ||
| We were spending a trillion dollars a week. | ||
| I mean, a billion dollars a week in Afghanistan for 20 years. | ||
| Raise your hand if you think anyone was going to be able to unify Afghanistan under one single government. | ||
| It's been the graveyard of empires for a solid reason. | ||
| It is not susceptible to unity, number one. | ||
| So the question was, do I continue to spend that much money per week in the state of Afghanistan? | ||
| Knowing that the idea that being able to succeed, other than sending more body bags back home, is highly, highly unusual. | ||
| My dad used to have an expression. | ||
| He'd say, son, if everything's equally important to you, nothing's important to you. | ||
| There is no way to get out of Afghanistan after 20 years easily. | ||
| And I make no apologies for what I did. | ||
| I have a great concern for the women and men who were blown up on the line at the airport by a terrorist attack against them. | ||
| Blown up? | ||
| The military will acknowledge, and I think you will, who know a lot about foreign policy, that had we stayed and had not pulled those troops out... | ||
| We would be asked to put somewhere between 20,000 and 50,000 more troops back in. | ||
| No apologies for Afghanistan. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| No apologies. | ||
| No apologies to the families. | ||
| And so everything was copacetic. | ||
| Had we not gotten out, and the acknowledgement is we'd be putting a lot more forces in. | ||
| Now, do I feel badly? | ||
| Joe Biden just said... | ||
| As a consequence of the incompetence of the... | ||
| You got blown up. | ||
| Yes, I do. | ||
| But I feel badly also about the fistulas that are taking place in Eastern Congo. | ||
| I feel badly about a whole range of things around the world that we can't solve every problem. | ||
| Eastern Congo. | ||
| And so, I don't view that as a competence issue. | ||
| The issue of whether or not there's competence in terms of whether or not we're dealing with 5G or not. | ||
| We don't deal with 5G. | ||
| The fact is that you had two enterprises, two private enterprises, that had one promoting 5G and the other one are airlines. | ||
| They're private enterprises. | ||
| You went from Afghanistan to 5G? | ||
| And so what I've done is pushed as hard as I can to have 5G folks hold up. | ||
| Guys, he's talking about Great Reset. | ||
| He wants autocracy. | ||
| He wants communism. | ||
| So that 5G would not interfere with the potential of the landing. | ||
| So any 5G tower within a certain number of miles from the airport should not be operative. | ||
| And so I understand, but anything that happens that's consequential is viewed as the government's responsibility. | ||
| I get that. | ||
| Am I satisfied with the way in which we have dealt with COVID and all the things that go along with it? | ||
| Yeah, I am satisfied. | ||
| I think we've done remarkably well. | ||
| You're satisfied. | ||
| You know, the idea that... | ||
| I think I've done remarkably well, he says, on COVID. | ||
| We should have done it quicker, but we've done remarkable since then. | ||
| You've done remarkably. | ||
| We have more testing going on than anywhere in the world. | ||
| More deaths under you than Trump. | ||
| That's all you got to know. | ||
| Did we have it at the moment exactly when we should have moved? | ||
| And could we have moved a month earlier? | ||
| Yeah, we could have. | ||
| But with everything else that's going on, I don't view that as somehow a mark of incompetence. | ||
| Look, think of what we did on COVID. | ||
| When we were pushing on AstraZeneca to provide more vaccines. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| They didn't have the machinery to be able to do it. | ||
| So I physically went to Michigan, stood there in a factory with the head of AstraZeneca, and said, we'll provide the machinery for you. | ||
| This is what we'll do. | ||
| We'll help you do it so you can produce this vaccine more rapidly. | ||
| I think that's pretty hands-on stuff. | ||
| We also said, right now, when people, the hospitalizations are... | ||
| We're not going to see another press conference. | ||
| Get ready. | ||
| Enjoy, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| You're not going to see Joe Biden for another year after this train wreck. | ||
| They are going to shove this man into a basement near the center of the earth. | ||
| They are going to give him a large amount of Metamucil. | ||
| A strategic operation to get as many shots in arms by opening clinics and keeping... | ||
| Room temperature porridge on his lap. | ||
| Tighten up his Depends. | ||
| And you will never see Joe Biden again. | ||
| Enjoy. | ||
| Enjoy. | ||
| You're witnessing the last time they'll let Joe Biden ever talk to the press. | ||
| This is the last time Brandon ever speaks to the press. | ||
| Now, should everybody in America know that? | ||
| No. | ||
| They don't necessarily know that. | ||
| They're just trying to figure out how to put three squares on the table and stay safe. | ||
| But so, I do think the place where I was a little disappointed, is when we did the legislation to provide the funding for COVID and the money we provided for the states to be able to deal with keeping schools open. | ||
| Some of them didn't do a very good job. | ||
| Some are still holding the money. | ||
| I'm the Biden staff member. | ||
| I don't have the authority to do anything about that. | ||
| I think that's not particularly competent. | ||
| There's things that could and should have been done. | ||
| They could have moved faster. | ||
| So, I understand the frustration. | ||
| You know, I remember... | ||
| Close the book. | ||
| I think it was... | ||
| I forget which cabinet member was saying to Barack Obama where something was going on. | ||
| And he said, well, you're going to be sure, Mr. President. | ||
| Of the millions of employees you have out there, somebody's screwing up right now. | ||
| Somebody's screwing up. | ||
| So, you know, it's just a... | ||
| But I think you have to look at things you used to look at on balance. | ||
| That's his take. | ||
| Somebody's screwing up right now. | ||
| Is it moving in the right direction now? | ||
| I don't know how we can say it's not. | ||
| I understand frustration, fear, and concern with regard to inflation. | ||
| How can't we say the country's moving in the right direction? | ||
| But the idea, if I told you when we started, I told you what I'm going to do. | ||
| First year, I'm going to create over 600 or 6 million jobs. | ||
| I'm going to get unemployment down to 3.9%. | ||
| I'm going to generate, and I named it all. | ||
| You look at me like you're nuts. | ||
| Maybe I'm wrong. | ||
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President, at least in our recent memory, with as much Washington experience as you entered this office, but yet after we sit here for more than an hour, I'm not sure I've heard you say if you would do anything differently in the second year of your term. | |
| Do you plan to do anything differently? | ||
| Are you satisfied with your team here at the White House, sir? | ||
| I'm satisfied with the team. | ||
| There's three things I'm going to do differently now that I've gotten... | ||
| The critical crisis out of the way in the sense of that moving is exactly where we're going. | ||
| We have the highest inflation in 40 years. | ||
| I'm going to get out of this place more often. | ||
| I'm going to go out and talk to the public. | ||
| I'm going to do public fora. | ||
| I'm going to interface with them. | ||
| I'm going to make the case of what we've already done, why it's important. | ||
| He's going to talk to Americans. | ||
| That's going to convince me. | ||
| What will happen if they support what else I want to do? | ||
| Number two. | ||
| I'm bringing in more and more now that I have time. | ||
| I mean, literally, like you, I'm not complaining. | ||
| It's, you know, 12, 14 hours a day. | ||
| No complaints. | ||
| I really mean it sincerely. | ||
| But now that certain of the big chunks have been put in place and we know the direction. | ||
| You've been working 12 and 14 hour days. | ||
| I'm also going to be out there seeking the advice of experts outside. | ||
| If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Alaska. | ||
| From academia to editorial writers to think tanks. | ||
| And I'm bringing them in. | ||
| Just like I did early on, bringing in presidents and historians to get their perspective on what we should be doing. | ||
| Seeking more input, more information, more constructive criticism about what I should and shouldn't be doing. | ||
| And the third thing that I'm going to be doing a lot more of is being in a situation where I'm able to bring... | ||
| I'm going to be deeply involved in these off-year elections. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| We're going to be raising a lot of money. | ||
| We're going to be out there making sure that we're helping all those candidates. | ||
| You have a 30% approval rating. | ||
| Seven out of ten Americans tell you to go shove it every single day. | ||
| And you think that you have political capital to go out and campaign? | ||
| You're going to get roasted. | ||
| Come on, Peter Doocy. | ||
| How many more hours am I doing this? | ||
| I'm happy to stick around. | ||
| You've been on for one hour. | ||
| Fox News. | ||
| Peter Ducey. | ||
| You always ask me the nicest questions. | ||
| Go. | ||
| I know you do. | ||
| All right. | ||
| None of them make a lot of sense to me, but I... | ||
| Well, let's try... | ||
| Fire away. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| A new year. | ||
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Oh, good. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Why are you trying so hard in your first year to pull the country so far to the left? | ||
| Well, I'm not. | ||
| I don't know what you consider to be too far to the left if, in fact, we're talking about making sure that we had the money for COVID, making sure we had the money to put together the bipartisan infrastructure, making sure we were able to provide for those things that, in fact, would significantly reduce the burden on working-class people but make them have to continue to work hard. | ||
| I don't know how that is pointed to the left. | ||
| If you may recall... | ||
| You guys have been trying to convince me that I am Bernie Sanders. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I like him, but I'm not Bernie Sanders. | ||
| I'm not a socialist. | ||
| I'm a mainstream Democrat, and I have been. | ||
| And mainstream Democrats have overrun me. | ||
| If you notice, the 48 of the 50 Democrats supported me in the Senate on virtually everything I've asked. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
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A moment ago, you were asked whether or not you believed that we would have free and fair elections in 2022 if some of these state legislatures reforms their voting protocols. | |
| You said that it depends. | ||
| Do you think that they would in any way be illegitimate? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I think it easily could be illegitimate. | ||
| Imagine... | ||
| Imagine if, in fact, Trump has succeeded in convincing Pence to not count the votes. | ||
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Imagine if— In regards to 2022, sir, the midterm election. | |
| Oh, 2022. | ||
| I mean, imagine if those attempts to say that the count was not legit. | ||
| You have to recount it, and we're not going to count—we're going to discard the following votes. | ||
| I mean, sure, I'm not saying it's going to be legit. | ||
| The increase— And the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed. | ||
| But I don't think you're going to see, you're not going to see me, and I don't think you're going to see the Democratic Party give up on coming back at assuming that the attempt fails today. | ||
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One more, sir. | |
| You know, you campaigned and you ran on a return to civility, and I know that you dispute the characterization that you called folks who would oppose those voting bills as being Bull Connor or George Wallace, but you said that they would be sort of in the same camp. | ||
| No, I didn't say that. | ||
| Look what I said. | ||
| Go back and read what I said and tell me if you think I called. | ||
| Anyone who voted on the side of the position taken by Bull Connor, that they were Bull Connor. | ||
| That is an interesting reading of English. | ||
| I assume you got into journalism because you like to write. | ||
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So did you expect that that would work with Senators Manchin or Sinema? | |
| No, here's the thing. | ||
| There's certain things that are so consequential. | ||
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What the hell is he talking about? | |
| I was speaking out forcefully on what I think to be at stake. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| And by the way, no one, no one still forgets who was on the side of King. | ||
| Listen, Grandpa's getting angry! | ||
| The history books will note it. | ||
| And when I was making the case, don't think this is a freebie. | ||
| You don't get to vote this way, and then somehow it goes away. | ||
| Grandpa's got full drawers! | ||
| This will be sticking to you the rest of your career, and long after you're gone. | ||
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And, Mr. President, if— Folks— I'm on Ukraine, please, sir. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! | ||
| Hang on, guys. | ||
| He looks at his watch. | ||
| We've only gone an hour and 20 minutes. | ||
| I'll keep going. | ||
| But I'm going to go. | ||
| Let me get something straight here. | ||
| Oh, come on. | ||
| How long are you guys ready to go? | ||
| You want to go for another hour or two? | ||
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Yes! | |
| Yes, old man! | ||
| Let's go! | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Look at that bald head. | ||
| I'm going to go. | ||
| I tell you what, folks. | ||
| I'm going to go another 20 minutes. | ||
| So a quarter of. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Oh, the entire White House staff is like... | ||
| Ah! | ||
| Ah, no! | ||
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No, don't do it! | |
| No, please, God! | ||
| I want to thank my communication staff for the great help here. | ||
| Well, President Biden, on the coronavirus, we're tragically approaching nearly one million Americans who died. | ||
| And I'd like to ask you... | ||
| Ask about the border. | ||
| ...why it is during your three-and-a-half-hour virtual summit in November with the Chinese president, you didn't press for transparency. | ||
| And also whether that has anything to do with your son's involvement in an investment firm controlled by Chinese state-owned entities. | ||
| The answer is that we did. | ||
| I did raise the question of transparency. | ||
| I spent a lot of time with him. | ||
| And the fact is that they're just not being transparent. | ||
| Transparency on the coronavirus origins? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And you did during the virtual summit. | ||
| Is there a reason your press staff was unaware of that? | ||
| And what did you say to the Chinese president? | ||
| And they weren't with me the entire time. | ||
| Look, I made it clear that I thought that China had an obligation to be more forthcoming on exactly what the source of the virus was and where it came from. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Jen Psaki right now is going, that you declared when you came to office. | ||
| Jen Psaki going in the war in Yemen, the catastrophic war in Yemen. | ||
| You appointed a special envoy. | ||
| Today, one of your allies, United Arab Emirates, is asking your administration to put back the Houthi rebels or The answer is, it's under consideration. | ||
| Ending the war in Yemen takes the two parties to be involved to do it. | ||
| Dude, you're asking about Yemen? | ||
| Not a single question? | ||
| By the way, shame on you. | ||
| There have been some conservative reports. | ||
| Not a single question about our border? | ||
| I'd like to raise a delicate subject, but with utmost respect for your life accomplishments and the high office you hold. | ||
| A poll released this morning by Politico Morning Consult found 49% of registered voters disagreeing with the statement, Joe Biden is mentally fit. | ||
| Not even a majority of Democrats who responded strongly affirmed that statement. | ||
| I'll let you all make the judgment whether they're correct. | ||
| So the question I have for you, sir, if you'd let me finish, is why do you suppose such large segments of the American electorate... | ||
| Have come to harbor such profound concerns about your cognitive fitness. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| We have no idea. | ||
| Old man has yelled at cloud. | ||
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I wanted to sort of address or ask about attention that's sort of been in this press conference on unifying the country. | |
| Because you campaigned on two things. | ||
| One of them is... | ||
| Ask about the border. | ||
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We have to. | |
| We have to. | ||
| As long as I hold public office, I'm going to continue to attempt to do both things. | ||
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More follow-up. | |
| Around this time last year when you were campaigning in Georgia, I think one of the things you told people was the power is literally in your hands. | ||
| You know, if voters give Democrats the House and the Senate and the presidency, that all these big things can get accomplished. | ||
| And, you know, we've seen stalemate. | ||
| We've seen things being stymied. | ||
| Why should folks believe you this time around? | ||
| Can you think of any other president who's done as much in one year? | ||
| Name one for me. | ||
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I'm asking you. | |
| I'm serious. | ||
| You guys talk about how nothing's happened. | ||
| I don't think there's been much on any incoming president's plate that's been a bigger menu than the plate I had given to me. | ||
| I'm not complaining. | ||
| Knew that running in. | ||
| And the fact of the matter is we got an awful lot done. | ||
| An awful lot done. | ||
| And there's more to get done. | ||
| But look, let me ask a rhetorical question. | ||
| Wait, so people are supposed to... | ||
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Hold on. | |
| No, I won't. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
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What? | |
| Oh, I wonder. | ||
| Why do people not think you're cognitively fit? | ||
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Yes. | |
| And then he just goes and says, he says... | ||
| Be careful. | ||
| Don't get hurt, man. | ||
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No, no. | |
| I'm going to take that. | ||
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Mr. President, thank you. | |
| Sebastian Smith from AFP. | ||
| Another question on Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine borders four NATO member countries. | ||
| How concerned are you? | ||
| Are you concerned? | ||
| That a real conflagration in Ukraine, if the Russians really go in there, that it could suck in NATO countries that are on the border, and you end up with an actual NATO-Russia confrontation of some kind. | ||
| And secondly, are you entertaining the thought of a summit with Vladimir Putin as a way to perhaps try and put this whole thing to bed, address their concerns, and negotiate a way out of this? | ||
| The last part, the last question, yes. | ||
| When we talked about whether or not we'd pick the three meetings we talked about, and we talked about we would go from there, if there was reason to, to go to a summit. | ||
| We talked about a summit as being before the Ukraine item came up in terms of strategic doctrine and what the strategic relationship would be. | ||
| So I still think that is a possibility, number one. | ||
| Number two, I am very concerned. | ||
| I'm very concerned that this could end up being... | ||
| Look, the only war that's worse than one that's intended is one that's unintended. | ||
| And what I'm concerned about is this could get out of here. | ||
| The only war that's worse than one that's intended is one that's unintended. | ||
| Wise. | ||
| He's wise. | ||
| He's like a Chinese philosopher. | ||
| I am hoping... | ||
| A billion dollars from the Chinese for a son's crackhead investment firm. | ||
| One of those two. | ||
| He's not in a very good position to dominate the world. | ||
| And so I don't think he thinks that. | ||
| But it is a concern. | ||
| And that's why we have to be very careful about how we move forward and make it clear to him that there are prices to pay that could, in fact, cost his country an awful lot. | ||
| But of course you have to be concerned when you have, you know, nuclear power invaded. | ||
| If he invades, it hasn't happened since World War II. | ||
| This is the most consequential thing that's happened in the world in terms of war. | ||
| Are they going to cut his mic off? | ||
| Since World War II. | ||
| The White House going to cut off his mic? | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Nearly two years have passed since the beginning of the global coronavirus outbreak, and you again today acknowledge that Americans are frustrated and they're tired. | |
| Based on your conversations with your health advisors, what type of restrictions do you imagine being on Americans this time next year, and what does the new normal look like for social gatherings and travel to you? | ||
| Well, the answer is, I hope the new normal will be that we don't have, still have 30 some million people not vaccinated. | ||
| I hope the new normal is people have seen what their own interest is and have taken advantage of what we have available to us. | ||
| Number two, with the pill that it appears to be as efficacious as it seems to be, that you're going to be able to deal with this virus in a way that after the fact, you have an ability to make sure you don't get very sick. | ||
| Number three. | ||
| I would hope that what happens is the rest of the world does what I'm doing and provides significant amounts of the vaccine to the rest of the world, because it's not sufficient that we just have this country not have the virus or be able to control the virus, but that we can't pull the wall high enough to keep a new variant out. | ||
| So it requires one of the things that I want to do, and we're contemplating figuring out how to do, not... | ||
| We are contemplating how to get done. | ||
| And that is, how do we move in a direction where the world itself is vaccinated? | ||
| It's not enough just to vaccinate 340 million, fully vaccinate 340 million people in the United States. | ||
| That's not enough. | ||
| It's not enough to do it. | ||
| We have to do it, and we have to do a lot more than we're doing now. | ||
| And that's why we have continued to keep the commitment. | ||
| I'm providing vaccines and available cures for the rest of the world as well. | ||
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If I could, sir, and I should have said this before, Francesca Chambers McClatchy, how do you plan to win back moderates and independents who cast a ballot for you in 2020, but polls indicate aren't happy with the way you're doing your job now? | |
| I don't believe the polls. | ||
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I don't believe the polls. | |
| Well, why don't you just go down the road? | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| To follow up on some of the questions about the vaccination program, you've given dozens of speeches this year urging Americans to get vaccinated. | ||
| You've talked to reluctant Republicans. | ||
| So his answer on how he's going to win back independents that hate him? | ||
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There have been very few mentions of the fact that young children under the age of 5 despise Joe Biden. | |
| A majority of Americans want Joe Biden to resign. | ||
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Don't have access to the vaccine. | |
| Can you speak to frustrated parents a little bit about why that continues to be the case and when that might change? | ||
| Guys, not a single person in the Washington press corps asked about the border. | ||
| That's what they're doing now. | ||
| You could have asked me that. | ||
| Our media is so broken. | ||
| Our media is so shameful. | ||
| About people between the ages of 7 and 12. Well, finally, they've got to the point where they felt secure in the number of tests they had done and the tests they had run that it was safe. | ||
| So it will come. | ||
| It will come. | ||
| But I'm not a scientist. | ||
| I can't tell you when. | ||
| But it is really very important that we get that next piece. | ||
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One more follow-up on Build Back Better. | |
| When you said it's going to likely be broken up into chunks, you mentioned that the climate pieces seem to have broad support. | ||
| You mentioned Senator Manchin is a supporter of early child care. | ||
| You left out the child tax credit, and I wonder if it's fair to read between the lines and assume that that is a piece, given Senator Manchin's opposition to it, that the extension of that is likely one of those components that may have to wait until sometime down the line. | ||
| There's two really big components that I feel strongly about that I'm not sure I can get in the package. | ||
| One is the child care tax credit, and the other is help for cost of community colleges. | ||
| They are massive things that I've run on, I care a great deal about, and I'm going to keep coming back at whatever four I get to be able to try to get chunks of all of that done. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Next man next to your left. | ||
|
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| My name is Pedro Rojas. | ||
| I'm with Univision National News. | ||
| This is actually my first press conference here. | ||
| Good to meet you in person. | ||
| We always have long press conferences. | ||
|
unidentified
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Awesome. | |
| Awesome. | ||
| I've got a couple of questions for you. | ||
|
unidentified
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Number one, you said that you want to convey your message by getting out there in the country. | |
| I wonder if you're planning on traveling also to South America and other countries in the Western Hemisphere, given the fact that China has gained a lot of influence in the region. | ||
| And the second question is, What would be your message for residents in this country that are struggling every time they go to the gas station, every time they go to the grocery store and see the prices going high, and the pharmacy? | ||
| I happen to come from South Texas, where I saw a lot of people struggling financially in the last few months. | ||
| And so I think you, I wonder what is the message you want to spread to them? | ||
| Well, I try to express, I've asked, I try to answer that seven different ways today about how to deal with inflation. | ||
| But let me answer the first question. | ||
| I spent a lot of time in South America and in Latin America. | ||
| When I was vice president, I spent the bulk of my eight years basically in Europe and or in Latin America. | ||
| I'm in contact with the leaders of the countries in South America. | ||
| We're working closely with making sure that we do everything, for example, to deal with helping. | ||
| The countries in question, particularly those in Central America, to be able to help them with their ability to deal with the inter... | ||
| People don't sit around in Guatemala and say, I've got a great idea. | ||
| Let's sell everything we have, give the money to a coyote, take us across a terribly dangerous trip up through Central America and up through Mexico. | ||
| Drop us, sneak us across the border, drop us in the desert. | ||
| Won't that be fun? | ||
| People leave because they have real problems. | ||
| And one of the things I've done when I was a vice president, got support with, although I don't have much Republican support anymore, is provide billions of dollars to be able to say to those countries, why are people leaving? | ||
| And how are you going to reform your own system? | ||
| And that's what we've worked on a long time. | ||
| It still needs a lot more work. | ||
| And we're focusing on that. | ||
| I also believe I've spent a lot of time talking about and dealing with policy having to do with Maduro, who is a little more than a dictator right now. | ||
| And the same thing in Chile and not the same thing, but with Chile as well as Argentina. | ||
| So, look, I made a speech a while ago when I was vice president saying that if we were smart, We have an opportunity to make the Western Hemisphere a united, not united, a democratic hemisphere. | ||
| And we were moving in the right direction under the last administration. | ||
| Our media is scum. | ||
| Communist scum. | ||
| But so much damage was done as a consequence of the foreign policy decisions the last president made in... | ||
| They're responsible for getting this man elected. | ||
| We now have, when I call for a summit of the democracies, I call that and a number of nations showed up for this summit of democracy. | ||
| And now we get 4,471 questions about Ukraine's border and now one question about the American border. | ||
| And it seems to me there's nothing more important. | ||
| We used to talk about, when I was a kid in college, about America's backyard. | ||
| It's not America's backyard. | ||
| Everything south of the Mexican border is America's front yard, and we're equal people. | ||
| We don't dictate what happens in any other part of this continent or the South American continent. | ||
| We have to work very hard on it. | ||
| But the trouble is we're having great difficulty making up for the mistakes that have been made the last four years, and it's going to take some time. | ||
| Yes, gentleman in the back. | ||
| Now I'll go to this side, okay? | ||
|
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Alexander Nazarian, Yahoo News. | ||
| And thank you for holding this press conference. | ||
| I hope there's more of them. | ||
| Anytime you have extra three hours, we can do it. | ||
|
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We'll stay for a couple more. | |
| You said you were surprised by Republican obstruction of your agenda, but didn't the GOP take exactly the same tactic when you were vice president to Barack Obama? | ||
| So why did you think they would treat you... | ||
| Any differently than they treated him? | ||
| First of all, they weren't nearly as obstructionist as they are now, number one. | ||
| They stated that, but you had a number of Republicans we worked with closely. | ||
| From John McCain, I mean, a number of Republicans we worked closely with. | ||
| Even back in those days, Lindsey Graham. | ||
| And so the difference here is there seems to be a desire to work. | ||
| And I didn't say my agenda. | ||
| I'm saying, what are they for? | ||
| What is their agenda? | ||
| They had an agenda back in the administration when the eight years we were president. | ||
| No questions on the border. | ||
| No questions on crime. | ||
| Highest murder rates in 12 major American cities. | ||
| In 40 years, highest inflation in 40 years. | ||
| I mean, anything. | ||
| I haven't heard anything. | ||
| The American public is outraged about the fact that we're the state of the environment, the vast majority of the public. | ||
| What have they done to do anything to ameliorate the climate change that's occurring other than to deny it exists? | ||
| So what I'm saying is the difference between then and now is not only the announcement that was made anything to stop Barack Obama. | ||
| I get that part. | ||
| But what eventually happened. | ||
| We were able to get some things done. | ||
| We were able to work through some things. | ||
| On the stuff that was really consequential in terms of ideologically divisive, it was a real fight. | ||
| But so, but I don't think there's a time when I, I mean, I wonder what would be the Republican platform right now? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| What do you think their position on taxes? | ||
| What do you think their position on? | ||
| Lower taxes? | ||
| On human rights? | ||
| What do you think their position is on... | ||
| Not torching people's human rights through illegal and unconstitutional COVID vaccines? | ||
| With the cost of prescription drugs. | ||
| Mandates? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| I mean, I just... | ||
| Not forcing medical treatments on people? | ||
| What do you think Republicans stand for? | ||
| And I know they do have things they want to support. | ||
| Whether they're things I want or not. | ||
| Law and order, borders, sound fiscal policy. | ||
| And every once in a while, when you hear something where there's a consensus... | ||
| It's important, but a small item. | ||
| Supporting our cops, criminalizing communists in school and in government. | ||
| I'm not being coverage. | ||
| I mean, there's not much discussion about it. | ||
| So I just think it's a different... | ||
| What do you mean, what do we stand for? | ||
| You'll find out what we stand for in November. | ||
| No matter how strongly... | ||
| When you're impeached, you'll find out what we stand for. | ||
| ...the Republican and or supports the former president of the United States. | ||
| I don't know how we can't look at what happened on... | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| That's a real problem. | ||
|
unidentified
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One more question, Mr. President. | |
| By the way, it's a quarter of guys, so I'm going to do this. | ||
| If you ask me easy questions, I'll give you quick answers. | ||
|
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There's an increasing concern, I think, among some Democrats that even if schools do continue to open, and I get that most of them are now open, Republicans will weaponize this narrative of you Of you and other leading Democrats allowing them to stay closed in the midterms next year. | |
| And, you know, obviously that issue has a lot of traction with suburban parents, as I think we saw in Virginia. | ||
| I'm confused by the question. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
|
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Could school reopenings or closures become a potent midterm issue for Republicans to win back the suburbs? | |
| Oh, I think it could be, but I hope in God that they're, that, look, this is what, maybe I'm kidding myself, but as time goes on. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, that man works for Yahoo News. | ||
| That person is not a reporter. | ||
| That person is a Democrat stenographer, Democrat plant. | ||
| He's sitting there talking to Biden as though they're inside of a struggle session to figure out how to win in 2022. | ||
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How do we stop Republicans from taking back the suburbs? | |
| Scum of the earth. | ||
| Scum of the earth. | ||
| These reporters. | ||
| Corporate media. | ||
| Look at them. | ||
| Look at them broken. | ||
| And I think that... | ||
| They are not going to be as susceptible to believing some of the outlandish things that have been said and continue to be said. | ||
| You know, every president, not necessarily in the first 12 months, but every president in the first couple of years, most every president, excuse me, of the last presidents, at least four of them, have had polling numbers that are 44% favorable. | ||
| So this idea that, but you all, not you all, but now it is, well, Biden's, that one poll showed him at 33%. | ||
| The average is 44, 45%. | ||
| One poll, I'm at 49%. | ||
| I mean, the idea that this hack, look at him go, broken brain. | ||
| I hear the Republic of China sift their way through. | ||
| The spinning... | ||
| What's real and what's fake. | ||
| He's not there. | ||
| He's not there. | ||
| He's dead. | ||
| I don't think as... | ||
| He's not there. | ||
| I've never seen a time... | ||
| Broken brain Biden. | ||
| The political coverage... | ||
| The choice of what political coverage the voter looks to has as much impact on what they believe. | ||
| They go to get reinforced. | ||
| His name is Alexander Nazarian. | ||
| That's the reporter. | ||
| The reporter asked, will Democrats keeping schools closed for years? | ||
| Will Democrats keeping schools closed for years hurt them in the election? | ||
| What will impact on how things move is that a lot of... | ||
| When does Jen Psaki pull the fire alarm in the White House? | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| When does Jen Psaki... | ||
| Yank the fire alarm in the White House. | ||
| They're losing viewership. | ||
|
unidentified
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No? | |
| Well, Fox is okay for a while, but it's not gated. | ||
| And a lot of the rest are predicted to be not very much in the mix. | ||
| Now he's talking about cable news viewership? | ||
| I don't know if that's true or not. | ||
| But I do know that we have sort of put everybody in, put themselves in certain alleys. | ||
| And they've decided that, you know... | ||
| How many people who watch MSNBC also watch Fox other than they're a politician trying to find out what's going on in both places? | ||
| How many people? | ||
| Again, I'm no expert in any of this. | ||
| But the fact is, I think you have to acknowledge that what gets covered now... | ||
| Why is he talking about cable news ratings? | ||
| Necessarily a little bit different. | ||
| Look at how much they care. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| Because this is the real media, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I've had a couple... | ||
| We've been live for two hours. | ||
| This is the real media. | ||
| But the nature... | ||
| We're breaking them right now. | ||
| The nature of the way... | ||
| And I want to thank all of you watching on Rumble. | ||
| Thousands watching across Rumble, YouTube, and Facebook. | ||
| And it's my observation over the years I've been involved in public. | ||
| I've changed. | ||
| And it's changed because of everything from a thing called the internet. | ||
| It's changed because of the way in which we have self-identified perspectives based on what channel you turn on. | ||
| What network you look at? | ||
| What cable you look at? | ||
| And it's never quite been like that. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| What answer was that? | ||
|
unidentified
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On behalf of the Correspondents Association, thank you very much for standing for our questions. | |
| We hope the public has found it as enlightening as those of us in the room have. | ||
| I want to ask you, sir, about one of the... | ||
| I can still stand. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
|
unidentified
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We appreciate it. | |
| We very much do. | ||
| So the question I want to ask you gets to accountability. | ||
| Did you say he's going to do push-ups? | ||
|
unidentified
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On one of the top public concerns, of course, which is the coronavirus and the government's response to it. | |
| Whether it's confusion over what style of mask to wear, when to test, how to test, where to test. | ||
| The public is confused, sir, and you see that in the drop-off in the polling on this question. | ||
| Why did you tell Jeff that you were satisfied with your team? | ||
| Why are you not willing to make or interested in making any changes, either at the CDC or other agencies, given the fact that the messages have been so confusing? | ||
| Well, first of all, the message is, to the extent they've been confusing, is because the scientists, they're learning more. | ||
| They're learning more about what's needed and what's not needed. | ||
| And so the fact is that the one piece that has gotten a lot of attention is... | ||
| Why have you sucked on everything COVID-related? | ||
| Science! | ||
| The communications capacity of the CDC. | ||
| Well, she came along and said, look, I'm not a scientist. | ||
| And I'm learning. | ||
| I'm learning how to deal with stating what is the case that we've observed. | ||
| But look, I think that it's a little bit like saying when we went through the whole issue of how to deal with polio and the polio shots. | ||
| What was said in the beginning... | ||
| I said, oh no, it's changed a little bit. | ||
| We moved this way or that way. | ||
| Or when we dealt with anything else. | ||
| I mean, this was a brand new virus. | ||
| A brand new phenomenon. | ||
| Some of it was deadly. | ||
| Others were more communicable. | ||
| This is an unfolding story. | ||
| It's the nature of the way diseases spread. | ||
| We're going to learn about it in a lot of other areas, not just COVID-19. | ||
| And so I think, you know, I look at it this way. | ||
| Think about how astounding it was within the time frame that it took to be able to come up with a vaccine. | ||
| You used to write about that. | ||
| Pretty amazing how rapidly they came up with a vaccine that saved. | ||
| Hundreds of thousands of lives. | ||
| Did everything get right? | ||
| No. | ||
| And by the way, the idea whether we... | ||
| Anyway, I'm talking too much. | ||
|
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| I have two really simple questions. | ||
| I promise. | ||
| You campaigned on canceling $10,000 in student loans. | ||
| Do you still plan to do so and when? | ||
| And then my second question is, now that you've clarified the Bull Connor comments, do you plan to reach out to Republicans like Mitt Romney to talk about reforming the Electoral Count Act? | ||
| Yes, I'm happy to speak out. | ||
| I've talked to Mitt on other occasions. | ||
| And by the way, I reached out to the minority leader as well at the time that he made his speech. | ||
| And so... | ||
| Leftist, communist, reporter, why is this country so lib? | ||
| Why is our ruling class so out of touch with the American people who are seeing it on display right now? | ||
| These reporters get a chance to ask a single question to arguably the most powerful man in this country. | ||
| Except for Barack Obama, who's running this administration. | ||
| For Martha's Vineyard. | ||
| And the questions are, how can we vaccinate all of our children? | ||
| Ask them questions. | ||
| What kind of masks should we wear? | ||
| I learn a heck of a lot. | ||
| But as president, you don't quite have that ability to do that as often as I'd like to be able to do it. | ||
| Can we kiss your ass? | ||
| Is the public doesn't want me to be the president-senator. | ||
| They want me to be the president and let senators be senators. | ||
| And so, I've made many mistakes, I'm sure. | ||
| If I've made a mistake, I'm used to negotiating to get things done. | ||
| And I've been, in the past, relatively successful at it in the United States Senate, even as vice president. | ||
| But I think that role as president is a different role. | ||
| Folks... | ||
| It is now almost 6:00. | ||
| With all due respect, I'm going to see you in next conference. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| All right, here we go. | ||
|
unidentified
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President Biden speaking for nearly two hours to members of the press corps. | |
| The president declaring the first year of his presidency one of enormous progress. | ||
| But acknowledging there's more work to be done on issues ranging from the pandemic to his fundamental legislative agenda. | ||
| Well, this news conference was the first of 2022. | ||
| Turn off the volume on the... | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay. | |
| So, can I talk to the sweet people? | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay. | |
| All right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
|
unidentified
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All right, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| There you go. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So, we need to recap what we just saw. | ||
| One. | ||
| Let us say the one and singular only thing that we can say that's nice about this current performance, which is that Joe Biden did indeed stand there for quite a long time and did take questions. | ||
| Now, that's the only nice thing to say. | ||
| The worst possible human example of what is going on right now and the worst conceivable, conceivable thing is that Joe Biden did stand there and actually take questions. | ||
| Not great. | ||
| Not great. | ||
| Sam, can we go full screen with this? | ||
| Let's try and go full screen with this. | ||
|
unidentified
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There we go. | |
| Okay. | ||
| This is fun. | ||
|
unidentified
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All right. | |
| Let's center that so it's not two people on screen, Sam. | ||
|
unidentified
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All right. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are working here from our brand new studio. | ||
| We are making it work, and we are trying really hard to bring you interesting and new and unique content. | ||
| And we thank you so much for watching. | ||
| We had thousands and thousands of people watching across platforms. | ||
| This is the new media. | ||
| This is exactly how we're going to break the system. | ||
| So, two major issues. | ||
| One, Joe Biden is not... | ||
| Joe Biden is not alive. | ||
| I repeat, Joe Biden's brainstem doesn't work. | ||
| It's not connected to his body. | ||
| Joe Biden's brainstem, not connected to his spine, not connected to any functional brain activity. | ||
| Joe Biden is merely a houseplant. | ||
| That is exactly what he does inside of the Oval Office. | ||
| He gets locked in there in a dirty bathrobe, in his slippers, inside of what is the nursing home known as the White House right now. | ||
| He has a lukewarm bowl of porridge on his lap, and he sticks. | ||
| That's all he does all day. | ||
| This press conference was a nightmare. | ||
| It was a catastrophic and unmitigated disaster for Joe Biden. | ||
| It is calamitous to have you say on live television, hey, Russia, you can just the tip Ukraine, okay? | ||
| Joe Biden said, and I'm quoting, a minor incursion would essentially be all right inside of Ukraine. | ||
| All right, well, that's a little terrifying. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Little bit terrifying. | ||
| Fox News asked if the country is moving in the right direction right now. | ||
| Joe Biden says, I don't know how you can say it's not. | ||
| How can you say it's not moving in the right direction right now? | ||
| This country, by the way, is doing worse than it's been doing in a very long time. | ||
| People are sick of it. | ||
| Joe Biden has a 30% approval rating. | ||
| Joe Biden has dropped by 16 points in his approval rating in one year. | ||
| 16 points. | ||
| That is historic. | ||
| Joe Biden is the most unpopular Democratic president in modern history, maybe the most unpopular Democrat president in American history. | ||
| So here he is up there, bumbling, rambling, mumbling. | ||
| Multiple times Joe Biden went like this. | ||
| And just didn't know what to say. | ||
| Didn't know what to do. | ||
| Didn't know what he was talking about. | ||
| Didn't know how to answer the question. | ||
| You saw that there. | ||
| It was shocking. | ||
| It was like watching... | ||
| The MacBook spinning logo directly on the head as he's trying to think of answers to things. | ||
| For instance, he couldn't think of the name Chuck Schumer. | ||
| He couldn't come up with the name Bernie Sanders off the top of his head. | ||
| Joe Biden has had two aneurysms, two brain aneurysms. | ||
| According to Hunter Biden's diary, according to Hunter Biden's diary, Joe Biden had dementia. | ||
| That's what Hunter Biden's diary says, and that's what Hunter Biden's laptop says, according to his therapist. | ||
| I mean, we'll just leave it at that. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| But that's what the reporting says. | ||
| Go ahead and check it out. | ||
| So, a lot of rambling, a lot of babbling, literal babbling. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| It was like an old man just wandering through the fields. | ||
| It was like an old man just like wandering, wandering into the abyss. | ||
| It was so... | ||
| I think it would easily be illegitimate, Joe Biden says, of elections in red states. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, they tried to impeach and they're now going to try and prosecute Donald Trump for questioning the results of an election. | ||
| Joe Biden and the Democratic Party has done more to undermine American elections and the American election system than any single element, any single thing that Donald Trump or his entire White House ever did. | ||
| This is such abject trash from these people. | ||
| It is so disgusting and it is absolutely rage-inducing. | ||
| So what they are doing is they know they're going to lose in a catastrophic nuclear red tsunami from space. | ||
| And so what they're setting up is for Joe Biden to say all those elections were illegitimate. | ||
| Every single one of them that happened in a red state, it's all illegitimate. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| So, Joe Biden barely called on Fox News. | ||
| Fox News asked him why he's going so far left, and Joe Biden's like, what's your definition of left? | ||
| Also, where's Corn Pop? | ||
| Where's his razor blades? | ||
| Is he on the diving board? | ||
| Joe Biden said, and I quote, the increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is a... | ||
| Is in proportion to not being able to get these reforms passed. | ||
| That is exactly what Joe Biden said on the elections being illegitimate, calling red state elections illegitimate. | ||
| I mean, that's the most damaging thing I've ever seen a president do to our democracy, period. | ||
| I don't believe the polls, Biden says about polls, is showing him deeply unpopular. | ||
| Biden was asked about how independents and Democrats are both saying, screw this guy. | ||
| In fact, a majority of Americans want him to resign. | ||
| A poll from the end of last year said Biden should just resign. | ||
| Joe Biden says he doesn't believe the polls. | ||
| The worst possible answer to that question. | ||
| Joe Biden was asked about his own cognitive capacities. | ||
| And Joe Biden, this was from a Newsmax reporter, a fantastic Newsmax reporter, James Rosen. | ||
| James Rosen trying to be really polite to Biden up front. | ||
| And then he's like, listen, the majority of Americans don't believe you have the cognitive capacity to run this country. | ||
| And then Joe Biden says. | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| I don't care. | ||
| Essentially. | ||
| Joe Biden says, I don't care. | ||
| I don't care that everyone knows and can see clearly that I am legitimately suffering from cognitive decline. | ||
| Joe Biden got up in the microphone and whispered a lot. | ||
| A lot of really creepy ASMR whispering. | ||
| A lot of that. | ||
| And Biden said a nuclear power like Russia invading another country hasn't happened since World War II. | ||
| Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 when Joe Biden was vice president. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So Joe Biden, fail, fail, fail, fail, fail, fail, fail. | ||
| It was a nightmare. | ||
| I don't know how anyone can stay in this administration. | ||
| I don't see how the entire administration doesn't just resign right now in protest. | ||
| I don't know why Jen Psaki didn't just pull the fire alarm and just end the whole thing. | ||
| And I don't know why... | ||
| I mean, I'm just shocked that they allowed it to go on that long. | ||
| Biden clearly had a pre-scripted book of reporters to call from. | ||
| You saw him flipping the pages. | ||
| You saw him flipping the pages on answers, too. | ||
| Very interesting, that. | ||
| And so even with the pre-scripted questions and even with all the reporters in the room asking questions, this is why D.C. is a poison. | ||
| We had 457,000 billion questions about Ukraine's borders, not a single question about the American border. | ||
| Of which 2 million people, 2 million criminal migrants has poured across this year. | ||
| We had a lot of questions about crimes that could potentially be committed inside of the Russia-Ukraine border. | ||
| But not a single question about crime in this country. | ||
| Not a single question about crime inside of our cities. | ||
| Not a single question about crime in American cities where the homicide rate has gone up. | ||
| To the highest levels in 40 years in 12 of our major cities in this country. | ||
| Shocking. | ||
| Like, one pathetic question on inflation, Joe Biden was like, people that make cows don't know how to, they don't make cows, they don't know how to make hamburger. | ||
| Vaccines. | ||
| Vaccine mandates. | ||
| Just unmitigated disaster. | ||
| Just absolute trash. | ||
| I just, again, I don't know how everyone doesn't just resign. | ||
| Immediately. | ||
| The thing that is a huge bright side to all of this, we did get to see exactly how Joe Brandon operates. | ||
| We did get to see exactly how weak he is, how feeble he is, how demented the dementia has made his brain, his poor brain. | ||
| How sick it is that the people in his family who loved him still allowed him to do this. | ||
| What a repugnant and disgusting thing to let a person who is clearly in such substantial mental decline go out and do this. | ||
| It's abuse. | ||
| It's elder abuse. | ||
| This guy didn't know what Let's Go Brandon meant. | ||
| He said Let's Go Brandon on a live stream the day before Christmas. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| Let's Go Brandon. | ||
| He told the country to go F himself. | ||
| And now the country's going to actually follow his orders. | ||
| Maybe the country's going to do one single thing that Joe Biden wants him to do. | ||
| And that is follow his orders and say Let's Go Brandon. | ||
| They're just going to follow his orders and Let's Go Brandon. | ||
| Alright? | ||
| The country's going to say F you, big guy. | ||
| And no more 10% for the big guy. | ||
| 0% for the big guy. | ||
| We are not going to vote for this crap. | ||
| And if Joe Biden's thinking he's convincing anyone by, like, going out and doing that and, like, having these kind of conversations with people, doing these kind of press conferences, he says, ooh, I'm going to get out and see the people now. | ||
| Ooh, ho, Nelly. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Ooh, boy. | ||
| That's not going to be great for you, Joe. | ||
| Last time Joe Biden got out and saw the people, he started screaming in the face of the guy in Michigan that challenged him on the Second Amendment. | ||
| And challenged, called voters fat, and then challenged them to push up competitions. | ||
| That's what Joe Biden did. | ||
| One guy, he got up in his face, pointed to his chest and said, why don't you go vote for anyone else? | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| So we welcome that day. | ||
| We welcome the day that us, the freedom movement, takes back the country. | ||
| We are ascendant. | ||
| We are the people who will save America. | ||
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| All right? | ||
| God. | ||
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