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June 27, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson

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Let's Get READY To RUMBLE! Trump to Take On Drugged-Up Joe LIVE, DNC PANIC at LANDSLIDE Trump Poll🚨

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01:00:42

julie kelly

12:05

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01:02

jake tapper

01:45

lucas tomlinson

01:06

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00:41

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00:13

joe scarborough

00:39

joy reid

00:44

kasie hunt

00:36

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00:43

nicolle wallace

00:56

van jones

00:23

vivek ramaswamy

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lucas tomlinson ▲ ● ▼		Well, good early morning, Carly and Todd.
		The day has finally arrived.
		The first presidential debate of 2024.
		This one coming much earlier than previous presidential debates and a far cry from the only Carter-Reagan debate in 1980 that was held just 10 days before the election.
		But I digress.
		There's been some accusations from the Biden campaign against the former President Donald Trump.
		Let's read a few.
		Reminder, Donald Trump's attacks law enforcement wants to cut police funding and his president oversaw the largest spike in homicides since 1905.
		And here's another.
		Reminder, Donald Trump has the worst jobs record of any modern president, the first president since the Great Depression to leave office with fewer jobs than when he became president.
		He lost nearly 3 million jobs as president.
		Now, expect the economy to play a large role in the debate tonight.
		Today, prices are about...
		20% higher than the day President Biden took office.
		Gas is up 46%.
		Here's what voters around the country are saying.
unidentified		I think it's going to be a sandbox fight.
		I want them to talk about the issues that are at hand and less about all the cultural divides that everybody's been fighting over.
		I would like to hear that blue-collar workers are going to get more, not necessarily recognition, even though they should definitely have more recognition.
		They are the building blocks of this country.
		I think that pay should be.
		Like, the economy should go down enough to where we can actually give them effective pay.
		I think my mind has already made up four years ago which way I'm gonna go.
lucas tomlinson ▲ ● ▼		Now, Nate Silver's new election forecast model is out.
		He gives Donald Trump a 65% chance of winning in November.
		Carly, Tom.
unidentified		Bollandrel, $250, Bollie Q, $75.
		Two bottles of Trent, $75 each.
		But just need some juice and you're all right then, right?
		I'm just going to get big and strong.
		Yes, you are, my friend.
		Dramatic music
		later that same evening.
		If you hadn't been to Camp St. Joe, I'd been president a long time ago.
		Where did you come from?
		Where did you both go?
		Where did you go from?
		I'm headed back here.
		Where did you go from?
		Where's our Donald Trump dance, right?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We worked on our Donald Trump dance, okay?
		It's the Donald Trump dance.
		Notice the Donald Trump dance.
		He's got fists up, okay?
		He's ready for the brawl.
		He's ready for the fight.
		He's ready to go.
		Oh, man.
		We are ready to rumble!
		Today is the day.
		Thursday, June 27, 2024.
		The date.
		That we have been waiting for.
		Nation prepares for debate.
		Trump versus Biden.
		But there are some new technologies that CNN is dumping into the pool.
		And also, you're going to love this.
		The panic.
		We have been soaking it up.
		We've been watching nonstop.
		Please pray for us, by the way.
		Take up a collection, okay, on Sunday for us.
		We've been watching nonstop MSNBC.
		The meltdowns.
		You're going to love it.
		They know Biden's going to lose.
		They know it.
		Some of the smartest people are saying, it's over tonight.
		And so we are ready tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
		Democrat pollster predicts doom for Joe Biden as well, the most beloved darling of left-wing polling.
		That poll out just hours ago.
		Julie Kelly joins the program, who can...
		Comment, of course, on Donald Trump's trials and how they will come to bear on this debate.
		It will be an amazing, amazing day, and we will be there for you all day.
		My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
		All right, ladies and gentlemen, so I need to talk about programming note here, okay, before we get started on anything else in the show.
		A programming note.
		As it comes to our coverage of tonight's debate.
		And we have been talking about this for days now.
		And I want to begin with the good news.
		The good news is that we have Laura Trump live tonight.
		Laura Trump live tonight on our show with Tenet Media in the arena.
		Ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be awesome.
		It's going to be awesome.
		We're really looking forward to it.
		A little birdie tells us that Laura Trump, who's the co-chairwoman of the RNC, of course, has been helping out Team Trump a little bit with this debate sparring.
		She's pretty good herself on her feet.
		And so we're going to be speaking with Laura Trump tonight, live at five, just a few short hours before the debate, and she'll give us all the preparations.
		Ladies and gentlemen, for what's happening behind the scenes, in front of the camera, behind the camera.
		She's going to be there at the debate, okay?
		We've confirmed that.
		She will physically be there at the debate.
		So she'll be able to tell us everything, right?
		This is, of course, following through on our promise to you to always be live, present, and ready to go with the news.
		And that leads us to the sad part about tonight.
		And I want to just total...
		And complete honesty with you about what's happening behind the scenes.
		Because we've never seen anything like it.
		And it's outrageous.
		And it's happening to everyone.
		It's happening to left-wing accounts.
		To right-wing accounts.
		To all of us.
		To anyone who wishes to stream the debate.
	Now, this may be a little esoteric.
	This may be getting a little too into the weeds.
	But it's worth understanding why our coverage is going to look a specific way tonight.
	Okay?
	Of this debate.
	A week ago, we got outreach from one of our partners at YouTube.
	And they said, you got to get on the phone with CNN.
	Something's brewing.
	And CNN is not going to be kind to streamers.
	In fact, we have every indication that CNN is going to utilize a DCMA takedown copyright strike system that is in place at YouTube.
	That applies to all accounts, okay?
	And has the same rules for every account.
	That if you stream the debate live, we worry that if you're streaming the debate live, that you're going to get penalized big time.
	So we got on the horn with CNN.
	And we talked with CNN.
	And here's what CNN told us.
	And it's the same story that they've told a ton of other outlets.
	I think we have, let's put up like the Post Millennial has an article on it.
	There's a bunch of articles on it.
	They've told left-wing, right-wing, centrist outlets, all of this.
	We've all gotten the same line from them.
	If you stream this debate on your channel, if you stream this debate, we will strike your channel.
	We will rip your stream down live.
	We'll do everything we can to take your stream down.
	We'll do everything we can to make sure that your viewers cannot watch it with your commentary.
	CNN made that clear as day to us.
	We said, F you.
	We went to our lawyers.
	And we went actually specifically...
	To a IP in copyright who does just this kind of work.
	And they told us this.
	Let's sue CNN.
	Let's bring CNN to federal court.
	Let's make them argue that the two guys running for president isn't fair use.
	Fair use laws are roundly modeled around what is in the public interest.
	What is news that you must know?
	What is information that the public has a right to, right?
	And that is why throughout all human history, debates have been done through a non-partisan debate council, right?
	And everyone can stream it.
	C-SPAN's streaming it.
	Fox is streaming it.
	CNN's streaming it.
	We're streaming it.
	This is different.
	This is the first presidential debate, I think, in your lifetime or my lifetime that's been outside of that non-profit and inside of a for-profit media company.
	And so here's likely what would happen tonight.
	We build up a show.
	We do three hours live before the show.
	We get an audience rolling.
	We've had 30,000, 40,000 concurrents on this channel for big debates.
	Across all platforms, we've had hundreds of thousands of concurrents on this channel, and we love you.
	We get the feed rolling, and we're ready to go.
	The debate starts.
	In the first 27 seconds, we get a strike that takes our channel down.
	And these are the rules of YouTube.
	Look them up.
	That rips down the feed.
	So we have this big audience and then suddenly your screen goes blank.
	Our screen goes blank.
	And then you're like, okay, Benny, maybe restart the live.
	We can't.
	If we get a strike while we're live, then that means that we won't be able to live stream again for seven days.
	So VP picks.
	Our show.
	The immunity decision at the Supreme Court.
	The January 6th decisions in Fisher.
	Various guests.
	Let's say the VP, who has probably been on our show before.
	Literally every person who Donald Trump is thinking about for VP.
	We know them all.
	So let's say the VP wants to come on my show.
	Wants to come on our show and talk to you.
	We won't be able to go live.
	We wouldn't be able to do it.
	Because CNN strikes our channel.
	This is outrageous.
	Tim Pool, Breaking Points, every single channel has the same threat hanging over them.
	We went to our lawyers and our lawyers said, we'll sue them and we'll win.
	Our thoughts is there's no way they'd be able to argue that this is not within the public interest and this is not fair use.
	It's the very definition of fair use.
	Okay?
	And I'm not trying to bore you with all this back and forth.
	I want to show you, like, how much work we've gone through to try and fix this.
	CNN should have just said, of course you can stream it.
	Obviously.
	But CNN is trying to clamp down on the commentary.
	They're trying so desperately to control narratives around this debate that they are preventing Any of us from streaming it and saying at the threat of, you know, at the threat of true harm to our channels and to us legally, okay?
	That we are not scared of.
	Here's what we are scared of.
	What we are scared of is being unable to deliver the news to you, being unable to, in this insane news cycle, be off-air and offline for weeks, and we are particularly worried.
	About your viewership experience tonight.
	It would be disingenuous for us to build up an audience of, let's say, over the past couple months, we've had hundreds of thousands of people watching live concurrently.
	It would be, we think, disrespectful to the audience to build that up, to do all the pre-programming, to hype everything up, and then to have the plug pulled 39 seconds into the debate.
	Which is what YouTube and what CNN have all told us they're going to do.
	They have told us that's what they plan on doing.
	They have telegraphed that.
	And so then your screen goes blank and our screen goes blank.
	And then we can no longer live stream.
	Like, for weeks.
	And so that is what we are up against.
	Now, while lawyers say we'll fight them in court...
	And bring it to a federal district court and try and argue that.
	What our lawyers could not do, of course, is prevent those policies from being enacted inside of YouTube because those aren't legal policies.
	That's just the system inside of the machine right now.
	And so, whilst we consider the options before us, know this.
	We will be...
	Responding to?
	Clipping?
	Cutting?
	Watching?
	Commentating?
	Recording?
	Live?
	We will be in the studio.
	We will be here with you.
	We have decided from an editorial perspective after exhausting all legal routes that it would be disrespectful to the audience to build up 100,000 people watching maybe and then have your screen go black.
	And then rob you of your debate experience.
	As has been threatened to us time and time again.
	We believe that it would be also, obviously disrespectful to you, if we wantonly did that and then couldn't go live during these massive breaking news events.
	The vice president will be selected and they will want to come on this program.
	I assure you of that because the vice president is somebody who's been on this program before.
	We've had them all, including this week.
	Byron Donald was just on this week.
	He's on the shortlist.
	We've had them all on.
	That would also be disrespectful to you.
	And then when there's breaking news about Donald Trump and immunity and January 6th, that would be disrespectful to this audience.
	So I don't want to belabor this.
	You can obviously tell that we've done as much as we possibly can here.
	The true baddies are CNN.
	CNN, of course, is making the decision to ensure that corporate media Can simulcast.
	So, here we go.
	Put up this post-millennial article if it wasn't already up, please.
	Tim Pool has been struggling with this.
	Me and Tim have been on the phone day and night.
	I tell you the truth.
	Day and night.
	Tim and I have been on the phone.
	Big fans of Tim Pool.
	He's an ally of ours.
	We really liked him.
	So, here we go.
	They're allowing simulcasting on Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS.
	They're not allowing us to do it.
	They have told us expressly they will rip our feed down.
	So the one thing that you will not see from us tonight, after exhausting every possible avenue, the one thing that you will not see from us tonight is a live stream of the exact debate.
	We are still considering maybe streaming our reactions to the debate.
	We will be in the studio responding, clipping, reacting, and delivering content to you.
	But we want to just, and we're bringing you Laura Trump right before the debate.
	We're doing everything in our power, and we may still yet go live after the debate, depending on what happens.
	But we wanted to just take this moment.
	I'm sorry if this was boring.
	We wanted to take this moment and express to you our outrage over CNN doing this, attacking independent creators on the left, right, and center.
	There's a bunch of lefties that are furious they can't stream it either.
	A bunch of people in the center that are angry about this.
	A good example of this is Sagar and Jetty and Crystal Ball on their show, Breaking Points, who is, you know, kind of like straight down the center.
	This is an attack on independent creators.
	There are some people who are going to try and skirt the rules.
	At least that's what they say.
	We have made this decision based on advice of our council and based on what we have been told by the platforms.
	The outrage and the baddie is CNN.
	They are doing this to us.
	They are telling us they are doing this to us.
	And we are in a tough position because we have an obligation to you to keep the news going and keep our capacity to reach you and to communicate with you.
	And so, not by our own choosing, this is what they've done.
	They're dicks for doing this.
	And it's an attack on independent creators.
	It actually shows you who they're the most scared of.
	In conclusion here, it shows you that they're the most scared.
	Of the people who actually have real audiences, not fake audiences, that are propped up by Pfizer ads.
	CNN, in fact, here, check this screenshot out.
	It's amazing.
	CNN's running ads on our show right now.
	Check this out.
	CNN is literally, as we speak, running ads against our show.
	Put it up on screen.
	Some of you in the chat will actually see your chats here.
	Put it up on screen.
	There you go.
	Look at that.
	Would you look at that?
	CNN knows where the real audience is.
	And knows where the real power is.
	And look at that chat right now rolling.
	Okay?
	We love you.
	We care about you.
	We make this decision for you.
	Because we have an obligation.
	We have an obligation to deliver the news to you.
	So know this.
	We will be on live tonight.
	We will be clipping.
	We will be reacting.
	We will be all over social media.
	We have been shackled.
	Shackled.
	And every other creator with us.
	Independent creator with us has been shackled by CNN, who's running ads on this program right now.
	There it is.
	Running ads on this live program right now, CNN.
	We've been shackled by them to not livestream it.
	And we've tried every which way to try and get around it.
	But there it is, ladies and gentlemen.
	There it is.
	So that is the one thing you...
	You will not find on this channel.
	You may find us streaming live right afterwards, right after the debate, depending on how it goes.
	Anything can go tonight.
	It's going to be a wild, wild moment in history.
	And we want you to know exactly what's behind all of this.
	We want you to see it all.
	Okay?
	So there it is.
	You have now the full set table for what's happening tonight with every one of your favorite independent creators.
	And every one of your favorite channels, those are the rules.
	Who decides to break those rules and why?
	That's up to them.
	We're in communication with a lot of people.
	I've done my best to explain to you what me and ALX have been wrestling with over the last four days, five days, to try and figure this out.
	It was over the weekend that CNN sent us this email saying, don't you dare.
	You know, we will rip your channel down if you dare do this.
	So anyway, all, you know, no decision I guess is final, but that is what our plan is so far.
	That is what our plan is, and that is our logic behind the plan.
	You are owed.
	Obviously, we deeply love you, and we feel like we have an obligation to you to deliver the news and to be live for seven straight hours, ten straight hours.
	We've done this before.
	For every major event, we've done this before.
	And you deserve an explanation as to who the bad guy is here.
	Okay?
	So there it is.
	In case you're wondering if you're powerful, and if they're scared of you, and if they understand your power, then just combine these two things.
	Let's look at the silver lining on the cloud.
	The silver lining is this.
	And then I'll stop talking about this.
	Because I know it gets boring, but it's something that we care deeply about.
	And we really do care deeply about you and love you, and want to deliver the best coverage for you.
	Silver lining is CNN knows how powerful this chat is.
	I can see the chat right now.
	It's rolling.
	CNN knows how powerful this chat is.
	And CNN is currently running ads against this program because they understand how powerful we all are and where the true audience exists, where true audiences live.
	And so let that be a feather in our cap.
	As we move forward, and know this, we will not be offline tonight, okay?
	Not all the king's horses and all the king's men could prevent us, ladies and gentlemen, from being there for you tonight.
	So there it is.
	I've been avoiding this conversation.
	I've not wanted to have this conversation, but that's what we've been struggling with every hour of the day for this entire week.
	So there it is, ladies and gentlemen, all said and done.
	We love you and care about you and we'll do anything we can to serve this audience and to deliver news.
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	And I think after tonight, many people will say, oh, yeah, we're doomed.
	OK, that is what Democrats are saying about Joe Biden right now.
	OK, so let's begin with the polling.
	I want that Nate Silver poll up on the screen.
	So.
	Nate Silver.
	Is the darling of the Democrat Party.
	He's the darling.
	Can I get the full?
	Can I get the full article, please?
	Nate Silver is the darling of.
	Democrats.
	He is the guy who built the model when he worked at the New York Times, then he started his own site, then he sold that site to ABC News.
	The guy who's made a fortune off of creating models for libs, for the corporate media.
	This guy, you know, beady-eyed little nerd, right?
	He's exactly what you think he is.
	And he's not a friend of Donald Trump.
	He's certainly not a friend of Republicans.
	But he is a friend of data, I think.
	You could generally say with a light touch.
	And he delivered an article yesterday that said the election isn't even close.
	Here's my model for the election going forward.
	It's not even close.
	And that made me sit back and go, oh boy, okay, all right.
	This guy is probably going to show how they're going to rig it for Biden or whatever.
	Let's stop right there.
	Lo and behold, what Nate Silver showed in his predictive model for what's going to happen in the 2024 election.
	Is that Donald Trump has a 37-point advantage on Joe Biden based on all available polling.
	If you break down this 7,000-word dissertation on what's about to happen, what you'll see is that he says, everybody's voting the economy.
	Joe Biden sucks on the economy.
	Nobody, nobody thinks anything's going well economically in America.
	The country's in shambles.
	And Donald Trump is performing historically strong.
	Here's an example he cites.
	Donald Trump had 5% of the black vote at this time in 2020.
	5% support among black Americans.
	Today, it's 30%.
	There is no way to overcome that.
	He says that is outside of the boundaries of limitations of all math and all algorithms.
	You cannot fix that.
	And you cannot fix Joe Biden.
	That's what he says.
	And so here, ladies and gentlemen, are the actual results of...
	The entire model, which again is a massive dissertation by the darling of left-wing polling, this is the final conclusion that he comes to.
	So let's pop up the graphic now.
	The final conclusion that he comes to is 65.7% chance of Donald Trump being victorious and only a 33% chance.
	Of Joe Biden being victorious.
	The predictive model is something that this pollster, of course, pours an enormous amount of treasure and resources and research into.
	They combine every available poll and every available data point.
	Can we punch in on that?
	And it shows you this.
	This is the ultimate conclusion here.
	With the Electoral College probability, Donald Trump will win by almost 100 Electoral College votes.
	That is pure and complete panic matched with the New York Times Seneca polling from this morning showing that the vast preponderance of Americans believe that Joe Biden is going to lose the debate and the vast preponderance of Americans also want Donald Trump to win.
	So this is again the New York Times polling from this morning showing that Nobody believes that Joe Biden is going to perform in this debate.
	60% of Americans believe that Donald Trump will win the debate before the debate even happens.
	And a pittance, like 30%, believe that Joe Biden will win.
	This reinforces the scariest thing that we were told via the DNC adjacent people that we just spoke with at a big conference.
	Very important to break out of your bubble.
	We break out of our bubble to deliver the news for you.
	At a recent conference we were at where we were talking to corporate Democrat-adjacent people, people that actually literally work for the corporate Democrat machine, we were speaking with them, and the thing they are most scared of, the thing they tell us they are the most fearful of, is this, that the American public will see Joe Biden as smooth-brained, as dementia-laden, as incapable of standing for 90 minutes, as he has been practicing at Camp David, as a drugged-up, lobotomized mess, a disaster.
	And they must have done their internal pollings on this and shown that that is the thing that actually makes the people the most worried.
	It's incredible to us that it's actually that Joe Biden's policies that have America in shambles are not the thing that they are the most concerned about.
	Yet here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is the thing they're the most worried about.
	We've heard that from the belly of the beast.
	They're the most scared of the results of this poll.
	The results of this poll show that nobody has any faith in Joe Biden.
	To deliver during the debate.
	And that in the cross tabs, Donald Trump has a four-point advantage in swing states.
	A cumulative four-point advantage.
	So how are you going to fix that?
	You're not.
	You're not.
	This, of course, leads to the whole reason you have a Joe Biden residency in the White House, which is Barack Obama.
	Barack Obama has said many times on air that he wishes to put a meat puppet into The White House.
	And Joe Biden is that meat puppet.
	Joe Biden sits there and is not sentient, can't put words together, drugged up, taken a whole week inside of the military compound that is Camp David to get whatever little cocktail they're going to give him.
	It's amazing the incidence of the correlation.
	The correlation is one, all right, on the on the X, Y axis.
	Of number of baggies of cocaine found throughout D.C. and Joe Biden's family entering the executive residence of the White House.
	The correlation is one.
	So I don't know what they're going to give Joe Biden tonight.
	We're going to see exactly what style of Joe Biden will come out there.
	But we do know this, that the advisor to Barack Obama, his name's Van Jones, guy's crazy, but he's on CNN every single day.
	And he's somebody who is spitting it.
	Like it is.
	He says that if Joe Biden collapses tonight, the stakes tonight are over for Joe Biden.
	You're finished.
	Joe Biden's finished.
	If he can't get it up tonight, then no amount of Viagra is going to save the guy.
	All right?
	Not coming from me.
	All right?
	Coming from literally the depths of the Democrat Party, a personal advisor to Barack Obama.
	Let's go.
van jones ▲ ● ▼		This is the entire election as far as I'm concerned.
		The entire world will be watching.
		If you are a carbon-based life form, you're going to be watching.
		If you've got a functioning brainstem, you're going to be watching.
		Because if Biden goes out there and messes up, it's game over.
		If he walks out there and a week later he's lower in the polls, it's panic in the party.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Panic in the party.
		Panic.
		If Joe Biden dips in the polls the way that he's collapsing right now, pre-debate.
		So before the debate, we've just shown you two huge polls.
		The biggest polls.
		Nate Silver and the New York Times.
		The biggest polls you can get if you're a lib.
		Like, you worship these two entities.
		Nate Silver and the New York Times.
		And they're both saying doom for Joe Biden.
		It's doomed.
		So, what happens next?
		If Donald Trump comes out there and wins this debate, then Van Jones is saying they're gonna...
		They're going to throw Joe Biden into the garbage compactor and do the old switcheroo.
		We've been talking about the old switcheroo.
		Now, CNN is going to do everything in their power to prevent that.
		I want the, I want the, because you'd be in jail clip, please.
		Get me, because you'd be in jail.
		Need it up.
		Need it right now.
		There is a superpower of Donald Trump, and that is that Donald Trump has been, oh, great.
		It's already in the show.
		Fantastic.
		Ah, there it is.
		Great.
		All right.
		Nice addition.
		Donald Trump has been in the public eye.
		For 50 years, Donald Trump's power is his celebrity.
		We've said this many times.
		We've made this case many times.
		Donald Trump is quick as a wit.
		You spend any time with him behind the scenes?
		Hang out with him backstage.
		We have.
		Do interviews with him and then talk with him afterwards.
		We have.
		Donald Trump is so sharp, dude, you cut yourself.
unidentified		Ow!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's like, wow.
		He's joking.
		He's jovial.
		He's bouncing.
		He's everything that you see on stage and more.
		The dude is actually legitimately sharp.
		And there's this superpower that he has because he spent so much time in show business.
		It is timing.
		Any comedian will tell you it's not about the joke.
		It's not how funny the joke is.
		It's the timing.
		Reading the room, flowing with the energy, flowing with the audience, and delivering the line at the perfect time to make people bust it up.
		And that is what Donald Trump demonstrates in clips like this.
joy reid ▲ ● ▼		It's just awfully good that someone...
unidentified		With the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Because you'd be in jail.
joy reid ▲ ● ▼		Secretary Clinton.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You know what's amazing about that clip?
		The two things that you're not going to get now.
		Two things that prevent that clip from happening.
		And you'll be reminded that Anderson Cooper was the guy, Mr. C, I don't anchor, with his failing show.
		Anderson Cooper was the guy who was sitting there.
		Who set up that question.
		Anderson Cooper's the guy who brought that question to the floor to give Donald Trump the massive boomstick.
		Because you'd be in jail.
		The most viral moment of our entire debate history in this country.
		In the history of presidential debates, there's never been a better moment than that.
		And now CNN's going to steal it.
		Now CNN's going to steal it.
		Here's how they're going to do it.
		They're going to mute the mics.
		Let's go.
unidentified		If we go behind the podiums, you can see two green lights.
		When they're on, they signal to the candidate his microphone is on.
		When the green lights are off, they signal to the candidate his microphone is off.
		Now I want to give you a sense of what it will look like for viewers at home if a candidate whose microphone is off interrupts a candidate whose microphone is on.
		So I'm standing at one podium, and I'll ask Phil to come in and take the other podium.
		And so let's say I'm answering a question.
		My light is green, and I'm speaking.
		Phil's microphone is off, and his green lights are not illuminated.
		He's going to interrupt me as I'm speaking, and this is what it will sound like.
		My volume remains constant, while Phil's interruption can be difficult to understand.
		Let's try the opposite.
		My microphone is now on.
		Victor's microphone is off, and he's going to interrupt me.
		My volume remains constant, while Victor's interruption can be difficult to understand.
		CNN's production team has shared this demonstration with the campaigns earlier today, and we're sharing it with you, our viewers, so everyone fully understands how tomorrow night will work.
		Now, we should note, by agreeing to participate in this debate, both campaigns and candidates have also agreed to abide by these rules.
		The CNN presidential debate airs live tomorrow night at 9 p.m. Eastern.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, this is them.
		Again, we're Silver Linings show, okay?
		You're not watching this show to be a doomer.
		You want to be a doomer?
		Go somewhere else.
		You want to go find somebody who's like, it's all over.
		There's no hope.
		Move out to the cabin.
		Like, it'd be awesome to have a cabin, actually.
		But like, don't vote.
		Don't engage.
		It's all done.
		Like, don't come to this show.
		Okay?
		We're in it for the fight.
		We're in it to win.
		We want to win as America first, not lose as America first.
		We're going to win.
		Okay?
		And part of the way that we win is actually keeping a good spree de corps, as they say.
unidentified		Like...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Looking at the silver linings for things like this?
		So yes, you may not get your, because you'd be in jail, quip from Donald Trump, right?
		You may not.
		That was an off-the-cuff, perfectly timed, comedic moment from Trump that just, you know, hits.
		Also, of course, you won't get the live audience reaction.
		But if you're looking at the glass half-full here, what you will get is pure Biden.
		Now, we don't have to play you.
		The clips of what Joe Biden sounds like when he's actually talking on a microphone.
		In fact, Donald Trump has a really good ad out.
		In fact, can we get that ad loaded?
		Donald Trump has a really good ad out about what Joe Biden sounds like when he's talking.
		They've actually cut this ad.
		Joe Biden, when he's in front of a mic, we're going to see pure Biden here.
		And Donald Trump may interrupt or may try to interrupt, but we're going to see pure Joe Biden answers.
		And that is going to strike directly at the core of the fear.
		The thing the DNC fears most, which is people realizing that Joe Biden's completely lobotomized, his frontal lobe's totally gone, his brainstem is non-functioning, and that he's toast, right?
		He's toast.
		And here's the other thing.
		You didn't need Donald Trump to have a hot mic.
		You didn't need Donald Trump to have a hot mic to have this moment happen.
		This, you could argue, which one is the biggest moment?
		I would say that, because you'd be in jail, is the most Powerful line ever said in American debate history.
		However, you could say that there's a very close runner-up and it's this, Donald Trump's first comment ever on a political debate stage.
		And he didn't need any little, you know, this is what Donald Trump is capable of when he's just fielding a simple question.
		Let's go.
unidentified		One of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don't use a politician's filter.
		However, that is not without its downsides, in particular when it comes to women.
		You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.
		Your Twitter account...
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Only Rosie O'Donnell.
unidentified		No, it wasn't.
		Your Twitter account.
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a soul?
		If you have a soul, and if you have a heart left beating in your chest, then you'll laugh at that clip.
		Then you will laugh.
		And you'll smile, you'll crack a little smirk, and you'll say, ah, that's my boy.
		That's what he'll say.
		And, um, well, you know, I guess he pseudo-interrupted Megyn Kelly, but that was pretty much like the moderator asking Trump a question, Trump answering the question, which is what you'll get tonight.
		That's effectively what's going to happen tonight.
		Moderator asks question, Trump fields question.
		And so that was the setup that Trump needed, and he didn't need some type of massive back-and-forth banter situation to facilitate that answer.
		So it's right for people, obviously, to call out CNN for their bias, and this has been happening all week.
		This is...
		What it sounded like last time without the mute button.
		There was actually a mute button, however.
		That mute button was Chris Wallace.
		It's amazing that the mute button still existed in the last debates.
		It was just the rigged moderators who kept interrupting Donald Trump when he was making points about the Biden crime family.
		Chris Wallace protecting his best, best buddy, swamp buddy, Joe Biden.
unidentified		The mayor of Moscow's wife gave your son three and a half million dollars.
		What did he do to deserve it?
		What did he do with Barista to deserve $183,000?
chris wallace ▲ ● ▼		None of that is true.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		None of that is true.
chris wallace ▲ ● ▼		Mr. President, please.
unidentified		Totally discredited.
unidentified		Totally discredited.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		And by the way...
unidentified		Well, wait, he didn't get three and a half million dollars, Joe?
chris wallace ▲ ● ▼		He got three and a half million dollars.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		That is not true.
unidentified		Oh, really?
chris wallace ▲ ● ▼		Mr. President, it's an open discussion, please.
		It's a fact.
		Well, you have raised an issue.
		Let the vice president answer.
unidentified		Did Burris pay him $183,000 a month?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So you could hear Chris Wallace there.
		That was the mute button.
		Chris Wallace really happy about that performance, by the way.
		Chris Wallace crowing about interrupting Donald Trump and how much...
		It's incredible.
		This clip is unbelievable.
		It'll make your blood boil that these people keep getting jobs and that the Republican Party keeps playing games with these people.
		This clip that just aired on CNN a few hours ago is of Chris Wallace patting himself on the back about how much he facilitated the tanking of Donald Trump's poll numbers.
unidentified		I think everyone wants to know what you are thinking.
		I mean, these clips of this debate have been being played back and forth ad nauseum.
		What's it like for you to watch that and to think about this four years later?
chris wallace ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, it's an interesting thing.
		In the immediate aftermath of that debate, I certainly, like a lot of Americans, was very disappointed with Donald Trump's performance.
		On the other hand, I actually think it was one of the most consequential presidential debates in history.
		Donald Trump lost the presidency in that debate by his performance.
		He dropped about four or five points.
		He never regained it.
		And, you know, the key question for tomorrow night is, has he learned his lesson?
		I've talked to a lot of people in the top echelons of his staff.
		They say he finally understands how badly he did in the 2020 debate.
		And the two words that are coming out you don't usually hear from the Trump camp are nice and respectful.
		He intends to be both.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Nice and respectful.
		They say nice and respectful.
		Listen to Chris Wallace.
		Sit there.
		Have you ever seen Chris Wallace's hands?
		Look, you see his hands like you want to you want to you want to see the hands of a Nepo like a lifetime Nepo baby.
		Who has never done a single day of hard labor, never done a single hour of manual labor.
		The soft little otter putty hands of...
		Chris Wallace.
		Ugh.
chris wallace ▲ ● ▼		Creepy.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Creepy out.
		He's been best friends of Joe Biden since the 1970s.
		They're like besties.
		How this stuff is allowed, I don't know.
		Is Chris Wallace worse than Jake Tapper?
		I don't think so, actually.
		What's sad is that tonight, we are actually facing a moderator that is far worse than Chris Wallace.
		And I'm sorry to say it.
		I don't make these decisions.
		I am disgusted at CNN, of course.
		But here, ladies and gentlemen, is your moderator, through gritted teeth and holding back tears, having to report on CNN, is estrogen-filled Jake Flapper?
unidentified		Go.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		As we watch Donald Trump attempt to turn his arrest and indictment into some sort of campaign commercial, the folks in the control room, I don't need to see any more of that.
		He's trying to turn this into a spectacle, into a campaign ad.
		That's enough of that.
		We've seen it already.
		Here he is right now under my voice.
		You hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
		President Trump, now in quarantine, has become a symbol.
		He is running the single most negative, sleazy campaign in American history for a major party candidate.
		If you were to open up a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf, you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning.
		There's really no other way to say it.
		Donald Trump's language mirrors this directly.
		He pushes the government of the United States to use its power.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So the guy who thinks that Donald Trump is Cheeto Hitler is going to get a chance to be the hall monitor at tonight's debate.
		And if you dare question these past comments from Jake Tapper, then they'll kick you off air.
		Then you're done.
		Then they will cut your mic and your camera.
		You're not allowed to question.
		If you ever wondered what life would be like broadcasting for North Korea, this is a great little, like, insight into it.
unidentified		How dare you question your leader?
kasie hunt ▲ ● ▼		Basically saying there, well, will I let Joe Biden win?
		It does seem as though many Republicans have set the bar very low in terms of arguing that Joe Biden is basically senile.
		Now you have people like Doug Burgum coming out and saying, well, President Biden's very accomplished, trying to set expectations in a different place.
		What do you expect from Joe Biden?
unidentified		Well, first of all, it would take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently...
		Ma 'am, we're going to stop this interview if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues.
		Ma 'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues.
kasie hunt ▲ ● ▼		I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for.
kasie hunt ▲ ● ▼		If you are here to speak on his behalf, I'm willing to have this conversation.
unidentified		I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past.
kasie hunt ▲ ● ▼		I'm sorry, guys.
		We're going to come back out to the panel.
		Caroline, thank you very much for your time.
		You are welcome.
unidentified		You are welcome.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We invite libs on this program.
		We have people on this program all the time that I disagree with.
		We have some people on this program that say stuff that I couldn't disagree with more, and we push back, and we have a conversation.
		We also go on Piers Morgan's show all the time, and they always put me up against some lib.
		You know?
		And drooling libs, shadowboxing, right?
		So easy to package these people up and ship them off, you know?
		Federal Express.
		It's so easy, man.
		It's, you know, just easy.
		Just shadowboxing.
		So fun to debate these libs.
		Like, I can't imagine doing something like that.
		Oh, so you have somebody on your airwaves that slightly, ever so lightly touches you with a feather to say maybe you shouldn't call Donald Trump Orange Hitler?
		Maybe that person shouldn't be moderating the debate.
		And then to prove exactly how fascistic they are, they cut Caroline Levitt off air?
		Oh, man.
		That is a thing of beauty.
		And more importantly, as Vivek is going to make the case in this next clip, this would be Donald Trump doing this debate tonight.
		is what true bravery looks like.
		It would be the equivalent of Joe Biden doing a debate with Tucker Carlson in front of 3,000 people in Alabama.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		What a great point, Vivek O. I'll also tell you something I told President Trump, and I'll tell you as well, is I give him a lot of credit for doing this debate on the terms that were effectively set by Biden.
		hosted by CNN in Atlanta without a live audience would be the equivalent of Joe Biden agreeing to do a Fox News hosted debate in Alabama with 3000 live audience members.
		So I give Donald Trump a lot of credit for that.
		If you're going to lead the country, you got to be able to show up.
		And that's exactly what he's doing.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Here's the difference.
		Here's the difference.
		So if Tucker Carlson hosted a debate with Joe Biden, at least Tucker Carlson's never worked for the RNC.
		Jake Tapper, as we have shown you time and time again this week, is a DNC employee.
		How many times do we have?
		We can show it in his own Wikipedia.
		You can go and see.
		Go see for yourself.
		Jake Tapper got his career started by working to elect Democrats.
		Then he went to Capitol Hill and worked for those Democrats in public relations, in PR, as press spokespeople.
		That's what he did to get his young life started.
		Then he went and worked for Democrat lobbying firms, some of the biggest in the world.
		Then he went and got his journalism career started by stooping.
		Monica Lewinsky.
		That's what he did.
		He went and bawled Monica Lewinsky for, like, for clicks.
		We have the article.
		You can see it.
		My date with Monica Lewinsky.
		I dated Monica Lewinsky.
		Look at this.
		It's still up.
		There's his byline, Jake Tapper.
		And there's the perverted story from this freak.
		This guy's such a loser.
		Do not expect anything from him tonight.
		I expect that we'll do quite a bit of salty, salty, salty living, lib salting of Jake Tapper very, very soon.
		But it's very important to call these people out.
		So, again, Tucker Carlson would be a better, Tucker Carlson would be a better debate, would be a more fair debate moderator than Jake Tapper.
		Sink that into your brain, sear it into your mind, okay?
		Like a cattle brand.
		Jake, like, Tucker Carlson would be a more fair and honest, less biased debate moderator than Jake Tapper.
		Because at least Tucker Carlson never physically worked for the RNC.
		And RNC lobbying arms.
		So, keep that in mind tonight as you're watching.
		So, again, we expect to salt very much Jake Tapper.
		We do have other libs, though, to salt.
		As I, uh, as I...
		Mentioned earlier in the show, we have been watching MSNBC to gather up the extra sodium that we're going to need to power us into this evening.
		And hot diggity damn, have we found some gold.
		Here's Morning Joe with cups filled with salt.
		Let's just play these clips back to back to back, okay?
		So here's...
		Let's just keep the salt flowing, all right?
		The salt must flow.
		Let's keep the salt flowing.
		We have these...
		Here are some clips from MSNBC.
		The psychotic meltdown of them looking at the polls, looking at what Joe Biden is facing in this debate, and then realizing that everything is on the line is leading to the breaking point of the very small IQ, very low IQ, very smooth-brained, most smooth-brained MSNBC hosts.
		And the panic is delicious, and the salt and the sodium, ooh, it fills our cup.
		Ladies and gentlemen, salt these libs.
unidentified		We'll see you next time.
joe scarborough ▲ ● ▼		And we still have the same thing here.
		There's a reason he talks about sharks and he talks about electric batteries.
		He doesn't.
		This guy doesn't know.
		He hasn't studied American history.
		He doesn't know.
		He hasn't studied constitutional law.
		He doesn't understand constitutional framework.
		The guy doesn't know policy.
		He hasn't spent his life studying policy, working through it.
		So, yeah, it is going to be interesting when the studio is quiet.
		When there's no cheering section to cheer on some really stupid things he says, where basically everything he throws up there is a strike because the audience is wildly...
mika brzezinski ▲ ● ▼		On what you said, what Charlie said, first of all, he doesn't study policy or history.
		It's worse.
		He doesn't care.
		He doesn't give a damn about public service.
		He thinks public service is for losers.
		He thinks the people who are buried at Arlington National Cemetery are losers.
		Who didn't understand what was in it for them.
		You have to look at his core values.
		His core values are the problem.
		I mean, it's not even that he can't answer a question.
		And then, to Charlie's point, hostile interviewers.
		I don't think that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are planning to be hostile.
		I think they want a fair debate.
joy reid ▲ ● ▼		But that's not what we have right now.
		Instead, we have a normal president.
		And a former president who is poised to be his party's nominee, again, who rants and rambles and lies, who is a 34-count felon and a coup plotter, who tried to steal an election and admires dictators, who vows vengeance and brags that he'll be a dictator, and who has zero respect for the debate stage, for democracy, for half the population, meaning women or immigrants or black and brown Americans, but lots of seeming respect for Adolf Hitler.
		And so we are forcing a deeply unserious person into a serious situation.
		Because this is how we've always done it, right?
		But guess what?
nicolle wallace ▲ ● ▼		I prepared a lot of folks who weren't great at debating.
		And what you need is a self-own.
		And I think in this moment, Joe Biden has to go out there with a self-own on the age thing.
		I mean, I'm so old, I may not make it through the next 90 minutes without needing to sit down and taking a sip of water.
		But I'll never disgrace the office of the presidency.
		I'll never hand state secrets over to the enemy.
		I'll never call Vladimir Putin a really smart guy.
		I'll never frame a love letter from Kim Jong-un.
		In fact, Kim Jong-un hates my guts.
		You know why?
		Because I call him an evil dictator, not the love of my life.
		I mean, he has to come in there and punch him in the face with his own boast.
		Trump boasts about things that are traitorous.
		Trump boasts about things that are disgusting.
		Trump boasts about grabbing women between the legs.
		And if Biden doesn't go in there and punch him in the face with his own things he's proud So, Joy Reid says that Donald Trump...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What does it say about Joy Reid that she admires Donald Trump so much that she walked in and said, I want a wig made of Donald Trump's hair so I can put it on my noggin and wear it on national TV?
		What does it say?
		There is no debate.
		This is Donald Trump's hair.
		This is the definition of cultural appropriation from Joy Reid.
		And she has worn this rug for For the entire 2024 election cycle.
		What does it say, Joy?
		What does it say about you?
		Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome.
		You ever heard of Stockholm Syndrome?
		Right?
		Where, like, you're a captive in wartime or conflict, and then you start to sympathize with your captors?
		Maybe Joy Regis is so captivated by Donald Trump, she just can't get him out of her head.
		Right?
		It's like AOC and Elon Musk.
		The unrequited love.
		Joy Regis.
		She just wants Donald so much.
		She can't stand it, baby.
		She can't stand it!
		Orange man, bad.
		Orange man, very bad.
		Ooh, sizzle.
		Who knows, ladies and gentlemen?
		Who knows?
		We're not sure, but this is a real photo.
		We do know that.
		This is a real photo.
		This is my real hair, okay?
		Maybe when I'm older.
		I'll be able to get sort of the Trump coif going, you know?
		Trump, when he was younger, he had a slightly different haircut.
		Maybe when I'm older.
		Maybe when I'm older.
		We don't know.
		We'll see what my wife has to say.
		I think it's a pretty great haircut.
		It's iconic.
		And Joy Reid went in on the iconic haircut.
		So, if you hate the guy so much, why are you copying his hair?
		Ladies and gentlemen, speaking of iconic, the salt must flow.
		The entire...
		Salt that lib section based off of the OG Salty, the Salty Cracker, who has truly inspired the salt to flow.
		And we just wanted to do a massive shout-out, obviously, to Salty Cracker, who was the inspiration, the inspiration, the OG for the salt, okay?
		And we merely pick up the baton to salt in the mornings as he salts in the evening.
		And huge shout-out there.
		To all of the salt that is flowing indeed.
		Ladies and gentlemen, we wonder what will be flowing in the needles that will be pressed into Joe Biden tonight.
		We do not know.
		We do know that Donald Trump has advised that Joe Biden will be getting a shot in the ass right before he takes the stage.
		And so, expect this.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		So, tonight, we'll refer to him as Sleepy Joe.
		Because right now...
		As you know, it's been reported that right now Crooked Joe's gone to a log cabin to study, prepare.
		No, he didn't.
unidentified		He's sleeping now.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Because they want to get him good and strong.
		So a little before debate time, he gets a shot in the ass.
		They want to strengthen him up.
		So he comes out.
		He'll come out.
		Okay.
		I say he'll come out all jacked up, right?
		All jacked up.
		Now, will anybody be watching the debate on Thursday night?
unidentified		All right, baby.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So we are going to be watching.
		We'll obviously be watching for one of these Bidens to come out.
		There is, of course, multiple Bidens.
		We don't know which one will show up.
		The one with the eyes, the huge eyes like dish.
		Dish plates, you know, like a great white shark that's biting.
		You ever seen the nature channel and the great white shark bites into the meat and his eyes roll back in its head and they're black as night, right?
		Unblinking, you know?
		Which Joe Biden will they unplug from the Roomba?
		Which one?
		They have seven back there.
		Will it be number four or number six?
		Number seven's my favorite.
		Which one?
		Will you get grandfatherly Joe Biden?
		We don't know.
		We're not sure.
		Will you get Joe Biden that, like, just speaks in this deep, gravelly voice?
		Or will you get Joe Biden that speaks like he's in a Warther's original commercial?
		We don't know!
		But we shall be watching.
		And we shall be watching along with you, and I'm sure we shall be watching along with the great Julie Kelly, who has been watching all of our, for all of us, actually, inside of the courthouse, where Donald Trump is facing multiple...
		Obviously, very serious charges.
		We think all of them are complete and total full.
		But Julie Kelly is the one who's actually making hay while the sun shines.
		And the sun is now shining on many of these cases.
		And the revelations are quite shocking.
		The great Julie Kelly joins the show live.
unidentified		The great Julie Kelly joins the show live.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you Julie, a lot to get to on the show.
		We deeply love your reporting and have been covering it all week.
		And so we're so glad to have you on the show because these revelations are pretty astonishing.
		So now you have confirmed, like in writing, that the government staged photos at Mar-a-Lago and tampered with evidence.
		Is this one of the major takeaways from this week?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Correct, it is.
		And as you know, Betty, we talked about this last month when I first broke the story that the FBI doctor, that infamous photo that was released in August of 2022, a few weeks after the Mar-a-Lago raid, to make it look like those files were found with these scary red and yellow and blue classified cover sheets to support the idea that Donald Trump knew that he was taking the nation's most,
		you know, National security, nuclear secrets, home to Mar-a-Lago, kept him in the bathroom, etc., etc., that whole storyline.
		So that is not only how the media portrayed it, but the Department of Justice did as well.
		That's how they presented it.
		Well, now we find out from court motions in the proceedings in Southern Florida, again, thank you, Judge Aileen Cannon, for making all of this public, that the FBI agents brought those cover sheets to the raid.
		Okay, fine.
		You brought them to the raid to do what?
		To cover up, to protect those nuclear secrets from someone seeing them?
		No.
		What we were told last month in a filing is that they brought those cover sheets to use as placeholders in the boxes that they were taking out of Mar-a-Lago, where allegedly classified papers, government papers, presidential papers were found in the boxes.
		So the idea was they took that paper out, they used this cover sheet, they put it in these boxes, which we've seen as all.
		Kinds of things, materials and photographs, newspapers, etc., where that was.
		Okay, sure.
		We believe you.
		Then in a court filing, finally, Monday night, Jack Smith Special Counsel admits that the FBI clipped those cover sheets to certain documents and that their technicians or their investigators then took photos of those papers with the cover sheets that the FBI put on there.
		Again, tampering with evidence, misleading the public, misleading the court, quite frankly, and manufacturing another aspect of this corrupt, bogus, really sloppy case in Southern Florida for classified documents.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, you know, member of the Lollipop Guild, Jay Bratt.
		Is the lead lawyer, a little bulldog, teeny little feisty little bulldog on this.
		You've documented how he's lied to the court.
		You've documented how effectively last month that he lied to the court.
		Can you unpack that?
		Like how he's been caught in a lie of his own making?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		So Judge Cannon asked Jay Brett directly.
		This was actually in a hearing in April.
		And Judge Cannon is extremely prepared, really does her homework, and a lot of times asks questions she already knows the answer to.
		So she asked Jay Brett, is the evidence in these boxes, are they in the original sequence, the original order, as they were when the FBI agents took them out of Mar-a-Lago?
		Jay Bratt said yes, with the exception of these classified documents being removed, given to investigators, and the placeholder sheets put in there.
		Not true.
		Jack Smith had to come back a week later, clarify that Jay Bratt misspoke, that that was not the case.
		And now this week, this huge filing with all these photographs that the media, of course, once again just picking up without covering.
		The cover sheet, the classified cover sheet scandal saying, look how sloppy these boxes were.
		You know, he had nuclear secrets right next to a Washington Post article and next to his supply of Diet Coke, because that's what this DOJ did again in another filing this week.
		So what's the story then?
		And then Jack Smith admitted.
		Well, we didn't put them back in order because the boxes were in such disarray that the FBI agent couldn't do that.
		So more evidence that they've purposely misled the court continue to mislead the American people, now releasing more staged photographs to support the idea that they're not responsible for the now kind of evidence and disarray, that it actually was Donald Trump's fault.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So at the debate tonight, I want to pivot to the, how this could be talked about at the debate, because as our audience well knows, you are the world's expert at this.
		And in fact, you have an awesome article up right now, a real clear investigation searching for the truth about the Mar-a-Lago raid, pop that on screen.
		Maybe this will factor into your, uh, your commentary here.
		My thought at the debate, nobody's asked my opinion.
		Of Me either.
		What I'd love to have is Donald Trump with the Her Report, at least one page of the Her Report, a single page, I think it's page 31, where he's like, at least I can stand trial.
		Your own DOJ said that you have dementia, and so you can't stand trial.
		And I'd love to see that as a prop, perhaps used in the commentary about this.
		How do you see this specific case being used as an attack vector for Donald Trump during the debate?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Well, I certainly would like to see that line of attack, but I also think that it is a great platform for Donald Trump to let the American people know what has been happening in this document's case.
		You know, Betty, and this is not a criticism.
		Conservative media has limited resources.
		We're not ABC News.
		We're not the New York Times.
		But when I go to these court proceedings, I'm the only person.
		Recorder on our side, quote unquote, to cover this.
		And so there is a lot that the American people, even on our side, don't know.
		So if Donald Trump said, let's go through, Joe Biden, what you did, your Attorney General Merrick Garland bragged that he personally authorized this raid at my home, unprecedented raid, when I was cooperating fully with your DOJ and the FBI.
		They came into Mar-a-Lago, 30 agents.
		Not dressed in any FBI gear.
		They were wearing street clothes.
		They had firearms.
		They had handcuffs.
		They had ammunition.
		They had bolt cutters so they could cut through.
		My storage area where I'm keeping all of my, not just presidential records, but personal files.
		Nine hours they spent.
		In my residence and went outside the scope of the warrant.
		They rummaged through my wife's personal bedroom suite.
		They took dozens of photos from that going through her bedroom suite.
		They went in my 16-year-old son's bedroom.
		Did they really think, Joe, that there were nuclear secrets stashed under Barron's Peloton, which is what they talked about this week?
		This was not a raid looking for classified papers.
		This was you sending your Gestapo FBI under the direction of your Department of Justice to rummage through my house, violate not just my privacy, my wife and my sons, jeopardize my physical safety and my families if we would have arrived at Mar-a-Lago during the raid, and you endangered the people who work at Mar-a-Lago, the security people, my lawyers who showed up.
		For what?
		For 30 papers, or I think there's only 22 files that were seized during that raid that are now part of the indictment.
		He needs to carefully go through what this raid meant.
		And now, Joe Biden, now your DOJ has charged me with mishandling classified files.
		Not only did you do the same, but now your FBI and DOJ have admitted they've done the same.
		That they have mishandled these files.
		They have mishandled evidence.
		So what are we doing here?
		I really hope he takes the time and is allowed, that's a big thing, to walk through the details of this raid and now this sloppy, corrupted investigation and prosecution.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		That would be extraordinary.
		And I think that it would cut to the quick.
		And there are so many ongoing cases, I guess you could hit on.
		Every single one of them.
		We're particularly disappointed that we don't get the immunity ruling before this debate.
		Your thoughts, Julie?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I'm disappointed with the immunity ruling.
		As you know, I'm very disappointed that the Supreme Court is holding on to the Fisher case, which is the 1512C2.
		How this DOJ...
		has abused that post-Enron document shredding statute to charge more than 350 J6ers with this felony.
		Just imagine if they would have issued Fisher today, but turns out the way most of us speculate that they are going to reverse how DOJ has intentionally misinterpreted the broad language of that statute.
		Donald Trump could tell the American people, Joe Biden's DOJ not just is coming after me.
		They have now been found by the Supreme Court of wrongfully prosecuting hundreds of Americans who protested his election on January 6th, trying to turn them into felons, throwing them in prison for years, something that Joe Biden just bragged about on the three-year anniversary of January 6th.
		How many years in prison J6ers have been sentenced to?
		And now the highest court in the land has said that Joe Biden's DOJ intentionally Misinterpreted that statute to criminalize political dissent and throw Americans who protested his election in prison.
		The Supreme Court has that ruling.
		It is done.
		They have stripped Donald Trump by delaying this till tomorrow or next Monday.
		The ability to tell the American people what this DOJ has been doing.
		And that to me, if Fisher does turn out the way that we expect it to.
		That is inexcusable political interference by this court.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		Is there any explanation for the delay?
		Many are saying that these delays are really unprecedented and that it seems political in nature.
		Do you agree with that?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		I absolutely do.
		I mean, we already have cases that were argued around the same time or after Fisher, which was April 16th that was argued.
		Published an order, I think it was either yesterday or last week, that was argued the day before Fisher.
		So why are you holding this up?
		Well, we know why.
		Because they don't want Donald Trump to get up there and say what the court, again, expects them to do.
		Maybe they won't do it.
		Maybe they are going to endorse how the DOJ has weaponized 1512C to a very dangerous precedent, by the way.
		But we've seen some other very disappointing rulings from the court, especially yesterday in the Missouri Big Tech Joe Biden White House collusion case.
		So I don't know.
		The immunity was the last case that was argued.
		So in a way, I kind of see that that would be the last opinion.
		Fisher, absolutely no excuse for it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Okay.
		So really quickly here, since you are one of the world's experts, immunity case, how will that shake out?
		What do you expect?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		It sounded like during oral arguments, and I think a lot of people have speculated that they will kick this back to either the appellate court or the district court.
		This would be Judge Chutkin.
		She's the one who issued this landmark opinion that former presidents are not protected by immunity from criminal prosecution.
		During oral arguments, they went back and forth with both the DOJ attorney and then Trump's defense attorney.
		As to which elements in Jack Smith's J6 indictment, this is four accounts against Donald Trump in Washington, two of which, by the way, relate to 1512C2.
		That's another reason that the delay in Fisher is inexcusable.
		Go kick this back to the lower courts and say, you need to look at the indictment.
		We need to determine what elements are covered under presidential conduct, such as appointing or replacing his attorney general, acting attorney general.
		Of course, that's presidential authority versus what is personal or political conduct.
		Keep in mind, Benny, this is something Judge Chudkin could have done last fall.
		Instead of holding an evidentiary hearing, which we see Judge Cannon doing repeatedly in Southern Florida, Judge Chudkin didn't even bother to hold arguments or debate between Jack Smith and the defense as to This unprecedented ruling for presidential immunity.
		She got the motion in October, and less than 60 days later, without any input from anyone else, she decided, no, presidents are not immune from criminal prosecution.
		So she is responsible in many ways for this quote-unquote delay.
		And it is something that the court, some of the justices, raised during oral arguments.
		They were very unimpressed with the appellate court upholding Judge Chutkin's order with such limited input from both sides.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, So, I, you know, here's hoping.
		Fingers crossed.
		Not like we're going to be starved for news tomorrow morning on the show after the debate.
		But yeah, it would have been really nice to have a little bit of an ace in the hole for Donald Trump tonight.
		Although, I think that it's going to be a target-rich environment.
		Ladies and gentlemen, Julie Kelly is, as she stated, and she's a very humble person, so I'll state it, the only one!
		Who's going into the actual war zone here and getting into the trenches and following these cases.
		Again, here is her most recent Real Clear Investigations article.
		I encourage you to read it.
		I encourage you to follow her at Declassified Live on Substack.
		And of course, follow her on X, where she has millions, hundreds of millions, 650,000!
		Wow.
		Two of them are sweet little doggies who do not bite like Joe Biden's dog.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		No, they do not.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		They do not.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, they do.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		That's a bad owner.
		No bad German Shepherds.
		Only bad German Shepherd owners.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes, that's exactly right.
		And of course, you know, a stocking hung for that ravenous dog and not a stocking for Joe Biden's granddaughter.
		That would be, Julie, I'll just leave you with this.
		My trick question tonight for Donald Trump, let's say he called me.
		All right?
		Donald Trump doesn't even have, doesn't have my number.
		I don't have Donald Trump's number.
		Let's say he called me out of the blue.
		And he said, give me a, give me a zinger for tonight.
		And I'd say this, like, hey, Joe, how many grandkids you got?
		Go.
		That would be my zinger.
		That would, that would be my, that would be my, if you've got to put them on the spot in like 10 seconds or less, go.
		Right?
		How, how many exactly?
		Give me a number.
		Right?
		It seems to be very confusing.
unidentified		Yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		For the Bites.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		If you were to ask, if Donald Trump called you and asked, final question, if Donald Trump called you and asked Julie, I need a 10-second zinger, what would you say?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Was your general counsel in 2021 in cahoots with the National Archives and the Department of Justice to concoct a documents case against me?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's what I would ask.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Because that did happen.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		See, this is why it sucks to do this show live, because Julie Kelly proves that she has 50 IQ points on me.
		So, that's fine.
		Yes.
		Julie, you are smarter.
		That's why we bring you on.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		No, you're just funnier and more clever than I am.
		I'm just too obsessed with these cases.
		Like, I need to get a life.
		I'm going to go play tennis in 10 minutes, so that'll be a good thing.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Good!
		Oh, wonderful.
		In the beautiful state of Florida, down here in the sunshine?
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		No, I'm in the beautiful state of Illinois.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ah, alright.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Alright.
		We'll say a prayer for you.
		Julie Kelly, the great Julie Kelly.
		Everybody go follow.
		We're getting Julie to a million this year.
		We're getting Julie to a million.
		And Godspeed.
		You're just such a fighter.
		Thank you.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Thanks, Benny.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Talk to you soon.
unidentified		All right.
unidentified		you you Ooh, baby!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay!
		I mean, listen.
		Last thing I wanted to do was to, you know, endorse the state of Illinois.
		But I'll tell you this.
		Like, my family's from the Midwest.
		My parents lived in Illinois for quite a while and had a wonderful time.
		There are wonderful people in Illinois.
		Illinois gets a terrible rap, much like so many states, because of a single blue county.
		Go check.
		There's a single county that accounts for...
		All of Joe Biden's votes.
		This is why this kind of stuff is shady as hell.
		There's a single county called Cook County in Illinois.
		Without that one county, Joe Biden doesn't win Illinois.
		Illinois has 20 electoral votes, 30 electoral votes.
		Illinois has a lot of electoral votes.
		They go to Donald Trump.
		Without a single county in Illinois, do you live in Illinois?
		Do you live in one of these states where there's like one county that's shady as hell and that one county?
		Delivers for the Democrat candidate for president every time.
		Right?
		Illinois has been like this for a long time.
		That's why they call it a machine.
		You look at a map of Illinois.
		Every single county votes Donald Trump.
		Illinois is a red state.
		It's a red state.
		Every single county votes Donald Trump.
		Great salt of the earth.
		Awesome people in Illinois.
		And there's one county.
		One corrupt ass county called Cook County.
		And that single county accounts for the entire margin.
		Joe Biden's entire margin.
		Without it, he doesn't win.
		The state.
		It's crazy.
		It's crazy.
		Gotta break up these states.
		Gotta break up these states.
		Too big to fail.
		Too big to fail.
		Break them up.
		They're monopolies.
		Break them up.
		Break off these, like, little cities.
		Break off Manhattan Island.
		Okay?
		Break off Philadelphia.
		Break off LA.
		Break off LA, and then it's like, California's like a red state.
		You know?
		Break off Detroit, and Michigan's like a red state plus 10. Same thing with like Madison, Wisconsin.
		It's incredible.
		Yeah, Republicans got to figure this out.
		We're going to figure it out.
		Again, I'll promote once more later tonight.
		We have the RNC chairwoman, Laura Trump, on the program, on our program called In the Arena on Tenet Media, where we really go in the arena.
		We'll have a long-form interview with Laura Trump just hours before the debate, okay?
		This is our pre-debate programming.
		It's going to be awesome.
		And we'll ask her about this.
		We'll ask her about this.
		Very exciting times.
	There are some big-time things that are happening right now.
	Some bad people are, in fact, losing.
	We were just in the Midwest.
	We were just in Detroit.
	Speaking of the Midwest, we were just in Detroit and we were traveling and we were meeting hundreds, maybe thousands of people.
	And that's the way it goes.
	We love it.
	We love it.
	But it's, you know, sometimes you, if you meet that many people, then you come home and you have kids, three little kids.
	I have three little kids that are just tall enough to lick every doorknob that they see and to shove, to lick the floors at Walmart, okay, when we go there.
	You know, you end up picking up a little something, like all year long, okay?
	You get like a little tickle in your throat or you end up getting the sniffles or maybe even something worse, okay?
	And this is why I am so proud to be partnered with the Wellness Company.
	My Wellness Company kit sits right here, right here at my feet.
	And you can hear right in there the emergency antivirals, antibiotics.
	The kit itself comes with the ability, which I have just used over the past two weeks, to consult with a doctor and do telehealth, which has been awesome.
	To stay up on our feet and to continue to press forward.
	Our entire life is here.
	Our entire life is right here, ensuring that we can move forward and have the energy to keep going.
	Our producer, Robbie, is asking whether inside of this kit is what they've given Joe Biden tonight.
	That I do not know.
	I don't know.
	Is this what they're giving Joe Biden?
	I don't know!
	I don't know.
	I do know this.
	The White House doctor, Ronnie Jackson, said that they have Joe Biden in the woods because they're dosing him, because they're figuring out, they're experimenting on him, doing the doses.
	That's what Ronnie Jackson said online.
	So I don't know.
	Let's just depend on the White House doctor.
	I can just tell you what my doctors say.
	What my doctors say at the Wellness Company is that they are going to keep me up on my feet.
	Nobody has time to spend laying in bed.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, you should sign up for the Wellness Company today.
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	Okay.
	Ladies and gentlemen, some good news.
	Always, always like the good news.
	Another squad member in trouble.
	You might recall Cori Bush.
	Again, I say speaking of the Midwest because she's from St. Louis.
	A squad member, Jamal Bowman, he went down in flames, lost by 20 points in New York just yesterday.
	And now Cori Bush is in trouble.
	Cori Bush is just a repulsive, a repulsive individual.
	And she's somebody that I have a personal animus towards because of the McCloskeys.
	Can you grab me that McCloskey photo, the famous photo of the McCloskeys with their firearms standing in front of their home, defending their property?
	During the BLM riots, McCloskeys are awesome.
	I know them personally.
	We've done work with them.
	They're an amazing couple.
	I love these guys.
	Mark McCloskey and his beautiful wife.
	And I was there in St. Louis.
	We went there to, you know, do a video with them.
	And they took me through Cori Bush's district.
	Guys, I'm telling you, like the front lines of Ukraine don't look as bad as Cori Bush's district.
	It makes me so angry.
	When I see places in America look like this.
	It makes me so upset.
	You know, it's like these people, they are profiteering off the depression and the destruction of America.
	It's made, like, super clear when you travel through districts like Cori Bush's.
	Okay?
	So the McCloskeys, legends right here, they brought me through Cori Bush's.
	I'd never been through it.
	It's in St. Louis.
	It's like northern St. Louis.
	It's actually one of the most deadly places in all of America.
	St. Louis has seen much better days.
	And man, dude, I'm telling you, it makes you so angry at the corruption and the people who just clearly don't care about their constituents and are proud to represent districts that are so hollowed out and so third world.
	It's despicable.
	So please, please let...
	I want her to lose.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we have some special things for you heading into, obviously, the debate tonight.
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benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Donald Trump shared that this morning.
		Dan Scavino shared that yesterday.
		This is some creation of the Fox News late night show and comedic late night show.
		And it's well done.
		Super, super duper well done.
		Dan Scavino, also the digital voice of Donald Trump.
		If you're not familiar with Dan Scavino, you should follow me.
		Just posted this, a Lion Joe Biden bingo card tonight.
		Some of the options are Drugs Wear Off, Saved by Fake Tapper, Soils Himself, Blames Trump, Heavy Slurring, Corn Pop Mention, Joe Lies is the free space.
		So if you're into bingo, please go ahead and check this one out.
		Uncle Bozy Mention, Shuffles, is also one of the options.
		Uh, the memes are flying and rip-roaring, uh, about tonight, and you know that we do indeed love our memes.
		Uh, this is without question something that deserves an Academy Award, ladies and gentlemen.
		Uh, this is from the Dilly Meme Team, uh, a remarkable, we saw it on, uh, on a great memer named, uh, Dre, Dre Finzer's account, and, uh, this one, this one slaps, okay?
		This one slaps.
		I do not know who the original creator is.
		Let me know.
		We've posted it.
		Just incredible.
		It's a work of art.
		Please enjoy.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		Hello and welcome to the first 2024 presidential debate hosted by CNN.
		I am Jake Tapper and somewhere around here is my colleague Dana Bash.
		I'd like to set the ground rules to this debate.
		First off...
		Biden is allowed to speak whenever he wishes.
		We will have commercial breaks whenever Biden feels the urge so that his needs can be taken care of.
		This may or may not include naps, energy boosts, or a snack such as ice cream.
		On the other hand, Trump is not allowed to speak unless spoken to, and if he interrupts Joe speaking, we're automatically going to deduct 10 points from Trump and Dorr.
		As the hall moderator of this debate, I can call it off at any moment and declare it a complete victory for Biden.
		Where did Trump go?
		He was just...
unidentified		Donald Trump!
		Oh my God!
		The hostile takeover!
		Donald Trump!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, I love that.
		The Joe Biden sign.
		The Joe Biden campaign sign behind Siena.
		So good.
		Really well done.
		Dilly meme team.
		Stand up.
		Well done.
		Incredible work.
		Bravo.
		They're getting so good.
		The memes are getting so good.
		Partially because of AI, partially just because the editors out there are just, man, just killing it.
		Meanwhile, meanwhile, our meme maker, Jerry, is off this week.
		Oh, Jerry, what a week.
		What a week!
		You choose.
		That's okay.
		We're getting by.
		Jerry has a large and extensive library of memes that he has created for this program.
		And it is a font, a fountain, in fact, of creativity.
		And so Jerry taking a much-needed week off this week.
		So, ladies and gentlemen, we will be here tonight.
		We have explained to you the limitations that are not ours, that we didn't ask for, want.
		That have been placed upon us and every other independent creator on this evening.
		They will not stop us, obviously, from covering everything and for being there for you tonight.
		So we say tune in.
		Please watch all of our channels on Rumble, YouTube, on X. We will be out here fast and furious.
		Watch along with us, ladies and gentlemen, this debate, the moment we have been waiting for.
		We are ready to indeed rumble.
		And, well, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready with the actual weaponry that we must bring every single day to ensure that we are protected from the true war.
		The true war we're fighting is not a political war.
		It's not even a cultural war.
		It's actually a spiritual war and it's important to, like, kind of step back.
		Peel away all the layers and understand that you're just fighting the same war that your ancestors fought for thousands of years, that have been fought on this rock for thousands of years of human history, okay?
		It is a spiritual war, good versus evil.
		And for that, you have to, well, bring the truth, have the truth on your side.
		So here we go.
		Hebrews 10, 36. You need to preserve, you need to persevere, correction, so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
		Ooh, baby.
		Persevere!
		This is what we're doing on this show.
		This is what we're doing today, and this is what we'll continue to do.
		We have a massive charge here from the scriptures.
		Just keep going.
		What does it say?
		Keep going.
		If life was gumdrops and lollipops and rivers of chocolate, then you wouldn't need to persevere.
		Life is tough, okay?
		And it hits, and it hits real hard, right?
		Good old Rocky paraphrase there.
		Like, nothing hits harder than life.
		Things are gonna, things are gonna suck down here in this fallen world.
		Persevere through it.
		Do the will of God, and you will receive the fullness of His promise, okay?
		And His promise is victory.
		We know we got it.
		We march forward to victory, and it is assured for us, and so we march forward upright with confidence and with, well, with a smile on our faces.
		Can't defeat an army of happy warriors.
		And that is exactly what we are.
		May God bless all of you.
		We'll see you tonight.
		It's your boy Benny.

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