July 11, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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This meeting will address concerns that have been raised. | |
| What I want to hear is how they're going to win the election. | ||
| If anybody this afternoon comes with a "we need to take Gramps keys away" kind of a thing, I'm going to push back in the strongest terms because he is our guy. | ||
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The longer we spend all our time talking about concerns, concerns, concerns, the more we're doing Donald Trump's work for him. | |
| Right now, Senate Democrats holding a special closed-door meeting with top Biden advisers as lawmakers fear his candidacy could sink their party's chances on the ballot this November. | ||
| And now, the New York Times is reporting that the Biden campaign is running tests on a hypothetical matchup between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. | ||
| Biden's advisers also reportedly trying to come up with ways to persuade him to step aside. | ||
| And so begins a Wednesday afternoon. | ||
| Hello, I'm John Roberts in Washington. | ||
| Hey, Sandra. | ||
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The amount of sound and updates and changes coming in at this hour, it's like a fire hose. | |
| We're going to have a big two hours coming up, John. | ||
| Good to be with you. | ||
| I'm Sandra Smith in New York. | ||
| This is America Reports. | ||
| Another day, another Democrat urging Biden to get out of this race. | ||
| Michigan Congresswoman Hillary Skolten is now the 10th House Democrat to publicly call for him to withdraw. | ||
| One senator has officially joined that list. | ||
| Vermont Democrat Peter Welch speaking. | ||
| What was sort of the reasoning behind your op-ed last night? | ||
| We have to beat Trump. | ||
| We have to beat Trump. | ||
| It's fair that the agency should continue to be a competitive choice. | ||
| We've got to win. | ||
| Goodbye, Joe. | ||
| We had a good run. | ||
| But now I must be on my way. | ||
| Goodbye, Joe. | ||
| We had a good run. | ||
| Oh, nice. | ||
| Good job. | ||
| But now I must be on my way. | ||
| Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. | ||
| Oh, the spiciest memes! | ||
| You could hang them in the Louvre. | ||
| You could pin them up in the Smithsonian, baby. | ||
| Sprinkle some salt on them. | ||
| They're done. | ||
| We are here. | ||
| And we are ready for Joe Biden's nightmare train wreck tire fire. | ||
| of a press conference. | ||
| Reporters have been unleashed like rabid animals to finally attack Joe Biden, and things have not been going well. | ||
| Now, apparently, Kamala Harris is being tested out by the Biden campaign. | ||
| Who could have seen that? | ||
| Actually, our two guests could have seen that. | ||
| Charlie Spearing, who wrote about it from the Daily Mail, and Mike Benz, who will be joining us here in the arena where we throw the punches. | ||
| you you you you All right, baby, this is going to be a real one. | ||
| Joe Biden will be live soon. | ||
| None of the feeds have started yet. | ||
| Who the hell knows? | ||
| They've already pushed it back an hour, meaning that it's supposed to start at 630 Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| But who the hell knows? | ||
| I mean, honestly. | ||
| So we got good pre-programming for you here. | ||
| And we have some people who, Nostradamus, quite frankly, of our entire movement will be joining us in just a moment because they were the ones who predicted our current moment. | ||
| This current, this, this, this. | ||
| What we are living through right now has been predicted by very few, but some very, very wise young men will be hopping on the program, and we'll talk through, like, Kamala's moment. | ||
| What does it, in fact, mean? | ||
| Well, it means some very, very bad things for Joe Biden. | ||
| Joe Biden is right now at the NATO summit. | ||
| Apparently, this is the last—this is Helm's Deep, right, for Joe Biden. | ||
| This is like the presidential bunker, the last thing that's protecting him. | ||
| Against the piranhas that wish to tear him to pieces in his own party is this little NATO summit and the illusion that this guy is still somehow in charge. | ||
| Now, what Joe Biden just did seconds ago was refer to Voldemort Zelensky as Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin. | ||
| So what would you rather be called by Joe Biden? | ||
| And by the way, let's get rolling in the chat. | ||
| We got popcorn coming into the office. | ||
| We have large bowls of popcorn that are being popped right now. | ||
| We're going to have a blast tonight. | ||
| We'll put your chats up, and we're going to be ready to roll. | ||
| We are. | ||
| We have an exciting, exciting show for you. | ||
| And, you know, I will tell you this. | ||
| While we do... | ||
| While we do love you here in the arena, we would never, ever try and insult you. | ||
| Meaning I would never, I would never live on this program call you an intellectual wigger. | ||
| But unfortunately, this is what Joe Biden has called our NATO partners. | ||
| You can come for me. | ||
| You can be upset about it. | ||
| But this is what Joe Biden called Jan Schultzenberg. | ||
| On stage, in front of some of the most powerful people on Earth, the people holding together Western civilization, or so they say, apparently Joe Biden is proud to be giving an award to an intellectual wigger. | ||
| Please listen. | ||
| Much of the progress we've made in the alliance is thanks to the secretary. | ||
| He's a man of integrity and intellectual rigor, a calm temperament, a moment of crisis. | ||
| So, the number one, the number one defender of Joe Biden on Earth, in fact, has been Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi has decided to hold the ship up. | ||
| You know, neither of them have much time left on this planet, so she might as well just sort of go down with the ship. | ||
| But even Nancy Pelosi is breaking, in fact. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi had a panic attack today and started screaming at a reporter in the hallways of Congress. | ||
| In fact, she turned to a reporter who happens to be a... | ||
| Minority. | ||
| And asked her, do you speak English? | ||
| We are prone to exaggeration on this program, but not today. | ||
| Watch. | ||
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Are you concerned whether or not he didn't win in November? | |
| I think he can. | ||
| Do you believe he should run for election? | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| Am I speaking English to you? | ||
| I'm not going to be making any statements about any of that right now in the hallway. | ||
| Do you speak any English? | ||
| Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? | ||
| We're just having too much fun! | ||
| Okay, so here we go, according to the New York Times. | ||
| New York Times, baby, embattled Biden campaign is testing Kamala Harris' strength against Donald Trump. | ||
| The New York Times is now writing that Kamala Harris, they're pulling the ejection pack. | ||
| And Kamala Harris, they're going to be testing Kamala Harris here. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Under siege from fellow Democrats, President Biden's campaign quietly testing the strength of VP Kamala Harris against former President Donald Trump in a head-to-head survey of voters. | ||
| Mr. Biden fights for his political life with the high-stakes news conference today that, of course, we will be live with as soon as it goes live. | ||
| I will say, ladies and gentlemen, that cringe Jean-Pierre was an hour and 45 minutes late. | ||
| Don't leave the channel. | ||
| The reason why is that Joe Biden has sundown syndrome. | ||
| So he will go to bed at 8 o 'clock. | ||
| So they pushed it back to 6.30. | ||
| There's a very tight window, okay, for optimum performance. | ||
| Speaking of optimum performance, let's check in on Kamala Harris today. | ||
| How did Kamala Harris do? | ||
| Kamala Harris, unburdened by what has been, she falls out of a coconut tree. | ||
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here we go. | |
| Ooh, man, she's doing the remix. | ||
| She's getting the remix, okay? | ||
| The original version. | ||
| Needed some remixing, so this is the DJ Khaled version of Unburdened by What Has Been. | ||
| She didn't use the coconut tree line today. | ||
| Instead, she just screamed at the top of her lungs. | ||
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Here we go. | |
| He doesn't bow down to dictators. | ||
| He makes America weak. | ||
| And that is disqualifying for someone who wants to be commander and chief of the United States of America. | ||
| That is disqualifying. | ||
| Having her downfall moment. | ||
| If only there was somebody who's so wise and so smart who could have predicted this. | ||
| If only there was someone who could have written for the Daily Mail about this current moment that we are experiencing right now. | ||
| If only there was someone... | ||
| Just a reminder that the big boy press conference is coming up soon. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Jill's getting them ready. | ||
| All right? | ||
| Jill's getting them ready. | ||
| You gotta get the pampers. | ||
| Get the pampers out. | ||
| All right, get the applesauce pouches, get the little fruit snacks, baby. | ||
| Somebody who knows a lot about all of that, in fact, somebody who does have, actually, a lot of children, and could maybe speak to the infantile state of Joe Biden. | ||
| He's written about it. | ||
| Everybody laughed at him, but he was right, damn it. | ||
| The great Charlie Spearing of the Daily Mail joins us in the arena now. | ||
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The great Charlie Spearing of the Daily Mail Charlie, Well done. | |
| I just want to say, congratulations. | ||
| You called this thing from like a thousand yards out. | ||
| You're like a... | ||
| You're an American sniper, my friend. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| Unfortunately, we've got an audio issue with Charlie. | ||
| We're going to fix that. | ||
| We've got producers on hand. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| There we go, buddy. | ||
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Hey! | |
| How are you, Benny? | ||
| Good to see you. | ||
| It's a hell of a week to be on vacation. | ||
| Were you on vacation? | ||
| I'm coming to you live from Powayoming, so if we lose audio or video, that means the smoke signals are a little hazy. | ||
| Okay, so, yeah, there's a, yeah, I mean, Elizabeth Warren is trying to mess with our broadcast. | ||
| So, we have a shocking situation here where you are witnessing, live on your screen right now, the one American reporter that actually reported truth, Charlie Spearing, wrote a month ago, right? | ||
| Charlie, approximately. | ||
| Yeah, just about three weeks ago. | ||
| And this was before the debate that Joe Biden was about to be thrown in the trash compactor and that there was a plot to remove him. | ||
| And we've reread your article four or five times. | ||
| Every gear in your article, every motion of your article is now coming into fruition. | ||
| All of it's happening in real time. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| Yeah, it's quite a shock to see it actually take place so soon after I wrote the article. | ||
| And I noted in the article, and this is what my sources were telling me, was the debate was sort of pushed up so we could have this come-to-truth moment about Joe Biden, whether or not he was ready to run for re-election, and also to get voters to get on board with the Biden campaign. | ||
| You talk to Democrats, so many voters were like, there's just no way he can make it. | ||
| And I think that part of the reason the campaign pushed it up to June was to make sure that voters could get on board and see him in front of Donald Trump. | ||
| But I don't think anybody on the campaign expected this to happen so badly based on what took place at the debate that night. | ||
| Charlie, here's the article. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Time-stamped, baby. | ||
| Time-stamped, baby. | ||
| You got a lot of hate for this. | ||
| And everyone said, what a joke, what a crackpot. | ||
| And now, and you came on our program to defend yourself, and you said, listen, when this happens, not if, when this happens, you've got to watch Obama and you've got to watch Pelosi. | ||
| And sure as shooting, man, we've been watching them at your direction, and dude, they're the signals, right? | ||
| Clearly, Obama's working beyond the scenes with George Clooney, and Nancy Pelosi has changed her tune, like almost 180. | ||
| She's all but called for Joe Biden to drop out now. | ||
| Yeah, Nancy Pelosi was his biggest champion, but she listens, she puts her ear to the ground, she listens to her people when something like this goes down. | ||
| And what they're doing now is they're kind of stalling to see exactly how bad the polls are. | ||
| I think the 4th of July weekend made it very difficult to get out there and start some polling. | ||
| But now that things are getting back into full swing, we've heard Pelosi sort of steer slightly towards the other way. | ||
| So, yeah, you know, I woke up this morning with a lot of people, you know, suggesting that maybe this is the press conference where he will announce his chance, you know, his decision to drop out of the race. | ||
| I don't know if that's going to be it today. | ||
| A lot of Biden advisors are saying, you know, this is the press conference everyone's fears are going to be allayed, that he's going to put... | ||
| Everyone's fears to rest because he's going to show up so energetic and so ready to go. | ||
| So we'll have to see if he can answer every question and keep his mouth closed when he's not speaking and all the other things that Democrats want to see right now because at this point they are not happy and behind the scenes it's an absolute disaster. | ||
| I do want to check in with our producers. | ||
| We have our entire production team on and rocking and rolling. | ||
| Gentlemen, we don't have even like a live shot yet, right? | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, it is right now 6.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| This is the time that the White House told us Joe Biden would be live at this press conference. | ||
| We are, of course, live waiting for it, but just like everybody else, we are at the mercy of Joe Biden and his visiting angels. | ||
| And so we need to, we're just going to... | ||
| We're just going to continue to ask our wonderful guests questions and give you updates as we carry on. | ||
| Presumably, this won't be canceled. | ||
| Some people speculated that this could be canceled, Charlie, because things have gotten so terrible for Joe Biden out there. | ||
| Obviously, the polls and the favorability, depending on the poll that you look at, is just borderline catastrophic. | ||
| But if you look at where you advised us to look weeks ago before any of this calamity happened to Joe Biden, I... | ||
| I don't think it's a calamity. | ||
| I think it's hysterical. | ||
| You said, watch this, dude. | ||
| This is from your article. | ||
| This is an image from your article. | ||
| It's not there by accident. | ||
| You said, watch this, bro. | ||
| Right here. | ||
| What Obama does when he, like, leads, like, hospice care. | ||
| Like, he's, like, leading Joe Biden, like, away on stage. | ||
| Everybody's seen this clip. | ||
| And everybody is speculating, including you, that Joe Biden is, that Barack Obama is completely behind this Hollywood turning on Joe Biden. | ||
| Can you expound on that? | ||
| Yeah, it's very interesting. | ||
| You know, I definitely wanted people to watch Obama because Obama is probably the number one leader in the Democratic Party. | ||
| Most Democrats respect Obama more than any other. | ||
| But the one person that doesn't is his old running mate, Joe Biden. | ||
| Barack Obama stood on stage and told him to drop out of the race. | ||
| Joe Biden probably wouldn't do it, as we've seen. | ||
| He doesn't respect Obama as much as he used to, because Obama was the one that backed Hillary Clinton instead of him in 2016. | ||
| He really wanted to run in 2016, but Obama just really moved to set it up for Hillary instead. | ||
| The Bidens and the Biden family have a chip on their shoulder because of that. | ||
| And so they're not always best buds, and they don't always respect each other. | ||
| In the most serious of ways when it comes to talking about his political future. | ||
| I fully expected the Biden and the Biden family to be very stubborn about giving up power. | ||
| They see it as this being an attack from elites. | ||
| And so I think that if Obama does, I think that's why you have Obama working behind the scenes, as we noted. | ||
| George Clooney, one of the closest actors to Obama, he was there at that fundraiser. | ||
| And so he knows what's going on behind the scenes, him and Obama. | ||
| And it was so funny to hear, you know, the confirmation this morning that Obama had seen Clooney's article or op-ed calling for Biden to drop out. | ||
| So it was very clear that he's very aware of what's going on. | ||
| But, you know, all the so all the behind the scenes whispering is going to be. | ||
| Huge for this campaign going forward. | ||
| A lot of the fallout from Clooney is how savagely he wrote that thing. | ||
| A lot of these people have been touching Biden with a feather. | ||
| Clooney hit him with a bag of bricks. | ||
| And is like, bruh, he didn't need to go so hard. | ||
| He didn't need to go so hard, George. | ||
| But George went hard in the paint. | ||
| Assassin. | ||
| Dude, he was like, yeah, Joe Biden's mentally handicapped. | ||
| It's what George Clooney writes. | ||
| The reason I know this is because I was just hanging out with him. | ||
| I mean, that was, like, mean, almost. | ||
| Like, it's totally disingenuous. | ||
| You raised $30 million for this guy, even though you know that he was brain diseased. | ||
| So, but that doesn't matter because the people who are reading the op-ed pages of the New York Times, like, they got their message. | ||
| Their message is, stop giving Joe Biden money. | ||
| Like, you know, like, destroy the campaign, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And what Clooney is doing is kicking off this into high gear, getting all done. | ||
| It's so funny because is George Clooney the leader of the Democratic Party right now? | ||
| Is he the one that's going to make that call? | ||
| Make that call for who gets to run for president. | ||
| It is kind of... | ||
| I do see the frustration from the Biden side of the family. | ||
| It's like, all of a sudden, I'm beholden. | ||
| I'm the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, and now I'm beholden to the TV guy from ER. | ||
| I think that... | ||
| I don't think that's going to do much to push him out. | ||
| It's going to take a lot more than that. | ||
| I see you've been reading Donald Trump's truths. | ||
| George, go back to TV. | ||
| You're never good. | ||
| He did bring us bat nipples, and I know, Charlie, that you've... | ||
| I'm not sure if you're a Batman fan, but I'll never forgive George Clooney for bat nipples, right? | ||
| Like, I just... | ||
| I won't. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I don't think that's... | ||
| I don't think bat nipples were ever good for anybody. | ||
| But do we blame George Clooney? | ||
| Is it his fault, or is it the awful production team? | ||
| Oh, I'm not sure. | ||
| But I'm going to say the guy put on the suit, right? | ||
| He put on the suit, right? | ||
| He could have said no bat nipples. | ||
| What's the Trump tweet? | ||
| Nipples protruding. | ||
| So disgusting. | ||
| Barney Frank. | ||
| Real quickly here, Chuck Schumer, give us an update. | ||
| So you've updated us on Pelosi and Obama. | ||
| You've talked about the Biden family. | ||
| Real quickly here, Chuck Schumer. | ||
| Chuck Schumer, you know, publicly on board. | ||
| Nobody, but... | ||
| There was that reporting from Axios that suggested he was open to the idea. | ||
| So I think that the meeting with the Democratic senators today did not go well. | ||
| And I think that Chuck Schumer is very aware of that. | ||
| He's waiting for Pelosi to make a move, I think, before he actually says anything. | ||
| That's been his move. | ||
| He's very much the party guy who is not taking a lead, but always knows the politics up and down and will know when to strike when it looks best for him. | ||
| Yeah, you're looking at the true leader of the Democrat Party. | ||
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I'm Batman. | |
| That is way too cool for the George Clooney Batman. | ||
| There's somebody who's also way too cool for this news cycle, a dude who, much like Charlie... | ||
| He calls these things from so far away and speaks with such accuracy about what's going on. | ||
| This is the Nostradamus episode as we sit here and wait for Joe Biden. | ||
| Again, ladies and gentlemen, our producers are watching and are sharp as a tack. | ||
| We won't miss a second of this press conference when it goes live. | ||
| Right now, we don't even have previews. | ||
| But I will give you a preview of the future by bringing in the great Mike Benz into the arena. | ||
| Screen? | ||
| Yeah, okay, great. | ||
| This is the look. | ||
| Mike, you're always in a hotel room, dude. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
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All right. | |
| We're good. | ||
| We're good. | ||
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That's good. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I felt bad that you were in a suit and I was not, and then that happened, so I feel better. | ||
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We're all good. | |
| You know, I'm actually, as we speak, on my second phone, I'm trying to jerry-rig. | ||
| A dramatic version of Bill Collins in the air tonight, because I feel like we need some theme music. | ||
| I mean, I don't know that we've had a moment of such political high drama just about whether or not someone can pronounce English words coherently in order to save their control over everything from the CIA to the Pentagon to, you know, the entire American government. | ||
| You know, it's a low bar and he's tripping over it. | ||
| So, yeah, this is, I mean... | ||
| Charlie's been writing about this, obviously, in the Daily Mail from very much a 35,000-foot perspective, some of the more visible people that we can see. | ||
| Pelosi, Obama, you can watch their movements. | ||
| Mike, what's been going on behind the scenes with the people who are truly sobbing over the loss of Joe Biden right now, presumably the deep state? | ||
| Well, it's amazing because there is this divide between the political class within the DNC. | ||
| And the kind of uniparty blob intelligence military class. | ||
| And I have seen a rush from the political side, you know, in the coup Biden out of office camp. | ||
| But I have not seen that from the intelligence and military folks. | ||
| You do not see, you know, 25, 50 former intelligence officials come out. | ||
| Just like they did with the Hunter Biden letter, like they've done in a dozen different national security scenarios around Trump, strongly admonishing, calling Trump a threat to national security or a threat to democracy. | ||
| You don't see them doing that with Biden. | ||
| And if they did, it would be very, very powerful. | ||
| So they have held back on that punch. | ||
| And I think a big part of the reason is because Joe Biden has been the perfect vassal. | ||
| For the blob, our foreign policy establishment, the State Department, the Pentagon, the intelligence community, and all the corporate and financial stakeholders who rely on those government agencies for their international markets and their global profits. | ||
| So Joe Biden became a senator at the age of 29. He blocked Jimmy Carter's CIA director nomination in 1977. | ||
| That's how far back Joe Biden has been involved in, you know, these blob politics. | ||
| He was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 40 years and either chairman or ranking member for something like 10 to 15 of them. | ||
| So this is Mr. Foreign Policy, Mr. Blob. | ||
| And because the Senate Foreign Relations Committee oversees the State Department, and the State Department effectively oversees, whereas the oversight of the intelligence community, you have the perfectly molded, empty vassal for whatever the military and intelligence wants done. | ||
| Biden was Mr. NATO expansion. | ||
| There's this NATO summit going on. | ||
| And he made this gaffe last week where he said he created NATO, and everyone said, oh, that's a gaffe. | ||
| I said, I don't know, actually. | ||
| You know, you can make an argument that Biden didn't sort of... | ||
| He was the head of the Foreign Relations Committee when NATO expansion was happening. | ||
| You know, we were at this critical moment in the 1990s. | ||
| Joe Biden was the lead senator getting NATO to bomb Yugoslavia. | ||
| It was the first time NATO had ever fired a bullet. | ||
| And it was Joe Biden pushing it. | ||
| You know, so maybe he did create NATO. | ||
| And so I have not seen the NATO top brass put the dagger in. | ||
| You know, he's a... | ||
| It's like... | ||
| What's that Ace Ventura movie, you know, where Ace Ventura is in the sequel. | ||
| He's walking along the jungle and there's darts in him everywhere. | ||
| And, you know, it's like a dart from from the, you know, one flank of the DNC, a dart from the other. | ||
| And, you know, it's like three darts is too much. | ||
| Like that third dart from the military intelligence folks would have knocked him out, but they're not doing it. | ||
| And I think there's one very obvious reason why I should say, which is that if the fossil of Biden can be preserved. | ||
| And his, or maybe they can keep his ashes in an urn if he happens to pass away, God forbid. | ||
| But they love this. | ||
| This is candy land with Biden in office. | ||
| They get everything they want. | ||
| And part of that is because his top advisor is a guy named Mike Donilon. | ||
| Mike Donilon has been advising Joe Biden as top advisor since 1981. | ||
| So for 40 years. | ||
| And again, Biden has been in this for more than half a century. | ||
| His brother, Mike Donilon's brother, is a guy named Tom Donilon. | ||
| Now, Tom Donilon was chief of staff of the Pentagon, had all these high-ranking positions all over the State Department and the intelligence community, including being a national security advisor, basically overseeing intelligence. | ||
| And what's he doing now? | ||
| Now he is the chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute, where he oversees the $10 trillion asset portfolio of BlackRock. | ||
| Well, his brother is the top advisor to the president. | ||
| And if you guys remember, Biden hesitated for a long time before deciding to run for office. | ||
| He only got the green light, according to the New York Times, when he met in January 2019 at BlackRock headquarters with Larry Fink to make sure that he had BlackRock's blessing. | ||
| And now his top advisor is the brother of the guy who literally chooses the portfolio companies for BlackRock Invest. | ||
| I'm waiting to see what the Donilon brothers do and what the CIA and four-star general and joint chiefs class do. | ||
| I think that is going to be the ultimate sort of dagger in this. | ||
| And I should note, Laura Loomer, to her credit, actually just posted a video on her timeline of her confronting Mike Donilon. | ||
| And I haven't actually gotten to click on it yet. | ||
| But I'm curious where the winds are blowing. | ||
| He's on the scene. | ||
| I think that's very interesting. | ||
| You make such a great point where, like, if they wanted to take him out, this would be it. | ||
| This would be the sleep dart, right? | ||
| That would put him down, and this hasn't happened. | ||
| I guess you've had the Hur report. | ||
| Could you explain how that fits in here? | ||
| So, is Robert Hur a good or a bad guy? | ||
| Robert Hur has got to sleep like a baby at night, feeling very vindicated about all this. | ||
| He caught a load of hell for saying, Yeah, well, I mean, I agree with you. | ||
| I think he probably sleeps very well at night, but I think he does maybe for the opposite reason, which is that I think that, you know, because he chickened out and ultimately did not recommend the prosecution of Biden, he can sleep safely at night because he's not going to have to worry about the brakes failing on his car, so to speak. | ||
| If you remember what he said in the report, You know, the thing that was more damning, frankly, than the senility of Biden was the blank admission of the Department of Justice that Joe Biden committed the exact same felony crime as the Justice Department alleged against Donald Trump, | ||
| but simply because they thought that Joe was too forgetful in their subjective assessment, a D.C. jury would have too much pity on it. | ||
| So the same crime. | ||
| That's the difference between a thousand years in prison and dying in jail and going away scot-free is whether or not the guy is perceived as forgetful and there's a subjective decision that we just don't think a jury is going to decide that. | ||
| I mean, what a scandal that was with Robert Herr that we have the Justice Department's own internal assessment. | ||
| I mean, I thought no one's above the law. | ||
| Don't you put that to a jury? | ||
| But they say, oh, it's just too expensive to bring the resources in front of a jury in case they happen to side with it. | ||
| So the whole thing was so corrupt. | ||
| You know, Herr, I think, basically protected his backside because of the size of the scandal it would have been to have actually recommended a prosecution. | ||
| But I think he winked and nodded at the camera and wanted to go on living his life and paying his mortgage. | ||
| And, you know, I mean, he was kind of like, you know, frankly, to me, I sort of looked at the Herr situation as being... | ||
| You know the movie Wolf of Wall Street and there's the federal prosecutor who's sort of being taunted by the Leo DiCaprio on the yacht sort of scene. | ||
| I think her just wanted that kind of stereotypical prosecutor thing and not to be thrown in the political arena and wanted it all to go away. | ||
| But I should say that Merrick Garland is currently falling on the Biden world grenade by covering up what's in those transcripts. | ||
| A lot of people are curious as to why Why Garland would expend so much political capital, be thrown into contempt, be potentially thrown into jail, potentially find millions of dollars in the aggregate with this current inherent contempt battle, which I know lost today, but will be up for a new vote, I believe, in a week or two with more Republicans in the four, and they may actually succeed. | ||
| And so some folks are saying, well, they don't want to release the tapes because Biden is so incoherent in them. | ||
| I actually suspect that something else may be the case, which is that they don't want to release the tapes because the transcript of the tapes was not a faithful capture, shall we say, of what was said on the tapes. | ||
| We know that Garland admitted under oath that there were alterations made to the transcript, unspecified what those were. | ||
| What if Biden confessed to certain crimes that were not in the HUR report? | ||
| What if the situation was much worse with respect to those classified documents? | ||
| And those were not translated into the Hurt Report, and the only evidence for them is in the transcript of the audio. | ||
| Well, then that would make a lot of sense in the same way that Eric Holder jumped on the grenade for Barack Obama when, you know, the CIA was running guns to the Sinaloa cartel. | ||
| So, like, I've been wondering what the fallout of this is going to be. | ||
| And what it seems to me... | ||
| Is that there's going to be this kind of reckoning of the elites and how they operate. | ||
| And there's going to be this kind of question that's being asked. | ||
| I think a lot of Democrats are asking this. | ||
| Democrats are not having a real one right now. | ||
| Well, they're not having a good one right now. | ||
| They are having a real one. | ||
| And they seem to be in a very rare state of panic. | ||
| There's a photo here that I've... | ||
| Since I have the both of you on... | ||
| And since we have just heard that they are delaying the press conference to 10 minutes from now, ladies and gentlemen... | ||
| Is that a Madame Tussauds wax, or is that an actual picture? | ||
| MSNBC, just real quick, ladies and gentlemen, 7pm is when MSNBC is now saying the press conference will start, so we'll see. | ||
| I saw this photo being shared by accounts... | ||
| That obviously are saying what we're all saying in the aggregate, which is they've found potentially the end of their lies here with Joe Biden. | ||
| And there may be a reckoning. | ||
| And this image is really something else. | ||
| I want to get both of your thoughts on this. | ||
| So over here, you have John Kirby staring over here at Tony Blinken. | ||
| And they have this look in their eyes, right? | ||
| It looks like a horror film movie poster. | ||
| As Joe Biden, with his squirrel nuts chin here, the Chippendales chin, tries to, I don't know, just come up with something to mule out of his mouth. | ||
| And they knew, right? | ||
| So, like, I guess this is the open question to you guys, and I'll shut up. | ||
| But they knew! | ||
| They all knew! | ||
| Biggest cover-up, worse scandal than Watergate. | ||
| What happens next, right? | ||
| So what's going to happen? | ||
| Charlie, you want to? | ||
| Yeah, Benny, that's a very telling photo. | ||
| And if I'm not mistaken, this is from the foreign trip. | ||
| Is this when he went on his foreign trip to Europe? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| To reassure the world that he was still in charge, in command. | ||
| And it's very interesting to hear him talk. | ||
| When he talks to people, he talks to himself as the only person holding the world together. | ||
| And that is not how your aides look at you when you're holding the world together. | ||
| That is how your aides look at you when you can't even hold your face together. | ||
| So I think that that's definitely a huge problem for Democrats on this, especially on the foreign policy stage. | ||
| I think there were a lot of people who saw that debate that night and were actually concerned about the status of the free world. | ||
| Because with this person... | ||
| Leading the United States of America. | ||
| How can leaders like Putin or how can China not see this as an opportune time to get what they want on the foreign stage while America is weakened? | ||
| Does seem like that's what's happening, Mike. | ||
| You know Blinken's history with Biden as good as anybody. | ||
| What's actually going on here inside Mr. State Department? | ||
| Well, you know, this is fascinating, right? | ||
| Because this is just what I was talking about with it comes down to the blob. | ||
| And here he is flanked by the Secretary of State and the spokesperson for the military. | ||
| So all we're missing is... | ||
| Avril Haines and Bill Burns dangling as an angel and devil over his shoulder to be the arbiter of his fate. | ||
| But this does kind of remind me of a sort of end-of-life situation where members of the family are all squabbling over the inheritance and there's a smoky backroom plot to just pull the plug on the respirator so that they can accelerate their own Machiavellian plans. | ||
| I mean, it's just amazing watching. | ||
| I mean, you can even feel the heat off the Democrat Party itself of, like, even coming around to maybe even being okay with a little bit of Trumpism in the midst of this. | ||
| I mean, I think I just saw a Politico article where there were some Democrat donors who were saying, you know, there just seems to be a lot of self-reflection in the Democrat Party right now. | ||
| But I should say, just getting back to this photo, you know, how long ago was this trip? | ||
| This was a couple months. | ||
| A couple months ago? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We'll get you the exact date. | ||
| The producers will grab you the exact date. | ||
| We've been here before. | ||
| In the 1990s, this was Boris Yeltsin. | ||
| It was the same people. | ||
| It was the State Department managing them. | ||
| It was the military managing Boris Yeltsin. | ||
| It was the CIA and the intelligence community managing Boris Yeltsin. | ||
| In 1996, Boris Yeltsin was old. | ||
| He was drunk. | ||
| He never made public appearances. | ||
| He never answered press questions. | ||
| He was polling at 6% in the polls. | ||
| He was getting totally destroyed. | ||
| And basically, the State Department and our intelligence services and Hollywood all got together and built a giant machine inside of Russia to do Boris Yeltsin's campaigning for him. | ||
| There's a great Jack Goldblum movie called Spinning Boris. | ||
| Which is based on the true life story of all of this, how basically the CIA and the State Department in Hollywood all got together to basically do TV programming for the guy. | ||
| The guy didn't have to leave his bed. | ||
| He could just drink himself dead while the machine did the campaign because they didn't need Yeltsin as president. | ||
| All they needed were his advisors and his oligarchs on board. | ||
| And not having a president means there's no resistance. | ||
| It's actually better for the blob if you have a total empty vassal, which Joe Biden is. | ||
| The problem is, I think there's a lot of uncertainty about if they can rig it. | ||
| I think they know that they are losing. | ||
| And by the way, I should bring up one other data point, which I think was really, really instructive here. | ||
| Barack Obama's outgoing DHS secretary, Jed Johnson, who is a very, very nasty figure in all this. | ||
| Jed Johnson was the guy who created the executive order at DHS that effectively nationalized our elections, declared elections to be critical infrastructure at DHS, which is what CISA then used to censor. | ||
| You know, tens of millions of tweets in the 2020 election because elections were now critical infrastructure, according to DHS, and tweets that are misinformation are cyber attacks on that critical infrastructure. | ||
| So Jed Johnson was behind that whole operation. | ||
| He did that on January 6, 2017, the very day CIA kicked off Russiagate with their January 6, 2017 memo that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. | ||
| But Jed Johnson made a talk, an MSNBC appearance one week ago where he said, I'm riding with Biden because you're not electing a person. | ||
| You're electing a team, a blob. | ||
| You're electing the squad. | ||
| And as long as Biden still has, and he named two people in particular, Avril Haines around him, that's the head, that's the ODNI, the boss of bosses over the entire intelligence community. | ||
| The CIA answers them. | ||
| And the other big name there, I'm sorry, was Samantha Power. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Samantha Power is the head of USAID. | ||
| Now, USAID is bigger than the CIA in all this, okay? | ||
| They get more money than the CIA. | ||
| They are the CIA. | ||
| USAID is just the over, you know, it's the visible tip of the CIA iceberg. | ||
| Well, it's split between the CIA, the Pentagon, and the State Department. | ||
| But it ain't a charity. | ||
| It is a soft power influence mechanism to financially support our overt diplomacy and covert action. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| And Samantha Power's husband is Cass Sunstein, who famously penned the article Conspiracy Theories about how to federally infiltrate domestic patriot movements in order to stop them. | ||
| You know, in order to twist their politics and then wrote a whole book called Nudge about how to use behavioral science to basically how governments could get civilians to fall in line. | ||
| This is also a part of the Pentagon's Minerva Initiative tactics in order to create citizen buy-in for new governments created after the CIA or the military topples one. | ||
| So, and what is Cass Sunstein, Samantha Power's husband, doing now? | ||
| He is now formally at DHS. | ||
| Advising DHS on immigration policy, while Samantha Power is running the USAID funds to all of the illegal immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Venezuela. | ||
| We're emptying the prisons and paying prisoners with USAID money to potentially vote in our election. | ||
| DHS is who shepherds USAID's work once they arrive here. | ||
| And you have the tag team of basically the money arm of the CIA with the behavioral science nudge arm. | ||
| I wonder what they talk about at dinner. | ||
| It must be either fascinating or criminal. | ||
| But effectively, you have this situation where they might be able to rig it no matter what state Biden is in. | ||
| And I think that the political class is worried because they're not read into the rigging. | ||
| And the military and intelligence folks who are read into the potential state of the rigging Around whether or not we're going to win on the basis of votes, because the votes don't matter if they can simply just have 30 million illegals have their ballots harvested by USAID NGOs. | ||
| So this is why Mark Milley is totally riding with Biden too? | ||
| It appears that way. | ||
| But if that changes, that I think will signify, you know, three darts is too much. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, I mean, from a... | ||
| This is very interesting from a tactical perspective and the election rigging mechanisms and underbelly of this entire behemoth that probably very much prefers to remain unseen or at the very least uninvestigated. | ||
| But on the surface here, we're looking at articles like this we just had up that Biden's fundraising is completely cratering. | ||
| And it's going to be hard, Mike. | ||
| It's going to be Operation Blue Beam. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| You're actually going to have to fabricate. | ||
| It becomes harder and harder to fabricate a Biden win in situations like this. | ||
| There's an article like this in every single leftist publication, every corporate media publication, that Joe Biden is toast, completely tits up on his fundraising, and no one's giving him any money anymore, and those numbers are public. | ||
| Charlie, from a... | ||
| Just raw political perspective, how is anybody going to be able to say, I'm running a political campaign when you have no money? | ||
| These things cost a fortune. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| And when you have one of your top fundraisers from Hollywood come out and ask you to step aside, it's really a crippling thing for a political campaign because we know that Democrats operate on feelings. | ||
| So many of them operate on feelings. | ||
| They want to feel good about their candidate. | ||
| They've had... | ||
| Questions about their candidate for so long. | ||
| Now the mask has slipped. | ||
| They see Joe Biden for who he really is. | ||
| He better, you know, he better have a real Willy Wonka performance tonight or otherwise his campaign is cooked and it'll be Kamala by the end of the month. | ||
| You Willy Wonka like when he's walking out with the cane and he flips? | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| And he has the hat? | ||
| Mike, is there any golden, is the golden ticket, it seemed like you were just alluding to, the golden ticket being an entire unseen blob infrastructure to rig things for Biden. | ||
| Is that the golden ticket for Joe? | ||
| Yes, I think that is the pink elephant, the gorilla in the room holding the golden ticket, is how confident they are in Mark Elias' operation. | ||
| Combined with everything that they're doing around the illegal voting, you know, they just voted to kill the SAVE Act. | ||
| And they, if you remember, they, in advance, made sure to bring out the big guns. | ||
| Why such an emergency, you know, rank pulling to make sure that they voted no on something that you would think a lot of their own working class blue dog Democrats would be opposed to? | ||
| Well, I can think of a reason. | ||
| If it's what ensures the election victory, they're willing to put up with crap from their own constituents. | ||
| You know, John Fetterman didn't love that. | ||
| You know, the working class sort of union blue dog Dems don't like, you know, illegal immigration in general because it basically kills their salaries. | ||
| It kills their union power. | ||
| It kills their leverage against companies. | ||
| It's cheap labor. | ||
| You know, it kills their collective bargaining. | ||
| And then on top of that, having, you know... | ||
| But I think that if they are counting on that, then that's why they did that just yesterday. | ||
| I should note on the George Clooney thing, it's quite funny because you pulled up the image of Spinning Boris, the movie about how Hollywood worked with the State Department to rig the 1996 Walking Dead election of Boris Yeltsin. | ||
| I mean, that showed the importance of Hollywood. | ||
| In the election, when you had a candidate who could not campaign because his brain was too broken to do it. | ||
| And so I do think there actually is a kind of funny, powerful symbology here where Hollywood saying, actually, we're not going to pull your dog sled for you on this. | ||
| Yeltsin could not have actually won that election without our TV stars and Hollywood stars going over there to do all the razzle-dazzle campaign that the campaigner is supposed to be doing. | ||
| And so he is, in some respects, in a worse situation than Yeltsin was when he was being propped up by our blob. | ||
| But what I'll say is the problem with referencing the funding is, first of all, he's an incumbent. | ||
| We're at a stage right now where the campaign is already... | ||
| I don't know that dollars in the final few months are necessarily going to make or break it, but the other part of it is this is a family with a very special set of skills, and that's money laundering. | ||
| So, you know, the whole family is like, you know, if there's one thing they're good at, and it's obviously not, you know, linguistic finesse of the English language or being able to stay off of crack and hookers. | ||
| The one thing they have a kind of Leonardo, a Michelangelo, a sort of artistic finesse in is money laundering. | ||
| They are so good at money laundering that our own Congress is confounded by the hundreds of shell companies in elaborate banking paths. | ||
| From Prelot Bank in Ukraine, into Cyprus, into Greece, into the Cayman Islands, and the Virgin Islands, and then you've got all the other stakeholders with how that could be done. | ||
| You've got all these consultancy businesses that these things can be run from. | ||
| I would not take the formal campaign numbers. | ||
| If BlackRock wants their man in, they can find the way to get it to him, and it's probably better to do that without running it through formal FEC channels. | ||
| So, it would, I mean, I guess it is terrifying to the mind, Mike, as you expose this unseen infrastructure, how, you know, how, I guess on election night, and by the way, I just want my producers in my ear telling me, this is the live feed, of course, right now. | ||
| You got some little minion in there, I guess, checking the mics, and... | ||
| We'll be live and ready to go. | ||
| 7.03 p.m. Eastern Standard Time here on the East Coast. | ||
| Joe Biden supposed to take the stage at 5.30, 6.30, now 7. Still a little bit late. | ||
| Does not look like Joe Biden, but she's definitely short enough for Joe to sniff her hair. | ||
| So, again, ladies and gentlemen, we are waiting for Joe Biden live, and we will bring you Joe Biden live when he is live. | ||
| I even got my popcorn ready to pop, and I got my salt shaker. | ||
| We were ready to go. | ||
| I have hotel gummy bears. | ||
| I think I could probably spend 20 bucks just to have some popcorn-like substance. | ||
| I have nothing. | ||
| So you're saying Hollywood, this is such an interesting conversation. | ||
| You're saying Hollywood won't... | ||
| Won't rig the election. | ||
| Boys, I just want to put up one more, my screen one more time, please. | ||
| I don't think Biden is imminent, but of course we'll cut back immediately if we get any indication. | ||
| This was Joe Biden rally today. | ||
| It's like, Mike, so Mike, you're like making this, so Charlie, you're making this sort of tactical, political, like skin in the game. | ||
| Perspective here and really watching the signals. | ||
| And, Mike, you're saying there's something dark underneath that could really, like, rig this thing for Joe. | ||
| And I'm saying that this is an official rally for Biden at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, and three people showed up. | ||
| The total number was less than one dozen people. | ||
| And Americans are going to start asking, like, Mike, I mean, I guess my question for both of you, like... | ||
| They need to pull back, right? | ||
| Because there's no way that anyone's going to buy this, that this campaign beat this campaign. | ||
| This, of course, was Joe Biden on Tuesday night. | ||
| It was Donald Trump on Tuesday night. | ||
| No one's going to buy that this beat this, right? | ||
| Well, I think that's part of the calculus is, you know, you need perceptions of legitimacy. | ||
| This is why DHS and Biden were, you know... | ||
| They coerced all the tech platforms to install a new terms of service violation ahead of the 2020 election called delegitimization, banning anything that delegitimizes an upcoming Joe Biden win on the basis of mail-in ballots. | ||
| They pre-censored any attempt to delegitimize a Joe Biden magic midnight mail-in victory because they know. | ||
| I mean, there's all sorts of U.S. Army War College and Journal of Democracy. | ||
| Academic literature and research on the absolute imperative to control perceptions of legitimacy when you are conducting a regime change operation. | ||
| It is the number one linchpin of whether or not it works or not. | ||
| And the bigger the gap in the polls between these two people get, the harder it will be to manage perceptions of legitimacy. | ||
| And I think this is part of what the freakout is. | ||
| If it was neck and neck, If Biden was up by a lot, and then it was neck and neck, I don't think there would be this recap quite the way there is. | ||
| But the fact that Trump is up in, I mean, watch CNN, and they are putting up polls where Trump is up six points in every swing state, and he's even apparently winning in the general in a couple of these, which is unheard of. | ||
| He's within a single point in New York. | ||
| It is getting to the point where it's becoming too big to rig without it looking like a total third world country and without having to answer to your international partners about all the scandals of it all. | ||
| And frankly, may I say, because X is free, because the iceberg has been cracked, they can't control news cycles the way they could in 2020 with the rigging. | ||
| In 2020, If, you know, the moment Charlie Kirk reported about ballots found in a dumpster somewhere, or Gateway Pundit, or OAN, or Fox, that story was killed under the delegitimization cost policy. | ||
| And because it was killed on every platform, they were all brought in line in the five months ahead of it. | ||
| Nobody on any platform, people on Facebook, couldn't even see the initial, you know, post before it got censored. | ||
| Now the dam has broken. | ||
| We actually have a much, much, much more robust communication system to be able to expose instances of fraud, to be able to popularize them, to be able to run them to world leaders around the world. | ||
| Because remember, this is how a lot of other world leaders get their news about what's happening in America, is through X. This is how Naive Bukele in El Salvador gets his news. | ||
| This is how tons of populist parties, Nigel Farage, and so many people in Brazil and France. | ||
| Those narratives about fraud demonstrating conclusively that this was a foobar situation are the kinds of things that are difficult to explain in a diplomatic setting and increased perceptions of legitimacy both at home and abroad. | ||
| And I think that is – it's getting to a point now where they're either going to need to create a media narrative. | ||
| That Biden has pulled back ahead of Trump or that it's very tight because if on election day Trump is way up, I think they may be reticent to pull the trigger on rigging it too hard and may just may allow Donald Trump to be our next president. | ||
| Charlie, do you see that happening? | ||
| I mean, like, I guess more importantly, Charlie, what could Joe Biden possibly do to get his golden ticket here? | ||
| How could Joe Biden turn this thing around? | ||
| Yeah, he really has to get out there and continue to stay out there. | ||
| You noticed what the campaign has been doing all week long. | ||
| Really high-risk events to really get him up on stage and to prove to everyone that the debate was just a one-off and he's going to be okay if he keeps doing more and more events. | ||
| The only way Joe Biden can pull this off is if he continues to not only hit the ball out of the park on this press conference tonight. | ||
| But also do another press conference the next week, and another event, and another television interview. | ||
| You know, the kind of behavior that you expect to see from a typical president. | ||
| But for months, if not years... | ||
| Joe Biden has not been a typical American president insofar as how far he held the press away from him, how many he refused to do press conferences, he refused to do television interviews, and a lot of that happened right after the big debacle in Afghanistan. | ||
| Once Americans saw that, they immediately started to question his leadership. | ||
| He gave a press conference. | ||
| He found himself struggling to answer questions. | ||
| He couldn't even remember the basic details. | ||
| This is when Americans saw who Joe Biden really was and started asking more questions about his health. | ||
| And ever since then, he's continued to go downhill. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, once again, an update. | ||
| Our producers are eagle-eyed on this press conference. | ||
| It's just an empty podium. | ||
| Right now, we are watching and monitoring it live. | ||
| We are speaking with the great Charlie Spearing of the Daily Mail, a man who predicted the exact mechanisms that are pushing Joe Biden out of office right now, and Mike Benz, who is the Nostradamus of all things federal government. | ||
| I do have an important thing. | ||
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| Look at how special this treatment is for Joe by Nancy. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi is older than Joe Biden by a couple of years, yet still so painful. | ||
| Charlie, you're like, they can't hide this anymore. | ||
| I guess for some of us, it's been in plain sight for a long time. | ||
| But I guess the panic moment must have come with the normies during the debate. | ||
| I mean, is that it? | ||
| My take is that the panic moment was during the debate. | ||
| And they're like, well, 100 million people just saw this. | ||
| We can't lie anymore. | ||
| And even people who don't follow politics every day have just been woken up to the president being mentally handicapped. | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I think that anytime you see Joe Biden on camera, he looks older than he did the day before. | ||
| And when he walks across the runway, people notice the halting gate. | ||
| And then you turn around and look at a Nancy Pelosi who, you know, has already stepped down from her position of leadership. | ||
| You know, she's still pulling a few levers behind the scenes, but she's at least stepped back. | ||
| And every other Democrat in this generation is stepping back, and Joe is the last one to go. | ||
| And like Mike said, there's a whole huge amount of advisors behind him who are invested in Joe Biden's success. | ||
| They've been doing it for years. | ||
| This is their now their moment. | ||
| They don't want to end it. | ||
| They don't want to lose that power. | ||
| So they're desperate to keep him in and they're desperate to prove to everybody that they were right. | ||
| And everyone else who had concerns about his viability as a candidate, you know, as a candidate for reelection. | ||
| I think they all just want to prove everybody wrong and, I think there is a very painful moment here that my team reminded me of where Joe Biden just sat like he's in a jetpack for a while, like live on CNN. | ||
| I'm not a doctor. | ||
| Can you gentlemen sound off on what's happening here? | ||
| Presumably you've seen this clip. | ||
| This happened live. | ||
| That jetpack meme was such a classic. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It's almost like he thinks he's supposed to be at a podium. | ||
| They give him these big jumbotron-sized, you enter here, you take three steps, you turn to the left. | ||
| It's almost like he read the card and said there's a podium. | ||
| So he's like, okay, well, 15 minutes ago I heard there's a podium, so I've just been walking around like this. | ||
| Is someone going to bring me a podium? | ||
| I can't, I can't move my limbs fluidly enough to get these things to, you know, it's a big operation to get this from this position down here. | ||
| So I'd prefer to just conserve energy. | ||
| Can someone give me the, I think it's definitely him trying to center himself and focus. | ||
| You notice his eyes are kind of wandering around in the clip and he clenches his fist as an attempt to re-center himself in the middle of, you know, he's standing there. | ||
| Anderson Cooper is speaking fluidly, asking him a question. | ||
| It looks to me like a momentary panic where he realizes he has to reset himself and get ready to perform. | ||
| So, he's got a vice president. | ||
| Again, update. | ||
| We have teleprompters, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| The teleprompters have been put on stage. | ||
| Klein, can you pop back over to... | ||
| To our browser here, you can see the teleprompters on stage. | ||
| All right? | ||
| Very important. | ||
| Just an update from the Joe Biden press conference. | ||
| The teleprompters have been placed on stage, yet you can see the people kind of milling about. | ||
| Still, the press have not taken their seats. | ||
| Somebody barks over a loudspeaker. | ||
| Charlie, you've been in the White House press room. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Two-minute warning, and then four minutes later. | ||
| Can we take a moment to appreciate that this is basically like... | ||
| You know, Benny, you've got a beautiful family. | ||
| I have to imagine that as a father, this is like the feeling, like what Democrats have right now. | ||
| You know, when your first grader is, you know, doing a spelling bee in front of, you know, the entire school. | ||
| And it's like, so much is riding on. | ||
| Can you just spell, you know, the word Applebee? | ||
| You know, like, can you just put those letters together? | ||
| And like... | ||
| Joe Biden's presidency, the biggest dictator in American history, the only man to sic the Justice Department against a sitting president, the only person to do the kind of purges of the military and of our entire society that's been weaponized through Merrick Garland's Justice Department through things like January 6th and Bishop Garrison over the military and DHS, this entire domestic intelligence operation. | ||
| You know, to basically purge the political class. | ||
| This is the biggest tyrant we've ever had. | ||
| And the fate of his over half a century empire comes down to whether or not he's basically as competent at spelling and phonics, whether he can articulate what's on the damn teleprompter. | ||
| That's all he has to do. | ||
| So... | ||
| I mean, everybody expects it to be a huge fail. | ||
| I don't know how else it's going to go. | ||
| We've seen Joe Biden. | ||
| It's not like they've put Joe Biden in a bunker since the debate. | ||
| We've been live for the Stephanopoulos interview. | ||
| George Stephanopoulos spent 20 minutes with Joe Biden, and then he comes out and says this. | ||
| Oh, hey, is Joe Biden alive? | ||
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Hey, how are you doing? | |
| Good. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Do you think Biden should step down? | ||
| You talk to him more than anybody else have lately. | ||
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And you can be honest. | |
| You don't think he can start four more years? | ||
| All right. | ||
| That's an answer. | ||
| Again, to the point, to sort of the vibe of our conversation, how do you get around? | ||
| How do you beat that, right? | ||
| How do you cheat against that? | ||
| So Joe Biden's done an interview with Stephanopoulos. | ||
| He's done all these radio interviews. | ||
| All these black radio hosts are being fired left and right because they're taking the prescripted questions. | ||
| He's cooked, man. | ||
| Like, I just don't know how you... | ||
| How do you wonka that thing? | ||
| The enormity of the moment is just overwhelming. | ||
| I mean, this is the commander-in-chief of the United States military. | ||
| This is the guy in charge of the CIA and the State Department and our entire swarm army, our entire world empire. | ||
| And he's got a boxing match against a sandbag right now. | ||
| This is not a debate. | ||
| This is like high drama that we would expect if this was like the third and final debate and they were tied 1-1 and it's the month before the election. | ||
| But he's literally going into the ring with himself and a punching bag. | ||
| And the question is, it's 50-50 whether the punching bag knocks him out. | ||
| I don't know, Benny. | ||
| We're looking at almost 20 minutes late for the press conference. | ||
| I have to expect Kamala Harris to come out at the podium at this point. | ||
| Gentlemen, we got another update. | ||
| White House now saying 7.30. | ||
| White House saying 7.30. | ||
| Well, I have a hard out at 7.30, Benny. | ||
| This has been fun. | ||
| I understand. | ||
| I hear your beautiful family, Charlie. | ||
| If you can stay with us till 7.30, that'd be awesome. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Here we are. | ||
| Everything going according to plan for, you know, the most important moment of Biden's presidency. | ||
| Now two hours late is Joe Biden. | ||
| Oh my goodness. | ||
| And we have Kamala after slipping a few melatonins in Joe's soup before the press conference. | ||
| All right, so really quickly here, I'd like to get your guys' thoughts on this. | ||
| So we've talked a lot about mechanics for Joe Biden, but we talked very little about somebody who, according to her own admission, and I'm going to play you the clip to prove it, fell out of a coconut tree. | ||
| My mother used to, she would give us a hard time sometimes and she would say to us, I don't know what's wrong with you young people. | ||
| You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? | ||
| You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you. | ||
| Okay, so what the prospect, the barrel we're staring down, gentlemen, is Kamala Harris becoming president, right? | ||
| Like, this is the most likely scenario. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| That's what you're looking at. | ||
| And, you know, this is what she's been setting up for years. | ||
| This is why she took the job. | ||
| And I don't think anybody expected her, Biden, not to run for re-election because, lo and behold, his second-in-command turned out to be such an embarrassment that I think that was his greatest insurance policy, as the Republicans are saying. | ||
| And I think that at this point... | ||
| Joe Biden is looking at having to turn over the reins to Kamala Harris, and that's not something that the Biden family ever thought would happen and not something that they ever wanted to do. | ||
| What happens, Mike, with Kamala as president? | ||
| I mean, even if Joe Biden, they could just shove her in there for three months, right? | ||
| Trump will beat her, but you get President Kamala, right? | ||
| Do you have the clip of Trump? | ||
| Talking about Kamala Harris and her, what's wrong with her? | ||
| She talks in rhyme. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| Of course, we got it. | ||
| Yeah, we'll grab it in just a second. | ||
| Yeah, on its way. | ||
| But essentially, you know, I've made this point before. | ||
| Kamala Harris was immediately, well, hold on a second here. | ||
| This is a hotel. | ||
| This is a very jerry-rigged situation to set up this. | ||
| We're live, baby. | ||
| It's not as bad as what's going on with Joe Biden. | ||
| But Harris was on the Senate Intelligence Committee. | ||
| She was rushed there before her presidential run and got the strong support of both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee. | ||
| I think that the blob was testing whether or not she could be trusted with... | ||
| With state secrets, trusted with a peek behind the veil of the enormity of the operations, the cloak and dagger operations of the American Empire. | ||
| And the fact that she apparently passed with flying colors, that she would do whatever they wanted. | ||
| She would not challenge any in-process operations. | ||
| She would be... | ||
| You know, a total vassal when it comes to oversight. | ||
| She basically spent her time on the Senate Intelligence Committee focusing on advancing Russiagate for the CIA and building this BS case's support. | ||
| But I think with Kamala, she's still too green. | ||
| The fact is, just like Barack Obama, who was a junior senator, Kind of just like Kamala Harris, when he made his presidential run, they made sure to put Joe Biden behind him as vice president. | ||
| And Joe Biden ran the critical foreign policy pockets of the Obama administration, such as Ukraine, the biggest hot-button regional issue of the entire American Empire operations of the White House during Obama's eight years. | ||
| And they made sure to have a company man in charge, a blob man in charge. | ||
| And the question that I have, if it is indeed Kamala who has made the, you know, the presidential pick at some point, I actually think whoever's the vice president on that ticket is. | ||
| I don't see her as a power broker. | ||
| I see her as a total figurehead in the same way that I don't think anyone thought George W. Bush. | ||
| Was, you know, the brains behind what, you know, what our military and intelligence and State Department diplomats were doing during that administration. | ||
| You know, everyone talked about Darth Cheney, this kind of, you know, shadowy Dick Cheney was the connected, you know, guy, the money man, the political person. | ||
| And it was Cheney and Rumsfeld who were running the show. | ||
| And W was, you know, just there to put a cowboy hat on and say, watch this drive. | ||
| We're going to be watching this cackle while Avril Haines and Samantha Power, and the question is, it would be very interesting, for example, if Hillary were to be the VP. | ||
| I mean, that would tell you, and frankly, I think that might be a smarter move for them than to put Hillary directly in the, you got two women on the ticket, you have Hillary back in, and she can be the sort of shadow president, but nominally, it's going to be... | ||
| You know, the first black African-American woman who also has been vetted by the intelligence community and also has been serving, has been preparing for this her moment, her whole life, and then the past four years. | ||
| I think that they could put together a kind of Cinderella. | ||
| They could put George Clooney on the case, so to speak, and spin up a Hollywood Cinderella tale. | ||
| The issue is they need to do it quickly because these operations take time. | ||
| You need to propagandize, you know, hypnotize the population. | ||
| You can't do that one week before the election. | ||
| That propaganda process takes time, and they need to get those wheels turned. | ||
| Mike, your wish is our command when it comes to Donald Trump commenting on Kamala Harris. | ||
| We do have the clip here. | ||
| So back to Biden, I'm interested. | ||
| So you think he's failing? | ||
| He obviously is failing. | ||
| I think it's clear to everybody. | ||
| But that would make... | ||
| Kamala Harris the candidate? | ||
| Well, not really. | ||
| I mean, I guess they'd have maybe a free-for-all. | ||
| A lot of people say she has to remain for certain reasons, the candidate. | ||
| She has to. | ||
| I don't think that's true, actually. | ||
| I don't think that other people would stand for it. | ||
| She has some bad moments. | ||
| Her moments are almost as bad as his. | ||
| I think his are worse, actually. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She seems pretty senile, too. | ||
| She speaks in rhyme. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| But she has bad moments. | ||
| In rhyme? | ||
| Well, the way she talks, the bus will go here and then the bus will go there because that's what buses do. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| The whole thing is weird. | ||
| This is not a president of the United States future. | ||
| And I think they probably have some kind of a primary and other people will get involved. | ||
| Newsome, right? | ||
| Could be. | ||
| I mean, you know, I always got along well with him, believe it or not. | ||
| But could be him, could be somebody else. | ||
| You can't unsee it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is from a year ago, right? | ||
| This was a year ago, this clip now. | ||
| And Trump was right. | ||
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The bus goes this way, and then the bus goes that way, because that's what buses do. | |
| And it's like, she does that with everything. | ||
| I think it's a Tim Dillon paraphrase, actually. | ||
| Comedian Tim Dillon on Joe Rogan, saying that Kamala Harris speaks in gypsy curses. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Kamala Harris speaks in gypsy curses, and Joe Rogan says, what do you mean? | ||
| And he's like, a hive of bees is still a hive of bees if you bury it! | ||
| Yeah, that's exactly how she sounds. | ||
| She sounds like she's on a drug cocktail. | ||
| This is why Kamala Harris has been so much more scripted watching this campaign, this re-election campaign. | ||
| All of her appearances have been extremely scripted. | ||
| She's well rehearsed. | ||
| You don't hear any more of these, you know, these wild free moments of pure, unadulterated Kamala. | ||
| It's it's she is very disciplined now and really focused on not making any mistakes, because right now it's super high stakes for her as a as a possible future president. | ||
| She could very well be the the 47th president of the United States by the end of the month. | ||
| Oh, baby. | ||
| You know, I mean, I. We call her a power gobbler for a reason, Charlie, and you just called her unadulterated. | ||
| I've studied Kamala Harris's past. | ||
| It's very adulterated, actually. | ||
| I just want one more before I let you boys sound off on this. | ||
| Again, an update. | ||
| Apparently, Joe Biden, here's the shot of the stage, is supposed to take the stage. | ||
| The reporters are seated. | ||
| Oh, here it comes. | ||
| This is round one, by the way. | ||
| Can he take the stage? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| And we're in. | ||
| Well, good evening. | ||
| We just concluded this year's NATO Summit. | ||
| The consensus among the members was it was a great success. | ||
| It's especially momentous because it represented the 75th year, the most important military defense alliance in the world's history of the world. | ||
| We should never forget that NATO grew out of the wreckage of World War II, the most destructive war in history. | ||
| The idea was to create an alliance of free and democratic nations. | ||
| They would commit themselves to a compact of collective defense. | ||
| Standing together, they knew we'd all be safer. | ||
| An attack on one would be treated as an attack on all. | ||
| And it's worked because a would-be aggressor knows if they attack one of us, they'll be attacked by all of us. | ||
| Sending that message is the best way to deter aggression and prevent wars in the first place. | ||
| For those who thought NATO's time had passed, they got a rude awakening when Putin invaded Ukraine. | ||
| Some of the oldest and deepest fears in Europe roared back to life because, once again, a murderous madman was on the march. | ||
| But this time, no one cowered in appeasement, especially the United States. | ||
| We collected intelligence that Russia was planning to invade Ukraine. | ||
| Months before the invasion, I directed the intelligence community to be a significant amount of intelligence to be declassified so I could start building an international coalition to oppose the invasion. | ||
| Then in February, some of you remember, I warned the world that the invasion was imminent. | ||
| I rallied a coalition of 15 nations from Europe to Asia to help Ukraine defend itself. | ||
| Many foreign policy experts thought As Putin amassed Russian forces just 100 miles north of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. | ||
| But Putin thought it was the mother home of Russia. | ||
| The capital would fall in less than a week. | ||
| But Ukrainian people, backed by a coalition to help build, stopped them. | ||
| Today, Kyiv still stands. | ||
| And NATO stands stronger than it has ever been. | ||
| During the week of this summit, several heads of states made it a point in their statements to thank the United States and to thank me personally for all that NATO has achieved. | ||
| NATO is not only stronger, NATO is bigger because we led the charge to bring in Finland and Sweden into the alliance, and it makes a gigantic difference. | ||
| Meanwhile, my predecessor has made it clear He has no commitment to NATO. | ||
| He's made it clear that he would feel no obligation to honor Article 5. He's already told Putin, and I quote, do whatever the hell you want. | ||
| In fact, the day after Putin invaded Ukraine, here's what he said. | ||
| It was genius. | ||
| It was wonderful. | ||
| Some of you forgot that, but that's exactly what he said. | ||
| But I made it clear a strong NATO is essential to American security. | ||
| And I believe the obligation of Article 5 is sacred. | ||
| And I remind all Americans, Article 5 is revoked only once in NATO's long history. | ||
| And that was to defend America after 9-11. | ||
| I made it clear that I will not bow down to Putin. | ||
| I will not walk away from Ukraine. | ||
| I will keep NATO strong. | ||
| That's exactly what we did and exactly what we'll continue to do. | ||
| Now, the future of American policy is up to the American people. | ||
| This is much more than the political question. | ||
| It's more than that. | ||
| It's a national security issue. | ||
| Don't redo this to the usual testament that people talk about, the issues of being a political campaign. | ||
| It's far too important. | ||
| It's about the world we live in for decades to come. | ||
| Every American must ask herself or himself, is the world safer with NATO? | ||
| Are you safer? | ||
| Is your family safer? | ||
| I believe the American people know the answer to all those questions is yes. | ||
| And I believe the American people understand that America is stronger, stronger because of our alliances. | ||
| I believe the American consensus from Truman to Reagan to me still holds today. | ||
| America cannot retreat from the world. | ||
| We must leave the world. | ||
| We're our indispensable nation, as Madeleine Albright wrote. | ||
| Now, let me turn to three other key issues. | ||
| Just this morning, we had a great economic report showing inflation is down. | ||
| Overall, prices fell last month. | ||
| Core inflation is the lowest it's been in three years. | ||
| Prices are falling for cars, appliances, and airfares. | ||
| Grocery prices have fallen since the start of the year. | ||
| We're going to keep working to take down corporate greed to bring those prices down further. | ||
| Meanwhile, Trump's calling for a 10% tariff on everything Americans buy, including food from overseas, vegetables, and other necessities. | ||
| And economists tell us, That that would cost the average American working family another $2,500 a year. | ||
| It's a tax of $2,500 a year. | ||
| Second, our efforts to secure the border, southern border, is working. | ||
| After Trump killed the bipartisan effort to secure the border, Republicans and Democrats had worked on, because he thought it would benefit me and make him a loser, Republicans walked away. | ||
| So I took executive action last month. | ||
| As a consequence, working with Mexico, border encounters have gone down over 50%. | ||
| The current level is lower today than when Trump left office. | ||
| Third, for months, the United States has been working to secure a ceasefire in Gaza to bring the hostages home, to create a path. | ||
| for peace and stability in the Middle East. | ||
| Six weeks ago, I laid out a detailed plan in writing. | ||
| It was endorsed by the U.N. Security Council, the G7. | ||
| That framework is now agreed on by both Israel and Hamas. | ||
| So I sent my team to the region to hammer out the details. | ||
| These are difficult, complex issues. | ||
| We're making progress. | ||
| The trend is positive. | ||
| And I'm determined to get this deal done and bring an end to this war which should end now. | ||
| Let me conclude where I began. | ||
| We're the United States of America. | ||
| We are the indispensable nation. | ||
| Our leadership matters. | ||
| Our partnerships matter. | ||
| This moment matters. | ||
| We must rise to meet it. | ||
| I'll take your questions. | ||
| I've been given A list of people to call on here. | ||
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Look at the note card! | |
| Reuters. | ||
| Jeff Mason. | ||
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Ah! | |
| Here we go. | ||
| Popcorn. | ||
| Here's the popcorn. | ||
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Yeah, but they screened it all. | |
| Your political future has hung over the NATO summit a little bit this week. | ||
| Speaker Pelosi made a point of suggesting that your decision on whether to stay in the race was still open. | ||
| George Clooney and a handful of lawmakers have called on you to step aside. | ||
| Reuters is reporting tonight that UAW leadership is concerned about your ability to win. | ||
| UAW just endorsed me, but go ahead. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| My question for you is, how are you incorporating these developments into your decision to stay? | ||
| And separately, what concerns do you have about Vice President Harris's ability to beat Donald Trump if she were at the top of the ticket? | ||
| Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, but I think she was not qualified to be president. | ||
| So let's start there. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| President Trump! | ||
| The fact is that... | ||
| The consideration is that I think I'm the most qualified person to run for president. | ||
| I beat him once, and I will beat him again. | ||
| Secondly, the idea-- I served in the Senate a long time. | ||
| The idea that senators and congressmen running for office worry about the ticket is not unusual. | ||
| Five presidents, running or incumbent presidents, who had lower numbers than I have now, later in the campaign. | ||
| So there's a long way to go in this campaign. | ||
| And so I'm just going to keep moving. | ||
| Keep moving. | ||
| And because, look, I've got more work to do. | ||
| We've got more work to finish. | ||
| We've made so much progress. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Think about what we are economically relative to the rest of the world. | ||
| Name me a world leader who wouldn't want to trade places with our economy. | ||
| We've created over 800,000 manufacturing jobs, 1.5 million jobs. | ||
| I mean, so things are moving. | ||
| We've got more to go. | ||
| Working class people still need help. | ||
| The corporate greed is still large. | ||
| The corporate profits have doubled since the pandemic. | ||
| They're coming down. | ||
| And so I'm optimistic about where things are going. | ||
| Danny Kemp, AFP. | ||
| This is so handpicked. | ||
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I mean, how many times this week did you get Boston telling people their questions? | |
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| I wanted to ask you about your, you mixed up Presidents Zelensky and Putin earlier today. | ||
| And you now have sort of your key allies, including the British Prime Minister, the President of France, the German Chancellor having to step in and make excuses for you on that. | ||
| Officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable. | ||
| Doesn't this now, frankly, become damaging for America's standing in the world? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Did you see any damage to our standing in my leading this conference? | ||
| Have you seen a more successful conference? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| And the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin, and I said, and now, at the very end, I said, here, I mean Putin, I said, no, I'm sorry, Zelensky. | ||
| And then I added five other names. | ||
| Look, guys, the idea, anybody suggests that we haven't had an incredibly successful conference. | ||
| How many times did you hear in that conference? | ||
| I know it sounds too self-serving, but other leaders, heads of state, in thanking me, saying the reason we're together is because of Biden. | ||
| Because Biden did the following. | ||
| No, they want to plump you for your money. | ||
| They want to take your money. | ||
| That's all. | ||
| Anyway, I thought it was the most successful conference I've attended in a long time. | ||
| And find me a world leader who didn't think it was. | ||
| Next one. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Nancy Cordes. | ||
| CBS. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| You mentioned other instances in history where presidents have faced a challenge. | ||
| But what makes this moment in history so unique is that it is not your enemies who are calling on you to reconsider your decision to stay in the race. | ||
| It's your friends, supporters, people who think you've done a great job over the past four years. | ||
| Have you spent time thinking about What it would mean for your legacy, which you've worked decades to build, if you stay in the race, the concerns voters say they have, and you lose to someone who you yourself have argued is unfit to return to the Oval Office. | ||
| Look, I'm not in this for my legacy. | ||
| I'm in this to complete the job I started. | ||
| As you recall, understandably, many of you and many economists thought, My initial initiatives that I put forward can't do that. | ||
| It's going to cause inflation. | ||
| Things are going to skyrocket. | ||
| The debt's going to go up. | ||
| What are you hearing now from mainstream economists? | ||
| They're telling you to step down, bro. | ||
| 16 economic Nobel laureates said I've done a hell of a job. | ||
| And under my plans so far and what's going to happen in the future if I re-elected, things are going to get much better. | ||
| Our economy is growing. | ||
| I was determined when I got elected to stop the trickle-down economic theory that if the wealthy did very well, everybody else would do well. | ||
| My dad was a well-read, decent guy. | ||
| I don't remember much trickling down on his kitchen table. | ||
| Middle-class people and working-class people need help. | ||
| And so what happened is I decided to implement, was able to implement as president what I believed when I was a senator. | ||
| And that is that the way to build this economy is from the middle out and the bottom up. | ||
| That way, we grow the economy. | ||
| And the wealthy still do very well. | ||
| They do fine. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Find me an economy, a mainstream economist who said we haven't done well. | ||
| What have we not done that isn't working right now? | ||
| And so we got more to do, though. | ||
| We got to finish the job. | ||
| And by the way, I come from the corporate state of the world. | ||
| Delaware has more corporations, you know, registered in Delaware than every other state in the nation combined. | ||
| I'm not anti-corporate. | ||
| But corporate profits have doubled since the pandemic. | ||
| Doubled. | ||
| It's time things get back in order a little bit. | ||
| It's time, for example, if I'm re-elected, we're going to make sure that rents are kept at 5% increase. | ||
| Corporate rents for apartments and the like and homes are limited to 5%. | ||
| We're going to make a lot of changes that I've been talking about. | ||
| And by the way, I know, remember how I got so roundly criticized for being so pro-union, not labor, union, union. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| I've been the most pro-union labor president in history. | ||
| Not a joke. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| We had the Treasury Department do a study. | ||
| When unions do better, everybody does better. | ||
| Everybody does better. | ||
| Remember when we talked about getting the computer chip industry back in the United States? | ||
| It used to be 40% of the industry. | ||
| We invented the chip. | ||
| 40% of the industry was in the United States. | ||
| And former presidents decided that the best way to do it is find the cheapest labor in the world, send the product over there, and import what the product was. | ||
| And so, what did I do? | ||
| I was told not to go over to Europe, I mean to Asia, including Europe, but Asia. | ||
| And I remember going to South Korea, convincing them to invest $20 billion in the United States to build computer chip factories. | ||
| And I asked why when they finally decided to do it. | ||
| And the answer was because you have the safest economy in the world, and you have the best workers in the world. | ||
| So the whole idea here is... | ||
| We've invested, there's over $50 billion in investment in computership manufacturing just coming into being. | ||
| None of you thought that would happen. | ||
| None of you thought that would happen. | ||
| But it's happening. | ||
| It's happening. | ||
| It's going to grow economies all through, and by the way, red states and blue states. | ||
| Matter of fact, there's as much in red states as in blue states. | ||
| I've made no distinction. | ||
| So my generic point is that the idea that We can't continue to build and grow the economy, make it fairer. | ||
| Like I said, from my standpoint, when the middle class does well, that's when the whole economy grows. | ||
| The poor of a shot, the wealthy do well. | ||
| But they both have to start paying their taxes. | ||
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As a follow-up, sir, you mentioned that your vice president, Kamala Harris, would be... | |
| Not us. | ||
| It's the feed. | ||
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What is it about her attributes and her accomplishments over the last four years that make her ready to serve on day one if necessary? | |
| First of all, the way she's handled the issue of freedom of women's bodies to have control over their bodies. | ||
| Secondly, her ability to handle almost any issue on the board. | ||
| This was a hell of a prosecutor. | ||
| She was a first-rate person, and in the Senate, she was really good. | ||
| I wouldn't have picked her unless I thought she was qualified to be president. | ||
| From the very beginning. | ||
| I made dope bones about that. | ||
| She's qualified to be president. | ||
| There's nothing that these tyrants love more than friggin' prosecutors. | ||
| Felicia Schwartz, Financial Times. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| The presidency is the most straining job in the world, and it's 24-7. | ||
| How can you say you'll be up for that next year, in two years, in four years, given the limits you've acknowledged that you have today? | ||
| The limits I've acknowledged I have? | ||
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There's been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlier and your evening around 8. That's not true. | |
| Look, what I said was, instead of my every day starting at 7 and going to bed at midnight, it would be smarter for me to pace myself a little more. | ||
| I said, for example, the 8, 7, 6, 7, 9 o 'clock, start at 8 o 'clock. | ||
| People get to go home by 10 o 'clock. | ||
| That's what I'm talking about. | ||
| I'm not talking about it. | ||
| And if you look at my schedule since I've made that stupid mistake in the campaign, in the debate, I mean, my schedule has been full bore. | ||
| I've done, where's Trump been? | ||
| Riding around in his golf cart, filling out his scorecard before he hits the ball? | ||
| I mean, look, he's done virtually nothing. | ||
| And I have, I don't know how many, don't hold me to them, roughly 20 major events. | ||
| Someone with thousands of people showing up. | ||
| Some with a third of the Trump rally. | ||
| I always have an inclination, whether I was playing sports or doing politics, just to keep going, not stop. | ||
| I just got to pace myself a little more. | ||
| Pace myself. | ||
| And the next debate, I'm not going to be traveling in 15 time zones a week before. | ||
| Anyway, that's what it was about. | ||
| That's what it was about. | ||
| And by the way, even with that, I love my staff. | ||
| But they add things. | ||
| They add things all the time. | ||
| I'm catching hell for my wife. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Oh, yes. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Zeke Miller, Associated Press. | ||
| Can't even read off the card right! | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Two questions for you. | ||
| First, on the NATO summit, President Zelensky, in your meeting with him, he pressed you to lift your limitations on the Ukrainian use of American weapons, saying that, in his public remarks afterwards, saying that Ukraine cannot win the war unless those limitations are lifted. | ||
| Are you reconsidering your position on that? | ||
| And then secondly, following up on Felicia's question there, leaders of your own party have said... | ||
| That they're not worried about that debate. | ||
| They're worried about the next bad night and the bad night after that. | ||
| How can you reassure the American people that you are up to the task and that there won't be more bad nights at a debate stage or somewhere else? | ||
| This is so transparently the media asking this question. | ||
| First thing about Zelensky asking for the ability to strike deep into Russia. | ||
| We've allowed, Zelensky... | ||
| To use American weapons in the near term, in the nearer abroad, into Russia. | ||
| Whether or not he has, he should be attacked. | ||
| For example, Zelensky, he's not. | ||
| If he had the capacity to strike Moscow, strike the Kremlin, would that make sense? | ||
| It wouldn't. | ||
| The question is, what's the best use of the weaponry he has, the weaponry we're getting to him? | ||
| I've gotten a more long-range capacity as well as defensive capacity. | ||
| And so our military has worked on the advice of my commander-in-chief, the chief of staff of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people. | ||
| And we're making a day-to-day basis on what they should and how far they should go in. | ||
| That's a logical thing to do. | ||
| Second question related to... | ||
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Bad nights. | |
| Bad nights. | ||
| Sir, how can you reassure the American people that you won't have more bad nights, whether they be on a debate stage or it's a matter of foreign policy? | ||
| Well, I'll tell you what. | ||
| The best way to assure them is the way I assure myself. | ||
| And that is, am I getting the job done? | ||
| Am I getting the job done? | ||
| Can you name me somebody who's got more major piece of legislation passed in three and a half years? | ||
| I created 2,000 jobs just last week. | ||
| So if I slow down, I can't get this job done. | ||
| That's a sign that I shouldn't be doing it. | ||
| There's no indication of that yet. | ||
| It's negative job growth for U.S. citizens. | ||
| What do we got here? | ||
| Merrick. | ||
| Poleski Radio. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| How are you? | ||
| I'm well. | ||
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The elections in the U.S. have consequences around the world. | |
| You have pretty high standing in Europe. | ||
| I just asked President Macron about you, and he said we are happy to have him as the President of the United States. | ||
| Which part of Europe? | ||
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But there is a concern. | |
| Many people in Poland and across Europe I'm worried that the former president may win the election. | ||
| And there's a lot of concern that... | ||
| Oh, shut up! | ||
| Donald Trump may weaken NATO, stop supporting Ukraine, or push Ukraine to give up territories to Russia. | ||
| They're correct. | ||
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And yourself was warning just two minutes ago about it. | |
| So my question is, do you think that Europe will be left on its own if Donald Trump wins the election? | ||
| And what's your advice to European leaders to prepare for possible U.S. disengagement? | ||
| Well, look, I think, how can I say this without sounding too self-serving? | ||
| I've not had any of my European allies come up to me and say, Joe, don't run. | ||
| What I hear them say is, you've got to win. | ||
| You can't let this guy come forward. | ||
| Yeah, we want your money. | ||
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We want you to keep robbing your own people to pay us. | |
| I mean, I think he said in one of his rallies, don't hold me to this recently, where NATO, I just learned about NATO or something to that effect. | ||
| Foreign policy has never been his strong point. | ||
| And he seems to have an affinity to people who are authoritarian. | ||
| That worries, as I tell you from Poland, that worries Europe. | ||
| That worries Poland. | ||
| And nobody, including the people of Poland, think that if he wins in Ukraine, he's going to stop in Ukraine. | ||
| That's going to be the end of it. | ||
| And so, what I can say is, I think I'm the best qualified person to do the job. | ||
| To make sure that Ukraine is not falling, that Ukraine succeeds, that the European alliance stays strong. | ||
| You may recall, no one was talking about Finland joining NATO. | ||
| I remember talking to Putin right after we got elected in Geneva. | ||
| And he was talking about what we should do, what we couldn't be in Eastern Europe, etc. | ||
| And I said, you're looking for That's not a good thing. | ||
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That's a bad thing! | |
| We've swallowed more and more. | ||
| And I did. | ||
| It wasn't automatic. | ||
| And then I got a call from the Swedes I beg your pardon? | ||
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Awkward! | |
| And so, Finland joined NATO. | ||
| 800-mile border is a significant... | ||
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And they're already allies, but they weren't part of NATO. | |
| And you heard, I think you heard, maybe, I can't recall what you said in our closed meeting, but you wouldn't mind if you'd repeat it. | ||
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He said, we decided in Finland, the people of Finland decided they had to be part of NATO. | |
| It was in our interest because of the joint ability to be together, to dissuade any attack on Finland. | ||
| And the same thing with Sweden. | ||
| It took a lot of selling to some folks, particularly in Turkey and other places, to agree to the expansion. | ||
| But it expanded. | ||
| And we're a hell of a lot stronger because of it. | ||
| We're more secure because of it. | ||
| And by the way, I was able to get 50 other nations, 55-0, to support Ukraine. | ||
| 50. We're able to bring about a coalition between Europe and Asia, Japan and South Korea. | ||
| I just met with, we talked about AUKUS, and we talked about the relationship between Australia. | ||
| New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the United States. | ||
| We're making the world safer and stronger. | ||
| Because we have to deal with the new arrangement that exists in the world. | ||
| The Cold War is over. | ||
| The post-war era is over. | ||
| What is going to replace it? | ||
| And I respectfully suggest I have a pretty good idea what that should be. | ||
| I'm convinced a lot of people will follow it. | ||
| We're just going to get stronger. | ||
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What a warmonger! | |
| Oh my gosh! | ||
| The Borg has acquired more human lives. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Be nice, David. | ||
| Mr. President, the NATO declaration that was issued yesterday was very notable because it described China as a decisive enabler of the war in Ukraine for its provision of critical goods to the Russians. | ||
| That's part of a broader partnership that seems to have cemented in place in the past two or three years. | ||
| I think one that you were a little bit doubtful of when we asked you about it some time ago. | ||
| So I'd be interested to know whether you have a strategy now of trying to interrupt the partnership between China. | ||
| And Russia. | ||
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In a second term, you could describe that strategy. | |
| And along the way, could you also tell us whether you think, just to follow up on Felicia's question, that if you were in a room with Vladimir Putin again, the way you were three years ago, or with President Xi, that a few years from now you will be able to go negotiate with them, handle them one-on-one? | ||
| Well, the first part of the question is, we discussed and I raised in the NATO summit, and others raised, the future of China's involvement, what they're going to do, what they're doing with Russia in terms of accommodating, facilitating, they're getting access to additional, they're not supplying weapons themselves, they're supplying mechanisms for them to be able to get weapons. | ||
| And China's position is basically, and I've spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader has, over 90 hours since being vice president all the way through, for real. | ||
| And by the way, I handed all my notes. | ||
| But my point is that Xi believes that China is a large enough market that they can entice We have to make | ||
| clear China has to understand that if they are supplying Russia with information and capacity, along with working with North Korea and others to help Russia in armament that they're not going to benefit economically as a consequence of that by getting the kind of investment they're looking for. | ||
| And so, for example, we're in a situation where we've re-established direct contact with China after that, remember the balloon, quote-unquote, going down and all of a sudden it came to an end? | ||
| Well, we set up a new mechanism. | ||
| There's a direct line between she and me and our military has direct access to one another and they contact one another when we have problems. | ||
| Yeah, we know. | ||
| You're the first guy to do that, Joe. | ||
| You have to make sure that she understands there's a price to pay for undercutting both the Pacific Basin as well as Europe and as it relates to Russia. | ||
| And dealing with Ukraine. | ||
| And so, for example, if you want to invest in China, as you know, you know this area really well. | ||
| If you want to invest in China, you have to have a 51% Chinese owner. | ||
| You have to make sure that you do by their rules. | ||
| And you don't have the authority. | ||
| You have to provide all access to all the data and information you have. | ||
| There was a while there, as you recall, the last administration and other administrations where the access to that market was enticing enough to get companies to come in because they had access to over a billion people in the market. | ||
| Not a billion, but a lot of people in the market. | ||
| And so they were doing it. | ||
| But that got curtailed when we started saying we're going to play by the same rules. | ||
| For example. | ||
| The idea they don't abide by the international rules related to subsidizing products by the government funding. | ||
| So guess what? | ||
| They're not going to be able to export their electric vehicles to the United States without a significant terror. | ||
| Others are doing the same thing around the world. | ||
| But it is a concern. | ||
| It is a concern that you have both China, North Korea, Russia. | ||
| Iran, countries that are not necessarily coordinated in the past, looking to figure out how they can have impact. | ||
| Yes, because you've alienated all of them. | ||
| Yes, I do, but I'm not prepared to talk about the detail of it in public. | ||
| And I think you'll see that some of our European friends Are going to be curtailing their investment in Russia. | ||
| I mean, excuse me, in China. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| As long as China continues to have this indirect... | ||
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Which one? | |
| Which European country? | ||
| Can you name my name? | ||
| In terms of being able to help their economy as well as help them in... | ||
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They've turned to China because you've sanctioned them for gas deals with Russia. | |
| The other thing that we've talked a lot about is that when I raised it, I didn't hear any... | ||
| I can't swear that everyone agreed because not everyone got to talk about it. | ||
| But we need a new industrial policy in the West. | ||
| One that might make our country great again? | ||
| We talked about how both the EU as well as NATO has to be able to begin to build their own munition capacity. | ||
| Has to be able to generate their own capacity to provide for weapons and the ability. | ||
| It came as a surprise to some of us. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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We had fallen behind in the West in terms of the ability to start new material, new weaponry. | |
| His earpiece messes with our signal. | ||
| From vehicles to weapon systems. | ||
| And so one of the things that came out of this was, we're going to be meeting again with a number of my colleagues, my European colleagues, is what do we do to increase the capacity of the West, particularly in Europe and Japan, to be able to generate the kind of ability to produce their own weapons systems? | ||
| Not just for themselves, but to be able to generate that. | ||
| It's the same. | ||
| Russia's trying to figure out that they went to China, and they didn't get the weapons, but then they went to North Korea. | ||
| But we're going to be in a position where the West is going to become the industrial base for the ability to have all the defensive weapons that we need. | ||
| That was a discussion as well. | ||
| I'm ready to deal with them now and three years from now. | ||
| Look, like I said, I'm dealing with Xi right now and direct contact with him. | ||
| supposed to meet for like one or two hours no good reason we're gonna make out at the end biden and There's not much that he is prepared to do in terms of accommodating any change in his behavior. | ||
| There isn't any world leader I'm not prepared to deal with. | ||
| But I understand in a generic point, is Putin ready to talk? | ||
| I'm not ready to talk to Putin unless Putin's ready to change his behavior. | ||
| And the idea, look, Putin's got a problem. | ||
| First of all, in this war that he has supposedly won, And by the way, I think, don't hold me the exact number, but I think that Russia had 17.3% of Ukraine that they conquered now at 17.4% in terms of percentage of territory. | ||
| They've not been very successful. | ||
| They've called horrible damage and loss of life. | ||
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But they've also lost over 350,000 troops, military, killed and wounded. | |
| They have over a million people, particularly young people with technical capabilities, leaving Russia because they see no future there. | ||
| They've got a problem. | ||
| But what they do have control of is they are very good at controlling and running the public outcry that relates to how they use mechanisms to communicate with people. | ||
| They lie like hell through the constituents. | ||
| They lie like hell about what's going on. | ||
| And so the idea that we're going to be able to fundamentally change Russia in the near term is not likely. | ||
| But one thing for certain, if we allow Russia to succeed in Ukraine, they're not stopping in Ukraine. | ||
| I recommend, I know you know this because you've written about it, read Putin's speech after they moved in, what it was all about in Kiev. | ||
| It wasn't about just, anyway, read what his objective is. | ||
| And anyway, but I think that I'm prepared to talk to any leader who wants to talk, including if Putin called me and wanted to talk. | ||
| Last time I talked to Putin was trying to get him to write an arms control agreement related to nuclear weapons in space. | ||
| That didn't go very far. | ||
| So my point is, I'm prepared to talk to anybody, but I don't see any inclination. | ||
| There is an inclination on the part of the Chinese to keep in contact with me. | ||
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Because they're not sure where this all goes. | |
| And look what's happened in Asia. | ||
| We have strengthened the Asian Pacific area more than anyone else has. | ||
| We, you know, we just put together with, today we had, I brought on, I asked our NATO allies that we bring on a group from the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand. | ||
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Japan. | |
| Australia. | ||
| I already mentioned Australia. | ||
| And I met twice now, I think, with the 14 leaders of the Pacific Island nations. | ||
| And we've slowed down what's going on there. | ||
| We've slowed down China's reach. | ||
| But there's a lot of work to do. | ||
| This is a moving target. | ||
| And I don't take it lightly. | ||
| Assam from NPR. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Asma Khaled with NPR. | ||
| I have two questions. | ||
| Earlier, you spoke about the ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas. | ||
| We're now looking at 10 months of war. | ||
| And I'm curious if there's anything that you feel personally you wish... | ||
| You would have done differently over the course of the war. | ||
| And then secondly, if I may, I wanted to ask you about your presidential campaign. | ||
| I remember covering your campaign in 2020, and there was a moment where you refer to yourself as a, quote, bridge candidacy, a transition to a younger generation of leaders. | ||
| I want to understand what changed. | ||
| Two things. | ||
| Let's go back to... | ||
| We talked about would I change anything that's happening with Israel and the Palestinians and the Palestinian movement. | ||
| The answer is, as you recall, from the very beginning, I immediately went to Israel, but I also got immediate contact with Assisi in Egypt. | ||
| I met with the king of Jordan. | ||
| I met with most of the Arab leaders to try to get a consensus going as to what had to be done. | ||
| To deal with getting more aid and food and medicine into the Gaza Strip. | ||
| And we pushed it really hard. | ||
| And Israel occasionally was less than cooperative, number one. | ||
| The Israeli war cabinet, I've been dealing with Israel since Golda Meir. | ||
| Some of the reporters around here come here all the time and have heard me say this. | ||
| The last first time I met with Golda Meir, I sat. | ||
| And I crossed from her desk, and her assistant was Rabin, sitting next to me. | ||
| That's how far back I go. | ||
| I know Israel well, and I support Israel. | ||
| But this war cabinet is one of the most conservative war cabinets in the history of Israel. | ||
| And there's no ultimate answer other than a two-state solution here. | ||
| And so what was able to be done in terms of the plan I put together was it would be a process for a two-state solution. | ||
| And we get the Arab nations, particularly from Egypt all the way to Saudi Arabia, to be in a position where they would cooperate in the transition so that they could keep the peace in Gaza without Israeli forces staying in Gaza. | ||
| The question has been from the beginning, what's the day after in Gaza? | ||
| And the day after in Gaza has to be, the end of the day after has to be, no. | ||
| Occupation by Israel and the Gaza Strip, as well as the ability for us to access, get in and out as rapidly as you can, all that's needed there. | ||
| I've been disappointed that some of the things that I've put forward have not succeeded as well, like the port reattached from Cyprus. | ||
| I was hopeful that would be more successful. | ||
| But that's why I'm... | ||
| When I went to Israel immediately after the massacres that occurred at the hands of Hamas, the one thing I said to the Israelis, I met with the War Cabinet and with Bibi, don't make the same mistake America made after bin Laden. | ||
| There's no need to occupy anywhere. | ||
| Go after the people who did the job. | ||
| You may recall, I still get criticized for it, but I was totally opposed to the occupation. | ||
| I said, don't make the same mistake you made. | ||
| Don't think that's what you should be doing is doubling down. | ||
| We'll help you find the bad guys. | ||
| Send Warren Company. | ||
| And all this criticism about I wouldn't provide the weapons they needed. | ||
| I'm not providing 2,000-pound bombs. | ||
| They cannot be used in Gaza or any populated area without causing great human tragedy and damage. | ||
| But remember what happened when you had the attack on Israel with rockets and ballistic missiles. | ||
| I was able to unite the Arab nations as well as Europe. | ||
| And nothing happened. | ||
| Nothing got hurt. | ||
| It sent an incredible lesson to what was going on from the Middle East. | ||
| So there's a lot of things, in retrospect, I wish I had been able to convince the Israelis to do. | ||
| But the bottom line is we have a chance now. | ||
| It's time to end this war. | ||
| It doesn't mean walk away from going after Sinwaran. | ||
| Hamas. | ||
| And if you notice, you know better than most, there is a growing dissatisfaction on the West Bank from the Palestinians about Hamas. | ||
| Hamas is not popular now. | ||
| And so there's a lot of moving parts. | ||
| I just have to keep moving to make sure that we get as much done as we can toward a ceasefire, a ceasefire and get those. | ||
| And by the way, Look at the numbers in Israel. | ||
| I mean, my numbers are better in Israel than they are here. | ||
| But then again, they're better than a lot of other people here, too. | ||
| But anyway. | ||
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Bridge candidacy in 2020. | |
| You refer to yourself as being a bridge candidate for a younger, fresher generation of Democratic leaders. | ||
| And I wanted to know what changed. | ||
| What changed was... | ||
| The gravity of the situation I inherited in terms of the economy, our foreign policy, and domestic division. | ||
| And I think I won't put words in anybody's mouth. | ||
| Most presidential historians give me credit for having accomplished more than most any president since Johnson and maybe before that to get major pieces of legislation passed. | ||
| And what I realized was my long time in the Senate had equipped me to have the wisdom of how to deal with the Congress, to get things done. | ||
| We got more major legislation passed that no one thought would happen. | ||
| And I want to finish it, to get that finished. | ||
| If tomorrow, if we had a circumstance where there was a lineup and... | ||
| I didn't have an inheritance I did, and we just moved things along. | ||
| Anyway, it's going to change. | ||
| Last question. | ||
| Haley Bull, Scripps. | ||
| No, Josh Weingrove. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| What's the next one? | ||
| I'll do two more questions. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Many of your colleagues, Democrats on the Hill, are watching tonight as they assess what they want to say about your candidacy. | ||
| I'm wondering how you're thinking of this right now. | ||
| It seems like your answer is clear, but they're watching how things go tonight, tomorrow in Michigan, next week in Texas and Nevada. | ||
| Are you thinking that way about how the next two weeks go? | ||
| Will that affect your decision, or are you fully determined on running in November as the party's nominee? | ||
| I'm determined on running. | ||
| But I think it's important that I lay fears by let them see me out there. | ||
| Let me see them out. | ||
| You know, for the longest time it was, you know, Biden's not prepared to sit with us unscripted. | ||
| Biden's not prepared to in any way. | ||
| And so what I'm doing is, and I've been doing, I think we've done over 20 events from Wisconsin to North Carolina to anyway, to demonstrate that I'm going out in the areas where we think we can win, where we can persuade people to move our way, where people are already there. | ||
| And look, the other thing is, we have the most extensive campaign organization that anybody's had in a long, long time. | ||
| We have well over 1,000 volunteers knocking on doors, making phone calls, making tens of thousands of phone calls. | ||
| We have headquarters. | ||
| I forget exactly how many I want to... | ||
| Cite a number and then find out I'm off. | ||
| But we have scores of headquarters in all the toss-up states. | ||
| We're organized. | ||
| We're moving. | ||
| And that's awful hard to replace in the near term. | ||
| And here's the other thing. | ||
| I was in the Senate a long time. | ||
| Very proud of what I've done in the Senate. | ||
| I was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee for a long time, and I was chairman or ranking member and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. | ||
| I'm going to be going down to the Johnson Library. | ||
| Anyway, I'm going to be going around making the case of the things that I think we have to finish and how we can't afford to lose what we've done or backslide on civil rights, civil liberties, women's rights, that little button we have. | ||
| Control guns, not girls. | ||
| I mean, the idea, we're sitting around, this is where Kamala is so good as well. | ||
| We're sitting around, more children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death. | ||
| The United States of America, what the hell are we doing? | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| We've got a candidate saying, promised the NRA, don't worry, I'm not going to do anything. | ||
| I'm not going to do anything. | ||
| You've got a Supreme Court that is what you might call the most conservative court in American history. | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| There's so much we can do still. | ||
| And I'm determined to get it done. | ||
| It's about freedom. | ||
| And by the way, I'll end this. | ||
| Well, I'm not going to do that. | ||
| Haley has to come up, too. | ||
| But I remember I made a speech on democracy. | ||
| In Philadelphia, in Independence Hall. | ||
| And I'm not being critical, just observing. | ||
| The bulk of the press, what the hell is he talking about that for? | ||
| Democracy. | ||
| He did. | ||
| Democracy is not an issue. | ||
| Democracy is not an issue. | ||
| Except the polling data showed 60% of the people knew I was right, thought I was right. | ||
| I'm not asking you a question. | ||
| You don't have to answer, obviously. | ||
| But do you think our democracy is under siege, based on this court? | ||
| Do you think democracy intercedes based on Project 2025? | ||
| Do you think he means what he says when he says he's going to do away with the civil service, eliminate the Department of Education? | ||
| I mean, we've never been here before. | ||
| And that's the other reason why I didn't, you say, hand off to another generation. | ||
| I've got to finish this job. | ||
| I've got to finish this job. | ||
| Because there's so much at stake. | ||
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We've had some discussions over the past few days with your press secretary about the question of health exams. | |
| And you said you take a cognitive test every day in this job. | ||
| Are you open to taking another physical or test before the election? | ||
| Governor Whitmer of Michigan, for instance, said it wouldn't hurt to take a test. | ||
| Well, look, two things. | ||
| One, I've taken three significant and intense... | ||
| Neurological exams by a neurologist. | ||
| In each case, as recently as February. | ||
| And they say I'm in good shape, okay? | ||
| Although I do have a little problem with my left foot because it's not as sensitive because I broke my foot and didn't wear the boot. | ||
| But I'm good. | ||
| I'm tested every single day about my neurological capacity to do decisions I make every day. | ||
| You talk to my staff. | ||
| All of you talk to my staff. | ||
| Sometimes my staff talks a lot. | ||
| But the fact of the matter is, I don't think you have them telling you that all the major ideas we've undertaken haven't been in part initiated by me. | ||
| I remember when the staff, I said, I'm going to go to South Korea. | ||
| We're going to get the chip. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| I'm going to get Japan and Korea back together again after. | ||
| No, essentially having hostilities toward one another since the end of World War II. | ||
| I'm going to move and see that we can expand it. | ||
| You know, the only thing AIDS does is help you with it. | ||
| It creates a little bit of wisdom if you pay attention. | ||
| And so the point I'm making is, I think it's important that I, if the neurologist tells me, He thinks I need another exam. | ||
| And by the way, I've laid every bit of the record out. | ||
| I hadn't done anything. | ||
| You ought to ask Trump for his, okay? | ||
| I laid it all out. | ||
| And every single day, I'm surrounded by good docs. | ||
| If they think there's a problem, I promise you. | ||
| Or even if they don't think it's a problem, they think I should have a neurological exam again, I'll do it. | ||
| No one's suggesting that to me now. | ||
| And I'll ask you another question. | ||
| No matter what I did, no one's going to be satisfied. | ||
| Did you have seven docs? | ||
| Did you have two? | ||
| Who'd you have? | ||
| Did you do this? | ||
| How many times did you? | ||
| So I am not opposed that my doctors tell me I should have another neurological exam. | ||
| I'll do it. | ||
| But that's where I am. | ||
| Haley Bull, Scripps. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| You said you're making decisions on a day-to-day basis when it comes to support for Ukraine. | ||
| Does that mean you have not closed the door on further considering lifting restrictions for U.S.-made weapons inside Russia? | ||
| And if I may, your convention is coming up where your delegates are pledged to make you the official nominee. | ||
| If they have second thoughts, are they free to vote their conscience? | ||
| Obviously, they're free to do whatever they want, but I get overwhelming support. | ||
| Overwhelming support. | ||
| I won. | ||
| I forget how many votes I won in the primary. | ||
| Overwhelming. | ||
| And so tomorrow, if all of a sudden I show up at the convention, everybody says, we want somebody else. | ||
| That's the democratic process. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
|
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Even if that means they vote for someone else? | |
| Sure. | ||
|
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Look. | |
| I'll end this with this. | ||
| I circumcised it a long time. | ||
| I understand the impetus of candidates running for local office and whether they think the topic can help them or not. | ||
| In my state of Delaware, which was a very, at least a purple, it was a red state when I started, in terms of we now talk red and blue. | ||
| I don't recall most of the Democratic presidents winning my state when I was a candidate. | ||
| The truth of the matter is I understand the self-interest of a candidate. | ||
| If they think that, you know, running with Biden in the top is going to hurt them, then they're going to run away. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| But so far, go and look at the polling data in their states. | ||
| Look at the in-depth, and by the way, I think you'd all acknowledge, and you're all experts. | ||
| I'm not being solicitous about the president. | ||
| You're experts on this stuff. | ||
| How accurate does anybody think the polls are these days? | ||
| I can give you a series of polls where you have likely voters, me versus Trump, where I win all the time. | ||
| When the unlikely voters vote, he wins sometimes. | ||
| The bottom line is all the polling data right now, which I think is premature because the campaign really hasn't even started. | ||
| I mean, it hasn't started in earnest yet. | ||
| Most of the time, it doesn't start until after September, after Labor Day. | ||
|
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So, a lot happened. | |
| But I think I'm the best—I know, I believe I'm the best qualified to govern. | ||
| And I think I'm the best qualified to win. | ||
| But there are other people who could beat Trump, too. | ||
| But it's all to start from scratch. | ||
| You know, money raised. | ||
| We're not doing bad. | ||
| We got about $220 million in the bank. | ||
| We're doing well. | ||
| So with that, do you have anyone to follow up on any of that? | ||
| You can just ask me. | ||
|
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Yes. | |
| Earlier, explained confidence in your vice president. | ||
| Yes. | ||
|
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If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race? | |
| No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win. | ||
| Me. | ||
| No one's saying that. | ||
| No poll says that. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| This ends tonight's press conference. | ||
| Thanks, everybody. | ||
| This concludes... | ||
| Earlier, you misspoke. | ||
| You referred to Vice President Harris as Vice President Trump. | ||
| Right now, Donald Trump is using that to mock your age and your memory. | ||
| How do you combat that criticism from tonight? | ||
| Listen to him. | ||
|
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This concludes tonight's press conference. | |
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| Thanks, everyone. | ||
| I'm going to be hungry. | ||
| I'm going to be hungry. | ||
| I'm hungry. | ||
| No way! | ||
| Oh, it's so good! | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, what a... | ||
| Okay, so some of it was like taking a sleeping enema. | ||
| It was so boring. | ||
| He was filibustering himself. | ||
| I think the tactic here was to try to put all of us to sleep. | ||
| I think that was obviously the tactic. | ||
| And ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for something. | ||
| There was some cross-talk. | ||
| We listened to you. | ||
| And obviously, typically the rule on this program is we let the speaker speak. | ||
| Even if it's Joe Biden, we do our very best to let the speaker speak. | ||
| Donald Trump, Joe Biden, anybody if we're carrying it live. | ||
| So know that that is the rule on the channel and is very, very easy to, you know, sort that out ahead of time. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we're just doing it live. | ||
| You know, we're doing it live. | ||
| We're eating our popcorn. | ||
| I ate a considerable amount of popcorn and we have our salt. | ||
| Now, why did we bring our salt and our popcorn today? | ||
| Well, because we knew that Joe Biden, mentally handicapped, is going to say something like this. | ||
| He said that his vice president... | ||
| Is Donald Trump? | ||
| Now, he just responded to that and said, you've got to listen to Trump. | ||
| And ALX, is Trump currently mocking him? | ||
| That was an NBC News reporter there saying that Trump's mocking Joe Biden. | ||
| If he's doing that live, let's go ahead and get that, put it up on screen for you. | ||
| We've got a ton of reactions rolling in. | ||
| Get a load of this, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Donald Trump, apparently the vice president of the United States right now. | ||
| Go! | ||
| I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President, though I think she was not qualified to be President. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
|
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Great. | |
| So Donald Trump is the Vice President right now. | ||
| Donald Trump has said, Crooked Joe has a case of Trump derangement syndrome. | ||
| This is what he's, this is what Donald Trump has put up on social media, along with, along with a quote. | ||
| From Joe Biden. | ||
| This is on Truth Social. | ||
| Crooked Joe, I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief. | ||
| My, my, my, my, my. | ||
| So Donald Trump is posting clips. | ||
| Let's go ahead and pop that one up, please. | ||
| Yeah, there we go. | ||
| Here's number one from Donald Trump. | ||
| Trump derangement syndrome. | ||
| This is, of course, when you scream the name Donald Trump in the middle of, you know, like anything, right? | ||
| Like sitting, waiting, crying at the bus station. | ||
| Conalingus. | ||
| And this, ladies and gentlemen, is another Donald Trump truth. | ||
| We've got some bangers rolling up from the president. | ||
| Crooked Joe, I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief. | ||
| My commander-in-chief? | ||
| What do you mean, my commander-in-chief? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Well, this is very interesting. | ||
| Joe Biden said that Jill Biden's in charge. | ||
| For real. | ||
| Well, we've been joking about this for a long time, but Joe actually straight up said it. | ||
| Here we go, Joe Biden. | ||
| Jill's in charge, actually. | ||
| Jill's still running the country. | ||
| But they add things. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Add things all the time. | ||
| The very end. | ||
| I'm catching hell from my wife. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Jill clearly runs the country. | ||
| Biden also commenting effectively on how his brain works right now. | ||
| And it wasn't pretty. | ||
| Obviously, you saw Joe Biden have to ask from a giant list of prescripted questions. | ||
| The moment you see that note card come out, you're like, ugh, ugh, this is gonna suck, right? | ||
| Because it's all these reporters who are just total, like, soy-sucking simps, and they're just like, oh, please, Joe, love me, love me. | ||
| Zeke Miller from the Associated Press. | ||
| See, they don't even ask a single, they're like, Half the reporters don't even ask about Joe Biden being in total and complete collapse. | ||
| They don't even ask questions about it. | ||
| So it's like, how fair is this press conference? | ||
| Is this really a big boy press conference? | ||
| Yeah, I don't think so. | ||
| Joe Biden, talking about the way his brain works now. | ||
| The voice of my commander-in-chief, the chief of staff of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people. | ||
| Okay, great job, big boy. | ||
| This is the big boy press conference. | ||
| And, most importantly, you've now figured out what's wrong with Joe Biden. | ||
| Everybody's been saying, hey, any doctors, like, any doctors ever checked you out? | ||
| Like, we know there's some scumbag little midget doctor that you have. | ||
| That's some little gremlin that nobody's ever heard of that was involved in a bunch of Joe Biden schemes and scandals to defraud the healthcare system here in the state of Florida. | ||
| Where's the investigation in the state of Florida? | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| Ashley Moody, Secretary of State. | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| I'm sorry, correction. | ||
| Miss Attorney General. | ||
| Where is the investigation? | ||
| This little, this doctor that Joe Biden has. | ||
| He was in this scheme, this scam, to defraud all of these hospitals here in the state of Florida. | ||
| He definitely was in league with Joe Biden's brother, and he put $200,000 in Joe's back pocket. | ||
| We know this. | ||
| And this is the guy who's currently Joe's physician, saying Joe has a clean bill of health. | ||
| Doing all these secret meetings with these little doctors. | ||
| Right? | ||
| The ones who are Parkinson's experts. | ||
| That's kind of interesting. | ||
| What does Joe Biden have to say about that? | ||
| Well, Joe Biden was asked directly about those meetings. | ||
| And Joe told us he does have something wrong. | ||
| You got him. | ||
| He has something wrong. | ||
| It's my foot. | ||
| This entire time, you know what? | ||
| You got me. | ||
| You finally, you finally, I finally have to bend the pressure. | ||
| It is my foot. | ||
|
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Health exams. | |
| And you said you take a cognitive test every day in this job. | ||
| Are you open to taking another physical or test before the election? | ||
| Governor Whitmer of Michigan, for instance, said it wouldn't hurt to take a test. | ||
| Well, look, two things. | ||
| One, I've taken three significant and intense neurological exams by a neurologist. | ||
| In each case, this reason is February. | ||
| And they say, I'm in good shape. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Although I do have a little problem with my left foot because it's not as sensitive because I broke my foot and didn't wear the boot. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| This is Joe Biden saying exactly what we've all been waiting for. | ||
| What is really, truly medically wrong with you, sir? | ||
| We've seen you fall on your face and fall on your ass. | ||
| We've seen you fall upstairs and downstairs. | ||
| We've seen you fall across flat stages. | ||
| We know, as a matter of fact, that they force people to walk next to you because you fall so much. | ||
| We've seen you wander out of rooms and across doorways, like out of doorways. | ||
| We saw you walk through the bushes to go get into the White House. | ||
| The conservatives didn't know what the hell was going on. | ||
| Clearly, there's something horribly wrong with you. | ||
| And then we saw you completely brain damaged on stage during the debate for 90 minutes of hospice care. | ||
| That's what it looked like. | ||
| And so, can you tell us about that, like, what seems to be a horrible physical malady that is affecting your body? | ||
| And Joe Biden goes, it's my foot! | ||
| You know what? | ||
| It's too good, actually. | ||
| The writers of Saturday Night Live and the Babylon Bee, they don't know what, there's no more material. | ||
| What you can't make up. | ||
| It's like a Babylon Bee headline. | ||
| Joe Biden, it's my foot! | ||
| It's been my foot the entire time! | ||
| It's my foot! | ||
| I can't even get my leg high enough! | ||
| It's my foot, you see? | ||
| I didn't wear the boot! | ||
| You just gotta love it. | ||
| All of this stuff is clearly a, you know, obviously it's like desperation. | ||
| Everybody's turning on Joe Biden. | ||
| They're all like, the guy, like, can't function, right? | ||
| He can't breathe unaided, okay? | ||
| He's like a small... | ||
| Microscopic organisms have better functioning than Joe Biden right now. | ||
| So please, Joe, go out there and convince people, that's what all this is about, convince people at the big boy press conference that you are with it, okay? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| You have one chance. | ||
| I directed the intelligence community to be a significant amount of intelligence to be declassified so I could start building an international coalition to oppose the invasion. | ||
| You can't even do an impression of it. | ||
| I don't even know how to do it. | ||
| Is he beatboxing? | ||
| Is he going to drop an album? | ||
| Joe Biden. | ||
| What a mess. | ||
| A lot of this seemed like filibustering to me. | ||
| So we got producers, ALX, Robbie. | ||
| How many did we get in? | ||
| Seven? | ||
| This was not a big boy. | ||
| A big boy press conference is these photos of Trump when he would stand in front of the press. | ||
| I know we have that photo. | ||
| Photo of Trump when there's literally press 20. Reporters deep and five reporters high. | ||
| I'll show you the photo. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| That's a big boy press conference. | ||
| This was as rigged, ladies and gentlemen, as 2020. | ||
| And he got a bunch of questions that he knew was coming. | ||
| I bet he had to give the questions in advance. | ||
| And he only got seven questions. | ||
| So this is a total rig job. | ||
| And I think the goal was to try and stretch it out. | ||
| Remember, Joe Biden has to go to bed at eight o 'clock. | ||
| Okay, sleepy time. | ||
| The whole goal was to stretch it out with incoherent rambling about stuff that nobody cares about because if Joe Biden's alive and saying things into a microphone, then not all is lost. | ||
| Like this. | ||
|
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Your decision, or are you fully determined on running in November as the party's nominee? | |
| I'm determined on running, but I think it's important that I lay fears by seeing, let them see me out there. | ||
| Let me see, you know, for the longest time it was. | ||
| You know, Biden's not prepared to sit with us unscripted. | ||
| Biden's not prepared to in any way. | ||
| And so what I'm doing is, and I've been doing, I think we've done over 20 major events from Wisconsin to North Carolina, to anyway, to demonstrate that I'm going out in the areas where we think we can win, where we can persuade people to move our way, where people are already there. | ||
| We have the most extensive campaign organization of anybody's had in a long, long time. | ||
| We have well over a thousand volunteers knocking on doors, making phone calls, making tens of thousands of phone calls. | ||
| We have headquarters. | ||
| I forget exactly how many I want to cite a number and then find out I'm off. | ||
| But we have scores of headquarters in all the toss-up states. | ||
| We're organized. | ||
| We're moving. | ||
| And that's awful hard to replace in the near term. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Again, what the hell is that? | ||
| Somebody did this, and it's a really great comment. | ||
| Joe Biden is untranscribable. | ||
| Joe Biden is untranscribable. | ||
| How are you supposed to take that down? | ||
| Can't wait for them to charge Joe Biden, put him up in front of a jury, and the poor court stenographer is going to be sitting there sweating profusely. | ||
| Like that Key and Peele sketch? | ||
| How am I going to do this? | ||
| How am I going to do it? | ||
| How are you going to win, Joe Biden? | ||
| You have a bunch of Democrat delegates that are saying that they're not going to vote for you. | ||
| What's going to happen with the Democrat delegates? | ||
| This is an important question. | ||
|
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The convention is coming up where your delegates are pledged to make you the official nominee. | |
| If they have second thoughts, are they free to vote their conscience? | ||
| Obviously, they're free to do whatever they want, but I get overwhelming support. | ||
| Overwhelming support. | ||
| I won. | ||
| I forget how many votes I won in the primary. | ||
| Overwhelming. | ||
| And so tomorrow, if all of a sudden I show up at the convention, everybody says, we want somebody else, that's the democratic process. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
|
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Do you think that means they vote for someone else? | |
| Sure. | ||
|
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Look. | |
| My favorite part about all of this entire night, with the exception of everybody taking some popcorn, we offered popcorn, a lot of people took popcorn, we're excited. | ||
| Have some popcorn. | ||
| Please, have some popcorn. | ||
| We want you to have some popcorn. | ||
| I would love to share my popcorn with you. | ||
| I'm happy that you're here. | ||
| I'm glad you're here. | ||
|
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Please, have some warm, salty popcorn. | |
| Salted, by the way, with the tears of Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki, and Joy Reid. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is a tough one. | ||
| Should Joe Biden let Kamala Harris run? | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Should Joe Biden let Kamala Harris take the job? | ||
| This is, of course, the question that was broke. | ||
| The New York Times says that the Biden campaign is stress-testing Kamala Harris right now. | ||
| Well, what does that mean? | ||
| It means, like, Joe Biden's not really in charge. | ||
| So will they let Kamala run? | ||
|
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You earlier explained confidence in your vice president. | |
| Yes. | ||
|
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If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race? | |
| No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win. | ||
| Me. | ||
| No one's saying that. | ||
| No one says that. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| Thank you. | ||
|
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Oh, man. | |
| Thanks, everybody. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| What's up with the whisper, dude? | ||
| What is with that whisper? | ||
| What even is that? | ||
| It's so creepy. | ||
| It's so creepy. | ||
| The memes are flying. | ||
| Memes are flying. | ||
| Donald Trump posted a meme. | ||
| What's the meme? | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| What's the meme? | ||
| This is the meme. | ||
| It has to do something with the whisper? | ||
| What is that whisper? | ||
| That ASMR-like thing. | ||
| It's a creepy, like, old people-only fans, like Joe Biden page. | ||
| I directed the intelligence community to be a significant amount of intelligence to be declassified. | ||
| So this is what Trump posted. | ||
| So Trump getting under his meme game. | ||
| I have a feeling there's going to be more of these, but Trump posted this one. | ||
| Big boy press conference with the text. | ||
| Oh, man, look at this. | ||
| This is Anthony Blinken. | ||
| Soul leaving his body. | ||
| When Donald Trump says that... | ||
| I'm sorry, when Joe Biden says Donald Trump's his vice president. | ||
| You can see here the exact moment when Joe Biden calls Kamala Vice President Trump. | ||
| You see Anthony Blinken there wincing in pain and it is excruciating. | ||
| Poor guy. | ||
| The GOP has put up on X. It's past bedtime. | ||
|
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Big boy. | |
| Aww. | ||
| Sleepy time. | ||
| Good night. | ||
| There are cope and seething from the people who are paid to cope and seethe, cry. | ||
| Harry Sisson is one of those funny little astroturf goblins who are paid to, you know, put on a little gimp suit and let Joe Biden sniff their hair. | ||
| And, you know. | ||
| Kid's got a head of hair, right? | ||
| He's perfect. | ||
| They're perfect for each other. | ||
| Really, they're perfect for each other. | ||
| Is that Pantene Pro-V? | ||
| Come on, Harry. | ||
|
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Good for you. | |
| Look, it's Joe Biden looking at Harry's hair. | ||
| This is actually the face he makes. | ||
| He's like... | ||
|
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Come here. | |
| I love democracy. | ||
| He says, come on, get over here! | ||
| Is that the Pantene Pro? | ||
| Is that the Kiwi lemon flavor? | ||
| Anyway, there's a lot of people who owe President Biden an apology right now. | ||
| There's a lot of people who owe President Biden an apology right now. | ||
|
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This is what Harry Sisson posted, bro. | |
| Bro! | ||
| This is not it, man. | ||
| This is not it, bro. | ||
| No. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| So there's some yelling back and forth between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. | ||
| So Joe Biden screenshotted this and posted it. | ||
| Let's read. | ||
| Crooked Joe begins his big boy press conference with, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President, though I think she's not qualified to be President. | ||
| Great job, Joe! | ||
| Okay, these are the droids you're looking for. | ||
| The post on Truth Social. | ||
| I was looking at this. | ||
| This is funny. | ||
| It's really funny. | ||
| So Joe Biden posted this, which is a weird flex, bro, right? | ||
| By the way, yes, I know the difference. | ||
| One's a prosecutor and the other's a villain. | ||
| Got it? | ||
| All right, got it. | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump, the first white man that Joe Biden or Kamala Harris have ever put in jail. | ||
| Oh, trust me. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| They put plenty of people in jail. | ||
| Donald Trump might be the first white guy. | ||
| Not white. | ||
| Orange. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| Uno reverse. | ||
| Got him. | ||
| Boom shaka. | ||
| Locka. | ||
| Okay, so... | ||
| We have some memes out here from Don Jr. posting Greg's meme. | ||
| Okay, let's get the original post here. | ||
| Oh, it's a cursed image. | ||
| It's a cursed image. | ||
| Give me the originals. | ||
| We were having too much fun. | ||
| We're having too much fun. | ||
| So we have members of Congress who have now called for Joe Biden to resign after this. | ||
| Joe Biden's record of public service is blah, blah, blah. | ||
| His legacy is blah, blah, blah. | ||
| You don't have to kiss his ass, okay? | ||
| You're about to call for him to resign. | ||
| Because the guy has Parkinson's, dementia, Alzheimer's, all in a 7-Eleven Slurpee all together, right? | ||
| Like a Twizzler, all tied up into one. | ||
| You've got to call on the guy to resign. | ||
| You don't have to praise him or read his obituary. | ||
| He must not risk that legacy, those accomplishments in America and democracy. | ||
| It's also horrors of promise. | ||
| Trump! | ||
| Shut up. | ||
| Just get to your stupid statement. | ||
| Okay, so you called on him to resign. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| Connecticut congressman. | ||
| Okay, got it. | ||
| He's a reader. | ||
| Okay, so he's saying you can read. | ||
| I mean, we've all seen Jasmine Crockett, so that's a huge accomplishment if you're a congressional Democrat. | ||
| Runner, swimmer. | ||
| I make maple syrup and mead. | ||
|
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Hmm. | |
| Interesting. | ||
| Not sure what to think about this. | ||
| I doubt he makes... | ||
| If he's woke, I doubt he makes Aunt Jemima make a maple syrup. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| You never know, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Here's a photo of Joe Biden. | ||
|
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Hehehehe. | |
| Oh, no! | ||
| Please, Jill, don't... | ||
| Not the belt! | ||
| Not again! | ||
| Not the belt! | ||
| Please don't take away the cinnamon from my applesauce. | ||
| I need the applesauce. | ||
| Oh, it's too good. | ||
| Anyway, so these are some of the interesting responses. | ||
| says this is the original Greg. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| Oh, it's a cursed image. | ||
| Oh, it's so bad. | ||
| Oh, man, it's so bad. | ||
| It somehow makes me like Kamala Harris more. | ||
| The more I look at it, I don't like it. | ||
| Joe Biden got one question as he left. | ||
| I want to play that for you. | ||
| There was one pop-off. | ||
| You heard Peter Doocy from Fox News hop in there. | ||
| Really wish we would have gotten one of those. | ||
| You remember when Peter Doocy jammed Joe Biden up with the question about his Corvette? | ||
| It's so funny. | ||
| Anyway, he ignored Peter Doocy. | ||
| Probably smart for Joe Biden. | ||
| Maybe the only smart thing he did all night. | ||
| But then he went to the NBC News reporter. | ||
| This guy named Peter Alexander. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
|
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This concludes... | |
| Respectfully, earlier you misspoke in your opening answer, you referred to Vice President Harris as Vice President Trump. | ||
| Right now, Donald Trump is using that to mock your age and your memory. | ||
| How do you combat that criticism from tonight? | ||
| Listen to him. | ||
|
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This concludes tonight's press conference. | |
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| Thanks, everyone. | ||
| *laughter* | ||
| So wait a second. | ||
| So you're telling me that Joe Biden's final thing that he says is listen to him. | ||
| Listen to Donald Trump. | ||
| Those are your last words. | ||
| Why do you think we brought the popcorn? | ||
| Why do you think we brought the popcorn? | ||
| Why did we bring it? | ||
| Listen to Donald Trump. | ||
| Listen to my... | ||
| Listen to Trump. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| All right, bro. | ||
| You know, that's a bold strategy, Cotton. | ||
| Let's see if it pays off. | ||
| Happening now backstage, Big Boy Joe. | ||
| Jill, I don't want to do this anymore. | ||
|
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Crazy pageant, Jill. | |
| You're going to do it! | ||
| Ice cream or not, get out there! | ||
|
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Get out there! | |
| Do our best to not swear on this channel. | ||
| Sometimes we can't. | ||
| Sometimes we just try to have a family program here. | ||
| Not curse, but... | ||
| Oh man, Jill Biden's such a... | ||
| Such an angry pageant mom, truthfully. | ||
| It's a real photo. | ||
| You know this, right? | ||
| This isn't AI. | ||
| It's a real photo. | ||
| What's she doing? | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
|
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It's just funnier the more you look at it. | |
| Right? | ||
| Joe Biden, clearly completely lost, crying to himself. | ||
| Trying to himself in his filthy bathrobe. | ||
| He doesn't know who he is or what he is. | ||
| I don't want to do this anymore. | ||
| Jill Biden. | ||
|
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We're doing it. | |
| We're doing it now. | ||
| Get out of there. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is that the right Jill Biden? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
|
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I don't know. | |
| Like a velociraptor. | ||
| Moments after Biden's pressure ends, top Democrat on the House Intelligence calls on Biden to step aside. | ||
| Well, that's pretty big. | ||
| House Intelligence. | ||
| Cringe Jean-Pierre thinking about the press briefing tomorrow. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| How many cigarettes can you smoke at a time? | ||
| How many cigarettes? | ||
| How many cigarettes are you going to smoke? | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is the zoom in on... | ||
| I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President, but I think she's not qualified to be President. | ||
| Let's start there. | ||
|
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Look at the reaction. | |
| I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President, but I think she was not qualified to be President. | ||
| So let's start there. | ||
|
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Hello, darkness, my old friend. | |
| It's time to talk to you again. | ||
| Yeah, not a great singer, so I'm not going to sing anymore, but yeah, that is what's happening right now. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, what are we gonna do next, ladies and gentlemen? | ||
| We had a great time tonight. | ||
| It's been fun. | ||
| We got a lot of... | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| We got the... | ||
| We got Senator... | ||
| We got some good memes rolling in. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Let's do one or two more memes. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| So, we got... | ||
| Pop it up. | ||
| A live look at DNC headquarters. | ||
|
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Yeah, everybody is losing it. | |
| Mike Lee sharing the Vice President Trump meme. | ||
| Ah, yes. | ||
| The memes are flying in. | ||
| What else do we got? | ||
| Listen to Joe. | ||
| Okay, listen to Joe. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is this... | ||
|
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Are we clear to play this one, ALX? | |
| We asked ALX before. | ||
| We asked ALX before to put stuff up on the show. | ||
| He's the executive producer of the program, so he gets the final say. | ||
| President Putin! | ||
| Looks like a cat turd special here. | ||
| President Putin! | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Joe did this earlier. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| So... | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| All right, here we go. | ||
| We'll play one more meme here. | ||
| From Machiavelli memes. | ||
| Let me load that. | ||
| Pop her up. | ||
| See how bad, how pathetic Biden's been. | ||
| He's the worst president in the history of our country. | ||
| Listen to him. | ||
| He's corrupt. | ||
| Listen to him. | ||
| He's incompetent. | ||
| Listen to him. | ||
| He's weaponized the justice system to go after his political opponent, which has never been done before. | ||
| And he's the worst president we've ever had. | ||
| Listen to him. | ||
| Okay, that's a good one. | ||
| That'll be good. | ||
|
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Listen to Trump. | |
| Listen to Trump. | ||
| Executive producer, ALX. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| On his way to a million followers on X. Is your vice president Trump or Kamala? | ||
|
unidentified
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I forgot. | |
| Sounds like it's time maybe for the talk between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. | ||
| So, here it is. | ||
|
unidentified
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So, here it is. | |
| You know what it's like as much as anybody to be in the White House during a crisis. | ||
| You know what it's like and how lonely it can be to make tough decisions where not every decision is going to be perfect, but you got to make them. | ||
| We're in a moment right now. | ||
| Best friends. | ||
| You're going to quit. | ||
|
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You're going to quit. | |
| Got him! | ||
| Got him, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| Good. | ||
| The memes are rolling in. | ||
| Let's do one more expert reaction here. | ||
| We've got David Axelrod, as we have said. | ||
| If you don't know who David Axelrod is, that's totally okay. | ||
| He is the dude who brought us Barack Obama. | ||
| He's the architect of Barack Obama's two election victories. | ||
| Also, pretty much the guy who resuscitated Joe Biden's dead career. | ||
| And now is looking at the, once again, the corpse of Joe Biden's political career and saying that this thing is way done. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| David Axelrod popping off seconds ago. | ||
| This is a less than 10 minute old post on X. If what he said at the end of the presser is true, it sounds like Biden's team has not been very candid with him about what the data is showing. | ||
| The data is showing that the age issue is a huge, potentially insurmountable concern, and the odds of victory are very, very slim. | ||
| So what David Axelrod is saying... | ||
| Is that they're lying to him. | ||
| That Joe Biden's team is, in fact, lying. | ||
| And I think that's what we've... | ||
| I think that's what we see in the hubris of this press conference, right? | ||
| That's what we see. | ||
| There's one answer. | ||
| We'll play it again one more time. | ||
| This has got to make Kamala so angry. | ||
| Just a reminder that the White House attacked George Clooney. | ||
| The White House has gone after congressional Democrats. | ||
| The White House is using, like, mafia tactics, right, to cling to power. | ||
| And now Joe Biden goes after Kamala Harris, saying Kamala Harris won't win against Trump. | ||
| He knows what's going on. | ||
| This is maybe the clip of the night. | ||
| Why not let Kamala run, Joe? | ||
|
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You earlier explained confidence in your vice president. | |
| Yes. | ||
|
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If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race? | |
| No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win. | ||
| Me. | ||
| No one say that. | ||
| No Paul says that. | ||
| What a mess. | ||
| What a messy, creepy, creepy old bat. | ||
| All right, what do we got from Drudge? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| I'm aware that Drudge is viciously anti-Trump. | ||
| Let's just go through some headlines here, ladies and gentlemen, from across the tacosphere. | ||
| President calls Zelensky Putin. | ||
| He calls Kamala Trump Dems angry and stunned. | ||
| Big boy press conference disaster. | ||
| World's watching from the New York Post. | ||
| Biden calls Kamala Harris Vice President Trump. | ||
| Top of error-laden big boy press conference. | ||
| Qualified to be president. | ||
| If you have to say you're the boss, you're not really the boss. | ||
| Biden 81 confuses Kamala Harris for his nemesis, Trump, in disastrous search. | ||
| Or is that, is it not, was that a Freudian thing? | ||
| Joe Biden saying that Kamala is his enemy, right? | ||
| Disaster start to big boy press conference in response to claim that he needs to go to bed earlier. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| What a unbelievable, unbelievable news cycle here. | ||
| We will tell you that this is, of course, leading to straight-up meltdowns across the spectrum. | ||
| One of our favorites from today, and we just can't help ourselves with Kamala Harris, with Nancy Pelosi, because the... | ||
| The meltdown is so delicious. | ||
| And since we're rolling here, we just might as well. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi had an absolute fit, an actual racist fit in the House of Representatives today when she screamed at a reporter. | ||
|
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And we made a meme out of it. | |
| I'm not going to be making any statements about any of that right now in the hallway. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Oh, very sad. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi, am I speaking English to you? | ||
| I can't get over that clip. | ||
| Oh, it's so good. | ||
| Imagine if a Republican did it. | ||
| I hate playing that game, but imagine if a Republican did it. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi's freaking out. | ||
| Democrats are freaking out across the spectrum. | ||
| Democrats are all saying... | ||
| Oh God, oh God, please help us. | ||
| Please help us. | ||
|
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Clooney has concerns about President Biden's mental fitness. | |
| Do you? | ||
| I don't. | ||
| I don't have concerns. | ||
| George Clooney is a movie producer. | ||
| He needs to produce movies. | ||
| Do you have any concerns about the president's mental acuity? | ||
| I'm sorry, we have a meeting. | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| Forgive me, I'm going to have no comment on this stuff, but thank you. | ||
|
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Someone like George Clooney, who was just with the president, says you need a new nominee. | |
| I'm so sorry, I got around. | ||
| Do you have concerns about President Biden's mental fitness? | ||
| My concern right now, I'm trying to get to this place and you're kind of stopping me from getting to where I'm going. | ||
| Ah, yes, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| My concern right now is I don't know where I'm going. | ||
| I would have... | ||
| Man, maybe we should go back and be Capitol Hill reporters. | ||
| Do you want to... | ||
| Let me know in the comment section if we should send ALX, our executive producer, who has, and I wanted to get the correct number here, okay? | ||
| 727,000 followers here. | ||
| 727,000 people can't be wrong, all right? | ||
| This is not possible. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, go follow ALX. | ||
| Should we send ALX? | ||
| Don't you want to see ALX ask these people questions? | ||
| Do you think that Biden is competent? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Are you mentally incompetent? | ||
| Bam! | ||
| That's the number one thing you should be asking. | ||
| This is what you should be asking. | ||
| ALX gotta come on the chat. | ||
| Alright, here we go. | ||
| ALX gotta come on the program. | ||
| I gotta mute. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Sorry, pal. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| As soon as I see the ALX tweets coming through, I said, why don't I just bring him on? | ||
| Why don't I just bring him on? | ||
| Yeah, it didn't work, man. | ||
| No, it's so funny. | ||
| I keep seeing all of the posts. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| This is what everyone's talking about. | ||
| That, yeah, that was... | ||
| He tends to do this. | ||
| He has the line of the night right off the... | ||
| Same in the State of the Union. | ||
| But yeah, I keep seeing the parallel dimension post. | ||
| It's like reality. | ||
| And then like Harry Sisson and everybody else, it's like, this is a disaster. | ||
| And then it's like, everybody owes Biden an apology after this. | ||
| By the way, I've just been like, because that Dem that called on Biden to resign, he's like, maybe you should resign or something. | ||
| I agree with like a black fist and Elon just liked it saying that, you know, Biden is the nominee. | ||
| It's time for Democrats to like... | ||
| Go behind Biden. | ||
| Well, it's funny, too, because Biden didn't even know how many votes he got in the primary. | ||
| I can tell you that. | ||
| He got 14 million, and he doesn't know how many he got in his own primary. | ||
| So Elon liked Kamala's shadow cabinet after the president. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| All right, okay, so you're trolling Harry Sisson. | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| Well, because, of course, we want Joe Biden to be the nominee. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| I do agree that it's time for Democrats to coalesce behind Joe Biden. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, you know, of course, executive producer ALX. | ||
| Not only is he famous on X, not only did Elon Musk name X after him, but executive producer ALX is, I don't think he sleeps. | ||
| He's probably AI. | ||
| Somebody check if you ever meet him in person. | ||
| At the GOP convention, actually, you can meet ALX next week. | ||
| And me. | ||
| And I guess my question is, you don't miss anything online, ALX. | ||
| What's the response here, dude? | ||
| What are people saying? | ||
| What's the take here? | ||
| It's kind of a mess. | ||
| The thing was kind of a mess, no? | ||
| Well, he didn't get off on the right foot even before the press conference when he's calling Zelensky Putin. | ||
| So that kind of set the tone. | ||
| And then in his first answer, when he's saying that Trump is his vice president, that's all everyone was talking about for virtually the entire press conference. | ||
| Honestly, I think the consensus to anyone who isn't in the pockets of the DNC or isn't completely delusional is that age has caught up with Joe Biden. | ||
| There's no more hiding it. | ||
| Even the corporate media, I forgot who had this article today that they said that his entire presidency was essentially a charade and a well-organized farce. | ||
| I think CNN reported it, but I think it was from an article. | ||
| But they're reading it on air that all these leaks are now coming out that in the cabinet meetings, they're having cabinet members submit things in advance. | ||
| Today the radio station admitted that they were forced to edit the actual interview before it went up and they agreed and ended up doing it. | ||
| They cut two questions. | ||
| So you're just going to be seeing all of these leaks now because all the people who have been in on this farce are now turning on Joe Biden. | ||
| And Biden himself said if Democrats coalesce behind somebody else, they can vote their conscience. | ||
| So he just gave them the green light right there. | ||
| Your boy Harry getting cooked over here. | ||
| TDS patient, Democrat activist Harry Sisson claims Biden didn't have teleprompters. | ||
| Bro, like we watched them put the teleprompters up live. | ||
| Hey, Alex, Alex is hitting me up being like, OK, the teleprompters are going up. | ||
| We know Biden's going to come out soon. | ||
| Well, that's the other thing. | ||
| People were confused how he gave a campaign speech when he he said it's a press conference. | ||
| He's at NATO and he's up there giving a campaign speech. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Like people were confused. | ||
| He instantly hits Trump. | ||
| Instantly. | ||
| Oh, my predecessor this, my predecessor that. | ||
| Look at what he would do. | ||
| Look at what he would do. | ||
| It immediately turns into a campaign speech. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| So a lot of people are confused right off the bat on that point. | ||
| They're like, where's the questions? | ||
| This is supposed to be a press conference. | ||
| He started off rough and is still having rough patches. | ||
| Says Shapiro, it's good enough to keep him in the race, which is terrible news for Democrat, excellent news for Trump. | ||
| I think that's correct. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| Maddo is worried Biden is being given information, bad information, about reality. | ||
| I think that's actually also a correct take. | ||
| It's like a strange matrix that we live in here, ALX. | ||
| Something's broken. | ||
| Well, his inner circle is his family. | ||
| It's Jill Biden and Hunter, and we've seen that reporting that that's his now inner circle, and he's taking advice from people that, you know... | ||
| For their own self-interest, want him staying in the race. | ||
| Hunter, because he wants a pardon. | ||
| And Jill, because she wants power. | ||
| So those are the reflections of reality that he's getting right now. | ||
| Joe's fine. | ||
| Nothing to see here. | ||
| See you in November, says Mike. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I'm all for Joe staying in the race. | ||
| But a Kamala and Trump debate would be very entertaining, though. | ||
| I will have to say that. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| Because she's remixing her unburdened by what has been now. | ||
| She's straying from the script a little there. | ||
| She got a little too excited today going from her usual unburdened by what has been speech. | ||
| So, you know, Kamala may show up to the debate looking like this. | ||
| Joe Biden is clearly getting a bunch of spray tans, right? | ||
| Whitening his teeth. | ||
| Joe Biden doing his best to turn into Trump. | ||
| Babylon Bee predicted it. | ||
| She's going to borrow Joy Reid's hair. | ||
| Maxine Water was, like, fixing her wig on air the other night. | ||
| Maybe she's going to be the doctor of it. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Pretty good. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So funny. | ||
| Control guns, not girls. | ||
| Says Brian Stelter. | ||
| Up until the moment, he said, Google the result. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| I didn't really get that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And their strategy is to draw more attention to it. | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| This is so true. | ||
| It's like posting your L's. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Posting your L's. | ||
| Ooh, man. | ||
| Obama and Pelosi have spoken privately about Biden and the future of the 2024 campaign. | ||
| Former president and ex-speaker expressed concerns. | ||
| Neither is quite sure what to do. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| They're in a pickle, dude. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're in a pickle. | ||
| It is pretty funny how, like, Mika, like, she's, like, all in the know on this stuff. | ||
| And she was the one this morning saying, yeah, that wasn't George Clooney who wrote that. | ||
| Hint, hint, wink, wink, nod, nod. | ||
| It was Obama. | ||
| And, you know, even the Biden campaign, like, is now saying that they think it's Obama. | ||
| So it's pretty funny. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| So Donald Trump sharing memes. | ||
| Donald Trump sharing. | ||
| You don't even need to hear the audio on this. | ||
| You just hear. | ||
| So Joe Biden says. | ||
| Welcome to the stadium, wake up on the podium, President Putin. | ||
| Can we do, Robbie, can you go check and make sure that Donald Trump did post this? | ||
| This is an account that posts Trump post from Truth Social, but I want to make, you know, sometimes... | ||
| Sometimes they post their own, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| A Biden-Putin meme has been sent forward by our incredible meme team. | ||
| I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin. | ||
|
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I just want to say that Joe Biden has dementia and is not in charge. | |
| Surely, time has come to change this. | ||
| That's pretty good, actually. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| I mean, come on, you know? | ||
| Come on. | ||
| This was a... | ||
| Yeah, I mean, this was like... | ||
| I don't think this is going to like... | ||
| I don't think this is going to calm anyone down. | ||
| It's just going to make people more stressed out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I don't think you're getting, like, you're not going to get your... | ||
| There's a strange... | ||
| You know, we were obviously online for the State of the Union, and there was this crazy thing that happened where a bunch of people thought that the State of the Union was awesome, and Joe did such a great job! | ||
| I won't understand that, but there's no way anybody's walking away from this thinking that Joe Biden's, like, super-duper-duper awesome right now. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| There's no way. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Yeah, there's no way. | ||
| More like this. | ||
| This was what I was hearing the entire press conference. | ||
|
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This person, nothing to see here, please. | |
| Yes! | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| That's a famous naked gun line. | ||
| Yeah, all right. | ||
| So, big takeaways. | ||
| Why don't we just plan out tomorrow's show? | ||
| We can produce it right now. | ||
| I guess big takeaways for me on all this is we're in a holding pattern, right? | ||
| There wasn't like something catastrophic that would accelerate, like they kick out Joe Biden, throw him in the trash compactor. | ||
| But what's done is done. | ||
| And the Democrats have pulled the pin on the grenade, right? | ||
| So now it's just a mess. | ||
| Well, the thing is, it's like the two, he's so delusional because, and this goes back to even before the debate. | ||
| He was saying that he's up in every polls or whatever. | ||
| Check the polls, Jack, or whatever. | ||
| So he's so delusional. | ||
| He's like, unless there's polls saying that she would do better against Trump, which CNN, we just saw, released a poll showing that, then I will drop out if there's polls showing that. | ||
| So he's so delusional, they're not even showing him these polls. | ||
| And then number two, telling Democrats that they can vote their conscience. | ||
| So he just essentially greenlit them replacing him, based on the facts. | ||
| I mean, joke's on you. | ||
| Do Democrats have a conscience is an important question. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| Classic. | ||
| Not exactly sure. | ||
| Big shout-out to Eric, who was doing some incredible graphic design work for our company today and made our preview graphic for today's live. | ||
| Massive shout-out. | ||
| Massive shout-out to Eric. | ||
| This is a good one. | ||
| This is a very, very good one. | ||
| Let's make sure that this gets saved and we will continue. | ||
| This should be an entire thing. | ||
| Universe. | ||
| Yeah, we'll do a universe build on this. | ||
| We'll do a universe build. | ||
| Joe Biden having a rough one. | ||
| Obviously, you know, this is how you fix your polling numbers. | ||
| This is how you do it. | ||
| I don't see... | ||
| I know we talked about this. | ||
| I know we talked about this, but it's important. | ||
| We talked about this with Mike and with Charlie. | ||
| Bro, I don't... | ||
| How does it... | ||
| And I'm looking at the chat right now. | ||
| How does it... | ||
| How do you possibly turn it around? | ||
| You can't. | ||
| The tube's out of the... | ||
| The toothpaste's out of the tube, right? | ||
| Like, genie out of the bottle. | ||
| You're not putting the ketchup back in the Heinz, you know, container. | ||
| It's out. | ||
| Like, they hate them. | ||
| You're going to have a really super weird Democrat convention. | ||
| We'll be there. | ||
| They denied us press credentials, but we'll be there. | ||
| You're going to have a super weird vibe energy convention. | ||
| You're going to have a, like, Joe Biden clearly is, like, clinging to power like the king in Lord of the Rings, right? | ||
| With, like, warm tongue in his ear. | ||
| You know, why would you trouble an already troubled mind kind of thing with his family? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| How do you possibly turn this around? | ||
| It's really effed. | ||
| They're really effed. | ||
| I don't think he can. | ||
| And, like, he's convincing himself by doing all these pre-recorded interviews, like the recent one, and now he's doing another one on Monday, another pre-recorded interview that's somehow going to fool people. | ||
| When in reality, it's like he can't even pull off pre-recorded interviews. | ||
| Radio ones or cable. | ||
| When he's telling people, number one, the questions in advance, and then number two, to cut certain questions. | ||
| When he had the questions in advance, he's telling the world that he's a black woman. | ||
|
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So... | |
| None of this is reassuring. | ||
| Like, he's 0 for like 7 on... | ||
| The whole, you know, reshape the image of Biden campaign that's been going on since the debate. | ||
| The entire, my entire timeline is this, is, uh, my numbers are better in Israel than they are here. | ||
| Like, even, even lives, like, going after Biden, right? | ||
| Nina Turner is like this, this, this, uh, far left, far left socialist. | ||
| Oh man, Macron makes his move. | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| Jill! | ||
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No! | |
| A lot of people picking up Sagar and picking up on my numbers are better in Israel than they are here. | ||
| I think I missed that. | ||
| I didn't even catch that. | ||
| He did say that. | ||
| Megyn Kelly says, long rambling stream of consciousness, soliloquies, and a sign of dementia. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Ari Fleischer, who was the press secretary for George W. Bush, to his great shame. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| Biden had a good enough night that Democrats will not go full public panic mode. | ||
| Not tonight. | ||
| He bought himself more time, which is probably upsetting to a lot of Democrats. | ||
| Again, Democrats are in a real jam. | ||
| It's a real pickle. | ||
| I looked this up, ALX. | ||
| Okay, so you got Ohio's one that comes to mind, but you got 12 states, most of them with Republican legislatures, that would have to certify. | ||
| a ballot, right? | ||
| The certification of the ballots go through the state legislatures and the secretaries of state. | ||
| And once that ballot is locked, there's no going back, right? | ||
| Like it's done. | ||
| You're going to have to run a write-in campaign. | ||
| And the deadlines for this is like the end of the month here. | ||
| We're rolling through July, like at a quick clip. | ||
| And the deadlines for this for, like, a bunch of states is, like, the end of this month. | ||
| And then every single month, subsequently, there are these ballot deadlines where the best you could possibly have is, like, a write-in operation. | ||
| Because legally, you're not going to get a bunch of Republican legislatures to, like, change the rules for Hillary or, you know, Michelle Obama or Kamala Harris. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That would be wild. | ||
| I don't see. | ||
| I think it is too late at this point. | ||
| Honestly, I think they're stuck with him. | ||
| I do, too. | ||
| I just don't see it happening. | ||
| Yeah, I don't see it happening, man. | ||
| This is funny. | ||
| I like following, obviously. | ||
| You like following people. | ||
| Meghan McCain has Trump derangement syndrome for obvious reasons. | ||
| It's weird because her mom works for Joe Biden, right? | ||
| So her mom... | ||
| Works for Joe. | ||
| I'm not wrong there, right? | ||
| Like her mom, Cindy McCain, is like the ambassador to like the UN or something. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But she has gone hard against Biden, which is very interesting. | ||
| It's very fun to watch. | ||
| Like a big soap opera. | ||
| It's delicious. | ||
| Pop our popcorn. | ||
| Please stop making us watch Biden humiliate himself. | ||
| I can't take it anymore. | ||
| I feel so sick and sad and awful about this. | ||
| It is absolutely heartbreaking. | ||
| Something's obviously wrong with him. | ||
| I don't understand what his family is thinking. | ||
| Meghan McCain recently posted that, like, Jill Biden has a special place in hell. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Or something to that effect, that Jill Biden's one of America's greatest monsters. | ||
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Woo! | |
| This is nightmare fuel. | ||
| The alternate version. | ||
| This is really something. | ||
| I love the tan line on the forehead. | ||
| Trump's tanner than Kamala. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Get up the card. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| You missed a spot. | ||
| Maybe that's where the coconut hit her. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| That's where she fell out of the coconut tree. | ||
| That's what Team Trump posted after he confused Kamala and Trump. | ||
| They said, would Joe fall out of the coconut tree? | ||
| Team Trump. | ||
| Yeah, this is a really great... | ||
| Listen to Trump. | ||
| What an incredible last thing to say! | ||
| Wild. | ||
| There, it's Steve Trump. | ||
| Did Joe Biden fall out of the coconut tree? | ||
| Alright, okay, Alex. | ||
| I think it's time. | ||
| I think we've gone through tons of memes, tons of reactions. | ||
| We love the chat. | ||
| The chat's been melting down. | ||
| We want to say deeply thank you. | ||
| We're out here for you. | ||
| We did have a little glitch tonight with talking over the programming, but we're going to make a little system to make sure that doesn't happen again. | ||
| You know how we do around here. | ||
| We try and button it up and make sure that everyone can listen and hear. | ||
| Literally, we do everything we possibly can to make sure the audio is cranked up as high as it can be. | ||
| And you can just hear the program, right? | ||
| We'll have plenty of time to eat popcorn afterwards and say our piece. | ||
| ALX, to that matter, to that point, your piece, sir. | ||
| What's your takeaway? | ||
| Big takeaway from the night. | ||
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Yep. | |
| I think my final takeaway is Joe is absolutely cooked, but the Democrats are stuck with him. | ||
| And it's going to lead to a victory in November. | ||
| Hopefully everyone get out and vote. | ||
| Don't get complacent. | ||
| But I hope that everyone will do that and it will lead to a victory. | ||
| Well, ALX, you are joined. | ||
| You are joined by somebody who is slowly but surely morphing into Tucker Carlson, Rachel Maddow, who says this. | ||
| So we have ALX's take. | ||
| Here's Rachel. | ||
| The take from the absolute opposite end? | ||
| What Nicole points out about the reality about polling numbers for incumbent presidents and the real history of that versus what President Biden said, which was not actually factually accurate as far as I can tell, that's worrying because it makes me worry that the president is being given information about his political standing that may not be based in reality, that may be sunnier than is real. | ||
| Yeah, it's true. | ||
| You'll love to see it. | ||
| How many headlines have we written in ALX where it's panic and chaos and Dems in D.C. in panic? | ||
| There really is panic in D.C. right now. | ||
| Dude, there really is! | ||
| We've manifested it! | ||
| We've manifested it with you, with the incredible audience. | ||
| We thank you for helping us manifest actual panic in D.C. Ladies and gentlemen, again, you need to follow our incredible, intrepid executive producer on this program. | ||
| His name is ALX. | ||
| Go ahead and jump in there and give him a follow. | ||
| ALX, I will see you in the morning, pal. | ||
| Yes, thank you. | ||
| Also, shout out to Tenet Media. | ||
| You can follow them right in the bio of our YouTube channel. | ||
| It's in the description right now. | ||
| Huge shout out to Tenet. | ||
| Huge shout out to Tenet. | ||
| Who partners with us on the In the Arena show and gives us the extra energy and the extra juice and the extra programming to, like, push, to, like, do these kind of larger live streams. | ||
| We've been live now for three hours and 15 minutes, so we just want to thank, obviously, Tenet, who's just straight baller, such an awesome partner on all this. | ||
| Actually, ALX, I totally forgot the meme. | ||
| We've got to sign off. | ||
| We've got to sign off with the meme, dude. | ||
| We've got to sign off with the meme. | ||
| We're going to do the full meme sign-off. | ||
| Normally, I'd have so much to say about a meme, but I don't even know how to comprehend this meme. | ||
| I just know that it's perfect for tonight's performance from Joe Biden. | ||
| That's all. | ||
| Any other thoughts on that? | ||
| It's high art. | ||
| That's all I'll say. | ||
| It is high art, and ALX owns a pair of Donald Trump's gold sneakers. | ||
| So, the guy's got taste. | ||
| Know that. | ||
| And know this, before we play you our closing meme of the evening. | ||
| We do this show for you. | ||
| We do our very best to, like, have a good time. | ||
| We'd rather laugh than cry, right? | ||
| You kind of have, like, two options in these situations. | ||
| And we would rather be over here, like, salting our popcorn, okay, than being the people producing the salt. | ||
| So we're going to show up with memes. | ||
| We're going to show up and have, like, a good time. | ||
| I think you can't defeat an army of happy warriors. | ||
| I know you can't defeat an army of happy warriors, and that's what we are over here. | ||
| So if you agree with that, then join us. | ||
| Like, share, and subscribe to our channel. | ||
| We're going to be doing a lot more of this as we head into the GOP convention next week. | ||
| It's going to be wild. | ||
| We've got some huge announcements for the show in the morning. | ||
| We'll be doing live events with some incredible guests in Milwaukee. | ||
| And of course, they'll be live here if you can't make it to Milwaukee with us. | ||
| But yeah, it'll be pretty fun. | ||
| You can pull up and have a beer with us in Milwaukee. | ||
| That'd be awesome. | ||
| Either way, you can do it digitally also with us here. | ||
| Like, share, and subscribe. | ||
| Buckle up. | ||
| It's going to be an incredible, incredible rest of the year. | ||
| We've got 100 days and change until the November election. | ||
| So stay salty and good night. | ||
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Let me tell you the story I heard from a local state trooper about Joe Biden riding on an Air Force One pooper. | |
| His days were numbered, nobody wanted him around, so he took his cash and went out like D.B. Cooper. | ||
| Run, Joe, run into the Amazon. | ||
| Take your wife, the crackhead son. | ||
| Maybe one day we find your fortune like F.J. B. Cooper. | ||
| Join us in the hunt for truth and light. | ||
| At the Benny Show, target's in sight. | ||
| Run, Joe, run into the Amazon. | ||
| Take your wife and crackhead, son. |
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