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July 11, 2024 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (E449): BIDEN WATCH DAY 14—Democrats Begin to Defect from Biden in Droves
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This is America's Mayor Live with Rudy Giuliani.
We're in the middle of listening to an absurd press conference with a mentally incompetent president of the United States who began it by announcing that Donald Trump is his vice president.
Now he's attempting to answer a very complex question and not answering it.
It's another one of his run-on answers and that was David Sanger's Another softball question from a distinguished journalist like that.
What would he do to interrupt the relationship between China and Russia that seems to be developing?
He's now describing to us Xi's vision of the world based on his spending more time with Xi Jinping than anybody else has, which I don't know if that's true or not.
The answer makes no sense at all.
Wouldn't interrupt anything between China and Russia.
And of course if he did it, China would sue him to get their money back.
So this is absurd and Sanger should be ashamed of himself for not challenging his competence.
Then he asked him a second question which we'll see if he can remember, whether Biden can remember the second question because the last complex question he got he had to have the reporter repeat it.
The second question relates to whether he can go one-on-one With Xi or Putin.
What do you think he's going to say?
That's a ridiculous question.
I'm really disappointed in Sanger.
I always thought he was more of a serious person than an ass licker.
But he's definitely an ass licker.
I mean, that question is ridiculous.
And he's giving a ridiculous answer.
Can we get him?
Is he in the middle of the same answer?
as well as health. Do I need the consequence that their ability to fight in in Ukraine?
The other thing that we talked a lot about, you're now listening live to Joe Biden's press
conference at NATO in Washington. And I was still listening to the answer to Sanger's question.
But the first part we haven't we need a new industrial policy in the West. For example,
we talked about how both the EU as well as NATO has to be able to begin to build
their own munition capacity.
Yes.
has to be able to generate their own capacity to provide for weapons and the ability to...
It came as a surprise to some of us how we had fallen behind in terms of the ability
to construct new material, new weaponry, new everything from vehicles to weapon systems.
And so one of these... We have more vehicles that will separate China and Russia.
...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... They're stinking blinking.
...ability to produce their own weapon systems.
Not just for themselves, but to be able to generate that.
It's the same.
That's what Russia's trying to figure out.
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.
Mr. President, I'm not sure you answered on whether you would be ready to go deal with Putin and Xi two or three years from now.
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.
That's absolutely pathetic.
I have no good reason to talk to Putin right now.
There's not much that he is prepared to do in terms of accommodating any change in his behavior.
But there isn't any world leader I'm not prepared to deal with.
But I understand the generic point.
Is Putin ready to talk?
I'm not ready to talk to Putin.
That's not the point.
The point is, can you talk to anybody?
Is Putin ready to change his behavior?
And make more sense of this?
The idea is, look, Putin's got a problem.
First of all, in this war that he is supposedly won, And by the way, I think, don't hold me to the exact number, but I think that Russia had 17.3% of Ukraine that they've conquered.
Now it's 17.4.
I mean, in terms of percentage of territory.
They've not been very successful.
They've caused horrible damage and loss of life.
But they've also lost over 350,000 troops, military, that's killed or wounded.
They've over a million people, particularly young people with technical capability, 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 to their constituencies.
They lie like hell about what's going on.
And so the idea that we're going to be able to fundamentally change Russia to their 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, so 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 work on an arms control agreement related to nuclear weapons in space.
Yeah, that worked well.
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.
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, 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.
Yeah, we've slowed down, Joe, quite a bit.
But there's a lot of work to do.
This is a moving target.
And I don't take it lightly.
Assam from NPR.
NPR?
Oh.
Oh, you know he got that name wrong, too.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Asma Khalid 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.
Stop asking him two questions.
He's going to forget.
There was a moment where you referred to yourself She hasn't been able to remember the second question yet.
Two things.
Let's go back to when you 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, I 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.
Oh, really?
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 across from her at her desk, and her assistant was Rabin, sitting next to me.
That's how far back I'd 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 true state solution.
And we get the Arab nations to, 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, 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 on 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 when I went to Israel immediately after the massacres that occurred at the hands of Hamas, the one thing I said to the Israelis, and 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 and trying to unite Afghanistan.
Once we got Bin Laden, we should have moved on.
Because it was not, and no one's ever going to unite that country.
I've been over every inch of that, not every inch, the entirety from the poppy fields all the way to the north.
I said, don't make the same mistake we made.
Don't think that's what you should be doing, doubling down.
We'll help you find the bad guys.
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 Sinwar and 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.
ceasefire and get those.
And by the way, look, look at the numbers and in Israel.
I mean, I, I, I, 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, um, What changed was the gravity of the situation I inherited in terms of the economy, our foreign policy, and domestic division.
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 to know 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.
Or no, Josh Weingrove, I'm sorry, was the next one.
I'll do two more questions.
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 whether how the next week or two goes would inform your decision?
Am I using that way of saying?
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 relay fears by letting them see me out there.
Let me see my, you know, for the longest time it was, you know, Biden's not prepared to sit with us unscripted.
Biden's not prepared to, you know, anyway.
And so what I'm doing is what I've been doing.
I think we've done over 20 major events from Wisconsin to North Carolina, 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 already are.
What's that will, anyway?
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 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.
He hasn't remembered one second question.
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.
He says anyway, whenever he is losing his train of thought.
He doesn't know what day he's going to the Johnson Library.
What relationship do you have there?
Control guns, not girls.
I mean, the idea, we're sitting around, that's where Kamala's 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, promise the NRA, don't worry, I'm not going to do anything.
I'm not going to do anything.
You 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.
By the way.
Well, I'm not going to do that.
Haley has to come up too.
But the... What?
What?
I remember I made a speech on democracy.
In Philadelphia at Independence Hall.
And I'm not being critical, just observing.
The bulk of the press, what the hell are you talking about that for?
Democracy.
Yeah, you 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 is 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?
What does the Department of Education have to do with democracy?
That's the only 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.
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 recent 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 talked to my staff.
All of you talked 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 and 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 not essentially having hostilities toward one another since the end of World War II.
I'm going to move and see if we can expand, you know?
Look at those eyes!
The only thing age does is help you with, 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 think the juice is running out.
If the neurologist tells me he thinks I need another exam, and by the way, I've laid every bit of the record out.
He hasn't even finished it.
He's far apart.
Because it's going on to him.
I've 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.
Yes, we all think you should have a neurological exam.
No one's suggesting that to me now.
A cognitive exam.
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 if my doctors tell me I should have another neurological exam, I'll do it.
But that's where I am.
Haley Bull, Scripps.
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 and everybody says, we want somebody else, that's the democratic process.
It's not gonna happen.
Not gonna happen.
Sure.
I'll end this with this.
I served in the Senate a long time.
I understand the impetus of candidates running for local office and whether they think Topathy 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 where you 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 every candidate.
If they think that, you know, running with Biden in the top ten 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.
So, a lot can happen.
But I think I'm the best qual- 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 awful to start from scratch.
And, you know, we talk about, you know, money raised.
We're not doing bad.
We got about $220 million in the bank.
We're doing well.
So, with that, you have any want to follow up on any of that?
You can just ask me.
You earlier explained confidence in your vice president.
Yes.
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.
I understand.
Okay.
Thank you.
tonight's press conference.
Thanks, everybody.
This concludes— 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.
President Trump, I'm not going to be able to do that.
I'm not going to be able to do that.
President.
This concludes tonight's press conference.
Thank you, everybody.
Thanks, everyone.
Joe Biden walking off the stage at this historic NATO summit, the president holding his first.
Basically, the only thing that didn't happen, it didn't fall down on the way out.
That should be conclusive proof that he is incapable Of being President of the United States.
And that it is not a political matter.
That it has to do with the national security of the United States of America.
Look, we're not George Clooney.
We're not a bunch of sneaky backstabbing traitors.
I mean, here's a guy that was at a June 15th Hollywood gala for him, where it was quite obvious that he was completely non-compos menace.
Gotta be helped off the stage.
And for days he kept his mouth shut about it.
Now it's conclusive proof that the President of the United States doesn't know who he is or what he's doing.
But Clooney kept it to himself when it was in the self-interest not of the United States.
The United States doesn't even count.
But in his own self-interest and his pathetic wife who's persecuting Israel.
But that's what they were all about.
Every single one of them is part of this cover-up.
This man is clearly incapable of being a babysitter for your child.
God forbid.
From the very beginning, he actually doesn't remember that he said Vice President Trump.
It looked to me like they were trying to give him a chance to straighten that out,
although I don't know how he would have.
At the very, very beginning, he began by saying that his vice president was Donald Trump.
Now, why do we go on with it?
What's the point of going forward with it?
What else does he have to do to prove to us that he doesn't have the mental capacity To govern the most complicated country on earth at a time of two major wars, both of which he helped to cause.
Here it is.
To be vice president, I think she's not qualified to be president.
I wouldn't have picked him on if he weren't the president and if Trump were the president.
It didn't go on when Trump was the president.
The only time Putin has attacked is when he's had a patsy in the White House, and he's got a patsy in the White House right now.
And he's got to be sitting back.
Putin's got to be sitting back saying, we're crazy.
So does Xi and the rest.
We're crazy.
Toward the end, he was going off.
I mean, basically going off to the crazy house.
The answers were disjointed, run-on answers.
I bore very little relationship to the questions.
At no time could he remember the second question on his own without help.
Each time he needed help getting to the second question.
The reality is that I would think this is the last nail in the coffin.
We could go on and dissect further parts of this, but is it really necessary if you watched it?
My goodness.
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I don't really know.
There's not much to say.
He already just said it, didn't he?
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♪♪ Well, it was a big-boy press conference,
but he didn't bring his big-boy pants.
That's for sure.
Of course, you can't you can't miss the number one.
The number one gaffe of the night.
Which is, as I said, like fumbling in the first play of the game.
And that is when he refers to his Vice President as Vice President Trump, and does not know he did it.
Now, earlier in the day, he confused Zelensky and Putin, but he corrected himself.
But let's listen to the, let's listen to You know, the fumble on the first play of the Super Bowl.
I didn't make that up.
You tell me that man has a functioning brain.
to be president. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice
president, but I think she's not qualified to be president.
I didn't make that up. You tell me that man has a functioning brain. He doesn't
know what he's saying because could you make a mistake and say Vice President
Of course.
But wouldn't you know it if you did?
You'd know it right away.
I mean, that's glaring.
Even the Zelensky-Putin thing is pretty glaring.
Let's play that.
But he caught that one.
The President of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination.
Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.
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.
I don't think it's fair because I do, I do think he, uh, didn't he correct it, Ted?
Yeah, so he, that clip was cut.
It took a second though, it wasn't right, the media is saying right away, it wasn't a media, it was like he started to walk away and then he walked back and said... Maybe somebody warned him.
Zelinsky.
See, the point that I'm trying to make is he has very often done this and the thing that's really, uh, very damaging and telling about it, which the doctors tell me, he doesn't know he did it, Like, he has more than a few times referred to her as President Harris.
I'd say I can think of four or five.
I don't, never remember him correcting himself.
In other words, I don't remember him saying, and I'd like to now present President Harris.
Oh, I'm sorry, Vice President Harris.
Yeah, that's what a normal brain would do.
Most of the time.
Most of the time it's just the opposite.
I'm not, I'm telling you what doctors tell me.
You have a normal brain.
You say, I want to present President Harris.
Your normal brain hears that and says, no, no, no, I just made a mistake.
Vice President Harris or Zelensky Putin.
I want to present President Putin.
Gosh, I mean Zelensky.
That's a functioning normal brain that made a mistake.
I want to present President Putin and out walks Zelensky.
And you don't correct it.
Or you walk away and somebody else has to tell you to correct it.
Or I wouldn't have selected Vice President Trump if I didn't think she was qualified.
And no recognition that you said Trump.
Now, what does he have to do to show you that he's mentally ill?
What else?
Start babbling like a baboon?
Which he almost did a few times.
I mean, some of those answers are almost impossible to follow.
They went from one question to another, one subject to another subject, to another subject, to another subject.
I never recall him once remembering the second question ever.
Ever.
And it had to be repeated for him.
Which has got to say, he's suffering from the classic short-term memory loss.
Traumatic short-term memory loss.
And then his answers themselves were substantively idiotic, like...
No appeasement of Russia.
If you recall in the lead up to the Afghan war, to the withdrawal from Afghanistan rather,
constantly showing like a rush to get out of there so quickly without any concern
for the safety of the civilians.
Thank you.
And then an unwillingness to really take care of our people.
So Putin had to register that, right?
But Putin didn't just rely on that.
Putin is an evil man, but an intelligent evil man.
With a functioning brain, unlike our president.
So he tested him.
If you will go back and listen to my podcast and broadcast, you'll see that I said it then.
He was probing him.
Constantly probing him.
Putting troops on the border.
First on the eastern border of Ukraine.
Then on the northern border near Belarus.
Or in Belarus.
And he kept threatening.
And Biden kept saying, don't.
But then would go on, and every one of those times, To use the same phrase, which became monotonous after a while.
No boots on the ground.
If he said it once, he said it 200 times.
So now, to a rational, systematic analyst like Putin, he has gone beyond what he has to to convince you that he's not a threat.
That whatever's going to happen, he's going to give them arms, he's going to give them money, he's not going to give them troops, and therefore, who cares?
And then, just to really top it off, just in case Putin missed it, he actually said at one point, probably because of his non-competent state, that if it were a small invasion, it wouldn't matter.
That was completely idiotic and insane.
So if Putin needed to have like an exclamation point on the no boots on the ground, he just got it.
And then he invaded.
Just like he invaded under Bush when Bush was extraordinarily weak and had an unfortunate difference in his foreign policy apparatus.
And number two, I mean, it was an easy decision under communist-trained Obama after the 10 or 12 red lines that Syria shouldn't cross, which they did, and he didn't respond at all.
I mean, by the 7th or 8th, Putin had to say to himself, I can push this guy all around the globe, and he did.
And to say that Putin hasn't succeeded, gee, tell that to the people who live in the bridge that now exists between Russia and Crimea.
Now, has he succeeded in his ultimate objective, which we assume is to take all of Ukraine, the entire thing, and put it back under Russia-Soviet It's my view, if you read Putin carefully, watch him carefully, that his goal is not to recreate the Soviet Union necessarily.
Not that it's any better, but I mean, his goal, you have to understand your adversary.
We have a president that doesn't, actually, we have a president that wouldn't have had the intellectual ability to understand our adversary before he became demented.
Because that's when Gates told you he never got a decision about foreign policy right.
He's a profoundly stupid man who always makes the wrong judgment.
Always.
But Putin, if you read Putin, Putin is more of a Russian nationalist than he is a Soviet communist.
I mean, he's not a dictator.
He wants to recreate the Russian Empire.
I think he wants to be a czar, not Khrushchev.
I don't think he wants to be Khrushchev and Stalin.
I think he wants to be, you know, Putin the first.
To him, those are the territories he's concentrating on, the territories that rightly or wrongly Russia annexed or Russia felt was part of Russia or, I mean, you There are Russians who believe that Ukraine is part of Russia.
There are Ukrainians who believe it isn't.
And there are Ukrainians that are somewhere in the middle of all that.
And so we have a nationalistic thing going on here.
Same thing would be true of Belarus and a couple of other of those areas.
It would not be true, let's say, of Poland, that was never a part of Russia, but part of the Soviet Colonies.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kosovo.
Somewhere in between.
Not as clearly a part of Russia in his mind, in Putin's mind, as Ukraine or Belarus But not as separated as Poland and what used to be Czechoslovakia and what used to be Yugoslavia.
So understand his mind and understand what he's trying to do.
The minimum goal that he had in this invasion was to complete a land bridge between Russia And Crimea.
So you don't have to go through Ukraine to get to Crimea.
And you control the entire access to the sea along that bridge.
He's accomplished that.
He hasn't accomplished it as completely as he wanted.
He wanted to have it go up as far north as Kharkov.
He can't seem to be able to capture Kharkov, thank God.
I happen to have a real soft spot for that city, second largest in Ukraine.
Although he's attempting, I think in the latter days here, if they are the latter days of this war, we don't know.
He's trying to, it seems to me, he's trying to acquire as much territory as he can so that he'll have territory to give away.
When he's got to sit at the bargaining table.
Which I believe he's ready for.
I don't think he's ready to give up big portions of Ukraine.
Because he doesn't think that Ukraine can take big portions back from him.
And he never did answer the question, if he understood it.
I'm talking about Biden now.
About the limitations that he's placed on Ukraine.
Either was the last question of the penultimate question in which he was asked about the limitations and Who knows if he was trying to avoid it or he didn't understand it could be either or both Because as the as his as his speaking went on he became more and more unhinged from the subject There was one answer, which I can go back over, where he went into about five different subjects, having nothing to do with the question that he was asked, because I don't think he remembered the question he was asked.
And he certainly didn't remember the second question that was asked.
So, Ted, you listen to the whole thing with me.
Why don't we take a short break and we'll see what you have to say.
Anybody sending anything in?
Yeah, we want to know your comments below.
Yeah, what do you think?
I mean, I'm sure most people watch this stupid thing.
Yeah, but give us your analysis.
I mean, for purposes of figuring out...
Is he, you know, fit to be president?
The minute he said Vice President Trump, and a minute went by and he didn't correct it.
You gotta figure, turn it off, get rid of him.
I mean, that's the way I would look at it.
Give us your thoughts below.
Will this press conference expedite or keep him in there longer?
Okay, well, you think about that and we'll be right back.
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Yeah.
This is Rudy Giuliani and we're back with America's Mayor Live and we're discussing the Big Boy Press Conference.
And the question is, did he put on his big boy pants?
And I would say, no, not if he had a diaper on.
And I think he blew it on answer one or two, whenever he said, I picked Vice President Trump and she was qualified.
I would say from then on, it was over.
Because he never at any time acknowledged the mistake.
Because he didn't know he made it, which is what his dementia is all about.
And even when given a chance by, uh, was it Acosta at the end who asked him that?
Peter Alexander, NBC News.
Oh, ask him that.
Okay.
And asked him about, about it, uh, almost as if, you know, Trump was unfairly attacking him on it.
And, uh, he said, well, listen to Trump.
All right, let's play the clip.
This concludes...
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.
This concludes tonight's press conference.
Thank you.
Well, I will accept that.
Thank you.
We will listen to him.
What does Trump have to say?
That Biden is a non-confidence menace, right?
Trump is right.
Throughout the debate, I mean, this is a day on which he skirted by and is confusing Zelensky and Putin.
And the way he gets by on it is he corrected it.
But I didn't see that, the correction part.
I saw the confusion part.
So maybe we can dig out the correction.
How does he go about correcting himself?
Yeah, I'll get that.
You want to play doctor.
Here's the difference.
I explained it before.
Any of us can misspeak.
It's part of the human condition.
The most brilliant people, in fact, have nothing to do with IQ.
Or even mental acuity.
You can just make a mistake.
Get two names confused.
You get two countries confused.
A functioning, sharp mind picks up the mistake because you listen to yourself.
Most of us, as we're talking, also listen to what we're saying.
His problem, which I've known about for four years because the doctors explained it beautifully to me way back then, is he has such a terribly profound short-term memory loss.
That he gets confused in the middle of sentences, in the middle of talking, like now.
He would forget that he's addressing himself to his memory loss.
And he would start to talk about how he was able to get Korea and Japan together.
Well, nobody's asking about Korea and Japan.
It's irrelevant to the subject.
And the reason he goes to Korea and Japan is because his train of thought has stopped.
And then there are words that he keeps repeating when that happens.
I wish there would be a doctor.
I guess that Dr. Potts was pretty brave to do it.
And they all get criticized because they say, well, you can't diagnose it without examining him.
But what we are talking about is cognitive, loss of cognitive ability.
And I've had any number of doctors that tell me you can do this based on videotapes.
Because he's, you can go back, oh, you can go back 10 years ago and listen to him.
You listen to him now, and you're listening to two different men.
Even his affect, which is a very big part of a diagnosis, his affect is a giveaway.
He has the affect of sometimes he looks like there's nothing going on in his brain.
Happened tonight, any number of times.
And particularly toward the end.
He looks, the last one he covered up by smiling, but he didn't seem like he really.
Here's another clip.
He does kind of correct himself here, Mayor.
You tell me if that's a, I think that's a real position here at the end.
Kind of help us out here, Mayor.
Commander in chief, my, my, my chief of staff of the military.
I mean, you could say he's talking about three different people.
following the advice of my commander in chief, my chief of staff of the military, as well
as the secretary of defense and our intelligence.
I would give him the benefit of the doubt on that.
I mean, you could say he's talking about three different people.
This mythical commander in chief, that's him, by the way, the chief of staff of the military
and his secretary of defense.
But I think inserting my Chief of Staff of the military was intended to correct Commander-in-Chief.
So we'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.
But I mean, what he should have said, I mean to say, to make it clear.
So it is possible.
I mean, look, there are so many, what do we have to pick on that one for?
Yeah.
But what I would like to see, really for purposes of... I'm digging it up right now.
I'd like to see how he corrects.
He really doesn't correct that.
He just goes on to say, my chief of staff of the military.
I mean, that's the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I imagine, he's talking about, right?
I mean, that's what those of us with big boy pants would refer to it as.
The question is, did he have him on or off when he was given that answer?
Yeah, we'll have that in about five minutes, Mayor.
He did get the name wrong for the NPR reporter.
Now, I don't know if he just didn't read it right, or he had the wrong name, or... When he was asked if he would change anything, he really didn't answer that.
He went off on Israel is less than cooperative.
He attacked Israel and the right-wing Israeli government.
Couldn't remember the second question that was asked.
And that was the question about whether, you know, how did he, how did he deviate from being a bridge candidate to become such a divisive?
Well, she didn't ask that, but she was asking him, you know, basically what happened to being a bridge candidate.
And that was NPR.
I mean, jeez.
I mean, that's like having your kid throwing you softballs at a softball game.
NPR.
I mean, that's just about as close as you're going to get to Providence as we have in America.
national public radio supported by you and despises anything Republican or right wing.
Then there's always an expression that people who have short-term memory loss, I am told by
doctors again, that they keep repeating, well, how many times did he say, well, anyway, Ted?
Yeah.
About four or five times toward the end when he was, what do they call it, sundowning?
You know, sundowning usually happens to elderly people in hospitals.
That's a new term.
What's sundowning?
Sundowning, it can happen to my mother at one point, and she had 10 more years of complete lucidity, about eight years.
My mother went to the hospital for an operation.
Might've been her bypass operation.
She had a bypass operation at 80 years old.
Wow.
um and um she's in the hospital for a while and she started to get um like that i mean she didn't she would say irrelevant things and strange things and she was always sharp with attack and i was very worried about her and the doctor said no no this is sundowning you know it happens to elderly people when they go in the hospital particularly if they're not used to being in the hospital My mother hadn't been in the hospital for like 30 years before this happened.
And when she came out within a day, she was perfectly fine.
And she was perfectly fine until about two months before she died.
It's called sundowning and it happens in hospitals because elderly people lose track of where they are, what time it is.
Very often you'll see if an elderly person is in the hospital, they'll have a big cock up and they'll have a They'll have a day, it'll say the date and the time, and they'll be reminded that the day has changed.
Because they can become confused from a change in habitual circumstances.
That's what I've always understood sundowning to be.
Now, it may be more profound than that.
When it leads to a permanent illness, it may not always be temporary.
The case of my mother, and I can think of two other friends that had a similar situation, but they become somewhat disoriented.
One of them during COVID, becoming somewhat disoriented in the hospital, and then just went away.
I mean, the mind is a strange thing, and in his case, if it weren't for the fact that he's such a horrible crook and traitor, you'd feel sorrier for him.
I mean, In a way, you know, it seems like the picture of, like I said, the picture of Dorian Gray, it seems like he's being, I mean, nobody's putting him in jail for his crimes, but they sure as hell have inflicted on him one hell of an illness.
So, I mean, the guy's been a crook forever.
I mean, and of course, nobody asked him the question, was your son telling the truth when he told his daughter that for 30 years he's been giving you half his salary?
Do you disagree with your son?
Yeah.
And by the way, in case you want to doubt it, here's the text right here.
Would you like to read it?
Or shall we get out the hard drive and show it to you?
Hmm?
Or how about when he described himself on... Let me play the tape for you, where he described himself as the partner of the spy chief of China.
Let me play the tape for you, see if you recognize Hunter's voice.
And you exposed all kinds of classified material relating to China to him, didn't you?
And you want Trump to go to jail.
Maybe you should go first.
I mean, this was about as—Ted?
When I was mayor, I would have considered this like a day off, this press conference.
I had a press conference a day.
Yeah.
Very often, six a week, because I do it on a Saturday, too, or a Sunday.
Big NATO conference.
You have a big conference in town.
You're, you know, hobnobbing, rubbing elbows, yip-yapping with all these leaders.
I would do sometimes more than one press conference.
Yeah, but it's a day off for you, because you are a real leader.
You're a real mayor.
I enjoyed the mental competition.
It kept me sharp.
Oh, you loved going back and forth with the reporters.
I felt like I was in court again.
And also, there's nothing like having to perform to make you study.
So I had to be prepared every day.
People are watching you!
I had to know what was going on in the city.
I couldn't get lazy.
Now, I'm not lazy anyway.
But I'm not Obama, and I'm not Adam.
Especially as a Republican mayor.
The press was actually watching you.
Unlike these Democrats.
Yeah, I mean, the only good mayors in New York have been Republican mayors.
LaGuardia, me.
Koch, to some extent, but Koch, I mean, Koch endorsed Reagan.
Koch endorsed me.
In 2008?
In 93.
Oh, in 93.
As for mayor?
Yeah.
Oh, he did not endorse Deakins.
He did not.
He did not, because he loved the city.
He didn't love me all that much, but he loved the city.
After all, I put most of his people in jail.
But not him.
No, but I have to.
Not him, because he wasn't a crook.
He was just absent-minded.
He was off in some other world.
But you're always off in an ego, a massive ego world.
That is the other mayor people remember.
Everybody around him was stealing like hell.
But he's one of the memorable mayors in New York.
He was, and if he had limited himself to two terms, he would have had a much better legacy.
His career was a disaster.
That's when I caught all his crooks, all the crooks.
And that's when he, and he was doing that, he wanted him for higher office.
If you really want to know what happened is, I think he became very depressed when he lost the governor's race to Mario Cuomo.
Because the two of them were The two of them were.
By the way, who would choose governor over mayor in New York City?
I think being a mayor in New York would be way, way more.
But he wanted to be, I mean.
But when you're already mayor, you got this, then it's, I get it for him, it's different.
But if you were to choose one, there's a reason you ran for mayor, not governor, right?
He had won the mayoralty for a second term.
So you already had that.
He had a real big win.
Yeah.
Cuomo, he had defeated Cuomo in the mayoral primary years earlier.
And he started off ahead.
He started off winning.
And Governor of New York's a big, it's considered one of the big governors.
But he made a terrible mistake.
He decided never to, he would come back to New York every night, campaigning.
And he basically said something like, who would ever want to sleep in upstate New York?
So you start off with there being a rivalry between downstate and upstate.
And everybody thinking New Yorkers think they're so much better than everybody else.
New Yorkers meaning New York City people.
Yeah.
And then he just plays right into it with that statement.
And I think he started off, unlike most mayors, fairly popular.
Up there?
Yeah.
as a Republican. Yeah. Easier. Yeah. Although probably not as popular if I
had been a Republican from upstate. Yeah. But certainly more popular than a
Democrat from downstate. Yeah. And my biggest strength, believe it or not, was in the
suburbs. Oh, that makes total sense. In the suburbs, my approval rating was always 10.
People in the suburbs identify themselves, right?
I don't know, maybe New York's different, but they identify themselves as New Yorkers, right?
And care about the city.
If you included southern Connecticut and northern New Jersey, it would have been a real wipeout.
Because they, you know, they also, but they're not within the jurisdiction of New York State.
Yeah, if only there was a new If the Port Authority was a state.
The well anyway, we're going to have to study that later, because I think the well anyway is the transition word that he had for tonight, which indicates where his memory ran out.
And I was warned four years ago, even in preparing Donald Trump for the debate, by a gerontologist, is it?
Uh, that, uh, they, they, they usually have these words like that thing or, um, because their mind has gone blank.
So they'll only remember one thing.
So he went through a phase where he must have said, well, anyway, about five times.
Anyways, yeah, that's his thing.
Well, anything.
Well, anyway.
Well, anyway, that's his shtick.
It's true, though.
I mean, he's done other ones, too.
He's done other ones.
Other words.
But he's done it for a while where he has something in his mind when he loses his train of thought.
Yeah, that thing.
Folks.
Yeah.
Anyways, folks.
So.
Well, in the interest of fairness, Mayor, and because you refuse, you refuse to put any sort of Misinformation out there.
You are so committed to the truth.
We have the full clip of Biden earlier today with Zelensky and correction.
Now, keep in mind... I believe it's important to see this correctly.
It'll tell you if this fits into the diagnosis of dementia or it's a normal mistake.
A person who has dementia is going to make normal mistakes too, just like you and me.
That because you have dementia doesn't mean Unless you're completely in the last stages of it.
That you, I mean, that you're walking around, every single thing you say is idiotic.
You, you, you, you have periods of, in his particular case, he has periods of relative lucidity, and then boom!
Well, anyway.
Boom!
Well, anyway.
Okay, let's see.
Here we go.
Word of the President of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination.
Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.
President Putin.
You can beat President Putin.
President Zelensky.
I'm so focused on beating Putin, we gotta worry about it.
Anyway.
His mind corrected that.
Nobody, nobody helped him.
It worked.
His mind was working there and it wasn't working later on when he said Trump.
Okay.
I see what you're saying.
That was a slip up.
That was a slip up.
If he were normal always, right?
Then when he said vice president Trump, he would have done just what he just did there.
That's what a normal mind does.
What he just did.
Made a mistake and corrected.
But I mean, 80% of the time when he's talking, he's normal.
20% or 10% he's wacky.
Now if you want to take a look at where he does Trump again, you'll see the difference.
And then it almost seems like even at the end when he's asked a question, he doesn't really know what the guy's talking about.
Like he doesn't remember that he screwed up the Trump thing when the reporter, it was an hour earlier, but God forbid that he should remember an hour earlier.
Yeah, especially as our Commander-in-Chief.
Here we go, back to the Trump one.
To be Vice President, do I think she's not qualified to be President?
I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President, do I think she's not qualified to be President?
So you look at his face, you can see no recognition there, right?
You see nothing in his face that tells him, oh boy, like before.
Oh boy, I stepped in it this time.
That's the difference and that's why if he took a cognitive test, I don't know what his score would be, but it would be really low.
There's something seriously wrong with him and unfortunately we're stuck with him as president.
So in your opinion, Mayor... I don't know if we have to beat a dead horse, do we?
Well, did that press conference...
Did you expedite him exiting this race?
Yeah, yeah.
Or did it get by him more time?
The Democrats are going to be... Look, what is motivating the Democrats?
It has nothing to do with the good of the country.
They'd have gotten rid of him a year ago.
Or, as I said, Cooney would have come out against him on June 15th when he saw all these things that made him so disturbed.
He's perfectly willing to keep him in there as this completely non-competitive rag Because he thought he could beat Trump.
The minute he figured out he can't beat Trump because the cover-up was uncovered, now he's against him.
So, all this does is to say... How many more of these can he do?
I mean, how many... So the next press conference, what... Is he going to confuse the United States and Russia, or... I think he's in Mars, or...
Tell us about his conversation with dead people?
I mean, this has been going on for four or five years, Ted.
There's no reason to think that between now and election day, what you saw tonight doesn't happen 30 more times.
That's right.
And could tonight have even been worse?
I think it hurts, though, Mayor.
Because those gaffes are what people are going to take away from it, right?
I mean, sure, he... Well, the gaffes are dramatic.
I know.
The whole presentation was pathetic.
Yeah.
The whole presentation, I mean, I... Since affect can be interpreted, it's harder to be definitive.
But if you were talking to a real doctor, he would tell you I could spot him a mile away.
I mean, I could spot him... I mean, if you've ever been in a nursing home, you can...
I knew he was like this before he ran for office.
Just by looking at him.
Because I know him.
And I think we're starting to see what happened.
In 2020, sure it's worse now, but it was probably bad then.
As you pointed out, he was able to hide it because of COVID.
So he did get to stay in his basement.
And it wasn't as bad.
It only gets worse.
It doesn't get better with time.
It only gets worse, it doesn't get better with time.
So all that time does here is make it worse, which means could he get by between now and
November and it doesn't get any worse?
Yeah.
Is it going to get any better?
No.
And it's probably going to get worse.
Now, this is just me on my own.
This I haven't checked out with a doctor, including Dr. Maria.
But I do seem to recall that in all these situations, pressure makes it worse.
In other words, if you were diagnosed with dementia, middle-stage dementia, and you haven't gone over the cliff yet, and you don't know who you are, at the same time, it's easily recognizable with things like, you know, Vice President Trump, and you don't recognize you're saying that, or you think you gave your uncle a medal that you never gave him, He was dead for seven years when you think you did it.
It could remain that way for a while.
Or it could get worse.
But usually they would tell you, relax.
Don't work as hard or don't work at all.
Keep yourself out of pressured situations.
Now I have to assume that the pressure he's been under Has made him worse than he was even for the debate.
He actually seemed to me, in terms of his affect, to be worse than the debate.
He seemed even more out of it than he did at the debate.
Certainly by the end.
By the end he was like a boxer.
Yeah, yeah.
With the legs getting weak.
His staff was sweating.
In the 11th and the 12th round.
I think if he went two or three questions more.
Yeah, he didn't have much more on him.
He'd have gone right off.
He got right off the cliff.
Even when he was answering that shouted out question about Trump, he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
Not a clue.
So what if...
So yeah, I mean, we're a dead horse.
So I do think this is going to increase... So put yourself in the place of a Democrat, right?
Yeah.
You want to beat Trump.
What would you do?
If you were a Democrat and you wanted to beat Trump for whatever reason, some altruistic reason or some horrible reason or whatever, but your whole mission in life is I mean, you basically lie your ass off to beat Trump, because you did already.
You covered all this up for years.
Would you want to ride him to the finish line?
Or do you want to give somebody else a shot as a better chance of beating Trump?
What do you think?
I think they have to... If the goal is to beat Trump... See, these members are... So that's a... It is a great question, Mayor, on how you framed it, right?
Isn't that the way Democrats are going to think of it?
Yeah, but because you have members of Congress.
What about the House and the Senate?
So these members of Congress and Senate on the Democrat side, they're going back and hearing from their constituents.
I mean, they just don't have the guts to send them out.
Yeah, exactly.
They want them out.
They all want them out.
I mean, I would think, what do the polls say?
The polls say that about 60-70% of Democrats don't think you should run.
It's the regular rank-and-file demos.
So it has to even be higher among the professionals.
And so, they are sick and tired, and this is going to continue, they're sick and tired of having to answer about Joe Biden.
And then, because they know they're lying to their constituents, when they say, oh no, if Joe wants to stay in- It's going to be an issue between now and elections.
Yeah.
They got to get rid of him.
At any time, he could get worse.
And you're right.
There's no chance it gets better.
This isn't one of those things like- Like a cold.
When they say, Obama lost the first debate, or Reagan lost the first debate.
They came back and resoundingly won the second.
He's not going to resoundingly win anything.
He can be lucky if he can get to a second debate.
By then, he may not be able to get out of his bedroom.
And I do think the Democrats, from their perspective, and I don't know how, if they could have an open convention, sure it would be messy.
But for them, it does give them an opportunity to come up with something exciting, capture the imagination of the entire nation with a actual convention that I've never experienced in my lifetime.
And you really, I mean, you did when you were a kid.
Yeah, those, I mean, those conventions don't generate, those conventions end up usually, the more contested the convention, The less chance you win.
So, okay.
And particularly, they made a terrible mistake.
Their convention is about two weeks later than it normally would be.
So they've cut, I mean, virtually their convention is on the eve of the election.
And in Chicago.
When you think of early voting, people are going to start voting two weeks after the convention.
That's right.
And you're right, it's going to be ugly already.
I mean, there's a huge Palestinian population.
I don't think they can stand, I mean, I know they like this mini-convention, mini-priority thing.
I don't think they can stand So if I were a Democrat, I'd go with Harris.
Interesting.
So you come out with more experience.
I'd say, look, we don't have a great chance of winning.
Replacing our president at this late stage, how the hell is that not going to hurt us?
A lot of people are going to think we're covering up.
The Republicans are going to kill us with that.
Trump seems to be on his best behavior.
A different kind of Trump than we dealt with before.
And it may even be these democracy things are going to start turning around on them now.
But the way they overplayed their hand with, they overplayed their hand with January 6th.
They overplayed their hand with lawfare.
They're overplaying their hand.
The people that don't like Trump, I don't like his personality.
I do not believe they think he's a dictator, really.
They're trying to force a scenario.
Yeah.
They think he's a vainglorious guy.
You know?
Yeah.
But I don't know what you would base his being a dictator on.
That's weird.
That's very weird.
He wouldn't do anything to suggest that he was a dictator, much less than they do.
If they didn't have this history of doing all this crap, maybe they could get away with it.
But very quickly starts to turn around on them.
And right now, I think the polls are starting to show that they, for a while, they were trusting Biden more to protect our democracy.
And now they're beginning to show that they trust Trump more.
Which means that even that is turning around on them.
So... I think you're right.
If you are headed for sure defeat, don't you have to throw a Hail Mary pass?
Yeah, of course.
You're on the 10-yard line.
You're losing by four points.
There's one more play left in the game.
Do you give it to your running back and let him run to the line?
Or do you just take the ball and throw it?
To somebody new.
And you're on to something with the Kamala Harris mayor because you also know the media will quickly turn a 180 and start glorifying Kamala Harris.
They can't risk with the gains that Trump has made in the Hispanic community, which I think are real, he could win the Hispanic vote.
The gains he's made in the Jewish community, which I think are real.
They can't afford even a 10, 20% reduction in the black vote.
They can't afford it.
And they can get it.
And maybe Harris gives them a chance.
Certainly if they overlook Harris, whatever Trump was going to do, he's going to double.
Yep.
They will kill themselves with a portion of that community.
If they overlook Harris.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I think you're right.
The more we think this through as a Democrat.
Which better are the other people?
They're unknown.
Is the Prince of Bel-Air better than... Can you say that for him?
I'm moving forward.
He's the Prince of Bel-Air.
I love that.
Yeah, the Prince of Bel-Air.
That's a good one.
Does he really... or a witness?
I mean... Such a... Whitmer is so unknown at the national level.
A witness we could cream for being part of the cover-up.
I mean, she basically is telling us that Biden's fine.
And that fake kidnapping plot, I can't wait to pull that one out again.
That was a fake kidnapping plot.
Plus, to get to her, you gotta step all over Kamala, right?
They can't!
They won't do it, they can't do it.
They don't have the guts to do it, and you know, the way they play identity politics.
I'll tell you what I think.
I think probably the shrewdest of them, in terms of shrewd, shrewd, shrewd, is the Prince of Bel-Air.
I bet he doesn't put himself in it.
He doesn't want to get nominated, stepping on Kamala's grave, and then losing.
He's finished.
Forever.
Oh, if he comes in and loses.
If I were his advisor, chance of being president four years from now, eight years from now.
Stay away.
Stay away right now.
Let her run.
Let her run.
Let Kamala?
Let Kamala run.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
Whitmer too, right?
All these people.
The chances of her winning are probably less than 50%.
And the chance of her making some mistakes that are deadly are pretty strong.
I mean, think about her word salads.
And people are getting much more sensitive to that now.
I mean, she starts with, you know, Ukraine's a small country.
Russia's a big country, and they're next to each other, and she does one of these sentences, and it's over with.
What did she say?
I think you're right.
They'd end up with a second-rate candidate if it wasn't, which, I mean, I look at them all as that way, but from their perspective, you're right.
The top people are going to wait this out.
They're going to end up with, you know, but somebody will take the, you know, will take it on, right?
I mean, it's a chance to be the nominee of the Democrat Party.
Right?
There's only one person every four years.
You could have created somebody.
You can't do that now.
Yeah, they screwed this up in that respect.
I would think she's their best chance.
In fact, I'd much rather, for the good of my party, run against him or even have somebody step all over her and get put in there and watch the party fracture.
I mean, I'd love to see a, uh, what do they call it?
A mini primary and real convention.
Well, that'll do.
I mean, that'll make Chicago in 68 look tame.
If they start going at each other for the nomination.
But we gotta be there, Mayor.
In one way or another, we gotta cover the deal.
Yeah, there's probably no way we did.
We would be one of the last people they let in, literally.
We could go, hey, we've done it before.
I'm not going to say where.
We have gone undercover with you, and we've made it right in the middle of these rallies.
I've been at every Democrat convention since 2004, except the last, you know, the COVID one.
Yeah, the COVID one.
I was at the one in Philadelphia with Hillary when she kept out the Philadelphia police and discovered it.
I was at the one where He put up the Roman temples.
King Obama.
Denver.
Put up the, yeah, where he put up the Roman temples so he could come out like the prince.
So weird.
What a weird guy.
And by the way, the Democrat, yeah, it's in Chicago this year.
Or we might not go to Chicago and only get a shot.
Jesus.
That's the other thing.
Why are they picking Chicago?
Why should, what a, that was dumb.
Whacko.
Brandon, Brandon Johnson.
Blaming it on Nixon.
Of all people and all, I mean, he couldn't even blame a modern day Republican.
He had to reach back to Nixon.
16 years ago, Nixon had a chance to get at the root causes and he stopped Johnson.
Of boys between the ages of 10 and 19 being either victims or the perpetrators.
So.
Yeah, it is personal.
Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time.
Bye!
We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes.
And people mocked President Johnson.
And we ended up with Richard Nixon.
He dropped out of the race over Vietnam.
Not over the Great Society.
We didn't know how crooked and how dishonest and how damaging to the blacks the Great Society was going to be.
You know, which leads to Malcolm X saying the worst enemy of the black people is the white liberal.
And what he's talking about is the dependency that was created by the Great Society.
When I was dealing with it, we were into the second and third generation of dependency.
You didn't have anybody in, you know, within miles that knew anybody who went to work.
And that's why I did Workfare, and turned it around.
Which can be done, because these are really good people.
If they have the right influence, he's right, you gotta get at the root causes.
One of the root causes was the Great Society.
But, I mean, to blame it on Nixon?
Gee!
I mean, Nixon had a pretty moderate, if not slightly left, social policy.
Remember, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was in his administration.
Because Daniel Patrick Moynihan, they accused him of being a racist because he said the problem was the breakup of the black family.
And they accused him of being a racist.
Probably one of the smartest guys to ever be in the Senate.
So, big boy press conference, turns out to be a little boy.
Clooney, big phony, massive phony.
June 15th, his whole article is based on his observation of him, June 15th.
He waits until after the debate, after everybody else has knifed the guy in the back, and now he tells us, That he's too dangerous to be president.
What about the two and a half weeks in between?
When you were willing to ride it and play along with the cover-up.
You and all those other jackasses or whatever they are.
They're much worse than jackasses.
Junior Roberts and... Who the hell else was there?
The usual Rob...
Rob Reiner and... I mean, they're willing to go along with the cover-up, as long as it'll help them defeat Trump, and then when it won't, they pull the cover... and no one ever thinks about the country!
Gee!
Gee, gee, gee, gee!
Well, the RNC convention is right on top of us.
It's going to be next Monday.
We're going to be covering it on Frank's speech with Emeril Robinson and Dr. Maria and a whole host of people.
Oh, of course, with Mike Lindell.
Yeah, and the mayor will be a big part of their coverage.
And we will be able to focus on the policies and programs that get our country through this.
I think Trump has been very, very good at laying those out in his rallies.
They're about the only substantive thing we have anymore.
And it looks like Dana White is going to introduce him on the night of the convention.
Mike DeSantis is going to be one of the main speakers.
Mike DeSantis.
Ron DeSantis is going to be one of the main speakers.
Everyone thinks that Trump had a little giveaway with Vance the other day when he was asked if he would kind of like hold it against Vance that he has facial hair.
And he said he looks like a young Abe Lincoln.
That's a pretty nice thing to say, right?
That's about as good as it gets.
That's funny.
But I love that.
I would guess that, too, that the president isn't a big fan of facial hair.
That's funny.
His ex-wife, Marla Maples, has very fulsomely endorsed him and says she'll do anything she can to get him elected.
There's Marla.
He was a great president.
There she is.
That's a heck of a thing.
I mean, you know.
When you look at, when you compare him and Biden as family, as family men and their families and the stability of their families, my gosh, there's no, I mean, I just don't think Donald Trump would fail to meet with his granddaughter and cast her into out of darkness the way the first stepmother and the bum in the White House have done.
Crazy!
Meanwhile, while Biden is playing the fiddle, what the hell is he doing?
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And all we're relying on for that is a group of terrorists.
In fact, in all these numbers and everything else, we just rely on a group of terrorists.
So I have no idea if that's the case or not, but I do know they've taken out some real Hamas big shots.
And at the same time, They're cleaning up, they've gone back to Gaza City to get rid of some more of the Hamas people.
They hit a UN building, which of course had been turned over to the terrorists.
The UN probably collects rent from the terrorists, or donates to build it.
The UN is like almost a part of Hamas.
So they wiped out one of those buildings in Gaza City, in a way going back to where they had been before.
Because Bibi and the Israeli people want to stick to the original game plan, which Biden, I don't know if he even lied, if he even understands it.
Originally, the whole idea of this, the plan was to wipe out Hamas.
Now, in deference to Biden's ally Iran, we're no longer on that game plan, but Israel is.
So basically, we've changed allies here.
Our allies are Hamas, and seeing what we can do to salvage as much of Hamas as possible, whereas Netanyahu He wants to eliminate as much of Hamas as possible, and I step back as an American and say, I like that because Hamas wants to kill Americans.
Gee, that sounds pretty good for America, which is why Biden's on the other side.
Isn't that weird that it always works out that way?
And you wonder why?
Well, read Jack Posobiec's book about communism and you'll find out why.
Also, the idea that he's got it all solved with Israel and Hamas.
They don't agree at all.
Hamas says no exchange of hostages, no anything, unless there's an agreement that that's the end of hostilities.
In other words, Israel can't say, okay, we'll take two weeks off and then come in and Beat the crap out of us again.
Israel says just the opposite.
Yeah, we'll take a timeout and we want our people back.
But if we haven't gotten rid of them by the time we're going to go back and get rid of them.
We said we're going to get rid of them and we are going to get rid of them.
And they haven't changed.
Hamas hasn't changed its pledge to destroy Israel.
So there is no agreement, Featherbrain.
That whole thing about you've got an agreement is just ridiculous.
And what you've done for the world.
I mean, do you have any idea?
I mean, when you became vice president, president, which I'm sure you can't remember, the world was relatively at peace.
All those people that died in Ukraine, both Ukrainian and Russian, were still alive.
All those people in Afghanistan you got killed were all alive.
All those people in Israel, Palestinian otherwise, Israeli, were alive.
They all were alive, and they weren't at war with each other.
They didn't like each other, but they weren't at war with each other.
You now have us in more hostilities than we have been involved in, not directly, but very materially, in two parts of the world, which have no plan.
You were given several opportunities tonight to explain your plan.
You didn't even come close.
You just did well anyway and well anyway and well anyway and talked about your father and who knows what you talked about.
But you didn't talk about how you proposed to have Ukraine win.
You never even answered the question about whether you're going to let up on the limitations you put on them, except to say you're going to continue.
Because you don't want them to have 2,000 pound bombs.
Oh, I'm sorry, that was Israel.
They don't want to have 2,000 pound bombs.
In the case of Ukraine, you don't want them to shoot into Russia.
Then you seem to think the only alternative is to hit Moscow.
There are a lot of places before Moscow where they're attacking Ukraine from that they could attack, but you're not letting them do it.
Because you don't want a wider war with Russia.
Now, maybe that's a good idea.
But then don't get people killed on the idea that you're going to defeat Russia.
You're not going to defeat Russia unless you engage them in a way that risks a wider war with them.
I don't know, that would probably strain his logic and he'd start saying, well, anyway, well, anyway.
That'd be too tough for him.
But you get it, right?
I mean, what Ukraine is doing right now is not winning the war.
At best, it's a stalemate with, actually, Russia, over the last six months, making slight, minor increases.
And you have to assume, in the days leading up to a possible change of administration, they're going to do everything they can to maximize the territory they have.
And there's nothing on the board—well, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe the F-16s, if he lets them use them, might Stop Putin from gaining more territory.
Might.
But sure as heck isn't going to reverse the war.
Plus, you're not allowing them to use them in Russia.
We're not even sure you're going to allow them to use them against Russian targets in Ukraine.
So what are they going to use them against?
For defensive purposes.
Well, defensive purposes means we're in a war without end.
Which Democrats love, like Vietnam.
But neither Zelensky nor you have explained to us how we're going to win this war.
You've explained to us how we're going to constantly be in it, and there's going to be plenty of cash for both of you to kick around with each other.
Nor have you talked about the fact that Zelensky is sitting on top of an unbelievable amount of corruption in this country.
And how do you propose to get him into NATO until they fix that corruption?
Don't you have to fix the corruption before you get into NATO?
To fix the corruption, we got to uncover everything you did.
I mean, they keep you out of NATO if you're corrupt.
Well, Ukraine is corrupt.
The last president of Ukraine took $100 million or more in bribes.
A lot of those same people are still around.
There's no accountability for the couple of hundred billion that you've got.
It is kind of strange.
You got that much money and you, in about a year, a year and a half, you haven't made any movement.
Somebody goes and look at that.
You might find that a lot of that money was taken.
In fact, that is more logically the case in your country than the other.
So, uh, After a year of delay, we sent the F-16s to Ukraine.
Which is why this whole thing with Ukraine is an absolute sacrilege.
We're just wasting lives for nothing.
The best you can say is he wants to maintain the status quo.
Otherwise he would have given them the F-16s and trained them much quicker, much faster.
There's a lot more intrusion you can do into Russia before you get to Moscow, jackass.
I don't know.
Are the generals that he has, Ted, as stupid as he is?
Who makes these stupid decisions?
I mean, it goes right back to the very beginning when he takes the troops out first, and then he leaves the civilians to get slaughtered.
Yeah.
Doesn't somebody say, hey, jackass, you do it the other way around?
Yep.
Crazy.
So we shipped them the 500 pound bombs into Israel so they can take out some of the tunnels, but we haven't given the 2,000 pound bombs so Hamas will be able to maintain itself in the really deep tunnels.
That's really good.
Let's see if we can keep Hamas around.
I mean, they want to kill Americans, so I guess we're on their side, right?
The House today, or yesterday, passed Resolution 216 to 198 on the extraordinary proposition that non-citizens should not be allowed to vote.
We've got to actually pass a law that says that?
You've got to actually pass a law that says you're not going to let non-citizens of the United States vote in the United States?
I mean, it isn't like Uh, self evident that in order to have a country, people have to be citizens of it in order to vote.
They have to be devoted to it.
They have to take an allegiance to it.
They have to have an interest in it.
You have to have a knowledge of it.
What do you who voted who voted against it?
All Democrats.
198 Democrats in the House of Representatives believe that non-citizens should vote in your elections.
And you're going to vote for them?
What, do you belong to some other country?
I would think, Republican or Democrat, we should all agree that in order to vote, you've got to have a stake in the country, which is citizen.
You're part of this place.
It really is critical for a country like ours that you understand it also.
A democracy, when we say democracy, we don't mean rule of the majority.
We mean rule of the majority under a very strict group of laws that protect the minority.
That's really what we mean by democracy.
Because otherwise, the Soviet Union was a democracy.
So was Nazi Germany.
The majority can become a tyranny.
In fact, it's one of the predictions our founding fathers made for the possible demise of this country.
A tyranny of the majority.
Which is why we have a Bill of Rights, which have been thrown out the window by the fascist Bidenistas.
The Baldwin trial began today.
I'm really interested in hearing the testimony on how the gun went off without anybody pressing the trigger.
Which is, of course, the whole basis for the Democrat position on gun control.
That guns, you know, commit crimes.
Biden got himself all upset tonight.
I thought he was going to have, like, a stroke toward the very end when he said something about guns, you know?
He's pissed.
He probably does believe they go off by themselves.
Has Baldwin taken a position yet on him?
He usually, he was going to leave the country, you know, in 2000 when Bush got elected.
Yeah, never left.
Yeah, man, that girl would be alive if he left.
Right?
Yeah.
The one that he killed.
Yeah.
Oh, no, no, I'm sorry.
The one that the wind moved the trigger and shot her.
Oh, yeah, he didn't.
It wasn't his fault.
No, no, he didn't.
He didn't.
Ted, I thought he said he didn't pull the trigger.
I think at one point he was claiming that, yeah.
I don't know how people... I would think there was a... He's lying.
Are you allowed to lie like that?
This didn't... This happened in where?
Utah or Utah?
New Mexico.
New Mexico.
Okay.
Lucky it wasn't Arizona because I remember at an Arizona Diamondbacks World Series game, a wind keeping a Yankee home run from going out.
That would have given us the 2001 World Series, damn it.
They opened up in the sixth or seventh inning.
They opened up the top.
Oh, you're not kidding.
I'm serious.
And I even predicted.
That's going to change things.
To my son.
This could hurt us.
And it did.
One of the Yankees, I think it was a right-handed hit.
It hit us the opposite field.
And first of all, it was a great catch by the center fielder.
But it would have gone out had the wind been blowing to the right field.
But it started reversed and started blowing in.
Little things like that can determine world series and wars.
Everyone, let me tell you this just so because you're not going to hear it on the communist networks.
Iran is funding the protesters, the ones that were let out by all the Soros prosecutors.
Once again, like they did during 2020.
In all of the riots for, um, the guy with the statue, Floyd.
You know, doesn't Floyd have a statue somewhere?
He has a mural.
I don't know about a statue.
If he don't have a statue, he probably does.
It's probably done.
I mean...
He's a hero.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, he died of overdose.
And had a record as long as your arm.
But he also led to people dying, property being burned.
All those peaceful protests.
And everybody set free.
with Kamala Harris getting him out on bail.
The last cabinet meeting this jerk off had was in October.
No wonder they don't get to see him!
The 25th Amendment says, well, the vice president's got to take the initiative.
Yeah, good luck for that one.
The 25th Amendment.
Well, if she wants to be president, she should do it.
Yeah, but she wouldn't do that.
Kamala Harris will never be president.
This is her only shot at being the nominee, right?
She will never win the nomination.
The cabinet is not going to... I think it's only a majority of the cabinet, but if they send a letter They sent a letter to the Congress saying that the president is incapacitated.
He's automatically removed for four or six days and she becomes acting president.
And then the president has to adjudicate?
No, the president has to write a hearing.
But the letter, this is the part where it has to be two-thirds or three-fourths or something?
Then it has to be two-thirds of the Congress has to agree to remove the president.
But even that letter to come to be, I think the letter has to be a certain number of members.
I'll check.
A majority.
I believe it can be a majority.
We'll look into this tomorrow night maybe.
I think we should look at it now.
I want to leave you with a, that's a big point.
While he looks at that, let's play a short clip.
Here is Stinkin' Blinkin' Jake Sullivan and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and you do see Kareem Jean-Pierre's face here.
Here is their reaction when their Boss refers to Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump.
Vice President Trump to be Vice President.
Don't think she's not qualified to be President.
So let's start there.
Number one.
The fact is that the consideration is I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President.
Don't think she's not qualified to be President.
So let's start there.
Number one.
The fact is that the consideration is... I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President until I think she's not qualified to be President.
So let's start there.
Number one.
The fact is that the consideration is... Is that that little piss hand?
That was Jake Sullivan who put his hand up, yeah.
Piss hand.
That's right.
So what the question is, let us know in the comments if you have that.
Okay, here, here, here, this is section four.
Whenever the vice president and either a majority, and a majority of either the principal offices of the executive departments, that's the cabinet, right?
Yeah.
Or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, Transmit to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives the written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Okay, so let's say they get that, okay?
Let's say a majority of the Cabinet writes a letter saying that President Biden is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Written declaration.
The vice president shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president.
So if she gets such a letter, and that letter can be either a majority of the cabinet or the congress, I would assume they could do this by majority vote, right?
Can provide a body to investigate the president.
The Congress can say we're appointing these seven people, okay, of such other body as Congress may by law provide.
So I would think the Congress could appoint seven people to assist the Vice President, and if a majority of those seven, with the Vice President, Determine that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the Office of President.
Those powers and duties will be assumed by the Vice President.
The letter changes the status.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House his written declaration that no inability exists, He shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
So right now, I would assume you'd have to put reasons in, but just a conclusory declaration would be enough.
Meaning?
If a majority of the cabinet and Kamala signed a letter saying he can't carry out his functions, she becomes the acting president.
He then writes a letter back saying, I am able to carry out my functions.
The minute he submits a written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Unless the vice president and a majority of either the principal offices of the executive department Or, if such, other body, as Congress may by law provide, transmits within four days to the President Pro Tempore and the Senate and the Speaker of the House their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Thereupon, Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose, if not in session.
If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or if Congress is not in session within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, Determines by two thirds vote of both houses that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
The vice president shall continue to discharge the same as acting president.
Otherwise, the president shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Here's the little thing that left open here.
If the president.
The vice president and the majority of the cabinet say he's unable to carry out his duties.
He then writes back within four days.
So he then writes back and says, I am able to carry out my duties.
It doesn't say who the acting president is.
Well, it would be the vice president.
Well... Or you're saying it might jump to... If the president contests it.
The powers and duties of the, unless the vice president, the majority advisor... Thanks for joining us.
So... The mayor is giving you a legal lesson.
When he writes back that he's able to carry out the duty, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office, unless the Vice President and a majority of the offices transmit within four days to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Thereupon, Congress shall decide the issue.
The question is, during that period, who is the president?
It seems to me the president is the president.
The minute he says he's okay, he becomes the president again.
And then as soon as they want to get him out, they gotta get a two-thirds vote of the Congress.
Okay, that makes... Okay.
So, we're still a ways away, Mayor, but... That's not gonna happen.
I mean, but you might as well have the law operates a little constitutional.
What if he does totally lose it?
And...
Jill and Hunter are still insisting he stays.
I don't think it's fair to say that it's not.
I mean, it's very unlikely.
But, Mayor, how is it getting this far?
Right?
I mean... You're right.
You're right.
I mean, if he really goes to war with his party, you mean?
Yeah.
Well, I would think then they'd remove him.
Or do you think he'll quit before then?
I think he'll quit before then.
This guy's got no... He doesn't have any real courage, right?
There's no real... This guy doesn't have a real fight in him.
Maybe for himself, right?
He's crazy, right?
Yeah, crazy or just out of it.
I really believe he's mentally ill.
Yes, he's... I don't think it's just... At this point, I think it's way beyond dementia.
I think the man, when you consider what a pathologically insane liar he is, at times he's delusional.
He thinks he sees dead people or... I mean, why should we just ignore all that?
I mean, he... I think the guy is crazy.
So all in all, not a good day for Biden.
Today was terrible.
It would be better off if he didn't do it.
Just like it was better off if he didn't debate.
So what are you looking for here as we continue to wait to see what happens?
More Democrats will now ask him to step in.
And do you expect this to happen?
Does this move up your timeline before or during the convention?
What are you thinking, Mayor?
In your expert opinion, we all have an opinion on this.
Since there's no precedent for this, And these people have never been put to this test before.
All they've ever done is torture me and Trump and all of us.
The smartest thing for them to do would be to agree on Harris and calm this down quickly and work on a vice president for the convention.
Get him to gracefully bow out.
Turn it all over to her.
I think if he decides he's not going to run, he has to resign.
I don't think you can maintain the fiction that he's incapable of running, but he's capable of running the government.
Right?
Yeah, I think you're right.
There are two wars going on.
And there is always the risk that China will invade Taiwan, right?
Right.
And that's real.
That's not a fictitious risk.
I mean, I think that's been one of the things that kind of holds it back a little, because you can't say, okay, you're incapable of being the Democratic nominee, but it's okay for you to carry out the duties of President of the United States.
Right.
You know, you're not good enough for the Democratic Party, but you're good enough for the United States, right?
Right.
I think this is going to lead to him.
And also, you put Harris in the best possible position of winning if you make a president.
Right.
Even if it is incumbent president for a short period.
Right.
So my prediction is that before and I can't tell you how fast, but I think faster rather than longer.
Maybe sometime next week.
To take the to take the bounce away from Trump, right?
He resigns she takes over.
She picks a vice president, which number one, she sends to the Congress for confirmation.
And number two, she makes her her running mate.
Right.
Because, um, let's look at, I mean, actually the next person in succession is the Johnson.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
If he resigns tomorrow, right, and she becomes the President, effectively the Vice President is the Speaker of the House.
And if, God forbid, she were to die, which can happen to any human being, then you have Johnson as the President.
Right?
And then Schumer. I mean, it's crazy world.
Crazy world.
Johnson's got to be sitting there thinking it's closer than you think.
We got to have a clock or some sort of, because look, I got to give Biden credit.
He has been holding on.
It looked like for a few moments the past two weeks, it looked like he was going to be able to dig in and hold on, right?
He shouldn't have had the press conference.
Yeah, this was a mistake, just like the debate was a mistake.
They'll just keep replaying Vice President Trump, Vice President Trump, Vice President Trump.
I mean, the rest of it you can analyze, you can go over.
It was scary.
I mean, had he not done Vice President Trump, he might have been able to skate by.
Yeah, even though it was still bad because the bar is so... There was a lot.
I mean, there was a lot of irrational talk and that constant repetition of the catchphrase.
I mean, all of that.
It was bad.
It was awful.
But maybe... Kind of overcame it or powered through.
Yeah.
We're going to be back.
Who knows what's going to happen.
You just did a two-hour press conference on this show.
No script.
Do you guys see a... There is no... He doesn't use a... I've been wanting to do... These are newspaper articles.
This is one... No, flip through that.
Show them the stack.
That's just one day.
That's part of one day, by the way.
That's part of one day.
Here's the stuff I destroyed.
We don't get... Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we don't... I mean, we've been now on for three straight hours and he still has... Nobody prepares this show except him and me.
That's right.
And Dr. Maria.
And no transcript, no teleprompter.
I've actually wanted to... It's the three of us and... And our audience.
We got... And our audience and the people we call up.
And our friends.
We have a lot of good friends.
You know, people we call up and... But I don't know.
I don't know how you would do this if you didn't prepare it yourself.
Would you have somebody tell you what to say?
Yes.
A lot of people... What do you want to watch me for?
I'm not that... I mean, if I were better looking, maybe, but... Then I could be like an actor, like George Clooney or something, right?
You're famous for actually accomplishing something in life.
I'm not interested at all in what a silly actor has to say.
He has... When I listen to people, I either listen because I have to.
I don't listen to Harris.
Or I listen to them, even if they're on the other side, because they are people with experience, people with wisdom, people who have more knowledge about this than I do.
So I'll listen to Biden, I'll listen to Putin, I'll listen to Xi.
These are people with tremendous power.
You gotta try to figure out what they're doing and why they're doing it.
But I'm gonna listen to a guy who does movies that I don't even like?
I don't even like his movies!
By the way, he is kind of overrated when we think about George Clooney.
Why is he so famous?
The movie he's been in that I particularly like.
Ocean's Eleven, I thought Frank Sinatra's movies were much better.
I mean, they were... Not even close!
That's not even close!
That guy's such a jerky, self-important little jackass.
That's right.
About 4'4".
That's right.
It's that other guy that... Matt Damon.
Yeah, Matt Damon's about 4'4".
Coons.
Coons prefers Damon.
He's about 4'4", Matt Damon.
Let's see if I have that clip.
Oh, I wish I had that one.
Oh, with Cooney?
Yeah.
Did we play him yet?
We played it on the other show.
I don't think I have it on this one, unfortunately.
Oh, Cooney's... Yeah, but that was good.
Is Matt Damon better than Cooney?
Yeah, I have that somewhere.
That was a good one.
But you're right, Mayor, and the fact that they rely on...
You know the movie, the Clooney movie that I like, the one where
the World War II, the Nazi movement, when they were searching for the artworks.
Uh, no.
National treasure?
No.
No, no, that was a, that was different.
Searching for the Raiders of the Lost Ark?
No, no, that's way back.
Indiana Jones?
No, no, that's not, Cooney, Cooney could never do that.
See, that's the thing.
I don't even know the movie you're referring to because... It's too much of a wussy.
All the kings, like the three kings or something.
I think I... The point being, see, we can't even name it!
No, it wasn't that good, but it was... I mean, I'd watch that movie again.
Yeah.
It was a good movie.
Yeah.
But, uh, I was very disappointed in, uh, in Ocean's Eleven and... First of all, you should leave it alone.
I mean, you're not gonna beat Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
and...
But it's interesting because growing up, right, when I thought of Ocean's Eleven, for me, it was... to me, I didn't know the other one before it, so until I got older... Yeah, until I got older, that was... for me, it was... And these silly jackasses?
Dumb guys, not even that good.
But that war movie was good, I have to say.
Yeah, and I'm gonna... we're gonna end on this Chris Coombs video, but I...
I think President Trump said something alluding to the fact... Some of these left-wing actors, I'll never say anything about De Niro not being a great actor.
Completely out of his mind, but he's a great actor.
I mean, the man is about as close to Marlon Brando as a modern actor in that he can do comedy, he can do drama, he can play a Sicilian-speaking Sicilian when he never spoke Sicilian.
Pacino gets very, very close to him as a great actor.
He's a better actor, even.
That's why I think Pacino might be a better actor, because Pacino was also a Broadway actor.
And I always give credit to people who are also Broadway actors.
Well, let's see who Chris Coons' favorite actor is.
He has really spent a lot of time with President Biden in person.
I'm more of a Matt Damon guy than a George Clooney guy.
They've said that.
Now, I question whether George Clooney has really spent a lot of time with President Biden in person.
I'm more of a Matt Damon guy than a George Clooney guy.
That's a real clown.
Treating Cooney important enough to say I'm a Matt Damon guy instead of a Cooney guy.
Yeah, as if that's like a thing that people are sitting around... Good point, man.
If I were defending, if this were Trump being attacked like that, I'd say, who gives a damn what George Cooney thinks?
There's a good reason to vote for me.
George Cooney doesn't like me.
But isn't that funny?
Democrats think, okay, we're going to pull out the heavy hitters.
We're going to pull out the heavy hitters of the party.
George Clooney!
What?
George Clooney with a wife who wants to put Netanyahu in jail.
Oh, you know what?
That's a good point.
And you know, I might have said that.
He's kind of pissed off because Biden's not paying enough attention to his stupid wife, who thinks she's a prosecutor, who wants to put Netanyahu in jail, but not Hamas.
Well, maybe she doesn't want to put Amos in jail.
I think she may want to put both of them in jail.
Well, in any event, we'll be back tomorrow.
Hopefully, we won't be talking about movie actors.
They don't make good movies anymore, Ted.
Come on.
Mayor, you're spot on.
I couldn't stand it.
Last one I went to, I was looking at my cell phone.
Yeah.
The last good movie we saw was Sound of Freedom, and that was made outside of Hollywood.
Name the last Hollywood movie that was actually a good movie.
And by the way, you can't include remakes or sequels.
Every movie now, it's crazy.
Well, God forbid you should have some kind of uplifting happy ending.
Oh, yeah.
They're all either just gratuitously violent or sex and there's no real plot.
Let's watch a John Wayne movie tonight, OK?
All righty.
All right.
Rio Bravo or, let's see, how about The Sands of Iwo Jima?
That's a good movie.
I think that's Richard Widmark.
Yeah, we'll find a good one.
Yeah.
All right.
You know, they were talking about Dean Martin the other day.
I guess they did a special on Newsmax about Dean Martin.
They're talking about The Young Lions.
That was a great movie.
That was about the Second World War.
And Marlon Brando plays a German officer.
Brando played a German officer.
He played a Japanese guy, I think, in Sayonara.
He played Julius Caesar.
Not Julius Caesar.
He played Marc Anthony in Julius Caesar.
And he played the two dumb clucks on the waterfront in Streetcar Named Desire.
And then he could do Marc Anthony.
Right?
Yes.
Well, that's an actor.
Now, he was crazy as a loon.
He was a left-wing crazy loon.
But he's a great actor.
I just don't think Corny's a great actor.
I think he's a pretty... Or he was a pretty boy.
We'll be back tomorrow night.
We just can't let you go.
It's been too interesting an evening watching... Watching that train wreck.
Well, good night, President Biden and Vice President Trump.
And I guess if he steps down, Donald J. Trump, you'll be the president.
Right?
I mean, according to the head of the Democratic Party, Trump is the vice president.
He didn't even take it back.
He got a chance.
Man, breaking news.
That'll be our show tomorrow.
Breaking news!
Donald Trump, vice president!
Remember they wanted to make him Speaker of the House, Ted?
Imagine if they did?
How scared they'd be now?
They would never take him out and depend on Kamala living for the next three weeks.
Imagine?
Holy moly.
Suppose she became incapacitated.
He'd be the President, she'd become incapacitated, and they could still make Trump, you know, Speaker.
The majority of the House could make him Speaker.
Johnson could resign and name him Speaker.
That'd scare the shit out of them.
Well, good night.
Before I go crazy.
Make a complete fool out of myself.
Thank you, Ted.
You did a great job tonight.
It was a long night.
We did... The long night for the boss and the best night.
Watched the second round.
I mean, do you think there'll be another round?
I mean, we've had the debate.
Where he completely disassembled.
We had this one where he got knocked out in the first round and the rest of it wasn't even worth it.
He's like Ingmar Johansson and Floyd Pattinson.
Good evening.
God bless the people of Israel.
God bless the people of the United States.
And God bless America.
They are the principle of common sense and rational discussion.
To the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreement, anger, hatred.
There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom
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And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past and see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country.
A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
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We're able to talk.
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