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One of the things that is emerging is Jen Psaki, the chief propagandist of the White House.
Remember, she said, well, we don't need to give COVID tests to illegal immigrants because they're not going to be here very long.
You know, I mean, there's there's more lies than we could even mention in the course of this program.
But anyway, she was questioned by Peter Doocy and Peter Alexander on the issue of sending Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court.
Now what's fascinating about this is she refuses to outright deny Kamala Harris is being considered as a possible nominee.
It's been widely reported that they're not getting along.
We can kind of see that.
Kamala's the only one that has a lower approval rating than Joe Biden at 28%.
Joe's at a whopping 33%.
Uh, but here's Saki going back and forth with Peter Alexander and Peter Ducey.
Is there any scenario in which the president would select his vice president Kamala Harris for the Supreme Court?
Again, I'm not going to speak to uh any considerations, preparations, lists, um, and as we've stated earlier and you heard the president say, uh, it is there's a long history of Supreme Court justices determining when uh they may retire if they retire and announcing that.
Uh and we're going to uh that remains the case today.
Thank you.
When you were asked about the vice president possibly being selected as a Supreme Court nominee, you say you're not gonna speak to any considerations.
Does that mean she is being considered?
Uh again, Peter, I'm not going to speak to uh the reports of a Supreme Court justice retirement that hasn't been announced.
So theoretically, would someone who's Theoretically, I do like that you preface it.
I appreciate it.
Just wondering, hypothetically, theoretically, uh, would someone who was an attorney general of a large state and who served with many key Senate votes be an attractive candidate to the president for an open Supreme Court seat.
I see what you did there, Peter.
But uh the president has every intention, uh, as he said before, of running free of re-election and for running for re-election with uh Vice President Harris on the ticket as his partner.
Uh but again, I will just reiterate uh that uh I have nothing more to offer in terms of specifics or information on the reports this morning.
All right, here for reaction, we have Joe Pags, our buddy, host of the Joe Peg Show, Joe Concha, Fox News contributor, comments for the hill, and uh the guy that should have the media program on the Fox News channel because he's so good at it, and he's the only one that's not part of the the media mob Twitter blue hashtag uh uh cult that has emerged where they only talk to each other in this little bubble.
Uh anyway, Joe, I found that fascinating.
Uh actually I see that you tweeted out about it as well.
I did.
And do I pay you in crypto for the promotion, or do you just take Ben Moe and regularly?
I'll take count.
I'll take crypto, especially at today's rates.
I think they're gonna go back.
I'm I'm I'm I'm laser eyes.
I think they're going up.
We're one Elon Musk.
Hey, this thing could be good after all uh statement from the going up one billion points.
I agree.
It's true.
By the way, I don't give a I don't give medical advice and I don't give uh financial advice.
That might be a good idea.
Uh but yeah, it did Jen Saki, you know, say what you will about her, and I I agree with you that she does not get enough criticism for all the lies that she's told since she said at that podium, you know, Republicans wanted to fund the police.
Uh-huh.
Hey, go back better will cost zero dollars.
Uh-uh.
Uh you know, we could go on and on, and obviously the example that you mentioned earlier as far as migrants being flown to different parts of the country and her, you know, claiming, oh, we don't know anything about that.
But I would think that when she does make a statement like that, when she's asked about Kamala Harris possibly being on the Supreme Court, it should have been just so easy just to say, wait a minute.
Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States.
Joe Biden is the president, they will run in 2024 and they will win.
Something like that.
And then that puts it all to rest.
But now she's left that door open, and it makes total sense to your point.
When you want to get rid of somebody by somehow promoting them so their egos aren't hurt, so you kind of look good in the process.
You check off that box of putting a black woman on the court or a woman of color anyway.
Uh, then it all all makes sense, and then he could bring in, you know, hey, if we listen to Tom Freeman, it'll either be Liz Cheney, or if we listen to Bill Kristol, it'll be Mitt Romney, which makes total sense when Joe Biden once said that Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains.
Yeah, that's your vice president now.
I mean, it it's so ridiculous what we're seeing, but I've heard crazier things as far as Kamala Harris being the Supreme Court nominee.
The question is, is she even qualified?
I mean, I guess she was a district attorney and an attorney general, but she would be the first Supreme Court justice that that failed the bar exam.
Uh that would be an interesting distinction.
Uh let's get Joe Paggs's take.
Joe, uh, what's going on?
Sean, I've heard that that it's going to be Oprah, it's going to be Stacey Andrew's sister, it's going to be Kamala Harris.
Can you think about the overt racism that we're dealing with in this story?
It is so unbelievably overt.
I want to give you a sports analogy if it if I may.
Michael Jordan comes out of North Carolina, he's ready to go in the draft, and some idiot says, you know, we got 80% blacks in the NBA.
We probably need a white guy here.
Let's bypass the best candidate, and let's put a white guy on our team.
That's how stupid this is.
How about we get the best candidate?
We stop playing this race game.
Every the media outlet, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, they're all touting the praises of Joe Biden promising to choose somebody by their race and their gender, and we have no clue how they would be on the court.
This is nuts.
In a post-equal rights America, guys, where this is what we're accepting as okay and somehow normal.
And Kamala Harris, come on, her party didn't even want her to be the nominee.
What did she get?
3% or 6%?
And she's failed miserably in every step of the way as the vice president.
Can you imagine putting her in the court?
Hey, look, we've got a black woman.
Look, like that solves something.
It doesn't.
It's nuts.
It's overt racism in 2022.
I didn't think we'd see this.
Well, look, I mean, he's being called out on this now.
You made the promise, James Clyburn is saying it.
Uh Jen Saki's saying Biden standby's the promise to uh nominate an African American woman to the Supreme Court.
And I'm I'm sure there are uh dozens of highly qualified people uh that fit the bill.
Um to me the criteria should be who is the best person to serve on the Supreme Court, period.
Um but anyway, Biden now promised, you know, Representative Clyburn without Clyburn in South Carolina.
I don't know if Joe would have even won the nomination.
Um how far will they go in terms of hard left?
I think the they will put somebody hard left on the court, a judicial activist.
I don't think any of that is in question.
That's standard operating procedure.
Democrats never seem to get it wrong, though.
They don't have many David suitors in their background, uh Joe Concha.
And the thing is, Sean, also, even if they do put a far left activist on the court and it somehow, you know, it gets through the Senate where a mansion or a cinema uh doesn't oppose that.
Remember, Manchin said back in 2018, and Manchin was the only Democrat to vote for Kavanaugh, by the way, that he wants a centrist on the court.
So he could blow this whole thing up too, which is just delicious.
You know, I mean, that's the most powerful Joe in the country, right?
It goes Mansion, Pags, Piscopo, Pesci, then Conscha.
But yeah, those are your powerful Joes.
Uh but all that said, I don't think this is a game changer in any way, shape, or form.
I'm watching MSNBC and CNN yesterday, and they're positively giddy.
Like, this is the victory that the president sorely needs, and he could turn everything around now.
It's like, hey, wait a minute.
Let's say it's a six three game in baseball, and you're trailing in the eighth inning, and you want to keep the score six three.
So you call it a bullpen and you bring in a lefty reliever, and that lefty reliever keeps the score six three.
That's basically what's happening here.
It's a liberal replacing a liberal.
This isn't Amy Comey Barrett coming in to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, where you suddenly have now changed the court even more conservative.
So all it does is hold served, and you know, Democrats really don't gain anything out of this.
Biden promised it.
He'll keep a promise, but that doesn't that's not going to change anything when you talk about inflation and crime in the border in education going south on him.
That's still going to be what's going to be dragging him down going into the midterms of why a red tsunami's coming in November.
You know, there's a lot of talk.
There was a headline, one Fox News.com article, Joe Paggs that said Republicans are gearing up for a Supreme Court confirmation battle.
Uh why do I not believe that's true?
Why do I think that the Republicans are just pretty much gonna cave and and whoever Joe nominates will probably have a pretty easy time of it?
Because they always do, Sean, and you know this by by covering it for for as long as you have.
They always do.
The Republicans and conservatives and those who believe in traditional American values, talk a good game and never do anything to back it up.
Look, let's take Big Tech, for example.
They have all violated Section 230.
They're all publishers, they're not they're not platforms at all.
And guest after guest after after guest on your show, on my show that Joe has talked to, these people all promise we're taking them down.
We're gonna stop this.
It's a free speech issue.
We're not going to allow them to be the arms of uh of the government, and every single time they never come through.
You know why?
They're afraid to lose their position.
They're afraid to lose their invitation to to the tea party or or to the margaritas for lunch.
These guys will s will say the game, they'll they'll they'll speak to speak.
They won't walk the walk though, they'll talk it all day long.
And you're right, they're gonna let this listen as Joe said, this nominee doesn't really matter that much.
It's the exact same makeup of of the court afterwards.
But what happens with the next one?
What happens with the next one after that?
Will they really stick to their guns and really take this thing home and do what they promised they would do?
They are very good at saying it.
They're very bad at doing it.
And you know why?
Probably speed of the speed of the leader.
Just look at him, that his wishy-washy, you know, ways, you know, he talks a good game, and then that he does absolutely nothing.
Quick break more with Joe Paggs and Joe Concha on the other side, then we'll get to your calls.
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All right, back to uh Joe Paggs, host of the Joe Paggs Show, Joe Concha, Fox News contributor, calm this for the Hill.
Let me go back to Jonathan Turley's piece.
And and remember, Jonathan is a a Democrat.
He said the pledges that B Biden has made, meaning he's only going to choose an African American woman for this role and an African American woman as vice president.
The the pledge amounts to this, no matter how qualified men, or in this case, the Supreme Court, women who are not black, maybe he will not consider them as candidates.
And presidents have always been careful to state that while they seek diversity among their nominees, they would appoint the most qualified person regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation.
But in a single declaration, Biden quickly dispensed with even the pretense of equal consideration, imposing an absolute requirement that a nominee be of a particular gender or race is effectively an affirmative action pledge.
It's precisely what the Supreme Court already declared to be unconstitutional discrimination.
Um does this become an issue, or is that just uh a conservative fantasy, Joe Concha?
I wonder let's say you're uh and I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly.
Uh Sir Sri uh Sir Sarvassian, right?
I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
Uh he is an Asian American, right?
And he is somebody who is immensely qualified for the Supreme Court.
Why do the Asians always get screwed in these situations?
You know what I mean?
If we're gonna start like checking off boxes, you never hear I want to put the first Asian American on the court.
Uh to answer your question, and I'm not really avoiding it because uh maybe I am because this really isn't my purview, but uh I I think Turley makes a good point.
I I just don't see to Joe Paggs's point like Republicans really pursuing this that hard to say that this is unconstitutional and so on.
I think they'll just kind of get out of the way so they can get to the midterms with without looking like a party that opposed a black woman uh on national television, if that makes sense.
What's your take of Turley's uh analysis?
I thought it was pretty hard hitting.
The national review, just to add a little more to this, similarly said Biden eliminated uh a generation of progressive jurists with a different racial and gender label, and he's unwisely limited his options by preemptively declaring uh all of this during the twenty twenty campaign.
Uh and they rightly point out it's unconstitutional, too.
I mean, uh, forget about Congress and advising consent in this instance, Joe Paggs.
One has to wonder if there would be a court challenge to it.
Well, I think that there could be.
Turley is absolutely right about this.
The bottom line is they are literally violating the equal rights promised in this country by by making an announcement as to race and gender or sex of who the next person's gonna be.
And you're right, they're eliminating everybody else's way who have worked their faces off who don't happen to be a black woman in this entire thing.
And if we're looking at actual demographics of our country, let's say that that relates directly to the demographics of those who are available, and it might not.
But the black women in America are 7% of the population.
Are you literally saying to 93% of the population you have no chance to be in the Supreme Court under Joe Biden?
Is that really what America is today?
The answer to the question we know is yes.
And again, I'm I'm saying this fully acknowledging that there are definitely uh qualified people in all backgrounds, all races, all religions, etc.
etc.
But there's no but never been a president that has made race and gender the defining factor.
That's the difference here, Joe.
Do you think it'll have a boomerang effect?
I'm sorry, I thought there's so many Joes on this call.
Uh I'll ask both of you, actually.
I'll I'll become the interviewer.
Do you think this will have a boomerang effect or people will say, you know, Kancha can't help himself, Joe Paggs.
I'm sure you've had him on as a guest.
He does this crap all the time.
I mean, go ahead, Joe, take over.
You do what's your question?
You said I should host a show.
Oh, hey, better no better time than the president.
Uh I'm just wondering if it has a boomerang effect if enough people just see through this as being phony and just uh as an olive branch to try to rile up the base and and and really eliminating all different people that are qualified for this, whether you're male, whether you're not.
Well, but I think by now everybody's used to the Democrats playing identity politics.
Look, I I always said for all these years, Joe Pags, not Contra.
Uh I said for all these years that every two and four years, Democrats, you know, they they have their playbook.
Republicans, racist, sexist, misogynists, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, etc.
etc.
Right.
Um now it's like every day, every hour of every day.
And it's I I think at some point there might be this backlash.
I'll give you the last word in this segment.
Well, I I I've got to wonder why do they keep doing it, Sean?
Why make this announcement beforehand?
Why do this woke garbage every single day?
Is it like a conservative listener, viewer, uh a person who takes in the news is going to say, Wow, Biden's gonna put a black woman on the court.
I'm now liberal.
I'm not gonna start voting their way.
What exactly are they doing?
Is this about raising money?
Is this uh is there somebody on the fence somewhere in America that said, you know, if he goes with a black woman on the Supreme Court, I'm gonna vote uh Biden.
Well, demographically he's I don't get it's he's losing support among the Democratic base, uh among which I'll be losing a lot of Hispanic Americans, African Americans.
I don't know if if look, I think it all I think it all goes down to Bernie Sanders cornered him in a debate, and he made the statement and he's got to stick with it.
Anyway, Joe Contra, Joe Paggs, thank you both.
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Let's go back to last Tuesday first.
Now, the RNC put out an ad, and it is devastating, making the case that Joe Biden is a a cognitive disgrace and uh just uh it's it's beyond Humiliating for the country, beyond embarrassing for the country, but even worse than that, it's dangerous for the entire world.
This is what the RNC put out.
The political coverage of the political players and some of the questions.
Anyway.
I mean, it's a devastating ad.
I mean, and it goes on for 50 minutes.
That's a short version of it.
Uh, he was at a round table yesterday um with CEOs, and it's just as bad.
Listen.
Uh I'm always talking about Corvette.
I don't want to make Ford or anybody else upset.
But uh I uh might point out your uh when I went to Dearborn driving that uh, you know, uh was up there.
I don't know, man.
It uh I think the press thought I was crazy.
I enjoyed it so much going up in uh your new EV factory in uh and that uh that Hummer.
Uh it's pretty embarrassing.
Anyway, joining us now is the ranking member, Congressman Brian Styles with us, Wisconsin District One.
All right, you saw the press conference, you saw the ad.
You saw he's the president yesterday.
Do you think this president is mentally up to this job, cognitively up to the job of being the president of the United States?
I'm incredibly concerned with where the president's at.
He's completely disconnected to the problems Americans are facing at a time when prices are rising, increasing by over seven percent.
His plan is to send more money into the economy.
He's ignoring the crisis on the border.
He refuses to address the crisis in crime.
We are seeing a president completely disconnected from the challenges every American is facing.
You really got to wonder what's going on.
You really do.
What's your take?
Uh, Congressman Cloud.
I mean, uh, I'm watching this, and uh frankly, it's embarrassing for the country from my perspective, and it's humiliating, but it's also dangerous if you have a president that cognitively weak.
Do you think he is strong enough cognitively for this job?
Do you think he's up to the task of of taking on the toughest job arguably in the world?
Well, he you know, when you're calling a lid uh at 3 p.m. uh on a day where we're facing potential conflict in the Ukraine, uh, and you're out having an ice cream.
It it's just you're not really taking these issues seriously at all.
And it's the American people are tired of going crisis to crisis to crisis to crisis, and uh that's what we see coming out of this administration right now.
Well, I mean, that's that's a pretty scary thing.
Let me play for you both.
I wanted to get an update from both of you on the issue of what's going on at the borders.
Now, border agents confronted uh DHS Secretary Mayorcus, and he actually admitted, yeah, it's never been this bad in 20 years.
Every time something important comes here, uh we crush out the uh 50 more buses that come in and they take as many people out here as they can.
That's saying you want to see how it really is down here.
Why do we keep sending as many people Isaac out of here as we can before they get here?
It's not really showing what it is.
I'm not I'm not exactly sure I call it this whole area back here before you come down, before anybody comes down, a senator, doesn't matter.
They always plus as many people out of here as they can whatever other sectors.
It may appear that we're trying to say everything coming before it.
We know better.
I know better the commitment remains and keep fighting.
And let me let me just say you can turn your back on me, but I'll never turn your back my back on you.
Your take now, he keeps saying that, but we've had a record year.
Donald Trump, you know, was able to lower it.
We had a 30-year low of the illegal immigration thanks to his policy, stay in Mexico, build the wall, uh, getting rid of catch and release.
Now we have a president that, well, he got rid of the State of Mexico policy, he's not building any barriers, and forget catch and release.
It's process release, preferential treatment, no COVID testing, because they're not going to be here for a long time.
Uh There's no vaccine mandates, and you get a free transportation to the state of your choice.
That sounds to me like a president, Congressman Style that is aiding and a betting in law breaking.
This president needs to be held accountable for what he's doing at the border.
I was down at the border recently speaking with border patrol agents, and you see what this administration is doing.
They're sending a message to the entire world that our border is open and it's exacerbating a problem.
Not only are they refusing to build the wall, there's areas of the wall that they're actually deconstructing.
They're making the problem worse.
And they continue to send the message that our borders open.
We need to hold this administration accountable, and we need to restart, restart construction of the border wall immediately.
I'll get your take, Congressman Cloud.
Well, the only thing remarkable about the leaked audio is the fact that you have somebody from the Biden administration, albeit in a private meeting, admitting that there's a problem.
The fact is that we've known there's a problem.
Here in South Texas, I met with Border Patrol just a couple weeks ago, and I asked for an update on safe third country and how that was going.
Uh, since it's been court order to be re-implemented.
They literally laughed out loud.
I said we've got no direction, no orders, no memos, no nothing.
And so uh you see this administration just doing barely enough to be able to point to an isolated incident, but the truth is is that they are doing exactly what you said.
The cartels are bringing them to the border, and then we're tax paying funding the next step until they get to the process, and then the cartels pick up the relationship at that point and continue to to abuse the lives of these people and to wreak havoc throughout communities here in South Texas, but around the nation as well.
Well, uh pretty scary, and we see what's happening, and states like Pennsylvania, I think rightly, and Florida and others are saying, No, you're facilitating the law breaking, not us, and then you're just dropping people into our state.
Uh, we're gonna send these people to Washington, D.C. or Delaware, and Joe State can take care of it because we're not going to be part of the law breaking and basically an accessory after the fact.
Let me move on to the economy, Congressman Steile.
Uh, we've got a 40-year high with inflation.
You know, Joe Biden's been out there attacking specific industries like the meat industry.
Uh, I know dairy is big in in your state of Wisconsin, uh, and he's been attacking other industries.
Isn't the real cause of inflation that Joe Biden's decision is economic policies coupled with his energy policies that has caused us to end energy independence, being a net exporter of energy and now relying on foreign imports, which is now dramatically raised the cost of everything we buy in every store we go to, raise the cost to fill our gas tanks, raise the cost to heat and cool our homes.
I can't go anywhere without people coming up to me in the grocery store at the gas pump complaining about higher prices.
Let me add one.
It's not only terrible energy policies by Joe Biden, starting with him killing the Keystone pipeline on day one, is not only the fiscal policies of Joe Biden, where all problems in his opinion should be solved by more money, which is driving up the cost of everyday goods.
But we also have a monetary policy from the Federal Reserve that's pumped in and built a balance sheet up of four trillion additional dollars in the past two years, a hundred billion dollars in the last eight weeks.
And so when you couple the energy policy with the fiscal policy with the monetary policy, you enter the nightmare scenario that every American family is feeling when they fill up their car with gas, when they grow to the grocery store when they're out shopping for their family.
Well, I mean, every single person I know is feeling it, feeling it big time.
Congressman Cloud will give you the last word.
Well, you know, here in my district, we have a number one uh oil and gas export port in the nation, and to see how the Biden administration's policies have caused gas prices to go up, but also we have a lot of ag, and so I'm talking to farmers who can't afford fertilizer or pesticides and those kind of things, and the and what that means to food prices for the American family.
It's just uh policy issue after policy issue after policy issue, much of it driven by the green new delusion uh ideology, uh being used to just take control of our uh economy.
It's just it's devastating the American families.
People are seeing it.
Prices at the pump, prices at the grocery store.
We've got a reverse course.
All right.
I appreciate both of you for updating us on all of this.
Congressman Cloud, thank you.
Congressman Style, thank you.
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