Sean Hannity Show - Is Harris Ready? - July 3rd, Hour 1

July 3, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show

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Is Harris Ready? - July 3rd, Hour 1

Peter Schweizer & Eric Eggers fill in for the vacationing Sean and discuss just how viable a Kamala Harris-led ticket might be. The reality is, the liberal media is stirring up the Harris news to distract from just how bad President Biden's mental acuity is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	Hello, America.
	This is Peter Schweitzer, the four-time number one New York Times best-selling author.
	I'm filling in today with my colleague and good friend, Eric Eggers.
	And Eric, when we were given this opportunity to fill in with Sean, we were told by Linda, hey, it's going to be early July, dog days of summer, slow media.
	Holy smokes.
	Holy smokes.
	I'd like to thank you for not introducing me as a Zero Times New York Times best-selling author next to his four times flex.
	No big deal.
	But it is unprecedented the moment we find ourselves in here.
	Peter and I host a podcast called The Drill Down, where we regularly expose government corruption in Washington, D.C. We've long documented the conflicts of interest with Joe Biden, the Biden crime family, and the things that he's done.
	And we never thought we would be sitting in a moment in time where we're less than a week, not just from the performance on the debate, but every single columnist in the New York Times and the editorial board of the New York Times calling for Joe Biden to resign.
	Yes, and the drumbeat is growing.
	You see, members of Congress now have done so.
	Governors are meeting tonight.
	There have been reports, denied by some, but reports that 25 members of the House of Representatives, Democrats, of course, are going to call for him to resign.
	And there is a growing drumbeat that Kamala Harris is going to step forward and perhaps be the replacement candidate.
	We're going to keep you up to date throughout the show as we hear more about this because there is breaking story after breaking story.
	Yeah, I think the most recent thing we've seen is that Kamala Harris has been recently named, like the odds on favor.
	You pay attention to the betting markets.
	There's an increasing drumbeat.
	In fact, listen to this montage of a number of Democrats and members of the media calling for the current vice president to replace the I mean, just think about this.
	This is a real thing that's happening in this country.
	A number of people are calling for the vice president to replace the president.
	Listen to this.
	How would you feel if they worked around and tried to go around Kamala Harris because of her lack of high poll numbers and popularity broadly based?
	Do you think it's hers to have if it is not his?
	I will support her if he were to step aside.
	No, this party should not in any way do anything to work around Ms. Harris.
	We should do everything we can to bolster her, whether she's second place or at the top of the ticket.
	I know Vice President Kamala Harris well.
	And yes, you mentioned I was the first member of the Congressional Black Hawk as probably the first member of Congress to support her when she ran for president.
	I mean, she's prepared.
	She's been our vice president.
	And so I think we have to recognize that as quickly as possible, rip the band-aid off.
	We have a great vice president who has three and a half years of seasoning in the highest levels of government.
	She would be a great campaigner, energize our base.
	So many of the different aspects of the Democratic coalition would be super excited about a Kamala Harris run.
	We have already chosen who takes over for Joe Biden if he's unable to do the job.
	And that's Kamala Harris.
	And if they do have to swap him out, she's it.
	Yeah, it's pretty definitive.
	And look, there was an email circulated by Dimitri Melhorn.
	He's a longtime advisor to very wealthy Democratic donors, including tech investors.
	And this email said, to be clear, Vice President Harris is a badass.
	A ticket with her on the top combined with someone who bounces her brand weaknesses would absolutely be competitive.
	So they're openly talking about this among leadership circles.
	On the other hand, NBC News is reporting Joe Biden just had a call with supporters and he said, let me say this as clearly as possibly as I can, as simply, as straightforwardly as I can.
	I am running.
	No one is pushing me out.
	I'm not leaving.
	You tell them, President Biden.
	Listen, I mean, he announced yesterday in a press conference, we've assembled a team, a government coalition.
	We're going to beat Summer, Peter.
	The heat is bad, but we're badder.
	So we've got a government team.
	They trotted him out to show he's vigorous enough to defeat global warming and heat.
	He announced, of course, during the debate that we'd beat Medicare.
	He can beat this drumbeat of people because the reality is, and if you follow the numbers, they've pointed out time after time, Joe Biden's numbers may be unpopular.
	The only politician less popular than Joe Biden is Vice President Harris.
	So while she may excite a number of Democrat coalition members, she does not excite a number of other people.
	And I think Republicans would actually, I think Republicans, can you imagine this are like, we're fine either way.
	Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, we're looking at the schedule.
	We see nothing but W's.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And look, we're going to talk later in the show sort of the hidden side of Kamala Harris that a lot of people don't know.
	Of course, we research and investigate corruption.
	You can go to our website, GAI.news, and see the work that we do.
	But we've investigated Kamala Harris for years, and there's a lot of things in her past that people are not aware of that speak to somebody, I would argue, who abuses power.
	So the notion that Kamala Harris is going to be better than Joe Biden, no, that is certainly not the case.
	And it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
	The polling shows 75% of the American people say somebody other than Joe Biden has a better chance to beat Donald Trump.
	I'm not sure that's the case.
	I'm not sure that Kamala Harris is going to be an upgrade for them as far as competition.
	And look, there's a lot of time for us to figure out how viable Kamala Harris would be as a political opponent.
	I think the fact that she has so many skeletons in her closet that haven't been discovered speaks to how unviable she was during the political primary.
	And you have entire chapters in one of your many, number one New York Times bestselling books about that.
	But I think I don't, I think the media would love for us to talk about Kamala Harris because what that would actually do is fast forward the conversation past how incredibly deceitful they have been and how much we as the American people have been lied to.
	So we would love to talk to you during our time on this program.
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	It's 800-941-7326-800-941 Sean, because imagine this.
	We have been told time and time again that what we saw, what we heard, that the failures of the president, both from a physical standpoint and just from a mental acuity standpoint, we were told that that's not actually true.
	Right.
	A special counsel wrote a report in which in examining whether or not Joe Biden should face criminal charges for his mishandling of these classified documents, a charge, by the way, that former President Trump faces.
	They said, well, we can't charge him with anything because essentially he would come off as a very sympathetic figure because he's an old man who has a bad memory.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That was what the actual special prosecutor said.
	The next day, the New York Times, this is back in February, ran an op-ed titled, I'm a neuroscientist.
	We're thinking about Biden's memory and age in the wrong way.
	And it's continued since then.
	It has.
	It has.
	And it's been atrocious.
	I tell you, the one that has been most damaged by this is not Joe Biden.
	It is the mainstream media because it shows that they are active participants in The Emperor Has No Clothes.
	And remember, if you remember that table, the real stupid idiots are not the king, it's the people who actually played along with the lie.
	So let me just give you one example: Washington Post headline.
	This is just two weeks ago: The fact checkers, the headline, cheap fake Biden videos and rapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead.
	These were the videos that were just showing him kind of wandering around.
	The fact checkers gave videos for Pinocchios saying that they showed because they showed Biden displaying cognitive problems and they dismissed them for their quote pernicious efforts to reinforce an existing stereotype.
	And they quoted White House officials.
	Remember, there was the video where everybody was kind of dancing in an event and Joe was standing there frozen.
	Washington Post's defense to this quote-unquote misinformation was that, well, Biden has often said that he doesn't dance.
	I mean, in other words, they were actively working to cover it up.
	The New York Times had also a headline a couple of weeks ago that said, How misleading videos are trailing Biden as he battles age doubts.
	So they were effectively saying it's misinformation.
	Cognitively, everything is fine.
	And the problem for them is then the American people actually got to see Joe Biden unfiltered for 90 minutes.
	And holy smokes.
	You're the one that pointed out that when Joe Biden announced these debates and he agreed to these debates, he said, Make my day to Donald Trump.
	Pal.
	Make my day, pal.
	Who knew he would actually come off looking like modern-day Clint Eastwood?
	Not 1974.
	No, it's not a great look.
	And it was, I think, it was this most riveting and shocking thing.
	And I think, but in a very serious way, because you are a very serious journalist and you have exposed, and I think in a way that the media has also continued to ignore, the very nature in which the Biden administration has been compromised because of the business relationships that Hunter Biden and other Biden family members have.
	And they pose, I think, national security threats.
	And other people have confirmed that.
	And that's another story that the mainstream media has overlooked or suppressed along with things on the Hunter Biden laptop.
	So there's that.
	But if in February, it was a scandal that the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, was hospitalized because of complications connected to possibly his cancer diagnosis, and it wasn't revealed and it wasn't publicized.
	How much worse is it then if the commander in chief of the United States military has very serious health problems that have been hidden from the American people?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And here's the thing.
	When it comes to Biden corruption, which is well documented, I mean, we have demonstrated that the Biden family got tens of millions of dollars from really corrupt foreign entities in China, Russia, and Ukraine.
	Never did anything for it in return.
	That's a news story.
	Right.
	And the media pretended it was not a story by ignoring it.
	They said, if we don't cover it, it's not really a story.
	You can get away with that when you're talking about government documents and the transfer of money.
	But when you're talking about the actual president standing in front of people who cannot string a sentence together, you cannot cover that up.
	And by the way, I will give them credit.
	The former executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, has just come out and said that the media is complicit.
	They failed to hold power into account.
	It was a massive cover-up to not cover his decline.
	And he said it is simply astounding how her former colleagues have handled this story.
	And I would argue other stories like Biden corruption as well.
	I believe she also said that many members of the media have covered up the story because they didn't want to help Donald Trump.
	And then she goes, I get it.
	I totally understand that the urge to abdicate your professional responsibility because it might benefit a political opponent with whom you violently disagree.
	And that's something that we have some experience with, which we'll talk about on the other side of this break.
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	We are looking at chaos in Washington, D.C. Biden saying I'm defiant, I'm not leaving, people calling him for leaving.
	And the media is completely confused into what to do because they had stood by the fact that he was healthy and he was strong.
	Here's a montage: just a few examples of what the media had said before the debate.
	He's fine.
	All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.
	President Biden has a photographic memory.
	He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.
	I think there is so much misinformation, disinformation, as we've been talking about.
	You talked about the video of the president wandering, and it's not true.
	President Biden is taking this debate prep incredibly seriously.
	You will see a very energized President Biden.
	I can assure you of that.
	Joe Biden doesn't have any concerns about his mental fitness, nor do I. I've spent an incredible amount of time with Joe Biden.
	That's just the fade that the other side is pushing.
	You all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are.
	They are cheap fakes video.
	And F you, if you can't handle the truth, this version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
	Joe Scarborough is the absolute best.
	The best part about that is everyone you just heard from is making hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in their job.
	Yeah.
	And they just lie to the American people repeatedly.
	Yeah.
	And they were good at lying.
	I mean, it was probably convinced their side very well.
	What's interesting about this pivot now is it's not that Democrats are freaking out because of his competency.
	It's because of his electability, right?
	Joe Biden hasn't changed.
	He's no different than he was before that debate.
	The point was they were able to cover it up and give that sense of competency, and it helped with electability.
	Now that they think he can't win, now they're willing to kick into the curb.
	No, his utility as a vessel to deliver the desired political outcome has ended.
	And therefore, so has the support of the media.
	And I know that we're all acting surprised.
	Like, for one, I was sort of shocked.
	I was like, wait, I cannot believe how quickly the New York Times, among everybody else, has turned.
	But we probably shouldn't have been surprised, Peter, because you and I remember you wrote a book called Clinton Cash that exposed the people that donated the Clinton Foundation and paid money to give for Bill to give speeches.
	And they got favors from the Secretary of State's office when Hillary was Secretary of State.
	And the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, Bloomberg, they all ran stories based on that reporting.
	And then Donald Trump won.
	And then they had this big round of hand ringing, like, oh my gosh, I can't believe we participated in this.
	What have we done?
	Yeah, what have we done?
	That was a real thing.
	That was a big moment.
	There was Columbia Journals and Review studies.
	It cited you.
	It said, it's that Schweitzer guy's fault.
	And they said never again.
	Yeah.
	So what never again in 2016 has led to is this.
	Yeah, it's led to this.
	And it's totally, totally trashed their brand.
	Totally trashed their brand.
	Look, what's going on right now in the White House is a tug of war.
	We're going to come back from the break and we're going to talk about what is the order of battle, who's on what side and which side is ultimately going to prevail in our minds.
	We mean the side of truth, the side of mainstream media.
	Is that what you mean?
	No, I mean the factions in the White House.
	Who's actually going to win this battle?
	Is Joe going to stay or is he going to go?
	You and I are going to make predictions and give the battle map of who's on what side in the White House when we get back.
	My money's on Joe Biden only because he has the smartest man he knows, Hunter Biden, in the White House in his ear and only his ear, we think.
	So my money's on Joe, but we'll talk about that.
	Plus, take your calls when we get back.
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	Peter Schweitzer and Eric Eggers.
	We're filling in for Sean Hannity.
	We're with the Government Accountability Institute.
	You can find out more about what we do at GAI.news.
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	By the way, it just came out.
	Joe Biden has now also come up with another explanation for his bad debate performance, just so you know.
	He says his fatigue and the poor performance during the debates was due to quote-unquote foreign travel.
	It has been noted that he had been traveling to Camp David, which is about a 15-minute helicopter ride from the White House.
	So I don't know if that's a spatial problem or a memory problem, but you've got people in the White House.
	Reuters is reporting that I think seven White House staffers are now leaking that they kind of want Kamala to emerge as the replacement of Joe Biden.
	And then you have the diehards.
	There's a tug of war going on in the White House.
	Who do you think is going to win?
	It's a great question.
	And by the way, the foreign travel thing occurred, as you noted, at least a week before he was at Camp David.
	He was at Camp David for six days before the debate.
	And I think how you know that there is an emerging faction that wants to see Joe Biden replaced is some of the details that are coming out about some of that prep, not the least of which was, I think, per the New York Times that the debate prep never started before 11 a.m. and included time for a nap.
	And this occurs in the heels of other reporting that says that Joe Biden is quite sharp from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
	And then people said, well, that's disqualifying because that's only 25% of the day.
	So the fact that people are now letting us know that he's napping and that this is a very graduated schedule.
	I mean, it's gradual, right?
	And it's casual and it's accessible for someone who is in his 80s and maybe doesn't have all of his faculties tells you that there's some very real doubts.
	Because again, it's not like Kamala Harris is the most popular person in the country.
	Right, exactly.
	And look, leaks don't happen by random.
	This is intentional.
	And this White House has been very, very tough in terms of getting leaks.
	And of course, the media has been complicit in not reporting things.
	But now that the leaks are coming out, clearly an indication there are people in the White House that want Joe to go.
	The question to me, though, is the people that are loyal to Joe, the ones that are saying, no, he needs to stay, is it just pure raw power?
	They want to cling to power, or are they actually true believers?
	I was thinking about this with regards to the Iraq war.
	You remember Baghdad Bob?
	That was the guy that was the Iraqi information minister who was literally telling reporters, we have repelled the Americans.
	And the reporters were like, there's tanks like right outside the door.
	And the U.S. military, I actually researched this, U.S. military, went back and researched, and they said, no, actually, Baghdad Bob really actually thought he was telling the truth.
	In other words, he was so embraced with the moment of what he wanted to believe, he was prepared to deny reality.
	So the question to me is, you know, the family, it makes sense.
	They want Joe in a position of power because of the perks and the benefits that they get from it.
	But the other people around, I don't know, there may be some true believers that say, no, Joe is really sharp.
	And that was just an aberration and everything's going to be okay.
	I'll have to listen to see what Mika Brzezinski says Joe Scarborough really believes to find out whether or not that he, when he gave his full-throated defense of President Biden back then, if he really believed it or not.
	I guess it's crazy to me how exposed the lies are now.
	And that's a big deal.
	We should continue to talk about that.
	We're going to take some of your calls to hear what you all think in just a minute.
	But I guess I also want to ask you this question.
	I've been excited to do this because before last week, I think we've all, at the Government Accountability Institute, we've spent lots of time.
	You've written several books about the Biden business deals and Hunter's role in them and the tens of millions, if not more, that they've made off of selling out American national security interests.
	Right.
	I mean, Hunter Biden's business dealings have had dual use military technology that China's been able to acquire.
	And that matters.
	And it still matters even in the context of last week.
	But I guess we're not talking about that anymore.
	So I guess in what way does what happened with the debate and what we now know about the status of the president and the role the media has played in covering up, does it impact how you look at everything you've reported about the Biden so far?
	Well, I think it's another example that the media edifice is collapsing.
	I mean, here's the thing, as we've talked about before, the media ignored the Biden story.
	They ignored the Hunter Biden laptop that came out a couple of years after we first reported it.
	They ignored that and they thought that they got away with it.
	But if you look at the recent polls, the New York Times, the Harvard Harris poll, they asked people, do you believe that Joe Biden engaged in illegal or highly corrupt activities to benefit his family financially?
	All those polls reveal that 65% of the American people around that percentage believe that he did.
	So in other words, the media has absolutely ignored this story, but you still have a sizable portion, much more than just a clear majority, who believe that he has.
	It's another example that the stranglehold that the media has on the national conversation is gone.
	And I think their now aggressive reporting of Joe's cognitive problems are just an example of them trying to recapture the narrative, retry to reassert their authority.
	I don't think they're going to be successful.
	I think 2020 played such a key role in this.
	And I know Kimmy, we're going to hear from a caller in just a minute that's going to talk about this.
	But I think that the reason why the media and even the Bidens are so empowered is because of everything they got away with in 2020, right?
	We fundamentally changed the way we voted, which I think made the election less secure and I think was clearly advantageous to President Biden, who ultimately won.
	I think the fact that the media was able to get away with not just not reporting relevant information about Hunter Biden, his business dealings that were on the laptop, but actively working with big tech to suppress that stuff.
	I mean, that's kind of like Orwellian stuff there.
	It is.
	And you think about it.
	Why would they put Joe up in this national debate with Trump?
	Why would they risk it?
	Well, they've gotten away with everything else.
	And I think they just got cocky and they said, well, we're going to be able to spin this.
	CNN, the anchors will do us some favors.
	We'll give them some scripted talking points.
	And it didn't work out.
	It's a great point.
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	Kimmy, go ahead.
	Hey, guys.
	Great job.
	Thanks for all the work that you do.
	There was an interview Nancy Pelosi gave in fall of 2020.
	I believe it was September, and it's on video still, where they asked her about the 25th Amendment because she took great steps to make sure it was in place and secure and kind of shore it all up.
	And she was asked at that time, was that to utilize against Trump?
	And she said no for future presidents.
	So I'm not being conspiracy theorists, but it looks like this has been the plan all along.
	It just took them a lot longer to get to this point because no one likes Kamala.
	So take a look and see.
	It's still up on YouTube.
	No, Kimmy, that's a great point.
	And of course, the 25th Amendment is the one that allows cabinet officials in cooperation with Congress to replace a president who's not cognitively able to handle their job.
	Let's also remember, by the way, that same year in 2020, when he was running for president, one Joe Biden said he was going to serve one term.
	This is what happens when you have political power, your wife has political power, your family has political power.
	It's really, really hard to give it up.
	It's such a great point because after the debate, the Chiron on the bottom of almost every network, at least the liberal networks, were Biden stumbles, Trump lies.
	And so Donald Trump was presented as the one that did the most lying during the debate.
	But to your point, we wouldn't have even had a debate about a second Joe Biden term if he hadn't lied in the first place about not wanting to run for a second term.
	And everything that Kimmy just said, I think reminds us the Democrats, they blame Trump for the stuff that they're doing.
	Right?
	Like the 25th Amendment, they accused Donald Trump of being mentally unfit to be president.
	Look at Joe Biden.
	They accused Donald Trump of being the one that wants to prosecute political opponents.
	The opposite occurred.
	The crowds used to chant lock her up when Hillary Clinton was debating Donald Trump, and he declined to use the powers of the office to do that.
	The Biden administration has done the opposite.
	They've encouraged it, which we'll talk about in the five o'clock hour.
	But it just, everything they accuse Trump of doing, they do themselves, including, I think, you know, the questions about mental acuity.
	Well, remember, too, they accused Donald Trump of subverting the Democratic process, right?
	And, you know, with January 6th and all of that.
	What are they doing now?
	They're trying to remove or push out a guy who in 57 primaries and caucuses in the Democratic Party primary won 87% of the vote.
	They want him removed because they don't think he can beat Donald Trump, and they want to replace him with somebody who has not faced the voters at all by themselves, didn't face a primary, didn't face a general election.
	They want to sort of squeeze them in in a backroom deal with at-large delegates and delegates at the Democratic Convention.
	We're going to talk about that in the second hour with a couple of experts on how would this actually happen.
	No, but you're absolutely right.
	Donald Trump is what?
	A threat to democracy.
	The Biden campaign, the argument is we have to protect democracy.
	We have to beat Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump ran through a Republican primary, had opponents.
	He didn't participate in the debates, but his name was on the ballot alongside a number of other elected officials.
	We're in Florida, Florida's governor Ron DeSantis was one of them, as were a number of other highly qualified candidates.
	And he was the person that was elected, right?
	Joe Biden, on the other hand, was selected by the Democratic power brokers.
	So which one was the true threat to democracy in this electoral cycle so far?
	That's right.
	Also in the state of Florida, by the way, Ron DeSantis ran against Donald Trump.
	Remember, in the state of Florida, they actually made it so no other names could appear on the Democratic ballot.
	Only Joe Biden's name appeared on the ballot in the state of Florida.
	It couldn't be Robert Kennedy Jr., nobody else.
	So you're quite right.
	So the question is, with these factions, what's going to happen?
	I personally think that Joe Biden is going to be squeezed out.
	I think the money is going to dry up.
	I think that the support from people on Capitol Hill, longtime congressional friends like James Clyburn, are going to ask him to step aside.
	And then Joe Biden, in sort of a blaze of patriotic glory, is going to declare that he's doing it for the sake of the country.
	The difficult thing becomes, if he says, I'm stepping down, I'm not running for reelection, then the question becomes, well, why are you still president?
	If you don't have the strength and the stamina and the mental ability to run as a candidate, do you have the ability to continue to be president?
	And then the question would be, would Kamala become the acting president of the United States?
	Well, I do think that a woman will factor very heavily in all this, but I don't know that it's the current vice president, Kamala Harris.
	I think it's Dr. Joe Biden.
	There was an op-ed in the New York Times today and calling her Philly tough and how she's always been the one.
	Philly tough.
	You're going to offend so many people in the Northeast right now.
	You know, that's offensive to people in the Northeast.
	I think Philly Tough.
	She's Philly Tough.
	She's actively protected him on the stage from these protesters.
	She walks him off the stage.
	Well, yeah, that's how tough she is.
	And she is the one, by the way, that next day after the debate, she was on the cover of Vogue magazine.
	And what was the headline on the cover of the magazine?
	We will decide the future.
	We, the royal we.
	Not Joe, not the American people.
	Not Democrat primary voters.
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	Sean, you know, we're watching the chaos in Washington, D.C. in the White House.
	We've actually kind of been here before.
	Go back to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
	He suffered a stroke, and I'm now reading from the actual White House website, whitehouse.gov.
	After the president suffered his stroke, his wife pre-screened all matters of state, functionally running the executive branch of government for the remainder of Woodrow Wilson's second term.
	And what I think is so interesting about this story, Eric, is not just that he suffered a stroke, but the Wilsons were determined to cling to power.
	Hello?
	Does that sound familiar?
	In fact, in 1920, after he'd suffered the stroke, he wanted to actually run for reelection again for a third term.
	And according to history, Carrie Grayson, who was his medical doctor, played a major role in bundling those plans.
	He actually went to top Democrats at the convention and confided in those party leaders and said, no matter what others tell you, I will tell you that President Wilson is permanently ill physically and is gradually weakening mentally and can't recover.
	And after that, that blew his chances as a third term.
	What I find interesting about that is not just what Edith Wilson did, but it shows how difficult it can be to give up power.
	And I think that is a motivating factor for one Dr. Jill Biden.
	Well, I've got sources in the inner degenerate gambling world, and they have sent me these odds.
	And so Joe Biden is still the odds on favorite to be the Democratic nominee.
	He's at plus 280.
	Gavin Newsom's behind him at 1,400.
	And Kamala Harris is down at 1,700.
	So Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, nowhere near still the current president.
	So I think, but it's an excellent story from history because we have been here before and people have chosen to do the right thing before.
	I guess it remains unclear of what you actually think the right thing is.
	Well, the right thing for the country is if you're not up to the job and Joe Biden's clearly not up for the job.
	You'd legitimately think that.
	Even though Anthony Fauci has come out and said, look, he had a cold.
	Yeah.
	It was the cold medicine.
	It was the cold medicine.
	Is Dr. Fauci?
	Yeah, no, I think, look, if your schedule is from 10 to 4 and you're the leader of the free world, by the way, I think I'm looking at the clock.
	He's about ready to break for the day, right?
	At 4 o'clock.
	The term they like to use in the White House is we're going to put a lid on things.
	We're shutting it down.
	Yeah, they're shutting it down.
	I mean, look, if you can't function in that way and it's only going to get worse, it's not going to get better.
	I think he has an obligation to step down.
	But again, power is a very hard thing to give up.
	Hunter Biden doesn't want him to do it.
	Jill Biden doesn't want to do it.
	His sister doesn't want him to do it.
	A lot of the aides around him, they're at the pinnacle of power.
	If he's diminished a little bit and it gives them more power, they're fine with that.
	The question becomes, how do they do it?
	If they do it, our guests at the beginning of next hour will address what actual mechanics have to occur in the convention or elsewhere if they do want to replace Joe Biden.
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