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Carol Roth - July 2nd, Hour 3
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Hey, welcome back, everybody.
This is our number three of the Sean Hannity Show.
Joe Concha, Fox News contributor and, yes, best-selling author.
It's still funny to say that.
Of the book, Come On Man, The Truth About Joe Biden's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad presidency.
Ah, please, that's 2022.
Why am I still talking about that book when I had progressively worse coming out?
Progressively worse, why today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys on sale now, wherever you buy books.
July 30th is the launch date, and you're going to laugh.
I mean, what can I say?
I try to write these books.
I don't want you to fall asleep on the beach reading about stuffy policy and everything like that.
We have some fun with this one, no question about it.
Anyway, let's get to, this is some sound.
You know what?
Let's bring in Carol Roth, actually, guys, who is, of course, my favorite guest, entrepreneur, author of You Will Own Nothing, Your War with a New Financial World Order, and How to Fight Back.
Carol has written some tremendous books, and all of them come to fruition.
Like, in other words, everything comes true in what she's saying in them and what she's warning about.
So, Carol, will the Bears make the playoffs this year?
And should I run to DraftKings and put a little money on that?
Even though I don't really do that anymore, but go ahead.
Well, I think I'm a little biased in that prediction.
So we'll just go with yes since we're both Bears fans.
But I have something that's even more important to tell you, Joe.
It is the 44th anniversary of the release of arguably the greatest comedy of all time.
Don't tell me.
Oh, I wanted to guess airplane.
That's right.
Airplane.
And in that spirit, I'm just going to say that I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
One of the greatest lines ever.
What was his name again?
He's a famous actor.
I should know.
He was on Seinfeld.
Like, he did cameos.
Lloyd Bridges?
Bloy Bridges?
Yes, yes.
Okay.
Again, it's 44 years ago.
You got to cut me a little slack on that one.
Can you believe that if we get we're going to go off on our usual tangents on this one, Carol?
But the summer of 1980 was really a great time for movies because, yeah, Airplane was released on July 2nd of 1980.
Guess what came out just three weeks later?
Let me see if I could give you a hint.
Oh, billy, billy, billy, bitty.
This is a big one.
Noonan, anything warm here so far?
No, go ahead.
Caddyshack.
Oh, Caddyshack, yes.
Well, I'm waiting.
We're waiting.
I never slice.
I could go on and on as far as the greatness of that movie and Ted Knight, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield.
Just an incredible cast.
And yeah, that came out.
Those two movies came out in the same month, and we just don't have comedies like that anymore.
I think Cannibal Run also came out that summer, which was ridiculous, but actually extremely funny to watch in a movie they'd never make in a thousand years now because you basically had Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
drunk the entire time, dressed as priests, driving across the country in a Ferrari.
I don't think that gets greenlighted today, but what do I know?
Anyway, Carol, let's talk about the debate.
That's the only thing anybody's talking about here.
Five days later, I'll ask you the question I've asked my other guests here.
How long into that debate, if you want to call it that, did you know that Biden was finished, not only that night, but his presidency as it stands now?
I think it was maybe 20 seconds.
You went 20, all right.
I was 30.
Yeah, it was about 20 seconds.
I'm a pretty quick read on things.
But before the debate, you knew it was going to be bad, and you had to kind of go over under is it going to be better or worse than I thought it would be.
And by far, it exceeded my expectations that it was much, much worse.
I mean, we knew that Joe Biden was not fit to run for president the last time around.
We have seen the visible decline in him when they have given anybody access to him, which is on very limited availability with very controlled situations.
And even though they tried to control that debate as much as possible, you know, the home field advantage of not having the audience there and the mic situation and him picking the side he wanted to sit on and whatever else, they still couldn't control it enough for us to, you know, see the things that we saw.
Many of us obviously knew about this, but I think it was a big wake-up call for the people who've been shielded, who've been gaslit, who was told that he's so vibrant, just the best president ever.
And then they got to see the reality and go, wow, I can't believe this guy has the office of the presidency.
He is the most powerful man, theoretically, in the entire world.
And it really puts us in a very weak light on the international stage, which is why we have had economic security and national security issues cropping up because we're just not being taken seriously because of our leadership or lack thereof.
And we're talking to Carol Roth.
Yeah, the analogy that I'm using to go with the movie that came out 39 years ago, and that is Rocky IV.
And Trump does not get enough credit for this.
So I really think the Biden people sent him out there, I guess it was about a month or so ago, to say, Donald, I'll debate you anytime, anywhere, only to proceed to say, oh, by the way, it's got to be on CNN or ABC.
And oh, by the way, it's got to be without a studio audience.
And, oh, by the way, and they negotiated all these things, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, all these rules.
We're going to cut your mic when you're not speaking.
And Trump, just like in Rocky IV, was like, yeah, okay.
Just like when they went to Rocky and they're like, oh, you really want to fight Drago?
Okay, it's going to be in Russia.
It's going to be in Moscow.
It's going to be on Christmas Day.
And basically, you're going to train with the KGB following you everywhere.
And Rocky's like, yeah, okay.
Like, I'll do it.
I don't care.
Anywhere, anytime.
Trump was that confident because I think he saw A, Biden's decline.
But what gets lost in all this, Carol, is the fact that before the debate, Trump was leading in all the major swing states.
And he's on the right side of every issue if you're a fan of common sense, right?
So as far as who's seen as the person who could better handle inflation, it's Trump.
Or trade policy, it's Trump.
Energy independence, it's Trump.
Crime, it's Trump.
Foreign policy, it's Trump.
Immigration and the border, it's Trump.
So on all the major issues, Trump is on the right side of them.
And when people talk about how, well, Biden had a cold, he had an off night, but at least he told the truth while Donald Trump just lied the whole time.
I still don't know exactly what Trump lied about.
I keep hearing this narrative.
But in the end, it wasn't Trump who said that no troops had died under his watch.
That happened under Biden.
Some Gold Star families are extremely pissed.
So, yeah, that's the thing.
And based on policy, and you obviously know business better than anybody, Donald Trump is the better person for American families.
Yeah, certainly.
And I think that's why you're seeing so many people across the board, those who may be more independent, those who have historically voted Democrat, but are disenfranchised and disillusioned, because not only is their life financially and otherwise worse off than it was four years ago, but the real insult to injury that's happened, Joe, is that they have been gaslit about it.
That even though they have seen the price and the reported prices are up 20% since Biden took office, we know that those are understated by about a factor of two.
So 40 plus, 50 plus percent increase in their cost of living.
And you have Biden and his mouthpieces saying, no, no, things are growing great.
The economy is going great.
I've created all these jobs.
Inflation's down.
Misinformed.
Yeah, I've got a chart.
You're just misinformed.
And what an insult to working and middle-class people to not acknowledge the pain that they're feeling and instead of having a plan, tell them that they are lying or they are wrong.
What is your analogy around inflation?
Because you keep hearing from the president that I took inflation down from 9%.
It's about 3.5% now.
No, that's not inflation going down.
It's just not going up as fast.
But I know you have a good analogy around this.
Can you share by putting on this?
Of course I do.
Yeah.
So I always use weight as the analogy.
So let's say you go to the doctor, you get on the scale, and you've gained 10 pounds.
The doctor says, you know, you've got to lose some weight.
Okay.
You come back the next year and you've gained four pounds.
The doctor doesn't go, oh, Joe, great job.
You only gained four pounds.
Last time you gained 10.
He goes, Joe, you're up 14 pounds in two years.
Your pants don't fit anymore.
We really have to get you on a diet.
And that's the thing that people don't seem to fully grasp, or at least that's what they're portraying out of the Democratic mouthpieces, is, oh, you've only gained four pounds this time after the 10, and your pants don't fit, and you need the elastic pants.
Perfect analogy.
And we're talking to Carol Roth.
Carol, I am curious to get your reaction to this back and forth.
I mean, Corine Jean-Pierre, who is already a profoundly horrible press secretary, I don't know any press secretary that could have gone out there today and would be able to defend this president in any way, shape, or form after what everybody witnessed on that debate stage.
But sure enough, this is how she performed today.
This is the latest cut, Ethan.
So let's play that one and get Carol's reaction on the other side.
We're not taking away from what you all saw, what the American people saw.
We understand.
It was a bad night.
It was a bad night.
That's what we believe it to be.
He had a cold and a bad night.
I would not see this as an episode.
The president had a cold.
He had a hoarse voice.
You all heard it.
Is anyone in the White House hiding information about the president's health or his ability to do the job day to day?
Absolutely not.
You called it cheap fakes.
Do you have any regret over using that language?
Not at all.
Why can't he just come down here, the brief rooms, 30 seconds away?
Does President Biden, at 81 years old, have Alzheimer's, any form of dementia or degenerative illness that cause these sorts of lapses?
And it's a yes or no question.
And if you don't know, why don't you, as one of his senior staff members, know?
I have an answer for you.
Are you ready for it?
Yes, it's a no.
And I hope you're asking the other guy the same exact question.
Wow, that's quite a deflection there.
It's a cold, Carol, a cold that can affect your ability to speak and think clearly.
Wow, that's one hell of a cold.
Yeah, you know, as I said the night of the debate, it's not a cold.
It's an old.
That's what he has.
I think he should just leave the C off there.
He has an old.
We all know it.
And another thing that I saw floating around social media, which is such an excellent point, is if he really was ill, which we all know is not the case, or he may have been, but that was not what caused the performance.
They trotted him out to a packed waffle house that night where he's glad handling everyone.
So is he super contagious and spreading those germs and infecting everyone?
That doesn't seem like a really great idea if you're really having such a bad illness episode that you can't perform.
But the reality that the challenge that Biden has is that we have decades and decades and decades.
I mean, he's been in politics forever.
We know what he sounded like.
We have seen the decline.
This isn't a person who doesn't have a track record and came out of nowhere.
And frankly, it's elder abuse, in my opinion, at this case, at this time.
But at the end of the day, my personal feeling is unless they're going to remove him from the presidency now, because it seems pretty clear to all of us that he shouldn't be running the country, unless they're going to invoke the 25th, remove him now, then let him stay in the race.
That's fine.
Just let him stay and let's just all accept it and we can see exactly what it is that the Democrats are putting up for president.
We are talking to Carol Roth.
She is the author of You Will Own Nothing, Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back.
Let's play, Ethan, if you could, that gravying clip that has Scarborough at the front, because I got to hear Carol's reaction to this.
Because this was just four weeks ago, Scarborough going on the air and basically playing tough guy in defending Joe Biden's mental acuity or lack thereof.
Whatever.
Go.
Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth.
And F you, if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden is the best Biden ever.
In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.
President Biden has a photographic memory.
His understanding and mastery of a complicated geopolitical situation is remarkable.
He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.
I mean, Carol, pleasures.
I mean, the guy's basically a genius, but look at it.
It comes in his family.
You know, the genetics in that family.
Think about his son, Hunter Biden.
He is a well-renowned artist and somebody who's highly sought after for boards all over the country because he really has impeccable judgment and character.
So it would only go to, we only think that that would come from a man who is a genius with a photographic memory and is just at his absolute best.
And this is, again, it goes back to the gaslighting, is that we all know the reality.
And I understand.
I mean, I understand that there are certain gripes that people have with Trump.
But then to come out and try to say that Biden is sharp and he's ethical and he's, you know, such a great leader and he tells the truth.
And yeah, I mean, it's just like, come on.
If you want to say, hey, we have challenges with them both, but I like this certain policy of the Democrats.
I take that a lot more seriously than this out and out right line.
Carol Roth, always a pleasure having you on.
And where are you now?
You're California these days, right?
Are you enjoying the Gavin Newsome State and the taxes, more importantly, 10 seconds?
It just depends on the day, but you can find me online where I spend a lot of my time.
And that doesn't have a lot of taxes online.
At Carol J.S. Roth on the Twitter X or whatever they're calling these days, she's the queen of Twitchy.
Believe me, they're always quoting her.
Carol, thanks so much for joining us.
Enjoy your fourth.
Thanks, bud.
You too.
All right.
Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, 800-941-S-E-A-N.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, your calls.
Nay.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hale, and I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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You're our kind of people.
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And I'm Ted Cruz.
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From the summer of 1984 in the Karate Kid 1 soundtrack, and it has been a cruel summer for Democrats.
Again, line up the last five days.
Biden debate debacle.
New York Times editorial board tells him to get out of the race.
Presidential immunity case, Supreme Court rules on 6-3 in favor of Trump.
Bye-bye, Jack Smith until after the election.
And then obviously, Alvin Bragg deciding that the Trump sentencing isn't going to happen on July 11th.
Probably going to happen more towards the end of the month, if it happens at all, because this case very well could implode because of said presidential immunity case.
So nothing going right for the Democrats at this point.
And they got a convention next month in Chicago that is going to be utter chaos between all the protesters and everything in terms of Biden.
Will he be voted out on the convention floor?
Is he going to announce that he's not going to run?
What are the delegates going to do that are committed to him?
What an utter mess.
Joe Conch, Emperor, Sean Hannity, your calls coming up next.
This is very interesting, and it's not surprising.
So I've been saying, well, it's been five days since that debacle in Atlanta.
And Joe Biden, any other president, they would have trotted out to do a press conference to try to clean things up, to show that, okay, he is with it.
Maybe it was a cold, which is the most ridiculous excuse I've ever heard.
And the next days in North Carolina, he's perfectly fine.
So yeah, that cold kind of came and left in a hurry, didn't it?
But the point is that he should be doing a solo press conference is taking questions on an extended basis to show that he could still do this job.
And press conferences are like debates.
There's no teleprompter.
You just listen to the question and answer the question on your own volition while speaking extemporaneously.
And they're not going to do that with Biden.
So instead, they've turned to George Stephanopoulos.
Of course, Stephanopoulos, former Bill Clinton attack dog, former communications director in the Clinton White House, suddenly goes over to ABC News after that administration and immediately is deemed a journalist, a serious journalist, an objective journalist.
Give me a break.
You want to go from the White House and be an opinion person somewhere?
Fine.
That's fine.
It happens all the time.
But then we see it time and again, whether it's Stephanopoulos or it's Jen Saki, we're journalists now, and you can believe that we're not favoring any side.
Uh-huh.
So Biden's going to sit down with Stephanopoulos.
You say, okay, well, that's a live interview.
Maybe a whole show is something here.
Maybe it was an anomaly, even though we've seen this behavior from Biden over the last three and a half years.
But fine.
I'm going to play the cockeyed optimist here just for sarcastic purposes completely.
Here's the thing.
Biden is sitting down with Stephanopoulos and doing the interview on Friday.
And it's not going to air until Sunday.
Why would ABC News do that?
Oh, of course.
Because Biden's handlers undoubtedly said, yeah, we'll give you the president, but it can't be live.
You have to do this on tape.
And then this way, if Biden has any senior moments, plenty of time to edit it.
So here's my challenge to ABC News.
Go ahead, do your interview, and show your edited package on Sunday morning on this week.
But then put the entire interview online, ABCNews.com, nothing edited, completely and totally verbatim.
Let's see it.
If you have any guts, and you don't, because you're trying to rehabilitate this guy, and that's why you're giving him the benefit of an edited interview by George Stephanopoulos, who has been warning about Trump and dangers of democracy this entire year, basically saying that he must be stopped.
The chief anchor of ABC News, right?
So that's where we're at now at this point.
Anyway, let's go to our busy phones.
They're always busy on this show, I've noticed.
I'm going to go with Chris in Indiana, who's been waiting so patiently.
And he wants to know, I have a feeling who I like for VP, but that's why they have call screens.
Go ahead.
Well, that's exactly right, Joe.
But I would like to offer my selection as Trump's VP.
What are your thoughts on Tulsi Gabbard?
And also, I'd like to know not only who you would like, but who you think Trump himself will pick.
That's the thing.
There's people that I like.
I don't think there's too many bad choices, quite frankly.
These are all solid, solid candidates.
Let's see.
How do I answer this?
Tulsi.
Tulsi fills a screen.
And I study media.
She's on the air.
Or even when you watch her on social media, boy, she's got a presence and she's got a confidence.
And the fact that she ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, she was basically the number three ranking Democrat for that party.
And then she saw what happened to the Democratic Party.
It went way left.
It completely treated her so poorly during that 2020 election.
CNN, of course, in on it where everybody got a town hall except for Tulsi.
Boy, that would be a masterstroke by Trump if he picked Tulsi Gabbard.
But I just don't know if they align too well on certain issues.
I know they do from a military perspective and foreign policy.
So I like that.
And she's obviously against all the woke stuff.
So culturally, she's there.
And boy, she probably could bring us some independence.
That's certainly for sure.
But I'm secretly rooting for Tulsi only because then I get Tulsi Gabbard versus Kamala Harris Part 2.
And we remember when the first debate between those two happened in 2020, Tulsi Gabbard basically ended Kamala Harris's candidacy.
So that would be an interesting pick, but I don't think it's going to happen.
Who do I want?
Honestly, I'm really liking Marco Rubio lately because Chris, I'm telling you, I interviewed him maybe two weeks ago, and the little Marco, kind of unsteady, not too confident Marco of 2016, at least of that presidential campaign, this guy brings heat.
He brings fire.
He speaks fluent Spanish, which helps as far as Hispanic voters and key swing states.
And I could see him being president one day.
So I love Marco.
I think Bergham's the safest choice, and therefore probably that's who Trump is going to go with.
But I love Glenn Young.
If you want to say in the end, like, who would I rank number one?
It's Glenn Young, governor, Virginia, 60% approval rating in a blue state.
And he won a race that nobody gave him any shot at.
And he's not a career politician, which I like.
He comes from the business world just like Trump.
So he's not tainted with all the Washington stuff.
And I can absolutely see Yunkin being president.
So that's my long answer to your short question.
Would the Marco conflict with being in Florida an issue?
Nah, all right.
So I don't think he has to move before the election.
I think he has to move before they certify the vote.
So, all right, they win.
And Marco says, all right, I'm going to move to like two miles into Georgia now.
Right?
Or he's going to live at the White House anyway.
So moving is not a big deal.
I don't see that being an obstacle.
Gotcha.
Chris.
I can mention Munch, but that's a good choice.
No.
And, you know, like Trump did say whoever my VP pick will be will be at the debate.
And I don't think Yunkin was there.
So that's probably not going to happen.
So I keep going back to Marco.
People talk about Ben Carson, but I don't know.
I just don't think he brings the kind of fire that I'd want from my VP.
He's a smart guy.
My wife's a doctor.
I respect the hell out of him, but I can't see Carson.
I think Tim Scott has lost a lot of steam.
I just don't think he does very well in interviews, Scott.
He's a nice man.
He brings optimism.
Obviously, there's the whole black vote factor, but I just see Marco being the strongest of all of the ones who have a shot of being chosen.
Did you say you liked Chris?
Do you like Tulsi, or is that who you think is going to be chosen?
Oh, I'm a huge Tulsi fan.
I actually liked her even when she ran for president as a Democrat.
I liked a lot of what she had to say.
And I think she checks a lot of boxes, and I think she's articulate.
She's smart.
Got that, like you said, the military background.
I just think she fills a lot of voids.
Absolutely.
I think we lost Chris.
So thanks, Chris.
Very informed call and always fun talking to you out in Hoosierland.
Let's go to Gary in South Carolina.
Gary, how are things with the game?
Cox, are you a game cock?
Actually, my daughter went to Clemson.
Ah, Tiger.
Can I tell you before you get into the serious stuff?
So in my neighborhood, a big thing here in Jersey is to hang up a flag of where your kids go into school.
I've never seen more Clemson flags in my life.
It's like every other house, and we're nowhere near South Carolina.
I don't know.
It's that orange and purple.
I guess it's just attracting people.
Sports, obviously, they won some national championships.
I don't know what's happening, but everybody's going to either Clemson, Alabama, or South Carolina.
They don't want to go to Northeast Liberal schools.
They want to go south, and God bless them.
That's where my kids are going.
Anyway, floor is yours, guys.
Thank you.
Yeah, go ahead.
I had a question.
Yeah.
Back in 2020, Nancy Pelosi and Representative Raskin wanted, they introduced legislation to form a commission on presidential capacity that would help with a smooth transition if a president was found unfit under the 25th Amendment.
When asked if that was meant for Trump, she said, no, this would be for future presidents.
The voters will take care of Trump.
My question is, I think they knew back then that Biden had cognitive problems.
They just didn't know how fast he would go downhill.
What do you think?
I think 2020, when you run a campaign from a basement, I mean, I said it before, Joe Biden is easily the luckiest person on the planet in terms of how he's failed upwards somehow into the Oval Office.
And the fact that a once in 100 years pandemic hits, and that enables them to leave him in a basement to do interviews only with friendly outlets, maybe a handful of campaign events, and just basically make the entire race all about Donald Trump where he was basically ignored, right?
There was no vetting.
Yeah, I think if you met with Biden privately outside of a teleprompter, you probably saw that he was starting to go.
I mean, in 2019, in some of those debates where he's talking about play the record player for your kids before they go to vet.
The record player, he's like stuck in like a 30-year time warp.
So, yeah, I think probably that's the case.
But I mean, that would be messy, wouldn't it?
I mean, basically, you'd have a situation where Biden doesn't want to leave, and then his own party evokes the 25th Amendment, which would take a lot of time, by the way.
So, by the time you went through all those hearings, what are we talking?
September, October?
And then you've got to install another candidate that people barely know about at the national level, unless it's like a Hillary Clinton.
It probably was for him, but I think that based on what we've seen over the last, like, say, two or three months, that's when he went from being, he's, I think he's gone to, boy, it's happening precipitously now.
And these things don't reverse themselves.
I mean, Joe Biden isn't a fine wine who's just going to suddenly get better with age.
He's the guy who's cottage cheese, right?
Which never ages well.
So it only gets worse as we get to the finish line.
So the question is, I guess, who do they replace him with if he agrees to leave?
And right now, look, Air Force One, Oval Office, do you want to really be known as the guy who stepped aside and be like known as another LBJ, a quitter?
I don't think Trump, I don't think Biden's narcissism and ego will allow for this.
But let's say he does agree to it.
Who do you like as far as Democrats installing a candidate Soviet style?
Newsome, Whitmer, Clinton, Michelle?
Well, I really don't know.
And I really don't know if they could do it that quick under the Constitution.
Right.
Well, the state ballots, for example.
That would be the problem.
How do they get someone on the ticket?
I mean, the primaries have already happened.
Right.
And then you're giving a big middle finger, way high to all those primary voters.
Like, okay, yeah, we went through that process.
Our power brokers at the convention are going to decide who your candidate is now.
Oh, by the way, save democracy from Trump.
We're the party to do it.
Hey, here's your installed candidate.
The irony is so rich.
It's just delicious.
Anyway, Gary, go Hoosiers.
No, not Hoosiers.
What are we talking about?
That was the last call.
South Carolina, go Tigers.
And what can I say?
Really appreciate the call.
Thank you.
There goes Gary.
All right.
Let's see.
I'm being reprimanded by Dan in Louisiana.
I was in New Orleans for the first time, Dan, and I got to say, that city is falling apart.
I did not feel safe.
And I was staying like near the French quarter.
And it just, there's an element throughout that city where you got to keep turning your back.
I mean, are you from New Orleans or another part of Louisiana?
Another part.
Okay, another part.
Good for you.
Okay.
I wasn't impressed.
I'll put it that way.
But it's a dangerous place.
Down in Lafayette is sort of a nicer place, but we don't want to spread the word on that.
So we'll get that guy.
You know, you mentioned that Biden's going to be meeting with George Stephanopoulos.
And I always go back to Stephanopoulos that made a comment one time that said, never let a good crisis go to waste.
Was that him?
And was that the Rob Emmanuel?
That was Rob Emmanuel.
I thought it was George.
It was Rob Emmanuel.
Yeah, dumb.
Okay, well, never mind then.
But anyway, I will say this.
Let's not let a good crisis go to waste as far as our representatives in Washington because I did hear Chip Roy on a show directly after Sean Hannity's last Friday night on a recorded conversation that said he wants to invoke the 25th.
No.
And I'm literally going no.
I agree.
Republicans, they need to pull back, gator on this as fast as they can, and let the Democrats implode because I do feel like Biden's family's digging in.
The people around him are going to dig in and let them just absolutely have the meltdown and stand back and just watch it gracefully.
Precisely.
That's why Trump, people have noticed, you really haven't heard much from him, right, since that debate.
He could very easily spike the football and tell everybody what we already know as far as Biden being so far gone.
But I haven't relatively anyway, heard very much from Trump at all.
And that's smart because this, as you said, you were used the right word, Dan, imploding.
Let them implode.
And nobody likes this whole evoking the 25th Amendment or impeachment.
Remember the first time Trump was impeached and then his numbers went up because people saw it as BS.
They see the trial in New York.
They see it as BS.
Trump's numbers go up.
You start playing around with the 25th Amendment and try to remove Biden.
Hey, why would you want to do that given how weak he is at this point?
You want him on that ticket.
You need him on that ticket, to quote Colonel Jessup, kind of from a few good men.
So yeah, I'm with you.
If you're the Trump team, sit back, enjoy the ride.
And for once, just keep it, keep it low and just get to your convention, which happens in two weeks, give one hell of a speech, and then watch the Democrats just at each other's throats in Chicago less than two months to the election.
And then from there, I don't see how they lose.
I mean, I mentioned the polls before.
I mean, Trump is ahead in places like New Jersey, Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire.
I saw he's within two points in Colorado and New Mexico.
I mean, this map is completely, again, imploding for the Democrats.
So let them implode.
Anyway, Dan, thanks for the call.
Really appreciate it.
Always a pleasure.
And we will wrap this puppy up on the Sean Hannity show.
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Anyway, wow, we're out of time.
Almost already.
I want to thank former Arizona Attorney General Mark Bernovich, Caroline Levitt, national spokesperson for President Trump, and of course the great Carol Roth for joining us during the show.
Plus, thanks to Ethan producer Linda, everybody behind the glass.
We had a fun show.
And remember, and I hate kind of promoting myself, but you kind of have to do these during book tours.
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This is the book for you.
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