Sean Hannity Show - Democrats Are On The Attack - July 12th, Hour 1

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Democrats Are On The Attack - July 12th, Hour 1

Senator Schumer and former Speaker Pelosi have both offered weak support for President Biden and it appears more Democrats are turning on President Biden every day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	First State, Pennsylvania rolling out from there.
	And you've got a Democratic Party in complete disarray.
	Now, let me go back to this big pressure.
	There have been two big moments for Joe Biden.
	What the mob, the media, you know, those involved in the cover-up have been saying are these are make or break moments for Joey.
	Joey, Joey had to give a speech before the leaders of NATO.
	It ended up being a 15-minute speech, and Joe did just fine.
	He actually was able to maintain a pretty decent level of energy.
	Not too many screw-ups, a couple, but nothing too bad, and not that big a deal.
	But then, of course, they thought they had him.
	They thought Joe Biden's given a big boy press conference, and they just were salivating.
	This is it.
	This is the end.
	It's going to be obvious.
	He can't do it.
	He won't get through it.
	And at the end of the day, what we really witnessed last night, and this is why everybody seems to be on pins and needles every time Joe comes out.
	It's now become must-see TV because you don't know what you're going to get, which Biden is going to show up.
	And you basically got pretty much every Biden except the mumbling, bumbling, stumbling, you know, tongue-tied Biden, which is fairly usual.
	You didn't get the Joe that we always play, the RNC ad Joe.
	And if it was this Joe that showed up, just to remind you, it's a short ad they put together.
	If this Joe showed up, it would have been over.
	And I keep saying, you know, all of this can change in a moment with a major fall or a major cognitive mess up.
	You know, God only knows what's going to happen at that point, but he's got 115 days.
	If he can survive, it looks like he's very defined and he's going to be the nominee.
	But this Biden didn't show up last night.
	The political coverage.
	Looks some of the political players and some of the.
	Let me ask a rhetorical question.
	No, I won't.
	Anyways.
	I mean, that Biden could have shown up last night, and I think it would have been universal.
	He's...
	He's out.
	I don't even think family members would have been able to convince him to stay in at that point.
	But what we did witness last night, and I said this because I came on pretty much a half hour right after the press conference ended.
	And again, it's must-see TV.
	Everybody's on pins and needles, which Joe's going to show up.
	It was strange.
	It was strange.
	But yet, on the other hand, it was typical.
	It's everything we have been showing you for the last four plus years prior to the 2020 election.
	And that is a president that is clearly in cognitive decline.
	That wasn't a surprise.
	And, you know, Joe, high energy when he starts, very high, reading from the teleprompter.
	I said, okay, doing a good job starting out, Joey.
	Good job.
	And by the time he ended it, it was like, all right, he had no energy.
	I mean, he was fading and he was fading fast.
	And it only lasted 59 minutes.
	Now, I've sat with Donald Trump and he goes on.
	I mean, literally, I can't run three shows in a row after we're done talking because when I interview him, I just let him talk.
	I let him talk.
	He's the candidate.
	I think people should hear from the candidates.
	So it was, you know, Joe in every strange side of him that represents cognitive decline, high energy, no energy, low energy, you know, yelling at some points about bullets.
	And then, not going to happen.
	Not going to happen.
	Not.
	It's not.
	Just bizarre.
	And this is why, you know, this big lie cover-up, what Speaker Johnson is calling the biggest cover-up in American history, the Democratic Party, the state-run media mob, the Joe Biden cognitive state cover-up lie and conspiracy, because that's what it is.
	And we still have Operation Dump and Destroy Joe is in full force.
	And that's what they want to do.
	Now the floodgates are open.
	Now we know what's happening.
	And you have two factions that have emerged within Democratic ranks.
	I actually have a pile here.
	One says one of people that want Biden to stay in.
	And then you have another that says they want Biden to get out.
	You know, Ron Clain tweet with yesterday's press conference and this new poll, it's time to end the freakout and unite behind the Democratic nominee and the only person who's ever beaten Donald Trump.
	And he puts out some poll from February 24 to July of 24, NPR, showing that Biden is up 50 to 48%.
	No details of the poll at all.
	And there are two factions that are emerging here.
	But the one thing that I have been telling you, and I suspected when the Clooney article came out, because I know for a fact, Clooney and Barack Obama are buddies.
	And then Politico confirmed what I said the day before, that Obama has given the green light.
	He gave the green light to Clooney to write the New York Times piece, the green light to Pelosi to go on MSDNC.
	And, well, I'll support whatever Joe wants to do.
	Hardly a vote of confidence to reports that Chucky Schumer is out there saying that he's open to the idea of Biden not being the candidate.
	Now we have reports that Obama and Pelosi, fake news, CNN, reporting that they've had at least one private conversation about Joe getting out of the race.
	Now, will Joe make it past the convention?
	I don't know.
	James Clyburn, again today, a pretty strong voice of support for Joe Biden, and he's one of the most powerful voices in Washington in terms of a congressman.
	He's from South Carolina, and he single-handedly saved Joe Biden's campaign in 2020.
	And then he's got the support of a very influential, powerful group, the Congressional Black Caucus.
	He's got the support of the squad, and that means AOC.
	And they've all said we're standing behind him.
	But the fact is, it's the biggest cover-up, as Speaker Johnson said, in American history.
	And it's dangerous to our country, the fact that they all lied.
	They all knew a collusion and conspiracy of historic proportions.
	And now Biden, by the way, a report last, he's not conducted a single cabinet meeting all year.
	I think they said, I read somewhere else, it's been like nine months since he's had one.
	That's insane.
	Prior high-level meetings, all we're now learning scripted.
	A lot of these interviews, they hand the questions to the interviewer, you know, in advance.
	That's never happened to me in my career.
	Somebody says, yeah, ask the guy these questions.
	Wow.
	You know, the entire display is kind of an act.
	But I would argue that Joe really hasn't been in charge.
	I know many had speculated that it's Obama, but it's very clear Obama and Biden hate each other.
	And we know they've never liked each other.
	And we know that it's Obama that said, never underestimate Joe's ability to F things up.
	And, you know, then you go back to, all right, well, we had all these scripted, you know, public appearances.
	Joe, you know, walk to podium.
	Joe, greet guests.
	I mean, rudimentary things that they had to tell him.
	Now, there are some, there's a lot of sign that most of his closest advisors are sticking by him.
	His family is sticking by him.
	You have powerful, influential groups in Washington sticking by him.
	I mean, it's fascinating to watch, and this is why it's pins and needles of must-see TV.
	But what they really did here is an egregious affront and danger to the world and to our Democratic Republic.
	And the fact that they're so willing, this elite class versus, I would argue, parts of the Democratic coalition that are definitely more close to the people that represent the Democratic Party.
	It's sort of like you have the elitist, as Joe is referring to.
	I think he's talking about Obama and company.
	And whenever you hear Axel Rada, Plouf, or the bro cast, as they call it, you know, former Obama advisors doing this podcast, I think you're really hearing from Obama and Obama who came out immediately and said, well, anybody can have a bad debate night.
	I sure enough, I've had my own bad debate nights, blah, blah, blah.
	But now he's clearly given the okay for everybody to walk away from Biden.
	But who's walking away?
	Who are the people?
	What, Hollywood?
	Does anyone care that Mia Farrow, George Clooney, are walking away from Biden or Rob Reiner, Meathead?
	No, nobody cares.
	They think they're more powerful than they are.
	And then they are pressuring the money class.
	I have a story about that.
	Nervous Democrats put $90 million in Biden donations on hold in the pro-Biden super PAC Future Forward that pledges their worth roughly $90 million.
	That's on hold.
	They're telling big billionaire, millionaire donors, you know, hold off, don't donate any money at this time.
	And they're looking to pressure Joe and put as much pressure on Joe as they possibly can to get him out of the race.
	But, you know, think of all the things that they missed.
	And we pointed this out.
	He doesn't do press conferences.
	He doesn't use the big boy stairs anymore to get on Air Force One.
	He needs a crowd to surround him to walk to and from Marine One.
	You know, he goes out there.
	We have all the Biden lies, starting with poor Uncle Bosey being eaten by cannibals, his claim that he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, that he got started out of a historically black college and university, Delaware State.
	No one making less than $400,000 will pay more in taxes.
	Another lie.
	He convinced Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act at 21.
	He just makes this Adam shift.
	The Amtrak lie that we've talked about, the lie that he traveled 17,000 miles with President Chi, the lie when he accused border agents of whipping illegal immigrants, that he attended a black church, fought segregation.
	This is the guy that partnered with the former Klansman to stop the integration of public schools and busing that Kamala Harris viciously criticized in that first debate.
	You know, claims he was arrested in South Africa for trying to see Nelson Mandela arrested during a civil rights protest.
	You know, claims he drove an 18-wheeler, claims that, you know, he denied, I never once spoke to my son, my brother, or anybody about their foreign business deals, claiming that he was raised in a Puerto Rican community at home.
	You know, he almost spurred, my house almost burned down.
	It was a minor little house fire for crying out loud.
	That he visited the Tree of Life Synagogue, the site of this anti-Semitic murder that had taken place.
	His first job offer from an Idaho lumber company, Boise Cascade.
	I mean, I could just, he repeats all of it.
	And I can go on and on and on.
	Never mind him lying about inflation, lying about the border being closed and the border being secure.
	But, you know, I'll get into the list.
	I've got a whole list of people that want Biden to stay in.
	And I got a list of people that want Biden to go.
	But it comes down to the elitist, Hollywood, elitist, you know, rich Hollywood leftist liberals like Clooney and Bob Reiner Meathead.
	Mia Pharaoh's joined that group.
	They want him out.
	But then now the Obamas want him out, and they're orchestrating a little coup behind the scenes.
	And of course, dutifully, you got Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi being a part of it.
	And then you have these other forces.
	And then you've got Biden himself.
	At the end of the day, he's got the 3,900 delegates out of 4,000.
	And as he whispered, not going to happen.
	It's not going to happen.
	Watch me.
	It's not going to happen.
	Just, it's very strange times.
	Anyway, we'll get into all this.
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	So much to talk about today.
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	All right, Linda, do you have the full comprehensive list of people that are in and want Biden to stay in and those that want people to stay out?
	Because I have it.
	Ron Klain, former chief of staff, he wants them in.
	And some of these remarks are downright hilarious here.
	You have the DNC chairman, Jamie Harrison, insisting Joe Biden gave a strong performance despite, you know, calling Kamala Harris Vice President Trump, not to mention President Zielinski, President Putin.
	Listen, I think he was strong.
	He put on a master class in terms of complex international foreign policy tonight.
	And the stark contrast is so clear.
	You could give Donald Trump a blank map and say fill it in, and he would fail horribly.
	He wouldn't have any clue where most of these countries are.
	Really?
	I think you're dead wrong.
	Anyway, later in his remarks, he criticized Democrats that are calling for him to step aside.
	The fact that this is so split, I hate to say it, but Chris Matthews isn't wrong.
	He's writing in the Hill and quoted in the Hill as saying, I'm telling you, people are going to end up rooting for Biden in October because he's going to have a comeback and then the elite fashioned attack on him, you're going to pay for it.
	I don't believe the comeback part.
	I don't think he can come back.
	I don't think he's strong enough to come back.
	Anyway, we'll give you the full list of those that are gushing over yesterday and wanting Biden to stay in and those wanting him out.
	It's a fascinating contrast.
	We'll get to that when we come back.
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	I don't know.
	Yep, he's sound asleep in his bed with not a care in the world.
	Must be nice, Joe.
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	So you got the people that want him out and then the people that think that he should stay in.
	And I've been going through Ron Clain, the Democratic National Committee chair, want him in.
	You get warnings from people like Chris Matthews that, you know, this elite fashioned attack on him, they are going to pay for it.
	I don't know how to interpret that or what he means.
	You know, then you've got Paul Bagala, which kind of surprised me because in the Clinton years, the inner circle of Clinton that got Bill Clinton on message daily, usually with phone calls, according to reports, it was Bagala, Ram Rambo Deadfish.
	It was Georgie Stephanopoulos, and who's the other one?
	Oh, James Carville.
	And they'd get on the phone and they'd come up with the message of the day.
	All very smart people in their own way.
	I do have respect for them.
	And Bagala's out there.
	I saw substantive mastery.
	I mean, my goodness, it was a tour de force and a tour of the world.
	He talked a lot, of course, about NATO and Ukraine and about China and Israel and Gaza.
	He seemed to have substance really at his command.
	Stylistically, he still had the soft voice.
	He didn't have the kind of catastrophic failure that he had at the debate, but he didn't have the same sort of command that he had at his inaugural.
	Well, I'm trying to understand.
	But, you know, he saw mastery.
	You know, the DNC chair, you know, this is a master-class performance.
	And then you've got, you know, others that have been weighing in on his side, you know, his spokesperson, all but basically saying, popping champagne corks, saying he's just that effing good.
	It wasn't that good.
	Old Bakogit, Stephen Colbert, and John Dickerson, you know, their half-hearted, you know, support for all things Obama, all things Biden against the Obama team.
	And Lawrence O'Donnell just went over the top.
	The most masterful, why do they all use the masterful?
	Masterclass, masterful.
	They always use the same words because they're all synced together.
	That's the media mobile, though.
	You do have a divide here, which is what makes this so interesting.
	Call it a masterful televised foreign policy talk from a president as good as it gets.
	Really?
	I mean, they just hate Trump that much.
	That's what it is.
	There's a report out.
	One of Joe Biden's closest friends saying, no way he's dropping out, that he hates the party elite.
	He's going to tell everyone else to F off.
	Wow.
	The Biden campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dillon, chairman of his reelection campaign, acknowledged the hardships of the last couple of weeks, culminating with, if we can get through these two weeks, we can get through anything.
	Now, after he has this Lester Holt sit down, and I assume it's going to be exactly the same as with Georgie Stephanopoulos, who apparently got in big trouble with ABC by getting caught on tape saying he can't serve four more years, and he's supposed to be a journalist.
	He never has been.
	Never.
	And they've not said anything up to this point.
	They don't have a problem when he trashes Trump.
	They have a problem that he went after Biden.
	Apparently, that caused him big problems according to reports internally.
	And then, of course, you have James Kleiber.
	How is this candidate?
	How does this all remain viable?
	And if you have all these people calling on him to step down, well, Joe Biden's focused on the future of the country.
	And I always say the best predictor of future performance is past behavior.
	Let's continue to compare the past behavior of Joe Biden to the past behavior of Donald Trump and let that be a guide to our reactions going forward.
	And I think if we do that, we'll give the American people exactly what they need to make their choice.
	But, Congressman, you've got 17 Democrats.
	Now, after the NATO summit, they had already had their pre-written press releases, regardless of how he did.
	Democrats last night, especially in the elite class, donor class, the Obama class, they wanted him to fall on his face last night.
	That's what they were hoping for.
	That's what makes this so interesting.
	And what else makes it interesting and puts everybody on pins and needles is you don't know what Joe you're going to get.
	We kind of saw a lot of the sides of Joe, but that elite class certainly has put their foot down and they're getting to the donor class in big ways.
	I mentioned the $90 million in Biden donations on hold with the Biden Super PAC future forward.
	It had been pledging roughly $90 million.
	It's, according to the New York Times, now on hold that Biden remains a top of the ticket.
	Rosen contributions include multiple eight-figure commitments, according to the two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity, given the sensitivity of the situation.
	I don't know if you can trust anything the New York Times says, because the New York Times wants him gone.
	Now, on the out category, now this is interesting.
	I don't know how to interpret it.
	I'll let you interpret it.
	But Hillary Clinton declined to give her backing to Joe yesterday and joked about taking away grandpa's car keys at a private salon, according to New York sources.
	He faced a restless crowd of influential Democrats who want Biden to leave the race.
	And she made a joke saying, Has anyone ever been in the situation where you have to take away the keys from older parents?
	But the same source then added that the ex-senator from New York, an ex-2016 Democratic presidential nominee, advised that you can't force him out.
	The only people who could persuade Biden to exit are the people closest to him.
	And then she said it was going to be very hard to convince the 81-year-old chief executive to step aside.
	I think she's probably right in that regard.
	What was his name?
	Michael Moore even fell on the sword in a way, you know, by stating that he called Biden the GAF meister and then called on Democrats to vote for him, regardless of all this, to stop Trump.
	That's going to be their argument at the end of the day.
	So Hillary Clinton is basically saying you can't get him out unless he wants to get out.
	Hakeem Jeffries, according to a report, announced earlier today that he requested and was granted a private meeting with the president in which he expressed the candid conversations happening within the Democratic caucus.
	In the letter to colleagues, Jeffries said Democrats have engaged in a thoughtful, extensive discussion about the future of our country in recent weeks.
	And our discourse has been candid, clear-eyed, comprehensive.
	He didn't get into the specifics of his conversation with Biden, but he said he expressed the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives.
	And on behalf of the House Democratic Caucus, I requested and was graciously granted a private meeting with Joe Biden.
	That meeting occurred yesterday evening.
	In my conversation with the president, I directly expressed the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspective, conclusions.
	He added, as House Democrats have done throughout this Congress, we will continue to work in the best interest of everyday Americans, blah, blah, blah.
	And, you know, he went on to insist that he's staying in the race.
	Biden did, and he believes he has the best chance to beat Donald Trump.
	Now, it doesn't matter, I guess, that there's a poll out there.
	The two-thirds of Americans now say Biden should drop out of the race.
	A majority of Democrats, 56%, said he should withdraw.
	70% of Republicans.
	This was in the ABC News Washington Post poll, which had it a one-point race, which doesn't really help those that want to dump him.
	Now, I mentioned earlier that the person orchestrating the coup, it is clear now, has been Barack Obama.
	I mean, it says a lot about Barack Obama, doesn't it?
	That he gives the wink and nod to Clooney, probably even encouraged him to do it, and that he gives the wink and the nod to Chucky.
	And according to reports on CNN, Nancy Pelosi and he have had conversations about Joe Biden in the future.
	Many are saying, you know, everybody's been told they can go their own way here, and they've been saying it's okay to bail on Joe.
	There's one report that campaign officials, according to NBC News, of his own officials, you know, by the way, just to be fair, a variety of Biden's closest allies, including campaign officials, think he's toast, and they're disputing an NBC News report that the Biden campaign said is patently false.
	So keep that in mind, that he's never going to recover from this, according to one Biden campaign official.
	Well, one person is one person.
	That's not the campaign.
	When people get involved in campaigns, they usually get very, very invested.
	Daily Mail has a piece how Jill Biden still carries a grudge over Kamala Harris's claim that Joe was racist.
	And they quote her as saying when Kamala took the stage during the Democratic primary debate in 2020 and implied that Joe was a racist, Jill apparently was saying, go F yourself.
	And then the future first lady vented, as she allegedly admitted during a press conference with supporters.
	So that was when she said, I was that girl, you know, that was one of the first people when he partnered with the former Klansman to stop the integration of public schools.
	But, you know, this talking point of Axelrod, conspiracy theorist Rachel Maddow and company, that, well, he's not being very well informed.
	No one is being candid with him about his odds.
	Well, there's an ABC Washington Post poll yesterday.
	I think it's total BS because that poll yesterday added a one-point race.
	What are they talking about?
	If anything, Biden is right on that, not them.
	I mean, it just, you go through all of this yesterday, and, you know, people first got stunned when he mixed up Zelensky and Vladimir Putin.
	President Trump, truth social doubt.
	Crooked Joe begins his big boy press conference with a, I would have picked Vice President Trump to be the vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.
	Great job, Joe, Donald Trump writes.
	Asked for thoughts on Trump using the gaffe.
	Biden gave a confusing two-word response.
	Watch him.
	What does that mean?
	Don't.
	Another one of those answers.
	And another concerning moment, Biden couldn't remember the correct title of the military's chief of the joint staff in the speech in the presser last night.
	And that was pretty interesting.
	It went on for 59 whopping minutes.
	That's the big boy press conference that he's not had in forever.
	Only 10 reporters ultimately selected, all of them in advance.
	Plus one shouted a question at the end and was closely watched by Democrats weighing whether to join calls for him to step aside instead of easing their concerns.
	It looks like, you know, he struggled to say the word at one point, neurologist.
	And he at another time forgot some of the questions that were being asked.
	And at one point, he kind of incorrectly indicated that China had less than a billion people and also confused China with Russia during an answer.
	Most people probably didn't pick up on all of this.
	And, you know, I'm catching hell from my wife because the staff, you know, they add things to my schedule.
	Well, what if the schedule becomes so intense that you got to be up at 3 a.m. and that you got to stay up for 24, 36, 48 hours because we have a national security emergency.
	He denied reports that he told Democratic governors that he's going to stop doing events after 8 p.m., that he needs to get more sleep.
	He denied that.
	What else do we have here?
	He plans to remain in the race.
	The campaign hasn't really started yet, he's claiming.
	He said, hopefully at one point, I'm determined on running, but I think it's important that I get rid of the fears by letting people see me out there.
	There's so much we can still do, and I'm determined to get it done.
	That's what he said.
	And he said delegates are free to do whatever they want and vote their conscience.
	But he said, it's not going to happen.
	It's not going to happen.
	It's not.
	Not going to happen.
	Linda, you're liking this more and more, I can tell.
	Honestly, the whole whisper thing, it just freaks me out so bad.
	I mean, he's such a sniffing, creeping weirdo, and then you add now the stupid whispering.
	And I just, I'm like, come on, man.
	You got to love the Italian prime minister, Georgia Maloney, appearing annoyed because she and other world leaders had to wait on Biden.
	And she actually looks at a watch on her hand that doesn't exist.
	And she's rolling her eyes so obviously, contemptuously pissed off.
	It was thinking, but.
	Did you see what happened between Maloney and Biden?
	They had like this awkward exchange where he was kissing her goodbye, and then she's trying to pull away, and he hangs on just a little too long.
	And you see her, she's like, yeah, I'm not one of your little like, you know, fawning girls.
	I actually think you're a total moron.
	So if you could keep him moving, that'd be great.
	I mean, it was really awkward.
	I really love Italy's new prime minister.
	The video, which was not a cheap fake, of her go, okay, Joe, come back to the rest of us.
	When he was in Europe was pretty bad.
	Anyway, so about nine times he trailed off during this anyway.
	Anyway, that's his way of saying, I just forgot what the hell I was going to say, which could happen to people, but not like this.
	This is real.
	And anyway, so the elite fashion attack against him, let's see how this plays out.
	I don't think we know.
	And critics say it's the worst possible outcome, this presser, because he did well enough that he's not going anywhere.
	And he was pretty clear about that.
	There was one analysis.
	If he gets past the 22-minute interview with Lester Holt, I know Lester Holt.
	I've been interviewed by Lester Holt a number of times.
	I actually like the guy.
	Nice guy in real life.
	No kidding.
	I'm serious about that.
	I'm very serious.
	No kidding.
	No joke.
	I'm really trying hard.
	I'm working on this hard.
	And the best way to sound like Joe Biden is to constantly interrupt yourself, never finish the sentence, and say, look, that's how you sound like Joe Biden.
	Look, here's the deal.
	Here's the deal.
	Anyway.
	Anyway.
	You say, it's literally nothing.
	Like, you have someone who says, unburden, unburden, and community and community, and another person who says, look, here's the deal.
	And anyway.
	You pretty much, you've got this.
	You may have this before me.
	And I'm the only one on this program that can be the godfather.
	And Doc, if anything should befall myself.
	I definitely can't do that.
	That's all you.
	Sean Hannity would be nothing without me.
	That's pretty good, too, right?
	That is.
	I can't do that one either.
	I'll say it.
	Nobody else will say it.
	Definitely not doing that.
	What else?
	Who else do I?
	I want to say hi to all the hot chicks in Hannityland out there.
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