Sean covers the Crowdstrike IT error that brought entire industries to a standstill earlier today! As bad as it was for many of America's largest companies, it was also a reminder of just how much we have become dependent on technology as part of our day-to-day life!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| 108 days until Election Day, 59 days until early voting begins. | |
| And that, of course, the first state is the Commonwealth, the great state of Pennsylvania, Linda's home state. | |
| Yeah, we're all kind of tired today. | |
| It's been an amazing week. | |
| You know, one of the main criticisms of Donald Trump's speech by the mob, the media, the people that have been involved in the biggest cover-up in American history of Joe's cognitive decline, the people that lied about Russia, Russia, Russia, | |
| the people that had no problem about a phony valuation of Mar-a-Lago at $18 million, the people that had no problem about a legal NDA that was negotiated by a lawyer that was labeled a legal expense. | |
| The people that had no problem with the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dirty Russian dossier that was then used as the basis for four FISA warrants, even though that dossier was debunked completely. | |
| And that allowed the FBI to spy on Donald Trump, the candidate, later on president. | |
| No problem at all with any of that. | |
| The media mob, Democrats, their silence has been deafening. | |
| Frankly, their silence on the assassination attempt and the failures of the Secret Service also has been deafening. | |
| We now know the FBI director Chris Ray is now stonewalling House investigators that want to grill him about the nearly successful assassination attempt on the man that could very well is most likely to become the next president of our country. | |
| Well, why is that considering the last four appearances that Ray made before Congress? | |
| He talked about this heightened threat that we'd not seen since before 9-11. | |
| And I forget which guest this week said, you know, we now have a pre-I think it was Dana Perino said to me, we now have a pre-9-11 mindset. | |
| It's September 10th again in people's minds because we know with Joe Biden's wide open borders and illegal immigrants, nearly 11 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants from 180 countries and countries with terror ties and our top geopolitical foes, that it is the greatest national security threat we've ever faced in our lifetime. | |
| So why would Christopher Wray be declining the House Homeland Security Committee and their request to testify next week on Capitol Hill about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the failure, and it is a failure of an incalculable magnitude as it relates to the security failures leading up to what happened last Saturday? | |
| It hasn't even been a week. | |
| It's like the great investigation into the cocaine in the White House. | |
| Well, we spent 10 days investigating cocaine in the White House, and what we've concluded is that we're never going to be able to find out who the person is. | |
| There are cameras all over the White House. | |
| What do you mean you're not going to find out? | |
| It's ridiculous. | |
| It's insane. | |
| Ray not testifying is insane. | |
| You know, the idea that the Secret Service director, oh, yeah, I bear full responsibility. | |
| The bug stops with me, but I'm not resigning. | |
| Well, we didn't put people on the roof because the roof was sloped. | |
| I mean, a pitch of next to zero. | |
| And if that's the case, so we put agents inside the building. | |
| Well, why didn't you put agents around the perimeter of the building so nobody could get near the building? | |
| And why didn't you put sniper eyes on top of the roof of the building if you really thought that the pitch was that dangerous? | |
| Because we know we have videotapes of agents on roofs with far steeper pitches. | |
| It's insane. | |
| It's so wrong on every level. | |
| Operation Dump and Destroy Joe is in full effect. | |
| I'll get to that in a second here. | |
| We do have two major polls that have been taken since last Saturday and the assassination attempt on Biden on top of the Insider Advantage poll that I mentioned to you yesterday. | |
| A survey released by CBS found that among likely voters, 52% said their choice for president is Donald Trump. | |
| 47% said Joe Biden. | |
| I don't know what these 47% are thinking. | |
| Anyway, Trump's numbers increased up from 50% in a July 3rd survey while Biden dropped by 1%. | |
| And Biden fared better in battleground states, but still trailed Trump. | |
| 51% of likely voters in Battleground States. | |
| And they say they choose Trump over Biden, 51.48. | |
| And hence, it goes back to my point, which is don't take this election in any way for granted. | |
| I told you about Insider Advantage yesterday. | |
| They had three battleground polls that came out, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona. | |
| And while there was no post-assassination attempt, quote, bump, if you will, that's their headline. | |
| Matt Towery, but large enthusiasm gap. | |
| And Harris is trailing Trump by a larger margin than Joe Biden is, which is my big takeaway about this, but it did show a pretty big lead for Donald Trump in Nevada, 49.42. | |
| Pennsylvania, it was a four-point race, $49.45. | |
| Arizona was $49.44. | |
| And what I found about this, and he pointed out in this analysis, each of the battleground states followed a similar pattern, is that Donald Trump had a solid lead based on recent polling by other firms. | |
| No bump yet to be seen after the assassination attempt. | |
| It may be too early for people to fully have absorbed that. | |
| That would be common in polling. | |
| There usually is a lag of some kind. | |
| The GOP in each state, you know, Pennsylvania Republicans, et cetera, et cetera, all of that remain the same. | |
| But what's interesting is in these ballot tests is Kamala Harris performs below Biden. | |
| And, you know, and they point out, well, maybe that's part of it because she's not the nominee at the time. | |
| But that said, within the smaller demographic subsets, the declines for Harris versus that of Biden for the most part was generally small. | |
| So meaning that things likely wouldn't change that much. | |
| And that's how I interpret this. | |
| But anyway, so the CBS poll is what it is. | |
| Insider Advantage, if you look at the last two presidential races, Insider Advantage, Matt Towery and Robert Cahaly Trafalgar, they were the two most accurate pollsters in the last two presidential cycles, according to Real Clear Politics. | |
| But Trump's numbers increased up from 50% in the July 3rd survey in the CBS case. | |
| And most respondents said the way that Trump handled the assassination attempt had no change on their vote, but 26% said they're more likely to consider voting for Trump after the shooting. | |
| You know, if the worst thing they can say about Donald Trump's speech last night is, well, he shouldn't have spoken so long. | |
| Well, at least he's capable of speaking so long. | |
| How many times have I made the statement? | |
| I interviewed Trump. | |
| It's like I can get because we just talk and we just keep going. | |
| And I'm not sitting there looking at, I don't have a watch, but I have a Fitbit, you know, just to keep track of my heart rate and health issues and steps that I take. | |
| But, you know, I don't like wearing a watch. | |
| I don't want to wear anything that looks flashy or pretentious. | |
| I don't know why that is. | |
| Now, I buy expensive watches for people as gifts if they really want them. | |
| But for myself, I really just don't want one. | |
| Linda, true or false, you ever see me with a watch in my life? | |
| No. | |
| If you had a watch, you'd stop you. | |
| You would do all your reads on time. | |
| So I can definitely vouch that you don't wear one. | |
| Boy, you really brought that piss and vinegar straight home from me. | |
| I'm here. | |
| I'm ready. | |
| Through the grace of God. | |
| No, you're welcome. | |
| What did we talk about this week? | |
| The more I piss you off, the better of the show you do. | |
| So I'm here to irritate you. | |
| Why are you here to irritate me? | |
| That's not a good thing to do to people in life. | |
| You do a better job. | |
| How is you going back to backsliding? | |
| Help me help you, Sean. | |
| Help me help you. | |
| I love that line. | |
| Anyway, we have two key witnesses. | |
| This is interesting. | |
| And this was in the New York Post of the Biden family corruption scandal. | |
| And the syndicate forged a friendship that brought them together at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. | |
| You had Tony Bobolinski and Devin Archer. | |
| I didn't know this at the time. | |
| They were in separate business partnerships with Hunter Biden. | |
| They'd never met until they started helping various investigations into the Biden's influence peddling schemes. | |
| Well, they now are firm friends. | |
| The pair were spotted having dinner with Marjorie Taylor Greene at Milwaukee's some hotel in Milwaukee. | |
| And after Saturday's assassination attempt, they have teamed up to support his campaign any way they can. | |
| This is going to get interesting over time. | |
| But of course, with a weaponized Department of Justice, you know, don't expect to get to the bottom of any of this. | |
| Later in the program today, Peter Navarro, Peter Navarro spent four months in prison for contempt of Congress. | |
| And meanwhile, that was over the J6 committee. | |
| He could have walked in, pled the fifth, and walked right out. | |
| No legal issues. | |
| But he felt that the issue of executive privilege from a constitutional vantage point was so important, he wasn't willing to give it up. | |
| Now, he finished his four months. | |
| Bannon just started his four months. | |
| And people like Lois Lerner and Eric Holder and Merrick Garland similarly held in contempt. | |
| Nothing ever happens to them. | |
| Sound like a two-tier justice system to you. | |
| Van Jones argued that the energy at this week's Republican National Convention was comparable to what we saw when the nation's first black president, Barack Obama, was nominated in 08. | |
| He works at Fake News CNN. | |
| He talked about the palpable spirit and enthusiasm that he could feel among the people at the RNC. | |
| I mean, it was a very different Donald Trump, in my view, and the person that I interview that we saw at this convention. | |
| But I will be honest, I have seen a very different Donald Trump when I last interviewed him. | |
| I even said it to him. | |
| I don't know if I said it on air or off air, but I said, you're very different than you were in 16 and 20. | |
| He's very dialed in. | |
| One key Biden ally is Operation Dump and Destroy. | |
| Biden is in full force. | |
| We keep hearing Mark Halford reporting that he will get out of the race as soon as Sunday. | |
| On the other hand, we're hearing a Biden spokesman shooting down this as a baseless story. | |
| So I don't know what the truth is, but when Chris Coons of Delaware, one of his closest friends, is saying that Biden is weighing who is the best candidate to win in November. | |
| You know, something is going on here. | |
| Whether or not Biden eventually does this or not, I have no idea of knowing. | |
| I know everybody wants to be in the know. | |
| I'm not going to act like I am. | |
| I think the odds are higher that he gets out. | |
| I think the odds then would be higher that Kamala Harris becomes Donald Trump's opponent. | |
| It's kind of strange, 59 days outside of an election. | |
| Democrats don't know who their candidate is going to be. | |
| 59 days till early voting begins. | |
| And then you've got the squad. | |
| You've got the Congressional Black Caucus saying it's, you know, AOC said it's total BS that, you know, in an impassioned defense of Joe Biden, the Biden campaign, their chair was on Liberal Joe this morning discussing Biden's path to victory. | |
| Biden insiders, there was a report on FoxNews.com, are furious and daring Democrats to try and force Biden out. | |
| And they're saying there's no way that they're going to be able to rip away his delegates from him unless he decides to do it. | |
| NBC, on the other hand, is reporting that Biden's family is now discussing an exit plan for Joe. | |
| I mean, Biden, one interesting tidbit, if you go back in time in the 1990s, Politico's Tom Glavin was a political journalist who covered the White House, Congress, and elections. | |
| And, you know, he said one of his chores was to attend the president's State of the Union. | |
| And after watching the speech from the House gallery, my fellow reporters and I would walk one flight of stairs down to Statuary Hall and talk to members of Congress and get their reaction. | |
| That practice, by the way, continues today. | |
| And anyway, he pigeonholed then-Senator Joe Biden, who was in his early 50s, interviewed him a few times before, but not enough to expect him to lower his guard. | |
| And we chatted about Bill Clinton's speech. | |
| And then the topic turned to Biden and his ambition to become chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | |
| And at that time, Claiborne Pell out of Rhode Island was in his late 70s, showing signs of Parkinson's disease that he'd later disclose. | |
| And Biden was asked if given Pell's diminished capacity, he'd make a move to replace him. | |
| He said that poor son of a bitch, he said Pell was no longer up to the job. | |
| But like so many of his elderly colleagues, Pell couldn't imagine life outside of Congress. | |
| Well, that sounds just slightly applicable to the moment we're in today. | |
| But, you know, if somebody's stubborn and they want to stay in, they're going to stay in. | |
| So do I think the odds are higher Biden gets out? | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| Do I think it can happen this weekend? | |
| I do. | |
| Early next week, I do. | |
| Do I think there's also a chance, he says, the hell with all of the establishment led by Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and pretty much every Democratic so-called leader? | |
| Yeah, I think that too. | |
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| 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. | |
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| With all the media mob and all the state rum media and all the Democrats saying, you know, Biden's got to go, Biden's got to go. | |
| We now have a statement released by Biden today suggesting he's committed to staying in the race. | |
| Reacting to Donald Trump's speech last night, last night the American people saw the same Donald Trump they rejected four years ago. | |
| Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| And he goes on and on. | |
| And he says, together as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the ballot box. | |
| I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week and continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump's agenda. | |
| Doesn't sound like he's gotten the memo yet. | |
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| Later on, I think maybe the most compelling part of President Trump's speech last night was him describing, and he said it's the only time he's going to do it, what happened to him the day that he was shot. | |
| And we're going to replay some of that for you. | |
| That's coming up today. | |
| Also, Peter Navarro, just released from prison, will join us for his first radio interview. | |
| He's coming up later in the program today. | |
| And also, we have Dave McCormick. | |
| He was on the front row when the assassination attempt took place, the Republican senatorial candidate. | |
| He'll join us. | |
| I am not sure what to make of this. | |
| Linda nearly became a victim of this on her flight out this morning. | |
| We now have what is the biggest outage in the history, in our history, as Microsoft had a crash that is wreaking havoc and the world plunging into the dark ages. | |
| And this tech outage has hit banks, airlines, firms worldwide, hospitals around the globe are hobbled. | |
| Surgeries had to be canceled. | |
| CrowdStrike says it's not a cyber attack. | |
| A fix option apparently has been deployed, but it's not taken full, it's not fully fixed yet. | |
| It could take weeks there now saying to repair this. | |
| And they're now literally writing out boarding passes and blue screens of death and checkout chaos. | |
| Linda, you were at the airport earlier this morning and you said it was a disaster. | |
| Yeah, I mean, I had a really early morning flight because I had to get back for the show in New York. | |
| And I mean, I think I got to the airport at 4.20 a.m. | |
| And we went right, literally went from like the president's speech, packed our bags and went to the airport. | |
| And I walked in and it was chaos. | |
| People were yelling and screaming. | |
| There were people everywhere. | |
| So many people trying to get on these early flights. | |
| And at first, we didn't know what it was. | |
| They just said it was a system-wide crash, and they didn't know what it was. | |
| And then somebody else was on their phone. | |
| They're like, it's CrowdStrike. | |
| It's CrowdStrike. | |
| And I was like, CrowdStrike. | |
| And they were like, yeah, they put out some fix or solution for something and it took out everybody's system. | |
| And I was like, what do you mean it took out everybody's system? | |
| Why would one fix affect so many various companies, businesses, and government entities? | |
| Like, that doesn't even make sense. | |
| None of it makes sense. | |
| I mean, so the Microsoft systems were brought to a standstill. | |
| They're claiming it's a faulty update from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, believed to be the culprit, forcing all of the services around the world to stop. | |
| Microsoft Windows and Windows users were met with this screen on Friday, including, you know, at supermarket checkout screens. | |
| One man posted a handwritten boarding pass with Microsoft down TV stations. | |
| And for a while, the BBC and even Sky News suffered setbacks. | |
| Some businesses literally today have had to shut down. | |
| A viral photo posted on X by a traveler shows the handwritten boarding pass and writes the Microsoft CrowdStrike outage has taken down most airports in India. | |
| I got my first handwritten boarding pass today. | |
| Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt said, I don't think it's too early to call it. | |
| This will be the largest IT outage in history. | |
| He called the blue screen, the blue screen of death. | |
| According to the founder of Cyber Research, a company called Imperium Sanad Aruk, Amsterdam's airport was frozen amid a doomsday. | |
| Not sure what that means, but he said looks like the CrowdStrike doomsday is real. | |
| Many airline companies having issues with their systems. | |
| There are now a list of airports. | |
| I think I read about six of them that are completely shut down. | |
| They've been shut down all day, including LaGuardia out of New York, which is not good. | |
| I believe, I'm not sure if it was LAX, but it looked like Los Angeles in and around that. | |
| There was a ton of problems with L.A. this morning. | |
| They couldn't get any flights out to L.A. | |
| And I will say the only airline that got back up and running was American. | |
| The United and the Delta flights were not running this morning when I was there. | |
| Look, every time we experience a massive internet failure, like the one that struck the entire world today, I can't help and think about the warnings that we've gotten in the last four appearances from the FBI director Christopher Ray. | |
| And I'm not being conspiratorial because I don't know what happened. | |
| I don't know. | |
| And by the way, I'm the least technical guy you're ever going to meet. | |
| Linda can testify to that. | |
| I'm like, can you download this app for me? | |
| And she looks at me like, are you an idiot? | |
| No, I don't. | |
| Well, my kids do the same thing. | |
| I'm like, can you, all right? | |
| Well, my daughter gave me the Fitbit thing to put on my wrist. | |
| She goes, Daddy, I want you to promise me you're going to wear it. | |
| I'm like, why? | |
| It monitors your heart rate, you're sleeping, you're this, you're that. | |
| By the way, I sleep like a dolphin, apparently. | |
| They have these analogies of the animal. | |
| Do you really want the long explanation? | |
| I do. | |
| I never heard of that in my life. | |
| What is that? | |
| All right, I have to pull it up. | |
| It is what it is. | |
| That's a great response. | |
| It is what it is. | |
| Very thorough. | |
| Yep. | |
| No, I'm looking it up, which is why if you could just calm down for a second, I'll get it. | |
| You know what's interesting when someone says I sleep profile is the dolphin, okay? | |
| Because dolphins need to stay on the move, and only half their brain gets sleep at a time. | |
| So they, based on me wearing this thing from month after month, they compare me to a dolphin. | |
| Okay, does that answer your question? | |
| I can tell you, in all the years I've been working here, I never thought we'd have a conversation where you were compared to a dolphin. | |
| My sleep duration average on a monthly basis is a little over four hours a night. | |
| That's not good, is it? | |
| No, I would say definitely not. | |
| Okay. | |
| Do you want to know? | |
| How much more do you want to know? | |
| I would like to know as much as possible about how you are owning your inner dolphin. | |
| You know, just having this conversation with you is annoying. | |
| I don't know why. | |
| Maybe are you tired because you only slept with half your brain last night? | |
| That happened. | |
| Last night was the left side. | |
| Tonight the right side gets to go to sleep. | |
| Okay. | |
| Are you done? | |
| Are you enjoying yourself? | |
| I am actually. | |
| My average amount of deep sleep is 50 minutes. | |
| My average amount or percentage of the amount of REM sleep is 17%. | |
| Wait, you got that from the Fitbit? | |
| Yeah. | |
| It gives you all. | |
| It's wild. | |
| Okay. | |
| The time spent with my heart rate lower than my estimated resting heart rate, it's about 62% of the time, usually in the 70s. | |
| That's where it is, you know, which is kind of where let me see where it is right now. | |
| Let me take a look at my Fitbit. | |
| Hang on. | |
| It's 78 right now. | |
| And usually radio kind of raises it a little bit. | |
| I'll bet. | |
| Yeah, when I'm working out, it goes much lower, actually, at least for a while. | |
| Now, they have other sleep animals like the bear, a solid sleeper, the giraffe, a short sleeper, the hedgehog, a shallow sleeper, the parrot, a restless sleeper, the tortoise, the slow sleeper. | |
| I'm a dolphin. | |
| Are we going to have to start feeding you crustaceans now like a dolphin? | |
| No, I don't like crustees. | |
| If it's not meat, just get away. | |
| Anyway, so let me go back to Director Ray sounded the alarm repeatedly over the last year, explaining that China has been conducting dress rehearsal cyber attacks on infrastructure throughout the U.S. in preparation for one big coordinated attack that brings America to its knees within minutes. | |
| Look, do I know? | |
| I want to be very clear here. | |
| There's no evidence that that's happened. | |
| Everyone's saying just the opposite, but I'm just thinking about it because he said it a number of times. | |
| And the New York Times is pointing out that airlines have grounded flights. | |
| 9-11 calls could not, you know, they couldn't be responded to for emergencies around the country. | |
| Hospitals have had to cancel surgeries. | |
| Retailers have had to close for the day. | |
| The actions all trace back to this batch of bad computer code from the cyber security firm CrowdStrike. | |
| I don't even know who the hell they are. | |
| I have no idea who they are. | |
| And while outages are common, and again, I'm reading from the New York Times, often caused by technical errors, cyber attacks, the scale of what unfolded Friday has been unparalleled. | |
| It's historic, said the chief research officer at With Secure, a cybersecurity company. | |
| We haven't had an incident like this. | |
| The problems apparently cascaded instantly in Sydney, Australia. | |
| Travelers encountered delays, cancellations. | |
| The same thing happening in Hong Kong, India, Dubai, Berlin, Amsterdam. | |
| At least five U.S. airlines, you know, American Delta, Spirit United, et cetera, grounded all flights for a time. | |
| You really did get lucky this morning. | |
| Healthcare systems crippled, forcing hospitals to cancel non-critical surgeries. | |
| 9-11 lines have been put down in multiple states. | |
| The U.S. Parcel Service and FedEx said that they were affected. | |
| Customers with TD Bank, one of the biggest banks in the U.S., reported issues accessing their online accounts. | |
| It says, quote, from the New York Times, at CrowdStrike, engineers described an atmosphere of confusion because the company's struggling to contain the damage. | |
| I mean, I don't think they did anything wrong on purpose. | |
| You know, I don't know anything about CrowdStrike, but it sounds like they were as surprised as everybody else. | |
| So we just don't know what happened. | |
| I mean, that's the bottom line. | |
| We don't know what happened. | |
| We just know that Axios reported, for example, CrowdStrike, major cybersecurity company whose customers include some of the biggest companies in the world, said a faulty software update, not a malicious cyber attack or nation-state attack is behind the widespread outages. | |
| But, you know, I just don't trust anything in a post-COVID world. | |
| Anybody else trust them? | |
| I don't. | |
| Back to Joe Biden. | |
| Again, Biden released a statement today on top of all these calls for him to drop out of this race. | |
| Last night, the American people saw the same Donald Trump they rejected four years ago. | |
| For over 90 minutes, he focused on his own grievances. | |
| No, he didn't. | |
| With no plan to unite us, he did actually present a plan. | |
| No plan to make life better for working people. | |
| Well, your plans failed spectacularly, Joe. | |
| He avoided mentioning his Project 2025 agenda. | |
| People keep writing and asking me about this. | |
| I'm like, I have no freaking idea what you're talking about. | |
| The same thing that Trump said. | |
| I don't know anything about it. | |
| Americans know exactly where he wants to take this country. | |
| They always say that he said, well, I want to be a dictator. | |
| He said that in an interview with me. | |
| I said, you know, are you going to go forward with retribution? | |
| He said, no, I'm just going to be a dictator for a day. | |
| I'm like, what? | |
| I'm sitting there. | |
| He goes, no, I just want to use the power to secure our borders. | |
| Number one. | |
| What was the second thing that he said, Linda? | |
| He said, and I think he said something to the effect of energy independence. | |
| That's what it was. | |
| I honestly, the two things that he drove home last night, in my opinion, was drill baby, drill baby here, drill baby now, and secure the borders. | |
| Secure the borders. | |
| Those were the two biggest points. | |
| Again, and honestly, there was his two funniest moments, in my humble opinion, there was a bunch of funny moments, was when he was talking about he's so random sometimes, kind of like you with the dolphin. | |
| He's like, you know, I don't know if you guys know this, but the ear bleeds more than any other part of your body. | |
| You know, Melanie and I found that out. | |
| I'm like, this is such random, like, bro, it's so random, you know? | |
| And then Mike Duncan is like, he went back to it again. | |
| I'm like, okay. | |
| Biden claiming that he's losing support among black voters because he can't go through the projects in black neighborhoods on foot anymore. | |
| I'm like, what? | |
| We can't do that now. | |
| Not because of the black community, because it's too dangerous for me to be out walking unaccompanied. | |
| Well, maybe get rid of defund, dismantle, reimagine, and no bail laws, Joey. | |
| There's a good answer. | |
| So what I'm doing is I'm trying to keep in touch with as many of my black constituents, letting them know that I'm available. | |
| I'm available. | |
| What the hell does he even mean? | |
| So, you know, what they're saying is he will ignore the calls, risk undermining his party, or drop out with no endorsement or drop out with an endorsement or just resign. | |
| Now, how do you make the case he's not capable of running for president for four years and still make the case that you don't invoke the 25th Amendment? | |
| None of that makes any sense. | |
| You know, and Democrats see their aura of inevitability about him resigning. | |
| I'm not so sure he's gotten the memo based on his comment today. | |
| Mark Halperin, you know, they keep saying John Meacham is writing this campaign. | |
| He's denying that he's doing it. | |
| So I'm not believing anybody. | |
| And Biden did refer to his defense secretary as the black man after forgetting Lloyd Austin's name, whoopsie-daisy. | |
| He struggles while disembarking Air Force One, and he just like he had trouble getting on Air Force One. | |
| Biden's said to be increasingly receptive to the idea of stepping aside, but there's no, they came out with a statement just the opposite. | |
| You know, I just don't think anybody knows, and everybody's trying to know. | |
| Do I think the odds are higher today that he gets out? | |
| Yeah, I do. | |
| I think much higher. | |
| So, you know, is it going to happen this Sunday as some are claiming? | |
| I just can't give you an answer. | |
| And I'm not going to sit here like the rest of the world and speculate on something that they don't know and that I don't know. | |
| Do I think that Kamala Harris is the likely successor? | |
| I do. | |
| I believe that with all my heart. | |
| But Donald Trump's lead continues to grow. | |
| They're not doing this because of Joe's cognitive decline. | |
| They've all known about it. | |
| They've all lied about it. | |
| They've all covered it up. | |
| They're only doing it because of the polls. | |
| And if it's Kamala Harris, he's the biggest liar and perpetrator of this conspiracy over anyone else. | |
| She had to know. | |
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| All right, Will Joe stay and go. | |
| Also, Peter Navarro out of prison, we'll check in with him. | |
| This is the weaponization of justice. | |
| And later on, Dave McCormick running for the Senate and PA. | |
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