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There's so much talk about the president's
memory that I can't even remember when it

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started. Oh all right. I
want to cut through that though, and

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get to more of the legal stuff, because when you take a step back,

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I think a lot of Republicans are
a little bit crowing because the thing

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we've been saying for so long has
been kind of shown to be true by

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an outside, more know, more
neutral source. President Biden is senile.

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We all knew this, everyone knows
it. And now we've got a prosecutor

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saying I'm not prosecuting him because his
memory is clearly so terrible that I think

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it would ruin my case. Well, why would it ruin his case?

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And this this is why we I
want to kind of dig into this because

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Biden is sort of trying to crow
that I've been totally rendicated and he hasn't

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really, So let's explain what's going
on. So let's get started with what

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is this crime that President Biden is
has possibly committed, And it's very similar

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to what President Trump is in fact
being charged with. So the crime at

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play here involves willful retention of classified
material which you're not authorized to retain.

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So let's go to this section of
the Special Council report. Right, So,

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just and again to understand how this
works. Okay, it was discovered

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that President Biden had classified documents at
the pen Biden's enter, so an office

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in Washington, and then it was
discovered he had stuff at his home.

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The FBI raided his home, searched
his home, found all of these classified

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documents all over the place in his
garage. The Justice Department, the America

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Garland appointed a special Council to investigate
the President for this matter. Now,

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they kind of had to do this
to save face. Why so, the

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president is in charge of the Department
of Justice. He is at the top

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of its org chart. If the
normal chain of command of the Department of

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Justice investigates its own boss, there's
an obvious conflict of interest there. Why

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would you want to harshly investigate the
person who can fire you. Now,

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ultimately, the President can still kind
of fire the Special Council. But the

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idea is, in a situation like
that, the Attorney General hires someone from

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the outside, brings someone in who
doesn't work for the department, who isn't

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working for the mainline of the Department
of Justice, brings someone in and appoints

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to that person special council to investigate
and bring criminal charges if warranted, for

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misconduct that the mainline prosecutors within the
Department of Justice can't prosecute without a conflict

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of interest. So it seems reasonable
that Merrick Garland picked a special counsel to

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investigate President Biden for unlawful retention of
these documents. So the Special Council does

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his investigation and then issues a report
which he provides to the Attorney General and

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the Attorney General can publish. So
the special Council investigated, the special Council

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determined that he was not going to
bring charges against the president. Now,

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in fairness, there's the question of
presidential immunity of you know, should should

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presidents be subject to criminal prosecution during
their time in office? And generally speaking,

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no, presidents are not subject to
criminal prosecution federal criminal prosecution during their

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time in office. But beyond that, a special prosecutor said, beyond that,

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I would not bring charges against the
president. Why, well, what

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crime was President Biden allegedly guilty of? What did they find evidence of?

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And it's basically they're looking at the
Espionage Act, okay, and the Espionage

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Act is the statute that forbids the
unlawful retention of classified documents and with any

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crime, with any criminal charge,
one of the things the prosecutor has to

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show is a certain level of what's
called men's raya men's rea. Okay,

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it's a Latin phrase. It literally
means defendant mindset. Raa means relating to

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a defendant, and men's means your
mind your mindset, So your defendant mindset?

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What was the defendant mindset? And
it basically it has to do with

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what level of intentionality does the prosecutor
have to show beyond a reasonable doubt on

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the part of the defendant, and
that well, what does it matter what

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the criminals thinking? If they just
did the thing, then they should go

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to jail. Well, no,
it actually matters a lot. Okay,

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what mindset you have as a criminal. That's the difference between murder and manslaughter.

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For example, Okay, murder,
I was directly intentionally with malice aforethought.

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You know, I camped out with
a sniper rifle outside of his house

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for three hours waiting for him to
walk outside his door, and I shot

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him through the head. Okay,
that's murder, first degree murder. Manslaughter

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is I behaved in an unacceptably reckless
fashion. You know I drive. I

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drove, you know, one hundred
miles per hour in a twenty five zone

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in a neighborhood, and I ran
over a kid. Okay, I might

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get charged with vehicular manslaughter. I
wasn't intending to run the kid over,

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but I was acting recklessly, unacceptably
recklessly. So your mindset of intentionality versus

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recklessness versus negligence can change the level
of crime. And every crime has some

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kind of mensraa that you have to
prove. There's some kinds of violations criminal,

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some kinds of legal violations that they
don't care what your mensraa is.

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Okay, if you're speeding, the
cop doesn't necessarily care. If you're meant

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to be speeding. Youaiting, you
know, you cross that red line and

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you get a ticket. But for
many things you have to show a certain

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kind of mindset. Under the Espionage
Act, the retention of documents, basically

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what they say is to basically to
successfully prosecute someone, the prosecutor would have

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to show that this person really retained
these documents wilfulness. This under the Espionage

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Act, an act as wilful when
quote, it is done voluntarily and intentionally

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and with the specific intent to do
something that the law forbids, that is

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to say, with a bad purpose, either to disobey or to disregard the

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law. So what's clear is that
they have pretty darn clear evidence that Biden

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had these documents during time frames.
They have some evidence anyway that Biden had

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these documents during time frames when he
wasn't supposed to. Now it isn't quite

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as clear cut as we think.
Well, it was in his home in

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Delaware, of course he wasn't supposed
to. Well, while he's president,

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and he was president when that stuff
was found his home as in Delaware.

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Yes, he wasn't allowed while he's
president. He's actually allowed to have that

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stuff in his house. While he
was vice president, he was allowed to

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have a lot of that stuff in
his house. The problem is the four

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year window from January twenty first of
twenty seventeen through January twentieth of twenty twenty

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one. During that four year window, he wasn't allowed to have any of

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these documents. So a lot of
the evidence centers around a recorded conversation Biden

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had with his ghost rider in twenty
seventeen, where he is heard on the

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tape saying I found all the classified
stuff about Afghanistan down downstairs, meaning that

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in twenty seventeen he was very casually
telling his ghost rider that he had classified

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documents in his home at that time, a home in Virginia. But one

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of the things a prosecutor would have
a difficult time with is showing that's sort

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of the only evidence they have that
he had these documents unlawfully in his possession

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during that four year window. They
can't really show a chain of custody demonstrating

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that where those documents were over the
course of that four year span. Okay,

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so that's one thing, But the
second is wilfulness and wilfulness in retaining

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the documents. Why well, because
one in the course of the conversations,

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these recorded conversations that Biden was having
with his ghostwriter in twenty seventeen, evidence

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of which and all of that.
The Special Council reviewed all of those recorded

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conversations with his ghostwriter and also their
interview with him in twenty twenty three.

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Biden demonstrated that his memory is absolutely
terrible. That's why they don't think they

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can prosecute him, because if he
completely forgot about these documents, he forgot

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that they were in his home,
then that's not willful retention. They can't.

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And let's understand, if you're going
to criminally, this is a criminal

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charge. To convict someone of a
crime, you have to demonstrate beyond a

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reasonable doubt that the person satisfied every
single element of the crime. You have

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to satisfy. You have to show
beyond a reasonable doubt that he had the

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documents at his house during the unlawful
time period the four years between vice presidency

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and presidency. You have to demonstrate
that beyond a reasonable doubt. All they

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have is the audio recording of him
saying that in twenty seventeen, and then

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you have to show beyond a reasonable
doubt that he retained it willfully, beyond

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a reasonable doubt. I gotta say, if I put myself in the shoes

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of a juror, am I beyond
a reasonable doubt sure that President Biden that

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you know, then former Vice President
Joe Biden, knowing how senile he is,

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that he didn't forget about this,
I don't know. I don't know.

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I think you could at any rate. I think the Special Council makes

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a decent point that President Biden is
so like the audio of the recordings he

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made with his ghostwriter in twenty seventeen, he said it was so labored,

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it was so difficult, even like
they're down a little stuff like I don't

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know if Biden apparently constantly misspelled the
word Afghanistan. That was like that was

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how he was able to show to
remember that it was his handwriting on stuff,

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because he knew he always misspelled Afghanistan. The word Afghanistan was written in

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his handwriting. A lot of this
stuff, by the way, in case

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you're wondering what this stuff was,
it seems like the crux of it,

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it was a lot of stuff.
Well, you know what, let me

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get to the next segment to sort
of understand the kinds of classified materials Biden

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was holding onto that. I think
it sort of shows his kind of you

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know, he wasn't just a jackdaw
kind of saving odds and ends just for

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kicks. I think it shows a
little bit of his ego. And we'll

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get to that right after the break. This is the John je Already show

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on Power Talk. One of the
things that didn't get talked about much in

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the Special Council. In all the
commentary after on the Special Council report,

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obviously the main headline is Joe Biden
is has such a poor memory that the

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Special Council thought there was no way
he could get a conviction that Biden was

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willfully retaining the documents. So basically, yes, they found evidence. There's

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plenty of evidence that Biden had these
documents, had these documents inappropriately. There's

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evidence that he willfully there is evidence
that he had these documents in his house.

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The problem is, to be convicted
of this crime, you have to

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show that he retained them willfully.
And the Special Council basically thought, based

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on how he sounded in these twenty
seventeen interviews and based on how he sounds

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today, there's no way a jury
is going to find that he can willfully

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do anything. That his memory is
so bad that there's no a jury could

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very reasonably come to the conclusion that
Biden just forgot he had this stuff.

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Now what? And it's, by
the way, that's why Biden can't have

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it both ways with this thing.
Biden's trying to have his cake and eat

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it too. He's trying to argue
their Sairs, Druss and a lot of

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people on the left are trying to
say, oh, the Special Council was

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being completely inappropriate making these comments about
President Biden's memory. There was no need

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to discuss any of that. But
also, oh, but the Scial Council

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found that he absolutely didn't commit any
crime. Well, it's one or the

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other, the only way you can
And basically, by the way, he

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didn't find that Biden didn't commit a
crime. He found that there was evidence

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that he committed a crime, but
that it would be extremely difficult to prove

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to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
that Biden had the appropriate mental state for

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that crime, which means which is
wilfulness and intentionality in retaining something he's not

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supposed to retain. Why, because
his memory was so bad, the Special

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Council basically thought, it's a very
good possibility he just completely forgot he had

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this stuff. Because he's forgetting everything. This guy can't remember, Jack,

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and that's why the Special Counsel brings
up mister Biden has terrible lapses of memory.

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He can't remember what year he stopped
being vice president. He can't remember

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with in several years when his son
Bo passed away, like that's why he

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brought that stuff up. The Democrats
are acting as though this is just a

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special count, just snifing President Biden
completely gratuitously, and it's not. These

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facts about Biden's memory being this poor
are essential to why he's not getting charged.

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This is like my grandpa Joe,
who was from New York. He

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used to say this of anyone who
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It was like his ultimate insult was
he couldn't even get arrested. That's basically

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the assessment of Joe Biden. He's
so senile that he doesn't have even the

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mental capacity sufficient to commit this crime
that there's evidence he committed. So the

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Biden people can't act as though he
cannot act as though one his memories totally

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fine and two he absolutely didn't commit
any crime. No, if his memory

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is really good in Razor Sharp,
then we have a much better case against

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him and there's a much better chance
that he should be criminally charged. Now,

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I want to talk about the kinds
of things he was retaining, Okay,

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and the Special Council document sort of
lists it. First of all,

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it was like thirty plus things that
were all that had some marking or indication

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that either were top secret or had
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secret. I think I counted thirty
four. I was doing control F and

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it's kind of hard to classify.
But anyway, it was like over thirty

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things that either were top secret or
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So there's also the idea of like, whoa, well, President Trump was

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so much worse now it does seem
as though President Trump was obviously much more

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resistant to turning stuff over to the
National Archives when they asked him for it

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back. That's undoubtedly true. Either
well he was either more hostile to returning

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it or more deceptive. And then
some of the stuff from the Special Council

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investigation that it seems like Trump actually
lied to his own attorneys about where stuff

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was. So again Trump kind of
being his own worst enemy with this.

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Trump could have very easily avoided all
these problems if he wasn't so slippery.

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But it's also a thing of like
to act as though Biden is this paragon

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of doing the right thing and Trump
is a monster. Like no, Okay,

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well, Trump had more documents.
Okay, Biden had thirty four top

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secret documents in his house that he
wasn't supposed to have sitting in a garage,

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like highly insecure, incredibly dangerous,
incredibly irresponsible, and there's a very

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I mean, we don't have a
perfect chain of custody, but it's very

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very likely he had these things when
he had absolutely no right to have them,

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when he was a private citizen,
in between his vice presidency ending and

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his presidency starting. So it's almost
like saying, well, you know,

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Joseph Stalin was a terrible he murdered
twenty million people, but Adolf Hitler he

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only murdered six million people. Like
that, They're both really bad. It's

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like the idea that Trump is so
much worse than Joe Biden, as far

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as this goes, is absurd.
And the kinds of stuff Biden was retaining

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the Special Council gives this narrative that
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historic politician. He got elected to
the Senate when he was only twenty nine

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years old, had this decades long
career in the Senate, and one of

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the things he seemed to be really
big on was retaining a lot of stuff

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relating to Afghanistan and President Obama's early
decision to have a surge of troops in

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Afghanistan early on, which Biden was
internally opposing within the Obama administration. Biden

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kept because and because I think this
is the only way that Biden can think.

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He can only think of things in
terms of Boomer examples. Biden was

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convinced it would turn Afghanistan into Vietnam, and so he opposed Obama increasing,

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you know, doing troop surges in
Afghanistan. And he was retaining all this

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documentation as a way of showing for
posterity that he was right and vindicating the

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historical record of this. So a
lot of it was stuff he produced as

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Vice president, and that stuff,
a lot of it was notes he was

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taking on secure already briefings, intelligence
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memo he wrote on Thanksgiving of two
thousand and nine two Barack Obama urging him

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not to do the troop surge.
So that was the kind of stuff he

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was retaining. It was this very
like, you know, it's this very

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prideful sort of like trying to buttress, like acting like it's it's his museum

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stuff. So of course, so
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president and it doesn't get turned over. Now he does the typical Biden thing

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he threw during the press conference yesterday. He throws all of his staff under

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the bush. Oh my staff forgot
about it, and it's like, well,

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doesn't seem like it. He mentioned
to his biographer in twenty seventeen that

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he found the classified Afghanistan stuff.
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apparently on the tape, which makes
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get it. Maybe you couldn't get
a conviction of President Biden that he willfully

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retained this stuff and knew what he
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bad for him to actually willfully.
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vice presidency and presidency, I think
you can see this hostility to staying in

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Afghanistan. Why did President Biden pull
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slipshodily as he did. I think
it's because of this. He didn't like

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that Obama increased troop numbers in two
thousand and nine. He was convinced of

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this narrative in his head that Afghanistan
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he was right about that. I
mean Afghanistan. Afghanistan is in exactly

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the same place today that it was
in two thousand and one before we invaded.

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But it's that sort of pridefulness that
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when we return. What are the
Democrats options? Now? They're gonna stick

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with this guy next on the John
Girardi Show. So what do the Democrats

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do? Now? What do they
do? They just ride this out,

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Just ride it out with this guy. My suspicion is that they actually have

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no good options. They actually have
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I think they're gonna just try to
ride this out. Let me explain.

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What are the Democrats options? The
options are Kamala Harris or somebody else,

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and that somebody else is for the
most part, inevitably white. The

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options are Kamala Harris or some of
the other names that have been banned about

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for years. As it became readily
apparent that Kamala Harris was not a very

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effective vice president and was not very
popular and was probably a pretty lousy pick

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on Biden's part, well, I
have a whole theory that Biden absolutely did

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not pick Kamala Harris. I think
that was the California donor class of the

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Democrats who insisted on Harris because she
was kind of there darling, and it's

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the whole Willie Brown connection. Anyway, story for another day. But what

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have been the names that have been
bandied about since it became clear that Kamala

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Harris was a political liability and a
total nothing burger? What are the names

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that have been bandied about? Well, the names that have been bandied about,

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chiefly are Pete Boodhagg a little bit, Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of

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Michigan a little bit, she certainly
thinks she's going to be president, and

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Gavin Newsom. Problem, all of
them are white, and I think that

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my be a bigger problem than a
lot of us on the right realize.

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Like I think a lot of us
on the writer, a lot of people

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are sort of maybe half joking,
half serious, except this conventional Oh they'll

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just you know, they'll just stick
Gavenuwsom in there. They'll just stick Avenuseom

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in there. They'll just stick Avenuseom
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a little more problematic than you realize, because a lot of the Democrat hardcore

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base is black women. Black women
vote for Democrats in enormous, huge majority

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percentages a lot of the Democrat and
beyond just black women, you have young

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gen Z millennial to gen Z people
who are very committed to a lot of

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the principles of modern day left wing
inter sectionality. Why did President Biden feel

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the need that he had to pick
an African American woman to be his vice

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president? If he didn't, he
would alienate a certain core of his constituency

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who was not going to feel great
about voting for another white guy, especially

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after Barack Obama. To go back
to voting for old white guys left a

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sour taste in the mouth of a
lot of hardcore Democrat based voters. These

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people are very much animated by the
racial politics of the modern day left.

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So and that's the problem is they
they've made their bed with Kamala Harris.

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They have to lie in it.
As horrifying a metaphor as that is,

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they have to. They sort of
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tell you what's going to happen.
These young intersectionality engaged voters, they are

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already pretty ticked off at Joe Biden
right now, and I think a lot

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of us listening probably you know,
I'm sure there are many Democrats listening,

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but probably, you know, most
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conservatives. They're not necessarily up to
date, up to speed on what's going

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on. Among hardcore Democrat voters right
now, a lot of them are super

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ticked off at Biden. Why because
he's been very well, at least in

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their eyes, incredibly supportive of Israel. Ever since October seventh, it's been

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clear that if you have to put
Joe Biden on one side or the other

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of is he more supportive of Israel
or is he more supportive of Hamas he's

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more supportive of Israel. Everyone kind
of agrees that we want to give military

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aid to the Israelis. No one's
talking about military aid to the other side,

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and everyone's kind of agreed they want
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Now, Congress and the President can't
really agree on anything because everyone keeps tying

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Israeli aid to some other goal that's
a poison pill for the other side.

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But everyone's kind of agreed on that. Everyone's kind of agreed on that,

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except John Girardi, who sort of
asked the question of does this real need

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foreign military money? Like, why
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You know, if you support Israel, can't we just kind of do a

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at a boy? Why Why does
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involve spending billions of dollars? Just
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Anyway. Nonetheless, Biden has made
it clear he's kind of more on

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the Israeli side of the Ledger than
the Palestinian gaza side of the Ledger,

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and that has royally ticked off a
lot of these younger voters, college aged

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voters, voters in their twenties,
these people who are often core Democrat base

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voters, whom you need them to
turn out in a close selection. You

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need everybody to turn out. You
need your modern voters, you need to

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convince the moderns, but you need
your base voters to show up, and

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you need your young base voters to
show up. And young voters are always

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flakier than older voters. They'll find
a reason not to show up if you

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give it to them. So you've
got these young voters very animated by racial

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politics, very animated by intersectionality,
very woke. If you will if you

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tell them, all right, we're
president. Biden's not running because and also,

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by the way, whatever happens is
going to have to happen at the

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Democratic Convention, which is at August. Okay, there's no e. You

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can't get Gavin Newsom on the ballot
for the California primary. It's next month.

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We already have our ballots. You
can't get Gavin Newsom on the ballot

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for any of the Super Tuesday primaries
too late. You can't get Pete Boutaji

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John. You can't get Gavin Newsom
on you can't get Gretchen whitmarn So whatever,

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it's going to have to happen at
the Democratic Convention in some shady backroom

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deal. And by the way,
all the Democrat delegates at the Democratic Convention,

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they don't necessarily have to vote for
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Okay, so Joe Biden Democrats have
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no one cares about it because it's
just Joe Biden and a bunch of

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nobody's. But Joe Biden has been
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New Hampshire, all these different states, So he has delegates who are

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sort of dedicated to him who are
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don't necessarily though under the Democrats' rules
they're not quite as strict as the Republican

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convention rules. Those Democrats they can
vote for somebody else. So if Biden's

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going to get replaced, it's going
to be at the convention through some backroom

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deal that Democratic voters don't get the
chance to vote on just their delegates,

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delegates who are sort of picked by
state party apparatus. So you're going to

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tell all those hardcore young bass activist
voters big into intersectionality that yeah, we

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know, we literally have a black
woman vice president and that's literally the whole

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point of a vice president is that
she can step in for the president if

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something happens. We think something's happened
with this president, that he's too old,

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the natural thing to do would be
for the vice president to step in.

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But instead we're going to replace her
with a white woman, or worse,

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instead we're going to replace her with
Pete Boodagige, a gay man,

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but he's still a straight white man
who used to work for McKenzie. No

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exceed he's not straight, he's a
white man used to work for McKenzie.

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Or worst of all, we're going
to replace Kamala Harris, a half African,

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half African American, half Indian woman, with Gavin Newsom a as straight

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and as white, a straight white
guy as you can ever possibly imagine.

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You think they're going to go for
that. No, when we return.

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The one thing I'm actually really and
by the way, just to just clarify,

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if they don't get those base voters, they will lose. And that's

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the thing that's the that's the one
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maybe that won't work. I don't
know. Maybe maybe they'll get over it.

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Maybe they'll just say, look,
we got a binary choice between Trump

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and Newsom here, we're gonna vote
for Newsom. But I don't know.

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I think that will irritate their base
of a lot more than you think.

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And I also, I've always said
this about Newsom. I think he's more

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like Harris than people think. I
think he's gonna get more disliked the more

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airtime he gets. Just my hunch, he's not exactly super relatable to people

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in Middle America. All Right,
when we return, the one person who

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I think could actually save this whole
thing for Democrats, and the one person

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I'm actually secretly terrified of that's next
on the John Girardi Show. I've been

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going back and forth today between thinking
that the Democrats have some grand, elaborate

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scheme for getting rid of Joe Biden
and that yesterday was part of a well

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oiled, orchestrated attempt by sinister forces
holding the puppet strings. Maybe this was

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the moment when they you know,
that Biden wants to do the press conference,

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and they just let him. It's
like they the cut the brake line,

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let him crash and burn, so
that now we can place him with

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the person we really want. Yeah, and it's Susan Rice or Barack Obama

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or somebody you know holding the puppet
strings to orchestrate Joe Biden getting out of

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the race so that they can put
their actual favorite candidate in. On the

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one hand, there's that fear.
On the other hand, there's sort of

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the Okham's razor of it, that
everyone's an idiot, and you know,

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just like Republicans insist on going with
a seventy seven year old man who has

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his problems, Democrats just kept insisting
on going with an eighty one year old

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man with his problems. So I'm
not sure that there's some grand, elaborate

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plan. I do fear it.
I fear the elaborate plan. I go

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back and forth. I have to
admit I waffle back and forth between thinking

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that the Democrats are perfectly orchestrated,
you know, cabal of devious strategists,

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whereas the Republicans are a bunch of
bubbling, bumbling idiots. But maybe the

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Democrats are also kind of bumbling idiots. Well, here's the one person who

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terrifies me, the one person who
can make all their problems go away if

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she decided to run for president,
Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama, if you

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get rid of Joe, the one
person that you could credibly get rid of

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Kamala Harris for and not tick off
the Democrat base, who are very committed

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to having a minority woman, and
it would admittedly for the Democrats. Think

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put yourself in the Democrats shoes.
They're so committed to racial and sexual justice

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and equity, and the minute the
going gets tough, you kick Kamala Harris

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to the curb and replace her with
another straight white guy, you go from

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Joe Biden to Gavin Newsom. Okay, that's a bad look. If you

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put yourself in their shoes and you
believe what they believe, and you think

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that, yes, we should,
you know, equity African American women,

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bubb that's a bad look. It'll
tick off a lot of their base voters

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who really care about that? All
right? You know how many African American

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women vote for Democrats? Like all
of them? Well all of them that

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vote vote for Democrats. So who's
the one person who would obviate that concern?

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Who would clear the path so that
none of those people would be upset

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about that? If Michelle Obama waltzton
to replace Kamala Harris, nobody would be

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upset on the left, not a
single person. She's as far as policy

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views, she's no better, no
worse than Kamala Harris. She ticks the

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African American woman box. It would
seamlessly do it. And guess what I

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think Michelle Obama is clearly Look,
I don't like her. Probably a lot

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of you who maybe many of you
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She's easier to like. She's a
better public speaker, she's smoother,

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she's got the reps all right,
She's not a dummy. I mean,

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she's a very smart lawyer or a
lawyer anyway who went to a very good

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law school. I just think it's
kind of a no brainer, and I

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don't understand why the Democrats haven't pursued
it sooner. And it's the one thing

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that absolutely terrifies me. Like I
think, I think if the election were

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held today, Donald Trump would win. But if you stick Michelle Obama in

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instead of Joe Biden, I think
Donald Trump gets his absolute ass handed to

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him. So that's the one person
I'm completely terrified of. I really hope

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the Democrats don't realize it and don't
act on it at any point prior to

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the Democrat convention in August. And
I think the events of yesterday sort of

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demonstrate if Joe Biden is still the
nominee they will lose. If they replace

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him with someone like Michelle Obama,
they have a very very good shot of

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winning. That'll do it for John
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